#ptolmey

[marcusagrippa]

AUGH

[clonerightsagenda]

Reading The Locked Tomb if you find bodysharing as a trope sexy must be a very different experience from mine, since I am conditioned to mostly find bodysharing funny.

[certifiedcoffeeaddict]

rip perdikkas' troops ig

[ihaveforgortoomany]

2.2 discussion on Zeno (1.9 spoilers ahead)

Alright.

Igor or Admiral Igor is the father to Moldir, Ptolemy (the eyepatch guy) and Lopera. Im assuming Lopera is adopted unlike thr other two.

Igor was the one to confirm the death of Arcana which we can now fully say was false, in some shape or form she is alive.

Igor has chosen to join Manus or more specifically Sophia/ Preacher. It seems Zeno had fought a large battle that led to the first Storm, losing countless members. His convo with Lilya shows his hesitation towards the Manus and Foundation, mostly the Foundation just using them as cannon fodder with no real progress and only sees siding with Manus as the option to save lives (mind you there is reluctancy and I am not entirely sure of his motives here)

He sees the Foundation and the Manus as two sides of the same coin (fucking called it nice).

Stephen somehow ended up with Anjo's seal/ the toy robot but didn't realise it was the seal, once the Foundation got to the motel the robot was found and given to Igor at some point, then later to Ptolmey to attempt to get Anjo.

Its clear Urd has some greater purpose for the Manus, Igor seems to have history with Urd but it seems something is up with her.

Currently Igor, Moldir and Ptolemy with some Zeno officers have joined with the Manus going to the South.

This is what I have so far on Zeno,

[audaciiaearchive]

i'm sorry , you think you're in charge ?- heph giving ptolmey shit vivjcu

"I mean, when Alexander's not around, I might as well be, don't you think? Who else? Parmenion? Oh, gods, or Kassandros? I don't think so. I guess you could be in charge..but that would look a little biased, don't you think?"

Ptolemy snorts and rolls his eyes, playfully nudging Hephaestion with his elbow. No, he doesn't genuinely think he's been left in charge. Alexander only stepped away for a second, anyways, but it's still funny to push Hephaestion's buttons. "Where did he say he was going? I was only half paying attention." Besides, Ptolemy never pretends to understand where Alexander goes when he needs to be alone. That's for Hephaestion to know, he supposes. "If he's not back in ten minutes, let's send the search party, eh?"

[uniasus]

Things I Have Discovered Researching YGO Fics

Yugi's purple eyes are genetically possible, but it's probably attached to a genetic mutation that can mess up your life. Also, some blue eyes, under the right condition, can appear purple.

I will not write a h/c fic. I will not write an h/c fic

Alexandria's Genesis is a myth that those with purple eyes are perfect beings that overly lap slightly with vampires. They have fair skin with no body hair, have perfect vision, never get sick, are perfectly proportioned, and seem to experience life in a sorta time freeze because they can live up to 150, don't produce any type of waste, and maintain the perfect weight. Further research shows its origins are actually fanfic from the early Aughts (surprise!) but the writer has shared her inspiration - an MTV show whose own worldbuilding (I think?) traces purple eyes to suddenly appearing spirits in Egypt. Where that came from, I do not know and I refuse to spend the dig time.

I will not give Yugi this condition. I will not give Yugi this condition.

Timaeus, Critias, and Hermos, the names of the Legendary Dragon (Knights) are the speakers in some of Plato's dialogues. While Hermos doesn't get his own self-titled dialogue, the other two do and they both mention Atlantis. Which I just find fascinating because this is proof that the show staff did do research for the DOMA arc, but still decided to link Atlantis with California.

I will not write a story about Egyptian Gods and Greek Gods having conflict during the Ptolmey era. Who am I kidding, that idea has been in my head for years thanks to Riodian's short stories that cross the Kane Chronicles and PJO. One day I'll write it. But it probably won't be fic.

Orichalcum is a metal mentioned by Plato in conjecture with Atlantis, so it wasn't completely made up. It was said to give off light by Critias, though red, and there have been guesses as to what the modern equivalent is - a copper alloy, a type of copper similar to fool's gold, or platinum. Platinum, it should be noted, is dangerous enough to have OSHA regulations.

