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[fallenlondonnpcfight]

New Fighting Ring Opens in Watchmaker’s Hill

A fighting ring of a different kind has opened in Watchmaker’s Hill, run not by Feducci, but by @bizarrebazaar13. Players of Fallen London can submit their favorite NPCs to go head to head in a series of polls.

There are many, many characters to choose from, so the host asks that Londoners limit themselves to NPCs from Fallen London only. The size of the bracket is determined by the amount of submissions, although not every submitted character is guaranteed entry.

Players may also submit their own art to be used, with credit, for one or multiple characters. This does not automatically guarantee that their art will be used, especially if multiple people submit art for the same character. They may not submit another person’s art.

There is space on the entry form for players to list as many characters as they like, but they are always welcome to fill the form out more than once, as it does not collect email addresses or limit responses.

The submission form is open until September 30, and the bracket will be announced shortly thereafter. It can be accessed here.

[clarabosswald]

to the 10 non-israeli hostages still in hamas captivity (listed from top left to bottom right):

bipin joshi, 23, nepal. an agronomy student, bipin arrived at israel to study citrus cultivation, only 3 weeks before 7/10. he was staying at kibbutz alumim when the attack started. at first, when the rockets started, bipin sheltered in a bunker with 16 other nepalese foreigners. thinking this was a "regular" attack, and will pass soon, they've even taken a group selfie, which one of them had uploaded to facebook with the caption "bunker time". bipin can be seen in this photo.

fear settled in when the sound of gunfire was getting closer. terrorists briefly entered the bunker at first, shooting at the men. two were instantly killed - one who was filming with his phone, and one who shouted "we're nepalese!" the terrorists have then started throwing grenades into the bunker. the men have crowded against the wall - except for bipin, who jumped at the grenades to throw them away. he was successful with the first grenade; but the second one exploded before he could get to it, and left several of the men injured and unconscious. the terrorists have moved on from the bunker, and later the men heard distant shouts of israeli officers, who arrived at the active scene of the attack, instructing them to come to a nearby kitchen for better shelter. while a few of the men immediately went there, bipin and a few of his friends tried to first aid those who were injured by the grenade. it was during this time that he quickly texted his cousin, in english: “If something happens to me you have to take care of my family. Be strong and always see the future.” it was then that two terrorists broke into the bunker. one, pointing a gun at the men left inside, instructed them to come outside with him. the other filmed them with his phone - with the footage being the last time bipin was seen. bipin's phone was later located in the gaza strip.

2. sudthisak rinthalak, 43, thailand. a farm worker, he was working the orchards of kibbutz be'eri on the morning of the attack. he was murdered on the spot, and his body kidnapped into the gaza strip. his death was confirmed to his family on may 16, 2024, following an investigation of the available evidence. may he rest in peace.

3. watchara sriaoun, 32, thailand. a farm worker, he was kidnapped from kibbutz nir oz, where he was working. watchara arrived in israel back in 2020 with his brother, in order to cover their family debt and pay their father's medical bills. apart from his mother and brother, waiting for him back home is also watchara's 9 year old daugher, irada, whose mother died in august 2024.

4. sathian suwannakham, 35, thailand. a farm worker from kibbutz nir oz, he arrived at israel in 2020. sathian was seriously injured during his kidnapping. his mother found out about it via a video on facebook; she, alongside sathian's father and sister, are still waiting in thailand for any word on him.

5. pongsak tanna, 36, thailand. a farm worker, he would often livestream while working, talking to his father wilas, or his 14 year old daughter. on the morning of 7/10, pongsak video called his father. during the 10 minute call, he described the chaos of rockets and gunfire, shouting at people around him to hide from the terrorists. eventually the signal was cut. pongsak was kidnapped into the gaza strip. during the weeks after 7/10, wilas spent days riding his bike around his home province, alongside the thailand-cambodia border, looking for anyone with a relative in israel who could help him search for pongsak. he had spent thousands of bahts (hundreds of dollars) repeatedly submitting legal documents to the government, in hope for any news on his son. “if my son is alive, whenever israel can get the hostages released, I want (him) to come home quickly to (his) hometown," silas said in an interview back in october 2024. “most importantly, i want my son to be ordained (as a buddhist monk) for his mom who died when he was away."

