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emeritusemeritus · 8 months ago

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The Artist and the Entrepreneur part 2

Part 1

Title: The Artist and the Entrepreneur Part 2.

Pairing: Fred Weasley x Artist!Reader {Established Relationship}

Timeline: Timeline is a little wonky (picturing it OOTP just before the twins departure but there’s no war/no Umbridge)

Warnings: ANGST. Sadness, breakups, illusions to cheating, breakup references. Happy ending I promise! Talks of marriage, proposals, Hagrid and his creatures, Fang being the goodest boy. Lots of tears and sadness but it gets better! Not beta read nor spellchecked, apologies for any mistakes.

Word count: 3.5k [part 1&2= 8.2k]

You don't know how long you sit there crying with your pal by your side for every moment but eventually the tears begin to slow, your breath finally evening out though your heart still pounds, much like your head. Fang lifts his head slightly, his big eyes peering into yours and you give him a thankful smile through the tears, even if he doesn't know exactly what you're trying to convey. He gives your arm a little nudge and in your near delusional state, you assume that it's a reply to your thankfulness. You chuckle, giving him a good scratch of appreciation on his wrinkled forehead at the absurdity of the situation, but you'd be forever thankful that of all things, Fang was the only one that had held you together in your darkest moment.

It was nearly dark now and you knew that you'd have to move soon, to complete the favour for Hagrid even if your side of the bargain was now moot. You walk over to the cupboard and find fang's food, giving him a healthy amount in his bowl and replacing his water so that it was fresh. You know better than to disturb the oversized hound when he was eating and so you set to preparing yourself for the task, reaching into various cupboards and pulling out the equipment you'd need as Fang ate his dinner in peace.

To say you were in complete misery would almost be an understatement as you trudged down the path towards the tree line of the forbidden forest with fang dutifully beside you. Almost as it acting on autopilot, you made your way to the small dell in the woods where you'd been coming twice a day at least for the past two weeks, your side of the bargain with Hagrid.

You opened the gate to the wooden pen, fully equipped with the fire retardant boots and long sleeved gloves that Hagrid had given you and reached for the bucket at the end of the pen, scooping up the vile contents and leaned over the inner pen to dump out the contents into the little trough. Immediately the inhabitants of the pen came scuttling out, their glittering shells creating a magnificent display of light even in the limited lamp light.

The firecrabs scuttled on their six legs towards the food and instantly began nibbling at the food you'd laid out as you kept yourself back from being in the firing line of their flames. You'd already been caught out a few times, most notably on the side of your neck where you now sported a very sore and angry pink mark that had inadvertently caused the worst heartache of your life. You looked at the beguiling creatures, so beautiful and yet grotesque and wondered how in the hell you ended up here. You were covered almost head to toe in a slimy gel like substance that Hagrid had warned you always to use to protect your skin if you ended up in the line of fire. An old and grimy hat sat upon your head to protect your hair and though your robes were naturally fireproof, hagrid had provided an old coat for you to wear that he'd found in lost property. You looked dreadful, felt worse, but at least you were warm.

A little sparkle of fire caught your eye and you noticed one of the firecrabs becoming slightly aggressive with another. Usually Hagrid would step in at this point, telling you to stay clear back as he broke apart the two crabs but he wasn't here tonight and the duty fell on you. Fang barked at the sight and you were quick to silence him, not wanting to attract any other creatures from the forest. You quickly leapt over the pen and made yourself known to the crabs, careful to avoid any unnecessary burns and pulled the two fiery crabs apart with a definitive shove, your over emotional day causing you to lose all patience and therefore take necessary action without the hindrance of fear or emotion.

You climbed out of the pen, breathing heavily from inhaling the smoke around the two flaming crabs and dumped the bucket back beside the food pen, wanting to get away as soon as possible, hoping that Hagrid would already be back with the kettle brewing. You dumped the protective gloves and the hat on the side of the food pen and pulled out your wand to rid yourself of the suffocating gel that covered every inch of bare skin with a simple charm, though you'd need to bathe to really be rid of it. You kept the boots on for good measure, not wanting to dirty your shoes on the walk back up to the hut.

Fang guided you back to the tree line of the forbidden forest with you trailing a little behind, hardly able to drag your body any faster. Your stomach growled loudly at you and you realised that you'd barely eaten anything today, from your quick exit at breakfast to the skipped lunch which left no time to eat. Once you were clear of the trees, you let out a deep sigh at getting a clear view of the castle, dreading what was waiting for you inside. Instead, you looked towards Hagrid's hut and froze when you saw that all too familiar figure awaiting for you once more.

