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lady-azarashe · 4 months ago

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Story time! It's funny but also kinda sad at the end. Last night I got a surge of energy for once in months and I decided to finish setting up my old desktop computer at my current desk. Im still not sure if I will actually do anything with it, but it's been rotting in a box for almost a decade and I thought I might double-check what's inside. Thought I could always chuck it into the recyclable trash bin, after all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

After pulling it out of the cardboard box I noticed it was dusty as fuck and something rattled real bad inside, so I grabbed a couple of screwdrivers and a vacuum cleaner and went to town on it's innards. I had to recruit some help from my partner because, even though I single-handedly set up this thing in 2010 I am notoriously dumber nowadays and couldn't tell where some of the wires went. When it was peachy we plugged it in, and after a couple tries (defective ON/OFF button, it was like that before too) it beeped back to life.

This little guy used to be quite powerful. I saved up birthday and Xmas money for a couple years and asked my supposedly " 1337 h4ck3r" friend for help on picking parts for a computer I could use to run games on. When they arrived from a shady-as-fuck website I set them up Geronimo-style, and to my surprise it worked!...Sort of. My script kiddy friend was on a Microsoft-hating binge and installed some random Linux distro on it, so I couldn't play most games I wanted and I couldn't type the @ symbol for some unknown reason. Couple months afterwards it got wiped TF out, got some Windows 7 thrown in, and I finally could get to my purpose of playing WoW, Minecraft and specially TF2. The dispenser is a Spy. Hooray.

But that wasn't meant to be it's only purpose. I was pretty isolated IRL due to circumstances outside of my control, and being a friendless child living in the middle of bumfuck nowhere while dealing with the dumpster fire of my parents' divorce, I had little chances of socializing. So I turned to the Internet for comfort, friendships, and to live vicariously through cool YouTube videos and GaiaOnline. Oh, and sick as hell desktop wallpapers too. And that's the story my old bookmarks are telling me today. And it feels so fucking heartbreaking, because I'm getting a glimpse of what were the golden days of old now laid in ruins. Dozens upon dozens of websites are gone. The fortunate ones display a 404 page, the unfortunate ones have been absorbed by bigger corporations or turned into some sort of clickbaity entrepreneurship bullshit. Most (if not all) the webcomics and webtoons I used to follow have been abandoned, tons of YT videos I watched religiously are unavailable, and not a single forum survived. The closest thing I have left is a GaiaOnline guild where I used to post very cringy teen stuff, and its last post is from 2011. Hell, even a lot of useful Reddit posts I had saved have been deleted over the years. And it's sad, and somewhat beautiful at the same time, but for the most part it makes me question something. Is it just me... or does the Internet feel incredibly dystopian and empty nowadays? Mainstream social media sites which became the Internet itself are rapidly on the decline due to their own hubris or falling prey to enshittification, I don't feel comfortable returning to Reddit, and Discord confuses me just as much (if not more) as Tumblr does. I really don't know where to go from here.

If you're reading this, my apologies for the massive wall of text. Do me a solid and give me ideas of what can I do with an old computer? I barely use my laptop nowadays, not sure what I can do with this old ark beyond formatting it and upgrading a couple of it's internal components. :/

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bellshazes · 1 year ago

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OK I wrote all those tags but like. I don't know DS is pretty specifically about imagining BWB!bdubs as a Character to the point that you could absolutely interpret the guy in charge of the "broadcast" as being irl!bdubs but he's never referred to as a person on purpose it's a cheeky meta thing. but it is also pretty specifically a fictionalization of what story about a guy making other guys who are him would produce the complex feelings that arise in me when I view or chart the details of mindcrack ending-> flyboys with those who left and co (which was preceded by SOF during the last s5 months and was ALSO led/run by bdubs himself) -> the dying off of that set of things -> hard pivot toward variety content & the repressing of his second channel for non pg game content -> did you know after flyboys etho was putting put more ark + terraria than minecraft for a hot fucking minute -> the different bwbs1 hiatuses and their differing reasons -> the very very very unsteady and interstitial build toward full hc content. and how he grew thru that and how weird that intermediate period was and probably its a blessing ppl don't re-watch it like ethos lp but it's also insanely important and darling to me. and what if he was a real hermit and all the clay copies did the extremely occasional multiplayer mc content then. And etho was there (but not even at all bc he's doing other things. And 404 clones)

I did figure out the necessary inevitable narrative tone of distant station's conclusion and I'm sad about it. not because it's a sad ending but because it's sort of just flatly true on a meta-level. see you in two years when I write it tho

#distant stations #sorry i watched a lot of bdubs old stuff the otuer night im sore like a bruise of it

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nanintell · 5 years ago

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So I have just noticed something weird about World United's artwork...

WHERE THE EFF IS ARK'S SPECTRE HAND?!!

#maplestory #404 ark's spectre hand not found #actually i thought he wore a cash shop weapon but i wanna joke about it lmaoo

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boombox-fuckboy · 4 years ago

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List of stuff I've listened to so far (Audio Drama A-Q)

Accurate as of: 2024-12-16

Listened: 2 times, 3-5 times, 6+ times.

