Daily Affirmation 721.

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And One More for the Road - Craig Boone x Courier 6

With three rows of tents set aside just for medical services, and nearly all of them full, it said quite a bit about Leigh that she was given one of the smaller ones all to herself. Doctor Richards is nothing if not attentive—chary and cold though he may be, he’s one of the better doctors the NCR has in Nevada. Other patients were more deserving of his care, Leigh argues at least once a day, but neither he nor General Oliver will hear it.

(“You’re a goddamn hero in my book,” said Oliver while she was too weary and sore to understand just how high that praise was, coming from him. “Remind me to offer you a cigar when you’re healed up.”)

Though she insisted Boone be looked over, he refused and the doctor agreed with him. He didn’t have more than a few scratches and bruises, and those healed days ago. Boone watches her, a bit like the way a nurse watches his elderly charge—don’t you move, you’ll hurt yourself, let me get it, it’s really no trouble—and she smiles when she thinks of him as a caregiver. It’s foreign, but humorous in its way when she can envision him doting over someone’s darling grandmother or chasing an all-too spirited child.

The latter spurs an ache in her chest, one much different from the stitched-up wounds crisscrossing the same area. Imagining him as a father—a happy one at that—is one of those scenarios that could almost be possible. It hurts even more to think of it in those terms.

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Thank you for answering this so thoroughly! Your response was fascinating. Little Simra poring over charcoal glyphs scratched over the hearth is one of my favorite bits of imagery so far. But most of all I relished the chance to learn more about Simra’s mother. As with Soraya, her presence is felt more immediately through her impact on Simra and his father than through the rare glimpses we get of who she was otherwise - for me, the effect is reminiscent of the feeling you get craning your neck to see something through a barred window or the slats of a fence. What details you do manage to pick out are all the more vivid for the strain of searching. For instance, I remember returning again and again in my mind for days after I’d read it to the image of a soft leather jacket left behind with Verru (unfinished?) after her death, that she’d intended as a wedding gift for Soraya.

I have to confess, though, about an hour after I sent my question off I suddenly remembered that I already knew that Simra’s parents were literate - he writes them both at least once, doesn’t he? And the letters for his father are couched in a rather touchingly careful Dunmeris, even. So I felt like a huge dork all morning. (⌒_⌒;) Guess I should have slept on it instead of rolling out of bed in the middle of the night to ask, huh?

If I remember correctly, most Ashlanders are illiterate, forgoing a written tradition in favor of an oral one. Assuming that Simra's parents follow convention in this, then how did Simra come by his letters? And what does Simra's mother in particular, as a former wisewoman-in-training, think of his unorthodox affinity for the written word?

[This is a very good question. Mostly because it does something my favourite questions do. It asks something for which I don’t already have an answer. But it asks something that needed to be asked. It’s something useful to me. So already, thanks for that.Simra’s parents were travellers of Ashlander extraction. They didn’t spend all their time with the Zainab. So yes, while they were raised within and each participated within an oral tradition - particularly on the part of Ishar, his mother - they were literate to one degree or another.It was actually Ishar, rather than Simra’s father, who was the better linguist, reader, and writer. His father never learnt more than a few things outside of Dunmeris. Her background gave her more of a respect for knowledge, however the knowers store it and keep it known, orally or literarily.Bringing up her children in Skyrim, it was she that educated them in mixed Tamrielic and Dunmeris: reading, writing, arithmetic, bits and pieces of history, theology. She would not have her children go without the skills that they’d need to live as something other than Ashlanders.Admittedly, young Simra paid more attention than Soraya. This learning did not come from reading, however, but through listening. Even Simra’s literacy comes from watching his mother scratch letters and words in charcoal above their fireplace. And the oral nature of these lessons is perhaps part of the reason Simra has such a good verbal memory.In short, Simra’s no Zainab. He’s Dunmer, and part of Morrowind’s diaspora. He’s of Zainab blood, raised by parents who were raised Zainab. He himself admits that he’s a Dunmer of Skyrim, however — inheritor of some Ashlander traditions, but barred off from others, and proud of both.So he’s an unorthodox Dunmer in one sense. But he was raised by an unorthodox womer, after all — why d’you think she didn’t ever become a full-fledged wisewoman? For the most part it was Ishar who refused to acclimatise to this new place and new culture, his heart living with his wife and children, but belonging back in the Grazelands.]

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To thank my followers old and new for their support, I’m giving away some stuff. Here’s what you can get:

a copy of my "Sherlock after the Fall" Fanbook

a t-shirt with one of my Beowulf designs (lilac, sizes S, M, L)

another Beowulf t-shirt (white, sizes L, XL)

a set of six postcards with motifs from my book Beowulf and the Dragon

a set of eight postcards with my Tolkien illustrations (LotR, Silmarillion)

an drawing of a Sherlock scene of your choice in ink or pencil, size A4, motif to be negotiated.

And here are the Rules:

REBLOG and/or LIKE this post. No need to spam your followers, though.

NO GIVEAWAY BLOGS. 

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If you’re not of age, make sure your parents are okay with someone sending you stuff.

I will ship anywhere.

Giveaway ends September 9th 23:00 GMT+1

I’ll use the random number generator to pick the winners. First person picked is the first to choose something and so on …

Good luck :)

nicegoth reblogged your photoset "Nocturnal/Diurnal - Unfired" and added:

this is so neat

Thank you so much! (◕‿◕✿) And that reminds me - I've had these back from the kiln awhile now. It's time I properly photographed them fired, isn't it? In the meantime, here's a quick preview snap:

Scrapbook #1: Funeral/Neptune (Click for full size images.)

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So I was just minding my own business, opening up a new MTG booster pack with my boyfriend when…

W- … Will Graham?!

Finally got my next giveaway info up! If ya want a drawing like this from me, reblog this post! (Character can be from any time period, btw!) You can reblog as many times as ya want, but tumblr only registers one reblog per tumblr account; reblogging more than once just repositions your name in the number order. Anyways, just wanted to say thanks to everybody who follows me for your support and the kind words you always have for me. Means so much to me; thank you~

YES THAT’S RIGHT A RAFFLE TO KICK OFF THE PREORDER!

RULES:

You DO NOT have to be following me.

ONLY reblogs will count. And they will only count ONCE. (but go ahead and reblog more than once if you want)

Likes DO NOT COUNT but thanks!

2 WINNERS

1st GETS A SET OF 5 BUTTONS OF THEIR CHOICE

2nd GETS A SET OF 3 BUTTONS OF THEIR CHOICE

Leave your askbox open. Must reply to the raffle winning message in 3 days. Does not have to be in US.

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PREORDER HERE

The buttons are 1.5 inch and  3.5 inch pinbacks (the winners may chose what size they like best for their sets)

Buttons will not be sold in singles but in sets of 3, 5, 7 and all 13

BOTH THE PREORDER AND THE RAFFLE END ON JUNE 1st!