#Nemo Silva

[vilandel]

Next Gen Inccorect Quotes X ♣️💘

*The royal children of Clover having a crystal tournament, camp of the Silvas*

Nymphea: So, is there any way for us to protect the crystal at 100%? Valentina: Literally 100% or only possibly 100%? Nymphea: Literally. Eis: Damn, that is going to be difficult... Zinnia: We attack the Kiras and Vermillions directly all together, that is the only way! Cassandra: But that leaves our crystal unprotected, idiot! Zinnia: Who are you calling idiot? Nebel: No need to fight each other, the other royals are already enough for now. Lavinia: Well, it's just a game... The others won't really try to kill us, right? Nymphea: Well, we wouldn't need to be extra cautious if Diego wouldn't have insulted Yogan. Diego: I only called him a boring bloody bookworm who only reads, that's all. Loreleï: You forgot that he has Lava magic. Odette: And that he is scary especially with calm anger. Nanthilde: And that his mother is Mereoleona Vermillion. Valentina: And Airgid insulted auntie Mimosas children, somehow. Loreleï: Seriously, little brother? Can't you use your brain for once? Nemo: He can't, he has mom's temper with dad's stupidity. Not a good mix. Airgid: I just told Jacinto, Iris and Amaryllis that their mother is mostly a healer and not a warrior. Nymphea: Airgid, you are my cousin and I love you, but you should stop dismiss healers. Loreleï: Do you want mom and dad hear about it? You know how much they care four auntie Mimosa. Airgid: I'm not afraid... please don't tell them! Cassandra: Great, I thought we only needed to watch out for the Kiras, now the Vermillions are also a big threat. Great job. Eis: Okay, so what can we do to protect the crystal fully? Nymphea: We might need a special crystal protector. Nemo: Someone with big magic powers! Nebel: That is all of us, idiot, we are royalty. Nanthilde: Maybe someone crazy enough to not only defend, but to also attack? Lavinia: But who in their right mind would be crazy enough... Oh. Everyone: *turns towards Mathilda* Valentina: That would work. Loreleï: But she is the youngest of our generation. Eis: Yet she punched uncle Yami to sit on the floor when she was only a month old. And then there was the ball incident when she was one year old... Airgid: Let's not talk about that one! Diego: Beloved little sister, do you want the Silvas to win? Mathilda: Yep. Odette: Do you want to do something crazy? Mathilda: Always. Nebel: Do you want to attack and defend together? Mathilda: Ok. Zinnia: Do you want to let your Water Magic go wild? Mathilda: Is that even a question? Nymphea: It's settled, you will protect our crystal. And show no other mercy than life to our adversaries. Mathilda: HELL YEAH! Cassandra: Our parents might be shocked... But at least we will win. And they did.

Nymphea, Valentina, Lavinia and Cassandra are the daughters of Nozel and Vanessa. Diego, Odette, Nebel, Zinnia and Mathilda are the children of Zora and Nebra. Eis and Nanthilde are the children of Solid and Rosette. Loreleï, Airgid and Nemo are the children of Asta and Noelle.

[the-black-bulls]

Noelle: But I’m a royal and can’t even control my magic, don’t you think that’s pathetic?

Asta: Noelle. You see this arm? It’s actually shorter than my other arm, but you can’t really tell, especially when I twirl like this.

Vanessa: I’m lactose intolerant.

Magna: I’M OBNOXIOUS!

[crapula-estatutario-nobinario]

i look at Nemo and want to ask him to be my gym mentor honestly. peak physique i LOVE his design so BOOM catch the questions for him: 13, 33, 62!!

WAUGH! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Nemo questions let's goooo! These are gonna be so good for character development!

13. What is the most frightening experience they have endured?

Not related to battles or beasts or even Caesar's wrath, the most frightening experience Nemo has ever endured was when Silva (his adopted daughter) tried to flee from the legion. As the sound of the dogs howling and few lower ranking legionaries chased a small group of deserters, his heart skipped a beat when he saw one of his men reveal her face.

To think that he could lose her, to think that it could be over if a centurion came by to see what the ruckus was about, Nemo guided his men away from the fort, taking the deserters with them with the excuse of punishment. The two soldiers would be beheaded and torn to pieces. Doing the same with the other deserters, he left the bodies behind for the dogs to find later. Caesar wouldn't mind the loss of a few slaves nor a couple of rookies. He knew that well.

Silva would escape, scarred over being spared at the cost of another five lifes.

Nemo would return back to the camp, hoping no one else would have seen his display.

33. What is their fight-or-flight response?

Nemo doesn't flee. If he is scared, he is going feral, swinging his axe and trying to cause as much damage as he can. If he has been disarmed, he will fight bare fisted.

62. Do they have any weaknesses or struggle with any vices?

Nemo has a lot of weaknesses, the main one being his age. Being in his mid-50s, his body aches badly, his sight is not the best, and radiation has taken a toll on his health. Not to say that he struggles over old wounds, the most prominent one being a rough impact against one of his knees. While he has good and bad days, his joints ache badly.

Vice wise, he enjoys sodas way too much. They aren't good for him, but it isn't like he cares.

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Disability Showdown Full Bracket

Alright! No more mystery, we've got our list for the tournament!

