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Shine On (4/16)

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Chapter 4: The Art of Profiling

Farrs Corner, Virginia February 20, 2015

The pizza that Fox Mulder ordered isn’t from a pizza place Jackson has ever heard of, like Domino’s or Pizza Hut, but it’s really good anyway. Or at least it tastes good to someone who hasn’t eaten all day. Jackson eats the first piece really quickly, then he grabs for a second without thinking, forgetting his manners. When he realizes what he’s done, he hesitates.

“Go for it,” the older man says, his eyes darting sharply back and forth between the pizza and Jackson’s face. “Eat as much as you want.”

Fox Mulder has been acting much more intense ever since Jackson told him about the red-headed lady.

Jackson’s tired, and he has only barely skimmed the surface of the man’s difficult mind, but he can tell that the guy’s stunned by the news. Fox Mulder’s mind is channeling down a dozen different paths right now: fast, mazelike thoughts, like bobsleds going down tracks. A current of sharp worry running through like a winter chill.

It’s honestly exhausting to try to figure out. Jackson closes off the shine for now, takes another big bite of pizza. This sausage is a little spicy, which is exactly how he likes it.

“I have a lot of questions for you,” Fox Mulder says, his voice low. “I don’t want to overwhelm you. But I … gotta ask some of them.”

Jackson nods reluctantly, his mouth full. He doesn’t feel like answering questions at all. Still, he supposes the more he gets out of the way, the better.

“You said you have visions,” the man says, setting his own piece of pizza down. “Do you have other … abilities?”

Jackson studies him cautiously as he finishes chewing his bite of pizza. He’s not in the habit of discussing what he can do. It’s only really ever been trouble when he has, so he’s almost instinctively secretive about it. But things are different now. And Fox Mulder, well, he seems to know all about this kind of thing.

“Yeah,” Jackson says carefully. “I do.”

The man runs his hand over his mouth. Jackson notices he’s only eaten half of his slice of pizza. Either he’s not hungry, or he’s too distracted.

“You can read thoughts,” Fox Mulder guesses, leaning back, speaking with certainty. He folds his hands in front of him. “You can focus on other people’s thoughts. Not just one person, but several at once.”

Jackson sets his slice of pizza down in shock. “How did you know that?”

“You can move objects, too.”

Jackson blinks at him. “I have been able to do that. Some. I could do it easier when I was little.”

“What else?”

“I can, like, change people’s perceptions. What they see. Not for forever, just for a little while. So, if I, like, need a distraction in class or something, I can make the teacher think someone opened the door and mooned us. Stupid stuff like that.”

Fox Mulder looks undeniably fascinated. “Wow,” he says. “Interesting.” He taps his fingers on the table. Jackson doesn’t have to use his shine to see that the man is thinking this over. “So does that mean you could effectively shapeshift? If you wanted to?”

“Yeah,” admits Jackson. “At least I can make other people think I look like someone else.”

“Huh,” the man says, squinting thoughtfully. He tilts his head, looking at Jackson again. “Are you reading my mind right now?”

“No,” Jackson says honestly.

“Why not?”

“I’m tired,” Jackson says. “It’s work, sometimes. And no offense, but you’re kind of complicated and hard.”

Fox Mulder chuckles. “I don’t know if I should take offense at that or not.”

“I did read your mind earlier,” Jackson confesses. “And the red-haired lady …. she was really easy. I hardly had to try with her at all. It was like her thoughts just flew at me. I was wondering if that was because she was my birth mom. Do you think that could be right?”

The man stares at him blankly, not directly answering. “Her name is Dana Scully.”

“Dana Scully,” repeats Jackson.

“Have you ever heard that name before?”

“No,” Jackson says. “I don’t think so.”

“Did your parents tell you anything about your birth parents? Who they were, where you were from?”

“I don’t think they knew anything about them,” Jackson says. “It was a closed adoption.”

Fox Mulder nods, scratching his chin. “Yeah,” he says. It’s like a cloud of sadness has fallen over him. “Yeah, it would have been.” He fixes Jackson with a curious look. “Do you … have any questions for me? About any of this?”

“Uh. Sure.” Jackson looks around the room, slowly, as if the best question to ask might be scrawled on the walls. The faces peering out of the framed photos draw his attention again, but it’s all so much. He looks away, back at the box of pizza in front of them instead. “Is it… okay if I have another slice, Mr. Mulder?”

The man laughs a little, crossing his arms. “You can just call me Mulder.”

“I think I’m eating more than you, Mulder,” Jackson points out seriously. “It doesn’t seem fair. It’s your pizza.”

“I told you, eat as much as you want.”

Jackson feels like he has been polite enough. He shrugs. “Thanks,” Jackson says, taking another slice.

“Jackson,” Mulder says, watching him eat, his voice suddenly too casual. “Do you have any idea who your birth father is?”

Jackson picks up his piece of pizza and studies it, pulling off a particularly delicious-looking piece of sausage and sampling it. “Well,” he says, through a mouthful, “I’ve got a guess. Based on certain clues. But I don’t know for sure.”

“Clues you’ve read in people’s minds? Or clues you’ve noticed?”

Jackson shrugs again. “Both, I guess.” He gives Mulder a look, raising his eyebrows.

There’s a pause.

“What clues?”

“Well, I’m not stupid,” Jackson says matter-of-factly. “That woman, Dana Scully, was here, fighting with you. Lots of big feelings. Then, the way you’re acting now. Like you think I’m a brand new iPhone and you can’t stop looking at me. And how you seem to know things about me. That’s a bunch of clues.”

Mulder has been sitting with his arms crossed, and he hasn’t moved the entire time Jackson’s been talking. But now Jackson can see a tear sprouting in his eye. It surprises him. Wayne Van De Kamp, his father, would never have cried in front of him. Mulder blots it with his sleeve, and Jackson sees his hands are shaking, too.

Maybe he shouldn’t have said that so carelessly, kind of flippantly. It’s obviously a big deal to Mulder. Really, truthfully, it’s a big deal to Jackson, too—something he’s wondered about his whole life. But right now he just can’t have everything feel like a big deal all at once. Or he’ll explode or something.

He meets the man’s damp eyes.

“Yeah,” Mulder says roughly, trying to smile. “Okay. A lot of clues.” He pauses, uncrosses his arms, places his hands on the table. “I get the sense you can’t handle a lot more emotional drama right now, Jackson, and I get that, I really do. Believe it or not, I’ve been in that place myself.”

Jackson’s speechless. It’s like the man read his mind, but that’s not possible.

“I just want to say, we can talk about it whenever you want to,” Mulder adds. “No pressure.”

Jackson nods his head up and down, licking his lips nervously.

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After dinner, they go back into the part of the room with the couch, which is surrounded by all the messy piles of books. Jackson sits on the floor and starts picking up volumes curiously. “The Art of Profiling?” he says. “Is that an art book?”

“No,” Mulder says with a smile, trying to kick piles out of the way. “It’s psychological profiling. Like for criminals.”

“Oh,” Jackson says, making a connection. “Like on Criminal Minds.”

“What’s that? A TV show?”

“Yeah,” Jackson says. “My parents love it. It’s about a team of FBI agents who profile dangerous criminals.” An exciting thought occurs to him. “Wait, is that what you did?”

“Yes,” Mulder says. “No. Kind of. I was a profiler, years and years ago. But then I was put on the X-files, where I investigated cases that had unexplainable, supernatural associations.”

