#thedrearydoll

[zashamalkin]

thedrearydoll reblogged your post:Penguins aggressively shooting pucks is my kink

I’ll be honest I totally thought you were talking about actual penguins playing hockey not the team

Nah.  Actual penguins are better at board games than hockey.

[feynites]

So rock tumbling? What is it?

Rock tumbling is basically the hobby of polishing rocks.

In order to do it, you need a rock tumbler. There are two basic kinds of rock tumblers, One is a rotary tumbler, where you put your rocks into a barrel (or two, or three, depending on how many the machine can hold), along with water and grit, and the machine steadily rotates the barrels. As it does, the silicon grit and water inside work like a sped-up version of what happens when stones are smoothed out by the sand and water in rivers, and so in a couple of weeks, you can accomplish what would take nature a much longer period of time.

The other kind of tumbler is a vibratory one, which still uses water and grit, but it vibrates rather than rolling. In a rotary tumbler, there are four stages, where you switch to using progressively finer grit and polish in order to get the rocks as smooth as possible, and each stage takes about a week. In a vibratory tumbler, the stages only take a few days. But vibratory tumblers have a much harder time ‘shaping’ rocks than rotary tumblers do, so they’re not as good for really rough, jagged rocks.

So basically, tumbling rocks is the process of using a machine to turn stones from this:

Into this:

[officialundersociety]

Our new logo! Drawn by @thedrearydoll one of our writers! Keep an eye out for information coming soon!

[mangokappu]

Will you be at any more cons this coming year that you know for sure yet?

This year? Um the only thing im for sure going to coz i got a table is anirevo for next year. I plan to do otafest aurora in the winter if im able to get a table fast enough!

edit: if you’re asking for next year then im just planning to do Otafest, Animethon, and Anime Revolution (confirmed). Still looking into other cons I might wanna try?

[itchangesalot]

Tagged by thedrearydoll I’m just gonna tag escpfrmrlty and winterlygrace.

What was your Last Drink: Milk
Last Phone Call: My sister
Last Text: “Yeah I highly doubt it but I guess we’ll see.” 
Last song you listened to: Dry the rain by The Beta Band Last time you cried: I woke up yesterday crying. Have you ever Dated someone twice: nope Been cheated on: nope
Kissed someone and regretted it: nope
Lost someone special: yes
Been depressed: Nope?
Been drunk and thrown up: nope In the past year have you Made a new friend: yep
Fallen out of love: no
Laughed until you cried: of course 
Met someone who changed you: no
Found out who your true friends are: I think so yeah
Found out someone was talking about you: yeah i love it it’s hilarious 
Kissed anyone on your followers/follows you: no General How many people on your tumblr do you know IRL: five I think??
Do you have any pets: Yep! Two dogs Albert and Boo. One pony Harris and one cat reesa.
Do you want to change your name:no What did you do for your last birthday party: I had some friends come over and we ate cake and pizza and watched movies
What time did you wake up today: eight forty five am
What were you doing at midnight last night: watching last week tonight with my dad.
Name something you CANNOT wait for: one direction concert and/or vidcon Last time you saw your mother: a couple hours ago What is one thing you wish you could change about your life: less worrying about money.
What are you listening to right now: nothing Have you ever talked to a person called Tom: Idk probably
What’s getting on your nerves rn: my stupid nails
Nickname(s): Evie and top dog.
Relationship Status: Single. Very much single.
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius 
Pronouns: she, her etc.
Favourite TV show: Grimm or teen wolf
Hair colour: Blonde Long or short: Longish
Height: 5′7
Do you have a crush on someone: Yes
What do you like about yourself: my eyes and my humour I guess.
Tattoos: none. 
Righty or lefty: Righty Firsts: First surgery: Removing something from my back.
First piercing: don’t have any 
First best friend: Tianna and Shayna 
First sport you joined: horse back riding 
First vacation: England four years old
First pair of sneakers: idk probs the most no name brand sneakers ever Rn Eating: Nothing Drinking: Nothing I’m about to: ask my mum if I can borrow the car Listening to: Nada 
Waiting for: my friend to finish dinner Want kids: Yes
Get married: yes
Career: Lawyer. Which is better Lips or eyes: Eyes
Hugs or kisses: Hugs
Shorter or taller: taller
Older or younger: Older. Romantic or spontaneous: is romance not spontaneous?
Nose, stomach or nice arms: Arms?Sensitive or loud: sensitive 
Hook up or relationship: Relationship.
Troublemaker or hesitant: Troublemaker Have you ever: Kissed a stranger: no
Drank hard liquor: yes
Lost glasses/contacts: No Sex on first date: No
Broke someone’s heart: Don’t think so
Been arrested: Never
Turn someone down: Not on purpose
Cried when someone died: Yes
Fallen for a friend: No Do you believe: In yourself: Meh. Miracles: Yes Love at first sight: Yes. Heaven: I want to believe in it
Santa Claus: not anymore
Kiss at first date: don’t really care so I guess yes?
Angels: No

[tsubasamisudachi]

Gatchaman crowds (duh)

i had a feeling i’d get this one, ahaha!

