#New Hebrides

[lonestarbattleship]

USS WEST VIRGINIA (BB-48) in the floating drydock USS ARTISAN (ABSD-1), having her screws repaired at Espiritu Santo, Aessi Island, New Hebrides.

Photographed on November 9, 1944.

Battleship North Carolina Archives: P2016.021

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[postcard-from-the-past]

Copra drying on the New Hebrides

French vintage postcard

[kiddosdreamsposts]

“Tropical retreat, Lololima Cascades / Vanuatu .”

[renaissancerecordsrpg]

“Tropical retreat, Lololima Cascades / Vanuatu .”

[grokwrites]

“Tropical retreat, Lololima Cascades / Vanuatu .”

[new-wave-girl]

“Tropical retreat, Lololima Cascades / Vanuatu .”

[jurakan]

Fun fact please?

Today You Learned about Shion/Shony.

[Wikipedia’s article is under ‘Seonaidh’, but I read about it under the name ‘Shion’ in Mark Williams’s book.]

So, in the early 1700’s book A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland by Martin Martin (yes, that is his name) describes an annual nighttime ritual on the Isle of Lewis, in the Hebrides, in which the local church community would get together, pick someone to hold a cup of ale, and then wade into the water and dump it in while declaring it an offering to Shion or Shony to have a prosperous harvest. Now Marty-Mart thought that this was a holdover from an old pagan religion. It was popularly believed by scholars that ‘Shion’ must have been some old Celtic deity of the sea, whose cult was long forgotten, but that this one little island off the coast of Scotland remembered, if only for this one little holiday. Wikipedia even calls this ‘likely’, though it doesn’t have a citation for that sentence.

Welp. Probably not, according to Mark Williams.

In his book Ireland’s Immortals, Mark Williams talks about Marty-Mart’s records, and his own research. He also brings up that acclaimed scholar Ronald Hutton (famous debunker of New Age nonsense) independently came to the same conclusion, and that is this: this probably isn’t a pre-Christian ritual that survived. This is probably a pre-Reformation ritual that survived. After all, ‘Seonaidh’ is close to the Scottish Gaelic form of ‘Johnny’, in the same way that ‘Sean’ is the Irish take on ‘John’. Williams suggests that, given there are a ton of weird little festivals for saints all over the world, and the prominence of water, this is probably a ritual feast celebration to Saint John the Baptist, and it somehow survived the Reformation in this remote corner of Scotland.

A bit weird, but I hope it’s a good Fun Fact.

[supercantaloupe]

so not only am i Not playing principal on the beethoven, that was probably the worst reading i've ever done in orchestra. great

[vox-anglosphere]

The Isle of Skye, jewel of the Scottish Hebrides, is defined by the sea.

Good Morning from Scotland and Happy New Year 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Sunrise over the cliffs of Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye

📸luca_gino_photographyon Instagram.

[sitp-recs]

Hello! I saw your last rec for Draco being whipped for Harry. Would you have any recs for the reverse situation? Harry being absolutely smitten for Draco. I love when it's mostly from Harry POV and Draco is driving him mad. Does anything come to mind? Thank you for your lovely recs and your presence in the fandom, it's a blessing! 💜

Yes of course! I feel like I did quite a few lists for pining Harry so this one will focus on smitten Harry told from his own pov. I tried to mix old favorites with fics I don’t see recced often. I’d highly recommend checking @tackytigerfic, @bixgirl1 and ignatiustrout as they all explore this trope so beautifully!

Take A Stab At It by @sorrybutblog (E, 3k)

It’s a bit pathetic, Harry knows, to have a hard-on for the guy who bullied you in school. Kind of cliché to look back on years of obsession and hatred and think, Oh.

Hourglass Heart by bixgirl1 (E, 5k)

It only happened once — depending on how Harry counted.

Blue Sky Is Living Here Today by ignatiustrout (G, 5k)

Draco's a father, Harry's in love with him, and it's really hard to take things slow.

The Things They Never Say by bixgirl1 (E, 9k)

Harry and Draco don't know how to talk. So they do other things instead.

Sex Ed for Aurors by curiouslyfic (M, 9k)

Some things, you need to learn on the job.

i wake up falling, orphaned (M, 9k)

Draco’s always leaving, one way or another. Harry’s usually 240 thousand miles too late.

Poppiholla by @moonflower-rose (M, 12k)

Harry had accepted that he would pine silently for Malfoy forever, but one, humid summer might change that.

Take the Moon by tackytiger (M, 15k)

Harry Potter has always wanted a family of his own, and when a deadly blood curse forces him into a marriage bond with his best friend Draco Malfoy, it looks like he might just have found one. It's just a shame they’d always planned to break up after a year…

White as Snow by bixgirl1 (E, 19k)

After a quick escape from danger, Harry and Draco find themselves trapped in a blizzard, a small cabin their only refuge from the storm. It's the perfect place to recover and regroup — and to have a long-overdue conversation or two.

