#sex? female. gender? tomfoolery.

[purgaytorysupremacy]

i'm applying for a fellowship that required my faculty supervisor to write me a letter of support and yesterday he very shyly emailed to say he was nearly done but wanted to confirm my pronouns. i'm a cis woman who is just very very tall (before you ask: 6'2") and uses a nickname bc my given name is too Dutch for most folks (apparently) but i have just discovered that for the last two-ish months i've been in the program, everyone has been dancing around my pronouns and substituting my name more than is normal bc no one wanted to misgender me and were apparently just waiting for someone to either use pronouns in front of me or for me to use them myself and i think i have truly reached my final queer form

[ricepurityteioio-blog]

Rice purity test score meaning

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Rice Test isn't tied in with testing the nature of Rice, or you should give some data on Rice. Truth be told, it is connected with concentrating on human qualities and conduct under a few explicit circumstances. Rice virtue test is a test presented by the Rice University, Huston, Texas, United States of America. To that end it is named Rice immaculateness test; actually, it isn't connected with Rice by any stretch of the imagination.In 1924, at Rice University, the Rice immaculateness test was made to check the understudy's development level. The underlying motivation behind the test was to really look at the similarity of junior understudies with seniors. Also, the college was attempting to assess the understudy depends on their virtue. At first, it was the main test for young ladies, yet recently, ricepuritytest it was utilized for the kid's assessment too. In the test, there are 100 distinct classes, and each classification has an inquiry. 

[hollypotter-witchingworld]

Witching World: A Presentation of the Weasley Coven

In Harry Potter canon, the Weasleys are a large, if poor, family, consisting of  one father, one mother, six sons and one daughter. In my “witching world” AU, where polygamy is the norm and families tend to be on the large side anyway, the number of Weasleys has grown considerably.

In this world, we have one father, five mothers, and fifteen daughters. (When the coven first appears in the fourth chapter of “Holly Potter and the Witching World,” there are only twelve daughters... the youngest three are born later.)

PARENTS:

Arthur: Patriarch of the coven, father of all the Weasley children. A friendly and jovial (and, let’s face it, highly fertile) man with a passion for Muggles and their many inventions. He’s responsible for the pre-Hogwarts education of the children, and in his spare time he’s a bit of an inventor. (Canon counterpart: Arthur Weasley)

Molly: Arthur’s oldest wife, and birth mother of Will, Charlene, Persephone, Fred, George, Ronnie and Ginny. A loving mother and wife, if at times slightly overbearing, she is the primary and most efficient homemaker of the coven and, having given birth to seven of the fifteen Weasley children, the only wife not to ever have a job outside the house. (Canon counterpart: Molly Weasley)

Amanda (”Mandy”): Arthur’s second wife, birth mother of Anna and Elaine, The strictest and most diciplinary of the Weasley mothers, but also possesses a keen wit and is the first to laugh at herself. Muggle-born, she works as a Muggle liason at the Ministry, but seldom sees her Muggle family. (Canon counterpart: None)

Francine: Arthur’s third wife, and birth mother of Marlyssa and Isa. A calm and patient woman who works as an Auror alongside her longtime partner and lover Alice; they were the ones who brought the notorious Bellatrix Black to justice. Alice is known for keeping calm in a crisis and treats work and family life with approximately the same cheerful stoicism. (Canon counterpart: Frank Longbottom)

Alice: Arthur’s fourth wife, Francine’s partner and lover since their Hogwarts days, and birth mother of Nella, Lydia and Celia. She’s one of the boldest and fiercest Aurors the Ministry has seen, but at home she’s the gentlest and most comforting of the Weasley mothers, always ready with a soft lap and a warm hug. (Canon counterpart: Alice Longbottom)

Flora: Arthur’s youngest wife, and birth mother of Dahlia. A Muggle-born dragonologist hailing from Kansas, who came over to Britain to study British dragons and ended up falling in love with the Weasleys and joining their coven. Flora can easily be identified by her American accent, her penchant for skimpy outfits, and her large number of colourful magical wigs -- an unfortunate encounter with a Chinese Fireball left her completely bald.. (Canon counterpart: None)

