It's Just Me, Silver

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
striving-artist
striving-artist

I, like Icarus, flew too close to the sun. The Terrible Poll kept being a little bastard because it was Too Big and refusing to accept answers. So it has now been cut in half. Hopefully this makes it less rude to y'all.

If you already did the poll and submitted your response, you're good. We have your answers saved and safe. No need to retake it.

The split is based on the gender line since it was a stark division in the first poll. There were people who saw the world as being ABO+M/F and there were people who saw the world as being ABO as a replacement for M/F.

Thus:

The Version WITHOUT Gender (alphas, betas, etc)

The Version WITH Gender (alpha male, beta woman, etc)

If you have one of the fantastically complex systems that doesn't really fit either, pick which gets closest, and do your normal write ins.

The old link leads to a note that links to either of these polls.

Pinned Post The terrible poll My apologies to anyone this screwed over and if you lost your work bc we had to hard swap I am incredibly sorry but this had to be done I want to cry it was painful to fix pls don't murder us
ace-and-ranty
ace-and-ranty

Eragon plays the “Chosen One” trope straight in many ways, but I do really like the way Paolini goes at it.

Eragon is the chosen one, but not just by vague destiny or magic. He is the chosen one, literally, because Saphira chose him, and Saphira is the chosen one because Galbatorix chose her (to be the last female dragon). So a nice bit of the villain creating his own downfall.

But, also, Saphira didn’t choose Eragon because she thought he was the best suited to defeat Galbatorix. She was a baby! The magic that binds dragons to humans is much more like soulmate magic; it finds the right match for the dragon. Saphira chose Eragon because she loves him. That’s all the reason he is the chosen one, is because Saphira loves him.

(Okay, not that destiny and magic are completely absent in here. The Eldunari sending Saphira to Eragon, expecting that he would be the right person for her, was definitely Destiny Destining.)

also there’s so much to add about how he characterized the dragons and the rest of the humanoid/sentient species for that matter like no they’re not human but they aren’t a monolith either individual people (beings?) are individuals queued
ace-and-ranty
ace-and-ranty

The entire series we've been told, over and over, that Galbatorix is stronger than Eragon. It has been really, exhaustively stablished that Galbatorix's power is god-like at this point, and Eragon doesn't stand a spitting chance in hell of overpowering him.

We've also been told he doesn't need to. The key won't be to overpower him, but to outthink him. Eragon has to find something he didn't account for. He has to attack the one way Galbatorix didn't predict.

And it was just, empathy. The one thing Eragon had that Galbatorix didn't. The only way he's better and stronger. Eragon cares about the people who got hurt, and Galbatorix doesn't, so he never thinks to protect himself from their grief.

It was the power of fucking love.

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And he didn’t even MEAN to, Galbatorix asked Eragon to kill him and our boy was like “what? no? live with your guilt? be processed in court and a fair trial?” and Galbatorix Princess Twilight Sparkle’d HIMSELF out of existence.

And on top of the Power of Friendship Empathy Blast, the steps leading UP to the Empathy Blast make me feral also: Eragon’s self-sacrifice strategy to beat Murtagh actually inspiring his brother to realize he has people he loves more than he fears his and Thorn’s death, and Murtagh unravelling Galbatorix’s wards so that Eragon can actually land a hit on him, and all of this in the face of the overwhelming power Galbatorix shows off—they were NOT prepared, they thought they would go in and Elva would say a little speech to neutralize him and they’d go in for the kill, but he just IMMEDIATELY shuts them down, moves them around like dolls.

And they still try.

And because Eragon has the one thing god-king Galbatorix doesn’t, they actually manage to pull it off.

ace-and-ranty

And how Eragon's spell was so powerful because it was taken over by his supporting Eldunari, Galbatorix' first and foremost victmis who finally got the chance to lay their suffering back on his shoulders

How Eragon wasn't even trying to kill him when he cast the spell, he was just so furious at the injustice of it all

And how the dreams of baby birds are just as important as the worries of a king.

even more Eragon feels T-T I’d add more but I genuinely do *not* have the time T-T something something Arya something something Blodgharm and the elves also def something about the Urugals but in an ‘it could’ve been done better but it’s still good’ way there’s so much more to add but I can’t for the life of me think of it and I really really don’t have the time to elaborate just know it’s there queued
ace-and-ranty
ace-and-ranty

The entire series we've been told, over and over, that Galbatorix is stronger than Eragon. It has been really, exhaustively stablished that Galbatorix's power is god-like at this point, and Eragon doesn't stand a spitting chance in hell of overpowering him.

