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[canis-dies]

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[thatjadedhotmess]

nightmares

pairings/characters: kaeya alberich, diluc ragnvindr, albedo kriedeprinz x gn!reader [all of them are seperate !]

warnings⚠️: skin to skin contact (hugging), nothing I can think of tbh other than that please lmk if I need to add anything !:3

synopsis: what they do when your having a nightmare

wc: 0.8k ~

note: this hc was my first version for nightmares [I posted the 2nd/harbinger version first tho bc I couldnt resist it hohoho] hence why its considerably shorter than the one with the harbingers [which you can check out here !] as always feel free to give me feedback and likes and rbs are greatly appreciated !:) <3

kaeya alberich (凱亞)

☁︎︎ hugs you until you fall back asleep.

☁︎︎ you wake up frantic one night from a nightmare that had you drenched in cold sweat, your heavy breathing loud as it echoed through the otherwise quiet room.

☁︎︎ thank god you hadn't woken him up. After the long day he had with the knights you really didn't want to disturb him from some much needed sleep he was missing out now. ☁︎︎ tearing the blanket off yourself you quickly making your way to the toilet to wash your face, trying to get rid of the memories from the nightmare.

☁︎︎ you padded back to your shared bed, tucking yourself in as quietly as you could in an attempt to go back to sleep. what you didn't expect though was to feel kaeya's hands wrap themselves around your waist, pulling you close to him.

☁︎︎ "are you alright dear?"

☁︎︎ shit. crap he woke up. you tried to turn to face him, sputtering out apologies for waking him up.

☁︎︎ though, instead of doing anything, he snuggled up against your back and pulled the blanket securely over you guys.

☁︎︎ "don't worry about me, are you… ok? do you want to talk about it?"

☁︎︎ even when he was exhausted from a day full of paperwork and teaching new knights how to fight, he somehow found the energy to try and start a conversation with you. at 2.43 in the morning no less.

☁︎︎ "of course kaeya, im ok. it was just a bad dream that's all, go back to sleep it's so late."

☁︎︎ "once im sure you're ok, only then can i sleep in peace. good night dear."

diluc ragnvindr (迪盧克)

☁︎︎ wakes you up to soothe you

☁︎︎ it's not the first time his witness someone have nightmares, (he's seen kaeya have nightmares in the past) but he doesn't think he's seen anyone with nightmares this bad

☁︎︎ he realised you were having a nightmare when you started to shift around in his arms and mumbles what sounds like a please, no, don't. please.

☁︎︎ he doesn't immediately wake you up though. he wants to make sure that you're actually having a nightmare before that (otherwise you'd be losing sleep)

☁︎︎ he confirmed that you were having a nightmare when you started kicking off the blankets and almost smacked his face with your arm.

☁︎︎ "hey… hey y/n wake up, wake up-"

☁︎︎ ah shit. you just had another one of those nightmares and you were currently drenched in cold sweat as you tried to slow your breathing, quickly realising diluc was awake and the one that had woken you up as you got more aware of your surroundings.

☁︎︎ Ah. It was probably him who woke up from the nightmare again.

☁︎︎ "it's ok y/n, I got you. you're ok." he said as he moved nearer to you, leaning his forehead against your own.

☁︎︎ you hugged him, tight, not wanting to let go of him. afraid that whatever happened in your dream might come through.

☁︎︎ "i'm not leaving ok. no ones leaving you darling, you're safe."

albedo kriedeprinz (阿貝多)

☁︎︎ he wakes you up and offers you a potion he made

☁︎︎ that day you were together with him at his campsite at the foot of dragonspine

☁︎︎ as we all know, albedo is very… observant.

☁︎︎ he noticed [almost since the start] that you had frequent nightmares; whether you were aware of it or not, he frequently saw you flinch in your sleep and let out small whines of discomfort and it pained him to see you in that state

☁︎︎ because of this, he would often time wake up in the middle of the night for you so that he could shake you out of your nightmare

☁︎︎ but he knew that wasn't efficient for the both of you so he decided (with your consent) to try and experiment a little. making concoctions in hopes that it would hopefully help with the bad dreams

☁︎︎ he had brought you along with him and klee once to the outskirts of mondstadt to go forging for some local plants and herbs

☁︎︎ you had to say that was blast, seeing the pair bond and they helped you to the best of their ability, it was so sweet of them

☁︎︎ he sat you up, walking over to his table where a vial of purple liquid reast

☁︎︎ "thank you albedo." you said after drinking the bittersweet liquid, barely above a whisper with a droopy smile on your face, showing your gratitude towards him.

