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I’m glad that OP:
1) Figured this out.
2) Shared so others can learn from their mistake.
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The Byzantine Empire, that is.
Oh FUCK
My eyes have just fallen out of my head because of this gorgeous fabric.
Because one can never get enough visuals of medieval clothing …
we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.
like if a fetus isnt a person it has no right to my body and if a fetus IS a peson it also has no right to my body because there is no other context in which we are required to put ourselves at risk of physical harm to preserve another persons safety or even life.
you dont have to save someone from drowning even if youre a strong swimmer. even in death youre not required to donate organs and that could save several people. you can kill someone if you truly believe your safety is at risk. we dont mandate preservation of life over autonomy in any of these circumstances.
i love how weird kids are. they make up the most bizarre stuff when left to their own devices and it's never what an adult would naively predict a kid would do in their imaginative play
my friend's 5 year old recently got a toy veterinary medicine set - it's super cool, like one of those mini play kitchens a lot of kids have, but it's set up to pretend to be a vet (it's this thing) - it has stuffed animals and things to weigh them, give them medicine, take x-rays, write on their charts, etc.
so this kid, who is five and to my knowledge has no experience in the administrative bureaucracy of modern healthcare, puts a stuffed pig named Piggy on the exam table. she pretends to draw blood from Piggy using a fake syringe, and the blood goes into a toy test tube vial that she calls "the resulter"
i'm playing with her, right, so i'm like, awesome, what are the results of Piggy's blood test? and she says "we have to send it to the scientists." so we send the vial to the scientists (put it in her bedroom) and when we get back to the vet playset i'm like awesome what did the scientists say? and she says they have not gotten back to us yet
so she rolls her eyes, exasperated, and says we have to call the scientists. she pretends to call them. apparently, they tell her that Piggy's blood test is "at the bottom of the list" and "we have to WAIT." she frowns. we wait a bit longer and call them back. they tell us it will be a while! she says we should go ask the scientists in person so we go back to her bedroom and she inquires at this imaginary lab, at which point the scientists yell at her and tell her now they will make us wait even longer!
keep in mind she is 100% directing this play. she is making all this up. she is fully in control of this game, and she has decided that what we are going to pretend is that we are dealing with this exhausting nonsense, not actually treating Piggy.
finally the blood tests come back. they are inconclusive. the scientists do not know what is wrong with Piggy. the little girl walks back to the stuffed pig on the exam table, sighs deeply, and says in a very serious voice "we can never help you."
i'm obsessed with this kid. when given complete control over a make believe scenario, instead of becoming the heroic rescuer administering effective cures, she is instead a beleaguered vet making multiple calls to an overworked lab only to be left unable to help her patient.
10/10 no notes. kids are amazing
I used to watch a toddler and this one time she decided that my arm stretched across a doorway was a magic portal to other lands. My arm was a boom gate type of thing that had to raise up to let her go through the portal. I was like, cool, we're gonna go on adventures in some imaginary world full of stuff she likes.
Nope, she spent an hour troubleshooting and repairing the gate, which was broken in multiple ways. We never activated it.
I wonder if there would be laws against discrimination according to daemon in the HDM/Golden Compass world, by the modern era
“Her daemon’s a snake. Pass”
“Why”
“All snakes are liars”
“Suzanne, this is the biggest, yellowest snake I’ve ever seen. Suzanne, there is no way this giant banana has a deceptive bone in his body. Suzanne. Suzanne he has a hat”
"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"
"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."
And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.
Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?
Oh. Shit.
Apparently today is Loving Day, named after Richard and Milford Loving, the interracial couple whose lawsuit against the state of Virginia resulted in interracial marriage becoming legal in the United States. And so this day was made as a holiday for interracial relationships. I think that's very cool and deserves a tumblr post. Happy Loving Day to everyone in interracial relationships!
Photographs of the Lovings by Villet Grey
If you see a Service Animal in public, ignore it!
Their handler has been asked about this 20 times already. They’re tired.
