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one of this days i'm editing the good omens radio drama and cutting everything except any aziraphale and crowley, because sometimes i just want to listen to them to have their characterization more clear in my head, but ✨the plot✨ won't let me
#listen#sometimes i want to be able to hear their phone conversation about “how did u know it was me?”#Several thousand years ago#I was instructed to ✨anticipate✨ and thwart you. I can still fulfill the first of those duties#even if we have otherwise agreed to cooperate.#Aaand I have caller ID.#hear me out#aziraphale in the radio drama is the most ever ok?#good omens#good omens radio drama#a dragon chirps
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long lived sw races must be so extra about their hobbies. imagine you live for thousand years and a century of that time you decide to dedicate to making a single big af carpet
#a neti jedi that loves crocheting so much they spend a decade to make enough ponchoes for an entire generation of initiates#your village's local funny uncle that has his own special moonshine recipe that is insanely strong#with the only downside that it takes 20 years to brew#a long lived linguist that dedicates their life to creating the most accomplished detailed research of a specific language family#and all of the dialects contained within it at the span of several thousand years making the research both synchronic and diachronic#re: my old space defunctland post the host of the spyoutube channel is from a long lived race which allows him to dedicate years#and even decades for video research which creates a lot of controversy because some people think that its an unfair advantage#archeologists coming to an excavation site to do research on the ruins of a house that was built 5000 years ago#unaware that the person that built it is still alive but moved to a neighboring town#so on so forth the world is beautiful the possibilities are endless you get it#star wars
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#kirby#kirby makes stuff#daily kirby#my art#digital#hal laboratory#nintendo#my wife got me a bunch of origami star paper strips years ago#I liked folding them but I didn't have anywhere to put them or anything to do with them#and I had a bunch of other crafts to do#but when I was too sick to crochet last month I could still fold stars#and now that I'm feeling a little better I've got Plans for them#so I folded uhhhhhhh probably several thousand stars in the past few weeks#and I'm all out of star papers :')#(I'm sure she'll buy me more soon)
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there's something to be said about this trend of doing prelim hip screening on very young dogs and freaking out when they look kinda meh
there's a whole bunch of other somethings to be said about vets apparently bringing up FHO as an option based on those prelims??
#i feel like my brain might leak out of my ears sometimes#and i am not a medical professional. not even a medical amateur#but even in my own private life ive seen (frankly kinda poorly done) hip xrays and hear that the vet that took them#held up surgery as an option for hips that were just mild to mild-moderate#idk if its got to do with more people screening and more professionals getting close to areas of the field theyre less experienced with#or what#but i#feel like i see more of it now than just a few years ago#imho prelims in general have limited value? if you're considering sinking thousands of dollars in importing a puppy for breeding#you may wanna rule out hips looking severe at baby ages#but if youre a regular person invested in the health of your individual dog - HD has such variability in expression#and prelims are just a general prediction (unless its getting old enough to soon get proper ones anyway OR you're looking at symptoms)#a great prelim prob wont turn awful and a terrible prelim wont turn great#but if your puppy is acting normal theres really nothing that xray will tell you that should much affect how you raise it#and a LOT of the ppl i see doing them now seem either mostly impatient or mostly looking for a reason to freak out#in case hips turn out looking TERRIBLE (mediocre) and HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN (because OFA fair is often FCI mild and also its chance)
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wishbone, the first unicorn
#mlp#mlp fim#my little pony#mlp oc#mlp g4#she lived some several hundred thousand years ago#when protoponies first moved into what would become equestria and started to be affected by all the magic there#she cant do magic on purpose but sometimes things happen around her that cant be explained
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I was tagged by @dymme thank you so much <3
Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most! Then tag Tumblr friends to keep the game going!
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I must say I do not have the energy right now, so please please please (!!!) if you see this and you want to, feel tagged! Yes, you. Feel tagged and tell me what beautiful things you are listening to!!
Also @fireheartedpup. I am sorry but I am really curious.
#Did I drop everything I did in the library to do this?#Yes.#Research of living and dying several thousand years ago in a specific region in europe for a paper: out#Doing the music game bc Dymme tagged me: in#kind of exaggarating but im in my Master and very tired#tbh i mostly listen to hozier (please listen to “In a week” and “Butchered Tongue” and “Work Song”)#and Aurora (especially her acoustic versions)#i started hearing dark wave again (and Depeche mode although I do not know which genre they belong to)#and i love indie (dodie) and folk(Oh hellos#crane wives) and soft songs and sometimes blues#also Better in the morning is a good song if you just want to lay in the dark and feel a little bit bad but also hopeful for tomorrow#okay enough venting in the notes#also sorry fireheartedpup. You know about my banana eating before bed habit and now I need to know about your music taste#Spotify
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I couldn't tell you why, but I have always thought that Menelaus was the older brother of Agamemnon rather than the younger. Maybe something to do with Agamemnon's bratty entitled behaviour?
Either way I think it is wild that this is like my fifth or sixth time reading the Iliad and I have only just understood the Atridae birth order.
