#i was thinking of which ancestor to use for this

[crunchyapple33]

      —    some of my dr ideasㅤ! ㅤ

posting this just incase it gives anyone any inspiration for their own realities <3 the first part of the title is the dr, the second is my s/os, with the same id distinction as in my masterlist post!! 'unk' for unknown, if i am unsure of which gender id for that dr!

      — elementary school teacher   .   unk   ෆ   

okay i just think it would be so cute. i think about like getting to maybe teach art class? it'd be soooo cute. and something something i'm an art teacher, one of my s/os is another teacher, and we meet our other s/o as their a parent of one of our students . something something....

      — ceo's assistants   .   k&l   ෆ   

something something the former ceo of the company retires, leaving the ceo role to her daughter. she grew up really rich and cruel but can we melt her heart as her new assistants ?? [hallmark movie music] (yes i shift mainly for love SUE ME!! /silly)

      — familial ancestors   .   unk   ෆ   

i just think it'd be really cool to shift to a hundredish years ago and meet my ancestors. my gggg-grandma (iirc) came here to america in 1910 and there's a street near my house named after our family because that's where she lived, and i'd love to get to meet her and learn about our family and our traditions (since my family lost pretty much all our traditions. all we do in my house is babka during new years eve and i am desperate to learn more)

      — time travelers   .   k&l   ෆ   

i had the idea some time ago, about like.. meeting my partners during their travel through time (them both also meeting that way, and the 3 of us being from 3 complete different time periods) and getting to learn things in the moments they happened (like.. the creation of pizza or something idk just an example) while having fun with my loves

      — soulmate 'au'   .   r&n   ෆ   

red string of fate. is there anything else i need to say because i for one am obsessed with the idea.

[teecupangel]

Hi Teacup! Sorry for the long post in advance. This idea has been plaguing me for ages, so now everyone else gets to suffer too.

I would like to add to the Desmond menagerie with the biggest badass of the avails to ever live: The Hasst Eagle. The Hasst Eagle was around 15kgs with a 3m wingspan and hunted prey 13 times its own size. No one in any time period could think Desmond is an ordinary eagle.

Ratonhnhaké:ton's village would take one look at Desmond the toddler sized bird and go definitely a spirit.

I also have the wonderful image of Desmond saving Petruccio by just picking him up and flying off in my head (I might be overestimating Desmonds strength and underestimating Petruccio's size, but I found funny imagining the guards faces). And then I remembered the story of Zeus and Ganymede; which made me imagine Ezio chasing down Desmond and threatening to pluck him if he even thinks about taking Petruccio's purity.

It’s really huge, that’s for sure.

Giovanni knew of the Desmond.

The large eagle of legends, the guardian of the Brotherhood.

He had grown up listening to his father tell stories of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and his great eagle. How the large bird’s shadow brought fear to the Templars who see it. How fast it was even when it was bigger than any other birds.

How intelligent it was, using gestures to communicate with his chosen one.

How it had served as the guardian and godfather of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad’s children.

It had seemed like a tall tale but Giovanni never doubted it.

How could he?

When the great eagle was painted over the ceiling of the Sanctuary below Monteriggioni.

He had no reasons to doubt its existence.

But he never talked about the eagle of legends to his children. The Templars would know about the Desmond.

It was too much of a risk, telling the stories to children who could just as easily talk about it to others.

Unintentionally catch the ears of the wrong people.

But now he deeply regretted it.

“Ezio, stop!” Giovanni shouted, unable to keep the panic out of his voice.

How could he?

His second son, a cheerful boy of the age of six, was trying to beat the eagle of legend with a stick, shouting at the eagle loudly, “Go away! Shoo! Shoo!”

“Ezio!” Giovanni shouted, grabbing Ezio’s wrist before he could smack the eagle once more.

Not that he was able to.

Any time the stick was even close to hitting the bird, the Desmond simply flicked one of its wing, parrying the strike and causing Ezio to stagger backwards.

