#pyral

[irregular-developments]

Rally Detour - pyral!

This sprint (ending Friday) included a quick look at the "rally_workshop" project (pyral based) which I haven't touched in... a very long time. If you'd asked me about this three weeks ago, I'd not have remembered it. However, at least one of the prospective job opportunities listed "pyral" among the nice-to-haves. Initially, I didn't recall but after looking it up, the light bulb went on... and I still have the repo!

Short version: It DOES still work, and CAN get to the Rally sandbox instance, at least thru UI credentials (api access didn't work initially on a quick and dirty try). The prototype workshop app was able to identify the two projects and various new user stories related to the Scorem project, so that's a success. Quickly noted, pyral package for python was last updated on pypi fairly recently (2024), another good sign.

Next week, will try messing with the API access and seeing if I can make some sense of the rest of it again. Another fun toy - glad someone is still using it!

[cjstaples]

Rally detour

This sprint (ending Friday) included a quick look at the "rally_workshop" project (pyral based) which I haven't touched in... a very long time. If you'd asked me about this three weeks ago, I'd not have remembered it. However, at least one of the prospective job opportunities listed "pyral" among the nice-to-haves. Initially, I didn't recall but after looking it up, the light bulb went on... and I still have the repo!

Short version: It DOES still work, and CAN get to the Rally sandbox instance, at least thru UI credentials (api access didn't work initially on a quick and dirty try). The prototype workshop app was able to identify the two projects and various new user stories related to the Scorem project, so that's a success. Quickly noted, pyral package for python was last updated on pypi fairly recently (2024), another good sign.

Next week, will try messing with the API access and seeing if I can make some sense of the rest of it again. Another fun toy - glad someone is still using it!

[biancadavri]

Woke: a particularly crafty Aeducan should have been able to marry Alistair/Anora and rule Ferelden with them

Broke (but funnier if we're being honest): a mage Warden who had little to no problem selling Jowan out should have been able to become the King of Orzammar's evil little chancellor

[thesummerstorms]

Honestly every time you have to decide a nation's ruler in Dragon Age it sucks at least a little bit.

Harrowmont seems kinder/more honorable/is less likely to have everyone killed in a despotic plot. But not only do the epilogue slides indicate he ends up being ineffective to the point of damaging Orzammar, he's also entrenched in the Dwarven cast system. He has zero compunctions about spending the lives of the lower castes/doesn't see them or as anyone from the surface as fully being people. Depending on what resources you leave him, he either further empowers the nobility at the cost of everyone else and starts a war with Fereldan, or he is so politically weak he only manages to further isolate Orzammar before dying and leaving another succession crisis. He refuses to help Fereldan in any meaningful way in either case.

Bhelen is a fucking asshole, a kin-slayer, a tyrant, a scheming despot eroding anyone's ability to check his personal power. He takes out the entire nobility's power so he is the absolute authority. He will feed whoever he wants to the Anvil if it's left intact, with no pretensions of trials or criminality. But he actually does actually reduce restrictions on the non-noble castes, even letting the casteless arm themselves. Orzammar holds out better in matters other than internal politics if he's made king, reclaiming more of the deep roads and proving ready allies to Fereldan. Yet you never know how far he will go.

So which flavor of asshole are you picking?

Either human ruler in Orlais is an asshole who will shed non-human blood to preserve their own political power. At most you have the narrow divide of 'this one is a glory hound imperial expansionist who will probably drag Orlais and Fereldan back to war' versus 'this one made a play for Fereldan by offering marriage to their cheater dead king but will probably not start a war'.

Briala is an interesting complication, but if you pick the former she loses a lot of her power to check Gaspard when the Inquisition ends or is absorbed into the Orlesian Chantry; in the latter, her complicated feelings for a lover (who slaughter her family and people for politics) are going to limit her effectiveness as a check on said lover's power.

So which asshole are you choosing?

The Landsmeet seems like the least complicated of the choices. The fandom is still pretty damn divided.

On the one hand, you have the lovable companion character who has absolutely zero training in statecraft and previously was so adverse to leadership he dumped all of it on the newly inducted trainee he had known for a few days. Who seems to have a kind heart but absolutely no sense of direction.