For people new to this tournament, how this works is this: We narrowed our character list down from about 600 to 131 (it was gonna be 128 but we had three ties, so those have been reworked into three-character polls). The top 64 have been seeded into the bracket by number of nominations. The bottom 67 however, all got roughly the same amount of nominations, so those have been assigned places via random number generator, to remove any bias that I the poll runner may have about which characters I want to succeed

(I am so sorry if your obscure blorbo ends up against a super popular kid in round one, that's unfortunately the luck of the draw here, but I am keeping a record of characters that lose but whose fans fight the hardest for them, and we may do something with those kids later, so it's still worth campaigning for your faves!)

I will make an image for the bracket once we get past the first round or two, but right now I have no idea how to make a visual bracket containing 131 characters, upload it to tumblr, and still have it be at all useful

So for the first round, I'll just give the matchups by name, in a list under the cut. We'll be working through this list 8 polls at a time (my pinned post will stay updated with the current 8 once the tournament starts), and good luck everyone!

Eda Clawthorne (Owl House) vs Cassandra Cain (DC)

Hiccup and Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) vs Peppermint (Hi-Fi Rush)

Barbara Gordon (DC) vs Demoman (Team Fortress 2)

Toph Beifong (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs Finn Tidestrider (Just Roll With It)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Red (Pokemon)

Ashton Greymoore (Critical Role) vs Walter White Jr (Breaking Bad)

Finn Mertens (Adventure Time) vs Wade Wilson (Marvel)

Kitty Softpaws (Puss in Boots) vs Jean Havoc (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Matt Murdock (Marvel) vs Ellen (The Witch's House)

Clint Barton (Marvel) vs Maedhros (The Silmarillion)

Nicholas Benedict (The Mysterious Benedict Society) vs Jancy True (Drawtectives)

Donatello (TMNT: Rise, IDW) vs Black Raisin Cookie (Cookie Run)

Octavio Silva (Apex Legends) vs Dr Carmilla (The Mechanisms)

Crutchie (Newsies) vs Nemo (Finding Nemo)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) vs Renarin Kholin (Stormlight Archives)

Amaya (The Dragon Prince) vs Long John Silver (Treasure Planet)

Charles Xavier (Marvel) vs Dagen Underthorn (Critical Role)

Viktor (Arcane) vs Cecil Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale)

Taimi (Guild Wars 2) vs Eli Vance (Half Life)

Johnny Joestar (JJBA) vs Floofty Fizzlebean (Bugsnax)

Vash the Stampede (Trigun Stampede) vs Sunny (OMORI)

Drey Ferin (Just Roll With It) vs Kizuna Chieda (AI: The Somnium Files)

Geordi LaForge (Star Trek) vs Phosphophyllite (Houseki No Kuni)

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs Zuko (Avatar: the Last Airbender)

Melanie King (The Magnus Archives) vs Eugenides (Queen's Thief)

Snake (Zero Escape) vs Malenia (Elden Ring)

Future Leo (ROTTMNT) vs Edgar Jomfru (Metalocalypse)

Janice Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) vs Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)

Luke Skywalker (Star Wars) vs Wylan Van Eck (Six of Crows) vs Linh Cinder (Lunar Chronicles)

Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Peter Sqloint (Just Roll With It)

Bucky Barnes (Marvel) vs All Might (Boku No Hero Academia)

Della Duck (Ducktales) vs Maya Lopez (Marvel)

Jayfeather (Warrior Cats) vs Isabella Paretti (ValorPUNK)

Shouko Nishimiya (A Silent Voice) vs Gary Goodspeed (Final Space)

Violet Evergarden (Violet Evergarden) vs Brightheart (Warrior Cats)

Briarlight (Warrior Cats) vs Jinx (Arcane)

Ticket Jerry (Dialtown) vs Darth Maul (Star Wars)

Yang Xiao Long (RWBY) vs Dulcinea Septimus (Locked Tomb)

Ricky Potts (Ride the Cyclone) vs Helena Adams (Identity V) vs Antonio (Identity V)

Jimmy Valmer (South Park) vs Vanellope (Wreck-It Ralph)

Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck) vs Sam Vimes (Discworld)

Bruno Madrigal (Encanto) vs Custas (Witch Hat Atelier)

Gregory House (House MD) vs Gunthrie Miggles-Rashbax (Dimension 20)

Moon Knight (Marvel) vs Splinter (TMNT)

Shanks (One Piece) vs Goro Majima (Yakuza)

Chai (Hi-Fi Rush) vs Maria Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Kazuhira Miller (Metal Gear Solid) vs Sir Marc (Penumbra Podcast)

Izaya Orihara (Durarara) vs Hermann Gottlieb (Pacific Rim)

Finnegan Wake (Monster High) vs Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

Frankie Stein (Monster High) vs Charlotte Webber (Marvel)

Sage Beldaruit (Witch Hat Atelier) vs Susie (Flight Rising)

Urakawa Mamoru (Mega Man) vs Undyne (Undertale)

Teo (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs Gazelle (Kingsman)

Tavros Nitram (Homestuck) vs Dunban (Xenoblade Chronicles)

Hearthstone (Magnus Chase) vs Gabriella (Little Mermaid)

Tony Stark (Marvel) vs Mera Salamin (Epithet Erased)

Rani (Pixie Hollow) vs Haruka Sakurai (MILGRAM)

Wilt (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) vs Handy (Happy Tree Friends)

Izumi Curtis (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Nog (Star Trek: DS9) vs Spock (Star Trek: Discovery)

Juno Steel (Penumbra Podcast) vs Merle Highchurch (The Adventure Zone)

Furiosa (Mad Max) vs Massimo (Luca)

Bentley (Sly Cooper) vs Symmetra (Overwatch)

Quasimodo (Hunchback of Notre Dame) vs Cyborg (Teen Titans)

Nagito Komaeda (Dangan Ronpa) vs Link (Legend of Zelda)

[tsarisfanfiction]

Shocking

Fandom: Daughter of the Deep Rating: Teen Genre: Hurt/Comfort/Friendship Characters: Gemini Twain, Nelinha da Silva Harding-Pencroft made sure their Leyden guns were quick and painless. Land Institute, not so much. Whumptober day 4, shock. I had a lot of fun writing this. Still getting used to the characters for this fandom, but enjoying figuring them out, one fic at a time.

