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Welcome to my blog!!!
Heyyy everyone I just wanted a spot to put all my Tom Cullen and Alain Johns kinning stuff so it's all here now. I also kin Harold Lauder and Eddie Dean.
**This is a roleplay account, yes, and a fandom account too; but this is mainly for my fictkinning of Alain, Tom, and Harold. Enjoy.**
Uhhh... my main is @aristotle97 and my other kinning accounts are @vice-captain-s-hoshina, @ka-is-bullshit,
@i-am-axolotl-21 and @steve-saga-is-my-life
I just had to collect all of these responses together in one place
Edit: And one from my friend, who doesn't have a tumblr (yet)
#i keep waiting for someone to address the '18th century looms were huge' claim#like sure some were#but the fact that textile mills had been invented doesn't mean that all home weaving ceased#indeed people still weave for fun or profit in this the 21st century#smaller looms were still being built and used in the 18th century just as smaller looms are still being built and used today#and that's without considering the existence of inkle/tape/band looms which were/are used for making narrower woven ribbons for trimming etc#small 18th century looms absolutely exist
there are thousands of notes and a few people ABSOLUTELY addressed this xD
I wanna add mine! But it still has some assembling to do before I can move on to the next step
...Okay this place *is* better than Reddit.
My wife did a lot of hand crafts while we were dating. After we got engaged, my father piped up that at least she didn't have a spinning wheel. We put it in the doorway the first time my parents came to visit.
Her loom is packed away at the moment so she can work on an uncountable number of knitting projects and metalwork at the moment.
Mutuals, donât forget that AO3 will be down for most of tomorrow. I can understand why a fic writer may not want to post any new fic today, and may wait until Wednesday to post new writing.
Luckily, there is an easy fix to hold us over-
To avoid your work getting lost, you should send all fic finished during the AO3 down hours directly to me.
I need tiktokers to understand that ao3 has been home for the freaks (affectionate) ever since the day it was created. the entire site was created because âdark and fucked up ficsâ were banned and removed from other platforms, so us freaks came together and created a site for other freaks â a site where nothing is censored, a site with no algorithm, no capitalism, no ads, and again, absolutely no censorship.
this has been our house for decades. you newbies donât come into our house and tell us how to arrange our furniture. either be nice and respect our house, or leave and build your own house elsewhere.
i think more characters should have canes actually. theyre cool. theyre sexy. they can have swords in them. they come in any color u want.
hi im stepping in as ur local cane user and i just wanna quickly add this about cane swords: if someone is putting weight onto their cane, they almost definitely arenât using a cane sword (some exceptions may be possible). this is because the usual cane sword is made hollow with a relatively flimsy exterior metal as to not scrape against the interior sword, and thus the handle is typically the only solid part.
trust meâiâve been on the lookout for a sturdy cane sword for years that would be practical for use and everytime i could feel it struggling under pressure.
it makes it relatively unreliable as a cane for the majority of people who use canesâŠ. however! there is a neat alternative!
you can instead opt for a trusty knife hidden in the top of the cane, therefore making the rest of the cane sturdier to use, and, additionally, less likely to be checked when passing security. another fantastic cane that a friend of mine has actually unscrews the handle to reveal a tiny compartment that fits a small bottle. she mentioned itâs an antique, so we theorized that it was for cocaine back in the day, but it could fit other things (cyanide, maybe for a disabled spy character?)
also, as someone who also is trained in sword-based self defense: i find that i can relatively translate most basic strikes using my cane, if needed. just something to useâŠ.
what iâm getting at is there are lots of ways to expand upon epic cane usages.
Kid today (probably like 6 years) came up to me and was like "teacher teacher what's your name" and i was like "asha :) also im not a teacher" and he was like "okay asha asha asha I need help" and i was like "okay buddy what's wrong" and he showed me this chunk of metal he'd found sitting in the sun that he was just carrying around and it was super sharp and super hot from the sun and he was like "my hand hurts :(" and i was like "ok. put that down. does it still hurt?" And he did and was like "no." and then he picked it up again and immediately went "my hand hurts :(" again and then I was like "kid. put that down and stop touching it" and he was like "ok but when I touch it my hand hurts :(" and i was like "Please Just Stop Touching That. If you dont touch it your hand won't hurt" and this went on for like another 2 minutes before i got him to realize that if he stopped touching the metal it would not hurt. Kids are so fucking weird man
Comments that make me realize this kid is probably what I sounded like to my therapist when complaining about the consequences of all my bad habits
NEW FISH JUST DROPPED
I KNOW that playing God is morally wrong, but holy HELL, it looks fun.
