Are there any silken windhounds in Australia? I live in Melbourne and would like to own one, but have yet to meet any. :( When I search for rarer dog breeds, I am always directed to find a breeder in Hawaii to work with. Is that possible with silkens?
Unfortunately there aren’t any silkens in Australia, and it would take a lot of money from a passionate person to get silkens there. If I recall correctly, the last time someone looked into it, it would cost $10000 (purchase price, travel expenses, import fees, etc.) to get one silken over there.
At one time there were a couple of silkens in New Zealand, and the process of getting dogs to Australia from New Zealand is a lot less of a headache. I believe they moved somewhere else though.
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Sexuality Headcanon: Sazed is panromantic, asexual!
Gender Headcanon: Sazed is genderqueer. I think it’s obvious from some of the text (and the end of the series as a whole) that he struggles with his gender identity. I wish he didn’t... considering his mutilation is not an invalidation of a masculine identity, but I will say it was one of my favorite parts of Mistborn that he spoke openly about being unclear on his gender identity.
A ship I have with said character: Don’t look at me, I ship him with Kelsier. Just two guys mourning their friend/spouse... and supporting one another. //coughs
A BROTP I have with said character: Tindwyl! I really appreciated their relationship! The two of them had excellent chemistry and their whole little awkward romance was super cute. I definitely think their friendship is important and would have loved to see more of it!
A NOTP I have with said character: Sazed can kiss anyone he wants to and I don’t think I’d be mad about it.
A random headcanon: I feel like Sazed has ADD and the symptoms of ‘clutter blindness’ that comes with it. It’s been over three years since I read Mistborn and I think I remember the text saying his study was always a mess. Also, he’s got a Special Interest and just gives me the *vibes* you know?
General Opinion over said character: Sazed is hands down my favorite character in Mistborn. I loved him from the moment he was introduced. He’s so my type that the second I read his description my lifemate goes “that’s your favorite character”... and they were right.
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“Cringe culture is dead” I promise you it is not. Please keep killing it. This is an ongoing fight. You’re all doing great though. I love you and please keep being weird. Please keep having fun.
The kopis is an ancient Greek sword almost identical in shape to the contemporary Iberian falcata. Its blade has a broad belly and a forward curve, and I’ve covered enough blades with this general forward-bending profile that anyone who’s been following should know what it’s used for; this was a chopping weapon. The shape allowed it to strike with the force of an axe, but it retained the longer cutting edge and point of a sword. In the film 300, it is depicted as the primary sword of the Spartan army, but this is likely inaccurate; most soldier would likely have carried a xiphos (a shorter thrusting sword) instead.
Not gatekeeping, not this time at least, but I'm genuinely curious how you can say you're a fan of a game by just watching playthroughs of it.
I understand that gaming can be an expensive hobby to get into for people and I don't mean to judge, obviously, I'm not loaded myself, but with gaming being such an interactive type of hobby I feel like a lot of the magic is lost if you just watch instead of playing it yourself, and while I can see the appeal, I watch playthroughs of games myself, obviously, I cannot understand how you can actually become a fan of a game or game series without having played it at all. Like, for me when I just happen to watch playthroughs of a game I can't or won't play it's usually because I don't care about it enough to actually get it and play it for myself, or I'm just curious or bored. But then I won't join the fandom after watching a playthrough.
Again, not judging, just genuinely curious. I would like to better understand your p.o.v. if you're a fan of a game or games but haven't actually played them.
I would like to offer you the Critical Role and Dimension 20 fandoms for your consideration. They are games, that people watch. At their core.
You cannot say "well its made for an audience" so are Markiplier's game videos? And the commentary that game streamers or tubers provide spark fandom discussion.
I have never once played FNAF bc I can't bear the failure or the jumpscares for myslf. But if I know I can pause at any time, and KNOW it will progress, whilst having my buddy playing the game for me. Then how is it any different to playing.
How is it any different to your younger sibling watching you play pokemon over your shoulder and falling in love with charizard or dunsparce? An buying their plush or drawing it constantly?
There are so many ways to engage with something that doesn't just involve "playing the game"
I am not familiar with the first two games you mentioned so I'll take your word for it 😅
I am familiar with Markiplier unfortunately but I cannot stand his videos anymore, however when I do watch YouTubers play games, or back when I watched Markiplier himself for that matter, I consider it more like engaging with the YouTuber's or the streamer's content, their commentary, first and foremost and the games they play as a secondary thing. I'm currently watching Maximilian Dood play Spider-Man 2 for example but I'm not a fan of Spider-Man or his games outside of watching Max play them. I think the one time I got really invested in a game through watching playthroughs of it was with River City Girls through Matt McMuscles videos of the series but I actually got the games and played them for myself after the fact.
I'm not saying you can't engage in content creation and gaming that way, it's just not what I'd personally think to do you know?
Pokémon is also a series I cannot directly engage with because it's on Nintendo consoles but in my case, when my younger brother used to watch me play Sonic or the Sims or even Tomb Raider and Tekken, he eventually got around to playing those games for himself, he still plays Sonic a lot actually, so I guess it's a matter of different experiences entirely.
