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[byte--sized-thoughts]

PARCELS

daft punk harry styles jazzy australian beach town soft rock

come here shh listen

[feelo-fick]

request doodles on stream in a server :D

[amazingdeadfish]

It's the Spookie Month

[knockknockitsnickels]

I think this is one of my favorite lines from the Wraith route because of (imo) how much the meaning changes depending on if you got there via Spectre or Nightmare. For Spectre, it honestly strikes me as a genuine question. Why are you doing this to her? If you're on the Spectre route, you presumably already know the Narrator can't really be trusted, since you had to reject his reward to get here. What are you hoping to gain from continuing to hurt her? For Nightmare, it honestly just makes me sad. As the Shifting Mound describes her, "She desires only companionship, but the only thing she knows is how to hurt." This line feels like a plea from someone who genuinely doesn't understand why you keep rejecting her. She wants to be with you, but she just can't understand how to do that in a way which doesn't hurt you.

[clockworkreapers]

so we all know the main characters of course... but these two I really like in the books- for very different reasons

[hinamie]

looks at hair slicked back megu I Could Fix Him

[turtleblogatlast]

I will never be over Leo’s 4D chess play in “Many Unhappy Returns”. Like, just in general it is a spectacle to see this character who we’ve seen goofing around time and time again, who’s only sometimes decided to take things seriously, only to show him making a maneuver like that.

And here’s what gets me the most about his plan against Big Mama: he comes up with it on the spot. The second he sees that Big Mama has the solution they need, he’s already in game mode.

It is so satisfying watching the episode back when you realize his plan, because he literally sets the stage entirely for a decisive victory. He sees that the champion is a kraken, and comes up with both the solution to defeating it and a reasonable excuse to get that solution into the battle with them on the fly:

“Like your champ aaand those six guys. In fact, we don’t want this over too quickly. You should armor up those rookies. The whole shebang. Especially with these pointy helmets.”

And this is why giving him teleportation powers is perfect, too. He analyzes the battlefield and makes use of all the assets, moving pieces around to guarantee a win. It is honestly so impressive to witness and one of my favorite parts of his character.

[darling-stardust]

[serpentface]

Wardin provincial tax magistrate on the annual Apomalo Tlinya (phrase close in meaning to 'journey of the late (autumn) sun'), which is a tax collection tour.

His station is marked by his white cloak, royal blue belt, gullfeather khattanocuy, the ability to bear a sword, and a scroll containing documents stamped with the Usoma's seal confirming his identity and authority. He does not travel alone, but is accompanied by a large retinue of scribes, soldiers, advisors, and servants.

All citizens have tax obligations regardless of class, and these are owed primarily in grain and livestock. This is based in this internal economy being predominantly a barter system (with its coin currency having direct value as precious metals and serving as a means of establishing fixed values for various trade goods) and heavily reliant on agricultural goods. It is significantly more difficult to evade or cheat on taxes when what you owe can be established by sight, measured in hard to miss livestock and fields of crops.

As such, taxes are collected via annual tours in which these magistrates (personally appointed by the Usoma and collecting in his name) tour their lands in person. The Apomalo Tlinya serves multiple purposes. It is primarily a method of collecting tax, but also doubles as a way to assess a province's agricultural wealth and well-being as a whole and to take an official census of the population.

This routine act of taxation has been integrated into official religious practice, being looped in with the bounty of the harvest season and thanksgiving to the face Inyamache for having provided the necessary long summer sunlight as the days grow shorter. The actual Apomalo Tlinya begins upon the official celebrations of the New Maize day in each capital city (usually observed on a separate day at the actual end of the harvest for each village), where the festival ends with the tax party leaving the city in procession. The magistrate always ceremonially rides a red bull khait, bearing a solar disk framed by royal dual-viper insignia on its horns. The bull's journey is compared to the ideal seasonal behavior of the sun, generating new life out of rain-fertile earth and then 'dying' after the harvest to allow for the rains to come. Villages who host the Apomalo Tlinya entourage each night experience a fringe benefit via permission to introduce any receptive mares to the bull and possibly get some (very valuable) calves out of it. The bull will be sacrificed at the end of the journey in a final act of thanksgiving, in hopes this offering will help ensure the next year is bountiful.

The attempted veneer of solar thanksgiving and harvest cheer aside, the Apomalo Tlinya visit is enjoyed by just about no one (except for perhaps the people lucky enough to get a pretty khait calf out of it), as it entails the personal loss of some of this aforementioned harvest. Nobility owe SUBSTANTIALLY higher taxes than commoners (given that they are considered to Own the majority of the crops/livestock, which is only Tended by their land's peasants), though the actual tax burden is proportionately steeper on the peasantry (whose tax obligations will come primarily out of their allotted share of the harvest, and/or any livestock they raise on the side). Taxes don't tend to be outright devastating in years with average crop yields, but an already bad year can be made ruinous by this visit. The timing also coincides with seasonal harvest festivities. A few unlucky villages every year may have their New Maize feast day interrupted by the sound of horns and a small legion of white-clad taxmen bearing down to collect.

Each province has only one tax magistrate, making this a lengthy and logistically complicated undertaking. It begins at the end of the harvest season (late summer), and the rounds may not finish until early winter. While it might be easier to divide these duties among a greater number of less-powerful officials, this allows taxation to remain Relatively centralized and performed by trusted appointees (often friends or relatives of the Usoma himself). This has had side effects of these officials becoming especially powerful individuals within each province, with very little checks in place to prevent corruption (beyond hope for sustained loyalty, often reinforced with special privileges and favors). Flagrant abuse of this system is rare, but more unpopular magistrates are commonly suspected to leverage additional off-the-books taxes for their own personal gain.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x ISAT part 1: In Stars and Necromancy.

