#several thousand years ago

[the-dragon-invasion-is-near]

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

[ddeck]

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

[kirby-the-gorb]

[fjordfolk]

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??

[skirophori]

wishbone, the first unicorn

[mintneve]

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.

[clodiuspulcher]

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"

[firelord-frowny]

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.

[cosmogyros]

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[chronicas]

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!!!!!!

[bitchking-of-angmar]

Happy TDOV!

I’ve never taken so many pictures of myself in one year... ever, I believe, so it was hard to narrow it down to my faves. Got my top surgery done last September finally and these are the first pictures I’ve seen of myself actually smiling in many years.

(they/them)

[that-marie]

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.

[marsixm]

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

[pyreshe]

thinking about my immortal ocs and their fun family drama 🥰

[battlevann]

need more zarathos content in my life,,,need him and johnny to talk again,,,,,,

[soulsxng]

"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.