#belu

[creditdawg]

He’s saving his strength for the next round of @fat-oc-battle

[tjerra14]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Horizon (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Beta/Milu Characters: Beta (Horizon), Milu (Horizon) Additional Tags: One-Shot, Post-HFW, Post-Canon, POV Second Person, Established Relationship, Fluff, they just deserve the world, and hold some hands Summary:

Space and the horrors it bore are far away and fading further, matter less by the day. It is over. You are safe. In her arms, you can believe it. Her presence has a gravity like Earth’s. It’s a tether, to ground and bind you to the present, to allow for a glimpse of the future: the change firmly in your hands, a lifetime of endless possibilities; and the constant of her at your side. Starry-eyed fantasies, and all of them—yours, to make true.

Beta receives a gift from Milu.

Based on a prompt by the amazing @loumauve. So grateful to have you in my life.

[belu1900]

Belu

Belu

[pusatstikerhologram]

Jual Stiker Hologram Berkualitas, Siap Kirim Ke Kabupaten Belu, COD Tersedia!

Jual Stiker Hologram Berkualitas, Siap Kirim ke Kabupaten Belu, COD Tersedia! Bagi Anda yang berdomisili di Kabupaten Belu, kini tersedia layanan jual stiker hologram terpercaya dengan pengiriman cepat dan opsi pembayaran COD. Stiker hologram sangat direkomendasikan untuk digunakan pada berbagai produk, seperti: Dokumen penting Produk elektronik Kemasan makanan dan…

[bluntblade]

still cooing over this

Commission for @bluntblade of Beta using a Burrower to give flowers to Milu!

[baliportalnews]

Kisah Sukses Digitalisasi Buleleng Jadi Percontohan Daerah Lain

BALIPORTALNEWS.COM, BULELENG - Keberhasilan percepatan dan perluasan digitalisasi di Kabupaten Buleleng, Bali membuat daerah lain berkunjung dan melakukan studi tiru. Seperti yang dilakukan oleh Forum Koordinasi Perluasan Digitalisasi Wilayah Provinsi Lampung, Pemerintah Kabupaten (Pemkab) Belu, Manggarai Barat dan Sumba Barat, Provinsi NTT. Rombongan diterima langsung oleh Penjabat (Pj) Bupati Buleleng, Ketut Lihadnyana di Lobi Kantor Bupati Buleleng, Kamis (23/2/2023). Ditemui usai menerima rombongan tersebut, Lihadnyana menjelaskan segala upaya dilakukan untuk semakin memperluas digitalisasi. Dengan mengembangkan kanal-kanal pembayaran pajak maupun retribusi daerah. Digitalisasi diyakini akan membuat suatu daerah lebih cepat maju. Mendorong efektivitas, efisiensi dan sajian data yang akuntabel. “Dan semua itu bermuara pada percepatan peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat,” jelasnya. Salah satu upaya perluasan digital adalah penataan parkir. Salah satunya adalah penataan di Jalan Diponegoro yang masuk wilayah Pasar Anyar. Penataan parkir di wilayah Pasar Anyar tersebut dalam rangka memberikan kenyamanan kepada masyarakat khususnya para pengunjung pasar. Digitalisasi juga akan dilakukan pada penataan parkir tersebut untuk mengurangi kebocoran-kebocoran pendapatan daerah. “Nanti dipusatkan di Jalan Sawo. Semua pembayaran secara elektronik. Setiap orang bayar parkir sudah langsung masuk ke kas daerah. Secara langsung bisa juga dilihat dalam kas daerah dan meminimalisir kebocoran,” ujar Lihadnyana. Salah satu daerah yang melakukan studi tiru adalah Kabupaten Belu, Provinsi NTT. Menurut Bupati Belu Taolin Agustinus yang turut hadir, ada beberapa hal terkait digitalisasi di Buleleng yang bisa diadaptasi di Belu. Salah satunya adalah langkah-langkah kolaborasi dengan berbagai pihak terkait digitalisasi. Termasuk dengan wajib pajak sehingga wajib pajak percaya uangnya dikelola dengan baik dan mau membayar pajak. “Kita harus membangun kepercayaan masyarakat agar mau membayar pajak. Langkah-langkah yang dilakukan Buleleng melalui digitalisasi ini saya kira bisa adaptasi di Belu,” kata dia. Sementara itu, Asisten Direktur Departemen Penyelenggaraan Sistem Pembayaran Bank Indonesia (BI) Devi Riyanti yang juga hadir pada studi tiru tersebut menyebutkan program-program digitalisasi yang dilakukan Pemkab Buleleng sudah sangat baik sehingga menjadi yang terbaik regional Jawa-Bali. Respon, sinergi dan komitmen antar pihaknya berjalan bagus dan lancar. Termasuk program edukasi masyarakat yang sangat bagus. “Ini kan memang sudah arahan presiden. Ingin digitalisasi pemerintah daerah ini dipercepat dan diperluas. Kisah sukses ini harapannya bisa diimplementasikan juga di daerah lain. Harapannya agar kita semua bisa masuk ke digitalisasi,” tutupnya.(adv/bpn) Read the full article

[mint-tea-ashes]

Can I offer you an Ash holding different berries in this trying time?