☁︎︎ it wasn't long before you fell back asleep. he laid you back down on bed, pressing a kiss on your forehead and then your lips.

☁︎︎ "sweet dreams my love."

[tasukete-eirin]

hello i am sorry if i am being annoying but what is a pikmin . is it a game or a show or smth im very confused but also deeply intrigued now (ive been in class all day with nothing but ur pikmin rbs to sustain me)

you are never annoying i love when people ask me abt things

*cracks knuckles* its autism time /j

OK SO Pikmin is a game by Nintendo !!! The first game released in 2001 on the Gamecube, with Pikmin 2 following in 2004 (also for the GC), Pikmin 3 released in 2010 for the Wii U and was later re-released for the Switch in 2020, and Pikmin 4 released just this year!

The first two games (along with the 3DS Spin-off, Hey Pikmin! (rel. 2017)) have you following Captain Olimar from the planet Hocotate. Olimar goes to the planet explored in the Pikmin games, PNF-404 (it's an alternate earth basically)! In the first game, Olimar crash-lands there and has to find all his ship pieces within 30 days; in the second game Olimar returns to PNF-404 to collect treasures to save his boss' company from bankruptcy. Pikmin 2 does away with that time limit, btw. Pikmin 3 has you controlling three people, Alph, Brittany, and Charlie from Koppai! That game's goal is to collect fruit to save Koppai from a famine. You have no time limit in 3 either, but just make sure you don't run out of juice! Also Olimar is there. Again. Dude really loves PNF-404. And in 4 you play as a player-created member of the Rescue Corps, sent to PNF-404 after Olimar gets stranded on it. Again. Except your ship crashes so you have to rescue the rescue corps! It's fun. Very big.

ANYWAY. Gameplay !!!!

You explore the surface of PNF-404 during the daytime, as during the night the monsters get Very Angey. The time you have left in a day is indicated on via a little widget thing on the screen, and you have to have all your pikmin in the party (or in their onion - basically the pikmin nest) before the day ends or else they die :( AND THE PIKIES !! Pikmin are those little plant-guys! Each color has a unique gimmick/feature!

Red pikmin are better at fighting and immune to fire; yellow pikmin can be thrown really far and are immune to electricity; blue pikmin and be thrown and fight underwater and aren't bothered by water (all other colors are, barring a few exceptions); rock pikmin are rocks and are good at tossin at enemies to bonk; white pikmin are poisonous and are immune to poison; purple pikmin are mega-buff and have the strength of 10 normal pikies; ice pikmin can freeze enemies and water and float on water's surface; and glow pikmin can only be used at night/in caves, don't mind water, and reproduce via little star-shaped pellets!

Glow Pikies are only introduced in Pikmin 4, which also introduces letting you run around at night, hence why they're there :)

So !! yeah! you run around leading pikmin and throwing them at things and enemies and they respond to your character's whistle and are my beloveds. also in Pikmin 4 you get a dog named Oatchi!!! And Olimar has one named Moss :)

[thelocalconstellation]

I SPOTTED YOUR TAGS IN THE RB RELATED TO D&D

TELL ME EVERYTHING TOU KNOW AND ALL THE BUILDS YOU HAVE IN MIND GRGRHENABABSKRBAKRL

Ok I'd like to preface this with I have No Fucking Clue what I'm doing the last time I DID anything with DnD was like. Half a decade ago. I was a small child I remember fuck all.

We're doing a oneshot for a friends birthday soon so I needed to set up my character, now, the party Did Not have any characters that can Hit Things Good, hence the choice of a fighter class character. My friend is running through subclasses and I hear the words "Eldritch" and "Knight" right next to each other.

Now, I'm not sure if you know this but I have been SWAMPED with a Magnus Archives hyperfixation for the last six months. I have two things on the brain and it's The Magnus Archives and Jonny Sims's band the Mechanisms. Eldritch horror is essentially the only thing I think about these days.

Now, going into this, I 100% had plans for this guy to be a COMPLETE fucken himbo. This man was not supposed to have any lights on upstairs. I've been described as the nicest cuddliest fridge you will ever meet, thats this guy but even more so and dumb as balls. And then I heard the words 'Eldritch Knight' so that plan went out the window a little bit.

Now, don't get me wrong, he's still is a bit of a himbo, but because I wanted to play whatever the fuck an eldritch knight is, he can't actually be stupid? Because he rolls with intelligence for his spells, so I'm turning his wisdom down to fuckall once I start actually rolling for the character stats and shit, but he knowingly acts like a himbo.

