We Could Be Heroes

But assassins are cool too. Follow my shit on Insta @/ sgt.graves

[buck3t-barnes]

A little Bucky and Alpine animation :)

[cosmerelists]

What Happens When You Read Stormlight Archive first...

Personally, I ignored all of the “reading order” advice and chose Way of Kings as my very first Sanderson book. No regrets, to be honest! But from personal experience, here is what happens when your first stop in the Cosmere is the Stormlight Archive.

[Spoilers for Mistborn & Stormlight Archive & Warbreaker]

1. You don’t know who Hoid is

At first, Wit was just another character to me. Then the hints that he was, like, immortal or super old or some sort of god kept piling up. When Dalinar asked Wit if he was a Herald, I thought, “Ah ha! I was right!”

I was not right.

2. You don’t recognize any Worldhoppers

Zahel was just a grumpy guy who could do weird things with laundry. Azure was cool but I didn’t understand why she just sort of left the plot at one point. When people were called “oddly short” by Roshar standards, it meant nothing to me.

3. You don’t recognize non-Roshar magic

Seriously, that laundry scene with Zahel made NO SENSE to me. And when Hoid used non-Roshar powers, I just figured it was, like, some sort of bard thing.

4. You get very impatient with the interludes

I didn’t want my world to be expanded or to understand the nuances of spren or fabrials. I just wanted to get back to Kaladin! I remember being completely baffled by that one interlude where three men I didn’t know where looking for some dude with white hair and a narrow face. 

It was definitely only on a reread that I appreciated them. 

5. The big reveals are lost on you at first

When Szeth’s sword asked if he wanted to destroy some evil today, I thought, “Huh! Neat!” When Ialai namedropped Scadrial, I thought it was probably a person. And when Thaidakar was revealed as the Lord of Scars, I don’t think I even noticed really? I was too busy weeping as I tried to remember the difference between Thaidakar and Restares. 

6. You buy into the Shallan-Adolin-Kaladin love triangle

Honestly, I wasn’t sure which way it would turn out! Would Shallan leave Adolin for Kaladin? It felt so plausible! I had not yet learned the ironclad rule that all arranged marriages in a Sanderson book will be successful. By the time I got to Warbreaker, I was like, “Oh, Siri is being married against her will to the evil, tyrannical god-king? I guess they’ll get along!” And I was right.

7. The magic system feels like so much

I was hanging on by a thread trying to keep straight Surgebinding and Honorblades and Shardblades and whatever Hoid had going on. Not to mention fabrials. By the time I got to Mistborn, it was like, “Three completely independent magic systems that depend on their own rules and can interact? Yeah! I can handle that!”

8. You want to read them all

For me, starting with Stormlight Archive was best! I loved it so much that I was suddenly wanting to read everything Sanderson wrote. Plus, the backwards reveals were pretty fun. Oh, you’re dead, are you, Kelsier? That’s not what Book 4 of Stormlight says…

And hey! Crazy how the King’s Wit keeps showing up!

[onlycosmere]

Elend Venture, Reading at the Ball by Rachel J Russon

[probablycatastrophic]

every normal fantasy author goes to Q&As and they get questions like "hii i love your writing! where do you get inspiration for all your amazing worlds and characters?" and then the author will respond like "I go on frequent woods walks and I like to watch history documentaries :) it gets me really inspired" and then brandon sanderson will go to Q&As and get a question like "if you had a nicrosil compounder, could they burn the stored investiture and then store it again to generate infinite investiture? and if so, could you use that to generate infinite stormlight, provided the nicrosil compounder was also a knight radiant? and using the infinite stormlight, could you establish a perpendicularity using bondsmith powers, travel through the cognitive realm at high speed with the infinite stormlight, go to sel, and use nightblood to eat the entire Dor, permanently disabling the magic of Elantris?" and then brandon responds with "RAFO. You'll find out in Stormlight 5"

[hrtbps]

[221cbakerstreet]

Secret cinema found beneath Paris.

In September 2004, French police discovered a hidden chamber in the catacombs under Paris. It contained a full-sized movie screen, projection equipment, a bar, a pressure cooker for making couscous, a professionally installed electricity system, and at least three phone lines. Movies ranged from 1950s noir classics to recent thrillers.

