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frillyheathen · 27 days

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Stardew Valley Bachelor & Bachelorette D&D Classes

Harvey- Cleric or Wizard

Sebastian- Wizard

Sam- Bard

Shane- Ranger

Alex- Fighter

Elliott- Bard or Paladin

Maru- Artificer

Abigail- Warlock or Sorcerer

Penny- Rogue or Druid

Emily- Monk

Haley- Barbarian

Leah- Druid

Reasoning:

Harvey is being typecast as the healer class because he's a doctor, sorry. But also he gives big wizard vibes because that man has studied. Why not a paladin? Because paladins are beefy and I think Harvey would actually die if someone punched him.

Sebastian is a wizard because he codes and that is a strong wizard activity right there. Also I imagine in a fight he would prefer to sit in the back and cast spells rather than be up in the action.

Sam plays the guitar and has that shonen protagonist charm, so he's a bard.

Shane loves his chickens and so you know he has to be the class with the animal companions.

Alex could be typecast as the barbarian because he's buff and likes American football (my bad I mean gridball), but I feel he's far too cool-headed to be the barbarian. So into the fighter class he goes.

Elliott has strong bard aesthetics due to his whole...everything, but I can also see him being the character that gives a motivational speech about strength and virtue before a fight and that is strong paladin vibes. And in the words of my brother, "He has a paladin chin."

Maru loves building robots so you know she's gotta be the artificer.

Abigail seems like the most likely to make a deal with an entity for power, so that's why I can see her being a warlock. But also the Wizard is almost certainly her father, so she may have some magic in her bloodstream.

Penny...hear me out. Penny is a bit of a wallflower, so I can see her inadvertently filling the role of the rogue and sneaking around. But also she really loves nature and I can see her pursuing the art of becoming a druid.

Emily is the only character in Stardew Valley with the zen, inner focus, and serial killer eyes to channel magical energy through her body and use it to punch someone really really hard.

Haley is probably the character that uses her angry portrait the most often, so you know she's gotta be the barbarian. I can see her as one of those girls who got into a lot of fights in high school and she would fight dirty--we're talking hair pulling and scratching.

Leah lives close the woods and she loves all the little forage items, so she is the strongest candidate for a druid.

#stardew valley #sdv bachelors #sdv bachelorettes #sdv headcanons #sdv harvey #sdv shane #sdv sebastian #sdv sam #sdv alex #sdv elliott #sdv abigail #sdv emily #sdv haley #sdv maru #sdv penny #sdv leah

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kingofplayer2 · 1 year

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Discovery (and big spoilers) for the Octopath 2 endgame!

It's nothing like, revolutionary, but pretty neat.

That being said, Journey to the Dawn spoilers.

Ok, I'm assuming everyone else is gone.

One of the small details everyone has realized by now is how the main characters' names spell the word OCTOPATH. It's a neat little detail that makes the weird naming feel like a cool Easter egg instead of a development name that was kept around.

The neat thing that Syro33 and I realized (A good friend of mine) was how the main evil team follows the same pattern! There are 8 main players in bringing forth eternal night:

Oboro

Claude

Trousseau

Ori

Petrichor

Arcanette

Tanzy

Harvey

Arcanette, Petrichor, and Oboro each have names hidden from us. Only once revealing their true nature are we able to find this pattern. Could it all be coincidence? Could there be better fits to each of the letters?

Maybe. I honestly don't know. I know a lot of people here have dived much further into the Octopath lore than I have yet to.

You can also kinda sorta line up the Vide squad to the 8 classes, but it's a little messy. That one is up to more interpretation. Here's what I came up with:

Oboro: Warrior (?)

Claude: Thief

Trousseau: Apothecary

Ori: Merchant (?)

Petrichor: Hunter

Arcanette: Cleric

Tanzy: Dancer

Harvey: Scholar

The ones that have the hardest time being clean are Oboro and Ori. I'm not sure what tactician & scrivener equates to class wise. Everyone else I feel like you can make a pretty strong case as to why they fit that job, but the 2 siblings of darkness, arguably the leaders of the whole operation, don't fit clean.

I'm still not over Partitio's response to Ori's betrayal. That was the most gigachad move and quite possibly the best travel banter in both games. After the biggest possible betrayal... Partitio just cares if Ori is okay.

I could go on, but that's something I kinda wanna make a video on.

#octopath #octopath traveler 2 #octopath traveler #octopath 2 #Syro33 #idk what else to put here #octopath traveler ii #I don't use tumblr frequently. I'm still learning #Very good game #octopath spoilers #spoilers #octopath traveler ii spoilers

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fon-master-ion · 8 months

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Go nuts, buddy

HI :) disorganized Octopath thoughts: GO! If this ends up in the main tag for some reason I’m sorry this is a birthday exclusive infodump

Octopath traveler 2 is a JRPG available on the switch, PC, and PlayStation released in 2023 :) It follows 8 different protagonists, each with their own unique story that all intertwine into a much larger plot :) Each character is a different class!!! You pick a guy to start with and then go around the world map to pick up everyone else, this was my order as well as their stories

Hikari (warrior)- A kindhearted prince from the nation of Ku, who’s bloodline is cursed/possessed to intrusive thoughts of violence and bloodshed. After being framed for the death of his father, the king, by his brother Mugen and shunned from Ku, he journeys to raise an army to take back his nation and lead it to a future without bloodshed.

Castti (apothecary)- found at sea with no memories, the only clues she has to who she was are a bloodstained journal and an apothecary’s satchel. She’s caring and compassionate. Meeting a strange apothecary named Malaya, she journeys to recover her lost memories.

Partitio (merchant)- a warm, sunshine-y country boy from a silver mining town. After his town became overtaken by capitalists, he experienced the horror of poverty firsthand. He journeys to see the world and end the cruel clutches of capitalism through commerce.

Agnea (dancer)- A small town girl with a big heart and bigger passion to make people smile through dance. After saving enough money to travel the world, she journeys to bring joy to the world, like her late mother did.

Ochette (hunter)- An energetic beastling, a race which lives in harmony with nature. After the feared “Scarlet Night” threatens her island home, she journeys to bring the three guardian dieties of the land back to the island.

Throné (thief)- a cutthroat assassin from the underground organization known as the Blacksnakes. Despite how she can take a life faster than tying a shoe, she despises the scent of blood and longs to be free. She journeys to take the life of the leaders of the Snakes to earn her freedom.

Temenos (cleric)- sharp-tongued “inquisitor” of the church of flame, who functions as a sort of detective. After a dastardly murder of the pontiff and tensions between the Sacred Guard, he journeys to find the truth of the church’s intrigue.

