#urban hart

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 2 September 2023

On this stone wall a colony of Asplenium scolopendrium (hart's-tongue fern) have established along with a Fuchsia magellanica (hardy fuchsia). This hardy fern is normally found growing in damp, shady places in woodlands.

Jill Raggett

[starofhisheart]

Old man yaoi got me kicking my feet and twirling my hair

Please feel free to add more daddies to the list

[art4hhart]

୨୧ the echo-pioneers: a dystopian henry danger story

part one

this part contains: mentions of anxiety & fear, cigarettes. third person and your POV (for now)

summary: in which swellview's municipality has set new and more strict town regulations. the citizens are kind of blinded, they all think this new system is going to make the city and environment better. the so called the echo-pioneers start working together and go against the constitutions, wanting to let everyone know it will slowly destroy their lives by following the new regulations. but, it is a lot harder than they think, so the group put their lives at risk for the future of swellview's people. as they grow closer to each other when planning and doing missions together, interesting and messy things happen.

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you were in your own thoughts, swinging your legs in the air and looking a little bit around the area, watching the rest of your friends from up high. even though the sentences you spoke were very limited, you still managed to keep the ongoing conversations going. you leaned your head against the wall behind you and grabbed a small strand of hair. out of boredom, you proceeded to carefully separate your split ends while one of your friends from school, zoey, was sitting next you and did most of the talking while you were listening to her, saying something every once in a while.

you suddenly were desperate to know what time it was, you knew it was already after midnight, so you couldn’t wait too much longer. the screen lit up, turning it around when you grabbed it from the back pocket: 00:46. you knew you had to go now, and besides, you were so tired since you barely got five hours of sleep last night due to the same reasons as of what was waiting for you tonight.

"i think i'm gonna be heading home now..." you said to zoey after a few minutes, when she nodded her head sadly, realizing she probably wouldn't have anyone to talk to now since every was busy. after giving her a goodbye hug, you placed your hand around the pole next to you for support. you jumped off the concrete block, wiping off your hands when a bit of sand and dirt sticked to them. just as you were standing, you spoke up to everyone else.

"i'm sorry guys, but i gotta go. i'm really tired.." you said apologetically as you picked up your jacket from the fence you all used as a coat rack tonight, since it was a lot warmer than everybody thought it would be. you spoke up, as everybody nodded their heads in agreement, understanding but it was still a shame you went to leave.

"bye!" you said while putting on your jacket over your shoulders and walked away, as you went towards the path along the bushes. you still heard their voices: "please be careful!" "see you tomorrow!" "bye love you!" you couldn't see them anymore, so you started to speed up your walking pace slightly, going faster along the direction of the road towards the agreed place; you knew what was ahead of you.

it was a friday night as usual, and you would spent it on this 'secret spot' you found with your friends from school a month ago, on a random day in the middle of the covering bushes so we wouldn’t get checked too often. as of right now, it was very risky to be outside at night, especially for you.

the municipality patrol started checking all over town for non-citizens loitering youth at exact hours by checking if you had a specific pass to have a reason to be outside and be a citizen of swellview. all of your friends carried one, except you and your group. you always had to be careful, one, because you didn’t carry a pass, and two, you couldn’t let your friends know you didn’t have one. you’re surprised they didn’t even find out yet after all this time.

but, after finding this particular, almost deserted place with your school friends, friday night has always been the time to come hang out there, for sometimes even the whole night. it's not like you had better things to do, so why not spend the whole night with your second favorite people, right?

but tonight you had different plans.

you lifted you head up to the dark sky, looking at the stars as you yawned, getting more tired each second. however, what your friends didn't know is that you didn't leave because of that. i mean, you were tired, you'll admit that. but that's not the reason you left.

the reason you left was because you went to meet with your group the echo-pioneers tonight, like you did mostly every night since the beginning of this year. the name was very known amongst the town, and unfortunately the municipal patrol administration had gotten it in all their systems and computers. luckily, it was a mystery for every resident who the members were that formed the group. it would've been a terrible misery if they found out, it could lead to arresting or killing every single one of you.

the patrol administration tried to find out multiple time who these people are, but they failed due to the cleverness to dodge them all and the secret meetings in the woods everyone attended to plan every detail of the missions. more than two days passed to even plan one single mission, four if it was a major one.

