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@begrudginglytumbling
Just because something is gathering dust while I enjoy a different fandom, doesn't mean I can't dust it off when the occasion calls for it.
You wanna poke the slumbering Interest?
Experience has taught me that you are about to have Regrets.
Now then, the dwarves, or dwarrow, come in family groups. You've got Thorin...
New in ABO but make it *insert non-wolf creature here*....Leopard Slugs!
(I get this is a weird one, but bear with me)
So, Leopard Slugs apparently signal their willingness to mate by producing a different scent/pheromones in their slime, then they climb high, swirl around each other, drop down suspended on a rope of slime, then entwine their male appendages, fanning them out while they mate.
Like this -
Now, from an Untamed/Cultivation view, what if having a golden core is what triggers secondary genders? Perhaps it's a biological way of ensuring offspring that can cultivate cores?
Anywho, what if instead of slime trails, it's the qi or sword glares that produce the scents/pheromones?
What if they do something similar to the Leopard Slugs? Not as a way to mate, but as a mating dance? A way to test compatibility of their energy?
They could fly up on their swords, then flip upside down before twirling around each other as they lower themselves, tethered to their swords by threads of their spiritual energy that's twisting together. At a certain point their descent will stop and spiritual energy will pool below their heads before swirling together.
The more even the mix of colours, the more compatible, the more equal and balanced the pair are.
The swirl could be like an upside down vortex, or it could form something like a appropriately symbolic flower or something.
I just think the visual effect could be stunning...also kinda funny with the long loose hair and floaty robes, but what if they're spinning quickly enough that those things aren't just dangling down, but swirling around them the same as the energy vortex below them?
(just look at that image of fucking slugs and imagine your favourite cultivator pair in their place, their spiritual energy entwined instead of slug cock and tell me that wouldn't be a visually appealing image)
Heard a cover of 'I Stand Alone' from Quest for Camelot that's got me thinking about a blind Wei Wuxian who manages to become a god of justice and the dead. A kind of non-Yunmeng Jiang Wei Wuxian who gets adopted by the Burial Mounds instead. And Lan Wangji gets chased in there by the Wen or something.
But while thinking this I also thought 'it'd be fun to watch that film again'.
And, I'm sorry, but what the hell do you mean that it came out in 1998?!
How is it nearly 30 years old?!?!?!?!?!
Time is horrifying.
While swearing at an ancestor who changed her name by Deed Poll, I've come to the realisation that trans folk are likely going to annoy the ever loving shit out of future family historians.
They're going to be the smug little ancestors that sit there in the tree, while the family historians point at them and go 'I don't care how far you run (they can't run, they've been dead at least several decades), I will hunt you down (trawl through a truly ungodly amount of records), and drag you back kicking and screaming (again, dead for several decades, so the screaming will be on the family historian's part and will be of the triumpant and elated kind as they lovingly add the information to their carefully organised files)'.
By living the best life they can, by just being themselves, trans folk are unwittingly creating enrichment research projects for future family historians.
It is a wonderful thing, but trans folk, I hope you are aware that your ghost will be lovingly sworn at.
I can envision it now.
A family historian, hunched over fragile paper documents, or squinting at a too bright computer screen. "Found you, you little fucker," they'll say, grinning as they greedily gather the snippets of your life they've already found - your birth, your name change, that little article about you in a newspaper, perhaps some fading photographs - and cap it off with your death certificate, proving you lived a full life where the only thing that could stop you was old age.
Just been stared at and given what felt like a very pointed sigh by the chihuahua because I had the audacity to ask him to catch the mouse that just ran across the floor (and over his paw).
Silly me, of course, requested this when it is clearly bedtime, and the chihuahua will be doing nothing that doesn't involve being tucked into bed.
He has one job right now, and that is sleeping.
To expect more is apparently so ridiculous as to border the absurd.
So he shall abandon his human to deal with the mouse in the bedroom that's already jumpscared her once, and has the potential to do so again.
It's still so funny to me that hobbit society has technology like pony-traps and handkerchiefs and post offices but the realms of Men and Elves, at least, are very much still in their version of the High Middle Ages. I would kill for a scene where Aragorn starts doing the whole Galavant thing - we shall meet when the night air grows as chill as the depths of Moria and the setting sun colours the sky that particular shade of blue as to recall to us the sinking of Numenor into the very Sea Itself - and Pippin just goes 'have none of you guys ever learned to use a freaking clock'.
Frodo offers to buy Gandalf a watch so he can actually be on time for once and nearly gets bodied into Bywater Pool.
Sam is nearly reduced to tears upon trying to learn Gondorian recipes because all the cooks in Minas Tirith are using that old medieval technique of recite five Paternosters and the fish will be perfectly fried. Please. They're called egg-timers. Every hobbit has one. He'll buy them one himself if they'll just let him cook like a normal person.
WAIT FUCK HANG ON
‘In the house of Elrond, and it is ten o’clock in the morning,’ said a voice. ‘It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’ I seriously doubt Elrond has a big old cuckoo clock hanging around Rivendell and messing up the aesthetics so wizards evidently do keep timepieces about their person. Does Gandalf have a Rolex?
Gandalf knows exactly what time it is and is late on purpose.
Re-reading your own fic is wild.
Okay, that's a really good sentence. Typo. Typo. Huh, did I write this? It's actually not bad. Typo. Hm, I would cut out that part now, but it kind of works. TYPO. Oh, this part is really good. That is the wrong word, wtf? I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would. ANOTHER TYPO? FFS.
The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers
it’s almost as if Tolkien knew what he was talking about
It’s almost as if Tolkien personally witnessed one of the bloodiest wars in human history and then used that to fuel his writing.
Roman aqueducts
Rabbits between the staves. Cambrai BM 125-128, c. 1540-50
How would you describe a dragon to someone who has never seen a dragon?
"Horse but make it a lizard and give it bat wings and horns"
didnt know how to interpret "make it a lizard" so i wrote lizard and drew an arrow pointing to the horse so people know its a lizard. Also didn't know what bat horns were so I gave it a horned bat nose
"A body like a big cat but completely covered in scales, the head of a crocodile with the horns of an ibex, and the wings of a bat on its back"
On it boss o7, ive mashed all these animals together and threw scales all over it. This the dragon you saw?
"Take a lizard, extend the neck. Add a pair of bat wings to the back. Add horns and sharp teeth."
Seems like we're onto somethin' boss! Though idk how it'd be so fearsome bein such a small thing.
"Big-ass lizard with wings" "big lizard" "Giant lizard" "Big fucking lizard"
don't seem too special?
"Imagine a winged alligator that was 70 feet tall and aware of its existence"
i dont know if this is a dragon but it could definitely be some kind of god
"Dinosaur with wings and horns?"
Dunno which dino you were talkin about so i just picked a random one. Stegosauus :}
"Big snake with legs and horns that can breathe fire"
Ah. Hm.
"A dragon is like a tree, in that it's a made up category for a broadly similar type of mythological creature that has no relationship to other dragons, but you know a dragon when you see one the way you know a tree when you see one."
I scrolled past this without second thought. Paused. Thought, wait, I've never seen a crane on the road. Scrolled back up. No answers. Typed this response, then noticed the book's author. What a whirlwind
Basically they bring it in piece by piece and assemble it on-site, using a smaller mobile crane (trucks with crane attachments) and once the crane itself is assembled, the top part can use hydraulics to climb up and down its own mast, so it builds itself taller like this
There is however no explanation for BJ Nomnom
You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned
