#October Snow Colorado

[pendragoniteblue]

a glimpse of snow on the mountains

[butch--dean]

Dreaming of her (fall)

[atlas-affogato]

I have a debilitating (and when I say debilitating I mean DEBILITATING) fear of tornadoes and when I move back across country I'm going to have to do it in spring 🙂 in tornado season. 🙂

[sadalmostlesbian]

Question since this has been running though my brain about D2 food: what do you think the usual cuisine would be?

I’ve been thinking of what to have at the harvest festival for the trio in the Capitol and nothing is coming to mind outside of prickly pear but I stole that from Jocelyn lol (THG Encyclopedia)

This a super good question! I grew up in Northwest Colorado so I can only answer for that portion for certain (I do live on the Front Range in CO now). For the portions in New Mexico I would say prickly pear would def be popular because it grows very well there.

As for the mountains, not much grows here because the winter is 6 months long (like snow on the ground in October which doesn’t melt until April, so the ground is not arable for half the year). However, a lot of my friends used to hunt deer, elk, and grouse, so those could be popular (that’s assuming beef shipped from D10 is considered a luxury). We also have some berries (thimble berries and sarvisberries shown below) that grow in the wild.

Some edible plants like pine and dandelions do well in the region where I live, but most gardens fail because the only time it doesn’t get below freezing at night is late June through late August.

There are peach and wine vineyards in the far west of CO (where the Mojave desert starts) so those may be still available.

However, in the front range (central and eastern CO) it is very different. It’s a lot warmer and lower elevation, so crops like wheat and corn can grow.

But for cuisine, I would say food is heavily inspired by specifically Mexican and New Mexican (which includes a mix Pueblo Native American and Mexican influences) cuisine. Especially in the southern part of D2. The two things I can think of specifically are pork chili verde and huevos rancheros.

But I do think the cuisine has been influenced by what is available. So in the quarry towns in the mountainous north, food is much blander because they cannot grow chiles or any type of herbs/spices because the soil is frozen for a decent amount of the year.

I hope this answered your question! And thank you so so much for the ask!

[greenticklerdreams]

Yep, that's the end-of-October first snow of the year, it is.

Colorado!!

[pryings]

TOA Anniversary Munday

thank you neffi for this template!!!

Celebrating TOA and the people who contribute to make our group what it is.

Repost, don't reblog. Only fill in what you feel comfortable sharing!

Happy anniversary, TOA! Here's to many more years spent together.

Name: ruaidhrí (said pretty much like the english name rory and if you want to spell it that way that's fine too, ik irish names throw people off)

Pronouns: he/him

Birthday (no year): 25th of october!

Where are you from? What is your time zone? i live in colorado and my timezone is MST

How long is your roleplay experience? i don't know exactly how many years since i sometimes have years where h don't rp but i've been rping on and off since i was 11-12.

How were you introduced to roleplaying as a whole? oh gosh, so ff.net used to have (maybe still has, i literally have not been on that site in ages) these like... forums? and i joined one for elder scrolls rp a little after oblivion came out. i was far and away the youngest one there but everyone was so nice in helping me turn my character into a proper oc with like... backstory, a real personality, etc. after that, i spent a lot of time using it to try and grow my creative writing skills.

How were you introduced to TOA? honestly i just stumbled across it randomly! i had just replayed a few fe games and was looking through some tags and thought it might be fun to try fire emblem rp (i'd done some on indie tumblr back in the day, as well as in an mfrp a little bit, but never fire emblem exclusive rp) so i sent arden to check it out and, well, here we still are.

Do you have any pets? simon (mini poodle), john hancock (tabby cat), and tim & geeb (fluffy black cats)

What is your favorite time of year and why? (Season, holiday, general period) early spring! i also like late fall for its temperature, but i dislike snow/sleet/wet socks so spring is preferable because it's not very snowy here!

What is your IRL occupation? blessedly unemployed (health issues have prevented me from working aha)... i used to work IT though!

Some interests and things you like/enjoy? i like birdwatching, reading academic articles about ancient civilizations, and making espresso drinks

What non-Fire Emblem games do you play? currently enjoying bg3 + doing a dragon age replay (in preparation for veilguard). outside current, i really like most single-player rpg type games (esp. with customizable character), stealth games (dishonored favorite), and Identity V is the first asymmetrical horror mobile game developed by NetEase for

Favorite Pokemon type & Pokemon: my favorite pokemon ever is alakazam (and its whole line) i've loved alakazam foreverrrrr! favorite type is steel, though! apart from my psychic baby most of my other favs tend to be steel types

Tell us some funfacts and trivia about yourself! oh gosh i'm so bad at fun facts...

- i can put both my feet behind my head but i can't touch my toes - my favorite non-ancient empire to read about is austria-hungary - my cat tim was rescued from Outside

How did you get into Fire Emblem? friend's cool older brother was playing a bunch of the games in a seemingly random order. when i'd hang out at that friend's house sometimes we'd sit and watch. i asked him to lend me some and he did!

