#I had a few candidates

[card-queen]

9 Lines 9 People

Tagged by @mister-writes over here! Thanks!

Rules: Share 9 lines from your writing and tag 9 people!

Just a piece from Chapter 2 from Memories of Aether. I still need to get back to Chapter 3 but the days have been a little too unpredictable.

The other tent, while similar to the previous two, housed a figure with the power to eventually shed light on this mystery. Across from the sea of slain Ethelian elites, stacked in the corner as the rest had been, was a body unlike the others. While the uniformed bodies had been cast aside with little regard, this one had been bound to a chair and seemed to have been tortured before death. The dead man appeared noble in garb, with ornate robes, furs and jewellery unlike anything Cas had ever seen before. The man’s face was mostly undamaged but utterly unrecognisable to Cas, who was familiar with all the local nobility and their family. While Cas did not have any familiarity with his High Lord, he would surely have been aware if High Lord Rodger Peren’s family had gone missing or gone rogue. The dead nobleman wore no signet ring nor any jewellery with an insignia; he displayed the appearance of nobility but with nothing specific to mark him out as belonging to any family. The dead man’s face was unlike any nobleman Cas had ever heard of, with rough features, a previously broken nose and missing teeth. Whoever he was, this man was clearly a key figure within this unit; either as their leader, or their key prisoner.

And I.. actually don't know if I have 9 people to tag or if they're actually able to reply to tags. So, if you see this and you want to be tagged, pretend I tagged you so that I know I can tag you in future!

[hyperlexichypatia]

I am begging people giving U.S. politics commentary to have, just, a basic, basic, 6th grade citizenship class level of understanding of the relationship between the branches of government. Please. You will not get icky electoralism cooties if you learn that "Whoever is the president right now is responsible for decisions the supreme court hands down right now" is nonsense.

[television-overload]

Didn't know how much I wanted that job until I got the rejection email 🥲

[faaun]

ok let's catch up quickly

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Pick your faves from my faves game

Challenge: make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite.

Thank you @valentinaonthemoon for the tag! You chose some great characters, and this is such a fun game! Except for how hard it is to choose only five favourites, that is :’)

This was really hard :’) but I love thinking about my favourite characters, so it was time well spent!! As for tagging — I tag whoever is reading this and wants to play :) it’s really fun, give it a try and tag me if you do it!

[goodplace-janet]

please answer this silly little poll of a me who was confused in a history lecture today

[digitaldiseas3]

extremely frustrating situation

[scattered-winter]

Hey, if all of the Paladins were captured/incapacitated, who do you think would be the best candidates to pilot each of the lions until the Paladins were rescued/healed?

OOOOH this was a fun one to think about hehe

so in the event that all 5 paladins were somehow unable to pilot, the lions Could still have pilots but there wouldn't really be much of a bond there and forming voltron would be extremely difficult (because, if you remember, one of the reasons why voltron works is because all 5 quintessence colors are present in equal amounts. without that balance, it would be very very hard to make the connections fit. of course it's possible, but the temporary team wouldn't be able to have the cohesiveness that the paladins do even as voltron.) the temporary pilots would still need to be a pure/almost pure color of quintessence in order for it to work (the rules can be bent a little bit for short-term temporary pilots, especially if there's A Situation that requires it, but for actual paladins that the lions are bonded to the situation is. a lot more delicate. so a good number of people with mostly black quintessence probably COULD pilot the black lion in a pinch but they would never be able to actually connect with her the way a black paladin could.)

so, that SAID, here's the tentative lineup for if this ever happened:

black: allura (she could actually conceivably pilot any of the lions; her quintessence colors are largely black and red, but she's connected to all 5 so she Could pilot any of them. but black and red are the best matches.)

red: allura would also be a good candidate for red, but in a situation where all five lions needed piloting, she would probably pilot black, and thus can't pilot red so it'd have to be someone else. but i DO think renee could pilot red in a pinch (she's red and blue with juuuuuust a few touches of green)

green: matt. he has some blue and black mixed in there, but he has enough green and he embodies green traits well enough that it could work fairly well

yellow: coran. he's actually mostly yellow with a good amount of blue, so honestly he could do either, but I think yellow would be his most likely candidate

blue: renee could also be blue, potentially, since she has about equal amounts of red and blue. but if she's piloting red, then someone else would need to be blue and that would probably be denny. he hasn't had very many scenes Yet but he's very, very blue. with a streak of yellow and maybe a few spots of red

[dancedance-resolution]

i apparently have Severe Vision Impairment? bitch i knew my eyes were bad but wtf??

[darkcreamz95]

Job hunting update: I ALMOST got the job...

[lord-squiggletits]

Even though Pharma got a random cameo in one of the TFA side books (which means nothing to me because I don't care about supplementary material and anything that isn't shown in the main canon material, aka the show, is basically just paying for useless trivia that has no bearing on the main story), I kind of doubt he'll ever show up for any other stories in the future, and even if he does I'm not sure exactly how they'll play him.

I mean, Pharma in MTMTE got the reputation of "token evil Autobot" + "mad doctor who's a crazy murderer", and the general trend of TF media is that the character's first appearance in the franchise informs the way they're characterized in future continuities (for the most part). So I imagine that any future appearances of Pharma would just stick with the "mad doctor" characterization, and whether that characterization is interesting or not depends on the rest of the continuity's story. IDW1 had Pharma as a tertiary character whose days of being a normal good guy were shown in flashbacks, and his descent into madness was mainly offscreen/implied in exposition dumps, which was pretty good because it allows for a lot of theorizing and interpretations of his character. But considering how Pharma is otherwise a pretty obscure character, I think the odds are low that he 1. ever shows up in a meaningful story capacity again, and even if he does, 2. he'll probably inherit the "evil Autobot" characterization and not much else precisely BECAUSE that's the main standout feature of his character, and as an obscure character he would need to be "branded" in a way that puts his most stand-out features first.

[fragmentedblade]

Very interesting that Fu Xuan was regarded as the peak of efficiency and yet now we see her struggling with the position she has at hands, something noticed by the other characters, that worry and wonder how she'll fare

[mariocki]

Patrick Magee works to apprehend the villains as Parsons, the head of airport security in Dial 999: The Great Gold Robbery (1.4, ABC, 1958)

[spamton]

kacper will have panic attacks every day.

[whentherewerebicycles]

congratulations on the job! so glad that someone who's really passionate about teaching and learning is going to be in this role. can i ask about the application process and your approach? i just defended but i also have accumulated about two dozen ac-job rejections this semester and i feel like maybe i'm going about this wrong.

thanks so much and congrats to you on defending!!! so exciting!!! i'm not sure how much actual insight i have re: the job application process (i mostly live my professional life by just doing do everything @bottleupandexplode tells me to do) but i would be happy to discuss with you via DM if you want! and can also take a look at job materials if you think another set of eyes on them might be helpful, or share my materials if you want to see someone else's