For audio drama R-Z click here

For TTRPG pods click here

101.7 OUROBOROS

10ver.exe

The 12:37

13 Minutes Or Less

90 Degrees South

A Ninth World Journal (to finish)

A Scottish Podcast

A Timeless Flight

A Voice From Darkness

The Abberant Report

Absolutely No Adventures

Achewillow (listening)

Aced it! (Non-fiction)

Additional Postage Required

The Administration

Afflicted

Aftershocks

Alba Salix, Royal Physician

The Alexandria Archives

Alice Isn't Dead

All in my Head

All The Wrong Magic

The Alnerwick Files

The AM Archives

The Amelia Project

Among the Stars and Bones

Anamnesis

And 195

The Angel of Vine

The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings

The Antique Shop

Antonyms

Apocalypse Songs

Arca-45672

Arcadia, CA (to catch up)

Archive 81

Arden

Ark City

ars PARADOXICA

The Author’s Anathema

Aurora Everlasting (to catch up)

Average Folks

Back Again, Back Again

Badlands Cola

Bastard Fur (Certain Scenes Excluded)

BE NOT AFRAID

The Beacon

The Beef and Dairy Network (to finish)

Before The Tone

The Behemoth

Believer: A Paranormal Mystery

Between the Devil

Between Heartbeats

The Big Loop

Blackwood

Black Box (The Haunt Collaboration)

Black Box (REVERB) -> Gave up E6

The Black Tapes

The Blood Crow Stories (Season: 1 2 3 4)

Blood Culture (to finish)

Borrasca -> Gave up S1

Boston Harbor Horror

Breathing Space

The Bridge

The Bright Sessions

Brimstone Valley Mall

Burgess Springs

The Burned Photo

Burst

Caledonian Gothic

The Call of the Void

Camlann

Camp Here & There

The Candyman

Cape Lock

Caravan (Certain Scenes Excluded)

Catharsis

The Cellar Letters

The Children of Room 56 (to catch up)

Children of the Stones

Cicatrix: Scars of Parchment

CIRCLES

City of Ghosts (to catch up?)

Clockwork Bird

Community Cat News

The Conservatory

Constants

Counterbalance

Crash of the Mellifera

Cryptid

The Cryptonaturalist

Dark Ages

Darkest Night

The Darkroom

Dart

Dash (to finish?)

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio

Dead Man's Notes

DEADHOUSE

Dear Bastard!

Death By Dying (to finish)

Deathless

The Deca Tapes

The Deep Vault

The Department of Midnight

Desert Skies

Desperado

Deviser

The Diary of Aliza Schultz

Diary of a Space Archivist

Dining in the Void

Directive

Dirt - An Audio Drama (to catch up)

Discovery Park

Dispatches From The Multiverse (to finish)

The Domestic Life of Anthony Todd (to finish)

Don't Mind: Cruxmont

Doorways

Dos: After You

The D.O.U.G. Project

Down

The Dragon's Rest

Dreambound (to catch up)

The Dreamwalker's Diary

Duggan Hill

Echobox

Echoes (In) Between

either

Elaine's Cooking for the Soul (to catch up)

Electromancy

Elevator Pitch

Elixir

The Elmwood Strain

The Endless Ocean

Erraticus

Escaping Denver (to catch up)

Ethics Town

Experiment 31E

The Eye

Faerie (to finish?)

The Far Meridian

Fathom (Listening)

Fawx & Stallion

Finding Atlas [To Have & To Hold]

Finding Pattersby

Finding Penny

The Fiona Potts Interview

Forest 404

Forgive Me!

For The Record

Fracture

Gabriela & The Inn Between

The Gaia Miracles

Gaslight

Gastronaut

The Ghost Catchers

Ghost Hunt Pacific

Ghost InSpectors

The Ghosts on This Road (Listening)

Ghost Tape

Ghost Wax

Girl In Space

Give Me Away

Glasgow Ghost Stories

Glass Letters

The Gloom

The Goblet Wire

Goddess: An Audio Drama

The Godfrey Audio Guide

The Godshead Incidental

The Gods We Belong To (gave up after s1)

Good Morning Evildoers

The Gorgon Show

Gospels of the Flood

Greater Boston

The Green Horizon

The Grotto

Guidance Through The Dreamscape

The Hades Project

Halfmoon Chronicles

Hallway to Nowhere

The Harrowing of Minerva Damson

The Haunted Hour

Haunted House Flippers

Have Monster, Will Travel

The Heart of Ether

The Heart Pyre (Listening)

Hello From The Hallowoods

The Heron

The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine

Hi Nay

The Hidden Almanac (listening)

Hit Replay

Hollow

The Hotel

Hotel Daydream

Hovering

How I Died (to catch up)

How it Ends (to finish)

Hubris: A 24-Hour Podcast Project (to catch up)

Hulm (to finish)

The Hyacinth Disaster

I Am In Eskew

I Have Seen Niagara (Undecided on Finishing)

The Imperfection

In Another Room

In Transit (to finish)

Inc: The Podcast

InCo

Incident Report Number 31

InkWyrm

Inn Between

Interference (listening)

Into the Depths

ISS Icarus

It Makes A Sound

Janus Decending

Jar of Rebuke

Jisko Archival Records

Joy To The World

Jump Leads

Jupiter's Ghost

Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services (to finish)

Kane and Feels

Khôra Podcast

King Falls AM

The Kingmaker Histories

Knifepoint Horror

Knight Falls, CA

Kowabana (unfinished)

Lake Clarity

Lakeview

Larkspur Underground

Lavender Evening Fog

Leaving Corvat

The Left Right Game

Less is Morgue

Liars & Leeches

Liberty (to finish)

LifeAfter/The Message

Life With Althaar

Light Hearts

Light House

Limetown

Liminal Criminals

The Liminal Lands (listening)

Little Town of Rainbow

Live From Averno

Live From Epsilon Base

The London Necropolis Railway

Long Night In Egypt

Lone Stranger

The Lost Cat Podcast

Lost Shaman

Lost Terminal

Love and Luck

Mabel (to catch up)

Magic King Dom (to finish?)

