#honorary senior citizen

[unhingedcinnamonroll]

When storms roll through, my joints protest at the injustice of me not receiving a senior discount at Wendy's. My knees refuse to listen when I tell them that we're not even 30.

[reaperseal-archive]

mm yeah i’m a gamer -playing solitaire on my phone at 3am-

[shakemelikeasnowglobe]

Misconceptions I had about drivers when I started liking f1 that still make me cringe a bit

♡ Jules Bianchi was brazilian :I don't know why I don't know how but somehow my brain looked at him and decided brazilian, he did looked like a love interest in a telenovela tho.

♡ lewis was brazilian: his own fault he looks like a man whore from Rio and sometimes acts like one as well, but still he is only a honorary brazilian

♡ Michael and mick were the same guy: I am stupid.

♡ Checo and Sergio however two different dudes : again I may be stupid.

♡ carlos was Mexican or at least from latin america: I feel like he does play on this a little tho, I mean I know he is European but he does plays on the Latino spicy thing sometimes

♡ Daniel and lando not white: two whole white boys and I thought they were mixed, Lando do pull an Ariana Grande from time to time but daniel don't but still thought both were at least mixed, they weren't

♡ Marta Garcia brazilian as well same goes for bia: they have very brazilian names

♡Lewis's age: this man confused me so much his age plus the little confusion I had about Michael and mick made me to actually Google his damn age, I thought him max and Charles were in the same age group alonso vettel and Daniel on a older age group and yuki lando and Oscar in the younger age group so he was in the middle, what do you mean he is on the older side, what do you mean senior citizen?

♡ max hair color: I don't care what tumbler or his children photos says that's a brunette he ain't blond idgaf he is brown haired and I will die on this hill

[aimeedaisies]

The Princess Royal’s Official Engagements in November 2023

01/11 Princess Anne, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester attended the Senior Serving and Retired Officers’ Briefing at the Army and Navy Club on Pall Mall in London. 🪖💼

As Chancellor of Harper Adams University, attended the launch of the University’s Strategic Plan at London Bridge Arches. 🎓

With Sir Tim As Royal Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, attended the Grand Day Choral Evensong Service at Temple Church in London. 🎶

With Sir Tim As Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, attended a Dinner to mark their 40th Anniversary at Mansion House in London. ⚙️

02/11 Held two investiture ceremonies at Buckingham Palace. 🎖️

03/11 As Patron of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, visited Citizens Advice Malvern Hills in Malvern, Worcestershire. 👩‍⚖️

Opened the Specialist Operations Centre at the Gloucestershire Constabulary and Office of Police and Crime Commissioner in Cheltenham. 👮‍♀️

07/11 Alongside King Charles & Queen Camilla, Princess Anne in her role as Gold Stick in Waiting, was present at the State Opening of Parliament. 👩‍⚖️🪶

Opened the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage and the McDonald Road Community Fire and Ambulance Station in Edinburgh. 👨‍🚒

The Princess Royal, As Patron of the Eric Liddell 100, attended the inaugural Lecture and Reception on board Fingal, Alexandra Dock, in Edinburgh. 🏃🏽🥂

Unofficial Sir Tim attended the memorial service for former university friend and newsreader George Alagiah at St-Martin-in-the-Fields church in London 🎓🕊️

08/11 As Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, presented Royal Medals and attended a Reception at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 🏅

As Patron of Catch22, attended the National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum in Birmingham ✍️

As Patron of the Wooden Spoon Society, attended a Reception at the House of Lords in London. 🥄🏉🥂

As Court Member of the Fishmongers’ Company, attended a Livery Dinner at Fishmongers’ Hall in London. 🐟🍽️

09/11 As President of World Horse Welfare, attended the Annual Conference at the Royal Geographical Society. 🐴

As Patron of the Butler Trust, visited HM Prison Wandsworth in London. 🚓👮‍♂️

As Patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature, held a 30th Anniversary Dinner at St James's Palace. 🦋🍃

10/11 The Princess Royal, As President of Royal Yachting Association, chaired the Annual General Meeting and presented Awards before attending a Luncheon in London SW1. 🛥️

