#skiies rambles

[queerskiies]

(thnking abt hfjONE)

AUGH AGH MY SOUL WAHHH

[queerskiies]

me whenever @tea-addict-brain of @melodylyricx go through my blog /nm /lh

WHY DO I 38 NOTIFS 😭😭

[huntingrays]

so i saw a tiktok asking what olympic sports the seven would participate in

many made sense like percy with swimming or surfing, frank with archery, hazel with an equestrian sport, etc

it made me think of leo. he’s kind of a hard one to place since he’s mainly good at building/inventing things which aren’t very sporty activities. i remember seeing fanart of him playing table tennis which makes sense and seems very in character for him

but yknow what i think would be funny?

winter olympian leo

the thought of texas raised guy with fire powers participating in a winter olympic sport is so funny to me. and you know he would do it purely for the irony too

[worldsbiggestnerd101]

MELANIE MARTINEZ FAN SPOTTED???!?!?

YES OFC !!!! I LOVE HER MUSIC OMG SHE’S LITERALLY MY FAV MUSIC ARTIST

[asheoninactive]

i love it when anime openings make me feel unbelievable joy

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

okay I think this is jaide's final main team, I forgot to toggle female for blaziken but you saw the previous post so heheh

vvv me rambling below about each 'mon vvv

GALLADE

- Named Remy, based on my actual save file for him in my Platinum game. Remy is Jaide's ace, and she's very attached to him. Jaide is a very reckless trainer and goes forth with anything - Remy would always be the type to evaluate the situation and would immediately drag her away if his judgement says it's too dangerous - but if not, he attends to her.

- Despite her goofy nature, he's still very overprotective and he trusts her.

TOGEPI

- Named Pipino, based on my first gameplay of HGSS. Togepi is actually the newest member of her team, initially finding Togepi as a lost egg found in the streets. She, along with Red took him under her care and tried to look for whoever may have lost their egg. Eventually they found the owner, however the egg had hatched into a Togepi and developed a deeper connection with Jaide and preferred her over the actual owner - so the owner basically gave her the little baby and she named him Pipino. Pipino totally sees Red as another parental figure

- Pipino is still quite young, so he hasn't really developed a proper understanding of battling and mostly acts as a companion and cheerleader. All of Jaide's other Pokémon babysits him and loves him. (Kaia especially)

BLAZIKEN

- Named Kaia, though sadly I don't remember her given name in my first R/S gameplay from years ago so I went with this one.

- Very friendly and cheerful, Jaide loved to play with Kaia as a Torchic and she grew to be a very physical and strong fighter.

LEAFEON

- Named Vivi. I don't have much input for her sadly, but she's crucial when Jaide met Red for the first time in decades.

MANTINE

- Name TBD, a recent add to the team so I don't have much input here.

- Though Mantine is Jaide's token fast travel Pokemon, she either surfs on them or water skiis. Possibly got them from Johto

REUNICLUS

- Name TBD, also another recent add to the team so I have to think about them

- I added them because Duosion's dex entry that states "it has two brains, which think independently causing two actions at one - but if the brain thinks alike, it exhibits stronger psychic powers" and I just went oh yeah that's a Jaide kinda Pokemon fr fr.... also it just looks like her idk HWHAGRGAHSHA

[skiiken]

Hello!

I'm new to Tumblr and thought it would cool to try out a new platform.

I'm Skii, I'm mainly going to come on here to ramble about my campaign from my perspective of being the DM, and hopefully some people will be interested. I also have many other ocs I'll probably post on here, as well as I am always open to commissions!

Thanks :]

[kuhuchan]

one of the first things that riveted me was the suffix "-ic" which is present in both english and sanskrit and is used to denote or express ' the charecteristics of '

like "vedic" or "puranic" or sanskritic" are legit words in both english and sanskrit with the exact same meaning

before i noticed this a few years back, i brushed off the other similarities as borrowed words (jungle, loot and karma etc are borrowed from hindi to english for example) , but then after this i was like there's no way in hell that this very ancient suffix is borrowed one way or another.

dont mind the rambling please

-ic

Middle English -ik, -ick, word-forming element making adjectives, "having to do with, having the nature of, being, made of, caused by, similar to," from French -ique and directly from Latin -icus or from cognate Greek -ikos "in the manner of; pertaining to." From PIE adjective suffix *-(i)ko, which also yielded Slavic -isku, adjectival suffix indicating origin, the source of the -sky (Russian -skii) in many surnames

AND HERE WE CIRCLE BACK TO PIE ONCE AGAIN

please. Please go on. You can't imagine my delight rn.

[le-corbeau]

So thoughts about the Loki season finale 

[vettelcore]

im going back to work tomorrow and also just started my period

i want to commit sewer side

[roxxy-ll]

Last one I promise. Then I'm back to my reblogging/shitposting bullcrap.

Unless I see the northern lights tonight. And I get a good pic.