The Magnus Archives

The Magpie Catalogue

Malevolent (to catch up)

Mantelreef

Maps of the Lost

Margaret's Garden

Mars' Best Brisket

MarsCorp

Marsfall

McGillicuddy and Murder’s Pawn Shop (to finish)

The McIlwraith Statements

Meteor City

Middle:Below

Midnight Burger

Midnight Radio

Midst

Mil-Liminal

The Milkman of St. Gaff’s

Mina's Story

Mirrors

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality

Mnemosyne

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature

MonkeyTales

Monstrous Agonies

The Moon Crown

Moonbase Theta, Out

Mount Olympus University

Murder on Michigan Avenue

Murray Mysteries

Museum of the Missing

My Parallel Life

Neighbourly (to catch up)

The New Dawn Diary

Night Life (The Lightning Bottler)

The Night Post

Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama

NORA

North West Footwear Database

Not Quite Dead

Nothing is Wrong

Novitero

Nowhere, On Air (to finish)

Null/Void (to finish)

Nym's Nebulous Notions

Oblivity

October's Children

Old Gods Of Appalachia

Olive Hill

On Asphalt Bones

On the Threshold

The One Stars

Ophiuchus Radio (to catch up)

Oracle of Dusk (to finish)

The Ordinary Epic

The Orphans

Out of Place

The Outside Tapes

Oz 9 (to finish?)

Paired

The Pale

Palimpsest

Para.docx

Paranatural Support Services Team

Parkdale Haunt

The Pasithea Powder

Passenger List

The Path Down

Patient 33

The Patron Saint of Suicides (to catch up)

The Penumbra Podcast -> Gave up 4.08

The People Outside

The Petrol Station

The Phenomenon

The Phone Booth

The Phosphene Catalogue

The Piper

POD115

Point Mystic

The Polybius Conspiracy

Primordial Deep

Project: Daydream

Project Nova (to catch up)

Punishment Island

Quid Pro Euro

#listened to #█████ posts #housekeeping

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wyrmmaster · 4 years ago

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(It’s gonna Ark of the Covenant you, in a good way.)

But yeah on a serious note I can’t say it’s my favorite mobage for obvious reasons, and I wouldn’t necessarily say it has my favorite story; but outside of certain plot threads in AL or specific characters in Granblue, Priconne, or Arknights it’s generally the most.... satisfying?

In a very visceral sense, GFL’s story moves. There’s weight. Each chapter and event has impact, and characters are changed rather drastically because of just how unforgiving and brutal the narrative is.

I’d compare it to A Song of Ice and Fire’s better moments in that putting aside all of Martin’s negative aspects his characters grow and change realistically with their experiences, and in a setting where war is the only option most of those experiences are very, very negative - which makes the positive ones feel better.

Arknights is kind of a foil here in that it has a similar tone but in complete honesty I haven’t been fully sold. It certainly has its moments and is by no means poorly written or cheap, it’s just missing some of the impact primarily because it attempts to portray some antagonists sympathetically, but doesn’t go about it in a way that sells me on it in that some of said characters straight up have no reason to fight you - that’s another post.

GFL is unrelenting nightmare outside of the dolls you know and their only comfort and commiseration is mostly with each other. Their suffering breaks them, tempers or exaggerates their flaws, or lights a fire under their ass towards greatness because it’s so brutal, and that vibes with me.

(Also the utterly fucking ridiculous collabs and 404′s comic relief exist, but that’s neither here nor there.)

I gotta give it another shot, one day.

#sandman-vo

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tonystarkbingo · 4 years ago

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TSB MIV Week 4 Roundup!

If you haven’t seen, we got further news on Mod Tisfan, which you can see here.

Title: All that’s best of dark and bright Collaborator: cami-chats Card Number: 4049 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A4 - Tower Ship: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier Rating: Mature Major Tags: Some bad polyamory etiquette in the beginning, Non-con kiss, Bucky Barnes & Winter Soldier Are Separate Personalities, Polyamory, Established Winter Soldier/Tony Stark, Getting Together, Bad Polyamory Etiquette, Insecurity, Communication, First Kiss Summary: Bucky thought it would feel great when Tony and Winter agreed to date him. Mostly he's confused and second-guessing himself at every turn. Word Count: 4148

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Title: Broken Wings Collaborator: starktrekkingaroundasgard Card Number: 4048 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: A5 - Wing fic Ship: IronHusbands Rating: Teen Major Tags: None Summary: After he is injured in battle, Tony does all he can to rebuild Rhodey’s wings and help him regain his confidence. Word Count: N/A

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Title: Just Don’t Bite Me, Okay? Collaborator: Riot Card Number: 4052 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: K1 - Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier Ship: WinterIron Rating: Teen Major Tags: moodboard and tiny fic, non-graphic injury, vaguely post-AoU, animal transformation, Bucky Barnes on the run, Tony Stark has always been a cat but now it’s official Summary: Tony hates magic. He hates it for a lot of reasons, not least of all his current predicament. Bucky on the other hand is much too busy struggling to stay alive to worry about anything else, much less magic. Right up until he finds an injured cat in an alley. Word Count: 404