He knows exactly what he's doing. He knows he looks like a himbo so he's making the choice to act like a himbo. This man Does Not stop smiling it's a little bit eerie actually. He wants the emotional damage from hitting him to hurt worse than the ass kicking he will give you (or at least attempt to give you)

He's a dragonborn of the gold colouring, which is going to cause So Many Problems because there is a wizard in the party. The wizard can move and manipulate fire to his will. I can breathe fire. This is going to cause So Many Problems and I Cannot Wait.

Now. To the best part about this, I felt like giving him an actual weapon would make him too cool? And I learned that I can bind up to 2 weapons to himself, and teleport them to his location at any given moment as long as they're in the same fucking dimension. So I went "what if he just has a metal baseball bat?". So now he has a metal baseball bat. My DnD nerd of a friend is in the VC with me helping me figure out what the hell I'm doing, and we're both silly motherfuckers.

So my friend goes "what if you made the bat sentient?"

Cue my begging to the DM for him to let me have a sentient baseball bat that hates the fact its used for violence. My friend is going to voice the bat. It sounds very posh and very displeased with everything that my character does. So now this secretly knowledgeable himbo lookin ass dragonborn has a talking baseball bat with a similar attitude to Jack the Sword from the Magnus Chase series.

Now, as for what the hell the oneshot is about which is about to make things infinitely funnier, or at least it did for me, is this sunshine and rainbows guy is in jail. This takes place in a prison. Why is he in jail? He kept tracking down and breaking the knees of people who harassed his siblings or committed other heinous crimes.

And now, for the final remarks. I chose this guys name before I figured out his race. Now this was an awful idea but it was also one of the funniest things I think I've ever done.

Before that though, I feel like it's worth mentioning the sword has been named 'Sir Astren of the Cosmos' no I haven't figured out why that's its name it came to me in a vision.

Anyways mr not-actually-a-himbo dragonborn over here is named Tomothy Reiden. No, that's not a typo.

[theglassbell]

Being mixed is honestly an experience I find hard to talk about, but I’m feeling some type of way so I’m going to try and talk about it now. Sorry if this isn’t the content some of y’all want to see, but it is my blog (and also I have a #personal tag if y’all wanna blacklist)

My father is black and my mother is white.

When someone asks me which “side” I identify with more, my entire brain literally has a tug of war contest. (Btw don’t ask mixed kids this, it’s isn’t funny). On the one hand, I would say white. My father was an only child and he never saw his extended family often, ergo I never saw his extended family pretty much at all. The only family I saw often was on my mother’s side, all of whom were white. I also don’t see them often anymore, but that’s because my parents moved the family from New Jersey all the way to Georgia when I was young, not because I never knew them. In Georgia, I grew up in a small, conservative, not-very-diverse town. Every friend group I’ve ever had was all white except for me (there was one girl in one group who was Mexican but that’s it). I was more influenced culturally and socially by my mother. My dad is a very “manly man” and I used to be super girly, so that’s why most of my social upbringing was from my mother who was also into girly things. My mom even had to help me with my hair. She definitely did not do 100% on that front but I give her an A for effort. And before anyone asks, yes, we could have gone to my dad’s mother - my grandmother - for help, and we did once, but she wasn’t really helpful (and that’s a whole nother story lol) and I’m not very close with her anyway. I grew up one the blandest most boring chicken, frozen veggies, and instant rice dinners known to man. I still eat those now when I come home from college. My own cooking skills are solidly in the yt people column. So basically, culturally I feel like a white person. My answer to the question above might have been “white.”

However, everything is always more complicated than that. Everyone around me saw me as black. And there was definitely that undercurrent of “you’re not one of them, you’re a cool black person” but I was still clearly in the “black” category. I used to get looks from my friends when I mentioned that I had a crush on a white dude because they subconsciously expected me to date within my race. (I should mention that these friends - the ones I keep in contact with at least - have grown and expanded their beliefs and are no longer like this) And when I looked in the mirror, I saw black. I looked at my tan skin, and my bushy eyebrows, and my thick kinky-curly hair and I saw a black girl. (And honestly I used to have a lot of internal anti blackness and tried to make myself fit Eurocentric beauty standards by getting my hair treated and straightened, but at the end of the day I still considered myself black). I still look in the mirror and see a black girl, but now I’m finally comfortable with embracing that identity.

