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[werewolfetone]

This is the stupidest smallest thing to get mad about and sorry for once again catholicposting but several years ago I bought a rosary off a group of palestinian nuns who came to my town selling religious articles et al to fundraise for their convent and on the back of the little info card that came with it it's noted that the crucifix contains soil from bethlehem and that it's made of olive wood (!!!) but carefully refers to the wood and the soil as being from the "holy land" in the most awkward way possible and I KNOW that it's because if they had said palestine it would have been considered inflammatory

[trentione]

[sugdensdingle]

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

[sagitttarius]

Auroras in England, 10 May 2024

[gasolinne]

[senritsu]

[dendrochronologies]

losing my mind over on summer crushing, by hanif abdurraqib

[jemilygifs]

Requested by anonymous

[werewolfetone]

I can't share even a clip cos it would mega doxx me instantly but anyway last year the local church had a thing where children were meant to collect pasta et al to donate to food banks in the area and I made a video for them showing the kinds of things they wanted and today I got an email that they're doing it again with a link to a video and I thought omg I wonder if it's the same and it is but they like. sped it up to at LEAST 2x speed and reduced the number of pixels from hundreds of thousands to about five thus rendering me the unwitting star in the world's most low quality most catholic cocomelon video. for absolutely no reason that I can possibly imagine because I have no idea why on earth they would have chosen to do this with a video they emailed out just fine last year. god bless

[diver5ion]

Master?

[astarions-wife]

Okay so looking at the facts, Astarion says he was “one of Cazador’s first” spawn, which makes sense considering it was ~200 years prior, which puts this at 1294 for his turning. However he says “one of” which implies he wasn’t the very first, meaning one of his siblings was before him.

Through the game, we can rule out a few of his siblings as being first. Leon canonically has to be the last, as I doubt that Cazador brought another spawn into the mix during the last 10~ years. Leon has a human child, that he had prior to vampirism, and with both the favorite spawn ledger, and Victoria’s appearance, we can assume she’s likely between 8-10 in that general range. The favorite spawn ledger goes for (six) years, with Leon being 5/6, and Violet taking one year. This can easily imply he has only been a spawn for six years, and also says that given Victoria’s appearance, she was probably only 2-4 when brought to Cazador’s palace, but that’s a story for another time.

Pale Petra’s tells Dalyria in the inn that it’s been “a hundred years of eating rats”, so he was probably turned in the late 1300s, judging by this. Dalyria on the other hand was a physician to the Parliament of Baldur’s Gate, and given that the medical group she speaks of wasn’t founded until the early-ish 1400s, it’s likely that she was found during this time period.

This leaves three: Yousen, Violet, and Aurelia. Now I highly, highly doubt that Yousen was the first of the spawn. A gnome is an odd choice for a vampire spawn in the first place, so he likely wasn’t the first. This would leave Violet and Aurelia, although given one of my previous posts about Violet (found here), Violet likely wasn’t the first—the shadow curse was founded in the past hundred years if I’m not mistaken, and considering the evidence seems to lead her here, she was probably around the same time as Petra’s, perhaps a bit before.

This leaves Aurelia as the first spawn, which makes sense to me. She seems the most anxious, the most scared. She’s the only one who truly, truly begs you for help if you talk to her once Cazador is gone, and centuries of trauma would do that to anyone. Therefore, my ranking is as follows, in order:

-Aurelia

-Astarion

-Yousen

-Violet

-Pale Petras

-Dalyria

-Leon

I know their ages are different, but timeline wise this puts Leon as the youngest, and Aurelia as the oldest—which it doesn’t mean anything, but it’s interesting to think this, considering they’re the original two who are sent after Astarion at the Elfsong Tavern.

As always, this is completely in theory! Only a few of them have concrete evidence, so let me know if I’m missing anything—and feel free to use this for writing or lore as you see fit!

[trentione]

first hug & last hug

[gasolinne]

[nymphaforesta]

okay booty needs an appreciation post too, wouldn’t be fair

[jemilygifs]

It's not about protecting us, it's about being honest with us. With me.

CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION “Message in a Bottle” (2024)