Why is it playing God? We arenât violating any natural laws. God set the parameters of the universe to allow these things. Thereâs nothing wrong with it, thereâs no hubris in learning more about how to manipulate the universe around us.
We made a whole-ass fish.
The reason this was accidental BTW is because they used paddlefish eggs as a negative control group for a breeding experiment on sturgeons because the scientists, quite naturally, assumed that they were SO unrelated it would be genetically impossible for them to mate. Like. I cannot stress enough to you how these creatures last related ancestors were
140 MILLION YEARS BACK.
If you don't know how far that is, that's basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?
This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.
This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.
And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.
Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn't think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.
THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.
THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE
It sort of goes against the rules of genetics a bit.
Oh i forgot to add
THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.
To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn't produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren't plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.
BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.
the scientists literally had to do the tests AGAIN just to be like "okay this is real right. This is actually like, not a fluke, this works right" and it worked again. They just Can!
So for those who don't know what the original fishes look like, this is an American Paddlefish:
And this is a Russian Sturgeon:
So honestly, saying the hybrid is "weird looking" is a bit fort de café when you see its parents. I think the sturddlefish looks cute.
"these creatures last related ancestors were 140 million years back"
(glances at fish)
Yeah that's exactly what I thought you'd look like, you Mesozoic fuck
So, ok, I have curiosity.
Does the hybrid resemble the common ancestor? If we don't know for a fact, what are the chances?
What are the relative sizes of the parent fish? How does the development of their eggs compare? How many chromosomes does each species have?
How much difference does it make to hybridisation whether the hybrid develops in a soft egg, hard shelled egg or uterus?
A squirrel surely couldn't gestate (if that's a verb) a whale sized embryo even if genetically compatible. Could a whale carry a squirrel sized one?
and also does this mean that we need a whole new branch of genetics to account for what wildly unrelated species can be hybridized? Are we sure we *can't* hybridize a human and a porcupine? Has anyone ever tried?
as an archivist I am begging you
put dates on everything
donât believe digital stuff is preserved forever - if itâs really important (documents, photos, etc) print it out
name your files accurately I know it sucks but please
donât destroy the original just bc you scanned it
rubber cement is the devilâs adhesive use photo corners and quit gluing shit
you will NOT remember write it down
if you staple things to the inside of a folder I will find you
your public library probably has equipment to digitize old media for free or can at least get you connected with somewhere that does!
hey did you know that if you go donate blood but you donât manage to give enough to be donated, they still use the blood?
apparently they send it off to med students. and forensic students.
so donât feel bad if you passed out three minutes in because you might have helped make an epic blood splatter that twelve dorky kids are hunched over staring at
Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.
It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.
One day I will end this ring light fad. It is my ultimate side quest.
It seems my lighting advice has given people a mistaken impression...
These outtakes where the flash didn't go off are also AI generated.
I like this spooky dutch angle one.
I was just starting to learn flash and I didn't have all the equipment I needed. Since corgis are quite short, I had to put the lighting on the ground. The off camera flash was on a tipped over lightstand with a shoot-through umbrella to diffuse the light.
But I had no wireless triggers. And the only other way to trigger a flash, is with another flash. So I used the on-camera pop up flash to trigger the main flash.
But I had two issues.
First, I did not want that dinky on camera flash affecting my picture.
Second, triggering a flash with a flash is best done indoors. The flash will bounce all around the room and eventually hit the sensor so the main flash triggers. When you are outdoors, there is no bouncing.
SO... I took a little handheld makeup mirror and angled it toward my main flash. This blocked the dinky pop up flash and sent the beam of light towards the main flash to trigger it.
I was lying on the wet morning grass, holding a camera in one hand, a mirror in the other, trying to aim the mirror exactly toward the main flash, making crazy noises to get Otis's attention, and trying to get the focus point on his face so I didn't get a blurry photo. Also, Otis was much more interested in sniffing things than posing for a photo.
