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[princelymlm]

Heyhey! Just noticed on your ways to say "I love you" list, the Irish is actually "Mo ghrá thú" as opposed to "is brea liom tú" (just because that's a direct translation from english and not something we'd use naturally even if it's technically correct lol)

Thanks! That’s what was submitted by a few people but sometimes direct translations aren’t always correct so I’ll go ahead and change that!

[zeesqueere]

(For the fic thing) There were only two ways out of this situation, and one of them involved jumping out the window.

But Errol had to know: his only hope of escaping Ostwick and the stigma of his birth was to intercept the summons before his father delegated the task to another.

The sound of footsteps was drawing ever closer; soon enough, his father—or worse, one of his siblings—would find him here, inside Reginald’s private study, poking his nose into official Trevelyan matters.

The red envelope caught his eye immediately, the sunburst motif in the wax seal unmistakable.

Errol pocketed the letter and dove out the window less than a heartbeat before the study door flew open.

He wasted no time in racing to the stables and stealing away on his brother Matthew’s prized bay mare—for he had a Peace Summit to attend.

Leave the first sentence of a fic in my askbox and I will write the next five

[impishelf]

OTP in Five Songs

Tagged by @zeesqueere and honestly I almost forgot

Answering for Valadis and @lukacola‘s Serin

Probably not the best songs for them, not all of the songs anyway, but I tried

—

1. “Bloom” by The Paper Kites

In the morning when I wake And the sun is coming through, Oh, you fill my lungs with sweetness, And you fill my head with you 

Shall I write it in a letter? Shall I try to get it down? Oh, you fill my head with pieces Of a song I can’t get out

2. “If My Heart Was a House” by Owl City

Circle me and the needle moves gracefully Back and forth, if my heart was a compass you’d be North Risk it all cause I’ll catch you if you fall Wherever you go, if my heart was a house you’d be home

3. “Falling in Love At A Coffee Shop” by Landon Pigg

I never knew just what it was about this old coffee shop I love so much All of the while I never knew

I think that possibly, maybe I’m falling for you Yes there’s a chance that I’ve fallen quite hard over you I’ve seen the waters that make your eyes shine Now I’m shining too

4. “Best Friend” by Weezer

There is no other one who can take your place I feel happy inside when I see your face I hope you believe me ‘Cause I speak sincerely and I mean it when I tell you that I need you

You’re my best friend and I love you, and I love you Yes I do

5. “If It Kills Me” by Jason Mraz

How long, can I go on like this, Wishing to kiss you, Before I rightly explode? This double life I lead isn't healthy for me In fact it makes me nervous If I get caught I could be risking it all Cause maybe there's a lot that I miss In case I'm wrong

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Tagging anyone who wants to do it

[zeesqueere]

4 and 6 for the the inquisitor companion asks? For whoever you feel like doing lol

Inquisitor-as-Companion Asks

Answering with Naish, my Adaar Inquisitor

4. What would their romance route look like? Would they be romancable?

Naish would be unromanceable for Inquisitors but would stammer and blush during all interactions with Cassandra. Including both Naish and Cassandra in the same party would give Naish a disadvantage to all spells cast (she’s a truly hopeless lesbian)

6. Write some of their party banter (in reaction to major events, scenery dialogue, or just shitting around. Askers can specify for which character/event, or leave it up to the writer).

Cassandra: Are you quite alright?

Naish: O-of course! Why would you even ask that?

Inquisitor: You’ve managed to hit me twice with your staff today.

Varric: And you’ve nearly stepped on me more than usual.

Naish: I am sorry. I will watch myself more...

Varric: And the Seeker less?

Cassandra: What exactly does that mean?

Naish: (panicked blubbering)

Inquisitor: (Sighs) Now you’ve done it.

[zeesqueere]

Oc ask meme... 19 for Dia?

OC Ask Game

19: Your OC’s life is a musical. What’s the title of their big show-stopping song?

The musical is called ‘Bon Dia’ and this is the song list:

That Baby’s On Fire!

Bloodstained Lullaby

Come On

The Snitches’ Lament

Picking All My Bleeding Hearts

Prey (On Your Knees)

Knife In Your Back

Violence Is The Answer

Gather No Moss

(Do It For) F.A.M.I.L.Y.