On the other you have a woman who has been more or less raised to the throne, including explicit training in statecraft, does have the practical political and governing experience, but comes off as cold/calculating/personally ambitious. Who still deeply loves and defends her war criminal father, tries to protect the legacy he destroyed himself by mass murder/assassination/ selling elves into slavery.

As for the future of those two rulers... I know a lot of people headcanon that because Maric was able to get Fiona pregnant, Alistair also has magical Theirin blood and will have children with their Warden. I personally don't see any reason Anora and Cailan's conception issues couldn't have been Cailan's issue or why she wouldn't eventually go for a political remarriage; I have her in a political alliance with the older Cousland brother with two daughters.

But as canon actually stands neither can or will have children, due to Warden's blighted blood, biology, or inclination. As someone said recently in a post I saw but didn't save, either way Fereldan is looking at another succession crisis within the century.

Knowing that, who do you choose?

The Dragon Age Protagonists are actually kind of awful kingmakers is what I'm getting at here, but it's impossible to be otherwise without better options and more resources to put pressure on their respective thrones.

[catman-draws]

DOLOROSA: Well Go+o+d Afterno+o+n Ho+wve Yo+u Been... DOLOROSA: What Do+ Yo+u Think Abo+ut Redglare

She's my best friend and I love her

[saucylobster]

Larvausta have an exoskeleton that is highly resistant to heat and as a means of defending themselves will ignite their surroundings and dwell within the resultant blaze. Although they will typically eat the charcoal they prouduce, they do need to leave their fire to substitute this diet with fresh, living plant matter. Raustoon are encased almost totally in their heat resistant shell with only small vents visible through these plates. Although tough and difficult to threaten they use these vents to release pent up energy as a defensive explosion; capable of launching them from danger in the same action that decimated their original launch site. Rallirausta are often mistaken for dragons, their overall shape and fire-breathing abilities an obvious similarity. Their tiny stature for something so dangerously powerful belies their insectile nature and luckily they'd rather mind their own business tending to their flaming nest sites than cause a ruckus like so many dragons. --Attack Info-- --Ability Info--

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

The classical mythology of ancient Greece is plentifully populated by all manner of famous legendary beasts – from centaurs, satyrs, gorgons, and Stymphalian birds to harpies, sirens, the minotaur, and much more. There are also some far less familiar but no less fascinating examples, including the diminutive but thought-provoking fusion of herpetology and entomology presented here now – namely, the pyrallis of ancient Cyprus.

Also known variously as the pyrausta, pyragones, or pyrotocon, the pyrallis derives all of its names from the Greek word 'pyr', which translates as 'fire', because it is intimately associated with this traditional fundamental element. According to traditional classical Greek legend, the pyrallis was a tiny incandescent beast resembling a winged, four-limbed, golden insect but in more recent times it is often represented with a scaly reptilian body and the head of a fire-breathing dragon too.

[h3ycut3j34ns]

Sur les jambes, le plaid rempli d’épines

L’inventaire de la maison

Le Scrabble

La terrasse

Les transats en plastique

Les échardes

La cabane au fond du jardin

Les râteaux

Le buis

Les pyrales du buis

La cabane de Totoro

Les noeuds dans les branches

Le frigo de la buanderie

L’orangina avec du dépôt

Le coca sans bulle

Le store

Le porche

Les chemins dallés

La lumière de la terrasse,

Les papillons de nuit

La couette coussin

La PlayStation 3

Les boites de CD

Les ronces

La balançoire sans balançoire

Le garage sans voiture

Les toiles d’araignées

La moquette

Le rose de la salle de bain

La béchamel périmée

Le sirop de noisette

Le moulin à café

La chambre bleue

Le papier peint qui se décolle

Les champignons

La poussière,

Derrière les radiateurs

La végétation

Entre les barreaux

Les coccinelles,

Sur le bout des doigts

Le service en plastique

Avec les pâquerettes

La soupe au potiron,

Dans les assiettes en terre cuite

Le dépôt

L’humidité

Le sucre

Assis sur la terrasse

Les jambes au torse

Les mains perdues dans le pull

Boire le café face à l’ombre

Le beurre salé sur les lèvres

La chlorophylle dans le nez

Passer un autre jour

Comme les autres

Mais quand c’est plus l’été

Que c’est plus les vacances

Que j’ai plus 16ans

[eirene]

