#Durc

[fan-of-the-cave-bear]

Some fanart I found on Reddit by JayMD

"The left scene depicted in the first piece is Ayla saving Broud's child from the cave hyena with her sling and in turn revealing that she uses it

The one on the top right is her meeting the Neanderthal woman and her hybrid child at the Clan gathering"

[theserpentsadvocate]

I’m still working on that fic and

Vorn: We're best friends! :) I love my new job.

Broud: *breathes in Durc's direction*

Vorn: Actually, never talk to me or my new son ever again.

[shwoo]

Ooh, that's good too! I was thinking that the earthquake at the end of the first book could also be time travel related (Because now there's two people with future DNA), but that one's depicted more realistically. Ukraine is pretty tectonically stable, but I think Crimea, where the story is set, is somewhat more earthquakey than the rest of it.

So you know Clan of the Cave Bear? It’s a 1980 novel by Jean M Auel about a little girl in Paleolithic Ukraine who is raised by Neanderthals. The Neanderthals call her Ayla, which is their best attempt at pronouncing her birth name, and by the end of the book she seems to have forgotten what it originally was.

We see the disaster that orphaned her in the beginning of the book, but she gets amnesia soon after, and her birth family never appear on the page. We know that she lived with her mother, that her mother was blonde, that at least one other person lived with them, and there’s one line that implies she also lived with her father. And she could swim well, because they had to cross a lot of rivers, and bridges weren’t really a thing yet.

So anyway my not-totally-serious theory is that her family is from the future. Here’s my reasoning, sorted in ascending order by how convincing I think they are!

Note: I refer to modern humans as just “humans” here, because the only other way I can think of to distinguish them from Neanderthals is calling them H. sapiens sapiens, and that takes too long to say, and also sounds pretty clinical. So when I say humans, I specifically mean modern humans, not anything in the Homo genus.

-Ayla has blonde hair and blue eyes thousands of years before those traits seem to have evolved in humans. That argument works really well for the first book, before any other humans have appeared, but it falls apart the second Jondalar appears and the narration won’t shut up about his blue eyes, and to a lesser extent, his blond hair. Giving humans of that time period blond hair and blue eyes probably seemed a lot more plausible in 1980, when the book was published. Still, though. It got me thinking.

-One of the small bits of information we do get about Ayla’s birth family is that after they died, “She had nowhere to go and she had no one who would come and look for her.” Why do they have so little contact with the outside world that the narrator knows nobody will look for them? They live in a lean-to, so there’s not very many of them, so where did they come from, and why don’t they have ties to their parent group anymore? Also, I’m sure I remember reading a line where one of the Neanderthals talks about how humans don’t normally come this far south, although I can’t find it at the moment. Even if I made that up, the closest humans do appear to live several months travel to the north, based on the second and third books. Ayla’s family lived in the middle of nowhere, with no other people to turn to, for no explained reasons.

-Ayla doesn’t have anything to eat after her birth family’s deaths. She tries eating a leaf, but it’s bitter, so she spits it out and doesn’t try anything else in the days she’s wandering alone. I don’t expect a five-year-old to be an expert at foraging or anything, but it’s weird that she doesn’t recognise anything at all as being potentially edible. Did her family never take her on gathering trips, or prepare food where she could see, or give her anything recognisable as something that grew out of the ground? They didn’t have to be actively teaching her or anything, especially since it turns out she’s super smart at foraging when she does start paying attention. It’s almost like she’s never had any reason before to associate the edible plants in the area with food.

-One of the most memorable thing about the later books, other than all the sex, is the way Ayla invents a ridiculous amount of new technology. She invents surgical stitches, the sewing needle (in different books), animal taming, horseback riding, the travois, the spear thrower (with Jondalar), the fire striker, and the idea that sex makes babies. She also has a great memory, allowing her to learn foreign languages and customs very quickly. This is explained as being something she had to develop to keep up with the Neanderthals and their genetic memories, but I have a different theory. Towards the end of the Clan of the Cave Bear, Ayla participates in a genetic memory ceremony led by her adoptive father, Creb, who is so good at having genetic memories that he can psychically guide other people through theirs. She obviously has them as well, or it wouldn’t have worked, but she can’t consciously access them like the Neanderthals can. So maybe she invented all those things because her ancestors already knew about them, and what Creb did allowed her to remember on her own sometimes? It’s a stretch, but I still find this more believable than Ayla inventing everything and learning languages in a week because she’s just that amazing.

