#atlantus

[nicogayngelo]

Rider-waite ✨️ very curious what it will be

none of swords in reserve!

lovingly—are you okay?? nine of swords in reverse has two meanings—on one hand, it’s about paralyzing fear, crippling self doubt, and extreme depression. it shows that you might be internalizing ALL of this as opposed to talking it out with someone, and you’re just stuck in this horrific depressive cycle.

BUT it also shows that you might be/will be/have worked through all that! that the metaphorical swords are falling out of your body/mind/spirit and you can continue on !

if you’re stuck in the first section—it’s a reminder that you can’t hold all of this alone. you have to open up and lean on folks to help you dislodge those fears and thoughts.

[spectralarchers]

I'm glad you have a hyperfixation but I don't understand how those men kiss with their masks on?

They lift them up just a teeny, tiny, little bit, so they can kissy ❤️

It's the most homoerotic thing ever. The tenderness of lifting up the face mask to kiss the other, and the desire to see what's under Simon's mask.

(Either that or all of CoD Fandom has a mask kink, anyways).

[2soupisgood2]

Wreck of the Concrete Ship (2023)

Gouache and colored pencil on watercolor paper

[hs-transfusion]

> TAVROS NITRAM

HEMO: Indigo (#0021CB) TROLLTAG: architectsTactic [AT] SIGN: Sagitaur, Sign of the Wistful STRIFE: javelinkind MODUS: Wallet LUNAR SWAY: Derse MYTH. ROLE: Bard of Time LAND: Land of Dust and Tomes

AT: Ah shucks, uh, 1 don’t really have t1me to 1ndulge 1n k1d stuff anymore,

Tavros used to be a kid that loved NERDY THINGS like Fiduspawn and FLARP, but under the strict influence of his LUSUS, strives to maintain an air of UPPERCLASSMANSHIP now that he's older. He tries his best to ACT LIKE HE ENJOYS IT, but deep down, he wishes things could go back to the WAY THEY USED TO BE.

Now that he's buried his passion for CARD GAMES and CARTOONS, he instead takes up attending MUSCULAR THEATER and has been learning how to COOK EXOTIC MEALS. His lusus also has him reading FANTASTICAL NOVELS, all of which sound infinitely more fascinating than the MUNDANE LIFE HE LIVES NOW.

Tavros' WALLET Fetch Modus is the quintessential Fetch Modus for any RESPONSIBLE ADULT.

Tavros' lusus is classified as the SERVITUDINAL OXENHOIST; a large minotaur that serves as Tavros' PERSONAL BUTLER. It's quite OVERPROTECTIVE of Tavros, doing its best to ensure he lives life as a PERFECT HIGHBLOOD, much to his chagrin.

The Land of DUST AND TOMES is a desert-covered planet, lined with MASSIVE BOOKSHELVES that house entire communities, along with HOLLOWED-OUT TOMES used as camping shelters. The consorts of the land are convinced (and mistaken) that The Bard will just LOVE all these long, winding books to read. In particular, there are four tomes dotted across the land that combine to form a RIDDLE, the answer of which must be recited to HEPHAESTUS to earn his cooperation.

Tavros' ancestor is known as ATLANTUS IMPENDUS. A SWASHBUCKLING GAMBLIGNANT, he adventured far and wide in search of a WORTHY OPPONENT. Originally a trusted mercenary for THE EMPRESS, he was eventually swept up in a REBELLION AGAINST HER for the chance to duel her to the death. He did not win.

[princessasmosprincess]

My cousin's baby was christened this weekend in my home statr but we took a couple of detours along the way.

Ocean City, NJ beach

Some romance books I got from a Little Free Library on the beach (I don't know what the contents are but I do know some people's aunties read some wild things on the beach lol).

An old shipwreck in Cape May, NJ. The SS Atlantus was a concrete ship that ran aground in 1926 and has been there ever since.

Showing off my manicure (I did it myself!!)

Skincare in the evening.

Getting ready together in the morning. Asmo couldn't come with me to the church but he had to make sure I looked good.

A selfie before we got back on the road.

[alex51324]

Beach Report! Part 1

OK, so this was a trip to Wildwood & Cape May, New Jersey, in late October of 2024.

We drove down on Friday, arriving at the shore about two-ish. We stopped at a place called Hereford Inlet for our first look at the ocean!

Here it is!

