#SIX PERCENT???

[barrel-crow-n]

Kaz after ordering Geels to pay him an additional 5% just because

[iliveinyourceiling65]

Kaz: I've been expecting you, Inej.  Inej: How did you do that without turning around?  Kaz: Let's just say the first few people I did that to were not you.

[mercuryferns]

So, my Czech friend was telling me something really interesting about Kaz’s name. Apparently in Czech, “kaz” means a flaw, a defect, if you make an adjective of it, it means "rotten". As he said, it suits the “dirtyhands” persona perfectly.

However, this also made me reflect on the more “Dutch inspired” names of the book, and specifically Wylan van Eck. I speak Afrikaans (a Dutch creole). Dutch people can sound off in the comments if it’s different for them, but these languages are obviously mutually intelligible so I’m going to assume what applies to us applies to Dutch too.

Wylan’s name was an issue for me for a huge reason: It’s spelling is aggressively American English, while the character himself is tentatively “Dutch-coded”:

1.) “W” doesn’t exist as a sound in Afrikaans. The letter represents a “v” sound.

2.) “Y” also doesn’t really exist in the same way as it does in English. In English it seemingly means whatever you want it to be in the given moment. But in Afrikaans, it’s “ay”. As in the word “ray”.

3.) “a” never means “ih”. Depending on accent it’s usually either “ah” or “uh”.

This may seem inconsequential, but let me tell you my surprise when my partner told me that his name is actually “WHY-lin”. WHATTTT??? I’ve been saying “VAY-lahn” this whole time????

(Not to mention his surname also means “of me”, which is clever, but to be honest it reads a bit stupidly to someone who speaks the language being imitated. She succeeded in other ways though!)

[blaiddraws]

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living inside someone's house is one thing but reading their personal journal on top of that is just too much 😔

(also. beard.... he is not a fan.)

ANYWAY DON'T ASK HOW LONG THOSE POKEBALLS TOOK DON'T ASK (i drew them like three separate times because my hand was shaking too much and i forgot i had stroke smoothening settings. until i finished them. so i-- yeah anyway.)

EDIT: SHIT. OTHER SWEARS. ETC. HOW DID I MISCOUNT AND DRAW 7 POKEBALLS. HOW. HOW. OTZ

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Okay so we're at 623/1025 Pokemon done right now that's 60.78%, and did you know that each 1 (one) new unique crochet brings us .09% (NOT EVEN A /TENTH/ OF A PERCENT) closer to 100%. That's 402 more Pokemon to go (currently) (not including ones that have different variants/forms). That's so many. Whoa. Wow.

[eddiemunson-reader-shame]

No one:

Eddie DMing a campaign combat that’s lasted upwards of two hours with no end in sight: Okay whoever gets your DM a beer right now can use fireball to end this whole battle.

[electrozeistyking]

Did you see the merch leak!?!! J plush and a JCJenson pen

I FUCKING KNEW THAT PEN WOULD BE MERCH ONE DAY HGJFKDL

[belle--ofthebrawl]

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Mountain/Aeon/Aether

Tags: Blowjobs, Anal Sex, Brief Voyeurism, Mind Magic

Summary: Mountain probably should have looked at his phone sooner.

Author's Note: This barely counts as today's Kinktober entry but there's still three hours left of Mountain Monday in my time zone, so. That's got to count for something. Not sure what though.

[swan2swan]

What the heck is this episode.

[booty-uprooter]

this may sound a bit harsh, but i think the ceo of the hospital where i work should kill himself

[slimesaysthings]

BBH: "You only live once... A day"

Slimecicle: "..... yolad?"

[maddie-grove]

My Sweet Audrina perfectly demonstrates the maxim that:

One woman falling down the stairs is a tragedy;

Two women falling down the stairs is maybe a bookend or parallel of some kind;

Three women falling down the stairs is just kind of a lot for a single novel (as opposed to a decades-long soap opera or a game of Barbies played by a nine-year-old) unless you’re writing a novel specifically for the purpose of illustrating the importance of staircase safety; and

Four women falling down the stairs is really, really funny.

[quintessential-candles]

I have this disease called I don’t fucking charge my phone

[tiend]

it's arguable if Rex and his age cohort count as 'child soldiers' by the time they're deployed; he's age ten absolute, twenty relative, who the fuck knows experientially since we don't know how flash training works and that's ignoring the bit where we learn domino and other squads like them have been shoved out into the field early but -

he was a child soldier, even if he's some kind of liminal adult when he meets ahsoka, and tells her experience beats everything.

every clone in his command is an experienced soldier. they've been learning how to do it from decant. even 99, who never left kamino - during the invasion of kamino his instinct is to get to the armoury so he can arm the younger clone cadets - the assumption being that they are entirely comfortable with the weapons. neither cody or rex see anything out of the ordinary in this.

same thing in the movies, too - kids in headsets in tiered rows, learning how to soldier for the republic, or in the cartoon episode where boba sneaks onto pond's flagship with the clone youth brigade, and it's framed as special treat for them to fire off live rounds on a flagship during a war.

it's difficult for me to elide their entire lack-of-childhood and say they aren't child soldiers, because they were, for the vast majority of his abbreviated life rex was, and so was everyone else he knew, and it's not like trauma as a child doesn't heavily inform who you are as an adult.

[witherydithery]

The results of the Crows height poll are in!

Come see what you have all determined to be the definite, canon heights of our favourite criminals :D

[impossible-rat-babies]

puppets bunker and ddos attacks have never been so much fun