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Title: “Hey Tony” Collaborator: Riot Card Number: 4052 Link: AO3 Square Filled: R4 - All’s Well that Ends Well Ship: WinterIron Rating: Teen Major Tags: vague non-powered college AU, Steve as the very sick of this best friend. Summary: Steve points out that Bucky never calls Tony by his actual name. Bucky doesn’t believe him, until he does. Word Count: 811

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Title: By Scent Collaborator: camichats Card Number: 4049 Link: AO3 Square Filled: K5 - “You Did What?” Ship: Tony Stark/Winter Soldier Rating: E Major Tags: A/B/O smut, Accidental Bonding Summary: Tony was twenty and unmated, so his parents threw an old-style masquerade for him. He hadn’t liked the idea from the moment he heard it, but he liked it even less after hooking up with an alpha at the party that he couldn’t find again afterwards. Word Count: 11,880

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Title: Falling With Style Collaborator: iam93percentstardust Card Number: 4012 Link: AO3 Square Filled: K3 - Flying Ship: IronBros Rating: Gen Major Tags: Howard Stark's A+ Parenting, Avengers (2012) compliant, Gen Fic Summary: When Tony was a little boy, his favorite thing to do was go to the airport so he could watch the planes take off. Word Count: 839

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Title: Get What You Paid For Collaborator: camichats Card Number: 4049 Link: AO3 Square Filled: S2 - Kink: Public/Semi-Public Sex Ship: Tony Stark/Winter Soldier Rating: E Major Tags: PWP, Semi-Public Sex Summary: Winter and Tony sneak down to a hall that's off the main room and have to keep quiet. Word Count: 698

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Title: ThunderIron Rec List Collaborator: SierraNovembr Card Number: 4033 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: T5 - Tony Stark/Thor Ship: ThunderIron Rating: N/A Major Tags: N/A Summary: A rec list of my top five favorite thunderiron fics. for @tonystarkbingo Word Count: N/A

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Title: Something Sweet Collaborator: newnewyorker93 Card Number: 4042 Link: AO3 Square Filled: R4 - Happily Ever After Ship: Pepperony Rating: Gen Major Tags: Fluff Summary: Tony livens up Pepper's day with some sweet treats. Word Count: 963

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Title: Cookie Avengers Say Vote! Collaborator: Gavilan Card Number: 4092 Link: Tumblr Square Filled: T5 - Election Day Ship: Tony Stark & Steve Rogers Rating: Gen Major Tags: Food, fandom baking project, US politics Summary: Iron Man and Captain America gingerbread cookies with a Florida “I Voted” sticker. Word Count: N/A

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Title: Dancing Around the Subject Collaborator: PoliZ Card Number: 4007 Link: AO3 Square Filled: T5 - Resolve Ship: Pepperony Rating: Teen Major Tags: Minor canon divergence, Pepper POV Summary: Pepper knows better than to dance with her boss, but she does it anyways. Word Count: 727

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Title: The Start of Something New - Chapter 1: This “Us” Thing Collaborator: rebelmeg Card Number: 4034 Link: AO3 Square Filled: K2 - First Date Ship: Pepperony Rating: Teen Major Tags: missing scenes, developing relationship, first date, self-esteem issues, vacation Summary: After their first kiss on the rooftop, Pepper and Tony arrange a way to figure out this new thing they’ve got started between them. Word Count: 2362

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Title: Height Restriction Collaborator: Magica Card Number: 4019 Link: AO3 Square Filled: T1 - Animal Transformation Ship: WinterIronStrange Rating: Teen Major Tags: Humor, animal transformation, magic Summary: Hit by a stray spell of Loki's during battle, Tony discovers it has a rather unusual effect. The penthouse was not made for this. Word Count: 2256

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Title: You Give Me Reason to Live Collaborator: PoliZ Card Number: 4007 Link: AO3 Square Filled: R3 - Kink: Lingerie Ship: Pepperony Rating: Mature Major Tags: Striptease, semi-public semi-nudity, exhibitionism Summary: Pepper has a very special (and not-so-private) gift planned for Tony. Word Count: 1885

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Title: i come as a woman, dark and open - Chapter 8 Collaborator: deathsweetqueen Card Number: 4066 Link: AO3 Square Filled: R1 - Kink: Candles Ship: Stuckony Rating: Explicit Major Tags: Female Tony Stark, Regency AU, Misogyny, Racism, Explicit Sexual Content, Emotional Infidelity, Slurs, Marital Dissatisfaction Summary: When Toni first meets Captain Steve Rogers at one of the biggest gatherings of the season, she is not impressed. On the other hand, his best friend, the charming James ‘Bucky’ Barnes, was an utter delight. Unfortunately for her, after a series of misunderstandings at said party, she is forced to accept Steve’s hand in marriage in order to save her family’s reputation. And while Toni never expected a fairy tale, she had always hoped that companionship would one day turn into something more. How was she to know that Steve was just as charmed by Bucky as she was? a.k.a. Steve and Toni get married to each other; there are more misunderstandings; Bucky is an absolute delight and possibly the saving grace for their marriage; and somehow, all three end up falling in love with each other in the process. Word Count: 33,313