[sarafangirlart]

Andromeda’s race/ethnicity and why it’s not inaccurate to interpret her as black/African

Now you’ve seen how I draw my babygirl as Afro Palestinian Egyptian so you know where I personally stand on the subject. However, my interpretation isn’t the only one, ancient authors, from mythographers to historians to poets to playwrights, have proposed various different locations for Andromeda’s homeland, often times contradicting each other, what I’m trying to do here is correct some misinformation as well as argue that even if Andromeda isn’t black/ethiopian, she still wouldn’t be considered white or ethnically European.

I would like to reiterate like I did with my Hephaestus/Aphrodite post that I’m not a mythology or history expert, I just read a lot. So do your own research and come up with your own conclusions.

Let’s go.

The etymology of “Aethiopia”

Aethiopia means "of burned face" which yes is pretty racist be modern standards but basically means that its inhabitants are dark skinned, so even if you go by sources that it isn’t in Africa, the inhabitants still wouldn’t be white or Greek.

Location of the Kingdom

You’d hear the statement that the Aethiopia in mythology is not the same as Ethiopia the modern country, which is true. You’d also hear that it’s a completely fictitious location, that’s only partially true, while Aethiopia existed mainly as a mythological location (mentioned as early as the Iliad) that didn’t stop ancient historians, mythographers and poets from placing it in real locations or calling pre-existing nations Aethiopia. It’s hard to pick which one is more “accurate” bc they all contradict each other, not only that, but these writers didn’t actually visit these locations and ancient ppl weren’t as well versed in geography as we are today so they’d be weirdly vague or confusing about these locations, I mean just look at an ancient map and you’d see what I mean.

So personally, I think you can go with any version you personally prefer, the options are quite limitless, she could be from the Arab peninsula, the Levant, North Africa, Persia, hell maybe even India if you are like Ovid.

Andromeda’s genealogy

(I just realized that these are the Waterson kids color palette while writing this lmaooooooooo)

Yes Andromeda is descended from Zeus (no family tree can escape that man lol) and she’s also the great granddaughter of Poseidon, which adds a whole new layer to the fact he tried to kill her.

Now for a bit of history: The Trojan war (which didn’t happen irl obviously) was dated as taking place in the 12th or 13th century BCE by some ancient writers, that war happens a few generations after Perseus’s story, which means that Egypt was in the New Kingdom era, also called the Egyptian Empire, when Nubians (who would be considered black by today’s standards) were a very important part of society, even becoming Pharaohs. Ancient Egypt was a lot more diverse than modern ppl give it credit for, there were multiple ethnic groups living there. Not to mention that you can’t get more Egyptian than being descended from the god of the Nile River lol

Libya is (obviously) the personification of the region of Libya, not the modern country Libya, but the general area in North Africa west of Egypt. The name Libya comes from the Libu, a berber tribe. So once again, even if Andromeda wasn’t black, even if you interpreted that her kingdom is placed in Asia, she’d still be of African decent.

Cassiopeia is a tricky one, her origins are obscure, she’s called a nymph by Nonnus, while Stephanus of Byzantium (a very late source) states she’s from Ioppa and that the city takes its name from her. However, Ioppa/Jaffa was identified as Andromeda’s home much earlier in Periplus attributed to Scylax, which was composed in the late fourth century bc.

Conclusion

You can make Andromeda black it’s ok. Ancient writers couldn’t agree on her country’s location but we can still speculate. Anyways ummm… I think that’s it? Maybe I’ll add to this if I find or remember more interesting information.

Have a great day.

[setsailforbyacona]

Beggar's Luck - Information Post

Your father has always been regarded as the greatest pirate hunter to have ever sailed the waters of the tropical Byacona.

But now the unthinkable is happening: Your father is charged with piracy!

So it is up to you, his only child, to travel to the Byacona and help prove his innocence, or at least get him to reveal what happened.

