#Range Practices

[historyofguns]

The article "Hillsdale College Dominates USPSA Collegiate Championship" by Scott Wagner, published on The Armory Life, details the impressive achievements of the Hillsdale College Action Shooting Team. The team recently demonstrated their prowess by securing top finishes at the inaugural United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) Collegiate Championship held at Hillsdale's John A. Halter Shooting Sports Education Center, following their consecutive national wins in the Scholastic Action Shooting Program in 2022 and 2023. Notable team members including Taylor Chen, Kayla Mullin, and Clara Bozzay excelled in individual divisions, contributing to the team's overall success. The event, sponsored primarily by Springfield Armory, featured diverse competitors and a unique match structure that fostered camaraderie and shared expertise among participants from various institutions such as the United States Naval Academy, Clemson University, and Michigan State University. The article emphasizes the strong institutional support for the Hillsdale shooting program and highlights the significance of their state-of-the-art facilities funded through private donations. It celebrates the remarkable achievements of the team under the guidance of Head Coach Adam Burlew and highlights the harmonious blend of competition and sportsmanship displayed throughout the event.

[ryssbelle]

Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Brazil (1985)

(Yes. Real movie dialogue)

[ahhrenata]

distractions ✨

[blackthewolf17]

So this is a little practice at Samanta Erdini's suggestion for my portfolio, All of you cross your fingers that the reason behind this comes true.🕴

[temeyes]

dad-daughter bonding ft. ghost and his bubba girl

[hederasgarden]

Practical Magic AU | Rhett Abbott x Witch!Reader

“Sometimes I feel like there's a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean. I have this dream of being whole. Of not going to sleep each night, wanting. But still sometimes, when the wind is warm or the crickets sing... I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen."

Thank you @ryebecca for all your help and expertise. It was invaluable for creating my fist moodboard!

[cowboygunfighter5]

Ready for shooting training... High cowboy boots with riding heel. Spurs. Brown leather chaps and my double gun rig with two revolvers... It doesn't get any better....

Find me on Instagram: instagram.com/cowboy_colts/

[agtavio]

From the start- a glow of the eye a grin a little too wide a laugh too high

[laracrofted]

a lewis matchbox collection

[jonasgoonface]

she protec but she also ratatat

[wondercircuit]

[lostfanboyarts]

teef. fangs even.

[luminarai]

I am genuinely so glad that the iwtv writers decided to age up not just Claudia, but the entire main vamp cast. Aging up Lestat, Louis and Armand to their late twenties to early thirties gives them more depth and dimension, both generally (in my experience, you experience, grow and develop so much in your twenties, even if it’s not necessarily as visible as the growth in your teens) and specifically for the individual characters (I have so many bullet points of thoughts in my notes app, I’m not even kidding).

Also, can you imagine how fucking insufferable Lestat would be about it if he had been turned before his singing voice had reached vocal maturity? He’d need an entire 600 page book to bitch about that exclusively

[bonefall]

I’m rereading Po3 and despite its flaws I really enjoyed the introduction to the three. Jaykit isn’t mentioned to be blind in the first few chapters and instead they chose to show how much MORE capable he is compared to his littermates; until at the end of chapter 3, he brings up his blindness on his own. It makes forcing him to be a medicine cat SO much more frustrating because it really feels like they’re setting him up to be a warrior and choose his own fate (note i haven’t finished the reread this is just my first impression)

I like how you seem to take that path in BB regardless! It makes his arc so much more enjoyable

His arc in canon is super frustrating because he's such an independent character who clearly wants to make his own decisions in life, but then he just gets shoved into the medcat den. I LIKE that he ultimately goes there and that he enjoys it; but it was still really fucked up that they stripped away his autonomy in the process.

Re: they are not real, they are writing choices. Taking away the choices a disabled character can make over their own life, forcing them into a celibate nun role, and then going "awwwww dont worry see? he likes it! This was the best thing for him :)" was fucked up.

And imo it didn't have to be that way! You wouldn't have to go the FULL route I did with big changes, he could just be more involved in the descision to stop being a warrior apprentice and it would be fine. Minor change that would make a world of difference.

I do also have to interject to say though... blindness should really not be an extremely severe impairment for a ThunderClan cat.

I'm dead serious.

Whiskers are built-in sensors that tell you the exact position of everything within several inches of your head, ears swerve to pick up sound, and the jacobson's organ provides a sense of smell so keen that I have an entire Clanmew expansion draft because I needed to make WORDS describing the power of this sense that humans do not have. I cannot stress enough how delicate their other senses are, felines do not rely on their sight like primates do

ThunderClan lives in a mixed-oak woodland, where sight is already often obscured by foliage, objects are close together (for whiskers to feel), and nearly every movement makes noise against the leaf litter. RiverClan and (moor-running) WindClan cats would have a harder time with this disability than Thunder or Shadow.

Cat sight SUCKS to begin with. It sucks BADDD. They don't have color vision, they're significantly nearsighted, and they can't track up-and-down movements well. WC doesn't write realistic cats (more like small fuzzy people really) and I also work with more humanesque eyesight, but the only thing Jay should really lose is an ability to rapidly track a small animal swerving fast. Blind cats are often still excellent hunters in spite of that!

So it's an extra big waste that they railroaded him into a position he didn't choose, saying he couldn't be a warrior. This is the perfect disability to write, if you want to explore how ableism can impact the characters in this society who ARE legitimately still capable of nearly full independence, but still need to find accommodations for what they can't do.

In the same arc they're doing the dumb Cinder Reincarnation Plotline, no less!! Where SHE is also feeling like she has no choice over her "destiny," and gets a conflict over a potentially disabling injury

"Oh nooo if cinderpaw breaks her leg she wont be a warrior!"

"What the f-- Im Jaypaw and im reporting live from the scene where a Category 1 Idiot Moment is taking place. Woman breaks leg, suddenly everyone believes she is a horse, more at 11."

One of these days I should really make "herb guides" just covering how various sensory disabilities impact the lives of Clan cats and some tips for writing them as warriors, especially between Clans. Stuff you wouldn't usually consider, like how much noise deaf cats tend to make, how RiverClan would get a ton of sinus infections and lose their sense of smell, being blind in Sky vs Thunder, etc.

[gardenofhope]

me and my beautiful wife on our wedding day