#curious and curiouser

[amistyshadow]

I’m really curious about something like this. Would you choose where you are now, especially since you don’t really know this “true love” of yours like you know your current partner, and that wouldn’t be fair to them. Or are you the type to not question faith and go with this “true love”?

My friends and I would play this game back in middle school and we would choose to win the lottery or true love, one of my friends already had a partner and someone else asked; but what if when you pick true love it’s not them? I think about that moment a lot (mostly because it sounds like it would make a good fairytale spin off story)

[thesargasmicgoddess]

In today's edition of "Truth is Stranger Than Fiction"...😂😂

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/13/van-gogh-stolen-ikea-bag/

Poor Van Gogh just attracts the crazies...😂*

*Does this pass for postmodern art now?😂

[fideidefenswhore]

The Dean said the King would not insist on this point of free consent, and he confessed that the King frequented the society of a lady of a noble house, whom it was reported the King intended to marry, if he obtained a divorce. Mentioned a report that the King wished to marry this lady to legitimate by subsequent marriage a son whom he had by her; but the Dean said that this son was by another lady, who was already married. Said he had never heard of this, and he thought that the King's love for another than his wife must be for the mother of his son. Remarked also on the suspicious nature of the King's intimacy with the lady in question; but the Dean said he had never heard anything of it. Asked him if he knew these two ladies, and whether they were beautiful, worth leaving his wife for. He said he knew them both, and the mother of his son was eloquent, gracious, and beautiful, but the other lady was more beautiful still. Suggested that the King must have been charmed by potions, or otherwise; but the Dean said he had not heard of anything of the kind.

"Rapport de M. Loys Helwighen touchant l'home de Louvain." Loys de Heylwigen, of the Emperor's council in Brabant, was supping with the porter of the castle of Louvain on 22 June 1532 [...]

add to tags: elizabeth blount's preeminent biographer agrees that this is indeed the correct translation....

When Heylwigen pressed the dean on the two ladies, Barlow [conceded] that Bessie was indeed beautiful, eloquent, and gracious, although [commented] that Anne Boleyn was also a beauty.

...except somehow, also, doesn't?

In contemporary sources Bessie was commonly referred to as a beauty with the Dean of Westbury stating, when she was aged around thirty, that she was more beautiful than the king's second wife, Anne Boleyn.

so. if i wasn't confused before...

[dasketcherz]

okay, fiiine... your sister's not so bad, goggles.

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

[nfasth]

[ride-thedragon]

Hey. This sounds racist. There isn't a quota for the number of black people that are allowed to be on television. Nettles is a necessary book character and would still be the most prominent black character because the Velaryons are Valyrian and not black. It's like how white people can play Lannisters and Targaryens but still be Valyrian and Andals (different in world races)

I'm not going to police anyone but saying that a 30 year age gap is the moral line but shipping an uncle with his niece who he watched grow up and grooms from the time she's very young is wild. Throwing stones in glass houses.

Nettles is Daemons redemption because he isn't self-interested when he saves her. He does it to his own detriment. He sacrifices himself by letting her go and still going off to fight Aemond. He saves her in the first place by being as close as he is with her.

It's also not the same plot if Rhaenyra thinks Daemon is self-interested and unloyal and then thinks he's under a spell and orders the witch who she thinks keeps him under to be killed.

Nettles and Sheepstealer also have a really unique bond, because she's a Daenerys parallel.

You can ship what you want, but the reasons you list don't really make sense. I'm gonna make the offer again and expand by saying look to any of the blogs that post content about her. You don't need to like her, but she is important to both their narratives while existing in her own.

you’re a daemyra ofc you don’t care about the only canonically black character in F&B getting cut if it means your ship can sail free