“That’s why you have books like this,” Jackson says. He lifts the book Sasquatch: Diverse Perspectives. “Or this?” Extraterrestrial Abductions Beyond the Media.

“Yeah,” Mulder says, a self-deprecating shrug. “That’s right.”

“That’s badass,” Jackson says, a root of an idea occurring to him. He belatedly realizes his mistake. “I mean, that’s cool. Very cool,” he corrects himself.

“It was badass,” Mulder agrees, seemingly unaffected by Jackson’s profanity. “Although… it could be difficult. We went through a lot, working on the X-files. Scully and me.”

Jackson absorbs this information. “So you and Dana Scully worked together on the X-files. In the F.B.I.. That’s how you knew one another?”

“We were partners,” Mulder says with quiet precision, like this sentence is very important.

They’re just three words—we were partners—but Jackson can tell they tell an entire complicated story the length of a book or more. His shine cries out to be used, but Jackson pushes it aside.

“Mulder,” Jackson says slowly. “Is it a coincidence that you and my birth mom worked on these X-files … and that I have these abilities?”

“No, Jackson,” Mulder says, sighing heavily. “It’s probably not a coincidence.” He sits on the couch, looking down at Jackson still sitting on the floor. “There are things that both of us were exposed to that could have … caused the abilities.”

“But you guys don’t have them yourselves, right?”

“No. Not like you.”

It’s a frustrating answer. “Not like me? Or not at all?”

“Some things I want to wait to talk to you about,” Mulder replies. “Until we’ve had a chance to talk to your mother, too.”

Your mother.

Jackson inhales sharply, the words sending an unexpected shock through him.

“I meant Scully, of course,” Mulder says quickly, noticing his reaction. “I’m sorry.”

“Dana Scully isn’t my mother,” Jackson says with emphasis. “I have a mother.”

“I know.” Mulder’s eyes look impossibly sad. “I’m sorry, Jackson. I know.”

“I’m not looking to replace my parents,” Jackson says tightly. “That’s not why I’m here or what this is about. They’ll always be my parents. I love them.”

Mulder appears to sink further into the couch. “Yeah,” he says. “I can tell you do.”

Jackson looks down quickly at the stack of books again, playing silently with the cover of Criminology Through The Ages. He knows he shouldn’t have gotten angry. He knows Mulder didn’t mean anything by it, and he’s having to struggle with his shine now to keep from sensing any bad feelings or thoughts coming off of Mulder.

It’s just Jackson feels almost disloyal, sitting here talking to this man, learning this information about his birth parents’ lives, when his parents just died. When they probably died because of him.

“Jackson.” Mulder’s voice is kind. “What were they like? Your parents. Do you want to … tell me about them? I don’t know anything about them.”

Jackson pauses, still staring at the book in his hand. “Yeah,” he says. He tries to find the right words. He has to be the person who remembers them, who speaks for them to the world now. “They were … they weren’t anything like me. But they were great.”

Mulder waits patiently, his soft eyes on Jackson. Jackson puts the book back carefully on top of a pile.

“My dad was the shop teacher at Rawlins High School. He was good at woodworking, cabinetry. He was always trying to teach me.”

“Were you good at it, too?”

“No,” Jackson says with a tiny smile. “I was really, really bad at it.”

“Oh yeah?” Mulder echoes the tiny smile.

“I couldn’t cut straight. I forgot to measure,” Jackson says, shaking his head. “I was always disappointing him.”

“Not really,” Mulder guesses softly.

“No,” Jackson agrees, just as softly. “Not really.” He’s quiet, thinking more about his goofy, sweater-vested dad. “He was always cheerful. He thought you should look on the positive side of things, you know? Really into baseball. He coached my Little League team for a while.”

“That’s good,” Mulder says encouragingly. “It’s good to play sports.” He’s quiet, too. “And your mom?”

“Her job was running the church preschool,” Jackson says. “She was always singing. She loved holiday decorations, and to cook and bake.” He feels tears threatening. “She is just … she was a really good mom to me. Like, she hugged me all the time. I acted like I didn’t like it, but I did.”

“I’m glad she did that,” Mulder whispers. “I’m so glad.”

“She was really Christian. Really into church. They both were.”

“You were raised religious?”

“Yeah,” Jackson says. “Lutheran.” He glances at Mulder wryly. “But I was really bad at that, too.”

Mulder returns the look. “I’m not very good at that myself,” he says. “Scully’s religious, in her own way. But I’ve never been … that kind of believer. It’s just never made sense to me”

Something warm blooms in Jackson at being understood in this way. It’s never made sense to him, either.

“What are you good at?” Mulder asks. His tone is gentle, but Jackson’s shine is suddenly alert, suddenly aware of what’s underneath the man’s exterior. Mulder is hungry to know more about him, desperate for any detail. His need is so overwhelming, Jackson closes the door on it quickly.

“I don’t know,” Jackson says casually. “I’m good at math, I guess. Math comes easy to me.”

Mulder’s face lights up. “Scully’s amazing at math.” Looking over at Jackson, he seems to regret his words. His scolding to himself shines through. —stop making everything he says about me and Scully. “Sorry. You’re telling me about yourself.”

“I like to run,” Jackson continues. “I’m pretty fast, and I think I’m a good distance runner. I was thinking maybe I’d try out for the track team in high school.” He pauses. “But I guess I’m not going to high school now.”

“Come on,” Mulder says. “Of course you’re going to high school. Your life isn’t over.”

“I’m most likely going to prison,” Jackson mumbles darkly.

“Nah. Not going to happen.”

“I don’t even know where I’m going to live,” Jackson adds. “Where I’m going to stay tonight.”

“You’re obviously going to stay here tonight,” Mulder insists. “After that, we’ll figure it out.”

The lightning-fast image of a school building with a sign— Farrs Corner High School—and then another fast image, the two of them, Mulder and Jackson, running side by side on a country road, a road that looks a lot like the road right outside the farmhouse. Then almost instantly, more scolding in Mulder’s mind: Way ahead of yourself. Stop it. Haven’t even told Scully. Need to confirm.

“How will we confirm?” Jackson asks quickly. “What does that mean?”

Mulder’s eyebrows shoot up. “That’s going to take some getting used to.”

“Sorry,” Jackson says. “That was kind of rude of me, probably.”

“I have to remind myself you’re listening,” Mulder says with a small smile.

“I normally try to hide it more,” Jackson says. He stands up, stepping around the books to sit next to Mulder on the couch. “But I mean … what’s the point if you already know, right?”

“I was just thinking that before we introduce you to Scully, we should run DNA,” Mulder says. “Yours against mine. To confirm it.”

“Why?” Jackson says, frowning. “You don’t believe me?”

“Can’t you tell that I believe you?”

Jackson sighs. “Yeah, I think you do.” He kicks out his long legs and leans his head back against the back of the couch. “But like I said, you’re not the easiest.”

“The people that Scully and I used to be involved with,” Mulder says, “were the kind of people who would go to extremes. Even extremes like convincing a kid his birth mother was someone she wasn’t. Like planting ideas into people’s heads. I don’t think you’re lying, but I think it would be smart to know for sure.”

Jackson swings his head to look at Mulder. “Who were these people?”

Mulder regards him with a troubled expression. “I’ll answer that, Jackson. But I think you need to answer this, too: who drove you here? To Virginia?”

“I told you,” Jackson says, folding his arms defensively, “I can’t tell you that.”