Again, more research than I expected from the show. I will not write H/C about the impacts of too much platinum exposure featuring Mai.

[sailing-with-100-ships]

I only post f1 on here, but this show has been on my mind since this week. I see it everything before going to sleep and end up crying every time because of the overflowing love this whole scene depicts. It is so gentle and for the first time, I think, historians have openly referred to Hephaestion as Alexander's lover. That is something so precious to me. The love between them is so pure that I just cry thinking about it.

Also, Ptolmey cockblocking them will never not be funny. He was line done with their shit and could not just see them kissing AGAIN 😂.

Ptolemy tired of thirdwheeling Alexander and Hephaestion in Episode 1: The Boy King

Alexander: The Making of a God (Netflix, 2024)

[dyrewrites]

Hi! This has nothing to do with anything but you did say anything.

I have been having a concerning amount of dreams involving me at my local grocery store. What do you think THAT's about?

In one I was telling the entire history of Cleopatra, beginning with Ptolmey I, using various fruits and vegetables as I shopped. It was a really weird dream. I got to Ptolmey III.

The location leads me to believe you've been spending a lot of time running errands or working and not a whole lot going places just for fun.

The content of the dream suggests you have more stories to tell than you've been able to get out and they want out so badly you might start spilling them in the middle of a grocery store--whether anyone's listening or not.

But I am not a diviner of dreams. Or a therapist.

I do appreciate the distraction though, thank you. ^.^

[clonerightsagenda]

submitted Ptolmey to the haunting the narrative bracket. He will not make it in but he deserves it

[dragonshine]

[bellerophonm]

So back in the very early days, we only had the original series Enterprise. People had to guess at much of the entire rest of the Trek universe, and one of the biggest things to come out was Franz Joseph's licenced Star Trek Technical Manual in 1975, which ended up kicking off a lot of fanworks and being the basis for a lot of things going on, including assets that made it into the movies. He poisted a Starfleet currently made up of Enterprise-style cruisers, smaller destroyers and scouts, a larger dreadnought, and also the Class I Transport/Tug, the Ptolemy class.

In his idea, these were the most common ships, and basically the backbone of the Federation. It was a locomotive model: the ship at the front contained the basic warp drive and ship infrastructure, and then pretty much any kind of ship could be made by attaching standard containers to it, big cylinders about ten decks high. If you wanted a starliner, then a big train of cylinders with windows and luxury quarters. A freighter, big cargo bays. A tanker... big tanks. Etc. Or combination trains of them. He imagined a Federation held together by these trains running around.

Credit to Donny Versega

If I recall correctly, the plans for this one actually made it onto background displays in TMP. And they've been used in beta canon books and things since too.

They were quite a popular concept, but we never saw those properly, though, and later on when we did see freighters in TNG and on, they tended to be bricks where you could hang cargo containers off the side.

To be honest, I think not doing trains was more the limits of FX at the time. People liked the idea, it's just much more annoying to do when you're doing bluescreen model compositing. So for a long time it was bricks, but then as soon as we went to CGI-dominant with Enterprise, the cargo ships in that series were trains.

Choo choo.

After that, less Trek for a while, and then when Picard season 1 came out, we got the Wallenbergs, which were heavily inspired by the original Ptolmeys.

Even moreso in the original concept art.

Aside from that, we've seen occasional ships that are ostensibly designed to take cargo containers, such as the La Sirena. One can only imagine that the Federation has standardised towed cargo container sizes and umbilicals in the same way that in the 20th and 21st century we standardised cargo containers so heavily, and I would imagine with the Federation being such a behemoth that those standards would have spread far beyond its borders.

Bonus mentions: The Drookmani ships from lower decks, which are cabs with a bunch of containers behind:

And the Hiawatha from Disco, which aren't trains but have the same 'mass-produce a basic ship with warp drive framework and then plug on compartments with the actual purpose of the ship' as the Ptolmey. The one we saw in Disco is a medical ship but it's clearly meant to be a hyper-versatile design.