We've also been told he doesn't need to. The key won't be to overpower him, but to outthink him. Eragon has to find something he didn't account for. He has to attack the one way Galbatorix didn't predict.

And it was just, empathy. The one thing Eragon had that Galbatorix didn't. The only way he's better and stronger. Eragon cares about the people who got hurt, and Galbatorix doesn't, so he never thinks to protect himself from their grief.

It was the power of fucking love.

in my Eragon feels again for some reason (actually ik the reason) (the reason is these posts) queued
ace-and-ranty
benjicotblackwood

eragon is the best published lotr fanfic out there because it’s like. painfully earnest. it’s like what if you could ‘yes and’ all your favorite things in the most self indulgent way possible ? what if your dragon was a Dragon but also your platonic soulmate ? what if lotr was actually star wars except obi wan is the secret dad ? what if there was a woman in a position of power and the narrative interrogated that in a sexy way ? what if she was black ? what if elves ? what if I tried to make my version of orcs not ontologically evil ? and it goes like this and it’s great

fucken exactly you’re exactly right and you should say it queued
nyancrimew
clitfisto

peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it

clitfisto

dont do this

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I really hope its not too bad bc i actually love both components.

cryptoidantagonist

it forms a dry skin at the top made of the sour pellets. not a great start.

cryptoidantagonist

tastes really good actually. i also feel like i am about to explode.

cryptoidantagonist

do not do this.

jenjensd

Unanimous consensus: Do not do this

Other people: Hold on I’m about to do this

jenjensd

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beeceit

Rip to y'all, but I'm built different. Trying this tonight

beeceit

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Best I can do with what I have (I'm at work rn)

beeceit

Oh that is a... fascinating smell

beeceit

Don't do this

nyancrimew

i think i'll try this tomorrow actually, it can't be that bad, im sure ive made worse cursed foods before

nyancrimew

the time has come

a photo of sour gummies, a can of monster and a glassALT
nyancrimew

i just did this twice this shit tastes great idk what's wrong with yall

a mixture of the sour gummies and monster energyALT
nyancrimew

i think im gonna drink more of this later i wonder what happens if i add vodka

oh no gl my dude queued
nyancrimew

Anonymous asked:

I saw that you mentioned someone licked a medieval painting, and I have a peice of vellum from the 1600s its got a letter from a priest on it, it made me curious on how animals from the 1600s tasted like, so I licked it, it tasted dry and faintly of sawdust, I will find other old things to taste and report back :3

nyancrimew answered:

conservators must hate tumblr users

historical conservationists *are* Tumblr users I’m sure there’s at least one sobbing in the notes queued
gallusrostromegalus
gallusrostromegalus

A Haiku:

📲 💡

🖼️ 🆔 📖 🗣️

🖥️ 📜

[Image Description: Three lines of Emoji, that can be read as:

Icon Idea
Image ID Read Aloud
Online Poetr
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deaduncledave

Reminds me of an old internet poem:

< > ! * ' ' #

^ " ` $ $ -

! * = @ $ _

% * < > ~ # 4

& [ ] . . /

| { , , SYSTEM HALTED

The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, as such:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,

Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,

Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,

Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,

Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,

Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH

luciferhimshelf

OH I GOT ONE AS WELL

Behold, the math limerick:

((12+144+20+3*sqrt[4])/7)+5*11=9²+0

A dozen, a gross, and a score,

plus three times the square root of four,

divided by seven,

plus five times eleven

is nine squared and not a bit more

trickstertime

Only vaguely related but my uncle showed me this one when I was a kid to keep me busy:

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He wouldn't tell me what it meant for fucking ages

It helps if you read it with a cockney accent. It reads:

'em are spiders' em are

See 'em beady eyes

'em are spiders' em are

zeemczed-blog

Okay, this one isn't symbolic, but...

CIVILI DEREGO FIFTIBUS INERO

DEMIS NOBUS DEMIS TRUX

The intended reading:

See, Villi, dere `ey go. Fifty bus in a row.

Dem is no bus, dem is trucks.

gallusrostromegalus

My dad got in trouble with a Nun in school for that one!

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