#it has been a horrible week

[thevoidstaredback]

I've been quiet today. Didja miss me?

My phone, this morning, decided it hates me. Refused to load Tumblr, and then crashed about 15 times in the span of ~30 minutes. Obviously, that upset me. What really pissed me off, though, was when I got it working, it deleted 3 of the notes in my notes app. Which, fine. I remember what was on them, so I can more or less recreate them. However, it also deleted a 4th. All of my notes for Trolly Problem - 4ish months of work - are now all gone. I'm praying that I can recover at least that.

My phone's been completely turned off since just after 14:00. I haven't even turned it on (Hi from my computer, btw), so we're crossing our fingers and hoping everything's back to normal. If it is, I'm gonna transfer every single note to a fresh doc so that I can access them from my computer, too

[brokenbutunbowed]

We've already gotten over half a foot of heavy wet snow the last few days, and every single one of our birds pens has been damaged.

The inner dividing walls of the pheasant pens caved in, and my yellow golden rooster was crushed to death.

The chicken and duck pen (which are next to each other and use the same fencing/ roof netting) had a complete failure of their netting and the netting actually ripped off the walls and collapse into the pens. Had to lock up the chickens in their coop and move the ducks over to the second duck pen.

The turkey pen was still partly under construction, but the netting on one side collapsed so much it was on the ground and the t-posts holding the doorframe caved in and is leaning at a 45 degree angle. It took so long to clear the snow off the net yesterday that I kept having to take breaks to lay face down in the snow because I thought I was gonna black out. Got the turkeys safely locked in their coop as well for safety.

All that to say.... we have another 10-15 inches in the forecast for tomorrow morning through Saturday and I'm legit terrified of what's going to happen. It's already difficult navigating the yard and I know the nets are all gonna cave in again if I'm not out there constantly clearing them off (they never used to be this bad, I'm not sure why they do this so much now but I'm already brainstorming modifications to add to the pens in the spring to prevent this stuff from happening next year). It's supposedly going to start snowing at like 9 or 10am and I'll be off work at 7am, so hopefully I don't have to drive in it. Might have to switch my sleep around and stay up throughout the day is I can so I can keep an eye on everything.

If work actually cares about us, they'll at least call off first and second shift tomorrow. I doubt we'll get called off because work starts in 2.5 hours for us and we'll hopefully be done before the storm, but still.... if I was still on first shift I'd be using my one singular allowed unpaid sick day to call in tomorrow.

[humans-are-tasty]

crochawk exchange for a crochawker

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

[daily-smol-silm]

Day #200 - 200!!

Maedhros is here to celebrate the 200th day of this blog :D

[vakariaan]

ultimate ships challenge - [3/6] period drama ships

Patrick/Shelagh  »  Call the Midwife

Your voice touched my soul. It was like everyone else's melted away and it was just you.

[crabussy]

dude. my life fucking rules. feathered velociraptor shleich figurine for $2 at the op shop. captain of one of my favourite ferries complimented my shirt TWICE (and we are now introduced!). new friend waved me over to sit next to her in a lecture. found a way to make my pony collection even more enjoyable. sky was so beautiful it was a crazy pale blue and there were cirrus clouds catching the sun. the ocean looked like molten green glass. I'm going swimming in the sea and having lunch with a few friends in a weeks time. I've earned 500 dollars this week just from my art which is a milestone I didn't expect to hit without joining a company. I'm not feeling as fatigued as usual. it rained in the morning which was really lovely. I thought I was going to be super late for uni but I made it right on time. I'm kind of in love with the world today

[paradoxbeta]

I'm curious, how would your Suns design look during more serious situations, such as one of the Spearmaster broadcasts?

something like this

and now for a (slightly long) addendum: i know i depict SRS as jokey and kooky, but when it comes to not shitposting and actual characterization, i have Thoughts and Feelings about them. the entire story, they just want to do what they hope will help the people around them, even though it all ends up horribly, HORRIBLY wrong. that's tragic, and it has my interest. considering the heaviness (and intrigue) of SRS’s storyline, for me to only ever depict them as a goofball be way too shallow of me, and unfaithful to their canon characterization.

so to answer your question: they hold themselves together, of course, but the shame, regret, and embarrassment is still evident.

