#Dry Camping

[galedekarios]

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[vyncentevelyn]

[misty-memories09]

Giyuu: Sabito’s voicemails from Sleepaway Camp sound like Civil War updates: Sabito: Hello. I'm in charge of taking everyone down Salt Creek in canoes. It's been pouring for days and our tents are soaking. Morale is low. I love you.

[strawbun13s]

look

he will be modge podged

[mikeyisaac]

She’s a real carpenter’s dream

[laughable-umbrella]

ITS TIME FOR ME TO SHARE MY THOUGHTS

MAGNUS ARCHIVES AND CAMP HERE AND THERE CHARACTERS THAT WOULD BE BEST FRIENDS

-sydney and jane prentiss

-martin and jedediah

-elijah and michael

-lucille and jonah (they wouldn’t really be friends but they would respect each other a lot)

-salem and melonie

- yvonne and basira

- also yvonne and georgie

- oliver banks and rowan (i can’t really explain this one but i feel it in my bones)

-also oliver and sorren

- TONY 1 AND TONY 2 WOULD ACTUALLY HATE BREEKON AND HOPE “ay tOny, look at these dOOfuses. disrespectin’ the name of black market deliveries.”

-EVERYONE in ch&t would love gerry (except maybe joshua) (he’d be jealous)

-nikola and juniper (another one i just feel in my bones. juniper would eventually get his skin stolen though)

[xbittersweet-nostalgiax]

Pocket Camp is ending.

Well....I guess that's one less thing for me to kill time with

I won't be getting the new paid app bc I don't pay for digital stuff that I don't physically own, like as a principle

End of an era, huh?

[butchsaint]

i may. do something more outdoorsy in alaska next year if they’ll hire me

[hanzajesthanza]

the mishmash of clothing that geralt’s company wear during their journey is delightfully piecemeal. it’s like half-brokilonian, half-stolen from banditry, half-clothes which actually belong to them. ik i made this post as a joke but i actually really love the outfits of the company

geralt and dandelion are dressed in hooden grey elven mantels. later in chapter 4, they’ve exchanged them for homespun cloaks stolen from the guards, which they used to escape the camp. from though he still has his recognizable headband and medallion, geralt is seemingly almost incognito as he wears a leafy-patterned elven jerkin from the dryads. (and for even more brokilon influence, before zoltan gives him the dwarven sihill, he has a sword from col serrai).

speaking of dwarven fashions, dandelion receives a quilted jacket and a ‘swashbuckling’ marten-fur kalpak from zoltan and his company. he replaced his plum hat with the heron’s feather with this marten kalpak, so he as well is almost incognito. as far as accessories go, he has a brass-studded belt and the cruel-looking knife from the dwarves, too; although he immediately lost the knife. after the events of chapter 4 and in the middle of 5, his head is wounded and bandaged.

zoltan tells milva that she “looks too much like a squirrel” to approach humans alone — which is probably a result of her dress and her bow, of course. asides from her mahogany bow with whalebone risers, measuring 5 foot with a 24 inch draw length, shooting grey-fletched arrows… and one silver arrow… she’s likely dressed in some brokilonian or elven garb, owing to her work as an agent for brokilon. but she also wears “human” clothing, a blouse and woolen leggings. her belt is described, with a pouch and a hunting knife with a bone handle hanging off of it (and in the next book, she gives this knife to angoulême as a gift). perhaps most curiously, milva’s not mentioned to be wearing her iconic braid or plait during this book, rather her long hair is described as falling into geralt’s face when she leans over him in tense conversation in chapter 1, tossing her hair with a sudden movement when offended in chapter 5…

cahir is almost unrecognizable as nothing he wears betrays him as nilfgaardian, instead he’s dressed in a hauberk, leather tunic and cloak from the men who were transporting him. but this hauberk becomes ever-so iconic in its own right as it plays such a role in the fish soup… as a strainer.

regis, of course, dresses modestly and is perhaps the only one of the company dressed in his own clothes not signalling affiliation to a larger faction or taken from some roving banditry. black robes, something like an apron tied around the waist. when they meet him, he has a linen bag, but when they leave, he’s exchanged it for a leather one. and also, a walking stick, which is never mentioned again by the writing... he also has his nigh-iconic black, woolen cloak-cape, which he wraps himself up in…

and the horses! do not forget the horses. geralt’s elven roach, a bay mare who rides as if bitted by horseflies. the lazy and docile bay gelding pegasus, of course, remains dandelion’s steed. cahir rides on a chestnut colt, which he loses but later recovers. milva’s black horse, which she tells geralt not to touch in chapter 1, which also becomes the subject of debate in chapter 4. regis rides on a nilfgaardian bay near the end of the novel, by which point they’ve also obtained a riderless grey horse which carries their modest belongings.

these small little details are all just described so wonderfully across the course of the book, the picture is painted for you eventually, over time, your attention is rewarded with an intricate picture at the end…

[abirddogmoment]

thinking about possibly squeezing in a quick camping trip this weekend 🤔

[thedailyplatypics]

One of my platypus shirts finally being worn appropriately

[lacomandante]

Wellington, in the summer of 1813, consolidates the partisans working under him to be in the Spanish 4th Army- and in the canon where Teresa is Fine, it's my personal headcanon that rather than putting her in the 4th Army, Wellington makes her an officer on his staff- specifically a Major.

