Action Reel ~ Battlefield LA

From Forest Deeps

Word of the Day -- Potion

A potion (from Latin potio "drink") is a magical medicine, drug or poison in liquid form.

In mythology and literature, a potion is usually made by a magician, dragon, fairy or witch and has

Creation of potions of different kinds was a common practice of alchemy, and was commonly associated with witchcraft, as in The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.

During the 19th century, it was common in certain countries to see wandering charlatans offering curative potions. These were eventually dismissed as quackery.

magical properties. It is used for various motives including the healing, bewitching or poisoning of people. For example, love potions for those who wish to fall in love (or become deeply infatuated) with another (the love potion figures tragically into most versions of the tale of Tristan and Iseult, including Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde); sleeping potions to cause long-term or eternal sleep (in folklore, this can range from the normal REM sleep to a deathlike coma); and elixirs heal/cure any wound/malady (as in C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe). Goscinny and Uderzo's character Asterix the Gaul gained superhuman strength from a magic potion brewed by the druid Getafix.

In modern fantasy, potions are often portrayed as spells in liquid form, capable of causing a variety of effects, including healing, amnesia, infatuation, transformation, invisibility, and invulnerability. Potions have also gained popularity as a standard item in video games, usually as a healing item. The availability of healing potions in the popular Final Fantasy series of games eventually resulted in the release of an actual beverage named "Potion" in Japan by Square Enix, the games' creators.

Daily Cosplay

This is just bad ass!

Kay Thomas

The Elves

Through this land of eternal light flowed seven rivers, each of varying sizes and lengths, but none greater or lesser than the other. These rivers were named in his dream; there was the long river of Am, the blue running waters of Aul, the shallow clear waters of Hue, in the high mountain tumbled the tumultuous, powerful waters of the Loth, upon the long open planes meandered the Pth river, and beyond that in a low range of forested hills the dark and brooding, slow moving Ra, and the seventh river was called the Uul, in later days the Damnun, for it flowed underground for great lengths of its course. The All Father dreamed these seven rivers and he dreamed a wilderland around them of trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses. Animals passed through these lands too, but beyond them his wild imaginings gave life to all manner of strange creatures, they resembled the fey of Aihrde in many respects. And into this dream came the elves, conjured from beautiful, timeless thoughts of the All Father’s and they mirrored those thoughts being wonderful to gaze upon. Too they were deathless unless met by some violent end. These elves were dreamed of in seven peoples and they each came to be upon the banks of the seven rivers and they were given life and became aware.

Each of the seven peoples took the name of the river upon which they dwelled and in those long ago days they were still seven.

~ Players Guide to Aihrde

Imaginarium ~ Castle in the Snow

I May Just Have to

Read this book: The Lost Colonies of Ancient America: A comprehensive Guide to the Pre-Columbian Visitors Who Really Discovered America by Larry Zimmerman.

Apparently he claims that everyone came to the America's before Columbus did...Celts, Hebrews, Egyptians etc etc. He has no evidence from what I understand, just some half hearted belief that academic archeologists are hamstrung by being forced to feed into the "party line" or lose their jobs. And that the whole Columbus discovered America is just another form of racism.

Columbus discovered the Americas. This sentence seems to get would-be academics keyed up. "No he didn't, there were already people here."

Of course there were people here. Of course they weren't standing around confused about who and where they were, to suddenly become enlightened when the dude jumps off the Nina. I think we can all take the statement for what it is worth, Columbus is the first human to discover America in an age when the discovery changed the migratory patterns of the Western World. The Vikings got here, but it didn't have an impact on both continents. In fact it had no impact on the world at all. If the Celts came here they suffered the same fate. If the Egyptians did they suffered it as well.

But when Columbus did, it changed the course of human history.

Here's a review of the book. The reviewer hammers Zimmerman for having no evidence, as there is no evidence for pre-Columbian contact with the Americas, aside from the Vikings for a very short period.

TV Trailer ~ Supergirl

This looks really good!

Armor Up

 

 Enrique Velasco - emuse

Gotham

I finally got around to watching Gotham last night, first episode, season 1. I think I delayed because I've soured a little on all the super-hero movies and shows. Most of the movies seem to be either Batman angry at stuff or the Avengers/Iron Man fighting off yet another invasion of earth (why don't they tone it down a bit, like the first bit from Iron Man 1, that was very cool, fighting terrorists). The TV shows haven't managed to capture my attention for some reason, my own no doubt. I watched Arrow and enjoyed it but never went back, and I've not seen Flash or Agents of Shield. I think I've been enjoying ordinary people in extraordinary settings as opposed to the other way around and its jaded my perspective.

Or Gotham.

Not sure why I watched it last night, something just rolled over in my head and I thought I would check it out.

I was pleasantly surprised. I love the guy playing Gordon .... his partner too, who I remember from his Blade days .... hell, all the characters are spot on and made me want to tune back in. The two the stood out the absolute most are the Penguin and Barbara Gordon. Both seem to be utterly believable in their character's shoes. But really the story, acting, set, all of it was really cool.

I guess these are ordinary people . . . in an extraordinary setting.

In a Dragon's Eye