You didn't want to continue walking towards him but had nowhere to escape to other than back to the forest which was definitely not an option on your own. You didn't want to do this here, or now, with no energy left and your body crying out for rest. You were depleted of all energy, running on hardly any sleep and no food. At least you wouldn't have to stay up late into the night for your stupid project anymore.

"Taken up chimney sweeping in your spare time have you?" He jokes, no doubt seeing the soot on your face from the quarrreling crabs.

"Fred, can we not do this now," you say with a dismissive sigh, opening the door to the hut for fang who happily trotted in, collapsing into his soft bed so easily that it made you jealous, wanting nothing more than to do that yourself. Hagrid still hadn't returned and you briefly considered just walking inside the hut and locking the door behind you in a feeble attempt to make Fred and all your problems go away.

"Please," he says, his tone much calmer now, almost pleading with you. "You have every right to be mad at me, I should have never said that to you."

"You mean you shouldn't have said it out loud," you quip, knowing exactly what he was referring to.

"No," he says quickly, running his hands through his hair in frustration. "I never meant.. that. You know how much you mean to me, you're, well you're everything."

"Only in the bedroom," you snark, not dropping the hatred from your voice, hardly able to look at him.

"No, sweetheart please, you don't, you know I didn't," he says, sounding more contrite than you'd ever heard him, his hands reaching for you one again in an almost desperate scramble.

"No Fred, I don't," you snap, your emotions no longer able to be contained. "It's not just about your stupid comment or how it's made over four years of our relationship a cheap joke! I don't know anything anymore!"

You take a deep breath to steady yourself, voice quivering once again with your emotions, somewhat thankful that Fred doesn't even attempt to interrupt or interject. Despite the steadiness of your breath, your emotions quickly get the better of you and you can't help but let it all out, the mounting misery of the past two weeks free flowing now as the barricades shatter around you.

"Everyday for two weeks I've been looking after those sodding firecrabs for Hagrid so I'd have somewhere to work! Up at 5 everyday to come down here to clean and feed those evil like tortoises then back again after dinner. I've barely had time for my homework, I'm behind in every class, Snape's threatened detention all of next week because I fell asleep during his lecture on the history of cauldrons and their importance, like I give a single sodding shit! I've been avoiding you because I could never explain why I'd been doing it and it was harder to lie to you when I'm so exhausted all I wanted is to crawl into your lap and fall asleep because you're the only person that brings me comfort. I did all of this for you and all that it did was ruin everything!" You voice breaks as tears begin to stream down your face once more and you no longer care to hold it together in front of him, the pain no longer able to be contained.

"I ruined everything," you sniff, "I lost you. I tried so hard and all I did was push you away, I lost you." You sniffle again and your voice comes out weaker every time, voice breaking almost completely. "There was never anyone else. And now Angelina gets to take my place and I'm lost Fred, I don't know what to do without you. I was just trying to do something nice."

Your voice breaks one final time and you can no longer talk as a sob breaks through. Within seconds Fred has his arms around you. He holds you tightly to his chest, allowing you to sob into the material of his robe as his strong arms hold you together. His hand reaches up to stroke your hair and it only makes you cry harder for a few moments before it evens out again as Fred holds you still. You can hear him shushing you gently, cooing almost as he stands unwavering, letting you cry it out. Once your sobs stop, he reaches out to hold either side of your voice, forcing you to look up at his face. Even through your somewhat blurry eyes you can see that he'd been crying too, glistening lines trailing down his face and onto his nose, eyes a little puffy and lined with red.

"Sssh sweetheart, you didn't lose me, I'm right here," he says gently, imploring you with his eyes. Your lip wobbles as his words slowly sink in, the faint glimmers of hope and relief beginning to ignite within you.

"I'm right here," he assures you, thumb reaching out to wipe away another falling tear from under your left eye. "I'm not going anywhere, ever."

His own voice is strained and you can tell he's holding back, even as your grip loosens on him, feeling suddenly more steady as you begin to believe his words.

"I've loved you since the moment I saw you wearing my jumper to the quidditch match back in second year, I swear. You're it for me, the minute me and George make a killing at the shop I'm putting a ring in your finger like you deserve and making you my wife as soon as mum's talking to us again."

You can't help but let out a little chuckle at his words, watching as his face erupts in a little smile, knowing that he'd broken through your sorrow. You knew how Molly felt about their business and the inevitable rupture it was going to cause with them leaving their education early to pursue their dreams. Eventually she'd talk to them again, though you didn't know when.

He turns slightly more serious again, a little frown tugging at his brows.

"I can't believe you'd ever think that I could replace you. I've been such a bloody idiot," his head dropping slightly as he speaks. "This morning outside potions, I never meant for it to turn into that. I really was just asking you to the black lake. I just wanted my girl back, to tell her about how George had invited Angelina last night and how I saw them snogging when I came back from getting those good rocks from the bottom."

