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SEA DRAGON’S GIFT : Part 60 of 83 : World of Sea

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SEA DRAGON’S GIFT

Part 60 of 83

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

140406 words

written 2007

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“Oi’ve nae talked wit’ ‘im about t’ose times. Master Selked told m’ some, an’ the log provided t’e rest. Oi ‘ad little t’ do for over a Wotan as Oi wa’ recuperating. Oi had t’ practice readin’ yer writin’, so Oi read t’e log an’ ot’er books t’at ‘e’d collected.”

Kurin plied her chopsticks in silence for a bit, digesting this history behind things that had always been an unquestioned part of her life. Skye cocked her head and looked at Kurin’s platter questioningly. Kurin held out some roast on her chopsticks and Skye took it neatly.

Kurin looked across the table at Tanlin. “Barad collects books?” she asked incredulously.

“Aye, ‘e reads bot’ Common an’ Arrakan an’ can struggle t’rough Barant. ‘E ‘as books in all t’ree languages. Nine o’ t’em are about t’e Boren Current Wars.” She paused thoughtfully, “Actually, ten, i’ ye count Sula’s little manual.”

Kurin interrupted in surprise, “Sula wrote a book? She never said anything about it. Come to think, Darkistry mentioned it, too.”

Seriously, Tanlin replied, “Oi know wye Sula stayed quiet about ‘t. Oi’ve read ‘t. Darkistry’s probably t’e only one o’ us ‘oo actually understands it. Oi’d recommend t’at ye nae read ‘t, t’ough Oi willnae stop ye.” She paused and looked sympathetically at Kurin. “T’will show ye a side o’ Sula t’at ye willnae care for. Sula’s killed more people an’ sunk more ships t’an any ot’er person on Sea. ‘Er book’s a manual for t’e destruction o’ ships an’ fleets.

“Wit’out t’e knowledge in t’at book, we’d probably ‘ave sunk t’e Fauline. Wen Barad an’ Oi were in danger, t’e crew attacked wit’out ‘esitation. None o’ t’em wa’ ‘appy about ‘t but t’ey did ‘t anyway.”

Kurin realized that what she was hearing was not a boast. She already knew about her friend Sula’s war record — and how Sula felt about it. She digested the knowledge in silence.

The quiet stretched out into tension. At the last, Tanlin asked, “Wen’re ye goin’ t’ actually start reading? So far, ye’ve just leafed t’rough about eight Wohan’s wort’ o’ Log.”

Relieved to have something neutral to talk about, Kurin replied, “I have been reading, a bit slower than usual, actually. I didn’t want to miss anything. Barad has a fairly neat hand that’s usually easy to read.

“How come he gets so little from each indenture sale? Less than half, on average.”

Tanlin smiled in relief. “Oi’m glad t’at ye asked t’e quest’n in t’at way. A person ‘oo brokers indenture sales is entitled t’ nae more t’an ‘is legally defined costs plus ten percent o’ t’e balance o’ t’e sale.

“Indenture’s ‘ow t’e Arrakan fleet’s education system works. I’ Oi wonted t’ learn, say, boat buildin’, Oi’d sell ye m’ indenture. Basically, ye’d pay m’ in advance for t’e term o’ t’e indenture. Oi’d work for ye an’ ye’d teach m’ t’ make boats. Tis a twa way contract. T’e more I know goin’ in, t’e more m’ indenture’s wort’ t’ ye. Oi might sell m’ indenture at auction or Oi might approach a particular person or ship.”

“T’e Grandalor produced indentures ‘oo could all read, write an’ figure plus ‘avin’ a good foundation in a useful skill. T’e Arrakan fleet ships bid ‘igh prices for Grandalor indentures because t’ey were o’ t’e ‘ighest quality,” Tanlin finished proudly.

“So. . .the indenture is just a prepaid labor and education contract?” Kurin asked dubiously.

