Lack of Life

Baby those dried herbs need to sit in that jar with high proof alcohol for at LEAST a month!

That’s why before the use of calendars ppl use to prepare their tinctures either on the new moon or full moon. A a full moon cycle is usually 28 days or so. And they would give the moon names so it’s easier to remember when/what month said tincture was bottled.

This is also why herbal medicine is prepare in small batches. You have to take your time preparing your bottles. Making sure everything is clean so you don’t end up with mold. Diluting your grain alcohol. Heckkk knowing when to pick your herbs for max potency! Drying your herbs! That takes a lot of time too!

Leaving aside the fact that Capt. Azune ‘Fuck the Sundered Houses and Fuck You Too’ Scheming Schemer Nayar wouldn’t do shit for them, I had to hit the mental brakes on a rewatch to realize

Azune got promoted this morning. Literally during the same audience at the Stahlkeep where he presented the evidence against House Tachonis. This same day.

Now, being reasonable, maybe the Candescent Creed clerks knew his title by just waltzing up and asking for Azune himself prior to entering the Hallowed Round (a scene we did not see) and maybe that’s how they learned about the new station. Maybe one of the Arcane Marshals brought it up (again, unseen)? Could be! Except.

Why would these jerks even namedrop him at all? Why not just say they’d tell on Hal to the guardsmen in general? Why, unless Filoneus Halovar has been putting Azune Nayar’s name in the Creed’s ears? Again, including the promotion to captain he got this same day.

Azune has had a grand total of 1.5 conversations with this man. The full conversation was some lighthearted (Light-hearted) chatter to distract from hunting Hal outside his house. The half-conversation was a few seconds’ worth of guard talk per the assassination attempt at the gala. That’s it. The sum total of their interaction, period.

And yet, Filoneus is actively chiming in to land Azune on the major Palazzo Davinos case. He’s zeroing on him like an Azune ‘GOOD MAN!’ Nayar-seeking missile at the gala. He is dishing his name around the Creed and likely the Villa Aurora as his guy in the Arcane Marshals. And now his guy is Captain as of this exact morning! A very normal thing for someone definitely not keeping close tabs on a specific guardsman to know! If you need anything at the Hallowed Round, go to him, guys!  

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Sure, it’s great foundation for future mole work on Azune’s part. But also, it took working in close proximity, multiple Oscar performances, psychological tripwires, and a mountain of tangible results of his own labor to win Harondus Einfasen over, likewise for the impressive display for Otto Einfasen and his people, to the point that he’s being eyed as a possible lost Einfasen himself. It took a lot to land that sweet spot with House Einfasen!

With Filoneus, Azune has exchanged maybe two paragraphs’ worth of words with the man, and yet the lord knight is mentally slapping a BFF of the Creed <3 bracelet on him. Even if it gets chalked up to enthusiasm over having any devout soul planted within the Arcane Marshals, this goes beyond enthusiastic and veers into truly wild levels of assumption regarding how close Azune and the Creed’s motives are. Hell, Filoneus hasn’t even gotten anything from Azune yet in the way the Einfasens have received a treasure trove of results within a week. So where is this tidal wave of ‘Good man! I like his style! He should get special attention from the Lords Advisory and also namedropped to the Candescent clergy about that! :)’ energy coming from?

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🏳️‍🌈

All the present Sundered Houses are clearly willing to exploit commoners; none of them seem to have any real love for Thjazi and all stand to lose much should a new rebellion rise. I think it is easy to forget that the Falconer's Rebellion ended little more than a decade ago, and while it ultimately failed, it did not come without profound costs for the Sundered Houses. They have been emboldened ever since, and had been slowly seizing power, with some major attempts in the past year. I think all of them are quite willing to destroy the Revolutionary Council.

At the same time, what does it look like if no one knows the truth about House Royce and House Tachonis? At best, some of the houses have uneasy suspicions that they privately harbor, but they all work together openly because those with unproven suspicions know that House Tachonis probably destroyed House Royce, but can't express them. They present a united front as they have many times before, notably in the Falconer's Rebellion, and House Tachonis grows stronger because they are not playing by the same rules as the others. It is easier to shut down Thjazi's plans.

This way means that the Sundered Houses can never truly trust their alliances again. Whether or not the others opposed House Royce, there is a difference between ending an alliance and betraying it. Now, everyone knows that House Tachonis will stab them in the back if they show weakness, and lie to the others' faces. Cormoray's exploration into the quarries of Kaylstra and Einfasen's search for the Jotunøks are now vital to those Houses' survival, which means they need to focus on that, which means they are stretched thinner in matters of the Penteveral and the Revolutionary Guard (and between Azune and Murray, there are moles very well-positioned to take advantage of that). We also already know that in addition to Wick and Tyranny being on the inside of House Halovar, Einfasen is playing a subtler game with Halovar. Suspicions already existed and now they are validated. This has forced the inter-house political games into the forefront, when I suspect at the very least the two standing rebel houses probably would have been happy to maintain the alliance as is.

It was only legalized in 8 US states (the 8th only a few months before), and wouldn’t be legalized nation-wide until 2015.

It was only legal in TEN COUNTRIES in 2011. We wouldn’t hit 20 countries until 2017. (Australia was 23rd)

As of today (April 14, 2026), I believe only 38 countries have fully legalized same-sex marriage. Out of somewhere around 200 countries in the world. That’s only ~19% of countries.

it's okay to disappoint people

it's okay to work slowly

it's okay to let yourself rest

it's okay to drop projects

Stop treating yourself like you are the workers at a fast food franchise.

(FINAL)

Part 4 of my Twilight vs Thorn Princess fancomic!

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He's correct. This is excellent.

He is casting spell of car repair on it, I think.

And now it just needs a plate!

Other options are LONNNG and LOMMMG.