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what if cybertronians didn't high five because they have other ways of greeting each other/celebrating, so when they came to earth the humans taught them about it and they'd do high fives awkwardly like cats/dogs. u know, direct eye contact with the human that says "i am high fiving now !!! look !! you taught me how to do it !!!" and their hands would miss because they're not looking so they try again a bit slower and it doesn't do that loud clapping noise, it goes 'ting' but they're so proud for learning about the cultural importance of high fives in humans and how to recreate it themselves
kind of like this maybe
or like this
#.txt#they're like oo humans use tactile communication to motivate and increase cooperation with each other just like us but also very differentl
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"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."
-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty"
#historicwomendaily#elizabeth woodville#my post#friendly reminder that there's nothing indicating that Elizabeth was exceptionally pious or that her piety was 'beyond purely conventional'#(something first claimed by Anne Crawford who simultaneously claimed that Elizabeth was 'grasping and totally lacking in scruple' so...)#EW's piety as queen may have stood out compared to former 15th century predecessors and definitely stood out compared to her husband#but her actions in themselves were not especially novel or 'beyond normal' and by themselves don't indicate unusual piety on her part#As Laynesmith's more recent research observes they seem to have been 'broadly conventional'#A conclusion arrived at Derek Neal as well who also points out that in general queens and elite noblewomen simply had wider means#of 'visible material expression of [their] personal devotion' - and also emphasizes how we should look at their wider circumstances#to understand their actions (eg: the death of Elizabeth's son George in 1479 as a motivating factor)#It's nice that we know a bit about Elizabeth's more personal piety - for eg she seems to have developed an attachment to Westminster Abbey#It's possible her (outward) piety increased across her queenship - she undertook most of her religious projects in later years#But again - none of them indicate the *level* of her piety (ie: they don't indicate that she was beyond conventionally pious)#By 1475 it seems that contemporaries identified Cecily Neville as the most personally devout from the Yorkist family#(though Elizabeth and even Cecily's sons were far greater patrons)#I think people also assume this because of her retirement to Westminster post 1485#which doesn't work because 1) we don't actually know when she retired? as Laynesmith says there is no actual evidence for the traditional#date of 12 February 1487#2) she had very secular reasons for retiring (grief over the death of her children? her lack of dower lands or estates which most other#widows had? her options were very limited; choosing to reside in the abbey is not particularly surprising. it's a massive and unneeded jump#to claim that it was motivated solely by piety (especially because it wasn't a complete 'retirement' in the way people assume it was)#I think historians have a habit of using her piety as a GOTCHA!' point against her vilification - which is a flawed and stupid argument#Elizabeth could be the most pious individual in the world and still be the pantomime villain Ricardians/Yorkists claim she was#They're not mutually exclusive; this line of thinking is useless#I think this also stems from the fact that we simply know very little about Elizabeth as an individual (ie: her hobbies/interests)#certainly far less than we do for other prominent women Margaret of Anjou; Elizabeth of York;; Cecily Neville or Margaret Beaufort#and I think rather than emphasizing that gap of knowledge her historians merely try to fill it up with 'she was pious!'#which is ... an incredibly lackluster take. I think it's better to just acknowledge that we don't know much about this historical figure#ie: I do wish that her piety and patronage was emphasized more yes. but it shouldn't flip too far to the other side either.
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Working my way 🆙 ⬆️
#fitblr#weight training#free weights#increased weight#lifting#fitness#m0tiv8me#fitspo#health and fitness#healthy diet#recovery#physical therapy#dumbbells#inspiration#motivation#me
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On one rare day such as this I have decided to become visible
#a couple years on t and all i got was this super awesome 5 o clock shadow and increased confidence and. other stuff too#still not sure whether i want to cut my hair short or not but i keep being motivated by beautiful long haired men to keep it long#my face
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me: i want to write this epic scenery in Amn with Tav's parents and Gortash and---
also me, looking at the unfished structure of arc 3 for MAD:
#m.a.d.#it's been real tough out here kiddos#the urge to just end it randomly within 3 chapters increases#i probably won't do it but boy am i struggling#i think i need to publish weekly to keep me motivated but i can't write weekly since i'm burnt out#hmmmm we shall find a solution
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a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.
it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.
