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ok this christmas season I went to two different houses that had two christmas trees which seems like such a ridiculous (silly) thing to do but now I'm curious
how many christmas trees do you typically have in your house during christmas season
zero
one
two
more than two
I am thinking about fan fiction writers, but anyone who writes any kind of fiction can answer. (As far as I’m aware, non-fiction is usually written in the past tense - but if I’m wrong do let me know!)
What tense do you write in?
Past
Present
Past or present (elaborate?)
Future?!
I’m bald/vanilla extract
If you like, explain why in the tags!
When I was young I gathered that all serious works of fiction were written in the past tense (past tense third person to be precise) so that is what i did when I started writing. However my mind was blown by the power and immediacy of Margaret Atwood writing in the present tense so I started to experiment with it myself, and now i strongly favour it. I get the impression that past is still the most commonly used, but I’m prepared to be surprised!
Please share!
Eight-Day Circus Profiles Part 3/31: Julian Day and Commissioner Gillian Loeb
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 3/31 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Jonathan Crane/Harleen Quinzel, Edward Nygma/Cosmo Krank, Tiffany Ambrose/Roman Sionis Arkham Origins in a New Verse, Personal Fanverse, Jason Todd is Robin, Child Murder, Brutal Murder, Unhealthy Relationships, Organized Crime, Christmas, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Non-Consensual Touching, Joker is a creep, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Mental Health Issues, Don’t Go off your meds kids, Medication, Gaslighting, Blood and Violence Series: Part 1 of The Arkham Files
As Bruce closes his seventh year protecting Gotham as Batman, a man he thought was his friend, who knows his darkest secrets, puts a price on his head…or does he?
Enigma Audio File 1
[Made in conjunction with Eight-Day Circus] Prince: Sionis Steelworks, Miss Prince speaking. Loeb: Put that prick on the line, now. Prince: Now hold on, may I know who’s calling and whose prick you want? Loeb: Girl, I’m not playing. Prince: Commissioner Loeb, I have a name, and I have protocols. If you want to throw a hissy fit over the line, I will happily remind you that Black Mask can and will rearrange your face if you’re rude to me. So, stop insulting me, and tell me what you want. The Boss is busy so if it’s confidential I’ll have to put you on hold. Loeb: You know what I want. I asked him for a favor and I get back no? Maroni is breathing down my neck and I’ve got Falcone and Cobblepot raring to shred the whole Financial District over this kid, and he won’t do one thing for me? Prince: Yeah, I dunno what to tell ya Gil, Boss likes the captain. Hey Jack! Boss call ya in? Yeah, it’s not about you, it’s Kris. Stealing product, can you believe? Loeb: Prince. Prince: You have fun Jack, I’ll be over in a hot sec, I got a fire to put out. Look. Here’s my take, and you can shove it up your ass for all I care. Clean cops look good for the papers and right now, you don’t look good to the papers, so whether it’s Gordon, Montoya, Bullock, Nguyen, Crane, you name ‘em, Mask likes ‘em. Now, you got anything actually important to talk to the Boss about? Because I really wanna watch Mort beat the piss outta Kris and you are digging into my beatdown watch time. Loeb: Fuck you Paisley. Prince: Good talking to ya as always, Gil.
Eight-Day Circus Profiles Part 2/31: Detective Renee Montoya
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 2/31 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Jonathan Crane/Harleen Quinzel, Edward Nygma/Cosmo Krank, Tiffany Ambrose/Roman Sionis Arkham Origins in a New Verse, Personal Fanverse, Jason Todd is Robin, Child Murder, Brutal Murder, Unhealthy Relationships, Organized Crime, Christmas, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Non-Consensual Touching, Joker is a creep, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Mental Health Issues, Don’t Go off your meds kids, Medication, Gaslighting, Blood and Violence Series: Part 1 of The Arkham Files
As Bruce closes his seventh year protecting Gotham as Batman, a man he thought was his friend, who knows his darkest secrets, puts a price on his head…or does he?
Eight-Day Circus Profiles Part 1/31: Edward Nguyen and Dr. Jonathan Crane
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/31 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Jonathan Crane/Harleen Quinzel, Edward Nygma/Cosmo Krank, Tiffany Ambrose/Roman Sionis Arkham Origins in a New Verse, Personal Fanverse, Jason Todd is Robin, Child Murder, Brutal Murder, Unhealthy Relationships, Organized Crime, Christmas, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Non-Consensual Touching, Joker is a creep, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Mental Health Issues, Don’t Go off your meds kids, Medication, Gaslighting, Blood and Violence Part 1 of The Arkham Files
As Bruce closes his seventh year protecting Gotham as Batman, a man he thought was his friend, who knows his darkest secrets, puts a price on his head…or does he?