“Why?” Mulder’s eyebrows draw together in concern. “It worries me a little. Did the person who drove you ask you not to tell me?”

“Yeah, they did,” Jackson admits. “But I don’t think they’re one of these bad people you’re talking about. They were just trying to help me.”

“But Jackson,” Mulder says urgently, “you need to understand that—”

“You’re just going to have to trust me,” Jackson insists, and his voice sounds younger than he intends. “Please. Just trust me.”

Mulder rubs his temple with one finger. “Okay,” he says simply. “I can do trust.” He leans forward on his forearms. “But still, Jackson, I think we gotta do the DNA test. If you’re not … the person we think you are—and who Scully thinks you are, it would be too hard for her.”

“She’s been wanting to see me that bad?”

Mulder is surprised. “Of course she has. Of course.”

“But it was a closed adoption. Her choice.”

Mulder opens and closes his mouth, again seeming not to know what to say. “Since the second she let you go,” he says, his voice strained, “she’s been wanting to see you again.”

Jackson’s shine pulls in an image then of a baby in a crib, crying, and then the woman Mulder calls Scully, younger, crying and crying, inconsolable.

It’s all too sad, and Jackson is sad already.

“Okay. DNA test tomorrow then,” Jackson says, shrugging. “No big deal.”

“Great,” Mulder says, standing up. “Now I thought I’d show you where you’ll be sleeping if you want. I’ll have to put sheets on the guest bed first. Maybe you can help me. This place used to be a little more organized when Scully lived here.”

“You have a guest room, huh?” Jackson says. “Fancy.”

“Yeah,” Mulder says in a strange voice. “It’s just an extra bedroom. Small. Not too fancy.”

It was supposed to be your room. In case we got you back somehow. Mulder’s thoughts are suddenly and unexpectedly clear.

“Then I guess I better sleep in it,” Jackson responds flatly, following along behind him.

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Post-Hoot for Them’s the Breaks, Kid!

-They wrote TTBK at least a year ago (this Post-Hoot was recorded before Hollow Mind’s release), having started production pre-pandemic, and finishing it during that time. The episode was intended as a breather episode before some spicy plot developments and uh, boy was it.

-The Raeda dynamic as kids was initially more antagonistic, Raine was more of this badass. There would’ve been a fight to get the badge and have Eda stay in school (like Lumity), but Zach Marcus felt the conflict was unnatural to how Raine and Eda ended up together, so he opted for an immediate friendship instead.

-Sarah remembers making a lot of notes while working on the show that no longer make sense, like “Moon Villain”...

-Boscha’s parent, the one with glasses, is named Larry in the art tracking system.

-Eric Bauza recalls playing either Harvey or Gilbert, though he was credited only as Mr. Park, unhelpfully. He voiced Faust during the pandemic (which could mean anything lbr), and didn’t even know what Faust looked like, having to ask Dana what she thought he’d sound like. Eric’s delivery actually influenced Faust’s final design lacking any lips!

-The neck crack was devised as a means for Faust to maneuver and turn his head around (I guessed it).

-In Zach Marcus’ mind, Terra and Faust had a history together.

-There was going to be an episode that gave Bump a love interest, written by Molly Ostertag; “A very elven man”, but Dana shot it down.

-At one point Tibbles was the principal of Hexside, and Zach jokingly suggested to say he was the vice-principal now.

-JBO wrote a lot for Mattholomule, and Zach Marcus said he’d love to have him as the main character in a show like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, where he’s always being beaten at his game and you love to see it.

-According to Avi, Raine is more chaotic than Eda, and Sarah agrees.

-Zach Marcus suggested that Faust used to have big, juicy, candy Bratz lips. He thinks Faust lives in the school (this might be contradicted later on or not), and before that he and Terra used to live together as a couple. However, there was a BAD breakup, and Faust lost both his voluptuous lips and the place in the fight. This is why he lives at Hexside now, it’s the only place he has any sense of control and so he exerts it so wildly because it’s all he has.

-Zach joked that Kikimora is a high school dropout, like him!

-Dana pushed to have Luz’s artistic journey progress, with the viewer seeing how her style develops over time.

#the owl house #post hoot #the owl house faust #john bailey owen #the owl house larry #terra snapdragon #zach marcus #raeda #raine whispers #avi roque

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thepeculiarbird · 1 month

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Incorrect quotes

Oh ! thanks @kaylinalexanderbooks , I'm having so much fun with those

Rules: use this incorrect quotes generator with your OCs!

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Noe: I have locked Adam in a cage designed by their own art. Oh, they have been well and truly hoist by their own petard. Devyn: Could you put it another way? I didn’t understand a word of that. Noe: I’m blackmailing them. Devyn: Oh, happy days.

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Prescillia: Regular soda is too sweet! Devyn: Diet soda has a weird after taste! Prescillia: No! Ugh, oh my god. Diet soda is THE BEST! It doesn't have sugar! It's SPICY! Devyn: It has other weird stuff in it! I'll take REGULAR sugar in my REGULAR soda! Prescillia: It's SO SWEET like it's a dessert though! Diet feels more like a drink! Devyn: I'm going to physically attack you. Prescillia: Which is better, Alec? Alec: Oh, I usually drink water! Devyn: Wha- NO! Prescillia: DISGUSTING!

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Danae: As your best friend— Adam: Devyn is my best friend. Danae, holding a knife:As your best friend—

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Prescillia: Did you buy eggs like I asked? Alec: Even better! Prescillia: What the fuck did you- Alec: *holding up a chicken* Her name is Fluffy.

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Alec: Why shouldn't you put a toaster in a bathtub full of water? Devyn: Because your toast would get soggy!

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Devyn: What’s your favorite color? Noe: Stop asking stupid questions. Ask me something logical and mature. Devyn: How many moles of sodium bicarbonate are needed to neutralize 0.8ml of sulfuric acid at STP? Noe: My favorite color is pink. (yellow actually)

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Noe: I can't believe you've done this..... Danae: I'm sorry I didn't know-! Noe, on the verge of tears: YOU CAN'T JUST BUY ME A GIFT OUT OF NOWHERE NOW I FEEL LIKE A HUGE ASSHOLE!

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Madhi: Everyone, calm down! We're grown-ups, let's deal with this like adults! Noe: So, we're just going to wing it and hope for the best? Madhi: Obviously. Now, Danae, pass the shovel.

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jinxneedssleep · 1 year

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I posted 1,383 times in 2022

That's 1,383 more posts than 2021!

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#based on dana's art from the toh exhibition i knowwwww darius helped him choose this outfit. this is uncharacteristic amount of drip for him

My Top Posts in 2022:

Empires Shulk Adventures: Part 2.5

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Empires SMP incorrect quotes: Love Triangle edition (Shelby, Joey, Katherine)

Joey: Regular soda is too sweet!

Katherine : Diet soda has a weird after taste!

Joey: No! Ugh, oh my god. Diet soda is THE BEST! It doesn't have sugar! It's SPICY!

Katherine : It has other weird stuff in it! I'll take REGULAR sugar in my REGULAR soda!

Joey: It's SO SWEET like it's a dessert though! Diet feels more like a drink!

Katherine : I'm going to physically attack you.

Joey: Which is better, Shelby?

Shelby: Oh, I usually drink water!

Katherine : Wha- NO!

Joey: DISGUSTING!

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Joey: I apologize for saying 'fuck' in front of Shelby.

Katherine : You just said it again.

Shelby

Joey: I am not a role model.