#I wrote a short story from her perspective over the holidays and then didn't know how to continue it#and then I got distracted by real life stuff for a few months#I forget if I posted about that#and then I've been picking through archive dot org for the last few weeks looking at this stuff#the last big rabbit hole was trying to get a better feel for era appropriate ts/tv subculture#the current one I'm looking at is how she would've gotten into language learning and how that would've worked#nettle has been prodding me about the setting thing lately so I've been thinking about that more too#probably the biggest hurdle by far is figuring out how I want to play that#and how I want the thing to be divided up#since the original coc scenario I'm developing this out of is centered on a flight from LA to honolulu#and the airport dungeon was definitely meant to be a hook for a larger campaign#some amount of it is going to cover protag lady's failed life in LA and some of it is going to be worse things happening in hawaii#but it's like. how much do I want to balance it one way or the other#and realistically how much does the aesthetics of 20th century air travel add to the story#besides me personally thinking it's compelling ofc#a lot of what I find compelling about hawaii is that it's an east/west cultural crossroads and realistically that's also true of socal#and I can wax poetic about socal as much as I want without worrying all that much about mishandling something#and there's also a lot of socal specific history along similar parallels to pull from that I'm more familiar with#I guess it comes down to whether curiosity re: 'doing it right' is enough of a motivator to do the increased amount of research#which I guess it has so far with the above character details. so hopefully that will continue#but it also feels like using machine translation a bit yknow. it's hard to know how effectively I'll be able to sanity check#although depending on where this goes I might be able to get other people involved to sensitivity read down the line#with most of the creative things I do I just have a tendency to always rely really heavily on figuring things out myself#I also want protag lady to have a Cool Car and idk how to get that from point a to point b narratively#this is like an entire second or third post's worth of tags but I don't feel like unfucking this so whatever. suffer. I guess.
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#uwoagh… oc….#my art#i increased the volume of their hair by. some Percent!#i dont have much motivation to finish anything lately but i liked how this turned out#(i dont really have time either tbh)#uhuhu hhuhuuhhufhgh < mentally crying I Don’t Wanna Do Shit#let me out of this body!!!!#can i just go in spectator mode#you ever visualize yourself in third person its kinda fun
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In wild news, Adams said in an interview that Jai is stronger than a Kryptonian?? So.... Uh... Not sure what's up with that tbh
#idk i guess you could interpret it as 'Jai creates more force than a Kryptonian' rather than just straight up strength#which i can kinda understand the logic behind that. the same logic as the infinite mass punch. the faster an object is the harder it hits.#but yeah Adams was talking about how Jai's thunderclaps are more powerful than Karen's thunderclaps#and how that's only going to increase#and that Wally is going to have a revelation of sorts along the lines of 'oh fuck my kids are RIDICULOUSLY powerful. world ending powerful'#and that motivates him to seriously train them. so that they use that power safely and to be good people#and to avoid 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'#i always got the Irey side of that. i didn't really clue in that he meant Jai as well. at least not as he is rn.#i figured he'd develop further powers and thatd be what makes him dangerous. but no. his super strength is apparently fucked up#like ridiculously fucking over powered#he's out preforming Kryptonians at NINE#Wally your kid is gonna sneeze one day and accidentally trigger a second big bang i stg#dc#dc comics#the flash#kid flash#wally west#jai west#surge
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i caught up on jjk. favorite panels in the last few chapters, plus:
thematic catharsis coming around
#jjk manga#jjk spoilers#jjk manga spoilers#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#i really think fushiguro is more of a parallel to geto than he is to gojo#geto saved gojo first but gojo failed to save geto#fushiguro saved itadori first and itadori's going to save fushiguro#it's also propping up my theory that gojo is an unreliable narrator#and most important things he's said in the series are going to be proven wrong#1. love it the most twisted curse of all#it's actually the key#2. you can't save someone who isn't prepared to be saved#you can and he will#those are my thoughts#i don't think the manga has gotten as bad as people are saying it has#but it does have issues#and the style change and quality dip in the illustration is bugging me#and don't think characters being introduced and dying quickly is that bad either#the ones that matter are written well and their deaths are significant and well integrated#the main issues cropping up now are also the issues that have existed for much much longer than post-shibuya#villains motivations make no sense#random battles that don't have thematic significance abrupt the pacing in an annoying way#the magic system isn't always well integrated narratively and thematically#gege has too many ideas and not all of them needed to make it past editing#but a lot of problems are just typical shonen problems that jjk seemed above when the story was a little tighter#also i don't think the magic system is as smart and complicated as people are pretending it is#i don't think it will be hard to adapt in the anime#i think the weaknesses in pacing and the increase in exposition are going to be more exposed in the anime though#and more people will catch on to the basic rules of the magic system being inconsistent or underdeveloped
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officially putting a publishing embargo on my own fics until i finish a few malingering wips and then releasing them together in one week because if there's one thing that's helpful and productive it's an all-or-nothing mentality
#jokes but actually this will be super motivating for me#i THRIVE on arbitrary challenges and artificially increased stakes lol#fics in question are:#next oaths chap#seventies san francisco au#the death of translation#a mystery fic :^)#taking bets for how long this will take i am optimistically saying 10 days#i will be happy if it's around two weeks tho#then i am taking a break and writing ALL the rest of oaths plus another special oaths-related thing#februrary schedule or something#posting this so i can laugh at my delusions later
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This is the lovely post by MoonIvy that inspired me to get myself back into reading chinese by the way:
And this is MoonIvy's other amazing post, which includes a list of everything they read so far in order of difficulty which is a great reference list if you are looking for something to try, and includes some suggestions on listening study things you can try too.