the weight of your decision hung heavy in your mind, but you had gotten used to it by now. you could say it even excited you. the laughter of your friends was already faded into the background, replaced by the pounding of your heart. if your friends found out you went to see these people, even be apart of this group, they would quite literally never be speak to you again. your whole family as well, you were sure of that.

you were unintentional drama creators for sure, the group everyone loved to blame for everything. rumors swirled around you all like leaves—so many stories of, apparently, trouble and crime. although, most were made up by a lot of citizen and the city's patrol who claimed to know everything we did. you were one of the few persons to know exactly which of these rumors were actually saying the truth. and let me tell you, that number is shockingly low.

in the distance, about fifty feet away, you saw someone hiding behind the bushes, but not clever enough to keep it a secret from your eyes, because you saw them moving around, paying intense attention to the surrounding area. fear rushed trough your body, but you figured it must be someone from your group, since the person was wearing half a balaclava on their face. you walked a bit faster in their direction to find the person recognize you, as they lifted themselves up from behind the green leaves.

“henry?” leaning his way, you yelled-whispered, still not sure if it was actually him. the dark made it almost impossible for you to make out it was him, but his known silhouette gave it away.

“i didn’t see you, hey.” he walked up to you as he gently took off his mask, and a smile formed on his face. "i didn't know if you'd still show up tonight. i was scared i would be hiding behind that bush for hours. probably wouldn't have made it out alive.” he said, breathing out a little sigh of relief and a chuckle while he brought in a hug, which you returned happily. you wrapped your arms around him for a good five seconds and smiled, since it was long ago you last saw him in the group. three days ago you all thought he was captured or killed by the patrol of the city's municipality. you were all panicked, but fortunately that didn't happen. he was just grounded for a few days because his little sister piper told their parents she saw henry smoking, which was not true at all but for some reason they always believe the younger sibling. especially her.

"i told you, just had to make up some excuse." you waved your hand, it figuratively showing it wasn’t too hard to slip away from your friends. your mind suddenly questioned why he was coming to meet you on his own and this particular place. “where are the others?” you asked nervously, as you looked around for any signs the group was nearby.

“i told them to go already into the forest to find useable wood for the fire. but we’re not going crossing over tonight.” your face shot up in confusion and a little bit of anger, remembering the message he sent you an hour ago; he literally said you were crossing over the border tonight, and to have all your needed stuff ready.

“what? but you told me—” you were practically yelling at him, not realizing that was now very dangerous if someone heard you. you were practically risking your life by even staying on the street, forgetting they would come check in ten minutes.

“shh i know, i know… i’ll explain later. we gotta get outta here before they come check.” he friendly placed his hand on your wrist, making sure you got the hint to start walking towards his small moped, which he said was parked secretly on the other side, parallel to the street you were standing on.

“fine.” you scoffed, being annoyed with him as always. you shook your head in disbelief as you elbowed his side and removed his hand from your arm. you were angry at him for saying this, because you had old friends you wanted to help get pass the border tonight, since they also didn't own a pass and needed to desperately get into swellview again. you didn't care to know why though, probably some family issues. but you knew they couldn't get trough without your help, so you decided to let them know the next time you were crossing the border for a mission. and now it wasn't possible tonight.

your fingers found the small pocket in your jacket and grabbed your mask. you were putting your hair up in a bun with a small tie found on your wrist as you slid down the mask over your face. your eyes turned to the side, letting henry know to do also, only to find him doing the exact same thing. "this way."

you swiftly went through the bushes with him as fast as possible to get to the other avenue, it was too risky going on the streets at this moment since the new regulations were set. both anxiety and adrenaline rushed trough your body, knowing if you got caught not carrying a pass meant immense consequences for both of you, and you didn't wanna spend your time thinking about it.

"did you see any patrol on the way here?" you barely could get the words out, both of you were out of breath due to fast running, while you were trying to keep following him and find the easiest way to his motorcycle in between the covering leaves and branches sticking out.