TikTok as a whole is a bizarre way to pass time altogether to me 🤣 I do see what you mean, but I think it doesn't work as an example in this case at all because gaming at its core is an interactive experience first and foremost so that's why it's interesting to me how people can feel so invested in something when they're "missing out" on a lot of what this type of media has to offer you know?
Again, I'm not here to dictate how people should and shouldn't engage with things, I can't do that, and I understand that it's sometimes expensive to buy games and consoles or a good PC so I'm not here to shame anyone for it, I was just genuinely curious to hear some of y'alls takes on this.
Based on your reply to my thing I don't think you actually care about how people engage with fandoms at all 😂 you just want to be contrary.
Everything you said was "I don't personally like that, or dont feel that way, or dont see it that way, or know what your talking about" in regards to all the ways I know people to engage with fandom.
I wasn't telling you if you engaged with any of those fandoms that way that's how it would happen. I was telling you how it happens for others, which was what you were asking, but apparently not what you meant
Especially your tiktok comment, "I find passing time that way weird?" Who cares if you do? 🫠🫠
Not gatekeeping, not this time at least, but I'm genuinely curious how you can say you're a fan of a game by just watching playthroughs of it.
I understand that gaming can be an expensive hobby to get into for people and I don't mean to judge, obviously, I'm not loaded myself, but with gaming being such an interactive type of hobby I feel like a lot of the magic is lost if you just watch instead of playing it yourself, and while I can see the appeal, I watch playthroughs of games myself, obviously, I cannot understand how you can actually become a fan of a game or game series without having played it at all. Like, for me when I just happen to watch playthroughs of a game I can't or won't play it's usually because I don't care about it enough to actually get it and play it for myself, or I'm just curious or bored. But then I won't join the fandom after watching a playthrough.
Again, not judging, just genuinely curious. I would like to better understand your p.o.v. if you're a fan of a game or games but haven't actually played them.
I would like to offer you the Critical Role and Dimension 20 fandoms for your consideration. They are games, that people watch. At their core.
You cannot say "well its made for an audience" so are Markiplier's game videos? And the commentary that game streamers or tubers provide spark fandom discussion.
I have never once played FNAF bc I can't bear the failure or the jumpscares for myslf. But if I know I can pause at any time, and KNOW it will progress, whilst having my buddy playing the game for me. Then how is it any different to playing.
How is it any different to your younger sibling watching you play pokemon over your shoulder and falling in love with charizard or dunsparce? An buying their plush or drawing it constantly?
There are so many ways to engage with something that doesn't just involve "playing the game"
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once in high school i was walking down the hall at a brisk pace wearing dress pants and boxers and my (home made!! with nylon stockings + condoms + gak) packer just fell out of my leg and rolled down the hall a little ways and thankfully the only other person in that hall at that time was mr. hayes, the weird stoner english/philosophy teacher who rode his bike around the halls sometimes, and he literally just looked at me and said “i HATE when it does that” and walked away
i genuinely have not experienced most of the "defining" moments yall talk about.
i never came out to my parents because my parents never assumed i was cishet.
i never did an "am i gay?" quiz because i knew the answer didn't matter, really.
i never "found out" about trans people, my parent has identified as gender neutral my entire life.
i never cried or even felt any big emotions when i found out i was queer. it was just like huh. cool.
my point here is not that i'm sad about having grown up in a queer-friendly enviroment. my point is that the fact that i don't relate to queer experiences as a queer person might imply that we still define queerness based on suffering.
i'm not saying that queer people who have suffered should stop talking about it. all i'm really saying is that if you want to define queerness based on joy instead of misery, you have to accept that queerness is not a big deal to everybody. you have to accept that not every queer person is going to relate to "queer experiences".
At the end of the day, that ^, feels like what a lot of us have been fighting for. A world were it is no big deal. And I'm so happy someone has already gotten to experience that.
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Here is a potentially silly question: how do you feel about birthstones? Do you think they fit the months (by season or astrological sign)? Do you have other stones you'd rather see as birthstones?
Okay, so, birthstones make absolutely no sense.
I mean, look at this mess. We’re doing beryl and corundum twice! I get that they get Special Different Names for their Special Different Colors, but it's just lazy. And why are we giving some months cheap, common gemstones like garnet and amethyst while the poor June birthdays have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for FREAKING ALEXANDRITE? That’s incredibly unfair! We should be picking birthstones that are all roughly the same price. And why do some months get multiple gemstones? I’ll tell you why: because nobody can agree on an official list and every attempt to standardize this thing has just added MORE birthstones to every month.
So obviously the answer is to standardize it again, by throwing out everything and starting over. Here are our goals:
Fair pricing. You should be paying roughly the same amount regardless of what month you were born in. We’re getting rid of those ridiculous outliers like diamond and alexandrite.
More customization potential! Nobody should be stuck with a stone they hate. We’re picking gemstones that come in multiple colors or varieties, so that everyone can choose a variant they like.
