#Grandpa Cypress

[goldiedraws]

Sarina, her grandpa, and her new bestie! Character concept art for a webcomic I'm working on

[emojackolantern]

went to a fragrance store and while i didn't find a candidate for the (heavily debated) green phil fragrance, i did get to smell dan's gucci fragrance.

my first impression was that it's actually quite incense forward? spicy but in a very unique and complex way. like a lot more complex than i figure is reasonable for daily wear is what i was thinking (leave it to dan to be needlessly complicated lmao)

on later review it's tobacco and cypress which ends up reading as menthol-y in a way? which is fun and the tobacco explains what i was reading as incense. there's also a particular like? i believe white floral quality (violet iirc) that compliments the other scents well, even if im not personally overly fond of it.

im also getting a little bit of like citrus and powdery-ness? im not getting much from the base notes (leather, amber) but i blame that on the fact that im smelling it on a card lol

my overall impression is that it smells kinda dry. like. how there are some scents that smell like the ocean or they smell juicy or whatever. this is the opposite of that. this smells dusty. this smells dark academia. this smells like saltburn. this smells like your rich old grandpa who smokes a pipe in his study ykwim.

i should probably stop before this turns full buzzfeed what your fragrance says about you but anyway yeah

gucci by gucci: 6/10. not a daily wear for me, personally but it's a fascinating and incredibly nuanced piece.

[faggotryandtransjesterism]

i've been thinking about people who write hannibal fics, and how incorporating will's louisiana upbringing could be so hard if you didn't grow up there, and it just so happens that i did grow up there! so i'm making a little list of things about louisiana that people might not know. go forth and write cajun will graham!

food: first off, there's a lot of things that are very specific to poor people in louisiana. i didn't realize until relatively recently that these weren't things everyone ate. molasses and milk (poor man's chocolate milk. honey and milk also is a thing, but molasses is more common bc of all the cane fields.) actually, let me just get a whole category out of the way: put everything in milk. cornbread and milk (with honey or sugar dumped in to sweeten it, this is a whole meal, we used to eat this for dinner), oats and milk (raw oats. with sugar.), crackers and milk (saltines. i'm not joking.), literally put any carb in milk and that's a cajun dish. dinner foods you see a lot of are things like jambalaya, gumbo (pro tip, gumbo is always better on the second and third day, and you eat it with potato salad), etouffee (if you look this up, you'll see a lot of fancy shit, this is not fancy. it's the slimiest gravy pot full of meat and veggies.) everything has rice, you can't eat dinner without rice. sweet potatoes are big, a lot more common than regular ones. okra is also very very common.

environment: we all know louisiana has a lot of bayous, but a lot of people have never seen one i guess? and have no idea what that looks like. it's not like shrek swamp kind of deal. the water's not that filthy most of the time, at least not to look at. you've got a lot of foliage on top of the water mostly. cypress trees are the big thing that makes a bayou look like a bayou. cypress trees with spanish moss all over them. the line between a bayou and a lake isn't big, and a lot of them are connected. also. (about to tell you something that will blow your mind.) swamps are full of nutria rats. (but percy, what are nutria rats? (pronounced noo-tra rats)) they look like small capybaras with long thick tails, and by small i mean they gut up to 20 pounds. 3 feet. they're actually adorable though. alligators are common, they're not aggressive, you just have to keep an eye on them. there's usually saw palmettos around the edges of the water. outside of swamps, though, something you'll notice is there are sugar cane fields everywhere. there's also live oak trees, which if you've never seen, are beautiful. they do exist in other places, but they grow differently in louisiana bc of all the water. they have enormous, sweeping branches that dip down onto the ground sometimes, and they're (once again) full of spanish moss.