"no, but we have to be fast as possible. we can't risk anything." he said, turning my way as we finally reached the end of the patch of trees leading to the sidewalk. you wanted to catch your breath for a while, but you knew there was no time for that.

as soon you were standing on the sidewalk, he gripped your wrist a little too hard, making you wince in pain. "henry—" he tugged at your arm, running towards the vehicle just around the corner. "henry you're hurting my wrist—" you winced in pain, letting out a heavy breath while trying to get rid of his grip on your arm.

you reached the parked moped in the corner and he let go of your hurting wrist. he looked you in the eyes for a second, pointing to the backseat. he whispered something inaudible trough the black mask, while both your breaths were shortened, almost being on the verge of passing out. you fixed your mask a little while swinging your left leg over the motorcycle, as henry waited for you to be seated and kicked in the stand with his foot. that's when you realize he didn't bother to lock it, which made you scoff to yourself. so typical of him.

your heart was pounding so fast during the whole ride, you thought it was gonna explode right there and then. you’ve never experienced this much amount of anxiety before, it was probably gonna be 1 am in a few minutes so you knew you didn’t had much time to get to the group. he was going so fast, yet he couldn't drive the speed he wanted to go; due to the wind being very strong this particular night, almost pushing you off the vehicle when leaning a bit to the side.

he suddenly took a sharp turn to the left and drove into a deserted street, where all pavements were nearly completely concealed by leaves of trees and scarce plants growing out of joints in between tiles. in the distance you could already spot the abandoned houses, some of their roofs and walls on the verge of collapsing onto the ground.

he took another turn; this time rightwards and going into even a greater derelict alley, directly in the course towards the forest outlying from the inhabited town. no one dared to go near it, since it was close to the border of swellview, which was very in your advantage. since the new regulations set they made it impossible to cross over if not carrying an accession pass through the designated gateways. the fence was too high to climb, if you tried you probably would fall to your own death. there were traps set everywhere; on the top and all around the fence were barbed and electric wires. going near the border meant you could get seriously injured, at least for normal people.

henry slowed down and parked the vehicle somewhere safe and hidden, almost in the middle of the forest under a big tree, making it very hard for someone to find it unless they followed him.

"you could've just blown a bubble. you know they won't check you if you're kid danger." you spoke up and scoffed a little, realizing you didn't have to be in such a rush if he would be in his costume. it happened quite a few times he would get checked when being outside, since there were kids who dressed up as kid danger at night trying to not be caught trespassing or loitering.

schwoz thought ahead of that and made henry a specific pass and made it valid with captain man's logo on it. the patrol started checking him less since they often saw him when he had an emergency outside. in fact; sometimes the patrol even helped him catching a criminal. little did they know he was the leader of the very group they wanted gone.

"no, because they would recognize me on the motorcycle, and they'd still check you." he replied, while you walked behind him and moved branches out of the way with both hands.

you knew the four minute walk to the meeting spot all too well, recognizing every single tree or plant on the ground; even at night. you've been here countless of times, and with henry walking in front off you and checking the way, the path was even more safe.

you heard their chatter getting louder when we reached closer to the fire which they had already lit. my hand reached towards my mask, sliding it down as soon we stepped from behind the trees. all of a sudden silence overtook the whole group, when they all noticed we were back.

"what took you two so long?!" charlotte spoke up in front of everybody and lifted herself up from the ground to look our way. relief washed over all their faces when they saw us after almost an hour, even though henry said to them it'll only take fifteen minutes to get to you.

"sorry. lost track of time." you shrugged your shoulders while henry spoke up, walking towards the middle of the group. you slowly sat down next to jasper and niki, not really caring about the fact the whole group was worried about you. you know you should care, but your mind was so consumed with everything that was happening; the town taking our freedom away for about seven months now, the guilt of lying to your own friends and family, the adrenaline rush from just running trough the trees.

you couldn't ignore your feelings like you've tried for the past weeks— even months. after all this time, you still couldn't believe this was your life now. escaping, running, failing, hurting and fighting. you all knew you had to do this, or else they would take away all our freedom one day without even realizing, and then it will be too late.

you placed your hand on your chin and looked at the ground beneath. all you wanted to do in this very moment was just cry. you weren't even paying attention to henry who was standing in the middle of the group next to the fire, speaking about the planned missions and why crossing the border wasn't necessary tonight.

your gaze was fixated on the fire right in front of your eyes, and you looked over to the other side of the group. milea was holding a cigarette in her hands, slowly bringing it up to her mouth and inhaling. that's gonna kill you one day, you thought. your eyes made their way around everyone, you were sure that nobody was actually paying attention to the words henry was saying.

