#universe: vitalious

[charcoalstardust]

got inspired by this prompt by @gingerly-writing and now i've got a new favorite duo to think about (and draw eheh)

nothing like some supervillain/journalist writing

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The sun was barely staring to rise, people were beginning to leave their homes for work, and Clement Thyme found himself power walking down the pathways to his workplace. He had a deadline to make and if he didn't get there early, he wouldn't be able to rush to finish the article before everyone else got there. He hadn't exactly slept or eaten anything, but he'd find time for that later! Maybe... Probably not.

There was just a shortcut through here, and...

"Hello there, dear."

Clement skidded to a halt and took a few steps back. Shit. Of course they'd be here. He took a deep breath and let out a sigh. Maybe he could get them to leave so he could continue on with his day.

"Please, please, leave me alone." It was a back alley and too late at night to gel with the journalist's rocky 6am start. The single streetlamp in the area spotlit the city's most dangerous supervillain, Alvah. Inconveniently, there was no one else here to help him get out of this situation. Great. Just great.

"Now, why would I do that?" Alvah was already closer to Clement than he wanted them to be, and they were circling around him like a hawk.

"It's early. I'm too tired for this. I know you never slip up on anything that might even slightly count as a scoop, but it stopped being a thrill to see you six months ago," he bluntly responded, "I don't know who the big main hero is under the mask, where she lives, who her family is, or anything about her. It's all just theories and speculation by everyone else that I'm asked to write down for the blog."

"But everything you write is so... Detailed," Alvah commented. They practically towered over him, and the way they were eyeballing him was making him more nervous by the second. "I'd say you're quite the little detective for someone who simply writes down "theories and speculation" for the news."

"Okay. Fine. I do look further into the details, but they're still just theories," he sighed and dragged a hand through his unwashed hair, wincing at the amount of grease that was trapped in it, "Look– if you're here to kidnap me, could you at least knock me out? I'd hopefully have reasonable grounds to miss my deadline that way. Could actually get some rest for once."

Alvah stepped away, looking surprisingly mortified. At least, if it was actually genuine. It was always hard to tell. "I didn't realize you weren't enjoying these little games. My apologies, dear. It's hard to remember that people aren't pawns when the whole world looks like one big chess game." They paused, then held out a hand with an apologetic smile. "Please, allow me to kidnap you to a comfortable bed so you can sleep in peace. As recompense."

Despite his exhaustion, Clement raised an eyebrow. Usually supervillains didn't care much about bystanders and innocents. Or really anyone that wasn't their ally. Not without some sort of ulterior motive. "Alright. What's the catch?"

Alvah's apologetic smile turned into a mischevious grin. "Oh, I do love when the humans know they're being manipulated. Makes it all the more interesting."

"It's not that hard to figure ou– Wait..." Clement stopped to think about what they had just said. "... "humans?" What does... Are you not–"

The journalist let out a yelp of surprise as he was swept off his feet and into Alvah's arms without so much as a single response to his query. Great. He really was being kidnapped this time. No heroes around to scare them off from doing so either!

"What? No knocking me out with magic powder or a solid hit?"

"I'd never lay a hand on you, dear," the supervillain purred, "Afterall, you are my favorite little journalist."

"Your... Favorite?" Clement's face turned red. He always assumed they just wanted information from him with how often they'd bother him... That would still be the case, right?

Alvah chuckled, which caused the journalist to try and cover his face with his jacket. This was not going how he expected it would have. If his coworkers ever found out, he'd never hear the end of it.

Hopefully this was good enough of a reason to miss his deadline...

#fandomless #ly's ocs #ly's writing #universe: vitalious #story: clementine #oc: alvah #oc: clement thyme #jdbdbx i don't usually tag prompt blogs bc i am an anxious fellow :') #but i'm deciding to try and start doing that at least for my fandomless stories #i'm just a sucker for detective/journalist characters who get wrapped up in unexpected situations fjshbf #also i just started building up this universe a few days ago so these two were just recently added :) #decided to name their lil story 'clementine' bc it's cute and also funny bc of clement's name #update: no one's gonna see the art bc i'm an idiot and didn't double check the link lol #fixed it btw if you're curious :^)

[skylordhorus]

ive been so caught in doing research over the years for worldbuilding that i forgot that the idea is to like, build context and to not just completely transpose an irl culture etc into a fantasy world, and now idk where u draw the line between like coding and cherry picking

#*deep space noises* #especially since im not looking for deep worldbuilding #the things i do for soi....... #like the other week i was like 'oh shit vitali doesnt have a patronymic' #so ive been trying to find one and in the process learn the absolute headache for foreigners that is russian naming customs #and on the one hand: i like learning and this has been rly interesting #and on the other application-wise: a. vitali is like. half russian and like split his childhood p 50/50 between there and romania #so i imagine theres a lot more flexibility for his addressal customs #and b most importantly. that would be irl. and he is a fictional character living in a fictional world #i havent even decided if he has parents from two different countries in-universe as well #therefore irl customs need not apply #sighhh i think im just trying to be a perfectionist abt this. a process as hard as worldbuilding no less #i gotta let myself be open to the possibility of mistakes and just go with the flow and hope that if i do balls up egregiously #someone from said culture will politely inform me that something is inappropriate

[quickhacked]

Mikhail and Vitali were inseparable; when they weren’t studying or getting into fights, they would hang out at Mikhail’s place to smoke and get drunk on cheap rum and vodka, to then pass out in each other’s arms and sleep most of the next day away. They promised each other— no matter what would happen— they would never leave each other’s side. Yet after starting university and college respectively, they did not see each other for a little over six years, leaving them both heartbroken and wondering what went wrong.