“Aye. Oi sold m’ ane indenture six times t’ earn m’ navigation an’ command skills. Oi earned enow from t’ose sales t’ buy a share in t’e Princamorn, t’e ship t’at Oi wa’ born on. Oi wa’ in a position t’ bid for a ca’taincy wen ane came open. I remember evert’in’ o’ t’e Arrakan fleet but t’e people.

“M’ diary wa’ among documents t’at were salvaged from t’e wreck. Barad saved ‘t for m’ an’ Oi’ve read ‘t over an’ over but ‘t only told m’ some names. T’ey’re only words in a book. M’ people’re still missing.” Tanlin looked a little downcast as she added, “Mecat says t’at t’ey’re gone forever.”

Kurin finished eating and went back to reading the log. Skye left the cabin the same way that she had come, pausing to close the port behind her. Before the sun had reached its nadir, Kurin had nearly finished the just over twenty-five Gatherings of Barad’s Captaincy. Using a candle lantern to add to the ghostly light of the low sun, she finished the log and began the Purser’s accounts.

What Kurin learned there amazed her. The Grandalor was a wealthy ship. A very wealthy ship indeed. Most of her wealth was held in accounts in the Arrakan fleet with large amounts on deposit in the Pallant and Daroff fleets. Less than a third of her wealth was aboard or on deposit with the Naral fleet.

Kurin fell asleep to the quiet, uncanny whistling song of a faraway Orca that had never stopped singing, all day.

Kurin awoke suddenly in the middle of the third Night Watch. The low arctic sun was coming fairly brightly through the port. She had fallen asleep while reading and was surrounded by an untidy nest of log books, accounts, a few diaries and other records.

It took a moment to pin down what had awakened her. The Orca song had become loud and clear. It was punctuated by the shushing splash of the whale breaching and rolling and the occasional splashing report of the multi-ton creature leaping and falling back to the sea. Kurin’s heart leaped in fear for those in the sickbay.

Kurin could see the quiet form of Captain Tanlin sleeping slumped in a stuffed chair. She felt a slight twinge of guilt at having fallen asleep in the Captain’s bunk as she slid silently out of bed. She stumbled over the sleeping form of Arnat, curled up on the floor beside the bunk. The commotion brought Tanlin to instant alertness. Arnat stretched.

“What’s the matter, Kurin?” he yawned.

“I hope, nothing. Perhaps much. The Orca is singing close by.”

“Mother!” Arnat called, heading immediately for the cabin door.

Tanlin was through it before he could get there. Kurin followed him through the passageways of the Grandalor to the sickbay as swiftly as she could.

Doctor Corin looked up from where he was working on Lenai. “I was about to send for you, Captain, and Arnat, too. We are losing her. I have killed her pain with Hag venom, so that she can talk. She is weak but lucid.

“I thought that she should have those that she cared about near to her at the end.”

“Well t’ought o’, Doctor Corin,” Tanlin responded and turned to the doctor’s aide. “Mikka, go get Barad, quickly. ‘E should be ‘ere, too.”

The soft, concerned voice of Lenai came clearly to them all, “Did we do it? Did Kurin come with us?”

Kurin stepped to the bedside, where Lenai could see her. “I came, Lenai. I am here because of you.”

A hand reached out from under the covers and grasped Kurin’s arm weakly. “Then it wasn’t a waste. When the big red haired man stabbed me I feared that my life was lost to no use. Save Arnat. See that he’s got a ship to call home, please?”

“I think that this ship will stay his home. I’ve been looking at your case and have agreed to be your advocate before the fleet.”

Lenai smiled. “I just wish that Arnat was here. I want to hold him one more time before I go to Iren’s halls.”

“He is here. Arnat, come over where you mother can see you.”

Arnat came, dry eyed but shaking, to his mother’s bedside. She reached out and took hold of his arm with one hand and wrapped the other about him. “Arnat, never fear the Orca’s song. I can hear it calling me to Iren’s halls. I won’t hurt there, and I will always love you.”

She relaxed, letting out a long breath. Her arms fell from him and hung limp.

Barad, who had come in only moments before, knelt at her bedside and crossed her arms over her chest. Tanlin joined him.