Land Institute didn’t give up.

They'd known, when they let Caleb South and the others leave on the Varuna, that it wouldn't be the last time LI came after them, but they hadn't had a choice. The other option had been to kill them all, and as Ana had said, Harding-Pencroft was better than that.

They were, and Gem hadn't been fond of the idea of killing them all, either, so he was glad that when faced with the choice, Ana had chosen to let them go instead.

That didn’t make the relentless pursuit any more enjoyable, though.

With the destruction of the Aronnax, LI had lost any ability to match the Nautilus in the seas.  For all that she was old, and her back-up engine was run on coal of all things, she was also an absolute marvel of engineering that had the Cephalopods still in complete awe even months after first boarding her.  Gem, Ana, and the rest of them were well aware that LI still had the plans for the Aronnax, and that one day LI would build a new version that likely wouldn’t succumb to Romeo so easily, but until the other submarine appeared, they were safe in the water.

On land, not so much.

The Nautilus could do many, many things that completely boggled Gem’s understanding of technology and had yet to be explained by their resident Cephalopods, but she could not magic supplies out of nowhere.  Lincoln Base made up for most of the deficit, but sometimes, they had to make a run to occupied land in order to retrieve a few extra necessities that Nemo hadn’t developed alternatives for, likely because he’d never felt a need for them in his lifetime.

Land trips, when they happened, were always meticulously planned.  Gem took point on the logistics, and always made sure most of the party were fully-armed Sharks, just in case LI made an appearance, but sometimes there were things on the shopping list that Sharks wouldn’t be able to identify.

Or more specifically, that Nelinha and her fellow Cephalopods didn’t trust them to identify.

Gem didn’t know if he and Nelinha would ever be friends.  He had a lot of respect for the Brazilian girl, and a lot of remorse for his part in tarring her with the Scholarship Kid brush back at HP, and if she was open to the idea of friendship, he would gladly take it.  So far, however, their relationship was one of mutual understanding – both of them had claim to Ana as a friend (although Gem knew, understood and accepted that the Indian girl would always pick Nelinha first, if she ever had to make a choice), and had reached a point of compromise that occasionally bordered on camaraderie.

He enjoyed their banter, when Nelinha wasn’t buried in the inner workings of the Nautilus, and he hoped that she did, too.

While essential, this particular supply trip didn’t need a huge party.  There were only a few, select items on the shopping list, none of which Gem could identify, but all considered of vital and immediate importance by the Cephalopods, who had quickly persuaded Ana and their resident adult supervision (barring Luca, who had been one of said persuading Cephalopods) that the trip was worth the potential exposure to Land Institute.  After much debate, and a few near-arguments before Ana stepped in, it had been decided that just Gem and Nelinha would be enough.  Nelinha, for identification and acquisition of the parts, and Gem as the necessary gunslinging Shark on protection duty just in case.

There had been no sign of Land Institute in the area – Lee-Ann and the rest of the Dolphins, including their captain, had been thorough in their recon.

Gem dearly wanted to know where the Land Institute had been hiding, and how they’d evaded the Dolphins’ searching.

He and Nelinha were cornered, not far from the dock were the Nautilus waited, but with no clear passage back.  In their way, weapons no doubt trained on the exact point they would be forced to emerge through, Gem had counted four people wearing the hostile emblem of LI.

Behind him, clutching her precious purchases with one hand while the other held her Leyden gun at the ready, Nelinha was muttering in Portuguese.  Gem didn’t speak the language, but he suspected he didn’t want to know what she was saying.

He assessed his own arsenal, rather more extensive than Nelinha’s single Leyden gun, but not quite as much as he would’ve liked – even wearing the recognised Shark insignia, there were only so many weapons he could visibly carry in public before people started getting twitchy.  He was limited to his SIG Sauers and their comforting weights on his hips, a single bandolier of flash-bang grenades hidden under a coat, and a Leyden gun.  Nothing fatal – the SIG Sauers were loaded with rubber bullets as always – but enough to give Land Institute students a headache.

Unfortunately, they knew where he and Nelinha had been forced to shelter, and in order to get a lock on a target, Gem would have to step out and make a target of himself, first.

He fingered a flash-bang grenade, lifting it clear of the bandolier but keeping the pin firmly in place as he showed it to Nelinha.  Cover your ears, he mouthed, also miming plugging his ears with his free hand.  She knew what they did – there wasn’t a single piece of Nemo tech that she hadn’t given at least a cursory inspection of over the past few months – but Gem refused to take any chances.

He had to get her safely back to the Nautilus.  Failure was not an option.

Her eyes focused on the grenade and she frowned, but obeyed, holstering her gun so that she had her hands free to plug her ears.  It wouldn’t be perfect, but it would have to be enough.  Gem slipped wax into his own ears, giving them a moment to settle, before tugging out the pin with his teeth and lobbing it out towards where the LI were waiting.

