#preservation schemes

[jamaicahomescom]

Overview of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust Act of 1985

Imagine stepping into a world where the past and present collide, where ancient windmills stand as silent sentinels to bygone eras, and where vibrant cultural heritage is preserved for future generations. This is the essence of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust Act of 1985. Enacted to safeguard Jamaica’s rich historical and cultural assets, this Act is a beacon of preservation, ensuring that…

[mythandral]

You know this is the right choice Let's switch off together Let's flow to no more Goodbye, goodbye to everything

[pttucker]

"You don't need skills that aren't for combat. "But Dokja-ssi has this skill as well?" Yoo Joonghyuk's eyebrows twitched. "Kim Dokja has this skill?" "Yes, he said this is required if you want to be popular with constellations…" "That guy wants to be an idol." Yoo Joonghyuk gritted his teeth and kept moving. Lee Seolhwa looked at Yoo Joonghyuk like he was funny. She didn't know why but this cold-hearted man became angry whenever he heard Kim Dokja's name. Yoo Joonghyuk's eyes shifted towards a stand. –50% discount on skill books.

AHHHHHHHHHHH

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Joonghyuk looking at all the "useless" skills available to purchase:

Joonghyuk looking at all the "useless" skills available to purchase .2 seconds after learning that Dokja bought one:

[widowshill]

VAMP ROGER AU QUESTION! how would he and barnabas interact together (if they ever interact)? :3 💜

tagging @tortoisesshells because she's my co-conspirator <3

excellent question! this family and their sharp-toothed men will be the death of ... well, several community members of Collinsport, i suppose.

to start — Barnabas gets out of the box slightly differently than in canon, which colors his relationship to Roger and the rest of the household. Roger kills Willie after his attempted assault on Carolyn and Vicki (who is, by that point, his wife); Willie's mysterious disappearance and Roger's suspected involvement makes Jason that much more panicked, desperate, and correspondingly aggressive. Liz goes searching for the lost family jewels in a last-ditch attempt to buy Jason off, and, inadvertently, lets their ancient family sin out of the tomb.

ergo she's made Barnabas' thrall instead of Willie, but this goes unnoticed for a while — even though her brother would, in theory, recognize the signs, and his suspicions are raised, but she's already acting so much unlike herself with Jason around that he doesn't suspect anyone else of doing her harm. yet.

at the start, he and Barnabas get along very well, even before they discover their shared affliction: they're both relatively sophisticated, well-traveled, intelligent people, and for all that Roger decries Liz's emphasis on the Collins name, he leans towards familial connections instinctively (Roger hasn't got much in the way of friends outside of the house even in canon, and he's even more isolated as a vampire).

after he finds out Barnabas is also a vampire, things get a little more complicated, but overall, they're still friendly. Roger doesn't have much sympathy for Barnabas' relentless self-pity and decrying his doomed fate to live as a monster, because Roger on the whole enjoys his vampirism and has made a decent un-life for himself out of it (thanks in no small part to Vicki). but having someone like him around is a comfort in ways he wouldn't have expected, he's no longer solitary or uniquely monstrous out of the Collins family, he has someone else around through the night, and someone who understands the sufferings of bloodthirst and being shut out of the sun.

furthermore, Roger's very much interested in his family history and stories of the past, the building of Collinwood, Jeremiah's ships – and Barnabas was there. there's potential for some very interesting conversations about the past, and the arc of the Collins family history to the present, not to mention literature, travel, fashion, politics and the rest. Roger's his cousin's mirror in modernity in many ways, and that's something potentially interesting to explore: the world changes around them, but Collinses do not.

as an aside, they both have a funny sort of relationship to Burke. Barnabas hates him for his resemblance to Jeremiah and envies his friendship with Vicki and thinks he's crude, and Roger ... well. it's complicated. it's closer to antagonism than not, and Burke has tried to kill him once in this au, and Roger resents his flirting with Vicki, but then there's everything else with their past. so I don't think Barnabas' treatment of him would sit particularly well with Roger, he'd take the attitude of hey, only I can be a dick to Burke >:(

the definite fracture point is Barnabas imprinting on Vicki. Roger's already jealous and possessive by nature, and it's amplified by the supernatural nature of his relationship to Vicki (being closer, bodily and mentally; being necessary to each other; being, quite literally, sustenance) so he's already a little on edge when Barnabas starts paying attention to her, giving her presents, and appreciating the scenery — Barnabas doesn't, exactly, tend to have much in the way of moral inclination to leaving women alone when they have prior engagements, but it's fair to point out the irony of everything Roger was doing with his bloodbag governess when he was still very much a married man.