(Part 2)

[veryaren]

reaction image for when short fur affinity kleptomaniac won't put your cravat down

[byte--sized-thoughts]

is this something

[nenoname]

Details in Stan's letter that still haunt me

(how long will I continue thinking about a two page letter that's technically not even that long because Stan's handwriting is fricking large? .....you don't need to worry about that.)

The bro code only shows up in the Lost Journal pages, and to me Stan's message feels like it purposely echoes Ford's "miss you" in the college photo (and for some reason the message doesn't appear in the website version of the photo?) ....or alternatively Stan simply noticed how distressed Ford was about this entire thing and wanted to support him in a way so he can be sappy but without the kids knowing, or both!

Stan's claim about the Oregon lottery contradicts what the Lost Legends website said about Tate McGucket's ability to predict the winning numbers!! ...but also breaking into the Lottery HQ is definitely a very Stan thing to do and it's not the first time small gags have been retconned

Despite spending most of his letter nonchalantly destroying him, the taunt about ripping a dollar bill in half is the only part where Stan is directly responding to Bill. Maybe it's the two of them having similar ways of thinking but it's rather specific considering Bill taunts the reader about it...

And after Bill spends an entire book calling Ford Sixer despite normally using a pretty wide range of nicknames for him, Stan then spends his letter mainly referring to Ford as Sixer, even though post-Weirdmageddon he tends to use a mix of nicknames. And it's not like he'd gotten to see Bill himself for long, let alone see him steal that childhood nickname (that is only used twice in the actual show btw!). Did Ford tell him what happened or...?

With all this and the website's "still on your mind" message, what I'm getting at is my tinfoil hat theory of Stan somehow seeing some of the pages the irl readers saw, even when it should be personalised to the specific reader, and he's been lying about it for some reason. Considering that the book flat out doesn't make an attempt at convincing Soos, I find it a stretch that whatever Bill was telling Stan via the book was an attempt to convince him either.

Wouldn't be the first time Stan's skimmed through a book and lied about what it meant to him.

(...Now I kinda wanna see a story about the family reading their versions of the book and making fun of it while Stan is improvising every single one of his pages and blatantly ignoring Bill's attempts to mock and taunt him)

But also I'm fascinated by the letters that only showed up on the website (aka the Soos+Wendy+McGucket+Pacifica ones). I'm assuming that Mabel had stuck them on after Stan's letter... but they were basically eaten by the book itself because seeing Stan's letter kick-started Bill's breakdown which takes up the rest of the book

[driftwoodpony]

freaked out seeing starlight glimmer in 2, 4, 6, Greaaat because ive exhausted her playlist on youtube

[grunklestanofficial]

Just came out from watching the Spy X Family movie. Shout out to Yor for just taking without question that Loid knows how to operate an old military radio system and fly a plane. Is this what they teach in psychology school? Who the fuck knows but she'll stay in her lane.

[rayroseu]

I KNOW HE'S ADJUSTING HIS GLOVES BUT MALLEUS REALLY LOOKS LIKE HES DOING AN AWKWARD PEACE SIGN 🤣🤣

crusty photo BUT IDCCC THE CUTESTTWST PNG EVER... MY DIASHACKLE HEART.... 😭😭💚💚💚✨💞💖 Malleus and Grim literally doing the same pose of offering you theur hand/paw, kind of like competing to Yuu to see who'll they dance with lolol

ALSO MALLEUS IS DOING THE AURORA POSE AGAIN OHHHH I MISSED IT SO MUCH AKDKAKD 😭💜💞💞

YOU SEE THE BRIAR KING CAN ALSO BE A BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS💖💞💖💞💖💞✨✨✨

PRAYING everyday, there'll be an event where Malleus can wear bright colored clothes KKSAKKDW

I know they're formatted like this bcs Lilia didn't participate in the Masquerade event thats why he's not here BUT DIASOMNIA WITHOUT LILIA ??? ON A GROUP PICTURE????😭😭😭😭😭 DONT EVEN CONSIDER IT AIUFIWURUE 😭😭😭😭

This is making see scenes of Malleus in the future years, where his portraits always contain with him and knights (Silver and Sebek), rarely alone bcs he couldn't take as many pictures with them and Lilia BUT Malleus can still take these pictures with his knights so as to remind himself that he wasn't always alone 😭

ON A POSITIVE THOUGHT i like to believe this is the photo that Malleus sent to Lilia, yk where Malleus asked Yuu to take a picture of them at the beginning of the Masquerade event lol, YUU GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER BACK AT IT AGAIN✨💖✨💖

also the chair looks so tiny in compared to Malleus LMAO do you see how low that armrest is and how the top of the chair is literally just on his shoulders KSKKWE Its cute to imagine that since Malleus is so tall, normal sized chair like this might be uncomfortable for him KDJWKD BUT you knowww, he'd be more than glad to sit in it as long as he's invited ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

THIS PIC IS KINDA FUNNY THOUFH AJDHQJDJAJ Sebek manspread is something I never considered Kjskwjs

How Does Diasomnia Members Sit On A Sofa⁉️

Malleus = Formal Sidelean, Silver = Comfy Sidelean, Sebek = Selfish Prick, Lilia = just float, didn't even sit on the sofa KSJQKSK🤣