#also. they misspelled it as fountain lol

[genshin-impact-updates]

The Steambird Special Edition I: The Terrestrial Sea, Origin of All Waters

Hello Travelers~ There are many mysterious things waiting to be discovered in the waters of Fontaine. Let's find out more!

Recently, a certain publication is very popular among adventurers who are about to leave for Fontaine. It is said to be the special edition of The Steambird. Let's discover what's new together!

[lettheladylead]

i finally got myself a physical copy of Solving Mysteries and Rewriting History! and its a lot smaller than i expected. i dont know why i thought itd be big but i just did

anyway i also finally read the whole thing instead of just the parts about Goldie, so here’s some stuff i wanted to make note of

- Scrooge sees a doctor named Dr. Quackenbush

- According to Webby, Scrooge regularly breaks into museums

- Scrooge about Webby: “Not sure where she came from”

- Scrooge invested in both the Titanic and the Hidenberg

- Scrooge says “I’ve spent long enough trying to make things right!” about his relationship with Donald lol

- Scrooge spent a summer “among the mermen of Bermuda” (not to be like sounds gay but. well)

- Duckburg origins: Fort Drake Borough in the 16th century when owned by the British. Renamed Fort Duckburg during the Revolutionary War.

- Scrooge used to store his money behind Mona Lisa paintings to the point where his office has 30 different Mona Lisa paintings

- Originally the Money Bin was gonna be surrounded by a moat filled with crocodiles but animal rights people protested him lolol

- Mallard Lake is a lake in Duckburg that Scrooge privately owns

- Scrooge specifically says he conned Granpappy Beagle out of the stolen deed to Duckburg

- Scrooge thinks he’s good-looking

- Scrooge about Webby “Not a member of the family, but sometimes I wish she were!”

- Scrooge listed a bunch of ways to enjoy dining out and one of them is two-for-one deals heheh

- Scrooge talks about Mount Neverest and once again says 75 years ago but it still doesn’t make sense chronologically. I mean he also lies CONSTANTLY in this book so. Yknow how it be.

- Scrooge had a very...interesting relationship with the Abominable Snowman. Named Archibald. They met in 1952 in the Arctic Circle and I think they’re fwbs

- Scrooge once ran a Northern Lights Tour business

- When Scrooge made his first million he bought himself a new tie.

- When Scrooge made his first billion he bought himself another hat.

- When Scrooge made his first trillion he took a 2 hour lunch break (and then took no lunch break the next day)

- When Scrooge made his first quadrillion he tried to get the government to make a quadrillion-dollar bill. They did not

- When Scrooge made his first “incredibillion” he rebuilt the Money Bin.

- To be clear I think all of these are blatant lies based on how he writes them

- Scrooge “Things I’m better at than Zeus” one of the options is “killing unkillable creatures”

- Scrooge claimed to be involved in the creation of this race: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Rally

- Scrooge was apparently rejected by this race: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yacht_Club so he started his own race called Scrooge’s Cup and no one else entered

- Scrooge lost this race: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail_Trans-Atlantic_Air_Race

- Scrooge accidentally entered the first Tour de France on July 1, 1903. He wasn’t in the race, he was on a bicycle-built-for-two date and then racers sped past him and he joined in. His date did NOT like this and they had no second date

- Scrooge says Ronguay’s (which he misspells as Wronguay lol) Fountain of Youth is easy and cheap to get to. Which means he’s used it before!

- Scrooge talks about actively stealing from Demogorgana and Pandemonium but it’s fine, Goldie’s the thief

- Scrooge has won a bet against Old Man Time??

- Scrooge and Beakley met in 1968 (I thought it was earlier in the 60s lol)

- Scrooge helped finance the Wright Brothers

- List of some things in Scrooge’s garage: Triceratops skeleton Caveduck skeleton Chupacabra skeleton Stone Scrooge statue Gong of Pixiu Medua Gauntlet Cursed Chest of Captain Peghook, the Scourge of the River Styx The Deux Excalibur Saddle of the Headless Man-horse Jewel of Atlantis Druid Cup Khopesh of Toth-Ra