culture: in louisiana, some people speak cajun french. this is not the same as parisian french, and it's not always mutually intelligible. also, there's really very few people left who speak it, and it's mostly older folks. for example, my grandpa learned french before he learned english, but he didn't pass it on to his kids, and now he has very few people to speak it with. cajun music is a pretty unique thing, you've usually got an accordion, a fiddle, a bass, that kind of thing. some songs off the top of my head are jolie blonde, opelousas sostan, the boscoe stomp; there's also a lot of instrumental music, because it's all actually dancing music! cajun dancing is a whole thing that, once again, is dying out and mostly older folks know how to do it (my grandparents took me dancing all the time, so that, at least, i know). you might be able to look it up, but keep in mind, if you see something that looks more like square dancing, that's not what i'm talking about. (if you want a demo send me an ask lol, i can explain. in the meantime, i used to dance at randol's in lafayette, and the best band was donny broussard, so look those up on youtube if you want to hear cajun music.) zydeco is a whole other genre, and honestly not one i know much about, but it is an integral part of cajun culture.

that's all i can think of for now, but if i think of anything else, i'll add on. if you have any questions, my ask box is open!

[underrated-lovers-of-apollo-poll]

Round 1: Poll 5

*Please Read*

I advise everyone to read each contestant's story to get a well-rounded understanding of each entry. I urge you to not just vote for the one "you know best". I have everyone's stories/reasons why they should win under the cut.

(Cyparissus art by @literallyjusttoa)

Propaganda:

Cyparissus

What's The Love Story?

Apollo gave him a stag as a gift <3 then Cyparrisus accidently killed it and was so distraught that he BEGGED Apollo to let him MOURN IT'S DEATH FOREVER so apollo turned him into the Cypress tree.

also sidenote: his grandpa is Heracles and his dad fought in the Trojan War.

Why Should They Win?

he sobbed over HIS PET DEER. the guy LOVES NATURE.

Manto

What's The Love Story?

She's Tiresias's daughter!

She was brought to Delphi as a slave initially, but Apollo made her a priestess of Delphi! They had a son named Mopsus, and when Apollo instructed her to establish a new oracle, told her to marry the first man she saw after leaving Delphi.

She did just that and her husband guided her to Claros where she founded the oracle of Apollo Clarios.

Additionally, she was present when Niobe insulted Leto & her kids, and advised her to ask for forgiveness.

Finally, a guy tried to assault Manto on her couch and Apollo appeared and straight-up murdered him for the transgression. Protective King >>>>

Why Should They Win?

Apollo wingmaning his girlfriends >>>> Iconic

Kids?

One - Mopsus. He was a seer & diviner, and officiated Apollo's temple at Claros.

[fr3akinthecorner]

lesarafim pop up concert! just don't bring drugs or sunglasses phones! why is this girl so mad? bc she was in a mental ward for 8 days and forgot how to use a cell phone ok ok! so minhee Jang is coming and myoko okino but it's not really imperative that u bring meth just don't play Manga with your suicidal ideation lovers they know how to use cell phones hey keeho! is this thing on? devil baby will get high tonight is lesarafim down? they play a different game the Manga wifi is slower after treatment centers but the Russian mafia is down to how your suicidal meth party as long as Denmark is in this shit makes no sense my fingers are going to break again no daddy wants u to keep playing! it's called suicidal fire and you're the suicidal grandpa not the grandma sorry we lied but the grandma reads the letters grandpa writes them fuck this typing shit hurts! daddy said south korea is down to win dear God I'm gonna die Andy sorry I got distracted who the fuck is Andy my life is over and I'm lava magma Honolulu I'm gonna cry lord save my suicidal furniture ok I'm back in thank u cypress and surf! the furniture needs to be set up I will be waiting

[strawberriesnpopmusic]

Calla Lily and Cypress went to a friends house for a school project after school and haven’t been dropped off yet, so it’s just Cora, Kyle, Clover and Cedar home for dinner tonight

Clover: So… Grandma and grandpa are moving to Strangerville?

Kyle: Well they are moving back to Shady Acres… When your Aunt Leigh and I were born they moved to San Saquoa to be… in a better neighborhood

Clover: I think I want to go there and visit them. I know grandpa is probably going through a lot right now, I’d be so sad if I lost you…

Cora: Baby they didn’t have the same family dynamic as you and your dad do and I don’t think it’s safe for you to go to Strangerville right now.

Kyle: We… Your mother and i just think it’s better if you stay here… For now. They’ll come visit eventually.

