#Thain

[theartsywhale]

One Hit Cayo (p.4)

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Ta Tallas Thain, 2023

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[alicebeckstrom]

“It is true that the Took family had long been pre-eminent; for the office of Thain had passed to them (from the Oldbucks) some centuries before, and the chief Took had borne that title ever since.” ~ Prologue, Of the Ordering of the Shire, The Fellowship of the Ring [Gerontius "The Old" Took in the extended edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey] 

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Howard Thain, The Great White Way—Times Square, 1925. Oil on canvas.

Photo: NY Historical Society

[essektheylyss]

It remains so funny to me that Caleb's idea of 'settled' is definitely "stirring up revolutionary talk in the capital like a 19th century philosophy professor while his wanted criminal boyfriend shows up on his front porch once a week in the flimsiest disguise imaginable." Icon shit.

[neinofthem]

i’m sorry to be an uninformed essek stan, but what is lord lord from around?? i’ve seen it mentioned a few times but i do not know what it is 😩😭

don’t be sorry it’s sort of a meta thing ok so basically esseks stupid disguise name is lord dezran thain. thain is another spelling of thane, which is the anglo-saxon word for lord. so when you’re saying lord thain you’re saying lord lord. he named his super secret inconspicuous alter ego lord lord. and THEN when jester is asking him where he’s from in nicodranas he’s like ‘… places.’ and she’s like no but where and he’s like, ‘um. around? around… in nicodranas?’ so essentially essek thelyss, spymaster and uber-suave courtier can’t think of a better alias than lord lord from around. how he got as far as he did is a complete mystery.

[mini-minish]

m9 pirate + essek joins earlier + speedrun any% au 🏝

disclaimer these are just sillies for fun bc i wanted more pirate times please don't think too much about plot divergences; feel free to add your own ideas in the mix!

spoilers for the mighty nein

• fjord becomes a captain earlier

• caleb escapes the prision earlier

• while on the run and covered in tears and mud, he meets beauregard in one of her many cobalt soul escapes

• a lone half-orc captain with a cursed sword but no ship or crew walks into a bar, sees two anxious looking humans in the corner: a scrawny woman with a grumpy face and a scrawnier ginger with a towel to his recently broken nose

• seems easy enough.

• girls night!!! they steal their first boat

• rule #1 of stealing methods of transportation is that you should watch out for blue tieflings stowaways trying to get as far away from a recent problem as possible

• back on land they loose beau (got got by the soul ☝️😔), caleb gets locked up in a shady storage while looking for her and there he meets nott the brave

• fjord's first response upon seeing a goblin following his navigator is to pull the sword on it

• nott's first response upon seeing some green dude shove a sword in her face is to pull her crossbow at him

• they look up and down for beau, but she finds her way back to them eventually

• still, they'll need more hands if they want to keep their totally legally owned ship afloat

• still on land, The Circus Plot happens and they acquire two more crew members 🎉

• molly loves the ocean, yasha likes the wind

• all of them like to go up to the crow's nest and bother caleb, nott more than the others; eventually he stops hiding up there so much

• yasha starts getting anxious about her unfinished business at the same time jester stars getting anxious about their clothes not being pirate-y enough

• they lose their first ship (of pristine papers as long as you don't look at them in the light) and have to travel on land until they manage to borrow a new one without asking it's owner and with promises of never returning it

• they also lose molly :(

• but they get caduceus :) who's not very keen on being in a boat for long periods of time but he'll adjust

• one thing he'll have in common with the cat

• fjord has a problem: The Voices in his head telling him to get back on the water

• jester has a conundrum: they got all of these nice, proper pirate outfits but now they have no ship

• love wins

• she did get frumpkin his very own little coat

• in the night, as the mighty nein crew wispers around two pushed together inn tables, a cloaked figure approaches upon hearing they are in need of help

• dezran, or dez, for short, for friends, an inconspicuous sun elf from, you know, around these parts, who is in dire need of work and oh would your captain be so kind to-

• insight checks fly around the pushed together inn tables

• but all of them know each of them is running from something or someone, and not all of them have a destination in mind, so really it's not like they're going to ask.

• plus nott thinks she saw a really nice boat on the dock with it's lights all out

• welcome aboard!

• cue the guy running from stealing things having to steal things

• cue a disguised drow's inventory slots full of the strongest sunscreen balm he could find this side of the continent

• maybe caduceus or jester finds out first, around when ess- dez, for friends, got a little too reckless and a little too hurt some time or other

• but the wildmother shows caduceus a lonely star when he asks, and artagan hasn't been paying attention, and anyways that's dez, that's right, their friend who has been nothing but helpful and fun, if a little skittish depending on the weather, and who always tries jester's pastries

• besides, far from him being the only person with a fake identity at the function. he's not that special.

