#*Huraj

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Star Forge assortment! Left to right, oldest to brand newest:

- Republic - Rakiine (she/her; gunslinger), Dysenxtai (???; assassin consular), Sivega (he/him; smug merc)

- Imperial - Huraj (she/her; sorcerer), Vensys (he/him; operative), Tizr (they/them; jugg inquisitor)

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They all now have a few good outfits that are respectable for screenshot portraits.

I seem to have inadvertently balanced faction/gender representatives, and apparently the theme was red, blue, and then noodle-heads. . . With the noodles existing due to the 30-day waiting period to use guild banks as tax shelters. (Hi, tumblr guildies!)

I also got obligated to get a ship on imp side, but I've done it on the wrong character (Huraj instead of Vensys, my main). Dy was the only one who could take a summons anywhere, and I've been joining ops. . . Which is fine for the oldest few that you enter from the Fleet (Vensys & co. have cleared vet EV, KP, and SnV -- working on the last boss of TFB), but can be a problem with the rest. Lol. But This is Fine. I'll just make some sorc quickbars. hehehe.

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this post definitely has an audience of 1 (and that 1 is me) but david wojnarowicz kept popping up in my thesis research, fell in love with the art, and started to look more into him as a person and come to find out he was incredibly close friends with peter huraj, the artist who took the cover photo for a little life. come to find out my aesthetic tastes are shockingly narrow

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GABO HURAJ : Smer je čaput Kritika vo vlastných radoch Smeru je prakticky nezvratná. Darmo si budú nahovárať, že Šefčovič získal vyše 700.000 hlasov.

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Long Post is LOOOOOOOOOONG And a racially disparaging version of where the phrase Blue Blood came from.

Also a very humorous account to Mara/Nightmare / Old Hag type vampires hoarding and sitting on piles of gold.

VERBAL FOUNDLINGS.

Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922); Jun 9, 1889;

pg. 21

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VERBAL FOUNDLINGS.

Paternity of an Odd Lot of Words and Sayings.

Queer Incidents That Gave Them Tolerance in the English Language.

Facts Regarding Common Phrases That None of the Dictionaries Tell.

(Collected by New York Sun.)

    London Times: The word "teetotal" had its origin through a stuttering temperance orator, who urged on his hearers that nothing less than "te-te-te-total" abstinence would satisfy temperance reformers. Some one at once adopted "teetotal," and it sprang into general use.

    Lincoln County News: the first vessel of schooner-rig said to have been built in Gloucester, about the year 1718. When she went off the stocks into the water a bystander cried out, "Oh, how she scoons!" The builder instantly replied, "A scooner let her be!" and from that time vessels thus rigged have gone by that name. The word scoon is popularly used in some parts of New England to denote the act of making stones skip along the surface of the water. The Scottish scon means the same thing. The word appears to have been originally written scooner.

    Notes and Queries: The term uncle's, as applied to a pawnbroker's shop, is said to be a pun on the Latin uncus a hook.  Pawnbrokers employed a hook to lift articles pawned before spouts were adopted. "Gone to the uncus," therefore, is exactly tantamount to the more modern phrase, "up the spout." In France the concierge of a prison is called uncle because the prisoners are "kept there in pawn" by government. In the seventeenth century a usurer was called "my uncle" in the Walloon provinces because of his near connection with spend-thrifts, called in Latin nepotes, nephews.

    All the Year Round: Among exclamations in common use "Halloo!" and "Hurrah!" have curious origins attributed to them. It is said by the author of the "Queen's English" that the people of Carnwood forest, Leicestershire, when they desire to hail a person at a distance call out not "halloo!" but "halloup!" This he imagines is a survival of the times when one cried to another "A loup! a loup!" or as we would a now say: "Wolf! Wolf!" "Hurrah!" again, according to M. Littre, is derived from the Slavonic huraj, :to Paridise," which signifies that all soldiers who fell fighting valiantly went straight to heaven. "Prithee" is obviously a corruption of "I pray thee;" while "marry" was originally a method of swearing by the Virgin Mary.

