#splendiferous spines

[othmeralia]

This beautiful set is Dictionnaire de chymie (1779).

[zorosdimples]

kae day! kae day! kae day! my most adored kae zorosdimples i am wishing you nothing but love and happiness on this most splendiferous of days 💚💚💚

pray tell, what are you and mr zoro kaesdimples up to today? what's the 411?

cher!!!!!! my darling!!!!! i am so happy you’re here; i nearly ran to your blog because i’ve missed you 🥺 thank you for your sweet words—i hope you know how much i love and adore you <3

an aside: you saying “splendiferous” reminds me of porcoline—rf4 girlies (gn) get it!!!! it makes me giggle heheh.

zoro and kae have a wonderfully relaxing day. if we pretend i don’t have to go to work, we sleep in—but not too late—because i love breakfast food! we probably order in for breakfast and he makes me coffee just the way i like it. acts of service is my love language, so it’s the little gestures that mean the world to me. he gets me a bouquet of flowers (lilies because they’re my favorite) and ensures i don’t have to do any labor for the day. if he’s being extra silly, he will insist on carrying me around because “the birthday girl shouldn’t have to walk.” we might take a lil trip to the park or (if we live on the coast) the ocean. dinner is somewhere low key but delicious! when we get home, he makes me a drink and sets up a candlelit bath for us both. after that, i do our skincare, and we snuggle up on the couch for some reading, video games, and maybe a studio ghibli movie! we have drinks and maybe some gluten free cake and snacky snacks. and to wrap up the night we have spine tingling, toe curling sex that leaves me sore for days make love <3

[thoughtsonargentdawn]

On the matter of Escapism in Roleplay.

While the dust settles on yet another erp “scandal” across Argent Dawn I found these particular narrative framing devices to be quite odd, weird even.It seems that certain groups on the server have come to realise they need a new buzzword to use as a stick to hammer others with. The problem is however they’re using a very dangerous word that can be used on them just as easily down the line, far more than amorphous terms like “hypocrisy” or “lore abiding” or “good roleplay”.

Escapism, despite what some are wanting to paint it as is actually vital for roleplay to happen in the first place. It is the essence of it. Why else would people want to play something else other than to experience something their normal lives would not allow for it?

Even the soulless autocratic masters of the past and the would be crypto-fascists of today understand its power. Bread and circuses. Without it the masses realise the horror their vampiric overlords are trying to inflict upon them.

So then why is escapism a bad thing? Regardless of what you - do - in roleplay you are in effect partaking in it. Unless you are actually roleplaying a self-inserted vehicle for your own selfish less than positive ends. Be you play a mighty warrior, wizard or ranger or a lowly shit-shovelling peasant, you are partaking in a form of escapism. I would hazard however that the ones who seem to dislike it more are those of the latter camp, and those who particularly dislike individual creativity of characters. The sort - i’m sure you’re all familiar with these types of guild leaders - who wish only for their guilds to display total obedience and uniformity to the great leader, all action is done to aggrandise them and only them. To step out of line and be yourself is treat as if you have an “issue” a “defect” that wishes to be different from the glorious collective body.

Absolutely spine-wrenchingly dystopian, in other words.

So, to engage in escapism is to indulge in the fantastic, to explore and enjoy things you would never usually be able to, to dream and to dream of good things and even hope that you can gain something even marginally close to it in some way.

But I digress, I am well aware I am responding to a certified cow-shaped sockpuppet that was famously described by an intelligent man as usually being “someone who’s been summoned in off realm” to distract from the topics at hand and generally likes to think of themselves as a modern Raphael Hythlodaeus when in actuality they behave like a Pee-wee Herman - which has a whole other set of unfortunate implications behind it - and is hardly taken seriously because when you consider the statement below

It becomes rather hard to take someone who derrides someone as genuine for posting opinions on the official forums when they themselves have posted well in excess of nine thousand posts while trying to cowardly hide their real identity away from others.

Your life must be ever so sublime to not even sympathise a little with people wanting some relief to their lives. I hope your existence remains as ever as splendiferous as ever, Teyha.

[inuyashasfangs]

👀👀

For the sake of fairness, I’ll be offering you a wip for each eyeball here. Reciprocity and whatnot! also i’m stealing your formatting uwu

1. Starting off strong with a Dream Daddy fic I’ve had in the works since 2017! It stars a named female reader-character who, spoilers, is very very trans. at the time i thought i was just on some Writer Shit but assflash newshole you’ve been trans this whole time

The air of Mat’s café was punctured by a thick, heavy groan as she leaned back weightily in her chair, head thrown back with a pinch to her brows. “I have absolutely zero clue how to tell Damien I’m trans. Or,” she scoffed inwardly at the difficulty of speaking. “You know, whatever I am. Sure as hell ain’t a woman.”

From behind the counter, Mat snorted, topping Marissa’s flat white with a hearty helping of steamed milk. “You do realize he’s going to keep calling you his girlfriend if you don’t say anything, right?”