What Fire Emblem games have you played? i have now played all of them! (last year when i answered this i hadn't technically played them all, but i'd seen playthroughs and watched let's plays of all of them at the very least)

First & Favorite Fire Emblem games: a bad translation of fe4 was first, por is still my favorite—but tbh there's not really one i dislike

List your 5 favorite Fire Emblem characters across the series! - KNOLL (promoted to number one he's my special guy) - reyson - canas - ashnard - pandreo

Who was the first character ever to make you go “ooh I like this one in particular” and why? Can be any context and reason! QUAN—i have such a distinct memory of seeing him come in but i don't remember my initial thought, only that he would have my heart forever

Any Fire Emblem crushes? 😳 vander. duessel. hardin.

If you’ve played (or are familiar with) the following games, who was your first S support? Who would you S support nowadays? - Awakening: first was sumia! i don't have a set nowadays because i've done a different one on each playthrough - Fates: first was xander, would probably still do xander if i were to replay - Three Houses: first was seteth, if i replay i'll go for hanneman - Engage: first was pandreo! next time i plan to do ivy though

Favorite Fire Emblem class? i like shapeshifter classes! beasts, dragons, laguz, etc. i just think they're fun to play with

If you were a Fire Emblem character, what would be your class and stats? Would you be playable? oh gosh, i'd be an infantry axe unit probably. middling starting stats but high growths if you really work at making me good (there would be heated debates over whether the necessary time investment would be worth it)

If you were a Three Houses character, what would be your affiliation? black eagles!

If you were an Officers Academy student, what would be your boons, banes and potential budding talent? axe boon, heavy armor bane, budding talent in faith magic (could be classed into an fe:a style war cleric and it would be my suggested goal)

If you were an Engage character, which nation would you originate from? i want to say brodia!

How do you pronounce TOA? 🤔 toh-ah

Current TOA muses: just knoll <3

Past TOA muses? robin, niles, almedha, reyson, hardin, iago, perceval, lachesis (i think that's all?)

Who was your first TOA muse? If you no longer have them, can you see yourself picking them up again? my first muse was m!robin and thankfully i am spared any temptation on picking him up as he is currently being written.

Do you believe you have a type of character you gravitate towards writing? (If you filled this out last year, has this changed in any way?) i'm kind of all over the place, aren't i? i like characters where i can poke at hidden depths but ones who aren't too closely guarded. i like characters who are shy, withdrawn, standoffish, guarded, etc. in some way but who open up when spoken to. i don't think this has changed since last year, i've been writing for a long time and kind of know my comfort zone.

Do you have characters or types of characters you don’t think you can handle writing, but wish you could? boisterous/loud and over the top characters always challenge me, but i've never really managed to make them work, which is a shame because i tend to enjoy lively characters!

What kind of scenes, situations etc do you believe you enjoy writing the most? (If you filled this out last year, has this changed in any way?) -i love writing threads where setting/scenery is a focus, where i get to sort of use the landscape as a bit more than set-dressing - i enjoy throwing my muse at characters who mistrust him for whatever reason, and like to explore the kind of slow, mutual understanding that comes from two people getting to know one another - i really just like putting him in situations in general, forcing him to socialize—he's a very withdrawn character so any excuse to have him meet new people is very enjoyable

Do you have any scenario in mind for your muse(s) that gets you thinking “man I hope I get to write this one day”? nothing specific! i have kind of an arc for him but it's loosely-defined right now

Favorite TOA-related memories? HAPPYLAND WAS SO MUCH FUN. sincerely i loved the interactions he had there <3

Present or past tense? i default to present, but adapt to what my partner prefers on this!

Normal size text, small text, no preference? small text, bolded dialogue. just easier for my eyes to take it in that way.

Got any potential muse delusions to share? 😉 oh gosh. i recently had to go down to just one muse because my health is not so good, but i will admit i already have a few delusions. if i can get myself back to a spot where i feel like i can write a second, someone may return.

[rabbithaver]

rabbithaver's patented introduction poast

adorable art of chirp and silver by @y2khaos <3

hi there! my name is Rabbit! i am a silly purple snow leopard guy from Colorado. i'm gendervoid pansexual and i use they/them pronouns. as of October 6, i am 27 years old, but i've been on this website since i was 14, so... something something "aging tumblr userbase." between severe chronic back pain, fatigue issues, hearing loss, and a variety of mental illnesses, i can't work, so i have a lot of free time and very little money. oh, and i've been dating Seán @pacifistcowboy since October 19 <3 he'll come back to tumblr some day!

right now i'm hyperfixating really intensely on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. i started calling myself Silver the hedgehog's dad as like, a joke, but it stopped being a joke months ago. that's my biological son. i know he's a fiercely independent warrior, but i can't help it — i just wanna keep him safe and provide for him so he doesn't have to be so alone. he deserves to experience having parents... and now he does. Seán and i are raising him <3

i am also into Star Trek, Fallout, the Elder Scrolls, Pacific Rim, Supernatural, and like four hundred other things. if you're also into any of those things, i have great news for you: you're gonna see a lot of them on this blog.

also, if you even think about asking me about discourse, i will zap you with my incredible laser eyes. i have so much anxiety and no money! i do not have the energy to care about what other people on the internet are doing!