No, I simply see the book as something I didn't quite like while I absolutely adore the tv show. Therefore, I'm all for these changes that made me like the adaption so much more than the original story. And in the tv show we have plenty black characters so that can't be the reason why we need Nettles in the tv show. And of course I also want my ship to sail free, we are already having an entire season of them having issues, do we need the same plot over and over? That's not good character development. Also, what I asked in my post was reasons why Nettles is important for the plot if we remove her as a love interest for Daemon. And I got people saying that Daemon's redemption cannot exist without her. I'm sorry but redemption? Cheating on his wife is redemption? A wife he chose, a wife he bonded his soul to within a ritual tradition that means everything to him! I see it as pedo instincts that, if anything, show that he has learned nothing! Treating Nettles as a Rhaenyra 2.0, gifting her expensive things, teaching her, and spending time with her while she is a teenager probably even younger than his own daughters while he is almost 50 years old is utterly disgusting to me. I'm sorry, but that is not redemption. Or is it because she is a black character who comes from humble origins and the idea of a proud Targaryen prince falling for her is oh so beautiful. There's nothing beautiful in a 30 year old gap I would say. A 16 year old gap with Rhaenyra and 18 years with Laena was already hard for me to digest. But that's just me. Then Nettles being the only black character in the book (I respect that, but again in the show we already have Laena, Rhaena and Baela) and then the original way in which she bonded with Sheepstealer (it's a good point but if Rhaena takes that plot we will have the same). The fact that GRMM loves Nettles and wishes to write a novella about her, why not? I have nothing against it. He can write 30 books about her, maybe I will even love them but this is House of the Dragon and Fire & Blood, it's not Nettles novella. And GRMM also said very recently that one of the aspects he loves so much about Daemon, apart from his grey personality, is his relationship with Rhaenyra.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Hi Raven! Besterd fox maen is comin' XD

Onto the event! Since I know it'll happen, gonna beat everyone to it: Headcanons about Tsum!Fellow and possibly a Tsum!Giddle~?

Curiouser and Curiouser.

Fellow Honest

What’s this? A marketable (and sentient) plushie made in his own likeness? Of course Fellow’s going to nab his tsum self and try to auction it off for a quick buck! … But somehow, it always comes back to him and an angry customer comes with it, accusing him of scamming them.

Other scams Fellow and his tsum pull together include him distracting a target while the tsum fishes in their pockets for valuables, running a roadside show (come watch the tsum bounce and twirl its cane), and selling a spell that brings inanimate objects to life (pretending to demonstrate with the tsum). They walk away with a decent amount of cash for their efforts.

Tsum!Fellow has the smallest pair of glasses you ever did see. It doesn’t always wear them, but whenever it does you notice it is trying to read a teeny tiny book upside down and lecture.

Tsum!Fellow stares at its larger counterpart when he has food on him. Fellow will insist it’s HIS grub and that the tsum should get its own, but soon enough he caves and breaks off a small piece for his little buddy to enjoy with him.

Like Fellow, the tsum loves apples! If you give it a fresh fruit, it’ll zoom around it in circles, shaving away at the flesh until there’s nothing left but the core. (Epel has deemed it an apple-eatin’ termite.)

Normally the tsum is docile but it puffs up at anger when it’s looked down on (particularly by rich or influential people). When that happens, tsum!Fellow swells really big and proceeds to crush foes with its great size.

Tsum!Fellow knows how to make a quick getaway. When there’s someone chasing after it, it throws sand or dirt (or even confetti or glitter from under its hat) in their face before skedaddling. It’s not above using cheap tactics if it nets results!

Tsum!Fellow gets all sparkly-eyed when it sees a stage, whether it’s on TV or it’s a real one. It gets excited and tries to hop on to put on a performance of its own!

There’s something a little childish and carefree about tsum! Fellow. It loves hitching rides in pockets or on heads, treating them like their own amusement park rides. It also loves seating itself on toy traits, boats, and cares, imagining itself traveling the world and having grand adventures!

Tsum!Fellow is quick to cozy up to anyone it thinks will benefit it. For this reason, you’ll see it snuggling up to dorm leaders, the staff, the headmaster, even you! It nuzzles against your hand and makes puppy-dog eyes until you melt in its flimsy hands.

While Fellow mends his suit and pants, tsum!Fellow likes to dive in the fabric and swim around in it. It gets in the way of his work, so Fellow fishes the tsum out and appoints it the role of being his pincushion. (The tsum is very grumpy about this and they get into a whole squabble about it.)