Marissa hummed dryly, smiling despite herself. “Wouldn’t be a useless gay if I didn’t make it needlessly difficult, would I?”

2. this was almost a robofucker fallout piece but then i remembered the cold touch of shame for the first time in eons and decided not to out myself like that. here’s an entirely different scene from the same canon instead, (yet still featuring poe, the player character who does not at all want to fuck a robot)

It’s early evening.  

The sun begins to slip below the horizon, the blue-greys of the Bostonian sky give way to the beginnings of sunset, the romantic orange and purple rays just barely visible through the haze of rain clouds looming above. Rain is falling gently onto the cobblestone streets, washing off the blood of Trish, her goons, and that beady-eyed Cooke fellow. 

The fight was an easy ambush; an easy turning point to double-cross Cooke when he’d turned away with the promise of skipping town for good. Maccready hadn’t seemed to mind, and Cait had seen enough violence to make her numb to it. 

Adrenaline courses through Poe’s body as she loots the bullet-ridden bodies of the people she’d slain, pocketing keys to their Diamond City residencies and the loose caps lining their triggerman pants; this is the life she’d been destined for. A law degree, a cozy house, a loving husband, a family—none of it could compare to the rush of Jet overwhelming her senses and pulling the world to the ends of her eyelids, to the smell of fresh blood and the savor of unmarred flesh she gnashed at in victory. 

Just as it did then, the air smells like the harbor. Like tiny flashes of before. The rain seeps into the fibers of her harness; makes it stick to her skin. This was better than before.

3. yes it’s homestuck goodbye

“Mm, Gamz, if i didn’t know any better I'd think you’re trying to distract me.”

Gamzee clicks from somewhere in his throat. “Naw, my splendiferous friend, I’m just lending a motherfucker a hand.” A claw trails delicately along your spine. “Ain’t realize generosity was a crime in this piece.” He’s in your ear now, his voice a low, rumbling purr. Fucker knew exactly what he was doing. 

You snort. “If you wanna fuck you can just ask, man. No need for all the handsy preamble.” 

4. Birthday fluff for a Mr. Levi Ackerman that Will Not be finished by end of day today and will definitely sit in my drafts until next year. Wolf, buddy, if you’re reading this, that’s the way it be.

“Do I buy him a Christmas card, or one for his birthday?” you asked the person on the other end of the phone. 

You’re in the supermarket, staring down rows and rows of festive cards amidst the throngs of holiday shoppers frantically skittering around you in want of steep savings. Christmas carols ring distantly from the overhead speakers, cutting lightly through the din of ten, twenty, fifty conversations happening all around you.

Erwin senses you pause and calls for your attention. “Lost yourself in the crowd again?”

You puff out a laugh. “More like i got lost in the breadth of corny puns they have on offer. You think Leevs would disown me if I got one that says ‘I’m feeling Santa-mental’? Or would that result in immediate execution?”

[btsjimln]

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[megaindiatour-blog]

                                Holiday package to Rajasthan

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[othmeralia]

Just a beautiful book!

Artis auriferae (1593)

[othmeralia]

Histoire d'une chandelle / par Faraday

What a beautiful spine! The English translation of this book is A course of six lectures on the chemical history of a candle (1865) written by Michael Faraday.

[othmeralia]

Hey, have you heard about these Unheard of Curiosities?

I sure have! This rare book is all about astrology and astronomy, with a sprinkle of occultism thrown in. The full title for this 17th century text is: Unheard-of curiosities : concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians, the horoscope of the patriarkes, and the reading of the stars / written in French by James Gaffarel ; and englished by Edmund Chilmead ...

[othmeralia]

Splendiferous Spines

Check out these wonderful spines from the volume set for Chemistry as Applied to the Fine Arts (1837).

[othmeralia]

Splendiferous Spines

Yes, it's a spine. Yes, it's splendiferous. No, we don't get tired of posting these.

This is Memorabilium, sive arcanorum omnis generis, per aphorismos digestorum, centuriae IX (1572).

[othmeralia]

Book of Nature (1851)

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Splendiferous Spines

Just look how splendid these spines are! These two book are Filosofía farmacéutica, o, La farmacia written by Gregorio Banares in 1804.

[othmeralia]

I'm going to start adding what I want to be/what I am to the end of my name when I introduce myself. 

Valentine The Monk is definitely my inspiration for that. Should I be Caroline The Librarian? Or should I be Caroline The One Who Watches Too Much Real Housewives Of New Jersey? Decisions, decisions....

What would you be called?

This book is: The last vvill and testament of Basil Valentine, monke of the Order of St. Bennet (1671).

[othmeralia]

Splendiferous Spines!

We’re playing peek-a-boo with this fun musical find on An introduction to chemical philosophy according to the modern theories (1867). 

[othmeralia]

Delights for Ladies, to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories, with beauties, banquets, perfumes, and waters. Reade, practice, and censure.

Written by Sir Hugh Platt and printed in 1640, Delights for Ladies includes recipes for food and household remedies of the time. Check it out here in our collection.