Barad said softly, “While there is a Grandalor, Arnat will have a ship that is his home. I have no children of my body but I will have Arnat as my own. He was one of the first to swear to us and the oath that we gave binds us. We have all chosen one name and to be of one blood.”

Tanlin said, “T’ere’re nae orphans in a Wide Wing rookery because all take care o’ t’e young toget’er. So we’ll care for Arnat. T’ere’ll be nae orphans on t’e Grandalor. Oi’ll log t’e order.”

Outside, the whale still sang but even to the untrained human ear, they could hear that it was a different song. A second voice and a third joined in. In moments whales were leaping and singing all about the ship.

In a corner of the sickbay, sitting on a bunk, Kurin was weeping. Another one dead. Another part of her life shattered.

The simple pride that she’d always had, that held her together when loneliness or fear of loss rose up, was in ruins in her heart. Longin born. So simple. So strong. So ruined by the events of the last few days.

Kurin wept for the young mother she’d tried to save. Dead for the crime of wanting to talk to her. Killed by the Longin. Kurin’s ship. Her home. A part of herself. Through tears Kurin saw Arnat being rocked in Tanlin’s arms and wished desperately that she was him. Safe. Held. Loved.

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whereimfeminine · 5 years ago

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What book are you currently reading?

American Reckoning by Christian Appy (amazing book on the vietnam war and how it shaped US national identity, super recommend)

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hencethebravery · 7 years ago

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I literally do not know what this is. Do not ask me. I think it’s supposed to be a year in the life of Frank Castle trying to work up the nerve to kiss Karen Page? I think? There’s a buttload of cursing in here btw, like, a lot. So, ya know, if that bothers you. Keep out, nerds. @distant-rose @swallowedsong @draxthedestoyer @no-appy-polly-loggies

+ In the intervening weeks between permanently maiming one of his closest, oldest friends and attending his first meeting, he can’t stop envisioning the weight of her skull in his hand. In his memory, it is smaller than it should be; the bone too thin, full of too much blood, pounding so fast it’s gushing from her forehead and face in wave, after wave, after wave. There’s so much of it, she usually dies in his arms and all of a sudden he’s shot through like he was made of nothing but dirt. Like a big-ass block of Swiss fucking cheese.

But, oh, wait, he’ll remember suddenly—or he’ll wake up, covered in sweat, chest uncomfortably tight. She’d been alive, at the end, in the palm of his hand, her neck and her torso twisting towards him. Covered in some blood, some dust and debris, but her heart beating all the same. She ain’t dead yet. And neither is he.

“Why don’t you tell me about her?”

“There’s nothing to tell.”

Isn’t there? Maria’s voice in his head, it’s a little deeper than he remembers, rougher and crueler. She’s always coughing up dirt afterwards, like it’s trapped in her lungs. Like when he asked her to speak it shifted all that stuff around inside of her, and she’s gotta clear it out.

And, really, there is nothing to tell. For once. He’s never been one for words, always preferring the one-two punch to the “uh,” and the “um.” Words can be manipulated, used against him, misinterpreted. But if he’s in front of someone holding a gun to their head, they know what the fuck it means. Karen is good with words. He’d say too good, only the way she uses ‘em, it’s kind of familiar—the sound of her fingers tapping away on that keyboard, those times he’s drifted off on the couch in her living room, sounds a little bit like gunfire.

The first time they’d met, formally that is, she’d done most of the talking. It was a short conversation, if you could even call it that, but then there’d been this moment where neither of them had said much at all. There’d only been breath between them, and this tense feeling that shows up between your eyes when your brow’s been knitted a little too long. And in that silence there were all these unspoken, unsettled questions that he thought maybe he’d like her to answer. And it seemed like, maybe, he could answer a few for her too.

“Curtis was asking me about you.”

“Oh, yeah? What did you say?”

Yeah, brown, damp flecks hitting him square in the cheek, cold and smelling a little like death and mud, what did you say?

