He Did Manage To Get It!

He did manage to get it!

Second to last text bubble. The real question is if the quevies are okay. Precious hasn't been seen since the fight with Blitzø started in Oops.

If you think about it, fizz went out to get the milk and almost never came back

i saw this poll on twitter (with less options) and it didnt get a lot of reach and im curious what program is the majority rn

I was stupidly late to the party on fanfics for my age (compared to my friends who were reading them much longer). My first fanfics were Black Butler in high school and I read NOTHING else until Sherlock. Took ages to ever leave those fandoms for anything else. But if I'd been more aware (And less "fear of disaster" regarding computers) I might have read Inuyasha or even Artemis Fowl at an earlier age. I was just terrified that anything on the internet might ruin the computer (any link beyond Wikipedia was supposedly a virus waiting to happen) and of reading anything that might get ruined for me forever if I read a bad fanfic of it. About somewhere 2009-2011ish? Hard to say, I'd have to sit down and do the math on that.

addendums: cult classic tv overlaps with early supernatural seasons somewhat, i am aware, just choose based on the cultural context in which you read your first fic.

for weeaboo crew i was thinking of examples like hetalia, black butler, soul eater, etc--popular anime absolutely included but the distinction is that people who were into dragon ball weren't necessarily going to anime club every week and making deviantart stamps about yaoi, but people into ouran high school host club ABSOLUTELY were.

homestuck is in its own category because homestuck changed fandom forever at a critical time which just happened to be when i was growing up in fandom. harry potter, lotr, star wars, and twilight are in their own categories because they were such multimedia juggernauts they had entire archives dedicated solely and only to their fic that spanned multiple franchise reboots (books -> movies -> extended universes). (i acknowledge star trek technically would fit under this but at the time culturally it had more overlap with other cult classic tv fandoms.)

honorable mentions that didn't make it to the list because i had to pick-and-choose with the 12 answer limit: the final fantasy franchise (axed because i am not familiar enough with the fic scene to know if it was as iconic of a gateway drug as, like, naruto or twilight or star wars fic), a general YA lit category (YA lit outside of twilight only went mainstream slightly after this time period), the MCU (i have a hate boner for the MCU), a broader "american superhero comics" category (this would be valid as an option but i don't have the space)

As much as I love that other people have also suggested rose gold, I actually had this train of thought a while ago and researched all her outfits (though I still went with rose gold. xD). With the exception of like the 100 sleeping princes stuff and the matching circus outfit with William, Grell mostly has silver but not exclusively so. (EVERYONE has gold in the 100 sleeping princes and for the circus one I’m pretty sure it was to match all the gold in the background.) Like, the skulls on her glasses in her main outfit, in the ballgown from the second musical the skull on her choker AND the brooch on the ribbon thing at her waist, the glasses as butler Grell. The thing at her waist is technically both (kind of silvery beads, with gold caps) as does her “modern” outfit from the one ova (silver skull pendant, but glasses with gold side decoration)

Is Grell a gold or a silver kind of gal

This is all based on a text post I saw that was going around and every time I heard it, it was in either Mettaton or Papyrus’s voice. I know the grey person seems odd in the last one, but I wasn’t sure how to represent an “Anon” kind of character otherwise.

Well this is largely speculation, and a some research, I know that based on other calligraphy tools of the 19th century that the scissors (Called qeychi, if I’m not mistaken) where probably used for exactly what you’d think (cutting sheets, ribbon, thread, ect... in the process of bookbinding or just general use for paper)

The scapel looking things seem to be a Kalemtrash or Qalamtrash, used to cut the reed or calamus writing instrument (called Kalem or Qalam) used as a pen. Here is it in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJB2f-pJ2TU

I can’t guarantee this is the best example, but given what I know of how quills are made, this seems like it would work properly to collect ink and disperse the ink without spills. It’s nearly identical cuts to the feather quills.

Anyway, that’s the best I can manage with what I can find in English. I can’t even find the Arabic or Urdu (or Persian?) words in a clear way. آموزش تراش قلم  seems to bring up the tool best (rough translation being “Pen cutting tutorial”?). At the very least it’s bringing up the right tool in use.

Ottoman set of damascened calligrapher’s tools, 19th century