#Oath Day

[handledwithgloves]

assigned auror partners drarry

[chicagobeerpass]

Chicago Beer Pass: WGN

Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago.

On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White are opening cans of Chicago's Very Own WGN by Metropolitan Brewing. This was a beer the guys somehow missed last year when it was first released so  it's nice to see it back in cans. 

As the guys crush a few cans of this perfect beer for summer they talk about Orkney, Sox Park, Oath Day, and an Illinois Golf Outing. Summer in Chicago makes for some great drinking around the city. Grab a beer and enjoy the 4th of July!!

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[vaguely-concerned]

the mourn watch background gives you such a GIFT in having other characters notice and call out on-screen that rook code switches like a motherfucker. the whiplash of hearing my snarky 'heeey I'm just a little guy! :>' funnyman rook speak the heightened ritualized phrases of the mourn watch with perfect seriousness and gravity completely naturally and/or break into an academic tone that can keep up with emmrich at the drop of a hat never stops giving me such endless delight. truly their real mind is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside some hideous mourn watch casual wear

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

genuinely what the fuck is wrong with them

[trappedinafantasy37]

"Minthara is so abusive to the player" *INCORRECT BUZZER NOISE*

Minthara would literally go to fucking hell for the opportunity to personally beat the absolute shit out of the person who actually did abuse you. She will throw hands with gods and devils just to avenge you.

And you will not be able to convince her not to.

[silverskye13]

Trying to draw my Oath of Conquest paladin, take two.....

[todayisafridaynight]

[kaiserouo]

[victorie552]

Kind of a weird AU but hear me out:

Finwe marries Indis, right? Most controversial thing Finwe ever done and that includes leading elves from their ancestral home to a new continent to live with gods. Silmarillion says that it happened because he fell in love and I believe it BUT what Silmarillion doesn't tell you is WHEN Finwe marries Indis. I saw posts that say the canon is inconclusive and Tolkien probably changed his mind a lot, and half of what of what Tolkien wrote is thrown from the window by fandom, so.

Anyway, one of the versions said Feanor was at least a teenager when Finwe/Indis happens (I think). What Silmarillion states is that Feanor married VERY young by elven standards, and that Nerdanel was below his station (classism? in elven society? apparently!).

Last thing before I get to the main point: Fingolfin marries Anaire, a Noldo lady, who I saw often enough written as a noble or a court lady, perfectly fine that, no idea if that's canon. And Finarfin very much marries Teleri princess.

...I don't know guys, it feels very convienient. For princes to fall in love with exactly the kind of women who would be approved by royal court and strenghten political ties with other elven factions. If it was anything else than silm, I would call political marriages.

Time for crack: based on what I wrote above I propose an AU where it was FEANOR who was supposed to marry Indis. For politics! Vanyar are the most important faction in Aman! Let's marry into that!

But the MOMENT Feanor became an adult and they could process with courting without making it creppier than it already is, Feanor runs off to elope with his coworker and there's nothing they can do. Well, that's what Finwe tells Ingwe when Ingwe rages about it to him.

Finwe loves Feanor, he wants him to marry for love, and that's exactly what happens. But, uh, all Vanyar are pissed that there's no political marriage when they were promised one (they mad cause they look stupid now), and, well. Finwe decides to bite the bullet. For his son.

It's not true of course. But imagine family dinners after that.

[eri-pl]

"Vala, emu, człowiek, elf..."

("...Vala, emu, Man or Elf...") this is drawn from a reference photo from Wikipedia, but not like traced. I hope that's ok for you.

Yes, @dfwbwfbbwfbwf , Celegorm would be able to talk to it, but would it listen? Nobody ever listened to the Feanorians' demands. Nor would the emu. (It can, however, run away faster than the Sindar)

[deadpresidents]

Does it matter that Trump didn't place his hand on the bible when he was sworn in?

No, it does not matter. There's no requirement that the President must place their hand on a Bible while taking the oath of office; it's just a tradition that started with George Washington.

