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I’m here having dinner in this big can and hysterically trying not to laugh omfg
Confession: I had to stop myself from going full style like Whatcha Gonna Call It? with parenthetical snarky asides and quips, though if the great unfulfilled horse caper planning section gets expanded into a longer paragraph, I make no promises.
they are omg!!
Here’s their facebook, has videos and better pics of the two varieties’s artwork (and aw lol the names are Khryseis and Ephyra). It’s the first local brewery in the city and probably this whole region of the state.
I have zero idea of it’s any good because as I said, I don’t drink at all to begin with, but there is this temptation to go back and buy them, use the light ale for cooking just to save the cans for decoration.
Ahahaha I also like CoS a lot, I have a lot of good memories of reading it at the same tima as a friend… also lmao don’t kill me but at age 12 I thought Lockhart was hilarious
Lockhart as a character to read about is one of the best creations in HP, followed by Umbridge. They provide so much plot and conflict and humor and also are the sort of villains kids will know and deal with all their lives. The reason I rank PS over CoS is because the one to start the series off always has a leg up on ratings and because of the sisterly bonding memories- but without those two things, CoS ranks higher.
YAY more meme requests – these are always open/no expiration date
Okay disclaimer I read most of the books in middle school, re-read a few of them maybe five or six years ago, my memory especially of Kel’s later books is really hazy. And I’ll stick to Tortall even if I rather liked the first four Circle of Magic books more as a kid.
Aw friend hahaah I def saw the title as homage and not irony 🙂
Yay! And that I can’t un-link Nienna from Mary. Btw, the former warg is going to work as a therapy dog for Nienna, having switched her allegiance over to that Valar.
BIG SMILE WIPES A TEAR
Big Smile, Thank You! (and to rencat and yavierel when i first posted this)
I’m not sure it this might come off bad, but honestly this fic -at least in concepts- is the one that feels the most like Tolkien would be okay with? Because not only is it a love of dogs but the closest to Christian values and theological ideas. The title is a joke on Mary, but not really a joke? I wasn’t mocking (except the nervous self-mocking) but more like waving a signal flag. That the lynch-pin is that Faron had pity on this Fallen creature, a pity that maybe wasn’t totally pure because I don’t know what that looks like nor think his character at the moment could, but was definitely supposed to be close to that idea of grace. That the former warg received grace (via Faron and the Valar) and even if she can’t get -and specifically doesn’t ask or expect but stills desires and hopes- forgiveness, wishes to express her gratitude towards him. As I’ve said before, I was raised basically atheist via absence of any religious education, with only a “God is the mathematical symbol pi” and pop culture osmosis -American culture being not only Christian but generally Protestant even in the secular so even then… But my dad was a very lapsed Catholic, so with his side of the family I got dragged to Easter Mass once every few years growing up. IDK what I’m really trying to say is I was trying to incorporate those ideas of grace with my understanding of the theology being what I’ve picked up from art and fiction. Tolkien’s approach and his meta and meta on him has frankly taught me more than any sermons.
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that TIME sorting quiz
Hey what’s with the gryff hate :^( (jokes i kinda hate it too)
Part of the buried self-hatred and rare moments of self-reflection is knowing that I’m a coward. That I am drawn to characters that show bravery by being brave only after initial cowardice or reluctance – I tend to like constantly courageous characters if there is a narrative Leeroy Jenkins moment that punishes them for that.
(It’s not universal)
That the other traits of chivalry and justice are very good, but a more egalitarian Hufflepuff version of those traits is a pure and better version. That motivation tied to ‘abstract ideals’ (forgive me Thomas Paine) is my least favorite- give me motivation to do the right thing because of connections to people or self.
That I really really hate Sirius Black, that my favorite Gryffindor was Ron Weasley followed by Neville Longbottom.