LINKS WORTH CHECKING OUT + MY TAGS

my '#bunnies' tag is where i post pictures of my pet rabbits! i also have a dedicated '#bun tag' for bunny picture reblogs. if you're having a bad day i recommend scrolling through both.

old photos of my pets can be found in my '#terin.pets' tag!

wanna know more about me? posts that resonate with me go in my '#about me' tag.

check out my fursona's google document! chirp is a purple snow leopard and also what i look like irl :)

read about my main Sonic OC, Oracle! you can also read some of my posts about her and her story in my '#omenhunter au' tag!

i live in a state where recreational marijuana is legal, and i sometimes partake as self-medication for my anxiety. if you don't want to see my posts about marijuana consumption, blacklist the tag 'rabbit eats grass.'

MY VARIOUS SIDE BLOGS:

@bumblekastclips is my sideblog where i transcribe BumbleKast questions! if you're into Sonic stuff, check it out!

@lawyerenjoyer is my retired Ace Attorney sideblog. i didn't post there often enough to justify having a side blog for AA lmao

@stellastarcrash is my kin blog. if you don't vibe with kin stuff that's cool, just don't be a hater <3 thanks!

anyway thanks for reading :) here's one of my favorite commissions from fern @y2khaos <3

[ammg-old2]

Summer sea ice in the Arctic could melt almost completely by the 2030s—roughly a decade earlier than projected—even if humans cut back drastically on greenhouse gas emissions, new research suggests. 

“We are very quickly about to lose the Arctic summer sea-ice cover, basically independent of what we are doing,” Dirk Notz, a climate scientist at the University of Hamburg in Germany tells the New York Times’ Raymond Zhong. “We’ve been waiting too long now to do something about climate change to still protect the remaining ice.”

An ice-free summer, also called a “blue ocean event,” will happen when the sea ice drops below one million square kilometers (386,102 square miles), writes Jonathan Bamber, a professor of physical geography at the University of Bristol, in the Conversation. This equates to just 15 percent of the Arctic’s seasonal minimum ice cover of the late 1970s, per the Times. 

Previous assessments using models have estimated an ice-free summer under high and intermediate emissions scenarios by 2050. But researchers noticed differences between what climate models predicted about what would happen to sea ice and what they've actually seen through observations, according to Bob Weber of the Canadian Press. "The models, on average, underestimate sea ice decline compared with observations," says Nathan Gillett, an environment and climate change Canada scientist, to Weber. 

Now, in a new study published in Nature Communications, Notz, Gillett and their colleagues tweaked these models to more closely fit satellite data collected over the past 40 years. Using these modified models, the researchers projected ice changes under different possible levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Their paper suggests that regardless of emissions scenario, “we may experience an unprecedented ice-free Arctic climate in the next decade or two.” Under a high emissions scenario, the Arctic could see a sustained loss of sea ice from August until as late as October before the 2080s, lead author Seung-Ki Min, a climate scientist at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea, tells CNN’s Rachel Ramirez. 

While sea ice naturally shrinks in the summer and refreezes during the winter, summer ice coverage has steadily been declining over the past few decades because of climate change. And Arctic ice melting accelerates itself—as ice disappears, it exposes more of the dark blue ocean, which absorbs more heat and leads to more melting. This process, known as Arctic amplification, has led to the region warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the globe since 1979. 

Sea ice decline could have catastrophic consequences that extend to the rest of the planet, including sea level rise and disruption to weather patterns and ecosystems. Animals like polar bears and seals that rely on Arctic ice to survive could be placed at risk. 

“It’s already happening,” Mark C. Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder who was not involved with the new research, tells the Times. “And as the Arctic continues to lose its ice, those impacts will grow and grow and grow.”

