#gate 40

[a-d-nox]

human design: the heart

the heart is considered the source of your willpower and ego. it's also where your desires are manifested and your values are formed. your material needs can be found mapped out here as well.

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defined: it's pretty rare to have a defined heart. strong willpower, following your heart, courageous, impressive, consistent, stable, takes control of the situation, arrogant, etc.

undefined: yearning, comparing yourself to others, knowing you don't have to prove yourself, ability to access the truth, etc.

gates

21 - controlling: control freak, higher up positions, seat of power, acts decisively, go-getter mentality, dominating, dependable, etc.

26 - grandiose: wealth, prestige, vigor, clever, egotistical, power hungry, exaggerating your ability, persuasive, etc.

40 - trustworthy: capable, strong, hardworking, efficient, tendency to isolate, craves alone time, small group of close friends, etc.

51 - brazen: shocking, has "the balls" / audacity, cheeky, surprising, pushes other people's buttons, etc.

no gates: overly generous, struggles with identifying value (especially for the self), open, modest, etc.

channels that connect from the heart to the throat

channels that connect from the heart to the self

channels that connect from the heart to the spleen

26 -> 44 - entrepreneur: enterprising by nature, skilled communicator, creative concepts, salesperson, persuasive, making a difference, master manipulator, charming, seeking the best of the best, etc.

channels that connect from the heart to the emotions

55 -> 39 - the glue: your word is your bond, trustworthy, honest, gets everyone on the right page, a hugger, reliable, stable, etc.

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[lazylittledragon]

open discussion: do you think gale lets himself go fully grey or does he see one silver hair too many and immediately start looking for the fountain of youth

[dekariosclan]

*Gale, joining his mother and Tara for tea, brow furrowed as he reads a scroll titled ‘Idle Champions Information’*

Gale: …Tara. You handled delivery of my correspondence to this organization, did you not?

Tara: Indeed I did, Mr. Dekarios.

Gale: Mmm. *looks up, frowning* May I ask why my age is listed incorrectly?

Tara: Oh, is it? When they asked, I told them you’d been alive for 35 years, Mr. Dekarios. That is how long we’ve been together, after all.

Gale: Tara! I hardly summoned you from my baby bassinet! I was 8 years old at the time!

Tara: Well yes, but can we truly describe your years without me as being ‘alive’ Mr. Dekarios? Were you truly ‘living’ without your delightful companion, Tara? I think not.

Morena: *patting Gale’s hand* I’m sure it will be fine, dear. I doubt anyone even noticed.

Gale: Gods! I certainly hope so, otherwise everyone’s going to think I’m some sort of shallow—

Withers *walking into the room with his own copy of the scroll, pointing at Gale’s age with one skeletal finger*: Ist thou kidding me?

[vintage-russia]

Glory to the Soviet troops who hoisted the banner of victory over Berlin!

Brandenburg Gate,Berlin (1945)

[catsharky]

Wish there were more opportunities to give him the hugs he deserves

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[sthilarions]

Okay I’m never gonna write the fic that is written in my ideas file as “save a horse ride a cowboy/he thinks my tractor’s sexy”

I’m never gonna write it so it’s irrelevant that Edwin grows heritage crops and is at the cutting edge of small-scale organic farming techniques, he’s listed as a co-author on a dozen different papers, which he worked on while sitting perched in the raised bucket attachment of the aforementioned tractor

it’s not relevant that Charles kept coming by on his horse and interrupting him, standing up on the saddle to get his head roughly level with Edwin’s to ask him about what he was doing (and not at all to impress him obviously of course)

no reason to mention that Charles ended up as a co-author on a paper, the BA standing out in the list

or that Charles’s horse has gotten very used to being ground-tied next to Edwin’s tractor so his rider can hop up on the bucket next to some weird human

or that the next paper they co-author, Charles’s name has an MS, which didn’t even take him longer than two years to get even though he was doing it long-distance, which he says is because he had a lot of free time to work on stuff while out sitting by bob-wahr fences under beating sun making his eyes dance, and curled up in the back of his F-150 under the stars. it was probably easier for him than most people, he says, if asked, with a loose grin

And it definitely doesn’t matter that the next paper after that, he and Edwin have the same last name.

(The cowboy church* that Charles went to for social reasons refused to let them marry there, which they’d expected but Charles felt it was the right thing to do to ask anyway, but that was alright, because the pastor, Charlie, went rogue and agreed to officiate for them outside of the church, so they got married out on Edwin’s back 40, the ranch dogs and farm cats running around under the feet of the half dozen guests, the other weirdos in the area, and the fiddler played til dawn)

*Cowboy churches are a real thing, this is not a joke.

Another bit of relevant cultural context is that none of the cowboys I grew up with had four year degrees. That Charles starts out with a BA means that while he’s under-credentialed for an academic setting, he’s simultaneously already over-educated for his own cultural context, and probably spends a lot of time getting mockingly called “professor” by his ‘friends’ and remembering not to use overly fancy words and so forth.

Also he probably tries to avoid Zoom calls because having a noticeably rural accent around academics is Fraught, he checks his emails twice to make sure he hasn’t typed ‘y’all’

I am not writing this and I therefore do not know that Charles’s MS is from A&M, which is both the best university for his field and so virulently homophobic that I have a lot of acquaintances who had to drop out from there specifically because of that, and that the co-authored papers were on the topic of using animals for sustainable agriculture, like using Lacewings to manage aphids, and goats to manage invasive flora; Charles's knowledge of animal husbandry and Edwin's knowledge of sustainable agriculture meeting in the middle

If I were actually writing this as a fic, I’d mention things like the instability and draconian download caps of HughesNet that mean if Charles needs to download a big file like a recorded lecture he has to set an alarm for 3AM to download it during the unthrottled grace hour; the laptop running out of charge out in that truck bed, Charles using money he doesn’t have to buy a converter so he can charge it off the F-150

how he was doing homework under the stars not because it’s romantic but because if he gets out of the cab and parks on top of the tallest hill he might be able to get line of sight to a tower and hotspot off his phone (and worry about the bill later); about how he can only work for brief periods at a time during the day because the sun will make his laptop overheat, how he keeps an ice chest full of Nordic Ice in the back seat of the truck not just for water but so he can pop his laptop in there to cool it down; how he overclocks that shitty laptop making it run data analysis in R; how he rations his gas so he can turn on the AC once in a while and charge his laptop and still be able to drive home.

How Charles and Edwin started carpooling for the hour-long drive each way to the grocery store for the monthly stock of jugs of bottled water, that they need because the leaky water pipes they and their neighbors maintain themselves (because no government or corporate guy is gonna come out there) run under cow pastures and pesticide-laced fields and septic tanks and the tap water isn't safe even boiled, and they use the couple of hours in the truck to bounce ideas off each other, a laptop balanced on the truck's center console, pausing only to touch their hats when they pass another truck.

…but I’m not writing it, so.

[snuurp]

i'm never drawing a truck again but hey look i finished a drawing again finally lol back on my modern au nonsense

y'know how sometimes u get off work and u need to just. stare into space for a while and let all ur bones decompress like the floorboards of a house. i'm channelling that for this.

is she disproportional to the truck? yes. i like how i told myself "okay shes big shes gotta drive a Big Vehicle like a truck." and then proceeded to base her truck off of old fords, the famously small truck. oops.

[a2zillustration]

Why is it always rats.

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[arvolna]

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[galedekarios]

"Gale is scheduled to finally join Idle Champions on the 3rd of April and his canon age will be revealed along w him :-)"

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[lazylittledragon]

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