We walked over to the Hereford Lighthouse where they have these old lifeboats for kids to climb on:

And confirmed that, as I suspected, Sophie would not be participating in any boat-based excursions:

This was as far as she would come into the boat that was sitting on completely dry land and had the side cut down to be easy to get into.

The little lighthouse/museum was closed, but we walked around a bit:

The we walked on the beach! I found this mysterious object:

Which it turns out is a whelk egg casing.

It was low tide so the beach was very broad and had huge tidepools; here we are standing with our back to the ocean looking at a big tidepool:

This is where Sophie made the discovery that sometimes water here is salty.

Onward!

Here's where I walked out onto a jetty and got splashed with water:

Then the motel! It's a very old-school boardwalk-adjacent motel, which the proprietors were trying to make look fancier than it is.

The ramp there leads up to the boardwalk, and you can walk under it to get to the beach.

We were in the cheapest rooms they have, which are in a little building in the back:

They originally gave us one on the top floor, but Sophie thought the stairs were scary, so I asked to switch to a ground-floor one.

The room was pretty nice--very clean, some nice details--but tiny. We're standing in the doorway here; that's what the blue vertical lines on either side are.

You get a microwave and minifridge there in the unit under the TV, though.

But the bathroom...

I guess they picked that sink thinking it would be an updated, modern look, but it does not fit in this space--I am not a large person, and I had to turn sideways to fit through this gap. A normal pedestal sink would work a lot better.

Anyway, I see why people who are paying high-season prices for this place are a little less-than-completely satisfied. But for an off-season bargain at one of the few boardwalk hotels that takes dogs, I thought it was pretty good.

Anyway, let's go under the boardwalk and to the beach!

The ocean is very big:

Other boardwalk hotels, most of them shut for the season:

To one side of the hotel there is a roller coaster and go-kart track--also shut:

To the other side is a place called Seaport Pier, which is a restaurant and nightclub with live music, and under the motel is a video arcade--fortunately, all shut. I don't think I'd have much fancied this location in the season, but it was peaceful in October--not to mention unseasonably warm--and I kind of liked getting the retro-kitsch vibe without the noise. (I took a bunch of vaguely arty shots of the roller coaster; you'll be seeing it again.)

We left the beach through a different boardwalk underpass and went back to the motel on the surface streets; here we saw some giraffes at a (shut) mini-golf place:

Most of the neighborhood around the motel was these townhouse/duplex things, that were all almost identical, and weirdly massive. I guess they probably had four units in each, I don't know. That's one of them behind the little yellow hut there. For several blocks, everything that wasn't a tourist-oriented business was one of those.

We left the motel to go to a place called Sunset Beach, where you can watch the sunset over the Delaware Bay. It's not everywhere that you can see the sunset over the waters of the Atlantic Ocean on the US side, so that's neat!

The object out there is the concrete ship Atlantus, which has been gradually falling apart out there for almost a hundred years.

This was one of my favorite activities of the weekend; the weather was absolutely gorgeous, and there were just enough people--a few dozen, spread out over the whole beach--to make it feel like a communal experience.

Sophie liked the beach and meeting people, but she was a little wary of the ocean itself. Here is photo evidence of her being very brave:

The sun continues to set:

There it goes!

The colors were even better than this in person; my phone camera is not great for this sort of thing.

After the sunset I poked around a couple of little gift shops near there, and then took advantage of certain ways in which the laws of New Jersey differ from those of my home state:

Luckily, I had the motel's rooftop deck to myself:

Coming back down from the deck, I spent a while trying to decide if this splotch of paint is intentionally supposed to look like a jellyfish-or-something:

Never quite came to a conclusion. There was another splotch that looked like it was maybe supposed to be a seashell but had mostly worn away, and then two others that were clearly just splotches. It's a mystery!

So that wrapped up the first night of Beach Vacation 2024.

[rabbitradicals]

Atlantus does an action

[liviavanrouge]

Xiao: (Being the sole survival of his Karmic Debt, losing his friends and others in the process, unaware that they were brought back as different people)

Xayda: (His little sister figure who's the reincarnation of Guizhong and an adepti that wants to learn from him)

Murkus: (The reincarnation of Bosacius that was taken in by Xianyun and currently resides with her and Shuyu)

Meggie: (Menogias' reincarnation and the little sister figure of Sethos, currently residing in the Temple with him)

Atlantus and Ingenia: (The reincarnations of Indarius and Bonanus, currently residing in Natlan with the person that saved them)

@queen-of-twisted @albedomestic-airline

[somerandopers0n]

Atlantus! Atlantus is by @rabbitradicals

[bubaboos]

not one but TWO tag games!! @holddthegirl thank you for tagging me mwah!!💗

1. share 10 song and tag 10 people

Rules: Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up.