[refills]

[   sydney   sweeney,   demiwoman,   she/they   ]   —   whoa!   HOPE   DEVON   just   stole   my   cab!   not   cool,   but   maybe   they   needed   it   more.   they   have   lived   in   the   city   for   FOUR   YEARS,   working   as   a/an   BARTENDER.   that   can’t   be   easy,   especially   at   only   26   YEARS   OLD.   some   people   say   they   can   be   a   little   bit   UNFASTENED   and   TENTIE   ,   but   i   know   them   to   be   INTREPID   and   PERSPICACIOUS.   whatever.   i   guess   i’ll   catch   the   next   cab.   hope   they   like   the   ride   back   to   BROOKLYN!  

name   :   marilyn   hope   devon.   alias   :   devon.   age   :   25.   birthday   :   october   26th.   place   of   birth   :   aspen,   colorado.   gender   &   pronouns   :   demi   woman   +   she/they.   marital   status   :   single.   orientation   :   pansexual.   occupation   :   bartender.   residence   :   brooklyn,   new   york.   parents   :   andrew   desmond   devon   &   sheree   marie   devon.   siblings   :   jacqueline wonder devon (d. 2010).   children   :   none.   faceclaim   :   sydney   sweeney. distinguishing features : a scar along her neck. see : coffee, taken and savored, smoke coming from an alleyway, snorts of laughter barely hidden, saturday afternoon thrift shopping, tequila in a freezer, girlfriends on speaker. missed therapy appointments.

you’re   a   handful   as   a   child,   little   feet   running   around   the   trailer   you   call   home,   rushing   into   the   arms   of   your   mother,   your   father   and   anyone   else   who   happens   to   come   around.   your   childhood   is   full   of   laughter   and   warmth,   and   even   more   so   after   your   parents   have   their   second,   your   little   baby   sister.   you're   five   when   she's   brought   home,   all   bundled   up   and   immediately   you   love   her   more   than   anything   else.

it's   a   regular   day   when   it   happens,   snow   has   fallen,   your   father   has   off   work   and   he   decides   to   take   the   two   of   you   snow   sledding.   he's   had   a   few   but   that's   normal   too.   you   don't   remember   the   crash,   just   bits   and   pieces.   the   cold,   the   sharp   pain   across   your   neck,   the   red   hitting   white   and   the   screams   of   your   father.

it's   that   day,   in   the   snow,   that   your   sister   dies.   and   it   seems   like   everything   dies   with   her.   the   laughter   you   used   to   know?   gone.   as   is   the   warmth.   your   mother   blames   her   father   though   she   doesn't   say   it.   your   father   blames   himself   too.   the   few   beers   that   he   used   to   have   periodically   become   an   everyday   thing   and   you   soon   have   to   walk   on   eggshells.

by   the   time   you're   eighteen   you've   become   withdrawn,   demure,   you   keep   your   head   down,   do   what   you're   supposed   to   and   have   made   yourself   small.   it   does   change   though.   by   the   time   you've   managed   to   scramble   up   some   money   for   classes   and   a   place   of   your   own   you've   bloomed.

cut   to   seven   years   later   and   you've   made   a   home   in   new   york.   carved   a   little   life   out   for   yourself. it's not perfect, but it's something.

[pritishsblog]

TOP 4 HORROR MOVIES OF ALL TIME (IN MY OPINION)

Hi everyone! In today's blog I will be talking about my Top 4 Horror Movies of All Time

So let's have a look

1. The Shinning (1980)

(Overview)

The Shinning is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and is on the 1977 novel by Stephen King of the same name.

(Plot)

After landing a job as an off-season caretaker, Jack Torrance, an aspiring author and recovering alcoholic moves to the hotel with his wife Wendy and his gifted son Danny to the snow-covered Colorado's secluded Overlook Hotel. But writer's block prevents Jack from pursuing a new writing career. Everything has its time. First, the manager must give Jack a grand tour. Then Mr Hallorann, the facility's ageing chef, chats with Danny about rare psychic gifts. The mysterious employee also warns the boy about the cavernous hotel's abandoned rooms especially Room No.237 is off limits. Slowly Jack starts to lose his mind in the silent and secluded place which drives him to kill his wife and son. After all the strange occurrences and blood-chilling visions have trapped the family in a silent gargantuan prison hammered by snowstorms. Danny and his mother try to escape the hotel he is helped by his own spilt personality and the Mr. Hallorann. At the end, Jack is left stranded in the snow near the gardens of the hotel and Danny with his mother escape to live a simple life in the end.

(Cast & Crew)

The movie is directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay is written by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson. The movie has a star cast of Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance,Shelly Duvall as Wnedy Torrance,Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance,Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann. The cinematography of the movie is done by John Alcott and the movie was edited by Ray Lovejoy. The music of the movie was given by Wendy Carlos and Elkind.

(Other Details & Premiere)

The movie was distributed by Warner Bros Studios. The running time of the movie varied from continent to continent as it had running time of 144 minutes (2 hrs 24 mins) in America and 119 minutes (1 hr 59 mins) in Europe. The movie was released on 23rd of May 1980 in the United States and 2nd of October 1980 in United Kingdom.

(Box office & Accolades)

The movie was made on the budget of 19 million dollars and grossed in 47.3 million dollars. The movie received positive reviews from but critics but was criticized by Stephen King due to it's deviations from the novel. The film received 2 controversial nominations at the first ever Razzies in 1981 for the Worst Director and Worst Actress. The movie was selected to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress due to it being culturally,historically significant in American Cinema.