CHILDREN (listed from oldest to youngest):

Willhelmina (”Will”): The oldest and tallest daughter of the coven, and enjoys a certain amount of respect from her siblings because of that. Will is one of those lucky people to whom everything seems to come easily; she’s got a multitude of talents and seems to be headed for a glorious career as an international curse-breaker. (Canon counterpart: Bill Weasley)

Charlene (”Charlie”): Good-natured and adventurous, Charlie would prefer to spend all her time outdoors, either playing Quidditch, exploring the wilderness or taking care of animals. While she could probably have made it as a professional Quidditch player, her true passion is dragons. As such, she is determined to follow in Flora-Mum’s footsteps and become a dragonologist. (Canon counterpart: Charlie Weasley)

Anna: Anna is bright, quick and charming. She possesses a keen wit and has an uncanny knack for analysis and deduction, but she can sometimes be oblivious to the things going on right under her nose. That said, she’s probably got the most common sense of the Weasley daughters, and her sisters often turn to her for advise. (Canon counterpart: None.)

Persephone: DON’T call her Percy. She’s the brainiest, most studious and most serious of the Weasleys, and often has little patience for her sisters’ tomfoolery, She can be a stickler for detail and is usually the last one to get a joke, but she works harder at her goals than anyone.(Canon counterpart: Percy Weasley)

Frederica (”Fred”); A bundle of energy and a constant source of silliness and practical jokes, Fred would have been a handful even on her own. But she’s hardly ever on her own; she’s practically inseparable from her twin sister George, who’s her constant partner-in-crime. Fred was born physically male, but hated being a boy, always insisting that she was really a girl. At first, the Weasleys did not know how to handle this, but after educating themselves on gender dysphoria, they decided that it would do more harm than good to try and force Fred to be a boy, Hence, at the age of ten, she was put on the “Mulierarius“ potion and transformed into the girl she always knew she was. (Canon counterpart: Fred Weasley)

Georgina (”George”): Only slightly calmer and more introspective than her twin sister Fred, but with the same outrageous sense of humour and fondness for jokes and pranks. Unlike Fred, George was born physically female and despite her boyish nickname has never had a problem with her sex. (Canon counterpart: George Weasley)

Elaine (”Ellie”): The seventh-born daughter of the coven, Elaine is “the pretty one,” often content to rely on her looks to get by. She’s genteel and romantic, but can occasionally be vain, selfish, and a bit of a schemer. She’s the only Weasley daughter to ever be Sorted into Slytherin -- much to her family’s surprise. (Canon counterpart: None)

Veronica (”Ronnie”): Faced with seven older sisters and seven younger ones, Ronnie has developed a bit of an independent streak and to her family’s frustration has a tendency to go off alone when they want her to stick with them. She loves adventure and excitement, she’s very resourceful and has a strong sense of humour, but she can be blunt, stubborn and sarcastic. She’s fiercely protective of her younger siblings. (Canon counterpart: Ron Weasley)

Nella: One of only two Weasley daughters who isn’t a redhead, chubby blonde Nella is only a few months younger than Ronnie, and a bit of a shy and quiet girl, not help by her mile-wide clumsy streak, and a really poor memory. She is, however, a genius with plants, and there are greater strengths in her than she knows herself. (Canon counterpart: Neville Longbottom)

Ginevra (”Ginny”): If she ever bothered to properly groom herself and doll herself up, Ginny could give Elaine a serious run for her money when it comes to being the “pretty one”... but for the most part she just doesn’t bother. Ginny is lively and active, interested in sports, and can usually be found tagging along with the twins. (Canon counterpart: Ginny Weasley)

Marlyssa: Marlyssa is the family artist. She’s usually calm and cheerful, with a glib tongue and a bit of an artistic streak, and while her sisters get into trouble Marlyssa is usually happiest sitting down somewhere and working on her drawing.  (Canon counterpart: None)

Lydia: The other non-redhead among the children, as she has the same blonde hair as her birth mother Alice and sister Nella. Lydia is probably the most scatterbrained and impatient Weasley, always trying to do two things at once, usually with the result that she doesn’t do either of them particularly well. (Canon counterpart: None)

