r/oddlyspecific • u/OncexMidzyForever95 • 4h ago
r/law • u/DoremusJessup • 8h ago
Legal News Vermont Lawyers Rally for the Rule of Law in the Age of Trump
r/traditionaltattoos • u/SethDoesOKTattoos • 6h ago
Is purple traditional, a discussion
Just curious as to everyone’s opinion on this. Did this at a convention and the purple caused an argument between the judges. I’m in the school of thought that Jerry is the reason we have purple, so therefore it’s considered traditional. What about you guys?
r/CatDistributionSystem • u/charlesVONchopshop • 14h ago
Kitten This little baby was delivered to an empty flowerpot behind my house on a snowy Thanksgiving day… Today is Cranberry Mashed Potato’s 1st birthday!
r/BaldursGate3 • u/MaoAkari • 3h ago
Cosplay Minthara cosplay I've made and designed myself. Spoiler
galleryYou probably saw me earlier in this thread, but this time I've got some professional photos to share! I put so much work and hours in designing and sewing this garnment and sincerely hope you gonna like it, and share my passion to our fav lady of Menzoberranzan
r/nba • u/Goosedukee • 6h ago
Christian Braun says Russell Westbrook gave him advice on how to guard James Harden
r/IllegallySmolCats • u/CottaBird • 4h ago
Criminally Smol There was a prison riot today. They’re demanding more food rations.
r/canucks • u/Emotional-Song-9784 • 7h ago
EX-CANUCKS Andrei Kuzmenko’s Father Wearing a Canucks Shirt
Posted on his instagram story
r/cats • u/johnnym347 • 7h ago
Cat Picture - OC It was the first time I spent time with my cat and I took such beautiful photos
r/Jokes • u/Biz_Ascot_Junco • 7h ago
Long Lady Amelia, an industrious wife to a minor noble in service to the Percy barony, had no sons of her own. She often walked the rocky shore of the North Sea in the early mornings, and prayed that she would one day have a child.
One day after a great storm, she found a large snakestone on the beach. It was bigger than her whole head! She found it so fascinating that she immediately brought it home to show her husband, Lord Bartholomew of Aislaby. Though he was a studied naturalist, he could not find the reason for its unusual size.
As soon as the two looked upon the spiral stone together, it began to grow warm, then shake, then crack like an egg. From the stone emerged a tentacled creature encased in a spiral shell.
The couple were startled, but being learned and gentle folk they were not frightened. They took it as a blessing, a sign from God, and did their best to take care of it in secret. Not even a few months later, they heard the creature babble like a human baby for the first time. Amazed, they knew that this was the child they had been praying for. They gave him the name “Edmund.”
Lady Amelia was a masterful tinkerer, so she and her husband worked together to build Edmund an automaton body from brass and leather so that he would have a chance to have a normal life. Not wanting to raise too much suspicion, they said he was born with an affliction of the skin that made it dangerous for him to stay in the sun for long.
One summer eve after Mass at Whitby Abbey, the family saw a band of knights riding down the road on their horses, returning from their latest battle. Edmund’s eyes widened with wonder. "What are those shiny things? Are they like me?" Edmund asked. "Oh, those are men in suits of armor." Amelia said. "They are called knights," Bartholomew added. "They are very brave, and do hard work to protect our lands from those who would do us harm."
Each day after that, Edmund begged his father to let him train to become a knight. The man was hesitant at first, but one day he watched Edmund wrestle with two older lads near the market square. He noticed how curiously fluid his movements were, almost swaying like waves, and saw in him the makings of a knight. The following week, Edmund rode back to Aislaby Hall with a tunic too large and a future uncertain. As the cart bumped over the old Roman road, Edmund murmured, "One day, I will be a knight."
At age seven, he became a page. He learned to serve wine without spilling, to read Latin psalters, to clean chainmail until it gleamed. He polished Bartholomew's spurs until he could see his reflection distorted in their curve. He whispered it between brushstrokes and beneath his breath at bedtime: "One day, I will be a knight."
At fourteen, Edmund became a squire. He followed Sir Osmund, Bartholomew's cousin, into skirmishes along the moors where outlaws hid. He slept on rush mats beside the horses and cleaned wounds as often as weapons. Before charging into battle, as he cinched Osmund’s saddle girth and tightened his own hidden bolts, he hissed, "One day, I will be a knight."
On his twentieth name-day, in the candlelit chapel of Whitby Abbey, Edmund kept vigil. He bathed at dusk in cold spring water, careful to hide the glimmer of shell beneath his chest plate. He donned a white tunic, red surcoat, and black cloak. A priest anointed him; Lord Bartholomew fastened the golden spurs. Sir Osmund laid a sword upon his shoulders.
"Be true to God, to your lord, and to the helpless," Osmund said. "Rise, Sir Edmund."
As Edmund rose, the decades of salt and brass caught up with him. A crack hissed along his torso. The chamber filled with the scent of brine. Steam puffed from his seams. Then, with a clatter of brass and the hum of old gears, his helm fell away. Revealed beneath was the coiled, iridescent form of a nautilus. His many eyes blinking in the candlelight, his shameful gasp clicking and melodic like a harp strung under water.
Silence held the Abbey.
Then Amelia stepped forward. "You will always be my son," she said. "And this day you have shown great bravery in showing your true face to the world."
Bartholomew nodded. "You’ve guarded our lands with honor, Edmund. Shell or not, that is what makes a knight."
Edmund turned to them all, raised one gleaming tentacle in salute, and said with pride,
"Finally, I ammonite."
r/ValorantCompetitive • u/FemaleJuicer • 7h ago
Esports Trent mocks Verno's words from weeks ago
Verno says this after he baits Cortez in the NRG match
Trent mocking Verno after he dies
I was like why did Trent mention Cortez there even though he wasn't in the clutch? And then I remembered when Verno played against NRG and said that. I just thought this was very funny and a nice banter moment between them.
r/Justrolledintotheshop • u/Kstotsenberg • 7h ago
Update: Opie is now a part of the family.
21 days ago I posted here about this little rascal wondering into the shop so I took him home.
He’s been chipped and is fully integrated with our 2 cats. The German shepherd is taking a little more time.
Here’s the original post for anyone asking: https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1jxagsj/well_it_finally_happened/
r/Volvo • u/Jeguetelli • 7h ago
Never film the new Ex90 because you will break your cell camera.Lidar lasers burn your camera.
r/HonkaiStarRail • u/Undisguised_Toast • 11h ago