Ezio was a stubborn child though and he would continue to try and hit the bird even as it simply parried all his strikes.

Once it was clear that Ezio couldn’t whack the bird, he turned to his father as he shouted, “Petruccio!”

Giovanni was about to ask what he meant by that but the Desmond lifted its wings, showing his youngest son softly giggling as he tried to crawl away from the bird. One of the bird’s talons was gripping Petruccio’s clothes, keeping the boy still.

Giovanni’s eyes widened as he realized that they were in the second floor balcony that Petruccio’s room had. It was always meant to be locked considering Petruccio was a curious child.

And the railings had enough distance between each pillar that Petruccio could slip through.

The Desmond stared at Giovanni expectantly as it slowly lifted its talon and Giovanni used his other hand to scoop his youngest son into his arms while the baby tried to crawl to the railings.

“Thank you.” Giovanni said as he bowed deeply at the bird, earning a confused frown from Ezio.

The bird simply shook its body, reminding Giovanni of a man stretchering before the bird turned to stare at Ezio. It lifted one of its wings and Giovanni’s blood ran cold, worried about how much Ezio had offended the bird.

The bird did not try to hurt Ezio though. Instead, it used its wing to pat Ezio’s head three times before hopping away. It flapped its wings and flew out of the balcony.

And Giovanni finally let out a relieved sigh.

[elodieunderglass]

And one amang, an Iyrysch man,

Uppone his hoby swyftly ran…

WAIT HANG ON - slamming the brakes on drawing this stupid picture - do you nerds even KNOW the etymology of the word “hobby”? The thing you do for pleasure? The thing you have too many of? The thing you spend too much money on and share with your friends? The thing tumblr probably is to you? Those hobbies?

It comes from a now-kind-of-extinct breed of Irish pony-horse. It was called the Irish Hobby. Supposedly the hobby got its name from the Gaelic word obann, or swift. They definitely were. They’d obann your pants clean off.

Fast tough little bastards, built for rough terrain and renowned for their speed and stamina, hobby horses belonged to the Celts, and their highly annoying style of mounted warfare. but their conquerors liked hobby horses a lot, kept them, used them for themselves, and found them useful enough, despite the fact that they also had famously useful things like mounted knights or horse archers. A lightweight Irish warrior, mounted on a hobby horse, was called a hobelar.

Reportedly and in depictions, hobelars rode without stirrups. Or saddles. Or bridles. Or - well - this is all sounding very improbable, because the hobelars COULDNT have just been charging around basically bare-assed on naked ponies, screaming, and somehow in the process undoing the composure of actual mounted armoured knights. Knights who, I remind you, had stirrups. Stirrups are useful! It’s quite likely the hobelars had some gear. And clothes. and weapons. And the ponies probably had some tack - I am picturing a bellyband that you could at least hang a saddlebag on, and a neck rope for catching the bloody thing, even if not a saddle. But the overall impression, somehow created by people on darling little ponies, was apparently quite striking and fearful.

I mean. God Forbid People Have Hobbies.

Anyway after a while, whatever people became the British had eventually conquered all of the rough terrain that hobbies were best at, and horse archers just got sexier, and mounted knights became aristos, and all the bog and forest people had been subdued, so it was time to sunset the hobelars. but WAIT! Hobby horses are still tremendously fun and appealing! They’re so fast! and you can ride them without a saddle! Sure, they’re not up to the weight of a mounted knight, or indeed a lot of guys… but surely we can still find a use for a hobby or two? In the back garden? Somewhere?

At which point an English king decided to keep hobby horses just for fun. No military application. No further development of the technology. Not for fun. Just as expensive, pleasurable, pets. Just for the joy of the thing.

And that is how hobby (activity done purely for pleasure) comes from hobby horse (small horse) possibly from obann (swift.) they’re very interesting and you should look all this up for yourself! because it sure sounds like Elodie doing a bit, doesn’t it?

