satrap (SAY-trap, SA-trap) - n., the governor of a Persian province; a subordinate ruler, esp. a despotic one.
Specifically in the Achaemenid and Parthian dynasties of Persia, as well as the intervening Hellenistic Seleucid empire -- the system of satrapies was set up by Cyrus the Great around 530 BCE and lasted till dismantled by the new Sassanid dynasty around 230 CE, though the title was intermittently used by various nearby polities even afterwards. A satrap had considerable autonomy over his satrapy, and was technically a viceroy and thus spoke with the voice of the emperor. We got the word in the 1300s in the Middle English form satrape, from Latin satrapÄs, governor, from Ancient Greek satrĂĄpÄs, from Old Persian khshathrapÄvÄ/xĆĄaçapavan, protector of the province/domain, from khshathra-, realm/province + pÄvÄ, protector.
This weekâs Ship Sunday features the canon femslashWarrior Nun pairing of Avatrice. This pairing between Ava Silva and Sister Beatrice on the - now canceled - Netflix TV show is based on the comic character Warrior Nun Areala by Ben Dunn, has two seasons running from 2020 to 2022.
It follows the 19-year-old, newly appointed but reluctant protagonist of Ava, who inherited her powers, to be the new Warrior Nun after being resurrected. With her new powers and new take on life, Ava works with Sister Beatrice to figure out how to control her abilities. Now a part of the Order of the Cruciform Sword, Ava is tasked with fighting demons on Earth alongside her allies. Ava, torn between her desire to live freely in a way that she had never been able to before her original death and the call to fight for Earth against the forces of evil, decides that she is to be the last of the Warrior Nun lineage and end the battle.
Although this is not fully resolved due to the cancelation by Netflix, the story had a campaign to save this series, successfully reviving it as a slated movie trilogy. The goal of these movies is to expand on this universe, following more closely the comics that the show was based on; although some fans object to this revival, others are excited to see more content from this universe.
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I just think it'd be a neat twist on the idea. (Possibly because, of the two dozen or so fakemon I've come up with, two have been mimic-style 'mon a la Voltorb, which is a bit disproportionate!)
This is a nice puzzle. Unfortunately, it is missing two pieces. This is one of the puzzles I got at the swap at the library. I am not saying I didn't lose them myself, but it is possible that the puzzle itself wasn't complete. But all life is fodder, so I wrote a Sherlock Holmes ficlet for spring_renewal for it. Ridley's Jigsaw Puzzles. Gin Lover's Jigsaw Puzzle. 500 pieces. It was not a well-constructed puzzle. The pieces didn't lock together as nicely/snugly as I prefer. I shan't be purchasing any from this company.
Title: Missing Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD) Character(s)/Pairing(s): Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Turner, Watson, Holmes Content Notes: domestic fluff Prompt Being Filled: Any, Any, creative uses of [choice] Length: 400 Rating: Gen Summary: Mrs. Hudson is missing two jigsaw puzzle pieces.
When I was putting together this list of Canadian songs I love from the last fifty years, some years had a clear favourite jump out at me while others had too many bangers to choose between. (Seriously, 1993 turned out to be the keystone year whose ultimate selection affected everything from 1987 to 2001.) But 1986 was the first stumper.
I don't think it's the case that 1986 was a mid year for Canadian music. It's more likely that it's just the first year I was properly conscious of music, with the releases getting replayed throughout my early childhood until they became background noise. These are third-favourite albums from artists whose later eras hit stronger for me, songs I slept through during my first concert as a toddler, and snippets from radio bumpers that earworm me to this day.
So, without a stronger personal preference, the clear choice was the Canadian song of 1986. The one that everyone loved and then became so inescapable that everyone hated it, and which is probably on schedule for a revival soon if it gets used in the right commercial or CBC show. However you feel about it, it's hard to find something more Canadian than this.
âWhy is the Chinese Internet obsessed with writing gay Sherlock Holmes fanfiction?â is what Liz Carter was wondering as they wrote the article titled âBenedict Cumberbatch Is a Gay Erotic God in Chinaâ.
The article was published in November 2013 on ForeignPolicy.com and pondered on the love the Chinese fans have for the Sherlock series and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Cumberbatch is cited as the reason a new wave of Chinese viewers have turned to British television, according to the news site Caijing, calling it âthe Sherlock effectâ.
On the Internet forum devoted to the star, called Baidu Curly Fu Bar, he is viewed in part as an erotic god. The nickname âCurly Fuâ is used to describe Cumberbatch, because of his curly hair and ‘Fu’ being a shortened transliteration of âHolmesâ.
He is often depicted in slash fiction featuring his version of Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freemanâs Watson.
Head on over to Fanlore to learn more about the article and the Chinese view on Cumberbatch.
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copra (KOP-ruh, KOH-pruh) - n., the dried white flesh of the coconut, from which coconut oil is expressed.