Unofficial Announcement that Princess Anne will take over Presidency of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, taking over from the Duke of Kent who Presided over the Commission since 1970 🌹🪦

~ Remembrance weekend ~

11/11 With Sir Tim Attended the Armistice Day Service of Remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum. 🌳 🫡

With Sir Tim Attended the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall with members of the royal family. 🌹

12/11 With Sir Tim Attended the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in London. Princess Anne laid a wreath whilst Sir Tim stood on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office balcony. 🌹

With Sir Tim Took the salute at the March Past of Ex-Servicemen and Civilian Organisations on Horse Guards Parade, London SWI. 🫡

~ End ~

14/11 As Patron of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), attended the 10th Anniversary Transport and Logistics Safety Forum Conference at the National Memorial Arboretum. 🚚

Visited the new Institute of Shipbuilding course at City of Glasgow College Riverside Campus in Glasgow. ⚓️

As Patron of the Royal Celtic Society, attended a Reception at Glasgow City Chambers. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Attended Interfaith Glasgow’s Scottish Interfaith Week Forum at Glasgow City Chambers. ☪️✡️✝️🕉️🪯

Unofficial Sir Tim attended a Kent Cricket celebration dinner at Lords Cricket Ground 🏏

15/11 Visited BAE Systems Submarines' Submarine Academy and the University of Cumbria. 🤿 👨‍🎓

Visited the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in Barrow-in-Furness. ☢️

As Patron of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, visited the Barrow-in-Furness branch to mark its reopening. 🤝

As Patron of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, attended a Dinner at St George's Hall, to mark its 125th anniversary. 🦜💊

16/11 As Vice Patron of the British Horse Society, attended a Coaching Career Insight Day.

As Patron of the Butler Trust, visited HM Prison Drake Hall.

As Patron of Transaid, attended a Reception at London Transport Museum.

17/11 Not Counted Departed Heathrow Airport for Gibraltar but was diverted to Madrid, Spain and arrived in Gibraltar later than intended. ✈️🇪🇸🇬🇮

With Sir Tim As Royal Patron of the Gibraltar International Literary Festival, attended the Literary Festival Opening Dinner at the Sunborn Hotel. 📚🍽️

18/11 In Gibraltar Princess Anne;

As Patron of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, visited Gibraltar Citizens Advice Bureau to mark its 20th anniversary. 👩‍⚖️

Opened the renovated premises of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment Association. 🫡

Met representatives of the Emergency Services and members of the Armed Forces at the Convent. 🚑🪖

With Sir Tim visited specialist vehicles provider Bassadone Automotive Group. 🚗

Unofficial Sir Tim visited the Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron, 🇬🇮⚓️

21/11 As Master of the Corporation of Trinity House, presented Merchant Navy medals for Meritorious Service at Trinity House, London. 🏅

With Sir Tim Attended the State Banquet in honour of the President and First Lady of South Korea. 🇬🇧🇰🇷🍽️

22/11 Visited Retrotec Limited near Northiam, East Sussex. ✈️

Visited Focus SB Limited in St Leonards-on-Sea. ⚙️

As Commandant-in-Chief of St John Ambulance (Youth), attended a Reception for Young Achievers at the Priory Church of the Order of St John in London. 🚑

As Chancellor of the University of London, attended Foundation Day at Senate House in London 🎓

23/11 As Commodore-in-Chief of Portsmouth Naval Base, opened Alford Schools of Military Music. 🎶

Attended a Luncheon at Spithead House, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, for The Princess Royal's Patronages based in Hampshire. ⚓️

As President of the City and Guilds of London Institute, presented The Princess Royal Training Awards at St James's Palace. 🏆

With Sir Tim As President of the British Olympic Association, attended the Team GB Ball at the Savoy Hotel. 🏋️‍♀️

24/11 As Royal Patron of the London Scottish Football Club, attended the 10th Anniversary of the St Andrew's Day Luncheon at the Sheraton Grand London on Park Lane. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉

28/11 Presented The Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Volunteering Awards at Fishmongers’ Hall in London. 🏆

As Chancellor of the University College of Osteopathy, attended a Graduation Ceremony. 🎓

As Royal Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, attended a New Fellows’ Dinner. ⚙️🍽️