Today, Irish Hobbies are functionally nonexistent. References for drawing include the Kerry Bog Pony, the Connemara, and (I personally think) Dartmoors and Exmoors. They’re said to have lent their speed to the Irish Hunter/Sport Horse and from there to the Thoroughbred, but every damn horse in the world claims relation to the Thoroughbred, and they can’t be THAT thoroughly bred.

At any rate - you can never have enough hobbies. Just be glad that yours aren’t expensive beasts with minds of their own, eating their heads off in the pasture! …Unless they are. In which case, you’re part of a proud tradition.

[wisteria-bae]

I want to clarify something right out of the gate:

When I said, “Here’s how it was broken down to us,” I referenced what I was taught. I’m not erasing African culpability or trying to push a one-sided narrative. If your experience or education taught you something different, that’s fine, but just as you speak from your experience, so do I.

True facts don’t become racist just because they’re inconvenient, or because you think the other person has a racist reason for bringing them up.

That’s a misread of my point. I never said the fact itself is racist, I said the timing and framing often reveal a motive. When a person suddenly becomes a historian the moment racial injustice is mentioned, only to deflect blame or shut down dialogue, that’s bad-faith distraction. That context matters.

Also, ‘trading with other people for stuff you want for an advantage’ doesn’t make them victims.

At no point did I call anyone a victim. I said some African leaders made decisions out of fear or the pressure of power struggles. That’s not victimhood; that’s political realism. Motivation doesn’t absolve guilt.

So they sold Africans the surplus guns that wouldn’t sell to Europeans. That doesn’t seem like a sinister plot, that seems like getting rid of old stock.

This is exactly what I meant when I said people rarely extend nuance to European participants. When Africans participate, we dig deep into motives, tactics, and economic reasoning. But when Europeans exploit with outdated weapons, faulty deals, and false promises, it suddenly becomes “just business.” Why does nuance disappear when it’s not convenient?

So why do you describe Africans as just ‘selling’ and say white people ‘stole’? There was a lot more ‘stealing’ going on by black people than white people, even by your own argument.

That’s not what I said. I acknowledged both theft and trade. The transatlantic slave trade included kidnapping and purchase. Some Africans were sold, and others were abducted, just like some European colonists bought enslaved people, and others ran illegal slaving expeditions. Both happened and can be true at once without canceling each other out.

I feel like you’re describing your own rationalizations here, but in a deflecting way.

I’m unsure why you feel that way, but that’s not what I’m doing. I explained what I was taught, added some context, and expressed that both sides played roles in a complex, brutal system. I was acknowledging, not deflecting.

Again, the statement usually implies white people alone enslaved black people, and leaves out who did the majority, assuming the speaker even knows most of it was black on black. And I don't think most people do. In most mainstream discourse, the role of black slavers is entirely ignored. If white people are held responsible for something actually done by black people, that's racist and should be corrected, just like the converse.

I hear what you’re saying, but we’re approaching this from two angles. The majority of the initial capturing and selling being “black on black” doesn’t erase or exclude the European role in building the system that brought Africans to the Americas, especially to places like the U.S.

African Americans’ historical focus often starts with what happened once our ancestors were on this side of the ocean. That’s the beginning of our lineage: chattel slavery, plantations, Jim Crow, redlining, mass incarceration.

We’re not ignoring certain parts of the story; we’re focusing on the parts that shaped our communities, our identities, and the generational trauma we’re still unpacking today.

We know Black people sold and captured each other; that part’s not hidden or ignored anymore. But that truth doesn’t cancel out how European powers created, scaled, and profited from a system that turned human lives into generational property. That’s what our education and conversations tend to center out of relevance to our lived reality.

Which brings me to a question I‘m curious about. As a Black non-American, do you believe that how the transatlantic slave trade was taught to you, compared to how we learn about it here in the U.S., is more accurate or complete? And if so, why do you think it's being taught so wrongly and different?

