#in the context of the crests

[skydigiblogs]

goooood i spent like three hours at work today just thinking about the implications of apocalymon and i think i am legit just gonna have to write out a whole articulated paper about them at this point

i was trying to focus on listening to essays but nah man

i'm gonna read so hard into those plural pronouns (/hj)

[lighthausen]

I was thinking that it's interesting that symbols have come up a few times so far in The Magnus Protocol, both in the old graffiti and the empty wooden box-like item from the Magnus Institute, and on Daria's tattoo.

and then I noticed

Alchemical symbols, all over the screen. and then on the crest itself...

The circle portion has salt (upper left) and mercury (bottom right).

I know very little about alchemy and alchemical symbols but I am thinking that this is going to be relevant.

[randomnameless]

Fodlan AU : while shuffling stuff in the Monastery (or trying to find to whom belongs the trash they picked on the ground), Billy notices a new batch of books sent to the Monastery about cooking - they wonder why those things are sent to a military academy, but suddenly become very interested when they happen on a treaty titled "express yourself through your cooking".

Of course, still being self-conscious about their perceived lack of emotions, they borrow the book and study it seriously, wanting to participate in an upcoming Garreg Mach fair and cook stuff for everyone, so they will finally be able to express their feelings clearly.

Jerry calls it a waste of time, but Billy doesn't give up and asks Rhea if they can use the kitchen, to train. Rhea agrees, with the only condition being that they don't reveal a thing to Seteth, and that Billy's failed "creations" shouldn't be thrown away and wasted, but given to various people in the monastery.

Yuri thus heard some people in the Abyss notice that they got an influx of mashed potatoes and "oddly" cut turnips, surely a sign that the Church is soon going to purge them, but didn't pay any attention.

After a few days, Billy despairs when Rhea tells them that their mashed turnips and potatoes taste nice, but it's merely mashed turnips and potatoes, not something that would represent Billy. They then wonder if they should add ingredients they like, but they remembered that was what Flayn does, and her food is not edible.

They ask Manuela for pointers - she tells them she always add a lot of fat in her soups, sure, some might rant about weight gain and whatnot, but there's nothing like a good bowl of rich and comforting soup to raise her morale after being dumped (or after "backstage work" in Mittelfrank, but she's never going to reveal this to anyone - she just happened to have taught Dorothea the recipe after her own "rehearsals").

Yuri's friends then called him to ask him why the Church was suddenly giving them a lot of soup, which prompted him to ask Rhea what was going on, but she merely told him it was a preparation for the next fair.

Ultimately, Rhea taught Billy the same secret skill she taught Sitri back then : how to give cute animal shapes to fruits and turnips (something Seiros the Warrior demonstrated back then to an excited Lycaon who refused to eat his veggies - of course, it was totally not inspired by something she remembered from her childhood when one of her older brothers (the one who became Thyrsus) told her that turnips taste better if they're cut to look like something else than mere turnips !).

Sitri refined the art and managed to arrange even fruit slices to look like rabbits or even, with enough patience, to look like a swan !

Billy sticks, for now, to the rabbit shapes and flowers, but overheard Supreme Leader mention how Adrestian Imperial cuisine is much more classier that the nonsense they're forced to eat in this dreaded monastery, for one of her birthdays, the cooks made a crystallised dragon head with sugar and she loved it so much that she tore through it without any reservation.

Intrigued by Billy's shenanigans, the Blue Lions believe it's a new form of training - only Mercie believes Billy might want to help organise and participate in the fair.

They nod, but feel bad about lying because they don't want to confess it's to finally become able to convey their feelings. When they tell Seteth, he scoffs : food is food, sure a meal prepared lovingly by someone is nice, but isn't every meal prepared for someone is cooked lovingly? It's already an attention and gesture in itself, which of course makes the cook a bit upset when the "someone" refuse to eat it, for foolish reasons like it doesn't have ketchup, or they don't like beets.