These are from my july playlist hehe😌

☆good days - sza

☆fluorescent adolescent - arctic monkeys

☆emperor's new clothes - jann

☆the feeling - shinee

☆let me in - exo

☆love's a stranger - warhaus

☆pop the balloon - nothing but thieves

☆szyszy - szczyl, magiera

☆horizon (japan cd) - daft punk

☆in bloom - zerobaseone

2. share 7 top songs from your on repeat playlist

here they are!

tagging (for both games or one, your choice): @imeminemp3 @kodachromatics @poetka @atlantus @ducksbuttocks @ducktollers @demon-arlington @sukidude @anapotapova and @desertsdaughter !!♡ and just anyone, feel free to do this😊

[krasnauniformas]

Raya předvádí statečný zákrok, Atlanta 0:0 Arsenal

V posledních několika zápasech prvního kola Ligy mistrů Arsenal vyzval Atlantu venku. Tváří v tvář Atalantě, která je známá svou obranou v Serii A, hráči v dres Arsenal nedokázali skórovat za stavu 0:0, přičemž každý zaznamenal 1 bod.

V úvodu utkání se hráči Arsenalu snažili zaútočit. V 6. minutě se na pravé straně pokutového území z malého úhlu trefil Havertz do boční sítě. V 17. minutě plynulá rozehrávka a běžecká spolupráce Atlanty, Rice byl klíčem ke zničení útoku. Ve 30. minutě střela Deketraleho z pravé strany šestnáctky mírně minula. V 51. minutě stáhl Thomas Ederson a poslal penaltu. Po zákroku VAR penaltu potvrdil Retegui v Fotbalové dresy, ale Raya zasáhl statečně. V 75. minutě promarnil jedinou příležitost Martinelli. V 87. minutě vyřešil klíčový zákrok Saliba Lukmanův průlom v pokutovém území. Ozval se hvizd a zápas skončil 0:0.

[dresyprofotbal]

Messimu můžete vždy věřit

Kde je Messi, kde je těžiště světového fotbalu! Právě teď jsou oči světa upřeny na Miami. Ve druhém kole skupinové fáze Severoamerického ligového poháru měl Messi v prvním utkání Fotbalový Dres Sleva s číslem 10 a kapitánskou pásku. Přispěl 2 góly a 1 asistencí, aby pomohl Miami porazit Atlantu United 4:0 a postoupit před plánovaným termínem. V 8. minutě hry přispěl přesným dlouhým pasem k prvnímu gólu Messiho Busquets, který také nastupoval do zápasu s Messim. Ve 22. minutě založil Messi protiútok a dvakrát skóroval. Také pomohl Robertu Taylorovi ke vstřelení druhého gólu ve druhém poločase. Robert Taylor, který oblékal Dres Inter Miami CF s číslem 16, byl před Messim obyčejným širokým hráčem a nebyl ani považován za hlavního startéra v týmu. V minulé sezóně přispěl pouze 2 góly za celou sezónu. Po příchodu Messiho však Taylor přispěl 3 góly ve dvou zápasech. To může být síla vzorů, možná s Messim je střílení gólů tak jednoduché. Ve dvou zápasech se Messi plně integroval do tohoto týmu a pomohl týmu z posledního místa v lize stát se nejlepším týmem ligy. Dobrá herní atmosféra umožňuje Messimu zcela se zbavit okovů slávy a bohatství a užívat si štěstí, které fotbal přináší, čistě a svobodně. Věřím, že i fanoušci cítili radost a štěstí.

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Creating a new portion of the post to edit (to make it easier for me to find d while reading:p) now that I'm in the deluxe hc, aparo and skeates run.

Aquaman #40: we see an atlantean saying that now that they are air breathers they no longer have to live under water. In another scene, vulko tells arthur he found a way to remove the substance black manta fused to their dome, but arthur brushes him off (he's worried about mera who just got kidnapped)

Aquaman #41: vulko gas perfected the reversal for black manta trap and can now turn people back into water breathers. Arthur has a first deputy, narkran, he leaves in charge of the city while he's searching for mera and tells him to speak to vulko about this

Aquaman #42: narkran becomes more power hungry, says those who don'tb obey him will be banished.