    Boston Transcript: After the black Moors were driven out of Spain, or such of them as were too high-spirited to become Christians on compulsion, the aristocracy of Spain was held to consist of those who traced their lineage back to the time before the Moorish conquest. These people were whiter than those who had been mixed with Moorish blood: the veins upon their white hands were blue, while the blood of the masses, contaminated by the Moorish infusion, showed black upon their hands and faces. So the white Spaniards of old race came to declare that their blood was "blue" while that of the common people was black. The phrase passed to France, where it had no such significance, and was in fact, quite an arbitrary term, and so to England and America.

    Detroit Tribune: One night, in the winder of 1855, Artemus Ward lectured in Lincoln Hall, and when the great humorist was about half through his discourse he paralyzed his audience with the announcement that they would have to take a recess of 15 minutes so as to enable to go across the street to "see a man." H.R. Tracey, then editor of the Washington Republican, was in the audience, and seeing an opportunity to improve upon the joke, penciled these lines and sent them to the platform:

"Dear Artemus - If you will place yourself under my guidance I'll take von to 'see a man' without crossing the street."

Artemus accepted the invitation, and while the great audience impatiently, but with much amusement awaited the reappearance of the humorist, the latter was making the acquaintance of a man a luxuriating at a well-laden refreshment board. Of course, everybody "caught to" the phrase, and men became fond of getting up between the acts and "going out to see a man." The restaurateur's business from the time forward boomed. Men who would ordinarily sit quietly through an entertainment and behave themselves allowed themselves to be influenced by the contagion.

    Portland Oregonian: Moses Folsom of Port Townsend sends the following sketch of the use of the letters "O. K.," which he stated was furnished him personally by James Parten:

While at Nashville in search of material for his history, Mr. Parten found among the records of the court of which General Jackson had been judge, a great many legal documents endorsed "O.R.," which meant "order recorded," but often so scrawlingly written that one could easily read it as O.K. If "Major Downing" noticed a bundle of papers thus marked upon President Jackson's table, documents, perhaps, from his former court in which he still had interest it is very easy to see how a punster could imagine it to be "O.K.," or "oll korrect."

No doubt Sela Smith, who wrote under the nom de plume of "Major Jack Downing," had much to do with creating the impressions that President Jackson was unlettered and illiterate, whereas many existing personal letters, military reports, court opinions and State papers show to the contrary. He lived before the the day of stenographers and typewriters, and yet carried on a voluminous correspondence. Hundreds of his personal letters to old soldier friends are still preserved as heirlooms in the South and his handiwork is numerous in Washington. He was evidently a rapid penman and made greater use of capital letters than is the present custom, but misspelled words and stumbling sentences were few and far between.

    Detroit Free Press: There are few people that have looked into the dictionary, especially who know how the term "spinster" originated. We often find it in Shakespeare and other of the English classics, but it is used to define the spinner. This is it's specific meaning. Its general significance is wider. There was an old practice, in the years agone, that a woman should never be married until she had spun herself a set of body, table and bed linen. It is not difficult to see how easily the term became applicable to all unmarried women, and finally became a law term and fixed.

    "Standing Sam" (paying the reckoning),  This arose from the letters U.S. on the knapsacks of the soldiers, The government of Uncle Sam has to pay or "Stand Sam" for all.

    "To find a mare's nest." What we call a nightmare was by our forefather suppose to be the Saxon demon Mara or Mare, a kind of vampire, sitting on the sleeper's chest. These vampires were said to be the guardians of hidden treasures, over which they brooded as hens over their eggs, and the place where they sat was termed their nidus or nest. Hence then anyone supposes he had made a great discovery we ask if he had discovered a mare's nest, or the place where the vampire keeps guard over the hypothetical treasures.

    "Shell out" (out with your shells or money) In southern Asia and many other parts, shells are used instead of coins.

    "To kick the bucket." A bucket is a pulley. When pigs are killed they are hung by their hind legs on a bucket.

    "Little urchin" is a little arc (ore-kin : Dutch - urk, urkjen). The ore is a sea monster that devours men and women ; the ore-kin or little ore is the hedgehog, supposed to be a sprite or mischievous little imp.

    "Eau de vie" (brandy). A French translation of the Latin aqua vite (water of life) This is a curious pervision of the of the Spanish agua di vite (water or juice of the vine) rendered by the monks into a aqua vite instead on aqua vitis.

    "Gone to the dogs." This undoubtedly is a a perversion of the Dutch proverb "Toc goe, tos de dogs" (money gone, credit gone too).