by lucas expedidor // catch me if you can; eden // clementine von radics, from 'courtney love prays to oregon' // sam sax, cruising: a broken tiara // 'ceramic home' by heavensghost; quote from john murillo // 'something's changed' by laiikastears // i don't want to watch the world end with someone else; clinton kane // fortesa latifi, from 'the truth about grief' // audre lorde, the evening news // frank o'hara, biotherm (for bill berkson) // heading home; ruben // 'preface to a dream' by alessandra casini // tokyo; caroline kole // langston hughes, poem // haruki murakami, norwegian wood // julie buntin, marlena // by lute // by aleksandr popov // anyway; noah kahan // christa wolf, cassandra: a novel and four essays

#cp2077 #edit:mikhail #edit:vitali #nuclearocs #nuclearedits #happy birthday to my two boys :^) yes they share the same birthday what about it. it's essential to their whole. thing #whatever it is. they're like soulmates but also they are NOT dating. i need you to understand that. because it makes everything funnier #you guys remember when i first introduced them here and people thought they were together. good times honestly #but yeah no vitali is officially dating vincent and mikhail is just their eternal third wheel. their relationship can't be defined #they also reunite of course but i LOVE emphasizing their grief. they didn't know they'd ever see each other again #and they've known each other since around age 12. imagine spending almost every day with someone who CHOSE you #and then suddenly not seeing them or talking to them for YEARS. what do you do with that grief. that pain #sure they've found each other back but what do you do with that. where do you put it. it makes me insane!!! #they both were so lonely in their own way. vitali getting lost in vices and crowds but ending up all by himself at the end of the day #and mikhail drowning himself in studying and pushing himself far over his limits just to distract himself from the hole in his chest #night city in my head is much more massive than what it feels like in game. like yeah it feels big but not. BIG big #and i think mikhail and vitali's story and them losing contact while only a district apart really emphasizes how like #how HUGE this city is not only in terms of actual land it covers but also just. how overwhelming it is. how it can swallow you whole #anyway if you've read all of this hi. wanna make out

[zhakyria]

I had the chance to commission Kahl'ryn from @psychededoodle. I have no words for how much I love this. Everything, all the details, the expression, the scar, the cybernetics, everything is so well done!!

And with this amazing portrait - I'm gonna talk a bit about Kahl and what he is up to in my Arclight AU. So... some rambling thoughts under the cut. :)

For reference: The Arclight AU is a melting pot of various sci-fi franchises. Star Wars, Farscape, WildStar, Star Trek, to just name a few. However, the core of it is Star Wars. A lot of the universe rules are Star Wars rules - such as how space travel works and the Force.

The major players from Star Wars include: the Galactic Empire, the Mandalorians, the Sith Empire, the Chiss Ascendancy, the High Republic, and the Grysk Hegemony.

Much like swtor!Kahl, arclight!Kahl was born in the Sith Empire. His father is the (now former) Sith Lord Xhai'tan. He was trapped in a burning building when he was a child, which is how he got the burn scars. He joined the Imperial Academy and joined Imperial Intelligence upon graduating. Some of his first missions included hunting down terrorists and stopping Darth Jadus. For his double agent arc however, he didn't infiltrate the SIS.

In Arclight the Sith Empire is mostly at odds with the Dominion from WildStar. So, Kahl is tasked with infiltrating the Dominion and carrying out his mission there. The Star Cabal is still a threat and Kahl eventually dismantles it.

Now things really start to diverge. You see, most everything from Shadow of Revan onward doesn't happen. So how does my boy meet Theron?

I made the executive decision that since the Republic isn't the same Republic as in swtor and isn't the power in direct conflict with the Sith Empire, that Theron would instead be from the Dominion. ((I know, I know, not the best allegory if you know anything about the Dominion - like they live up to their name. Does make it way easier for Theron to defect though.))

Then I needed the catalyzing event. Enter the Dread Masters. They were imprisoned by the Dominion, but they escape but with Emperor Vitiate dead (did I mention that? no? So, yeah Emperor Vitiate does die, and after a short war between the Sith, Acina comes out on top and takes the Throne - this is also the time of Malgus's first betrayal,) they go rogue.

Kahl is called in to help with the situation by Lana and she eventually wrangles the help of Theron in tracking and defeating the Dread Masters. Much like in Shadow of Revan, Kahl and Theron grow close.

Then the tradegy of Grismara happens. For those unfamiliar with WildStar. Grismara was home to the Mordesh. A elf-like species who were masters of science, alchemy, and art. They were arrogant and proud, sure of their own superiority. That was until the Everlife Elixir, developed by their most lauded scientist became their curse. The Everlife was meant to give immortality, and they trusted Dr. Lazarin so much that it was distributed worldwide. Then the Everlife became the Contagion. Everyone (and the lore implies everyone) slowly turned into super aggressive mindless cannibals (basically zombies).

Grismara was a neutral world on the edge of Sith and Dominion borders. Both sides were trying to ally with them, but when the Contagion broke out - the Sith turned their back on the world and the Dominion set up a blockade and quarantined it.

Kahl and Theron disobeyed orders to try and help the Mordesh. During that terrible year long attempt at saving the Mordesh, Dr. Lazarin made a small break through. He created the Vitalis Serum, which delayed the effects of the Contagion, but also required frequent injections. The remaining Mordesh were trapped in a half-life. They no longer age (they got their immortality) but they also are unable to have children unless a cure can be found.