#like i have a degree in this shit#how did i miss this?#fully reminds me of the time i was doing a paper on dogs in ancient greece#and i was quoting that bit in the odyssey when odysseus and argus are reunited#and the first time i had read the odyssey some how i just like totally skipped over the part where argus died right afte#hashtag odessy spoiler#and it was three am and i was working on a paper due the next day#and i started crying so hard that my mother woke up and came to check on me#and i had to tell her it was because a fictional dog died several thousand years ago#her only reaction was 'haven't you read this before'?#so yeah#maybe i am just like a super unobservant person?#the iliad#agamemnon#menelaus#atridae#homer
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today im thinking about malaria in ancient rome.
about the fact that P. falciparum (the most dangerous kind of malaria) was likely endemic at least from the 2nd century BC onward that Galen said semitertian fevers (P. falciparum infections) were more common in Rome than anywhere else in the Roman Empire that the most severe manifestations of P. falciparum (quotidian fevers + cerebral malaria) were most common in babies and young children, an epidemiological observation that indicates the transmission rate of P. falciparum was extremely high in Rome that Quintus Serenus said there was no Latin word for semitertian fevers (they used a transliteration of the Greek, 'hemitritaeos') because "no one, i think, could have named it in our language and mothers would not have wanted to"
#working on my thesis gonna bring down the mood of the whole department#but i feel like i have to honor them#and the thing about malaria that fucks me up is P. falciparum has been around for tens of thousands of years#its not a disease of agriculture like smallpox or of sanitary issues that come with civilization like typhoid#it predates agriculture its been found in the bodies of mummies from ancient egypt and skeletons from ancient greece and rome#there are species-specific plasmodium parasites for gorrillas chimpanzees and humans#which to me indicates there was a plasmodium parasite for every now lost hominid#malaria is the strongest recent evolutionary pressure on the human genome#upwards of 30% of people in some parts of the world are heterozygous for sickle cell anemia#or heterozygous for SE asian ovalocytosis#thus it was more evolutionarily advantageous for 2-3% of all children to die#so about 30% of people could be protected from severe malaria#these mutations take a long time to evolve. parasites take a long time to evolve#there are people who mourned their infants tens of thousands of years ago in languages we will never know with rituals we will never see#and i cant do anything about any of that but i can keep going to the lab every day and trying my best to figure it out#because so many generations of humans stretching back to before we were human could not
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i often binge watch dr phil on youtube while i draw/paint/knit/sort beads*/etc and it is SOOOO FUNNY TO MEEEEE when people complain about how he ~always finds a reason to plug the books he's written~
????????????? like literally
what kind of idiot WOULDN'T advertise their own book on their own talk show???? OF COURSE he's advertising his book!
and also???? people leave pissy comments every time he advertises the businesses of his wife and kids????
WHAT KIND OF USELESS DEADBEAT HUSBAND/FATHER WOULD NOT ADVERTISE HIS FAMILY'S BUSINESSES ON HIS NATIONWIDE TALK SHOW???? a good husband/father SHOULD support the pursuits of his family in whatever ways they can, and if you just happen to be an absurdly famous talk show host, then one of those ways is to tell millions of people every day to go spend money on you!
i mean gosh, there are plenty of criticisms to be made about the sensationalistic, exploitative nature of reality shows and talk shows, and plenty of reasons to criticize phil mcgraw, but Advertising His Family's Businesses is not one of them lmfao.
#*i found this pack of jewelry making beads that i must have gotten like 15 years ago and never opened it#and ive spent the last several days sorting organizing them by color one at a time#and it is SO MUCH FUN oh my god lmfaooooo it's so soothing!!!!#literally like#if you're having a bad anxiety day or you just wanna take your mind off of something#get a pack of ten thousand beads and sort those motherfuckers for HOURS of mindless detatchment#it's great#10/10 would DEFINITELY recommend.#i think im gonna sort them AGAIN into EVEN MORE SPECIFIC categories#light blue vs dark blue vs blueish green#stuff like that#awyeah
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I hateeee how stupid fashion research is. I’ll be searching for references on Greek fashion and it’s always like “Ancient Greece? You want to see 3,000 year old Greek fashion right? Ancient Greece….” Like NO BITCH I’m trying to find out what people were wearing in the 1800s!!!!!!
#Clawing my eyes out.#The other side is Ahhh 1800s.. surely you meant England and NOOOO!!! GREECE.#It’s honestly the same with any non-English/American clothes.#Like clearly you either want that fashion from several hundred or thousand years ago or you mean something wayyyy more Eurocentric.#ophidian lore
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I’m back, squidkids (and other cephalo-aligning youth)! I’ll get round to answering all the questions in my inbox over the next few days.