29/11 The Princess Royal, As Royal Patron of the National Coastwatch Institution, visited Canvey Island Station and attended a Reception at the Island Yacht Club. 🔎🏝️

Opened Huntingdon Fire Station and Service Training Centre. 🚒

Opened North Cambridgeshire Training Centre. 💼

As Honorary Member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers, attended the Annual General Meeting and Discussion Dinner. 👷🍴

30/11 As Patron of the Not Forgotten Association, held the Christmas Reception at St James’s Palace. 🎄🎅🏻🎁

Total official engagements for Anne in October: 58

2023 total so far: 458

Total official engagements accompanied by Tim in October: 11

2023 total so far: 92

[justforbooks]

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year.

In 1983, at the age of 22, he became the only musician to win Grammy Awards in jazz and classical music during the same year. At the award ceremonies the next year, he won again in both categories.

After his first album came out in 1982, Marsalis won polls in DownBeat magazine for Musician of the Year, Best Trumpeter, and Album of the Year. In 2017, he was one of the youngest members to be inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame.

In 1997, he became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields. In a note to him, Zarin Mehta wrote, "I was not surprised at your winning the Pulitzer Prize for Blood on the Fields. It is a broad, beautifully painted canvas that impresses and inspires. It speaks to us all...I'm sure that, somewhere in the firmament, Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong and legions of others are smiling down on you."

Wynton Marsalis has won the National Medal of Arts, the National Humanities Medal, and been named an NEA Jazz Master. In 2001, he was also named a UN Messenger of Peace.

Approximately seven million copies of his recordings have been sold worldwide. He has toured in 30 countries and on every continent except Antarctica.

He was given the Louis Armstrong Memorial Medal and the Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts. He was inducted into the American Academy of Achievement and was dubbed an Honorary Dreamer by the I Have a Dream Foundation. The New York Urban League awarded Marsalis the Frederick Douglass Medallion for distinguished leadership. The American Arts Council presented him with the Arts Education Award.

He won the Dutch Edison Award and the French Grand Prix du Disque. The Mayor of Vitoria, Spain, gave him the city's gold medal, its most coveted distinction. In 1996, Britain's senior conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, made him an honorary member, the academy's highest decoration for a non-British citizen. The city of Marciac, France, erected a bronze statue in his honor for the key role he played in the story of the festival. The French Ministry of Culture gave him the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Literature. In 2008, he received France's highest distinction, the insignia Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. In 2023, he won the Praemium Imperiale.

He has received honorary degrees from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami (1994), University of Scranton (1996), Kenyon College (2019), New York University, Columbia, Connecticut College, Harvard, Howard, Northwestern, Princeton, Vermont, the State University of New York, and the University of Michigan (2023).

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[mentohol-blog]

Coming back to tumblr after never using my account for 10+ years tells you everything you need to know about me.

But if you were curious about a little more.

I love and will post stuff on here about pro wrasslin, horror, hockey, live music, my Husband, and most nerdy things you can think of. I liveblog random things I like, usually WWE or AEW and I'll tag these posts with lb. Things related to my personal life will have the tag digital diary and (depending on length) reflection.

I have been in a total power exchange relationship for two years now, and I will mention this occasionally in a very non-explicit, safe for work way. In my late 20s but have worked exclusively with people 80+ for the past decade so I consider myself an honorary senior citizen and my back and knees agree. I know lots of Spanish (not my first language, but first language of my parents and all generations of my family before mine) and some German. Feel free to interact in either, I love getting a chance to practice.

Currently a grad student interning in a helping profession, and trying to find a way to funnel this into a less interpersonally oriented field because I realized that I've always wanted to help people but people also terrify me. Love me some psychology though. How does one use tumblr? I'm gonna find out.

[quinloki]

Listen I have adhd and no concept of time, there are so many posts here. That ask is an honorary senior citizen to me ❤️

/cackle/ HONORARY SENIO--- I love you anon, you have added laughs to my day when I having, admittedly, kind of a tense day <3

And I can appreciate the lack of a sense of time, so I'll let you off the hook that you weren't on in the first place XD 🥰❤️

[lboogie1906]

Luol Ajou Deng OBE (April 16, 1985) is a former basketball player. He was a two-time NBA All-Star and was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. Born in what is now South Sudan, he fled the country with his family as a child, settling in the UK. He became a British citizen and has played for the Great Britain national team.

