#ex-aequo

[frc-ambaradan]

«He's exquisitely good looking, from an aesthetic point of view: despite being based on every duck's standard model, he's immediately recognizable by the bowler hat and the distinctive whiskers that make him a unique and elegant character. Not to mention the glasses he wears low on the beak: making them "act" it's a great, constant exercise for an artist!»

Corrado Mastantuono, from Topolino #3581

[thebusylilbee]

me usually : french food is so overrated when it comes to salty food, I'll gladly accept the thought that we could be the best at baked goods and cheese and wine, but when it comes to actual meals we rely wayyy too much on meat 🙄 I'll eat lebanese or chinese or italian over french any day when it comes to a full meal !!

me today after eating the most delicious onion soup ive ever eaten in a french restaurant : oh my Gooood ?! oh my god ?!?! OH. MY. GOD !!! I understand now how France brainwashed the world 😭

[martinskiseyes]

niall had no business going this hard with "you can dance on your own. it's okay cause you're not alone. you can hide your love. you'll have your days in the sun"

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rede ex aequo denuncia tentativa de instrumentalização da comunidade LGBTI por parte de Israel

rede ex aequo denuncia tentativa de instrumentalização da comunidade LGBTI por parte de Israel: "A comunidade LGBTI não é um instrumento de justificação de genocídios e nunca se colocará ao serviço desta narrativa."

A rede ex aequo – associação de jovens lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, trans, intersexo e apoiantes – expressou em comunicado a sua oposição à tentativa de instrumentalização da comunidade LGBTI por parte de Israel. A organização condenou os crimes de guerra cometidos pelo exército israelita nos Territórios Palestinianos Ocupados, destacando a crescente situação de guerra em Gaza. No comunicado, a…

[jezatalks]

Is this friendship if there isn't any romantic tension between you and your friends ?

[quilveor]

And this one was done for a friend of mine, Radiant Rodent, in reaction to his own drawing of the blue kobold [Nimix] failing to play a panflute, trying to learn it to play with his friend.

and I was like "yeah, I have my own birb, who is a wannabe bard himself, and would definitely help out." So, Quyekrraouhsh time!

It was absolutely drawn late at night and i was rushing but i still like how it came out.

Quyeekrraouhsh, "Quick" for everyone, is a cleric of Fharlaghn, god of travels. He is the [not-literal] incarnation of wanderlust, living to travel, meet new people and learn new things. It is absolutely par the course to ask for a chance to wear a funny wizard hat just to help someone out. If Nimix had fur, he would ask to pet him instead!

Using Channel Divinity to buff performance, forgetting that it doesn't do anything since he's already proficient in flutes is also par the course, both for him and me, and I left it 'coz funny x]

[livresgay]

Le nouveau Dominique Faure est sorti

Ah, tellement j’étais pris dans mon maelstrom d’écriture, corrections, mise en page etc. que je suis passé à côté d’une date de sortie – celle du nouveau roman de Dominique Faure, Frédéric. Un amour infini, qui est intervenue le 2 décembre dernier. Je l’annonce donc solennellement aujourd’hui, avec toutes mes excuses… Il s’agit là d’une suite du roman Frédéric. Instants de grâce, paru en 2021 et…

[drawnecromancy]

And our final results five the win to "Two assholes scam a duchy into thinking they didn't do any murder (they did)", also known as my current main wip : Le Prix du Sang !

Where indeed, Hélianthe and Atropa manage to convince everyone they totally didn't destroy that village, and he totally isn't a vampire, and he's totally the local lord, don't worry about it.

Thank you all for playing, it was very fun !

Badly summarized WIPs poll

Tagged by @holdmyteaplease ! Thank youu~

Rules : post a poll badly summarizing your WIPs and let your followers pick their favorite one.

(at least that's what I gathered from reading a few posts, I haven't found anyone actually writing down the rules lmfao)

Okay, let's go ! I won't put all 36 of my WIPs in there though.