"...so we're gonna do it tomorrow, we just need to make a few changes in." these were literally the only words you heard him speaking since you were too distracted to listen. you were too preoccupied thinking about the people you promised to help, how would they even feel? they were probably already in so much fear, so you needed to make sure they got into swellview; even if the group didn’t want to go with you to help them. maybe you could just go alone, it'll probably only take fifteen minutes to get them trough the holes you made in the fence together to do missions outside town.

and it was not like you didn't have experience with it, right?

thank you for reading!!! i realize this part is veryyy long and maybe quite boring, but it had to happen because it is the first part. i promise that the next parts will be more interesting to read. the second part will also have more background info about the group and the people :)

i have a lot of cool (and romantic ;)) ideas for the series, but bare with me because i've been busy, hope y'all understand!

also if you have noticed, this series is kinda inspired by the shatter me series. i really love the books and i thought it would fit with henry danger, so decided to make this :)

ps. this probably will be a looong series, i have a lot of ideas for it but in order for some thing to happen it needs to be a lot of parts.

[ladypepperofdavenshire]

Artfight attack of Caspar for @urban-hart

[mekanikaltrifle]

little wip for youse all while I work on other shit :3

[boseobrien]

"Pickels are gross"

"I can't eat this pickel"

[walkingdetroit]

Hart Plaza Improvements

More on the project here.

[oakwyrm]

A forgotten Old God and the mortal who woke them.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Thomas Hart Benton

America Today, City Building

1930-1931

[supermarcey]

The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 123 – Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 123 – Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 123 Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) Kollin’s Pick for Horror Month Download HERE https://supermarcey.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/the-tubi-tuesdays-podcast-episode-123-urban-legends-final-cut-2000.mp3 Movie Starts Playing At: 00:07:11 Welcome to our podcast series from The Super Network and Pop4D called Tubi Tuesdays Podcast! This podcast series is focused on…

[apieters]

It looks so cozy.

still love the linework of this one, and decided to try repainting it all on one layer. i only cheated with the socks, bc i was too lazy to recreate the pattern

side-by-side with the old version on the right, for ease of flipping to really see the differences

definitely very happy with the repaint :D

[jev-urisk]

🎨Fanart Friday!🖌

Yesterday I made a sketch of @the-golden-comet 's oc Peter from their book Peter Hart as a little thank-you gift to them and OF COURSE they uno-reversed my ass to give me some lovely art of Kazimier (how dare you~ ♥️).

So here's my bastard sippin' on a martini, looking absolutely in his element, all dressed to hit up his favorite club ✨️

I love how piercing those eyes are 🔴🟢, and the curly hair looks REALLY good!! (And I know how hard curly hair is to draw 😮‍💨). Thank you so so much again for taking an interest in my incuboi, and for drawing him in all his ritzy yet skeezy glory 💅🥰

If you somehow haven't run across Tumblr's sweetest shooting star, pop over to 💫The Golden Comet's blog💫 and check out their work!

[medievalandfantasymelee]

The First Round of Contest Has now Concluded.

This Round began with 148 Contenders - Now 74 remain.

All polls in this round (as well as summaries of each day's results) may be found here

The 10 Closest Tilts in the First Round (in Reverse Order) were

10. The Sheriff of Nottingham [Alan Rickman] Def. Kili [Aiden Turner]

9. King Marke of Cornwall [Rufus Sewell] Def. Prince Prospero [Vincent Price]

8. Sir Guy of Gisbourne [Basil Rathbone] Def. Finan [Mark Rowley]

7. Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert [Ciaran Hinds] Def. Robert the Bruce [Chris Pine]

6. Hugh Beringar [Sean Pertwee] Def. Father Beocca [Ian Hart]

5. Bard the Bowman [Luke Evans] Def. Will Scarlet O'Hara [Matthew Porretta]

4. Lin Shu [Hu Ge] Def. Arman [Matvey Lykov]

3. Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck [Dominic Monaghan] Def. Geoffrey Chaucer [Paul Bettany]