We Might Be Too Old for a Bildungsroman by @wellhalesbells (T, 21k)

Harry finds something he’s been looking for since the war’s end. Admittedly, the packaging’s a bit odder than he expected.

With Great Yawns and Stretchings by sugar_screw (T, 22k)

The coffee is very good. Really. And the cats are so cute. That's why Harry goes so often.

On Your Shore by @xanthippe74 (M, 35k)

Clearing out a remote house full of cursed collectibles in the Outer Hebrides? Not a problem for an experienced curse breaker like Harry Potter. Spending a week with the straight, happily-married man that he’s starting to have feelings for? And sharing a bed with him at night? Surely Harry can handle that, too.

LA, Who Am I To Love You? by @epitomereally (E, 42k)

Harry’s summer in LA is not going as expected. Pansy Parkinson keeps inviting him to parties in the Hollywood Hills and harassing him to finally go to the physical therapist, Blaise Zabini keeps slipping new strains of his company’s magical weed into Harry’s pockets in hopes of an endorsement, and Draco Malfoy keeps having sex with everyone but Harry.

Here's The Pencil, Make It Work by ignatiustrout (M, 49k)

Harry thinks "Why is Malfoy working in a coffee shop in muggle London?" is a much simpler question than, "Are you going to accept that auror offer and, if you don't, what will you do?"

Modern Love by tackytiger (E, 61k)

Harry Potter, of all people, knows that life isn’t always fair. And no one gets to be happy all of the time. But surely there’s something more—something better—than a rubbish Ministry job, and a lonely old house, and that feeling that everyone out there is doing a better job of living than Harry is.

Azoth by @lol-zeitgeistic (E, 88k)

Now that Harry is back at Hogwarts with Hermione for eighth year, he realises that something’s missing from his life, and it either has to do with Ron, his boggart, Snape, or Malfoy. Furthermore, what, exactly, does it mean when one’s life is defined by the desire to simultaneously impress and annoy a portrait?

What We Pretend We Can't See by gyzym (M, 131k)

Seven years out from the war, Harry learns the hard truth of old history: it’s never quite as far behind you as you thought.

Can't Sit Still by wilteddaisy (E, 193k)

Five years after the war, Harry finds himself drawn to Draco Malfoy by memories that aren't his own.

[lonestarbattleship]

USS WEST VIRGINIA (BB-48) in the floating drydock USS ARTISAN (ABSD-1) at Espiritu Santo, Aessi Island, New Hebrides. WEST VIRGINIA was docked for upkeep and repair to propellers damaged when she touched ground off Leyte on October 21.

Photographed on November 13, 1944.

Battleship North Carolina Archives: P2016.021

Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-314220, NH 89345

[postcard-from-the-past]

Sea turtle on the New Hebrides, modern-day Vanuatu

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1905 to Saint-Étienne, France

[swifty-fox]

Im researching for kfak and came across some ancient BOB fandom:

December 5 2008, 05:26:04 UTC 

In general, Vaseline petroleum jelly. Still classic, but I bet it did a number on rubber. In the Pacific, where the sodomy was everywhere, there was this one spot on Guadalcanal or someplace in the New Hebrides the gays liked to call Vaseline Alley where a lot of trade could be picked up, va-va-voom!

At the front, the cold European front, well, there's always spit. Since I'm assuming you're talking about Haguenau I'm thinking you could whip up a bombed-out pharmacy that has stuff that would work. Unless you're writing Webgott, in which case I suggest Joe would just stick Dave dry just to hurt him.

[probablyasocialecologist]

An ambitious plan to plant at least a million native trees on crofts in the Outer Hebrides has taken root, its organisers say, with more than 200 small new woods sprouting across the islands. The Western Isles woodland project hopes to reestablish a thriving mosaic of small woods dotted across the islands by using vacant or underused crofts to reforest the Hebrides and promote nature restoration. Under the project, funded mainly by profits from the UK’s largest community-owned windfarm, west of Stornoway, 211,000 trees have already been planted on 245 crofts, plots of land that were historically family-run small holdings. Some of the new woodlands have up to 1,500 trees grown from local seeds, featuring alder, hazel, birch, rowan, Scots pine, blackthorn, sycamore and various species of willow. The project has been so successful it has helped establish three new tree nurseries on the islands.

[...]

“We’re restoring a landscape which existed a thousand years ago,” [Jon Macleod] said. Using seeds gathered from local trees greatly increased their chances of prospering – “the survival rate and provenance is relevant to the place”. Calum Macdonald, the former Labour MP leading the project, hoped it could be a model for community owned energy projects across the UK. Four-fifth of the woodlands’ funding is from the £900,000 annual profits made by the three 3MW wind turbines owned by Point and Sandwick trust, a community development body. The turbines at Beinn Ghrideag generate up to 30GWh of power a year – enough, Macdonald said, to supply all the Western Isles with electricity.