And now, tagging (as always no pressure + y'all might have been tagged in it before so) : @jezifster, @isabellebissonrouthier, @the-stray-storyteller aaaand OPEN TAG DO IT IT'S FUN I WANT TO SEE

[philon-awards]

Philon Awards 2024 Winners

(officially announced on 3 Nov 2024, at KiScon) Short fic (word count under 10K):  🏆 Gold: A Perfect Fit by ThereBeWhalesHere 🏆 Silver: And Filled With Tomorrows by Android_And_Ale

Long fic (word count 10K-50K):  🏆 Gold: Hurt by ThereBeWhalesHere 🏆  Silver: Please Don't Take Him Just Because You Can by spaceisgay (ChancellorGriffin)

Novella/novel (word count over 50K): 🏆 Gold: Regulatory Relations by indeedcaptain 🏆 Silver: I Shall Do Neither by onwhatcaptain

Podfic: 🏆 Gold: The 1,000 Hour Sleep (written by spqr) by cookiemom6067 🏆  Silver: I must confess (written by USS_Queertastic) by 1lostone

Traditional art: 🏆 Gold: The Ritual by Purple_Enma (Tumblr post) 🏆 (ex aequo) 🏆 Gold: Alright mr Spock by knezidon 🏆 (ex aequo) Silver: Spock's Tattoo by SButler (Shelley Butler)

Digital art: 🏆 Gold: Captains' Gambit (comic) by lorvee (Tumblr post) 🏆 Silver: By the Fireplace by lorvee

Poetry: 🏆 Gold: all of me, unguarded by indeedcaptain 🏆 Silver: blanket me by USS_Queertastic (BoldlyQueertastic)

Zines: 🏆 KiScon 2023 Official Zine (editor: 1lostone) (download link)🏆 Silver: Wild Heart – A NSFW AOS Spirk zine (editors: borbtrek, remylebae, nicbutnasty) (download link)

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Katniss

Assuagement - lessening the intensity of (something that pains or distresses)

Bister - a yellowish-brown to dark brown pigment used in art

Cinereous - resembling or consisting of ashes

Empiric - one who relies on practical experience

Evenhandedness - fairness

Ex aequo et bono - according to what is equitable and good

Ferae naturae - wild by nature; not usually tamed

Fulvous - of a dull brownish yellow; tawny

Heartsome - giving spirit or vigor

Ingle - a fire in a fireplace

Inweave - interweave, interlace

Lily-white - white as a lily; pure

Lynx-eyed - sharp-sighted

Oppugnation - opposition

Percipient - discerning

Pleach - interlace, plait

Rectitudinous - characterized by moral integrity

Restiveness - quality of stubbornly resisting control

Syllogism - a subtle, specious, or crafty argument; deductive reasoning

Travail - a physical or mental exertion

More: Word Lists

[thebusylilbee]

diversity win ! the secret agent pigeon is a bisexual !

[gab-has-adhd]

NO ONE CARES ABOUT GENTHRU AND I DON'T EITHER 🎉🎉🎉

I have gained the ability to do polls.

[kiscon]

PHILON AWARDS

KiScon is honoured to host the Philon Awards. Established by Jenna Sinclair and Shelley Butler in 1997, they were an annual event organised by The K/S Press to honour outstanding authors and artists in K/S fandom. With the permission and support of Jenna and Shelley, KiScon is resuming this beautiful tradition.

Philon Awards 2023 Winners (officially announced on 5 Nov 2023, at KiScon) Short fic (word count under 10K): 🏆 Gold: Spock 🖖 by vaksur & WerewolvesAreReal 🏆 Silver: One In A Myriad of Little Dwelling Places by CampySpaceSlime

Long fic (word count 10K-50K): 🏆 Gold: Red is by spirkme 🏆 (ex aequo) 🏆 Gold: Rain Dogs by gunstreet 🏆 (ex aequo) 🏆 Gold: Milk and Honey by spaceisgay (ChancellorGriffin) 🏆 (ex aequo) Silver: Untouched by SButler

Novella/novel (word count over 50K): 🏆 Gold: First, Best Destiny, Part Two by Ophelia_j 🏆 Silver: Time After Time by spaceisgay (ChancellorGriffin)

