The Four Tempers All aspects of this world were created in the image of the four true gods. Thus are we made in their image. In blood, bone, and marrow, as the Four balance the world, so too is the presence of the gods balanced within us as the four Tempers: Blood, Bile, Char, and Silt. When we live in virtue, in the body as well as spirit, our Tempers are kept in balance; and so too do our sins threaten that sacred trust between body and soul, man and the world, humanity and the true gods. Should our Tempers run amok, we risk tearing the veil between our world and the Miasma asunder. Should the veil be torn such that no weaver can put it right again, then woe: for no matter our weeping and rending of mortal flesh, no matter how the gods may pity us, on that fateful day the Shadow and all Nine Pits of Hell shall devour this world whole. – From a novice’s catechism of the Crowned Covenant, copied at Montreval Abbey during the reign of Tristan the Torchbearer.

It's always fun to write diegetic introductions to aspects of a game's world. (The humoral theory-based stats system in HOTBLOOD is an offshoot of another in-dev project, THE LONGEST REST. Working on HB has been really helpful in getting through some blocks in TLR!)

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yesss

This was written SPECIFICALLY for me.

I don't really drink because it's expensive and I get too sleepy, but every time I've had a really delicious cocktail, I could have downed three of them in an hour (and been flat on the floor right after).

The thing that keeps me from eating five gummy edibles is that they don't taste good. I know me and my sweet tooth, you cannot give me delicious treats and tell me to stop at one.

Short company-wide email congratulating an employee on running the Boston Marathon... clearly ChatGPT.

Boss could not string together six sentences by himself??? Dude.

Torrent Torrent is a spectral steed and the player's mount in Elden Ring. Torrent is a spectral steed resembling a horse and a goat with two short horns on his head and a white mane. Prior to meeting the Tarn...

This is a little weak, but I 100% support the theory that FromSoftware named the horse in their open world RPG specifically to ruin search results for “Elden Ring Torrent”.

eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Torrent

A photo of an ash-red check feral pigeon with heavily feathered legs, stood outside on a window sill. Behind her a blue check perches awkwardly on the corner, wings lifted

Today's Ginger, plus a bonus friend

Ginger and Pie, her mate, have been visiting almost as long as Coopuccino. I think they live and nest on this building somewhere, they never seem to be far

#pigeonSky 🪶

absolutely priceless L

Three books from Iron Circus - Rigsby WI vol 2, Meal and The Lucky Poor

Really happy I got my backer rewards for Rigsby WI today! Of course there’s the central book, the second volume of @secase.bsky.social ’s story of turn of the century small town teens, and two Iron Circus extras I’m excited to try: The Lucky Poor (about being given a Habitat for Humanity house)

I stayed in this hotel room for several days and never once got it right on the first try

a hand holding a nug of weed that’s definitely not a very small green frog (it is a very small green frog)

happy 4/20

In theory I could have been in favor of it because the menus on the payment portal for submitting requests were kind of vague. But keeping the payment portal and shunting you off to a very blank website with totally opaque UI was not destined for success.

A photo of the Himalayan Monal. The bird is visible in profile. It is dazzlingly colored in shades of green, orange, and blue.

Meet the Himalayan Monal! 🌈 Males flaunt iridescent feathers to attract mates. Found in the Himalayas, this bird lives at altitudes up to 16,000 ft (4,877 m) in summer! It uses its hooked beak to forage for insects, seeds, and berries.
Hari K Patibanda, CC BY-NC 2.0, iNaturalist

LMAO property management had SO much angry feedback of 'what the fuck is this' that they already rolled it back.

weed was so much cooler when it was illegal [/horrible take of the day]

I physically cannot roll my eyes sufficiently hard enough.

painting of very a floral garden with a ladybug, a dragonfly and a frog

frog, ladybug and dragonfly

Red dwarf multiply bloomed peony style tulips

Tulip 'Red Princess', the last of my tulips to come up 🌱🌷

#GardensHour #Bloomscrolling

They're so fancy-looking! Like an illustration of Wondrous Creatures at a fairytale menagerie.

> They are highly vocal birds and have several different calls that we can hear in the wild. The most common are "laser gun calls", which are a series of piercing sounds, and doubled, wooden "touk-touk" sounds. It is also possible to hear calls such as "koa-koa-koa" and "guay-guay-guay-guay-gwuck".

wow I have bungled all my posting today. Good thing this has nothing to do with my day job. lol.

I forgot to add the BIRD. Behold the crested coua, photographed by Joel Sartore at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium!

A sassy mostly-gray bird with a sweep of gray crest, dark tail feathers longer than its body tipped with white, and a patch of brilliant turquoise skin around its eye.

The striking face of this bird reveals that the turquoise skin patch around its eye tints lavender towards the small black beak. The crest is a little shaggier than a cockatiel's, the same pale gray as the rest of the bird's head.

Crested coua in close-up.

[Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium | Joel Sartore]

> A member of the cuckoo family, the crested coua is found only along coastal regions of Madagascar. While this bird is capable of flight, it is not a strong flier and will usually opt to travel by hopping from branch to branch.

[Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium | Joel Sartore]

I had no idea they had a smell! If I see them again I will have to check it out myself.

Photo of the base of a palm with a mass of dark, thick roots with red root tips emerging from the stem above the soil surface and growing downward. A small garden sign identifies the palm as C. harlandii. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

A photo looking up into a very tall cone of aerial stilt roots. The crown of the pandan is obscured by nearby palm leaves. A baseball cap provides scale. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

To see prop roots on a larger scale, look to the palms and pandans. 📷1: Clinostigma harlandii, a palm. 📷1: Pandanus sp (to get an idea of the scale of this giant, check out the green cap in the lower left). #Arecaceae #Pandanaceae #root #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

My dental hygienist and I were talking today about the sharp rise she's (anecdotally) seen in grinding/clenching over the last five or so years. Maybe that would be a telling metric to track, how many of us are cribbing like horses on a fencepost, alongside the economic numbers.

many such shops aimed at or run by women, unfortunately.

I say unfortunately because I am a working woman with a schedule I have to keep to and I can't eff off between 10 am and noon alternate Tuesdays just to get my needlepoint supplies.

inexplicably, some restaurants here do this too

high five!