The grenade sailed around the corner and he saw the edge of the flash a second later.  The ground beneath his feet vibrated, suggesting the bang part of flash-bang had activated as it was supposed to, and he ran out of their small area of shelter, firing at the LI students.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Four rubber bullets, four dropped students.  They wouldn’t be out for long, but it would be long enough to get back to the Nautilus.

Gem turned back and gestured for Nelinha to emerge, giving her sharp signals to stay low and move quickly, in case any of them had a particularly thick skull and wouldn’t stay down for long.  She obeyed, and Gem had a brief moment to be thankful for the fact that their relationship had improved to the point where she would listen to him without complaint when they were in a combat situation.  He scanned the downed LI students – none of them familiar, and from their ages likely freshmen – for signs of life as they started to move out cautiously, but none of them appeared to be unusually thick-skulled and showed no signs of stirring.

Neither he nor Nelinha needed any encouragement to be swift as they broke away from cover, though.  Gem still had the wax in his ears, but there was no opportunity to take them out, and as long as all four hostiles stayed down-

Something stabbed him in the shoulder.

He flinched, almost dropping his gun, and spun around to see where his attacker w-

Agony.

Gem had been on the receiving end of a Leyden gun before.  Dr Hewett’s demonstration had been all too brief in his memory, but he still recalled the feeling of his nerves tingling until they set on fire, before darkness had extinguished the flames and he’d woken up a few minutes later feeling absolutely fine.

HP’s Leyden guns were set to incapacitate with the least amount of pain.

LI had no such principles.

Gem felt rather than heard the scream that tore itself from his throat, muffled and tinny through the earplugs but vicious against his vocal cords.  Stars exploded in his vision, linking themselves together with flashes of lightning static.  The charge jetted all through his body, sending his muscles into uncontrollable spasms, and he faintly felt his knees crash into the ground, rapidly followed by his shoulders and then his head.  His pistols slipped from his fingers as his body instinctively curled in on itself, desperately trying to get the pain to stop, but it wasn’t working, wasn’t easing, and the screams still echoed hollowly in his ears.

Then it stopped.

The lightshow behind closed eyelids faded away to nothing, and the hoarse screaming died shortly afterwards.  His muscles still spasmed, but the lightning arcing through them had gone.

Suddenly, the darkness seemed very inviting as it lured him closer, a promise of oblivion and respite from the pain that still danced along all of his nerves.

A hand landed on his shoulder and he heard a whimper.  Fingers pried at his ears and he tried to recoil away, but his body wasn’t responding.  The world made a strange pop as the wax in his ears was plucked out.

“Spidey!”

Nelinha called him that more often than not, and Gem still hadn’t worked out if it was malicious or more banter.  He knew most of the Spider-Man references muttered behind his back before LI had blown up their school had been the former.

“Gem, can you hear me?”  Hands shook his shoulders roughly and he gasped as it made fresh little arcs of electricity run through his body.  “Gem!”

She sounded worried.  Gem took in a deep breath.

“I hear you,” he gasped, choking a little at the pain talking provoked.

“Good,” she replied, and the hands shifted until they were grabbing him by the lapels of his coat.  “We need to get out of here before more show up.  Can you stand?”

Gem’s legs were still twitching as the leftover electricity juddered through them and he doubted they’d take his weight without complaint.  He also knew Nelinha was right and they needed to move.

Hauling himself to his feet was difficult; without Nelinha gripping onto him and all but dragging him upright, he wouldn’t have managed it.  As it was, he was still a juddering, gasping mess of pain when she finally got him to his feet, one arm draped liberally across her shoulders.

Walking was even harder, his feet not wanting to even consider placing one in front of the other, but despite being shorter than him by a not inconsiderable margin, Nelinha was used to hard physical work lugging around heavy pieces of machinery, and to Gem’s relief it translated to being able to drag him along like a semi-sentient sack of potatoes.

“Sorry,” he rasped, as his feet tangled together and almost sent them both sprawling out onto the ground.

“Don’t be,” she replied shortly, staggering but keeping her balance and yanking Gem forwards some more.  “This is Land Institute’s fault, and if you weren’t with me, I would never have got out of there.”  He felt her muscles heave as she pulled his arm further around her shoulders, and dimly noticed that she had her Leyden gun unholstered again.

The lack of continuing hostile fire suddenly made a certain amount of sense.

Gem’s muscles did not recover from their near-constant spasms on the awkward trip back to the Nautilus’ dock, although his vision slowly faded back into focus, if with the addition of white sprites darting across the world.

They didn’t recover as Nelinha all but dragged him back on board their submarine, either, to the concerned chorus of their classmates, and Gem couldn’t protest the stretcher he was bundled onto, especially as his nerves took that moment to almost fully reignite and give an agonising encore of the original attack.

“What happened?” he heard Franklin demand of Nelinha, echoed by Ana across the tannoy system.  The Cephalopod, perhaps predictably, launched into an explanation of how the Leyden-harpoon Gem hadn’t even seen before it hit him appeared to work, complete with estimates on voltage and other hair-raising numbers that made Gem feel lucky to still be alive, let alone conscious.

Semi-conscious, if he was being accurate.

The Orca prefect was clearly not impressed at LI’s new and increasingly aggressive weaponry, and Gem had to agree.

He was pretty sure that at some point between being loaded onto the stretcher and arriving in the Nautilus’ infirmary, he passed out.  His eyes only drifted shut for what felt like a moment, but when they re-opened his muscles felt sore, as though they’d had a solid workout that had gone on far too long, but no longer spasmed uncontrollably, and there was a comforting haze of painkillers lurking at the edge of his awareness – accompanied by the blissful lack of pain.