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Title: i die with variety - Chapter 1 Collaborator: deathsweetqueen Card Number: 4066 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A1 - WTF Ship: IronHusbands Rating: Mature Major Tags: major character death, immortality in a way but it will end at some time, explicit sexual content. Warnings for this Chapter: deaths in various, graphic circumstances, violence, alcohol poisoning, alcohol-related death, domestic violence. Summary: The first time that Tony dies, he is four and he’s building his very first circuit board from scratch. He’s connecting the finished product to the multimeter to check the voltage, the current and resistance, when a lead slips, a shock ricochets up through his spine, and he sees black. He’s on his back, when his eyes flutter open, and he’s staring up at the ceiling. He gets up, frowning, rubbing at his eyes, and then, he sees the frayed wire on the end of the multimeter. Huh, he thinks and moves on almost immediately. Word Count: 3992

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Title: You Never Stop Counting Collaborator: BennyBatch Card Number: 4005 Link: AO3 Square Filled: R1 - Damsels (and others) in distress Ship: FrostIron Rating: Gen Major Tags: Frigga feels, mourning Summary: Tony didn’t ask about Loki’s mother; he knew better than that. Word Count: 871

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Title: gatekeeper of an endless war - Chapter 1 Collaborator: deathsweetqueen Card Number: 4066 Link: AO3 Square Filled: R3 - Meet Ugly Ship: Stony Rating: Mature Major Tags: Raiders of the Lost Ark AU, Violence, Nazis. Summary: In 1939, Tony Stark's bar in Bangalore goes up in flames when his ex-lover, Steve Rogers, comes looking for an artefact that belonged to his father, and before he knows what is happening, he finds himself joining forces with Steve to foil a Nazi plot to find the fabled Syamantaka Gem, rumoured to ensure that its bearer would never encounter any calamities and would always be full of prosperity and plenitude, before they can use the gem's unbelievable powers to turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favour. Word Count: 4603

#tonystarkbingomarkiv #tsbmiv #tsb weekly roundup #tsb week 4

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elaktra · 4 years ago

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muse aesthetics: horror edition.

repost, don’t reblog / bold whatever applies / tag however many people you want / feel free to add stuff in any category, too!

tagged by: 404 user not found

tagging: @birdkill @lasterns @crimenight @viduamor @nexusbeing @diamind @promethian @redvived + anyone else who wants to! <3

gothic horror. gaslights. corsets. ballrooms. candlelight. mist. starless nights. full moons. cobbled streets. horse-drawn carriages. mysterious strangers. bogs. moors. forests. mountains. castles. velvet. silver. brass. gold. jewels. domino masks. the opera. dangerous romances. tragic romances. violins. roses. lilies. empty graves. crosses. cemeteries. snow. ice. the gallows. crows. milk-white skin. ambiguous illness. fangs. pointed nails. something howling in the night. capes. gloves. top hats. straight razors. lightning. pipe organs. underground caverns. bats. mice. rats. ravens. cats. pearls. attics. talismans. axes. wood. isolation in a room full of people. vampires. werewolves. ghosts. coffins. western europe. eastern europe. bones. churches. catacombs. mausoleums. spiders. books.

classic horror. black and white. powder puffs. red lipstick. winged eyeliner. white kitten heels. black lace lingerie. icy blue eyes. rain. abandoned cars. skeletons. acid. poison. voyeurism. switchblades. strangling. overcoats. looking over your shoulder. trans-atlantic accents. private detectives. dinner parties. haunted mansions. alcohol in glass decanters. cobwebs. perfect blonde curls. kitchen knives. shock. cellars. dust. dark alleys. empty streets. driving at night. horn-rimmed glasses. radiation. zombies. serial murder. paranoia. the city. witches. the devil. cannibalism. conspiracies. amulets. abject terror. the american south. the american northeast. england. analog cameras.

slashers. bloodbaths. massacres. wanton nudity. newspapers. leather jackets. letterman jackets. converse sneakers. obscured faces. social unrest. bonfires. lakes. babysitters. suburbia. high school. lockers. dead leaves in the fall. jack-o’-lanterns. outdated television sets. nightmares. psychiatrists. hospitals. unstoppable forces. gunfire. police. landline telephones. household objects turned into improvised weapons. halloween. secrets. revelations. character masks. scrunchies. queerness. wild curls. jeering children. parties. fire. swearing. revulsion. california. the american midwest. ambulances.

paranormal horror. malevolent spirits. seances. spells. missing bodies. hidden graves. white noise.static. flickering lights. rings of salt. demons. poltergeists. dark histories. old buildings. cold air. mausoleums. wells. urban exploration. a dog barking at something you can’t see. black ooze. old photographs. faces you can swear you’ve seen before but can’t for the life of you figure out where. dark bodies of water. crucifixes. priests. possession. exorcisms. dolls.

cryptid & urban legend horror. aliens. blinding light. dark woods. driving at night. claw-marks. bite-marks. men in black. memory loss. dismembered bodies. sewers. flashlights. cell phones. video cameras. cars with tinted windows. abandoned houses. unlabeled cassette tapes. bugs. big cities. urban crimes. clowns. something rustling outside your window. glowing light. unsolved mysteries.suburbia. mirrors. the american pacific northwest. the american midwest. hiking / backpacking.

thrillers. daylight. fluorescent lighting. morgues. asylums. unwavering eye contact. tension. lit rooms with no one inside them. a dog digging in the newly-planted flower bed. steely gazes. paperwork. anagrams. codes. convicted killers. missing persons. law enforcement. federal agents. small towns.suspicion. paranoia. subdued terror. dimly-lit parking lots.