6. bannawat seathao, 27, thailand. a farm worker, he was shot in the leg before being kidnapped.

7. nattapong pinta, 35, thailand. nicknamed "nick", nattapong, a farm worker, came to work in israel a year and a half before 7/10, leaving his wife and young son, in order to pay off a debt and help his wife fulfill her dream of opening a coffee shop. he worked the avocado groves in nir oz. during the occasional rocket attacks, nick would call his older sister, reassuring her. "i’m just saving up a little more money, then i’ll be coming back.” on the morning of 7/10, nick called him wife, narissara. there was shooting, he said, and he was running away. that was the last she heard from him. "i felt like my heart was being squeezed when i learned that he hadn't been freed yet," narissara said. "i will definitely go to the airport [when he returns]. nothing will stop me."

8. suntaya akrasi, 20, thailand. a farm worker, suntaya was murdered on 7/10 while working near kibbutz be'eri, then his body was kidnapped into the gaza strip. his death was confirmed on may 16th, 2024. may he rest in peace.

9. joshua loitu mollel, 21, tanzania. an agronomy student, he arrived at israel 3 weeks before 7/10, planning to stay for 11 months. both joshua and his roomate, clemence felix mtenga (22), a fellow student from tanzania, were murdered in nir oz. at first, the pair had managed to text a fellow tanzanian intern in the kibbutz, ezekiel kitiku, telling him that they were running for shelter. but after a few hours, the texts have stopped. joshua's violent kidnapping was filmed and posted online, showing the terrorists stabbing and shooting him several times. joshua's body was kidnapped into the strip; clemence's body was identified a month later. joshua's death was confirmed in december 2023. joshua was the oldest of 5 children, and his stay in israel was his first time traveling outside of tanzania. joshua's father told of joshua's younger siblings that they "ask me every morning and night: ‘Dad, we want to talk to our brother.'" may joshua and clemence rest in peace.

10. surasak lamnau, 30, thailand. a farm worker at first, surasak's mother, kanmee, had no idea what happened to her son. in the chaos following the events of 7/10, his colleagues in israel told her that they did not see him. but after she posted about him online, she was told that he was one of 5 people - an israeli employer and his 4 thai employees - who were kidnapped. his fate is currently unknown.

none of these 10 hostages are expected to be released during the first phase of the ceasefire deal between israel and hamas.

of the 82 foreign nationals who were killed during the 7/10 events, 46 were thai, 10 were nepalese (all agronomy students who were murdered in kibbutz alumim), 5 chinese (3 were murdered in sderot); 4 were from the philippines (3 were working as nurses in the gaza envelope, one was killed in the nova festival massacre); two nurses from sri lanka (both murdered in kibbutz be'eri); two were from tanzania; 2 were from the uk; 2 were from the usa; and the others were from germany, moldova, canada, cambodia, eritrea, india, mexico, ukraine, and geogria. 32 foreign nationals were kidnapped. most of them thai. 647 foreign nationals were injured.

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

I was on the Ultrakill rule 34. as Gabriel Ultrakill fans are prone to do. and i stumbled across art of Gianni's smiley bomb character riding Gabriel and holding a microphone to his face and recording his sounds and the top comment on that art was "ah so this is where all those recordings from canon-gabriel-quotes are from"

HELP?

I had to check. If it was real.

help.

[twilight-zoned-out]

John Walker is implied to be chronically online.

[lovemyromance]

Guys so apparently - out of 4.5, 800+ page books, SJM did not want people to pick up on the actual Elriel scenes on the page. She was both building and destroying the Elriel romance before ACOSF through a secret code that only ELs & GAs picked up on.

I'm here to translate what we should've picked up on years ago, that apparently is common knowledge amongst the other side!

