Just a Candle

Staying out of the wind

[astra-lun]

"You're the help"

"And you're rude"

"Well, I could be much worse"

[quietcandle]

Silly Game Time: When you see the word SPIRIT/GHOST, what are the first and second ghosts or spirits that come to mind?

Spirit = Spirit the horse

or Spirit Halloween... (not like, their logo ghost guy though. Just the idea of the store)

Casper (the friendly ghost~)

Ghostbusters theme song, not really a ghost...

Classic sheet ghost, pulled from Scooby Doo

[quietcandle]

Silly Game Time: TWIST THAT TROPE! "The Empire is invading, but the twist is ___."

(Every story is made of tropes, just like how every sentence is made of words. Still, some tropes can feel a bit overused if a storyteller doesn't do something different with them. What do you think could be an interesting variation to this trope? It doesn't need to be elaborate or surprising or original, just something that

They should have been defending - they're invading their homeland.

[mayleeillustration]

More of The Magician's Nephew, Polly and Digory in the Wood Between Worlds. (And the guinea pig that lives there now😌)

[quietcandle]

Silly Game Time: Who are two characters you really like from two stories you really enjoy (of any genre of any medium—novel, comic, movie, show, podcast, game, etc. including OCs if you like)? AND which of them is more likely to apologize for something that isn't their fault?

Doug (Doug)

Vs.

Arnold (Hey Arnold!)

They both would, but Arnold seems slightly more likely.

[quietcandle]

Silly Game Time: Would you rather go to an art museum or a science museum?

Science museum for me!

[hollypolllyy]

DDD Kairi and Shiki ✨

[keybladeclash]

FINAL ROUND: WHICH KEYBLADE IS THE BEST?

Oathkeeper

Oblivion

Remaining time: 2 days 13 hours

[earhartsease]

seen in Lancaster, UK

[ID: photo of a shop window with the glass cracked in a radial pattern from one point where some twat has headbutted it

a white sign stuck on behind the glass is a faux art gallery label which reads:

ARTIST UNKNOWN

'SHATTERED DREAMS' 2026

FOREHEAD, GLASS

TEMPORARY INSTALLATION

EXPRESSING MALE RAGE.

PENDING VALUATION BY INSURANCE COMPANY

ID ends]

[mithsd]

Maomao garden party!

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[tuttle-did-it]

When I lived in London there was a murder of crows that lived near me. I fed them often, they brought me presents (shiny rubbish and cigarette butts they found on the floor to thank me.)

When I moved, I’m certain they understood I was leaving because I had all my stuff and gave them lots of food and compliments.

But, they chased down my friend who lived in the next burrough over. They had recognised that friend with me several times and followed them to their house when they couldn’t find me.

They adopted my friend and it was now my friend’s job to bring them snacks and receive the presents.

This was maybe 6-7 years ago.

I visited London last year. Went to see my friend. The crows all not only recognised me, they tracked me down. We got into my friend’s flat and not twenty minutes later there was chaos on the balcony.

We open the curtains, the entire fucking murder is there shouting because they wanted to see me.

Crows are the very best birds.

[rocketbirdie]

heh. didn't even stand a chance.

[clapuhands]

to everyone in the notes asking for a translation: panel 1: "weigh your heart" (the suffix pronoun for heart should be .k not .ti i think but i see what you are going for. also, my copy of faulkner doesn't have a copy of the word but it's pretty clear from context what it means) panel 4: "what"

anyway op good job this is really funny and better than 99.9% of hieroglyphs on the internet

[oodles-of-boodle]

@thatlittleegyptologist

[thatlittleegyptologist]

xAa is 'to throw/dispatch/abandon' because fAj is the verb 'to weigh' (this can be checked on the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae), .tj should be =k as already pointed out.

Thus with xAa as the imperative 'dispact/throw', the scales determinative doesn't belong to that word and is thus a word in and of itself the 3-consonant jws.w (the .w is just a plural, it's still 3-consonants), and then .tj which should be =k.

It's more: xAa jws.w ib=k 'chuck your heart on the scales' *ma'at gets obliterated* ptr 'what'.

As an aside; it's not good practice with Middle Egyptian to go 'we can infer this from context' when you can't find that word in one dictionary. You should be consulting at least three. Also, because my ass has been doing this for nearly 20 years, just so you're all aware xAa is in Faulkner:

This is page 183 of my personal copy of Faulkner's Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. xAa is right there! You'll see that the picture of the entry for the TLA also cites it as FCD 'Faulkner's Concise Dictionary' 183.

[fallenangelvictorious]

You know the art is good when the academics start getting spicy in the notes

[luna-azzurra]

Your character doesn't need to be likeable. They need to be legible. The reader needs to understand every decision they make even when it's wrong, even when it's ugly, even when they want to shake them. Likeable is easy and forgettable. Legible is what makes someone stay with you for years. Make the logic of every bad choice visible. The reader doesn't have to agree with it. They just have to follow it.

[gumy-shark]

playing stupid games but im really bad at them so im not even winning the stupid prizes

[parakeet]

Love it when you do a quiz and it’s obvious what the answers correlate to. U know what I mean. The quiz will be like… r u a mermaid or a vampire… and the questions are like

Do u like the ocean

1. Omg yes I love the ocean I could live there forever

2. It’s ok

3. Not a fan of the ocean

4. Fuck the ocean unless it’s made of blood which btw I love to drink

[kitsune800]

Which time looper character you want to be?

Subaru Natsuki

Lu Guang

Homura Akemi

Rintaro Okabe

Rika Furude

Other (comment)

Remaining time: 3 days 57 minutes

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