Pyrallis, 1918 John William Godward

[wyverewings]

Some assorted Evros doodles :3

The creatures at the bottom are a revenant (the worm), a carbuncle (the beetle), a pyrallis (the moth), and a merrow (the fish)

[biancadavri]

I'm replaying Origins without a dwarf warden for the first time in years and I completely forgot how insane the first impression of Orzammar is if you haven't started the game there "Hello player please enjoy this small cutscene of two angry mobs shouting at each other in the town's square. It seems everyone is carrying weapons" what. "Uh oh looks like it ended with one man butchered in the streets" What. "Two of those thugs were the current candidates to the throne" WHAT.

[sforzesco]

Oh my god would you elaborate on the parallels you see between Octavian and Caligula?

ABSOLUTELY

That he was given to adultery not even his friends deny, although it is true that they excuse it as committed not from passion but from policy, the more readily to get track of his adversaries' designs through the women of their households. Mark Antony charged him, besides his hasty marriage with Livia, with taking the wife of an ex-consul from her husband's dining-room before his very eyes into a bed-chamber, and bringing her back to the table with her hair in disorder and her ears glowing; that Scribonia was divorced because she expressed her resentment too freely at the excessive influence of a rival; that his friends acted as his panders, and stripped and inspected matrons and well-grown girls, as if Toranius the slave-dealer were putting them up for sale. Antony also writes to Augustus himself in the following familiar terms, when he had not yet wholly broken with him privately or publicly: "What has made such a change in you? Because I lie with the queen? She is my wife. Am I just beginning this, or was it nine years ago? What then of you — do you lie only with Drusilla? Good luck to you if when you read this letter you have not been with Tertulla or Terentilla or Rufilla or Salvia Titisenia, or all of them. Does it matter where or with whom you take your pleasure?"

Suetonius, Augustus

He respected neither his own chastity nor that of anyone else. He is said to have had unnatural relations with Marcus Lepidus, the pantomimic actor Mnester, and certain hostages. Valerius Catullus, a young man of a consular family, publicly proclaimed that he had violated the emperor and worn himself out in commerce with him. To say nothing of his incest with his sisters and his notorious passion for the concubine Pyrallis, there was scarcely any woman of rank whom he did not approach. These as a rule he invited to dinner with their husbands, and as they passed by the foot of his couch, he would inspect them critically and deliberately, as if buying slaves, even putting out his hand and lifting up the face of anyone who looked down in modesty; then as often as the fancy took him he would leave the room, sending for the one who pleased him best, and returning soon afterward with evident signs of what had occurred, he would openly commend or criticise his partner, recounting her charms or defects and commenting on her conduct. To some he personally sent a bill of divorce in the name of their absent husbands, and had it entered in the public records.

Suetonius, Caligula

it runs in the family!

[vigilskeep]

harker you've inspired me to make endrin's queen a harrowmont and her family upset because endrin wouldn't be as easy to manipulate as his brother

i’m always sooooo torn on whether or not to put a harrowmont woman in there...... i think it kind of destabilises how the conflict over the throne is presented, it would be weird for no-one to mention it and it changes what pyral’s angle/stake is, but on the other hand it compels me so bad in certain configurations

[sangchaotique]

Nous ne sommes tous que de petites pyrales dans l'immensité de l'univers

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

taylor swift lyrics x colors x textiles in art – pink

Wildest Dreams – 1989 // Pyrallis – John William Godward 💕 It’s Nice to Have a Friend – Lover // Anne-Marie de Bricqueville de Laluserne, Marquise de Bezons – Jean-Baptiste Greuze 💕 invisible string – folklore // Eunice Dennie Burr – John Singelton Copley 💕 gold rush – evermore // Maria Carolina of Habsburg-Lorraine, Queen of Naples – Anton Raphael Mengs