Osvald (scholar)- A gruff, stoic man. He used to be a magic professor, but was framed for the murder of his wife and child and sentenced to life in prison. He journeys to kill the man who took everything from him, Harvey.

The gameplay is turn based with a focus on exploring weaknesses in order to get foes into a vulnerable state. It’s also pretty big on setting up! The biggest thing though is known as the boost mechanic that powers up your moves in 3 increments, timing your boosts right combined with buffing and breaking foes results in super satisfying gameplay <|:•)

Each characters story is separated into chapters, depending on the character there’s different amounts of chapters! For example Hikari has 5 chapters, but Temenos only has 4 because his chapter 3 is separated into two routes (like 3a and 3b) while Ochette only has 3 because her chapter 2 is separated into three routes. Besides a recommended level, you can literally play them in any order! You can focus on one characters story or do one chapter for each traveler, it’s whatever you want!!! And besides your main traveler, you can switch out the members of your party and organize them any way you’d like!!!

Each character has “path actions”, where you can interact with NPCs as you explore the world. You have different actions based on if it’s day or night. For example, Hikari can challenge NPCs to a one on one fight to gain access to new skills in battle, and at night he can spend money to bribe NPCs for information. Throné, however, can steal items from NPCs during the day, and knock people out at night. Many path actions intersect in use (Osvald, Castti, Temenos, and Hikari all have a path action to gain information) but they vary! Osvald’s is percentage based (ex. 80% chance to obtain information), Castti’s is level based (ex need to be level 30 to gain information, but it’s guaranteed) Temenos’ is battle based (must break an NPC in battle to gain information), and Hikari’s is money based (need to have the money to bribe people and gain information)

You don’t need to know anything about the original octopath to play it, but there’s cool references and the like

Ok I think that’s good for a basic overview. Bonus LGBT headcanons :)

-Agnea: Bi trans ace (she/her)

-Throné: Trans lesbian (they/she)

-Osvald: #straightosvaldsaturday + ace spec (he/him)

-Castti: Sapphic ace (she/her)

-Hikari: non binary bi ace spec (he/they)

-Temenos: queer non binary (any pronouns)

-Ochette: Agender aro (any pronouns)

-Partitio: Trans bi (he/him)

-Crick: Gay man (he/him)

Speaking of headcanons I have over 13 pages of them. Oops. Every time someone likes this post I’ll share one ok bye

#meerkat talks #THANK YOU :SMILESSOWIDE:#not putting this in the main tag heehee #meerkat birthday rant

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thedemonicartist16 · 4 months

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Hmmmm Harvey is probably a rogue and afza would be a dark cleric or warlock like her dsd -3-

#oc artwork #art #ocs #character design #oc #my ocs #bg3 tiefling #dnd #dnd character #dnd tiefling #siblings

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caseopened · 2 months

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The Paul Drake Detective Agency: Season 1 Review

Now that I've concluded my season one rewatch, it's time for the review of the Paul Drake Detective Agency.

Please also refer to my earlier post on how much Paul makes as a detective running the Paul Drake Detective Agency, as it is helpful for understanding the scope and size of the agency.

First, the much anticipated list of people employed. Please note that this list of employees are those who were specified in some way-- either by name, on-screen appearance, or by another specific recognition (i.e. 'an operative in *insert state*). This tally does not include general references (i.e. when Perry asks Paul to get his operatives for a tail job, for example).

Operatives Employed at the Paul Drake Detective Agency

Frank Faulkner

Ralph Faulkner - Yes, there are two Faulkners! See here for details

Nora Kelly - see here for more information about Nora

Don Gregory -a new agent Paul is helping to get his footing

John O'Brien

Harvey Julian

Herb Mulligan - operative based in Portland, Oregon. Paul mentions specifically that he trained Herb. This is worthy to note because Paul directly trains the operatives who work for him, even if they're in other states.

Pat Harvey

Ron Jacks

_____ Henderson

_____ Jarret

____ Davis

_____ Ralston

Unnamed Operative in Seattle, Washington

Unnamed Operative in Portland, Oregon

Unarmed Operative in Fairbanks, Alaska

Additional Workers at the Paul Drake Detective Agency

Margo - Secretary

Unnamed Secretary- in a full shot of the report above, the secretary who typed up the report initialed "kh" at the bottom of the page, suggesting that Paul employs a secretary with these initials.

Unnamed Switchboard Operator for the Paul Drake Detective Agency Exchange

Total: 16 operatives, 3 Communications/Clerical workers, 19 employees altogether

Worthy Notes about Employees at the Paul Drake Detective Agency

I spoke about this in my post on how much Paul Drake makes as a private detective (see here), but it is worthy to note that there are likely more phone operators for the Paul Drake Detective Agency Exchange. In the series, we see Paul pull up to a telephone booth at night to check in with the exchange to see if anything came in that he needed to know. If Paul has telephone operators working around the clock as this late night check-in suggests, then there must be more workers. At the very least, 3 workers to cover the shift work, and definitely more if Paul wants to keep that coverage 24/7. It makes sense to have that round the clock monitoring! Paul needs to keep lines open as his operatives report in with developments after hours or any emergencies come up/he's needed.

Additionally, you will note that there are two secretaries listed-- one is unnamed (possibly "KH"), and the other is Margo. I like to think that Margo is more aligned as Paul's confidential secretary and another secretary works to help keep the clerical side of the agency running smoothly.

Worldwide Renown of the Paul Drake Detective Agency

We know that Paul's agency spans across the nation. While Paul runs base operations in Los Angeles, he has operatives working for him across the United States (see above and here).

But the Paul Drake Detective Agency is known on a worldwide level, as well.

In season one, Paul called in a favor to detective agencies in Paris, France. This implies that the Paul Drake Detective Agency has worked with the other detective agencies on an international scale in the past. It also shows Paul's reach and connections with people he knows and works with throughout his career. It's not an understatement that Paul is, quite literally, the person who says, "I know a guy" and means it.

Additionally, season one had Paul working with Detective Agencies in New York, as well.

Paul's knowledge of private detectives goes well beyond the operatives he employs at his agency. Paul knows other operatives who work either independently or with other agencies. He has to know who he can or cannot trust for collaboration in the field, as well as understand possible motives if certain detectives/agencies come to his agency for help. We see two instances of Paul immediately knowing about two dirty detectives just by hearing their name: one being Arthur West, and one being Dave Kemp. Read more about Paul's knowledge base on other detectives NOT working at the Paul Drake Detective Agency here.