So I had this issue where i was seen as black by myself and others, but culturally I was raised very white.

It’s such a hard line to balance. Truthfully, I’m almost 50/50 down the middle when it comes to the genetics I got from my parents. My mom is super pale, my dad is pretty dark, and I’m like.. caramel. Or like, mocha? Idk I’ve never really been into using food to reference skin color. I have features from both of their faces and my hair has my fathers texture (hence the kinky curly) but my mother’s coloring (brown with some red occasionally thrown in for fun). I’m also 100% uniquely myself. But in a society where everything and everyone has a label, idk what to do with that.

Like I said before, my white friends see me as black. All white people I come into contact with see me as black. Yes, it’s sometimes the whole “oh but you’re not like other black people” that I know comes from the lightness of my skin, which I believe is a form of colorism?(I’m sorry if I did not use that term correctly) But, picking one or the other, to them I am black.

Black people tend to see me as white. This makes sense on the basis of my cultural upbringing, but not knowing AAVE well and the different social cues just makes it harder for me to connect with black folks and engage with the culture that’s in my blood.

In an attempt to feel connected to my dads side of the family and my blackness, I got into hoodoo and ancestral veneration.

It’s still really hard though. The only family members I could talk to about hoodoo and folk traditions and such would be my dad or my grandmother. Both of them are verryyy Christian (and like I said before, I don’t have a good relationship with my grams anyway, nor do I have a good relationship with Christianity. Hello, queer here!!). But honestly, that’s how I feel about magic traditions in general. I live on stolen land. My ancestors from one side of the family were kidnapped and forced to work said stolen land (though after the civil war ended I know of an ancestor who kicked ass and owned his own farm. He’s a real g). My ancestors from the other side of the family were either immigrants that came to America in hope of a better life or slave owners. Yikes.

I feel untethered from any culture, socially and spiritually. I thought about looking into italian and Irish witchcraft, since those are the strongest lineages on my white family’s side, but I got discouraged before I even started. I’ve never been to Ireland or Italy. I don’t know either language, I barely know of any meals from those countries. Who was I kidding? And then of course I don’t know any ancestry past the end of the civil war on my black side, because they were torn from their homeland. I still feel that urge to learn about hoodoo, which was specifically created in the americas, but it’s such an intimate practice with emphasis on the handing down of knowledge, and I don’t have anyone to do that for me. I want to connect to the local land, but then I think.. it’s not my homeland. It was the homeland of indigenous peoples and my country stole it from them. Would the land even be willing to work with me? Top this all off with having no “extra” senses to converse with any spirits (including my own ancestors) that could possibly teach me something. Add a sprinkle of depression and anxiety (and it’s genetic!! Yay!!) and you get me. An idiot sandwich.

I feel so deeply for witchcraft and hoodoo and for learning about them and practicing them, but I also feel like I have no right to. I mean, hell, the deities I worship are from lands and times I have no connection to. I love them so much, but sometimes I just wonder if I should worship deities from my own cultures. And then I remember that I don’t feel enough of a connection to any culture anyway, and... it’s a vicious cycle. I don’t know what to do with myself.

- signed, a depressed mixed witch + beginner rootworker who is so fucking lost

[bakatenshii]

i love the fact that you say a lot of stuff in the tags like it’s vv cute <3

AHHHH mownin mownin (i guess its noon now for me tho hehe) IM GLAD U ENJOY THEM EEEp im blushing, I really just vomit all my thoughts and words into there because I have so much to say but I don’t wanna clog every ask/post with like mile long comments so hehe IM GLAD U LIKE ITTTT AHHH MAKES ME SHY (๑ּగ⌄ּగ๑)

[realitv]

[botwstoriesandsuch]

Aight I noticed smth in game and decided to see what my fav theorist thought about it: so, the dragons right? Farosh and Naydra both have areas in their respective regions named after them (Farosh Hills and Naydra Snowfield), but Dinraal doesn’t have an area named for it (unless I’m just dumb and haven’t found it yet). Missed detail by designers? or a purposeful piece of lore regarding the Triforce and how the people of Hyrule feel about each piece? After all the boar statues from the Zonai are also significantly rarer than the owls and the dragons

Fav theorist? Excuse me Zeltik and NintendoBlackCrisis are over THERE

Dragons!!! Right!!! 

