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EMBARGO.

I got the same result you did, blast it. 🤣

Tagging @gilgamushroom, @bowl-of-wyrms, and @please-dont-pet-the-okapi. XD

alright babes, uquiz time.

find out who you would be in fantasy society. i’m reblogging with a link so tumblr doesn’t hide this. 

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Commission for @inkinary

Meet Fier, patrin of Fire and Flame.

I've had a lot of fun looking at lava and vulcanos for thos one and thinking about how a constantly changing yet robust body could look like.

Thank you again so much for commissioning me :D

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Yes. Please. POR FAVOR. A million percent. I have been scouring the internet for one, and alas! I have not turned up with one. 😔

Can we just have a Jeeves and Wooster blooper reel? 

Why? - Because I need it.

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YES. Same about Donkey Hotay/Don Quixote. I used to think samurai were literally spelled "Samoorai." For YEARS. That is the hold this game had over my life.

The references in that game are insane, especially because now I LOVE classic literature and Victorian culture, so every time I go back to play P101, I find something new that I never noticed. A good example is Governor (AKA Major-General) Stanley and Mabel in Port Royal, the reference to the "Major-General's Song" ("I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General")—both from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. Yes, Gilbert and Sullivan, who are also full-on NPCs in the game...working at SAVOY Mercantile (Savoy Operas, anyone?). XD A character named Murgatroyd is a reference to their other work Ruddigore, too.

Now, having heard "With Cat-Like Tread" and listening to the chorus very recently (# Come, friends, who plow the sea / Truce to navigation; take another station), I had an "AHA!" moment of Gilbert having sung that in the quest dialogue. XD

It's been almost twelve years, and this game still never ceases to amaze me.

You ever discover a piece of media and go “oh so that’s what wiz was referencing”

Like I had no idea what the musical, Xanadu, was until someone I knew was in a production for it and I was reading the plot synopsis and suddenly the Zanada questline in Empyrea made a lot more sense.

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WHAT THE BLAZES?!

WHAT THE ACTUAL BLAZES?!

Why am I never told this stuff?!

Finally got around to doing the Five B.O.X.E.S event and I’m just wondering WHY DONT WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE WIZARD IS THE REASON WHY BOOCHBEARD AND MR GANDRY SEARCH FOR THE PIRATE???

The wizard is fully aware that the pirate exists and is going to take down the Armada, but the pirate has no idea that the wizard exists

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How—

How dare you plague me with these thoughts at so early an hour?

(I LOVE Pirate101 philosophy, though, so PLEASE KEEP IT COMING.)

Spoilers for new P101 update

I love how we get to see the consequences of our actions. Like in Marleybone we pull up and see the shipwrecks and war torn skyway. We started the war between the Armada and Marleybone because we had to set Napoleguin free.

And then in Tartarus we see the ghosts of all the snakes and eagles that were killed in the Trojan War. We even see Eagilles himself, who we literally brought to the war and died because of our actions.

It’s all our fault.

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This is a good poll!

I do think I fall into the category of disliking this movie. It's very cringy with connections between characters and plots that feel unrealistic and too "manufactured." I actually have a lot of thoughts on Christian movies like this, LOL.

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YESSS, let's do it! I'll bring the books (got to have something to read in times of peace and quiet, no?) and some fresh lemonade!

@spengnitzed, @tea-n-tv, and @fangirlsovertoomanything, are you lot in? B)

would u like to have a picnic :3 i’ll cut fruit :3

yes!!! ill bring all the bread and baked goods !! ^_^

who else is coming ? :D

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Yep, I had to do these.

Tagging:

@gilgamushroom @conan-doyles-carnations @ladyflyer20 @please-dont-pet-the-okapi @pomegranatepixie

5 Favourite Characters Poll (Tag Game)

I was tag by: @star-mum

Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

Thanks you so much for the tag

Tags <3: @meeks-beas @practically-an-x-man @outer-space-face @trashworldblog @mydearlybeloathed

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when you realize the sherlock holmes fandom has been alive for 137 years ??

that to equally batshit crazy as we were before

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Vote for BLUE!!! 💙

Alright... Poll time.

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I need help with a color scheme for a character I am creating, and I need help on the four main colors. The four top ones will be selected for the character. You can specify shade in the tags if you'd like!

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Yep. Just re-read CHAS for the third time a couple weeks ago, and yes, there was indeed a goatee when he was "courting" poor Agatha. XD Good stuff to know, that.

@gilgamushroom is a hundred million percent correct, and not exaggerating in any way. XD I absolutely love CHAS. Such a good story.

(Though...perhaps I'm faltering in my Sherlockian memory, but I thought the goatee was in "His Last Bow" when he had to be in disguise as the Irish-American Altamont [named after Arthur Conan Doyle's father, by the way—Charles Altamont Doyle]. Was he wearing a goatee in CHAS as well? o.O)

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

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@gilgamushroom is a hundred million percent correct, and not exaggerating in any way. XD I absolutely love CHAS. Such a good story.

(Though...perhaps I'm faltering in my Sherlockian memory, but I thought the goatee was in "His Last Bow" when he had to be in disguise as the Irish-American Altamont [named after Arthur Conan Doyle's father, by the way—Charles Altamont Doyle]. Was he wearing a goatee in CHAS as well? o.O)

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*waves very enthusiastically. I am VERY, VERY NORMAL about these movies. Nothing bordering on madness at all. :D*

UHHH—WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE BTTF MOVIE?! AND WHAT GOT YOU EXCITED ABOUT THESE WONDERFUL MOVIES? :D

Hi, yes new hyperfixation time, would anyone like to discuss back to the future

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*squeals at all of these*

I'm in such awe!

Middle-earth sketches by Olga Levine

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AHHH, this looks fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing this!

Hey y'all, I should've posted this before but if you're interested, the Rosenbach Museum and Library is doing Sherlock Mondays from today until the end of April, every Monday at 7pm EST, with a story per episode (going until The Empty House) except for novellas, which get two weeks. You can register for it at the previous link to receive all the information in emails. They describe it as a "verbal annotation" with a special Sherlockian guest each week, and the emails also include a cocktail recipe to go with each story. It streams on YouTube and will also be available a few days later as a podcast on all major podcast places. If you're interested I encourage y'all to check it out! It's totally free, but there will be extra paid episodes available afterwards.