So a black woman was released from jail five months after she was arrested for "abusing a corpse" because she had a miscarriage in a restaurant bathroom.

Her name is Mallori Patrice Strait, and she is 33 years old. This is her.

I distinctly recall raising concern that this would happen to women in anti-abortion states when this happened to Brittany Watts in Ohio and I distinctly recall pro-lifers saying this wouldn't not lead to women getting arrested for miscarriages.

It's also not lost on me that these two women are black, and pro-lifers spent years arguing that their policies were meant to "protect the black population."

While you all justify Adriana Smith's case in Georgia, I wanna hear the 'pro-life' explanation for this.

I want all the "protect black babies" people and the "abortion is black genocide" people to step forward.

I just want to talk.

[mythalism]

genuinely curious how the writers and larger dragon age audience would treat thom rainier if instead of being appropriately* repentant and putting himself in prison he blew up a major orlesian government building to instigate a chevalier rebellion or tried to have someone do some necromantic blood magic ritual involving uncertain danger and possible sacrifices to bring the innocent children he ordered killed back to life

[clumsypuppy]

oooh wait so the plot hole of “why doesnt a spirit medium just channel the victims spirit” is literally bc the DL-6 spirit channeling cant be repeated huh

[mayomkun]

In the Sandman, since Dream 'came into existence once lifeforms capable of dreaming appeared in the universe', I wonder what that lifeform is and what did it dream of. Like what is the first dream in the universe about.

[pepperpatrol]

Im not going to keep this up but if you think that

1. English people are incapable of having and upholding racist ideas about Native Americans when it was in fact europeans who colonized them to begin with.

2. The uk government did not have a response to the (global) uptick in facist policy and idealogy in the wake of 9/11 and all that it entailed in regards to (global) hegemony and therefore no english person would have any anxiety about the conflicts their soldiers were being sent into bc of said (global) hegemony.

3. That Warrior Cats does not exist in relation to its contemporaries within its genre in which that is a common trope referencing a very specific piece of classical literature that was racist by its very premise.

4. Things can have many different cultural influences based on where and who is writing it at what time and that some of these things will have things in common with other things that make unintentional unfortunate implications.

Then I don't know what to say to you. It turns out that a lot of these ideas do permeate into English culture because they came from english culture to begin with. Native Americans are the easiest thing for me to reference but they also aren't the only indigenous culture that exists either. The generic tropes are racist bc they're all sitting on the generic assumptions that colonists, many who were from the UK, had about the people they were colonizing. Just bc it isn't referencing something specific doesn't make it less ignorant. YOU are cherry picking. Kitty pets aren't white people and warrior cats aren't native Americans but the entire concept of "someone from civilization goes and joins their more wild ancestors/neighbors/a group of people that is other from them and has to prove themselves to become a member of the clan/tribe/group (and then often is so good at being the thing that they become the best and the leader.)" is literally Dances With Wolves by formula and that formula is racist. It's a structure used over and over bc it's considered a classic. The last Samurai is also a dances with wolves expy. Just bc the target of the racism in this is Japanese doesn't change what the trope is. The blue avatar movie is the same thing. There's a billion other ones. It's an archetype. And unfortunately when you're trying to use that archetype to tell a story about not discriminating it can fall flat and it is, indeed, worthy of pointing out.

Oversimplification of the source material is the strongest weapon people can use to diminish legitimate arguments against a story that aim to actually criticize genuine problems with the writing

[nyaskitten]

So considering what we know about Chima and the Wyldness and all that blah blah blah, I wonder if after the Merge, a group of Serpentine, maybe a few hundred, would've ventured to the Wyldness to try reconnect with their ancient roots (given the hypothesized idea of the FSM bringing the Serpentine from Chima/the Wyldness.)

I can imagine maybe they find the ancient remains of Serpentine lands, maybe there exists modern day Serpentine in the Wyldness who evolved differently from the ones we know due to conditions, and thus work in different ways from OUR Serpentine.