#And my return just happened to roughly coincide with the end of gcse exams several thousand years ago! Crazy stuff.#ask THAT Marie#splatoon
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i never ever complain about money bc i know im in an extremely privileged position bc my family gives me a decent chunk of financial support, and thats why i am always actually able to give to my friends and others in need, but the fact is if that disappeared tomorrow i make just enough money to scrape by at the current pace and my dad is a very confusing elderly man who is hard to get clear answers about anything from, so shit could just disappear tomorrow and id only find out tomorrow. it probably wont and ill probably be fine but i really can barely justify spending half my rent on a health insurance premium, the stupid enrollment period thing is closed or whatever (why is that even a thing?) and thats just. deeply frustrating. anyway this is a self reminder i need to start diversifying my income and selling shit online lol
#im also still mentally scarred from a couple years ago when my insurance company was suddenly like#actually nvm you didnt have coverage this whole time u were paying ur premium#and now you owe the several dozen doctors u visited#bc you have severe medical ocd#thousands and thousands of dollars#that ur unemployed ass doesnt rly have#so that was fun
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thinking about my immortal ocs and their fun family drama 🥰
#technically they exist in the same universe as livvy's canon#their names are nessa and angus and theyre old as balls#like angus forgets how he got his immortality but he resents it a lot#man is like 10s of thousands of years old. and the human mind is straight up not built to last that long#a lot of the time it seems like hes just got pretty bad dementia but. sometimes that involves him screaming out in long dead languages#or forgetting what century hes in#nessa is much younger in comparison#she was born and raised in the dustbowl during the great depression#she has a little sister who is now almost 90 years old and set up in a comfy assisted living community that nessa visits often#she begged for her sister to do the immortality thing with her years and years ago but her sister adamantly refused#the idea of outliving her husband and their children and grandchildren was just. not smth she could handle#so nessa begrudgingly accepted that#angus found nessa as a gangly 13 y/o runaway and took her in#he was VERY against the idea of her being immortal and refused to talk to her for over a year when she went through#the Change without telling him#eventually he forgot why he was angry at her in the first place 🙃#but yeah nessa is v much team 'death is for suckers there is SO MUCH i want to see and do still'#she looks maybe 30 and is thriving#she hired a 19 y/o caregiver to look out for angus and severely underestimates that caregiver in terms of Knowing angus is immortal#she just told her that angus is a historian with dementia and thats why sometimes he gets upset when he finds hes in present day LA#and not in viking era greenland#but the caregiver is like 🤨
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need more zarathos content in my life,,,need him and johnny to talk again,,,,,,
#zarathos complains about an argument he had several thousand years ago and johnny is forced to listen#ghostposting#ghost rider
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"Oooh, it's been a while since I've had the chance to fight with you! Your brothers aren't going to be mad when we wreck everything, are they?"
"Nah. My domain still resets itself in the mornings, so it's fine. You can go all out, Sef."
Abbadon: As the Demon Prince of Discord and War, he's able to bloodlust in beings to the point of driving them into a frenzy. Very tanky, so he can take a lot of hits, but does massive damage with his axe, as well. Has lots of stamina, but is fairly slow, so he tends to use his hell fire to keep enemies midrange, so he can decide if he wants to swing at them with his axe, use hell fire breath, etc.
If all else fails, he'll ultimately shift into his "true form", which...is an issue. It's massive, and much faster than he is in his normal form. He also likes to breathe hell fire all over himself when he's like this, and then leap onto his enemies. Anyway, it looks like this!
Death/"Sef": The Horseman of Death. As the name implies, a lot of their powers lie in death based abilities. Spirit summoning, reanimation or corpses, that sort of thing. They can also drain energy from their opponents at close range, and take it for themselves when they start to tire out.
More of a glass cannon in that they're fast, and they hit hard-- both physically and with magic-- but they can't take all that many hits. Because of this, they've gotten good at studying their opponent's movements, and positioning themself in a spot where they either know their opponent is weaker, or one that they know can't be reached. They also tend to go for vital areas specifically, so they can end a fight fast.
#[Let's get it started -memes & games-]#(some of you might be wondering why Abby is on the roster when there's already a bunch of demon rep#and it's because my wife said 'YOU LET MY BABY BOY BE IN THE BIG FIGHTY GAMES SO HE CAN BE HAPPY!'#and you know what? that's fair.#Abbadon deserves all the happy he's my perfect son that can do no wrong ever#even when he does in fact do something wrong)#(Abby's also never beaten Sef#though the last time they fought was several thousand years ago#so both of them are very excited)
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Once again need someone to kill my father
#as a kid he always started huge fights with my mom the day before my exams now he starts huge fights before job interviews#and every week several times otherwise but that's nothing new#why couldn't i have had a single mom since early childhood ffs she should have divorced that dick 15+ years ago#remember when he tried to starve me and my sister when i was 4 and my mom was in hospital for over a week? 😃#saying he doesn't need food when he could have just gotten something from mcd's or opened a can of soup for us etc#and the only food we got that week was two chocolates from his boss when he took us to work with him on one day#at least there was tap water 👍🏻 neither me nor my sister remember eating anything at all because we didn't buy much in advance back then#not to talk about the many times he beat us up (sometimes in public) or threatened me with knives or heavy glasses and shit#nice and my mom is suggesting double suicide again like a thousand times before 😃#i need to go for a long scream somewhere or drive to wherever the fuck and rot isolated from everyone for a week#mel talks
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