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Shelby, to Katherine : If Joey doesn't say "I'm King of the world" within an hour on that boat, I will give you my next pay check.

Joey, within 5 minutes of getting on the boat: I'M KING OF THE WORLD!!!

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Katherine : I think I did fairly well on my anatomy quiz! :)

Joey: I forgot I was doing a test.

Katherine : Joey.

Joey: I said the vertebrae was the back stick because I thought it was funny....

Shelby: Joey.

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Shelby: The odds of this happening by coincidence are vanishingly small.

Katherine : I would say infinitesimally.

Joey: And I'd say teenily-weenily. We all know words.

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This is literally them.

223 notes - Posted August 9, 2022

Screw Eddie falling first. I am a firm believer in down bad Steve and oblivious Eddie who isn’t used to getting affection

333 notes - Posted July 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Empires smp thoughts: Modernization

Someone pointed out that the empires smp s1 cast are royalty, compared to what the s2 cast is. With the thousand year time skip, royal bloodlines have been made nonexistent. With the empires collapsed and no suitable heir, the survivors of the rapture developed modern governments. With the exception of Glimmer Grove, the Order of succession for the rest of the continent is not hereditary. Hence why none of the rulers refer to themselves by noble titles, unlike S1. “It’s mayor actually” The only other princess is Gem, who is self proclaimed.

Modernization includes technology as well. The S1 cast endured long meetings and communicated through letters deliver by messenger bird. The type of bird carrier varied between empire. (Rivendell used snow owls, Lost Empire had parrots, etc) They only resorted to communicators in emergency situations; whereas in S2 timeline, unless they are discussing trade deals, a communicator is all they technically need.

Due to most written text being destroyed, the only preserved document the historian guild has access to is the Ocean Queens journal; which has faced considerable damage. A thousand years has changed a lot of the language. The letters found in the ruins has a vastly different writing structure, compared to universal ‘Common.’ It’s the empires equivalent of Shakespearean English compared to modern English. This has caused much context to be lost in translation.

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may i have some hcs for luz toh pls? <33

Hc a (realistic):

She strikes me as the kind of person who would make little accessories for palisman (her potential palisman and others as well). I would say this could go hand-in-hand with a sister hc of mine, which is Luz is very good with, for lack of better terminology atm, arts and crafts (which we can see as essentially canon in episode 1). Expect to see Ghost in a little knitted hat is all I’m saying.

Hc b (while it may not be realistic it is hilarious):

Really likes spicy food, she and Raine have that in common (Eda is more than happy to double-stock on the peppers we see in the owl house). Although, out of the hexsquad, I don’t think she has the highest spice tolerance. That title goes to Willow, who, ironically, isn’t a big fan of spicy food. I think it’s a Willow -> Luz -> Hunter -> Gus -> Vee -> Amity sort of scale. (Amity is last as the token rich kid, there is no WAY Odalia and Alador made anything that wasn’t white people unseasoned Boiling Isles-equivalent of chicken).

Hc c (heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends):

Now I’m going to get wishy-washy, because I think this can go one of two ways. Way one, Luz cuts herself off slightly from the hexsquad, she feels such a burden of unfair responsibility, she forgets she’s just a kid, forgets it all behind her hell-bent desperation to save the Isles (vaguely referencing that one Dana art of the hexsquad, and how Luz looked in it).

OR Luz does the complete opposite. She puts on a false cheer, she pulls a move similar to the one she pulled in “Reaching Out.” And while I don’t think it’s as realistic a response as the first one, I think it’d be very interesting to see.

Hc d (unrealistic but I will disregard canon because I reject canon reality and substitute my own):

I know this is early yet to say what will happen, but I think her palisman should be a bat or a bluejay. Like we might get either, but I’m just putting my thoughts out either way. Bat because of the constant bat imagery and referencing, bluejay because of Hunter’s cardinal and their roles as narrative foils.

ask game!!

#ask #luz ilyyyy #my logic for vee placement btw is 1. the basilisk that invaded the school mentions magic “burning” and 2. basilisks seem to be very aquatic #/aquatic-adjacent beings (as seen by the sheen in vee’s hair)#olly tag

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fumpkins · 2 years

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How have non-alcoholic beers gotten so good?

Brewing low-alcohol beer is an ancient art. In the US, the stuff, marketed under the misnomer “non-alcoholic beer,” acquired a reputation for being watery and bland, with a hint of old shoe or urine. Though, to be blunt, up until the craft beer movement of the last two decades, the same could be said of mainstream American beer.

But with drinkers increasingly curious about the health benefits of sobriety, roughly one in six Americans express interest in the drinks, up 30 percent from 2019. That demand has reshaped the technology, and taste, of non-alcoholic—defined as less than 0.5 percent alcohol by volume—options stateside. “We’re coming up on the holiday that sees the highest number of [non-alcoholic] beer sales all year,” says Dana Garves, the founder of Oregon beer-testing facility BrewLab.

How do you get the alcohol out of beer?

Non-alcoholic beer gets its flavor from fermentation, just like its boozy counterparts. All fermented drinks are a smorgasbord of microbes and plant residues, containing thousands of chemicals that shape texture, taste, and smell. There’s the bite of ethanol, the funky resin of hops, the leftover sweetness from the grain, along with tastes and smells from traces of compounds like terpenes, esters, salts, and amino acids.

The trick for brewers lies in removing the alcohol, while leaving complexity intact. Close to 99 percent of a beer is alcohol or water, says Garves, so the margin for error in tweaking that remaining one percent is small.

The easiest way to nix the booze is to heat it. Alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water, and so a brewer can use high temperatures to sift it out—the opposite of distilling liquor. The challenge is that many of those precious scented molecules are also heat sensitive. “Heat tends to really destroy beer,” Garves says. “Anyone who’s left a beer out in the sun for a few hours knows that. It creates a ‘light struck’ flavor, it becomes oxidized.” The beverage loses things like acetaldehyde, an easily evaporated chemical that Garves compares to green apple Jolly Ranchers and that shines through in lagers, and myrcene, which gives the hops in an IPA their spicy, lemony edge.

[Related: Keep dry January going all year with these cutting-edge non-alcoholic cocktails.]

A key innovation, Garves says, is the widespread adoption of a technique called “vacuum boiling” to remove alcohol. If you’ve ever been at high altitude, you’ve noticed that water boils faster in the low pressure atmosphere. Same is true for ethanol: If a brewer reduces the pressure of the boiling chamber to almost nothing, alcohol will evaporate at room temperature.

Athletic Brewing, a Connecticut outfit which Garves credits with inspiring other craft brewers to tackle non-alcoholic beer, uses a completely different tactic.“We don’t use any of the alcohol removal technologies out there,” Athletic’s head brewer John Walker told Yakima Valley Hops. It’s not that those strategies didn’t work, he said. But that “ultimately, we don’t want to be removing anything.” Athletic is developing a drink with all the taste components of beer, but without making ethanol at all.

How is that even possible? Athletic, which has attracted the investor buzz of a biotech firm, is cagey about its process. Here’s what we do know: The brewer’s setup relies in part on creating a grain base that ferments—spitting out all the interesting, flavorful stuff in beer—but not into alcohol.

According to Garves, there are a couple ways to pull this off. One is to treat the grain base of a beer with enzymes that lock simple sugars into complex chains that yeasts——the microorganisms that convert grain into alcohol—can’t break down. Another is to use picky yeast strains that will turn up their noses at most sugar. The key is in realizing that yeast does a lot more than just “eat sugar, pee alcohol, and fart CO2,” as Garves puts it.