    "Dog weary." This ia also the Dutch saying, "Doege waere hie" (being lond on one's legs tells at last).

    "To write like an angel." This ia French expression. The angel referred to was Andel Vergecios, a Greek of the fifteenth century, noted for his calligraphy.

    "Pig iron." This is a mere play upon the word sow. When iron is melted it sund off into a channel called a a sow, the lateral branches of which are called the pigs. Here the iron cools and is called pig iron. Sow has nothing to do with the swine, but is from the Saxon sawau, to scatter. Having sow for a parent channel, it required no great effort of wit to call the lateral groove little pigs.

    San Diego Sun: Speaking of his recent travels through the State of Sonora, Mexico, a gentleman said:

"While in Guayman I met a sea captain by the name of Bruce, then a commander of the schooner La Umon. He asked me if I would like to take a trip with him to a small seaport village called Ajiavampo, 65 miles down the Gulf of California, near the mouth of both the Mayo and Yaqut rivers. We had been on shore probably half an hour when we heard heard that the natives were celebrating the anniversary of a saint and were having a great time. I invited the captain to accompany me to see it and the host welcomed me cordially and told me to bring {ia?} my companion, "El Gringo".

We were then introduced to the heads of the families and were politely told to make ourselves at home. I drifted away from the captain and sat down by an old lady whose name I learned was Fabiana Murrieta de Farrel. She stated that she was 94 years old and had been married to a 'gringo' 32 years. She then explained why the Americans were called 'gringos' as follows:

'About the year 10 (meaning 1810),' she began 'a great many of us then, of course girls, were surprised to see a great crowd coming ashore in some boats from a buque (meaning a ship) in the port of Guayman and singing a song that my husband afterward taught me how to pronounce. That was "Green Grows the Meadows" of course. All we girls could catch was the first two sentences, 'green grows.' Therefore when we saw them walking in groups we christened them "gringos" and there you have the origin of the word.'"

    Louisville Courier-Journal: During the recent presidential campaign a great deal of talent in the invention of slang phrases was displayed. "Whats the matter with Cleveland?" and it's answer "He's all right," did not have it's origin during the campaign, but owes its birth to Battery A of the Louisville Legion of this city.

In 1881 there was a big military affair held in St. Louis. There were competitive drills for infantry, cavalry and artillery, companies and a large number of each arm entered the lists. The famous Chickasaw Guards of Memphis were there, as well as crack companies and artillery sections from all over the country. A section of the Louisville Battery was there and it may not be amiss to say that it acquitted itself honorably.

The boys composing that particular section -- which afterwards became famous all over the United States -- were a pretty lively set. Among them was George Clark. George is living in this city though he is no longer a member of Battery A. The boys had a great deal of fun among themselves and one of their jokes was to lay everything that occurred on George. One night when they had been accusing him of something, not now remembered, though it is thought it was for capturing a big dog while passing through Indiana, one of the boys yelled out: "What's the matter with George Clark?" and the answer came instanter: "He's all right."

The question and answer were immediately taken up by the Chickasaw Guards and other companies in the immediate vicinity, and the night was not far gone before the cry had spread throughout the entire camp. The thing seemed to strike everybody's fancy. In using the phrases they all stuck to George Clark's name before they began to substitute other names in the meantime the battery boys began to continue as it were. One man would ask the question at the top of his voice and a dozen others would shout the answer in unison.

This idea too caught the soldiers and it could be heard in every company's quarters. When the encampment broke up the troops carried the cry to their homes, but it was suffer to fall somewhat into disuse until the Louisville Legion went to Washington in map 1887. At that encampment there were many who had been at St. Louis six years before, including some of the Louisville boys who lost no time in reviving their old war cry.

The legion marched down Pennsylvania Avenue Sunday afternoon and went into camp at the base of the Washington Monument and by the next afternoon the famous old shout was ringing all over that historic shaft. It spread all over Washington. From the Washington encampment it spread further than ever, until by te time the presidential campaign opened it had become universal.

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New Mexico child abuse suspects accused of training children for shootings

New Post has been published on http://newsintoday.info/2018/08/09/new-mexico-child-abuse-suspects-accused-of-training-children-for-shootings/

New Mexico child abuse suspects accused of training children for shootings

TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – Five adults charged with abusing 11 children at a New Mexico compound, where they were found ragged and starving, were training those children to use firearms to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents on Wednesday.