After playing college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, he was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the 2004 NBA draft as the seventh overall pick. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. The small forward was an All-Star with the Bulls before splitting the season with the Cleveland Cavaliers. After just half a season with Cleveland, he joined the Miami Heat. He played two seasons for the Heat before signing with the Lakers. He spent his last season with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

He has been the president of the South Sudan Basketball Federation since 2019. He is an assistant coach for the South Sudan men’s national team and served as its head coach.

He was a member of the Dinka ethnic group. His father Aldo, a member of the Sudanese parliament, moved the family to Egypt to escape the Second Sudanese Civil War. They met former NBA center Manute Bol, who taught his older brother Ajou Deng and mentored him. When they were granted political asylum, his family immigrated to Brixton, South London.

He moved to the US to play basketball at Blair Academy. During his senior year, he was considered the second most promising high school senior in America and was named First Team All-America by Parade and USA Today. He was selected to play in the McDonald’s High School All-America game, but could not play due to a foot injury.

Considered a five-star recruit by Rivals.com, he was listed as the #1 small forward and the #2 player in the nation in 2003.

He is the cover athlete for NBA Live 09 and NBA Live 10 video games in the UK. His cousin, Peter Jok plays professional basketball

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Loughborough University. He is depicted on one of the Brixton Pound community currency notes. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[cindersilverandgold]

Thanks so much for your kind words !!!!! Here is the finished text of the entry if you wanna read it . I hope it's a nice tribute (Also I never asked your pronouns, gah. LMK if you wanna be credited with any particular set)

Creation myths

Creation myths is a really detailed , clever character creation game by GothHoblin that leads your character through an initial adventure and leaves them in a place where their journey can continue with real style and elegance. The game works on a series of questions, each with associated prompts, and the prompts I rolled called to mind the magnificent Pokemon Legends Arceus fanfiction of @waywardstation. So with permission, I decided to create a character as a tribute to those lovely stories and based the major characters on their major characters - two people called Akari and Ingo. In this entry Akari and Ingo are going on an adventure with my OC, an incarnation of Mesprit the Legendary Being of Emotion. I’ve listed the prompts I rolled at the end of each section.  (Doesn’t the world already have a Mesprit? Well, read on and see….)

(All you really need to know about Akari and Ingo, beyond the core premise of Pokemon,  to read through this is that Akari is a fifteen year-girl working for the Survey Corps of the Galaxy Team in a fantasy 19th century setting and Ingo is a member of the “Pearl Clan” that Akari sees as an honorary uncle)

Who are you?

Our story begins when Akari and Ingo are completing a battle at the Dojo where Ingo works part time. Akari hears a odd ringing cry from the back of the Dojo , and finds Mesprit the Being of Emotion curled up under a pile of sacks. This is not as surprising as it sounds. Legendary Pokemon and singular being though it may be, Mesprit's playful , psychic and a bit prone to messing about. It’s when she goes to return it to its home that the trouble starts , because apparently Mesprit is already there. There are two of them now, it seems , one in the village and one in Lake Verity and that definitely shouldn’t be happening. When the new Mesprit catches sight of the other one, it teleports away immediately and spends the rest of the day playing pranks on the citizens of the village- hiding in Bagin’s things, chasing Cyllene’s Abra , stealing Zisu’s broom and so on and sneaking naps whenever it can. It’s a sweet-natured thing and there’s no harm in its games, but Akari’s a little worried for two reasons. The first is that it’s running out of energy awfully quickly for a legendary creature and the second is that its psychic tricks seem much, much weaker than the other Mesprit’s. 