Making her men detachments allows him to send her off where he needs her, and with the rank allows her to lead them as she usually does, but under a more official banner. It's more efficient and she can answer directly to him, rather than jumping through hoops. Legend has it that Wellington did this with Agustina de Aragón, though whether its true or not, I do think Wellington would see the benefits of having Teresa on his staff considering how long she's worked for him, though there would be considerable changes Teresa would have to abide by, she'd happily accept.

[maggothole]

I was on tiktok talking about Sean getting his teeth pulled and likely developing dry socket AND SOMEONE TOLD ME IT "DIDNT EXIST BACK THEN" LMFAOOO

[krispyweiss]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day No. 2, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Sept. 30, 2023

Leyla McCalla controls the weather.

An overcast day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park suddenly turned sun-soaked when the former Carolina Chocolate Drop sang: My face to the sun as she performed Our Native Daughters’ “I Knew I Could Fly” during her Sept. 30 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass set on the Towers of Gold Stage.

“That’s awesome,” she said mid-verse as the Earth’s star emerged from the afternoon clouds.

Following the electric and steel guitar instrumentals of Hermanos Gutiérrez on the adjacent Swan stage and playing cello, banjo and electric guitar, backed with rhythm section and electric guitar, McCalla covered Kendrick Lamar’s “Crown” and offered a gumbo of New Orleanian, Haitian and American music delivered in English and Haitian Creole while showcasing her the Capitalist Blues and Breaking the Thermometer LPs.

The Sound Biteses’ day had begun in the pre-noon fog with the down-in-the-holler, old-time string music of Dry Branch Fire Squad playing the songs of Gillian Welch, Doc Watson and Bill Monroe on the Banjo stage. Later, it was gospel from the McCrary Sisters, who sung Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground,” “Amazing Grace” and other numbers backed by a full band during short, five- to 15-minute sets on the Rooster stage, where Brennan Leigh offered a lunchtime menu of traditional country music.

It was also on the Rooster that Emmylou Harris previewed her Sunday appearance by guesting with Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson and closing their Doc Watson tribute set with Guy Clark’s “Old Friends.”

Shortly afterward, Bettye LaVette sauntered onstage to deliver her grinding version of Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed.” From here, it was an impassioned reading of songs from the Randall Bramblett-written LaVette! album as the singer prowled the stage and proved her 77 years have cost her nothing in vocal prowess and stage presence.

“If I could write, this is what I would have said,” LaVette said in introducing the new songs, which worked better on stage than on wax.

Rickie Lee Jones attracted a ginormous crowd to Banjo - “I haven’t seen so many people in front of me for so long,” she said, soaking it in - and their enthusiasm rubbed off. Jones, whose band included Vilray on guitar and vocals, plus accordion and bass, was animated as she danced around the stage and crooned like a lounge singer when she wasn’t playing guitar, banjo or piano.

Opening with a radically rearranged “Danny’s All-Star Joint” more suited for the streets of New Orleans than the fields of Golden Gate, Jones went on to perform “I Won’t Grow Up” - for the first time, she said - “Last Chance Texaco,” “We Belong Together” and a sinewy rendition of Steely Dan’s “Show Biz Kids” that found Jones lifting her orange sweater to sing of the Rickie Lee T-shirt beneath.

Give RLJ the MVP for turning in HSB No. 2’s No. 1 gig.

Faced with the quintessential festivalgoers’ dilemma, Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites split the last hour between Steve Earle’s uncharacteristically sleepy solo-acoustic set on the Banjo and Irma Thomas’ barnburner R&B/soul revival at the Rooster.

At 82, Thomas played the day’s most rambunctious set, ripping into “Time is on My Side” and getting the audience bouncing and waving their handkerchiefs on her mashup of “I Done Got Over It” -> “Iko Iko” -> “Hey Pocky Way” -> “I Done Got Over It.” That one might be ringing through Golden Gate’s trees along with the birdsong for some time to come.

Read Sound Bites’ coverage of HSB Day One here.

10/1/23

[aturnoftheearth]

cleaning my room and finding all these bits and pieces from the trip i feel like im being tased every time

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

Settling in for a beautiful morning of watching paint dry