On Blue Dots

oh! the space needle is a cute mascot base for seattle’s MLB team! i wonder how they managed to communicate that in a big foam costume?

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Trying to parse whether this reblog is making:

An extremely inaccurate assumption about how widespread witch trials were in the early modern period

An extremely specific point about the prevalence of different execution methods (most accused witches in Britain were hanged, not burnt)

The father of Warhammer 40k art direction and the man that has inspired me as an artist, down to inspiring my current artstyle (and I am sure will continue to inspire me, even in death). 40k just wouldn't be 40k had it not been for the foundation of grimdark sci-fi that he laid.

Farewell, you absolute legend.

You Have Killed My Son

Ordinary magistrates

Consul

Proconsul

Conprosul

Censor (judges senators)

Scentser (judges perfume)

Urban Praetor

Foreign Praetor

Secret Praetor

Plebeian Tribune

Patrician Tribune

Chicago Tribune

Antitribune (reverses vetoes by shouting "OTEV")

Curule Aedile

Plebeian Aedile

Never Smile At A Croc Aedile

Quaestor

Jstor

Dux

Quax (created by dux; investigates fowl play)

That one guy who reminds you of people's names at parties

Extraordinary magistrates

Triumvir

Decemvir

Novemvir

Septemvir

Tetrarch

Petrarch (we're not sure how he got here)

Aardvarch

Dictator

Kilodictator (has the powers of 1,000 dictators combined)

Millidictator (has the power to choose your pizza toppings)

Master of Horse

Master of Morse …. . .-.. .--. -- -.-- - .. -- . -- .- -.-. …. .. -. . -… .-. --- -.- .

I Volunteer As Tribune

Interrex

Outerrex

Circumflex

Xrayspex

Religious Offices

Pontifex Maximus (Rome's top priest)

Pontifex Minimus (Rome's worst priest)

Augur

Sacred Chicken

Profane Chicken

Flamens Dialis (must be married)

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.