Gidel

It’s rare to see tsum!Gidel by itself. It’s normally tagging along with tsum!Fellow as a minion or a helper in some of its tricks. If the two are ever separated, they’ll both appear slightly distressed and will try to seek the other out.

It’s curious about so many things. Tsum!Gidel bounces around in a hyperactive manner, making it quite difficult to contain. It displays a special interest in school, hopping among stacks of books and forgotten pencils, scaling them to see how high up it vanishes climb.

Gidel and his tsum self can communicate effectively, despite neither of them being able to speak. They’re great about reading body language and anticipating what’s to come next from the other. It’s almost like they’re finishing each other’s sandwiches sentences.

Tsum!Gidel is very clumsy. It’s a normal occurrence for it to fall onto its face or to roll and roll until it makes contact with something sturdy. It doesn’t quite have its footing down yet…

Of course, it comes with its own little hammer! The hammer seems light and makes a little squeaky sound when tsum!Gidel bonks the back of your hand with it.

When the tsum gets scared, it scurries into Gidel’s oversized sleeves. It won’t come back out again until it’s completely sure the danger has passed. (Occasionally you’ll see it poking its round little head out and checking the area.)

It attempts to tie Gidel’s laces for him since they’re tend to be loose. Unfortunately, the tsum ends up getting knotted in the laces and Gidel has to spend 20 minutes untangling the poor thing!

Gidel didn’t realize the tsum was sentient at first. He popped it into his mouth thinking it was a bread roll or a fancy marshmallow. The tsum had to squirm and fight for its life to escape the jaws of death!

They’re study buddies! Gidel and his tsum copy down letters of the alphabet together, then exchange notebooks and check each others’s work. It’s harder for Gidel to understand tie tsum (maybe on account of the notebook being so small), so he takes the mantle and tutors his new buddy.

Sometimes the tsum takes on a size closer to that of a stuffed plushie. In those instances, Gidel fiercely hugs them close. There’s a comforting sensation in owning an item for just pleasure, not solely for one’s survival—the life that Gidel is so used to.

Tsum!Gidel assumes a bigger form and allows Gidel to use it as a pillow at night. The boy had never been able to sleep on something this squishy and soft—is it really okay for him to fall asleep like this?

[vickysaurus]

Happy New Year!

Let's imagine it was the Earth itself that was going into its 2024th year. That is to say, we're compressing the entire history of the Earth into just the past 2023 years. What events would have happened when?

Well, not too much is certain about the first couple decades after our planet formed, until around 50 CE when we were hit by another proto-planet, Theia, and the debris formed the Moon. After a couple years of the planet cooling down again, the oceans formed out of boiling rain. The timing of the origin of life is very uncertain, but there are chemical signs it may very well have happened as early as the second century. Around 200 CE, the gas giants did a big funky orbit-swapping dance, and in the process inflicted the Late Heavy Bombardment on the rest of the solar system, meaning the Earth was suffering a ton of meteorite strikes for the entire third century.

The first indisputable evidence of life is from around 330, and the first stromatolites appear around 470. Those are basically the first fossils, stones created by layer upon layer of oxygen-producing cyanobacteria living and dying on top of one another. But even with oxygen producers evolving, it would take many centuries before oxygen became a major part of the atmosphere: not until the Great Oxygenation Event, which happened during the ninth and tenth centuries. That's also about the time the first complex, eukaryotic cells evolved through a symbiosis between an anaerobic archaean and an oxygen-breathing bacterium. The bacterium became more and more focused on just the oxygen-breathing task inside the larger cell, until its descendants were mitochondria, which as you all know are the powerhouse of the cell. The next seven centuries passed by with only slow, gradual changes, and life continuing to be unicellular and difficult to find in the fossil record.