We don't definitively know how many of the early Presidents actually place their hands on a Bible when they were sworn in. Many historians say that John Quincy Adams placed his hand on a "book of laws" when he was sworn in, but I think it is entirely possible that people are confused by his own recollections of his inauguration in 1825. In his diary entry for March 4, 1825, John Quincy Adams wrote that, following the swearing-in of Vice President John C. Calhoun:

"I repaired to the Hall of the House of Representatives, and after delivering from the Speakers Chair my inaugural Address to a crowded auditory, and I pronounced from a "Volume of the Laws", held up to me by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, the Oath faithfully to execute the Office of President of the United States, and to the best of my ability, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States..."

From his description, it seems to me that Adams might be saying that Chief Justice Marshall administered the oath from a "Volume of the Laws", not that he placed his hand upon a book of laws when being sworn in. But I don't think we can be completely sure of it. Also, note that Adams delivered his Inaugural Address before he was sworn into office.

We do know that Lyndon B. Johnson didn't place his hand on the Bible when he was first sworn in on as President on November 22, 1963. In the tumult immediately following President Kennedy's assassination, LBJ took that oath in a conference room aboard Air Force One before it took off from Love Field in Dallas, Texas and returned to Washington, D.C. As they hurried to put together the quick ceremony, nobody could find a Bible, but they found a Catholic missal -- a book containing Catholic prayers, chants, liturgical instructions, etc. -- onboard that belonged to JFK, and LBJ took his oath on that.

[departmentq]

Classic Klingons

From L to R: John Colicos as Kor, William Campbell as Koloth, and Michael Ansara as Kang, in both TOS and DS9 guises.

Kor: Errand of Mercy/ Koloth: Trouble with Tribbles/ Kang: Day of the Dove (TOS)

All three appeared in the DS9 episode, Blood Oath

[tanoraqui]

Be he foe or friend, be she foul or clean, brood of Anti or bright Staff, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread nor danger, not Blocking itself, shall defend him from Fëanor, and Fëanor's kin, whoso liketh or rebloggeth, or in file saveth, finding shareth or afar queueth a Silmaril. This swear we all: boops we will deal them ere Day's ending, booping unto world's end! Our word hear thou, David Karp Allfather! To the everlasting Cancellation doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountain hear in witness and our vow remember, Manwë and Varda!

[redrobin-detective]

This is an announcement and a promise: if you are a bad nurse, I am coming for you. If you are rude and judgemental to patients, deny them basic human decency you will face my wrath. If you take shit care of them, think you know better than not only the patients and your coworkers but the whole medical team then you cannot hide from me. I will find you and I will go toe to toe with you bc even the worst human alive deserves care and respect and I will beat that lesson into you and maybe make you grow a heart.

[trappedinafantasy37]

Minthara is a paladin of her word. She does not make promises, she makes vows. She makes oaths. Even as an oathbreaker, she heavily adheres to the tenants of it. Being an oathbreaker just gives her more flexibility and freedom to fulfill the oaths she makes. She never breaks a promise and she never breaks a vow, and when she says she's going to do something she is going to do it.

So when she says she will go to Avernus with or without Karlach, she means it. She will personally throw hands with Zariel, and the only thing that will stop her is Zariel's death, or her own. And it is one thing if Karlach does go with her, but a whole other thing if Karlach dies on that pier.

Not only will Minthara be grieving, she will be wrathful. And she's going to channel that wrath to the front to avoid feeling the grief (cause she doesn't always approach her emotions in the healthiest way). And she's going to take some of Karlach's rage and Karlach's fury with her. She will kill any demon or devil that gets in her way. There will be no distractions, unless the side quest gets her closer to Zariel or increases her chances in the fights to come.

Minthara is not doing this for power, she is not doing this for glory, she does not care for a crown or a throne. She is down there in Avernus to avenge the love that burned out too soon.

[braxix]

Elrond: *Holds up a book.* TADA!

Maedhros: Where do you keep finding that?

Maglor: I thought we burned that.

Maedhros: We did.

Elrond: Nothing can stop the need for knowledge.