Another indication of the success and renown of the Paul Drake Detective Agency can be found on Paul's desk in his office. Sitting on his desk is a framed comic of Dick Tracy that Chester Gould gave to Paul Drake (obviously, I know this was actually given to William Hopper, but since it’s in the series, we’re going with it as having been given to Paul). The framed comic of Dick Tracy has Chester Gould’s handwritten note upon it: “To Paul Drake! With all our best wishes.”

Charges for His Services

To reiterate, this post is just a season one review. We know more about what Paul charges for his detective services in other seasons, and you get read all about that here. In the interest of keeping content in this post solely to season one, I will only mention the one instance we learn about Paul's fees.

In TCOT Lonely Heiress, which aired in 1958, Paul Drake charged a client $200 for his services (Paul had to flush out an anonymous heiress running an ad by writing a letter). $200 in 1958 is worth $2,134.37 today.

Communication Methods Used

See this post here for more details on the various communications methods Paul uses at the agency. Communications methods used at the Paul Drake Detective Agency in season one include: phones (multiple lines in offices, multiple phones in Paul's apartment), the exchange or call service, CB radio (in Paul's office and hooked up in cars driven by Paul's operatives), and notebooks/pencils for taking notes.

The Art of the Paul Drake Detective Agency

I'd be here all day if I talked about all the different ways we see Paul work, but I wanted to highlight a few various skills that Paul and his agents display, as well as various methods Paul uses to obtain information.

First and foremost for Paul Drake alone-- Managing a Detective Agency

I cannot stress this one enough. Paul isn't just a private detective. He manages the Paul Drake Detective Agency (and he also founded it!).

As such, Paul works on training all his operatives (see here on how Paul trains operatives), oversees their work, serves as the official point person for all incoming information (in other words, the operatives all report to Paul), oversees the business end management (i.e. paying bills, paying his employees, providing tools of the trade from switchboards to radios to microphones, office upkeep, etc.), enforces ethics and provides direction for his operatives, manages schedules of and assigns cases to his operatives, establishes and maintains connections all around the world, and more. And he does this himself on top of doing his own investigative work! Yes, he has people helping him, but he is the head of the business as much as he is a private detective. He's the heart of the agency. He keeps the Paul Drake Detective Agency running and successful.

Another one just for Paul that goes hand-in-hand with managing the Agency-- Client Consultation

I spoke about this in depth here, but Paul is the person who handles client consultations from beginning to end. We get to see Paul shine with a client consultation in the series (again, details in the linked post above) when he has to deliver findings that his client hoped would not be true. During the entire consultation, Paul is calm, non-judgemental, and empathetic. He speaks in a reassuring way so the client knows that despite the bad news, the Paul Drake Detective Agency was thorough and diligent. Paul knows it’s not the news his client wanted, and he takes care in delivering that news.

Creating Helpful Aids for Investigation Purposes

1) Paul made little viewers for his agents to use for surveillance missions.

Slight of Hand Movements

1) Paul pretended to mess up while writing a telegram so he could go back to the desk and take a fresh sheet after a suspect wrote a telegram. He then used a pencil to shade over the fresh sheet to see the imprint of the suspect's message

2) Paul used a cigarette lighter to check for fingerprints (see more here).

Undercover Aliases

1) Paul pretended to work for the gas company to check meters in order to get inside

2) Paul went undercover as a brother trying to secure an apartment for his sister

Stakeouts

Self-explanatory and exceedingly numerous throughout season 1-- these are moments when Paul and his operatives are watching for people or events to occur to gain intelligence.

Shadow/Tail Jobs

Again, another obvious one-- Paul and his agents will follow a suspect to learn more about who they are and what they're up to.

A specific method Paul does several times throughout season one is how carefully he approaches areas of blocked or low visibility. For example, how he approaches doors.

When Paul opens a door secretly, he will open the door just enough to peer inside through the crack in the door AND through the crack in the door by its hinges, lest someone be waiting behind the door to surprise him.

When Paul knows someone is hiding behind a door and trying to get the best of him, he will approach the door quietly, stand to the side, and then quickly and abruptly open the door to eliminate the attacker's element of surprise. Now, he has established the element of surprise.

Knowing Someone

Another exceedingly numerous occurrence--- Paul Drake simply knows people in all sorts of professions throughout season one, from actors to waitresses, to airmen and ballistic specialists.

Running Reports / Tracking Missing Persons or Things

This includes: running fingerprints, checking license plate numbers, running background checks, tracing phone calls, tracing taxi cab drivers' routes and schedules, following car tracks, verifying birth certificates/identity, searching through newspaper archives to dig up stories and photos, blowing up photographs to compare and review finer details, etc.

Questioning/Interviews

We see Paul track down people to talk to in order to gain more information on a particular case. His primary method of questioning people to get information is the smooth talker approach.

Keeping Records of Locations and Cases

When you're in the business of knowing just about everything, you have to keep records of all the information you gain. Paul does this. In season one, we see his office with several filing cabinets. He goes to these filing cabinets and searches through his files based on location to pull up information. This information could be:

operatives he has working in the area

connections beyond employed operatives (this could be anything from friends who work in ballistics, or an owner of an acting agency, or a waitress, or insert any of Paul’s ‘I know a guy’ friends)

known dirty cops, dirty detectives, etc.

aliases

rooming accommodations that can be used discreetly

See this post here for more details.

Disarming Techniques

There are a few instances in season one whereby someone (it could be Perry or Della, or another client) is threatened by an attacker, and Paul is right there to disarm the attacker. For example, a murderer in one of Perry's cases jumps out of a trailer to attack Perry, and Paul jumps between them and throws the attacker onto the ground. What is very interesting about this is that while Paul will always defend other people with disarming tactics, he doesn't go to bat for himself in the same way. If people come after Paul, he will square his shoulders and keep his body still, which you can read about more here, and see here and here.

#&. paul headcanons #paul drake #perry mason #william hopper

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beantothemax · 7 months

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Scrambled au thoughts: Just Temenos stepping down from his position as a Cleric to become a Scholar. This is solely so he may find a clue on what the Darkblood Bow may be and why it was so important. Which of course leads to him finding out about the One True Magic and the last two people who tried to discover it.

…two people? I’m assuming one of them is Harvey, but who’s the other?