The dragons are honestly one of the coolest things in the game. Their music, their design, the atmosphere is just... *chefs kiss*

From what I could find, you’re absolutely right! There are no lands named after Dinraal, (other than the Eldin region, of course, but the respective lands exist for Lanayru and Faron region too) 

Ok kids, let’s play a fun round of “find the correlation.” Here are all the dragon routes, color coded to their respective powers:

Now below are all of the Springs of [blank] locations:

And here are the locations named after the dragons Nayru and Farosh:

So if we take our data, we can come up with some conclusions such as:

All the dragons have a spawn location are near their respective springs, meaning either the springs attracted the dragons, or the springs were specifically built after people saw the dragons fly there. [Farosh’s paths might indicate the latter...though it might be a mix of both?]

The naming of the lands “Nayru Snowfield” and “Farosh Hills” are near these dragon locations, hence, most likely named for the dragons sighting/proximity to these areas

These locations are in remote areas, meaning either the dragons choose to avoid populated towns, people choose to avoid the dragons, or some mix of both, perhaps for religious/sacred/respect reason

And also we have some fantastic additional insight from people on the server:

Anyhow, what to do, what to do! I was just gonna leave this post here because I’ve honestly run out of things to say. I think you’ve put my thoughts down perfectly already, with the connection to the Zonai monuments, and the stigma against ganon. BUT! I wanted to do more, hence why this ask took a few days to get a response

I’ve been doing some thinking (a shocking action coming from me, I know) and I remembered something important that might be relevant to the purpose of the dragons in the games!

Feast your eyes on the Farosh Hills~

Snug between the Spring of Courage, and the travels of Farosh itself, it seems a nice spot to view our electric friend. Hell, Scout’s Hill is even just a bit North East. So perhaps the reason for these location’s names is just to get the best view of these dragons. The path’s Dinraal tracks aren’t exactly the most tourist friendly...

But, but, but! As I was researching this, I came across some old nostalgia. 

See this pond??

Travel here when you’re on death’s door, because this is a fairy spawn location.

It’s weird, I know, but trust me. I’ve traveled my share, but when I first came here on my very first play of Breath of the Wild, I was greeted by three fairies. They float just above the center of this pond, and with a little help from Cryonis, you’re three lives richer. 

There’s nothing new or special about these fairies, they work just the same as the ones you might find at a Fairy Fountain or Korok Forest.

But we know that a place a fairy spawns at must be a location of importance, right? I mean, looking at this object map, there are only nine locations where they spawn, five of them being Fairy Fountains. So why is this unnamed lake in the bunch?

I mean, what’s so special about this pond that is in the only area named after the sacred spirit of courage that is also close to the areas where Farosh travels and is also close to the Zonai statues of dragons which also represent courage, and is also close to the Faron Woods, and the dragon shaped river, and also the Spring of Courage..gee what’s so...special.....................

Do you see where I’m going with this? Perhaps not, but this location in Nayru Snowfield all but nags me to make this theory a reality

Purification you say? Hmmmm...it’s almost like these dragons have some sort of correlation to the kingdom’s condition in a religious and sacred way and that their presence as a purifying or blessed effect on the land hMMM

I’m under the impression that the reason the dragons travel across Hyrule, before returning to the heavens, is to bless the land with their sacred energy. 

The dragons don’t attack anyone, they don’t eat anything, hell all that happens is that the music changes....indicating that their presence somehow makes the area more divine

Why do fairies hide in the grass? Perhaps it is because the areas they hide in have been blessed by the dragon’s energy?

Why does Farosh travel to so many places compared to the other spirits? Because the Triforce of Courage (Link) is gone for 100 years, so the land is in extra need of that courageous blessing

Why does the Calamity only seek to infect Nayru, and not Farosh? Because he’s been battling Zelda for 100 years, so taking out the spirit that blesses the land with its wisdom sure would be helpful to gain the upper hand against the wielder of that piece of the Triforce. 

Why does Dinraal only travel on one path? Because the land’s already got it’s share of the blessings of the Triforce of Power, in the form of the devastation of the Calamity. Hence, Dinraal traveling in the high in the sky for a third of it’s path (the dotted portion of the diagram) and away from the land, and only coming down for the Badlands, and voids of Tanager Canyon. 

There is no land named after Dinraal, because of a stigma against the original wielder of the Triforce of Power, yes, I believe that. But I believe it is because of the fact that there was no need to give high praise to a power that has already clawed its presence into the depths of a ruined Hyrule. 

[Enjoy this post? Rbs appreciated! Also, have an epilogue!]