anyway: Roger finds foreign bite marks on his wife's neck, and he's understandably immensely upset by this. partially out of territorial sentiment, but he also knows Vicki, and he knows that she wouldn't have invited another vampire willingly — which means that she was forced, or hypnotized, or attacked in secret, and there's only the one potential suspect. this is already enough to lose his good will, but he might have been willing to let Barnabas go with a "hands off," had this discovery not lead to finding out what he'd also been doing to Liz. the combination of the two is unforgivable, and it's Barnabas' error to have made an enemy who is very personally aware of all his vampiric weaknesses, and Burke's already carved a stake.

[riverin-stories]

xueyi outfit reinterpretation skritch .......

[filmtribv]

BAD SISTERS (2022): THE PRICK

[t-u-i-t-c]

touma & kento 🤝 koh & canalo

🔥&⚡

[worstloki]

people need to take advantage of Mu Qing and Feng Xin as platonic besties before I start throwing stuff

[buffintruder]

Here's my very amateur Japanese translation of the cow lik poem

牛だモー 夜なら 夜星は キラキラ みんなが 寝ている そのうち パンなめる

Gyuu da moo Yoru nara Yoboshi wa Kirakira Minna ga Neteiru Sono uchi Pan nameru

I am a cow When it's night And the stars Are twinkling Everybody Is fast asleep During that time I lick the bread

[frankensteincest]

having feel-good chemicals shoot through your blood in response to relieving pain is such good design that it almost makes me believe in a sentient creator.

[astranauticus]

while ive got untranslatable cpop on the brain shoutout to on Naihe bridge by Ice Paper because its a fanastic song with a truly wild vibe but how in the world am i supposed to preserve that second verse where the whole joke is its comprised largely out of chengyu where the first characters count from 1-9. hello??

[what-am-i-outside-my-google-tabs]

"so, what's the last anime you watched?"

"ever heard of Boku No Pico?"

[dashiellqvverty]

will never forget watching the disney+ howard ashman documentary which includes his famous talk about how animation is the only way to truly adapt a broadway-style musical to the screen, then ends with a bunch of clips from the live action remakes talking about how his legacy is still living on or whatever. like no actually you are directly shitting on it hope this helps <3

[littlegalerion]

Listen...I have a young niece in the house every other day, and it's her favorite show. So naturally the show hooked it's claws into my husband and I, and yeah it's as good as people said.

Instead of more Elder Scrolls Art, take some Bluey art I guess, of my husband and I as dogs.

Both German Shepherds, as it just makes sense, given our plans for the Homestead, plus my husband's family are retired, reputable German Shepherd breeders.

⚠️ "Panda" or "Piebald" German Shepherds should NOT be bred! ⚠️

I am a "Panda" German Shepherd due to DARK HUMOR ALONE, as I have quite a few medical issues and dogs bred out of standard, like a "Panda" Shepherd, are more at risk of medical issues.

My husband is a standard Black and Tan, American work line German Shepherd Dog.

[softwarmfur]

rewatching lynch's dune last night since it got put on netflix, and when it got to the scene where stilgar makes paul choose his name of manhood i made a joke like "woah...thats kind of trans gener..." and me and my dad had a chuckle at that but now im thinking about it a little more and the most efficient way to turn the story of Dune into a comedy is simply to make paul trans...in whatever capacity, it still works, since it's a major plot point that jessica gave birth to a son instead of a daughter. and in this neo-royal political system, so much hinges on biological sex or rather the ability to breed and continue bloodlines. it's so important the bene gesserit are specifically instructed to control the sex of the fetuses they carry....a trans paul would so thoroughly disrupt this system, and would drastically shift the story line but im not thinking about that. im thinkin purely about how funny it would be.

theoretical breakdown:

if paul is a trans man - pleasantly surprised jessica, overjoyed leto, coping seething and malding mother mohaim

if paul is a trans woman - both parents very surprised, however mother mohaim would be a kind of weirdly supportive grandmother to paul

[gothpretentious]

Ranier Maria Rilke (English tr. Stephen Mitchell)