#SE Alaska

[wolfcomix]

be gay on the tops of mountains

[ruthstruths]

What is real isn't and what isn't is is isn't

I think this is the only actual shot of Sitka , AK in The Proposal

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Along the Shores of the Brooks River (Katmai National Park & Preserve) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I captured this image at the Lower River Platform with a view looking to the southeast with the Brooks River while observing brown bears in Katmai National Park.

[thorsenmark]

Looking Out a Plane Window on a Flight to Brooks Camp by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: An easily mesmerizing plane window view I had looking to the southeast with King Salmon and then across portions of Katmai National Park off in the distance.

[mystery-star]

Russell Crowe as John Biebe and Mary McCormack as Donna Biebe in Mystery, Alaska (1999)

[sudaca-swag]

roxxxy andrews they could never make me like you

[vvarvvon]

noël will die at thirty-two while in combat with the minotaur. she will ascend to valhalla, the vala casting runes to confirm her divine mother.

it's much to her shock that she's not the only legionnaire in the hotel's halls.

[punchholesinthesky]

I was reading about end to end cycling and looked up Chile

From Arica to villa O'higgins (the end of carretera austral) aprox 5000km (thats using the main road which bikes usually dont)

And about two weeks

To punta arenas

(the southermost city)

Is a bit complicated cause theres basically no roads

So it can be done off road, which should be possible in a mtb,

Or via ferry but that isnt very sporty,

Or via argentina which adds aprox 1500 kms, and doesnt have great views tbh

Any way itll take at least an extra week

So

Arica to Punta Arenas

At least

6500 km

Three weeks is a v conservative estimate

considering constant riding (about 250 km a day,which would mean about 10-15 hrs)

and stopping only to sleep and bodily functions

But people on cars doing carretera austral often take at least two weeks and thats only 1200km

[woundedearth]

my heart goes out to everybody living somewhere damp and cold. the mold still creeps into my windows in the winter but as an adult paying my own heating bills, i crank that shit up and just eat the cost. corners will be cut elsewhere, i will not be cold. i’ve lived in so many old freezing houses and gross moldy apartments, it’s just one of those things i can’t accept

[herpsandbirds]

Northwestern Salamander (Ambystoma gracile), family Ambystomatidae, found in the PNW of the US, far Western Canada, and SE Alaska

Photographs by Bradford Hollingsworth & Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy

[onenicebugperday]

@beedlebeeb submitted: Strange caterpillar found on blueberry plant!! Found in lower SE Alaska

Fuzzy cutie. It's a tussock moth caterpillar in the genus Orgyia. In your area, probably a rusty tussock.

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Jumping into the Brooks River in the Search for Salmon (Katmai National Park & Preserve) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I captured this image at the Lower River Platform with a view looking to the southeast with the Brooks River while observing brown bears in Katmai National Park.

[thorsenmark]

Mountain Neighborhood by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A plane window view looking over the Yukon Territory in Canada (based on the flight information on the seat back) while on a flight out of Anchorage to Minneapolis. What drew me into this image was initially the warmth of sunlight across the snowcapped peaks. I decided to pull back on the focal length and include more of the Yukon landscape that I was watching from my plane window view. I could angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to capture a more sweeping view across the mountain present.

[coolbeansnico]

I've caved. Here's my Avatar The Last Airbender uni au and modern/non bender au headcanons.

Here's what I think the main kids uni majors/minors would be:

Aang: wildlife conservation with a minor in political sciences

Katara: medicine, education minor

Sokka: engineering, polisci minor

Toph: geology with a martial arts minor (changed my mind, education minor)

Zuko: forced to do law & politics by his family but switches to history/anthropology, keeping politics as a minor

Azula: law w a psychology minor

Mai: forced to do politics by family but wants to do art, history minor

Ty Lee: training in acrobatics and performance at a performing arts school and works at the circus

Suki: human relations and activism, martial arts minor

Yue: Dance major (same school as Ty Lee, polisci minor

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Living situations:

Katara and Sokka flat together and eventually Aang becomes a permanent resident

Toph lives right across from them, she likes her own space and independence but she'd never want to be too far from her friends

Zuko lives with Iroh above his teashop and works there part time

Suki has a sharehouse with the kyoshi warriors (her hockey team)

Ty Lee and Yue get assigned room-mates first year and became pretty quick friends, they continue to live together afterwards

Azula has her own apartment (of course). So does Mai, but she spends so much time at Azulas she basically lives there. Neither of them would admit it but they much prefer it to having whole houses to themselves.