MoonIvy is part of the group managing the Heavenly Path site I keep mentioning, that just has so many phenomenally organized media recommendations, a good guide to starting to read, and lots of linked resources:
#rant#reading#resources#chinese resources#rec list#so in these posts moonivy mentions some good starting places for HSK 4 people to push into reading#and i agree at about hsk 4 you can handle 1 a ton of graded readers (from 500 hanzi to 2000 as you go)#and 2 u can eventually handle native novels at hsk 4. thats when i pushed into native novels#i would say though. my own difference in learning#is i personally found it motivating and enjoyable to read WAY above my level at times.#i personally always go between 1 easier thing for myself and 1 harder thing to read. i felt that kept my#reading level both progressively increase while also giving me easier stuff to practice extensive reading#and for me it was HIGHLY motivating to read 100 pages of priest in print 2 years in#HIGHLY motivatkng to read tian ya ke with a click dictilnary 10 months in.#to see chapters go from 1.5 hours to read to 50 minutes to 40 minutes to 25 minutes.#so for me. i would say if you WANT to read something way above your level? just go ahead#you can always bounce between easier and harder stuff#i find a good balance worked better for me. and also i tend to learn better when massively challenged ToT#idk why i think its just cause its familiar. id read my parents novels at age 8. ToT it feels#more like how i leafned my native language to simply read my foreign language the same#though i know it demotivates some people. in contrast i find keeping some harder stuff on hand#reminds me to challenge myself and not idle at the level im at.#so i say? assume u can do ANYTHING with success. and do it. and when it burns u out or is not fun anymore?#go do something easier u Know is Easy. (and it sure will feel easy after the Anything before lol)#then u get confidence doing it easy. and remember ur#still capable of Anything so try again when ur ready.
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Your cat cafe au is so much fun and so soft I adore it but hearing that Malleus and Leona's cats are friends is so funny to me and spawned the worst idea XD
Prefect: Leona, Nebula is pregnant
Leona: ...By who?
Prefect gestures to Oatmeal and Nebula cuddling.
we share the same brain!! actually working on the cat au ask right now, but have a few irl emergencies that prevented my writing, and here’s a little bit of it! but first let me just say this is 100% my thought process if you and rook have yet to neuter the kitties. oatmeal and nebula have a romeo and juliet love story! \(//∇//)\ more under cut! this isn’t canon in the au or anything but a fun concept!!
“Nebula has never looked better, he scooped her up in one arm and held her firmly against his bicep, smug as she meowed up at him and purred loudly. He had zero hesitation to hold her while walking to his fated rival, looking him and his cat up and down before scoffing. The two proceeded to argue over who’s cat looked better wearing their dorm uniform for a bit, as the two cats seemed content in their arms without hostility to one another. - Leona Kingscholar
Malleus Draconia - As Leona argues with him half his brain has melted to this is the greatest cat. Cat precious. My firstborn is the best in this world. The other half of him smugly picks up his son in his own arm, the cat against his own bicep as he begins talking about how regal he is. Honestly, his cat is just happy to spend time with him and begins playfully nipping at him after not getting enough attention.”
anyways back to the ask!! I’d like to imagine if that actually happened then leona would freak out at malleus, while malleus is shocked he is getting his first grandchild with you already as you reiterate that is a cat, and you both are not married. he’s not listening, to you or leona. they end up being that in law family that despise one another thoroughly like my child is too good for your child but i don’t want to lose custody of my grandchild. cats tend to have multiple kitties at once so im thinking depending on the amount the may definitely mean the boys now live ay Ramshackle with the kittens, with Nebula nipping at her dad proudly showing him her babies and Oatmeal showing his dad his babies too, forcing the two men to bond despite their prominent scowls, but they avoid being too loud because you remind them kittens are sensitive to noises. (。-∀-)
they’d definitely end up trying to adopt the kittens when you graduate.. but that custody battle is a talk for a different day. on the bright side Oatmeal and Nebula finally get to stay with each other openly as they raise the kitties.
for anyone curious ( ^ω^ ) been busy these past few weeks with art fight, and my cat needed a vet emergency, still have to return to the vet later this week, but i’m also working on a r-18 birthday leona fic! friendly reminder my navigation does say mdni and you are responsible for the content on my profile that you view!♪
Σ('◉⌓◉’) actually haven’t written r-18 works for social media in a bit, but i will try my best to make the fic! if anyone does not want to view the content, please block the tag “shrouded in desire.” which i will be tagging the fic, and all r-18+ fics on my profile for those who do not want to see the content!
