#Rusted Gates

[kelbunny]

Drawtober 2023 - Day 17 - Nightmare

[kelbunny]

Why do Blorbos? I've got ocs for that >:D

New Meme Alignment Chart came to me in a fit of Mania this morning. Have fun kids!

[westruun]

Dame Aylin, daughter of the goddess Selûne.

[rumeko]

visit

想う人

[nickstanley]

Old Gate

[ceeridwen99]

Assume that Astarion is on the other side of this look

[mostlythemarsh]

Outside

[teddy-bear-naps-and-random-snaps]

[annelidist]

grit gate is the worst story dungeon i think

[raayllum]

There’s a scene in God of war Ragnarok where a portal is used to cut off the creature Níðhöggr’s head

and all day i’ve been thinking what if stella’s portals could be used in i similar way, say like someone put their arm through as she turned it off

Hm, possibly! We've yet to see Stella create particularly large portals / see anything besides small objects go through her portals, but I do wonder if eventually a person (like Rayla) would be able to go through and use it as a form of teleportation. It doesn't seem like the portal parameters (currently) include even the wherewithal for Stella herself to go through the portal(s) fully, given that she doesn't use them in such a way in 5x01 to get them behind the sealed painting or in 5x08 to escape the cage Finnegrin stuck her in

[genspiel]

ahh, god, the death towards the end of the obelisk gate... knew it was coming, but had forgotten exactly when and how... shit, man, my fucking heart

[billsmugs]

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[stumblngrumbl]

installed the last* gate

ages ago after i tore out a huge blackberry bramble (it was about 10' high, 20' deep and 70' across; yes it made yummy blackberries but the thing is a bramble is only alive on the outside, inside it's ready to burn being dry canes and you can't get the fruit on the top of it) i installed the red gate that i found in an old junk pile that way predates us being here so that i could get to the other side of the fence (and pull resurgent blackberries, you never get it all)

the old fence that was there before the new fence was about a foot shorter than the mesh part of this fence, and all sorts of creatures just hopped right over it en route to snacking on chickens or orchard trees; the new fence keeps deer out (it's tall enough and our deer are too lazy to jump higher) and there's one line of "hot wire" (electric) that will zap climbers (it stings but won't kill, thankfully or i wouldn't be here from multiple shocks including recently when i forgot about it)

so i made these gates to more or less match the pattern of the fence, and when we refenced the whole* land i put in the occasional gate because it's a pain to have to go a long ways to get to the other side of the fence for whatever reason (in the past: when a chicken has flown up into a tree and decided being on the other side of the fence was a cool thing to do and then regretted that decision, not remembering the path it took to get there)

the red gate not only had the wrong aesthetic but it wasn't tall enough. when i re-ran the fence, the top three wires went across uninterrupted; if you look closely you'll see that the metal posts next to the gate have been extended by a foot as they were originally chosen for the short gate and earlier this year i extended them; saturday i chopped the top wires and terminated them at either side of the gate and then swapped the gates.

*: i lie - the fence around the land is only about 98% replaced; there's still a bit on either side of the gate at the end of the driveway that needs to be swapped out, and that gate itself is going to get replaced, and moved, as it's (a) ugly (b) too short and so things once again can hop over it though they usually don't and finally (c) in a stupid place and so i'm going to build a new gate for that, plus a smaller gate that will go to the side for people to easily pass through at the front

[unamused-kookaburra]

There's a bushfire happening a few blocks away and it's so fucking hot outside I walked down to the back of the yard to see how close it was (not very thank god) and almost died

[rustedbread]

Eugh don’t even get them started on mind goblins….,…,

You can't tell me they wouldn't