#asks #sombrerokiwi #scrambled au

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litcityblues · 4 months

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Foundation, Season 2: You Can Put The Haterade Down Now

One thing that kind of surprised me about the first season of this show was just how many haters came out of the woodwork to proclaim their disdain for it. I couldn't understand that-- the original source material covers something like a thousand years or so and had they done a page-to-screen adaptation, pure and simple, it would have been... boring, quite honestly.

No, what Apple has done is what I wish that Amazon would have done with The Wheel of Time: they've put some money behind this thing, and as a result, even if you have issues with the adaptation of the show-- which, in general, I don't, then you can at least acknowledge that it looks beautiful.

Season 2 picks up about a century after we last saw our heroes and the Second Crisis predicted by Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) is approaching. This time around, however, we get multiple Seldons. There's the one on Terminus, hanging in his vault, popping out to send mysterious messages to the waiting crowds like 'HOBER MALLOW' which people eventually figure out. It turns out, in the time jump forward, the Cleons (Lee Pace, Terrence Mann, and Cassian Bilton) have assumed that Terminus is long gone and haven't bothered to double-check, so the Foundation is now spreading the 'gospel of Seldon' as a religion to neighboring planets and is starting to attract attention. Mallow (Dmitri Leonidas)-- who isn't a priest, but a ne'er do well merchant of sorts, gets tracked down by a couple of the clerics- Poly (Kulvinder Ghir) and Constant. (Isabella Laughland)

Back on Trantor, a fresh trio of Cleons is confronted with some unusual happenings: someone sends assassins to try and kill Day, who has made the momentous decision to end the genetic dynasty and marry to produce heirs. (Also, he's sleeping with Demerzel (Laura Birn) now, which is... weird. Dusk is especially weirded out by it, but few others seem to comment on it.) Naturally, his decision to seek a bride-- in this case, Queen Sareth I (Ella Rae-Smith) of the Cloud Dominion makes Dusk and Dawn a little nervous, as once the baby is born, it sort of makes them irrelevant. Happily for them, before Day can go too much further with his plans, he catches wind of something going on in the Outer Rim and finds out that the Foundation has survived thanks to renegade General Bel Riose. (Ben Daniels)

The second one is on flooded Synnax with Gaal (Lou Llobell) and Salvor (Leah Harvey) and he's a little upset because he's been trapped inside the Prime Radiant pretty much the entire time and it hasn't been fun for him.

Gaal and Salvor do acknowledge this, but point out that they're going to need some help getting off the planet and Mobile Seldon after some reluctance- for obvious, 'you trapped me in the Prime Radiant for like a hundred years' reasons, agrees to do so. They start exploring Gaal and Salvor's mental abilities- and Gaal sees a vision from 150 years in the future where a powerful Mentalic called The Mule (Mikael Persbrandt) kills Salvor. Desperate to prevent that, they answer the mental call from the planet Ignis, where they find a colony of Mentalics, who seem welcoming at first, but their leader Tellem (Rachel House) takes them captive instead and the trio- which turns into a duo after Mobile Seldon is (seemingly) killed by Tellem have to figure out how to break free and defeat Tellem.

Eventually, they do-- but at a cost. Salvor sacrifices her life to prevent Gaal from being killed-- and proves that the future can be changed because her death now means that her vision of the future can't have come true. Gaal and Mobile Seldon agree to enter cryostasis for a century or so, waking up once a year to teach the nascent new Second Foundation.

Back with the other Seldon, the second crisis has arrived- though it doesn't go the way that Empire thinks it will though. Mallow cuts a deal with the Spacers to deny Empire the use of hyperspace and they start a chain reaction that slowly destroys the Imperial fleet, even as Empire sends the wreck of Invictus spinning down to the planet where everyone and everything is seemingly destroyed. Day is kicked out an airlock by Riose and then Mallow and Riose await their fate together while Constant is set adrift in a converted cleaning module, hoping that someone will pick her up.

On Trantor, Demerzel is outsmarted- kind of. Dusk finds out the truth about her (the standout episode, "Long Ago, Not Far Away" fills in a lot of the gaps) and her programming means that she will stay loyal to the genetic dynasty above all, so Dusk is killed to protect her secret. Sareth-- with child- and Dawn flees and Demerzel- with a copy of the Prime Radiant decants three new Emperors and just keeps on keeping on-- at least for now.

It turns out that Constant does survive and gets picked up by Seldon's vault and it turns out to be a little TARDIS-like, since it's bigger on the inside and can hold the entire populace of Terminus.

We flash forward to the future, where a crazed-looking Mule vows to find Gaal Dornick, as he senses her presence.

Overall: Look, you can put down the Haterade now, people: this is a good show. It might even wind up being a great show and-- it's not that far off from the books. It might be one of those rare adaptations that- and I realize I'm treading on some very thin ice here- improves upon the source material?

I know that's going to seem like heresy to a lot of sci-fi fans and I respect that. If Asimov is your do-or-die and you expected something closer to the books with this adaptation, I get it. You can be made-- but with adaptations, you've got to figure out how to bring new viewers in without them having to read the books first and if you're really good at what you do, you'll inspire new viewers/people who haven't read the books to maybe go check them out. Either way, I think people are going to be reading those books that maybe wouldn't have before and so, even if you disagree with it or hate the adaptation, I'm going to come down on the side of this being a good, solid adaptation-- maybe even a great one. (I mean, come on y'all: the source material did have some issues.)

That's not to say that it's not without potential problems. I don't know if you can keep leaning on Gaal Dornick if you go much beyond the next season or so. If she keeps freezing herself to jump ahead, I'm going to hope that the character at least suffers some side effects or something. It's going to start straining credibility a bit if she just keeps getting iced to go between seasons and jump ahead in time.

I'm also intrigued by the Seldon Vault and where they're going... because that is definitely not in the books either, so I'm kind of curious to see what they do with it.

My Grade: Stop hating, this is good and potentially great science fiction that while not a perfect adaptation of its source material does right by it at the very least. **** out of ****

#foundation #season 2 #review

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stars-and-loops · 6 months

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One more Hollow Cleric thought.

I will say that most if not all the major Moonshade Order members now want nothing to do with each other. For good reason honestly yeah.

Tanzy does not want to ever see Arcanette again. She never wants to see her. She wants to be free from her and try to breathe her own air.

Ori avoids them and gives a wide berth and is wondering how the fuck she even worked with them without losing it. Actually how did she even meet them? She can’t remember.

Petrichor is loyal to Arcanette and yet she finds herself hesitating to go back to her. She does not know why. She rationalizes that it’s because she doesn’t want her to be devoured by the endlessly pursuing creature of their own making but there’s more to it isn’t there?

