Anonymous asked: well okay so morgan is this movie where they bioengineered this kid to be a weapon (or technically they made IT for PURPOSES) and rose leslie is in it and i love her and kate mara as well but anyway!! i thought it had great potential, and that the characters deserve screaming about BUT plot-wise it fell flat on its face like a third of the way in and never got back up AND I WAS DISAPPOINTED. more info: directed by ridley scott's kid, released 2016.
WHOA I THOUGHT I DREAMED THIS RESPONSE. Actually I definitely dreamed half of it. Kids, take it from your Auntie Moran: do not check your notes on your phone while half asleep, it makes your brain do weird shit.
But for real, that sounds like a great premise and honestly I might watch the thing to that I can bitch about it and then rewrite it.
so on the subject of stolen property, i’ve seen various arguments on this point but it is in fact true that inheriting something from a relative, when you know full well that it was stolen, does not make it yours.
this clearly goes doubly so for powerful magical artifacts, and especially for artifacts which are strongly implied to contain part of their creator’s soul!
you can talk about consequences - maybe the artifact in question has benefits for you, maybe you’re not convinced its rightful owners would use it responsibly - but talking about the consequences doesn’t erase the fact that whatever benefits you think you’re getting are achieved through wrongful means.
which is why i, too, think Frodo should have given the One Ring back to Sauron. thief.
Hahahahaha here comes the law student nerd ready to complicate your wonderful post, op.
(Really this is just pretext for me to study for my property final in a week, so thanks yeah)
Because according to the principles of common property law, the matter of who actually owns title to the One Ring becomes really complicated really fast.
Buckle up babes for the pedantic law lecture no one asked for.
Anonymous asked: HAVE YOU WATCHED MORGAN AND IF SO WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT
I have not, and some googling has not produced a show or movie by this name, so EITHER my Google skills need work (POSSIBLE, because this is the first time I’ve dragged myself out of the PubMed hole in a while) OR there is a typo here. Regardless, feel free to hit me up with a pitch.
flvffs asked: for the ask meme: dog person or cat person, and are you a musician? cheers!
Lol I said I’d be on top of my shit with this ask meme, but then I discovered there is in fact a physiological limit to how long you can sleep for four hours a night before your body hits the Off Switch.
Dog person or cat person?
Normally I’d say I like both (DOGS ARE AFFECTIONATE AND FLOOPY, CATS RUMBLE LIKE TINY ENGINES, WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE), but the new RD in my dorm has a pupper except he’s not a pupper he’s like a woolly bear who is probably bigger than me, his name is Charles and he is the most amazing thing in the world, he goes “boof” whenever he’s wandering the dorm and someone comes through the door. Also he loves scratches and to have his ears flopped and he always tries to follow me back to my apartment and I AM GOING TO STEAL HIM, so per force I am currently a dog person.
Musician?
I sing, to variable degrees of success, and I used to play the flute, HOWEVER, I can’t read sheet music for love nor money. I’m just fucking incapable. But I have excellent pitch and I learn pretty well by ear, which is pretty much how I fumbled by with the flute thing.
Anonymous asked: if you hop over to @elidyce's blog, you may enjoy a recently reblogged post on legal possession of the one ring!! wasnt sure if u were ok with me tagging u in it. have a nice day!!
slyrider asked: I will tag you in anything and everything. Honestly its basically me scrolling through things and going 'oh I know a human who would like this' and bam....you get tagged
AND I AM SO THRILLED THAT YOU DO. Honestly I suck spectacularly at remembering to tag people in posts but DO NOT BE FOOLED BY MY POOR MEMORY it makes me so happy when people tag me in stuff.
“You know the difference between subjective and objective,
right? ‘Some rabbits’ is the former, ‘three rabbits’ is the latter, and much
more accurate. So I’m going to need you to be very clear when you say there are
‘a few’ dragons outside.”
Dorian
Pavus, formerly of House Pavus in Tevinter and lately of Skyhold, Altus and
ex-heir of the Magisterium, had borne witness a number of strange things in his
life, the vast majority of which had come to pass in the last six months. These strange things have included, among
others, an archdemon, a Qunari with a jovial temper, a Seeker and a Templar
working side-by-side with mages, a truly preposterous number of demons
all-too-solid for his liking, and whatever the blessed hell that sword-horned terror
in the stables was called. And, of course, there was Rhosyn Lavellan, Dalish
elf, Inquisitor, Herald of Andraste, and presumptive savior of the world, whom
he had personally seen get into fights with no less than seventeen great
bears.
Seeing that
sort of person walk out of a ravine and immediately turn on her heel, looking
distinctly pale under the black ink of her lacework vallasin, was notably
strange, even among such a prodigious collection of oddities.