“There’s a whole fermentation cycle yeast go through where they produce a bunch of different flavors,” she says. The banana notes of a Belgian and the “mild buttery” flavor of an English mild both come from their yeasts. If a brewer breaks the relationship between sugar and yeast in a brew, the yeast can still go on making those other flavors.

The mainstreaming of non-alcoholic beer

Perhaps the biggest sign of non-alcoholic beer’s entry to the mainstream is that it’s not just a disruptor’s game. Starting in 2020, Guinness began making a non-alcoholic stout. On its website, the 250-year-old Dublin brewer describes the brews, dubbed the 0.0 lines, as “dark, ruby red liquid and creamy head, hints of chocolate and coffee, smoothly balanced with bitter, sweet and roasted notes.”

Die-hards were open to it, but also skeptical. “Smells a bit like Guinness and pissy pants,” said one British Youtube reviewer. “That looks good, a nice creamy head!” says his camerawoman. Sloshing it around his mouth, he says, “It still has a kind of metal-y taste. Like Guinness, I suppose.” In the end, the verdict seems to be: it’s basically Guinness.

How does the stalwart brewer go about nixing its alcohol? “We start with Guinness,” Aisling Ryan, an innovation brewer at the company, told the Evening Standard shortly after the brew’s release. Then, the brewery cold-filters it, a process that involves cooling down the finished brew, and straining it through a membrane to separate out the solids from the alcohol and water. Finally, the alcohol is distilled off and the water returned to the mix.

Does non-alcoholic beer have to taste different?

Even the best of these faux brews are bound to taste different, and there are always going to be some qualities of alcoholic beers that non-alcoholic brews will struggle to reproduce. Ethanol, after all, is more viscous than water, which could be part of why non-alcoholic beverages feel “thinner” on the tongue.

A 2020 study also found that ethanol plays a role in how other smells and tastes fizz out of the beer. Saliva contains a protein that interacts with all the molecules that constitute a flavor. Ethanol gets in the middle of that interaction, causing some molecules to float out into the nose, while dampening others. So even if a non-alcoholic beer has the same components, they’re not making it into your nose in the same way. (Ethanol may also unravel proteins in your saliva, contributing to the mouthfeel of the drink.) The study found that people tended to describe non-alcoholic beers as maltier, and alcoholic ones as fruitier.

That’s certainly not a knock on the non-alcoholic beverages. Some people like malty beer. And if personal experience is anything to go by, there are plenty of fruit-heavy booze-free options. Maybe the biggest sign of non-alcoholic beer’s ascendance is that you can’t write the entire category off as good or bad anymore—there are options to suit different tastes.

New post published on: https://livescience.tech/2022/07/01/how-have-non-alcoholic-beers-gotten-so-good/

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jolyfis · 5 years

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persoma.........

#persona 3 #its danas n my boi Berri BluJeans #and danas spicy goth bf and my mullet robot bf #jolydraws #one of these days ill get around to finishing this but here it is bc i havent posted art in about six years #ill tag this better if/when i finish it lmao

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theliterateape · 3 years

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The Good Days - A Diary of Two Octobers

by Dana Jerman

2018- Chicago // 2019- Las Vegas

OCTOBER 2018-

The sun escorts me all around the hood, collecting boxes for the move and other goodies. First babysitting gig since a long long time later tonight.

Chatted with mom on a run of 82 degree days. Just gorgeous as I hit errands and reopen my windows. A spicy bloody mary at 2pm.

10-

A short day. Started late and covered in soaking lazy rain. One gig and a birthday for a friend. Heartbeats the sound of a love drum.

11-

Brisk walking with stuffed pockets. One poetry submission leads to another and some editing too. No haircut yet.

16-

Packing day. Sun is bright but it won’t get past 55 degrees. I’m up and dressed with a good book after a night with a personal trainer.

17-

Warm in the sun and wind at bay. I have the “turning while standing still" feeling and go have breakfast at a cafe. Book reading means unsuccessful people-watching.

20-

Nephew-in-law’s birthday. Cleaning up a bit around the house and darting into shops. Drinking tea and making notes on the future wardrobe. I love my old records so much.

23-

Submitted to a lit mag over toast and coffee. Hands dry from the shower and my long poets shirt covering my chilly sun-lit knees.

26-

Light inscense and start a book. When he came home it was time for lip gloss and the first in a string of a thousand “i love yous”.

31-

Grooving to give away CD’s I’ll share with my bandmates at practice tonight. Gotta warm up my voice here and there today. A grey laundry-filled day.

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OCTOBER 2019-

Here today, toward the end of the year of travel and moving, I’ve visited 4 states exclusively among 2 coasts and many in between. I prepare to start work for an entertainment company for 1 month.

Work cancels. I can never spell “cancel” right the first time. I get gas, come home, change the sheets and head for the pool. There’s always something else to be done that refuses to be recalled to do. Held in the mind for a tiny flash.

Average clear off opening up and spilling a rhombus right over my bedspread. A good vantage to lay back, listening to the neighbors fuck from their high window across the way. Destroying my focus on both writing and reading poems.

Billy Idol Day! Tonight at the Pearl theater at the Palms.

Check out the gym with my honey. Broke a good sweat, then found a lighter. Looks like last year at this time I was just as excited to go boozing.

15-

Breakfast at the gate. I wake up with the trauma of art there, like a monkey always needing a ride. The plague of tomorrows insisting on existing. Knowing how it craves letters and reworked thoughts and garbage traffic. The sounds of another neighbor’s voice on the phone.

17-

Mid-day drink before work. There’s something about having a day in between logs that makes this particular exercise feel worthwhile. Hot on the trail of some gigs and a hot lunch. Perfume on me and my ankles and my newfound junk drawer!

24-

Earrings in, clothes on. Over coffee I turn the plant and knock the dust off of things while contemplating calling off/out. My state anomic, but happy to apply beauty serum onto an unscrubbed visage.

27-

Makin’ muffins (pumpkin spice) from a great mix. In my robe. No last -page-blues here. Breezy, ringing my gong on the side patio matching my head turning, jangling earrings free as chimes. 10a, I pull foil strips to individually wrap while Don bends my ear about a spooky documentary.

#diary #halloweening #october #notes #quiet moments #books #reflection #giveaways #relaxed

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danafeelingsick · 11 months

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maybe he ate a bean~

or maybe he knows you're into vomit and is a supportive boyfriend who lets you indulce for him because he loves the praise~ more under the cut 👀

check out my art commissions~

aaa~ ♥

#i might come back and touch this up a bit #because i'm down bad 😳😳😳🫶#dana//emeto art #dana//spicy art #dana//nsfw art #emetophilia #emeto #dana//wip work #tw vomit #vomiting #tw emeto #gen/shin imp/act #genshin emeto #emeto art #arat/aki it/to #a.rataki i.tto

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warm-pleatherette · 3 years

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Tagged by @mifunebooty!! thank u for being one of the reasons I still use this hellsite lmfaoshfjsj

Favorite color: green, but especially light, paler greens -- i'm obsessed with nabbing anything that has ivy or better yet clovers on it (but not in a cheesy St. Patrick's Day way)

Currently reading: like 10 books at once lmfao (will i finish them? who knows!) but most recently a Charles Dana Gibson art book and as for longer-form stuff, Joe Jones by Anne Lamott but i'm not really liking it

Last song: XANADU by Olivia Newton-John and ELO bc holy shit the Xanadu soundtrack slaps and that title track is glorious

Last movie: Lazybones (1925) which I wanted to like but ultimately did not in no small part bc the main character falls in love w/his adopted daughter that he raised from infancy...

