#womble wants to eat it so bad

[in-tua-deep]

My Laika pin from @pangur-and-grim arrived!!

I am clearly not the only fan

[sultanstrail2020]

Almost on the way

From Tuesday 10th March 2020, I will start walking the Sultan’s Trail from Vienna to Istanbul. It’s a long distance walking route of approximately 1300 miles, named after Sultan Suleyman I who ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566.

I aim to walk around 13 miles a day for 100 days and will be undertaking the walk to raise funds for the education of young people and adults in Malawi – see www.brightfuturefoundation.org.uk

Malawi is the poorest country in the world but recognises the value of education in providing opportunities for its young people.  Unfortunately, only primary education is funded in Malawi, so The Bright Future Foundation helps young people and adults to continue their studies to Baccalaureate. It costs just £2 a week to pay for one person’s education.

Besides approaching friends and contacts for financial donations to support the cause, I am also happy accept sponsorship from all and sundry.

Anything from 10p to a £1 for every mile I manage to walk would be superb but any contribution will of course be brilliant.

You can contact me initially by email at  paul@navigatorpr.com  

You may be also interested in the following additional background info.

Sultanstrail.net

(just press accept if tumblr puts up an into page saying you need to accept terms and conditions on tumblr)

https://capetown2cairo.tumblr.com/ https://silkroad2013.tumblr.com/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/uzbekistan/articles/a-hair-raising-road-trip-in-uzbekistan/

 AND THE POINT IS.........

  April 2019

 I’ve always wanted to ‘do’ the Pennine Way. It’s been calling me for over 30 years.

 There’s the challenge of walking through peat bogs knee high in mud. I’d also expect to battle over hill tops in the face of driving wind and rain and lose my way on fog covered moorland.

 My sixth form school friends failed to complete it one summer. My brother tells tales of how he conquered it by camping for three weeks in a two man tent and eating cold beans for breakfast.

 I’ve been waiting for this moment over half a lifetime.

 This time next year I am doing it!

 August 2019

 But, what’s this?

 How about doing a walk in golden sunlight?  Meander along the banks of the blue Danube, then tootle on the remote byways and highways of Hungary. How would you like to visit ancient Roman remains, medieval battlefields and hidden mountain villages?

 The romantic in me would like to walk alongside gypsy caravans and sleep by campfires in the summer moonlight too as you follow a route that connects two of Europe’s best loved cities – Vienna and Istanbul.

 The Sultan’s Trail springs to mind. A 1300 mile trod of peace commemorating the Ottoman era in the Balkans and the route of their retreat from Vienna in 1683. It follows ancient military roads through seven countries, in guaranteed glorious weather, en route to the Golden Horn.

 Yes that’s more like it.

 Springtime next year, I’m doing it!

 February 2020

 The What? To Where?

 But where on earth does the Sultan’s Trail go? Vienna to Istanbul. Through The Balkans. Yes but where are The Balkans? And aren’t they dangerous?

 We Brits don’t really know much about the area. It’s not somewhere we invaded 2-300 years ago so don’t have much affinity with it. It’s a remote region, presumably still living in the past.

 What’s my take?

 Well, Austria.. that’s just a dull German isn’t it? And what about Slovakia and Bratislava? Good grief. Isn’t it Slovenia? It’s half of Czeckoslovakia as far as I know. Oh and wasn’t some journalist murdered by the mafia run government last year?

 Into Hungary next. Goulash springs to mind. And surely that’s where the gypsy caravan trail starts. Violins, horse drawn carriages, beautiful red haired gypsy maidens and nights of drinking and dancing round open fires.

 Isn’t Serbia full of bad guys? Are they part of the European Union even? Then into Bulgaria. Tobermory and the Wombles are the first things that I think of.  But I have a friend going skiing there next week so it is possibly a rich man’s Romania.

 There is a short hop across poor, bankrupt, Greece and finally into Turkey. Rulers of the eastern world for 700 years, the Turks were lords of the Balkans and conquerors of Constantinople in 1543. More recently they have become the scourge of the EU. But the Golden Horn and Golden Gate ultimately awaits as the final destination.