Update 8/2
We have a timeline folks!!!
Presently "incomplete", I will add to it as batkids join the fold and the Arkham Files surface.
Renovation Update 4/29
Working out Timeline Bloat
Creating a list of important locations in Gotham
Setting up a Data Sheet for Earth-Psi itself
Prepping a tag directory
We're Undergoing Construction Kids, Buckle Up
u know whats wild. everyone on here like 20 and when i first joined everyone was like 14 15. u ask anybody n they been here for years. nobody new on here. staff locked the doors n were all Stuck Inside
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Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.
Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.”
“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”
“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”
It’s just.
50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.
i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok
One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.
I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.
Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”
Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol
I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”. (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.) She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.” “Why would you think that, ma’am?” “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me. See?” They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle. When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.
So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.
Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.
A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”
“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”
So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.
She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.
This reminds me of the time when archaeologists found these things:
And had absolutely no idea what they might be. The determined that it must be a religious object and named them Roman dodecahedra. That is, until they handed it to a traditional craftsperson who asked where they found them, archaeologists replied that they found them in the north and near mountain ranges. The craftsperson then proceeded to use one of these things to make the fingers of woollen gloves. The mystery of the Roman dodecahedra was solved.
It actually wasn't! The dodecahedra are difficult and unwieldy for knitting in the style of extant artifacts that even come close to the peak period of dodecahedron production and it's very unlikely to have solved the problem. For one thing, knitting didn't exist in the peak of the production of dodecahedra (2nd-4th century), our first examples of knitting come from Egypt in the 12th-14th century. The ancient equivalent to knitting, nalbinding, has a different production technique and this is an unlikely candidate for these artifacts. Further, large bulky yarn didn't exist, all extant woolen garments from this period up until knitting came into existence have extremely fine stitches and exact measurements the dodecahedron would actually make harder to replicate. There's no reason to make an object that lowers the quality of the work with no other benefit. It doesn't make the knitting faster.
A lot of the craftspeople being asked in this post, like the leatherworker in the original post and the hair archaeologist, are also archaeologists, many specialist archaeologists practice the craft they study and therefore have a wide scope of knowledge regarding the craft's history and what is likely and not likely. Some random craftsperson might have an idea but that doesn't mean they're right because they might not know things the archaeologist does about the history of their craft and the style of craftsmanship from the time. Like when knitting was invented or how people made gloves during the period.
Figured I’d make one for Lawfulverse but I make these hair/skin/eye color palettes for my own personal reference and also for fun and wanted to do some major characters in Lawfulverse. My general process is building the character in Baldur’s Gate 3′s character creator, screencapping the model, colorpicking from light-neutral areas, and aligning the colors in a grid.
I’m actually really happy with how this turned out and am happy to finally have some references for the characters. If you have any particularly burning questions regarding this feel free to ask.
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Jack Napier ssplit from the Joker??
Eventually I do need to address this, but yes. At some point in the Earth-Psi timeline, R’as al Ghul got really pissed off at Joker and split him off from Jack Napier using magic.
Jack Napier has no memory of the intervening years between the Joker’s creation and R’as splitting them apart, and technically Joker still IS Jack Napier by DNA and biology, but since he has almost none of Jack’s personality or memories, he’s considered a different person, and even stopped using the name Jack Napier after Jack split from him.
Jack has all of his prior memories and traits and doesn’t like Joker for very obvious reasons. It took most of the Rogues, especially Harley, some time to get used to Jack’s presence, and even though Jack and Harley did become friends after a period, Jack is still extremely careful around Harley. He warns her before he raises his voice and tries not to laugh too loudly around her. His avoidance of Joker-like behavior gives a lot of Rogues the impression that Jack is non-confrontational, and I won’t say that’s totally incorrect. Jack doesn’t particularly like getting into fights, but he’s also making a concerted effort to avoid any trait that aligns him with the Joker, because he knows very well that the Joker isn’t as different from him as he wants to pretend.
Solomon "Secret Police Can Eat Shit" Grundy is at the point where the US Government cannot put him near KGBeast because Grundy will try to kill him.
