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Someone living in Sweden during the Iron Age wore this cloak. Unfortunately, they wore it while they were murdered: forensic analysis found the holes in the cloak match how stabs would have penetrated the folds of the cloak when it was being worn.

Dating to 360 to 100 BCE, is also the oldest known example of a houndstooth pattern!

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i got bored

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eternal sunshine

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they spent half the time building the cannon in an open pit. and pentar and the terraforming and all that—it's just annoying to me that every time mane pulls something clever half the chat instantly goes So He Cheated, Of Course

(pangi digs into sand and blocks it with stone, then mane digs around a lot and finds him? Must Be Freecam! how'd he find kaboodle's spawn point that time bacon didn't betray her? Must Have Stream-Sniped—ok that one i also thought, but then i learned my lesson) (sure, he'll do that. but guys he really can do it for real.)

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What When 👀

This is a good idea, barrel in the middle of nowhere... technically not nowhere, but— Near a base is a little crazy but I think the poetry makes it worth it.

🥺.

okay princezam. putting your only chance on being saved right in front of vi's grave house. maybe one day things will be better and he will be able to use this beacon to resurrect vi. even though he's not coming. just to know hes alive.

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Yeah that tracks

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was talking to ford about this but i think like... the tendency people have to get really defensive over their personal interpretations of fiction ("everyone is wrong about this character" "i'm the only one allowed to talk about x/y/z") has much less to do with the potential for anyone to actually be "wrong" about fiction in a way that matters than it does with a search for understanding and recognition in other people. when i get frustrated by an interpretation of something i care about that feels wrong to me i am not really making a judgement on the truth of that statement or its worth to someone else, rather it is on a very basic level about feeling lonely. the discomfort in an interpretation that feels Wrong is often linked to a moment of "we have different life experiences" or "you don't see what i see" and then, "i wish somebody would see what i see!" as naturally follows.

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—oh, right, it's not true that the only way for Prince Zam to get hearts to be stronger to fight the Blindfold Bandits is killing people. The other way is people giving you hearts, paying you or loaning them. Like, just the other day Kaboodle lent him five hearts for exactly that fight.

If Mapicc had gone ahead and killed her, if Zam had stood by and watched, he would've got one heart: he'd've hit 21 when he found the 3 random chest hearts, and probably given it to Zam, and then Zam would've gone into the next fight on eight hearts.

Not thirteen.

People keep saying his beliefs, his rules, his oaths, only make him weaker, that he's holding himself back not full power, Zam says it, chat says, and if he'd gone that way a week ago he would've gone in on eight hearts, and died faster, and then been back sitting on seven.

(If Mapicc had managed to kill Derapchu and given Zam that heart then by the end of the session he would've been afk'ing the drowned farm to get back to seven. Would Derap ever lend Zam hearts for a fight? Probably not, definitely not vs Wemmbu, but—it'd be interesting to ask.)

It's just: it's not just holding back. There's a kind of strength that he can only get by working this way, by being so unimpeachably trustworthy even to people who are very much not on his team.

idk. Two eyes open. I hope can see that, and not just the obvious, ordinary kinds of strength.

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DOCTOR WHO – The Angels Take Manhattan (S07E05) directed by Nick Hurran | written by Steven Moffat ››› Matt Smith as The Doctor ››› Alex Kingston as River Song

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Why's Kaboodle banned? She took a 24 hour ban for elytra-in-combat so Manepear would get a 48 hour ban for doing it Worse. S-tier hater with the sacrifice play 😌

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does it ever drive you crazy // just how fast the night changes?

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zams and bacons message about not policing ccs boundaries and to not harass others

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s4!Zam: i will pay ClownPierce my second-last heart to be my bodyguard to protect me from Mapicc and Ro

also zam: no i don't want clown to fight them—he might die!

bodyguard clown to the rescue!

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IMISSVITALASYVEMBER DAY 17: starfox

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having finished rewatching s4 and being past the vitalasy goodbye stream in s5 is so miserable what do you mean there's no more vitalasy. the fact that vitalasy leaves and that same day everything starts moving again, that same day zam has that conversation with planet where he keeps laughing mid sentence and going "i don't know how to do this anymore it's been so long," and in that stream bacon and zam describe it as if the wormhole had broken the fourth wall permanently, so now they have to open up to the audience in ways they hadn't before, but that's not quite right. the wormhole opened a door sure, season 4 changed things. but during wormhole zam slammed a door shut on vitalasy and that door stayed shut until this precise moment. so he and vitalasy never get to have the kind of conversation about their past vitalasy needed from him while vitalasy was still there, because the shell only starts to crack open the moment vitalasy is gone. vitalasy exits the stage leaving it all necessarily resolved off screen, leaving a book zam keeps private from the audience. it allows vitalasy to come back in s6 and say "we worked it out behind the scenes," and for that to be all you need to know. vitalasy is no longer a character whose history with zam keeps mattering to him, informing new choices and new problems. but zam is. zam remains a character with all of that history intact, who thinks about it, and uses it as a point of measure for other relationships in his life (or sometimes it seems for relationships, period), who alludes to it in conversation, who remembers it even though at one point he tried pretty hard to forget. so much did happen between them and it still doesn't feel like enough. it just gets cut off, and leaves behind this constant looming possibility space. makes you think well, now there might finally be enough distance from it all that they could really talk about it, that it might be okay. but vitalasy isn't here. and when he visits they never get more than a moment alone together, anyway. what is zam's memory of vitalasy; the things he has accepted and the things he still doesn't think about, the parts of it that remain warped in his memory; what is he guilty about and what is he still mad about; how would he describe eclipse to someone who wasn't there in s4 if he had to really sit down and go through it all; what would have happened if he did give vitalasy that apology heart during the mace trials, if they did get more than a moment alone together. if vitalasy was still present. if there was ever a reason to talk about him. and vitalasy's ghost is overwhelmingly present in s5. he leaves and that's the catalyst. destroying what's left of vitalasy on the server is always the worst thing zam can threaten, and then zam is banned fighting over vitalasy's grave trying to make good on that threat. and they never, ever, ever get to talk about any of it. all of those stupid hours of conversation in season 4 and then nothing at all forever. they worked it out but you don't get to see that part. vitalazam world. i hate everyone else on this minecraft server fuck all of you for real. whenever vitalasy isn't on screen you should be asking "where's vitalasy."

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