(Rating)

The movie has a rating 8.4/10 on IMDB with 1.1 million reviews and is 83% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 106 critics reviews and more than 250K audience reviews

The movie available to watch on Youtube for 120 Rs.

https://youtu.be/9nkTthe1fgs?si=S6AvQbgOwyBCnHz9

(Sources)

2. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

(Overview)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme based on the Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name.

(Plot)

The plot of the movie revolves around a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer by the name of Buffalo Bill who skins his female victims . To catch him,she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr.Hannibal Lector who is a brilliant psychiatrist and a cannibalistic serial killer. The FBI trainee is able to catch Buffalo Bill with the help of Hannibal's notes but in return Hannibal is able to escape the prison. Days after at the FBI Academy graduation party, the FBI trainee receives a call from Hannibal Lecter who is now in the Bahamas. As Lector assures that he won't pursue the young FBI trainee, he excuses himself from the call by remarking that he's having dinner with an old friend.

(Cast & Crew)

The movie is directed by Jonathan Demme and the screenplay of the movie is written by Ted Tally based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Harris. The movie has a star cast of Jodie Foster as Calrice Starling (the young FBI trainee), Sir Anthony Hopkins as Dr.Hannibal Lecter,Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford and Ted Levine as Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill. The cinematography of the movie was done by Tak Fujimoto and was edited by Craig McKay. The music of the movie was done by Howard Shore.

(Other Details & Premiere)

The movie was distributed by Orion Pictures. The movie has a running time of 119 minutes (1 hr 58 mins). The movie was premiered at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. The film was released worldwide on 14th February 1991. The movie is regularly cited by critics,other directors and audience ad one of the greatest and most imfluential films of all time.

(Box office & Accolades)

The movie was made on the budget of 19 million dollars and went on to gross over 272.7 million dollars. The movie won 5 Academy Awards including Best Director,Best Actor,Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay making it only the 3rd film in the history to accomplish that feat. It was also nominated for Best Sound and Best Film Editing. The movie won the award for Best Director at the Golden Globes. The film was listed in as one of the 100 greatest films in the past 100 years in 1998 by the American Film Institute. The movie was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011.

(Rating)

The movie has a rating of 8.6/10 on IMDB with 1.6 million reviews and is whopping 95% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 153 critics reviews and more than 250K audience reviews.

The movie is available to watch on Amazon Prime Videos (MGM Plus)

(Sources)

3. The Conjuring (2013)

(Overview)

The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. The movie is the first film in the Conjuring Universe Franchise based on the real-life incident of famous paranormal investigators Ed And Lorraine Warren.

(Plot)

The movie is inspired by the real life reports of the famous demonologitsts Ed and Lorraine Warren who come to help the Perron Family who move into a farmhouse in Harrisville,Rhode Island with their 5 daughters Andrea,Nancy,Christine,Cindy,April and their dog Sadie who refuses to enter the house on the day of moving. During the game of hide and seek the girls discover a boarded up entrance to an unknown cellar. Paranormal events start to occur in the house within the first few nights. Every clock in the house stops at 3:07 am. Carolyn awakens with additional large bruises every morning. One day, they find Sadie dead in the yard and Carolyn and Christine both encounter a malevolent spirit. They contact the Warrens for help who meet to agree and conduct an initial investigation during Lorraine feels a dark spirit which has latched itself to the Perron family. After a few months,the malevolent spirit named Bathsheba who claims full control and possesses Carolyn who sets her sites on to kill the daughters of the Perron Family. Later in the night, Warrens are summoned to help the Perrons and free Carolyn from the possession of Bathsheba who is trying to kill the daughters.

(Cast & Crew)

The movie is directed by James and is written by Chad Hayes. The movie is produced by Tony DeRosa,Peter Safran and Rob Cowan. The movie has a star cast of Vera Fermiga s Lorraine Warren,Patrick Wilson as Ed Warren,Lili Taylor as Carolyn Perron,Ron Livingston as Roger Perron,Shanley Caswell as Andrea,Hayley McFarland as Nancy,Joey King as Christine,Mackenzie Foy as Cindy,Kyla Deaver as April. The cinematography of the movie is done by John R.Leonetti and was edited by Kirk Morri. The music of the movie is given by Joseph Bishara.

(Other Details & Premiere)

The movie is distributed by Warner Bros Studios. The movie has running time of 112 minutes (1 hr 52 mins). The movie premiered at the Cinerama Dome on the 15th of July 2013 and was released worldwide on 19th of July 2013. The movie after release received a lot of positive reviews by critics and was received positively by the audiences as well.

(Box office & Accolades)

The movie was made on the budget of 20 million dollars and went on to gross over 319.5 million dollars. The movie turned out to be a great success and worked as a revival of a dying horror genre. The movie went on to become the highest grossing horror movie of all time only to be broken by IT in 2017. The movie was nominated for many awards be it the Best Sci-Fi /Horror Movie at the Critics Choice Awards,It went on to win the Award for the Best Horror movie at the Golden Schomes Awards and IGN Summer Movie Awards. The movie also won the award for Best Horro Film at the Saturn Awards.

