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what's your favorite part of Decked Out 2, and also, what's your favorite type of cat (orange, calico, etc)? (these make no sense together, but the ravagers remind me of cats a little bit, so)
it’s hard to pick just one part! I’d say it’s probably watching hermits do runs? but more specifically watching the strategies they have to use to do so!
as for cats… hard choice honestly but there’s an orange cat I know and like, so maybe that?
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Can I request Julius Caesar getting assassinated? March 15, 44 BCE, I don't have a time but I figure if it was around when the Senate was going into session it was probably around mid morning? So 10am, or whatever?
As of March 11, 14:00 EST, it has been 54,330,348 Minecraft Days since Julius Caesar was assassinated!. If we consider a Minecraft year to be 365 days, that's 148,850.3 years! Alternatively, that is 1,488.5 centuries!
(I'm gonna be honest, this may not be entirely correct because I couldn't find a website that would let me calculate that far back, so I had to do different chunks, but yeah. Will also do this again on March 15 for the Ides of March!)
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Trick or Treat!!!
Happy Halloween!
I bring you another newfoundland classic, Partridgeberry Jam.
(Photo from Newfoundland.ws)
Partridgeberries are little tiny red berries that grow very close to the ground, often around fir trees. You have to go on your hand and knees to get them, and they won't be properly sweet at all until after the first frost. And they're still very tart. But made into jam, man. The closest thing I've been able to find for it is at IKEA, you can get lingonberry jam, but I think lingonberries are slightly different.
(Photo from Orion 2 on flickr)
Scrape some partridgeberry jam over some toast, eat it as a tart filling, have a great time with it.
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@copper-dragon-in-disguise Down in the Meadow is Jimmy’s backstory! Or the part of it after the bit that gets wrapped up into Lizzie’s backstory and Lizzie and Joel’s Big Fic. It’s basically his childhood and growing out of it. (After a very, very long time)
My Brother’s Keeper is indeed about Xornoth and Scott. Mostly Xornoth, it’s their backstory, but Scott (as the title indicates) plays a significant role.
#that’s two for two!#what would you like for your prize?#ask and it shall be answered#(not quite but close enough XD)#copper-dragon-in-disguise#rain rambles#marriage of state au
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you need happy things??? this is my cat, ernie!!!
he is big and fluffy and orange and has very big paws and gets cat hair absolutely everywhere but we still love him
waves so excitedly HIIII OMGGG
he looks SO content i love this for him i want to be him
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hello. I have heard that you had a shitty week and I know this won't solve any or all of your problems but I hope you will find some small joy in it, so here are some pictures of my cats being cute, and I hope your week gets better soon
OH ITS A KITTY...... oh such a sweet baby give them pets for me....
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happy birthday!!!!
-@dragon-swords-prophecies
Thanks!!! :D
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prompt submission--tnt? or cactus. cactus is always a good one--
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Fanfic wip guessing game--
murder
A bit of the backstory for IitV Hannahxxrose if I ever get around to finishing it.
They called her a rose, but that was ignorance. She was beautiful, yes, but her thorns were more than a nuisance, her stem more than tough. She was caapi, able to climb anything, wild. She was hunted down for what she could give to others, and she was fed by a toxic soil.
But she would let them think her a rose; decorative, common, delicate.
It made the look of shock on their faces much sweeter when she drove a blade through their bodies and they figured it out for themselves. She was a murderer; unstoppable, unpredictable, bloodthirsty.
ask meme
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A day in the life, conversing with @copper-dragon-in-disguise
“I don’t like that rizz is short for charisma…”
“That’s what it’s short for?”
“Yes.. what did you think it was short for??”
“… I thought it was a sex thing”
You, my friend: are the human equivalent of an orange cat. And I say this for more reasons aside the fact that your ass is a ginger.
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*crawls out of blanket pile to yell one thing about his interests before retreating back to the depths from whence he came*
John Jacob Astor (the fourth), who was at the time one of the richest men in the world and the richest person aboard the titanic, died in the sinking of the Titantic. He had a dog. The dog's name was Kitty. This is incredibly funny to me.
He also wrote a sci fi book set in the year 2000 that involved spaceships and travel to Jupiter, which is for them a massive jungle with giant snakes, flesh eating plants, and vampire bats, according to eh Wikipedia summary.