(1735's Snowball Earth, by me)

From 1704 to 1730, the entire planet froze over. After merely two years of thaw, it happened again, this time lasting from 1732 to 1742. But these snowball Earth episodes set the stage for the evolution of animals that began right after. Across the mid-18th century, the bizarre Ediacaran biota, with its strange symmetries, fronds, and fractal-like pattern filled the oceans. In the early 1780s they went extinct, possibly due to a temporary drop in oxygen-levels, only to be replaced by a great variety of quite different creatures in the Cambrian Explosion.

(Class of 1799, by me)

Starting in 1784 and running for a few decades, the Cambrian period saw the origin of most of the modern animal phyla, reaching its most famous form in the Burgess Shale fauna of 1799. During this time, most animals still lived on the sea floor, either attached or crawling, with relatively few actually swimming creatures. Plants started tentatively moving onto land around 1817, and in 1825, the rising of the great Appalachian mountains caused a severe drop in global CO2 and thus temperatures, leading to the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

(Horseshoe crabs and sea scorpions on a beach in 1834, by me)

Bony fish first showed up during the 1830s, and around the same time plants were getting serious about inhabiting the land, evolving roots and vascular tissues so they could properly grow there. Millipedes and the ancestors of spiders were the first animals to follow them onto land. Our own fishy ancestors did not take their first step until 1857, by which point the arthropods were well established there and the plants had figured out how to become trees. The Late Devonian extinction, partially caused by the evolution of said trees and partially by the south pole freezing, played out in two pulses over the late 1850s and early 1860s.

(Swamp prominently featuring Meganeura and Mazothairos in 1889, by me)

Arthropods and vertebrates continued to gain adaptations to life on land. The insects became the first creatures ever to fly in 1878, and the high-oxygen atmosphere of the time would be especially good to them. Around 1884, a group of vertebrates called the amniotes, after the membrane that kept water inside their eggs so they could lay them on land without them drying out, split into two groups: the reptiles and the synapsids (which we mammals descend from). The next few decades would see the synapsids in particular being extremely successful as the supercontinent Pangaea formed. Until 1912, when a massive episode of volcanism caused the worst mass extinction of all time, the Great Dying, scouring the Earth of a huge portion of its life.

(A 1930 scene featuring the three branches of archosaur: dinosaur, pterosaur, and pseudosuchian, by me)

The 1910s were a period of slow recovery during which strange new forms of animal evolved. Many different, unrelated reptiles, such as the ichtyosaurs and plesiosaurs, went to sea, where they would continue to provide some of the most impressive creatures for most of the 20th century. On land, the dinosaurs first appeared in 1920, though for the next decade or so they'd live in the shadow of their pseudosuchian (crocodile-line) cousins. In 1934, Pangaea began to break up, resulting in another terrible pulse of volcanism that caused a lot of extinctions and left particularly the feathered and furry survivors with a lot of empty niches to fill, allowing the dinosaurs and mammals to diversify greatly. The last common ancestor of all modern mammals lived in the early 1940s, and by 1957 the dinosaurs had figured out flight, with Archaeopteryx usually being considered the first bird. Other dinosaurs took on an incredible variety of sizes, shapes, and forms. Some of the most famous ones include Dilophosaurus (1942), Diplodocus and Stegosaurus (1955), Iguanodon (1969), Velociraptor (1991), and Tyrannosaurus rex (1994).

(A tropical lakeside in the year 2000, by me)

In 1995, the world was struck by a meteorite, wiping out many groups, including the marine reptiles, pterosaurs, and ammonites. The surviving mammals and dinosaurs went on to diversify across the next couple of years and had formed thriving new ecosystems in the tropical world of the turn of the millennium. The first known bat lived in 2001, and the whales returned to the oceans next year. Around 2009, the world's climates turned colder and dryer. Antarctica froze over and grasslands spread widely. Our last common ancestor with the chimpanzees and bonobos lived in 2021, and by new year 2023, our ancestors were getting brainier and more proficient with tools. That's also when the north pole froze and the Quaternary ice age cycle began. The first known members of Homo sapiens lived on 10 November 2023. The latest ice age started on 14 December, and ended at 2 AM on 30 December. The great pyramid of Giza was built at 6 AM on 31 December and On The Origin Of Species was published at 23:22 PM.