Last series: i'm not rly into watching tv so i mostly just watch stuff on youtube -- during lunch today i continued working my way through a 3 1/2 hour analysis of Fred, the youtube phenomenon... last tv show i watched tho was probably Dark Shadows which i watch like 1 episode of every 3 months

Sweet, savory or spicy: savory, i think but i appreciate all of them

Craving: i mean rn my main goal is to get out of a months-long depression lmaoooo but ig if i'm especially craving anything less heavy it's a shitton of Dr Pepper (as always) and for Cleopatra (1917) to get rediscovered bc i binged on stills from it today

Tea or coffee: tea!

Currently working on: getting a job... i'm too pretty to work but i'm getting my first apartment in August so i guess i gotta !

I tag... who's even active here anymore?!? gonna tag some folks on my feed and in my recent notes: @notwiselybuttoowell, @littl3misstrange, @bowiebrains, @honeydrippingbeehives <333

#about me

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paketdimensioncomic · 4 years

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@mamadragon404

Everything is still just as confusing as it always was

@weeaboo-god

Not like it’s hard honestly XD

@lilithmarie1317

lskdfjsldkf thank

@lunarstar103

LOL

Well I can’t take credit for the og joke XD

@dana-chan325

youtube

and

huehuehuehue

some previously stated lines should make a bit more sense in the current situation

@thatsuspiciouswhalenut

HECK YE

@maymilkstuff

@justashyfriend1245

SPICY LIKE A MEATBALL

@poppun-chan

Thank ^^

And yep

The chainsaw or prophecy

@harmonichazbin

Thank ^^

@moosejealousy

We shall learn soonTM

sldkfsdlfk and thank ;w;

@thesmoothpudding

sdflkjsdflksjdf

Thank you ;w;

Though I don’t think it’s just my expressions

I feel I’ve been improving in all my digital art skills the more I work on PAKet

and as for your questions

:3c

#ceph talks #long post

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teal-bandit · 4 years

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People I'd like to know better

Tagged by @thecorteztwins and @squeallyeel22

(I'm gonna guess there's more than one way to do this, since both of you have different versions of it)

One: name/alias: Dana, Aryn (only on animal crossing :')), Bandit

Two: sign(s): gemini sun, leo rising, libra moon.

Three: birthday: June 18

Four: Favorite movies: The Ring, Ju-On 2, Silent Hill, X-2: X-Men United

Five: favorite books/graphic novels: The Hobbit- JRR Tolkien, Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden, Rurouni Kenshin- Nobuhiro Watsuki, All New X-Factor- Peter Allen David, Dao De Jing- Lao Tzu

Six: last song listened to: Timber- Pit Bull and Ke$ha

Seven: hobbies: drawing, writing, reading, playing video games, martial arts

Eight: story behind URL: I used to work at a deli, and we would announce specials over the PA; the manager said my voice sounded like a radio show host and that I needed a radio host name to match it, so he gave me the name The Teal Bandit

Nine: favorite food: changes from month to month, but it's usually something spicy. Currently craving my mom's chili.

Ten: occupation: teacher (HS digital media (video, arts, etc) and general Ed Visual Arts)

#tag game #about me #bandit talks

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ichorhalf · 4 years

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❝ war isn’t something that should ever be sought out , but if it calls – if you’re summoned by throned beings asking you to die for them , know what you fight for . just because they hold 𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 in their hands you’d follow them blindly ? snuff out the flames , cease your offerings & see how long they continue to love you . your 𝐋𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐘 should be earned ; the blood of the 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓 is thicker than the water of the womb . don’t fight blindly , half god – know why you’re fighting for them before you charge into battle . ❞

❛ why do you fight for them ? why do you sacrifice yourself for the titans ? ❜

❝ why don’t you ? what have the gods ever gifted you besides their burdens ? ❞

𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐀 𝐀𝐇𝐍 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒌

basics .

name : ahn ji su / dana ahn

nicknames : dane , traitor .

birth date : march 31 .

gender : cis female .

pronouns : she / her .

ethnicity : korean .

nationality : american .

hometown : boston , ma .

demigod abilities : telumkinesis , the ability to adapt & be highly skilled with a new type of weapon in very little time . enhanced intellect & war strategy . crafting abilities . enhanced physical abilities .

cabin number & godly parent : cabin six , daughter of athena – goddess of wisdom & war strategy .

how did their godly parent meet their mortal parent? : kennedy ahn , military strategist for the united states navy makes friends with grey - eyed liaison dana astbury . a stranger to romance , kennedy appreciates the connections their minds make – so used to turning away suitors because she doesn’t seek out romance the way they do ; but dana astbury – astute , intelligent , incredibly attractive . dana thinks the same of kennedy , a dear friend given a sweet goodbye before dana leaves forever – she leaves a thought child as a gift .

muse appearance .

faceclaim : jeon heejin .

height : taller than expected , her mother never reached past five feet four inches but dana rests at a steady five feet ten inches ( & a half ) . a sturdy height , it makes her a potent opponent on the battlefield & she has learned how to use her height & extra length to her advantage .

hair colour : untouched by any kind of hair dye or chemicals , dana's hair is long , thick & a natural chocolate brown . it requires a lot of upkeep to make it look healthy , easily greasing & dirtying in days if she's at full activity – but she usually keeps it down & around her face nowadays , no longer needing a reason to keep it up .

eye colour : like most children of athena , her eyes are startling grey – so grey they almost seem unnatural . they seem to lighten & darken with her mood , but it's mostly lighting & situations she's found herself in . they always seem like they've seen something that they can use to their advantage , but she doesn't ever act upon it .

dominant hand : right handed , though she’s been trained to become ambidextrous . as taught by a titan , she’s learned to wield weapons strongly with both hands in order to build herself up as more of a physical threat on the battlefield . she lacks in skill in her left hand , but a master of bluffing – dana’s skilled just enough to get away it it .

distinguishing features : a white scar visible even in the darkness – it brands her a traitor , troubled eyes that don't carry as much potency as they once did , scarred palms that look like they've bled as sacrifice one too many times .

dress style : relaxed , almost boy ish . her wardrobe consists of form fitting camp half blood t - shirts that've been cropped paired with oversized button ups & torn jeans – various styles ( inspired entirely by this & this ) . if not in that , it's some over sized shirt & black track pants – very particular style but before the war , she had effortless style , the kind to make people stop & stare . not much these days .

camp - related .

go - to weapon : any weapon molds itself into dana’s hands , but she’s always preferred axes – in her right hand , a barbaric hooked axe used to GUT her enemies ; in her left , a standard battle axe . often stained with blood , she spends a lot of time cleaning them & sharpening them – but they haven’t been used in months . celestial bronze glints in the shadows , her axes tucked away since she met defeat .

ambrosia : almost tasteless , it took a while for dana to put her finger on what ambrosia tasted like – but finally , a year into her time at camp half blood she’s reminded of tteokbokki ; a little spicy , but tasty & chewy just the way her mom used to make them . she can still remember a childhood vacation taken to south korea & trying street vendor’s versions of the homemade food , but ambrosia tastes just like the kind her mom used to make her .

