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edited 11th Apr '18 6:31:51 PM by dRoy
The actual page on the matter implies that it may have come from The Princess Bride, but I'm not sure it's really possible to trace something like that back to a single person.
Note for the future, however, that this thread is meant for random questions that come up in the course of your writing. Something like this would fit better in Quickie Questions
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That's the kind of detail I think is really interesting to see in alternate timelines.
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOKeep in mind you might wander into a gray area where if someone who doesn't know the specifics of an ending (or even the specifics of the general plot) might not initially pick up on the differences. But it definitely sounds like a cool idea.
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Sweetheart, paramour, beloved, inamorati.
Is iron a purified metal? Or would there be traces of unpurified earth inside of it?
Feel free to visit my yokai blog.Iron is a chemical element so pure iron would be pure iron. But most 'iron' contain stuff like Carbon, Oxygen(Iron oxide), Silicon, Phosphorus and/or alloying elements.
I'm running on Avatar logic and the Cold Iron trope here. When a witch casts a spell on Iron, it's like two magnets repelling each other, but if a witch can target the unpurified parts within the iron, she can manipulate them and thus manipulate the iron.
Does that make any sense?
Feel free to visit my yokai blog.Which would make it harder to target, but make the manipulation probably more effective if it worked.
Iron can be specially purified to contain just about only iron, but most don't bother. I think it'd mostly usually have oxygen or oxides admixed, as well as maybe carbon.
Shinigan (Naruto fanfic)@ The Muse: Partner is probably the standard, but it has a slight connotation that it describes a same-sex partnership. However I know of some people who use it to confuse people in just that manner.
Significant other tends to suggest marriage level of history/intent.
You must agree, my plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity! My TumblrPure iron is all but useless - it's too malleable to make things with, so impurities are added to strengthen it and give it other useful properties. You will almost certainly never encounter anything but an alloy outside of a refinery.
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOI'm looking for things like furies in other mythologies. I'm sure they're out there, but I'm not sure where to find it.
The only thing I've been able to find is Al Kardai. I guess in particular I'm looking for spirits/goddesses/whatever who make it their work to punish the guilty who would otherwise not be punished.
edited 21st Sep '13 5:29:40 PM by ohsointocats
For a second, I read that wrong, and was confused as hell. Ironically, there are far more deities and associated spirits that would fall under that category than Furies.
I mean, there are plenty of deities and the like who go around throwing plague at oathbreakers and criminals and the like, but they usually don't operate in groups, and generally only act when they happen to see it in progress. I guess on some level it's hard for people to believe in gods taking an active role in the judiciary system when they're quite clearly not (I assume. I haven't actually been to fifth century Europe lately, and for all I know people gave a, "Good Morning," to their divine neighbors as they headed to work every day without batting an eye.)
Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.

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