Here is an overhead view that might help explain.
I await all of your comments saying my amazing drawring is clearly AI generated.
Only 30% of the time did the flash actually go off. Aiming the mirror was tricky and I was doing like 8 things at once. I wasn't even sure I got the photo I wanted. But when I came back to the computer there was one that stood out and it is one of my favorites I've ever taken.
It was the best combination of monumental effort, great discomfort, perfect foggy sunrise light, and just pure luck.
Unfortunately, people like me who use advanced sculpting light techniques are getting accused of using AI more and more. Not really sure what to do about itâother than show the 30 awful photos it took to get the good one.
My 80s sunglasses photo and spoon photo get called out the most.
But it's just good old fashioned gradient lighting which has been used in product photography since the days of film.
So, no need to be suspicious.
@ironic-dysgraphia
Most of my photos with artificial light added would be considered "unmotivated lighting." I think that is the term you were looking for.
The short explanation is that motivated lighting always has a logical source. Like the sun or a window or a lamp off to the side.
That doesn't mean there are no lighting shenanigans used.
The overhead office-style fluorescent lights depicted in this scene were actually powerful diffused light bars that were much closer to the actors. They replaced the ceiling in post with more traiditioinal looking lights. So the lighting was still very craftedâbut it has a logic and realism that doesn't set off alarm bells in your brain saying, "Where is the light coming from?"
Unmotivated lighting is the opposite. It's crafted, artificial light that doesn't need to make sense. It just has to achieve the aesthetic goal of the artist.
All studio lighting is unmotivated. I just re-edited this old photo of my dad.
There is no room in the world where he could have sat down and had perfectly sculpted light hitting his face. I intentionally directed the light to accentuate his features and capture the best, most idealized version of what he looked like.
Coincidentally I just wrote a post about motivated lighting in films.
đŹ 20  đ 208  â€ïž 349 · First, thank you to everyone who is nerding out with me about motivated lighting. I love that I can have these convers
Weirdly, I expressed a preference for motivated lighting in movies with a realism-based aesthetic and a lot of people disagreed. They said that the lighting comes from the same place as the music and that you just have to suspend your disbelief.
(Personally I think that is a bad analogy because music is *very* motivated by the emotional vibe. I would say unmotivated lighting in movies comes from the same place as women's apocalypse makeup.)
But I *love* unmotivated lighting in still photography. I love crafting an image and creating it in a fantasy realm where perfect, beautiful, sculpting light can come from anywhere. I want the most idyllic lighting possible.
It's the only way I could make fingernail clippers look beautiful.
And now people are saying unmotivated lighting looks like AI or CGI and isn't authentic. Even though this aesthetic was created before computers were invented and the tools of post-capture manipulation were done in a darkroom.
I'm fairly certain this is because AI does not have a great understanding of motivated lighting. It never thinks about where the light is coming from so it almost always creates images where the lighting comes from a fantasy realm. And now people are heavily associating unmotivated lighting with AI, even if it is a subconscious observation.
I think at this point in time, people are yearning for authenticity. We know so much of our imagery is heavily manipulated for nefarious purposes. Beauty advertising with retouched skin like porcelain dolls and liquified torsos that don't leave space for vital organs. Every fast food ad shows the perfect juicy hamburger because they paid a food stylist $500/hour to perfectly cook and arrange things.
But fast food workers are not food stylists and your burger isn't going to have perfect lettuce and a non-smooshed bun.
(Before you reply with urban legends about food styling, they don't use fake materials. They are required to use the actual ingredients. Those myths came from movie prop masters who needed to maintain the look of food during hours of shooting.)
I think AI just turned our uncomfortable relationship with unrealistic imagery up to 11.
It's a little depressing for me because I love to use light as my artistic medium. I say I am a photographer, but my passion is more focused on lighting.
And I often incorporate my other passion, which is image manipulation. I sometimes add another layer of unreality to my images by artistically editing them.
This is days of work.
I worked very hard for the in-camera image. Dragging a heavy chair and lighting equipment into a field on a hot summer day was not easy for me.
But I also worked very hard on the edit. The RAW file is overexposed, but once I corrected that, the lighting on him and the grass is actually what I captured. I hid a flash in the lampshade and lit him with my big 7 foot umbrella off to the right.