This is the view from my hotelroom window.

I don't wanna go home. I wanna go home, bring my cats and move up here.

[queerskiies]

@reddoonsn1fan get out of my phone you’re not welcome here anymore

[captainderyn]

If you've never skied a black diamond or higher trail to Another One Bites the Dust or really any other Queen song then you havent LIVED

[sitp-recs]

hi love! i just read “like a star across my sky” by lq_traintracks where drarry go on a skii trip together (along with the rest of the gang), and i absolutely fell in LOVE with it, so i was wondering if you knew of any other fics like that? doesn’t even have to be skiing tbh (though i would prefer it), just where drarry + the gang go on a trip together would suffice :)) thank you for all that you do, you’re a treasure! x

Hi anon! Ahh that’s such a sweet and funny fic by @lqtraintracks and @unmistakablyoatmeal - gotta reread it soon, I remember it made me smile non-stop. Holiday trips are a fun trope, here are some lovely recs for you!

Beautiful Madness by @phd-mama (2018, E, 3.3k)

When Harry joins Draco and his friends on vacation in Grenada, fresh off of a year in America, he's a changed man, and Draco doesn't quite know how to react. React appropriately, that is.

Sun Stroke by @peachpety (2020, E, 4k)

Draco, Harry, and a handful of friends take a summer holiday at the beach. With the help of a sultry sea setting, encouraging friends, and a fisherman’s jumper, Harry and Draco's mutual attraction swells and things get hot on a salty summer night.

Truth is like water (it passes all barriers) by @andithiel (2020, T, 4.4k)

When Pansy asks Draco to accompany her on a trip with her new girlfriend Luna and her friends, he reluctantly agrees. The fact that Potter is going on the same trip shouldn’t be a problem, nor the fact that Draco has been pining for him for about a year. 

in a rambling way by @fw00shy (2021, T, 7.5k)

Ron knocked Hermione up, and now Harry's got to figure out how to clone himself so that his friends don't split up fighting over him. Falling for Draco again was never part of the plan.

Stand Back: I'm About to Perform Archaeology by Blowfish_Diaries (2018, E, 9.7k)

A new Muggle Studies professor takes the Eighth Year students to work on an archaeological excavation. In which Draco is lazy, Harry is sweaty, Hermione is drunk, and Ron turns red.

Take My Hand by daisymondays (2018, E, 13k)

Draco has long resigned himself to pining after Harry... that is until an invite on the annual Ministry holiday gives him a chance to change everything.

The Cabin Trip by @gallifreyburning (2021, E, 24k)

When Harry decides to swap his house in London for a cabin in the Catskill Mountains for a week, he’s excited for the chance to take a vacation with a group of his closest friends.

Étoile des Neiges by BloodyFlammable (2017, M, 32k)

The eighth years spend the holidays in a French ski resort and Draco comes to terms with his feelings.

Follow the Water by @xanthippe74 (2020, T, 38k)

When he unexpectedly finds himself at Luna’s house one afternoon, Harry gets invited to join the secret wonderland that she’s creating with a surprising group of friends. 

Knead by laughingd0g (2020, E, 83k)

This is a story about coffee shops and brewpubs, about Ginny and Luna on a farm with creatures, about magical Oregon, coastal road trips, flying, friendship, and Draco Malfoy's lean arms.

[worldsbiggestnerd101]

what do you mean it’s not normal to relate to noel’s lament on a fundamental level. what do you mean it’s not normal to want to be angel dust. what do you mean it’s not normal to want to be a stripper and/or hooker with a substance abuse problem with a toxic boss/situationship and a severely fucked mental state. what the fuck you guys

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Religion is a mental illness? Isn't atheism itself a religion then? A religion of statistics and proving everything through science...well lets believe its true..where did science came from? Brain? Where did brain came from? Evolution? Who controlled evolution? Our ancestors who probably didn't even know what it meant? And if everything is sooo scientifically proven how about the reason of the great BIG BANG which has never been known although the Big Bang theory is both older than you and me?

Atheism isn’t a religion. There’s no belief system, no tenets, no worship, no ideology, no dogma, no faith.

If atheism is a religion, then “I don’t have one” is a make of car, not-going-skiiing is a hobby, and celibacy is a sex position. It is the set of people who do not have the attribute of “religion”. Like saying animals that have zero legs are a type of animal that has legs, which is a way of having legs, by having zero legs, which is not having legs.

“Atheism is a religion” is a contradiction. Unless you want to equivocate in the way that also makes football, Game of Thrones and craft beer “religions.”

Atheism deals with a single issue: can you prove that your god - whichever one it is - exists? You can’t, because none of you can. Therefore, I have no reason to believe you. Just as you have no reason to believe me when I tell you that Zeus, Quetzalcoatl and magical pixies in my garage all exist, without me finding a way to demonstrate this to you.

It has nothing to do with declarations about the origin of the universe or anything.