You look at him with wide eyes, your problems momentarily forgotten as you gasp at his disclosure, earning a wicked smile in return at your outburst.

"No way!"

Hearing his chuckle once again brings a smile to your face and in mere seconds his hands are sneaking around your waist, a much more comfortable affair, just as they used to.

"I tell you I want to marry you and the biggest reaction I get is to telling you about your future brother in law snogging someone! Typical!"

You reach out and give him a delicate swat on the shoulder before you bite the bullet and lean up to kiss him. It's one of those kisses that takes your breath away almost instantly, the power and the meaning behind the kiss so prudent. It's a reconciliation, an absolution and a forgiveness all in one. Your tears are long forgotten now as you hold on to each other closely, the playfulness and the connection between you having been cemented once again.

When you pull away, he's smiling. That special smile that seems as if it's only for you, eyes shimmering and looking greener than ever against the slightly red rimmed eyelids.

"Calm down Freddie, it's not like you proposed," you taunt with a playful roll of your eyes that makes him squeeze you tightly in reply.

"Maybe it was," he jokes with a playful raise of his eyebrows, earning a little nudge from you.

"You could at least wait until I'm not filthy and covered in soot," you joke, knowing that your face is probably covered.

"You look like a Weasley already," he beams, his smile only widening when he hears you bark out a laugh at the unexpected quip. "Want to head back to the castle?"

You nod, only to pause a moment later when you realise with a building amount of guilt that you had never finished your project, needing it for tomorrow. Your stomach growls loudly in protest at the prospect of missing dinner again and you're torn between what needs doing and what you want to do.

"Ah y/n! Hope those firecrabs didn't give yer much trouble. Fred, good to see yer! Happy birthday! How'd you like yer present? Spent weeks on it y/n has!" Hagrid bellows, appearing as if from nowhere, nodding his head excitedly as he steps inside the hut greeting fang. You sigh, not even slightly annoyed at the disclosure of your secret even after you'd tried so hard to conceal.

Fred's eyes widen, eyebrows raising as he smirks at you devilishly, acting like the cat that got the cream.

"My present eh?" He smirks, swaying you from side to side as his arms slip around your waist once more.

"Yes your present, for your birthday... tomorrow," you taunt, not giving him any hints. He whines like a petulant child but you simply roll your eyes, not giving anything away.

"But I've been such a good boy this year."

"You probably haven't, and I'm not Santa," you counter with a smirk, winning a kiss from him though you know it's just to shut you up.

"So that's what you've been doing? You've been making my present?" He says, no longer joking as he looks down at you with soft eyes, a stark comparison to the look you wish to forget from earlier. You nod, not wanting to give anything away. His hand comes up to your chin and cups it gently, pressing a delicate kiss to your lips, his way of a precursory thank you.

"If you hate it it's completely fine, I can change anything," you say, leading both Fred and George down to Hagrid's hut where their gifts are waiting for them.

"Princess," Fred warns, stopping you from spiralling.

"You know we'll love it," George says trailing slightly behind. "Especially because you made it, and we know you love us," he jokes with a wide grin.

"Some more than others," you bite back, earning a playful shove from the slightly younger twin and a loud chuckle from the elder.

"Baby, I can't, you..."

"Merlin y/n."

You'd never heard the twins speechless before and you wished more than ever that you could take a photo of their faces, to capture the moment you stole their words from them.

"You really did this? For us?" George asks, looking at you in bewilderment, his fingers sliding across the top of the sign that you'd so proudly painted. You nodded, tears beginning to rise as you look at your beloved twins looking at you with so much thankfulness and adoration that it makes it hard to breathe.

In front of you, displayed on thick boards are posters for all of their products, ready made and free to use for their shop. You'd designed all the packaging and promotion for them, even included their likeness on the skiving snack boxes poster that you were actually rather proud of. You were surrounded by a symphony of colour set against the muted pallet of Hagrid's hut. The posters were as fun filled and dramatic as their products and from everything they'd ever told you about their plans for the shop, you knew they'd fit right in.

"You have no idea how much this means to me," George says, suddenly turning all emotional at your gift. He reaches for you and pulls you into a strong hug that feels eerily similar and yet so different to his twin but nevertheless you sink into the hug with a smile. "Best present ever," he says when you both break apart, "can't wait for you to be my sister."

George turns to look at Fred who had remained eerily quiet and senses that it's time for him to leave, reaching for your shoulder to give it a little squeeze as he leaves you too alone. You look on hesitantly towards Fred who still stares at the paintings in front of him, his face incredibly hard to read in that moment.

"I'm sorry if you hate them," you say in a quiet voice, his extended silence suddenly making you anxious.