-When Ayla is five, Creb shows her how to count, something the Neanderthals see as a special magic that only super genius shamans like Creb could grasp. Ayla not only understands immediately, she also does some simple arithmetic. That’s a lot of abstract concepts to understand at once without training, especially for a five-year-old. Modern kids spend so much time learning basic mathematical concepts for a reason. And in the sequel, it’s mentioned that Jondalar’s culture also consider counting to be magic, and usually leave it to their shaman, although Jondalar is also capable of doing some arithmetic with difficulty. Jondalar is twenty-one at this point and used to be in a relationship with the shamaniest shaman in all of Ice Age France, so that makes a little more sense. Who is teaching five-year-olds about arithmetic in Ice Age Ukraine?

-Ayla likes it when her half-Neanderthal son calls her “mama”, because it reminds her of something that makes her want to cry. This implies that she called her own mother “mama”, like in a lot of Indo-European languages, including English. It’s not totally unbelievable, because it’s pretty common for languages to have words for parents that babies can easily say, but it’s still very strange that it was that combination of sounds in particular.  And it doesn’t feel like in the second book when Ayla is learning Zelandonii and it’s rendered as English. It’s just a sound Ayla and Durc make that the Neanderthals don’t, that seems to be the same way she referred to her mother.

-I mentioned the genetic memory ceremony with Creb earlier, but I didn’t go into detail: Basically Ayla took some drugs, (She’d made too much and didn’t know how to safely dispose of it without upsetting the spirits or something), and wandered into the shamanistic ceremony it was meant for. Creb notices her, and uses his psychic powers to give her a mental tour of human evolution. Right at the end, after Creb has had to stop guiding her because they don’t share their more recent genetic memories, she briefly sees the present day. It’s described as accidentally overshooting, but that’s not really consistent with the rest of the book. How can Ayla remember things that haven’t happened yet? There must be a physical basis for the genetic memories, because their accumulation is given as a reason for why the Neanderthals had bigger heads than humans. So it can’t be an entirely spiritual thing. If Ayla saw planes and skyscrapers as part of her genetic memory drug trip, it’s because her ancestors saw it. This could also tie into why Creb was so depressed after this, and what made him so sure the Neanderthals had no future: He’d seen enough of Ayla’s future memories to understand that they basically didn’t, except in the form of hybrids like Ayla’s son.

So here’s what I think happened, based on not very much: A married couple went back in time to study the Neanderthals, which explains why they were in Neanderthal territory, and either had a daughter or took their daughter with them. The earthquake that killed them was not a normal earthquake. Normal earthquakes don’t open up fissures large enough to be described as an abyss, they don’t close again afterwards, and I don’t see any reason for them to smell like rot, or to burp after swallowing people. That was a supernatural event brought on by things existing in a time they weren’t supposed to be in. Probably doesn’t bode well for Ayla, or for Durc or Jonayla.

All this kind of ruins the “Ayla as the future of humanity” theme the Clan of the Cave Bear has running through it, but it’s fun to think about.

[anchesetuttinoino]

Da oggi tutte le aziende dell'edilizia che hanno intenzione di lavorare, anche quelle individuali, dovranno ottenere una patente, la patente edilizia. Si tratta di un sistema a punti, analogo a quello della patente di guida, messo in campo dal Governo Meloni per agevolare il rispetto delle norme anti-infortunistiche nei cantieri.

"Bene - dirà qualcuno - la sicurezza sul lavoro è fondamentale!"

Giusto, è fondamentale, siamo d'accordo. Peccato che questa trovata non abbia nulla a che fare con la sicurezza di chi lavora: le condizioni materiali nei cantieri non vengono neppure lontanamente sfiorate. Ciò che cambia davvero sono le forche caudine della burocrazia a cui vengono sottoposte le imprese, specie quelle più piccole per le quali compilare le scartoffie per presentare DURC (Documento Unico di Regolarità Contributiva) e DURF (Documento Unico di Regolarità Fiscale) rappresenta un impegno decisamente gravoso. E non sia mai che si scopra di aver un contenzioso aperto con l'Agenzia delle Entrate: in quel caso niente patente e, quindi, niente lavoro.

Se si volesse davvero tutelare chi sta nei cantieri ci sarebbero decine di provvedimenti da prendere, a partire dal più ovvio: l'abbassamento dell'età pensionabile per chi fa questi mestieri usuranti. I numeri degli ultrasessantenni che si infortunano o addirittura muoiono sul lavoro in questo settore sono semplicemente vergognosi. E invece no, nell'Italia delle maestrine la sicurezza è la parola d'ordine e tale deve rimanere: una parola. Una parola buona da pronunciare mentre si sferra l'ennesimo colpo a chiunque provi a fare impresa.

