#deo blogs

[hubwalker1]

Topside Turvy

As the two teams moved underground towards their various goals, those above worked as well. Jari and her group of saboteurs were causing havoc along the back lines of High Central forces, taking out small groups of isolated soldiers quickly and causing major distractions before disappearing into the alleys and streets of the city, trying to divert attention from the front lines.

Meanwhile Deo was working on the front with her Rangers. The city was cramped and finding clean shots was difficult at best with how central was using the main road to hold them back. They had taken to firing volleys of arrows at an angle so they would strike from above.

Further behind Rebellion lines Kettil was busy both treating wounds and organizing the other healers, having them focus on those who they could save while making those who were too far gone, comfortable in their last moments.

[dejasenti99]

no one is coming for you that you'd wanna meet. (the thorns, the fire, messiah.)

[muu-kun]

I am hard blocked by so many blogs on here and I'm just so nosy as to why some of them are that revolted by Muu and I's existences.

[vinstinx]

Ca c’es juste le meilleur album à part entière, brozer y’a pas de « UNE seule track 11 », c’est juste l’EP du siecle ces tracks la qui s’appelle track 11 la

[queencryo]

EXCITING: local thing's room is cold enough for them to cover up with blankets for once, so they fan finally use their quilt again

[persephoneflouwers]

The thing is, many “larry blogs” on here are run by harries who only use Louis for their IRL larry fic. They don’t care about Louis. So the haters use their blogs to mock Louis. The amount of “larry blogs” that posted anon asks against Louis yesterday was insane. It’s not like Louis has been through so much already. He also has fake fans ready to shit on him. Thanks to certain larries 🙃

[kirbys-jams]

Songs That I Say Would Fix Me if They Were Lesbianized but Would in Fact Make Me at Least One Thousand Times Worse; an incomplete list

Arlene by the Handsome Family

Carmelita by Warren Zevon

Coney Island Baby by Tom Waits

Coquette by The Ink Spots

Dance Little Sister by Sananda Maitreya

Dead Flowers by Townes Van Zandt (I know it's a Stones song originally but Van Zandt's is objectively better)

Downtown Train by Tom Waits

Goodnight Irene (preferably Tom Waits' rendition but I'm so normal about this standard that I'll take anything)

I think I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen was already lesbianized? But do it again I wasn't looking

Lie To Me by Tom Waits

Nobody's Baby Now by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Old Shoes by Tom Waits

The Unquiet Grave by The Dubliners

To Ramona by Bob Dylan

You Ain't Foolin' Me by Screamin' Jay Hawkins

[herpsandbirds]

I think because of your blog, I had a dream where I found a very tiny snake who liked to curl up in my hands or pocket because it wanted to be warm. (Of course then it ended up having swallowed a bunch of worrisome things like nuts and bolts and axes, which I don’t think is normal snake behavior). But I woke up and immediately thought “I bet they could ID that snake, which was not real”

I have been transmitting strange dreams into your mind.

AND WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THIS WEIRD!!!

Here's a very nice snake for you...

American Pipe Snake aka False Coral Snake (Anilius scytale), family Aniliidae, found across much of South America

This family is monotypic, containing only this species.

This species is considered to be quite primitive in its anatomy.

Coral snake mimic.

As a defense, this snake will hide its head beneath its body, and move its tail as a many snakes would move their heads (thus inviting strikes to the tail, instead of the head).

photograph by Vincent Prémel

photograph by Mark Wolfson

photograph by Frank Deschandol

photograph by Dick Bartlett

photographs by Vincent Prémel

photographs by Rainer Deo

[strawberrysmootji]

Rigor Mortis - Masterlist

Rigor Mortis noun stiffening of the joints and muscles of a body a few hours after death, usually lasting from one to four days. "mid 19th century: from Latin, literally ‘stiffness of death’. 

WARNING: This fic is based off gothic fiction which usually contains dark themes along with death, suicide, gore and the paranormal. If this is something you are uncomfortable with I suggest you do not read this fic. I give a list of warnings every chapter and summarise the previous chapter at the beginning of every chapter if you ever want to skip one. This fic also contains sexual themes so MINORS DO NOT INTERACT, i block all minors and ageless blogs.

