I want to open a cat cafe that only has black cats in it (since they struggle so hard to get adopted). It would sell magic supplies and be witch themed. I’d name it “The Familiar Cafe”.
Please tell me each black cat is named after herbs because I’m living for the idea that I can walk in and find Devils Weed and have lit time playing with them while I eat food.
They made it into a ringtone because it was old enough to be public domain, and Nokia (I think?) didn’t want to have to pay royalties.
… I like the full version.
are you SHITTING ME. This is one of those posts that makes you question your worldview a little bit, tbh
okay, not quite. not quite. but the truth is better.
the original tune is not this. the original tune is, however, public domain, so they’re not wrong. it’s francisco tárrega’s gran vals – check 0:12.
but THIS, what he’s playing, is the Valse Irritation d’après Nokia, also known as the ringtone waltz, written by Marc-André Hamelin, who is a terrific canadian pianist and who wrote this as a snap reaction to having people’s fucking cellphones go off at concerts.
I’m now picturing being but a simple heavy weapons fighter enjoying Pennsic and all of a sudden you see Steve Motherfuckin Rogers, armed with nothing but a shield, charging into the melee.
(In this mental image he is wearing chainmail and his tabard is patterned in red, white, and blue, and his Society Approved wooden shield is painted like his regular shield. Also his symbol is painted on his helmet.)
And you just go “Oh, balls,” right before getting fucking annihilated.
YES EXACTLY CAN YOU IMAGINE
ok but imagine someone tweeting “captain america DESTROYED us today, rip my brave brethren” and tony would obviously see that. by the next meeting tony’s involved. within months it’s an avengers and civilians free for all and the best time of anyone’s life.
Oh god, Tony building his own armor and the field marshals having to explain that no, sir, you are not allowed repulsor jets in heavy combat, and what the fuck are those? Are those arms that hold extra swords? No get that shit out of here what the hell.
Falcon RP’s a dragon. It is the single most glorious battle in Pennsic history.
Clint just makes faces at people while they’re getting ready but shows up with legal arrows and fights on the side of the civilians.
You just caused me a full body shudder of horror at the idea of facing Clint Barton as a combat archer in a war thank you.
You’d be fine. Your King and generals not so much
Another comment just made me realize that Thor would think Pennsic is the single greatest fucking thing there is mead and warriors and glorious battles and food and MORE MEAD and did I mention GLORIOUS BATTLE
Also, given the SCA people that I know, a rather high percentage of people who, like, actually legitimately worship him.
Can you imagine being a simple heathen heavy fighter and then WHAT THE FUCK THOR, SON OF ODIN, IS ON YOUR SIDE IN THE WAR?????? THE FUCK THIS IS THE SINGLE GREATEST DAY THAT HAS EVER BEEN.
I am imagining the Stark Industries stall. And Tony’s encampment.
And his internal argument about whether period weapons count against his decision to stop building weapons on a corporate scale, because you KNOW everyone would want Stark forged armor. And weapons.
ESPECIALLY given the crossover between the SCAfolk & the armed services, who remember fondly the days they had StarkTech, not that stupid Osborn Industries stuff, to say NOTHING of the dark days of the Hammer Tech Era.*
Pepper solves it by creating the corporate sub-group StarkPotts Forges, which does custom armor and weapons, while not-so-coincidentally doing outreach work on the educational side of the SCA, running k-grad school seminars on blacksmithing and design, creating hordes of future metallurgists, historians, artisans, and literal Hordes to make sure that Tony and he rest of the crew get good encampments** for each War.
Because she’ll put up with a lot, but camping at Moot Point is NOT on.
*seriousky, nothing. There was a meeting of the Joint Chiefs, modification to the USCJ, mandatory unit meetings, a memo, and everything. The Corps of Engineers changed the official designation of the carpentry tool ‘hammer’ to ‘shark-head mallet.’
** encampment set up and pre-war campsite overseen by Bucky & Steve, because a camp set up by them is NOT flooding or blowing over. They’re not having a repeat of the Deluge of DeLuge, France, August, 1944.
I like how we all just Know that they’d lose Tony to the arts and sciences people and find him again three weeks later setting up a fucking God-tier traditional blacksmith shop.
Bruce Banner discovers weaving and is lost to the Fiber Arts people forever. He’s found a week later happily building himself a heddle loom and researching how to raise sheep.
Thor, who has never been told the Golden Pennsic Rule of “If it glows or is on fire, do not drink it” learns about many new, exciting, and wonderfully potent Midgardian beverages!
He drinks nine entire camps under the table and in the Viking encampments, he finally finds people who make proper salt pork and onions again! Its been eight hundred years!!!!
They’re not having a repeat of the Deluge of DeLuge, France, August, 1944.
House Of Crows 