[phoenixyfriend]

#i feel a little bad like i should have absorbed more info about these fandoms.#me: the most important characters are anevka and karin because those are the ones nixy talks about#i have my priorities

THIS DELIGHTS ME AND I’M SO GLAD I SENT IT IN

Commentary that will either help or hurt:

NARUTO

The war is not against the government, but tbh that’s probably because nobody would have let the author follow through with the “this system is fucked up” message he had going in part one.

The only person where doing the biting helps is if you bite Karin. That said, if someone else bites you, you’re in for a world of pain and/or they’re putting a curse mark on you that will give you super powers in exchange for making you kinda evil and possibly killing you. People in canon do not react to her scars because very people see them and I have strong opinions on this.

Sasuke is the guy she has a crush on. Sasuke is one of the two main characters. Sasuke also stabbed her. (Sasuke has stabbed or attempted to stab literally everyone he cares about, it’s fine.)

Everything about the eyes is accurate, there is so much eye theft.

Crow guy is Itachi.

The overarching plot of Naruto is “people try to steal the demon fox in Naruto’s stomach to revive a god tree that is actually a plot to bring a dead moon goddess back to life so she can eat everyone’s energy, and the mastermind is a glob of sentient goo.”

It takes place in the Ninja Nineties.

GIRL GENIUS

Sparks are like... people who have a very specific form of neurodivergence where, if you hyperfocus hard enough, physics breaks and just does what you want.

Anevka is the most important in my heart! But tbh the most important robot to the plot is Robo-Lu. Or the various Muses.

Tarvek is Anevka’s brother. The authors have made no decisions on which one is older.

There are two options for which horse I showed you: the unicorn man, or the horse that attacks the circus. I shall show both below the cut.

Lord Womble is just Some Dude with a unicorn head in England. He does things like show guests who happen to be foreign heads of state to their guest laboratories.

The horse that attacks the circus:

Several pages later, after the horse does things like growing spikes and breathing fire:

Challenge time: describe the plot of a fandom-in-law (my hopes are Naruto or Girl Genius but whatever you Vibe With) as best you can based solely on what you've picked up from tumblr, crossover fics, etc. No using wikis!

i wanna do both and see how close i get

Naruto is about a bunch of ninja children at ninja school. Naruto is one of those ninja children. There are large families/dynasties that are rivals? And sometimes allies? In a War against the Government, who is usually bad, and often lies to the Ninja Children in order to get them to fight. There are some morally ambiguous characters. If you bite someone with special powers something good happens to you, and there’s one girl who is held captive and bitten for like her entire life and she’s one of your faves. Is she Sasuke or Karin? I think she’s Karin. I feel like biting her has healing powers. She’s got a lot of scars and people see them and are like WHOA THAT FUCKT UP.

There’s a special thing with eyes. Magic powers? Sharingan? If you see someone die or kill them that gives you magic eye powers. I don’t know what those powers are??? You can steal people’s eyes. Some characters wear a bunch of eyes. This is normal. There’s someone who can disappear into a cloud of ravens or crows which frankly is life goals. I honestly have no idea what the overarching plot of Naruto is. Graduating ninja school? I mostly just know stuff about individual characters and world building. It’s vaguely historical. Or there’s time travel. Or both. I always think these characters should be vaguely adult-aged but they’re NOT.

Girl Genius is about a Gay Friend Group in a steampunk world. every character is Gay and A Mess and most of them are Doing the Most fashion-wise. There’s international politics and pirates and magic libraries. And something called sparks. What are sparks? Are they magic people? Maybe? I knew at one point. I can’t stress the library enough. I want the library or libraries. There are mostly-evil geniuses. There are part-robot people. Specifically hot robot ladies. The most important one is Anevka. There’s also Tarvek. I remember nothing about him. Is there a horse person or a horse involved? I can see a horse in the GG art style and I don’t know why. Things happen underground. I can’t stress enough that this is Very Gay Media.