Conditions at a compound in rural New Mexico where 11 children were taken into protective custody for their own health and safety after a raid by authorities, are shown in this photo near Amalia, New Mexico, U.S., provided August 6, 2018. Taos County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERS

The principal suspect, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, also was charged with abducting his 3-year-old son from his home in Atlanta last December, prompting a cross-country manhunt that led authorities to the compound they raided last Friday north of Taos, New Mexico.

Remains of a young boy believed to be the missing child were found on the property on Monday, on what would have been his fourth birthday, but have not been positively identified, authorities said. The 11 children found alive, ranging in age from 1 to 15 years old, were placed in protective custody.

At an arraignment on Wednesday, Mahhaj and his four co-defendants, Lucas Morton and three women presumed to be the mothers of the 11 surviving children, each pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of felony child abuse. Morton also was charged with harboring a fugitive.

Prosecutors made no mention of motive or ideology in court filings or during court proceedings on Wednesday.

In petitions seeking to detain all five suspects without bail, prosecutors said each was under investigation in the boy’s death.

No weapons charges were filed in the case, but prosecutors said the defendants were suspected of training children “with weapons in furtherance of a conspiracy to commit school shootings.”

Prosecutors said the allegation of weapons training was based on statements from a foster parent for one of the children.

SHOOTING RANGE

Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe referred over the weekend to the suspects as “extremists of Muslim belief,” but he declined to elaborate when asked about it on Tuesday by reporters.

The women, who appeared in court on Wednesday with white sheets over their heads, were identified as Jany Leveille, Subhannah Wahhaj and Hujrah Wahhaj. One of the men wore a towel over his head in the style of a Mideastern keffiyeh, or headdress.

Hogrefe said on Tuesday that investigators found a shooting range at one end of the squalid compound, situated near the Colorado border.

The sheriff has said he sought a search warrant for the compound after a distress message was passed on to authorities in Georgia and shared with his office. He said the FBI was also investigating.

Wahhaj, 39, whose first name was mistakenly presented in some court documents as Huraj, has been described as being in control of the compound. He was heavily armed when taken into custody, Hogrefe said.

According to court documents, when the children were found they were in rags and appeared to have gone days without food, and loaded firearms were within their reach.

Aleksandar Kostich, a public defender representing the five adults, said the identical wording of the allegations about weapons training in each petition suggested that prosecutors were less than certain about the information they were given.

A man who identified himself to reporters as Gerard Jabril Abdulwali, 64, of Alexandria, Egypt, and the father of Morton, attended the court hearing, during which he shouted, “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.”

He told reporters afterward that was in the United States for medical reasons and had not heard from his son since last year until he received a text message from Morton last Thursday that said “they were starving.”

Abdulwali said his son and the other suspects were “peaceful adult settlers.”

“They were homesteading and were trying to establish a peaceful community, a peaceful life away from society,” he said. “They just went about it the wrong way.”

Reporting by Andrew Hay in Taos, New Mexico; Additional reporting and writing by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Bill Tarrant, Toni Reinhold

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Sith sorc Huraj, casually blending in with a couple of goons on Nar Shaddaa

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Matchy matchy. . .

The situation:

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So much PvP for Galactic Seasons points. . . Way too many 4v4 matches--Alderaan turret game is much better.

. . .my sorc got so many levels along the way, I could play her in an ops on Star Forge now. B) Anyone want to party?

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It is now HOT GIRL SUMMER on Star Forge

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[SWTOR OC challenge: R - Day 8]

[15-day Q&A] [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7]

8. Romances. A companion? An NPC? One of your OCs? Someone else’s? Nobody? Explain!

- Tarskal - As featured on this blog overall: TD <3 Cianna. (There’s a whole tag for it.) . . .OTHER than that, Tarskal has been very active in the seducing of all sorts of people. All over. All the time. Doesn’t change his way of life just b/c he picked a favorite. In fact, while things were starting up with Cianna he was also enjoying spending time with his new pal Vette, which turned into a thing that went on a very long time. She eventually realized she was forming her own identity for herself, and his ideas didn’t line up with it--nor did she want to be increasingly bumped to the backseat behind Cianna. She and Cianna had learned to be friends, but Vette dumps TD and leaves eventually. (Their tag. hehhehh) Keran & Adijjah are examples of ppl whose company he enjoys enough for booty calls, but. Like. Doesn’t qualify as “romantic”. At some point into his tenure as Emperor’s Wrath (probably?? My timeline is not well-established) he also ends up in a persistent relationship with Zahied, a jaded, middle-aged dude on the enemy side of the battlefield. By that time TD is also a bit older, married, and has a kid like 6 years old or so. He & the Republic officer don’t see this as a romance (at all) either. It’s not. But they do have an Understanding (mostly unacknowledged) that makes it. . . a little more like a partnership than JUST a “hate-fling” that turned into a long-term benefits-related arrangement.

