#(apart from being born)

[the-chattering-tower]

I'm losing my mind over the 100 mil dragon having finally happened

Like. I wasn't around for it but Holy Shit. If you're not into IDs I need you to understand how special this is. We went up a digit. All IDs are 9-digit now

For us to see an event like this again there would need to be another 900 million dragons born, which is an absolutely mind-boggling number and also completely out of the reasonable lifespan of any website

This Is It. Some of you were here early enough to see the rollover from 7-digits to 8-digits, or even 6-digits to 7-digits and so on and so forth. Most of us weren't. But you were here for the dawn of 9-digits and you will never see something like this occur ever again for as long as Flight Rising exists

Just. Holy shit man. We're all hatching 9-digits now and this is just gonna be Normal

[pangur-and-grim]

she's starting to look like a stuffed animal that got hugged too much

[reluctanttrabbit]

and you still want it

the inner sanctity

and it's an evil

but the evil is necessary

alt w/o the reflections in their eyes :}

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[pyritize]

I understand from a plot/narrative/themes perspective why Gemma's storyline was written the way it was on Severance and why Cold Harbor (the room) was what it was, but that part of this season still rubs me the wrong way. I get that infertility is something that some women genuinely struggle with, and that it's an easy way to give the evil pharma company a connection to the main characters, and a way to expose tensions in a marriage, but still. I just don't love that the writers reached for "what is the most painful experience in this woman's life" and arrived at an empty crib. Maybe I'll change my mind once Gemma's had a chance to exist apart from her relationship with Mark, I don't know.

[rxttenfish]

sometimes i worry i'm being way too cautious about not ever sharing or wanting to share images of inappropriate contact and abusive situations with animals, but like. at the same time i know how fucking easy it is. i know how easily even awful shit gets normalized because of the briefest oversight. i know how even "this person is a professional and this is a professional setting in which this is appropriate and controlled" gets extrapolated outwards into normalization of settings which are Absolutely Not That. i didn't even want to share that iguana video, despite it being so good and clearly a case where someone is keeping an iguana well and meeting its needs, because they are SO easy to obtain and SO easily mistreated and neglected and abused in a way that can quickly turn dangerous to the people involved as well, that even the appropriate situation can quickly become the latter just because someone saw it online.

[gayvecchio]

Are any of the characters' ages/birthyears ever specifically stated in the show?

[wonder-worker]

richardiii and frideswide lovell? I am only just hearing of this

Hi! We don't know the truth and don't know the exact details, but yes, that's definitely a (potential) relationship worth discussing!

For those who are unaware, Frideswide Lovell was the daughter of John, 8th Baron Lovell, and his wife Joan Beaumont. This made her the sister of Francis Lovell, the future chamberlain and best friend of Richard III - who she may have had a personal connection to in her own right.

Frideswide seems to have been much younger than her siblings and was not born before 1363, most likely in 1464. She was orphaned soon after her birth, with her father dying a year later and her mother a year after that, leaving her to spend her childhood and adolescence in the household of her brother's parents-in-law. The first properly contemporary mention of her is found in the 1470 pardon Edward IV's government issued for Henry FitzHugh and all those in his household. Unfortunately, not much is known about her beyond that, including the kind of education she received.

When she was around 16, Frideswide married the 15-year-old Edward Norris, oldest son of William Norris of Yattendon and his first wife Joan/Jane de Vere. The teenage couple had their first son, John, in 1481, followed by a second son, Henry, a year later. The latter would be executed in 1536 as one of Anne Boleyn's alleged lovers.

Here's where it gets interesting. As we know, Richard III became King in 1483 after deposing his nephews. Michèle Schindler, author of the book Lovell Our Dogge: The Life of Viscount Lovell, Closest Friend of Richard III and Failed Regicide, has speculated that Richard may have been having an affair with Frideswide, aka his best friend's sister, during that time.

To quote Schindler from a blog post about Frideswide:

In 1483, Frideswide received a "reward" of 50 marks from Richard III after he was crowned king. Perhaps it was this, her support and closeness to her brother`s close friend, that caused a rift between her and her husband, and the couple was divided over political opinions which they needed some time to overcome. Edward`s father William, who had originally supported the Lancastrian cause, had accepted Edward IV as king, but rebelled against Richard [in support of the Princes in the Tower] in autumn 1483. Edward Norris may have supported this, though he never acted against Richard, while Frideswide seemed to support Richard.

However, there is evidence from 1484 which throws a rather different light on Frideswide`s marriage and her relationship to Richard. While her "reward" from 1483 could well have been simply a gesture of friendship by the new king towards his closest friend`s sister, their interactions clearly did not stop there. In August 1484, Richard granted her an annuity of 100 marks, a rather large sum. While this has traditionally been assumed to have been because of her father-in-law`s rebellion, leaving her husband disinherited, this does not seem to have been the cause. None of William`s other children, nor his wife, was granted anything by Richard.

Naturally, it could be that Richard chose to favour Francis`s sister over the rest of her marital family, but this is contradicted by two facts: one, that the grant was for unspecified "services" to the king, not, as that to other traitor`s relatives, as a compensation, a generous gift by the king. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, is that a second grant of an annuity of 100 marks was made from the same venue, dating from 10th January 1485. This grant was not a confirmation of the first, but was added to it, meaning that Frideswide received 200 marks yearly from Richard, a sizable sum, more than the Countess of Oxford, or even his own mother-in-law, received.

The key to this may lie in the fact that the second grant was dated back nine months, and appears to have been made just after Frideswide gave birth to her third child, a daughter called Anne. Very notably, the grants to her, for unspecified services to the king, have the same wording as one to Katherine Haute, a woman often assumed to have been the mother of Richard`s illegitimate daughter Katherine, Richard made years earlier.

