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met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

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Ontologically Rayliegh and Shakky's entire thing is fucking buckwild. He's Dark King Rayleigh, formerly the Pirate King Gol D. Roger's main squeeze, he can go to toe with admirals, has conquerors' haki, is feared worldwide, yada yada we all know his skillset and he's just. just slumming it up in the marines' backyard with his hot ass wife who if you put them side-by-side makes him look like just some guy. And SHAKKY. Solid 10,000/10. Former empress of Amazon fucking Lily, objectively one of the hottest women ever, probably on a comparable level with a warlord, and and she's just...running a bar and beating people up in the tourist trap/military outpost/bus station and absolutely not giving a fuck about her bumfuck husband. LIKE. Rayleigh fucks off and hoes drinks and gambles the fuck up and around for months at a time and then comes back to get drunk on her countertops and cry about Roger. And Shakky dgaf. Encourages it even. Like. HELLO? What's wrong with them? Their dynamic is a thing of envy god everyone should want what they have. They're doing it freak nasty with each other at any point of time that's not plot relevant and not just with each other they're swingers you know it I know it. The only couple in the world that's managed to successfully make the open relationship thing work. Every once in a while they get together and go out for a night in the town and bag whatever-up-and-coming flavor of the day is passing by and you know the entire island hears it and feels it. It gets to the point that whenever they are spotted in the general vicinity of a public place of entertainment Marineford goes on red alert for forty-eight hours. Did did I mention they're in the marines' backyard doing all this? Rayleigh is literally within walking distance of some of the most notorious anti-pirate bitches in the world and do they do a single thing about it? NOO. Because they know better than to mess with whatever jimmy buffet casa de mojo jojo shit Rayleigh and Shakky are doing over there in the parking lot. If it's not broke don't fix it and it's fucking annoying as hell to have to put up with the onlyfans cougar live of it all but again no one wants to touch that with a ten-foot-pole. They'd ask Garp to deal with it but Garp can't legally be allowed within a hundred and twenty meters of Rayleigh except for the times when Shakky phones him up and has him go drag Rayleigh's hungover ass back home because she needs her floors cleaned. You know she's always sending Rayleigh nudes that get intercepted by the marines all the time. They've done Kizaru at least twice I'm sure. Gloriosa is no longer on speaking terms with Shakky due several...incidents. The whole thing is. It's wild. It's horrific for anyone with a sense of decency and monogamy and Rayleigh and Shakky are very literally living their best lives give or take some suicidal ideation.

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After escaping the Bone Palace, mrs Flood moved to Kembleford and became friends with Brenda Palmer.

Well, Brenda was already good friends with the Seventh Doctor so it's not like we should be surprised...

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Fellow UNIT scientific advisors Morris Gibbons and Shirley Bingham were both on Renegade Nell!

Ruth Madeley as Mrs. Miller, Lenny Rush as Inn Keepers Lad.

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toshiko sato | 1.11 combat

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This week, for lack of anything new to watch, I have been rewatching Wandavision, and I had forgotten how good it is. Like, this is without a doubt one of the best Marvel productions ever, and a great miniseries by and large!

Amazing performances by both Paul Bettany and (especially) Elizabeth Olsen.

I didn't watch Agatha All Along beyond the first episode (maybe I should try again) but I actually enjoy Kathryn Hahn immensely!

Monica/Geraldine was my favourite though. It was so good to see Darcy and Woo again too!!

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So... Would anyone care if I posted a BBC Merlin fic? It's yet another fic I wrote years ago and I might decide to translate. It's about 6000 words, Gwaine x reader.

The Kiss of the Whip

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DOCTOR WHO UNLEASHED: 20 YEARS IN WALES

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after a lifetime of hearing about aragorn but not reading the books or watching the movies, genuinely nothing could have prepared me for his actual introduction. the hobbits picked this man out of a dumpster. he is a textbook softspoken angst prince and he is covered in dirt and he probably smells so bad. he’s the coolest man alive and is so casual about it. his number one skill is Knowing Where They Are and his number two skill is Having A Horrible Destiny That Torments Him. tolkien got it in one i’m afraid aragorn son of arathorn you are the guy of all time

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at least to me, elrond is the key character of the saga as a whole- the silmarillion, the hobbit, and the lord of the rings.

he's the son of the hero. he loses his mother because of a silmaril, and gains two father figures. in the end, the three silmarils share a fate with each of his three fathers. his brother becomes the king of numenor, which is to be the greatest and the most influential kingdom of men.

he's the sole heir of gondolin, and to him goes glorfindel's allegiance; the balrog slayer reincarnated and returning from the blessed lands. in him lives on fingolfin, turgon, idril, tuor, melian, luthien, and beren.

he's there when sauron returns, and he's there in the thick of battle against his might. he's the herald of the high king, and to him is entrusted one of the three elven rings. he witnesses isildur taking the one ring.

he's the one pointing thorin and his company toward the halls of their fathers and the arkenstone, and his house- the last homely house, the last refuge and place of healing- is where bilbo wishes to return to after a long lifetime.

he fosters the line of his brother; the mortal children who would become chieftains of their people- one of which helps save the world and becomes king.

he shelters frodo, and he directs the one ring to be destroyed. in his house was coordinated the fellowship, and it is where they set out on their journey to mordor.

with his passing ends the age of the elves. a new chapter begins, where the narrative pen comes to a halt. with his passing ends the tale.

