Deltitnu?

my secondborn (my parents)

7/10

sounds vaguely historical but in the way that I'm going to be sent off to war to prevent a succession crisis

potentially confusing to the listener bc the average conversation has little relation to birth order

my sister's, [name] (my aunt)

9/10

direct and to the point!

still very clear about what our family relationship is. I think we can do away with many nouns if this is any indication

my young adult child (my mom)

4/10

it's giving "20 year old minor"

I promise you can just say my kid. it's ok I don't mind strangers thinking I'm like 5 bc that would make me a prodigy for doing stuff like my laundry and dishes in one day and honestly I could use that kind of support

my liberated one (my grandma)

10/10 THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

completely unclear what my relationship actually is to her. her personal oracle perhaps?

surgeonsblog

article i found this from^ (w/even more resources)

redwoods medical edge

^article where i found that

this article is short/basic/doesn’t link anywhere else, but i found it very helpful anyway

supposed to be good but to me, seemed difficult to navigate. (dp lyle)

this on the otherhand, is the jackpot (novelmalpractice)

tumblr blog centered around this topic

this is more about the common pitfalls/anachronisms of medical fiction but still helpful

writing medical scenes: useful links by paul anthony shortt

the last one im going to include is an article by a doctor about common mistakes in popular medical shows, i liked this one

The blurb said the shot was taken in Granada, Spain, by Agneta Fondén.  No other info, so I have no idea how old, etc.  There's a game (from 1988) that uses a similar pattern on one of its pieces, but this could predate it by at least a thousand years  — or not.  But the pattern intrigued me, so I made a texture map and used Blender's geometry nodes (no generative AI) to set up a hexagon grid with random rotations for the tiles:

That's all done with a single design:

You'd think this would have a name, right?  (For its historical use as an architectural / decor tile — although I've found out more about its use in games, that's not what I'm looking for.)  Like the Penroses do (and no, it's not one of those).  But I've had no luck finding it, or any other info.  Any (human only, please) help?

There’s a sentence that basically says ‘Hobbits didn’t study magic because they just didn’t go in for that sort of thing’ which fucks me up royally because it gives us two pieces of information.

- Magic can be studied 

- Hobbits COULD have had magic but they didn’t want it

I don’t think Pippin could easily become a wizard, exactly, because that’s a word that began with the meaning ‘philosopher or sage’. It’s more or less the same as the term ‘The Wise’.  Sam Gamgee picks up an air of ‘Gandalf, of wizards’ about Faramir, and Faramir suggests that perhaps he sees something of Numenor.  

Anequs, Theod Knecht, Sadsong, Anequs' entire *people*--

Therefore I posit: having a missing person declared dead in the Shire requires the consent of their next of kin. Whoever Bilbo’s next of kin was at the time of the Hobbit (possibly Otho? I’m not sure) had him declared dead at the first opportunity but Frodo refused to ever do it.

Frodo had anxious hobbit bureaucrats knocking on his door every couple of years like ‘Mr Baggins… blease… it’s been 10 years… he was eleventy-one… can we fill out his death certificate yet’ and Frodo was like ‘absolutely not’.

After all, last time they declared Bilbo Baggins dead— which involved filling out all the paperwork necessary to declare somebody dead without a body— he had the rudeness to show up again, forcing them to do a lot more paperwork, and this time with an indignant Bilbo having a go at them while they did it.

As a result, the magistrates have decided that they’re not going to declare Bilbo Baggins dead a second time unless they have a body, a coroners report explaining the cause of death, and a three day wake to make sure that he doesn’t get up and walk away again.

It was agreed that to declare Bilbo legally dead without a body would require the Mayor of Hobbiton, the Master of Buckland, and the Thain, to all sign off on it. It wasn’t couched in law, but Everyone Had Decided.

Which means it reaches the point where the three Hobbits required to agree on Bilbo’s death are the same three who witnessed him sailing to the Undying Lands. Now, he’s technically not dead, no, but he’s not coming back…probably.

Sam, Merry and Pippin put their heads together and create a new status, Departed and Most Unlikely to Return (Most Unlikely for short). In keeping with what Everyone Had Decided previously, it requires the sign-off of the Mayor, Master and Thain. Sam put forward that a former holder of the offices should qualify in place of the incumbent, and while at first Merry and Pippin merely shrugged and agreed, they later remembered the idle moments Sam would stare westwards. The new legal status was accepted, and both Bilbo and Frodo were declared Most Unlikely.

Decades pass, until Rosie Gamgee, née Cotton, dies. Sam stares westward a lot more after that, and it’s not long before he brings Merry and Pippin the papers to have himself declared Most Unlikely. He’s already signed in place of the Mayor, to take effect in several months. Merry and Pippin agree to sign when the time is right. A few weeks later, Sam’s eldest daughter Eleanor visits to inform them her father has departed. They sign.

Merry and Pippin themselves had never thought of leaving, even as they age, until a letter arrives for Merry from King Eomer. He’s dying, and wishes to see Merry one last time. Merry discusses it with Pippin; he’s not sure he’s in good enough strength to travel to Rohan and back again. There’s no way Pippin would let him travel alone, and he’s thought of seeing Aragorn in Minas Tirith again. They’re both widowers, with children and grandchildren, and, well. They’ve already filled out the paperwork for Most Unlikely three times.

I don’t know who the Mayor is at this time, but I like to think it’s one of Sam’s sons, for the symmetry. The three sons watch the two fathers cross the border of the Shire, and sign their names to the papers.

Some years later they receive a letter from Minas Tirith, from King Elessar Telcontar himself, telling of their fathers’ passing, and the honour he had bestowed of placing them in the royal cemetery.

And it was discussed, should the status of Merry and Pippin be altered from Most Unlikely to deceased? Nothing much would change, but it would be neater, would it not?

But when they broke for lunch, they heard some children singing a skipping song:

These are the Hobbits Most Unlikely to Return,

Mad Baggins, Sad Baggins, Gamgee the Gardener,

Gondor’s Took and Rohan’s Brandybuck,

These are the Hobbits Most Unlikely to Return,

But don’t you say they’re dead, for you never can be sure,

If you say they are, they’ll come raging at the door!

the well-educated maned wolf:

i know -> because i’m a doctor

One time I said I wanted a glittery shield, and it broke our Shire. On this, the day of the Great Glitter Discourse, I wish all of those veterans of the Mica War, in the Shire and beyond, a Happy GLITTERGEDON.

I did, however, orchestrate the creation of one for my Knight, who was vehemently against glitter, puppies, and apple pie. Okay, maybe not the last two, but one could infer based on how much he was against shiny joy. Anyway, since it was a birthday gift from several of his Household, he HAD to accept it.