I could have shot this at night, but my area has so much light pollution, I would never have achieved the sky I wanted in my head. So I took the photo knowing I'd replace the sky later.
I like crafting images. I like picturing something in my head and then trying to manifest it in a photo.
I get why people are starting to prefer more natural looking images. I understand why they are currently preferring everything to be captured as it was in the moment. I know why they disparage the amazing work of CG artists and demand that every movie use only practical effects.
When everything is fake, a small dose of reality feels special.
But I see my photography more like a drawing or a painting. Light is my paintbrush and I am just trying to manifest my imagination into an image. I don't claim I don't use artificial light. I never say anything is "straight out of camera." I am very open about my use of Photoshop. If I were able to leave my house and go to more beautiful places, perhaps I would take a more motivated approach.
I mean, I love when the world is just beautiful all on its own and all I have to do is competently pick settings on my camera.
But I enjoy my artistic process and while some of my images may not be realistic, I think my artistry is always authentic.
I don't need every person to like every one of my photos. But when I work hard on a photo and there is clear talent and skill involved, I'm hoping people will still acknowledge that. I hope they will respect the effort and artistry involved.
I didn't enjoy the show Breaking Bad. I disliked all of the characters and the story just depressed me more and more as I watched it. But I still think it is an amazing show created by talented artists. I can acknowledge the monumental artistic achievement even if it wasn't my cup of tea.
That's all I'm asking.
the thing you need to realize about localization is that japanese and english are such vastly different languages that a straight translation is always going to be worse than the original script. nuance is going to be lost and, if you give a shit about your job, you should fill the gaps left with equivalent nuance in english. take ff6, my personal favorite localization of all time: in the original japanese cefca was memorable primarily for his manic, childish speaking style - but since english speaking styles arent nearly as expressive, woolsey adapted that by making the localized english kefka much more prone to making outright jokes. cefca/kefka is beloved in both regions as a result - hell, hes even more popular here
yes this
a literal translation is an inaccurate translation.
localizationâs job is to create a meaningful experience for a different audience which has a different language and different culture. they translate ideas and concepts, not words and sentences. often this means choosing new ideas that will be more meaningful and contribute to the experience more for a different audience.
There was an example during late Tokugawa period in Japan where the translator translated, "ĐŻ Đ»ŃĐ±Đ»Ń ĐĐ°Ńâ (I love you), to âI could die for you,â while translating ĐŃŃ, ( Asya) a novel by Ivan Turgenev. This was because a woman saying, âI love you,â to a man was considered a very hard thing to do in Japanese society.
In a more well-known example, Natsume Soseki, a great writer who wrote, I am a Cat, had his students translate âI love you,â to âthe moon is beautiful [because of] having you beside tonight,â because Japanese men would not say such strong emotions right away. He said that it would be weird and Japanese men would have more elegance.
Both of these are great examples of localization that wasnât a straight up translation and both of these are valid. I feel like a lot of people forget the nuances in language and culture and how damn hard a translatorâs job is and how knowledgeable the person has to be about both cultures. [x]
Important stuff about translation!
Note that you can apply this to your own translations even if they arenât big pieces of literature or something. Donât feel bad about not translating word for word. An everyday sentence may sound odd translated literally - itâs okay to edit a little bit so it feels right!
