#aestival

[tarubunart]

Hendrix

An Aestival ex-son of his noble family. Groomed to take the title of a Demon Prince, but never made it. After running away into the human realm, he's an unexpected ally for the magi...and maybe a little more to one of them.

[finartin]

[that-giorgione]

I think that if we bring enough pasta to polythreme we may be able to create the flying spaghetti monster and them ship it with a fluke.

[neathbound]

An Italian town installed a giant mirror because it got almost no sunlight during the winter. Wonder how the Admiralty would make use of this...

[epicdogymoment]

truly i dont want to hear anyhing about "work-life balance" ever again until a completely unqualified "im tired" is a good enough reason to disappear for any arbitrarily long period of time w no repercussions

[pirate-poet]

also hey if london DOES see the sun i bet it would be very good for the plants

[dyingnights]

i dont like him very much usually but my stepfather visited a special ed school as a kid and questions shit i do way less than my mother does

[actual-aestival]

It's me, your local rural queer

[haikuandy]

haiku 20230229

flooded woods the ecstatic singing of revivified frogs

[a-book-of-creatures]

Hibernation is for winter. Aestivation is for summer!

I just want to hibernate through the summer. Wake me up in the Fall

[gwilt]

Aestivation is the summer version of hibernation

Source

[tarubunart]

Igbur "Burr"

A small demon with an easygoing attitude which is in stark contrast to his boss, Mason, one of the all feared Demon Princes. Despite his laze fare demeanor, he does his job diligently and isn't scared to tell Mason anything he needs and doesn't need to know.

[finartin]

when you're handed a rock that might also be an egg... panic

[literaryvein-reblogs]

a writer's list of "beautiful" words

to try to include in your next poem/story

Aestival - of or relating to the summer

Affusion - an act of pouring a liquid on something or someone (as in baptism)

Agathokakological - composed of both good and evil

Agrise - terrify; affright

Alastor - any of certain avenging deities or spirits especially in Greek antiquity

Alexithymia - inability to identify and express or describe one's feelings; people with alexithymia typically display a lack of imaginative thought, have difficulty distinguishing between emotions and bodily sensations, and engage in logical externally oriented thought

Antipelargy - defined by Thomas Blount in his 1656 dictionary as “the reciprocal love of chil­dren to their Parents”, or (more generally) “any requital or mutual kindness”

Anxiogenic - producing anxiety

Barleyhood - bad temper caused by drinking

Cachinnate - to laugh loudly or immoderately

Desticate - defined by Henry Cockeram in his 1623 English Dictionarie as “to cry like a rat”

Eudaemonic - producing happiness

Infelicific - not productive of happiness; productive of unhappiness

Limicolous - living in mud

Mundivagant - wandering over the world

Nepenthe - once referred to a potion used by the ancients to make one forget pain or sorrow; it was later used for anything that provided such relief

Opsimath - a person who begins to learn late in life

Peccability - capability of sinning

Surcease - to come to an end; or to put an end to something

Umbratile - carried on in seclusion; or hidden away or otherwise concealed so as not to be seen

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or send me a link. I would love to read them!

More: Lists of Beautiful Words ⚜ Word Lists

[actual-aestival]

First attempt at doing plein air with gouache! I'm actually really pleased with myself

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I want to be more brave with details but I'm trying to get myself to loosen up

[dromaeosaurid]

"Nestled on the water's bottom of silt and plant debris are juvenile and adult Diplocaulus with a coiled Lysorophus. Both Lysorophus and juvenile Diplocaulus were amphibians which could burrow within the mud and aestivate to survive droughts until rains replenished their water-holes. However, in addition to being too large, the expanded crescent-shaped skulls of adult Diplocaulus prevented them from being able to burrow and survive by aestivating. Lysorophus reached lengths of 60 cms (2 ft) and full grown Diplocaulus were as much as 1 m (3 ft) long."

From Dinosaurs: A Global View (1990) by Sylvia J. Czerkas & Stephen A. Czerkas. Illustrated by Douglas Henderson, Mark Hallett, John Sibbick.