❤ male: sugane❤ female: hajime!!!! ✖ least favorite: uhhh i don’t know, i love all the characters! at this point maybe rizumu? just because i don’t know too much about him lol✔ who resembles me: personality-wise i’d say tsubasa!!❤ most attractive: rui. definitely rui❤ three more characters that i like: utsutsu, od, gel sadra (and everyone elseee but)

send me a show and i’ll answer!

[feynites]

Are you familiar with the app Memrise? If not it's a language learning app (fairly good and well rounded as far as comprehension goes) but it actually features dragon Age Elvish as a language. Just thought that was neat and worth sharing

Neat! I hadn’t heard of it, actually. I wonder if it’s just canonical terms or if they’ve fleshed it out with fanon? I guess I’ll have to look into it more. Could be handy! 

[feynites]

What do you think of half elves in the DA universe?

This has come up before!

In essence, I think it’s a creative misstep to handle them the way that canon does. If they didn’t want visibly mixed race characters, for whatever reason, then they should have just made the two groups reproductively incompatible. That would have locked elven wardens out of conceiving Kieran with Morrigan, but honestly DA:O does not shy away from a certain degree of unfairness if it suits the world-building - elven, dwarven, and mage wardens also can’t marry Alistair and sit on the throne, either.

Instead, what they did was walk right into an allegorical mess. That happens sometimes, when you’re writing fantasy and you’re paying more attention to your fantastical world-building than you are to the real-life scenarios which this stuff is drawn from. Because going ‘people who are mixed race can only actually belong to one half of their heritage’ is tied in with a ton of terrible real life ideology. It’s a concept that, in and of itself, is bad, regardless of whether it’s being applied to fantastical races or not. Though at least by being fantasy, there is a degree of separation that means it’s, at least, not targeting specific races or racial combinations that actually exist.

Small mercies.

But it’s sort of like the ‘mages are dangerous and therefore the templars aren’t totally wrong’ approach to the narrative. The problem is that in real life, any time someone has gone ‘mixed race people only belong to one half of their heritage’, or ‘these people are just inherently dangerous and need to be locked away from moral and upstanding folk’, they have been among the worst of humanity. That kind of thinking is terrible, and attempts to justify it in fiction will always create really uncomfortable parallels to real life propaganda and instances of terrible violence. It’s not the same as just directly telling a story where real life groups are maligned, but it’s still relying on the same kinds of thought processes that defend real life hatreds.

So basically, I prefer the idea that Thedosian society, being the font of ignorance and hatred that it can be, is entirely wrong about the particulars of elven heritage and genetics. Because that changes things from being ‘the story is built so that this very bad idea is Irrefutable Truth’ into ‘this is just more in-world bullshit’. So what actually happens in Thedas is, if you have rounded ears, people decide you’re human. If you have pointed ears, they decide you’re an elf. They don’t think the two can be mixed because they have a very limited understanding of biology, and are judging solely by appearances. Rounded ears are a genetically dominant trait, so they’re much more likely to occur, and elves are widely hated, so babies born with unexpectedly pointed ears thanks to recessive genes are either disposed of in some tragic way, or else altered or encouraged to disguise their ear tips. Mixed race babies born with rounded ears in alienages have the opportunity to go and assimilate into human society, to try and make a better living. And it’s less common among the Dalish, because they by and large try and avoid contact with humans.

Although human-looking children spotted among the Dalish could also account for stories of the Dalish stealing babies.

(Also, to disclaim, I am aware that statements have been made to the tune of ‘being an elf is not linked to genetics’. There is, apparently, some lore connected to this, presumably to do with magic. This does not make the overall concept less bad, and it also, from what little info has been provided, doesn’t make any sense. That could change come DA4, but I personally can’t see any way for this whole idea to escape the root problems it has. So I’m mostly hoping that they just ditch it. I love a lot of DA’s world-building, but this and a few other elements are things that I consider bad ideas.)

(Also, also, fandom needs to leave people alone when they decide to disregard this bit of canon. People cherry pick their canon all the time, and for things that are much less inherently offensive than a bit of throw-away racial purity world-building. The point of transformative works is to transform them, after all, and some people like to transform them by taking part of canon they hate and slam-dunking it into the nearest trash bin.)