She and Ingo were both strangers in Jubilife Village once and they owed a lot to the locals helping them, so they’d both really like to pay that forward by helping this little lost stranger but neither of them really have any idea where to even start and they both think they work best in a team anyway.  So they decide to call their various role models to the Wallflower, the local canteen, and pool their expertise to see if anyone has any advice. Akari calls in Rei and Professor Laventon, her two seniors in the Galaxy Team and Ingo sends messages to Calaba and Irida , the Pearl Clan’s herbalist and leader respectively. Ingo and Akari both love Beni’s potato mochi, the Wallflower’s specialty,  although neither finds it easy to get since they’re both so busy and their schedules very rarely overlap. So this time they order in for everyone and everyone enjoys the food. Mesprit eats everything put in front of it but doesn’t exactly seem to love anything. And however much it eats , it doesn’t seem to get much stronger….

(Prompts: You think your world is mostly good. What is your favourite food? Are you a lover or a fighter? You have a role model. Are you socially confident? You have an emotional wound)

Your ordinary world

Hisui is the frontier in this time, a land of heroes, adventures and scholars but both Ingo and Akari’s relationship to their ordinary worlds is shaped in large part by the fact that they’re both displaced travellers from a different time. It colours their relationship with local authorities - especially Akari’s. She was held responsible for various things going wrong by the Galaxy Team leadership , and even after she saved the world a certain amount of distrust persisted. There had certainly been a series of mysterious anomalies centred on her , that was true and it was also true that she had resolved them but she had resolved them in mysterious and confusing ways that were centred on her. There was a little distance between her and her colleagues in the Galaxy Team and the Jubilife Village still. And for Ingo, the distance was between himself and his past- he had almost total amnesia after he arrived in Hisui. And both of them have come to the conclusion that like them, this Mesprit is from another time and place as well. It’s the logical explanation, right?

(Prompts : You have a poor relationship with law enforcement , you don’t live in the place you were born, you’re part of a special interest group, you come from a place of heroes)

The Call

When Professor Laventon the researcher sees the new Mesprit looking weak and listless like that, he wonders aloud if it might be ill. The more our intrepid duo think about it the more plausible that idea seems so Akari and Ingo take it to see Pesselle, who is a medic , and she agrees that it is ill for sure but she’s no wiser than they are as it what’s wrong with it. Lacking any better idea, she suggests she keeps it for observation overnight and Ingo returns to the Pearl Clan settlement as Akari does to her unit. In the early hours of the morning, Akari is woken by a rather panicked Pesselle knocking on her door and saying that Mesprit’s vanished .  They agree to meet up at dawn with Ingo, Professor Laventon and his apprentice Rei in Laventon’s office to figure out what to do next. 

(Prompt - A beloved member of your community fell ill, and asked for brave adventurers to help them)

The Companions

And the next day , they head into Laventon’s office to find a new notice for a request that reads

FIND MESPRIT’S FAVOURITE THING

REWARD: LOTS OF NICE THINGS FOR EVERYONE

And under the requester’s name, Akari reads off the signatures of every authority figure she can think of from Laventon to Cyllene to Commander Kamado, Irida , Adaman, three different wardens and even Ginter. The new Mesprit, meanwhile, is waiting happily at the village gates looking innocent.  Nobody is fooled for a moment by any of this but there’s a general agreement that FINDING MESPRIT’S FAVOURITE THING is a job for Akari, the survery corps’ rising star, and so in this way the Galaxy Team is “hired” for the request 

(Prompt- you hired a few able-bodied people to accompany you)

Into the unknown

Akari starts her journey in the fieldlands, and she and Mesprit explore the area from top to bottom but whatever Mesprit’s after doesn’t seem to be here.  Eventually, they come to the Grandtree Arena and Mesprit settles into a tree and starts giving off small motes of light. Akari’s wondering what’s happening for a moment, but she quickly realises that Combee are attracted to the lights and she’s able to collect enough honey to sustain the village for a good long while.  Mesprit doesn’t seem interested in the honey and while Akari is wandering what to do next , Warden Lian approaches her. He says his noble Pokemon, Lord Kleavor, senses something about the strange Mesprit, so if Akari doesn’t mind Lian’d like to travel with her for a bit. They decide to use Lian’s hidden camp in the tunnels to pass the night, but before they can do that Mesprit flutters off into the Crimson Mirelands. 