[galactic-pirates]

Avengers Game

This game has been on my wishlist since I learned of its existence. I was disappointed when the release date was pushed back from May as I was planning on getting it for myself as a birthday present. This past weekend there was an open beta and so I tried the game out and I’m so glad I did.

It’s bad.

Like I’m the target audience for this game probably. I’m not very critical because I’m pretty useless at games and I love Marvel. Getting to play as my favourite characters = instant success, right? Well normally but with this game? Yeah not so much.

Ok so why do I think it’s bad?

Well this ‘open beta’ is basically code for free trial/stress test for the MMO aspects maybe. The game is coming out in less than 2 weeks so it should be pretty polished. I didn’t even make the first cinematic before it bugged out on me.

But alright bugs happen, I’m usually pretty forgiving of those so long as it’s not constant and it’s not constant. So why the bad review? Mostly because it’s not fun. I scanned a few reviews on Steam other people had left (I’m too chicken to leave my own hence my rambling here) and one person said the combat was like Lego Marvel with AAA graphics and I laughed because it’s true.

The combat is so uninspired and it’s marvel it should be fun! But you alternate between pressing X and Y and then eventually you get a powerup and hit LB/RB and there’s a big effect which often doesn’t hit (might be because I’m bad at aiming idk). The heroes aren’t distinct because it’s the same buttons for all of them and THEY DO THE SAME DAMAGE! Like I’m sorry and all because I love Nat very much, she might have been my favourite to play in the opening sequence, but Hulk should punch harder than Black Widow. It breaks immersion.

The mobs are just waves of drones basically, I think most of them are robots but they might also be #generic bad guy. I understand as it was the beta there was some playing out of order which makes the story harder to follow but to be honest I wasn’t interested in following the story as the combat (bulk of the gameplay) is so lackluster.

I was really hoping this game would be like Jedi Fallen Order which I loved. I thought that was an amazing game. It’s not without its critics but I really enjoyed it. The combat in that was stellar, the story was interesting and it’s a game I will return to and replay (and pick up my last 6% to 100% it) so it’s well worth the time and money.

With IP’s like Marvel I’m usually easy to please, I’m very much “take my money” but with this? Maybe I’ll pick it up one day if it goes on sale but I’ve gone from planning on pre-purchasing the deluxe to deciding not to buy it at all.

Perhaps I’ve become more critical with games. I enjoyed Jedi Fallen Order very much and so naturally I compared Avengers to it. I also discovered the Assassin Creed franchise and I loved that so much I now own almost every single game from it. So I’m not hurting for games to play, I have quality games in my library and Avengers just falls very short.

Even though I’m still stunned because it’s marvel and I really thought I’d love it and I really really don’t.

[septic-child]

Don't take this the wrong way, but why do you "call out kink blogs" for relating to something you post? All the while following kink blogs? Like make up your mind: do you hate them or not? At the end of the day the people rebloging ur stuff is a sign of understanding, no one was sexualising anything that was just a statement.

ok so i absolutely get where ur coming from. the issue i have isn’t that the people who run the kink blogs can relate to my posts, thats totally ok, if they wanna reblog it onto another blog that isn’t kink related, thats absolutely fine, i just dont want my trauma posts circulating the nsfw community. also, the only kinks i have an issue with is ddlg and rape play, hence the reason i follow a couple of kink blogs (who are namely into BDSM, etc) im hella kinky, but i draw the line at sexualising children and rape. 99% of the time its ddlg blogs who rb my stuff and it is sexualised, ive had enough experience with those types of blogs to know that. 

i probs forgot a bunch of stuff i wanted to say but thats my thoughts ill probs add to this lololol

[yamatodenniskasukawa-blog]

Yamato Kasukawa - Dennis Kasukawa | How Bitcoin Can Make Asset Managers people All

The Bank of England's current report on repayment modern technologies as well as electronic currencies related to the blockchain modern technology that allows electronic money a 'genuine technical development' which can have much getting to implications for the financial sector.

  So what is the block chain and why are y' all obtaining delighted?

  The block chain is an online decentralised public ledger of all digital deals that have actually happened. It is digital money's matching of a high road financial institution's journal that documents purchases between two parties.

  Equally as our modern-day banking system couldn't operate without the ways to tape-record the exchanges of fiat currency between individuals, so too can a digital network not operate without the trust that originates from the ability to precisely record the exchange of digital money between celebrations.

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It is decentralised in the feeling that, unlike a standard financial institution which is the single holder of an electronic master journal of its account owner's financial savings the block chain journal is shared amongst all participants of the network and is not subject to the terms and conditions of any kind of certain banks or nation.