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[redrikki]

Mother's Day Master List

Avatar: The Last Airbender & Legend of Korra

Gather Up Every Wayward Lock - The girls do their hair (Katara, Azula, Toph)

Ten-Thousand Words (Which Won't See the Light of Day) - There are things they can't say. There are things they wont say. There are actions which speak louder than words. A series of short stories about the ladies of Legend of Korra. (Katara, Asami, Ikki, Pema, Lin, Senna, Zhu Li, Ginger)

Chips and Blocks - Lin called Toph 'Chif' for years before some well-meaning busybody taught her to say 'Mom' instead. Toph isn't sure what kind of mom she is, but she knows which kind she doesn't want to be. (Toph, Lin)

Sweep, Stir, Slow - When your daughter is the Avatar, motherhood is an exercise in letting go. (Senna/Tonraq, Korra)

Batman Comics

Mother of Pearl - Damian knew nothing about his grandmother aside from the manner of her death. It was time to change that. (Damian Wayne, Martha Wayne)

The Boys

Maybe It's Maybelline - Maybe she's born with it, or maybe it's Compound V. What kind of parent lets someone inject their kid with an experimental superpower serum? (Donna January)

Earth's Children

Only a Motion Away - But the mother and child reunion/Is only a motion away (Durc, Nezzie)

Ms. Marvel (Comics)

After Curfew - Disha Khan lay awake and wondered what she had done that Allah would give her such a daughter. (Disha Khan)

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Shadow Over Mystacor - After Shadow Weaver's attack on Mystacor, Adora just wants to relax, but that's hard to do when it's all your fault. (Adora, Glimmer, Bow)

A Song of Ice & Fire

Strange Children In Our Bed - It had been seven long months since Catelyn's husband had been home and in her bed. Theon Greyjoy was the only thing spoiling their reunion. (Catelyn Stark/Ned Stark)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

One Last Leap - Telling his parents he's Spider-Man is a leap of faith Miles can't bring himself to take. (Miles Morales, Rio Morales, Jeff Davis, May Parker)

Star Wars

May the Force Get With You - The night her son is conceived Shmi has the best sex dream of her life. Something with a krayt dragon or a bantha or maybe just a ray of light. Too bad that's not what happens. Turns out, the Force is a lousy lay and a worse father. (Shmi/The Force)

Pain Management - Anger can get a slave killed. Shmi teaches her son some coping strategies. (Shmi, Anakin)

The Force Is In The Details - Continuation of The Force is in the Details. Slavery is as much a state of mind as it is a bomb under her skin. The chance cube lands on red and Shmi struggles with being free. (Shmi, Anakin, Padmé, Qui-Gon)

The Anchor That You Can't Leave Behind - On the queen's yacht headed back to Naboo, Anakin and Padmé miss their mothers but Obi-Wan doesn't get why. (Anakin, Padmé, Obi-Wan)

Domestic Life Was Never Quite My Style - Despite her best efforts, Padmé is pregnant. Now she has a difficult decision to make. (Padme/Anakin)

Second Wind - Ahsoka takes the wrong exit from the world between worlds and ends up with a second chance to save her master. (Ahsoka, Shmi)

Red Fish, Blue Fish - Leia bought an aquarium for her child like her father before her. In a perfect world she could raise Ben to fill his grandfather's legacy. Too bad he had more than one. (Leia Organa, Ben Solo)

The Last Truce We Ever Came To - Darth Vader is dead but he won't leave Leia alone. (Leia Organa, Anakin Skywalker, Ben Solo)

White Collar

Eyes on the Target (The Solid Ground Remix) - Peter asked her to keep an eye on Neal for him while he's stuck in jail. It could be going better. (Diana Berrigan, Neal Caffery, Peter Burke)

[witchykittenkhe]

Starter for @galahadsrpboy

"Et mehc nid daâirucn, covni lurah tău soutseiam, durc."

Kheon softly chanted as he kneeled in the middle of the circle of candles, eyes closed while he leaned his head back, his muscled spread thighs keeping him stable.

"Sălășeiulșet în enim și dă-ți aeretup"

The wind began blowing faster and faster, causing the curtains to whip and his slender frame to be revealed again and again as the simple white dress shirt he wore floated up, revealing his lacy panties.