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that TIME sorting quiz
Ohh my goddd the hat would had a PROBLEM with you hahaha
Well, if we go by where I would ask the Hat to put me/what I value? Ravenclaw all the way. Especially me at eleven. I value knowledge- I am entertained by stories and knowledge. My ambitions are about getting more knowledge and entertainment and learning I want for myself and then sharing with others. As long as I feel safe and able to learn, that’s the extent of my ambitions. My mom described me as a jellyfish in respects to ambitions a long time ago
The ‘are you manipulative’ question was hard for me, because that depends on having a lot of successful social interactions, and my stance on honesty and am I honest when I interact with others- ahaha that really depends on the mode of interaction- generally I think I am a very honest person, but in other times and places yeah no the closest the truth I get is lying by omission. The introversion and social anxieties and that I’m not a brave person- can be stubborn, sure, but I don’t see myself as Gryffindor and find that mindset for the most part unappealing.
CORAL PINK CAPRIS
Confession- coral is one of my favorite colors (at least for clothing) – I have sweaters and shirts in every length and fabric heaviness – at least that redder coral that’s almost watermelon (ff4040 or so), whereas the pants are more definitely a pink and which i wear with only a few shirts- though my fav is to pair it with a brown shirt and this scarf that’s brown with pink polkadots. Jewelry wise I have quite a bit too, but it tends to run more towards orange.
I worry capris make me look even more like a hobbit so i avoid them but this color was too tempting.
Long personal body appearance and wardrobe choices rant
So I wear jeans a lot, obviously, but not actually as often as one would think. In the summer I have several pairs of jean shorts that are bermuda/board length. Only recently (as in last year/year before) have I bought shorts that are actually short shorts instead of cut-offs and capris. – I tend to not have too many capri-lengths because I’m so very much a petite person- barely more than five feet tall and fooling myself to thinking I am more than a hundred lbs (quick conversion = 1.5 m and 45 kg, ish) – my body-type is technically hourglass but my hips are narrow and my bust is small and my rib-cage worse- I am that very boney skinny bitch. If it wasn’t for how short I am, which eliminates a lot of clothes like maxi dresses and certain cuts of capris, I could get away with being far more daring in my clothing choices than I am. Like, objectively, I should think that I have great legs and should be showing them off and why aren’t I wearing booty shorts in the these 110°F heat index weather (today’s outside temp was only 92 = 33°C, but the heat index was higher)? But. Thick dark brown hair also means body hair and so I’m very self-conscious about showing skin.
I don’t wear jeans at work and ironically when I want to lounge around my house doing laundry and not going outside, to be super comfortable, is when I wear all my various cotton sundresses and skirts. Jeans and a t-shirt for me is weirdly a level or two above ‘super-causal heget as her most relaxed’.
Now petite and not liking the super-skinny trend (gah that’s annoying to put on and I have a few pairing of colored jeggings I wear under certain long shirts but mostly leggings are what I wear in the winter as a layer under my jeans or dress slacks for warmth like long underwear) means that’s it’s hard for me to find a pair and style I like (bootcut and I like low-rise more than highcut in general) means that it’s very hard to find jeans that I wouldn’t need to hem at least four inches from the bottom. When I do, I buy in bulk and then have to wait up to 10 years to go jean shopping again. (That ten years is not exaggerating- I finally bought new full-length jeans this spring and I think the last time I bought jeans I was in college?) I refuse to buy pre-distressed or acid-wash or any of that- that prudish purtain in me hates that people pay money for jeans with holes in them. Also I prefer dark denim, especially the really dark pure blues. But almost never have had black denim jeans, which is weird because my work clothes are almost all: decent shirt + black dress slacks (or the lone medium gray).
So what colors besides medium and dark denim? I have a hunter green and a royal-ish blue and a pair of coral pink capris and the pale aqua jeggings, am looking for the right shade of red. I’ve very proud I’m adding color to my pants, slowly but surely. Oh, and some white and beige but not in jeans.
Uhhh, what else?
Okay, historical notes! Denim jeans are really cool because they’re older than people think and my very first real research paper for school in the fifth grade (ten years old) was about the San Francisco Gold Rush of ‘49 and I had a paragraph about jean pants as we know them with the rivet enforced pockets became popularized because of the prospectors (also the early versions were very much a popular sailors’ garment)
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