SJM wanted us to pick up the 3 separate times she used sunlight in regards to Elain & the zero times it was used in regards to Lucien (but this still means they're mates)

She wanted us to notice an alleged dagger lesson Azriel gave Gwyn

And pay attention to the 183rd time someone looked at someone with amusement or challenge in ACOSF only- that specific moment which happened to have Azriel and Gwyn (and Nesta and Cassian and Emerie and the other priestesses) was more significant than the past 3 books.

She wanted us to remember that she used the word spark for multiple things in the TOG series and not remember the other time she used it in ACOTAR with Feyre & Tamlin.....

And Idk if you guys picked up on her "secret code" but she actually wrote the first 3.5 books for you to use as kindling and doorstops.

Apparently in ACOSF, through a series of Morse code blinks first mentioned in TOG and also her elusive book Catwoman, SJM basically tells us that the first 3.5 ACOTAR books are useless and we should just act like they don't exist.

There's probably more secret messages we missed, but I don't have the energy to comprehend more GA canva ppts 🫠 it sucks to not have a English degree that helps me understand this book on fairy smut

[foxett]

Whatever. Go my photobomb yuri

[jealousmartini]

Exhausted, jaded n quite frankly fed up of the usual bickering and nagging of my mother, the boring stillness of the house and my yearning for my mha reality, I was loitering in my kicthen, blocking out the irritation in my mum's voice that still reached me through the walls that seperated us as I was about to start complaining to myself how "I always say I'm gonna shift, and then I don't" just for me to immediately snap back saying "that's because you never accept that you did."

And now I'm kinda slouched on my bed that's half through changing the sheets, sitting in my own embarrassment with a hunched back my own irritation even at myself, for figuring out the solution to my problem so easily. So quickly that the reality of how simple it was pisses me off.

Because, annoyingly, the truth is that reality changes when you change. ur mind.

All you have to do is decide where you want to be, deny this reality with a million bitchy eye rolls at the doubts that pop up and accept you are in your dr.

Decide, denydenydeny and accept is the real key to shifting. and remind yourself you are already there if you forget.

and then double down on that shit.

"but I can still see that I'm still in my cr—" don't care. don't matter. You're in your dr right now, and that's a fact. "but im still—" shut tf up. it dont matter. Youre in ur dr.

[sicklytenshi]

my mother ordered me some dark girly kei clothes this morning and I eventually ended up infodumping about jirai kei (since most fashion sellers list it as “jirai fashion”)

when I got around to telling her what the jirai stands for, she told me that she thinks it's accurate for me, only that I'm more likely to implode than explode👍

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Okay I'm curious: I've seen a lot of Christians use/refer to the phrase "hosanna in the highest!" which is used in the New Testament and I've frequently heard it pronounced "hoh-ZAHN-ah". However, it's a much older liturgical phrase in Hebrew and definitely not pronounced like that. I want to know: (1) were you taught the actual meaning of this word by your community/do you know what it actually means without googling it, (2) what variety of Christian are you, and (3) if, after googling it, were you correct?

Sorry fellow yidden and other non-Christians; this poll is specific to people who identify as Christian and/or who were raised as such. (Edit: gerim who were raised Christian can vote, but you have to base it off of what you were taught as a Christian, not what you know now.)

Christians who answer: if you googled this after voting yes and were taught wrong about it, please let me know in the notes.

(If you're wondering if you "count" as Christian or having been raised as such, for these purposes I would say interpret it broadly to include anyone who views Jesus as the messiah and grew up reading the New Testament as part of your bible.)

[i-may-be-an-emu]

New goal on sfth’s ko-fi :)

[lesbianslovenamari]

I was reading DunMeshi and was so confused by this phrase that I decided to look it up

(Do correct me if you think this isn’t accurate cuz I just used google)

But I find it frankly hilarious that Chilchuck is using slang from various parts of the British Isles out of nowhere in the last volume??

