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How Each Captain Would Handle Moopsy!!!

Kirk: His bones would be drunken

Picard: His bones would be drunken

Sisko: His bones would be drunken

Janeway: Her bones would be drunken

Archer: His bones would be drunken

Kelvin!Kirk: His younger and sexier bones would be drunken

Burnham: Her bones would be drunken

Pike: He knows in advance his bones are fated to be drunken

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Wait, do some people think I'm on here constantly discoursing because they just *dont have an account?* They're reading only hate threads that curate and condense just my politics and don't bother making an account here??

Because you can just look right at my blog archive and see that I have some 50 posts about bugs for every 1 complaint about the state of America.

Almost 100% of the screenshots they get mad at me about for 5 years have been posted by the same user even. My hatedom is built on a single person's curated "politics only" truncation of me and none of them ever just sign up to see for themselves? Is THAT what's been going on?!

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The 1912 Grace Phillips Johnson Mansion in New Castle, PA is an example of a beautiful eclectic historic home. 11bds, 6ba, 9,537sqft, $688k (it's a bargain).

Enter the large main hall and there's one of 16 fireplaces. Lovely wainscoting, crown moldings, and original stairs.

The huge sitting room has ceiling beams, a chandelier, and a triple sized window seat. On the far end of the room there's a fireplace with shelving that wraps around 4 walls.

An actual small foyer opens to a sunroom that would make the perfect conservatory.

The spacious dining room has wainscoting, 2 built-ins, and a fireplace.

Very large kitchen with nice cabinets and chef's appliances.

It looks like the stained glass window in that door came from church architectural salvage. Wow, it's life-size.

The family room has a wonderful stone fireplace and cabinets. This home can be stunning with the right decor.

And, look at this- a genuine marble library. Or, it could be like a museum for a collection. Even this room has a fireplace.

Look at how interesting this is- a booth in the main hall. (You could sell tickets to your private museum downstairs.)

The upstairs hall is so wide.

There's a bed in here, but I don't think it's a bedroom. It looks like a sunroom.

Look at the unusual fireplace, flat against the wall. The room's an interesting shape, has a large window seat and decorated ceilings.

The bedrooms are all very large and each of the 16 fireplaces is different.

One of 6 vintage baths. Look at how big it is.

Most of the 11 bedrooms are not used as bedrooms. Look at the fireplace in this one. A sun porch is directly off this room, so it would be delightful as a bedroom.

It would make a nice studio and even has a nice big closet for supplies.

I don't think I've ever seen such wide halls in a house.

Bedroom with yet another different style fireplace.

This bedroom has its own ensuite.

Outside there's a covered patio with a pavilion constructed of stone.

This looks like it was a greenhouse at one time, but all that's left is the rusty metal frame.

1.34 acre lot. And, there's also a 2 story carriage house on the property.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/221-E-Moody-Ave-New-Castle-PA-16101/86497260_zpid/

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To sum it up, the hungarian police isn't allowing the Budapest pride this year, (article from the Hungarian Helsinki Commitee) claiming that it's to protect children.

Meanwhile, the regime put together a list of news agencies, foundations that, "Threaten hungary's sovereignty" in the following ways, according to Telex's reporting:

[-threaten the independence and democracy of the country

-speak against the "unity of the nation" and the responsibility towards the hungarian diaspora in surrounding countries

-speak against the priority of marriage, families, and biological sex

-threaten peace, safety, and cooperation with other countries

-threaten the country's consitutional identity and christian culture]

Entities that get accused of any of these, whether due to recieving money from outside hungary or due to speaking out against injustice, will not be getting any funding, nor will they get the 1% of their supporters' tax that they pledged to them.

Those 1%s will instead be going to a specific hospital, which is awfully fucking suspicious and i am fully ready to allege that it'll end up in someone's pocket.

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I know I’ve already got an ask in the queue, so just getting this one in before I forget…

What’s up with the change in Doctor Fate’s helmet? All of a sudden he’s wearing a half helmet and socking bad guys like some regular flying brick instead of doing fancy magic, and then just as suddenly, he’s back to the full helmet and ankh effects.

Point of order if having more than one ask in the queue at any one time was against the rules I could have @krinsbez shot at dawn by now.

Anyway.

(An image of Kent Nelson wearing his "half helmet" in a war time propaganda comic circa 1941)

To explain it we need to understand the main "tools" that Dr. Fate uses to conduct his work. Like many mages, Kent Nelson does not hold a purely academic level of arcane knowledge. Arcana of that nature is esoteric and hard to conduct bare handed, there's a reason most wizards in history used tools like wands or orbs. In Nelson's case he wielded.

The Cloak of Destiny: Chiefly a protective garment, able to shield the wearer from earthly and magical attacks

The Amulet of Anubis: A multifaceted item that can enhance a magician's strength, produce a small list of basic spells by itself and even store items, people or souls within it.

And, most importantly.

The Helmet of Fate: Containing the soul and mind of the ancient wizard Nabu, empowered by the occult and cosmic spirits known as the Lords of Order. Wearing the Helm not only allows the wielder to communicate with Nabu for advice and guidance it also grants access to the power he had in life as well as the power of the Lords of Order.

The problem lies with that 3rd item. The Helmet of Nabu cannot be overstated in its importance. In the magical community (thank you Gwen, as always <3...not sure why you needed me to prick my finger on a cactus fruit for this research but you were helpful as always), the Helmet is considered THE most powerful artifact that currently exists in human hands. To bear the helm makes one not just AN Arch Magus but THE Arch Magus, responsible for the protection of all mankind from the threats beyond this realm, the holder of the mantle of Dr. Fate.