Oboro saw Arcanette once and threw a knife at her. He made it clear that their truce is over and that the world has now ended. And he can’t even die. No need for niceties. Both of their deals have been fulfilled and yet they’re still here. Alive. Absolutely ridiculous.

Trousseau didn’t join the Moonshade Order in this timeline (World ended 4-6 years before canon) but he did talk to Claude once and gods. Worst times of his life and he would have 100% lost it if it weren’t for the fact that several Octopuffs found him so sad that they adopted him.

Harvey is busy trying to ensure his own immortality and the One True Magic. He isn’t going out like everyone else. He’s going to live.

Anyways no one in the Moonshade Order likes each other and the world ending kind of cemented that dislike and stopped all reason on why they should work together.

"the world ended....now what." is honestly such a mood from them

#mav answers #hollow cleric au

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errantgoat · 5 months

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Ultimately, I'm very happy with Harvey's build in BG3 (Rogue(Thief)4/Ranger (Hunter)8), it suits his character and fighting style the best - he's quick, efficient, double wielding two shortswords or using a longbow depending on the situation. He's both a damage dealer and a tank with stupid 24 AC thanks to one particular armor you can get in Act3.

But I haven't forgotten about my Paladin!Harvey idea... And though I haven't multiclassed him into one- i considered that possibility in my head for a long time-, I found I could definitely lean into the flavor without doing so? He's got his second favoured enemy as a Sanctified Stalker - he gets the Sacred Flame cantrip that way, and I also gave him the Magic Initiate: Cleric feat to be able to cast Sanctuary spell in particular. Both are definitely not optimal - the Sacred Flame DC is laughably low because Harv's wisdom is 'only' 15 (+2) and he can cast Sanctuary only once per long rest no matter the spellslots. But I like the idea of some sort of entity watching over him gifting him its protection, which he can extend to people he cares about in turn.

*Cough*definitely didn't take Sanctuary for the Cazador fight to shield Astarion. Unfortunately it never came up, Shadowheart was more than enough for that purpose. Hasted Harvey was just a very fast woodchipper in that fight.

Harv definitely would be better off with a melee feat like Dual Wielder, but tbh...playing on Balanced Mode for the second time and this time around knowing what I was doing a bit more...the game doesn't require you to optimize builds to have fun...and win.

#bg3 playthrough #not saying it's not a strong build but it's a very decent one #without breaking the game #24 AC isn't the pinnacle of what you can achieve in bg3 with the right magic items #and Harvey can also riposte so he doesn't get hit very often #rogue/ranger combo is a very satisfying gameplay experience #definitely i'm more into it than my druid playthrough

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A Cure for Joy but Not for Silence (Castti x Malaya)

A take on Castti/Ochette's crossed path where a confluence of magic brings back a familiar face. Trauma is still around, but so is love and comfort. Temenos and Osvald are also there. (2000 words)

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As Ochette called upon a bevy of trees, frogs, and axe-wielding tree frogs to beat back the shadow, a cleric and a scholar watched from a safe distance.

The purple light surrounding the ominous, writhing tentacle seemed familiar to the inquisitor. It took him a few moments for the hunch to turn into a connection.

Just when Castti and Ochette were starting to venture deeper into the woods, he took their colossal scholar by the arm. "Osvald, a word, if I may…"

Watching Castti treat the wounds on the duorduor turned that connection into a near-certainty. He grimaced. Then he thought of something. "Castti, you still have several phials of that cure mixed up."

She blinked. "Yes, why?"

He nodded towards the depths of the woods. "I very much doubt this is the last beast in these woods we'll see that's in need of treatment. May I borrow one?"

She nodded, and handed him the phial, which he tucked into his tunic.

They hastened on ahead into the woods. It should have been daylight, but it was dimmer than dusk.

A few steps further ahead, they were all engulfed in darkness.

…

As the scholar wandered further into the woods, he found himself hearing a voice that sounded like deep, raspy dusk. "Poor, pitiful Osvald. Lost your wife, you could never protect her."

"Why?" Osvald replied flatly. "Rita's death was Harvey's fault. I did everything I could, and now Elena is safe."

"Ah, but you're failing your daughter. Not there for her in this fragile recovery period. If only you had more power…" The voice trailed off.

"Why?" He didn't seem the least bit bothered. "Temenos is a high-ranking church official, and he was there when Harvey confessed to his crimes. Very likely I'll be exonerated within the year."

"…" The voice paused for just a moment. "Doesn't it ever make you curious, what it was that Harvey found at the end of his research? The true seventh source?"

"Why?" The scholar continued walking. He didn't even miss a step. "Whatever it was was clearly of an inferior grade to my own love for my adorable daughter."

"…" The pause was slightly longer this time. "Think of the possibilities of untapped sources of magic. Knowledge, wealth, half of the world, it could all be yours!"

"Why," His scruffy beard concealed the faintest hint of a smirk. "I don't really see what you're getting at."

…

"Couldn't protect them. Couldn't protect Jörg, or Roi, not even Crick." The voice in the darkness spoke to the cleric, mocking him. "You slept in bed as your wayward lamb walked his way to the slaughter."

Temenos grimaced. For all his outward confidence, this particular subject was not something he enjoyed being reminded of. "And I made examples of those responsible." That didn't mean he didn't have a retort ready. "And I aim to do the same to you."

"To me?" The voice boomed with laughter. "Why, you misunderstand me. I'm here to help you. To help give you power for your revenge."

"Revenge against who, exactly?" Temenos fixed on a point in the darkness that seemed to glow brighter than all the rest. Then he started walking. "This isn't the same puerile ploy you pulled on Kaldena, I hope? Inflicting tragedy and offering the power to get revenge against the enemy of her true enemy?"

"Kaldena was a fool." The darkness scoffed back at him. "You're clearly much too wise to fall for the petty ruse that worked on her."

"Oh, so that was you?" He responded with a dry wit. "I was going off a hunch. So, in a sense, I do appreciate the courtesy in your confirming my suspicions."

The darkness went silent, for a moment. Then, "How did you know?"

"I doubt. It's what I do." He winked at the point, which was growing brighter by the moment, then broke into a full sprint. "And you made it easy."

"YOU-!!" Humor was gone from the voice now, replaced by inhuman, primal rage.

"SACRED EFFULGENCE!!" He heaved his staff into the point of dark purple light, and the illusion shattered.

…

The cleric and the scholar found themselves standing on an endless lake of grey. Osvald was the first to notice Ochette and Castti were there next to him, facing off against what looked like dozens of the same writhing purple fragments of darkness Ochette had beaten back earlier.

