Hi, I’m Quiddity! (Otherwise known as Beth.) This is my storytelling simblr. My story may, at times, cover sensitive topics including but not limited to: consensual sex acts,alcoholanddrug usage,violence,mental illness, and other mature topics which some readers may find disturbing. This story is meant solelyfor a mature audience and is notintended for readers under the age of 18. Trigger warnings and tags will be used appropriately and within context, however reader caution is strongly advised.
All nudity andadult situationstaggedsim spice. Block this if you don’t want it on your timeline.
setting up, advertising, or alluding to queer relationships in media with no intention of actually depicting that relationship in order to capitalize off of queer viewers without scaring away general audiences.
what queerbaiting is not:
popular fandom ships not becoming canon
ambiguous or unconventional queer stories
real people experimenting with their gender or sexuality
and anything else that doesn’t fit the definition above
Another visual demonstration that historical clothing wasn’t dingy and monochrome.
All of these colours can be obtained from vegetable dyes, producing different shades depending on what mordant (colour fixative - alum, different metal filings, different vinegars) was used. See hereandhere for examples.
BRING THIS FASHION BACK.
Not clothes, but this was a palette developed by the National Museum of Denmark based on paint residue from archaeological finds for the purpose of painting a reconstructed hall.
Apparently, they can tell from the chemical composition that the colours wouldn’t be mixed with black or white to mute them, but be used in their brightest form. Bright yellow and red was achieved with expensive dyes (orpiment and cinnabar) and was thus fashionable. (Source in Danish)
Today there will be other photos everywhere. But let this city stay alive in our memory. It’s scary when destruction becomes a way of life for a nation.
Something something vimes and carrot as foils the descendant of kingslayers and the descendant of kings the man who sees clearly the truth of evil and the man who sees clearly the truth of good the man who’s being pulled up from the gutter and the man being pulled down from his near miss with glory and both of them being made better for it the man whose apathy covers deep personal care versus the man whose boundless kindness covers personal disconnection the man who lives so mired in the world at it is and the man who lives almost entirely in the world as it could be the way they could never understand each other and the way they understand each other better than anyone else
The new sergeant-at-arms picked up his badge with care and saluted yet again. ‘Oath, sir,’ he said.
‘Oh, er, that thing? Er, I believe I’ve got it written down somewh—’
Vimes took a deep breath. This probably wasn’t a good idea, but he was flying now.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, pp. 115-116.
It is very important to note the total lack of swearing to obey the monarch (or any other ruler).
The Watch swears to uphold the law, serve the public trust, and defend the subjects of the kingdom, without fear, favour (bias) or thought of personal safety, to protect the innocent and pursue evildoers, to the point of dying in the course of duty.
It is, as Vimes observes privately later, a very sneaky and terrifyingly free to interpret oath.
JOMP Book Photo Challenge || May 24 || This Did Things To Me:
“He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew…then it was too high.” ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
We get, rightfully imo, pretty sad and somber and naval-gazey about Discworld and Sir Terry on the 25th of May but I need everyone who might be discovering this series through this annual outpouring of love and sadness to know that these books are mostly just really fucking funny. Like, they’re heart-wrenching and poignant but really they can only pull that off because they’re also the funniest books ever written. There’s a line near the end of Hogfather that, when I read it, made me feel more deeply connected to, like, the concept of humanity then I ever have before, but the book was only able to deliver that because the rest of it is about what if Santa Claus got kidnapped and a Big Skeleton had to take over his job? It’s a patently ridiculous series but that is absolutely also where it’s power comes from.
“ ‘You haven’t killed your wife,’ he said. 'Anywhere. There is nowhere, however huge the multiverse is, where Sam Vimes as he is now has murdered Lady Sybil. But the theory is quite clear. It says that if anything could happen without breaking any physical laws, it must happen. But it hasn’t. And yet the "many universes” theory works. Without it, no one would ever be able to make a decision at all.’
'So?’
'So what people do matters!’ said Sweeper. 'People invent other laws. What they do is important… It means that the multiverse isn’t infinite and people’s choices are far more vital than they think. They can, by what they do, change the universe.’ “
