Barberwitch’s 14 years of Witchcraft Giveaway! Fall 2018
Here’s my little thank you to my followers! I know it’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here! In celebration of hitting a follower milestone and another year of being a witch, I cobbled this together.
They’re trying to erase the existence of the rape victims of Japanese soldiers in World War II because they think the reminder of their crimes might make Japan a little bit cross
Duterte, the absolute coward, is more worried about women criticizing him than actually honoring the women this country needs to remember
2) We don’t want to pause our music to talk to you.
3) We don’t even talk to each other on the phone — why would we want to talk to you?
But the biggest reason is A TRAIL. If I e-mail you back, you can see what was said in the future. You can’t tell me I forgot to tell you something because it’s right there. You can’t tell me I “never reached out” because we can both SEE it. I don’t have to trust your recollection.
And, in a group inbox, you can see who has been responded to. I got forwarded a voicemail from my supervisor (through e-mail! imagine that!) asking me to call some lady back for clarification. So I did, against my will of course…and she said somebody had called her yesterday.
Who? When? What did y’all talk about? Is follow-up necessary?
Phone calls back and forth only work in a workflow where the standard procedure is to *log* phone calls in a shared system with a brief summary of what was discussed. Otherwise, y’all need to let us e-mail. It’s not just about a generation gap. It’s also about efficiency.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Any feedback can be proffered via e-mail.
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Also: let’s keep it real – we multi-task better than you do. If I’m on the phone with you, I’m FORCED to do that ONE thing and put whatever you want above all the other things I could’ve been doing. If you e-mail me, I can research what you want (while doing other things), find the solution (while doing other things), and offer it to you in a nice concise package (while doing other things) without sitting on the phone with you in awkward silence looking for the answer to whatever you think is urgent. (It’s not urgent. You’re not dying. I know it’s not urgent.)
OP is being kind in saying “i don’t have to trust your recollection.” people straight up lie, especially customers.
In the Volume 5 finale it felt like everything good about his character was tossed out the window and while I’m still not crazy about his over-simplified backstory and how he handled Ozpin back there, it’s clear he’s not just a simple brute with a revenge complex.
Deep down Hazel IS a good person. He doesn’t want people getting hurt when they don’t need to and is reluctant to fight because he’d rather settle things peacefully. In most cases it makes him one of the nicest villains in Salem’s inner circle. We see him helping a child he’s never met get a ticket at the train station, keeping composed in front of Sienna Khan even as she speaks to him with utter hostility, mourn her death and show contempt for Adam when he kills her needlessly, show reluctance to fight Ren and Nora and only hold them back from the door when he does, and most recently take full blame for the group’s failure even as Salem has him in a death grip.
He has an incredibly strong sense of justice and will only resort to violence when he has to. Most of the time.
BUT
That sense of justice becomes warped and twisted whenever Ozpin is concerned, because he sees what happened to Gretchen as Ozpin’s fault. Gretchen died and there’s no way to bring her back, however, Ozpin cannot die, at least not permanently. So Hazel believes there is no justice to be had for his sister, but he’ll keep fighting to attain that justice by killing Ozpin again and again and again to avenge her life. It doesn’t matter to him if others get in the way, if he’s killing another each time he kills Ozpin, if children are among his casualties. Because he has decided this is how justice must be met, he has decided those deaths are on Ozpin, and not him, and doesn’t restrain himself from doing exactly what he hated Ozpin for doing.
I’ll bet Salem uses that against him. If she needs Hazel to go out and kill Huntsmen, she reminds him these are people tricked into an early grave by Ozpin, that their deaths are because of Ozpin, not Hazel, and uses that warped sense of justice to her advantage.
It’s a shame too, because if it weren’t for being so blinded by his own need for revenge, Hazel truly would be a good man.
mermaids would have to be dark-skinned and chubby to survive in the ocean
water isnt a great means of protecting oneself from the sun theyd have to be very dark if they were shallow mermaids and they didnt want to be constantly sunburnt and they may be paler if they lived deeper in the water but theyd have to be buff and/or chubby as hell to resist the water pressure and cold of the deep sea
what im saying is pale-ass white skinny mermaids are just unrealistic
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Fat isn’t a defense against water pressure, it’s an insulator. So the colder the water, the fatter the mermaid.
Scandinavian merfolk would be tubby, evolving more for persistence hunting in the freezing coastal waters, possibly relying more on siren-song to lull prey into effective range. The less moving the better! Gotta keep the chub on to survive the winter.
Whereas Mediterranean/Polynesian merfolk would spend their time among the fertile reefs in warmer waters, competing with other predators. They would be built for speed and agility, buff like sprinters. Darker skin would be harder to spot under the surf, and more resistant to the glaring sun.
Also: it’s not hair, it’s scillia that they use to filter plankton out of the water, and it stings like a jellyfish if you touch it.
I would imagine that merfolk come in many different colors, maybe they even have the ability to shift their skin tone to assist in hunting? I guess that depends on how intelligent your mermaids are.
Tldr; cold water mermaids would probably be chubby, warm water mermaids would look like Serna Williams.
Another thing to take into account is Deep-Sea-Gigantism. It’s not fully understood why many animal species such as the colossal squid and whales typically grow to unimaginable sizes in high-water-pressure areas, but it’s assumed that it develops as some sort of defense mechanism. This would imply that deep-sea merfolk would be a sort of Leviathan-class eldritch horror.
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