Their handler has already been yelled at for being “mean,” and not letting people pet it.
You cooing over it or petting it will distract it from helping its handler. Especially if the animal needs to constantly be on the alert for seizures or something.
It’s doing a job. Imagine if someone bothered you in your workplace just because they thought you were cute.
The animal does not exist to amuse you. Leave it alone.
Seriously. Go to a pet store or a shelter and ask to play with those animals. Bug your friends. Watch cute videos. Anything else.
And teach your kids about this!!
the thing i need you guys to understand is that the dwarves and the tevinter imperium have been SO tightly intertwined from the very first moment
when darinius took his first step towards founding the tevinter imperium by uniting tevinter and neromenian, his very next thought was the dwarves. it's not really clear why they were his priority, but he probably knew that access to lyrium would make or break his new nation. he knew that he couldn't take it by force, as the dwarves were at the height of their strength, an underground empire spanning all of thedas. instead he personally travelled to the deep roads, offering himself up to be taken to their king so he could negotiate a treaty.
supposedly he travelled for weeks in darkness, led by his dwarven escorts, until they arrived in the capital of kal-sharok. even then, he was not permitted to see the king until the provings had shown that the ancestors favoured this meeting. he fought alone in round after round of battle against the champions of the warrior and noble castes. eventually, he's said to have faced a lone warrior in magnificent armour, supposedly wielding a war hammer forged from pure lyrium that "shattered spells like spun glass". the two fought for hours until darinius' opponent finally called for a halt. he revealed himself to be the dwarven king, endrin stonehammer, and declared to the astonished spectators that darinius had "valos atredum", the voice and favour of the ancestors.
they forged a trade agreement together. darinius returned to the surface with gifts: dwarven steel for his warriors, fonts of lyrium for his mage-priests. from the spoils of this alliance, he became such a force to be reckoned with that the third northern kingdom, qarinus, saw no hope of defeating him, and qarinus' high queen, rathana, proposed marriage instead. with that union, the tevinter imperium had truly begun.
the imperium’s relationship with the dwarves is its foundation. the dwarven embassy in minrathous was built by the same man who first established the magisterium. we're told that the minrathous proving arena, inspired by those of the dwarves, was built a mere seven years after neromenian and tevinter were united, and it must have been built specifically to accommodate dwarven guests in the very heart of tevinter, as we know stonehammer attended the first tournament held. and the dwarven embassies would go on to be built in every major city, completely subterranean so that they can live entirely underground and be part of tevinter, and right up to the “modern day” dwarves have their own body of representatives in tevinter’s government
to be clear about the importance of this alliance on the dwarven side as well, endrin stonehammer was not just any king. he's the first ever paragon. you know, being a living ancestor who the dwarves revere above all others as everything a dwarf should strive to be? he invented it! that’s the kind of reverence they have for the guy who, among other things, established this bond
i justtttt, like, i don’t want to get too far ahead of myself in the timeline but i think there’s so much to be said about this. the dwarves were and are complicit in every action of the imperium. they gave it so much of its strength and never abandoned those ties. as the centuries passed, they only ever bound themselves more tightly to it no matter its atrocities, prioritising (over the elves they had co-existed with for millennia, over even the lives of their own people) an alliance that crucially did not save them, an alliance with a people whose leaders would eventually unleash an apocalypse on them and refuse to so much as admit responsibility. to Me it is one of the crunchiest and most under-utilised narratives in dragon age and i insist on being insufferable about it until everyone notices. heart emoji
“Archon Darinius of Tevinter journeyed deep into the lightless realm of dwarves and there forged a covenant with Endrin Stonehammer, lord of the dwarven empire. As a symbol of their pact, Endrin gave the archon a pair of rings-one that shone like the evening star, and one as luminous as the dawn. So long as the rings were united, Darinius need fear nothing, for the friendship of the dwarves is a mighty sword and shield. The archon wore the rings of Dawn and Dusk for 20 years, never removing them, and when he died, they were cut from his fingers by magisters squabbling over his vacant throne, then separated, and finally lost.” 🏳️🌈🤨?