- Kirryl - She’s been on the flirt with Dani’s Zet’nuri (fun & lovely green twi’lek who does some less-than-legal business). That’s more of a casual nice time for them, and Kirryl isn’t one to catch feelings--most of the time. 8O Somewhat earlier in her life, she got. . . Almost. . . emotionally wrapped-up with a SITH. Liio definitely got it bad for her, but things couldn’t stay the way they were & the conflict of circumstances (not to mention values) separated them before they worked out what to do about their chemistry/connection.

- Arameis - His view was that JEDI DON’T DO ROMANCE. But his heart is too soft, and Adijjah is too soft, and he has himself a problem. He tries to pretend for quite a while that it’s OK if they’re only friends and she keeps meeting other people. . . .He can’t pretend forever that he’s succeeded in maintaining detachment. \8)

- Kallir - He was with a fellow cadet in Intelligence’s alien agent program when he was younger. Kallir may or may not have started to think it was going to be an actual relationship, but the other young man (”Yan” the twi’lek) was actually a terrible person. It got very unhealthy. Absolutely miserable times for a small pumpkin. When he worked with Sanju Pyne on Balmorra he had some real. . . /Pining/. . . feelings. X) But he never told him. Tried to move on quickly as he could. Kallir was very lonely, on a whole, until he and Keran ended up meeting at work on Dromund Kaas. He had some in-house/desk-job spy tasks, and Keran was an apprentice with chores around the citadel. Keran is the flirty one who started it. They went out on a date, then some more dates. . . basically with casual intent. One or the other of them was often away for work, which kept them apart. But they continued seeing each other when they could, started to really WANT to see each other more, and generally got closer & more into each other over time. Until finally Kallir needed to ask if Keran saw him as his. . . boyfriend?! Dumb Keran didn’t think to tell him earlier in those words. ^3^ (Their tag~)

(Bonus)

- Elenir - We haven’t done much to feature them because Troopers aren’t our area of interest, but Dani & I ship ours. Elenir is cyborg lesbian, & Kaashla (whose name I can’t even spell??) is a lovely purple togruta. Both have big muscles & big guns (literal guns), and are loyal soldiers of the Republic. Also a headcanon I had previously: Elenir having a crush on Shae Vizla.

- Lyir - Before Arameis can come to terms with liking a girl, Lyir and Adijjah probably gonna have a cute fling. Lyir is very outgoing and cuddle-happy. (He will still win over Arameis as a friend despite confused-Jedi jealousy.) - Xerzen - He’s Ashara’s future cat husbando. 8]

- Ziore - [Miraluka Jedi Guardian] When SWTOR gave me 2 free companions for all my characters to have, I got Shae and Nico Okarr without knowing ANYTHING about either of them. Thus I ship Ziore and Nico based on nothing else except his cheesy lines when he’s summoned/does stuff for you as a companion. - Huraj - [Zabrak Sith Sorcerer] . . . I didn’t mean for her and Khem to be coordinated colors for shipping reasons. It was just going to be innocently cute that he has the red customization and she’s a red-skinned zabrak. But. Then they came out with that new content and. I guess it’s going to be a thing.

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[An issue for citizens of the fascist space dictatorship...]

Via this post --

1. With slavery being legal and widely practiced in the Empire, what do your imperial characters think about it? 

Do they consider it a terrible practice they would ban if they only had enough power? Are they neutral about it, think it's useful for the economy/just a normal part of life? / Specially for the SI (who used to be a slave before they were sent to Korriban): how did their past experiences shape their view on this topic?