#TBT.#i'm bringing this back it was so hot ...........#elektra: [exists in a state of borderline cryptid]

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armeniaitn · 4 years ago

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A Brief History Of Armenia

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A Brief History Of Armenia

The Armenian origin

There are several theories about the history of Armenia. Legends opine that the descendants of bisbisnipote (great great grandson) of Noah, Hayk are known as the Armenians. It is said that after the floods, Noah’s Ark ran aground on Mount Ararat. Since then to mark this tradition, the Armenians call it their country and the place came to be known as Hayastan.

However, historians have spoken differently about the history of Armenia. Historians have linked the origin of Armenians to the birth of a tribal group in Hayasa-Azzi between 1500 BC-1200 BC. The tribals lived to the west of the Armenian plateau.

As the Hayasa-Azzi lived close to the Hittite empire, violent confrontations often broke out between the two. The clashes continued till the end of the Bronze age when the Hayasa-Azzi was finally defeated by the Hittites.

The rise of Urartu Kingdom

According to the history of Armenia, the Armenian empire fell under a group of kingdoms, referred to as Nairi (land of rivers) by the Assyrians between 1200 and 800 BC. These kingdoms finally assimilated with the kingdom of Urartu.

The kingdom of Urartu is a civilization that developed in between 800 and 600 BC is the East Asia minor and the Caucasus. The kingdom was known as the first Armenian empire.

King Aramu was the first to unite the empire as per the history of Armenia. The empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and also spread across the majority of Eastern Turkey.

The Urartu kingdom enjoyed its maximum prosperity under King Sardui II. He extended the borders of the kingdom beyond River Tigris and river Euphrates, much similar to Lake Aleppo and Urmia.

Urartu was also known as the ‘kingdom of Ararat.’ Through the various manuscripts about the history of Armenia, it is learned that Urartu and Armenia were often referred to as the same country.

The Behistun’s inscription, carved in three languages in 520 BC is a prime example. Built under the orders of Persia’s Darius the great, the inscription refers to the kingdom as Harminuia in Elamite, Armenia in Old Persian, and Urartu in Babylon.

Between the end of the seventh century and early sixth century, the Urartu kingdom was substituted by the Armenian kingdom. Orontid, the Armenian dynasty ruled over this empire.

The Rule of the Orontid dynasty, the Birth of Armenian Kingdom

The dynasty of Orontid established their rule over the empire of Armenia after the fall of the Urartu kingdom in 600 BC. The Orontids had captured the Armenian empire during the invasion of the Medes and the Scythians. Around this period, the Armenians took to Iranians traditions and names.

The Orontids acted as provincial governors or satraps to the Persian kings. However, after the death of Persia’s Cambyses II, the Armenians led a revolution that was disrupted by Persia’s Darius the I.

Soon after the changes in the Persian Empire, the Armenian empire too was divided into many satrapies. In 480 BC, the satrapies had assigned troops for the Xerxes invasion. The proximity of the Persians and the Armenians were broken by the Macedonian conquest.

After the invasion of Alexander the Great, the Persian empire crumbled, and just like other regions, the Armenian empire was soon divided into two parts.

One region, Sophene or great Armenia was located between the Tigris headwaters Euphrates’s middle course. Later it was bifurcated into Sophene and Armenia.

The other region, Armenia Pontica or little Armenia was located between the headwaters of Ali and Lico and the Euphrates.

According to the history of Armenia, the different regions were subjected to different fates. Little Armenia came under the rule of the very powerful king Pontus in the second century BC.

Meanwhile, Sophene lost its independence and survived under the rule of king Cappadocia for a brief period.

A different Armenian history says that Great Armenia established itself as a state by escaping the rule of the Seleucids. The Seleucids could not capture the region because of its mountainous region which acted as a barrier against Greek invasions. The other reason was the Persian characteristics ingrained in the Armenians that involuntarily opposed Greek influence.

Armenia’s Second Kingdom

As per Strabo, during this time the Armenians started speaking one language, the Armenian language. Soon the Armenians announced their independence with the defeat of the Seleucides by the Roman empire.

Between 95 to 66 BC, under the leadership of Tigranes II the Great, the empire spread from the Caucasus to the present eastern region of Turkey, from Syria to Lebanon and across the ‘kingdom of three seas’- the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean sea.

The capital of the second Armenian empire which was born cannot be located to date. However, Tigranes II succumbed in the hands of the Roman troops, and the Armenian major was ruled by the Romans.

The Advent of Rome

In 37 AD the Armenians were forced to surrender under the Parthians soon to be taken over by the Roman after 10 years. The Romans lost the empire shortly after.

Under Nero’s rule between 55-63 AD, the Romans again fought against the Parthians ruling over Armenia. Capturing the Armenian empire in 60 AD and losing it in 62 AD, the Romans finally captured the region in 63 AD. However, In the battle of Rhandeia, the Parthians lost. The Parthian king forcibly signed a treaty assigning his brother Tiridates the throne of Armenia. The crowning of the king took place under Nero’s rule. Thus rose Armenia’s Arcadis dynasty.

