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I have changed my blog name!
BeatlesandBards is now
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Made-in-Manetheren
I've wanted to ditch my old one for a while, since I haven't been a Potterhead in many years. But since that was my original Tumblr, coming up with a new one has been surprisingly challenging. Until this came out of my mouth tonight while chatting with my husband π₯° The wheel weaves as the wheel wills.
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Ooh I have questions about the Twisted Spire now! You mentioned it knowing usurpers and pretenders, does it know when someone's been disinherited? How long would it take to react to that kind of ruling? (Can it decide for itself if someone isn't worthy of the throne/their magic?)
I'm loving digging into this thread of lore thoughts!! So, warning: this'll definitely get long π¬π Thank you so much for asking! π₯°
By Kiramean tradition, a sovereign waits to declare the crown heir until all their eligible heirs have reached the age of majority (patience is a perk of living 2 centuries). The eldest is the heir presumptive only in the sense that they inherit if the ruling monarch dies before naming a crown heir. This works out to the immediate family of the current monarch all retaining their magic within the palace enchantments for most of their lives, as well as a monarch's parents and siblings who live in the palace. Those who move out of the royal apartments and no longer call the palace home, however, seem to waive their membership; royals outside the line of succession merely visiting no longer have the privilege of their magic.
In the less common instances where an heir is named outside a king or queen's nuclear family, the heir gains access to their magic in the palace upon being named. In one notable case, a king named his niece his heir on his deathbed, and his scribe brought this news to the court, gathered for the king's imminent passing. It was received controversially, at first believed to be a concocted scheme--until she proved her inheritance by conjuring and flinging roughly a pint of mud into the face of the man accusing her. Can't argue with the palace itself, right?
On your other question--no, there isn't an instant of delay in the palace recognizing the succession. There have been multiple moments throughout history, I would imagine, in which the children of heirs are the first to learn their grandparent on the throne passed away, because they suddenly felt they could draw upon their magic in the palace, and siblings of the monarch learning by way of losing their magic in the palace that their sibling's child (and immediately heir-apparent, redefining the immediate royal family) has just been born.
Because of all this, the Kiramean royal family has a very strong hold on the throne, because the palace enchantments are seen, depending on your theological persuasion, either the endorsement of the Essence itself (the deified force of magic) or of the founders of the Kiramean Empire, the Volandi.
In The Volandi Saga, my novel series in progress, these historical scales will be put to the test in a new way. We'll see that in fact it is possible for the reigning monarch and the palace enchantments (laid by the founding sovereigns of Kirame) to be at odds concerning the issue of succession. This will come to bear in a big way later in the series, so I won't say much more just yet, but the judgment of the palace quietly observing in the background is a force at play in Kirame that quite definitely should not be ignored.
Bonus musing:
Now, you might be thinking, surely this pool of eligible heirs, combined with access to magic in the seat of the sovereign's power, must create a fertile environment for assassination plots? And you might be right, if not for another vestige of ancient Kirame: the AshantΓk, a challenge for the right to rule by combat to the death between an heir and a ruler. Both are allowed a sword and their magic, and the vanishingly rare few times it has been invoked, the palace enchantments have instantly honored the outcome.
Writers are always talking about how story ideas come to you in the shower. Nobody tells you it'll also happen when you're sucking cock
Human beings b like. *sits and stares peacefully at a fire* *sits and stares peacefully at the ocean* *sits and stares peacefully at a sleeping animal*
a small rhythmic motion: is happening
us for 6 million years and counting: talented brilliant showstopping incredible
My ADHD-having ass: *has wandered off down the beach and is watching a moose fight an orca*
if you are a queer earring maker at a queer friendly event you should have clipons and ADVERTISE THEM you will make SO MUCH FUCKING MONEY there are SO MANY CUTE TRANS GIRLS who want to try your earrings but don't have pierced ears!!!!!! I repeat YOU WILL MAKE SO MUCH MONEY IF YOU DO THIS
genuinely I have sold a couple runs of earrings now and I can provide solid evidence that advertising that clipons even exist as an option literally tripled my sales
Same to ear cuffs! My Etsy shop's first successful video was an intro of how an ear cuff is worn, and I've had so many people tell me it's a relief to even know there are non-ear-piercing accessories to consider β€οΈ
I'm still not used to this "advertising my products" thing here π€¦π½ββοΈ my ear cuffs are all on sale right now, including a fully customizable line of Pride cuffs! Check out my shop link above before the 30% off sale ends this weekend!
One more day to get 30% off all ear cuffs at Wires and Wobbles on Etsy! Sale ends tomorrow night.
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Do you need affordable sewing supplies? Do you want to help cut down on waste and fast fashion?
Do yourself a favor and check out Swanson's Fabrics! The physical location is in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, USA, but the online shop will ship to you!
I can't remember who first told me about Swanson's, but they're a textile thrift shop that collects and repurposes donations of unused sewing supplies. Their physical location, The Stash House, offers community sewing resources and a studio. For non-locals (such as myself), their online shop offers fabrics, patterns, and notions. The shop restocks on Thursdays, and they have a constantly-rotating collection of items. If you like thrifting secondhand craft materials, Swanson's is for you!