[greekmythcomix]

How I teach the Iliad in highschool:

I’ve taught the Iliad for over a decade, I’m literally a teacher, and I can even spell ‘Iliad’, and yet my first instinct when reading someone’s opinions about it is not to drop a comment explaining what it is, who ‘wrote’ it, and what that person’s intention truly was.

Agh. <the state of Twitter>

The first thing I do when I am teaching the Iliad is talk about what we know, what we think we know, and what we don’t know about Homer:

We know -

- 0

We think we know -

- the name Homer is a person, possibly male, possibly blind, possibly from Ionia, c.8th/9th C BCE.

- composed the Iliad and Odyssey and Hymns

We don’t know -

- if ‘Homer’ was a real person or a word meaning singer/teller of these stories

- which poem came first

- whether the more historical-sounding events of these stories actually happened, though there is evidence for a similar, much shorter, siege at Troy.

And then I get out a timeline, with suggested dates for the ‘Trojan war’ and Iliad and Odyssey’s estimated composition date and point out the 500ish years between those dates. And then I ask my class to name an event that happened 500 years ago.

They normally can’t or they say ‘Camelot’, because my students are 13-15yo and I’ve sprung this on them. Then I point out the Spanish Armada and Qu. Elizabeth I and Shakespeare were around then. And then I ask how they know about these things, and we talk about historical record.

And how if you don’t have historical record to know the past, you’re relying on shared memory, and how that’s communicated through oral tradition, and how oral tradition can serve a second purpose of entertainment, and how entertainment needs exciting characteristics.

And we list the features of the epic poems of the Iliad and Odyssey: gods, monsters, heroes, massive wars, duels to the death, detailed descriptions of what armour everyone is wearing as they put it on. (Kind of like a Marvel movie in fact.)

And then we look at how long the poems are and think about how they might have been communicated: over several days, when people would have had time to listen, so at a long festival perhaps, when they’re not working. As a diversion.

And then I tell them my old and possibly a bit tortured simile of ‘The Pearl of Myth’:

(Here’s a video of The Pearl of Myth with me talking it through in a calming voice: https://youtu.be/YEqFIibMEyo?sub_confirmation=1

And after all that, I hand a student at the front a secret sentence written on a piece of paper, and ask them to whisper it to the person next to them, and for that person to whisper it to the next, and so on. You’ve all played that game.

And of course the sentence is always rather different at the end than it was at the start, especially if it had Proper nouns in it (which tend to come out mangled). And someone’s often purposely changed it, ‘to be funny’.

And we talk about how this is a very loose metaphor for how stories and memory can change over time, and even historical record if it’s not copied correctly (I used to sidebar them about how and why Boudicca used to be known as ‘Boadicea’ but they just know the former now, because Horrible Histories exists and is awesome)

And after all that, I remind them that what we’re about to read has been translated from Ancient Greek, which was not exactly the language it was first written down in, and now we’re reading it in English.

And that’s how my teenaged students know NOT TO TAKE THE ILIAD AS FACT.

(And then we read the Iliad)

[vaguely-concerned]

just for fun this time during 'sea of blood' I counted out all the venatori corpses I think we can be pretty sure were lucanis' handiwork before we show up (not including the ones he kills in his initial cutscene, and with an assumption that he's been at work mainly up and down in the areas we move through until we find him, not behind the locked door -- I think that's mostly the work of rampaging undead and other venatori-hoisted-by-their-own-petard suchlikes). can thus happily inform you lucanis has killed at least 32 venatori before rook and company get there. at least one of them he's impaled on their own weird crystal spike things the venatori mages cast as an AOE attack and that they're trying to keep him contained with when we find him. so he's clearly been keeping busy lol. that's my boy dispensing poetic justice and claiming some enrichment in his enclosure while he's at it good for him!