Kahl and Theron organized for the last of the Mordesh, to escape. Taking them to the Odessen Coalition. A small and new coalition of planets that came together with the help of Xhai'tan (Kahl's father) and Thrass (who is alive and rescued by Xhai'tan - That is another books of thoughts so if you are curious about how Thrass fits in here feel free to ask.)

With the fall of Grismara, Kahl and Theron defect and join the Coalition. Kahl eventually commanding a heavy cruiser as part of the Maarasu Nighthunters - the Odessen Defense Force division in charge of covert operations and missions that take place beyond the borders of the Coalition. It is Kahl who finds Thrawn and Ezra where they have been stranded for 7 years (again another book of thoughts that I can talk about later). Kahl then goes on to support Thrawn, Thrass, Eli, and the others Chiss fighting to save the Ascendancy.

I'll stop there but....yeah so lots of thoughts.....enjoy!

#arclight: kahl'ryn #my oc #imperial agent #twi'lek #swtor #star wars #star wars au #psychededoodle art #not my art #commissioned art #arclight au #so many thoughts #so much to write #and only the first prologue done #yep think there might be more then one before I am finished #I can and will talk for day to anyone interested about all this

[rodtorqueredlinefangirl]

Vitaly Petrov is enjoying a snowy day with a few friends 😁

I mean, I believe that if Vitaly was a character in the Pokémon universe, he would be a great Ice Type trainer XD (also, I hope it's easily noticeable that it's Vitaly since his logos are covered by the snow 😅)

I drew this bc recently has snowed here in Romania (at least where I live) and for me snow is special bc it wasn't so common to have it in Italy where I used to live 😍 (I think I got the chance to experience snow only 3 or 4 times in my entire life in Italy)

#pixar cars #cars fandom #cars #cars 2 #cars disney #pixar #cars 2 (2011) #cars 2 movie #art #digital art #illustration #cars art #vitaly petrov #snow

[moirtre]

‎ ‎ ⋆⠀⠀&.⠀⠀٬⠀⠀(⠀⠀CALL YOU MINE.⠀⠀)⠀...⠀is the second extended play (ep) by south korean girl group, letalis. the album was released in both digital and physical form by south korean entertainment company, apricus culture on march 18, 2014.

the album was supported by performances of the title track, "I GOT A BOY" and the promotional single, "DARLING". the group's second release received massive attention from the group's growing fanbase and garnered critical praise for their vocal improvements from their first release. commercially, call you mine debuted at number two on the gaon album chart, highlighted in a highly publicized fandom war. "I GOT A BOY" was praised critically for its eclectic production and international appeal. the single itself peaked at number three on the us world digital chart, marking their first introduction to the american market. the music video for "i got a boy" won the award for video of the year at the first youtube awards in 2013, generating the first signs of an american fanbase for the group.

in terms of critical reception, the album performed noticeably better among musical critics than their debut album. billboard columnist, evie lowe, noted that the song displayed the group's promising potential with "gleeful chaos" that "set the bar high for pop music in 2014". the group's choreography for the title track also created a small dance craze among korean adolescents and is regarded as being a continued domestic favorite. averaging a 4.5/5, the album has stood to be one of the group's most successful.

ㅤ*ㅤSECTION ONEㅤ:ㅤthe tracklist.

ʬ.ʬ.⠀001:⠀⠀ ٬⠀⠀ DARLING⠀

ʬ.ʬ.⠀002:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ CHARMING⠀

ʬ.ʬ.⠀003:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ I GOT A BOY * (title track)⠀

ʬ.ʬ.⠀004:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ 좋은 날 (BETTER DAYS)

ʬ.ʬ.⠀005:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ CLICKIN'

ʬ.ʬ.⠀006:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ IN & OUT

ㅤ*ㅤSECTION TWOㅤ:ㅤthe physical album.

‎ ‎ ⋆⠀⠀&.⠀⠀٬⠀⠀two versions of call you mine were available upon initial release. the group would go on to re-record the title track, "i got a boy", in both english and japanese in 2014.

ʬ.ʬ.⠀ENCHANTMENT VERSION: contains one disc, one photobook (featuring 100 photos), one of four unit posters, one of seven member-written letters, one of seven random photocards, one group poster, and one of three random stickers.

ʬ.ʬ.⠀ROMANCE VERSION: contains one disc, one photobook (featuring 111 photos), one of four unit posters, one of seven member-written letters, two of seven random photocards, one of seven individual mini-poster, one of two random group posters, three stickers, and one fandom charm.

ㅤ*ㅤSECTION THREEㅤ:ㅤthe styling.

they walked around like they were the shit and at the time they really were. their styling team really invested in designer brands like obey, adidas by jeremy scott, and joyrich, to push their look between trendy and individual. each member was given a unique twist to the group look that managed to solidify the styling trends stylists would continue to stick to as a staple of the letalis branding.

ㅤ*ㅤSECTION FOURㅤ:ㅤthe notes.

this era eats in every way, i'm so serious.

a fan favorite album and title. everything about this era is solidified in letalis history books and learning every word to the songs on this album is like a vitalis prereq.

the teaser videos from this era kind of generated lore rumors which was different for apricus which is usually pretty upfront about if their groups have a universe of lore/storyline or not. letalis didn't overtly debut with one and apricus didn't address the murmurs of a storyline.

the teasers were released through 15 second member concept films. each begins with an echo of a different snippet of the track, in & out before cutting to a flashing sign with different words for each member: young, work, duty, vow, adore, loyal, and want.

fan theories kind of spun out of control only for the music video to never reference any of these themes. all of these ideas were noticed to be talked about within the songs and fans were largely pulled into the group through the discussion of these topics through the album's lyrical contents.