Podfic: 🏆 Gold: Communicators Can’t Scan (or, how Jim Kirk learned to stop worrying and love the Vulcanese) by 1lostone 🏆 (ex aequo) 🏆 Gold: Injured by 1lostone 🏆 (ex aequo) Silver: Interior Harmony by 1lostone

Traditional art: 🏆 Gold: Marooned? Honeymoon? Honeymarooned? by subterraneanna 🏆 Silver: Spock by the Pool by SButler

Digital art: 🏆 Gold: The Meddling Captain (Comic) by lorvee 🏆 Silver: Heaven… when I held you again. How could we ever just be friends? by BataSann

Poetry: ��� Gold: The Mountains I Climb by USS_Queertastic 🏆 Silver: Come Home With Me by ForFucksSakeJim

Zines: 🏆 Gold: The AOS Renaissance Zine 🏆 Silver: Legends #10 by Dovya Blacque (Ed.)

Philon Awards 2023 Shortlist (in alphabetical order of the title; shortlist based on the results of the nominations phase)

Short fic (word count under 10K):

An old earth custom by pkrosche

Can We Always Be This Close? by ForFucksSakeJim

Fatal Vision by ikoliholic

I [43M] wish to tell my friend [40M] that it’d be logical for us to get married by Smile_Edgeworth

One In A Myriad of Little Dwelling Places by CampySpaceSlime

Spock 🖖 by vaksur & WerewolvesAreReal

The Tropiest of Tropes by Spirkme

Long fic (word count 10K-50K):

already, and always by flipthebits

Catspaw of Another Kind by Borealisblue

Distance of Time by yassifiedjimkirk

Home in a Mug by Lizzy0305

Milk and Honey by spaceisgay (ChancellorGriffin)

Rain Dogs by gunstreet

Red is by spirkme

Reservations — A Sequel to Desire/Reserve by Herself_nyc

Social Graces by gunstreet

The Prince and The Vulcan by TonightNoPoetryWillServe

Untouched by SButler

Variations on a bitter theme by OrpheaAria

Novella/novel (word count over 50K):

First, Best Destiny, Part Two by Ophelia_j

The Promised Land by gunstreet

This Must Be the Place by gunstreet

Time After Time by spaceisgay (ChancellorGriffin)

to assess the equation of you by uhuraprime

Podfic:

Communicators Can’t Scan (or, how Jim Kirk learned to stop worrying and love the Vulcanese) by 1lostone

For the Greater Good by cookiemom6067

Injured by 1lostone

Interior Harmony by 1lostone

Mistletoe Kisses by 1lostone

Traditional art:

AOS Spock Portrait by Nic

Blooming Kiss by Purple_Enma

Marooned? Honeymoon? Honeymarooned? by subterraneanna

Spock by the Pool by SButler

Spock's Lyre by lorvee

The Golden Couple by Purple_Enma

Digital art:

A little sweet, a little spicy: k/s gingerbread cookies by PageofWands

Heaven… when I held you again. How could we ever just be friends? by BataSann

The Honeymoon Postcard by lorvee

The Meddling Captain (Comic) by lorvee

TOS Kirk/Spock in SNW Dress Uniforms by BataSann

Poetry:

Asleep by alainanmccoy

Come Home With Me by ForFucksSakeJim

Diamonds for You by Orabla

I’m the X (Reprise) by eigenvectrix

The Mountains I Climb by USS_Queertastic

Zines:

The AOS Renaissance Zine 

Legends #10 by Dovya Blacque (Ed.)

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rede ex aequo anuncia segunda edição do 'ex aequo fm' e promete encher o Porto de música, arte e diversidade LGBTI+

rede ex aequo anuncia segunda edição do 'ex aequo fm' e promete encher o Porto de música, arte e diversidade LGBTI+

A comunidade LGBTI e seus apoiantes têm um motivo para comemorar, pois a rede ex aequo anuncia a tão aguardada realização da segunda edição do “ex aequo fm“. Este evento musical e artístico é dedicado a jovens entre os 16 e os 30 anos e visa proporcionar uma celebração vibrante da diversidade. Depois da primeira edição em Coimbra, no dia 18 de novembro, a Casa d’Artes do Bonfim no Porto será o…

[al-hekima-madara-blog]

Is Madara weaker than Hashirama?