Wearability. Some birthstones are too fragile to be worn as jewelry. We need to replace them with stronger stuff.
No more duplicate gemstones. Every month gets a stone or family of stones with a unique chemical composition.
Now without further ado, I present to you:
The New And Improved List Of Birthstones With No Problems Or Flaws That Everyone Will Definitely Agree On And We Can Start Using Right Now Immediately
JANUARY: GARNET
I've got no problem with garnet. It's a fine, classic birthstone, so January can keep it. But I would like to see a little more garnet diversity. January birthdays shouldn’t be confined to just red. The garnet family of minerals contains a rainbow of different colors, like orange hessonite, green uvarovite, pink rhodolite, yellow grandite, and many more. They’re all garnet, so we should be wearing them all!
FEBRUARY: QUARTZ
The original birthstone of February was amethyst, which is… kinda boring. Super cheap and common and you only get one color? No, we can do better. February gets ALL the quartzes now. Keep wearing amethyst if you want, but also feel free to branch out into clear quartz, citrine, rose quartz, smoky quartz, rutilated quartz, tiger eye… actually, take all the agates too. If it’s quartz, it’s yours!
MARCH: SPODUMENE
March was originally aquamarine, but I’ll be giving all the beryls to May, so we need a different stone here. Let’s stick with that theme of pale pastels and go with spodumene. For an April birthday, bedeck yourself in green hiddenite, pink kunzite, or yellow triphane. Despite its subtle colors, your birthstone has some amazing fluorescence, with really cool pinks and oranges under a UV light.
APRIL: FELDSPAR
Diamond is too pricy for this list, so we’re replacing it with something less expensive and way more interesting. April will now be represented by the feldspar family. We’re talking labradorite, moonstone, amazonite, aventurine, and sunstone. While you don’t have much variety in color, your stones are full of shimmery schiller which glitters and shifts as it catches the light.
MAY: BERYL
May’s original birthstone was emerald, which is great and can stay, but we’re also adding its siblings! May is now represented by all beryls: Emerald, Aquamarine, Morganite, Bixbite, Heliodor, Goshenite, and whatever other varieties I’m forgetting to list. A bright and saturated rainbow of colors is represented here, so everyone born in May is sure to find something they like.
JUNE: ORGANIC GEMSTONES AND FOSSILS
It’s time to address the alexandrite in the room, and obviously we’re getting rid of alexandrite. A stone worth $15,000 to $70,000 a carat does not belong on the same list as friggin amethyst. Instead we’ll look at the other traditional June birthstone, pearl. The problem with pearl is that it’s a clear outlier in this list. An organic gemstone, by some definitions not even a mineral. Should we replace it? NO. We are OWNING it. All organic gemstones now belong to June. Pearl is joined here by jet, amber, coral, ivory, ammolite, petrified wood… in fact, June can have every fossil ever.
JULY: SPINEL
July was originally represented by ruby, which is a fine stone and won’t be kicked off the birthstone list - we’re just shuffling it down to September. Replacing ruby for July is spinel. (See, it’s funny because historically spinel has often been mistakenly identified as ruby! That's a little gemology humor for you.) Available in any hue you could possibly desire, spinel offers some nice color options to a month that previously only featured red. Of course if you want to keep wearing red, red spinel mimics ruby so well that you’ll barely notice the difference.
AUGUST: PERIDOT
Nope, we’re not changing this one. Peridot is the ideal gemstone and you ungrateful August whiners can die mad about it. HOW ABOUT YOU LEARN TO APPRECIATE PERFECTION
SEPTEMBER: CORUNDUM
Sapphire is a wonderful, classic stone and it deserves its spot on this list. But the corundum family has been separated for far too long, and we’re finally going to reunite them. Joining sapphire in September is its sister ruby. Between the pinks and reds of ruby and the many, many colors of sapphire, these two stones give September a nice variety of colors.
OCTOBER: TOURMALINE
Look, as gorgeous as opal is and as much as I love it, it is both way too pricy for our list and also TERRIBLE in jewelry. This stone is just too brittle to wear around from day to day and can be ruined just by getting it wet, which makes wearing your birthstone a huge hassle. We’ll kick opal out and hang on to October’s other traditional birthstone, tourmaline. Pink tourmaline may be classic, but this stone comes in plenty of other colors. Whether it’s brown dravite, watermelon elbaite, or the rare and beautiful blue indicolite, you can wear them all!
NOVEMBER: TOPAZ
November can keep topaz, but we’re not confining it to the color yellow. This stone comes in a huge variety of colors, and now they can ALL represent November. No further notes; it’s a nice, classic stone.
DECEMBER: ZIRCON
I dunno, I’ve had to come up with 12 of these, I’m burnt out. Sure, zircon, whatever.
“BUT WAIT,” you say. “Now instead of having a single color assigned to each month, almost every month is represented by almost every color, making it impossible to tell anyone’s birthstones apart and removing what made them special and recognizable as symbols!”
Well CLEARLY you didn’t read the title of this list.