there's video essays left over on youtube from this era. it's kind of fun to see how far off everyone was when predicting the future lore that would come to define the group.

some of the girls allegedly may have hinted at what the teasers meant. they all deny they've ever said anything about them and actively avoid talking about lore and fan theories to this day.

intense choreo returns and somehow gets more intense?

emmy gained her first choreography credit in the description box of the uploaded music video, beginning the tradition of a member of the dance line participating in title track choreography.

they went viral amongst the general public for not just the catchy and edginess of 'i got a boy' but also for their live vocals after they sang on a radio show. melanie and sienna in particular got a lot of praise for carrying the more emotional vocals on the more technically advanced tracks.

as for the members relationships, this era was kinda smooth sailing which is probably why it's one of their most successful. they didn't argue much (publicly at least) and were all just excited to be gaining their popularity and recognition of their talent.

styling was a huge point of this era. we saw the beginnings of their individual styles being blended into their group identities.

hair also became a big deal. melanie dyed her hair its signature blonde this era with a striking honey blonde initiating the era. emmy's hair was chopped for the first time and heri gets her staple 70s big hair.

this era was also the start of their longest running youtube series: lethal doses. the series follows a different member in a vlog style of filming as they talk through their thoughts about the album, performances, and activities while being styled for the day.

the first episode in the series follows naira as the group's leader. it created the infamous fandom joke about emmy needing her bangs to hide her creases on her forehead from getting upset at rehearsals.

positions were finalized this era and melanie was officially handed the center and face positions and no one was shocked.

#‎ ‎ ⋆⠀⠀��.ʬ.⠀⠀٬⠀⠀(⠀⠀&.⠀⠀)⠀...⠀DISCOGRAPHY. #fictional kpop oc #fictional kpop soloist #fictional idol oc #fictional kpop community #fictional kpop idol #fictional idol group #fictional idol community #fictional kpop company #fake idol group #fake kpop girl group #fake kpop group #fake kpop idol #idol au #idol kpop #idol oc #kpop idol #kpop #kpop oc #kpopidol #kpop gg

[domesticangel]

@tentavamp ‘s prettyboi butch werewolf vitali from our monster girls universe grinsss

#werewolf #monster girls #art #my handson stepdorter

[homomenhommes]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 11

1475 – Pope Leo X (d.1521), born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, was the Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521. He was the last non-priest (only a deacon) to be elected Pope. He is known for granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and his challenging of Martin Luther's 95 Theses. He was the second son of Lorenzo de' Medici, the most famous ruler of the Florentine Republic, and Clarice Orsini. His cousin, Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, would later succeed him as Pope Clement VII (1523-34).

Several modern historians have concluded that Leo was homosexual. Contemporary tracts and accounts such as that of Francesco Guicciardini have been found to allude to active same-sex relations - alleging Count Ludovico Rangone and Galeotto Malatesta were among his lovers.

Cesare Falconi has examined in particular Leo's infatuation with the Venetian noble Marcantonio Flaminio, with Leo arranging the best education that could be offered for the time. Von Pastor has argued, however, against the credibility of these testimonies, and rejected accusations of immorality as anti-papal polemic. Gucciardini was not resident at the papal court during Leo's pontificate, while other contemporaries such as Matteo Herculano took pains to praise his chastity. Paul Strathern, a British writer and academic, argues that Leo, while homosexual, was not sexually active as pope, despite identifying notable members of that family as such.

Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais

1913 – Jean Marais, French actor (d.1998); Marais was never much of an actor, and it is doubtful he would have achieved international fame had he not become Jean Cocteau's lover, but he was, by universal acclaim, one of the most handsome men ever to appear in films. In the 1940s when he made most of his movies for Cocteau, actors were still slicking down their hair with Kreml and Vitalis. But he changed all that. His cheveaux fous and athletic good looks created a new style of postwar leading man.

When in 1946 he spent his time in Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, trapped within an ape-like constume, waiting for Beauty's kiss to turn him once again into Jean Marais, Gay moviegoers around the world secretly wished that they were Josette Day who actually got to kiss the handsome actor's furry face. What is perhaps most interesting about the friendship between Cocteau and Marais is that the actor's face in profile bore an astonishing resemblance to the boys Cocteau had been sketching for thirty years before meeting him.

In the 1960s, he played the famed villain of the Fantômas trilogy. After 1970, Marais's on-screen performances became few and far between, as he preferred concentrating on his stage work. He kept performing on stage until his eighties, also working as a sculptor. In 1985, he was the head of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.

1948 – Alvin Baltrop (d.2004) was a gay African-American photographer who earned fame through his photographs of the Hudson River piers during the 1970s and 1980s.

Baltrop was born in 1948 in the Bronx. He discovered his love of photography in junior high school. Baltrop received no formal art education; older photographers from the neighborhood taught him different techniques and how to develop photos himself.

Baltrop enlisted in the Navy as a medic during the Vietnam War and continued taking photos, mainly of his friends in sexually provocative poses. He built his own developing lab in the sick bay, using medic trays for developing trays. After his time in the Navy, Baltrop worked odd jobs as a street vendor, a jewelry designer, a printer, and a cab driver. Because he wanted to spend more time taking photos at the Hudson River piers, he quit his job as a cab driver to become a self-employed mover. He would park his van at the piers for days at a time, living out of his van to take pictures.

From 1975 through 1986, Baltrop took photographs of the West Side piers, where he was a well-known member of the community. Baltrop knew every person he photographed, and people often volunteered to be photographed. Younger boys and men at the piers often confided in him about their sexual orientation, their relationships with their families, their housing status, and their work.