The problem is that the helmet's 'inhabitant' and its 'suppliers' do not always have humanity's true best interest at heart and certainly not always the interests of the helmet's wearer.

Nabu is...well he's a sorcerer from the mid Bronze Age. His understanding of justice and protection is that he, as a man who "understands" such things should impose his rules and protection upon those beneath him. It's not really a problem if he's stopping someone from getting crushed by a dragon's toenail but one can imagine it causes personality clashes when more contentions moral or political topics are in play.

And the Lords of Order are, as I have been warned, not Lords of JUSTICE, not Lords of LIGHT. They are Lords of ORDER. And any one of you that has read a slightly complex fantasy story can pick out the issues in that. When the forces of Chaos are mostly made up of demons and imps trying to cause death and suffering for the sake of returning the world to an era of barbarous bloodletting opposing them is almost always the right call but the Lords of Order are not above trying to impose their vision of "Order" upon the human race at large.

Kent Nelson was NOT a millennia old Arch Mage, but he was a man of unshakable responsibility and unbroken moral principle. When Nabu and the Lords of Order began to push him, attempting to manipulate him, attempting to overtake his actions or his will through their mystical might. he did the only thing that was available to him...he took the helmet off.

For the majority of the war, in fact, Nelson wore the helmet as little as possible. Wearing a "regular" half helmet (we have some of them here at the Perisphere, they're adequately machined but not exactly antiques, depending on which helmet it is you can see the seams rather clearly). And getting by with the powers granted to him by the Cloak, the Amulet and what mystical knowledge her could apply in the heat of battle. He could fly, he could increase his own strength, he could shoot beams from the amulet. For 99% of problems it was perfectly workable, if all he had ever had was the cloak and the amulet no one would have questioned Dr. Fate as a hero of his era.

Some situations did indeed call for wearing the Helm, when a more intensive form of mystical power was required but because of Nelson's reluctance and resistance to Nabu's influence over time their relationship became more and more strained, and Nabu's attempt to assert his will when Nelson donned the helmet became more and more forceful, increasing Nelson's reluctance to wear the Helm.

When the Keane Act disbanded the Justice Society, one can only imagine that Nelson was all too ready to place the helm upon its stand and lock it away in the dark for a few decades.

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I had to add it

I still think it’s hilarious that the reason nobody ever figures out Superman’s secret identity or where he lives or what he does when he’s not saving the planet, is because he already told them all the Kryptonian stuff that can’t be tied to any of his human friends or family. I guarantee you the in-universe wikipedia article on Superman lists his name as Kal-El and the “personal life” section says that he lives full-time at his private fortress of solitude at the north pole. Nobody in the world looks at Clark Kent and thinks “oh my god, maybe he’s superman!” for the same reason nobody ever starts to suspect that their coworker who looks KINDA like Barack Obama is actually secretly Barack Obama – They know who Barack Obama is and know what he does and they know their coworker Greg is Greg and not Barack Obama. They have no reason to assume Barack Obama secretly moonlights as Greg The IT Guy at their workplace even though they’ve never seen Greg and Obama in the same place. At best, “Greg is secretly Obama” would be a running joke at the office, and the same is true at the Daily Planet. “Kal-El of Krypton, who lives in a CRYSTAL PALACE at the NORTH POLE and whose dayjob is SUPERMAN, sometimes puts on a suit and pretends to be a clumsy reporter and lives in a one-bedroom walkup in Metropolis” is a ridiculous concept to anyone who doesn’t already know it’s true

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Trump supporters will cut off their own faces to feed to the leopards themselves.

A man who supports President Donald Trump has told Newsweek that he still backs the Republican leader even after federal agents detained his wife.

David Prine, 51, a disabled United States Marine Corps veteran and current Social Services representative at the VA's National Call Center for Homeless Veterans, exclusively spoke with Newsweek about his wife's detention.

Yenifer Correa Ganan, 35, entered the U.S. legally under the CBP One parole program in January 2024, fleeing violence in Colombia with her daughter Ana Maria, according to David. She worked at UPS and later at Virginia Tech.

"I supported President Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. I donated almost all my net income in 2015 to his campaign, earning an inaugural invite," Prine told Newsweek.

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Mmmm medication :) I love you medication. Modern medicine makes my life so much better. "Ohh you're so young maybe you'll want to taper off..." no thank you, I will keep taking the pills that resolve my symptoms :) thank you pharmacology I love you

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i hate driving. here are the laws! if you break them there will be consequences! except youre also expected to break the law just a little bit. people will get mad at you if you dont. you dont have right of way but the person who does is waving you forward for some reason. here's the speed limit! it's not the speed limit, the actual speed limit is that plus ~5-10. the light is green but you're in the turning lane. can you go? should you have gone just then? the person behind you is honking at you. there's a weird noise coming from your engine; if you try to do the right thing and get it checked out, will you get scammed? you are driving a 1-2 ton metal machine rocketing at speeds unknown to humankind for most of history. around a million people die in car accidents every year; that's about one person every thirty seconds. if you take that seriously and try to drive safely then people get mad at you.

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So Voyager found out there is this bubble surrounding our solar system made up of solar material blown outwards by solar wind and acts as a border between the solar system and the rest of space has a temperature of 30,000-50,000 Kelvin.

For reference the surface of the sun has a temperature of roughly 5770 kelvin

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Happy 10th birthday to the best tweet of all time.