Armenia Christianized

The Armenian history records the Armenians as the first to officially be termed as Christians after its conversion in 301 AD, long before the Romans adapted to it.

According to the King Tiridates’ historic Agatangelo, the Christianization took place due to a clash between king Tiridates III and Son of Anak, Gregory.

The Armenian history says that Gregory was instructed to make sacrifices to goddess Anahit which he refused in the name of his faith for Christianity. Upon his refusal, he was subjected to severe torture which didn’t deter him from his opinion. Finally, he was ordered to be thrown into a deep well filled with snakes, a place where none had been before. But Gregory survived his time in the well with the blessings of a widow.

Meanwhile, several attempts were made by Diocletian, a Roman emperor, to seduce Hripsime. Smelling the danger, Hripsime had escaped to Armenia to seek protection.

Amidst this, Tiridates fell in love with Hripsime and wanted to be with her. After several rejections from Hripsime, Tiridates tortured and killed her.

As a traditional punishment marked in the history of Armenia, the king was transformed into a wild boar. He came back to his human form after rescuing Gregory from the pit after thirteen years.

Witnessing the miracle of being transformed into the human form, Tiridates decided to take to Christianity. He also baptized the Armenians and the official religion of the Armenians came into being.

Soon Gregory and Tiridates started destroying the Pegan’s worship places and started building churches.

The Armenian history also speaks about a vision of Jesus Christ that Gregory saw. Following the vision, Gregory built a church in Vagarshapat. The place came to be known as the Etchmiadzin meaning a place where the only-begotten descended.

Soon the Pegan priests were taught about Christianity. They became ministers of the new religion. Pegan children went on to priests in churches. Thereafter, Gregory left the kingdom and settled as a hermit. His son became a bishop and head of the church.

Despite several historical theories about Armenians, the period of 301 AD- the Christianization of Armenians and 404 AD- the initiation of the Armenian alphabets by Mesrop Mashtots will remain evidence of the Armenian history.

The clash of the Three-Byzantine, Arab, and Seljuk

In 591, the Persians were crushed by the Emperor Maurice of Byzantine. The emperor captured a vast part of Armenian territory. In 629 AD, Emperor Heraclius completed the capture only to lose it to Muslim Arabs in 645 AD. Following this, the Armenians came under the Caliph rule.

Being ruled by a prince, the region soon came under the pressure of being converted to Islam. However, a treaty was signed which allowed the Armenians to practice Christianity.

The Armenians went through an economic, political, and cultural renaissance between 884-1045 AD until captured by Byzantium.

Ani, a new capital was founded which had a population of 200,000 people and 1001 churches. Armenian history says that at this time the population of European capitals had not reached 20,000.

Armenia gained prosperity after Ani came into the picture. It is said that Armenia was said to have a political impact on neighboring countries after Ani was built. However, the country’s loyalty faded as the feudal system became powerful in the region,

The greater Armenia was finally conquered by the Seljuk Turks In 1071 AD. Fearing slavery and death, several families fled from Armenia to settled places like Poland, Cilicia, etc.

It is mention-worthy that among the escapists was Ani’s last king, Rupen, Gagik II’s relative who settled in Cilicia.

The Death of the Armenian Independence

In 1080, Rupen founded the Cilician kingdom also known as Little Armenia or Armenia Minor after arriving on the Mediterranean Sea’s Gulf of Alexandretta.

Thus the Rupenid dynasty was found which was a part of the Bagratid dynasty. Sis Sis became the capital of the kingdom. Although being squeezed between several Muslim states, the Christian kingdom was able to establish a powerful relationship with important Italian maritime cities that have been prospering for three hundred years. Colonies were built by Genoa, Venice, and Pisa on the kingdom’s coast.

The Mamelukes invaded Cilicia in the latter part of the fourteenth century. In 1375 the capital of Sis was captured by them which brought an end to the ongoing reign.

The last independent king of the Armenian kingdom, Leo VI escaped for exile in Paris where he breathed his last is 1393.

In the Armenian history, Armenia lost its sovereignty during this period for atleast the next six centuries and was ruled by several foreign kings.

The Dominating Rule of the Ottoman and Persian

The Armenian culture lost itself in the period between the fall of the Cilician empire and the end of the seventeenth century.

Tamerlane forced his rule in Eastern Europe and Central Anatolia at the end of the fourteenth century but soon his kingdom was crushed.

The Ottoman Empire and the Safavids dynasty in Central Iran rose during the middle of the fifteenth century. The two dynasties battled against each other for about a hundred years for capturing Caucasus areas and Eastern Anatolia.

The fight came to an end with the victory of the Ottomans. In 1585, the Ottomans successfully conquered Armenia’s eastern part.

At the onset of the seventeenth century, the Ottomans were forced to leave the Armenian territory by Shah Abbas I who failed in his repeated attempts.

While he was withdrawing from the kingdom, he demanded the Armenians migrate from Julfa city.

Following the incident, the city of New Julfa was founded by the migrants in Esfahan where they had settled. The region prospered commercially and culturally throughout the 17th century and early 18th century. The economic activities took place from India to Britain and Italy.

In 1736, the enmity between Persians and Ottomans settled with the defeat of the Ottomans by the Persians. The Persians established rule over the southern part of Transcaucasia which included Armenia.

