#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.

[raycatz]

Something something dry firing a bow (pulling back the string and loosing without an arrow nocked) is bad for its structural integrity (as the energy that would go into propelling an arrow instead goes into the bow itself.) Link does this when out of arrows in botw/totk. Notably though, in botw/totk, dry firing doesn't cause damage to the bow, whereas irl it's something that absolutely would.

Maybe there's something here for fics? I feel like Wild would know better though 'xD but dry firing is something that could result in a bow exploding in your hands like what's seen in botw/totk when they break.

[strawbun13s]

look

he will be modge podged

[sailor-arashi]

"Sugoi!"

[mikeyisaac]

She’s a real carpenter’s dream

[riverofempathy]

I was double checking some info about history, and…

Carlisle is older than America.

CARLISLE IS OLDER THAN AMERICA.

[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 🤔

[blackmageeljin]

On a scale from one to YOU HAVE TO DRIVE TO THE LOCAL STATE PARK TO USE A FREE PUBLIC SHOWER BC UR HOT WATER HEATER did not actually break, and is under warranty, but the ELECTRICAL LINE TO IT SHORTED AND WILL BE EXPENSIVE TO FIX, HOW POOR ARE YOU

So yeah how was y'all's 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.