Dahlia (“Dolly”):   The “cuddly” one. While most of the Weasleys are generous with physical affection, Dolly is like a love-hungry kitten in her fondness for hugging and cuddling. She can occasionally get clingy, but is generally good-natured about being told to back off. Otherwise, Dolly is the most easygoing of the Weasleys; she’s just as likely to follow Isa or the twins into mischief as she is to sit quietly and draw with Marlyssa.   (Canon counterpart: None)

Isabelle (”Isa”): Isa hardly ever means to misbehave. It’s just that she’s so very impulsive, never thinks before she acts, and tends to let her imagination run away with her. Small mishaps tend to turn huge thanks to her frequent desperate attempts at fixing them, and when disaster inevitably strikes she usually runs and hides behind one of her older sisters. She is almost inseparable from Celia, as the two were born only weeks apart and feel almost like a second pair of twins. (Canon counterpart: None)

Celia: The youngest of the Weasley coven; it’s kind of odd that she and Isa should be so close because they’re actually quite different: Where Isa is impulsive and extroverted, Celia is more careful and introverted. But together with Isa she usually lets herself get dragged into one mishap after the other. (Canon counterpart: None)

[lesabear]

Do that meme for Ayrs and Veresia too

Okay then!

GENERAL

Name: Ayrs Martell

Alias(es): Meteor, Zildrog’s Wrath (Zakuul AU)

Gender: Male

Age: ~26 when the game starts

Place of birth: Ithaca

Spoken languages: Basic

Sexual orientation: straight

Occupation: Commander of Havoc Squad, general nuisance, wanted criminal (Zakuul AU)

APPEARANCE

Eye color: Brown

Hair color: Brown

Height: 6′3″

Scars: Scar running down his left cheek from a childhood incident. Multiple scars from his career as a soldier

FAVORITE

Color: Blue

Hair color: Brown or blonde

Eye color: Brown or blue

Entertainment: Reading about history, video games on the holo-net, testing Elara’s knowledge of regulations by researching obscure procedure manuals

Pastime: Soldiering, eating, occasional tomfoolery

Food: Nerf steaks and/or burgers

Drink: Alcohol (formerly), caf (later)

Books: Military history and manuals, religious texts

HAVE THEY

Passed university: Yes - military academy on Corulag

Had sex: Yes

Had sex in public: No

Gotten pregnant: No

Kissed a man: No

Kissed a woman: Yes

Gotten tattoos: No/Not yet

Gotten piercings: No

Had a broken heart: Left his high school sweetheart behind to go to the academy - she died during the attack on Ithaca.

Been in love: Yes

Stayed up for more than 24 hours: Yes

ARE THEY

A virgin: No

A cuddler: Yes, though only with specific people

A kisser: No

A smoker: No

Scared easily: Only of 4X

Jealous easily: If you push his buttons right

Trustworthy: Yes, very much so

Dominant: Eh…sometimes?

Submissive: Ditto

Single: No

RANDOM QUESTIONS

Wanted to kill someone: Regularly, and not always Tanno Vik!

Actually killed someone: Various Sith, Imperials, other enemies, etc. Apart from blowing up the Imperial Intelligence agent who betrayed his family, he doesn’t really enjoy it though (apart from particularly nasty Sith)

Ridden a beast: A tauntaun on Hoth

Have/had a job: Commander of Havoc Squad and (later) dad. In the Zakuul AU he is a major resistance figure.

Have any fears: Ayrs suffered from survivor’s guilt due to being away at the military academy on Corulag when his homeworld was attacked, particularly as he did not know Veresia survived until years later. Because of that, he had (and to a much lesser extent still has) a crippling fear of losing people he was close to, a fear of intimacy and a semi-death wish.