More bizarre than the seemingly-sudden shift from pain to anaesthetic was the girl sat by his bed.  Despite the similar colouring, it wasn’t the girl that Gem might have thought would drop by, Ana taking her role of captain seriously when it came to her crew – and also a good enough friend to worry about Gem.

Nelinha was tinkering with something in her hands, because no true Cephalopod sat still and did nothing when there was technology to play with, and the Nautilus would never run dry of interesting technology to play with, but that didn’t make her presence there, at Gem’s bedside, any more understandable.

“Nelinha?” he asked, pushing himself up on his elbows.  His shoulder complained loudly, and a glance showed neat white bandaging around it.  She jumped.

“Spidey!”  She made a few more twists with the unidentifiable mass of metal and solder in her hands.  “You know you’re not supposed to get hit with the pointy things with highly electric currents, yes?”

Gem winced at the reminder.  “It wasn’t my intention,” he defended himself weakly.  The girl huffed.

“I don’t care,” she said.  “Don’t do it again.”  Somehow, she got a piece of wire to materialise out of the little project in her hands, and looped it around itself.  Gem still couldn’t tell what it was, or what it was supposed to turn into once the Cephalopod was done with it.  Nelinha eyed her project critically before standing up.  “That body armour isn’t going to build itself,” she commented, and Gem wondered what body armour? but he didn’t get a chance to ask before the girl was walking away, little gadget in hand, as though she’d simply been waiting for him to wake up before returning to her main project.

Nelinha waiting for him to wake up?  That didn’t seem right, but Gem didn’t have another explanation, and a small flicker of hope made itself known, although he was careful not to let it run too rampant, in case he was wrong.

But maybe one day they could be friends, after all.

[hakodate-division]

Kuma no ie - Inspirations

Kotan:

Asirpa - Golden Kamuy

Simba - The Lion King

Talim - Soulcalibur series

Silva - Shaman King

Haku/Oshtar - Utawarerumono

Lyara - The Beastmaster Princess

Ted:

Doyle - Destrega

Marlin - Finding Nemo

James "Jimmy" Howlett - Wolverine/X-Men

Thors Snorresson - The Vinland Saga

Nathaniel William "Rock" Adams - Soulcalibur series

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

Kokomi:

Langa "Snow" Hasegawa - Sk8 the Infinity

Usui Horokeu - Shaman King

Anastasia - THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls

Klara - Girls und Panzer

Yuri Plisetsky - Yuri!!! on Ice

Yukina - Yu Yu Hakusho

[placesyoucallhome]

Olivir and Nemo got outfits too! Olivir even got new hair out of it, and it actually suits him.

[lucas-garlic-bread]

I got a question

for everyone who’s read Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordian, can we talk abt Gemini?

like i love this boy but i’m gonna get this out of the way, why is he a mormon? like aren’t mormons kinda, notorious for being racist?

I’m gonna choose to ignore that (much like i assume rick will in future books) and when i write fics imma avoid that

[your-average-smirky-nerd]

'DAUGHTER OF THE DEEP' book review

Uncle Rick accomplishes his new masterpiece by mixing the fantastic imagination of Verne with his incredibly relatable modern teenage perspective.

Book: Daughter of the Deep

Author: None other than our Rick Riordan

Rating: 7/5 (I LOVED IT!)

Genre: Sci-fi, Middle Grade

Publisher: Disney- Hyperion (Disney Press)

Type: Stand-alone

SYNOPSIS: After a horrible tragedy changes the course of her life, Ana Dakkar, a freshman prefect of Harding-Pencroft Academy, have to walk back in her predecessors' footsteps when she discovers their elite marine institute is more than just a school.

Recommended by: I think it's Uncle Ricks blog.

Would Recommend: basically everyone coz THIS IS AWESOME! Specifically, if you like sci-fi or Verne.

My Thoughts:

If you think this will be your usual Riordan Rollercoaster, YOU WERE RIGHT!. Not that any of his writings are ever usual.

Daughter of the Deep is the book that will make your inner "child-of-Poseidon" spirit do not just one, but a few hundred happy dances. And as usual, it's a diverse wonderland, and you will be more than willing to go down the rabbit hole. There are even more bonuses waiting for you if you love the writing of Jules Verne, and more specifically, the Captain Nemo books. I fell in love with them the moment I started reading, and after finishing both of the books, there were a hundred different fanfictions in my head about how things could have gone differently. Obviously, Rick Riordan manages to pull it off far more glamorously. I loved how he managed to add a modern-day scientific comparison to Nemo's invention.

I personally think our protagonist Ana Dakkar is the best narrator of Riordan, maybe because I relate to her more. But she is so kind and caring even with all the tragedy in her life. She is what you would describe as a love child of Poseidon and Athena cabin but yet so much more. Along for the ride is Anas best friends, Nelinha da Silva, our fashionista mechanic, and Ester Harding, an excellent problem-solver slash doctor who is the first autistic character in the Riordan books. Also, we can't forget Gemini Twain, brilliant marksman and Ana's rival, who our trio really dislikes. As usual, our Gandalf/Dumbledore/Chiron is Dr Hewett, the Theoretical Marine Science teacher in the Academy, who is honestly way more of a Snape than you would like.

And to finish off, and the kill count is zero.

Just kidding, he kills as many people as usual.