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 2014, dir. Joe Russo & Anthony Russo

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More characters should fight with spears. And glaives. In any media. I say this as a certified sword bisexual, we need more spears. It's so fucking sexy. Watching people fight with spears and glaives is like watching someone dance with murder. Less swords. More spears.

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truly never getting over the greatest loss streaming services caused: the disappearance of DVD special features. behind the scenes, bloopers, deleted scenes, commentaries, I will never forget you, I will never stop missing you.

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Bill Potts + being done with the Doctor and Missy

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"If she was contemporary to Tamenobu, whose dates are 1550 to 1607, we can assume that she lived during the late Muromachi to Azuchi-Momoyama transition. She’s called Fujishiro-gozen– Lady Fujishiro– after her estate, the Fujishiro-tate, which shared its name with Fujishiro village, where it was located. The village is long gone, having been merged into Hirosaki City in the 1950s, but traces of its name remain in the local community center run by the city. And if we assume that Fujishiro-tate was in this area, that puts it about a kilometer from Hirosaki Castle’s west moat, on the opposite side of the Iwaki River.

Now, we can’t be thinking of her in the framing of a daimyo. We have to think further back. This isn’t the Edo period, after all, but just before it– before the era of the fancy castles you probably think of when you hear the word “daimyo.” Lady Fujishiro was an inheritor of the Muromachi system that gave her family the modest measure of local power it possessed. The Muromachi system, in turn, was a development of the earlier Kamakura system.

Jitō. We need to be thinking of jitō in order to get a proper sense of her level of local power.

Jitō are the land stewards of the Kamakura era. They’re the small landholders that were part of how the Kamakura shogunate distributed rewards to its loyal retainers. This is also how some of the families that grew into the later daimyo houses of the late Muromachi and Edo eras first came to their starting level of local power. These aren’t people who would’ve had castles in the fancy Edo period sense, these are people who would’ve lived very close to the land, might’ve actually taken part in farming it themselves, and didn’t measure their incomes in koku but in units like kan instead. This is where some locally influential families like that of Lady Fujishiro originated.

The other thing to note here is that women could be jitō. It was only through the end of the 16th century that women could be daimyo, and only occasionally, and only if there were no men to head their families.

So with that understood, she’d have been a minor landholder, and would’ve been in command of a handful of retainers at best, when she stood up against Tamenobu. The claim is that Tamenobu wanted her as a mistress, but she was heading up her own family and raising a child, and given that this was an era where as we mentioned before on the podcast, Nanbu control in this part of Aomori was slipping, she’d have likely been fiercely guarding her local autonomy. The local history on the topic, the Taisho era Aomoriken Nakatsugarugun Fujishiromura Kyōdoshi, edited by Nakamura Ryōnoshin, says that she shut herself up in Fujishiro-tate with her handful of retainers, and died in battle. It also claims that with her dying breath, she cursed Tamenobu and his descendants to the end of time."

Bakkalian Nyri A., "Lady Fujishiro"

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NICO ROBIN Fashion Appreciation — 22 / ∞

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In feudal Japan, samurai were not always free to carry their swords, especially in courts, castles, or during formal diplomacy. To adapt, they turned to the tessen, an iron war fan that appeared as an ordinary folding fan but concealed a powerful purpose. From the 14th century onward, during the Muromachi and Edo periods, the tessen became a popular choice for self-defense. It could be carried openly even where weapons were banned, giving its wielder a hidden advantage.

Tessen could be used in close combat, block or deflect knives and darts, and deliver strikes strong enough to disable an opponent. The samurai also trained in tessenjutsu, a specialized martial art for fan combat. Beyond combat, the tessen symbolized status and sophistication. High-ranking samurai, bodyguards, and court officials often carried finely crafted tessen, blending elegance with practicality.

Historical accounts tell of samurai who skillfully used tessen to disarm opponents or defend themselves when swords were forbidden. The tessen’s discreet nature and versatility earned it a unique place in Japan’s martial tradition. Though centuries have passed, it remains an iconic example of how ingenuity turned a simple object into a powerful tool.