so darinius' rise to power involves a lot of... riddles, for some reason?
as i said earlier, he's raised by calpurnia, a priestess of dumat, as her own son, and naturally he shows a bunch of magical talent early and he can do it better than experienced dreamers at the age of ten blah blah blah. interestingly he's said to have been able to charm animals and to use birds or cat as "agents and spies", so effectively that many believed he could tell the future. (darinius is quoted without any real context as having said, "the wise are wary of prophecy: to seek knowledge of the future is to grip a sword by the blade." it's worth noting that his supposed biological mother, livia, was a high priestess of razikale, a role which can also be referred to as the "augur of mystery". i don't have a point here, i just wonder if you could make the argument that there was maybe more to the fortune-telling rumours if you felt like it.)
when darinius was 19, the high priest of dumat lay dying. he summoned all the senior acolytes and of course also darinius even though he was only a novice. his successor, he said, would be the one who could bring him "that which has no legs yet must dance, has no lungs but must breathe, and has no life yet lives and dies". while the other acolytes grumbled that the man had lost his wits, darinius lit a brazier and brought it to the high priest, understanding that what he meant was fire. this apparently qualified him to be the next high priest.
later, the high king of neromenian died without an heir. a successor had to be chosen from among the dreamers, so the palace summoned the high priests of the "three patron gods" of neromenian: dumat, toth, and lusacan. (silence, fire, and night, respectively. i think different kingdoms having different patron gods is super interesting!! i guess we can assume razikale was one of tevinter's.) the three were told they had until sunrise to "tie an egg in a knot" and place it on a pedestal. the correct solution would reveal the high king's crown. while the other two went straight into trances to search the fade for an answer, danarius smashed the egg, soaked a cloth in it, and tied the cloth in the knot, which apparently qualified him to be high king of neromenian.
(this kind of deeply silly story reminds me of two anecdotes: alexander the great and the gordian knot, and the egg of columbus (or of brunelleschi, which was the version of the story i heard first). the wikipedia page for the latter also specifically mentions that someone is asked to tie an egg in a knot in the kalevala, which i'm not personally familiar with. my point is that pulling off a famously "impossible" task by taking a shockingly straightforward approach that others wouldn't have considered is general shorthand for portraying someone as a brilliant visionary who changed the world because he personally was that smart and Not Like The Others.)
on the evening of darinius' coronation, calpurnia reveals the truth to him that he was found on the seashore, and shows him the broken ring. (i'm not really sure why calpurnia is supposed to have kept this secret, but it's maybe sort of implied that it relates to her practices as a priestess of the dragon of silence? the wiki uses the phrase "history would remember her for her silence" but i can't figure out where on earth it got that because i'm looking at the page it claims to reference. it's kind of wild that it was fine for her as a priestess to raise the kid in the first place let alone claim him as her own for so long, but i guess that as the priestly class here seems to be synonymous with the dreamer/mage lineages, there’s no sense that they shouldn’t have families and they were probably actually encouraged to have kids?)
anyway, darinius' new war chief helpfully recognises tevinter's signet ring and they apparently piece together that he is therefore the lost son of tevinter's usurped queen. darinius is now in a tricky situation, because of course he is obliged to avenge his birth mother's death and the gods would put a curse on his lineage if he didn't, so he just has to conquer tevinter, isn't life so hard. however, it might be a bit difficult, as minrathous is well-fortified and hasn't had diplomatic contact with neromenian or qarinus either in decades because they refuse to recognise tarsian as a king. not because he murdered his sister, but because he’s not a mage.
