So I Saw Settlingspace's Magical Girl!Simra A Few Days Ago, And Knew That That Was A Bandwagon I Had

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11 Questions Meme

I was tagged by wentworthsbitch. ♥ ♡ ❤ (Third time’s the charm? A.K.A. carletoncolton reattempts the 11 Questions Meme.)

rule 1: always post the rules rule 2: answer the questions from the person who tagged you rule 3: tag 10 people and link them in your post rule 4: let them know you’ve tagged them

1. If you could be killed by any celebrity, who would it be and how would they do it? (yes they have to kill you shutup)

This one had me laughing facedown on my desk and then lying there drawing blank after blank for half the morning. Then I decided to approach this question logically and started researching celebrities with documented weapons training. After all, if I have to be murdered …

Right. So, after considering several likely candidates (Don’t read into my search history, NSA!), I settled on Lucy Liu. As a former student of kali-eskrima-silat, a traditional Filipino weapon-based system of martial arts emphasizing the use of blades, among other things, I’m confident she could have me crumpled in a pool of my own lifeblood before I could start running. And that’s really all that matters, right?

2. Whose face would you like to see on your currency besides the current old person that’s most likely on it?

Considering that only a scant few actual, non-allegorical, flesh and blood women have ever been printed/minted on US currency in all our history (and only Martha Washington on paper) … that would be a useful starting point for looking. I’d like to see Harriet Tubman on a bill, myself. Because disturbingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, there hasn’t ever been a portrait of an African American featured on US paper money either. 3. If you were ever in London, where is the first place you’d wanna go?

I know absolutely nothing about London, really - not more than your average American does, anyhow. (Which, again, is basically nothing.) But if I know me, and do I ever, I’d make straight for the nearest decent-looking restaurant. 4. It’s 1am and you unexpectedly get kicked out. If money wasn’t a problem, what hotel would you stay at?

If money wasn’t an issue, I wouldn’t stay at a hotel - not here, anyway. I live in a small town in Michigan, so all we’ve got are a few chain hotels clustered together around our exit to US94. Red Roof Inn, that sort of thing. 5. What is your favorite post on tumblr of all times?

… Ummmmm.

6. You HAVE to pick ONE president to sleep with. You HAVE to. Who would you choose? (idc if youre not american answer it)

Ahaha … well. I’m demisexual, actually, so as far as the whole casual sex bit goes, I’ll pass. Every time. Even if I were to find myself in the (enviable?) position of being propositioned by a US president. If I just had to sleep with a president, though?

Another Google search I never thought I’d be making later …

James Buchanan. As the only US president to remain a lifelong bachelor, owing to either his heartbreak over a fiance’s untimely death and subsequent choice to remain celibate, or his possible asexuality or homosexuality (the strongest case can be made for the latter), he’s really the only one I’d feel even marginally safe in bed with. Best case scenario: heartwarming homo/demi sleepover complete with all the late-night philosophizing and snacking that comes with the territory. *stubbornly ignores his politics for the duration of this questionnaire* 7. Who’s your favorite character dressed in leather?

Zoë Alleyne Washburne! 8. Are you a mouthwash user?

Yes - it’s the least tedious part of the entire process, as far as I’m concerned. 9. When was the last time you went to a party? What was it for?

This is a little embarrassing (I’m a professional party avoider - depressingly, I’ve been to more funerals than parties this year), but it was my own birthday party in April. 10. A crack ship that is literally so crack you don’t even know why you ship it you just do?

I kinda wanna see Peter Jakes kiss Endeavour Morse and NO ID ON”T WNAT to talk about it. Ahem. 11. Do you find BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH ATTRACTIVE? I’M OFF AND ON ALL THE TIME, BUT I NEED TO KNOW GODDAMMIT. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

I do! Aesthetically. Though the first time I saw him, as Sherlock, I found the sort of skull-like aspect of his face … disquieting. I’m sure it has more to do with the dramatic way the production staff choose to light him for the first half-hour or so than the way he looks in life, but there was such an otherworldly, corpselike aura about him that I was genuinely worried about his health. Heh. （．＿．;)

Tagged: @the-ever-chaos-collective (Thank you~ 😌🙏✨)

1. Star Trek: The Original Series, 1966

2. Twin Peaks, 1991

3. Hannibal, 2013

4. Almost Human, 2014

5. Yuri!!! On Ice, 2016

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Got tagged by @the-good-queen-alysanne

List 5 TV shows that changed you and made you feel better, than tag 10 people. (do I even have that many followers?)

1. The Owl House

2. Hazbin Hotel

3. Helluva Boss

4. Game of Thrones (up to season 4 plus all Dany scenes)

5. Vikings

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Shuffle Music Meme

You can tell a lot about someone by the music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your iPod/iPhone/iTunes/media player and write down the first 10 songs. Then pass this onto 10 people.

Tagged by: tu-surak (LLAP （ ･＿･）ｖ)

Tagging:

1. Lana Del Rey - The Other Woman

2. Yao Lee - Rose, Rose, I Love You

3. Gorillaz ft. Daley - Doncamatic (Lonsdale Boys Club Remix)

4. Chris Isaak - You Owe Me Some Kind of Love

5. FKA Twigs - How's That

6. Adore Delano - I Adore U

7. Massive Attack ft. Mos Def - I Against I

8. Strawberry Switchblade - Deep Water

9. James Darren - Sophisticated Lady

10. The Ink Spots - Don't Get Around Much Anymore

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Any of the three options would serve for me, personally: the replay retcon,  a "choose your own" timeline, or just kinda understanding the real-world reasons behind the whole thing on a meta-level outside of the narrative. All of those work. And honestly, the second option (leaving it to the reader to mentally redistribute the story episodes across whatever constitutes a more believable expanse of time for them) has been my way of keeping the sequence of events and the flow of time in line with the tone of the rest of the thing all along. You know what I mean? Damn near everything else about the world depicted in Simra's journal feels so credible, despite the fantastical setting, that the idea of, say, getting from hold to hold in a matter of a few days or nights stood out in all the wrong ways.

Not that I'm criticizing! *nervous shuffling*

Anyway, as for early volume headcanons, how about this one:

Simra's first journal was canonically lost, along with his father's sword, when he was captured and stripped of all his possessions by the Stormcloak patrol that took him at the Dunmeth pass. If Simra really has been purposefully writing for an audience all this time, and his writings are, at least in part, a calculated bid for posthumous control of his legacy and the chance to eulogize himself... then I imagine he'd regard the loss as a great one. Given how uncomfortable he is with anything that threatens his agency, even symbolically, my bet is that he'd move to retake his position as arbiter of his own legend as soon as possible. After all, the absence of that journal would leave a significant void in the story at a pivotal juncture—the beginning, his beginning—and I doubt he'd be content to allow anyone else to fill it. Regardless of whether the gap was bridged with truth, lies, or conjectures, they wouldn't be his.

So he'd rewrite it. And that could account for both the comparatively grand, mythologizing style of and the dating inconsistencies in the journal we've come to know as the first. Even ordinary people have a tendency to dramatize their lives in the retelling of them, let alone the re-retelling, agendas notwithstanding. Distance from the times in question could conceivably muddle his recollection of the exact dates involved as well. Either that, or it's obfuscation—all caught up with Simra's own peculiar blend of vanity and self-deprecation.

That's it! That's my theory.

http://dunmerofskyrim.tumblr.com/post/85829308915/dunmerofskyrim-dunmerofskyrim

carletoncolton replied to your post “OOC: Timeframe”

Well … it seems like something to ret-con to me. I’d work on changing the dates; the other explanations for the inconsistencies feel a little forced. Really, why would Simra...