• when fjord and beau find out, they're suspicious, but they won't make him walk the plank. there's protocol for that.

• yasha is not one to question someone running from their past

• when nott the brave finds out, she doesn't ask what he really looks like

• when caleb widogast finds out, during a siege on the ship, he grabs essek's arm and sees the drow underneath the disguise, and wants to know who are you, but circumstances are that later, they'll talk about this later.

[burningsuitfire]

So thinking about Caleb's accent and how he sounds like Essek and Caleb being bad at accents and Essek's accent undercover and trying to connect all the dots.

Look at it this way. In campaign 2, Matt's Essek voice and accent changed wildly almost every other sentence.

Caleb and Cad (and Jester) had no clue undercover Essek's accent wasn't authentic. They barely noticed he was nervous, let alone faking anything. When they met on the Assembly's boat and Mercer rolled for Dezran where they saw his nerves, they still couldn't catch he was faking a Nicodranas persona (also again pointing out "Thain" was 100% Mercer googling noble names and not meant to be a bad cover) even with Caleb's memory, Caleb and Caduceus's extremely high passive perceptions, and Jester's background as a Nicodranas native.

And then of course Caleb's roll with frumpkin revealed it all, but it took that snooping and very high stealth roll to truly realize, and later Mercer has said he didn't expect them to catch Essek, blaming it on them rolling so high on a number of checks.

In contrast, when Astrid (an established elite spy for 15 years) was disguised and undercover in the lavish chateau, she got her fake Marquesian accent noticed immediately by (very unperceptive) Fjord of all people, who's never even visited the country... and yet he had no clue about Essek's accent or persona.

[for-the-love-of-javert]

Philip Quast as philandering, married cop Carl roberts in the 2006 film The Caterpillar Wish

Also pictured Victoria Thaine as Emily Woodridge, Khan Chittenden as Joel Roberts, Romi Trower as Carrie & Wendy Hughes as Elizabeth Roberts

[1eona]

(dahlia, cherry blossom, roses, tulips, azalea, sweet pea: elegance, transience of life, grace, good wishes, care/gratitude, tenderness/farewell)

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[theartsywhale]

One Hit Cayo (page 1)

[ms-fan]

MICHAEL SHANKS as Jacob Thain Lost Treasure Of The Grand Canyon

[absolutebl]

Hi again abl, thanks for answering my question yesterday. I have another on Thai language. Do Thai people speak of themselves and others in third person? I often hear actors say their names when speaking but it doesn't appear in the translation. Sorry if you answered this before, im new to BL. A thousand thank yous 🙏🏾

Yes, you say your own name for the "I" pronoun a lot. At least in BL. Captioners will pretty much always translate it as I (otherwise it’s v confusing to English speakers). Also “i” uses up less visual space. 

It's extremely useful when you don't really know a relationship dynamic yet, but you are among peers (same generation). Do I use chan/pom, am I the younger one? Or do I use phi, because I'm the older one? Fuck it, my own name will do.

After knowing the register (honorific and pronoun) in play, it can then be used intentionally. It's a touch... cute? Often used in more familiar, friendly, or intimate situations. It’s tends to pair with slightly more formal uke characters so Pete in Love By Chance, and Pharm in Until We Meet Again both use their own names with their lovers A LOT. It’s a little intimate though, so you won’t hear it much on the interview circuit from the actors. 

Payu and Rain have a whole THING about this in Love in the air. Payu really wants Rain to use his own name with him. It's a respectful "good boy" thing. 

LeonPob in Don’t Say No (side couple) also go over this but for a different reason. Leon is younger but the seme. Pob uses phi with him, but Leon doesn’t like that because it implies superiority and authority, so he spends a great deal of time trying to persuade Pob to drop the phi and just use his own own name (in lieu of pom, which an older character would never use with a  younger one unless roll-play is occurring). When Pob finally does, Leon is absolute jelly for it. How this action, in public, from an older character, is declarative of a relationship of “some” kind that’s not just friends. 

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

Bella Heathcote shared video of Luke Arnold and Victoria Thaine hanging out at Scrublands filming set during the break!

Source: Bella Heathcote's IG story

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Howard Thain, Where Broadway Begins, 1923. Oil on canvas.

Photo: NY Historical Society