Clover: I am a young adult now, I am going to see them and honestly there isn’t anything you guys can do. You’ve always told me I can do anything I put my mind too. I don’t know how many times i’ve heard “Clove you’re going to be the next super sim” but yet… Right now I want to go see my grandma and grandpa and you’re telling me I cant? What’s the big deal…

Cedar: Uh…. Can I be excused?

[peacedtogether]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: 𝅺Cypress Club Light Blue Thick High Quality Collared Golf Polo Shirt.

[rextyles]

Space Grandpa. v____v

As always, In Your Shoes belongs to the fantastic @stagenvy and @vasilisk-vd!

[goldiedraws]

Here's Grandpa Cypress's friend group! I love them very much

Irene James: An exceptionally kind woman who loves crochet and cooking and is teaching these to her foster son, Peter.

Charles Parker: A grouch slow to accept new things, very confident.

Margaret Davis: A kind lady who used to help Cypress on his farm.

Jean Turner: A loud and opinionated seamstress.

[tuscanwalker]

Sept 27, 2022: Campagnano di Roma to La Storta - 25.4 km; CUS - 1,800 ft

403.2 km to date

Memories of India

The British tour group tracked in about an hour and a half after us, but still game after a very long, wet day. On our way out to explore and whine/wine about 5 pm we encountered the guides and the last two ladies to come in, including one who had been sidelined with really bad blisters but came back today and made the whole distance. My admiration for them continues. I have been fortunate not to have any blisters this trip, a first on these long treks with Kim (he never seems to get them). Less fortunately, I stepped in a puddle on the street today that turned out to be a couple of missing cobble stones. I badly reinjured my calf and right hip and i am walking with a pronounced limp while trying to avoid walking at all. I was still able to finish today and tomorrow should be a cakewalk to St Peters.

Dinner last night was fabulous. Kim and I both had the bruschetta fantasia (1 artichoke, 1 pomodoro and one capicollo plus a pot of hot beans and crostini. Then Kim had the gnocchi with an arugula pesto and cherry tomatoes while I had the bucatini amatriciana. Both were perfect, as was the house red. Filled with locals, eccentrically decorated and run by three generations of family, I just thought it was something my brother would have loved. Throughout we were entertained by the owners 16ish month old grandson running around the tables chasing and being chased by grandpa. Made me homesick for the grandkids. Normally the food is included in our half board but we pay for wine and mineral water. Nonetheless, the owner refused payment of any kind. So saying, I gave him 10€ and told him in broken Italian to buy something for the little guy. In response, I was gifted with a huge smile and a grazie mille.

Today basically a long, tough, boring trudge. The hi-lite of the day was running into a number of cows on the loose and a older woman in her little Fiat Panda desperately looking for them. We found two at a roadside and one immediately started meandering toward me with a determined look on its face (do cows have looks or just vacant stares?) It reminded me of walking down a road in India (where cows are as ubiquitous as boulevard trees) and encountering several cows, one of which seemed determined to make Luanne her friend and followed her for a considerable distance.

Other than that, the most interesting thing today was a sign explaining that we had just walked over a subterranean aqueduct about 100 sq feet in cross section. It was apparently 78 km long with a consistent 1.2-2% slope. It was built by the Etruscans to bring water from mountains to the city of Veio. Needless to say I have no pictures to share. Instead, I offer pictures of an old mill (below are the millstones) and 60-80 foot waterfall we passed. I regret to say that after about 20 km walking there was no way I was scrambling down a cliff and back up to get a better picture from the bottom.

We arrived about 3:30, had a glass of wine and showered and are still awaiting the arrival of our British friends.

Random Thoughts

Umbrella Pines

As we were walking yesterday, I got to thinking about how, for many people, rows of cypress trees lining a road through a hillside vineyard is symbolic of the Tuscan countryside. Kim, on the other hand, is absolutely enamoured with the Plane Trees, many of which are centuries old. My favourite is the umbrella pines, tall with the characteristic crown and all the dead lower limbs removed, this is Tuscany to me.

Italian Clocks

Time seems unimportant when you are walking through the Italian countryside. This is reinforced by the fact that every little town has a clock tower, sometimes on the city gate, sometime on a church bell tower and sometimes on city hall. Why does this support the idea that time is unimportant? It is because none of them tell the correct time. We even found one where the wrong time is different on different sides of the clock tower, all different, but all wrong.

