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100 DAYS OF KINGDOM HEARTS DRAWINGS:

DAY 41

First of all: you are a guest here. There is etiquette and rules that you need to learn to be part of this. There is a pre existing culture around here and it will not change because you don't like it.

Also I just realized, all of these people are coming over to ao3 and they're not used to how wild and out there ao3 can be but... it's almost October.

Boy Hostage

me: *grabs a megaphone*

For instance, you can say you were a Personal Assistant – typing, data entry, responding to emails, taking phone calls. 

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Typing

Microsoft Excel

Basics of Customer Service

Microsoft Word

Human Resources Basics

Business Writing

Basic Business Internet

Acting like a Manager

Project Management

Quality Assurance

Basic Hospitality

Risk Management

Effective Business Communication

Google Apps for Business

Food Safety

Actually, no! And since several people have replied asked for my script for negotiating lower rent, I’m gonna share that below, as well as the philosophy behind it. Full disclosure that I’m not a leasing office person or a realtor or god forbid, a landlord—I’m just someone who has been a renter for 10+ years across different states, and I know for a fact that I have saved myself thousands of dollars by successfully negotiating a lower monthly rent on almost every lease I’ve ever signed. (Also, I’ve only ever rented in the U.S., so this advice may not be as applicable elsewhere.)

THIS!!! Exactly this. I didn’t mention it above because I just couldn’t fit it neatly anywhere, but once while negotiating a lease renewal, I got as far as receiving their counteroffer, which was basically “price firm :(”, but then life happened, so I forgot to respond and accept. The email sat in my inbox for a week. And then, completely unprompted, they magically replied again saying, “actually, nvm, how’s $[number that is lower than our opening offer] sound?”

To them, it looked like I was staring them down cold as ice like

Teenage Boromir just wakes up one morning and finds out that Mordor has been cleansed seemingly overnight by four kids who claim they defeated Sauron with the help of the Maiar and then a talking lion made them royalty. Faramir snuck out at some point during breakfast to go verify it himself and since Denethor is distracted by being simultaneously baffled and incandescent with rage, Boromir has to go find the sorry fool and drag him back to Minas Tirith before he stumbles into Mordor gets himself killed by orcs.

The Pevensies find Boromir mortally wounded in a boat and heal him with Lucy’s cordial. After establishing that he’s from another world Boromir is like “I have no idea how I got here” and all the Pevensies respond with “I’ll drink to that, bro.”

Faramir is telling his brother about the weird prophetic dream he had when a woman in a very short dress asks them where to find the nearest lecture hall, and then claims she doesn’t know where she is and has no idea how she managed to stumble into the inner keep of the White Tower without being stopped by guards. After stumbling through a conversation where she asks if they have a king, a prime minister, or something called a tisroc, they introduce her to the steward and she claims to be some queen of a country no one has ever heard of. (“Queen in Narnia, not Queen of Narnia.”) Within the week she’s somehow won over both Boromir and Faramir, and summarily inserted herself into the local political landscape. Nobody has any idea how this happened. Faramir is already trying to get Boromir to marry her so she can run Gondor when he’s the steward.

Susan meeting an elf: “what the FUCK is that!” Susan meeting a Hobbit: “What the HELL are those!” Susan meeting a dwarf: “oh thank God, something normal.”

So, my people know that I've been yapping for so long about restructuring the Grisha evolutionary traits a little bit more in Science than Leigh's "So this magic system is Science, but I'm gonna retcon this by making Alina's abilities retractable, as if it isn't a part of her just as much as her vital organs."

But I've never gone into detail about any of it. And I need help fleshing it out so I thought that if you strap in, even just a little and let me cook, maybe we can work this out.

The Making: Not a deity or a primordial being capable of giving and taking a Grisha's power, but instead, a cataclysmic event that caused genesis. The Big Bang, for example.

Small Science: The evolutionary ability to manipulate and control Matter that is known and observed by man. Ordinary Matter. Baryonic Matter. The Matter that Grisha in Pre-Industrial Ravka have studied and understood. Standard Physics.

Merzost: Creation from nothing. The evolutionary ability to manipulate and control Matter that has not yet been observed and understood by man. Non-Baryonic Matter. Dark Matter. Advanced/Theoretical Physics.

The Makings of the Universe: Dark Energy (68%), Dark Matter (27%), and Ordinary Matter (5%).

So this means that:

Heartrenders: Bio-electric and muscular manipulation. They use electromagnetic pulses. That sinoatrial node type shit.

Healers: Directed cellular regeneration. Accelerated mitosis.

Inferni: Adjustment of localized kinetic energy to create friction and ignite ambient atmospheric gases.

Squallers: High pressure, low pressure wind currents.

Tidemakers: Fluid dynamics and hydrodynamic polarization.

Durasts & Alkemi: Material science and molecular bonding.

MY FAVORITE AND WHAT I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THE MOST because he has to have the makings of a god, sue me

Shadow Summoning:

Surface level/Base level: Shadows

Advanced Physics:

- manipulate gravitational wells

- induce localized spatial distortion or

- create localized vacuums where space itself expands or contracts rapidly

- black holes, worm holes, rifts

- pulling gravitational forces to forge planetary structures

Sun Summoning is cool too:

Surface level/base: Sun summoning/light

Advanced Physics:

- Electromagnetic Radiation

- Nuclear Fusion

- Photonic Force Field Manipulation

aka she can torch everyone and everything

in relation to me wanting to play around with the idea that ilya isn't a madman but a scientist from the future who got thrown into the past, so his journals are full of terminologies that are basically psychobabble to the illiterate...

I'm trying to figure out how an advanced Ravkan society with Grisha would be able to pull off time traveling. I have this concept in my head that Ilya's world was going through a big rip, which, trying to survive it, he is thrown through a wormhole, and the dark matter in it affected his system so when he reaches another point in time and is stuck there and procreates, the traces or dark matter is the reasoning for his wife popping out the world's first shadow summoner.

HowEVER, by that logic...Durasts and Alkemi should be able to accomplish something very similar, since they're also working on a molecular level to change one thing into another. Tissue regeneration is one thing, but rapidly splitting an atom? That's something within the realm of possibility for a Durast.

When it comes to climates in fantasy settings, it's good to bear in mind that "normal" and "freaky" are a matter of where one grew up. There are things that only live in one climate, and not in another. It might feel tempting to make the people from the Scary Fucky Nightmare Climate not flinch at anything at all, but it's far more fun and realistic to make them frightened or at least unsettled by things they've never seen before. Doesn't matter if it's harmless to humans, What The Fuck Is That Thing And Why Is It Indoors.