favourite camp location : before the war , during her short tenure at camp half blood she was always found training – or beating the satyrs on the volleyball court ( she was always the go to setter , no big deal , she’s got fast hands ) but nowadays , she’s hung up her weapons & hasn’t stepped foot in the court . dana’s mostly always found at arts & crafts , she’s not half bad at drawing at all – & of course , gifted with weaving .

their opinion of their godly parent : her relationship with athena is strained ; even to this day , the bitterness is so deep it’s now embedded into her DNA . at the conclusion of the second titan war , dana laid on olympus with the rest of the injured with a bandage around her neck . apollo had failed to bring her back to full strength ( or refused , dana thinks ) , athena had scathed to her daughter – reminded dana of her disgrace & her treachery . so , all in all , not great .

age they were claimed : fifteen , almost sixteen .

how they were claimed : dana arrived to camp just shy of eleven & spent almost four years in the hermes cabin unclaimed . it was the most humiliating years of her life , nights spent on the floor while she sported the same grey eyes as the rest of the athena kids . her parentage was a dead giveaway , but she remained unclaimed . after leaving & returning to SPY on camp , she was claimed & her siblings said it was their mother finally welcoming her – but dana’s always seen it as a last minute effort to keep her from going back to the titans . anyway , after learning her heritage – she left .

stance on the new cabins : for the new cabins

reason for their stance : it is EVERYTHING she fought for , it’s everything everyone in the titan army fought for . a change for the gods , for the hubristically arrogant gods to recognize their children & give them a place among their peers . dana’s mouth remains shut these days , but icy glares give her position away when the subject is brought up – luke castellan sacrificed himself , hundreds of demigods she trained with died because they were forgotten . despite an icy exterior , she will fight anyone who thinks otherwise .

their opinion on lyssa pentelute : her resentment , dana can deal with . years spent with the femme on the floors in the hermes cabin – dana UNDERSTANDS . there’s pain in watching people thrive with what they NEVER had , but she thinks the girl to be incredibly selfish , incredibly foolish . war isn’t something that should ever be sought out , bloodlust isn’t normal & revenge because someone else gets a luxury she never got isn’t justice . her thoughts on anyone else against the cabin remains the same & she’ll chew off someone’s head without lifting a finger .

quests : only two – one at thirteen & one at fourteen – the same summer of percy’s quest . the first one she was chosen as a spare companion by a newly claimed son of ares , someone she got close with in the hermes cabin . she’d gone in hopes of succeeding & getting claimed , but the ares kid died & she arrived back to camp with a new scar & a crestfallen daughter of hebe . her second quest a long shot , left in hopes of finding the lightning bolt & returned the sole survivor – the son of poseidon went a couple of months after her & succeeded so like . sucks to suck – also , neither got her claimed so ????

personality .

positive traits : strategic , instinctual , cogent , potent

negative traits : fustian , disparaging , glacial , acerbic

mbti : intj / the architect

alignment : chaotic good / chaotic neutral

hogwarts house : gryffindor

kinsey scale : kinsey 3

archetype : wise old man

what candle scent are they : cinnamon spice vanilla , you're an old soul . you ooze warmth and nostalgia , wrapping others in your embrace and leaving a reminiscent smile behind .

goals & desires : once upon a time , to incite a revolution . to light a match & burn a flame so bright it brings the gods to their knees . now , a desire to rest her tired eyes – she awaits thanatos , sits on an abandoned throne in wait while she lacks the same drive & fire that used to occupy her .

fears : a lack of fear , a lack of emotion – dana doesn’t know what she fears anymore . her greatest fear used to be facing a loss , losing her leader & losing the war & it had manifested into reality – so , fears : spiders , blindness , drowning .

hobbies : nowadays , she takes after ARACHNE & weaves day in & out . her station in her cabin is left untouched , but filled with sketches , blueprints , intricate weavings of a world she’ll never get to see . there’s a dartboard on the back cabin six , too , paired with an ugly striped camping chair & an enchanted newspaper ( it shows the daily newspaper of her choosing – stolen from a previous athena camper ) . she spends hours at a time out there , mostly alone either playing darts , reading or sketching .

habits : she never carries copper coins – choosing to abandon pennies for the silvers instead ; studiously collects drachmas for analyzation – not even because they’re cool ; whenever she equips a short weapon , she’ll twirl it twice – axes , short swords , daggers . with longer weapons , spears , two handed swords , she’ll tap the ground thrice ; has made friends with the harpies & actively signs up for dish washing duties to befriend them .

#ambrosia:task001 #* ◟ . 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝒂. ─ 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 ╱ development

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entamewitchlulu · 4 years

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so i did a reading challenge this year and i wanna talk about what i read

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i did Popsugar 2019 and wanna talk about what i read: Book Reccs and Anti-Reccs

1.) Becoming a Movie in 2019: Umbrella Academy (vol 1) by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba

4/5. A fascinating take on superpowers, dysfunctional families, and the apocalypse. Can get pretty gory, confusing here and there and you have to pay close attention to panels for lore, but overall an entertaining romp.

2.) Makes you Feel Nostalgic: Circles in the Stream by Rachel Roberts

4/5. Middle grade novel about the magic of music, belief, and of course, friendship. Definitely written for kids, and has some unfortunately clumsy Native rep, but overall an absolute joy to dive into once again.

3.) Written by a Musician: Umbrella Academy (vol 2) by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba

4/5. Ramps up the confusion to ridiculous degrees with some absolutely bonkers, unexplained arcs, but still fun to watch this dysfunctional family do its dysfunctional thing.

4.) You Think Should be Turned into a movie: All That Glitters by Rachel Roberts

4/5. Continuation of Circles in the Stream, but with more unicorns, more rainbows, and more fae, which makes it automatically even better than the first.

5.) With At Least 1 Mil. Ratings on Goodreads: 1984 by George Orwell

1/5. I understand why it's important and all but wasn't prepared for some of the more graphic scenes and the overall hopelessness of the message. Would not recommend or read again.

6.) W/ a Plant in the title or cover: The secret of Dreadwillow carse by Brian farrey

5/5. A fantasy world where everyone is always happy, save for one girl and the princess, who set out to solve the mystery of their kingdom. Poignant and great for kids and adults.

7.) Reread of a favorite: Cry of the Wolf by Rachel Roberts

4/5. Yet another installment in the Avalon: Web of Magic series, which clearly I am obsessed with. Please just read them.

8.) About a Hobby: Welcome to the Writer's Life by Paulette Perhach

5/5. A welcome kick in the pants, chock full of great advice told without condescension, and full of hope and inspiration for writers both new and old.

9.) Meant to read in 2018: The Poet x by Elizabeth Acevedo

4/5. Absolutely beautiful coming of age novel told in verse. Do yourself a favor and listen to the audiobook version.

10.) w/ "pop," "sugar," or "challenge" in the title: Black Sugar by Miguel Bonnefoy

2/5. I think maybe I just don't understand this genre. Or maybe the translation was weird. I was confused.

11.) w/ An Item of Clothing or Accessory on the cover: Our dreams at Dusk by Yuhki Kamatani

4/5. It had a lot more slurs/homophobia than I was prepared for, but otherwise is a very touching, relatable collection of queer characters living in a heteronormative world.

12.) Inspired by Mythology or Folklore: Ravenous by MarcyKate Connolly

3/5. A girl goes on an impossible quest to save her brother from a child-eating witch. Really wanted to like it more because I loved the first one, Monstrous, but it dragged a little.