Tarskal - He never had a single qualm about the situation.* His entire way of dealing with people is how he can manipulate them, and there are VERY few who he considers his equal to begin with (none, technically--but a few are close enough). Nonetheless, since he got involved with Cianna, he has respected her disgust and behaved in line with her principles. He doesn’t /need/ slaves, he has droids.** *(On principle. The specifics are another matter, since he has a code of hierarchy that isn’t necessarily reflected in the Imperial status quo.) **(Neither he nor Cianna have been convinced of droid sentience.)

Kallir - Disapproving but resigned. Given that he grew up "property of Imperial Intelligence", he sees himself in a closely related category to slaves, and is focused mostly on his own problems (to which he is also resigned, more-or-less).

Liio - Took him a while to really think about it as a pampered little noble boy. He came around to recognizing it's Not Good. But he tried a different sort of revolution once, and that didn't work for him, so he's discouraged from seeking change.

Xerzen - Definitely not a fan. Wasn't exactly a slave, but worked in places where they worked before he was a Sith & never liked what he saw. Prioritizing self-preservation has generally gotten in the way of him trying to do anything about it. I think as he becomes more secure in the knowledge that he DOES have clout (after becoming a Sith--one with likeminded allies), he’ll become outspoken, at least.

Huraj - She has that "it is what it is" attitude--acknowledging the reality is bad for some (the slaves, primarily) and good for others (the parasite classes, primarily). If she was given sweeping power to reform the system, she might institute the 'moral judgement' kind of enslavement where people don't start their lives in slavery, but if they cause problems then they're prison labor. She's not especially compassionate.

Cezek - She is utterly uncompassionate and does not apologize for it, so it's easy to imagine how that translates. She’s never grasped for power, but if she DID have it, she would probably pose the question "Why am I paying any of you? / Why aren't MORE of you slaves for me?" -- That being said, she tends to punch laterally, not down. It unsettles her to spend time around slaves. She sees that there was misery there before she could show up to cause it, and she doesn't like that--she’s more interested in something to BREAK.

Vensys - Considers himself the pragmatist. He’s not even a native citizen, who is he to interfere with the system that “works” for the Empire? --From a meta/lore perspective I do not know if the Chiss also generally have slaves. If it’s not common, he would have gone through some culture shock. But. When in Rome... He already does everything he can to blend in & pretend he can be just as Loyal and Normal of an Imperial as anybody else, so. Their normal is his normal. He might still get queasy with some people’s specific situations. But. He’s always been fine with believing that other people’s problems are not his problems.

2. Do they own slaves and how do they treat them? Why?

Tarskal - Again, if it weren’t for Cianna he probably would. He wouldn’t treat them very differently than non-slaves--but that’s because he’s awful to nearly everyone (unless for some seemingly arbitrary reason he has decided they deserve better).

Kallir - Has never owned slaves, but it’s not a decision he ever had to make. If, say, he were in a position to buy slaves away from bad situations and “keep them somewhere less awful”-? He might take on the part of slave owner. Like, if it seemed unrealistic for them to live elsewhere safe & free, or if he couldn’t find a non-suspicious way of un-enslaving them.* Would still think it was wrong, but he’d do it anyway (the way he lives his entire life). *(Basically I am picturing if he somehow became a little trophy husband of someone equally wealthy as Keran, but who cared a lot more about their money/estate/reputation.)

Liio - If he ever did own slaves semi-directly (through his family), he was then disinherited and ended up owning nothing. Probably hasn’t thought about what he’d do if he was expected to own someone. He has people he EMPLOYS, so he might think it was fine to just upgrade their position to a paid one (might forget to ask if they wanted the job, though). As for how he treats the ones he meets: formal distance. Not rude, but he doesn’t try to be friendly. He assumes they don’t want that awkwardness.

Xerzen - Never owned a slave, never would choose to. Tries to behave civilly toward people who are enslaved (and continue to see them as people). If he encountered what he thought was a meaningful way of helping them--he might take action. Those circumstances used to be rare for him.

Huraj - Never had the resources to own a slave. If she did, she probably would’ve if it was expected of her, and wouldn’t consider it that big of a deal. She would think of them as tools first--maybe also (unfortunate) people. Distantly. (Wouldn’t want to let that interfere with the order of things, though. She thinks societal stability matters more than anyone’s feelings.)

Cezek - Also never had the opportunity to be a slave-owner; would’ve considered it. She would fully view them as property--financial assets that make more money for you--and she’d deal wth them as infrequently as possible. Have someone else to manage the whole situation.

