Brazil’s oldest and most important museum, The Museu Nacional, is consumed by fire
The museum held a priceless collection. 20 million objects, Egyptian mummies, Greco-Roman artworks, dinosaur fossils and the oldest human fossil in the region, may have been destroyed in the fire that started on September 3rd 2018. “It was the biggest natural history museum in Latin America. We have collections that are over 100 years old” said Cristiana Serejo, one of the museum’s vice directors.
The loss is already being compared to that of the library of Alexandria. According to anthropologist Mércio Gomes, “We Brazilians only have 500 years of history. Our National Museum was 200 years old, but that’s what we had, and what is lost forever. We have to reconstruct our National Museum.” The antique building, once the emperor’s palace, was deemed an “incalculable loss for Brazil” by its President Michel Temer.
caleb: i am on a mission of revenge. i am constantly trying to grow stronger so i can fix the sins of my tragic past.
fjord: i have an unknown being giving me strange powers and directing me in scary, incomprehensible ways, and i am on a mission to understand what has happened to me.
nott: my goal is to keep this scruffy wizard alive until he’s powerful enough to learn true polymorph and change my appearance to something other than a goblin.
beau: i have some serious trauma with my father that has led me to pursue a life of petty crime, but also some anarchist leanings that are in line with the order i am in. my idle goal is to topple corruption wherever i find it.
yasha: i am a refugee from a nation the empire hates and is at war with, and i owe my life to the stormlord and will follow his directives even though they lead me to stray from my friends.
jester: i am in exile from my homeland and my nominal goal is to find my father, but i spend most of my time performing pranks in service of the traveler, whose worship base i seek to increase.
molly: i am two years old, a full-time tourist, and i want drugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
he was so messed up like he lived in a closet and was hungry and treated like crap and no one helped him escape that life for a decade and then he finally gets to know his heritage and his family and oops kiddo you’re kind of famous?? wizard jesus??? so deal with that without any kind of adult guidance whatsoever you’re eleven and grew up in a house without any kind of emotional support you’re mature enough to handle that and THEN he finds out that he’s actually got people in this world that want him and want to love him and he finds out that… this world… hates them??? like one’s a werewolf and the other is a “criminal” and this world that celebrates his life hates the people that want to genuinely love him and care for him??? and the family that also loves and protects him are treated like crap because they are poor?????? and aren’t racist???
then he grows up a bit more and then suddenly he’s got this fuckin’ genocidal war lord out for his head specifically and he’s killing people and shit and NO ONE BELIEVES HIM they literally look at him like YEAH RIGHT YOU ARE JUST THE LITTLE BABY THAT SURVIVED A BAD NIGHT YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING and Harry’s like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
YOU KNOW WHAT NO FUCK YOU
and then he starts a club to teach kids… how to protect themselves? Because he’s been let down by adults all his damn life so fuck them fuck them all he doesn’t need them they won’t listen to him so he’ll do what he can to protect these kids because the adults won’t do it it’s all on him he’s gotta do it he’s gotta
and then people that love him and want to protect him just for the sake of protecting a friend start dying one by one
and then he fuckin learns that all his fuckin life he’s been raised to be killed and he just
Neil in book one: *panicking* I can’t ever let the press even see me I can’t talk to any reporter or speak to anyone they will find me and kill me no no no oh my god
Neil in book three: *grabbing the microphone back after talking shit on live television for 20 minutes* AND YOU KNOW WHAT? ONE MORE THING I THINK COACH MORIYAMA SHOULD SHOVE AN EXY RACKET RIGHT UP HI-
So I re-read The Foxhole Court last night/this morning and like… I can’t stop thinking about how Matt is just… immediately in Neil’s corner. Like. It’s not like they bond over some shared interest or experience, it’s not like Matt walks in and Neil is being actively harassed by Andrew’s crew, triggering his protective instincts. He just…
Neil: exists, is smol, dresses like a hobo, whole life fits in a duffel bag
Matt:
I just realized that Renee means “reborn” in french and I just screamed
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