And not, as I somehow had the impression, the dried fibrous husk of a coconut -- no idea where I got that. We got the word in the 1580s from Portuguese, which got it from a Tamil language, most likely Malayalam koppara but possibly Tamil kopparai, which is cognate with Sanskrit kĆ«rpasa, coconut (and its modern descendants such as Hindi khopÄ), but whether it went Dravidian > Sanskrit or Sanskrit > Dravidian, I can't tell from a brief search.
And that's all the words encountered in Chalet School books I currently have on hand -- back next week with words just as random but more randomly sourced.
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. 296 pages. High Fantasy. Viv the orc barbarian retires from the adventuring lift to try something completely new: opening a coffee shop in a city that's never heard of coffee. Trigger warnings: Arson, Stalking, Violence.
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. 176 pages. Portal fantasy. Children sometimes disappear to have adventures in far off worlds. For the ones that come back, there's Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children.No Solicitations. No Visitors. No Quests. Trigger warnings:Parental abandonment, Dead bodies, Death, Dismemberment, Murder, Gore (graphic), Transphobia.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells. 144 pages. Sci-Fi. An android security unit that secretly calls itself "Murderbot" hacks it's own governor module so it can watch media while doing it's job. When things start going wrong on planetary survey mission it's up to the SecUnit and a group of scientists to figure out what's going on. Trigger warnings: Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury, Mind Control (of androids), Murder, Prostitution (mentioned), Slavery (of androids), Violence.
This week's Minimum and Medium moods are: Determined, Devious, Energetic
This week's Maximum moods are: Enraged, Frustrated, Grumpy
Differentiating Enraged from the upcoming Infuriated has always been a bit difficult for me; they're both pretty extreme forms of anger, but which one is more, and how do I express that? I've tended to aim for more subtle differences when I make big enough mood themes, with Enraged in my Fancy Rats being a mirror of Infuriated with a flaming background, and I'm planning something similar for my pigeon mood theme. The cloud mood theme, meanwhile, has a tornado for Enraged and a flaming tornado for Infuriated!
Frustrated, on the other hand, I feel has some pretty easy-to-grasp energy. If you're working with a fandom mood theme, there's probably at least one scene you can think of where your characters are frustrated by something! Finding something to pull for an original theme can be a bit trickier, but there's options out there. Frustrated is one of the few moods I skipped for the clouds, but the Frustrated fancy rat is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, and the Frustrated pigeon is dealing with anti-bird spikes!
Finally, we've got Grumpy, another one with last week's Cranky that reminds me of uninterrupted naps. I keep on wishing it were Grouchy, so I could make Oscar the Grouch references đ That said, as with Annoyed feeling more "active" than Aggravated, Grouchy feels a little bit more mature than Cranky for me, or at least a little bit older and better able to use words.
Still, those are only my thoughts and impressions! What do these moods make you think of, and how do you plan to approach them with your own mood themes? Do you have an approach in mind for them? And what do you think the differences are between some of the more similar moods we've had these past few weeks? Let's talk about it!
I finally finished the poetry anthology This is the Honey edited by Kwame Alexander and now have moved onto Poetry Unbound: 50 poems to open your world edited by PĂĄdraig Ă Tuama. This is the first one.
Wonder Woman by Ada LimĂłn
Standing at the swell of the muddy Mississippi after the Urgent Care doctor had just said, Well, sometimes shit happens, I fell good and hard for New Orleans all over again. Pain pills swirling in the purse along with a spell for later. Itâs taken a while for me to admit, I am in a raging battle with my body, a spinal column thirty-five degrees bent, vertigo that comes and goes like a DC Comics villain nobody can kill. Invisible pain is both a blessing and a curse. You always look so happy, said a stranger once as I shifted to my good side grinning. But that day, alone on the riverbank, brass blaring from the Steamboat Natchez, out of the corner of my eye, a girl, maybe half my age, is dressed, for no apparent reason, as Wonder Woman. She struts by in all her strength and glory, invincible, eternal, and when I stand to clap (because who wouldnât), she bows and poses like she knew I needed the myth, âa woman, by a river, indestructible
In which a several long, thin sticks are placed in a loose pile on a flat surface and players take turns trying to remove a stick/jackstraw/spillikin without disturbing any others. Often the spillikins are straight and round, but some sets have ones with bends or flat pieces (I think we still have one with slightly wiggly snakes in the game closet). Exact origin of the name is unclear, but we have a reference from 1734 to a game called spilakees, which is suggestive -- suggestions include coined in English from spill, meaning a slender piece of something + diminutive ending -kin, and alteration of either Dutch or Flemish spelleken, small peg, both ultimately from Latin spīna, thorn.
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spring_renewal for it. Ridley's Jigsaw Puzzles. Gin Lover's Jigsaw Puzzle. 500 pieces. It was not a well-constructed puzzle. The pieces didn't lock together as nicely/snugly as I prefer. I shan't be purchasing any from this company. 
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