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Rhetoric and Logic
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Stormlight Characters Meet an Octopus
As requested by @miss-madithe-baddie :)
It's Octopus Time on Roshar!
1. Kaladin
Kaladin: [stares at octopus]
Octopus: [stares at Kaladin]
Kaladin: So it...what? Is it one of those creatures that squishes down into crevices during storms? It doesn't look like it has bones.
Kaladin: Kinda big though. Would need a big crevice.
Octopus: [stares at Kaladin]
Kaladin: ...
Kaladin: I feel like it's judging me, somehow.
2. Bridge Four
Moash: Well, I don't like it.
Moash: An animal with no carapace is unnatural.
Rlain: ...You're an animal without a carapace.
Moash: W-Well, it's different for humans! We can build houses!
Drehy: Maybe the giant squish bug builds houses.
Drehy: We all saw it pick up the shell and put it on its head.
Skar: That's more fashion than construction, I think.
Sigzil: We saw it go into the water. It's a sea creature.
Sigzil: Sea creatures don't need carapaces like land animals do.
Moash: It's on the land right now!!
Skar: Guys, shut up! It's wearing a shell as a hat again!
Renarin: It really is quite fashionable.
3. Adolin
Adolin: Sure is weird looking!
Adolin: Look! It has little sticky cups under its legs!
Kaladin: D-Don't grab it! It's gonna bite you!
Adolin: I bet it can crawl up walls 'n' stuff!
Adolin: Hey, isn't that something you can do too, Bridgeboy?
Kaladin: I use Stormlight! Not sticky vine legs!
Adolin: Bet its some kind of tiny Windrunner.
Kaladin: It is NOT!
4. Shallan
Shallan: Hush, all of you.
Shallan: This thing is beautiful! Gorgeous!
Octopus: [abruptly changes color to match surroundings]
Shallan: !!
Shallan: Talented! Amazing!
Shallan: This might be the most important drawing I'll ever do!
Adolin: ...You drew me last week for our wedding anniversary?
Shallan: [already drawing] And you didn't even change color ONCE!
5. Lopen
Lopen: [staring intently at octopus]
Lopen: [staring intently at octopus]
Lopen: [staring intently at octopus]
Lopen: [concentration face]
Rock: ...You're trying to grow more arms, aren't you?
Lopen: I didn't know EIGHT was an option!
6. Zahel
Zahel: I've seem those things before.
Zahel: Very smart.
Zahel: Very tasty.
Rock: ...Tasty you say?
Shallan: NO
7. Navani
Navani: Seeing this bizarre creature gives me so many ideas.
Navani: Dalinar, do you think we should build semi-aquatic vehicles that can go on both land and water and develop color-changing camouflage technology?
Dalinar [trying to be a supportive husband]: And perhaps the land-water vehicle could have...tentacles?
Navani: No ideas are wrong in the brainstorming stage.
Navani: But also no.
8. Dieno (the Mink)
Dieno: [gives octopus a bro nod]
Octopus: [gives Dieno a bro nod back]
Dalinar: ...What was that?
Dieno: Ah, it is nothing! Just two master escape artists recognizing each other.
Dalinar: Escape...artist?
Dalinar: This creature has done nothing but sit on that rock and occasionally go into that pool this whole time.
Dieno: Yet nevertheless, people like us...we recognize each other.
Dalinar: ...
Dalinar: [doubtfully] If you say so.
9. Dalinar
It is later. Dalinar is walking through Urithiru.
Something from above touches his face with a thwick sound.
He looks up.
The Octopus is looking down at him from the ceiling, one tentacle reaching down. Lift is also in the ceiling.
Lift gives him a thumbs up.
Dalinar keeps walking.
10. Lift
Lift: Today has been the greatest day of my life.
Lift: I had no IDEA there so many vents 'n' shit that someone like you could squish through!
Lift: And when you used your dark water attack to push that button? Amazing!
Lift: Even I had trouble keeping up with you!!
Lift: Truly, you are my new best friend.
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"You may think your local pastimes are boring, and the things your parents always forced you to do mind-numbing, but at least you didn't spend your days excited by the prospect of ranking rock shapes."
oh?
I have no excuse 😅
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oh right i dont think (maybe i did and ive forgotten) ive posted this commission but
for yall lotr's out there
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Smoking cigarettes is bad for your health. Smoking green paint made of arsenic is worse~
More shenanigans involving Dante, a character from my wip illustrated novel about 19th century artists. Back then, most paints are made of highly toxic ingredients such as lead, mercury, and arsenic (for the the infamous color: Paris Green).
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Pyramids is a good book some of y'all just didn't have an Egyptian Mythology Phase
Anyways justice for Ptraci
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[at Achilles's funeral]
Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs*
Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.
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in today's letter: [decimus brutus voice] wow i sure hope the deaths of both consuls won't lead to an alliance between the various enemies of the tyrannicides! i sure hope we won't be betrayed by lepidus and also asinius pollio and also plancus!
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Rock bands used to just write about whatever the fuck. Not to be all "old music was better!" but when's the last time the world's highest selling band released a song about killing people with hammers. The Who made an entire rock opera about a deaf, mute, and blind guy who is so good at pinball that he inspires a cultlike group of devotees who think he's the next christ. It was released at the peak of their popularity and was made into a movie featuring people like Elton John and Tina Turner.
I think classic rock gets a reputation for being all about girls and cars and drugs but for about 15-20 years there were absolutely no rules on acceptable song subject matter. Pink Floyd has a song about a gnome going on an adventure. Alice Cooper has a whole album about breaking out of the Ableist Insane Asylum because he misses his dog. These weren't weird little indie groups, these were all highly successful charting bands getting radio airplay and selling out stadiums.
We need to bring this culture back. No more love songs. Sing about wizards.
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little thingy from the other week, stuff on my mind
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Discworld facts i know
Jane Austen canonically exists in the discworld but she writes crime thrillers. her first book being 'pride and extreme prejudice'*
snuff, sir Terry pratchett 2011
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Also: ESL people exist. They might even be the majority of the world population. /s
Why do people need subtitles to watch a show in English? I don't get it. What is wrong with the ears of young people?
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love shakespeare. did a hamlet run tonight, looked someone dead in the eye to say “am i a coward?” during a speech and the fucker shrugged and nodded
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Hey tumblr we need to have a talk about something I noticed.
Specifically going by tags attached to images I’ve blogged or reblogged, there seems to be a misconception that marginalia means “any quirky medieval art”.
It’s not.
Marginalia is anything in the margins of a text.
The ones that will get posted on tumblr will more often than not be quirky drawings, but they also include notes, annotations, scribbles, and whatever else. The quirky drawings just happen to get a lot of press on here because, well. They’re quirky drawings.
For instance, see this image here of a platanista (river dolphin) chomping down on an elephant’s trunk?
This is not marginalia! This is a full-fledged illustration. It’s within the text (Liber natura rerum, Thomas de Cantimpré, Librairie de Valenciennes Ms 0320). It illustrates the entry on Platanista.
This is what it looks like in context.
But you know what are marginalia? Let me circle them for convenience.
Know the difference. It won’t save your life but it will make you more popular at a medievalist conference.
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