Equally notable is that Richard made grants to Francis on the same days as he made those to Frideswide, as a compensation for equally unspecified services, and that Frideswide appeared to have lived with her brother [rather than her husband] while pregnant.

That Henry Norris, in later years, appeared to not treat Anne as his sister, and that William Norris, Edward`s father, later favoured Frideswide`s sons, even apparently helping them become established at court, but not Anne, might also point towards the idea that there was at least a question mark over Anne`s paternity, and that she may have been Richard`s.

If so, Frideswide was in a bad position after Richard`s defeat and death at Bosworth only eight and a half months after her daughter`s birth. It seems, though, that she and her husband Edward made the best of it, and even reconcilliated. In around 1486, Frideswide gave birth to her last child, a girl called Margaret, presumably after Edward`s sister. From surviving documents, Margaret seemed much closer to her brother Henry and her grandfather William, again showing up a difference to Anne."

Of course, we don't explicitly know if this is true - and if it is true, we don't know the exact details - but the circumstantial evidence is indeed very strong, and it seems very plausible to me. I would love to know more about Frideswide, who seems to have had a very interesting and tragic, albeit mostly unknown, life.

In short, it's very interesting and opens up a lot of possibilities, for sure!

[colorisbyshe]

the one direction break up is still so funny to me because the second they said hiatus i was like 'oh it's over over like for real' but they said some shit like 'we'll be back in 18 months' so i was like 'okay... you're fucking liars but i'll put that in my google calendar'

and like i literally did do that i calculated exactly 18 months or whatever they said

do you know what getting that alert was like... like... it was i sent you a 'hey, fuck you and your good day' alert from the past to my future self

[lover-of-mine]

I refuse to believe eddie is younger than buck though because as chim said "you're not his elder". buck was 26 in s1 and 29 in s4 and so to me, eddie has to be at least a year older? but you're right about them being around the same age and yet at such different stages. buck craves that family and I wish he could have it 💔 that baby duck could cling a little harder for once (to eddie, not a stranger..)

Well, considering season 6, Eddie can't be more than a few months older than Buck. I don't think they would actually make Buck older than him, but the thing is, we know Eddie has to be born in 1992 given the date on Shannon's grave and the way they didn't imply that Eddie is older than her, but Buck can be from 1991 or 1992 considering all the times they stated his age, 26 in s1, 28 right before the tsunami, 29 before he finds out about Daniel, 30 when he gets struck by lightning, and the very confusing way the time passes on the show. I guess you could push it a little, say Eddie is from late 91, since Shannon is from October 92, he could be anywhere from November 91 to September 93 and still be the "same age" as her in between birthdays but I refuse to believe they would put him as being born in 93, so our best guess is somewhere in 92, but our best guess with Buck is also somewhere in 92. So they can't be more than a few months apart from each other. But I also think everyone latched onto the way Eddie acts older (and the way Ryan is older) to put him as older than he is when his whole thing is that he was forced to grow up too fast, by the pressure to be the "man of the house" and the way that he had to learn be a father before he got to be a kid and the way that war changes someone in ways other experience won't. Buck has a boyish energy to him because he was left alone, because he was invisible. Maddie left for college then she left because of Doug, so the only person that could've pushed him to get his shit together wasn't around, so he lived life the way he did because he didn't have anyone else to care about besides himself and he never cared about himself very much to begin with. Because the way he settles into himself is not just Abby in the way he likes to say, it's Bobby, Hen, and Chim letting him care about them too. And the way he really settles once he gets Maddie back and meets Eddie and Chris shows the way he just didn't have a reason before them. But they do balance each other off in a beautiful way because Eddie needed to loosen up a little, and Buck not only shows him a different perspective, he also gives Eddie means to care about himself while making sure Chris is also always taken care of, and Eddie gives Buck a reason to not be a reckless idiot just because he wants to feel something.

[orcelito]

Johnathon ^

Cat for size reference

[worstloki]

someone translated what thor says about being 1500 and loki saying they live to 5000 in human years and, by IW, thor is 22/23

I like using 85 as the average human age but that leaves Thor at 25.5 and Loki at 18 which I don’t think is good. Using 80 is marginally better but frankly I don’t think the bros have a 400 year age difference. To make up for this I assume Thor bluffs his age and the equivalency doesn’t translate over. Now I can decide they’re whatever age I want <3

[feral-teeth]

Im just thinking about that American psycho musical and how much it affected me as a person and changed who i was

Also that face he makes in the movie - i always do it like the ���ooh’ face (it also feels like a very Canadian Jim Carrey face to make too idk it might just be my connection to it)

[totentnz]

#14 & 15 for the ship ask game (silverV)? 🙏

Ship Ask Game - The Basics

14. Do they enjoy PDA, or are they more private with affection?

johnny and v are definitely more private with their affection for each other. there is no real reason for it other than that they both are simply that kind of person.

"That obnoxious kind of toxic that goes shopping at hot topic that won't kiss me out in public."

their relationship isn't a secret but they won't go out of their way to show it to everyone. it's a weak point they don't like to expose about themselves and they like it when the other gets hit on by a stranger and the other blows em off, or doesn't and it becomes a sort of game for them. both of them like getting their ego stroked like that.

15. What songs remind you of their relationship?

just the two of us - grover washington

every me and every you - placebo

reflections - the neighbourhood

sick like me - in this moment

[os-anastigmat-anaesthesia-why]

why is my mind set on always comparing myself with others. and on every single mistake. on everything not perfect. on everything painful. on everything negative. who put so much poison there. who let it fester.

[cubot]

Guilt is like a shadow for me. No matter what my course of action is, I feel it. Guilt for doing. Guilt for not.