[green-loaf]

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[vilandel]

Black Clover Next Generation II ♣️💘

Family Tree of House Silva

Yes, the Silva were productive... I am biased, obviously^^'

Nymphea and Valentina are twins, with Nymphea being the older one by three minutes. She is more like Nozel personality wise, while Valentina took more after Vanessa. They still got from the other parent, though.

It is a coincidence that they have the same initials as their parents... Nymphea and Valentina were also born on Valentine's Day^^'

Lavinia is the second child of Nozel and Vanessa, also very shy. She doesn't want to be a Magic Knight, finding more happiness in music and songs.

Cassandra was a surprise child, three years after Lavinia, but loved nonetheless. She is the wildest out of her sisters, if there is harshness in the Silva genpool, she got all of it. Cassandra also calls Yami uncle Dumpy.

Diego, Odette, Nebel and Zinnia are quadruplets. Which was a surprised to everyone. Diego and Zinnia are true wild pranksters, mini-versions of their parents, while Odette and Nebel are more calm, almost a miracle given who Nebra and Zora are.

Mathilda came many years later, as a surprise child. Nebra thought that she was done after giving birth to four babies at once, but she was very relieved that it was only one this time. Mathildas birth was also pretty fast, roughly twenty minutes.

The quadruplets are very protective of their baby sister, but baby Mathilda is going to be more a problem child than Diego, Zinnia and her parents together^^'

Eis is the first born of Solid and Rosette. He almost gave his parents and the midwives a scare because he didn't cried immediately when he was born.

Nanthilde is his sister, born four years later. Since she learned how to read, she had a soft spot for riddles and mysteries.

Both Eis and Nanthilde are very kind, like their mother. As much as their father was a brat in his youth, as much they are well-behaved. Solid is actually relieved they don't come too much after him personality wise.

Loreleï is the only daughter of Asta and Noelle. She was born a few days after Eis, which made them best friends since they were babies. Like her cousin Lavinia, she also doesn't want to become a Magic Knight, despite having her mother's amount of magic power.

Her brothers are much younger than her. Airgid is as wild as Asta with Noelles pride, a bit of a brat, but with a heart of of gold.

Nemo is the youngest, wild like his brother but kinder.

Fun fact, both Noelle and Asta were awful at giving names, even for their own children. Nozessa, Zobra and Sosette had to help them on that topic... which wasn't an easy task, but funny.

Nymphea has long silver hair like her father's, wavy like her mother's and Vanessas amethyst purple eyes, she has Silver magic. Valentina has the same eyes as her twin, but long straight hair like her grandmother, in a paler shade of Vanessas rosewood color, her magic is Tapestry. Lavinia has her mother's hair color, but the silky and thick structure of her father's (she wears them in two braids), she also has Nozels metallic lilac eyes, she got Vanessas Thread magic. Cassandra has silver hair, but very wild, a bit of mix of her parents and lavender purple eyes, her magic is Swords... given her wildness, it can be a stress factor for Nozel, one only Vanessa can calm him from.

Diego has his father strong red hair and also his deep blue eyes, looking like a mini-Zora, he has Spark magic. Odette has her mother's silver hair color, very wavy almost curly and like Diego, the eyes of her father, her magic is Cloud. Nebel's hair got a color mixed from his parents, with Nebra's gene a bit stronger, a pale pink, long and straight, his eyes are also a mix of his parents, a strong purple and like his name suggests, he got his mother's Mist magic. Zinnia has also pink hair, but unlike Nebel, her's are a stronger pink and are Wilde like Nebras, she also got her mother's magenta eyes, add to all of this Smoke magic. Mathilda has her father's red hair, pretty wild as well, and her mother's magenta eyes (a heavy contrast) and she got Water magic.

Eis has his mother's straight white blonde hair, which he wears short, his father blue eyes and like his name suggests, his magic is Ice. Nanthilde has curly hair, silver like Solid and Rosettes pale grey eyes (which got her the nickname Most Silver Silva), she got her mother's glass magic.

All of Astelle's children have water-based affinities (personal headcanon that Astas condition is not hereditary). Loreleï has her mother's straight long silver hair (unlike Noelle, she has her hair down most of the time) and her father's bright green eyes, her magic is Snow. Airgid has Astas wild ash blonde hair but wears it shoulder length and Noelles magenta eyes, he has Water magic like his mother. Nemo has silver hair but the same hairstyle like his father and also his mother's magenta eyes, his magic is Mist.

[mikawritings]

Excessive List of Latin Words for Names

pls note! i have selected the forms and definitions of the words that i personally like the most. if you would like the full, extensive list of words that i made and selected these from, please see here. also, these words are intended to be edited when turning into names so don't come at me if they don't sound particularly name-y atm. thanks and enjoy!