Hello, Love your work! I've long believed that the realm of transport and logistics in the Star Trek universe is a potential treasure trove of content often ignored. PIC S1 almost bucked the trend with the La Sirena "trailer hitch" and the Sampson/Wallenberg Class alluding to #spacetrains. Are you aware of any Fanart or Fiction exploring #spacecontainers #spacetrains?

Thank you so much for the compliment!

I don't know if you meant to send this to the main blog or @mappinglasirena, but I'm gonna answer it here so it ends up in the tags and more people have a chance to see it ;)

I love when people enjoy specific aspects of the worldbuilding in Trek! There is so much to dive into, and logistics and transportation is definitely a big area that holds a tonne of potential!

Off the top of my head, though, I can't think of any art or fic relating to spacetrains specifically, not in a Trek context. There's a tiny bit of concept art which you may have seen before, of La Sirena delivering cargo before picking up Picard, which was ultimately dropped from season 1:

But I don't recall ever seeing anything more detailed. As for the Wallenberg, the only things I have there are the Eagle Moss booklet cover and very grainy footage from just before the Attack on Mars.

So, I'm throwing this one to the wider tumblr Trekkie community! Does anyone know of any art including Trek-trains? Particularly space trains? Or stories that deal with cargo and towing cargo in particular?

Seven having to figure out the byzantine controls of Sirena's hitch system to take on some particularly heavy cargo? How the previous owner was recruited to aid the Romulan Rescue effort and that's why the hitch was added to the ship? Maybe some exciting spacetrain-heists?

Because I'd definitely love to see/read those myself 😁

[thatsafootstool]

Although they were few, Bartimaeus could still recall the handful of memories of when Ptolemy had been relaxed. Truly relaxed. And those times had not been when he had been nose-deep in scroll dust. Rather it had been when he had been away from all that.

Out in the open whether on the banks of The Nile or atop a building, somewhere away from Ptolemy’s studies... Where he would sit as he chewed dates and honey, listening with wide eyes alight with a childlike wonder as Bartimaeus told him many a tale from his various times on Earth.

Some tales were intense, some perhaps a bit scary but Bartimaeus loved nothing more than to make Ptolemy laugh. To laugh and grin so wide his jaw would ache afterwards.

Some tales Bartimaeus told many times and yet they did not loose their magic, Ptolemy’s face would crumple into laughter. And in those moments, though few, Ptolemy was no longer a magician, but just a boy.

Just a boy who wanted nothing more than to have fun. To have fun and explore the world.

That was the true essence of Ptolemy and such was the rarity of his laughter that these were the memories Bartimaeus held most dear. He feared that he would loose them one day. Whether time would consume them or The Other Place whisk them away he did not know.

But for now he could remember Ptolmey’s smile as clear as the day he had seen it. He could still hear his laughter with such clarity.

Sometimes if he thought hard enough he could almost be back there. Standing atop an ancient building telling some silly tale, as the boy he had grown to love threw back his head and laughed into the clear blue sky.

This is my Secret Santa gift for @saentiel ! Hope you like the finished result and Merry Christmas to you! Sorry it took a little while to finish - I had a bit of trouble with Ptol’s mouth as I haven’t really drawn a side-on view of people laughing before! Nevertheless I’m very pleased with the result!

I decided to do a different take on Bartimaeus’ lapwing form. I thought that at some points Bart must’ve taken on a half-human, half-lapwing form. I mean, Bart’s always been one for aesthetic. (His lower legs are bright pink as he has a Lapwing’s lower legs and feet - and they have bright pink legs!)

Lapwings are gorgeous birds but a bit of a challenge to paint surprisingly! In any case it was an absolute joy to draw and paint this!

Painted with watercolours and photographed with my DLSR.

[poisonhemloc]

am i getting ideas above my skill level or has it just been long enough that i dont really remember how this scene goes

[fictionkinfessional]

inhales its mh oc kin back. i just kinned victor Frankenstein and seth ptolmey so -dabs- im a feral scientist AND a gay rapper cool. also screw u mattel for never givin me dolls-🧟‍♂️🦌

[attila-werther]

the music tone shifts in this musical from what ptolmey’s song was like to the rock line happening literally seconds later when caesar appears is

idk how to describe it but it’s