[game-weaver]

Yun might be in the Underworld with Hades, but they still send gifts for his birthday. One of them is a carving from the cypress tree of Yugi himself, done by Hades. There was even a note that said, 'Happy Birthday to the one who has brought my son a little bit of starlight once more into his life. Thank you, Young Yugi. -Hades' Now Yun's gift was actually from his hoard and one of the sacred treasures that he loves to collect.

A music box.

The melody was soft and sweet, and when opened, there was instead of a ballerina or a couple dancing, what looked like a dragon inside a lotus flower.

Dear Yugi Though I cannot be here to celebrate your birthday, I do wish you a happy one. This music box was an offering from my youth and as I no longer listen to it, I felt it was best that you should have it. There is a secret hiding place within the music box, thus another surprise awaits within for your garden. Papa Hades and the rest of the Underworld, wish you a wonderful and happy birthday. I know the same can be said of Dad, Mom, Anu, and Horus, even Grandpa Ra. Happy Birthday My Amethyst, and may there be many more. Also, be a little extra sassy for us, okay?

Your dragon, Yun Mesbah

Finding the gifts in general were a surprise but as he held the carving he marveled at the craftmanship, turning it over gently in his hands. The note made him smile, he was always glad to bring light to anyone.

But then as he opened the box and listened to the melody, he relaxed, his smile gentle as he read Yun's message. A hidden place hm? He'd have to find it, but for now, he would curl up on the couch and just enjoy the soft music. He hoped sometime soon he'd be able to see Yun again for a visit.

[strongbrew-hamstery]

I noticed a few days ago that some of the #ConiferousCuties seemed a bit... Fuzzier than normal. While I'm still not totally convinced it does appear we have three long hair pups - Montezuma #Cypress, Foxtail Pine and Forrest Hemlock. I didn't at all expect long hair. I know grandpa Advo did not carry it but wasn't sure on Piddles. Clearly she did carry it though, and so does AJ! Genetics are fun. https://www.instagram.com/p/CY4Ns6tAEuG/?utm_medium=tumblr

[loubatas-art]

Book cover commission for my grandpa’s future book

He wanted something reminding ukiyo-e woodprints [Image ID: a digital drawing of a landscape. The style is simple, with thin clear lines and no shades or highlights, and the color palette consist essentially in shades of purples. In the background, clear skies and two clouds takes the upper half of the picture, while a triangular-shaped mountain and hills take the lower half of it. In the foreground, on the right, there is a cypress tree and a rose bush with yellow roses. On the left, there is the top of an olive tree, with a twig sticking out on which is perched a Sardinian warbler, a passerine bird native to the Mediterranean region. The bird is grey with a black head, a white throat and red eyes]

[doubleddenden]

This is one of the worst times for a Pokémon fan. Not because of anything bad, it's because the rumor mill is absolutely DRY dude.

We got Pokémon Day coming up soon and hardly anyone in the usual spots are making up anything. This time of year there's usually shit like

Just got fired, fuck this company, I'm gonna spill everything

Pokemon Sound and Silence, set in Italy, holiday 2022, first trailer on the 25th

Starters are a grass cricket that becomes a grass/bug accordion player, a Fire horse that becomes a Fire/Fighting centaur with flaming wheels, and a Water slug that becomes a Water type gondola

Trailer shows off an electric chipmunk named Electrimunk and the regional bird is a Flying/Fairy Stork. First gym leader is a dragon type leader named Blorbo with a regional Gible as his partner, which is Dragon/Water.

Rivals are a tough girl named Eeby and a scared boy named Deeby, twins, both get the opposite starters than you, third rival named Ricardo, his signature Pokémon is a Spaghetti snake, which is dragon and a new type called SOUND

Evil team is Team Baguette and Team Stromboli, both fronts for the real evil bad guy, a the professor

The professor is Prof. Cypress, typical hot guy. His field of study is Pokémon fusion, and he wants to find the legendaries to bring his wife back. She's not dead, she just left him.

