Mans needs to get a life

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

it's not fair that twitter's phm tag has a rocky emoji so i stole him for you all

makes me think about the very missable scene of finding Neil's pills from the first game. did she miss it irl but then happened upon it in a rerun?

"I've never told anyone, but... I've always thought they were lighthouses. Billions of lighthouses, stuck at the far end of the sky."

So, this is a bit of a comemoration of two things, that are actually related. It's been a bit over 10 years since I first saw someone playing To the moon, I don't remember when exactly, but it was around the end of 2015. And, a few weeks ago, I got my official autism diagnosis!

It's a really special game to me. The story is amazing, not to mention the soundtrack and the sequels. It was also the first piece of media that I had heard about autism, it got me curious about it, and I've really saw myself in her shoes. Not a 1 to 1, but very close. Pretty good for a first impression of autism representation, I'd say. Of course not all of it has aged the best, but it's still pretty solid.

But yeah, throughout the next 10 years, I'd look into it, and eventually, I finally got an accessment done and got my diagnosis!

you. you get it.

“Game on, then.”

The cuts, the slow ramp-ups, how it matches his dance moves.

There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber

English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize it’s spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.

All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. That’s right, they’re so evil, you can’t even eat them.

They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.

The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.

Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!

Or what about death from above? The stökkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.

Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hide…

… while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.

The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.

The same can’t be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.

The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.

How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.

For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.

https://abookofcreatures.com/category/illhveli/

Incidentally, this is why we no longer know exactly how the Name was pronounced, because it took a few hundred years for vowels to be invented in Hebrew (and they’re still not used in everyday writing), and so the vowels in the Name were never written down. We have a pretty decent guess because part of the Name can be reconstructed from other words, but that’s really all it is–a guess.