Temenos was a hair slower, on account of the plum he had shoved down his throat. But the glow of his light magic hit one of the writhing curses incarnate just before it could strike at Ochette from behind.

Together, the four travelers made quick work of the gruesome attacker. Soon, the tendrils were in full retreat, but one lingered for just a moment.

That was long enough for Ochette. "Oh no you don't! RAWR!!" She bit into the darkness itself, and her fangs sunk deep.

That was as much time as they needed. "Now, Osvald!" He grabbed the phial of cure out from his tunic and tossed it in the scholar's direction.

A gruff, solemn chant had began even before the thin cylinder of glass was tumbling through the air. "This is! THE ANSWER!!" Osvald blasted the phial with the One True Magic (II), and the beam shot out towards the tentacle. Ochette jumped away just in time. So hasty was her jump that she did not, for once, land gracefully.

In the time it took for that attack to land, the rest of the tentacles, and the darkness itself, retreated. Ochette, Temenos, and Osvald were left standing beside Castti, slumped over with emotional and physical fatigue. And one other person, who had appeared exactly where the tentacle had been before Osvald had blasted it with pure, radiant spirit.

…

Castti looked up, and saw a ghost. This one wasn't wearing a wry smile, and the emaciated look was a far cry from the healthy state in which she had last seen her. But there was no mistaking those eyes. "…malaya?" It was a face she had resigned herself to never seeing again.

"It's okay, Malaya. I remember everything now, you can rest." She fumbled forward, not really understanding what was happening. "Haha, I must really be under the weather to be seeing things again." She put a hand to her forehead, laughing to hold back the tears. She felt so silly.

Ochette looked at the other woman, confused. "Mama Castti, who's this?"

A jolt of pure, stinging understanding shot through the apothecary. "You can see her?" Her head whipped around to Osvald. "Can you see her?"

He nodded. "There's a woman on the ground next to you. Dark skin, long hair. Signs of malnutrition. She's conscious."

Temenos stepped between them. "Now, wait a moment Castti, we need to be c-"

He was physically thrown off the ground as Castti dived forward like a woman possessed. She embraced the woman in a hug heavy enough to knock the wind clean out of her.

"MalayaMalayaMalayamalayamalayaOhit'syouit'sreallyyouyoudon'tknowhowmuchIhopedandprayedandafterIrememberedandeverythingandyoudidsomuchformeandIcouldn'tdoanythingforyouandIohgodsyou'realiveandhereandIcanfeelyouandIloveyousomuchandInevergottotellyoubefore*sob*, OhMalayaMalayamydearMalaya-" She didn't know where she was anymore, and she could not care. Tears and snot were spilling freely down her cheeks. Even after Temenos got up, Ochette stood, feet planted and arms out, making it very clear that he wasn't going to break up that moment.

It ended up being Malaya who pushed the apothecary away. "_,_." She opened her mouth as if to say something, but no words came out.

Osvald nodded in understanding. "You love her too, but you're hungry?"

"She's what?!" Castti's head jerked up.

Malaya winced and rubbed her stomach. "_,_!" She shook her head, smiling weakly at Castti.

"'You hugged the wind out of me, you damn mother hen.'" He gave a wry smile. "And my name is Osvald. I'm traveling together with your friend? Wife?"

"Wife!" The apothecary was the one to answer this question. "My wife is alive, I," She took another look at Malaya and her eyes widened with belated shock. "Oh gods, look at you, you're skin and bones, we need to get you some food."

"Alright, that's settled!" Ochette whipped out five sticks of jerky from her pack and handed them to Malaya, who wolfed them down and took five more before the beastling lifted her off the ground and the group began to walk back to town. Osvald, who had been the least disturbed in the confrontation with the shadow, lent Malaya his coat for warmth and let Castti lean on him for support.

"Hey Osvald, how did you know what she was saying? I couldn't even hear, and my ears are the best among us, I think?" Ochette's companion Mahina chimed in.

His gaze grew a little harder. "I learned how to read lips on Frigit Isle. It was useful for gathering information."

"Oh, I see." Ochette turned over to Malaya, who had grabbed a fistful of grapes from her pack and was downing them in groups of three. "You really are light, ma'am. Eat as much as you like."

"Wow, Ochette sharing her food. This is a special day, yes indeed." Mahina hooted jovially.

Temenos cut in between the two, voice so low that neither Castti or Malaya seemed to be able to hear. "I would like to preach caution. Whoever that woman is, she came from the shadow. And it spoke to me in there. I'm almost certain it's connected to what we've been investigating."

"Osvald, can you grab him by the cloak? With one fist? My hands're kinda full."

"M'kay." The scholar obliged, yanking the cleric down for the hunter to glare at.

Ochette hissed back, "Now listen here, you. You weren't with us when Castti went back to Healeaks for the first time. I've seen that woman rip a real live antlion in two, but that village had her shaking in a way I've never seen. And the name I kept hearing her say while we were there? 'Malaya.'" She indicated the woman held in her arms, "You can keep an eye on things, sure. But if you mess up this moment for her I'm gonna put my footprint into your rib cage."

His smile never fell the whole time she was talking. "I understand. I can leave the two of them to you, then?"

"So long as we're clear, Temmy." She bared her fangs at him.

By the time they had arrived back at the inn, it was still light outside. The sunlight seemed to give Malaya a physical boost, and Castti a mental one. The two of them sat outside on a bench, with Ochette standing nearby. She held a pouch that was seemingly still full of food and drinks, and this time Castti indulged herself in some spicy jerky. They sat there for a little while.

Castti asked the question that had been on her mind. "Do you remember me?"

Malaya nodded her head. Yes, yes I do.

"Oh, can you still not speak?" She leaned over, concerned.

She shook her head no.

"So you can't speak?"

Malaya shook her head no again.

"You don't want to speak?"

A nod, yes.

"I'm sorry, I just." Castti stopped. "There's a lot I wanted to ask. But I don't need to ask it now." She stared into those eyes, those lovely brownish-black eyes which, now that she looked closer, seemed to be carrying new, silent scars in them. "We can wait. But I do have one request." She supposed hers did too. They really would have a lot to talk about.

Malaya nodded her head.

"C, can I hold your hand?" She stumbled with that on her way out of the gate. Even so, "It's only, I just, gods! I spent this whole time imagining a version of you to help myself get through all that trauma, and I almost went and accepted you were gone." Castti fixed her eyes on those deep, familiar eyes again and "I need to feel that you're real, and next to me. Is that okay?"