New gimmick is fusion!!! Charizard can fuse with a bunch of Pokémon, and the champion, Raphael, uses 3 Charizard to form Charizard Ultimate Dragon, after trying to steal your grandpa's shiny Charizard for himself. There's only so many Fusions but Charizard has 7 of them.

The legendaries are some kind of ghost/fire whale monster that brought sound to silence and a water/Psychic sea serpent, which brought silence to sound

Dlc is planned already, only introduces about 70 new Pokémon, 10 new regional variants, and some fusions

Have at it, Riddler Benis, OUT

Like cmon guys. Even if it's fake do SOMETHING

[backdroplock]

“Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings” by Joy Harjo

I am the holy being of my mother's prayer and my father's song

 —Norman Patrick Brown, Dineh Poet and Speaker

1. SET CONFLICT RESOLUTION GROUND RULES: Recognize whose lands these are on which we stand. Ask the deer, turtle, and the crane. Make sure the spirits of these lands are respected and treated with goodwill. The land is a being who remembers everything. You will have to answer to your children, and their children, and theirs— The red shimmer of remembering will compel you up the night to walk the perimeter of truth for understanding. As I brushed my hair over the hotel sink to get ready I heard: By listening we will understand who we are in this holy realm of words. Do not parade, pleased with yourself. You must speak in the language of justice. 2. USE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS THAT DISPLAY AND ENHANCE MUTUAL TRUST AND RESPECT: If you sign this paper we will become brothers. We will no longer fight. We will give you this land and these waters "as long as the grass shall grow and the rivers run." The lands and waters they gave us did not belong to them to give. Under false pretenses we signed. After drugging by drink, we signed. With a mass of gunpower pointed at us, we signed. With a flotilla of war ships at our shores, we signed. We are still signing. We have found no peace in this act of signing. A casino was raised up over the gravesite of our ancestors. Our own distant cousins pulled up the bones of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren from their last sleeping place. They had forgotten how to be human beings. Restless winds emerged from the earth when the graves were open and the winds went looking for justice. If you raise this white flag of peace, we will honor it. At Sand Creek several hundred women, children, and men were slaughtered in an unspeakable massacre, after a white flag was raised. The American soldiers trampled the white flag in the blood of the peacemakers. There is a suicide epidemic among native children. It is triple the rate of the rest of America. "It feels like wartime," said a child welfare worker in South Dakota. If you send your children to our schools we will train them to get along in this changing world. We will educate them. We had no choice. They took our children. Some ran away and froze to death. If they were found they were dragged back to the school and punished. They cut their hair, took away their language, until they became as strangers to themselves even as they became strangers to us. If you sign this paper we will become brothers. We will no longer fight. We will give you this land and these waters in exchange "as long as the grass shall grow and the rivers run." Put your hand on this bible, this blade, this pen, this oil derrick, this gun and you will gain trust and respect with us. Now we can speak together as one. We say, put down your papers, your tools of coercion, your false promises, your posture of superiority and sit with us before the fire. We will share food, songs, and stories. We will gather beneath starlight and dance, and rise together at sunrise. The sun rose over the Potomac this morning, over the city surrounding the white house. It blazed scarlet, a fire opening truth. White House, or Chogo Hvtke, means the house of the peacekeeper, the keepers of justice. We have crossed this river to speak to the white leader for peace many times Since these settlers first arrived in our territory and made this their place of governance. These streets are our old trails, curved to fit around trees. 3. GIVE CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK: We speak together with this trade language of English. This trade language enables us to speak across many language boundaries. These languages have given us the poets: Ortiz, Silko, Momaday, Alexie, Diaz, Bird, Woody, Kane, Bitsui, Long Soldier, White, Erdrich, Tapahonso, Howe, Louis, Brings Plenty, okpik, Hill, Wood, Maracle, Cisneros, Trask, Hogan, Dunn, Welch, Gould... The 1957 Chevy is unbeatable in style. My broken-down one-eyed Ford will have to do. It holds everyone: Grandma and grandpa, aunties and uncles, the children and the babies, and all my boyfriends. That's what she said, anyway, as she drove off for the Forty-Nine with all of us in that shimmying wreck. This would be no place to be without blues, jazz—Thank you/mvto to the Africans, the Europeans sitting in, especially Adolphe Sax with his saxophones... Don't forget that at the center is the Mvskoke ceremonial circles. We know how to swing. We keep the heartbeat of the earth in our stomp dance feet. You might try dancing theory with a bustle, or a jingle dress, or with turtles strapped around your legs. You might try wearing colonization like a heavy gold chain around a pimp's neck. 4. REDUCE DEFENSIVENESS AND BREAK THE DEFENSIVENESS CHAIN: I could hear the light beings as they entered every cell. Every cell is a house of the god of light, they said. I could hear the spirits who love us stomp dancing. They were dancing as if they were here, and then another level of here, and then another, until the whole earth and sky was dancing. We are here dancing, they said. There was no there. There was no  "I"  or "you." There was us; there was "we." There we were as if we were the music. You cannot legislate music to lockstep nor can you legislate the spirit of the music to stop at political boundaries— —Or poetry, or art, or anything that is of value or matters in this world, and the next worlds. This is about getting to know each other. We will wind up back at the blues standing on the edge of the flatted fifth about to jump into a fierce understanding together. 5. ELIMINATE NEGATIVE ATTITUDES DURING CONFLICT: A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is a panther poised in a cypress tree about to jump. The panther is a poem of fire green eyes and a heart charged by four winds of four directions. The panther hears everything in the dark: the unspoken tears of a few hundred human years, storms that will break what has broken his world, a bluebird swaying on a branch a few miles away. He hears the death song of his approaching prey: I will always love you, sunrise. I belong to the black cat with fire green eyes. There, in the cypress tree near the morning star. 6. AND, USE WHAT YOU LEARN TO RESOLVE YOUR OWN CONFLICTS AND TO MEDIATE OTHERS' CONFLICTS: When we made it back home, back over those curved roads that wind through the city of peace, we stopped at the doorway of dusk as it opened to our homelands. We gave thanks for the story, for all parts of the story because it was by the light of those challenges we knew ourselves— We asked for forgiveness. We laid down our burdens next to each other.