#questions of styx.#more on the topic of this ask!! it’s ALWAYS fine to send asks like this— and to want to talk or expand on my concepts!!#absolutely love kitty aus and my reqs. are open!! (´・ω・｀)#im happy to receive asks like this!! despite my recent business these motivate my writing \(//∇//)\#my kitty is fine but the medical emergency has just exhausted me from writing and ive been trying to adjust them to new foods and things#that aside i maybe deleted my rollo draft three times because im self conscious ( ´Д`) however will be rewriting!#im working on a leona birthday fic that should hopefully turn out good#im not too sure how good my writing for those kind of fics could be but id be happy to try my best to reward people patiently waiting for#more content!! was surprised despite my unannounced hiatus i still retained a steady follower increase- thank you!!#( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ quick reminder my nav says you’re responsible for what you read and ill try to give another warning before posting the fic and#try my best to tag the fic appropriately. thank you for understanding!!#i also had the idea to sketch and create oc siblings of like each dorm leader so also got distracted#rather than writing had this genuine thought and got possessed with the headcanon that azul should have a brother#don’t ask whether that’s a pos or neg thing but he just needs one.
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hey baes i hoped u missed me 💗
anyways here’s some height affirmations+visuals to help my short bitches manifest <3
💗 i’m so tall
💗 i literally have my desired height
💗 everyone is so jealous of my height
💗 i’m so tall i could be a model
💗 people constantly ask me if i play basketball or volleyball because of how tall i am
💗 i intimidate people with how tall i am
💗 i keep growing taller everyday
💗 my body is mainly legs tbh, like i’m 80% legs and 20% torso
💗 i have incredibly long legs
💗 i have super long legs and a short torso
💗 i shocked everyone with my height increase
💗 i’m immune to shrinking
💗 my height increase is very noticeable, people that i was short next to yesterday are now short next to me!!
💗 i love my height
💗 i love how tall i am
💗 i’m so tall, my head hits the ceiling (exaggerated don’t come at me)
💗 my feet are so small
💗 i fit into my desired shoe size even though i’ve grown in height
💗 my results are permanent
💗 i’m getting my full results right now
💗 it’s normal for me to get my results in less than two seconds
💗 i have my results right now
you’re welcome <3
#manifest#manifesting#loa#affirmations#law of assumption#height increase#manifesting secrets#self concept#neville goddard#manifesting method#manifestation#motivation#mutuals
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it’s so cute how Anya and Becky see the strength Yor has and immediately want to be strong like her, so of course mama Yor trains them :').
#sxf#yeah and it only increases Loid’s anxiety… naturally#was becky a little motivated by the fact that Loid is into strong women… yeah whole heartedly lmao#spy x family#anya forger#yor forger#yor briar#becky blackbell#spyxfamily#june.post
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hello this is alia / auroargraves. when can i expect this dwy fic from yuhh 👉🏻👈🏻
hi!!!! i honestly dont know ahaha, im working on it is all i can say! hopefully soon but eh, knowing me it might take lots of time fdjhfbhjd
#this def did increase my motivation heh <3 thanks for the interest in my fic!#answered asks#auroargraves#also lmao i started other wips too for dwy so its a raced to see which one is finished first djhfbdjfbd#also funny u ask cuz i was JUST working on it too ahaha coincidences <3
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So I have some people following me (why...) and I choose to use my powers for evil. Blatant promotion.
I think Batfam lovers should read hand in unlovable hand (a chokehold) by britishparty in which Tim is kidnapped by Black Mask as a child and used as a criminal consultant for his empire. I consUMED that fic when I first read it and still turn my malfunctioning brain to that AU in slow moments.
They just came out with a continuation Jason Todd’s Guide to Traumatized Teenagers that I haven’t even finished reading as I type this bc I keep stopping to not only consider the multilayered implications but also flap my hands in excitement and refusal to be done just yet.
My evil motive is I want to talk about this fic so off you go
#Its SO good guys#Im stubborn in my bedtimes so only special fics will keep me up past 9:30-10pm#and I made it to 11 bc I was so enamored#the writing the direction the subtle shift in motive and characterization as the fic years pass#its genius its amazing it was mesmerizing#and an addition so soon!!!#I can't stop flapping my hands or stopping midsentence to move around and process#Im gonna reread this chapter right after I finish to Absorb the subtext#there's a lot going on and I'm AHHH#anyway its very good please read and talk to me about it#I don't think I've been so consumed by a fic since our capacity for love increases with every person we cross paths with#by Iriascend which you ALSO should read and talk to me about#writer brain broke rn so I'm reading fics again to cope
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