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General modern au/non bender au hcs:

(Pretty obvious) Ethnicity n nationality hcs:

Sokka and Katara r Inuit and from Alaska

Azula, Zuko and Mai are all Japanese American

Ty Lee is Japanese and Mongolian

Toph is Chinese and Singaporean (born in Singapore)

Aang is Bhutanese (so is Gyatso), but he grew up in Singapore. Him and Toph were childhood friends

Yue is Inuit and Sámi and her family lives in north-east Canada

Suki is mixed Chinese, Filipino and French-Canadian and live in an island off of Quebec

Have not decided where the uni would be but probably BSSU (Ba Sing Se uni) cause I know a lot of ppl use that as the uni name

I don't know a ton about US and Canadian geography so if y'all have ideas for what states or provinces the characters would hail from (especially what state/city Zuko, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee grew up in) I would def appreciate the suggestions

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Aang has a Tibetan Mastiff called Appa and Sokka has a Siamese cat called Momo (he found him behind a dumpster looking for food scraps and Sokka knew he'd found a kindred spirit,,, much to Kataras initial dismay)

Aang grew up in a sort of hippie/alternative living foster home that taughtbuddist beliefs, he never knew his real parents but he was okay with that.

I'm a fan of bigcorp ceo Ozai but also political tyrant Ozai works as well so I'm srsly torn on that. Politician Ozai would either have to be a nation ruler or American ambassador because I like to think Zuko and Azula moved around a lot as kids so he couldn't have a job that keeps him in ine place. That's why I like the idea of ceo Ozai. He would still have a lot of political power and it would still mean moving around a lot plus him being super corrupt and exploiting his workers is fun for angst.

Oh and!! Zuko and Azula lived in Singapore for part of highschool and their family visited a lot for holidays. Since Tophs parents and Ozai worked together, Zuko and Azula were around at The Beifongs a lot and entertained themselves by making fun of Toph for hanging out with a "poor tree hugging commoner" like Aang

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I may add more to this so look out for a part 2

♡♡

I'm currently working on drawing them (and maybe chara profiles with sexualities, pronouns, character aesthetics/how I think they'd dress, interests ect) :] I've done the boys and the (non fire nation) gals are next!!

[catboybiologist]

nosy 13, 21, 25, 27, 33, 43, 44

13: biggest turn ons

Y'know, HRT is rewriting these right now. Out of the moment, I gotta say midriff and general lean muscle. In the moment, light physical pain casually integrated into everything else is crucial, I think- scratching, etc

21: what I love most about myself

Ugh don't make me do this again. My answer was that I like the balance my life has between things that typically don't mix- eg, academia, this online stuff, outdoorsiness, and the balance between them. It's a delicate balance that easily falls apart and leaves me doing... Well none of it, for the last like week or so, but yeah.

25: my idea of a perfect date

Hike dates! Ya gotta get a bit dirty and sweaty with someone, see how they are when they're having fun, but can't focus on being prim and proper and perfect for you. Plus it's fun, if it's bad you can commiserate (although it takes a lot to get me to not like a decent hike), if it's good you have an amazing experience to share. Plus it puts you together for a long time to talk, and it's cheap or free.

27: a description of the boy/girl I like

People I know irl follow me here and I'm gonna get embarrassed about it okay

33: what words make me feel best about myself?

Hard to say? Idk. Hard to apply rules to this bc Ive received a lot of backhanded compliments in my life, and its generally difficult to assess whether someone is being honest with words alone imo. It's always context dependent.

43: sexiest person that comes to mind immediately

Also someone I know IRL and I'm getting flustered. No, YOU shut up.

44: random fact

Agh I hate having to reduce these to sound bites but I also don't have the spoons for my usual rambles!

There's a population of grizzly bears in SE Alaska that share mitochondrial DNA with polar bears, despite their nuclear genome being regular grizzly, indicating a very tangled lineage going back at least to the last ice age.

[another-iboy]

Já tem mais de dez anos que sinto a vontade de sumir,

Já fazem mais de dez anos que sinto essa falta de algo,

Há mais de dez anos já sentia ser insuficiente,

Nesses longos anos, minha melhor amiga tem sido a depressão, não preciso dizer a ela como me sinto, ela já sabe, não preciso reexplicar algo, ela entende meias palavras, pena que ela me suga, até a última gota do meu ânimo, todos os desejos, sonhos, ambições. Suga até a última gota do meu ser. Me deixa nu no inverno do Alaska, sem comida e sem vontade de viver. Como se nem para morrer existisse vontade, como se alguém possuísse meu controle e pressionasse a pausa, me mantendo consciente da passagem de tempo, porém incapaz de me mover, o mundo girando e eu parado, paralisado, sentindo o peso da vida, acho que este eu não suporto, é demais para mim, ainda acho que vou ceder.

Os dias vem e vão, uns melhores, outros... sequer vontade de levantar. Vejo pequenos lampejos de melhora, seguidos por tempestades sinuosas que causam terremotos em minhas emoções. Se você está vindo até mim, fujo, pois não sou touch. Não quero tirar minha redoma, ficarei exposto demais, a certo modo, sinto um contentamento em saber que escalaram, atravessaram ela, chegando até mim. Mas para que? Me deixar quebrado, jogado as traças aqui dentro, sei que parece que eu mereço, no fundo sou um cara legal, só não sei se vai dar tempo para alguém perceber...

E se...?