He doesn’t want there to be any kind of misunderstanding—he likes it when they talk.

“I like hearing her voice,” he can stubbornly admit, trying to think of a nice thing to say so Curtis doesn’t start accusing her of being a bad influence. Another Micro. When Maria speaks, in his head, he’s pretty sure, when she speaks sometimes her voice doesn’t sound like anything. Sometimes it sounds like his voice only the words are comin’ out all nasty from between her lips. Only Maria would’ve liked Karen and Karen would’ve liked her, and he can’t figure out how to get all this shit straight in his own head.

“Time, Frank,” Curtis will always remind him at the end of their meetings, at the end of casual stops for coffee, “It’s gonna take time.”

That’s the thing about time though, it always runs out, and he doesn’t want it runnin’ out before it’s too late. For her. For him, for the both of them, in some kind of silent, coded intimacy that he can’t make heads or tails of. He’s not sure he’d ever be capable of something like this, before. Would’ve gone right over his head. Would’ve been a pretty girl and he would’ve been a young, handsome guy, and maybe they would’ve shared a drink or something, but—

“Do you ever think about whether or not we would’ve been... friends?” he asks, hesitating, more timid than he’d like, “Before?”

If there’s one thing he could ever say for certain about Karen Page, it’s that she’d let you know if she thought you were asking a dumb fucking question. Fortunately for him, or perhaps not so fortunately, she never seems to find any of his questions dumb. Which means she thinks carefully about all of ‘em, and always gives him good, solid answers that make his heart beat a little too fast.

“I’m not sure,” she starts, tapping a finger against her lips, “I’m not sure we would’ve recognized each other then.”

He wants to say, well, no, of course we wouldn’t have, we didn’t know each other. But then he thinks about it, and he thinks a little bit more, and he wonders if maybe she’s not a little bit right (which, of course she is, he shouldn’t be surprised). He’s pretty sure she’s talking about something like a soul, which he’s never put much stock in to be quite honest, and from what she’s said about religion, never seemed like she did either. Then again, maybe it doesn’t need to be.

In his recollections of their late night, a bit buzzed on a bench by the water conversations, she’s spoken of her life before all of this. Before Nelson and Murdock, before The Punisher and The Bulletin. “I was small,” she said, trying to hide a hiccup behind her lips, “and broke.”

“Man, you’re still broke.”

She’d laughed at that, loud and full-bodied and it was probably something to do with the whisky but he could’ve sworn he’d felt it like a goddamn drumbeat. All in his ears, behind his ribcage, like a grenade had gone off. And then it’d been gone, just like that, out onto the river, into the silence of a city before it’s had it’s coffee yet.

Small, and broke, and only one “professional” outfit, and didn’t know how to put make-up on, and a suitcase full of books and not much else. He wouldn’t have recognized her then.

“I think I would’ve,” he answers, watching this one piece of her hair whipping against her forehead. Taking note of that sheen in her eyes, the redness of her nose. “A little bit.”

“You would’ve walked right by me, Frank Castle.”

“Yeah, maybe,” he admits, standing up and reaching out a hand, thinking about how cold her apartment’s gonna be when they make it back, “but there’s no missing you now.”

It takes him another year before he can bring himself to kiss her. Really kiss her. No more of this forehead, cheek, anywhere but her lips, bullshit. Who the fuck is he? He’s Frank Castle.

Damn straight, baby. Sometimes there’s a little bit of dirt gathered at the corner of her lips, but her eyes are a bit brighter these days. When he sees her. Her eyes are alive, and her cheeks are red, and sometimes he can even hear her voice. When she answers. Sometimes, she doesn’t even answer anymore.

It makes him think about those times, those times he’d get a hot head and he’d just be looking for a fight, and she wouldn’t fight, no matter how hard he pushed. Like she’d known there was nothing really to fight over, he was just trying to fulfill some fucked up impulse to pick a fight when there’s nothin’ to fight over. And that’d make him even more mad, because he would know she was right.

“Maria,” he confesses, laughing lightly, “she was always right about that shit.”