He turns upon hearing your voice and silently makes his way over to you, his eyes fixed upon yours until the last moment when his hands reach out for your jaw as he captured your lips in a blazing kiss. You're caught off guard but steady yourself quickly, kissing him back with as much need and affection as he's giving you.

He pulls away and there's a desperation in his eyes that you can't place, as if his mind is ticking over with juxtaposing thoughts.

"Marry me."

"What?" You ask, the breath completely knocked out of you.

"Marry me," he says again, the clarity in his eyes nearly forcing your knees to buckle. "I know I'm supposed to be down on one knee with a beautiful ring to tempt you," he says quickly, eyes shining. You let out a breath of laughter at his words, as if you'd ever need anything to tempt you towards marrying him.

"You deserve all of that and I'll give you all that and more, anything you want in life is yours. But this," he pauses, gesturing to the artwork around him. "You astound me everyday with your creativity and your talent, but not just that, with your generosity and your thoughtfulness. I know I'm impulsive and don't always think far enough ahead but I've never been more certain, never seen things as clearly as I do right now. I want to spend my life with you, I want to wake up everyday with you by my side and to go to sleep holding you every single night. I never want to feel like I did yesterday and it's only made me more certain that I need you to be my wife. I know we're young and we can keep it secret until the time is right, even from George. Marry me."

You leap forward the second his lips have stopped moving, throwing your arms around his neck as your lips fiercely claim his, a proclamation of your love and a wordless acceptance of his proposal.

"Yes Fred Weasley, I'll marry you!"

His smile is wider than you'd ever seen it as he places another kiss upon your lips, hardly able to kiss as your smiles are too wide, too contagious, the promise of forever sounding too perfect.

You pull away, still smiling like fools as you giggle at the sudden turn of events, a new secret to hide but this time it wouldn't come between you both.

"Well if some painting get me a proposal, wait till you see the window displays I've drawn up," you smirk, leading him by the hand out of Hagrid's hut and out onto the grounds for a walk, the past behind you and the future to look forward to.

#emeritusemeritus #emeritusemerituswrites #harry potter #fred weasley #fred weasley x reader #fred weasley x you #fred weasley imagine #fred weasley masterlist #Fred weasley request #request #requests completed #requests

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god-i-love-opossums · 1 month ago

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hannigram fic idea: hannibal is a flourine molecule and will is a carbon molecule and they merge to create C8, Perfluorooctanoic acid or PFOA, a forever chemical used products such as flame retardant and non stick cookwear. The chemicals have been see to lead to cancer and birthdefects. The chemical is a forever chemical because the Flourine is an atom with 7 valence elections, one electron away from a full shell, making it highly reactive. Hannibal is close to having everything: he's rich, he has a successful career, he gets away with his muders, and he gets his feasts. Theres one thing missing however-- hannibal's lonely. He has 7 valence electrons and once he gets his 8th, his person, he's never letting go. Carbon has 4 valence electrons, far from a complete shell. It's not nearly as reactive as flourine, parallel to will who starts the show subdued and comparatively non reactive. Once will and hannibal meet and bond, there is no separating or destorying their relationship. The two always come back together and are never fully able to break their bond, just like C8. Additionally, hannibal and will together are bad for the earth just like C8 is, killing and mutilating humans around the world. The FBI is DuPont, the chemical company that created C8 and unleashed it upon the earth, and Jack is Roy J Plunkett, the chemist who created C8. Jack and the FBI brought hannibal and will together like how Roy J Plunkett and DuPont brought carbon and flourine together.

#this probably doesn’t make sense #idc #it makes sense to me #i like my brain ok #let me be me #i hope yall like this #chemistry #hannibal #hannigram #hannibal show #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannibal lecter #crack fic

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gobbogoo · 2 years ago

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Everything We Know About Who Pyro Is/Was:

Obviously Pyro remains ⁠⁠⁠an enigma and I'm not going to pretend I have much in the way of definitive proof, however there ARE aspects of their background we can reasonably assume based on the skills and behaviours Pyro displays. First and foremost, we need to understand the extent of the disconnect between their consciousness and reality. Most folks understand it as mainly auditory and visual hallucination, however if you look at side-by-side moments in Meet The Pyro, you'll realize that there's a clear disconnect between Pyro's physical stance:

What Pyro believes they are doing with their body and what their body is actually doing can be entirely disconnected. Furthermore, if you listen closely to Pyro's more comprehensible dialogue, you'll notice that what they say lines up more with what they're actually doing, and not what they THINK they're doing:

Put together, this implies Pyro possesses not just a disconnect from reality, but also a full-blown division of personality. There's Conscious Pyro, who is the bundle of joy frolicking through Pyroland, and then there's Unconscious Pyro, who is the maniacal murderer actively interacting with reality. Both of these personalities seem to play a factor in Pyro's behaviour. While Conscious Pyro clearly seems to possess a degree of control over how they act in Pyroland, the fact that all those actions also happen to be very effective methods of murder in the real world says that Unconscious Pyro is steering these decisions.