FAMILY

Sibling(s): Younger brother Diomedes (dead) and two younger sisters (Veresia and Allyssia)

Parents: Montclair, a former Jedi Knight (dies on a mission for the Order when Ayrs is a teenager) and Valeria Martell (trooper who served with General Garza, dies during the attack on Ithaca)

Children: Three children with Elara

Pets: He eventually gets a large, annoying, dog that he names Fivex

And for Veresia

GENERAL

Name: Veresia Martell

Alias(es): Darth Occlus, The Dark Lady, Little Sith (Khem Val only)

Gender: Female

Age: ~23 when the game starts

Place of birth: Ithaca

Spoken languages: Basic

Sexual orientation: straight, mostly

Occupation: Member of the Dark Council, secret rebel plotting the complete destruction of the Sith Empire

APPEARANCE

Eye color: Dark brown

Hair color: Brown

Height: 5′7″

Scars: Psychological ones

FAVORITE

Color: Orange

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Brown

Entertainment: Harassing Khem Val, undermining Imperial authority, soap operas

Pastime: Shocking people with lightning, killing people with lightning, attempting the overthrow of a galactic power

Food: A nutritious salad

Drink: The tears of her enemies

Books: Any sort of text that might teach her about the Force and how to use it

HAVE THEY

Passed university: No - she was enslaved before going to university

Had sex: Yes

Had sex in public: No

Gotten pregnant: Not yet

Kissed a man: Yes

Kissed a woman: Yes

Gotten tattoos: No

Gotten piercings: Pierced ears

Had a broken heart: She has (understandably) never gotten over watching her home be destroyed and friends and family killed

Been in love: Yes, though she’s firmly in denial about it

Stayed up for more than 24 hours: Yes

ARE THEY

A virgin: No

A cuddler: Not any more

A kisser: Yes

A smoker: No

Scared easily: No

Jealous easily: Not really.

Trustworthy: Depends very much on who you are, and who she thinks you are/what she thinks your motivations are. If you’re someone she views as an enemy (or even just a potential obstacle)…in general I would say No.

Dominant: Yes

Submissive: No

Single: No, though it’s a bit complicated

RANDOM QUESTIONS

Wanted to kill someone: All the time. She’s kind of an angry person, and it doesn’t help that Khem is constantly egging her on.

Actually killed someone: Regularly, though she’s perfectly willing to find non-lethal means of dealing with people when circumstances call for it (in her mind)

Ridden a beast: I was tempted to make a joke here but let’s just go with no

Have/had a job: Member of the Dark Council, leader of her own cult and she moonlights as a source of intelligence for the Republic/Jedi. In the Zakuul AU, she is a major resistance figure

Have any fears: Her singleminded determination to make everyone she holds responsible for the losses in her life pay has left her afraid of not accomplishing that - she ignores/refuses chances to reclaim what’s left of her old life (i.e. she knows Ayrs is alive but chooses not to find him) or the possibility of a new life (i.e. refusing Quorian Dorjis’ offers to let her join the Jedi) because she can’t stand the thought of not getting her vengeance.

FAMILY

Sibling(s): Dead younger sister (Allyssia), two brothers - Ayrs is alive/older, Diomedes was younger and died.

Parents: Montclair and Valeria (see above)

Children: Yes

Pets: She doesn’t have time for frivolities

[thats-not-buddies]

Your Work is Derivative [January 2017]

Here we are again, never quite achieving the schedule I set for myself. What follows thus is my little blog, never more than once a week, most likely a monthly collation of the media I have consumed and the thoughts that have occurred. For now, this is all that it shall be, and I feel it is more than enough. Let’s get started.

Books

I finished two books at the start of January. The first was an easy read, the sixth book in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, and the second was against my will. In The Company of Cheerful Ladies is the sixth of Mma Ramotswe’s adventures as the only female detective in Botswana. The books are easy mystery reads set in the beautiful backdrop of Gaborone in Botswana. I love the descriptions and the way dialogue is structured, but I do take them with a grain of salt knowing that the books are written by an old white man, Alexander McCall Smith. He did grow up in Botswana but through what lens were his experiences filtered? That said, it’s a book in English entirely populated by POC characters, so it’s still good. I can’t help but wonder sometimes if the characters lack complexity. It’s all very black and white, and very VERY innocent. No one has sex, even though there’s plenty of talk of infidelity and one character with HIV (now late). People talk about death in a very quiet way, there’s a lot of focus on women of ‘traditional build’ eating cake and feeling that it makes them better with skinny girls to do so, and there are some seriously rigid gender roles to be adhered to. 