[zylphiacrowley]

Erenwol week Day 7

I would go anywhere in existence with him. Travel the entire star and beyond. Meet old friends, and make new ones. I want to be there to see him smile on his happiest days, or to hold him on the ones that aren't. But oh, to be able to spend these quiet moments with him… this is what home must feel like.

And with that, I have for the first time successfully finished an entire prompt list! A thousand thank yous once again to @zeloinator for creating a fun and engaging prompt list!

[girlboytroylougferd]

Fresh out the oven!

Lint prepared a surprise for Troy, and Troy forgets how to say thank you. Luckily, she finds a good enough alternative!

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hi guys . jrwi fluff week day 1 uhhhh i dont know how many of these im gonna do! this'll probably be the only thing i write for it though. had fun writing this teeny tiny little treat :3 was abit rushed sorgy

QUICK EDIT I FORGOR TO TAG @justfluffwithit

The sun is just beginning to sink below the horizon as Troy walks home through the cold. The wind bites at his face but like, in a bad way.

Today was great, but she can only assume that it’s going to get even better. Troy did amazing at practice, like always, and Lint said they had a surprise ready for when Troy got back to the house!

She rushes home as fast as she can. His hands are freezing even through his thick leather gloves, her face is flush, and she really should have brought a scarf with her, but none of that matters! He opens the front door to a small, cozy, warmly lit living room, walls painted a neutral shade of green. It’s familiar, he missed it.

Lint pokes his head out of the kitchen and buzzes, “Troy! Hi, you’re early! Dinner’s not finished yet, sorry man.”

“Ohhhh cool cool cool, what’re you making?” Troy says, wandering into the kitchen and sitting at the already set dining table. Lint unties their red striped apron and hangs it up on a small hook before sitting down with Troy. He looks nice, their hair is up in a ponytail and they have some old band's t-shirt on.

“Uh- a mac n’ cheese bake! You mentioned you were wanting one a few days ago? I thought it’d be nice since like, I haven’t had much time to hang out lately and stuff. Sorry about that, by the way... And you did soooo good at practice today, I thought you deserved a treat!”

“Yeah, dude, you’re so freaking right! I did amazing.”

Lint laughs, and jumps in his seat as the oven beeps. They scramble up, grab the oven mitts, and return just a few moments later, placing a small, square glass pan on the table. Troy smiles, plates his food, and takes a bite! Lint is staring at her expectantly. He’s got strange eyes. Troy loves those weird, strange eyes.

“I’m not much of a chef, sorry…” Lint whispers.

“Dude, what? This is like, really good! Better than my mom’s!”

“Oh- really? Maybe I should make it more often then!”

Troy really does appreciate the meal. She’s been missing his mom’s cooking a lot lately, she doesn't know why. and this isn’t quite it, but it’s definitely good. Because Lint made it, and Lint is almost as amazing as Troy! There’s a thing he’s supposed to say when he feels like this, right? Well, he can’t remember what it is right now, so she gets up from the table and walks over to Lint. They look confused, and let out a surprised buzz when Troy pulls them into a hug.

And when Lint hugs back, everything feels a bit warmer, a bit brighter, a bit better. He’s still buzzing, and they seem even happier now, calmer, content. After a minute or so, though, Lint speaks up again, laughing a little. Cogs, Troy loved his laugh. 

“Are you gonna let us eat dinner now? It’s gonna get cold, man!”

Troy doesn’t particularly want to let go, but he knows she has to. Maybe everything will stay warm, and bright, and better. Everything already is better with Lint by his side!

Today was great. Today was perfect.

Lint is perfect.

[wilting-fl0wer]

The only correct form of caltam, as far as i am concerned

[thevioletcaptain]

as someone who normally reads a script over on the tv writing site every day while eating breakfast like it's the morning paper, but who didn't have time today because i'm trying to meet a deadline on my own script that i've been slow to work on due to an assortment of fire related stress as a resident of los angeles this week........ i am experiencing some severe fomo over these new spn script drops

[s4tvrnsays]

Ladybug is TIRED

[michsmeesh]

quick jovier posting before i go to bed :3 did these for avi and lucas because......... yeah................................................