[jtjlover]

ENG/PL When you visit Mt. Haguro there is no chance you will miss the oldests Five-storied Pagoda in all of Tohoku. When Haguro Town was amalgamated into Tsuruoka in 2005, the city became one of the only municipalites in Japan, let alone the world, to possess two Five-storied Pagodas, the other located at Zenpoji. You will see it when you pass the Grandpa Cedar Tree, called Jijisugi,1000 year old and 43-meter high, the oldest cedar tree in the forest surrounding Mt. Haguro. Pagoda was originally constructed during the Heian Period (794-1185), and the current structure is believed to have been rebuilt in 1372. Some interesting info about pagoda: ✔ it preserves the original natural colour of the wood in what is called Shirakizukuri (bare wood construction) ✔ no nails were used in its construction ✔ each roof has been built in an ancient Japanese style called Kokerabuki (a roof covering made with a layer of thin wooden shingles made of cypress) ✔ unlike other pagodas found in Japan each roof is the same size (this way only the top roof has to counteract the weight of the snow, which sometimes can accumulate even up to 3 meters!) ✔ people from the province would for centuries take turns climbing the pagoda and clearing the snow from the roof ✔ pagoda is 29.9 meters high ✔ it has an earthquake dampening system inside, it's in a form of a huge swinging pendulum counteracting shakes and swaying to prevent the tower from collapsing ✔ it was designated as a National Treasure in 1966 Quite interesting story for a building in the deep forest, don't you think? I am always impressed by such news about something that many people rarely pay attention to. The history and nature are amazing!❤💚 ........................................................... Polish in the comments, because we know I love writing😅 ........................................................... #日本 #山形県 #羽黒山 #japan #japan_travel_story #myjapan #wheninjapan #japanguide #japantravel #daily_photo_jpn #photooftheday #travelstories #travel #travelphotography #nature #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #mountainlover #japanfolk #traveltime #traveler #naturepower #naturemagic #travelove #travel (w: 国宝 羽黒山五重塔) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNjrKIHjO5O/?igshid=1pe4jphnt168w