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Nikki Billie Jean

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‘Mom said she likes WenNing’

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Super late to the party here, but I finally finished my @galrabigbang piece for this year! It goes along with @shadow-djinni‘s fic, Lilacs Out of the Dead Land, which you can read here: 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20317303/chapters/48169927

One of these days I’ll learn how to color.

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so i forgot something 2 weeks ago and it ended in something stupid (also idk, this inspired me in a way)

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This is gold.

tired babysitter!saga i did for @drunkheroes ‘s birthday, albeit late :)

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“Let us put it generally: if a regime is immoral, its citizens are free from all obligations to it.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago.

[Pictured: Captain Pia Klemp sitting in a chair beside her controls.

@VivianAngrisani on Twitter wrote on 6/8/2019: “Pia Klemp, a German biologist & boat captain faces 20 yrs in prison for rescuing 1,000+ migrants at risk of drowning whilst crossing the Mediterranean. Seeking asylum is a human right. Only 1 in 100 sea captains are female. This woman is a humanitarian, not a criminal. #FreePia”

@Galactic_Rabbit quote-tweeted on 6/10/2019 and wrote: “Thinking about all those videos of people honored in their old age for hiding/protecting Jewish people.”]

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Bff made a new book you gotta buy because it's darn pretty.

Hey guys! It’s been some crazy months of conventioning but im back and with a new artbook o/

You can preorder it right here

ALL the preorders will get a DRAWING INSIDE the book ∠( ᐛ 」∠)

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Hi @asrafarel, definitely an interesting question! Prepare yourself for an essay haha (TIL at end)

At first glance I would say the Lamia and the Argonians are definitely not related in a similar way to the senche-raht and alfiq. Khajiit are pretty unique amongst the races in the major variance in their morphology, with some Khajiit ‘resembling the common house cat, huge bipedal jaguars, [or] being almost indistinguishable from Men or Mer’. This is based on the positions of the two moons when a khajiit is born.

There is lore that suggests Argonian’s also have some physical differences within their species. Potentially ranging from “reptilian to almost human” caused by the Hist sap they ingest as juveniles. The Hist sap also determines an Argonian’s gender as they develop or can change it throughout life, though much of this is unconfirmed. 

More relevant perhaps is the lore surrounding the different Argonian tribes within Black Marsh, such as “The Nagas, the toad-like Paatru, and the winged Sarpa.” The Naga are supposedly an “offshoot of the “Saxhleel [Argonians]”, a tribe of which are described as having pale, almost translucent scales, though accounts vary on their appearance as fish-like, snake-like or frog-like. In the Elder Scrolls Online, they appear as regular Argonians with pale colouring. Interestingly an Argonian takes on the physical appearance of the tribe it is born into, regardless of genetic ancestry, though most tribes are defined more by a difference in culture and skills than appearance.

Like Argonian’s, Lamia are a “species of amphibious beastfolk.” Described as having the torso of a woman and the tail of a snake, in ESO Lamia are almost completely scaled and have very reptilian features, while in Daggerfall they appear entirely human above the waist. Unlike Argonians, they have a primitive culture, are usually hostile, and don’t build dwellings. Despite this they are very intelligent, able to speak Tamrielic, wear jewellery and cast powerful magic. They are exclusively female, and are capable of asexual reproduction, though fables claim they can also interbreed with other mortal races.

Their intelligence and physical traits could mark them as an Argonian tribe or offshoot like the Naga, though even more distant. However, unlike seemingly all Argonian tribes, Lamia have no apparent connection to the Hist - usually a fundamental aspect to being an Argonian and which all tribes (no matter how physically different) worship. Lamia instead venerate “entities known as the Egg Mother and the Great Egg.” They are also native to places outside of Black Marsh.

Additionally, all Argonians, regardless of tribe seem to be bipedal, and follow the same basic skeletal/muscular structure, with differences more so in colour, or surface features - being more reminiscent of snakes, frogs, or lizards respectively, with the possible exception of the Sarpa.