[nelfs]

I'm so surprised to see someone talking about Earth's Children, nobody believes me when I talk about the clan of the cave bear shit. but yeah you're absolutely right. the first book goes hard, the second is fine, and after that is just fucking hard to read. she should've stayed a horse girl living in a cave by herself

the first book was so good fr!! I am so disappointed in the direction it took once Ayla actually met her own people and started living with them. And yeah the second book was good too bc of the wilderness survival she goes thru and her first contact with the Others. even the mamutoi were more appealing than the zelandoni, I found the latter group really dull

AND we never see what happens to Durc and there’s really no interaction between the humans and the clan ever again which was the most interesting and driving part of the series. but hey at least we get to see Jondalar (stupid name) beat the shit out of someone because HE’S MAKING MY BABYYYY

[samanthamosher]

My current read 📖 🤓

All her life, Jani has dreamed of Elsewhere. Just barely scraping by with her job at a tannery, she’s resigned to a dreary life in the port town of Durc, caring for her younger sister Zosa. That is, until the Hotel Magnifique comes to town.

The hotel is legendary not only for its whimsical enchantments, but also for its ability to travel—appearing in a different destination every morning. While Jani and Zosa can’t afford the exorbitant costs of a guest’s stay, they can interview to join the staff, and are soon whisked away on the greatest adventure of their lives. But once inside, Jani quickly discovers their contracts are unbreakable and that beneath the marvelous glamour, the hotel is hiding dangerous secrets.

With the vexingly handsome doorman Bel as her only ally, Jani embarks on a mission to unravel the mystery of the magic at the heart of the hotel and free Zosa—and the other staff—from the cruelty of the ruthless maître d’hôtel. To succeed, she’ll have to risk everything she loves, but failure would mean a fate far worse than never returning home.

[erfolgsebook]

Durchhalten, wenn alle anderen schon aufgegeben haben

Durchhalten, wenn alle anderen schon aufgegeben haben Es ist der Moment, der dich herausfordert. Du stehst am Rande des Aufgebens, während um dich herum die anderen längst aufgegeben haben. Du siehst ihre Gesichter, ihre Enttäuschung, und du hörst die Stimmen, die dir einflüstern, dass du es nicht schaffen wirst. Doch du bleibst stehen, tiefer in den Boden verwurzelt als je zuvor. Du spürst die Last in deinen Schultern, doch du weißt, dass du durchhalten musst – für dich selbst und für das, was du erreichen möchtest. Der Wind peitscht dir ins Gesicht. Du trägst deinen abgetragenen, dunkelblauen Parka, dessen Reißverschluss schon oft kaputt war und dessen Ärmel längst ausgefranst sind. Die kaputten Stiefel, die du schon so lange trägst, knarren bei jedem Schritt. Sie sind nicht schön, aber sie bringen dich voran, egal was kommt. Du siehst die anderen, die in ihren neuen, glänzenden Outfits an dir vorbeiziehen. Sie tragen das neueste Design, ihre Haare sitzen perfekt, und ihre Gesichter strahlen das Selbstvertrauen aus, das du im Moment nicht spürst. Doch du weisst: Das ist nicht der Weg, den du gehen musst. Der Ort, an dem du dich befindest, ist von Natur aus rau. Ein schmaler Pfad windet sich durch dichten Wald, und die Äste der Bäume kratzen an deinem Gesicht. Überall hörst du das Rauschen des Windes und das Knacken der Äste. Der Boden unter deinen Füßen ist fest, doch manchmal stolperst du, rutschst aus, kämpfst gegen die Natur, die dir zeigt, dass nichts im Leben einfach ist. Du fühlst die Kälte durch deine Kleidung dringen, deine Hände sind steif, aber du bleibst standhaft. Du blickst nach oben. Es ist ein grauer Himmel, der dir nicht viel Hoffnung zu geben scheint, aber tief in dir spürst du den Drang, weiterzumachen. Du kannst den Gipfel sehen, das Ziel, das du dir gesetzt hast. Es ist nur noch ein kleines Stück, aber der Weg dorthin ist steinig, und der Körper schreit nach Ruhe. Doch du lässt dich nicht beirren. Der Berg mag hoch sein, der Wind mag kalt sein, aber du weißt, dass du es schaffen kannst. Du hast dich nicht durch all die Rückschläge aufhalten lassen, also lässt du dich jetzt auch nicht stoppen. Während du weitergehst, siehst du die Gesichter derer, die an deiner Seite waren. Einige sind schon längst abgebogen, andere haben ihren Weg aufgegeben. Du denkst an ihre Träume, ihre Wünsche, und du weißt, dass sie den Moment verpasst haben, an dem man einfach weitermachen muss, auch wenn es schwierig ist. Ihre Kleidung ist teurer, ihre Schuhe glänzen, aber ihre Entschlossenheit hat nicht so lange gehalten wie deine. Du denkst an all die Menschen, die dir gesagt haben, du würdest scheitern. Die, die dir eingeredet haben, dass du deine Ziele nicht erreichen würdest, dass du den harten Weg nicht gehen kannst. Sie haben längst aufgehört zu glauben, aber du – du bist noch da. Du bist immer noch hier, immer noch am Kämpfen. Dein Herz schlägt in einem gleichmäßigen Rhythmus, obwohl es in deinem Inneren tobt. Du weißt, dass du in diesem Moment stärker bist als alle, die dich verlassen haben. Der Gedanke an das Ziel motiviert dich weiter, und du spürst, wie der Wind an deinen Wangen zieht, wie deine Muskeln brennen. Aber du lässt dich nicht entmutigen. Du weißt, dass jede Anstrengung dich näher zum Ziel bringt. Jeder Schritt, den du machst, ist ein Schritt, der die anderen hinter dir lässt, die sich von Zweifeln und Ängsten haben aufhalten lassen. Und dann, als du den letzten Schritt machst und den Gipfel erreichst, überkommt dich eine unbeschreibliche Erleichterung. Der Blick, den du von dort oben hast, ist atemberaubend. Du hast es geschafft. Du stehst dort, alleine, doch vollkommen erfüllt. Der Wind hat sich gelegt, und der Himmel ist klar. Du hast nicht nur den Berg bezwungen, sondern auch deine eigenen Zweifel und Ängste. Du hast durchgehalten, als alle anderen längst aufgegeben haben. Es gibt eine unbestimmte Freiheit in diesem Moment. Die Sonne bricht langsam durch die Wolken und taucht den Gipfel in goldenes Licht. Du lässt den Blick über die Weiten der Landschaft schweifen und erinnerst dich an all die Herausforderungen, an die Momente, in denen du dich gefragt hast, ob es das alles wert ist. Aber jetzt weißt du, dass jeder Schritt, jeder Tropfen Schweiß, jede Müdigkeit sich ausgezahlt hat. Du hast es geschafft, weil du nicht aufgegeben hast. Du fühlst dich unbesiegbar. Du spürst die Erfüllung, die du nur dann erreichen kannst, wenn du an dich glaubst und niemals aufgibst. Du hast bewiesen, dass Durchhaltevermögen der Schlüssel zum Erfolg ist – nicht die glänzenden Outfits oder der schnelle Erfolg, sondern der Wille, trotz der Widrigkeiten weiterzugehen. In diesem Moment weißt du, dass du für alles bereit bist. Du bist derjenige, der niemals aufgibt, egal wie groß die Hürden auch sein mögen. „Es ist nicht der Berg, den wir bezwingen, sondern uns selbst.“ – Sir Edmund Hillary Hat dir der Beitrag gefallen? Kommentiere und teile meine inspirierenden Beiträge über Erfolge, Sehnsüchte, Wünsche und Träume. Read the full article