Rain is lashing down in sheets as they get there, the tell-tale sign of a massive mass outbreak and Mesprit dashes from group to group and place to place so quickly that Akari has to call Lord Wyrdeer for her and Lian to keep up. Eventually they find their way to Cloudpool Ridge where Warden Arezu is looking out at the outbreak from her Brava Arena. She says Lady Lilligant saw them coming and reminded her of the time she compared massive mass outbreaks to gathering of Clefairy. Akari’s research indicates that Clefairy has a connection to the moon and stars so might Mesprit be not just from another time and another place but another world entirely like Clefairy? Akari agrees that indeed this is possible and Arezu asks if she can join them at Lian’s camp and see where Mesprit goes next. 

The three settle down for a good night’s rest , but the problem comes in the morning. Akari has barely opened her eyes and clambered out of her bedroll when she sees Mesprit off at the end of a tunnel. It waves its tails at her jauntily and disappears into the highlands!

Prompts: (You were pelted with rain and thunder. You discovered a new way to hunt small creatures. You discovered a hidden sanctuary)

Tests and trials 

Akari and the two wardens gather their As soon as they reach the crossing to Wayward Cave out of the Wayward Wood though, they’re greeted with someone they’d rather not see. Melli, the obstreperous Diamond Clan warden , is tearing out of Wayward Cave in a panic , saying that a strange pokemon put out all the torches in the cave and then the Alpha Crobat that lives there ambushed them and knocked Melli’s Skuntank out. Akari would dearly , dearly love to tell Melli that’s his problem and she’ll ride Lord Braviary up to chase Mesprit, especially since she had a bad experience in very similar circumstances when Melli himself was the one to put out the torches to give her a scare. 

But that isn’t what her friends , her survey corps colleagues and her family found and blood would want from her , so she takes a deep breath and tells Melli she’ll guide him back to his arena.  She takes Lian’s hand, Lian takes Arezu’s and Arezu takes Melli’s and then Akari closes her eyes and takes another deep breath. “Take care not to come uncoupled, everyone. Onward we roll!” She announces and steps into the cave.

Her heart is racing the whole way and more than once she thinks she hears someone mimicking Ingo’s voice and telling her to run and let the others fend for themselves. But she shuts it out , keeps putting one foot in front of the other and at the top she finds the man himself waiting for her. While he was gathering in the Quarry , Mesprit flew past heading up the hill and he assumed Akari would be close behind him.  As Melli heads off on his way and Arezu and Lian walk a little way ahead, Akari is surprised to feel her adoptive uncle’s hand on her shoulder. He’s never seen anyone drive so safely on such a demanding schedule, he tell her. (His brother) Anyone would be proud. 

Prompts: (You had an opportunity to take revenge for a past hurt, Someone you care for tried to tempt you off your quest , you came across a deeply personal challenge)

The arrival

By now, they have more or less figured out that Mesprit is leading them to Lady Sneasler’s cave , but as they leave the Ancient Quarry heading towards the path up to her hideaway they’re rather surprised to find two enormous statues blocking the path up . 

The first thing Akari notices is that there seem to be stairs built into the statues. The second thing she notices is that the statues look like herself and Rei.  But before she’s even finished explaining that, Arezu is shaking her head. She says they look like herself and Calaba, Lian says they look like himself and Melli and Ingo says they look like himself and (Emmet) someone and at that point they catch on that these are illusions. They still have to pick one to climb if they want to get up there though.  Eventually the little group decides that since they’ve managed to figure out the pattern across the statues , they decide climbing the one that looks each of them like their friend feels like the “Mesprit” thing to do and so off they go. 

The goal

They find Lady Sneasler and Mesprit out front of her cave , each nibbling on a Pep-Up Plant from the little crop that’s grown around the entrance. And for what it’s worth, it does seem to have pepped Mesprit up, it’s zooming around and teleporting from place to place  just like the familiar Mesprit of this world. As soon as it sees the little group of adventurers , it sweeps them up in a burst of psychic energy and for a moment it’s as if they were standing in Floaro Gardens while the Gracidea blooms around them. Then they’re back in the Highlands , there’s a rift above the Temple of Sinnoh and Mesprit seems eager to be off toward it - to go back to its own world.