Call me a Madara apologist but the idea that Hashirama always beats Madara is wrong.

It is correct though to say that after Izuna's death, Madara was never able to catch up with his rival. All his will was about protecting his kin and specifically his last brother. When he lost all of that, yes he found an other goal corrupted by Black Zetsu, but because it was so different from his true nature, it wasn't able to push him enough to surpass Hashirama. The infinite Tsukuyomi is a way to cope with the loss of his hopes that died along his brother. You notice how it lacks creativity, all the plan was written down step by step by black Zetsu and it consisted for Madara to just froze the whole world into a dream and stop fighting anymore to make the world a better place. Also I won't be surprised if Madara developed this fangirling for Hashirama's power after his defeat at the Valley of the end. If we're honest, the gap between them isn't that big considering how both of them were exhausted in the Valley of the end 0.0. It was one wooden clone close, if I may say! But this small difference was lethal and changed the whole history of the shinobi world. And maybe Madara crystallised (or froze) that moment as a trauma he can't overcome. It's as if for instance Naruto gives up working harder after losing against Sasuke at the Valley of the End 1.0 and fantasizing how powerful was Sasuke's sharingan and that it is the ultimate dojutsu that he has to steal in order to become stronger. To put in a nutshell I believe that if Izuna was still alive and his clan still supporting him, maybe Madara wouldn't have been so impressed by Hashirama and would have found new way to counter his mokuton ( and there is a lot of way to counter it I should write a post about it🤔). It's always the same pattern with Madara, his actual weakest point is his sensitivity, not his physical abilities or his might. Losses and failures had a huge toll on him and brought him into despair rather than being a fuel to try harder and endure like Hashirama or Naruto.

There is this moment during the war when Madara stole Edo Hashirama's senjustu and he's shocked how easy it is for him to control it. All those years he was scared to master the Senjutsu because he put Hashirama's power on a pedestal only to realise he could have done it earlier if he had believed in himself. We don't know how fast the training was for Hashirama but we know that it took a long time for Naruto to master it at the mount Myoboku even Jiraya was never able to get the perfect form. Madara did it in 3 sec...

In other translation he precises he thought senjutsu was harder to master

"Madara's back touched the ground for the very first time"

Let's go back to the first illustration. between their first encounter by the river and Izuna's death. Hashirama admitted that it's the first time Madara was K-O.

What can we guess about that? From the moment they met when they were 12 years old by the river to approximately 25/26 years old (Izuna died at 24). They might have been moment when they finished ex aequo, or that one side strategically retreated or that Madara had a real advantage over Hashirama and vice versa Hashirama took the lead in a different battle. Why? Because we saw that dynamic played between Sasuke and Naruto. Sasuke was first introduce as the genius while Naruto like the dunce. After Jiraya's training, Naruto lead. Then Sasuke took over after the valley of the end 1.0 and his three years training with Oroshimaru. During the 4th Shinobi war we can say that they were both equal with a small advantage to Naruto having a quick power up when he learnt to work with Kyubi. Then Hagoromo gave them the same power in order to beat Sage Madara and later Kaguya. After the Valley of the end 2.0, Sasuke conceded victory to Naruto's ideology but technically they both ended up equal, losing both an arm. And all of this is happening during a short period of 5 years from their 12 years old in team 7 to 17 years old at the conclusion of the Fourth Shinobi war.