2. Saladin [Milind Soman] Def. Jon Snow [Kit Harrington]

1. Rodrigo Borgia [Jeremy Irons] Def. Lord Tywin Lannister [Charles Dance]

And the 10 Tilts with the widest margins of victory were (in reverse order):

10. Inigo Montoya [Mandy Patinkin] Def. Corlys Velaryon [Steve Toussaint]

9. Frodo Baggins [Elijah Wood] Def. Prince Chauncley [Daniel Radcliffe]

8. Aragorn Elessar [Viggo Mortensen] Def. Ahmad [Mahesh Jadu]

7. King Henry II [Peter O'Toole] Def. Thomas Becket [Richard Burton]

6. Thorin Oakenshield [Richard Armitage] Def. King Edward IV [Max Irons]

5. Gawain [Dev Patel] Def. Matrim "Mat" Cauthon [Donal Finn]

4. Éomer, Son of Éomund [Karl Urban] Def. King Arthur [Sean Connery]

3. William Thatcher [Heath Ledger] VS. King Vortigern [Jude Law]

2. Boromir, Son of Denethor [Sean Bean] Def. Alessandro Farnese [Diarmuid Noyes]

1. Faramir, Son of Denethor [David Wenham] Def. Uther Pendragon [Gabriel Byrne]

The Tilt with the most votes (by far) at 5,177 Votes was Geralt of Rivia [Henry Cavill] Vs. Sir Gary Galavant [Joshua Sasse] Which Galavant won with 57.7% of the Vote

It was an exodus of two-by-twos this round with both of our Ewan Mitchells [Aemond Targaryen and Osferth], both of our Henry Cavills [Geralt of Rivia and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk], AND both of our Iain Glens [Ser Jorah Mormont and Prince Hamlet] losing their respective tilts to Erik Thurgilson [Christian Hillborg], Fili [Dean O'Gorman], Galavant [Joshua Sasse], Prince John [Oscar Isaac], "The Player" [Richard Dreyfuss] and Ned Stark [Sean Bean]. Even both of our Laurence Oliviers [Prince Hamlet and Henry V] were sent scurrying to the vents in disgrace, losing their tilts against Cesare Borgia [Francois Arnaud] and Elrond Half-elven [Hugo Weaving].

In fact, nearly of of the men of Middle Earth fared uncommon well in this round, with only three losing their matches. Haldir [Craig Parker] was unable to best the charms of that most magnificent of minstrels, Hubert Hawkins [Danny Kaye]. Kili [Aiden Turner] had a strong start against George, the Sheriff of Nottingham [Alan Rickman], but the race tightened about halfway through, and the Sheriff was able to pull through a stunning last-minute victory. Despite his brutal focus and discipline and grim sense of humor, Uglúk [Nathaniel Lees] suffered a crushing defeat under the cloven hoof of a greater and sexier evil, Darkness [Tim Curry]. The Sons of Denethor, Boromir [Sean Bean] and Faramir [David Wenham] truly dominated their oppositions (Alessandro Farnese [Diarmuid Noyes] and Uther Pendragon [Gabriel Byrne]) and were the only competitors to achieve margins of victory exceeding 90% in this round.

The Men of Westeros did not fare so well. Of their 14 remaining competitors only four now stand:

Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark [Sean Bean]

Ser Bronn of the Blackwater [Jerome Flynn]

Khal Drogo [Jason Momoa]

Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish [Aiden Gillen]

Ser Davos Seaworth [Liam Cunningham]

Ser Jorah Mormont [Iain Glen]

Prince Oberyn Martell [Pedro Pascal]

Ser Criston Cole [Fabien Frankel]

Lord Corlys Velaryon [Steve Toussaint]

Sandor "The Hound" Celgane [Rory McCann]

Jon Snow [Kit Harrington]

Gendry [Joe Dempsie]

Aemond Targaryen [Ewan Mitchell]

Tywin Lannister [Charles Dance]

But what of our Robins and Arthurs?

We began the Round with 3 of Each, but only one of each survived the round.