(Rating)

The movie has a rating of 7.5/10 on IMDB with 556K audience reviews and is 86% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 228 critics reviews and more than 100K audience reviews.

The movie is available to watch on Netflix

(Sources)

4. Hereditary (2018)

(Overview)

Hereditary is a 2018 American psychological supernatural horror film written and directed by Ari Aster in his feaure directorial debut.

(Plot)

The plot of the movie revolves around the Graham Family which includes Annie Graham a miniature,her husband,her son and her daughter. The story begins with viewer looking out from the window in a workshop to a tree house, then turning and zooming in to a bedroom in a dollhouse that is in the workshop. As her mother passes away, she and her family prepares for her mother's funeral,unsettling occurrences and palpable situations manifestations start nesting in the secluded house's dark corners. A thick veil of grief and guilt and a sinfully pleasant sense of relief increasingly shroud the already troubled mother. The mounting distress of Annie's 13 year old Charlie becomes evident, and her older brother Peter begins to feel the relentless anguish of culpability. Now little by little, a sinister dark presence robs Annie of her free will, demanding a cruel sacrifice ins exchange of glorious rewards.

(Cast & Crew)

The movie is directed and written by Ari Aster. The movie is produced by Kevin Frakes and Lans Knudsen. The movie has a star cast of Toni Collette as Annie Graham,Gabriel Byrne as Steve Graham,Alex Wolff as Peter Graham,Milly Shapiro as Charlie Graham and Ann Dowd as Joan. The cinematography of the was done by Pawel Pogorzelski and was edited by Jennifer Lame. The music of the movie was given by Colin Stetson.

(Other Details & Premiere)

The movie was distributed by A24 Films. The movie has a running time of 127 minutes (2hrs 7 mins). The movie was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 21st January 2018 and was released worldwide on 8th of June 2018. The movie was received with positive reviews by the critics and the audience.

(Box office & Accolades)

The movie was made on the budget of just 10 million dollars and went on to gross over 82 million dollars. Making it the highest grossing movies for A24 Films till the release of Everything Everyhwere All at Once. The movie was nominated for several awards Toni Collette Won the award for the Best Actress at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards and at the Gotham Awards. Ari Aster was also nominated multiple awards which includes Best New Filmaker and Breakthrough Director at the Fangoria Chainsaw Festival and the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards.

(Rating)

The movie has a rating of 7.3/10 on IMDB with 379K audience and is whoop 90% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 383 critics reviews and with 10K audience reviews.

The movie is also available to watch on Amazon Prime Video

(Sources)

And that's the list folks,that's it for the blog and I'll meet you with next one. Until then

CIAO

[wttt-dirus-work]

Can u tell me some stuff about Quebec?

wanna give her a cameo in an fic

Hey! So first of all, YESS!

Now, you weren’t quite precise in your ask, so imma share a variety of my own headcanons to give you some more info^^

Physically:

She has middle back long, slightly curled deep brown hair, with copper reflect in the summer, and the crystal-clear blue eyes you can imagine (when she’s angry her eyes become more white than blue, and the air is way colder than before). Her skin is pale, pinkish on the nose and cheeks in the winter, and she got some freckles. In autumn, her hair is redder and more blond than brown (leaves changing colour) when she’s in the south of the province.

Her body temperature is usually colder than any of the Northeast States and lower the more she is north in her province (the only state who share the same temperature is Alaska). Now, during the summer, depending on what’s going on, she can get as warm as the lower east coast state when she has wildfire. If she had tornadoes, she’s physically frazzled, and if it’s flood, her skin takes a greenish or bluish tint. If it’s a good summer (no fire, tornadoes, or floods) she has a good temperature, around the same as the Northeast states.

For her clothes, from Automn to spring (October to April), it’s usually a t-shirt under a flannel, a toque (beanie) or earmuff, jeans, mittens, and converse (boots if there’s snow). Her shirt is usually a HABs shirt (Montreal Canadian hockey team), especially during hockey season, her flannel dark blue or bright red, and her toque vary. Sometime is a blue one with her name on it, other times a white one with a pompom, or it’s a Nordiques de Québec one (Québec City hockey team before they were bought by Colorado and became the Avalanche).

During the summer, it’s usually capri pants or long shorts, a tank top or t-shirt, a cap (usually a Buffalo bills one, or Jersey Devil after she started her relationship with NJ), and sunglasses. Sometimes she wears flip-flops, other times sandals, depends on her mood and where she’s going. She’s a fervent user of sunscreen and always got water on her.