“Well, she’d have to be,” Curtis agrees, giving him a friendly knock on the shoulder, “puttin’ up with your stubborn ass.”

Anyway, it’s like that. It’s like... it’s hard to explain what it’s like. But he’s not sure he wants her to go. He’s not sure what it’ll mean if she goes. If he’s not on the receiving end of her rage, of her grief; if he can’t see the way her cheeks have sunken in, if he can’t smell the blood in his nose anymore. What does that even mean? What kind of man is he?

“The human kind,” pausing, taking a brief look about the room, “we’ve all lost people, Frank.”

He can hear Karen’s voice on the radio and it stings—when he’s not her hero anymore, when he’s no better than a sick kid who hadn’t been able to get his head on straight. Don’t like the way the world works? Blow it up. We’ve all lost people, Frank.

He kisses her for the first time in the hospital, ironically enough. Feels kind of fucked up, but then again, what isn’t these days? Technically, he’s still a dead man, but he’s got the fucking beard back, and the long hair, just to be safe. And they’re in the hospital because when aren’t they in the hospital, because Karen Page was born to unleash her wrath upon the world, only she’s braver than he is, she’s braver and smaller and her bones seem to break easier than his, and her skin is thinner and god fucking dammit, if she’s not just about to break the fuck in half and there’s not a fucking thing he can do to stop it—

“Frank,” whispering from the hospital bed, groggy and confused. “Frank?”

“Yeah,” he answers softly, taking her hand in his, trying not to think about the fact that her dried blood is seeping into the deep lines of his hands and how it’ll always be there after this, it’ll always be there. “I’m here, Karen. Right here.”

“You ‘kay?”

“Am I okay?” he asks, surprised and a little bit angry, if he’s being honest—which it’s been recommended he be, “You just got a slug to the gut, Page.”

“It’s nothing,” she mumbles, fighting to stay awake and failing. “I’m fine.”

“Fine? You are not fine.”

But she’s unconscious before he can be properly angry with her, and then Murdock’s knocking against the door with that fucking stick and he knows there’ll be no more talking tonight.

He said that they kiss in the hospital, and they do kiss in the hospital, it’s just a few days later. A few days and a few nights and a few more visits from her loud, opinionated friends who he’s started to tune out like an AM radio station. When she’s sleeping he stares at her lips, and when she’s talking he stares, and when they’re wrapped around a straw he stares, and that’s when he thinks that maybe there’s been enough fucking time. I mean, if anything, there’s been more than enough of it, because some cruel fucking God had up and decided to take her out of this equation he’d been trying to figure out since he woke up in a hospital with the sound of his family’s screams in his ears.

“How’s your girlfriend?”

David’s voice is smug over the phone, and he very nearly hangs up, but then he remembers why he called, and Leo had some kind of science fair and he’d helped with the volcano, okay? He wanted to know how the fuck it went. So sue him.

“Yeah, Lieberman, she’s fine, so keep your opinions to yourself, okay?”

It’s quiet for a few moments, the sound of Leo or Zach laughing in the background and Frank’s chest hurts for a minute. And the pain radiates a little bit, he can feel it in his collarbones and his jaw and down his shoulders and there’s this familiar moment where he considers throwing the phone against the wall, smashing it to pieces. Takes a breath instead.

“Remember how I told you about my first date with Sarah?”

“Yeah,” Frank answers, half-listening, trying to figure out whether the two moron twins have left her room yet, “sure do.”

“I was so fucking scared, man. Shit is scary.”

“Scary? It’s not scary, what the hell are you talking about?”

David sighs, kind of laughs, which is infuriating, but he lets it pass. Lets it all pass. Hears her door open, then close, then Red’s stick tapping in the distance.

“Yeah, it’s alright, ya know? It’s really okay.”

“Yep, yeah, I gotta go. Tell Leo I’m proud of her.”

“Will do, Frank.”

It’s the smile that does him in. When he walks back in the room? She fucking smiles at him. Smiling at him like she hasn’t seen him in weeks, months even, only he’d been gone 15 minutes.