Summary: The Red Keep stood tall on Aegon’s hill. It used to house the nobles of the realm in the old histories of Westeros but now it was home to the Targaryen family, tainting its red color with their dark and gloom. The Targaryens were a family plagued with rumors, drama and perhaps even the supernatural. It doesn’t help that King’s Landing has been plagued with murders ever since their arrival. Once a month on the morning of the first full moon a body turns up in the Blackwater Bay and everyone suspects it is the mysterious family living in isolation, safe from the horrors that plague the city.

Your father, a well-known businessman and a lover of mysteries, had received a letter from Lady Alicent Hightower that contained a marriage proposal. She wished to marry you to one of her sons who had both recently come of age like you. Your father itched at the opportunity to unravel the mysteries of the Targaryen family and immediately sent you on your way as a future bride and with a mission: uncover the secrets of the most prestigious family in the kingdom.

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Chapter 1 | Memento mori Chapter 2 | Sic semper tyrannis Chapter 3 | Acta deos numquam mortalia fallunt Chapter 4 | Aucades fortuna juvat Chapter 5 | Familia supra omnia (date coming soon) Chapter 6 | Audere est faucere (date coming soon) More to be added....

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Lmk if you want to be added to the taglist! :)

[qqueenofhades]

For the history questions, what historical period has given you the most inspiration for your writing/muses?

I feel like it's a cop-out if I say "hmm, all of them," and this will end up just being a long recap of all my various projects over the years, but a) fuck it, this is my blog, I can talk about my own stuff if I want to, and b) there have indeed been Many, both fic and original. I usually pick settings for historical/historical fantasy AUs that I already know and want to write about, so:

The Lightbearers (Once Upon a Time) and Starlight & Strange Magic (Timeless) are both 19th-century Victorian England/Europe/steampunk, one in the 1850s and the other in the 1880s, with lots of magic and misadventure and so forth. You can tell that I was really into steampunk around 10 years ago (it was Formative, okay) and there were plenty of opportunities to do fun things with the historical setting and real-life personalities (the scene of Flynn breaking into Buckingham Palace to spy on Queen Victoria and William Gladstone remains a favorite). There is also my massive The Swan and Crossbones series (OUAT/Black Sails, two fics, 800k words), which is set in the 18th-century Caribbean, Golden Age of Piracy, and pre-Revolutionary America and is a retelling of Treasure Island + family saga + multi-generational/multi-character/multi-source material historical fiction, wherein I both wrote 800k words and did a shitton of extra research in the middle of getting a PhD. Don't ask me why I did this either, but I still re-read them, especially The Rose and Thorn (the second installment in the series) for my own pleasure.

My All Souls Timeless trilogy, following the source material, involved general historian/academia shenanigans and time travel to Elizabethan England, which was lots of fun to research and write about, even if I otherwise tend to think that the Tudors are often overdone. One of my most popular fics and best shorter-form (only 65k words...) historical/period pieces is deo volente (lux aeterna) for The Old Guard, which takes the crusades as its general starting point and thematic thread to explore religion, faith, immortality, power, war, violence, love, queerness, and other such things. Another popular fic of mine that spanned 600 years of history (starting in the 14th century) and explored various periods in detail is my Sandman fic and in the waking world we wait and want, with a particular emphasis on queer history. (You will find that crops up often in my stuff, regardless of the setting.) We also have why draw me to that promised land (Shadow and Bone), set in the 1980s Soviet Union (my boast for the accuracy of this fic, based on my previous studies in Russian/Soviet history, is that someone told me they learned more from this fic than an entire semester of a university class, which is not entirely good because I then had many questions about their professor, but there you have it).

When it comes to original novels, I started off also 10+ years ago with medieval England, with the The Lion and the Rose series and others. I am fond of this one because it was what got me into medieval history in the first place and because even now, it still sells fairly steadily and gives me a couple bucks in royalties every month. My newest book, The Empire of Bones, is based (loosely) on my fic The Key of Solomon and basically has everything I possibly wanted to cram into a fantasy historical setting, from anywhere and any time at all. Thus we have the Christian-era Roman Empire, an Islamic Carthage, the Byzantines, Imperial China, Russian Jews and Ukrainian Cossacks, the Mali Empire, Celtic Britain, so forth and etcetera, etcetera. So as noted, if it looks interesting, I will find a way to throw it and the kitchen sink in somewhere, and I have the issue that whenever I read a book about a new place or period, I go "hmm, I should figure out how to write something gay about this." Alas.

[life-of-kalos]

Welcome to the pokeask blog hunger games

Bellow, you will find the 24 contestants have been divided into pairs of 12 teams in hopes of being that last one standing in this brutal (and fake) fight to the death!

