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[shroomiearts]

Have pari stepping on whoever u want it to be lmao

[austintexas-rp]

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He / Him

Neighborhood: Downtown

Occupation: Executive Chef at Fennel + Dog

Triggers: Heart Attack

BIOGRAPHY

Theodore Parker was born in 1988 to parents who were hip deep in the overwhelming culinary scene of New York City. His father, Kellan Parker, was the son of a powerful restaurateur. He took over as manager at his father’s most successful restaurant, Succulent, in the very early ‘80s. At the time, Theo’s mother Eileen Wu was sous chef at Succulent and disagreed with Kellan at every turn. They did nothing but fight for two years, but something changed when Eileen became executive chef of Succulent halfway through the decade. That was the year they admitted defeat, fell in love, and started to create the buzz that would eventually lead them to their first Michelin star. It was only one year later that they earned it and only one year after Eileen became executive chef. Suddenly, people all over the world were paying attention to them. A prodigal team that was seen as a surefire Michelin star or James Beard Award for whatever restaurant could snag them next. London, Hong Kong, and Sydney all offered them the chance for full control of their kitchens. It was a restaurant in Austin, Texas, Kindheart, that called to them in a way no other place did. One trip out to the weird, creative, free-thinking hotspot had them on a completely new path; one of similar creative freedom and expression.

Growing up in Austin was both a godsend and a nightmare for Theo. The Parker household was full of love, with two siblings that followed in the years after their move to Texas and parents who were just as in love after twenty years as they were the day they got married. It was most certainly the origin of the passion, the fire, in Theo’s blood. The story of how his parents met and eventually fell in love followed him like the lore of a religious text throughout his entire childhood. School was difficult for anyone seen as different and being a naïve, half-Chinese goofball got Theo labeled as Other instantly. His home life, though, was a sharp contrast to the cruelty of his schoolmates. His mother taught him the basics of cooking right alongside the alphabet. By the time he was nine, he was regularly making breakfast for his younger siblings. The moment his passion for cooking really took off came about when he was sixteen years old and was offered the chance to shadow his mother at work. He was far removed from their professional lives, but that didn’t mean they had slowed down at all while he wasn’t paying attention. The kitchen was a madhouse and he was thrown into the thick of it, but instead of giving him a panic attack like his parents had half expected, he found the rhythm of it. There was no turning back from that point.

The years that followed were full of experimentation with different versions of Theo, culinary passions, and people, but it didn’t fulfill his desire to explore what was outside of Austin. The culinary school he went to in Austin was fine, but it was nowhere near the standard he expected from his Michelin star rated and James Beard Award winning family. It wasn’t until he was twenty one that he ventured outside of the warm heart of his hometown. He spent the next two years in Paris, at first studying under another Michelin star chef in a fully immersive French program. The program was aggressive and unforgiving, and lost students by the dozens some days. Theo was one of only five students that made it through to the end. He spent those two years in Paris denying all responsibility and leaning into his creative side in a three bedroom apartment with the group of five who graduated from their cuisine courses. They cooked for each other, for the neighborhood, and for all of the restaurants they tried to open that failed miserably. His siblings begged him to come back to Austin after his original nine months turned into a year, but it took two years and his father having a heart attack for him to come back. His passionate father being reduced to a husk of the man Theo knew him as was a wakeup call for Theo. When he came back to Austin, he promised himself he’d devote more time to being a decent son and brother for once.

Most of the latter half of Theo’s twenties were spent in his family’s restaurant, picking up the slack after his father’s heart attack. It was time consuming, and it didn’t take long for him to discover just how overwhelmed they were. He took over as manager, making what his parents saw as dramatic changes. Theo acted anyway, knowing the changes were necessary to keep his parents from working themselves to death. It created a schism between Theo and his father, but he knows his decisions were made with their best interests in mind. After that schism led to a falling out with his father that Theo’s sisters describe as The Incident, Theo left the family restaurant and put his life savings into opening his own restaurant. His best friend, who had been his mother’s sous chef for years at this point, left to start the restaurant with him and is now Theo’s chef de cuisine, as well as co-owner. Fennel + Fog was their daydream for years before Theo’s father forced his hand, but it wasn’t the smoothest dream to realize. The opening was rocky, and nearly ended in the cops being called when Theo’s business partner bought three separate rounds of shots for the entire restaurant, but it was memorable. That’s the only thing that mattered to the reviewers in the morning, and it’s been go, go, go at the restaurant ever since. Most nights, he lets off steam with his crew at the restaurant or his apartment, but’s not without its drama. At the end of the day, the most important thing to Theo is the family he’s made at Fennel + Fog. Everything else can be on the back burner for a little while.