Oh my god, Iâm about to go on a ramble, Iâm sorry, I canât help it, the inner translation nerd is coming out. Iâm so sorry. The thing isâthere is actually no such thing as an accurate translation.  Itâs literally an impossible endeavor. Word for word doesnât cut it. Sense for sense doesnât cut it, because then youâre potentially missing cool stuff like context and nuance and rhyme and humor. Even localization doesnât really cut it, because that means youâre prioritizing the audience over the author, and youâre missing out on the original context, and the possibility of bringing something new and exciting to your host language. Foreignization, which aims to replicate the rhythms of the original language, or to use terminology that will be unfamiliar to the target cultureâ(for example: the first few American-published Harry Potter books domesticated the English, and traded âtrousersâ for âpantsâ, and âMomâ for âMumâ. Later on they stopped, and let the American children view such foreignizing words as âsnogâ and âporridge.â)âalso doesnât cut it, because you risk alienating the target readers, or obscuring meaning. Another cool example is Dante, and the words written above the gates of hell: Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. In the original Italian, thatâs Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. Speranza, like most nouns in latinate languages, has a gender: la. Hope, in Italian, is gendered female. Abandon hope, who is female. Abandon hope, who is a woman. When the original Dante enters hell, searching for Beatrice, he is doomed, subtly, from the start. Thatâs beautiful, subtle, the kind of delicate poetic move literature nerds gorge themselves on, and you canât keep it in English. Literally, how do you preserve it? We donât have a gendered hope. It doesnât work, canât work. So how do you compensate? Can you sneak in a reference to Beatrice in a different line? Or do you chalk her up as a loss and move onto the next problem? Youâre always going to miss somethingâthe cool part is that, knowing youâre going to fail, you get to decide how to fail. Ortega y Gasset called this The Misery and Splendor of Translation. Basically, translation is impossibleâso why not make it a beautiful failure? My point is that literary translation is creative writing, full of as many creative decisions as any original poem or short story. It has more limitations, rules, and structures to consider, for sureâbut sometimes the best artistic decision is going to be the one that breaks the rules. My favorite breakdown of this is Le Ton Beau De Marot, a beautiful brick of a translatorâs joke, in which the author tries over and over again to create a âperfectâ translation of âA une Damoyselle Maladeâ, an itsy bitsy poem Clement Marot dashed off to his patronâs daughter, who was sick, in 1537. This is the poem: Ma mignonne, Je vous donne Le bon jour; Le sĂ©jour Câest prison. GuĂ©rison Recouvrez, Puis ouvrez Votre porte Et quâon sorte Vitement, Car ClĂ©ment Le vous mande. Va, friande De ta bouche, Qui se couche En danger Pour manger Confitures; Si tu dures Trop malade, Couleur fade Tu prendras, Et perdras Lâembonpoint. Dieu te doint SantĂ© bonne, Ma mignonne. Seems simple enough, right? But itâs got a huge host of challenges: the rhyme, the tone, the archaic language (if youâre translating something old, do you want it to sound old in the target language, too? or are you translating not just across language, but across time?) Le Ton Beau De Marot is a monster of a book that compiles all of Hofstaderâs âfailedâ translations of Ma Mignonne, as well as the âfailedâ translations of his friends, and his students, and hundreds of strangers who were given the translation challenge (which you can play here, should you like!) The end result is a hilarious archive of Sweet Damosels, Malingering Ladies, Chickadees, Fairest Friends, and Cutie Pies. Itâs the clearest, funniest, best example of what I think is true of all literary translations: that theyâre a thing you make up, not a thing you discover. There is no magic bridge between languages, or magic window, or magic vessel to pour the poem from one language to anotherâtranslation is always subjective, itâs always individual, itâs always inaccurate, itâs always a failure. Itâs always, in other words, art. Which, as a translator, I find incredibly reassuring! Youâre definitely, one hundred percent absolutely, gonna fuck up. Which means you canât fuck up. You can take risks! You can experiment! You can do cool stuff like bilingual translations, or footnote translations! You write your own code of honor, your own rules that your translations will hold inviolable, and fuck it if that code doesnât match everyone elseâs*. The translations they hold inviolable are also flawed, are failures at the core, from the King James Bible right on down to No Fear Shakespeare. So have fun! Itâs all in your hands, miseries and splendors both.Â
this in particular has bearing on more than just translation, but possibly in any adaptive or interpretative creative work:Â
knowing youâre going to fail, you get to decide how to fail
which is actually quite freeing, once you think about it
it is really cool that there is now an official maori word for autism, created with input from autistic maoris, and it was specifically coined to be nonjudgmental
quote from article:
âIn my experience, people with autism tend to have their own timing, spacing, pacing and life-rhythm, so I interpreted autism as âtakiwatangaâ, meaning âhis or her own time and spaceâ,â [Keri Opai] told government-funded Maori Television.
(source)
Iâm not crying, youâre crying.
Itâs also key to note that the word for disabled in te reo Maori is now whaikaha (to have strength or to be differently able), and at the same time takiwatanga and whaikaha were minted, about 200 words were added that also describe other mental health, addiction, and disability issues.