Baltrop captured the gay cruising spots and hookup culture that existed in New York City before the AIDS epidemic. Baltrop's photographs not only captured human personalities, but also the aesthetics of the dilapidated piers. His life work is a snapshot of gay, African-American, and New York City history.

Baltrop struggled to make his way in the art world, facing racism from the white gay art world. Gay curators often rejected his work, accused him of stealing it, or stole his work themselves.

"Three Sailors"

Late during the 1990s, NYC artist John Drury, who knew Alvin from their shared neighborhood - Drury living on Third Street, with his wife and Baltrop on Second Street, in lower Manhattan - befriended the artist and recognized the photographers unique abilities, nominating him for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award for the Arts. Alvin Baltrop had few exhibits in his lifetime; his work gaining international fame only after his death.

According to one journalist, Baltrop came out as gay at fourteen years old. Baltrop had long term relationships with men and women, but preferred identifying as gay.

Baltrop was diagnosed with cancer in the 1990s. Impoverished and without health insurance, curators and filmmakers attempted to exploit him for their own financial gain. He died on February 1, 2004

1990 – Nakshatra Bagwe, born in Mumbai, India, is an Indian actor and award winning film maker. Nakshatra will be making his Indian feature film debut in My Son is Gay and is due for his international film debut as the lead actor of Hearts. His films Logging Out, Book of Love, Curtains and PR (Public Relations) represent the current LGBT scenario of India.

He is a LGBT rights activist and also an organiser of Gujarat's first ever pride march. Nakshatra has participated in several Pride Parades in India. He won KASHISH – Mumbai International Queer Film Festival in 2012 for his debut film Logging Out. It was screened at prestigious venues like Queens Museum of Arts (New York), The Old Cinema (London) and it was also a part of Queer India European tour 2012 to raise awareness about LGBT issues in the Indian context.

Nakshatra hails from Konkan coastal region. Masure, Malvan is his native village. He takes part in homosexuality awareness projects. Nakshatra and his mother were featured in a promo of popular Indian television show Satyamev Jayte. He came out to society when he participated in Asia’s first LGBT flashmob. He also participated in second queer flashmob which happened at Dadar station, Mumbai. Nakshatra posed nude for a campaign named 'Breaking Closets'.

In July 2014, He became the brand ambassador of Moovz, a global social network for gay men. Nakshatra is first and only openly Indian LGBT person to be signed up as the brand ambassador by any brand till now.

1998 – The mother of Tyra Hunter (1970 – 1995) is awarded $2.9 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Washington DC. Hunter, a pre-operative transsexual, died of injuries sustained in a car accident in 1995. Emergency medical technicians at the scene were abusive and withheld treatment, and a doctor at DC General Hospital failed to follow nationally accepted standards of care.

[sosa-royals]

Isabella: Hey

Maria: ...

Isabella: How are you feeling?

Maria: How do you think I'm feeling? My baby is gone, my marriage is a sham and my sister has been deceiving me for decades

Isabella: Mari-

Maria: I don't want to hear whatever sorry excuse you're going to give now Bella. The fact is that you lied to me! That's it! And I can't possibly understand why-

Isabella: -You don't understand why?

Maria: Yes

Isabella: Really?

Maria: If you have something to say, then say it

Isabella: Okay then, the reason why is you

Maria: Meaning?

Isabella: You, Maria! You're the reason for everything I do!

Maria: Don't feed me that bulls**t. You did this for no one but yourself!

Isabella: And what about you, huh? Who did you have an affair for? Who did you fake Ferdinand's death for, if not yourself!

Maria: I was miserable in that marriage, Ferdinand was in love with someone else!

Isabella: And somehow that justifies you lying to the entire nation?

Maria: So you speak for the entire nation now?

Isabella: No! I speak for myself! I speak as someone who has been lied to for over 20 years by her selfish older sister! You told me we were best friends, you told me you'd never keep anything from me! You were suffering in your marriage and didn't say a word to me! Then you decided to pull off the scandal of the century and still didn't spare me a thought!

Isabella: I know you lied because you were angry at mother but you completely dismissed me too and all that mattered to you was yourself, and Simon. And you did all that while lying to me that everything was alright. The only reason you're even upset right now is because of Simon and Ferdinand's plot, and because you can't take it out on Simon since you love him so much, you're turning on me.

Isabella: So forgive me Maria if I spare you the guilt of facing up to your lies, by keeping secrets of my own. Forgive me if I kept Simon and Ferdinand's plot a secret to protect your happiness because he became the centre of your universe! Forgive me, if I had to meet Ferdinand behind your back to find out the truth about Liliana so I could stop her from hurting you!

Maria: ...You w-what?

Isabella: You're terribly naive, Maria. Did you think I warned you about Liliana every time I visited you because I was jealous?

Maria: Why didn't you tell me? Not just about Liliana, but everything else?

Isabella: Would you have listened? And let's say by some miracle you believed me, what good would it have done? You would've just had a breakdown. You would have fallen to pieces and, as your sister, that was exactly what I was trying to prevent.

Isabella: All this and you dare blame me? Because of your foolish mistake, our family is at risk, again. The Duke of Vitali is dead, mother is in the hospital and our family name is being dragged through the mud. And who has to clean it all up?

Isabella: Me!

Isabella: Because all you ever think about is yourself! All you've ever thought about is yourself!

Silence

Isabella: ...Stay in the hospital until the doctor gives you the all-clear. Then, I think it would be best if you left Saliceau for a while. Take some time to heal, I can't imagine it's easy to lose a child

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#sims #sims 4 #sosaroyals #Saliceau #Sim: Isabella #Sim: Maria #tw: miscarriage #sims 4 storytelling #sims 4 royals #simblr #royal simblr #sims 4 royal family #sims 4 story

[reddancer1]

https://archive.ph/6Mf28

Experts say the province’s sustained and reliable financial commitment to families matter more than the short-term baby bonuses that Italy’s unstable national governments have favored for decades.