Under The Tableau

A Burst Of Sunlight

Come On (Reprise) — Major Key

[zeesqueere]

World building Wednesday for Dia? (I just love her a lot)

BASICS

full name: Diaraye Rokhaya Hilarionne Oulemata Cadash

gender: cisgender female

sexuality: bisexual

pronouns: she/her/hers

OTHERS

family:

Fatoumata (birth mother, deceased)

Issoufou (birth father, estranged)

Daouda (eldest adopted brother, estranged)

Djibril (second adopted brother/adoptive father)

Aïssatou (sister-in-law/adoptive mother)

Dienabou I (biological sister, deceased)

Dienabou II (biological sister/former adoptive daughter)

birthplace: just outside of Churneau, Orlais

job: semi-retired Carta assassin, advisor to the Inquisition, court-recognized mistress to Divine Victoria

phobias: fire, abandonment

guilty pleasures: none

MORALS

moral alignment: neutral evil

sins: lust / greed / gluttony / sloth / pride / envy / wrath

virtues: chastity / charity / diligence / humility / kindness / patience / justice 

THIS OR THAT

introvert / extrovert

organized / disorganized

close-minded / open-minded

calm / anxious

disagreeable / agreeable

cautious / reckless

patient / impatient

outspoken / reserved

empathetic / unempathetic

optimistic / pessimistic

traditional / modern

hard-working / lazy

RELATIONSHIPS

otp: Dia x Feo, Dia x Vivienne de Fer

ot3: none

brotp: Dia x Diena, Dia x @thekeeperlavellan’s Valeria, Dia x @my-da-phase’s Frey (and always open to more!)

notp: Dia x Amaury

[zeesqueere]

Nightfall for the micro story thing? 😊

Send Me A Number

49. Nightfall

The heat of the day had long since burned off the desert sands. With the moon shining upon the dunes like windswept waves, the landship seemed adrift upon the Glass Ocean rather than the wastes beyond the edge of Thlaht-Rawat, the City of A Thousand Lanterns.

After nightfall, the entire city would glow with reflected moonlight. The entire mountain seemingly transformed into a fallen piece of sky still riddled with countless stars. Not even the moon outshone the city’s Spire, however, as the faculty at the Academy made sure to carefully monitor its beacon. The blue beam from the Spire was an invaluable navigational tool to dunesailors and anyone else who wandered the Yuanqi Desert.

The landship continued to cut through the silver sands as the night wore on. With luck, The Roc’s crew would even reach the Lazulian Gate by first light.

[mapsontheweb]

New York City map identifying what tract, in NYC, incarcerated New Yorkers come from

by u/LukaCola

TOOL USED: Visualization made using R Studio

Packages include: sf, ggplot2, leaflet, dplyr, tidyverse, haven, RColorBrewer, tmap, tmaptools

SOURCE: Data comes from New York 2020 census data https://data.census.gov/cedsci/ and https://latfor.state.ny.us/data/ - I unfortunately cannot share the tract level shapefile, but there are many available for New York City. This is possible due to recent legislative changes that require New York City to count incarcerated persons based on their home prior to incarceration, effectively eliminating some forms of prison gerrymandering in the state.

The calculation is relatively simple but I first transformed the block level data to tract level data as I find tract level visuals much more readable.

Then I subtracted the NYC 2020 census values from the adjusted population values and filtered out negative values, as prisons such as Rikers island result in a high negative population.

There is an issue where people are fairly heavily undercounted, with only about 16,000 incarcerated persons accounted for while there are about 40,000 that come from NYC. I have tried to work out this discrepancy but have had trouble figuring it out. It may be that the legislative task force's data simply under-adjusts due to known issues where they could not effectively locate a prisoner's original address, but I haven't been able to get in touch with them to figure this out. As helpful and valuable as their data is, they had to work with DOCCS data which is not always usable for this purpose.

The purpose of this is to identify what neighborhoods are most affected by incarceration, the data isn't especially surprising but it is interesting to see it mapped out. It was also an exercise in learning how to do GIS work and part of an ongoing project - so please forgive some of the sloppiness and lack of neighborhood labels.

E: Also figure I'd head this one up - this data can be contentious, but I am doing this out of interest for the communities affected. Incarceration is one of a few ways people can lose voting rights and the high rate of incarceration in these communities effectively hurts their voting power. For the purpose of drawing voting districts, this impact should be considered, especially as Black and Hispanic voters are especially impacted.

E2: Also here's the same on the block level, if you want to get really granular (I find this one much harder to visualize general trends though)

https://imgur.com/CH7MToI

E3: See here for discussion on rate vs total

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/yq0ik8/oc_new_york_city_map_identifying_what_tract_in/ivpdidp/