Before nodding, Malaya reached out with her own hand, the one that wasn't still dismantling a pomegranate and shoving it in her face, and wrapped her fingers through Castti's own. Then she nodded. Of course, chief.

~End~

#death #tw death #octopath traveler 2 #octopath traveler 2 spoilers #spoilers #castti florenz #octopath ochette #osvald v. vanstein #temenos mistral #castti x malaya #nobody dies here but since it does deal with it I'm tagging it for safety #malaya lives and is (at least temporarily) nonverbal because of trauma #osvald annoys the shadow by being very autism #ochette feeding all these depressed healers #temenos deducing that One True Magic is the inverse of the shadow source and thus can be used for consequence-free necromancy #feeding people after traumatic events is a big thing I enjoy so there's a fair amount of that #malaya comes back with one HP and needs to guzzle grapes and jerky to survive #octopath traveler 2 fic #fic #minor edits after posting to fix obvious mistakes #also a note that temenos is casting effulgence there because he had osvald buff him before walking into the forest

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these-detestable-hands · 7 months

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hey chat carter wants to know if he can snap harvey's neck with these stats or not

in case you can't read the levels because the image is crapass quality:

agnea is a hunter, level 57

thronè is a warrior, level 55

hikari is a cleric, level 43

osvald is an apothecary, level 40

ABSOLUTELY HE CAN AND I'D KILL TO WATCH HIM DO THAT

Recommended level for Ozzy chap 5 is 45. I did with my party at 49-52 but I think with Agnea and Throné that high, he'll be just fine

#Asks #Mav #Carter

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laimabynight · 1 year

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Original Character Masterlist ♡

Count:74 Systems:28 Active:11

Vampire: The Masquerade

Camilla 'Georgia' Soledad, Brujah (x)

Vendelín Rusizka, Toreador ( )

Anastasia della Giordano, Tzimisce (x)

Devon Rowe, Malkavian (x)

Salvador Dolorosa, Brujah (x)

Kuriyama Tomoe, Banu Haqim (x)

Angelina Cruz, Lasombra ( )

Raffaele Giovanni, Giovanni (x)

Eugen Radetzky, Nosferatu (x)

Margarita D'aureville, Follower of Set (x)

Killian Darkwater, Thin-Blood (x)

René Debussy, City Gangrel (x)

Sister Mirona, Caitiff ( )

Jack Ramiro, Gangrel ( )

Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Jana Mirtschin, Silent Strider (x)

Ljudmila Nikolaewa Sokolova, Silver Fang (x)

Dungeons & Dragons

Markus Abdiel, Human Monk/Barbarian (x)

Oriana Vylmythe, Eladrin Archfey Warlock (x)

Ladislava von Koldov, Human Undead Warlock (x)

Dorryen Whitestone, Wild Magic Sorcerer ( )

Hatake Yuka, Swaschbuckler Rogue (x)

Das Schwarze Auge

Najara al Kira ibn Sajida, Aranian Majuna (x)

Zidanja Walsareff, Bornlandian Adventurer (x)

Call of Cthulhu

Helena 'Harvey' Fountain, Artist (x)

Weston McNamara, Journalist (x)

Else von Sydow, Scientist (x)

Walter E. Harlan, Private Investigator (x)

Lord Ernest of Somersetshire, Noble (x)

Karl Eduard Nauditt / Karol Edward Naumowicz, Thug (x)

Eli Wilkinson, Missionary ( )

Joan Olson, Law Student ( )

María Ascunción Leguizamo, Nature Boy ( )

Hearts of Wulin

Ruan Qingshan, Little Brother (x)

Lín Xiǎo Dān, Wanderer (x)

Monsterhearts

Gjest Solheim, Queen (x)

Salem Lotte Harlan, Heir (x)

Jordan Bennett, Seraphim (x)

Michelle Bader, Siren ( )

Elvis Salten, Witch (x)

Nathan Garcia, Mortal (x)

Moby Liberman, Mimikry (x)

Arcane Codex

Yatoth dex Selkasha, Morai Cleric (x)

Okagami

Saya, Kitsugo Noble (x)

Schatten über Volgorod

Ser Ilya Lynnhardt of the Blue Iris, Human Knight (x)

Benoît Vaillancourt, Human Occultist ( )

Cresentia 'Senta' Läufer, Human Model (x)

Pasión de las Pasiones

Fernanda Salazar, La Belleza (x)

Hyboria

Pallantia, Aquilonian Mercenary (x)

Shadow of the Demon Lord

Zinnober, Changeling Magician (x)

For The Queen

Mitena, Inventor (x)

Kasmeer Valorante, Florist/Magician (x)

Htut, Tiger Keeper (x)

Shiverin' Shelley, Pirate (x)

Nicola Snyder, Reporter (x)

Rippers Resurrected

Ashkara Kathat, Warrior Princess (x)

Mausritter

Annotto Crowley, Bat Cultist (x)

Vespuccio, Envoy (x)

Estragon Heller (x)

Devil, Aim For Me

Tennessee Dixon, Pamphleteer (x)

Pathfinder

Solaris Tarkovisk, Human Cleric (x)

Magic School

Ulysses Elevander, Ravenclaw (x)

The Spirit Of '77

Tiago 'Tuco Velocidad' Garrido, The Good Old Boy (x)

Thousand Year Old Vampire

Endymiodes, Spartan Warrior (x)

One Last Job

Donna Wang, The Driver (x)

R'lyehwatch

Paige DeLuca, The Medic (x)

Electric Bastionland

Dr. Ichabod Bellagamba, Cryptohistorian (x)

Shadowdark

Nourin/Moitreyee, Witch ( )

Visit to San Sibilia

Blanca von Hallberg, Noblewoman (x)

Cartel

Sofia Casagrande, La Esposa ( )

City of Mist

Bethany 'Bassie' LaRue, Bastet (x)

Parisa Keshmiri, Gilgamesch (x)

Vaesen

Olga Klockar, Doctor (x)

Kuzma Vitalijovych Bojchuck, Soldier ( )

Freeform

Draven Schwarzschatten, Cleric (x)

