yeah I’m an “Ianthe cannibalized the would be 3rd tridentarii triplet in the womb to gain necromancy” truther but why stop there. the eggs you gave me all died. harrow is 200 dead children. the ongoing living death of the 7th house as power.
maybe every necromancer is a result of twins or triplets eaten or sacrifices made. maybe every necromancer comes from death. what did you do, Jod. what did you do
yeah i genuinely think there is something here. judith being the fastest in her cohort and it’s an absolute piss-poor time; ianthe being the washed out shadow of her identical twin–necromancy takes a physical toll. we still have no understanding of why some people have necromantic abilities and others don’t–and it seems clear to me from john’s lyctors that he’s able to impart that ability somewhat, if not entirely, at will. (it cannot be a coincidence that he makes his scientists necromancers, and their ‘civilian’ friends/family cavaliers.) maybe there has to be a death for every necromancer.
If consuming a twin in the womb is what makes a person a necromancer, then twins being a bad omen would make sense because the birth of twins would mean, essentially, “neither of these children will be a necromancer”, with the exception of cases like if the Tridentarii were triplets and Ianthe consumed the third sibling.
Being a pirate entering the Grand Line must be so terrifying right now. Imagine you’re so excited to finally be entering the legendary sea, so fucking relieved to not have crashed into the Red Line ship first…. only for the first thing to see there to be a giant fucking whale with a yonko’s giant fucking jolly roger pained on his nose….
Painted with beautiful, perfect accuracy and exact lines as if traced or directly printed I might add
The thing about Nona the Ninth that really blows my tits off is the politics.
Like up until now yeah, we knew our protags lived in an empire, and we got a few tantalizing peeks at how it worked, but it was mostly just a Fantasy Empire In Space
And then wham! Nona opens with our main girl living as a refugee in a badly destabilized modern colonial state recently torn apart by the struggle for independence and controlled by an uneasy coalition of armed militia and it’s like. Oh.
So it’s an empire empire.
reading htn and actually getting to see john interact with people is like hes kinda strange but idk he seems kinda okay and then reading nona the ninth is seeing Star Wars Empire Stormtrooper type nameless faceless soldiers everywhere and being used to hiding in the bathroom very quietly when hearing gunshots even if theyre in the distance and propoganda broadcasts using his dead daughters body and youre like. oh.
did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”
This is especially funny because they aren’t even right. Foxes *ARE* dogs.
Okay so I just read all of the tlt books currently out and the short stories and there is one thing I'm confused about. I can't for the life of me figure out whether Cam and Pal are supposed to have a romantic relationship or just a really hardcore adept-cav enmeshment thing going. Like in Gideon, when they go to their room it's noted that Cam's cot is piled with weapons and stuff, making it clear where she sleeps, which I initially read as implying that she was sleeping in the bed with Palamedes and using the cot as like a table, but now I'm not so sure. I get the vibe that it's something that's supposed to be up to reader interpretation, but it's still driving me crazy. Do you have any thoughts about this or know anything?
it’s not technically ‘confirmed’ whether their relationship is romantic or platonic (tamsyn has stated out of work that they are second cousins so take from that what you will)- i can’t help but feel like if they were on tumblr and knew what a QPR was they would probably go by that LOL. i think whatever they have definitely transcends what people would traditionally expect from friendship and they absolutely love each other in a very deep intense way and are sort of 'soulmates’ regardless of whether it’s explicitly romantic
So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.
But specifically… I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one’s own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!
This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between “things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)” (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and “things on the web” (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).
Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I’m interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!
If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!
Specific programs can access the internet; that’s fine. But my OS’s functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.
i haven’t used this myself but i’ll be looking into it
Literally spent multiple hours lobotomizing my Windows reinstall when I upgraded recently, the amount of awful shit they had in nowadays makes me long for the age of win98, when software was merely bad, rather than actively harmful.
the exact setting in shutup10 for this issue is “Disable extension of Windows 10 search with Bing” it’s at the very bottom under misc.
There are 2 programs that will turn Windows 10 from an advertising riddled, bloated mess into a useful tool.
With one click, this will remove ALL THE BLOATWARE Windows comes with. Seriously, you need NONE OF THESE apps, and if you do, you can just uninstall all the ones you don’t need individually.
This program will give you almost complete control over Windows 10’s behavior. Disabling the web search in the start menu, op rightfully complained about, is just one of the many things this thing can do
For example, with a single setting you can turn off any ads from microsoft, system-wide
It is a powerful tool, but it can be a bit overwhelming. Luckily every single setting comes with an explanation about what it actually does, and most settings can be easily reversed.
I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.
Racisttown, named after the abolitionist Stopbeing Racist,
i’ve been curious about this for a while. note that here “negative feelings” doesn’t necessarily mean you oppose other people identifying as queer. & idk if this needs to be said but don’t answer this poll if you don’t identify as a part of the lgbt+/queer community