Now, these two are not ALWAYS so disconnected or extreme. When not actively burning things, Pyro's perceived reality seems to line up more closely with what's actually happening from a visual, auditory, and physical standpoint:

Conscious Pyro's whimsy and Unconscious Pyro's murderousness both seem to drastically tone down in these circumstances, however both never fully go away. Pyro is ALWAYS capable of extreme violence/destruction:

Speaking of extreme violence, Conscious Pyro DOES share Unconscious Pyro's capacity and willingness to cause harm. This implies that the difference between the personalities' behaviour is more-so the result of their perceived environments, not demeanour.

To summarize, Pyro's disconnect from reality becomes more powerful when in the presence of fire/destruction, and this causes a divergence in Pyro's perceived and presented personalities. Moving on to in-game lore, it is stated that Pyro built/improvised the majority of their weapons (mainly out of stuff found in a garage.) This is immediately clear if you look at the individual components of their flamethrower:

The primary exception to this is their shotgun, which is a standard weapon they nonetheless operate with a trained familiarity:

Building a flamethrower is no easy feat. Besides being extremely complicated and dangerous, all information regarding flamethrower construction and schematics are strictly controlled by the U.S. government. Therefore I'd say it isn't much of a leap to suggest that Pyro's ability to construct and operate improvised military-grade incendiary weaponry must have been the result of formal training.

This is further supported by the fact that their flame-retardant suit is not equipment provided by Mann Co, as they continue to wear it even after being fired. All this together implies that before becoming a mercenary, Pyro had a job that provided them with both the knowledge and tools of an incendiary specialist. This more-or-less confirms that Pyro was not ALWAYS so insane, as at some point they were considered stable enough to be trusted with such a dangerous job. Since Pyro seemingly hasn't taken the suit off since that job, it can be deduced that whatever triggered or inflicted the madness they now suffer from must have occurred during their service. It would also explain why all of Pyro's incendiary weapons are homemade while their suit is standard-issue. After being fired they obviously weren't allowed to keep any weaponry, meaning they had to construct their own.

There are a lot of ways to interpret all of this, but my personal theory is that Pyro was at one point part of some Cold War experiment. One that sought to disconnect soldiers from the reality of their actions during combat, while ALSO allowing them to operate with brutal efficiency. Considering this was the era of the Vietnam War, a way to make soldiers not feel guilty or resentful while being ordered to commit atrocities would have been an invaluable tool for the USA's military. Pyro being a highly trained candidate for such an experiment is the only explanation I can think of for how they could be simultaneously highly trained in incendiary weaponry AND be too blatantly insane to ever justify such training. This would ALSO explain why Pyro is both so frighteningly dangerous and unstable, yet still somehow employable as a mercenary. While extreme, they remain capable of understanding and following instructions from superiors. Even if said instructions have to be delivered in a slightly different manner:

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #headcanon #tf2 pyro #pyro tf2 #pyro #tf2 comics #tf2 lore #Youtube

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stua · 29 days ago

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Sentimos que esta tela encaja con nuestra personalidad, ya que es atemporal.

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#stua #design #jesus gasca #furniture #interior design #chair #spain #interiors

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specialagentartemis · 2 years ago

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📂 for the murderbot diaries?

The "Corporation Rim" isn't a single political entity; it's a group of alliances and coalitions of hypercapitalist governments and corporations that function like governments that are culturally, economically, and politically affiliated, but they contain dozens if not hundreds of polities and their holdings that are bound primarily by treaties and contracts not to fuck each other over too badly lest the whole superstructure collapse.

Though they act like they're the majority of the galaxy and freeholds barely exist, only like 40% of the galaxy's population lives on Corporation Rim planets. There are so many non-corporate planets, from the adjacent but not directly affiliated Mihira and New Tideland and wherever Don Abene comes from, to the planets with an internal commercial economy primarily doing their own thing like the planets of the Divarti Cluster, to the fully we-don't-truck-with-corporate-nonsense like the Preservation Alliance, to the abandoned colony planets that have been living their lives without outward interference for decades or even centuries when they got cut off. Preservation has robust trade relations with the many other independent planets that dot hubward space. The Corporate planets just have a hard time believing you can do your own thing, politically and economically, without being part of the corporate world. Why wouldn't you want to? We have EIGHTY ONE brands of soda and you don't even need to pay THAT much extra to get artisanal organic ones without flame retardant in it!

