#but this is a really cool question

[h0nkshroom]

gently places these in your hands and cartwheels away into the night

[scribefindegil]

As much as I adore conlangs, I really like how the Imperial Radch books handle language. The book is entirely in English but you're constantly aware that you're reading a "translation," both of the Radchaai language Breq speaks as default, and also the various other languages she encounters. We don't hear the words but we hear her fretting about terms of address (the beloathed gendering on Nilt) and concepts that do or don't translate (Awn switching out of Radchaai when she needs a language where "citizen," "civilized," and "Radchaai person" aren't all the same word) and noting people's registers and accents. The snatches of lyrics we hear don't scan or rhyme--even, and this is what sells it to me, the real-world songs with English lyrics, which get the same "literal translation" style as everything else--because we aren't hearing the actual words, we're hearing Breq's understanding of what they mean. I think it's a cool way to acknowledge linguistic complexity and some of the difficulties of multilingual/multicultural communication, which of course becomes a larger theme when we get to the plot with the Presgar Translators.

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I am curious about the oldest item of clothing in your regular rotation. Not jewelry/family heirlooms/costumes etc, but something that you might grab when getting ready in a normal day (it may be a costume/heirloom but you actually wear it).

And were you the original owner, or did you get it second hand/passed down/found etc?

Tag with how old it is and how you got it!

[hyliagirl42-art]

Some concept art for my Identity Fraud AU!! Wherein Ravio is asked to go help in the War of Eras, panics, and convinces Link to go in his stead ♡

(Not an LU au btw, this one is entirely my own, so please don't tag it as such, thank you!)

[alexjcrowley]

I like how, despite the edgy apperance, Eddie is this kind ray of sunshine who listens to metal all the time while Steve, despite the preppy appearance, has a master in Death Glare while listening to, i don't know, Madonna I think.

[archive-rat]

peacock Grian because, well, EYES

(please, click for quality, tumblr is weird for art)

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[crimsonservbot]

gonna be honest, its incredibly demoralizing for going through transitioning if you can't even be Transgender on the Transgender Website

[a-s-levynn]

And I'm still full of the love you want

[quickhacked]

All That's Left follows two journalists and their friends in post-apocalyptic United States as they travel from the fallen east coast megalopolis Opportunity back to Los Angeles, crossing through a harsh wasteland overrun with zombies— only to find out that there is a lot more life left than what the protected cities want them to believe. On their journey they meet dozens of people living their lives as peaceful as possible away from military forces, corporations, and corrupt governments; and they learn that the same mutated ghouls that took down Opportunity are spreading rapidly through the country, destroying everything in their path. Will this finally be the end of the world as we know it?

taglist (opt in/out)

@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;

@vvanessaives, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

[marzipanandminutiae]

what do we want?

a canon F/F Gothic romance where both leads are actually, truly, "I enjoy this" feminine-presenting and not just "performing socially expected baseline levels of femininity for her society, but she doesn't REALLY like it and she'd TOTALLY be wearing trousers if she could but she CAN'T so that's why we CAN'T MAKE HER PROPERLY MASC EITHER!!!!"

when do we want it?

fucking yesterday tbh

[sapphicseasapphire]

sooo Time is a God, like a literal God. How does that affect the timeline splits? And if Time knows the windfish, then does he know Oshus? Can he just see through time? (it'd make sense. it's in his name) -a very curious mutual who needs to know the extent of flying fish angst

Great question! As always, I rambled too long so look under the cut haha!

Time knows EVERYONE! He knows Oshus, he knows Zephos and Cyclos and the Wind Fish and literally every God! He knows spirits- he knows Ordona, Lanayru, Eldin, and Faron (Twilight Princess). Knows Levias, he knows Skyward Sword’s dragons. He knows Dinraal, Farosh, Naydra- and for a time, he even had a connection to the Light Dragon. Anything that is godly or intensely spiritual, he knows. Now, this “knowing” is more of a “sense.” He can feel their presence, he can speak to them. But he does not form relationships with the divine. They’re not friends. In fact, Time does his best NOT to be involved with them, presiding over his own dominion and keeping watch over the flow of time.

Time cannot merge timelines, but he can sure split them!! And travel between. Every action, even the smallest ones, creates alternate timelines. Twilight decided to keep his hair down today? Wild chose to make creamy meat soup for lunch instead of vegetable soup? Sky kept his feet firmly on the ground, deciding that the clouds were too dark to be safe flying? Literally every little thing creates alternate versions of each person- the Twilight that put his hair up, the Wild that made vegetable soup, the Sky who decided to risk it.

Time has the power to redo, but not the power to undo. He cannot erase those alternate versions of people. By merging timelines, he’d negate their existence. Time’s responsibility as a God is to manage all of these timelines- a mere servant of Nayru- and protect his people. He can’t snap his fingers and undo and action, but he can go back in time and nudge people onto a different path.

He can warn Twilight of a village up ahead that would be suspicious of his markings, encouraging to leave his hair down. He could tell Wild that his healing herbs should not be wasted in vegetable soup, suggesting an alternative. He can warn Sky of a wicked storm, begging him not to hurt himself. To the onlooker, this might just look like bare boned time travel: going to the past to change the future. But to Time, it’s less linear. He raises his ocarina to his lips and jumps between timelines, hoping that he can take his companions with him.

Now… that’s a whole other issue. Each time he hops between timelines, he is technically meeting DIFFERENT versions of his friends. This is not the Twilight he knows- he has his memories, his thoughts, he looks identical. He’s not exactly an imposter but he’s not the same. Twilight would not notice this change, but Time would. That kind of awareness weighs on a person. And, in Time’s early days as a God, he does not use this power often. It’s not to be taken lightly.

As far as being able to see through time, I’m going to give that a solid “kind of.” He cannot see the future. But. He can see the past. He can infinitely rewind and switch timelines for a more favorable outcome. Some might think that he’s all powerful- that he knows what actions to take to lead to a better future, but really it’s just trail and error. He never knows the outcomes of his actions, but he has to power to redo them a million times until it succeeds.

I hope this answered your question!

[artemx746]

Honestly hate how Annabeth doesn't get to keep majority of her items (ie. Daedalus' laptop)

[painted-fanbird]

🎶 Yo Jazz Fenton she was just 16 when her parents built a very strange machine 🎶

[worstloki]

My issue with Thor not ‘realizing’ why Loki was acting off in Avengers 1 isn’t that Thor didn’t recognise Loki was acting unlike himself—Thor did note that—or that Thor didn’t figure out what was wrong—he did try asking—it’s more along the lines of Thor giving up, and that he accepted Loki was bad now within two days while knowing something was off when Thor himself behaved just as bad for much longer before without any specific compromising event.

[yellowplumfruit]

while yes all pigeons in the us are domesticated and there is nothing legally wrong with taking a pigeon off the street to keep as a pet, please keep in mind that you could be taking it away from it’s partner or babies :(

if you are serious about keeping a pigeon, i strongly suggest looking into rescues because there are always always pigeons in need of homes!