Via their official "about" page:
Swansonβs Fabrics and notions are gifts from retired sewing stashes. They are the fabrics and supplies that sewers and fiber-artists naturally accumulate. I had a suspicion that the reason we all collect so much is that we didnβt have a place βgood enoughβ to take it. So I made the place. Turns out I was right, and thanks to my community (and yours) of makers and crafters, I can resell these fine materials at a low, approachable cost. ALL FABRICS ARE $5.00/yd, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE MADE OF. REALLY. I MEAN IT. I KNOW. UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE! As we come to grips with the climate crisis, interrupted supply lines, and our dependency on slave-labor in far away countries to produce our cotton and fiber goods, we need another way to approach the fabrics in our lives. We have a massive resource of textile goods in our country and it is time to tap into it. Our attics, basements, thrift-store donation bins, and dumpsters are brimming with discarded fabrics. It is time to start making and trading for the things we need, and stop buying so much new stuff we donβt. We need to see ourselves as trash-rich. Customers at Swansonβs can pay for goods and services with goods and services. I accept trade of sewing and fiber supplies/materials, and trade for help in the shop. I hope to inspire you to make your own clothes, to mend the ones you have, to shop second-hand and alter things to your taste. There is a lot of power in dressing yourself. Custom is king, and you canβt have a revolution in your masterβs clothesβ¦. β€οΈπͺπ» -Kathryn
The CovidSafeCosplay blog and its admin are unaffiliated with Swanson's Fabrics, and are simply sharing the resource.
Do you have a favorite place to get your crafting supplies? Share in the comments or via a reblog! Bonus points for those that prioritize sustainability, accessibility, community, and trade.
Lots of cities / areas have stores who also sell repurposed or donated fabrics! Hereβs one directory of creative reuse stores. (Though βcreative reuseβ is usually the key search term)
I get most of mine at Scrap in Ann Arbor (they also sell some items online) and New City Sewing Center in St. Louis.
Drug arrives years after pandemicβs peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.
An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in theΒ New England Journal of Medicine1. The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.
There are good things happening in the world.
You can read about it here without a paywall.
Households exposed to COVID-19 now have an oral drug specifically cleared to prevent infection after contact with a sick person. The FDA listed Xocova, the brand name for ensitrelvir, as a 2026 novel drug approval for post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 following contact with an infected individual. The decision fills a gap that has persisted since the pandemicβs early years: until now, no oral antiviral carried an FDA-approved indication for prevention rather than treatment.
Exclusive: Analysis offers βsmoking gun evidenceβ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male
"The Upton Lovell Shaman, a bronze age individual who has been depicted in museum exhibits as a bearded spiritual leader and metalworker, was female, an ancient DNA analysis has revealed.
The 4,000-year-old skeleton, along with the extensive collection of stone axes, metalworking tools and the remains of an elaborate ceremonial cloak found in the grave, is viewed as among the most significant bronze age burials in Britain.
The artefacts date to about 1,800BC, a time when the ability of metalworkers to transform lumps of rock into molten metal would have given them a special β possibly even spiritual β position in society. Such roles, many had assumed, would have been reserved for men, but this narrative has been turned on its head by the latest analysis."
Woo! I love these kinds of discoveries!
Anyway I think Gale's romance is much healthier for Astarion psychologically than his own romance. Like Gale starts off immediately demanding his honesty then is honest in return and so right away the exchange is based on integrity and trust, not lies and manipulation, and then they have to travel together for a long time and sort of awkwardly flirt but it can't go anywhere yet because Gale has a bomb in his chest, which is confusing. So before they can even consider anything close to sex they have to just spend a lot of time together as friends, valuing one another as comrades and enduring near death experiences or even one another dying for real and what that feels like. And Astarion can be both intelligent and brave, also silly and brash, and he can help little kids and innocents because it impresses Gale and also the others and in this grow into his role as a hero. Meanwhile Gale appreciates him and it has nothing to do with his sexual prowess or sexual gratification at all. It can't. He just like, admires him. For being him. So Astarion can't even fall back on all that to serve his own self-loathing or to fuel his trust issues like he can with Durge or Tav. He has no recourse. He has to just be heroic and maybe he learns to inhabit the role a little bit, with pride. It's really good for him. I love this for Astarion
Not to mention they bother understand how it feels have a hunger that can't be satisfied. And that Gale doesn't care he's a vampire.
Astarion gets accepted despite being a vampire and that must fuck with his head at first.
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βRich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldnβt be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.β
β Everyone Into The Grinder
excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy
Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.
Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.
It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine β a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health β and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] β for it to be okay for these words to be censored.
And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.
I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry
I'm doing an ear cuffs sale! All of the ear cuffs in my shop are 30% off for a limited time only. Get yours today and turn on the chic without the trouble of piercings!
Support a woman-owned & queer-owned small business and help me get my shop off the ground! Since a major illness and a totaled car, Etsy has become my primary income, so every sale counts--and gets my work higher in search results too, so I can build to more sales.
Wobble on over today and see what I've got for you!
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Get it while you can! This sale ends at the end of this weekend.
Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:
catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscopy universe -> monostrophe
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