casus - fall

facile - easy

modi - manner/style/way

gladii - sword

signi - sign

loci - place

gero - wear (clothes), wage (war)

pecunia - money

doni - gift

rex - king

tenui - hold/keep/possess

dedi - give

mansi - stay

taceo/tacui - be silent/be quiet

capio - take/capture

iter/itinens - journey

contra - against

nulla - not any/no

perire - perish

ducis - leader

forte - brave

sola/solus - alone/lonely

caelum/caeli - sky/heaven

ianua - door

coepi - began

ceteri - the rest

interea - meanwhile

celo/celare/celavi - hide

sine - without

paene - nearly

plena -full

vix - with difficulty

poena/poenae - punishment

tuta - safe

cura - care/worry

cara/carum - dear

talis - such

vera - true/real

parui - obey

spei - hope

mea - my

risi - laugh/smile

cado/cadere/cecidi - fall

cibus - food

vidi - see

vinum - wine

clamo - shout

curro - run

prima - first

puella - girl

iuvenis - young

nemo - no one

nolle - not want/refuse

nox - night

pulchra/pulcher - beautiful/handsome

timui - fear

velle - want

facio - do/make

iam - now

sedi - sit

tristis/triste - sad

miles - soldier

narro - tell/relate

nauta - sailor

olim - once

puer/pueri - boy

rei - thing

saepe - often

silva - woods/forest

nihil - nothing

irata - angry

sanguis - blood

bona - good

nova - new

alta/altus - high/deep

flumen/fluminis - river

hodie - today

ibi - there

mare - sea

saeva - savage/cruel

vox - voice

amo - love/like

amor - love/lover

dira - dreadful

ferox - fierce

horti - graden

lux/lucis - light

oratus - beg

regina - queen

si - if

dura - harsh

emi - buy

heri - yesterday

mala - evil

lente - slowly

vulneris - wound

duae - two

tria - three

ignis - fire

conor - try

dives - rich

loqui - speak

pluris - more

signi - sign/seal

soror - sister

ita - so/in this way (ita vero = yes)

vultus - face

domi - at home

maior - bigger

ira - anger

via - street/road

filia - daughter

filii - son

ancilla - female slave

laeta - happy

vinco/vici - win

subito - suddenly

venio - come

cupio/cupiui - want/desire

tua - your

iaceo - lie (positional)

mox - soon

liberi - children

vir/viri - man

vita - life

alia/aluid - another

dea/deae - goddess

fidelis - loyal

iacio/ieci - throw

sacra - sacred

mitto/misi - send

terra - ground/earth

muri - wall

vivo/vixi - live

neco - kill

nescio - not know

antea - before

bellum/belli - war

cena - dinner

scio - know

credo - trust

canis - dog

mille/milia - thousand

lata - wide

[fullmetaldevil-blog]

Rules: make a new post and spell out your URL with song titles, then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL!

Tagged by @doberart

F - Freedom by Wham!

U - Under the Boardwalk by The Drifters

L - Larger then Life by Backstreet Boys

L - Last of the American Girls by Green Day

M - Melissa by Porno Graffiti

E - Evil Food Eater Conchita by MEIKO

T - The Dead Don't Shuffle (They Run) by Miracle of Sound

A - Addict by Silva Hound

L - Leave Me Alone by Michael Jackson

D - Down Home Blues (R version) by Denise LaSalle

E - Everyday With You Girl by The Classics IV

V - (none start with v for me lol)

I - I see Ireland in Your Eyes by Poxy Boggards

L - Little Devil by Neil Sedaka

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B - Bailamos by Enrique Iglesias

L - Lean on Me by Bill Withers

O - Oh! Rival! by Porno Graffiti

G - Get Out by DA Games

(Fun fact I added "Blog" as my tumblr was originally a side outlet for my DA a century ago, too lazy to drop the "blog" part now lol)

Tagging: @zanzaflux @inkabelledesigns @zelink-nalu @fiddle-dee-dee777 @nemo-draco @marielambs-cottage and to whom ever wants to have a go.

[ideariocultural]

Direitos e pobreza

(in: Duas notas)

Diário do Comércio, 8 de janeiro de 2013.

Thomas Sowell dizia: "Nunca entendi porque é "ganância" você querer conservar o dinheiro que ganhou, mas não é ganância querer a tomar o dinheiro dos outros." Mutatis mutandis, a obrigação moral que os ricos tem de ajudar os pobres, mesmo quando seja tomada em sentido absoluto e intransigente, não implica jamais que os pobres tenham o "direito" de ser ajudados.

Todo direito de um implica obrigações para algum outro, mas nem toda obrigação que pese sobre alguém gera direitos para quem quer que seja.

A razão disso é simples e auto-evidente: toda e qualquer obrigação moral ou legal é relativa porque limita à disponibilidade de meios, ao passo que um direito, uma vez consagrado, é universal e incondicional. Decretado que os pobres têm "direito" à ajuda estatal ou privada, a simples inexistência dos meios de ajudá-los se torna automaticamente algo como uma ilegalidade ou um crime, e a sociedade inteira, quanto mais pobre, tanto mais merecer ao rótulo de criminosa, de modo que a pobreza de uns será uma espécie de mérito e a de todos, um delito abominável. Se isto está muito sintético, analisem e verão que é certo

Da incompreensão dessa obviedade deriva a noção monstruosamente perversa de que uma sociedade onde haja pobres, ou muitos pobres, é uma "sociedade injusta". Em princípio, e à luz da razão, toda obrigação moral ou legal está condicionada à regra áurea do direito: Ad impossibilia nemo tenetur, "ninguém é obrigado ao impossível". Por isso mesmo a obrigação de ajudar os pobres não dá a estes nenhum direito de exigi-lá. A absurdidade dessa exigência parece nítida no delírio de Luís da Silva no romance Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos: "Há criaturas que não suporto. Os vagabundos, por exemplo. Parece-me que eles cresceram muito, e, aproximando-se de mim, não vão gemer peditórios: vão gritar, exigir, tomar-me qualquer coisa".

E Luís da Silva não é nenhum burguês atemorizado ante a revolta dos infelizes. É ele mesmo um pobretão ressentido, sem dinheiro para o aluguel. Só no mundo das alucinações a pobreza é, por si, fonte de direitos.