#masterlist

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msclaritea · 9 months

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"The first English school was thought to have been establish in 598 A.D., the purpose of which was to produce those who ran the church, and as the members were priests they were also celibate, a tradition that continued later on, encompassing the first university dons. The nobility was educated in Latin in which the Bible was written, although the curriculum was extended to rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy and music, exactly the same classes taught in ancient Rome, which were carbon copies of those in earlier Greece. As pure, unbroken voices were necessary for church services, boys from every horizon were recruited, especially among the poor, boys who were offered the rudiments of an education, free of charge, boys who filled the countless ranks of those sexually used by the celibates who ran the schools. Convinced in one way or another that they were accomplishing part of God’s will, little convincing was necessary to have them bend over. Later thousands of men became priests thanks to the infinite pool of boys that made up the church, from the very first schools right up to today’s, religious institutions where, for some recondite reason, the church can keep clericals out of prison simply by paying damages. For the boys, historically, this was nonetheless their ticket out of poverty, many becoming church clericals and boy abusers in their own time. While nobles were taught at home by private tutors, the poor were welcomed into schools like Eton that Henry VIII set up in 1442 to provide pre-pubescent lads for his choirs. Dozens of schools were founded by Henry and Elizabeth on the ashes of those destroyed in order for the Anglican church to reign supreme. Because schools were far between, boys eventually became boarders in private houses in the towns where the schools were located. This was easily accepted because the nobles had farmed out their boys to be educated in the houses of other nobles for years, at around age 7. Eventually it was realized that these fee-paying lads could become a huge source of profit if they were housed in schools themselves. This helped too for disciplinary reasons as the closer the boys were physically to their tutors, the easier it was to control them. Thus the advent of boarding schools. Soon an incredible esprit de corps formed between the boys, meaning that a boy interviewed for a job by someone who had been to his college was nearly certain to be hired. And it was not uncommon that boys dying in war had a last thought for their college house before that of their God. When the tenderness of first love is mingled with all the other first experiences of life, an inherent part of youth, no armed concrete is more solid. The early schools were based on Latin and scriptures, Greek and the classics came later, during the Renaissance. And although England was making incredible strides in exploration, discovery, rule over other lands, advances in medicine under Harvey and science under Newton, public schools continued on as arrogant social functions aimed at showing off one’s eccentricities in fine clothing, to honor the best in food and wines, and to have free, unsuppressed and unlimited sexual access to new boys entering each year..."

Below, a list of writers, philosophers/poets from the Ancient Greek and Roman period. These are the materials that were, and possibly still are found in children's public schools in Britain and other other countries:

PINDAR

"One must pluck love, my dear heart, In due season, in life’s prime. But whosoever catches with a glance The rays flashing from Theoxenus’ eyes, And is not tossed on the waves of desire, Had a black heart forged in cold flame! But I, like the wax of the sacred bees When smitten by the sun, melt When I look at the young limbs of boys."

SOPHOCLES

"Blessed is the man sweaty from the gym, Having muscles, supple, strong and slim, Goes home where he may drink wine and play, With a fair boy on his chest all day."

THEOGINIS

"Happy the man who’s got boys for loving, and horses, Hunting dogs and foreign friends. The heart of he who doesn’t love boys and horses And dogs will never know pleasure. Boys and horses have the same brain. A horse doesn’t cry when the rider bites the dust. He goes off with another who will sate him with seed. The same with a boy eating from the hand of a new friend. Happy the lover whose boy gives him a workout at home, And the whole day to sleep alongside his beautiful body. Boy love is a wonder ever since Zeus, King of the gods, found Ganymede, And brought him to the garden of Olympus, Making his boyhood-flowering eternal."

ARISTOPHANES

Men who prefer men, continued Aristophanes, are more manly, courageous and masculine than other men, and their love is more profound than that between men and women, and they ‘’tend to cherish what is like themselves.

ASCLEPIADES

You open your legs, but there’s that hair! On your ass, it’s more than I can bare! ‘’Oh I like that ! Please do it once more!’’ But all that bristly down--What a bore!

SCYTHINUS

Aged 16 Elissus is made for love, A wonderful ass as tight as a glove. Parted lips, sweeter than honey to kiss, A wondrous voice, the sound of bliss. ‘’Don’t touch!’’ he says, and I’m left to my fate, I think of him all night and masturbate...

ATHENAEUS

Wrote 'Banquet of Scholar' which includes a segment on Sexuality in Hellenistic Greece. Excerpts:

About a boy blushing from desire for his friend, Sophocles said: ‘’There shines on his crimson cheeks the light of love.’’

About Alexander’s father, Philip of Macedonia, Theopompus said: Philip was not interested in well-behaved men and boys but only those who drank and gambled with dice. Some of these men would shave the hair from their bodies but continue to be men, mounting boys, others would have full beards and mount each other. They caroused together in twos and threes, no better than courtesans, sluts and beasts.

ALCAEUS

His hymns glorified the gods and his poems … well, here are two examples, proof of the dislike of body hair, giving credence to the point made by women that men only liked boys so long as they resembled girls. Your hairy legs were once smooth as glass, Keep the hair, boy, from covering your ass. If not you’ll lose your lovers I fear, For one day your youth will disappear.

The hair on your legs is spreading, alas! Soon, Nicander, it will coat your ass. Then you’ll lose your lovers very fast Oh why god, can’t youth and beauty last.

"The term classical education has been used in Western cultures for several centuries, with each era modifying the definition and adding its own selection of topics. By the end of the 18th century, in addition to the trivium and quadrivium of the Middle Ages, the definition of a classical education embraced study of literature, poetry, drama, philosophy, history, art, and languages. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the term classical education has been used to refer to a broad-based study of the liberal arts and sciences, in contrast to a practical or pre-professional program. In a May 12, 2023 opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, Cornel West and Jeremy Tate (founder of the Classic Learning Test) praised the boost given to the classical-education movement by Florida governor Ron DeSantis. On her May 4, 2023 episode of First Person, The New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviewed Jeremy Tate. Emma Green, writing for The New Yorker in April 2023, reports that what governor Ron DeSantis considers to be "a model for education nationwide" is an educational philosophy developed by Hillsdale College "as part of a larger movement to restore 'classical education'—a liberal-arts curriculum designed to cultivate wisdom and teach children to pursue the ancient ideals of truth, beauty, and goodness."

The revival of "classical education" has resulted in Latin (and less often Greek) being taught at classical schools. The Association of Classical and Christian Schools requires Latin for accreditation. A new group of schools, the Classical Latin School Association, requires Latin to be taught as a core subject.

Criticisms

Lisa VanDamme points out that the artificial division of children's learning stages into grammar, logic and rhetoric actively retards children's development of critical thinking skills. Additionally, the haphazard way children are introduced to the sciences fails to build conceptual understanding of them.

The Classical Education Movement, Wikiepedia

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#Classical Schools Equal Religious Private and Charter School Interpretations of Humanities #Youtube

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