Day: October 19, 2017

I know that not knowing where you came from while being unable to believe in a convenient self-affirming story isn’t even in the top ten of the shitty things you have to deal with it, but I’m sorry you need to all the same. Assuming it is something that bothers you(which it might not and in which case I’m sorry for not empathizing with your perspective), I hope one day you’ll be able to get answers without risking death or capture.

youcantseebutimmakingaface:

simonalkenmayer:

This may be one of the most empathic asks I’ve ever gotten.

Yes, it does bother me. As much if not more than it bothers humans, because I’m pitted as your foil for an eternity and a half. I have to listen to you simultaneously vilify, denounce, and outdo me. Sometimes in the same breath. “Ha! You’re a demon!” “Monsters don’t exist!” And “look what we found in a cave in Southeast Asia! Aren’t you glad we’re so much smarter than you?”

To hell with that.

I answer to no god, no man, no fiction of any kind. And I certainly won’t allow you to drop the whole alphabet down on my head in a bevy of Black helicopters, so pardon me if I don’t tell you everything I know, nor even bother to seek answers via the only means (human means) I have available.

The only way I’ll have of ever discovering anything to do with my species is owning a company that can eventually, oh…say thirty years from now, do as I tell it and never divulge a word.

It pays to play the long game.

I have questions.

That’s going to end up on my tombstone if ever there’s a grave for poor old Simon.

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Bailiwick

N. This word nowadays equates to “an area of interest or expertise”, but in the strict, formal sense, a bailiwick was the jurisdiction of a specific bailif.

Recall that there were no police forces, and this is a feudal period we’re discussing, meaning that law and order were very different. There were city lawsordinances, but these were tantamount to whose midden heap could be adjacent to the road, or where farm stalls could set up poles, and so forth. Law, the governance of behavior, were geared entirely toward regulating taxes and control over the people with relation to their lord. All land was sacred and belonged to the lord unless he chose to sell it. A person rented it, sometimes for very long periods, from a Lord, but the land had to be maintained as the lord decreed. It was illegal to hunt in most parts, because the game animals were reserved for the lords. Regular folk made do with agricultural animals (why cheese is the backbone of civilization). It was illegal to switch towns without permission, to refuse to go to church, and so forth. And all law was presided over by that lord or the lord’s appointed judges at an assize court. It was the bailiffs task to round up those who broke the law, confine them, and then present them. Bailiffs were highly regarded because they usually had the ear of the lord and as such, special privileges. A “wick” is a town, or a village, and so, the word bailiwick originally meant an area within the control of a specific bailiff. These days, you’ll see many fortified, or once fortified towns (Warwick) with the “wick” retained.

So, in antique use, it was legal jurisdiction. In modern terms, it simply means someone’s particular subject of focus or intense interest.

Example: “Archaic words and their meanings are entirely within my bailiwick as an immortal.”

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thantos1991:

just-shower-thoughts:

An immortal person would have to be somewhat multilingual because language changes so much over time. Therefore, if you see someone that knows tons of languages, you should question their mortality.

@simonalkenmayer do you have Rosetta Stone software or language tapes?

Yes, the whole language acquosition system is called “Life”. It’s forever updating and always state of the art. Highly recommend.

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I know that not knowing where you came from while being unable to believe in a convenient self-affirming story isn’t even in the top ten of the shitty things you have to deal with it, but I’m sorry you need to all the same. Assuming it is something that bothers you(which it might not and in which case I’m sorry for not empathizing with your perspective), I hope one day you’ll be able to get answers without risking death or capture.

This may be one of the most empathic asks I’ve ever gotten.

Yes, it does bother me. As much if not more than it bothers humans, because I’m pitted as your foil for an eternity and a half. I have to listen to you simultaneously vilify, denounce, and outdo me. Sometimes in the same breath. “Ha! You’re a demon!” “Monsters don’t exist!” And “look what we found in a cave in Southeast Asia! Aren’t you glad we’re so much smarter than you?”

To hell with that.

I answer to no god, no man, no fiction of any kind. And I certainly won’t allow you to drop the whole alphabet down on my head in a bevy of Black helicopters, so pardon me if I don’t tell you everything I know, nor even bother to seek answers via the only means (human means) I have available.

The only way I’ll have of ever discovering anything to do with my species is owning a company that can eventually, oh…say thirty years from now, do as I tell it and never divulge a word.

It pays to play the long game.

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another-witch-in-town:

starlight-sanders:

naomilotus64:

de-is-me:

cleopatras-atlantica:

trashi3y:

rachaelmhill:

bloodmxge:

nerrissearchhistorytheoriginal:

ask-elfkin-nerris:

bluexbrownxrainbow:

gilver-tblr:

sugarcoatedlimes:

now-and-forever13:

alexandrina-dragoman:

ladyyatexel:

twitch-the-tiny:

kingkeenanthegreat:

dash-of-dark:

JUST FUCKING LISTEN. 

THIS IS HALLOWEEN BUT NOT LIKE YOU KNOW IT

reblog so others can hear it!

Where the hell are the Victorian Goths they should be all over this.

*SMASHES REBLOG BUTTON*

this is some insta-reblog shit, my friends, i’m like 20 seconds in

HELL YES I LOVE THIS

What is this masterpiece?

10000000/10

@purediamondtrash for Sunny

@corruptedwhitegem @blackstardiopside @sssssick

// HOLY MOTHER FUCKING SHIT 

YESPLEASE MM//

@pirate-god

@lauralot89

@neutralchaos1

MY SEX SONG BITCH

Before listening: I’m a little scared of how into this people are.

After listening: IF THIS SONG WAS A PERSON, I’D LET THEM FUCK ME

asdjfjshfoshdkshdjs

I REBLOGGED IN LIKE A FEW SECONDS OMG

This is amazing ohmygod

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The lovely thing about you following me is it’s in direct opposition to the ‘never let your employer friend you online’ idea and it’s just great. I have no idea why you follow me but I’m glad you do! (Which is, again, the dead opposite of how a great deal of future fiddly bits must feel, so even better!)

It’s different because I’m not human.

I like you all for who you are, not in spite of it. I don’t employ people of questionable quality, and so therefore cannot possibly find fault with anything I’d see online from you. I’m also not so young and stupid as to base a person’s entire future with me on one incident, one bad day, or one opinion.

Opinions aren’t life or death. If they become life or death, then those were never opinions, those were threats or defense.

Think about that carefully.

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I was more curious about “earlier” members of your taxonomic class (or whatever a more accurate term would be), but your point about the fossil record still stands, since you’re absolutely right that the vast majority of species aren’t present. But yeah your larger point about not wanting to be discovered is valid, and I’m sorry for prying.

I’m not offended. I simply don’t know much. Let me put this to you:

How much did humanity know about how humans came to be on earth before we began plucking skeletons of shorter, humanoid individuals out of the ground? How much? Not a damn thing, is the answer. That’s only been in the last fifty years that any of that was even hypothesized. DNA to prove it dates from the beginning of the 70’s. So for perspective, 10,000 plus years of human civilization…40 years of hypothesis/proof you evolved from apes. You lot had a whole series of religions about how the world was made for you already crafted and in place, a whole mental ecosystem declaring and proving simultaneously that everything revolves around your ego. You told yourself stories in the absence of fact. My species is evidently smarter than that. Or at least, I am.

So I will forgo answering your question with conjecture and simply say I do not know. I wants there. I haven’t gone out fossil hunting for my own species. I’ve met very few of my species. The truth is, Iam just as unenlightened.

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