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If you've ever seen how people paint, like dnd figures, it becomes very clear that bases don't tell the whole story:

This statue was recovered from Herculaneum - it had been buried under ash, perfectly preserved. Note that it is painted, but in a very delicate way. Nothing garish, and they used to natural luster of the marble as flesh tone.

The Three Books of Occult Philosophy, the most influential magical text of the Renaissance, is directly structurally styled after Euclid's Elements, and spills quite a bit of ink on the topic of the inherent magical properties of numbers.

Hell, in the Monas Hieroglyphica, John Dee explicitly attempts to create a sort of magical semiotic system to unify language and geometry, the two things he considered fundamental to God's creation.

So I work at a coffee shop, and the other day i was working the register, and this older couple comes up and the lady is insantly like, "Oh my god, I love your nails, I love your jewelry" and we talked for a little bit, and the husband just kinda like laughed? You know, he gave me that like "You're not a man, I'm better than you" laugh.

It was rude. It was very clearly meant to hurt my feelings. And I was like "really?" But, we just continued the interaction, and then eventually, y'know, as I'm taking their order, he pipes up and he's like "[tounge click] Must make it really hard for you to do things around the house with those nails and like really hard for you to do things here at work" And I was like, [shakes head] not really, no, it doesn't get in the way. And he was like "oh! Must make it hard for you to pick up women though, huh?" And I was like, "[tounge click] Well, your wife seemed to like 'em. So. Not really."

[zooms in] He was mad, but that's what you get for being a dick. Mind your own business. You fuck.

Just so you know, crochet is simple, fast, and you can make some amazing stuff out of it. “Is crochet or knitting better?” is a stupid trap, but if you can do both, you vastly expand your array of cool stuff you can make. And it’s so easy to learn.

Come on. You’ll love it. You just need a simple hook.

anyway this was the text

Here’s a guide of what I’ve determined the meanings to be

walking around - self explanatory

fellowship - hanging out with friends

deliciousness - having something tasty

transcendence - feeling that you have reached a different level of some sort; alternatively, when you do one of the other delights to the extreme and feel really good about it. (you know transcendence when it happens)

goofing - having a good laugh at smth

amelioration - working towards the betterment of something, for example, working on a skill you hope to improve

coitus - fuckin’

enthralment - becoming incredibly engaged in something, hyper focusing on something

and that when protagonists spoke dismissively about how they didn’t want to be relegated to some guy’s bedwarmer, it meant they wanted to hook up with him but were afraid of being given chores instead

The other man laughed huskily. “The good Duke said you made no use of the women he sent you. He hopes that I may be more suited to your needs…”

Then Count touched his fingers to his face. He did tend to run cool, but he’d put on a little fat since the last time he’d stayed beneath the Duke’s roof and was not so quick to chill.

“The ladies did a fine job,” he said, a little defensively. He was not the skinny boy he’d been during the first campaign. Surely he did not need a remedial bedwarmer.

“Mmm,” said the other man. “I’m sure they did. We could call them in to join us, if you like.”

The Count glanced at the heavy woolen bedclothes and at the fire crackling in the hearth. He’d wake up swimming in his own sweat if any more bodies were added to the mix. “No thank you,” he said. He scratched his chin thoughtfully. “What do you folks do during the summers, anyway?”