Tags and info will be under the cut ✂️

District 1: Oakwen from @flying-type-teacher and Rimi from @ask-the-shiny-pokemons

District 2: Vespa from @askvekpa and Perceus from @poniquest

District 3: Kanna from @perish-song and Parisa from @sinnohsiblings

District 4: Jet from @symphonies-of-silver and Zipporah from @the-last-of-alto-mare

District 5: Monarch from @the-sleepysiren and Zantzu from @ask-suicune

District 6: Wo from @the-feral-one and Morris from @askleaderscrest

District 7: Faun from @life-of-kalos (here) and Reshi from @lightofunova

District 8: Singularity from @singularity-and-co and Kyurem from @askthehoenngods

District 9: Roshi from @lustrous-dawn and Deo from @askdeoxys

District 10: Diane from @ask-diane and Abigail from @office-pokemons

District 11: Riddle from @ask-meowscarada and Altair from @starintheday

District 12: Matthew from @greedentstripes and Begonia from @ask-imaginary-dreamers

There were a small handful of those who submitted characters but we're included because of the limit. I apologize if you didn't get in but hopefully I'll do another later on so keep an eye out in the future!

Now for info;

Tag anything that has to do with this #pokeaskhungergames2024 and feel free to @ me too! You can draw/write/rp/ect for this if you'd like but honestly no pressure! I just think it's funny to see how it goes haha you can just sit back and watch if you want.

I will have a queue for the progression to post every 2 days. (If you do not want to be tagged every time just let me know) Day 1 will be posted on Sunday 03/31

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

[lbigreyhound13]

Pyro flapped his wings as quickly as he could sniffing the air amongst the smell of smoke and dust. He heard his rider calling to him through the network, but where was he? He managed to dodge any attacks from Central soldiers. They didn’t matter to him. All that mattered was finding Sven.

Meanwhile, Sven still found himself ducked behind some barrels in the alleyway in hopes of staying out of sight of the enemy. Jari still hadn’t woken up yet, and he was trying to listen for any sign that Pyro was coming.

Topside Turvy (Part 3)

[X]

Deo had also been thrown from the roof when the quakes had occurred thankfully unlike Sven and Jari she had managed to keep hold of the parapet and flip herself up after the quake. "The hel is going on down there?" She asked incredulously. Regardless, the quake had not just affected the rebellion and Central forces were now in a brief moment of disarray. Perfect opportunity for her and her Rangers to unleash hell on them.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Here's an update on the cockroach situation because no one asked for it and so here we go.

On Sunday, I was walking back home from the metro at 10 pm because I make poor choices. It was dark and drizzly, kind of like an armpit but with petrichor deo. That was an awful analogy, I am sorry. Now I happened to glance down, and voilà!

There was a cockroach on the road.

And so I stared at it and I said, out loud, "What's up, babygirl?" because this is my life now.

It tried to scuttle away. Rude. But that was fine. Sometimes cockroaches play hard to get. Like that one in the kitchen that I rizzed. I am NOT putting that post here. If you dare, go lurk through the blog of @therizzedupcockroach or one of the ten other cockroach blogs I accidentally spawned. It's an infestation.

So I pulled out my phone, as one does, and I said, "Babygirl wait I gotta take a photo for the tumblr maggots."

It did not heed me. It tried to scuttle again but i managed a couple of blurry pics. Most cockroaches are unused to the paparazzi.

Don't ask me why I called it babygirl.

The er photoshoot, as it were, is under the cut.

Uh.

Vogue WHO.

[viperiumprime]

ART FIGHT 25-32

We rolling along the Art Fight railroad, no breaks!

25. Warren and Triggs for @nanocolors and @l0afbread

26. Nyomi for @nyomileigh

27. Niko for midnightisded

28. Amenduhh for @amenduhh

29. Acer and Clover for @leafsaw

30. Soil for @surrialarts-blog

31. Az and Deo fir @shanicetjn

32. Grizzby for ladybeans

[tin-can-iron-man]

So, as has been clear for a while on this blog, I bought baldurs gate 3 in January of this year, after playing for a few days and falling completely in love with the game, I insisted my wife (the lovely hilarious beautiful etc etc @the-faultofdaedalus) also buy bg3 so that she can experience it and we can play together. (let it be known: we HAVE gone through the entire time at LEAST once before)

today, we were going back and forth between playing bg3 and watching shows the other hasn't seen before, recently I decided that I should show her a TV show that was near and dear to me in my childhood: My Name Is Earl.

having baldurs gate fresh on our minds whilst watching the show led us to making the joke (and. it was a joke, we've even made similar jokes about other shows such as Leverage before) that if Earl Hickey was a DND character, he would be a Paladin.