Akari and the wardens are nonplussed that a Pep-Up plant was apparently enough for this Mesprit to travel between worlds looking for one, and Lian and Arezu need to return to their duties but Akari and Ingo decide to see the request and escort Mesprit to the temple. 

(Prompt: the item you were looking for turns out to be a common plant) 

The return journey 

Ingo and Akari are taking a slightly unfamiliar route to them , because they haven’t had the call to travel this route between these two places before and it very quickly becomes apparent that isn’t going to be their only problem. Space time rifts are flashing up in front of them almost instantly , much smaller and quicker-moving than they’re used to and Ingo’s Gliscor and Akari’s Typhlosion Ember are kept busy protecting Mesprit from the denizens of the rift. And as if to make matters , Akari keeps seeing things out of the corner of her eye- purple-black smoke, red segments moving like a snake, gold-tipped sharp-edged claws. That Pokemon is an old foe of hers and one she’d dearly rather not see again , so she breathes a deep sigh of relief when they make it to the temple. 

(Prompts: Your return journey attracted the attention of an adversary who chases you every step of the way. You traveled through a section of countryside you’ve never seen before. A freak storm ruins your campsite , but provides some spectacular visuals)

The Reward 

When they reach the rift , it’s flickering backwards and forwards as they watch . But as Mesprit approaches, it stabilises and Mesprit’s home universe is visible through it. Mesprit’s home universe is bleak . It looks a little like the modern Sinnoh that Akari remembers , but it’s broken to pieces - buildings leading into pathways twisting up and around and leading into the void. And there’s no sign of any humans anywhere.   But Mesprit smiles happily at the sight of it and turns to face the two time travellers. It makes eye contact with both of them, nods its head and then darts into the rift. In the next moment the rift blinks out of existence and the only signs of it left are three objects on the altar- a cone of rapidly melting ice cream, a rice cracker with a logo of a hotel that Akari vaguely recognises and a single link of red chain. 

(Prompt: After a long return journey , you arrive to find your hometown in ruins)

How Things Changed

Both Akari and Ingo have a lot to talk about on the way home. They’ve learned something about how to care for unusual pokemon , for sure, and they can put that knowledge to use along with the various bits of trivia they picked up. But more than anything, they’ve learned something about the rifts. They may not live in one world with one past and one future , but amid a multiverse of many worlds and travel between them may be both easier and more difficult than they had believed. That knowledge means a lot to both of them..

(Your journey gave you new knowledge or skills that you can put to benefit your community)

What Lies Ahead

Both of the time travellers are beginning to think that Mesprit won’t be the last Pokemon from another world they see, and so some months later neither one is surprised when Lian appears at the Jubilife Village gates with a mysterious little blue horse-like Pokemon in his arms. He says he found it shivering with cold near Grandtree Arena and Akari and Ingo will be able to pep it up, right?

(Prompt : someone you met while adventuring came to find you, bearing a new quest and asking for your help specifically)

hello, I just wanted to ask a quick question. I was building characters for an RPG character creation jam and one of the systems I was using to create a character really reminded me of your lovely fiction. Would it be OK to include characters loosely based on "your" Ingo and Akari going on a nice cozy adventure in my contribution to the jam , with appropriate credit to you?

Hello!!

Wow, that’s so awesome!!! I’m so honored you want to include characters based on my versions!!

You certainly can, thank you SO MUCH for asking and for wanting to do so!!! ;w; <3

[gram3xssms]

"when i was under five years old i stumbled upon some costume jewelry at a garage sale where my mom gave me a couple dollars to spend on whatever i wanted. i thought it was the finest piece of treasure i would ever hold, with its bright cerulean, sea foam green, and clear crystal gemstones sparkling away. i guess i’ve always had big, flashy, and colorful sequins in my eyes; here’s a brooch collection to honor where my “honorary senior citizen” and “glitzy gaudy fancy” circles overlap..."