  So what? Why is this more suitable to our existing banking system?

  A decentralised monetary network ensures that, by resting beyond the evermore linked present monetary infrastructure one can reduce the risks of becoming part of it when points fail. The 3 main risks of a centralised monetary system that were highlighted as an outcome of the 2008 financial crisis are credit score, liquidity and also functional failure. In the US alone given that 2008 there have been 504 financial institution failures as a result of insolvency, there being 157 in 2010 alone. Normally such a collapse does not jeopardize account holder's savings as a result of federal/national support and also insurance policy for the very first couple of hundred thousand dollars/pounds, the financial institutions assets generally being soaked up by another banks but the influence of the collapse can trigger unpredictability and short-term concerns with accessing funds. Considering that a decentralised system like the Bitcoin network is not depending on a financial institution to help with the transfer of funds in between 2 parties yet rather depends on its tens of hundreds of individuals to authorise transactions it is much more resistant to such failures, it having as several backups as there are participants of the network to make certain deals remain to be authorised in case of one participant of the network 'collapsing' (see listed below).

  A bank need not stop working nevertheless to effect on savers, operational I.T. failings such as those that lately stopped RBS and Lloyds' customers accessing their accounts for weeks can impact on one's capacity to take out savings, these being a result of a 30-40 years of age tradition I.T. framework that is moaning under the pressure of staying on top of the growth of consumer spending and also a lack of investment generally. A decentralised system is not dependent on this kind of facilities, it instead being based on the combined processing power of its tens of thousands of users which ensures the capacity to scale up as essential, a mistake in any kind of component of the system not causing the network to grind to a halt.

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Liquidity is a final actual danger of centralised systems, in 2001 Argentine banks froze accounts as well as introduced funding controls as an outcome of their debt dilemma, Spanish financial institutions in 2012 changed their small print to allow them to obstruct withdrawals over a certain quantity and Cypriot banks briefly froze customer accounts as well as consumed to 10% of individual's savings to assist settle the National Debt.

  As Yamato Kasukawa - Dennis Kasukawa, an economic expert at the Peterson Institute for International Business economics told the New york city Times on the Cyrpiot instance, "What the bargain reflects is that being an unsafe or even safeguarded depositor in euro location financial institutions is not as secure as it utilized to be." In a decentralised system payment takes place without a bank helping with as well as authorising the purchase, settlements just being validated by the network where there are sufficient funds, there being no 3rd event to stop a deal, misappropriate it or decrease the value of the quantity one holds.

  OK. You make a point. So, how does the block chain job?

  When a specific makes an electronic purchase, paying another user 1 Bitcoin as an example, a message included 3 components is created; a referral to a previous document of info showing the customer has the funds to make the payment, the address of the digital pocketbook of the recipient into which the repayment will be made and the amount to pay. Any type of conditions on the purchase thasssst the purchaser might establish are finally added as well as the message is 'stamped' with the buyer's electronic signature. The digital trademark is consisted of a public and a personal 'vital' or code, the message is encrypted instantly with the private 'vital' and afterwards sent to the network for confirmation, only the purchaser's public secret having the ability to decrypt the message.

  This verification process is made to make certain that the destabilising effect of 'double invest' which is a threat in electronic currency networks does not take place. Double invest is where John provides George ₤ 1 and then goes on to offer Ringo the very same ₤ 1 also (Paul hasn't required to borrow ₤ 1 for a couple of years). This may seem inconsistent with our existing financial system as well as certainly, the physical act of an exchange of fiat currency quits John giving away the very same ₤ 1 twice however when handling digital currencies which are simple data and also where there exists the capacity to duplicate or edit details relatively easily, the risk of 1 device of digital currency being duplicated as well as utilized to make multiple 1 Bitcoin settlements is a genuine one. The ability to do this would damage any type of count on the network and also provide it useless.

  " What the deal shows is that being an unsafe or perhaps safeguarded depositor in euro area banks is not as secure as it made use of to be."

  To make sure the system is not abused the network takes each message immediately produced by a buyer and combines several of these right into a 'block' and offers them to network volunteers or 'miners' to validate. Miners compete with each various other to be the very first to confirm a block's authenticity, professional software application on home computers automatically looking for to confirm digital trademarks as well as ensure that the elements of a purchase message rationally flow from the one preceding it that was used in its production and that it in turn reflects the block preceding it that was utilized in its development and more etc. Ought to the amount of the coming before parts of a block not equate to the entire after that it is likely that an unexpected change was made to a block and it can be quit from being authorised. A typical block takes 10 mins to confirm as well as consequently for a transaction to experience though this can be accelerated by the customer adding a small 'idea' to urge miners to validate their demand faster, the miner solving the block 'problem' being rewarded with 25 Bitcoins plus any 'pointers', hence is new currency released right into blood circulation, this incentivisation guaranteeing that volunteers continue to keep the network's honesty.