That is all context for what you are all about to see:

I would say I'm sorry, but then I would be lying...

"but Tin-Can-Iron-Man!" I hear you shout (my friends call me Deo btw) "I see you're playing this save file with your wife! Who is she playing as?"

Randy Hickey (Bard), obviously

(this is the only good shot that I have of that character model)

Earl is an oath of devotion paladin, but only because oath of redemption isn't available, meanwhile we only just played through the prologue, so Randys subclass hasn't been decided just yet.

We're not sure yet if this is just the DND versions of earl and randy or if they've been isekaied to faerun. either option is hilarious, so we'll probably just go back and forth between which one.

Well, anyway...

you know the kind of guy who does nothing but bad things and then wonders why his life sucks?

well, that was me. Every time something good happened to me, something bad was always waiting around the corner: karma

That's when I realized that I had to change.

I'm just trying to be a better person.

My name is Earl.

[church-history]

A brief comparison of the liturgical prayers of the TLM (traditional Latin Mass) and the Novus Ordo.

Most practicing Catholics know that major revisions were made to Roman Catholic Mass in 1969, but aside from the language of the liturgy, what has changed?

The Latin Mass has nearly twice as many prayers as the New Mass.

Orations

Of all the rotating prayers (orations) 83% are unique to the TLM. In the new missal, 669 of the original 1,273 orations have been removed, and of the remaining, only 13% were left unchanged.

Reverence

Even the number of times the priest kisses the altar, genuflects, and makes the sign of the cross, has been severely reduced

A Different Cycle of Scripture Readings

The new Roman missal has a three year cycle - a well intentioned attempt to expose the laity to more scripture in the Mass. However given the nature of the three year cycle, it's inevitable that the readings will not align as appropriately and succinctly as the specially chosen readings of the older one year cycle when it comes to specific feasts and the liturgical seasons, a choice of quantity over quality unfortunately.

I leave it to the reader to decide for his or herself whether the older one year or newer three year cycle is preferable.

The Last Gospel

Catholics who have never attended a Latin Mass may be surprised to learn that following communion and dismissal, there is a lengthy gospel reading called The Last Gospel (John 1:1-14).

Why the last Gospel?

From the notations of the 1962 Roman Daily Missal:

The Mass began with the longing cry of the Old Testament: "Send forth Thy light and Thy truth!" It could not be concluded in a more worthy and more sublime manner than with the words of St. John: "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory as of the Only-Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."

And according to Catholic author Msgr. George J. Moorman, in his book, The Latin Mass Explained:

This reading, in the course of time, was added to the Eucharistic service on account of the great reverence the early Christians entertained for this portion of the Gospel and because it contains a summary of the benefits of which we are made partakers through Christ’s Sacrifice. The service was introduced by the prayer of the priest: ‘Send forth Thy Light and Thy Truth!’ It could not be concluded in a more becoming manner than with the words, ‘AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.’ At the words ‘AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH’, the priest and the people kneel on one knee in token of adoration of the mystery of the Incarnation, which is expressed in these words, and to indicate that the Son of God came from Heaven to earth. When the priest has finished the reading of this Gospel, the server answers, ‘Deo Gratias’—‘Thanks Be To God.’ These are the last words of the Mass.

Unfortunately this beautiful gospel passage and it's place of honor have been completely removed in the New Mass, and it's omission may even (as a matter of personal opinion) have contributed to the enormous number of people who leave Mass early immediately following Holy Communion.

Conclusion

Dearest Reader, I have attempted to be objective and only present facts in the above, however it may be clear to those of you who are familiar with my blog, where my biases lay. I am a Latin Mass Catholic, I love the traditional liturgy and will never stop advocating for the timeless Mass of ages that has brought untold numbers of faithful to the Lord for over a millennia. However, I make no judgment on the faithful who prefer the New Mass, nor do I mean to suggest that the Novus Ordo is in any way invalid. I only ask that all consider the information I have compiled and do your own research, that you may come to your own well informed conclusions. God Love You!

If any have questions or further interest in the topic of the Traditional Latin Mass my DMs are open or you may send an 'ask', I will answer or redirect you to the best of my ability.

(Credit to The Mass of the Ages project for images above)