[instrumental-break]

christian borle is still a bit off that senior citizen discount but he can be an honorary old man for my mutuals

[ocs-and-chapters]

映画　えいが　movie

映画館　えいがかん　cinema

英語　えいご　english language

ええ　yes

駅　えき　station

えんぴつ　鉛筆　pencil

おいしい　delicious

多い　おおい　many

大きな　おおきな　

大きい　おおきい

(both mean big)

大勢　おおぜい　big number of people

お母さん　おかあさん　(honorary) mother

お菓子　おかし　sweets candy

お金　おかね　money

起きる　おきる　to get up

置く　おく　to put

奥さん　おくさん　(honorable) wife

お酒　おさけ　alcohol rice wine

お皿　おさら　plates

伯父/叔父　おじいさん　grandfather, uncle, middle aged man male senior citizen

教える　おしえる　to teach, to tell

押す　おす　to push to tell

遅い　おそい late slow

お茶　おちゃ　tea

お手洗い　おてあらい　bathroom

お父さん　おとうさん　father

弟　おとうと　younger brother

[hows-my-handwriting]

Senior Citizens

meet my honorary senior citizens. Each about a thousand years old apiece. they started as homestuck ocs and have slowly branched out into other realms. they are the leaders of my- ahem- alphabetum pirate crew. 

the top is Captain Flipskip Eternity, aka Fluffy, Skippy, or just Flupas. 

the bottom is Captain/Commodore Peril Atlantis, aka Priquy. 

have their funny hats and height difference

‘alphabetum’ as in a pirate crew based on letters of the alphabet.

....

yes i did do that. yes i have designs for all of them. yes i have a full working story that i haven’t released yet because im self conscious.

[ingek73]

Queen strips Prince Andrew of military roles and royal patronages

Move comes after more than 150 veterans request removal amid US sexual assault civil lawsuit

Ben Quinn

Published: 18:22 Thursday, 13 January 2022

The Queen has removed a range of military affiliations and royal patronages held by Prince Andrew, Buckingham Palace has said. The move, which includes the prince losing the use of “His Royal Highness”, comes after a US judge gave the green light for her second son to face a sexual assault civil lawsuit.

Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Thursday: “With the Queen’s approval and agreement, the Duke of York’s military affiliations and royal patronages have been returned to the Queen. The Duke of York will continue not to undertake any public duties and is defending this case as a private citizen.”

A royal source said the prince would no longer use the style “His Royal Highness” in any official capacity.

The dramatic move comes hours after more than 150 military veterans wrote to the Queen to ask her to strip Andrew of his honorary military roles amid what they described as their “upset and anger”. The palace had said earlier on Thursday that it had no comment on their open letter.

Writing to her in her capacity as head of state and commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force, an open letter from former members of each of the services said that it was “untenable” for the Duke of York to retain his position.

“Were this any other senior military officer it is inconceivable that he would still be in post,” they say in the letter, sent the day after a Manhattan judge rejected Prince Andrew’s efforts to dismiss Virginia Giuffre’s sexual assault lawsuit against him. The duke denies the allegations against him.

The palace had said previously that the duke’s military appointments were in abeyance after he stepped down from public duties in 2019.

But he still retained the roles, leaving eight British regiments, including the Grenadier Guards, where he had held the title of colonel, in limbo for more than two yearsn.

His other British honorary military titles were: honorary air commodore of RAF Lossiemouth; colonel-in-chief of the Royal Irish Regiment; colonel-in-chief of the Small Arms School Corps; commodore-in-chief of the Fleet Air Arm; royal colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers; deputy colonel-in-chief of the Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own) and royal colonel of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

The veterans say in their letter, which was partly coordinated by the campaign group Republic: “Officers of the British armed forces must adhere to the very highest standards of probity, honesty and honourable conduct.

“These are standards which Prince Andrew has fallen well short of. It is hard not to see, when senior officers are reportedly describing him as ‘toxic’, that he has brought the services he is associated with into disrepute.

“We are therefore asking that you take immediate steps to strip Prince Andrew of all his military ranks and titles and, if necessary, that he be dishonourably discharged.”

The letter concludes with a pointed and personal request to the Queen, who has long been reported to regard Andrew as her “favourite” son. It states: “We understand that he is your son, but we write to you in your capacity as head of state and as commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force. These steps could have been taken at any time in the past 11 years. Please do not leave it any longer.”

Judge Lewis Kaplan’s ruling means Andrew will remain embroiled in lengthy – and embarrassing – legal proceedings for the foreseeable future.