What Naruto and Sasuke developed in 5 years during 700 chapters we have it resumed in this single panel above for Hashirama and Madara that spent about 15 YEARS fighting each other regularly in battlefields. That panel resumes perfectly all those years before Konoha was founded. All this period without seeing details about their personal lives, their clans or their training. ~by the way my fanfic ~Madara golden Age explores this period of Warring state era if you're interested here 👀~ Obviously they went through a lot of challenges and hardships, losses and victories from both side. If Uchiha were hired to fight Senju it's because their strength were heavenly equivalent. Madara had to win from time to time against Hashirama and the Senju clan in order to be credible, to be hired by warlords for years and to feed his clan. Life expectancy being 30 years and both becoming leader of their clan before reaching this age means they respectively lost clansmens, friends and their fathers during the warring state era. They are the powerhouse they are because it was a dire matter of life or death. Yet Naruto the manga is focused on the moment Madara lost everything that matters to him, so naturally he kept losing against Hashirama hence why he's seen as a perpetual loser. Being the main villain, it's normal that his fall into darkness is more interesting to the plot that his glorious days. In the end, the story is always written by the final winner.

[acribistica]

Una giornata che finalmente si riaggiustava dopo un mese di sofferenze inaudite è stata rovinata da notizie che non ho chiesto di ricevere, o comunque non nei loro particolari infimi e più turpi. Solo la laurea con tutti i relativi riconoscimenti – tappa obbligata, altrimenti mi sarei fatta fuori – lo salva dall’essere il peggior anno della mia vita ex aequo col 2016 facendolo slittare in seconda posizione. E di certo non a causa dei comuni avvenimenti che chiunque comunemente esperirebbe in questo secolo nel mondo occidentale. Ormai è anche sciocco ragionare secondo gli anni solari, in realtà, per quanto è innegabile che danno almeno l’illusione di un’interruzione cronologica delle nefandezze. Credevo che essendomi lasciata alle spalle un ambiente familiare di violenza quotidiana durata 28 anni la chiave di volta stesse appesa alla serratura. Invece i provvedimenti del tutto straordinari che è stato necessario prendere per mettere un punto a quella fase hanno assestato un colpo durissimo e imprevisto alla mia quotidianità. In primis ne ha risentito la salute e di solito la salute non mi fa sconti. Poi sono intervenute tante di quelle altre variabili che anche solo sapere di non poter comunicare perché susciterebbero incredulità, scherno, stigmatizzazione e totale emarginazione mi uccide. Gli psicologi che circolano dalle mie zone, ho scoperto, sono tutti grossomodo pagliacci. In ogni caso non potrei permettermi una psicoterapia in pianta stabile. Non c’è una conclusione a queste mie considerazioni. È anche disgustosamente eufemistico dirmi estenuata da tutto, malattie al primo posto indiscusso, sempre e comunque. Non so in cosa sperare e se augurarmi niente. Sto campando solo per l’università, non potendo neanche fruirne come vorrei (e come sarebbe stato ovvio), e per i recenti successi. Sto campando per il prof C presidente di commissione che reincontrandomi in corridoio mi ha riproclamato scherzosamente e informalmente, dato che durante la proclamazione gli avevo negato per dimenticanza la stretta di mano. Sto campando per i complimenti del prof S, per la predilezione gentile accordata dalla prof C e per la disponibilità al dialogo che oggi ha dimostrato il prof D nonostante non lo reputi chissà quanto capace nella didattica. Sto campando per gli svariati momenti memorabili con relatore che purtroppo è tutto meno che la persona integra che ero certa che fosse, e anche questo rappresenta uno dei dolori recenti, di difficilissima assimilazione. Francamente non immaginerei nessuno, al mio posto, se non altre persone molto malate e soprattutto cronicamente, senza cure e senza prospettive di cure, arrabattarsi nell’esistenza in modo migliore, ammesso che si possa assegnare un giudizio di valore che in fondo non può esserci, perché semplicemente si riduce tutto al non rimanerci sotto, a non crepare. Mi sorprendo e mi risulta immensamente straniante pensare a quanta resistenza psichica io abbia dimostrato nel corso di questi lunghissimi dieci anni di puro dolore. Sono diventata altro da me infinite volte e mamma mia, che banalizzazione estrema e ridicola metterla in questi termini a fronte di ciò che realmente è ed è stato.