This. So much this. Alphas know they're the shit. They don't have to go to bizarre lengths to try and prove it, and only get their aggression on when they NEED to... which is actually fairly rare.

DON'T YOU SULLY THE NAME OF HOBBIT!

I had a crush on this guy. I didn't want to believe this... but gods...

I love you.

Ah, see I thought it was called Broadscots.... and have sufficiently been schooled. I see what you mean now.

Good grief. Scottish and Irish are accurate language descriptors for non-speakers. After all, we don't say, Oh, they speak Cymraeg. No. We say they speak Welsh.
My specialty in Celtic Studies is far more ancient than modern times, so you may well have a point about how speakers of the language refer to the…

Celtic Studies nerd... Plenty of folk do speak Irish (Gaeilge) and Scottish (Gaelic), and there is a concerted effort to keep those languages alive. It's a teeny tiny nitpick that is a little OT, so feel free to ignore me.

Your reference to Quetzlcoatl slew me. Well done.

Very true. And very scary.

I frakkin' ADORE Samhain. It's my favourite three days of the year!

I love that you know the Irish name for this celebration. LOVE!

Nothing specifically to that is mentioned, but the carving of pumpkins is the new world adaptation to the old world carving of turnips and gourds and placing them at the doorways and windows filled with candles. It was done to help guide the spirits of the dead home to join the festivities. Settings would be placed…

Let's go together!

So would I. If money was no object, I would spend my entire life in study.

Celtic Studies nerd here... actually Hallowe'en has traditionally been a time of giving bread or treats to the less fortunate. In medieval Britain and Ireland, the poor would go souling, which is going house to house and offering songs or prayers for the dead of the household in exchange for food, or guising, where…

Snort. That was fucking brilliant.

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And given how horribly doxing can affect people, that's saying a shit tonne.

1) Spoken like someone who does not understand the psychology of fear. Whether actual physical harm is ever done is totally irrelevant. The mental damage is horrific.

"Uncool" is cutting in a queue. Doxing is more than just uncool, and reducing it to that does real disservice to the level of damage these kinds of attacks can, and obviously do, do.