As such I don’t believe Lamia are part of the Argonian race, more likely I think they are simply similar on a surface level, having adapted to similar or the same environments. I hope this answers your question!

[TIL: While there are some physical differences amongst Argonian tribes reminiscent of the Khajiit variations, the Lamia are more removed than any of them (no Argonians are known to not be bipedal) more importantly they have no connection to the Hist - and so are very unlikely to be any type of Argonian]

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Khamira is a true role-model.

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Can you please help me. I always try to give advice to everyone who needs it and now I really need your help to save my little guy.

Please reblog as much as possible!

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So cool. Everything Fusspot does is cool anyway.

Sorry that it’s been nothing but grumbling and signal boosts here for a while. Here’s my whole piece from the Zarkon zine as a small penance.

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Keith: You know, I promised Shiro I wouldn’t do anything stupid after I got out of the Garrison.

Keith: [whispering] Sorry, Shiro.

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Okay, this is me.

Pidge: If you had to separate your dog from 49 other identical dogs that were all equally excited to see you, how would you determine which dog was yours?

Keith: I would take my 50 dogs home and live like a king.

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People.

Voltron is not about you and your desires.

Just because the scenario doesn't play out as you wish it to be and doesn't show you what you want, it doesn't mean that everything is BS.

There is flaw in voltron, but not those you're making up. It's getting so annoying to have all of you constantly bitch about something you don't understand.

You keep on mixing your headcanons with canon and thinking you know the show better than their own creators.

Stop projecting your desires, just accept the story that is told and try to understand what was created.

Nothing is owned to you.

And if you like the dragon prince and shera then i can understand why you hate voltron.

Then when a character deserves a redemption arc, people want it to be exactly like his. They don't understand different characters get different ways of redemption. Not everyone needs to be like his.

yep, absolutely, i agree 100%

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@atrperro also i have no fucking idea about what 21st century colony you're talking about. France doesn't have colonies anymore.

What countries are you talking about?

why is france… asking for money to rebuild notre dame…. use the money you stole from africa and haiti bitch

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@atrperro cheap patriotism lol i hate the word patriotism as much as the concept, but if that sounds like it to you what can i do?

Nowhere i said that lives where less important than a cultural building. Don't put words i didn't say in my mouth.

Also, Haïti is a bad example. The corrupt government just hold onto the charity money instead of giving it to their people.

I just said we had not intention on stealing anything from anyone there, but there is troubles in france at the moment (sorry it's not a war level problem yet, so i suppose it's not valid from your point of view) and that this event is just like a omen or something of the sort and that's probably why people are donating. Out of sadness.

I also criticized our rich for giving to diminish their taxes, instead of caring about their employees but i suppose you conveniently avoided that part because you don't really know the situation here.

Even if our problems aren't valid to you, we are still struggling. France isn't a «first rate» country anymore.

We are facing changes. Notre-Dame fall is just the symbol of that. Of course, giving to save people is more important, and i'm personnally not even sure we should restore it except for security purposes, but you can't call out people for being shocked by this and trying to mend it because it's happening in their own country.

why is france… asking for money to rebuild notre dame…. use the money you stole from africa and haiti bitch

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Don't worry. Most of the money is coming from our own richest «philantropic» industrials who're looking to substract it from their tax income rather than using it to better the life of their employees.

Also, you're quite judgy. I suppose you're coming from a country who's never done anything wrong and that you're very informed about france on top of that?

Notre-Dame is a cultural symbol. It's 800 years old and it's probably difficult to imagine what it means to most french people (religious or not, it's beyond religion really) from an outside point of view.

It's collapse is kinda the symbol of our society crumbling. You may not know it but we're having quite a societal crisis in france. It's been going on since november and going up in violence. Notre-Dame fall is like a weirdly timed doom shadow.

France is deadly sick. Trust that we're suffocating and that nobody wants to steal anything from anyone, but we have our own troubles going. Also no one likes the president, so don't associate us with him or his actions. That's exactly why people are rioting here.

why is france… asking for money to rebuild notre dame…. use the money you stole from africa and haiti bitch