“Hey,” exclaiming in a relieved breath, her eyes sparkling and her skin flushed as opposed to that sick, pale color she’d been when he’d brought her in. Barely breathing, barely moving, barely—

“Where’d you go?”

“Uh,” interrupting his thoughts before they could run even further away, “talking to David. Leo had her science fair today.”

“Oh, that’s right!” she says, smiling and remembering like she actually gives a shit. Which, yeah, Frank, she does. “How’d it go?”

“Fine. It went fine.”

She nods and smiles some more, pushes some hair behind her ear in a painfully familiar way, and on top of the fact that she won’t stop smiling at him, is the fact that her movements have become familiar to him. They’ve become as familiar as breathing. The way she pushes her hands through her hair, the way it moves; the way she chews on her bottom lip, the way she holds a mug in her hand.

God, there’s a pressure building behind his eyes. Something like a feeling of relief and pain all at once? If he’d been in a room full of soldiers they might be able to relate to the feeling, he’s not so sure if Karen, or most people for that matter, would be able to understand that when he cries, when he even thinks of it, that it’s fucking torture. It’s torture, because he knows it’s a thing he’s not supposed to do, even though Curtis won’t stop telling him that yes, it’s absolutely a thing you should do, he doesn’t want to do it. Feels like a bullet ripping through his chest. Would rather it be a bullet ripping through his chest.

“Frank?” she asks, a note of worry in her voice. Trying to sit up straighter, wincing and placing a hand on her abdomen. It’s too easy for him to imagine what it could’ve looked like—had it all gone wrong. If he hadn’t been there. Insides all over her outsides, blood pooling underneath her—stop. Stop.

“Don’t move,” he says, quickly moving to her side, sniffing and blinking and trying to look for all the world like a person who has his shit together. Fat fucking chance. “Don’t move, you’ll tear the stitches.”

“Are you okay?” Brow furrowed, a hand reaching for his sleeve, hovering over the fabric like she’s afraid he’ll bite or run away, and he’d rather she just smile again.

“I’m good,” he assures her, a bit of a lie at first. Too used to telling people he’s “good,” when really it’s a lie, but all of a sudden, he realizes he might be telling the truth, and somehow her hair looks soft even though she’s been in the hospital for a week and it should look like garbage, and he just can’t not—

Kiss her. His hands, clean now, callused and lined, and the knuckles bigger than they used to be, cupping her face and moving all that hair out of her eyes and bending down because he’s just too big for this. She tastes like jello. Lime jello, and her lips are a little bit chapped, but they still open against his and he almost sobs in relief. Her hand finally touching down against the sleeve of his jacket, gripping tight and pulling and when he hears a small gasp of pain he pulls away enough to see her grin.

“I’m okay,” she whispers, a gentle sound underneath all that chaotic beeping. All those footsteps outside, those voices and clipboards and whatever else makes up a place. Her eyes look a little wet, and he’d be nervous it’d all gone horribly wrong, only it all looks a little too familiar for it to be a mistake.

“Hey,” readjusting his hands where they seem to have become glued to her cheekbones, trying to follow her eyes as they move back and forth over the planes of his face, trying to memorize him in the same moment he’s trying to memorize her, and he just thinks of the dumbest fucking thing to say.

“I think I recognize you.”

#kastle ff #kastle fic #kastle #karen x frank #kastle: [softly]#@hencethewriter #hey this is pure garbage #but i almost could not help it #writing is writing #i guess #still garbage #i am sorry for the garbage

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machinelearningrecreationapp · 4 years ago

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dinner @ Nomiya

Good afternoon, all. Long time no update :P been busy working on things, such as Korea vlogs, reading (currently reading Kinsella’s Can You Keep A Secret?), & watching Kdramas (I finished Woman of 9.9 Billion, & now I’m on a weekly ‘wait’ for Romantic Teacher, Dr. Kim season 2). I plan to binge through Crash Landing On You- I have actually watched up to ep 3ish (can’t really remember). I had a hard time watching it for real; it was one of those dramas that I just played in the background as I was doing stuff. But my friend Susan is like hooked, so I plan to give it another chance.