So now, about 125,000 of the roughly 561,000 Maori people in NZ will be able to effectively describe and discuss autism and so much more in their native language for the benefit of themselves and their loved ones. That is the best thing Iâve heard all day.
This is that old Flagg kinner from a while back. Turns out Iâm a fictive. Big shocker. Hope youâre doing well!
rosemary is that you??? also yeah i'm a fictive too lol here's our sys blog: @guns-masks-and-mischief (we have a double of u tho sorry lol)
NEWWWWWWWTTTT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI
NEWWWWTTRAGGGHH
Newt died chat
How will
How will I carry on the book
i feel obligated to ask.... is this about Johnathan Auxier's "The Sweep?" b-because that's the only Newt I could think about-
hmmm
Finally, someone who remembers the true purpose of Lego!
The person who originally did this is a phenomenally talent builder. Hereâs some more of their work:
To anyone interested, this is Joss Ivanwood, or Jayfa_mocs
C R E A C H U R S
2nd Century Roman Aqueduct Unearthed in Slovakia
Digging into the lawn of a historic mansion in the capital city of Slovakia, archaeologists and their team of university students expected to find some ancient Roman artifacts but what emerged shocked them all.
The 1,800-year-old structure turned out to be a first-of-its-kind find.
A large-scale reconstruction project at Rusovce Mansion, a 16th-century manor and gardens on the outskirts of Bratislava, began in the summer of 2024 with an archaeological dig. Previous work at the site had uncovered Iron Age and ancient Roman finds, so the team from the University of Trnava was optimistic.
While excavating the front lawn, archaeologists unearthed an ancient Roman aqueduct, a tunnel-like structure used for supplying water, the University of Trnava said in a March 7 news release,
A photo shared by the university in a March 7 Facebook post shows the ancient aqueduct. The rectangular tunnel measures about 3 feet deep and 1 foot wide. Its sides are lined by stones, and a row of sloping tiles run along the bottom.
So far, archaeologists have uncovered about 125 feet of the aqueduct, the university said. Seen from above, the structure is almost shaped like a drinking straw, with a straight section followed by a curved corner.
A few of the tiles were so well preserved that archaeologists could read the stamped name of their manufacturer, the university said. An inscription on one brick connects the aqueduct's construction with the private brickworks of Gaius Valerius Constans, whose workshop operated during the second century in Carnuntum, in modern-day Austria. One tile even had a dogâs pawprint on it, left from the animal stepping on the tile before it fully dried.
Based on the manufacturing stamps on the tiles, the aqueduct dates back at least 1,800 years, archaeologist Erik HrnÄiarik said in the release. The pipeline fell out of use at the end of the second century, was filled in and preserved ever since.
Similar Roman aqueducts have been found elsewhere in central Europe, but this is the first time one was found in Slovakia, HrnÄiarik said. The structureâs preservation quality and scale add to its significance.
Archaeologists estimated the aqueduct required about 56 tons of stone and over 80 tiles, the university said.
The aqueductâs exact purpose is still unknown, but it seems that it was intended to supply water to an unknown Roman structure currently buried beneath the Rusovce Manor House. It is possible that the site once had a bathhouse used by Roman soldiers stationed in the area.
Intro Post
This is a kin blog for an amalgamation of my kins who are also semi-source mates.
Mordred Deschain
Source: Dark Tower
Follower of Los, The Crimson King
For those who haven't read Dark Tower: technically a spider taheen, hence the blog name
Big shoutout to my irl and sourcemate, @dt-n-stand-kinning @ka-is-bullshit, love ya lil bro
Mordred Pendragon
Source: Arthurian legend/Excalibur
Will probably be the main poster of the blog
Olaia O'Dim (and reincarnations)
Not a canonical Dark Tower character, but an OC I ended up kinning.
Child of Flagg
Sources: Eyes of the Dragon, Dark Tower, The Stand, Children of the Corn
Will probably also be the main poster, moreso than Mordred, even though it's really his blog.
Feel free to interact, so long as you do so kindly! :) I may not be super active in the coming weeks, as I'm prepping to graduate and go off to college, which... Yikes. If you're curious about my other kins, the pinned post on my main has my kinlist.
Main: @bugsforbraincells
Technical Radiator Lady kin blog: @theviewfromtheradiator (mostly just reblogs and sobbing over David Lynch being dead)