Maybe the reason Ninjago Serpentine are divided as Tribes has something to do with the Ancient Ways once spoken of centuries ago by their ancient ancestors, back when the Tribes were different animal species, not Serpentine species.

[gratiae-mirabilia]

pls reblog + explain your answer in the tags!

[lokigodofaces]

It sucks when you learn something new which might be the answer to a question you've had for a while but you don't even know where to start to see if it really is the answer.

[bucephaly]

I'm so excited and so nervous for this job. Mostly excited though

And I'll be getting blocks of days off and get to just hang out and spend time around the area of the southern appalachians. There's so much I wanna do around there and I'm excited to get to do it

And I'll probably be doing a lot of it alone which I'm fine with. I'll get to get more used to just going and doing things by myself and taking my time.

[rxttenfish]

i have a theory that i just tend to jokingly call the "sexy lamp of lazy monsterfucking" — which is, that you can broadly tell if any piece of monsterfucking or xenofiction is good by asking the question, would it be basically the same if you swapped their species with that of a sexy lamp? a sufficiently hot human could also work in place of the sexy lamp (although the sexy lamp is funnier), but the principle remains the same. that, if you're trying to write something from a nonhuman perspective, that should almost certainly massively impact how they see and interact with the world, and if you can go massive swathes of the story forgetting what they are, replacing it with something else, or just outright ignoring it, then, well, it's just not very good and kind of fails at the central premise!

[th3overthink3r]

Yes yes yes a thousand times over.

Here you can find a guide to the mandalorian color meanings I used.

Okay so the og Robin suit was Red for honoring a parent, as in Dick honoring his own parents, but later on it was to honor Bruce. Green is for Duty to the Clan of the [insert batlike creature I still need to decide which one], and yellow is for rememberance of their past life. The black jumpsuit is for justice.

Dick later switched to blue, bc he's a reliable ally and person.

Jason wears orange bc he's a droid, no matter how humanoid, and he did technically die. He lusts and years for life and seeks sensations that remind him he is alive.

Cass was raised to be a weapon by her father who was part of the death watch once. She escaped and met the Batfam. Her armor is white to s,mbolise a new life she was offered, one with meaning other than to kill. Orangein her clothing also symbolizes her lust for life, and the purple is to connect with steph, but also for luck. Purple means luck.

Steph chose purple because she feels like she needed a lot of luck to sabotage her father and the empire. The blue in her outfit shows that she's a reliable ally.

Tim was raised in the empire, and the way of the mandalor offered him a new life, a new way of thinking, white, and the green undertones are bc he feels a sense of duty to the family that helped him change and be better.

Duke's armour is rememberance, his ancestors and his parents walk with him when he wears that armor.

Damian doesn't have his own beskar yet, but I believe it would be mainly black, with white and green accents.

These are my designs for my mandalorian batfam AU.

The similarities in the armor designs are intentional, as they were all made by leslie except for Duke's.

The colours are important.

From left to right: Dick Grayson, Jason Wayne, Cassandra Wayne, Stephanie, Tim, Duke Thomas and Damian Al-ghul Wayne.

I tried making Cass and Tim look similar in facial structure, but I think I failed. This style doesn't allow for much variation, but gotta practice my animation style somehow.

[iniziare]

Re-tag drop: Yelan

[fablecore]

irini, have you read after god? i was thinking you might enjoy the snake god's storyline! and the art is gorgeous...

i hope you've been doing well! seeing your blog on my dashboard always makes me smile, it feels kind of like being invited in for a quick cup of tea while i'm out on a walk.

i read the first chapter! the art is really pretty :-O

ahhh that imagery is so precious...! i've been okay! lots of busy things have been happening over the past year, and now i'm planning a trip to china + japan in september (wahooo!!!!!)

thank you for thinking of me!! i hope you are having a wonderful day. here's some snacks and tea for us to share -> 🍵 🍙🍡🍧🍵