Anywho, Feb. 12... ah it’s been a year since I was stuck at the SEA-TAC airport for 28 hours........ where did 2019 go? A yr later, seems like my “luck” on this day has remained the same.

Long story short, Susan & I made plans ages ago to go eat at this Japanese restuarant (more like an izakaya), however, we went thru some hiccups.. . in the end, we had dinner last night at Nomiya instead. Which really turned out to be a blessing in disguise bcos Nomiya had a Big Bang playlist on haha

The last came to this restaurant (Oliver Square location) was a few yrs back, with the IBlet crew. Back then, they only had a 1-pager menu, but now they have a book, complete with coloured pictures & everything. They really up’d their menu!

Susan & I both got their ramen combo, where you choose your ramen, 1/3 appetizers that they’ve listed, as well as 1/6 mini don’s (small rice bowls with diff toppings).

Agedashi tofu (bottom left), chicken karaage (top left), kani ikura don (top right), & tako wasabi don (bottom right).

The 2 top ones were Susan’s while the bottom 2 were my orders. I really liked the tofu. It was quite plain, where some might even say it’s bland but I felt it was a nice appie bcos it was light. I personally liked the kani ikura don more; it’s topped with tempura bits & a crab meat salad. It had a very fresh feel to it over the warm rice. The tako wasabi wasn’t bad either; it had a salty initial flavour then the mild wasabi flavour seeps through. I didn’t eat the ginger bcos .. . I won’t. I thought the texture of the raw octopus was great & all, but overall, when you put the 2 together, I preferred the kani ikura.

Susan’s spicy garlic ramen.

My Shio. Since it snowed yesterday, & it was cold.. . this was such a good option, I felt. Rich but not greasy, bouncy noodles, nice toppings.. . it was comforting .. . & “basic”. You can’t go wrong with this. If you’re new to ramen, I highly recommend trying this one out.

We had a lovely time catching up, service was good as well, & our overall visit here was an enjoyable one. =]

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womenscifiandhegemony · 5 years ago

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madamehearthwitch · 8 years ago

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Hi! I'm a witch in training, and I'd like to develop my skills as a hearth witch. Any spells you can recommend? Also, I'm currently living in a place that I don't feel all that attached to as a home. Any recommendations for how to strengthen a bond between myself and my living space? Thanks!

Hurray! More hearth witches!! I just want to collect them all :D

Hearth witchery isn’t a specific path like Wicca. It’s one of the more eclectic branches of paganism in my opinion. Hearthwitchery is as varied and unique as its practitioners.

I wrote a little post about hearthcraft here: https://madamehearthwitch.tumblr.com/post/162148549126/what-is-a-hearth-witch

And a book that’s my favorite is “Way of the Hedge Witch” by Arin Murphy-Hiscock.

Really, I think it can be summed up as the practice of bringing the magical into the mundane. I don’t do a lot of spells exactly, as I’ve said before. But I focus on manipulating the energy of myself and my home to make it welcoming.

As for how to make your space more homey.. For me I find cleaning, then decorating are the two things that make me feel as though I’m at home in a space. Probably because it’s a way of asserting ownership. Cleaning, both in the physical and energetic spectrum is the first thing I do when I move in somewhere. One it’s physically cleaned, I sage the space then salt the corners, welcoming the local elements.

I like to make my space witchy, even in subtle ways. Candles are a favorite. Artwork that is pagan but not overt. Paintings of crows, trees, and a few tea cups with fairies are things I’ve put up around my place which don’t out and out scare my more conservative relatives.

If you’re up for it, throw a dinner party! Appies, dinner, dessert, a fancy drink like homemade lemonade with fruit in it… it’s a great way to practice hearthcraft. If that’s a bit beyond your situation, have someone over for a movie and make some snacks!

Just a few ideas off the top of my head. Would love to talk more about this and hearthcraft any time! Feel free to shoot me a message for more specific advice and chats if you like. I hope that helps.