13.) Published Posthumously: The Islands of Chaldea by Diana Wynne Jones

3/5. I adore Diana Wynne Jones, but this one was missing some of the magic of her other books. Not sure if it was because it had to be finished by someone else, or if I just grew out of her stories.

14.) Set in Space: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

4/5. Powerfully written story of a girl straddling tradition and innovation, who wields power through mathematical magic, surviving on a spaceship alone with a dangerous alien occupation after everyone else has been killed.

15.) By 2 Female Authors: Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

2/5. Ostensibly a story about a revenge pact in a small island town, but leaves far too many dangling threads to attempt alluring you to the sequel.

16.) W/ A Title containing "salty," "bitter," "Sweet," or "Spicy": The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

3/5. It's okay but I literally just never know what anyone means at any time. Are they being reticent on purpose or do i just not understand communication

17.) Set in scandinavia: Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura

2/5. Technically and historically accurate and well made, but the story itself is not my cup of tea. Very gory.

18.) Takes Place in a Single Day: Long WAy Down by Jason Reynolds

4/5. A boy goes to avenge his murdered brother, but ghostly passengers join him on the elevator ride down. Stunning and powerful character-driven analysis.

19.) Debut Novel: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

4/5. Charming and then surprisingly heart-breaking comic about Nimona, a shapeshifter who wants to become a villain's minion. Really love the villain/hero dynamic going on in the background, along with the dysfunctional found family.

20.) Published in 2019: The Book of Pride by Mason Funk

4/5. A collection of interviews with the movers, shakers, and pioneers of the queer and LGBTQ+ community. An absolutely essential work for community members and allies alike.

21.) Featuring an extinct/imaginary creature: Phoebe and her Unicorn by Dana Simpson

4/5. Incredibly charming, Calvin and Hobbes-esque collection of comics featuring the adventures of Phoebe and her unicorn best friend.

22.) Recced by a celebrity you admire: The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen

2/5. Recced by my fave author Brandon Sanderson. An unfortunately disappointing anthology proving that any story can be made uninteresting by telling the wrong section of it.

23.) With "Love" in the Title: Book Love by Debbie Tung

4/5. One of those relatable webcomics, only this one I felt super hard almost the entire time. Books are awesome and libraries rule.

24.) Featuring an amateur detective: Nancy Drew: Palace of Wisdom by Kelly Thompson

4/5. REALLY love this modern take on Nancy Drew, coming back home to her roots to solve a brand new mystery. Diverse cast and lovely artwork, though definitely more adult.

25.) About a family: Amulet by Kabu Kibuishi

4/5. Excellent, top tier graphic novel about a sister and brother who have to go rescue their mother with a mysterious magic stone. LOVE that the mom gets to be involved in the adventure for once.

26.) by an author from asia, Africa, or s. America: Girls' Last tour by Tsukumizu

4/5. Somehow both light-hearted and melancholy. Two girls travel about an empty, post-apocalyptic world, and muse about life and their next meal.

27.) w/ a Zodiac or astrology term in title: Drawing down the moon by margot adler

3/5. A good starting place for anyone interested in the Neo Pagan movement, but didn't really give me what I was personally looking for.

28.) you see someone reading in a tv show or movie: The Promised NEverland by Kaiu Shirai

4/5. I don't watch TV or movies where people read books so i think reading an adaptation of a TV series after watching the series counts. Anyway it was good but beware racist caricatures

29.) A retelling of a classic: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Rey Terciero

5/5. We can stop the Little Women reboots and retellings now, this is the only one we need. In fact, we can toss out the original too, this is the only one necessary.

30.) w/ a question in the title: So I'm a spider, so what? by Asahiro Kakashi

4/5. Cute art despite the subject matter, and a surprisingly enthralling take on the isekai genre. Love the doubling down on the video game skills.

31.) Set in a college or university campus: Moonstruck (vol 2) by Grace Ellis

2/5. An incredibly cute, beautiful, and fascinating world of modern magic and creatures, but unfortunately falls apart at the plot and pacing.

32.) About someone with a superpower: Moonstruck (vol 1) by Grace Ellis

4/5. Though nearly as messy plot-wise as its sequel, the first volume is overwhelmingly charming in a way that overpowers the more confusing plot elements.

33.) told from multiple povs: The Long way to a Small, Angry Planet by becky Chambers

4/5. Told almost in a serial format, like watching a miniseries, a group of found-family spaceship crew members make the long journey to their biggest job ever.

34.) Includes a wedding: We Set the dark on fire by Tehlor kay mejia

4/5. Timely and poignant, a girl tumbles into both love and resistance after becoming one of two wives to one of the most powerful men in the country.

35.) by an author w/ alliterative name: The only harmless great Thing by brooke bolander

3/5. Much deeper than I can currently comprehend. Beautifully written, but difficult to parse.

36.) A ghost story: Her body and other parties by Carmen Maria Machado

4/5. It counts because one of the stories in it has ghosts. A sometimes difficult collection of surrealist, feminist, queer short stories.

37.) W/ a 2 word title: Good omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

4/5. Charming, touching, and comical, probably the best take on the apocalypse to date. Also excellent ruminations on religion and purpose.

38.) based on a true story: The faithful Spy by John Hendrix

4/5. Brilliantly crafted graphic biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and his assistance in fighting back against Nazi Germany.

39.) Revolving around a puzzle or game: the Crossover by Kwame alexander

4/5. The verse didn't always hit right with me, but the story is a sweet, melancholy one about family, loss, and moving on.

40.) previous popsugar prompt (animal in title): The last unicorn by peter s. Beagle

5/5. Absolutely one of my all-time favorite books, it manages to perfectly combine anachronism and comedy with lyricism, melancholy, and ethereal beauty.

41.) Cli-fi: Tokyo Mew Mew by Mia ikumi and Reiko Yoshida

4/5. Shut up it counts

42.) Choose-your-own-adventure: My Lady's choosing by Kitty curran

3/5. Cute in concept, a bit underwhelming in execution. Honestly, just play an otome.

43.) "Own Voices": Home by Nnedi Okorafor

3/5. The storytelling style was definitely not my style; while the first book was slow, too, it felt more purposeful. I found my attention wandering during this installment.

44.) During the season it's set in: Pumpkinheads by rainbow rowell

3/5. Cute art, but precious little substance. The concept simply wasn't for me in the first place.

45.) LITRPG: My next life as a villainess: All routes lead to doom! by Hidaka nami

5/5. An absolute insta-fave! Charming art, endearing characters, an incredible premise, and so much sweet wholesome fluff it'll give you cavities.

46.) No chapters: The field guide to dumb birds of north america by matt kracht

3/5. It started out super strong, but the joke started to wear thin at a little past the halfway point.

47.) 2 books with the same title: Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roger

4/5. A brave and enduring personal story of growing up in and eventually leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. Really called to me to act with grace and kindness even more in the future.

48.) 2 books with the same title: unfollow by rob williams and michael dowling

1/5. How many times do you think we can make Battle Royale again before someone notices

49.) That has inspired a common phrase or idiom: THe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

4/5. Definitely good and deserves it's praise as something that pretty much revolutionized and created an entire demographic of literature.

50.) Set in an abbey, cloister, Monastery, convent, or vicarage: Murder at the vicarage by agatha christie

3/5. I just cannot. physically keep up with all of these characters or find the energy to read between the lines.

ok that's all i got, what did y'all read and like this year? (oh god it’s gonna be 2020)

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