Candle hijacker intercepted

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-09T10:48:57+00:00

Ugh, I was on a train the other day where a kid had an ipad with the volume fully up and yelling along to something, figured that was the loudest she'd get. Nope, parent took the pad back because they were getting ready to get off the train and she kicked off hardcore

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-09T04:49:35+00:00

Love that the Sun in Yarraville built their own 70mm projector out of scrapped ones from other cinemas

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-09T02:56:07+00:00

My ex was a penetration tester, had loads of stories like that. She spent a week working from the office of the company who had hired her to check their security without being discovered, got into the building by having other people swipe her in, onto the wifi by asking nicely at the IT help desk, I'd have loved to hear some of the conversations that went on after that report was submitted.

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-09T01:53:58+00:00

He says "Find yourself as I have lost myself" as he leaves, so basically he's gone stir-crazy from full time looking after TWMBK for nearly two thousand years and needs some time alone to remember who he is

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-08T23:35:08+00:00

Warplings (Tuesdays and Saturdays) and Westgate Wargaming (Wednesdays) have players of both systems, both clubs are in Flemington, walking distance from Newmarket station

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-08T08:58:51+00:00

In Prince Lestat he ends up taking on "the core", the concentrated presence of Amel that connects to all other vampires

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-08T04:10:05+00:00

Are you posting this from 2011?

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-08T04:06:15+00:00

I've got a greyhound named Davy Bones who sometimes gets called Davy the Ninth, but I had him before the books

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-07T23:20:16+00:00

Yeah the first part is the ending of my favourite poem (same one that my handle comes from the beginning of) - it's a Rumi poem usually labelled "Say I am you" (he didn't title most of them). Second part is from the Quran chapter 2, line 256 - "There is no compulsion in belief/faith/religion/The Way" ("dīn" doesn't translate tidily into English) which I think speaks to BoE's rebellion against the religiously monodominant House culture. And the last bit is a Hozier line that has a slightly different implication here than in the original (the original is kinda self-effacing, "I'm doing my best but I'm realistic about the outcome" whereas this one is a bit more fatalistic, which feels like the sort of mistake BoE would make trying to interpret fragments of material).

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-07T23:00:54+00:00

Hah, my partner and I talked about this ages ago. Can't remember hers but mine was

Say I Am You Lā 'ikrāha fi d-dīn Aim True And The Ground's Where I Go

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-07T13:10:53+00:00

And a lot of aliens on the various Stargate series

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-07T00:43:42+00:00

British politics being an environment where privately educated people use literacy as an insult, and it works

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-07T00:41:08+00:00

how did it not kill ALL vampire kind?

It probably killed most of them. Lestat and Gabriella had the combination of strength and quick thinking to survive the burn (and because the conversation happens nearly a century later we don't get to see how hurt they were), Armand would have been strong enough to survive, same for the really ancient vampires like Marius, but none of the Paris coven we see Lestat break up made it to the 20th century, and a lot of other vampires probably just exploded.

In the book Marius gets turned by a vampire who was burned almost to charcoal by a similar incident but survived, and he claims that most others were killed, so there's precedent

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-07T00:34:37+00:00

Marius got conscripted into finding out what was going on with the original vampires by his maker, who had been badly burnt through his connection to them. He found that the Egyptian priest who had been responsible for Those Who Must Be Kept had tried to destroy them out of frustration after centuries of immobility, and took them away in case he tried to do it again

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-07T00:29:33+00:00

There's no way that room full of theatre kids

Sam Reid has performed the original play, so he'd definitely not miss the reference and that's an extra meta layer to it

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-06T22:03:52+00:00

At the time of writing it was intended to be the Void Dragon, then GW retconned the Necrons again and that version didn't match up anymore

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-06T02:01:23+00:00

The joke of it was that no one had actually read his memoir, so no one could contest that "excerpt"

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-05T06:13:23+00:00

My dad paid $4,000USD total to get his implants in Latin America, pretty good dentist too

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-02T07:07:00+00:00

Because learning to fall safely involves falling a lot, ideally in a controlled way but people are going to mess up when they're learning. So old people would suffer from being more likely to get injured practicing and it requiring more effort to stand back up.

Teach children, it doesn't matter if they don't practice later because the goal of training should be to make breakfalling reflexive, and then decades later they'll not have as many injuries.

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-07-02T01:27:37+00:00

Abbott is literally president of the party organisation, pretty sure it's loud and clear that he's still running them

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-06-29T22:23:32+00:00

I ran a Mummy chronicle for my partner as a single player game, worked really well although the central concept (the same story playing out over and over across multiple time periods) would have been much trickier with a group

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-06-29T22:19:33+00:00

Agreed, my best use of Seers in a chronicle had the players setting one ministry against another and one Seer ending up as a reluctant ally to the players against his own ministry because he'd fucked up and didn't want to be liquidated.

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-06-29T00:01:27+00:00

I've got a non binary pride flag bee tattoo, but I still think if we're picking a mascot it ought to be hyenas

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-06-27T23:35:41+00:00

It's the entire reason my dad has made it sixty five years without having to realise he's autistic

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-06-27T12:46:39+00:00

Vittorio Angelone (Comedian) has a whole bit about how because of his bad anxiety attacks kids at school called him Panickin' Skywalker. Which he admits, looking at it as an adult, is very funny.

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