The second book half read and half listened to, is P.G. Wodehouse’s The Mating Season. This is a Jeeves and Wooster story, in which there are calamities, imposters and movie stars. I’ve been made to listen to a few Wodehouse stories on road trips with my parents and they greatly enjoy the language. I enjoy the language too but I find the story lines so very aggravating. If you get easily annoyed by people getting into all sorts of tomfoolery because they simply cannot communicate, these are not the stories for you. I think it is easily summed up by Wooster’s firm belief that since there’s a woman who believes him to love her, and wishes him to marry her, then marrying her is really the only civil course of action. Speaking to her and telling her no and that her fiancé is still besotted with her is obviously out of the question. Gosh no. 

Games

Stardew Valley is my favourite game. I’ve also been playing Sims 4 since they finally introduced toddlers - and have yet to play a toddler anyway. Back to Stardew. I love this game, it is my happy place and so gentle. I was playing as myself for a while, and then started over with my moody isolated farmer Adam with version 1.1 in the combat layout.

Stardew is deserving of its own full-length review but I’m coming to terms with the fact that I will never get around to writing that. Today, I’d rather talk about the planners. The Stardew Planner (v2) is a resource made by Henrik Peinar and even though I’ve only just discovered it, I have decided it is invaluable. Unless you can be bothered zooming your game out and running around in small scale, it can be very difficult to create a plan for your farm space. As a result of this, I just wasn’t bothered. Now that I’ve used the planner and its layouts to sketch out my crops, I feel truly inspired and I’m excited to get started on the next phase of my farm’s life. After mapping it all out, it only took half a day in game time (about ten minutes, all in all) to lay out the fence posts for my large crop area within year two. I'm still rather disorganised about it but gosh it looks so pretty now.

The second planner I want to rave about is the Crops Planner created by exnil on reddit and available through github. It allows you to track what you plant on the Stardew calendar and it will give you the dates of your prospective harvests and an estimation of what you will make in profit. In V2 you can track throughout multiple years while keeping your progress from the past seasons, as well as see a running total of your profits versus losses. It also makes note of your current farming level to give you accurate representations of quality and price of crops. Both of these planners are very popular in the Stardew community, and yet I appear to be only just discovering them. I don't think these are necessary to anyone in their first year, but once you start to get the hang of things and want to be a bit more creative

Unnecessary Library Haul

I read a lot, but not a lot a lot. I don't finish a book a week and I certainly don't read every day even though my intentions are set thus. And yet, every other week I borrow multiple books that I know I won't have time to read, that will sit on the shelf (or floor) until I've renewed it so many times I have to return them. I always say I will get them again and yet I never do.For example, I have borrowed Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet by Charlie N Holmberg twice now, and yet I never open the cover.  My intention (there's that pesky buzzword), is that these books will come back around on the list in the Books section and that there will be some follow-up, proving that I am capable of reading the thing I planned to read and not the things I find at random.

This week, I have borrowed:

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (DVD) Runemarks by Joanne Harris The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers           (I am actually reading this! I love it) Final Cut Pro X: Advanced Editing I Saw The Light (DVD) The Watchmaker of Filigree St I have no plans to watch The Lightning Thief, but I read the first book and didn't love it in December, so I thought maybe the movie, hated by fans as it may be, would bring some spark to it. It would be good to have another 'easy read' series to come back to at times. Runemarks is one I saw in a bookshop that had the most beautiful cover, so I reserved a copy ... that came with a terrible cover. I do judge books by covers. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet has a BEAUTIFUL cover, but its early editions do not and I know I would have ignored it. I have no idea if I will ever crack open Runemarks, being that I had mistaken it for a sequel to The Gospel of Loki and not a book written some five years previous to it. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is new, recommended by GoodReading and door. I am excited but apprehensive about my ability to get started.

Worse still, the library was having a book sale. I bought Enough. Literally, I bought the book Enough, Breaking Free from the World of More, by John Naish. I recognise the irony of having this book included in a Haul section.