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Acoustic Rob

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He’s just this guy, you know?
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I think everybody who follows me knows all this already but what the hell, here's my Final Fantasy XIV character.

— B A S I C S

Name: Eynrael Wistweinwyn

Nicknames: Eyn

Age: mid to late 20s, probably?

Nameday: 19th Sun of the 3rd Astral Moon

Race: Roegadyn (Sea Wolf)

Gender: Female

Orientation: Lesbian, happily married

Profession: Warrior. Although she's good with a gun--MCH is her preferred job when they don't need her axe--and also plays around with red magic.

— P H Y S I C A L A S P E C T S

Hair: Brown, with red highlights. The highlights aren't natural; she paid Jandelaine for them some time in the past.

Eyes: Also brown

Skin: Light green

Tattoos/scars: She has a scar on her cheek that she could easily erase with healing magic but she keeps it around for Reasons. Tattoos include an elaborate tattoo of a phoenix on one arm and shoulder, the Warrior jobstone on the inside forearm of her axe hand, and some basic bitch tattoos like the sea turtle on her ankle. Look, not everything has deep meaning, OK?

— F A M I L Y

Parents, Siblings, Grandparents: She cut her birth family out of her life years ago. They may be still alive, but they're dead to her.

In-laws and Other: Let's start with Other: her wife, Gabrielle, also an adventurer. They're hopelessly in love with each other.

She's on good terms with Gabrielle's family, although it took a while for her sister Artemis to warm up to her. She was responsible for reuniting Gabrielle with her father Constantine; she's justifiably smug about that.

Pets: A pet slime named Reggie.

— S K I L L S

Abilities: Aside from being an all-around godslaying badass Eyn is a good sailor, has a good head for numbers, and is surprisingly well-read for a big green slab of muscle.

Hobbies: Sailing, reading, folk dancing. She sings and plays the fiddle. And she likes mixing up perfumes and scented massage oils for her friends.

— T R A I T S

Most Positive Traits: Kind, generous, confident, persistent.

Most Negative Traits: Stubborn, sometimes overconfident. Doesn't like to rely on others, which means she doesn't always let her loved ones know when she needs their support. Or, sometimes, that they're loved.

— L I K E S

Colors: Mostly earth tones, deep browns and blues and reds

Smells: Leather, unsmoked tobacco, gun oil, her wife's cooking

Textures: Really smoothly finished wood

Drinks: Strong fruity bar drinks with umbrellas in them.

— O T H E R D E T A I L S

Smokes: No

Drinks: Too much, especially before she hooked up with Gabrielle.

Drugs: Does caffeine count? She lives on cheap takeout and black coffee.

Mount Issuance: Besides her chocobo Fezzik she has a white griffon named Bela.

Been Arrested: Not exactly. She was a pirate before becoming an adventurer but repented and threw herself on Merlwyb's mercy. And ever since then she's striven to be worthy of that mercy and to extend it to anyone who asks for it.

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“And then [Vimes] realized why he was thinking like this. It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.”

— Terry Pratchett, Jingo (via captainofalltheships)

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This poll is for people who live in North America, and consider it their permanent resident (ie, not people here for a couple years on a work or student visa). This is regardless of if you're documented.

For the ancestor of yours who immigrated (or was taken) to North America most recently, what is their relationship to you?

If multiple ancestors arrived together, pick the one who's the shortest distance from you (relationally, not geographically). For example, my mom arrived with my grandparents, so I would select "parent."

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“He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart.” ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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acoustic-rob

Oh man this is a good quote. GNU Sir Terry.

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myjetpack

ROBOT APOCALYPSE 2030

my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

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I love the dynamic in the Discworld fandom on this site, I think it's mainly because there are a lot of dormant fans, if you will, who've read and loved the books for years but haven't engaged much recently, who sort of reappear whenever a fun post is doing the rounds. It's fantastic. We get the cozy small fandom vibe without the screaming matches, but also get the popular posts from time to time, y'know?

YEP. In fact for some people it’s Emotions Day right now.

To everyone tagging and commenting with some variation of “Oh, I almost forgot that it’s tomorrow!”

“Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days...”

That’s so very meta of you.

IT'S EMOTIONS DAY TOMORROW

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gvaine

wound tending is everything. unparalleled intimacy. let me care for you. let me touch the skin around your open flesh. let me stain my hands with your blood. let me get close and breathe in the same air as you and stare into your eyes for a few seconds too long. let me make you think of me every time you see the bandage, or scar

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acoustic-rob

“Look, do you want an infection? Because if I don’t get all this shrapnel out of your shoulder you’re going to GET an infection.”

"It'll be fine, just pour some alcohol over it and slap on a bandaaaaa! That hurts!"

"That's because you KEEP MOVING. Fury help me if I have to tie you down to make you stop squirming I will, and I won’t spank you afterwards.”

"It's fiiine. It was hot when it went in, that means it's cauterised! Also, mean."

"If you don't like it then next time dodge the tankbuster instead of eating it. Now HOLD STILL."

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