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@bikedancelaugheat
Really?! With Seth and Amy’s response to Andy Benoit over this tweet
sammy keyes stopped a murderer using only duct tape, a brick, and some hot water
don't forget the ez-crete
One of my favorite quotes because you can just feel the sass
Are you ready for our dance?
Ok, I made the thing.
It’s on zazzle, so you can change the shirt color if you so desire (someone mentioned the color thing, so there, I fixed it). There’s just the design on the front because I wanted to make this shirt cheap and it would cost more to have a design on the back as well.
And P.S.- if you use the code “SUPERWEEKEND” today, you’ll get $5 off.
Sometimes the best part about Standard is letting your hair fly everywhere!
(Gala 2015: Roses are Red)
Happy Monday! Don’t forget to dance :)
(source: GIFY)
so holly and cricket bond at an animal shelter when they're in highschool. they gradually fall in love while caring for animals and cricket eventually convinces her to go to the condor's habitat. I'm not sure how it happens, but once they're together casey gets the bright idea to nominate them for homecoming queens. they both strongly object to the idea but of course they win. sammy almost misses it because she was busy explaining to the police why she had tasered a prominent estate lawyer.
This has been in my inbox for actual years because I wanted to add something, but all I’ve got is
falling in love while caring for animals yes :)
as long as prom queens is something they’d appreciate, Casey (it’s not cool or fun to force people into public positions they don’t want)
asdgkjglasusdfskjdf Sammy
Linear B Cookies
Since I had signed up (in a moment of temporary insanity, of course) to bring something sweet to this Tuesday’s Philological Lunch (i.e. that thing that happens before the Comparative Philology seminar and involves free food), I decided to let myself get inspired by @mostlydeadlanguages’s classic post about Cuneiform Cookies – only, since there are no Assyriologists in the seminar, with a Greek twist. So, I made Linear B cookies.
Since I don’t actually know Linear B, I copied out actual tablets from Knossos (Sir Arthur Evans never expected his book to be used like this, I suspect). I am kind of pleased by the results, if I say so myself – especially since I’m more than slightly culinarily challenged. Here they are, in a box ready for conservation:
Turns out that Linear B is a lot easier to write than cuneiform: the only thing you need is a knife and a fair bit of patience, especially for the more complex signs. As you can see, the writing holds very well after cooking.
I followed the recipe linked in the post above, and I can only speak well of it: the results are delicious. I used raw cane sugar, black treacle and golden syrup rather than dark molasses and corn syrup (I’m in the UK and I had to roll with what I could find); since cane sugar already contains molasses, and golden syrup is a lot thicker than its counterpart, I reduced the dose for both by a fair bit (1 tbsp each, a bit more for the syrup). The result is slightly less sweet, with a treacly aftertaste that I personally love, but of course YMMV.
Now to what went wrong: for the love of Athena, if you ever try to make these yourself, don’t overwork the dough. It’s easy to fall into that trap, but remember that you’ll be playing with it for a while longer when you’re shaping the tablets, and this kind of dough really suffers from it. I made that mistake, and now the result is about as hard as actual clay, especially around the edges. Still, there will be coffee at the seminar, so hopefully they will go well with that…
@publius-maro: #did you consider#calling them#linear b-scuits ???
…no, but rest assured I am now.
Fantasy world in which Dwarves are not motivated by greed or love of gold, only by a profound scientific enthusiasm for geology.
I’d love to see this implemented, especially as TTRPG start becoming more self-aware of their racist / sexist foundations and start working to better themselves.
The legendary Dwarven treasure is not a horde of gold and gemstones, but a paleontology museum with a vast collection of rare and exquisite fossils. Dwarven universities specialize in the natural sciences, Dwarven economies based on the trade of interesting rocks and minerals, Dwarf detectives able to identify different muds and soils on sight.
“You said there were precious stones in here.”
“… yes? These stones hold pieces of ancient life in them; what could possibly be more precious?”
Multiamory March Prompts & Resources, part 2
[part 1, including "What is Multiamory March?" and "What is polyamory?"]
A couple of Polyam-Normative AUs:
Triad Verse
Triad Verse is a fandom AU in which the relationship norm in most human cultures is the triad (the equilateral triangle of polyam relationships), rather than the couple. Couples are seen as “incomplete” and in many places are unable to get married without a third partner.
More here.
The past two years, @triadverse has hosted a Triad Verse Week in March to encourage fen to think about a triad verse of their own fandoms, and to spread the word that this AU is a thing! Here are the posts for Triad Verse Week 2017 and Triad Verse Week 2016.
There is a tag and a collection on AO3, but nothing on the Fanlore page yet. :D?
Sedoretu
Explanation by januar:
In the society that has sedoretu, there are moeities. You are either a Morning or an Evening. Your moeity is that of your mother. You only have sex with someone of the opposite moeity. A sedoretu is (usually) a marriage between four people, a man and a woman of the Morning and a man and a women of the Evening. Within that marriage the two men can have sex together, the two women can have sex together, and each woman can have sex with the man of the opposite moeity. Got it? Good.