  By enabling anyone to examine a suggested modification versus the ledger and validate it the block chain eliminates the demand for a central authority like a financial institution to manage this. By removing this middleman from the equation a host of financial savings in regards to recommended transaction fees, processing times and also limits on just how much and also to whom a purchase can be made can be negated.

  Seems to great to be real.

  It is, every sort of system has its own certain dangers, a decentralised one being no various. The main danger to Bitcoin's decentralised network is the '51% risk', 51% describing the amount of the network's total miners functioning collaboratively in a mining 'swimming pool' to verify deals. Because of it ending up being extra expensive in terms of time and processing power for an individual to effectively validate a purchase as a result of the network becoming larger and also more mature individual miners are now joining 'pools' where they combine their handling power to ensure a smaller sized however much more regular and constant return. Theoretically, ought to a pool expand big sufficient to include 51% or more of overall network individuals it would certainly have the capacity to validate huge double invest deals or reject to confirm authentic deals en mass, properly damaging trust in the network. While there is more motivation developed into the system to legally mine Bitcoin than destroy it through fraud the 51% danger stands for a risk to such a decentralised system. To date mining pools are taking a responsible approach to this problem as well as voluntary steps are being taken to restrict syndicates creating, it being in every person's passions to maintain a stable system that can be relied on.

  So ... regardless of this danger the Financial institution of England suches as things that seems like it could place them bankrupt?

  The BoE are looking past Bitcoin and also digital currency payments specifically and also picturing manner ins which the block chain can make existing economic items and platforms more effective as well as add value to them. One requires only to take a look at existing financial properties such as supplies, finances or derivatives which are already digitised however which sit on centralised networks to appreciate the possibilities that exist for the specific by eliminating the middleman ...

  ... and becoming your own financier. Coloured Coins is a project that intends to permit anybody to turn any one of their properties or residential property right into something they can trade. Assume 'The Antiques Roadshow'. I like that program, particularly when a little ol' dear locates that she's been using a 14th Century Ming meal worth ₤ 200,000 to keep fruit know her sideboard. Coloured Coins would certainly permit the owner of the meal (or their automobile or home) to have several of their Bitcoins stand for a component or whole of the value of their property to ensure that they can be traded in exchange for various other products as well as services, a solitary Bitcoin holding a value of the entire ₤ 200,000 or they issuing 200 coins each with a worth of ₤ 1000.

  In a similar way, an organisation can provide shares represented by digital currency directly to the public which can consequently after that be traded without the need for a pricey IPO or conventional stock market as well as shareholders can elect making use of a safe system similar to just how deal messages are presently created. Patrick Byrne, CEO of one of the United States's largest stores which was the 1st significant online store to approve international Bitcoin repayments is currently checking out strategies to produce such a stock exchange powered by the block chain which he wishes will certainly negate current integral problems such as 'abusive naked brief marketing' where investors can sell shares they do not have which drives down share costs as well as which was felt added to the loss of Lehman Brothers.

  The digitising of possessions could also revolutionise the crowdfunding sector. Kickstarter is an instance of a system that assists in the funding of products by micro-payments from interested participants, typically in return for tiny keepsakes upon conclusion of the task such as signed goods or a duplicate of among the initial products to be generated. With the capability to conveniently digitise a property and also issue shares in it and all future profits for instance capitalists may be a lot more likely to invest much more heavily.

  And also talking crowdfunding ... Vitalik Buterin lately raised ₤ 15m in crowd-sourced funding for his Ethereum Job which he believes will certainly stand for the future of the block chain. The task sustains many shows languages so regarding permit developers to build on-line product or services like social media, search or chat forums as alternatives to those run by companies like Google, Twitter And Facebook. "You can create anything that you would have the ability to write on a web server and also placed it on the blockchain," Buterin informed Wired. "Instead of Javascript making phone call to the web server, you would certainly be making phone call to the blockchain." Presently a community of 200 customers are developing ballot applications, domain registrars, crowd-sourcing systems and also video game to run on Ethereum, 'ethers' extracted with the maintenance of the system by volunteers being needed for this.