#asks #chahaa-piun-ja #The Murderbot Diaries #most of these are gonna be noodling worldbuilding ideas. Sorry

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katy-133 · 1 year ago

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Spy's Rally - Character Analysis

We have TF2 fan Shork (YouTube behind the scenes video) to thank, but a deleted Spy monologue from a scrapped version of Meet the spy has been uncovered, featuring the voice of Spy's voice actor, Dennis Bateman.

You can listen to it below:

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Here is a transcript of the speech:

Our's is a mean, dark, old world, where some say, a man can be whatever he's man enough to be. I'm here to tell you there are limits. I have no doubt that your hometown bars, alleys, churches and whorehouses are safer tonight for your absence. Alone, any of you bad men could be the Caesar of his local sewer. So what? Your individual strengths--Speed, accuracy, brawn, brain, rage, flame retardancy--are matched by weaknesses we need not detail. Disorder, the natural state of nature, is cheap to create, costly to overcome. But you've put pain to that debt. Nature abhors a team, gentlemen. And together, we bold few, we unnatural brothers, are going to seize Mother Nature by the throat, and choke the whole world out of that sorry bitch! [End of transcript]

So going line by line, there's information on Spy's character we can gather from this.

Spy sees the world as "mean and dark". Old and primal. A place where power is what allows you to gain ground.

The line about "whorehouses" makes me believe that this is a speech Spy gave before he fully knew the mercs as people (rather than as classes with strength/weakness statistics), because we know canonically, Scout is not going there. The fan animation (by animator AltraNade) for Spy's speech also has Spy pointedly look at Scout in particular when he says the word, so I don't even think Spy knows that Scout is his son at this point in the timeline.

The line about Caesar is a variation of the English idiom, "You can be a blip in the world, or you can own the pond." (This is one variation of the expression I've heard--there's many paraphrases.) The idiom can be interpreted as looking at the pros of containing your reach of power, versus the cons of trying to extend your power over more and more range, and how power (the amount you have) can be a matter of perspective. Here, Spy is using it to say how pointless it is to be on your own to try and seize power. Power over what? A single Control Point? A single piece of farmland? You need more organisation and discipline to think bigger, Spy is saying.

"Nature abhors a team" is such a telling line to me, because it gives us insight to how Spy views the world. He believes that life and people are naturally lone beings who are motivated by just their own needs. Therefore, forming a team with others is going against nature. It takes work, it's "costly," but makes you stronger because you are a part of something bigger than yourself.

This is what Spy believes. This is his moral compass.

Like his speech in Expiration Date, Spy leads others because he believes in his team being stronger and better together. He chose teamwork above being strong on his own.

And the implications of this--Was Spy always like this, or did he change to this mindset after leaving Scout's mother? Did he start out thinking he had to leave her because he wanted to be a lone wolf figure? Did he leave because his enemies were after him and he thought leaving his family would keep them safer than staying together to protect each other? And then he changed his mind and realised that he was wrong when he met the mercs?

#team fortress 2 #storytelling #character development #tf2 #my text #videos #animation #voice acting #Youtube #my essays

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bi-demon-ium · 1 year ago

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Jeepers, Curtain , Nicholas, Milligan, Number Two, and Dewey :)

oh fucking dear.

okay, uh

push off a cliff: i was genuinely tempted to say milligan for comedy's sake but i won't. dewey, you're up. that kid will just parkour away somehow. he can take it. his parents' lawyers will sue me though

kiss: jeepers. pity kiss

marry: curtain. honestly i just want to see what would happen. he's not the best choice by any means but i want to mess with him so bad. this would be psychological torment for both of us. if i have to become nicholas's brother in law so be it.

set on fire: number two. she's wearing a flame retardant dress she wanted to test out. she's striding around, completely on fire, and it's terrifying. menacing. i am cackling

wrap a blanket around: nicholas :( i would also kiss and/or marry and/or be roommates with him but i think the spirit of this one (comfort that sad, wet little man) fits the best

be roommates with: milligan. silent, strong, ready for hugs on both sides. helpful

i went fully on impulse answers and vibes

#im gonna be honest i went in order which messed me up a bit #probably should have set dewey or jeepers on fire #askbox #the mysterious benedict society #thank u sophie <33

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Recycling the non-recyclable: New epoxy resin resists flames and reduces waste

Empa researchers have developed an epoxy resin that can be repaired and recycled, in addition to being flame-retardant and mechanically strong. Potential applications range from coating for wooden flooring to composites in aerospace and railways. Epoxy resins are tough and versatile polymers. In combination with glass or carbon fibers, they are used, for example, to manufacture components for aircraft, cars, trains, ships and wind turbines. Such epoxy-based fiber-reinforced polymers have excellent mechanical and thermal properties and are much lighter than metal. Their weakness: They are not recyclable—at least not yet. Now Empa researchers led by Sabyasachi Gaan at Empa's Advanced Fibers laboratory have developed an epoxy resin-based plastic that is fully recyclable, repairable and also flame retardant—all while retaining the favorable thermomechanical properties of epoxy resins. They have published their findings in the Chemical Engineering Journal.

