#Autumn’s Breath

[strangelovealchemist]

"Autumn's Breath"

I Am Living In The Land Of My Dreams

Filling Autumn's Breath With Stealth Desires

Deeply Delving And Diving Into Schemes

Blazing Energy To Stoke The Fires

Love Is In The Air

I Can Feel It

I Can Feel It Everywhere

Transmute Pain Into Power

And Transform Fear Into Love

Seize This Moment, This Hour

Simply Transcend, Rise Above

I'm Believing In Possibilities

I Keep Cool When The World Fails To Impress

I'm Creating New Opportunities

Bringing The Day To Its Knees With Finesse

Love Is In The Air

I Can Feel It

I Can Feel It Everywhere

Words By Andreas Liotsakis a.k.a. Strangelove Alchemist

[uwhe-arts]

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[nobeerreviews]

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

(Colmar, France)

[cynderrfall]

This is the closest they get to a bath

[larimar]

vinceboies

[yourfavebooklrsfavebooklr]

Some books I’d recommend that feature disabled characters to read this July!

image IDs in alt text!

Note: I’m aware that not all everyone in every community represented on this list considers themself disabled. As an outsider, it’s not my place to say- they are included because some people in these communities do consider themselves disabled, especially with many being spectrums where different people will experience different severities.

Cosmoknights - Amputee side character (major character in book 2)

Nimona - Amputee main character

Before the Devil Knows You’re Here - Dyslexic love interest

The Spirit Bares its Teeth - Autistic main character, autistic side character

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue - Love interest with epilepsy, main character becomes deaf in one ear, MC with anxiety in the third book of the series

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath - Autistic major side character, wheelchair user minor side character

A Lady For a Duke - Love interest with PTSD

Cemetery Boys - Love interest with undiagnosed ADHD (confirmed by author)

Into the Drowning Deep - Autistic character, two Deaf characters

Don’t Be a Drag - MC with depression and anxiety

Iron Widow - Wheelchair user MC with chronic pain

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Little person character

[charybdisrevenge]

Autumn Raby

[keydekyie]

autumn heralds

I really love the duality of predators in art, their nobility and the awe of their presence, contrasted with the dread and terror of the hunt. It's something I'm fascinated by, in an artistic as well as a biological sense. It's easy, as humans whose brains are sometimes ruled by stereotype, to swing towards either romanticizing or vilifying the predator. I crave the nuance found somewhere in the middle. Where the creature can be appreciated for what it is, rather than what it means.

[caramelcuppaccino]

i was off work today so i spent my day studying, spending time with my family and making and drinking lots of coffee. ˗ˏˋ☕︎ˎˊ˗

[inkprovised]

RevaLink Halloween Week 2024

Day 6: Autumn/Fall || Pumpkins

Day 1: Silent Realm

Day 2: Corrupted

Day 3: Fog

Day 4: Lost Woods

Daz 5: Masquerade

Day 6: Autumn/Fall | Pumpkins

Day 7: Campfire | Dubious | Skull Kid

[shisasan]

It’s that time of the year again, when the blood rises sharp and alive, when the air bites at the edges of my skin and something deeper wakes, raw and electric, burning brighter as the days grow darker.

[downfalldestiny]

Rain 🌧️🍂 !.

[uwhe-arts]

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[grandmawitch]

I’m shifting into soup mode 🥣 🍂

[symfoni-a]

[adventuresofalgy]

Algy flew over to the rocky headland at the northern end of the bay and settled down on the long grass beside an intriguing bog pool, hoping to catch a glimpse of his good friend Plog the frog.

Still somewhat breathless from the exertion of dancing in the sea spray, he decided to observe fluffy bird best practice and concentrate on his breathing: take a deep breath in, hold it, breath out, hold it… But there seemed to be a wee complication, for it had a rather more extensive effect than he had been anticipating…

Of course one never knows quite what to expect in these remote areas of the wild West Highlands of Scotland. Strange things tend to happen in the Celtic lands, but the folk who live here get used to them after a while and pay them little heed. So Algy was not particularly nonplussed; he simply carried on with his breathing exercises while he watched what was going on around him with an attentive fascination. He recalled the exhortation of a poem he had read not long ago: "look closely: you will see and understand"…🙃

Happy October everyone! Algy hopes that his friends in the northern hemisphere will have a truly glorious golden month, while those in the south enjoy a beautiful spring 🧡

look closely and you'll find them everywhere in fields of patterned grasses drafted by the hare embroidered by the bluebells through a wood in scattered trails of blossom stamped into the mud scorched by heather-fire across the moors in looping snail-trails scrawled on forest floors scored across the sky by screaming swifts in rolling, twisting peaks of drifting mountain mist scribbled by an ocean on the sand look closely: you will see and understand.

[Algy is quoting the poem Messages by the contemporary English poet Matt Goodfellow. This poem was written specially for National Poetry Day in October 2016. This year's National Poetry Day falls in a couple of days' time, on 3rd October.]

[Plog the frog is a character from Algy's illustrated children's chapter books and features particularly in The Tree with a Golden Heart.]