Flayn and Rhea tell Billy to not listen to him, and to surprise everyone at the fair with either cute shaped fruits/vegetables, or with decorated biscuits !

(Billy overheard Cyril complain to Shamir about Lady Rhea treating him like a child, since the biscuits she gives him always have some :) face, sure they taste good, but why the :) face? - which makes them realise that Rhea's feelings weren't properly conveyed through her biscuits, since Cyril didn't grasp them - but they missed the part where Shamir sighed in turn, and told Cyril that he really is a child).

Sticking to the fruits and veggies, they are forced to kick out Dimitri from the kitchens after he turned it in a bloodbath (peeling potatoes with a crest of Blaiddyd is a nightmare) and sent him to Manuela.

Felix calls this a waste of time, food is food it's meant to be eaten, there's no need to work on his skill with a knife and anyways, a Lord's duty is to protect his people, not to cook for them, but when Sylvain tells him he definitely remembers kid!Felix being upset because he tried to carve a crest of fraldarius on a biscuit to offer it to his mother but he couldn't manage to do anything but turn that biscuit in dust.

Felix calls him an imbecile and storms out.

Come the Garreg Mach fair and some pilgrims, residents of the monastery or even students visit, pick some stuff to eat and go on their merry way.

Billy's overjoyed when some kids tell them "thanks" and eat their creations, but only Ignatz is the one who noticed how irregular the shapes and cuts were, and made the link with Billy's sudden absence at the choir. Did the professor organise and prepare this food stall themselves?

Obviously, Supreme Leader wanted to taste the things her dearest "professor" prepared, even if is nothing like the crystallised sugar from her memories. The carrots are plain enough, but somehow, she feels it's less of a hassle to eat than what she would have expected. Praising Billy on their talents, she chokes on said carrot when Billy tells her it was a skill Rhea taught them. Hubert promptly requisitionned one of Ferdie's creampuffs - imported from the finest artisan in Enbarr, perfect for tea time! - for her, explaining that her palate is very refined and is not used to "common" food.

Billy ends the journey proud of themselves and even smiling, to Jerry's surprise, because they feel like they made a lot of people smile.

Rhea then asks them if they want to participate in the next fair, Billy wholeheartedly agrees and promises to master that "skill" for the millenium festival.

[angrybatart]

🎶🎵🦆🎵🎶

[egittae]

feeling (staring like the autism creature)

93. exhausted

After a generous gulp of water, he let out a drawn out sigh- cleaning the sweat off his face with a piece of cloth and pushing his hair back with his other hand. It had been a fairly long training session and he was positively exhausted, but it had been a good one. Memories or not, if there was one thing Lambert could tell his body remembered well and craved for was exercise and training, even more reasons for him to believe he was a soldier. Besides, he needed to keep his form in good shape if he wanted to do well for his class.

Lambert often came to the training grounds when it wasn’t in use, resulting in fairly odd training hours for him, but he cared little. It felt good all the same, even more when it could get his blood burning through his veins like right now. Part of him wonders if he saw a weird,  little blue-ish light reflecting on the lance he had just used to train (which now looked…nonexistent, it almost vaporized in his hold- but it was an expendable training lance) but he was quite sure it was just because he was tired. Just a trick of the mind.

The man sat down on the ground, crisscross, to slowly cool down and do some finalizing stretches…when he felt someone staring.

It was common now, people staring at him. Part of him feels unnerved but the other assumes it’s natural since he’s new. A blue eye searched around and…voilá, student spotted. A lanky-looking one, definitely the magic type, with green hair. Standing there, staring. It was weird but at the same time it was the type of weird staring Lambert grew to expect from the kid students.

“Hello there, may I help you with anything?” He offered the student. If his assumption was right and the kid was a mage then…well too bad, Lambert was quite sure he had no magic aptitude, but it was polite to ask anyway.

[kingdom-falls]

Take a sleepy Siffrin on your journey with you!

[kirbyddd]

ok that was a new one

[wispisstillverybored67]

Ayaki Fam rise up...? :D.

For the hell of it, I gave the Spider fam names. (This is primarily under the context of a swap AU {between the KNY corps and the Demons}, of which I adore despite not usually thinking highly of AUs).

The Father? I dub him Ryunosuke Ayaki.

The Mother? I dub her Mizuki Ayaki (nicknamed "Joroko" for her tiny stature and sexy figure, don't let Ryu catch you calling her that tho.)

The Older Brother? I dub him Setsuji Ayaki.

The Sister? I dub her Akemi Ayaki.

[crestoflames]

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like a month and a half ago a hairdresser mentioned that i was having some hair loss, something i had worried about for so long but i thought it was my ocd playing tricks on me (fellow ocd havers will know, you can get fixated on an aspect of yourself and get obsessed with a “what if” scenario. ex: “what if my teeth are actually in terrible condition despite brushing and flossing twice a day”, “what if I actually have cancer”, and of course “what if my hair is falling out”). having that confirmed really fucked me up bc I’ve always had really thick hair that i took pride in and it was one thing i didn’t have to feel self conscious about it - the amount of hair i had. and I’ve been seeing a dermatologist who specializes in hair loss, and they think i have androgenetic alopecia, just a mix of hormones and genetics. I’ve started a couple medications and supplements, both oral and topical. it can take 6 months to work but im just really just hoping my hair can go back to the way it was because it really fucks with my self perception. Everyone i talk to who isn’t trained to notice what hair loss looks like tells me it’s not noticeable, but i still get paranoid about it. i guess the one positive thing about this type of hair loss is it isn’t just random patches of hair all over your head falling out, it starts with the area where your hair is parted widening and some hairs growing in thinner while it expands outwards from your part. its mostly on the front of my scalp from what i can tell.

idk why im rambling about this but yeah. if ur a cis woman and think you might have hair loss definitely go see a dermatologist specialized in it bc it is reversible. and it used to be thought that it mainly happens in older age but it’s actually being seen at all ages now, and I’m only 26 (nearly 27).

[silvertherogue715]

Rai doodles ft. (a slightly older) Snoot Snoot/Stringbean

[captainsparklefingers]

The only downside of finally being able to be productive at work (a genuinely good thing considering how dead and slow most days can be here) is that it's cutting into my fic writing time. Which would be fine except for the fact that I've been on a groove and I'm afraid to lose the juice and hit a wall again.

[skydigiblogs]

oh my god i just got to the pinnochimon's dangerous game episode (43)

oh my god you all were not kidding about that puppet packing heat

[pyrriax]

Ah, so tell me Sugar or Salt for better preservation?

salt! especially when you're working with dry preservation, which is what it's being used for typically. sugar will attract bugs and other things which will eat away at the specimen, along with not drawing out the moisture nearly as well / at all.

but if you're working with things like rabbits feet, which are intended to be dry at the end, you'd think that the process involves just drying them, right? but you'd be wrong! the process (at least that i've followed in the past) involves soaking them twice, once in a soapy water mixture to remove parasites, then in a high concentrate isopropyl alcohol, rinsing thoroughly between steps.

processes vary depending on what you're working on. another example is that for the rooster i'm planning to take the wings from, i'm going to need to both remove his wings, and go through the process of removing the flesh while also keeping the skin in tact around his bones, since i'm going to be effectively stuffing the void with cotton, so that everything lays properly when its all dried. those are actually going to be dried in salt, which is primarily because he was a domestic animal and i know where he'd been.

[ihopeitgetsokaysoon]

My dog drew this

[wandringaesthetic]

I haven't finished Edelgard's route and I haven't played Golden Deer at all yet, but I feel like fe3h is saying all the Lords are all kinda right and kinda wrong. Yet. The black eagles are the most aesthetically Evil though, yanno? So I feel like it's actually getting at something else.

[welcometoteyvat]

favorite irrelevant npc is honestly gonna be ba and giant ba (chenyu vale)