“The difference is that it has a constant investment, over the years, unlike most national policies that are one-offs,” said Agnese Vitali, a demographer at the University of Trento. “Nobody plans to have children based on one-off policies.

[charcoalstardust]

so an eldritch being disguises as a human, becomes a supervillain, and falls for this random human journalist–

used one of my fav draw the squad images bc art is hard

#fandomless #ly's art #ly's ocs #universe: vitalious #story: clementine #oc: alvah #oc: clement thyme

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Earth's surface water dives deep, transforming core's outer layer

A few decades ago, seismologists imaging the deep planet identified a thin layer, just over a few hundred kilometers thick. The origin of this layer, known as the E prime layer, has been a mystery — until now.

An international team of researchers, including Arizona State University scientists Dan Shim, Taehyun Kim and Joseph O’Rourke of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, has revealed that water from the Earth's surface can penetrate deep into the planet, altering the composition of the outermost region of the metallic liquid core and creating a distinct, thin layer. Illustration of silica crystals coming out from the liquid metal of the Earth's outer core due to a water-induced chemical reaction.

Their research was recently published in Nature Geoscience. 

Research indicates that over billions of years, surface water has been transported deep into the Earth by descending, or subducted, tectonic plates. Upon reaching the core-mantle boundary, about 1,800 miles below the surface, this water triggers a profound chemical interaction, altering the core’s structure.

Along with Yong Jae Lee of Yonsei University in South Korea, Shim and his team have demonstrated through high-pressure experiments that subducted water chemically reacts with core materials. This reaction forms a hydrogen-rich, silicon-depleted layer, altering the topmost outer core region into a film-like structure. Additionally, the reaction generates silica crystals that rise and integrate into the mantle. This modified liquid metallic layer is predicted to be less dense, with reduced seismic velocities, in alignment with anomalous characteristics mapped by seismologists.

Illustration of Earth’s interior revealing subducting water and a rising plume of magma. At the interface where subducting water meets the core, a chemical exchange occurs to form a hydrogen-rich layer in the topmost outer core and dense silica in the bottom of the mantle. Image courtesy Yonsei University

“For years, it has been believed that material exchange between Earth's core and mantle is small. Yet, our recent high-pressure experiments reveal a different story. We found that when water reaches the core-mantle boundary, it reacts with silicon in the core, forming silica," said Shim. "This discovery, along with our previous observation of diamonds forming from water reacting with carbon in iron liquid under extreme pressure, points to a far more dynamic core-mantle interaction, suggesting substantial material exchange.”

This finding advances our understanding of Earth's internal processes, suggesting a more extensive global water cycle than previously recognized. The altered "film" of the core has profound implications for the geochemical cycles that connect the surface-water cycle with the deep metallic core.

This study was conducted by an international team of geoscientists using advanced experimental techniques at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Lab and PETRA III of Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Germany to replicate the extreme conditions at the core-mantle boundary.

Members of the team and their key roles from ASU are Kim, who began this project as a visiting PhD student and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Space Exploration; Shim, a professor at the School of Earth and Space Exploration, who spearheaded the high-pressure experimental work; and O’Rourke, an assistant professor at the School of Earth and Space Exploration, who performed computational simulations to comprehend the formation and persistence of the core's altered thin layer. Lee led the research team from Yonsei University, along with key research scientists Vitali Prakapenka and Stella Chariton at the Advanced Photon Source and Rachel Husband, Nico Giordano and Hanns-Peter Liermann at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron.

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #nasa #esa #astrophysics

[quickhacked]

// oc in 15.

tagged by; @devilbrakers, thank you so much!! tagging; @reaperkiller, @vvanessaives, @hibernationsuit, @katsigian, @adelaidedrubman, @dickytwister, @rindemption, @noirapocalypto and YOU!

rules: share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an oc, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the oc. bonus points for just using dialogue without other details about the scene, but you're free to include those as well!

decided to do this for vincent since he is the main character of my cyberpunk universe and it's been a hot sec since i talked about him! these bits are all from various fics including the broker which is a long fic that i'll never shut up about. sorry. i've included more than just the dialogue since a lot of vincent's manner of speech is also in his body language and internal monologue :^) his voice claim is basically masc v from in-game but with very distinct southern flair

from chapter 7 of the broker:

‘Here we are,’ Vincent repeated, stuffing his hands in the pockets of his jacket and flinching lightly when he heard an explosion in the distance. ‘Just another fuckin’ day in Night City.’

from an unreleased fic i still need to finish and post:

‘The Deckhead?' Vincent asked. 'Fried to a crisp. Found ‘im hooked up to the Net high off his tits- he had an intruder alarm set up but it caused him to panic, ‘n he disconnected himself too soon. Lights went out before I could do anything.’

paraphrased from this fic, showing that vincent can and will talk to johnny out loud whenever he wants:

‘What the fuck,’ Vincent blurted out, voice shaky as he took another step back. […] Johnny raised a hand and gestured vaguely at Vincent, and himself, and the space between them. ‘You don’t have to speak out loud when you- I feel like I’ve said this before.’

from an unreleased fic:

‘Maelstrom wasn’t too happy I was running off with their toys,’ Vincent answered, eyes lingering on the bruise on Vitali’s face. ‘Had to flatline half of ‘em before I could get out.’

from chapter 11 of the broker:

‘Peachy,’ Vincent said and gave him a thumbs up. His mantis blade was still deployed and he nearly cut himself with it.

from chapter 16 of the broker:

‘Right.’ He stepped back, visibly biting the inside of his cheek as his eyes wandered off into the rest of the living room and he did a mocking salute in Vitali’s direction. ‘Yessir.’

from chapter 2 of the broker:

‘Pleased to make your acquaintance?’ Vincent said, the sentence more a question than a statement, and he frowned slightly as he watched Dupoint walk around the desk and sit down opposite of him while unbuttoning the jacket of his slightly too big suit.

from an unreleased fic:

‘Yep, that was me,’ Vincent said in response, his voice suddenly a couple of octaves higher. Smooth talkin’, you fucking airhead. You sound like a damn high schooler.

from this fic, talking to johnny out loud again:

‘Right, ‘cuz apologizing means everything is instantly forgiven and forgotten,’ Vincent snapped, accidentally startling an old lady he passed by; he quickly raised his hand to her as an apology and fastened his pace.

from an unreleased fic:

‘Born ‘n raised in the Glen, yeah,’ Vincent answered, flinching when he noticed the edge of someone’s umbrella get dangerously close to his face. ‘Won’t find the nicest people there but at least they generally know they’re not the only gonk on the fucking road.’

from this fic:

‘Headache that comes and goes-’ Vincent paused and glared at Johnny. ‘- but yeah, peachy. And you’re right. Worrying doesn’t help anyone.’

from chapter 2 of the broker:

‘V has had a lot of things on his mind, as of late,’ Vincent dryly said. ‘Please do enlighten me.’

from this fic, talking to johnny out loud again:

‘Alright, speaking rights fucking revoked,’ Vincent cut him off, visibly startling Vitali who had just slightly leaned in to Vincent’s touch. ‘Piss off, Johnny. Jesus.’

from chapter 15 of the broker:

Grant Armitage. Some seemingly random Arasaka exec with “his greasy little fingers stuck right up Yorinobu’s golden ass”, as Vincent had described him a few days prior.

from chapter 2 of the broker:

‘A fully opened center.’ Dupoint paused, raised an eyebrow, and glanced back at Vincent. ‘Do you know what that move is called, V?’ Vincent shrugged, and swallowed his laughter. ‘Dunno. The American Nutcracker?’

#tag games #ask:vincent #yes i keep mentioning that he talks to johnny out loud most of the time but it's important for his character i need you to understand #it's funny to watch him startle everyone around him by suddenly starting to speak to johnny out loud. boy you could pretend you're on a cal #also i didn't really know who to tag for this because i'm out of the loop with who writes etc etc so i just grabbed some regulars #but as always feel free to kill me with hammers for whatever reason honestly i won't take it personally

[moregraceful]

I was so brave and talked myself out of running off to Europe away from stress stuff bc of the cons (contains Europeans) . If you could spare some kaapo thoughts in these trying times, ya girl would appreciate it greatly 💕💕💕💕

- 💖

Oh 💖 anon, I am proud of you for not running away to Europe. Things are so hard and stressful sometimes, but all we gotta do is push through. I hope you're okay. If there is anything I can do, please let me know.

Here's part of a Kaapo/Vitali wish baby fic that I don't remember why I was writing and also don't know why I stopped writing. This does not really have an ending but I hope you enjoy Kaapo's early 20s agonies anyway.

;;

Kaapo’s not proud of it and he’ll go to his grave admitting it, but his first thought when he sees the baby is oh fuck.

She’s small. Blonde like Kaapo but even sleeping she’s a dead-ringer for Vitali, her big ears and sharp nose. Kaapo knows that if he wakes her up, her eyes will be the same color as Vitali’s.

Her tiny fists are clutching a blue fleece blanket and she’s swaddled up tight in a gray blanket. Kaapo’s heart aches as he looks at her in her box.

He knows that, like, wishbabies are indestructible until you touch them. That’s just how it goes, a law of the universe. Wishbabies don’t get hurt until they get picked up by their parent. But it hurts that his daughter he wished into existence while he was high last night is just in a cardboard box at his front door. Was she there all night? How long was she waiting?

He takes a deep breath and picks her up.

Her eyes open slowly and—yeah, she’s Vitali’s kid all right. Same blue eyes. Same mouth that smiles at Kaapo.

Then she starts crying. Kaapo ducks inside.

He’s not prepared for a baby at all and he spends about fifteen minutes trying to tough it out before he gives up. He’s good with kids, he practically raised his brother, but it’s 8am and he’s holding a whole baby, his baby, his and Vitali’s baby, and she’s crying, and the heartache in his chest is rapidly turning into panic. He calls Chris who hears the baby crying and comes over immediately, Mika in tow.

Like, they’re fine. Their wishbaby is old enough for daycare. They don't have a newborn. Mika’s carrying a diaper bag when Chris bangs on the door and Kaapo opens it.

“Oh, Jesus,” says Chris. He looks startled. “Okay, didn’t know about you and Kravvy, but—”

“You can’t tell,” says Kaapo. He’s been pacing in his living room for the past twenty minutes and his baby has not stopped crying. He has nothing, no baby supplies, nothing to take care of her. He doesn’t even know where to get started with any of that, but: “You can’t tell him.”

He steps back to let them in. Mika is shaking his head. “Kaapo, we wouldn’t have to say anything. Everyone will know when they see her.”

Kaapo holds his baby close to his chest. “He can’t know,” he says, desperately.

“The whole point of wishbabies,” says Chris, gently, “is that they push you forward.”