Antigamente, até os marxistas compreendiam isso. Julgavam que o proletariado industrial tinha o direito de expropriar a burguesia não pelo simples fato de ser pobre, mas por ser o criador material da riqueza social. A horda de miseráveis improdutivos, o lumpemproletariat, não merecia senão desprezo. É o óbvio dos óbvios: ninguém se torna um "expoliado" pelo simples fato de estar sem dinheiro. Para ser um expoliado é preciso produzir primeiro alguma coisa e depois ser despojado dela injustamente. Como o proletariado se recusou a aderir às revoluções, os teóricos do marxismo promoveram a escória lumpemproletária ao estatuto de credora universal e portadora, ipso facto, da autoridade intrínseca das virtudes morais faltantes ao resto da sociedade. Daí ao endeusamento dos delinquentes o passo é bem curto.

Da insensibilidade a esses fatos vem a noção de "dívida social". Qualquer candidato que proponha a sua eleição como o pagamento de uma dívida social é, com toda a evidência, um charlatão do qual não se pode esperar nada de bom. Se a dívida existe e é social, não pode ser jamais a resgatada mediante pagamento a um só indivíduo. O fato mesmo de que este se apresente como credor simbólico, herdeiro e resumo vivo de várias gerações de interesses lesados, já mostra que se trata de um vigarista, pois nem aceita pagamento simbólico nem tem como repassar o pagamento efetivo aos credores defuntos e cujo crédito se apropria indevidamente.

Todo eleitor em seu juízo perfeito deveria pensar nisso antes de votar em tipos como Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ou Barack Hussein Obama. Mas, tão logo a pobreza se torne fonte de "direitos", é inevitável que o carreirista desprovido de méritos próprios se invista de prerrogativas imaginárias derivadas da pobreza alheia, impondo-se como recebedor único da "dívida social" - um vigarista elevado à segunda potência.

(CARVALHO, Olavo. Pobreza - Direitos e pobreza. O mínimo que você precisa saber para não ser um idiota. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record, 2019. p. 84 – 86)

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[msdanvers]

song recommendations 👀?

promise - ben howard

i try - macy gray

lover & afterglow & new year’s day - taylor swift

ocean eyes & watch - billie eilish (and sofi tukker’s remix of copycat!!)

norman fucking rockwell - lana del rey

sober - demi lovato

sandcastles - beyoncé

not what i meant & she - dodie

dos gardenias - buena vista social club

wait - m83 (thanks for reminding me of its existence haha!!)

fica tudo bem - silva (heard this song when I was in portugal this summer, listen to it and pretend it’s a warm summer night and you’re drinking apple cider on a terrace close to the ocean)

and i’ve been listening to movie soundtracks a lot lately (mostly when i’m studying) and i love zeyn by khaled mouzanar! and nemo egg & uhh the entirety of the lion king original soundtrack (!!)

it’s a sleepover!

[saulcastillo]

mucho más » semana CCCLXXIII (17D)

Como ayer no nos tocó la Lotería, nada mejor para celebrar que tenemos salud repasando todas las jugosas infografías que se han publicado en la prensa durante esta semana prenavideña. Arrancamos tras el también navideño cartelito:

Trabajo: Propuesta de nuevo código penal para delitos de agresión sexual | Medio: El Mundo, del 17 de diciembre | Alta resolución »

Trabajo: Ambiciones estelares | Autor: Ian Bott | Medio: Financial Times, del 17 de diciembre

Trabajo: El calendario destruido de reformas de Emmanuel Macron | Medio: Le Fígaro, del 17 de diciembre | Alta resolución »

Trabajo: Los cinco días de angustia y el trágico final de Laura Luelmo | Autores: Alberto Hernández, Maite Vaquero y Álvaro Matilla | Medio: El Mundo, del 18 de diciembre | Alta resolución »

Trabajo: Sobreviviendo a las cenas de Navidad | Autor: Paula Simonetti | Medio: La Repubblica, del 18 de diciembre | Alta resolución »

Trabajo: El crimen de Laura Luelmo | Autora: Izania Ollo | Medio: Diario Vasco, del 19 de diciembre | Alta resolución »

Trabajo: Reconstrucción de la desaparición y muerte de Laura Luelmo | Autores: Rodrigo Silva y Antonio Alonso | Medio: El País, del 19 de diciembre | Alta resolución »

Trabajo: La trayectoria de José Mourinho tras dejar el Manchester | Medio: El País, del 19 de diciembre | Alta resolución »

Trabajo: En qué consiste la terapia celular CAR-T | Medio: El Periódico, del 19 de diciembre | Alta resolución »

Trabajo: Así es la ‘Expedición Nemo’ | Autor: Miguel Á. Fernández | Medio: As, del 20 de diciembre | Completa online »

Trabajo: Actos y movilizaciones en Barcelona para la jornada de protestas del 21-D | Autores: Alex R. Fischer y Ramón Curto | Medio: El Periódico, del 20 de diciembre

Trabajo: Barcelona, 21-D | Autores: Á. Sánchez y M. Sáiz-Pardo | Medio: El Correo, del 20 de diciembre

Trabajo: Así ha cambiado la distancia de la línea de tres a la canasta | Medio: ABC, del 21 de diciembre | Alta resolución »

Trabajo: Normas para hacer volar a drones recreativos en el Reino Unido y accidentes relacionados con su uso | Autor: Eduard Forroll | Medio: Ara, del 21 de diciembre

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