These pages of Daniel's diary from Fire and Water are cracking me up. It's almost all just an infodump about ancient board games with randomly inserted sentences about his life. Ik it's just placeholder writing for a three second prop, but it's so funny to imagine this is actually how he writes.
Like:
"...three lapis lazuli, which suggest that they formed two sets, probably one for each player.
Sha’re is gone. Jack says we’ll find her. If anyone can, he can.
The game has become known as the Royal Game of Ur and it appears to be one of the original ancestors of..."
Daniel. Daniel Jackson. Your wife got kidnapped. What are you doing?
And another interesting thing about it: one of the sentences Sam reads out is written differently in the diary. In the episode, she reads out, "Colonel O'Neill thinks I'm a geek."
However, in the diary, Daniel seemingly wrote, "Colonel O'Neill despises me." Which feels so much more self-deprecating and personal to me than the 'geek' line.
I just think its neat
Page transcripts below the cut:
Served the same purpose… ladders in the modern game of snakes and ladders a man reaching point 6, for example, can move immediately to point 20.
As in the case with so many ancient games none of the rules or methods of play have survived. With the help of exciting evidence, however, we have reconstructed what is probably a close approximation to the original game [illegible]... played so many centuries ago.
Colonel O’Neill despises me. I have no idea how to get us back. I’ll never get paid.
The greatest hoard of ancient art ever found in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq and eastern Syria) was discovered in the mid-1920s by an expedition led by Sir Leonard Woolley, in which both the British Museum… of …
Exciting find, for they proved to be more than 4,500 years old, making them by far the oldest gaming boards ever discovered. The game seems to have been extremely popular among the Sumerian ruling classes and it was customary to place boards in the tombs of dead persons to help them pass the time pleasantly during the journey to the next world.
Some of the boards are richly decorated; one of them is covered with an incrustation of shell plaques [inlaid] with lapis lazuli and red [lime]stone. In other examples… plaques have engravings of [animals]. Two sets of seven counters were found with the boards. One… of these counters was white with…
Found, three of the... and three lapis lazuli, which suggest that they formed two sets, probably one for each player.
Sha’re is gone. Jack says we’ll find her. If anyone can, he can.
The game has become known as the Royal Game of Ur and it appears to be one of the original ancestors of the backgammon group of race games, preceding the Egyptian game of senat by perhaps two or three hundred years. It is yet another example of a game for which no written rules have survived. Luckily, however, it is possible to reconstruct possible methods of play from the boards and other available evidence. The version offered here is based on two earlier versions– one offered by [Dom Siasimo] in his excellent… I do in my spare time… is mentioned in…
Summary:
In an attempt to escape another quarrel with the Tannens, Marty accidentally runs instead into Hill Valley's notorious, feared mad scientist.
Series: Part 2 of Tannen Valley (1986F)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Back to the Future: The Game, Back to the Future (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Emmett "Doc" Brown & Marty McFly
Characters: Marty McFly, Tiffany "Tiff" Tannen, Riff Tannen, Emmett "Doc" Brown, Einstein the Dog (Back to the Future)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Injury, First Meetings, Alternate Timelines, Science
Another fic following the 1986F timeline, taking place before my fic Falling Doesn't Feel So Bad! Apologies for it taking so long.
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no such thing as wasting your 20s your 20s are for recovering from whatever the fuck happened to you as a kid so that youre ready to get weird with it in your 30s
This is the legality that always gets me: A deceased person cannot be forced to use their organs to save someone's life. It's sacred body autonomy. The federal government now says a woman must use her organs to support potential life. Women have fewer rights than dead bodies.
I am selling prints of this piece in my Etsy Store (Link in Bio) and all profits will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds in the USA to help provide health care to women negatively affected by this ruling.
This painting is a bit of a departure for me from my usual portrait art, but serves as a small attempt to channel my fury over Friday’s Supreme Court decision.
It seems women still have so much work to do to be equal citizens 💔
Painted in digital gouache and gold leaf on Procreate. The nouveau style of this piece was inspired by my art hero Margaret MacDonald.
As always on Tumblr, click on the images for better quality.
Artists note: I fully support Trans rights and am deeply uncomfortable with my art being used to support or promote any form of Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism.
