something i giggle at is how some people add estella and pocket to the foreign kids group when there was no proof that estella and pocket ever went to america since the episode that theyre in canonically takes place in the uk
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So I'm talking to Julian about Norm ( surprise ) &. I'm thinking about the jobs he worked. In the Vaults there is the Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test or the G.O.A.T. where 16 year old Vault dwellers are given their career. We only know of three jobs that Norm's had in the past almost decade : janitorial , kitchen duty , &. computer &. information maintenance. The last is of course his most recent , which begs the question of what job did Norm get on his G.O.A.T. &. how ?
The only ones listed imply he either got janitorial or kitchen duty. Not that these jobs aren't important but of course Norm wouldn't be enthused by them. I'm sure there's been at least one or two more , especially with Hank giving him jobs when he doesn't show enthusiasm for the ones he's had. I don't think he's ever done a particularly bad job he just didn't like doing them. And he hates that he's been given a computer based job on the basis he's expected to like it. Making him do something he would otherwise love because You Have To Make Your Interests Profitable was never going to fix his issues it was only going to make them worse.
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bro you people
like seriously there is no need to be so aggressive like 1) it is. a tumblr poll. there is nothing more irrelevant than this poll. like. was it worth it. why didn't you just. leave it 2) ohhh my sincerest apologies for not curating my poll to include absolutely every accent that has ever existed
i literally had no idea that some americans don't pronounce gone to rhyme with john or on and this poll wasn't even meant to leave my circle of mutuals and mutuals in law like be fr
and ok. even ignoring all that. there was no need to be so aggressive. 'thats a terrible option' maybe try not attacking me next time jesus
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13, 22 + 23 for the Damien 🔥🔥
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13. Dumbest thing they’ve ever done
When he was around 10 years old & his wings were just growing in (enough to know that they were obviously wings, & were covered in a nice black leather-y skin, BUT NOWHERE NEAR BIG ENOUGH TO LIFT HIM OFF THE GROUND YET), he chose to not listen to his father's warnings & took a running start off the nearest ledge (8ft tall maybe?) & threw himself off of it. Instead of the warm breeze hitting his face & the wind rustling his hair like he expected, he instead dropped straight down & landed on his arm, breaking it. He only did that once & will never do it again, grumpily practicing patience.
22. Best physical feature
Took a bit of thinking with this one, but I'm gonna say his eyes. They're such a striking color of red, & will glow to varying degrees depending on his mood; its subtle however, & one would really have to know him to know this happened. The more excited or angered he gets, the brighter they glow, and vise-versa for when he's upset or drowsy. They are so deep, some say you can see the flickering of the fire burning within him, if you stare long enough.
23. If they were a scented candle, what would they smell like?
Perhaps like a burning citrus? He always has a smoky smell to him, but its not a bad smoke like burning leaves, but more like burning cedar. The citrusy smell often comes from his father's habits at home, always having the place smell nice. Or maybe like a smoked meat? Either way, it'll be some sort of smoky.
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i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"
i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.
if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.
genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.
more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?
we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!
notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.
LIVE WHIMSICALLY.
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