[...]

Green energy schemes generally employ only a handful of staff and engineers whereas community ownership allows people to capture the profits they produce and reinvest them locally, Macdonald said. In Denmark, about half of turbines are community-owned. Many rural communities in the UK feel excluded from the profits generated by energy firms, and resent the large turbines, sub-stations and large pylons built in their areas. “I would love to use the green energy revolution to get a lot more long-term benefits for our communities,” Macdonald said. Macleod agrees. “No one is against renewable energy here but community benefit is key, otherwise it’s just exploitation,” he said.

31 August 2024

[serpentface]

how do you come up with names for your characters, places, fauna names etc? like is it just vibes or do you have a naming system/special alphabet/language? :o

(talking about your white calf headworld) sorry if its been asked before!

I have a naming language for Wardi words, an incomplete naming language for the Highland-Finnic and Burri languages, and like, a sense of common consonants and sounds for the other languages that come up frequently. I try to keep at least a sense of internal consistency rather than things just being like, purely keysmashes and Vibes, but some words are more thoughtfully constructed than others (and some predated me establishing Any rules and had to be written around or handwaved as loanwords).

Also I have ongoing lists of words and established roots for every language which is what I rely on the most for building new names. Whenever I create a new word/name Without established roots, I usually try to derive new roots from it that I can later re-use (ie decided the -kul in Brakul is an obsolete Highland-Finnic word with connotations of hardiness, which is no longer used on its own in contemporary dialects but appears in kulustaig (cattle landrace), kulys (drought resistant plant), beinkulm (high altitude barley landrace))

As for the character names, the majority of the major characters have been around/named for a Minimum of 2 years (which is before I did any linguistic stuff) so their names were not built on in-universe languages and I instead built the languages around these names.

Faiza- was originally Faizahaidamane as one word, later divided into a name and surname. She's one of the oldest characters and I don't remember how I came up with it. Also had to retroactively change the pronunciation to 'Fai - Tsa' because Wardi has no 'Z' sounds (justified in-universe, Faiza is originally a Burri name).

Janeys- Might have been a spin on 'Janus'?? I don't really remember how I constructed it but I wanted it to be a common name.

Brakul- I have no earthly idea.

Tigran- This is the only one I (knowingly) took from a real world name, it was kind of just because I liked it.

Couya- I straight up just named her after my first major OC from the 7th grade and added a 'U' (the character was named Coya, which was based on the word coyote).

Palo- He is kind of a fusion of two older characters, one of which was named Dove, so on that theme I took 'Palo' out of the word 'Paloma'.

Hibrides- I think this is one that Seemingly came to me fully formed but was actually me just thinking of the name of the Hebrides archipelago without remembering that is an actual thing, so now I have google docs insisting on autocorrecting it to that every single time

[inky-duchess]

what are the different regions that Britain conquered? I know that Wales and Ireland are two, but I don’t know where to begin of looking into the different cultures?

"Britain" never conquered Ireland, nor Wales or Scotland. The English invaded and occupied them, the concept of Britain did not exist at this time.

Britain also occupied:

Egypt

Sudan

South Africa

Nigeria

Kenya

Uganda

Ghana

Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)

Asia

India

Pakistan

Bangladesh

Myanmar (Burma)

Malaysia

Singapore

Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Hong Kong

Americas

Canada

United States (13 original colonies)

Jamaica

Barbados

Bahamas

Trinidad and Tobago

Guyana

Australia

New Zealand

Fiji

Papua New Guinea

Europe

Malta

Cyprus

Botswana (Bechuanaland)

Lesotho (Basutoland)

Swaziland (Eswatini)

Malawi (Nyasaland)

Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)

Tanzania (Tanganyika and Zanzibar)

India

Pakistan

Bangladesh

Myanmar (Burma)

Malaysia

Singapore

Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Hong Kong

Maldives

Brunei

Yemen (Aden)

Iraq

Kuwait

Jordan

Palestine

Canada

United States (13 original colonies)

Jamaica

Barbados

Bahamas

Trinidad and Tobago

Guyana

Belize (British Honduras)

Bermuda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Antigua and Barbuda

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Grenada

Dominica

Cayman Islands

Montserrat

Falkland Islands

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

Fiji

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu (New Hebrides)

Tonga

Samoa (Western Samoa)

Kiribati (Gilbert Islands)

Tuvalu (Ellice Islands)

Nauru

Europe

Malta

Cyprus

Gibraltar

United Arab Emirates (Trucial States)

Qatar

Bahrain

Oman (Muscat and Oman)

Seychelles

Mauritius

Maldives

Caribbean

Anguilla

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Montserrat

Turks and Caicos Islands