- Scrooge ancestors: 946: Eider McDuck 1057: Quackly McDuck 1066: Murdoch McDuck 1189: Stuft McDuck 1205: Roast McDuck 1220: Swamphole McDuck 1440: Black Donald McDuck (invented golf) 1500: Simon McDuck (stole Knight's Templar treasure 1675: McDucks lost their castle 1727: Seaform McDuck 1800s: Silas McDuck 1800s: Dirty Dungus McDuck 1800s: Fergus and Downey McDuck

- "If you aren't Clan McDuck, you can't wear Clan McDuck tartan. Period." i can’t believe scrooge adopted drake immediately before letting him wear his tartan

OK that’s everything I’m done now. Here’s some pics

[the-lightning-strikes-again]

how would Lotor Dalir make the marriage proposal to Allura ?

Hi, anon! Thanks for your note! I’ve received a similar question previously about what would their wedding look like, and I feel in that similar vein, there are two answers to the marriage proposal.

1.) It’s excessively opulent. He breaks out all the sparklies on a very expensive date to an opulent Indian restaurant. Then it’s an expensive night on the town, racing expensive sports cars on the streets, and then perhaps a romantic walk among the fountains in a park he’s rented all to themselves. And it’s in the park that he proposes to her. He believes Allura Singh deserves the best, and he would absolutely give her that with the full extent that his privileged billionaire life would let him.

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Some side notes about cultural traditions and engagements:

As a half-Iranian, Lotor would likely know Iranian proposal traditions. The Khaseghari is a step in the proposal process where the potential groom goes to meet the family and potential bride to discuss a marriage. But Allura Singh has no family (besides Romelle) and is of a modern mindset, so if I understand correctly, him courting her in general with his father’s approval would be considered the Khaseghari. During that date where he proposes, he would try to showcase his merits, hers, and how well they they are together to encourage her to accept.

The next step would be the Baleh Borān, which is the ceremony of the groom’s parents offering a ring to the bride, to encourage her to accept the proposal. (Someone please imagine with me Zarkon and Honerva doing this, lol.)

There’s several other steps in traditional Iranian proposals, including the Namzadi (bride and groom exchanging engagement rings), the Shirini Khorān (eating sweets together), the Jahāz Barān (exchanging of gifts), and Hanā Bandān (Henna Night, in which the bride and also sometimes the groom receive henna body art).

But as a half-Punjabi, Lotor would also know Punjabi proposal traditions. If I understand it correctly, he would first ask for Allura’s hand in marriage (Roka), and they would pursue the Thaka together, which is a formal declaration of intent to marry. Then would come the Kurmai/Chunni Chadai, the giving of engagement rings and gifts and sweets (shagun).

From there would be the Mehendi and Sangeet, which takes place the day before the wedding, in which both Lotor and Allura would get Mehendi (henna body art), and be adorned with eucalyptus oil, clove oil and lemon juice water.

(I’ve based this information off what I discovered online. Please someone correct me if I am misrepresenting or misspelling anything. I want to really respect these cultures!)

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There’s a lot of similarities between the two cultures’ traditions, so I think Lotor and Allura would try to combine them as best as possible for their engagement ceremonies.

In an opulent proposal, this whole proposal/engagement process could span over quite a lot of time.

2.) But also please consider an alternative that I feel Lotor and Allura are both just spastic enough to do. The proposal and resulting engagement and wedding could be entirely an impromptu thing after some very successful dating and a great day at the race tracks.

By that, I mean, Lotor picking up Allura, the both of them in dirty motor suits from their recent runs, and him begging for her to marry him that night. And she accepts in a giggle. Lotor goes running by his father, declaring loudly that he and Allura are to be married that evening. Zarkon squawks in the background because this is against tradition, how can they possibly engage and marry in one day —

Honerva Dalir magically drops in from a helicopter to drum up all that’s needed for the makeshift engagement rituals, gathering team Voltron to be Allura’s family for the ceremonies. Lotor is racing to buy ring-pops. Ezor naturally has a henna tattoo kit. Zethrid cries for the first time in her life as she runs to get funnel cake for the traditional bride/groom eating of sweets together.

Lotor and Allura are sweaty messes with windblown hair and struggling not to munch on their ring pops, and some of their henna smudges because they didn’t wait long enough for it to dry, but they’re the happiest babs getting married right there at the raceway during a sunset.