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I'm in absolute agony over Caleb right now but Beau telling him they need him to do this is probably the best thing she could have said, he cares about them now enough that their need might keep him from spiraling. She's smart and she's a good friend, giving him what he needs to get through this.
So… Nott just has absolutely irrepressible wingman instincts then? Because I’m noticing a trend now. Caleb and Astrid, Jester and Fjord, Beau and Jester… Any time one of her friends mentions romantic feelings for someone, she just immediately jumps on board. It’ll be interesting to see if she in the future tries to match-make Jester with both Beau and Fjord, or if she’ll totally jump ship and just wingman for Beau from now on.
Wild how Marian’s ex-lover and daughter are both criminals in Nicodranas huh
And they both got kicked out of Darktow
Like father like daughter
She would never punch him in the face.
characters who are staunch atheists in TES are so much funnier because the daedra and aedra are both extremely present and demonstratably real
character: yeah i just dont believe in any higher powers
sheogorath, sneaking up behind them with a bat: :)
omfg that small “oh no” Halas makes when Beau tells him what year it currently is
Legolas has no idea how old he is. None.
He has a general, ball park idea of his age, he can (usually) guess it within 20- 30 or so years. But that’s all.
He lost count somehwere in his first thousandth years of life and never bothered to figure it out again.
However, if you ask him his age he will tell you WILDLY different answers that seem to be randomly selected out of thin air.
Pippin: Legolas, how old are you?
Legolas: I am 8987 years.
Aragorn: Okay no, Ada isn’t even 8000 years old yet. Try again.
Legolas: I am 72 years old.
Aragorn: And you certainly arnt younger than me.
Legolas: I am 678 years old.
Aragorn: I also feel like that is incorrect.
Legolas: I am 3000 years old.
Aragorn: Much more plausible, but still, I think, incorrect.
Legolas: I am exactly 8 years old.
Aragorn: why are you the way that you are
Legolas: :)
Elves actually count time in a period called a yén iirc, equivalent to 144 of our years.
So it’s not that Legolas doesn’t know how old he is. He just wants to put things in measurements his friends can understand, but he’s very bad at math.
Today is 11/11 which marks 101 years of Poland regaining independence and I thought it is a perfect time to publish a post that I’ve been working on for a while.
This is a sort of compilation of my own thoughts I had while playing the games and various talks with my Polish friends. It is not supposed to force any ideas or teach others how to interpret the game. I just thought it could be entertaining for anyone interested in history and culture. I was trying not to elaborate too much on the subject here but it still ended up being A Very Long Post TM. To make this post a little neater to read, I divided this post into 4 sections:
1. History
2. Fashion and Food
3. Politics
4. Relationships with Other Countries
I will be very happy if you find a minute or two to read some of my points. If you have any additional questions or comments feel free to leave me a message :)
And once again - enormous thanks to @aeducanka for proofreading. I would be a poor mess without you.
happy birthday to all the draugrs in their barrows, and all the little mudcrabs on every bank, and the nirnroot, and brynolf in his cistern, to the vampires, and the frost troll on the 7000 steps up to high hrothgar, all the deadra, every skeleton, every hunter, the hagravens, to the courier, the night mother, the eight divines, talos, nazim, the students in winterhold, the giants, the dragons (especially parthurnax), every bunny, the frostbite spiders, the forsworn, and babette, to the fake emperor, to the real emperor, and to the gourmet!
and a very happy birthday to bethany esda
Solasmancers be like “Sir, that’s my emotionally crippling Wolf God.”
This speech-language pathologist taught her dog 29 words, and he can even form full sentences.
Video by Christina Hunger
Dogs actually do have a language center in their brains. They process language just the same way we do, just not as well.
They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).
They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.
As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.
So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.
The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.
In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.
And also that is a very good boy.
^ Would like to agree and make one amendment - very good GIRL. This is Stella the dog!
Check out the owner Christina’s Instagram: one of the first things I saw was a video where the dog started barking and, when prompted by the owner, said “outside, look look look look look look look, come outside.” Which is basically exactly how one would expect a dog to speak.
The owner described bringing an unknown package into the house, and the dog ran away to push the buttons for “help no no help help” which is also about what I expect goes on in a scared pup’s mind.
In another video, the dog tried to push a button, and the button wasn’t working. The dog paused and then pushed the buttons for “No. Help.”
In yet another (which the owner seemed impressed by), Stella said “come eat come play.” The owner asked the dog which she wanted to do, to eat or to play? And the dog clarified “come eat.” After eating, then the dog tried to instigate play. So the dog may have been able to understand a short spoken question, and how “questions and answers” work, and also understands sequences, even if she can’t express them (”I want to eat, THEN I want to play”)
Stella can even recount short-term memories, like when her family returned from the beach for dinner and she said “water good, no eat, play”
By the way, the owner uses the buttons as well, which probably really helps reinforce their meaning. She uses them to say things like “Stella all done eat” or “Stella and Christina go outside, bye!”
Wanna know my favorite part? Stella sometimes pushes the buttons for “Stella good” when she’s done a good job. Stella IS good! :D She also makes phrases using “love you,” like “Christina, love you, come play!”
*whispers* amazing
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VM Expressions! A follow up to my M9 Expressions!
Chaos crew tattoos!!
Extracting Fjord’s Aspects // ep. 84