Which is easier said than done, because whatever your father was doing seems connected to the sightings of a ship long thought sunk:

The Beggar's Luck, ship of the fabled Alistair Moray, King of Pirates.

Has Moray risen from the dead to seek revenge? And has your father something to do with it?

It's up to you to find out.

Hope you know how to swim and wield a cutlass.

Where can I play the game?

(No link to the NEW version yet. The game is still undergoing a massive rewrite and should be up sometimes in December '24/January '25)

Extremely Old, extremely short version is HERE

The world, Sildrys, the game is set on is home to various races besides human, allowing you to play as human or a mix of human and elves, dragons and other decently strange beings (as long as you can swim).

The age is set to 20.

All genders are playable.

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ROs (Details bound to change):

Lieutenant Elliott Sewell (24, human, cis man): Elliot is a young Navy-Lieutenant working as Admiral Géroux’s secretary after a leg-injury send him into very early retirement. He’s as headstrong as he’s handsome.

He’s been a great admirer of the MC’s father, and seems dead-set on becoming a renown pirate hunter, filling the empty space the Commodore’s alleged treason left.

Midshipman Noah Paget (18, human(?), cis man): Mr Paget is commonly seen as a lost cause. Eager, ambitious and honest, but clumsy and scatterbrained. Has several rumours surrounding his heritage which weights down on him in addition. When push comes to shove he takes up the chance to prove himself to find the fable pirate port of Lobo Marino.

Lucy Kerrigan (19, human, cis woman): Lucy is regarded as the ‘soul of the Shredded Sail’ the scummiest tavern on all of Lobo Marino. She takes great pride in the fact that her missing father’s the new King of Pirates, even though no one else agrees with her on that.

She’s headstrong and boisterous, though no one can say what happens when her shell should be cracked one day. Great affinity for fire and explosives.

Florentina 'Shipwreck' Espinosa (26, Half-Elf/Half-human, trans woman): Regarded as the unluckiest captain to have ever sailed the waters of the Byacona, Florentina is good-natured but very sarcastic soul. And she has absolutely no patience for people betting behind her back how long her current ship, the Windmill will last.

(more to come)

Death

Guns

Alcohol

Blood

Piracy

Public Executions

(TBC)

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The author is currently working on the following games as well:

Ballad of Devil's Creek: A Weird West adventure @devilscreekballad

Curious Cuisine: A superhero/cooking slice-of-life romp @cornucopiagazette

Ashenmaw - Dragons of Marrowoods: A dragon adventure/mystery romp set in the same world as Beggar's Luck. @ashenmaw-if

[mugbearerscorner]

Belus-07 Locomotive

Here's a MOC of a locomotive from one of my favorite indie games, The Final Station.

It's a dystopian game about a train conductor trying to survive an apocalyptic event by riding this experimental locomotive across the vaguely Eastern European countryside.

The artstyle feels very inspired by Simon Stahlenhag.

Belus was a series of experimental locomotives within the dystopian apocalyptic fictional universe of The Final Station.

There was only 8 locomotives in total, with the series discontinued after the main project supervisor went missing and the project team going bankrupt, ceasing production and maintenance of the Belus locomotives whatsoever.

According to the game wiki the train's wheel arrangement is supposed to be 6-2-0 (I am not versed in train wheel patterns).

Please support me and my hubby:

[creditdawg]

Some propaganda for @fat-oc-battle !! You gotta vote for Belu, you wouldn’t wanna make him sad during his family dinnar

Lots of deciduous food for all the ppl who vote Belu!!

[nerd-artist]

(Doodles of the finalist pairs following this)

The promised illustration for the winners of the rare pairs poll: Talanah/Kotallo

I wonder what will happen when they meet in Meridian

But I couldn't resist to sketch also the other most-voted pairs!

Second place shared by Talanah/Petra and Morlund/Abadund

At first, they were winning, but finally these cuties got the third place: Beta/Milu

Thank you all for voting!!

[bright-red-sunsets]

attack on @milkcandy's character Belue! they're so shaped i could not resist drawing them :]

[captainmazzic]

Blah blah blah something something overpowered OCs blah blah

[promptuarium]

BELUS Jupiter, when his father Nimrod had ruled for 56 years, the son himself reigned, in the 1844th year of the world and the 2118th year before the birth of Christ. He built up the marked-out foundations of Babylon, more like a fortress than a city. He enjoyed constant peace around the borders of his empire. Consult Berossus book 5, as above.

[kulvefaggoth]

idk why i took this screenshot but i love the "go girl give us nothing" energy it has