Kaapo is too young for a kid. He’s too young for a relationship that involves kids. His head hurts and his heart hurts and deep down he’s still wondering how long his daughter was lying in a cardboard box before he opened the door. Will she remember how long she was lying there before her stupid dad thought to follow up on the knock on his door? Will her first memories be that she was alone? She can’t have a life growing up like that.

He kisses her head and holds her close, bouncing her in his arms. “What do I do?”

“Breathe,” says Mika. He claps a hand on Kaapo’s shoulder. Kaapo didn’t even realize he was hyperventilating until Mika said that. “Kaapo, take some deep breaths.”

Kaapo breathes shakily. His daughter quiets down too, loud cries turning soft. He kisses her head again. “I can’t do this,” he says. “I can’t do it alone.”

“Kaapo, whose face do you see when you look at her?”

But if I tell him, what will he do? Kaapo wants to say. What if he says it’s not his baby, even though everyone can see that it is? What if he leaves, what if he says he can’t, what if he doesn’t want to, what if he doesn’t care enough to stay? What if Kaapo tells him their daughter came in a cardboard box and Vitali asks why Kaapo left her alone?

Instead of all that he says, “Vitali doesn’t have job security to have a child.”

Chris levels him with a flat look. “And you do?”

Kaapo winces. His baby whines softly and pushes her head against his chest. He cups her head and makes himself stand up straight.

"You have to tell him," says Mika. He rubs Kaapo's back, an oddly tender action for him around Kaapo. Usually he's just bullying Kaapo. "It isn't fair to him if you don't."

"It's not like you two," says Kaapo. When he looks at Mika, the expression on his face makes Kaapo want to bury his face in his baby's soft hair and never look up again. "It's easier for you two. You have each other."

How does he even explain it to them? That Kravvy doesn't think much of him besides that he is fun to hang out with? That they're not together, not even a little bit? That the trade rumors and expectation of failure haunts them both so much that he's afraid to commit anything to words and Kravvy won't say anything to Kaapo outright? That they spend most of their time together showing each other TikToks in their native languages and ineptly explaining the jokes until midnight? They are old and read books and listen to records. Kaapo was high last night and his baby came to him in a cardboard box.

"Did your son," he says, haltingly, "did he come in a cardboard box?"

Maybe that was the most disturbing part that he's afraid to say to Kravvy, who is such a family man that he sends his kid cousins back in Russia little gifts from places they visit on the road. 

"Oh, no," Chris says with a laugh. "He was in a wicker picnic basket."

"They come to you how you understand them best," says Mika. He's still rubbing Kaapo's back and it is unfortunately making Kaapo calmer. "She came to you how you and Kravvy will know to love her best."

For Kravvy, a gift, thinks Kaapo. For him, perpetual guilt. Or perhaps something he wanted so badly that she came like a package he ordered from the universe before he could think twice about it.

"Okay," says Kaapo. He kisses his daughter's head. "Okay."

#💖 anon #cage replies #unfortunate birdcage fanfictions

[semolinaart]

OPTIMIZATION OF THE PROTOCOL OF TWO-STEP QUARTZ DOUBLE-SIDED DONOR-ACCEPTOR ÆTERIAL PRESERVATION TO PRESERVE THE VITALISTIC PROPERTIES OF SERPENS HYDRARGYRI CINNABAREA PSEUDOTISSUE SAMPLES (WITH COMMENTS OF SERPENS HYDRARGYRI CINNABAREA)

N.E. Psheno, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Alchemy and Astrology 1, Senior Researcher 2

S.S. Sonechko, PhD Student, Department of Alchemy and Astrology 1

V.R. Avdeenko, Master's Student, Department of Geoalchemy 3

A.L. Chamaedaphne, D.Sc., Professor of the Department of Alchemy and Astrology 1, Head of the Laboratory of Alchemy 4

Ahikar, consultant astrologer, serpent of cinnabar mercury (Serpens hydrargyri cinnabarea) 5

1 University, Saratov

2 Institute for Problems of Evolution and Systematics of Mythoanimalia, Saratov

3 Institute of Mining, Geology and Geotechnology, Krasnoyarsk

4 Research Institute of Mythozoology named after academician F.Shch. Shershen, Saratov

5 Ptitsa Mountain, Spirit Valley, Ergaki Natural Park, Krasnoyarsk Territory

Abstract

The two-step qdd-ÆP is a powerful tool that can be a solution to the problem of the preservation of pseudotissue samples from Alchemiangues. We optimized the protocol of this method to preserve the vitalistic properties of Serpens hydrargyri cinnabarea pseudotissue samples for a period of time sufficient to study aspects of the pseudocellular structure of the material. The effectiveness of the method was achieved through the simultaneous use of two QÆP, one each for the Mercury and Salt components, respectively, which ensured smaller loss of vis vitalisin comparison with a single-step qdd-ÆP.

Key words: cinnabar, two-step quartz double-sided donor-acceptor æthereal preservation, qdd-ÆP, flow cytoalchemetry, squamous stratified keratinized pseudoepithelium, pseudoblood, pseudotissue sample preservation of Alchemiangues, dragons of alchemy, Serpens hydrargyri cinnabarea, serpent of cinnabar mercury, vis vitalis.

yep, I wrote the article

It's here (Russian language):

#dragons of alchemy #dragons #art #speculative biology #fake science

[nirinnnnn]

young Vasily Livanov & Vitaly Solomin in animated style

will there be love stories of them in an alternative universe?😌

(still trying hard to capture their facial features…

originally posted on Oct. 06 2022

#vasily livanov #vitaly solomin #vlvs #fanart #soviet holmes #russian holmes