When the police returned three days later, the phone and power lines had been cut and there was a note on the floor: “Do not try to find us.” (via)

SECRET, MILDLY THREATENING UNDERGROUND COUSCOUS CINEMA

I WANNA GO

[thesanityclause]

LET ME JOIN YOUR KIND, UNDERGROUND MOVIE PEOPLE

[owlmylove]

nO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS ENTIRE CINEMA WAS HIDDEN BEHIND AN UNDER CONSTRUCTION SIGN THAT LEAD TO A CHECK-IN DISK WITH A FULL CCTV HOOKUP THAT WOULD TURN ON AND RECORD ANY UNREGISTERED VISITORS. AND IF SOMEONE SNUCK IN? A TAPE OF BARKING SECURITY DOGS WOULD BEGIN TO PLAY. 

BEYOND THE CRAZY FRONT DESK AND THE MOVIE THEATER, THERE WAS A STOCKED BAR AND TABLES AND CHAIRS, MEANING THAT AFTER CATCHING A FLICK IN AN ILLEGAL PARISIAN CATACOMB THEATER, YOU COULD THEN EAT COUSCOUS AND SIP A COCKTAIL NEXT DOOR. THERE WAS A PROFESSIONAL ELECTRICITY SYSTEM SET UP, AND AT LEAST 3 WORKING PHONE LINES. THIS SHIT WAS LIKE A BOND VILLAIN. 

BETTER YET? IT WAS RUMORED THAT THE PLACE WAS SET UP BY THE UNDERGROUND FRENCH ART GANG UX “Urban eXperiment”, WHO NAVIGATES THROUGH THE PARISIAN UNDERGROUNDS AND ILLEGALLY RESTORES ABANDONED WORKS OF ART, ALONG WITH HOLDING FILM FESTIVALS IN THE BASEMENTS OF GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS. THEY EVEN RELEASED A SHORT FILM ABOUT THEIR WORK RESTORING THE ICONIC PANTHEON CLOCK OVER THE COURSE OF ONE YEAR. NO ONE SUSPECTED THEIR INVOLVEMENT, UNTIL THE CLOCK BEGAN TO WORK AGAIN AFTER 60 YEARS OF RUSTING.

IF YOU DON’T THINK CATACOMBS AND THE PEOPLE WHO HANG OUT IN THEM ARE SOME OF THE COOLEST FUCKING THINGS IN THE WORLD THEN I IMPLORE YOU TO EAT SOME COUSCOUS AND RECONSIDER.

[futureevilscientist]

UNDERGROUND FRENCH ART GANG

[kocuria]

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[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I’ve been joking that I’ve been haunted/possessed by the ghost of a fucked up medieval monk since childhood despite being raised an atheist. Recently I’ve started illustrating Brother Bartholomew the Nafty as the anthropomorphic personification of intrusive thoughts.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

some of his suggestions are truly beaftly

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I don’t think he’s going anywhere so I guess I’ll just have to get better at drawing

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Bart you know how I am with needles

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Bart’s idea of a talk-down leaves something to be desired

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Bart is right; I’m too much of a hedonist to keep drawing this level of detail

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

sometimes it’s difficult to tell what’s Bart and what’s genuine conscientiousness

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Bart can be pretty creative but at the end of the day has a pretty one-track mind

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

he’s “religious OCD”—that doesn’t mean he is limited to just one religion

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

no one:

Bart the Nafty: so anyway here’s my hot take as a psychological parasite in the form of a medieval monk on modern intercommunity LGBTQ identity discourse :)

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Origin story: He’s Just Always Kind Been There IDK

…I still miss that bug cage

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I know, logically, that actual practitioners of Buddhism have nuanced approaches to the problems of morality associated with parasites and pests; Bart does not care.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

“You used a misogynistic slur,” says Bart slyly.

“Bite me,” I reply. “Bitch.”

The worst part about getting a haircut is having to change the character design for your autobiographical comics.

[libraford]

I'm proud of op for brother bart's diminished influence and also for calling him a little bitch.