Character:

Honestly, depends on the situation. She can be a real Bitch if she wants to, mainly with the other province when they attack her (usually the wests ones). She’s a mom friend if she knows you and care about you and will make fun of you if you embarrass yourself with her (she respects boundaries tho). She knows her worth and is incredibly stubborn when she wants to. If you dare compare her to France she’ll make you regret it and she is really proud of her culture (never says Poutine was made anywhere else than in Québec, she and I will fight you about it). She’s always happy to teach people French and if you respect her she’ll respect you.

She’s polite meeting new people and like to share culture; she’ll judge you if you do something stupid though.

Concerning religion, she’s a little lost. When she became New France, in the 1500s, she was divided between the Catholics and Natives spirituality (usually animist) before staying Catholic. Then, during the Quiet Revolution in the 60s, Québécois rejected religion, and made the government secular (not linked to religion). So, I believe she’ll be mainly Agnostic, for mostly only the oldest generations (Boomer and older) are church goers.

Relationship:

Now, her relationship is carved from centuries of existence and experience and differ from if they’re Canadian or not.

Canadian provinces and Territories:

She’s *friendly* with New Brunswick and Nunavut, but don’t really speak with Prince Edward Island or Nova Scotia. She’s extremely supportive of Newfoundland and Labrador (Trans man) and has a great relationship of mutual respect with Northwest Territories (They’re as old as the other and have known each other for a long time).

Concerning Ontario it’s more of an indifferent to *I kind of care about you* relationship. They don’t agree about a lot of things and usually snap each other (Ontarian drivers are terrible, I swear), but they will support each other when the West become snappy at them.

Québec barely care about Manitoba (the feeling’s mutual) and Yukon (they don’t know each other well).

Now, for the West province, well, its complicated. British Columbia is a bitch most of the time because she likes to rile up other people. Québec respect her because she’s alone on the other side of the Rockies and is the oldest Western province, and as women alone on their own for a long time of their existence, they both respect each other. It doesn’t stop BC from having terrible social skills (except when she’s high, then she’s like a hippie and is nicer while also staying passive-aggressive).

Now, Alberta and Saskatchewan are twins; they share the same Province day and are only older than Nunavut. Saskatchewan is the nicest one, but still resent Québec for trying to separate in the 70s. Alberta uses Québec to blame most of her problem; the French province is far from her, refuse to speak to her in English, and well, Québec doesn’t care about them most of the time. To her they are children, who doesn’t understand her, or even try to get her point of view, so she won’t fight them about it.

Concerning the states:

I wrote about QC and Alaska and their relationship in I've tried to put this all behind me (I think I was wrecked all along), but in short they met during the New France era, when Alaska was still owned by Russia, and became close friends despite the language barrier. They met again because of Maine.

For the Northeast, Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas, I already share some of it in my fic Five times Québec helped a Northeast State. I headcanon her as on the Aromantic spectrum (Gray or Demi) and Pansexual, and she slept with PA, NH, and Vermont before they settled down (NH with Vermont and PA with Ohio). She and Jersey have a together/not together relationship (really you need to read the fic to get it) and she’s married to NY (QPR).

Maine is like her brother, Connecticut, NH, and Vermont her close friends, and the rest are her friends. She loves Virginia and their ability to bring the other back in order when they get too chaotic. Mass, PA and she are always ready to fight each other concerning hockey (they were pissed when tempa won two Stanley cup), and she likes to watch Rhode Island kick someone’s butt.

For the other southern states, well they helped her out when Britain ordered her captured (before her wedding to NY) and she always liked them for that.

Finally, Louisiana. I didn’t present their relationship yet, but I’m working on their fic.

Louie resent her. It’s not conscious, more something they both refused to acknowledge, really. He didn’t know that, when they were separated, she was sold to the British while France sold him to Spain. He resent her because she never tried to get to him, or get him back, and how she never helped him from Spain treatment.

I’m waiting to write those two, so yeah.

That was it! You got me to write a story, omg. If you have any question hit me up^^

[20th-century-railroading]

Leaving Rocky on a green by Mike Danneman Via Flickr: After a major pre-winter snowstorm hit Colorado’s front range, it dawned clear on October 26, 1997. At the east switch of Rocky siding, an eastbound Union Pacific coal trainis led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs as it drops downgrade toward Denver in the fresh snow.

[thechembow]

Like a Winter Monsoon!

Mar. 18, 2024

The weather is quite unusual today. being described as "unsettled" by the news. The pattern is similar to a monsoon, but monsoon season is still two months away. The electrified clouds in the sky have been reminiscent of the tropical moisture in the desert sky in summer.

A previously unforecast system is bringing rain to Southern California and Arizona today, coming up from the southeast in a reversed jet stream pattern, like the summer monsoon. Unlike the monsoon, it's cold out and the rain is falling as snow in many places.

We have noticed great troubles in the flight grid lately as a result of the Denver expedition in October. The high OR is decimating the trails behind the craft, indicating major disruptions. We've also seen the weather results, with some places in Colorado getting more than four feet of snow last week.