Atheists can be conservative or liberal, capitalists or socialists, humanists or misanthropes, or anything else. Atheists can be as irrational and unscientific as anyone else. They can believe in ghosts, homeopathy, Flat Earth or be anti-vaxers. They just don’t believe in gods.

Maybe it’s time you stopped shadow-boxing the strawman you’ve built, and paid attention. Because when you make it clear you don’t understand what you’re even whining about, you really don’t make people want to engage with you.

That said, people who recognise the illogic present in asserting that an intangible, invisible, imperceptible, undetectable, non-manifesting magical wizard is really truly real - and grants wishes - are also going to pick up on your ignorance about what appears to be everything.

If your basis for “god” is filling in the gaps of your failed education, then you are wasting my time. Go back to school. Go to a natural history museum. Take a class. Or at least use Google. There’s really no excuse for inserting literal magic up into the orifices where your ignorance resides, like an intellectual suppository.

I’ll tell you where our brain came from, though: the invisible purple unicorn bestowed it unto us. There you go, an answer equal to yours. Can you prove it wrong? I bet you can’t. Prove that the invisible purple unicorn does not exist. Prove that it did not endow us with a brain. If you can’t, then you must accept that the IPU gave us our brains.

No, wait, it was fairies.

No, interdimensional aliens.

No, the ethereal mists between universes seeped into this one and coagulated until they formed into our human brains.

All of them exactly as justified as yours. All of them explanations on the same level as yours.

You see the problem? Anyone can insert any nonsense at the limits of their personal or our collective knowledge, and pretend they’ve answered a question without answering anything. And when we do answer it, moving the goalposts.

If you wouldn’t accept any of the above, why the hell would I accept “a magical overlord living in the clouds”?

Nobody said everything is scientifically proven. That came from you. There are plenty of things we don’t understand yet, but science is the best mechanism we have for figuring those things out. And science keeps coming up with more and more questions. Religions just pretend they’ve already answered them all.

As you’ve quite ably demonstrated. You’ve thrown out all these things you don’t understand, and demand perfect evidence, perfect explanations - but only ones you find convenient - yet you’ve provided nothing yourself to actually back up your position. It’s a rather obvious deflection, a distraction. You’re trying to make your burden into my problem, because you can’t shoulder it yourself.

People with extreme anti-science views know the least, but think they know the most: study

Science is the only reason you can ramble incoherently on a computer or mobile device, powered by electricity, connected by a network of equipment to satellites orbiting the planet, and post it instantly while enjoying your clean, unpolluted water in a building with air conditioning, and then go shopping for Flat Earth merchandise online with money that has no physical form. It’s the reason your life expectancy is double what it would have been a few hundred years ago. It’s the reason you can get an organ transplant or an artificial limb, if it becomes necessary, since your god won’t replace them. You not only benefit from the results of science, you are dependent upon them for your day to day life. All around you is things that only exist due to scientific accomplishments. 

So, you’re stupid, a hypocrite, or a liar who doesn’t believe a word they’re saying. Choose one.

There is nothing for which we had a natural, scientific explanation, no matter how weak, that has ever been subsequently better explained by “god”. Lightning and thunder weren’t god. Earthquakes weren’t god. Your god only gets smaller as our understanding of the world grows.

Besides, everybody already knows Mbombo vomited the world into existence.

It’s interesting how you think of things in terms of “control.” Like, controlling the big bang, controlling evolution, controlling the universe. It says something about you and your need to feel safe by being subjugated. That you need everything explained, right here, right now, without doing any of the work to figure it out, and are content with comforting, simplistic, juvenile answers, to alleviate that need for safety. That natural, undirected processes make you uncomfortable. I find it fascinating.

Who controls digestion? Who controls the direction of the wind? Do you accept these natural phenomena without being anxious that nobody’s in control? How could digestion exist when people didn’t understand it or know how to control it? How could the world spin if none of our ancestors understood it was even happening?

Your assertion is monstrously absurd.

The most interesting thing of all about your bizarre little tantrum is that the thing you have the biggest problem with is science. Which is simply the principle that if you want to put forward your idea as valid and true, you have to show how and why it’s true. You openly object to that, and it’s suspicious.

Why is it that you object to justifying or substantiating ideas, making sure they’re on solid ground? Why do you object to an expectation you should substantiate your god before we join its club? What chicanery are you trying to pull, to go to such lengths as to avoid justifying yourself? If there’s good reasons for your hypotheses, then why not simply present them instead of huffing and puffing?

Why aren’t you shaming us by showing how valid and correct your notions that literal magic is real, instead of hiding behind fallacies that even Ray Comfort would laugh at?

Is it because you’ve never put any thought whatsoever into why you believe what you believe, how you can be certain it’s correct? Or indeed, have no way of being certain it’s not wrong either.

Or is it because you kind of know your superstitions aren’t real, but it’s uncomfortable to admit it?