Further explanation by melannen:
This is complicated enough, especially since nobody is getting married until there is a complete foursome together, but Le Guin managed to queer it up even in canon: apparently, while it is not common, it is not entirely unknown for a sedoretu to have three men or three women in it, or for people to be genderqueer within the sedoretu. As long as the morning/evening ratios are right, and nobody's sleeping with anybody from their own moiety, the neighbors are generally willing to look the other way; moiety is more important than gender.
For more information, see Fanlore and the rest of melannen's post.
There is a tag and a collection on AO3. The Morning Evening Day Night collection hosted the first Sedoretu Fic Fest in June-September 2017.
Prompts!
Last year solrosan made a prompt list specifically for Multiamory March
plateauofmemories has a prompt thing for Multiamory March 2018
The 2017 Sedoretu Fic Fest had 180 prompts and only 7 fics
Polyshipping Day (that's a thing, btw, first of every month!) has a prompts tag
I’m a nerd, and was delighted to discover another term for the V relationship: H2O polycule
i just infodumped how the middle ages were post apocalyptic because the romans and the greeks were the center stage for learning and money in those ages and when it fell people didn’t know what to do so they gathered in small groups, built a fort, and worked on the land around the fort to feed themselves
and this is like a textbook definition of post apocalyptic books (not including the zombies and such but there were other things such as plagues and barbaric invaders from the north to deal with which is like the same thing)
and the Renaissance period was when they were digging up the old knowledge of the Greeks and Romans and applying it to new technology and art and laws and it was great
and you tend to see this cycle in history sometimes, just not on such a grand scale like the Middle Ages
what i’m implying is that the middle ages are those post apocalyptic YA books and i need book of a middle aged peasant girl who discovers the knowledge of the fallen romans and uses it to her advantage to defeat a tyrant king
so this is that agent carter- legally blonde au u never knew u needed
so my bf and I came across this free chair sitting on the side of the road…
@fourteenacross you know EXACTLY why i’m tagging you in this.
Predictably, this got away from me.
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Alex is reading a stack of letters from early 50s, background research for a possible disturbance they’re investigating in the evening, when his phone begins to buzz its way across the lab table. It catches his attention for two reasons: first, because it’s the only noise in the room save for the hum of the computers and the quiet rustle of pages as he and Burr shift through documents. Second, because there’s really only one person who ever calls Alex and that person is now going on thirty minutes late.
“Hey,” Alex says, tucking his phone between his ear and shoulder and refocusing his attention on the letter in front of him.
“Hey, baby,” John says. And that brings Alex’s attention right back to the phone call.
“What do you want?” he asks.
“Why do you think I want anything?” John asks. “I don’t want anything. Why would I want anything?”
“Because I can’t remember the last time you started a phone call with anything other than ‘hey, asshole.’”
“I’m being affectionate!” John insists. “I’m, you know, tapping into my endless love for–yeah, okay, I need you to come out and help me bring something inside. Is Lafayette there?”
Alex rolls his eyes and is absently glad that John isn’t around to see how much he’s smiling at the whole exchange. “Nope.” He pops the ‘p’ just a little and copies a key phrase from the letter into his notebook. “Just me and Burr.”
“Great,” John says. “Bring Burr too. I’m out in the parking lot.” And then he hangs up.
In seven months, Alex can’t think of a single time John as used the word ‘great’ to describe anything that has to do with Aaron Burr. This is probably going to be interesting, if nothing else.
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okay but
How does Remus not know who the Secret-Keeper is? Wouldn't he notice which of his friends was the first to mention Such-and-Such Address, Godric's Hollow, in the same sentence as James and Lily? Especially if it was not the friend he expected to be saying it?
If Remus read it off a piece of paper, wouldn't he recognize Peter's handwriting? Or at least that there was something off about Sirius's?
Peter could Polyjuice into Sirius for the encounter, but he couldn't possibly know all of Sirius's Moony-specific mannerisms. Of course, Remus could attribute out-of-character behavior/gaps in knowledge/anti-gaps in knowledge to wartime stress, being in a hurry, or the fact that they've been fighting, but don't try to tell me that Sirius and Peter stumble out of the Floo exactly the same way.
If Peter (Polyjuiced as Sirius) and Sirius (Polyjuiced as Peter) visited Remus together--really, could shenanigans fail to ensue?
And Peter and Sirius would have to repeat this charade for everyone who was told of Lily and James's whereabouts--possibly including teachers who had just spent seven years grading their essays and supervising their detentions.
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If you don't want to use this to jump off into a happier AU, there should at least be a story of Peter using his forgery skills for good, is all I'm saying.
Cartinelli fic fest coming up! Details will be posted on my blog in the near future. Spread the word!
