#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.

[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).

[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.

[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.

[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

[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)

[silvertherogue715]

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

[ruffled-serpent]

Given the new context and the apology post, I've been drawing parallels more to Ted Chiang's short story "A Story of your Life" and the sci-fi film based on it "Arrival"