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turbomun · 8 years ago

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I love your insight about cartoons and wondered, how do you feel about CG Disney animation? I am no expert at all but in previous films such as Pocahontas, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch I enjoyed their particular styles, drawings, lines, background... there was something beyond the generic Disney look. Is it me or Moana, Wreck it Ralph, Big Hero 6, Frozen... all seem to display the same combination of super realistic backgrounds and cartoony characters? I must be missing something... Thank you in advance

You’re partially right! CG tends to be more stylistically limited than 2D, but it doesn’t have to be…although the stylization is going to be different. Allow me to explain.

For a very, very long time, the whole point of CG was to make graphics as close to reality as possible. That’s still the emphasis in the special effects industry, and most animation studios have gotten used to doing it. You have to remember that when CG films first started coming out, we had never seen a completely realistic animation style before. Something like Toy Story was absolutely mind-boggling back when it was first released. And as new films started coming out, especially from Pixar, their rendering of various environments and characters were stunning: Finding Nemo’s undersea setting, The Incredibles and its human animation complete with hair and clothing, Monsters, Inc. and the system they created for animating Sully’s fur. These were all brand new innovations that were visually incredible…at least, they were back then.

Nowadays, though, studios have pretty much nailed realistic graphics, and audiences are used to seeing it in every single animated film. There are of course various methods of character design, but when you model them in the computer and start slapping textures on to them, they do start looking a little similar to the untrained eye (by “untrained” I mean people who haven’t been working in the industry or at least taken a bunch of classes and read a bunch of books on character design). Now, Disney does sort of have a style of character design, which you can see even in their 2D animation; they mix it up from time to time, but certain traits carry across almost every film. There are exceptions – Wreck-It Ralph desgined the characters from each game in a different way – but when you get to Moana and Frozen, yeah, all the characters look like they could exist in the same world.

You mentioned cartoony characters on a hyper-realistic background, and I’ll tell you why that specific thing happens. Like I said, studios have realistic graphics down pat, but right now it’s basically impossible to animate a human being that is indistinguishable from reality: not because of graphics or unskilled animators, but because humans have spent millions of years evolving to read the tiniest signals in each others’ bodies and faces, and we can spot an imitation right away. But because cartoon characters don’t try to exactly mimic reality, we give them a lot more leeway, allowing animators to freely practice their craft without the audience feeling like something is off. Studios still want to show off their graphical prowess, so they use it for the graphics and textures while still applying design principals to the characters themselves.

But it’s totally possible to make a CG movie that looks stylistically different than the norm! It’s never going to be the same as 2D, because they’re two completely different mediums, each with its own way to vary the style. In 2D, you can use line quality, influence from various art styles, and differently painted backgrounds (like the watercolors in Lilo and Stitch.) In CG, there are no lines, no paint, and while some art styles can lend their influence, others simply don’t make the transition from 2D to 3D very well. But you can use different interesting methods of 3D modeling, appy unrealistic textures, and do crazy things with motion that are very hard to draw. A good recent example is Dreamworks’ new Captain Underpants, which I highly recommend if you’re looking for a different art style (and also it’s an absolutely adorable movie in general).

One thing you’re completely right about is that Disney hasn’t really deviated from their CG style. Neither has Pixar. There have been a few small steps in the right direction; ever notice how in the Fix-It Felix Jr. game in Wreck-It Ralph, absolutely everything, including liquid splatters and dust clouds, is shaped like a cube? Or how the Nicelanders all move in a jerky way typical of 1980s game characters? Of course, they’ve also taken some giant stylistic steps backwards (*coughcoughFrozencoughcough*). They also interestingly combined 2D and 3D animation in their shorts Paperman and Feast. Inner Workings also attempted a drastic style shift, which…didn’t quite work out. But I’m still waiting for them to make an inventive-looking CG movie.

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ask-de-writer · 6 years ago

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SEA DRAGON’S GIFT : World of Sea : Part 60