that night, darinius dreams that he is crossing a river in a small ferry, piloted by a man whose face is in shadow. when he reaches the other side, he looks back and sees his own face; he was the ferryman. he takes this as a sign from dumat (sure, i guess), and sends a bunch of messages & gifts to his uncle tarsian, who has no idea who he is except that he’s the high king of neromenian, saying that neromenian would love to be friends again. tarsian is flattered and lets darinius and his honour guard of seven into his palace in minrathous. darinius then immediately uses a spell to keep tarsian's guards from entering and challenges tarsian to a duel. (world of thedas says that he challenges him and then when the spell dropped and the guards presumably poured in, tarsian simply “was dead”. i wonder if we’re conveniently skipping over something like how much of an honourable duel it could actually be when darinius brought 7 friends.) anyway darinius kills his uncle and takes the other half of tevinter's seal from his body, apparently managing to reforge it then and there. neromenian and tevinter are then united under his rule.
so this is where we really come to the crux of the matter where darinius has to be the long-lost prince of tevinter not only because it makes him of proper dreamer lineage but also because if he isn't, then he simply lied and tricked and murdered his way onto tevinter's throne. which he totally did. but it's fine because his uncle betrayed him first. apparently.
i frankly don't quite get what the ferryman vision told him. i guess that he had to make the first move against his uncle? nobody else but you can ferry you onwards? i don't know. regardless, this is a major deal for him to the point he's known as "darinius the ferryman." in art, his staff is depicted as a ferryman's pole. the seal of the imperial archon would forevermore be the image of a hooded ferryman, a ring worn on the third finger of the right hand, which is traditionally destroyed upon the archon's death and then a new one made for the next one. however, they're powerful magical items and supposedly sometimes a forgery is ritually destroyed instead. in dragon age 2 you can buy supposedly the ring of archon hadarius.
Whenever I replay fallout new Vegas I can’t stop thinking about how the game starts with you being shot in the head and that’s a big deal but then you spend the rest of the game getting shot by enemies, sometimes including in the head, and you just walk it off no prablem
I just saw a video title on YouTube that said something like “Why is glass transparent?” And that’s an interesting question and I’m sure it’s great that the video exists but my first thought was like “Because glass is terrible, obviously.” Because it’s unwieldy and let’s out warmth and needs to be heated to hundreds of degrees to be shaped and turns into hundreds of tiny daggers if you drop it. Why the hell would we bother with that if it didn’t have some magical quality like being totally transparent despite being solid? Glass is transparent because if it weren’t, we’d use something else.
looking through my “me” tag and this is apparently what I was thinking 3 years ago
If you’re still curious we did not start working glass for its transparency. It was most likely started as a sanitary concern. Glass is easy to clean with soap and water, once it’s cleaned out you can use it again for anything and no germs or flavor from the previous meal or drink will remain.
Other materials at the time, namely clay, would absorb flavors and germs meaning that if you ate beef off a clay plate your next meal with that plate could have beef flavor and microbes common on cow meat on it. That would leak out seemingly at random no less. Heck imagine a sick person coughing into their soup bowl and then months later their germs hiding in the clay would pop out to infect whole new people.
Also the earliest human use of glass we know of is for its sharpness. Pre-historic people would use volcanic glass as sharp knives for food preparation. Also beads. Pretty much any new substance humans get their hands on for most of our history we immediately try to make into beads.
The fact that it could become see through was a side benefit.
this is amazing and I’m really glad I reblogged that old bullshit post because I got to learn this
don't know who needs to hear this but gender non-conformity is not only for trans people. cis women can wear binders and packers. cis men can wear breast forms and tuck. cis women can use he/him pronouns and cis men can use she/her pronouns. anyone can use they/them pronouns or neopronouns. anyone can dress fem or masc regardless of gender identity. anyone can take hormones and get surgeries even if it doesn't match the 'normal' presentation for their gender. all the rules about gender are fake and you can do what you want. gender isn't some finite resource. do whatever the fuck makes you comfortable.
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I haven’t seen this in years and yet it is burned into my memory forever.
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Every time I see the start of this on my dash I’m like “fuck yeah time to laugh until I can’t breathe again”