[lavendorii]

curious because from ive gathered it's kind of polarizing

[redemptioninterlude]

@sharpsuite - chishiya gets something continued from here !

everything is a dream, of a dream, of a dream, of a dream. alice has a lot to say about mirrors and the worlds within. daydreams, and what you could find. "fall down a rabbit hole." she'd suggest, all seriousness with that cryptic little smile on her lips that made it so much harder to tell just what she took seriously or not. the world is simply TOO MUCH OF A MESS, and the people within it, half sleepwalking! so what did it matter? real, or make pretend? alice is a girl unanchored, her sense a thing that most liked to question, even if alice is the one, forever asking them.

what's her motivation, exactly? boldly telling those she adored, like in her draped upon afternoons with ann over tea and biscuits ( there had to be some sense of civility among the madness, didn't there? ). that this is but ANOTHER DREAM for her, as she sighs and she laughs and she carries on, as loquacious as ever about what seems like nonsense. looking, waiting. picking up the small things about people that slip when they think that they're safe.

though, how safe could one really feel when all they had on were their BEST AND BRIGHTEST swimwear?

chishiya is one of her favourites. "i was waiting for you!" she exclaims when they meet, unbothered by his aloofness, his unbothered unwillingness to reciprocate her casual affection. she's convinced, it seems, of CHILDHOOD STORIES. but let them play to their doubts! even he does, in an idle way, in how he pushes back against her, as they're left to move about this motel, trapped within yet another game of a new sort. she likes watching him pull others together, a manipulative little cat, wasn't he? fascinated, charmed, excited to see what chaos he might yet orchestrate, now that he was set free within a world with different constraints than he'd ever been offered before this.

"a dream is but a STEPPING STONE, chi-shi-ya~" his name sung out on the tip of her tongue, spinning in her spot, turning to look his way before chasing after yet another clue for their next step. everything here, is but a new game to be won. "who cares, who cares for that! what matters most is that the people here are interesting. there are bigger schemes at play~ and i can't wait to watch the fireworks!"

- @sharpsuite

[n-s-never-mind]

剖干洗净，以飨来者

Stab, slice, plate and please, enjoy the dinner as you wish

oc commissions

-please do not use thanks-

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[wannawrite999]

[sl33py-g4m3r]

nerding out about Burroughs~~

is it possible to get all of the Burroughs apps in a single playthrough? or is it more "pick and choose what's useful cause the answer is no" or at least not with extensive grinding?

speaking of.... does she work via bluetooth or something? If she can talk to the other Burroughs, makes me think bluetooth or wi-fi, as the gauntlet's themselves are rellics...

Of course the gauntlets are also a part of the Demonica armor from Strange Journey (i think? i could be very incorrect here as I know not much as I'm not familiar with SJ)....

If a samurai with a gauntlet was in our world, would they still be able to summon their demons? asking for my writing shenanigans as well as curiosity~~

or like say they wanted to know what someone with bluetooth headphones was listening to; could Burroughs intercept the signal and share it with them? could we use our phones to send texts to samurai with gauntlets? to what extent would that work?

of course Hope can scry on the samurai's positions with the gauntlets; does that mean that they could be disabled should they go missing? Are they registered to the samurai that enabled them in The Gauntlet Rite, and won't work for anyone else?

I'm now imagining someone finding out a way to try to run arbitrary code on her....

I'm curious about Burroughs~~~~ The sprite that hails in the gauntlet. Do we ever get to see her full form?

currently nerding out over the logistics and inner workings of a demon summoning gauntlet~~~ Wonder if she'd find that creepy~~~?

sort of unrelated below~~

or like mixing pokemon violet and SMT iv; if the samurai somehow got access to area zero, would Burroughs work there? pokemon trainers can use their phones and pokemon storage PCs but not access the map... So I'm assuming she would still function but mapper wouldn't... would the mapper spell work if that still exists in modern SMT?

or unrelated to nerding out about burroughs; would any demons summoned be affected by the energy of the Paldean crater?

[chanrizard]

chris in every skz mv ✧ rock [ 8/? ]

[nfasth]