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Coyotes

Coyotes are a fairly common canine animal that’s found in many different types of wilderness in the States. They have a variety of fun traits which make them a very prime candidate to mutate. Some of their traits include:

Pack animals (similar structure to wolves in which a breeding pair and their offspring compose a pack)

Territorial (using urine or feces to mark it)

Omnivorous and more than capable in scavenging

3-4ft tall at shoulder height

Incredibly fine senses of sight, sound, and smell.

How the mutation works:

The apocalypse changes some things. Instead of changing their size or many behaviors differing, something much more peculiar happens.

Coyotes develop the ability to create and ignite a type of gel-like liquid napalm from inside their bodies. Most of their insides have been lined with flame retardant fungal tissue with an especially thick layer at the esophagus and mouth.

Ingredients for the gel are secreted and mixed in a chamber connecting to the stomach, which then dissolves slightly in their stomach acid and undergoes a chemical reaction to form the napalm in solution.

If the solution is evaporated or boiled to a certain point, then a thick and gel is left, if boiled longer, malleable clumps of an amber hued substance remain (though very stable while solid, can be mixed back into water to return to a gel-like state which is highly flammable).

This gel is then regurgitated by the coyote on command, and ignited just after leaving the stomach. The napalm inside the coyote gains more and more heat as it travels up and begins its burn, and by the time it finally exits the mouth it reaches a critical heat and once landed on any vegetation it creates a very Smokey fire leaving only ash behind.

The napalm gel dissolves any organic matter it lands on and begins to use it as fuel, (though grass and other easily flammable materials are absorbed much faster). Because of this it doesn’t often spread, instead creating a spot of fire until the napalm has fully burned away.

The napalm itself would require water for sustained burns. Though if it dries up before finishing a burn it solidifies leaving amber clumps in the wake of a hunt.

Physiology:

Coyotes have been changed by this high heat permeating through their bodies.

As stated before, their throat, mouth, and coat have become resistant towards heat and fire. Unfortunately their sense of smell has been permanently damaged due to the smoke inhalation and intense heat coming in contact so often.

Their vocal cords have also been damaged, just not to such an extent, their normal yips and howls have been reduced to pained yelps or more commonly silence. Due to this they use other methods to communicate

However their throats have developed somewhat of a spiked collar of sweltering jets of fire (via small slits around their necks), much like what happens when removing slag during the Bessemer process.

This not only provides a very effective defense against any would-be attackers, but also provides a very menacing effect that scares many who encounter them.

Hunting techniques:

Coyotes use this mutation to their full advantage while hunting.

While in packs they stalk their prey until the environment becomes favorable (staying stealthy by keeping the gel in their stomachs, which makes their flame collar mostly vanish with just a very small glow of embers left in terms of light). Then all rush their prey at the same time while shining their collars brightly and strategically leaving walls of fire as they run.

These walls of fire eventually force a herd to separate and the coyotes collectively single out one to finish their hunt. This prey no matter how big or small gets encircled by flame. As the smoke gets thicker and the heat stronger, the coyotes bound in and out of the circle, taking pot shots at their target until the smoke, heat, and wounds finally force them unconscious.

As the flames die down the coyotes wait around the circle, guarding potential scavengers or vindictive herd members from stealing away their kill. Finally once the napalm goes out, they eat.

This hunting strategy proves effective time and time again and many different packs survive on the outskirts of the city due to it, stalking the brush land for deer, rabbits, or just about whatever else wanders too far into the hill country.

Pack size

in most areas there are five to six adults as well as the pups born that year. But groups in urban areas tend to be smaller.