As portrayed in the history of Armenia, the Persian Armenia soon feel into the hands of Russia and became a part of the USSR due to the Treaties of Gulistan and Turkmanchay,1813 and 1828, respectively.

The Armenian region which was still under the Ottomans aimed at getting independence. Revolution started in the latter part of the 19th century with the formation of revolutionary committees based on a model by the nihilists of Russia.

Sultan Abdul-Hamid struck back fiercely and the first mass killing of the Armenians took place in 1894, August-September.

The second Armenian massacre happened in 1895-1896 during which thousands of Armenians were slaughtered by Hamidiés.

Thus started the Armenian massacre which was to continue for the next thirty years under the regime of various Turks.

The Massacre

As the ‘Union and Progress’ party rose, the Armenians living in Turkey continued to suffer. The ‘young Turks’ tried to establish the supremacy of the Turks in the Ottoman region.

As the Turks had lost the Ottoman region in Europe, hey decided that the only way to expand was to reunite the Turks of Central Asia namely Tatars, Uzbeks, Kazakhs etc.

The idea of Pan-Turkism in the history of Armenia originated from two main cultures. The first ideology was that of Marxism which taught the Young Turks about equality which said that all Ottomans must be equal, if so then all Ottomans must be Turks and in turn Muslims.

The second ideology focused on the Turks of the steppes of Central Asia and their reunion as the expansion of the European region was getting out of hand.

The idea of Pan Turkism was opposed by Christians, Armenians, Indo-Europeans, and Kurdish minorities. The Kurds being Muslims had no problem in getting along with the Turks. But the Christians and Armenians being of completely different origins posed a problem in accepting the Turks. Thus, they had to be removed.

In a view to eliminating the Armenians, in 1909 the massacre of Adana was led by the Turks who grabbed the opportunity at the eruption of the first world war.

During this period, the young Turks started eliminating the Armenians referred to as “Metz Yeghèrn,’ the Great Crime, the Armenian Genocide.

The initial genocide of the 20th century took place between 1915 to 1923. The history of Armenia recorded the massacre of nearly 1.5 people. The Armenian genocide let to the deportation and death of people in the Syrian desert.

The survivors of the Armenian Genocide sought refuge in the Republic of Armenia.

The Republic of Armenia was born after the battle of Sardaraparat in which the Armenians defeated the Turks. Many people also took refuge in Syria, Israel, Europe, the United States, Egypt, and Lebanon.

In 1920, after the war, the Treaty of Sèvres forced the Turks to free the Armenians and hand over Armenia’s Ottoman territories.

The Turkish national movement rejected the treaty. The leader of the movement, Mustafa Kemal toppled the Ottoman sultanate and announced a national secular republic.

On 24th September, the Turks with the help of the Russians waged the Armenian-Turkish war. The war ended with the Treaty of Alexandropol signed on 2nd December 1920. The treaty marked the victory of the Turks.

However, on December 4th, Yerevan of Armenia was occupied by the Soviet Eleventh Army. This marked the end of the independent Democratic Republic.

Soviet Power

Armenia became a part of the Soviet Union on 4th March 4th, 1922.

On 11 September 1922 the Treaty of Kars was signed which made Turkey give up the Batumi port in exchange for cities like Iğdır, Kars, and Ardahan.

The communist economic system-aided Soviet Armenia. It became an industrial economy from an agricultural one. Several villages transformed into cities. The Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic broke down in 1936.

Thereafter, Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan gained the title of independent republics of the USSR.

During the fifteenth anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the Armenians protested on the streets for the incident to be recognized by the Russian government. However, the order was restored by the Soviet troops.

To steer clear of further protests, a monument was built honoring the ones who died in the Armenian genocide.

In Yerevan, a memorial was constructed in 1967 which consisted of a 44-meter stele. This symbolized the rebirth of the Armenians. The monument also had twelve monoliths in a circle which signified the twelve provinces which now belonged to the Turkish territories.

A flame burning in the center of the circle represents the memory of the deceased in the Armenian genocide. A 100-meters long memorial hall leading to the monument displays the names of the villages where the Armenian genocide took place.

Nagorno-Karabakh War

Armenia announced its independence on 23 August 1990 which was a year prior to the downfall of the Soviet Union. But Armenia’s independence wasn’t acknowledged officially until 21 September 1991. On this day the new Republic of Armenia was declared.

The history of Armenia mentions that the rivalry between Armenia and Azerbaijan regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh territory kept growing and resulted in war. The war continued even after a cease-fire notice in 1994 and is still unresolved.

Present Armenia

Since Armenia’s independence, it has gone through several developments even after blocked borders with Azerbaijan and Turkey. It has been referred to as “the Tiger of the Caucasus” since then and is appreciated for its high growth rate.

The region receives funds worth $1.5 billion every year which accounts for about 20% of the GDP. Although poverty exists, the government involves the export of powerful technology and human capital for development.

However, after the violent history of Armenia, it has been able to establish itself as a country that promises growth and has successfully maintained friendly relations with neighboring countries like Russia, Iran, and Georgia.

The development is funded by the international network of expats of the diaspora, who pay $ 1.5 billion each year: about 20% of GDP. Poverty is still widespread: to fight it the government supports exports focused on high technology and human capital and, although in the last five years the economic boom has been resized, Armenia is still a country with a strong growth thanks to the friendly relations maintained with the other neighboring Countries: Russia, Georgia, and Iran.

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