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@crafterreader
I'm ready-ish for Pennsic.
That is, I mostly know what I'm bringing and have some of it packed up.
Still trying to figure out what projects and activities to bring. Historically, I've brought too much and barely touched any of it, so I'm trying to be more reasonable and realistic this year.
i don’t know if anyones ever considered this (they probably have these books are older than me i’m reading my dad’s copies) but i’ve been wondering about galad being raised an aeil warrior bc tigraine went “i’ll leave my husband happily but my son is coming the fuck with me”.
because as far as we know, the only constraints were that she couldn’t tell anyone where she going and couldn’t return to andor, so if she just. never told galad where they were going and just took him with her. technically, it would be within the bounds of gitara’s fortelling.
galad as we know him would take to be being raised to follow ji’e’toh like a fish to water. one of the main things elayne has to say about him is that his honour and drive to do the right thing is almost always at the forefront of his mind, even at the expense of himself and others. it would genuinely be perfect for him. he may not have the look of the aiel but he would certainly have the conviction of one.
plus, being able to see him and rand develop a real brotherly relationship while they are both with the aiel would make his fight against demandred in tarmon gai’don — He is not here, but his brother is! — even more compelling. the siblings he didn’t grow up with need him, and he will be loyal to them to the end because not only is that how he was raised but, aeil or damodred or trakand, that is simply who he is.
furthermore a galad who didn’t have to suffer through taringail for longer than he absolutely had to would probably have a healthier childhood. janduin would have been able to have a pseudo/second?-son he would have adored. (though i doubt tigraine would have been able to directly raise galad after becoming a maiden, she would have still been in his life. he wasn’t born when she was a maiden so there would probably be some arguing but a compromise could be made i think)
post-rhuidean reveal galad would have jumped at the idea of a free first-brother and two free second-siblings. and maybe a even near-brother in mat, who would be a little freaked out but honestly has bigger problems at the minute so kind of just goes with it. galad and aviendha would have been bickering about the best ways to teach rand about aiel culture and poor rand would just be stuck in the middle of it. galad having a little sulk about the winespring brother’s shelter and not being able to go be with his baby first-brother.
i think i quite possibly need to write this now.
This is an awesome idea and I really want to read it.
... and then I made a comic about it! 👍
Ways to replace John Barnaby if Neil Dudgeon ever decides to leave Midsomer Murders:
Third heretofore unseen Barnaby cousin
Troy's back and he's gay now
Guest detective every week
Denmark conquers Britain and Birgitte Poulsen takes over
Jones is back but so many years of undercover work have changed him and it turns into a Sad Detective Show
Robocop Joyce Barnaby
My idea is: one of the previous sergeants comes back as the new DCI, Winter stays as the sergeant for at least one season, and the team gets assigned a permanent constable/junior sergeant.
The constable is only referred to by his last name or title until the very last scene of his first episode, when the team runs into Tom Barnaby. Whereupon the new guy greets him with an enthusiastic "Uncle Tom!" And his full name is revealed: Thomas Barnaby Smith, the youngest child of Tom's baby sister.
Have you seen Never Let Me Go (2010)
Yes
No
Haven’t even heard of this movie
I have read the book, though.
LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST
you people aren't CASTING
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Then bring me luck
the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work
Hey Potato, cure my -ing cold so I can have a good time while away.
Here's the potato. Make what use of it you will. :)
Certainly can't hurt...
Tarvek in a "bathe her and bring her to me" scenario but he starts criticizing the people who are dressing him up in the harem concubine outfit and when he's finally delivered he's raided their entire stash of costume jewelry
Hapless kidnappers: "Anyone else want to kidnap this guy now? Anyone? ANYONE?!"
This Web site is dedicated to the wonderful world of the short story and to all who enjoy reading shorts stories as I do. I will try to add
I can absolutely picture Tarvek in a "Ransom of Red Chief" situation. Gil too, although their methods of driving their kidnappers batty would differ.
fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.
"I want my media to be historically accurate"
Cool, so you want natural fiber costumes with no/nuanced corset slander, people wearing colors, historical hairstyles, people wearing hats or headcoverings and long sleeves outside during the day, no potatoes or pumpkins in pre-columbian Europe, actors with textured skin and wrinkles, minimal makeup, consulting HEMA groups and weapons scholars for all the weapons and fight scenes, a good soundtrack that includes traditional instruments?
Oh, you mean you want 100% white people. Even in crowd scenes in port cities. There's a different word for that.
Have you read There's No Such Thing as a Dragon by Jack Kent (1976)?
yes
no
I've never heard of it
They did my request!
This was one of my (and my brothers') favorites as a kid, and my kid loved it when they were picture book age.
I can't recommend it strongly enough. 😄
Ugh.
I'm doing a decent job keeping myself hydrated in this awful heat, but I think 40+ oz of water in less than 10 minutes might have been too much too fast.
*feels vaguely ill*
I'll be at Pennsic this year! First time since COVID!
Pale Blue Afternoon Dress
c. 1867
Silk taffeta and silk faille
Label: Worth & Bobergh / 7. Rue de la Paix 7 Paris
Albany Institute of History & Art
I work just a few blocks from this museum. I should stop by and see if this dress is currently on display...
"There must always be a Barnaby in Causton"
That phrase popped into my head today, and I feel like somebody could use it as a jumping off point for something fun.
Commonly Confused Words (2)
disassemble vs. dissemble disassemble means to take something apart: “We disassembled the cabinet together.” dissemble means to hide one’s beliefs or feelings: “She knew she had to dissemble her feelings to avoid a lecture.”
imply vs. infer imply means to hint at something: “He implied he was having an affair.” infer means to make an aducated guess and acts as the opposite to imply: “She inferred that he had been disloyal.”
disinterested vs. uninterested disinterested means being unbiased about something: “I asked an impartial third-party to get a disinterested take.” uninterested means being indifferent and having no interest at all: “I tried to show him, but he was uninterested.”
empathy vs. sympathy empathy describes feeling what someone else feels: “His natural empathy meant that he was always feeling bad for someone.” sympathy is a feeling of compassion or feeling bad for someone: “She showed no sympathy for her victims.”
grisly vs. grizzly grisly means something disgusting, horrible, or repulsive: “The killer left a grisly sight behind.” grizzly is a large species of brown bears: “No, you cannot cuddle the grizzly!”
Part 1
So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).
Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.
So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.
You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.
And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.
It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.
Reblogging to drag this project over here, this is killing my notes on main so I'm giving it its own URL. Follow over here for updates on the star system generator and only the star system generator, and not on my Star Wars bullshit.
Will go through and tag interested parties when things calm down below 100 notes an hour.
I have zero use for this, but think it's amazingly cool that it exists (or will exist, when they're done making it).