@seagull-spouse TITANIC TITANIC TITANIC TITANIC TITANIC TITANIC TITANIC TITANIC TITANIC TITANIC
anyway that aside
that is so funny to me ask well. also that book sounds fucking awesome and i am going to read it if i can
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hey you reblogged the stupid things in your inbox post so I have a question: what's your favorite dinosaur and why? (specifically the reptile-y extinct type but modern birds can count, if you want)
Hello there :D this is a couple days late, but I appreciate the random nonsense in my inbox. Helps me with my ask experiment haha.
I'll be honest tho, this question is tough to answer for me because I don't know much about dinosaurs lol. Everything I know I learned from my brother's dinosaur hyperfixation when we were kids lol.
If I had to pick one, though, I would say stegosaurus :)
This ask motivated me to write 100 words for Home is Where Your Light Shines Brightest.
Experiment Total: 88,269
#ask and you shall receive#copper dragon in disguise#zac speaks#miscellaneous#the great motivation experiment
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speaking of dads eagerly accepting invitations to deck building games...
because we cannot have a single interest without it becoming about ocs, have been thinking a lot about human au neil having been an old school hobby shop nerd (he is just the most classic high fantasy lotr nerd so yeah he ate up dnd in middle school and kept up the hobby until he had a kid and his priorities changed) and having been into mtg for a bit too
and now that he is in his late 40s and bedeviled by the youths (trio of annoying transgender 20 year olds led by his two of his friends' son), they are going to be so shocked and awed that he knows what magic is and is willing to play with them. and they are going to laugh at the dorky art in his ancient deck from the ancient bygone era of... 2001
#partially inspired by the trove of magic cards from 2005 that my partner's aunt found and passed along#they are mostly worthless except the one that was banned because it was too racist (yikes)#it's very fun to contextualize neil as the prog rock nerdy weed dad that he truly is at his core#even actually in regular high fantasy normal setting he just should be listening to rush somehow#i dont want to do ANOTHER period piece modern au so it's funny that by all means he should be a classic 80s nerd but no.#no he graduated college in like '96 he just chose to be out of date on purpose#he will also dm for them sometimes. no one else can handle the responsibility :(#(also yes he has a dm pc that is a copper dragon disguised as an elven mayor. layers lmao.)#anyway bobby and prosper and andwise are constantly shocked that neil is cool about nerd shit and queer shit#low key convinced that their generation invented all of it but no he has in fact been doing both of those since the 90s
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for this ask game that I cannot for the life of me figure out how to abbreviate the name for:
etho, grian, and, ummmm bdubs (these were the first people I thought of)
Okay, lab partner, stuck in an elevator, or mcdonalds trainer.
HMMMMMMM. Grian and I are lab partners because he's high-focus enough to carry me through my lack of science knowledge, and then we can set fires to things I think. Etho would be a great trainer, I THINK, I would actually learn how the drive through works. Or I would learn absolutely nothing, but I'm willing to spin the wheel.
So bdubs and I are stuck in an elevator I think. Hm. I will just ask him about his boyfriend to pass the time.
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hello this is an invitation/request to ramble about textile production in rivendell vs the swamp in the arranged marriages au I am very curious about this thank you
Most of this is going under a cut because it is going to get a bit long and rambly and is 100% as much an info-dump as it is a worldbuilding post.
the TLDR is Wool VS Linen
MOSTLY INFO DUMP PORTION
Rivendell:
The majority of Rivendell textiles are wool-based.
They do import some silk from the Overgrown but that is reserved for special occasions and items. Mostly silk threads are used for magical stitching and silk fabric as a center lining for leather and chain armor.
Almost everything else is wool.
Most of their wool comes from sheep but they also have llamas, rabbits, and goats that all are domesticated for this purpose. (Wool as a term refers to any fiber obtained from an animal, even if some of it is technically hair, for textile purposes it is wool)
Most of their export is sheep wool, they have, in fact, increased their sheep herds specifically to accommodate export in the recent decade or so as they open their borders and form alliances beyond the Overgrown.
Wool is an incredibly versatile fiber. It's water resistant and thermal properties make it ideal for the snowy mountain terrain of Rivendell's territory. It can also be made into fabric so fine it is literal gauze. It can be felted it can be knitted it can be woven. Saying Rivendell's textiles are almost 95% wool does not accurately convey how varied those textiles are. Generations of Rivendell elves have spent their ~500 year long lifespans coming up with new things to do with wool.