(I’ve now had someone explain to me that apparently it’s not uncommon for certain uncommon types of informal Japanese to be translated as slang from specific areas, typically around Britain, in English)

First of all I’d alr seen people jokingly headcanoning him as Irish on here (which was an idea I absolutely love)

ALSO I come from a part of the UK where I’m very familiar with the term ‘git’ but had never heard of a version with an e and I also had no idea it meant the same as ‘bastard’

(I have considered that this could just be the regular meaning of the word ‘get’ but I thought it wouldn’t grammatically make sense here so I assumed it was slang esp cuz he would totally call someone a git)

Anyways I’ve checked other translations and it’s not the same so I find it so funny that this one (which I’m pretty sure is the official English translation) included it

(^ another version I found online)

Anyways this is the translation I have and used as an example for this post, which I’m pretty sure is the official English translation:

Edit: Btw also check tags I kinda wrote this when I was drunk on sleep deprivation

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

(non gabe related clip)

voted most informative stream on twitch

Source

[simplystupidfreak]

Sonic liked to think he’d seen it all. Ever since that first blow-up with Eggman, surprises just became part of the gig. But nothing quite prepared him for this.

Not the rumors, not the crash, not him.

OR

how sonic and tails met :)

[zia-zee-bee]

Just for your information, Mike has never show any feelings for Will neither.

He canonically has feelings only for El.

And yet, all of you Bylers like to pretend he has, just for some little details, looks or gestures he did towards him.

Why you can do that with them, but the moment we do that with Nancy, who also showed some ambigous looks towards Robin, and Robin showed some towards her as well, then it becomes a problem?

Why are you Bylers the only ones who gets to be delulu?

The reality is that, if Nancy and Robin don't have canonical feelings towards each other, then neither Mike has towards Will.

Neither of our ships will never be canon, unfortunately.

So it's useless that you act like a superior one.

We all already lost.

(Also, how exactly tagging Stonathan would have helped you not being attacked?)

..is this the same anon?

[ask-marzenie]

[MARZENIE GUIDE POST BECAUSE I DONT FEEL LIKE THE OTHER ONE EXPLAINED WELL ENOUGH]

so here’s a slightly better rundown of my little Basil-POV AU

MARZENIE as opposed to HEADSAPCE

Headspace is … at least mostly a VOLUNTARY experience that Sunny is pretty chill about, headspace is an escape, a paradise

Marzenie on the other hand is completely involuntary, Basil doesn’t want to be there but he ends up there anyway, this is largely a guilt complex- Marzenie is bad because Basil thinks he deserves that, to be trapped in a world of torment is only his punishment, the only way to make up for what he did, Marzenie isn’t really ‘designed’ either, headspace has had multiple iterations and has had to replace characters when things go wrong, Marzenie on the other hand has been a developing constant for Basil since about a year after the incident, a place that gradually evolved as his mental state became worse and worse, but when I say it’s not ‘designed’ I mean to imply that Sunny (or omori?) very intentionally crafted their idea of who the characters should BE in headspace, Marzenie characters are based upon Basil’s unconscious views on people. If you’re a monster in marzenie that’s not his fault, he didn’t do that on purpose

Additionally:

Ok that’s all!!

I might pin this post because I find it very useful for making clear what exactly this au is supposed to BE

[theclydesdalepegasus149]

[RUMOR] Ghostforce anime?

Jeremy Zag posted on his Instagram story that the team at ZAG Japan had recorded a demo (sung by Hironobu Kageyama of Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball Z fame) about Ghostforce.

This, combined with both the hashtag and this concept art of Fury, imply that an anime adaptation is in the works. I realized I haven't posted it yet, but the artwork below was revealed on Jeremy Zag's Instagram Story back in April.

Of course, there is no official announcement at the time of this writing, so take this with a grain of salt.

Multiple articles have announced that ZAG Japan would "explore the emotional depth and artistic beauty of Japanese storytelling by developing manga, anime series, and traditional animation films that will inspire audiences all around the world".

There are also rumors floating around that Miraculous might (finally) have an anime version as part of the deal. But again, we need confirmation. Let's hope ZAG's participation at any major trade show events like Annecy Festival and MIPCOM would reveal anything interesting.