While Beowulf [Gerard Butler] bested King Arthur [Richard Harris] with a handy but respectful margin of 56.8%, Sean Connery's Arthur was unhorsed by Eomer [Karl Urban] in what can only be termed a crushing defeat, with a margin of 84.4% of the Vote. Only Bradley James's incarnation was able to defeat his opposition, Prince Henry [Dougray Scott], who, though strong contender, proved no match for Arthur's winning smile.

On the Robin side, our last Robin standing, is Cary Elwes, who defeated Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan with a tidy 70.8% margin. Richard Todd's stunningly attractive but lesser known Robin was defeated by the only remaining Son of York, Richard III [Aneurin Barnard], while the iconic Errol Flynn iteration was unhorsed (rather ironically) by one of the most appallingly unjust and underhanded aristocrats in the lists, Adhemar, Count of Anjou [Rufus Sewell]. We can neither confirm nor deny allegations made against the Count of cheating, nor the veracity of the rumours circulating that the Count's rather costly saddle was stolen from his tent at the end of the day while Adhemar was enjoying a flagon of wine with fellow victors Sir Guy of Gisbourne [Basil Rathbone], Sir Guy of Gisborne [Richard Armitage], the Sheriff of Nottingham [Alan Rickman] and His Royal Highness Prince John [Oscar Isaac].

Our third Sir Guy [Michael Wincott] did not join them, as he rather unfortunately lost his match against Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe [Anthony Andrews] and, after a rather unpleasant exchange with his cousin the Sheriff, preferred to drink in the company of a different, more polite Sheriff [Peter Cushing] (who also lost his match against the Hound [Rory McCann]) and his friend Prince Prospero [Vincent Price].)

But I am sure some of your are curious as to how the Master of Revels' list of Secret Favourites is faring. Well, I can tell you, it sustained some heavy losses this round, though a still rather healthy 34 remain in the competition. Aye, but at what cost?

[gojicorps]

I've been trying to make this post for a while... This is my OC "master post"

This is Ltw, if you dig stories of super heroes with a bunch of teenager drama and high school tropes, this isn't the story for you! Sorry, but this gender is already really saturated so I tried to mix and match different tropes across the medias to create a weird love letter to Comics, Tokusatsu and anything that I really enjoy. It's a coming of age story about Hart Lee Valentine, who chose to left his father house to live with his uncle in a city called Saint Expedite, famous for crimes, urban legends and some of the worst pizza you can ever imagine, an absolute paradise for someone who really wants to have a fresh restart in life.

The cast consists mainly of this 5 characters.

Hart Lee Valentine: He's the son of the smartest man alive... But this is just a media claim, his father helped cure one of the weirdest illness know to mankind. But that doesn't matter at all, Valentine is already living under the shadow of his only parent alive (wink, wink) he starts as a calm and collected person but gradually starts loosing his manners, becoming an unhinged not so crazy science. He has an odd sense of justice but he's MOSTLY a pacifist who will try to talk before throwing hands around.

His favorite animals are moths and ducks, dor different reasons, in his opinion moths are our saviours from the monstrosities called butterflies. And ducks because he loves how versatile they are, he identifies with that Jack of all trades style.

Sadako Atsuko: She's the local emo weirdo girl of the class, nobody knows much about her and her brother Helis, they live together in a mansion in the middle of the city, she's always tired, not in the best mood and usually sassy. People don't know but she's actually heiress of The Atsuko family, one of Japan's most advance tech companies, she's also a city vigilant who uses fear to stop crime... Yeah she's basically my universe version of the Batman, her character is driven by masks and alter egos, she feels incapable of leading a normal life since she's shattered between personas, not knowing who's the real her, not knowing how to express her true self. Those burdens started to get louder to the point she started playing instruments, as a therapy, but this basically turned into another problem, her days are getting too short to accomplish all her desires.

Her favorite animal is the bat, the long eared ones! So yeah she's basically using a fursuit to fight crime.

Helis: Sadako's adoptive brother, he's basically the group heart, trying to make their maniacal schemes be a little more unhinged, he's the protector and the tallest one of them. Those responsabilities are instantly forgotten when he's near Valentine, something about him makes Helis adopt a more act first think later persona, but they usually have fun with that. He's the one that gives unsolicited advices with the bestest intentions he wants to know more about his origin and maybe who's his real family but that's more a monkey palm situation that doesn't goes well when he meets his father and sister. He usually helps Sadako in her schemes, usually to treat her wounds while calls her irresponsible, dummy or anything in between those lines (she doesn't even get a cute animal band-aid...) oh he has an abnormal strength and light based power's, but that doesn't matter much to him.