And its not just from sheep.
Rabbit wool is most commonly used for items like underclothes or baby clothes and blankets.
Llama wool actually comes in two distinct forms, because Llamas have layered coats. Originally they were used as beasts of burden but were also, over the generations, bred for fleece as well. Their rougher outer coats are used more for things like rope and cordage, the inner fleece is similar to rabbit.
Llama is also the least common wool, since it takes about two years for a llama to regrow its coat after shearing and they aren't exactly the most space efficient of livestock. The fleece is one of the luxury exports sold mostly to foreign nobility who want to feel fancy and brag about their "exotic [insert item here]". The outer coat fibers are mostly sold as cordage, which is excellent quality and in high demand in the seafaring nations. (This is also due to elvish craft-magic, more on that later in the worldbuilding-focused section)
Goats are a full range from coarser fibers to fine soft ones. It functions much the same as sheep fiber, just with a lower yield. Goats are primarily used in the outer villages of Rivendell in the highest, sheerest cliffs where they are more suited to the terrain than their moor wool-laden cousins.
The Swamp:
Most Swamp-made textiles are linen.
Mostly made from flax and/or hemp. (Yes, that kind of hemp, go ahead, make the jokes.)
(Hemp grown for fiber is a different variety than hemp grown for more recreational reasons. It has a much lower THC and the plant itself is a lot larger. I'm not saying they don't grow the other kind, and use it medicinally, but it isn't relevant to anything I will be writing. If that's your wheelhouse you are welcome to take this and run with it.)
Linen is a lightweight and absorbent fabric that is ideal for hotter climates so it is very common to see in the Northern kingdoms. It's absorbency does mean it dirties and starts smelling fairly quickly but it is also a very resilient fabric that takes washing well. It also has the default state of "wrinkled" which, to someone accustomed to other types of fabric, does lend itself to looking rather unkempt. (You see where I'm going with this.)
Like wool there is a wide range of fabrics, ranging from the ultra fine and soft to coarser, more Textured pieces. (basically, the underclothes to sail canvas range) both flax and hemp, especially the latter, are also used to make cordage and hemp in particular is often used to make macrame and beaded jewelry, irl and in the Swamp. Fishing nets are also a common product.
Textiles are not a notable export of the Swamp so there is less to say there.
IRL flax linen makes up some of the oldest surviving fabric and clothing samples, dating back thousands of years.
Flax fibers are not elastic, they don't stretch and shrink while worked with and don't have a lot of give. This does make working with it in the process of fabric making somewhat difficult and requiring a lot of skill. The resulting fabric though is incredibly durable so its a trade off.
The Mostly Worldbuilding Portion
This is just going to be a bunch of disorganized bullet points really
A significant portion of the flax used by the Swamp from linen production is grown and harvested in Helianthia and brought to the swamp for manufacture. This is actually the primary threat Mythland represents, (you know, besides rampant destruction and harassment along the border) is interrupting that trade route. They do also grow their own but do not enough for what is needed.
Elvish magic is almost entirely based around fiber arts. Embroidery, knot-work, charms stitched into seams and knitted into the very makeup of a garment. Wool and Gold. (gold-thread embroidery is powerful stuff) A side effect of all of this is that when small Xornoth started setting things on fire and small Scott sneezed frost it was a pretty solid indication that their magic was a bit more directly divinely sourced.
Related, elvish rope is reliable. It doesn't degrade or break or even cut easily. (This is straight from Tolkein but it works too well not to poach)
Elves build things to last, a single elf-made garment can last for several human generations. At least.
Net making/repair in the Swamp is one of those community tasks that a lot of people sit down together and do while socializing. Almost everyone has at least the basic skills required.
Generations worth of irreplaceable historical tapestries were lost when Xornoth burned down the Rivendell palace during their coup and every time the weavers and artisans and historians of the kingdom remember that they come very close to being assassinated.
#rain rambles#empires smp#empires s1#empires smp worldbuilding#rivendell siblings#solidaritygaming#the codfather#ask and it shall be answered#copper dragon in disguise#smajor1995#marriage of state au#mos: worldbuilding#mos: the swamp#mos: rivendell#mos: asks
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req'd by @copper-dragon-in-disguise
NO THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SPICY
text: Stop!!! Eating!!! Things!!! You're!!! Allergic!!! To!!! PLEASE!!!
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