#writing #pseudoscience #writing project #suggestions welcome #slightly graphic #animals #mutations #world building #worldbuilding #ttrpg campaign #ttrpg #more coming soon #coyote #fungi

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I just had a funny moment in dnd It is the last session of our current campaign in @cu-riogach's custom system (which is based DND, but I find it easier to just call it dnd than explain the full thing), which he'll probably talk about sometime. We are being sieged during a resistance, and the king has sent an army against us. The barbarian and fighter are mincing enemies, the druid is committing warcrimes as a swan--later hellhound--and my wizard felt a disturbance in the force. So, he went to investigate and found a professor from his old college days that hated his guts. He had come because my character killed authorities (in self-defense, though the party can be considered terrorists). He told my character to pay for his crimes, so my character casted blur to prepare for battle. With that, the ring of protection and healing he has, and the flame-retardant robe he got after dying that time, he should be prepared. Unfortunately for the elf, the lightning spell the professor casted insta-killed him. I think it was the same one that killed him the first time. The professor turned around, confident. "Seems like you are only worth cheap parlor tricks." Just as he ascended the staircase, a knife struck him in the back. Behind him was Serent, freshly revived due to his ring of healing. "What was that about cheap parlor tricks, you six-piece chicken mcnobody?" And before the professor can fully realize how badly his over-confident and arrogant ass fucked him, Serent used his secret weapon.

A secret magic item that he got long ago that he has been keeping handy for a special moment. Just like this. The Spell Scroll of Instant Piss. What it does, is instantly transform a target into a steaming pile of piss. A bit goofy for a mostly serious campaign, but still. And so, the professor vanished, reduced to a pile of urine, killed with all of the honor and dignity he deserved in death: none. The wizard then walked back to the battle, making sure to step around the puddle. And spit in it too, just to put insult to injury.

The epilogue later made my wizard the court mage of the fighter, and one of the most renowned wizards of all time, for 6 centuries (because elf). I like to imagine him flipping off his professor mentally each moment he achieved, mocking his last words.

#dnd #ttrpg stories #later in the session #i casted a fireball on a huge chunk of the army #and reflavored it as the extreme penis blast #the dm gave me an additional 10 damage on it

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Toxic Chemical In Cookware

As reported through a Harvard study, 16.5 million Americans have detectable levels of at least one kind of polyfluoroalkyl or perfluoroaklyl chemicals (PFASs) in their drinking water. These chemicals have been linked to a number of health problems from obesity and hormonal problems, to impaired immune function and cancer. The PFASs may contribute to illness even below the EPA’s safety level.

These PFASs are used in many industrial applications calling for non-stick or slick surfaces, such as food packaging, stain and water resistant fabrics, non-stick cookware and firefighting foam. These were reported by CNN. The result of their ubiquity is that the chemicals migrate into air, household dust, food, soil and ground, and surface water. They may eventually make their way into the drinking water. One big factor is that PFASs remain in your body for a long time, unlike other chemicals that can be excreted within hours. It takes about 3.5 years for your body to get rid of just half of whatever amount you might have ingested. That is scary!

Perfluorooctanoic acid, also known as C8, is one PFAS that has been revealed to be far more dangerous than previously thought. DuPont used this PFOA to make Teflon. DuPont, still to this day, resists accountability for health problems resulting from PFOA exposure, but the truth has finally become too obvious to ignore. A 3-part expose, titled The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception, was published last year. Then earlier this year the New York Times also published an in-depth expose on the legal battle fought against DuPont for the past 15 years over PFOA contamination and its toxic effects. A 2015 report by the Environmental Working Group reveals the EPA’s safe level of PFOA in drinking water is likely hundreds, maybe even thousands, of times too high for safety.

About 3,500 personal injury claims are filed against DuPont over the PFOA subject. A woman developing kidney cancer after drinking PFOA-contaminated water was awarded $16 million in damages. Internal documents have been uncovered, showing DuPont was fully aware of the chemical’s danger to the public, and yet continues using it while hiding contamination problems. The EPA announced in 2002 that PFOAs might post a health risk to the public through contaminated water and Teflon cookware. Then in 2005, EPA fined DuPont $16.5 million for violating the Toxic Substances Control Act.

After seven years of research, it was determined that some of PFOA’s effects on human health were: Ulcerative colitis, High cholesterol, Pregnancy-induced hypertension, Thyroid disease and Testicular and kidney cancer. Hundreds of scientists have issued warnings over PFASs. More than 200 scientists from 40 countries signed the Madrid Statement in 2015, warning about the harms of PFAS chemicals. These included: liver toxicity, adverse neurobehavioral effects, tumors in multiple organ systems, liver malfunction, high cholesterol, reduced birth weight and size, decreased immune response to vaccines, disruption of lipid metabolism and the immune endocrine system, neonatal toxicity and death, testicular and kidney cancers, hypothyroidism, ulcerative colitis, obesity and reduced hormone levels and delayed puberty.

Suggestions of how to avoid these chemicals are avoid items that have been pre-treated with stain repellants, water and/or stain repellant clothing, items treated with flame retardant chemicals, fast food and carry out food wrappers, microwave popcorn and non-stick cookware.

We, individually, are the only ones that can take control over the products we use in an effort to better direct ourselves to healthier living.

Dr Fredda Branyon

#kitchen #cookware #toxic chemicals

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