[fan-of-the-cave-bear]

Thinking that maybe Jean m. Auel wanted really badly for Lumi and The Mother to line up thematically and aesthetically to Jondalar and Ayla a little bit too much. Bc Lumi.... Would not do That* to his mate...

(*That is being a jealous hypocrite btw)

The better parallel is Durc and Wolf tbh....

Bc did anyone else notice that the guy Wolf is Durk totem? And that Ayla kind of(?) got her son back, if only in a superficial way.

Edit: spelling whoops

[theserpentsadvocate]

rules: make a 24 hour poll with the names of your wips, let it run, then write one sentence for every vote the winner received!

Tagged by @feeisamarshmallow. <3

Asterisks are working titles. W is Weevil, not Wallace, which is not to say I don't love Wallace.

Trying to keep it to chaptered fics that I have at least a chapter's worth of material for already or it would be 30+ options long.

rules: make a 24 hour poll with the names of your wips, let it run, then write one sentence for every vote the winner received!

**'Universes Veronica didn't grow up in':

1-800-WHERE-R-YOU - Meg Cabot series where the protagonist is struck by lightning and develops the ability to find missing children

BtVS - Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Veronica is not the Slayer in this universe.

(other likelies include Animorphs, Circle of Magic, Percy Jackson, Jumanji (the recent one), and probably Twilight even though I hate it.)

***oneshot version here

Tagging anyone who wants to do it but throwing it out specifically (no pressure) to @copperarsenite, @allonsymiddleearth, and @iceberg-hootenanny.

[unfug-bilder]

*rumms* *schepper* *klong* *rumpel*

Das neue Jahr ist da!!

[ungeheuerliches]

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