PERSONALITY

( + ) Passionate, Talented, Hopeful

( - ) Stubborn, Impulsive, Distant

[thechroniclesofagamer]

#WarriorsLegendsOfTroy Developed by #KoeiCanada Published by #TemcoKoei Released in #2011 Breaking away from my chronicling of the #NES library alphabetically, I’m going to cover one more #GreekMythology game and two #NorseMythology games in honor of #GodOfWar being released this Friday, April 20th. Warriors: Legends of Troy is a game based off the poem the #Iliad by Homer. The game plays much like the #DynastyWarriors franchise being under the same banner. In WLOT you play as eight different characters who participated in the #TrojanWar divided into the two fractions; The Greeks and The Trojans. The Greek playable characters feature Achilles, Ajax, Odysseus and Patroklos, while the side of the Trojans feature Aeneas, Hektor, Paris and Penthesilea. There are also unique NPCs that participate in the battlefield, such as Agamemnon, Hippolyte, Menelaos, and Priam, as well as those who do not, such as Andromache, Helen, Kassandra and Poseidon. This game was amazing for me, I’ve never played a Dynasty Warrior game before but being set in Ancient Greek lore I had to play it. They way they told the story using Greek art was beautiful, the music and sound effects really added a great cinematic experience. The gameplay was great though it could be a bit repetitive, I honestly didn’t mind it. I felt that there was enough characters and challenges to give this game high replay value. If your a fan of Greek Myth then I highly recommend this title. If your a not then the game is still enjoyable but that depends on the person. Overall I’ll rate this game a 7 out of 10 #PlayStation3 #PS3 #VideoGames #Games #Gamer #Gaming #GamersLife #Retro #Classic #RetroGames #ClassicGames #HackNSlash #Handsome_Rob_7 #TCOAG #2000s #Handsome_Rob_7_The_PS3_Years

[jbpiggin]

Strange and Wonderful

Of all the strange and wonderful books from the past, one of the quirkiest is the Kyranides, a book in vernacular Greek that describes in alphabetical order the magical healing powers of plants, animals, stones and their secret relationships. Also entitled The Book of the physical virtues, diseases and treatments or Liber medicinalis, the work is made up of two sections (the Kyranis of the Persian king Kyranus and the Liber therapeutikos of Harpokration of Alexandria), compiled by a Byzantine author only datable to somewhere from the 5th to the 8th century. The first Kyranis, carved in Syriac characters on an iron pillar, was supposedly given by Hermes Trismegistos to men so that they could be educated on the virtues of 24 stones, plants, fish and birds. The book contains hints on alchemy and tons of lore about amulets and their powers. Reg.lat.773 contains one of the most reliable Latin translations of the Kyranides, attributed to one Paschalis Romanus, a clergyman working in about 1169 in Constantinople. For a survey of all the manuscripts, see Mirabile. This codex, which starts off with a "Liber Provinciale," also contains other unexpected items, such as a manual of French court procedure beginning, Li prevoz de Paris tendra cette forme a ses plaiz. Se aucuns meut question devant ... There's an image of these procedures too:

In the past week, 73 new items have arrived online in the Vatican Library's digitization program, bringing the total to date to 14,506. This does not count Pal.lat. items which I track separately. New in color (formerly only in black and white) is Vat.lat.1573, which is one of Lowe's examples of Beneventan script. This is an 11th-century book of Vergil, containing the Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid.

Reg.lat.64

Reg.lat.82

Reg.lat.85

Reg.lat.95

Reg.lat.98

Reg.lat.100

Reg.lat.649

Reg.lat.726

Reg.lat.773, Liber Provinciale, Kyranides, Li Prevoz de Paris (above).

Reg.lat.794

Reg.lat.797

Reg.lat.814

Reg.lat.815

Reg.lat.841

Reg.lat.874

Reg.lat.876

Reg.lat.878

Reg.lat.879

Reg.lat.884

Reg.lat.885

Reg.lat.887, Relatione dello Stato dell'Imperio, e della Germania per tutto l'anno 1628, on paper

Reg.lat.899

Reg.lat.903

Reg.lat.906, Pedemontanus commentary of 1567 on 60 speeches of Tacitus, see Persee.

Reg.lat.907

Reg.lat.950

Reg.lat.958

Reg.lat.963

Reg.lat.1065, French synod documents dated 1284

Vat.ar.924

Vat.lat.1305, Arnaldus de Vilanova

Vat.lat.1414

Vat.lat.1423

Vat.lat.1499

Vat.lat.1583

Vat.lat.1637

Vat.lat.1666

Vat.lat.1729

Vat.lat.1780

Vat.lat.1797

Vat.lat.1807

Vat.lat.1808

Vat.lat.1809

Vat.lat.1813, Poggio Braccolini, 15th century ms.

Vat.lat.1814

Vat.lat.1817

Vat.lat.1822

Vat.lat.1823

Vat.lat.1825

Vat.lat.1830

Vat.lat.1835, Bellum Catilinae, Bellum Iugurthinum (Histories) by Sallust in a luxury Renaissance manuscript. See Rome Reborn

Vat.lat.1838

Vat.lat.1839

Vat.lat.1840

Vat.lat.1849

Vat.lat.1854

Vat.lat.1856

Vat.lat.1862

Vat.lat.1864

Vat.lat.1865

Vat.lat.1866, Gestis Alexandri Magni, by Curtius Rufus

Vat.lat.1868

Vat.lat.1871

Vat.lat.1879

Vat.lat.1883

Vat.lat.1885

Vat.lat.1888

Vat.lat.1892, translation by Ambrogio Traversari of Diogenes Laertius, De vitis philosophorum

Vat.lat.1905

Vat.lat.1906, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars

Vat.lat.1916

Vat.lat.1930

Vat.lat.4075, astronomy in Latin translation: Ptolemy of Alexandria and Abū Maʻšar

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