His favorite animals are giraffes, he likes that they have the strongest kick, and besides their pattern is beautiful.

Ettore Zanchini: the definition of overcompensate! He simply is a tryhard in absolutely everything, he has a rivalry with Helis, Sadako and sometimes even Valentine, everything he does is trying to be the best. He likes classy outfits and good manners, he's a true gentleman with a short temper and overachiever, even though he doesn't need to prove himself that much. He's the best athlete of the school and won several fencing medals, he usually fights using two rapiers for the simple reason that this is a really dumb idea, so it's a good exercise.

He really likes Wolves and Stags, specially because they're the princes of the forest, he definitely cried with Bambi but keeps it hidden.

Stefanny: Starting as a villainess, Stef is the last one to join the crew, she's really unused to a bunch of stuff the others enjoy but tries her best to get ahold of everything, she's not the warmest person and can be really misunderstood, she's gruff and goes direct to the point in most of her interactions, some have the audacity to call her impolite, BUT SHE'S NOT! She's just not used to have conversations longer than 45 seconds or with people that aren't psycho's, she and Sadako get along pretty well, perhaps because of all their battles and training, oh and even though she's all cool and collected... She has fire powers, yeah they are neat I guess.

Her favorite animal are salamanders, she loves those little moist dragons!

[mekanikaltrifle]

wee little Solstice sketch while playing the wizard game :3 I love drawing my favourite little twinkly lad <3

[whencyclopedia]

The Origins of British Pub Names

Pubs remain a prominent feature of the rural and urban landscapes of Britain, but their names very often date back to medieval times. Red lions, white horses, and colourful characters peer from pub signs as landlords choose names to represent local history, legends, landmarks, national figures, or simply imply their drinking establishment has a long and prestigious heritage.

This article presents the meaning behind some of the most common pub names seen across Britain from Penzance to the Hebrides. According to The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pub Names, there were over 50,000 pubs in Britain at the beginning of the 21st century. The same source identifies the top 20 pub names. Red Lion, Crown, and Royal Oak are the top three, then (in alphabetical order) Anchor, Angel, Bell, Bull, Coach & Horses, George, George & Dragon, King's Head, Nelson, New Inn, Plough, Railway, Rose & Crown, Swan, Duke of Wellington, White Hart, and White Horse (269). As the appeal of pubs and inns has widened to other countries, many of the traditional British pub names can be seen today around the world from New York to Melbourne.

English Pub Signs

Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA)

The pub names below have been selected because they are especially common, their meaning is obscure, or the history behind them is of particular interest. Self-explanatory but, nevertheless, very common names such as Hop & Grape, Jolly Sailors, or Duke of Marlborough are omitted for want of space. As shall be seen, many variations of a name are possible, even in broad meaning, but a local would always have known the precise significance of their pub's name since, from the late Middle Ages until the mid-19th century, when most of the population was illiterate, it was the pub's sign which gave the establishment its name (and not vice-versa, as is usually the case today). Pub signs, which were made obligatory by a 1393 law, can take the form of a painting, a representation in wrought iron, a three-dimensional model, or even a weather-worn example of the object itself.

Anchor

The name Anchor is, naturally, most popular by the coast where fishing traditions are strongest. However, the name was also common for pubs near canals, particularly overnight stops for barges carrying goods such as coal and wine between towns and cities. The name can be qualified by all sorts of adjectives related to seafaring such as Foul Anchor (used to rescue a ship in distress), Sheet Anchor (a ship's largest and most reliable anchor), and Raffled Anchor (an entangled anchor). For extra cachet, the name might be upgraded to Royal Anchor. A lesser-known significance of the name is when it is used in reference to Saint Paul who, in the Bible, mentions that faith is like an anchor and gives hope, hence the pub name Anchor of Hope. As the colour blue is symbolic of hope, pub signs for this name very often depict a blue anchor. Finally, there is the common variation Crown & Anchor, which refers to the arms of the Lord High Admiral and the badge of petty officers in the Royal Navy.

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