This unusual rain, which is also bringing isolated thunderstorms, seems more connected with the Albuquerque and Tucson portion of the gifting expedition, as was the rainier winter with slightly warmer temperatures we experienced. The jet stream has been much more from due west without interference, which is a restoration of the natural atmospheric conditions. This makes the weather more rainy and temperate, rather than getting an arctic blast from the north, or the systems missing California altogether, which was the way it was before the OR grid was in place.

We received a sudden OR rain in early evening along with a change in the wind which once again came from the west with a few gusts as large rain drops began to fall. This is definitely a new experience as we observe more new conditions in the atmosphere we have not seen before in our time.

[musictherapy611]

10/26/2023

An abrupt weather change to fog and mist - very un-Colorado-like - and a bite in the air, too: Prelude to a wintry weekend.

I can barely hear a very persistent cricket outside, chanting away - we have a freeze warning tonight, followed by snow this weekend, so it’s most likely my last cricket serenade for 2023. This is what happens - is supposed to happen - in late October.

[rabbitcruiser]

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, AZ (No. 8)

Glen Canyon Dam's most vital purpose is to provide storage to ensure enough water flows from the Upper Colorado River Basin to the lower, especially in drought years. The 1922 Colorado River Compact requires annual delivery of 7.5 million acre-feet (9.3 km3) to the Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada; the 1944 treaty with Mexico obligates the U.S. to allow at least 1.5 million acre-feet (1.9 km3) for use in the Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora. Glen Canyon Dam must supply at least 8.23 million acre-feet (10.15 km3) of this water; the remaining 770,000 acre-feet (0.95 km3) comes from other tributaries of the Colorado River.[125] The required release from Glen Canyon is averaged over a 10-year period, so releases in each year may be higher or lower depending on the amount of runoff. In wetter years, the Bureau of Reclamation may decide to release extra water from Glen Canyon Dam if the level of Lake Powell exceeds the "equalization tier", an elevation determined by the difference in storage between Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

Most of Lake Powell's inflow originates as summer snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Releases are made over a water year of October 1–September 30, since the annual snowpack begins to accumulate in late autumn. On April 1 of each year, the Bureau of Reclamation releases its official forecast of the April–July (snowmelt season) runoff, and adjusts releases from Glen Canyon Dam accordingly to maintain Lake Powell at a safe level. An accurate forecast is vital to prevent uncontrolled spilling, which would waste water that could have been used for power generation. Although the snowpack typically reaches its peak and begins to melt in April, the picture can occasionally change unexpectedly and dramatically – either due to a hot and dry spring that evaporates snow before it can melt, or an extremely wet spring as occurred in May 1983. After the near disaster in 1983, the USBR has maintained a minimum of 2.4 million acre-feet (3.0 km3) of flood-storage space in Lake Powell at the beginning of each year, to guard against unanticipated high runoff.

Source: Wikipedia

[thetwelfthcrow]

Ghost races? 😂 You added two?

Do you have a favorite scene that you can talk about? 👀 Or one you look forward to us reading?

(I fish for content sorry 😂)

well yeah more in the sense that the timeline doesn't really add up. i looked at it after writing and realised i wrote scenes happening at a triple header around october (so us/mexico/brazil) and then after that there's another scene (sure, las vegas) and then another one (...sure, abu dhabi) and then.... two more. and then boom winter break. none of these are in any way described in detail or there's no, like, race results being part of the fic but it's just scenes happening At Races.

oooo vani's favorite scene is probably the wall scene and then the pool scene. i think from a writing style angle, the bonfire scene is definitely my favorite. i played in really nicely with the environment there. the leaves/fire/mountain mention comes back a few times in this scene and it ties it together nicely!

The air is crisp, a handful of crickets rub their wings against each other to make a chirping sound, a breeze passes by the two of them. The stars are looking at them, shining down in all the shapes they make. It’s not the only light source — the bonfire besides them is still simmering from its latest refill of wood. The logs crack occasionally, but it’s not loud enough to be a scare. It’s comfortable like this, late in the evening in the backyard of Lewis’ cabin in Colorado. It’s safe, he thinks, being so far up in the mountains. Like every thought he’d share is kept in between the big rocks, the snow on top of the highest ones, the trees absorbing the sounds and holding the secrets in the leaves. “It’s not too bad to be a vampire. Most of the time,” Lewis says, a confession to the stars and the rocks and the trees. His head lays on Max’s chest, legs between Max’s, his arms crossed and touching Max’s fingers on his biceps. Max’s hands are warm, the fabric of his sweatpants is soft and he moves up and down with the drag of Max’s breathing. It’s grounding, really.

i look forward to you guys reading the entire thing. like there's not a scene in here that can exist without another one. it's such a wonderfully full story, in terms of plot, character growth, relationship development, other characters... i dunno. i'm just really proud of her already.