Vensys - He’d rather have a hold over people with something other than their bare survival... But he might give it a chance, if he came into an appropriate social standing. He’d be a supporter of the “work-to-free-yourself” debtor approach to ownership, since that would seem fair enough to him. He might also think they would earn how they should be treated: nice things for the well-behaved. Offload anyone who caused him trouble. Enacting that average, morally twisted, mundane kind of evil.

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Up late, got the image in my head of OCs in t-shirts they would (or I would make them) wear:

Kirryl - “Bisexual Icon” Lyir - “Bisexual Delight” Vensys - “Bisexual Menace” (Cheeky) Tarskal - “Bisexual Menace” (Problematic) Huraj -“Bisexual Menace” (Threat) Liio - “Bisexual Disaster”

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Spotted on Star Forge fleet :]

Seems like they intend to run this tomorrow (Aug 15th)

[Note: the link says they will NOT be queuing for this! An opportunity for private training in the real GSF settings but not real GSF matches.]

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Being Huraj on Voss to watch (and help?) a Nightmare Pilgrim group on Star Forge. . I already got the Seasons objective b/c someone was fighting when I showed up (tagged in when the dog was almost down & Hurray! it worked). . .

It’s a busy night. 2 groups seem to be competing for members now (after the successful one finished).

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Well I’m still awake and I’m late for it, but I decided to check out this GSF training class. :] Pew pew.

(They’re Imp side so I’m Huraj now)

[Verdict: It was fun! n_n ]

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SWTOR Meme

I saw @shanfamilydrama​ posting this one, and I remember it from SO long ago! I thought “I bet my answers have changed so much!”

Do you have more Imperial or Republic characters?

I Do Not know. LOL. For now I have 1 more max Imp tho: Tarskal, Liio, Xerzen, Kallir, and Cezek—and Huraj on SF.

Pub side I have Ziore, Kirryl, Arameis, and Lyir. Rakiine on SF.

Which class do you play as the most?

Juggernaut T a n k. (I rarely have to bring Ziore out to Guardian mirror-tank.) I also play a lot of operative/scoundrel to heal (I was doing a lot PvP on Lyir to get those Seasons daily+weekly missions—that’s how he levelled up), and sniper is my DPS of choice most of the time. I love my watchman Sentinel & fury Mara, but I rarely have the opportunity to practice so I’m not very good.)

Which race do you play as the most?

The LEAST likely ones for me to have chosen: ordinary normie human (the Jugg), zabrak (operative—and also my SF sorc), and rattataki (sniper). IT JUST HAPPENED LIKE THAT and it’s ridiculous b/c I /barely/ get to play my fav (mirialan—of which my sentinel is one) and I’ve hardly even STARTED a chiss (my other fav). I think I played a reasonable amount as my togruta sage tho, for the sake of healing on pubside—that’s another fav. I like BRIGHT COLORS.

How many have completed KOTFE/KOTET?

It’s still ZERO~!

How many have completed up to Secrets of the Enclave?

Who has stayed loyal to their class romance? Who didn’t?

This has very much yet to be seen. Few of them are my actual ‘Ships anyway. Tarskal doesn’t deserve Vette — or any of the other options he might have. But he’s not even monogamous. . Other than him and Liio (ALSO a warrior—but isn’t even thru Dromund Kaas), everyone else (Kallir the operative & Elenir the commando) who has met a potential love interest is Gay and they’re still in vanilla story so they aren’t allowed to live their gay lives yet!! (. . or their monsterfucker lives, in the case of potential Huraj + Khem.)

I uuuhhh don’t play my stories enough.

Who started a Romance with the Kotet/Kotfe companions?

I want a boy for Kallir. Maybe Koth?? And I enjoy what I know about Theron enough I think I would date him w/ my main pub Kirryl. From what I know of Lana, she is COMPLETELY not Elenir’s type (so she still doesn’t get to live her gay life that way). . I have a feeling this answer is the same as I gave last time.

Who is your oldest (having played the longest)?

I THINK Elenir is the first I made. It’s either her or Tarskal. She’s a cyborg & he’s a human: I was not subbed Yet.

Who’s you newest?

Kijir (nautolan shadow) is quite newish. . if you count only the characters who have escaped the starter planet it might be her.