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Bart is a little bitch

[cat-peach]

Lets unpack this metaphor

[normal-horoscopes]

MAYBE YOU CANT LOVE NATURE FOR ITS INHERENTLY PREDATORY NATURE BECAUSE YOU ROMANTICIZE PASSIVE ENJOYMENT OF A PASSIVE NATURAL WORLD.

I AM BEING HUNTED BY WOLVES.

I CALL THAT ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE ALIVE.

[cecillias-garden]

Caretaker, might I ask how you're managing to outrun them and still be posting?

[normal-horoscopes]

VOICE TO TEXT ALL TERRAIN HEELYS

[sosuperawesome]

Miniatures and Jewelry

Ash Elizabeth Art on Etsy

[thelatestkate]

kind fall vibes~

[shiftythrifting]

Featuring hits such as “if I were a deep one (blubblublublub)”

[thelostswede]

[blueartistic813]

TONIGHT

[lakeffectqueer-deactivated20240]

TONIGHT

[scretladyspider]

Tonight!!!

[mika-meowz]

TONIGHT!

[blueiscoool]

Archaeologists Discover Preserved Skeleton in Pompeii

Archaeologists have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations in the ancient city of Pompeii.

The partially mummified remains, including hair and bones, of a former slave who rose through the social ranks have been found in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.

The remains of Marcus Venerius Secundio were found in a tomb at the necropolis of Porta Sarno, which was one of the main entrance gates into the city. The tomb is believed to date back to the decades before Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.

What have been described as the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in Pompeii include Secundio’s white hair and a partially visible ear. Initial tests show he died at about the age of 60.

Archaeologists said the discovery was unusual because deceased adults during Roman times were usually cremated. A glass urn with the name of a woman, Novia Amabilis, possibly Secundio’s wife, was also found in the tomb.

“Pompeii never ceases to amaze,” said Dario Franceschini, Italy’s culture minister.

Secundio was a slave and the custodian of ancient Pompeii’s Temple of Venus. After being freed from slavery, he joined the ranks of the Augustales, a college of priests who were in charge of a form of emperor worship. The fact that he was buried in a tomb proves he succeeded in achieving a good social and economic position.

Furthermore, an inscription dedicated to Secundio on a marble slab found at the top of the tomb makes references to theatre performances in Pompeii that were conducted in Greek. Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of Pompeii archaeological park, said the inscription was “the first clear evidence of performances at Pompeii in the Greek language”.

“That performances in Greek were organised is evidence of the lively and open cultural climate which characterised ancient Pompeii,” added Zuchtriegel.

The excavations in the Porta Sarno necropolis area are a joint project between Pompeii archaeological park and the European University of Valencia.

Dozens of new discoveries, including the remains of people and animals killed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption, have been unearthed in recent years at Regio V, a vast area of the archaeological park yet to fully open to the public.

By Angela Giuffrida.

[fanonical]

bill: hey kids! i'm bill cipher

bill: if you've noticed how similar my name is to 'lucifer'

bill: just don't worry about it!

[electricxmayhem]

it really is next to impossible to write realistic sibling dialogue, I just passed my brother on the stairs and instead of greeting each other like human beings I said ‘born survivor’ and he said ‘youtube rewind. let’s set it to rewind.’ like you ain’t gonna find that shit in a novel

[dead-men-disco]

aw man writing siblings is so wild because sometimes you just can’t portray it

me and my little brother don’t even greet each other - if we pass each other on the stairs or in the corridor, we jump into ridiculous fight stances then feign karate chopping and slapping each other (stopping just before we make contact) whilst making “HIIIYA” and “POW” noises for a solid 30 seconds, then silently walk off and continue what we were doing

and then sometimes he’ll either just do the Had To Do It To ‘Em pose when I enter the room or dab as a greeting

[electricxmayhem]

exactly! I have three younger brothers and the original post was just about the oldest, the middle one and me usually do some kind of elaborate dab also, and a lot of the time when I see the youngest I just yell his name like a wrestling commentator…siblings have a different language

[itssoldier76]

my twin brother and I just point at each other like that spider-man meme if we see each other at school

[asianartiste]

every time we see each other my brother and i raise our elbows and start walking at each other/ standing completely still

its exactly like this