Aquaman #43: vulko restores the atkanteans ability to breathe water and re floods atlantis. We see atlanteans say they missed breathing water and that breathing air felt unnatural

Aquaman #46 reveals that narkran hired some thieves arthurnhad banished from atlantus to kidnap mera. Narkran, when speaking to vulko, says they the tremors around atlantis recently have been due to a prophec7 that atlantis will rise to the surface amd they shall take their place among the kingdomsv of the surface world.

Tula meets up with some revolutionaries who want to overthrow narkran and respect her bc she follows the true king

Aquaman #47: the revolutionaries attack to overthrow narkran, tula tries to convince them not to bc she thinks aquaman will be here any moment now to end the conflict without bloodshed. Narkran is banishing people for disobeying him and arrests tula for having been seen talking to the revolutionaries

Aquaman #55: garth sees noxden telling a crowd that atlanteans ancestors were airbreatgers, atlanetans were briefly airbreathers recently, and by making them water breathers again arthur denied then their heritage. The revolutionary who had a crush on tula says that Noxden is right and arthur went against the will of the people, maybe because he's not a true atlantean. Tula calls him racist

Adventure comics 441: a pirate, demi, threatens to reduce atlantis to slag via bombs if arthur doesn't surrender and let him be in charge. Arthurnsurrenders, leaving the atlanteans feeling like he is a ciward and weak bc they didn't know about the bomb

Adventure comics 442-444: arthur mentions he's been king for a decade, he feels atlantus might need a new leader. Some atlanteans talk amongst ech othe about how it atlantis is to meet the surface world as equals they can't be a half remembered laughingstock and aquaman has got to go. Arthur is unvoted king while he's out on a mission. Ocean master blackmails him to steal serum x which can turn people into water breathers, and arthur tries to get it from the kings vault but guards try to stop him. He fights them, assuming they're playing a trick on him, and gets zapped by the security system. Finds out karshon is king now. Arthur is an outlaw after the attempts to steals serum x again but changes his mind. Karshon pretends he really did steal it

446-447: black manta is running guns to atlantis. He's an intermediary between fisherman and karshon . Karshon was actually the sentien humanoid shark who wanted to hunt aquaman bc he's dangerous prey

448: after arthur defeats karshon, he stays un-kinged (voluntarily) and vulko assumes the throne

Notes as I'm re-reading Aquaman... I remember being sad I didn't keep track of the various political stuff going on under Arthur's reign

Aquaman #18 is arthurs first comic as king (he didn't want to be king, but agreed b/c they told him it would be civil war if not). He's made king but says he still needs to do patrols, the Atlanteans agree but then get mad when Oceanus attacks and Aquaman's not there (also they tell him he has to shack up with an Atlantean instantly, which makes Arthur sad b/c he's in love with mera and she's not atlantean). Oceanus takes over and enslaves the Atlanteans. It appears as if Mera is going along with him, though she does get him to agree not to kill Arthur, and then she betrays him later and since he was the only guy taking over, when he leaves Atlantis is free. This results in Garth suggesting Mera is made an honorary Atlantean, so arthur can marry her.

Aquaman # 19: when arthur leaves mera alone for patrol she gets lonely (being separated from her home dimension) and brings her pet sea monster and friends from dimension aqua. They get into trouble messing around and the atlanteans demand she return atlantis to the atlanteans and if she doesn't there will be revolt. One of her friends from Dimension Aqua gives her a potion to drug her and sells the Atlanteans who want to dispose of Mera to a circus, arthur rescues them and is willing to die with mera when the atlanteans toss her in the pit of no-return afterwards, even when he thinks she's guilty, but then he finds out she was potion-ified by her friend.

Atlanteans seem sorry they doubted that Mera was innocent, but that's two issues in a row she appeared to be side-by-side with the people who were enslaving them, which you figure would look bad.

Aquaman #23: Atlanteans love exile, and wanted to exile Aquababy for having destructive powers. Arthur is amazingly understanding of this and goes into exile with his baby and mera and garth, then aquababy uses his powers (and runs out of them) saving atlantis from an enemy. exile revoked.

Aquaman 28: Starbuck, a human who can breathe water due to scientific experimentation, saves aquamans life. Aquaman names him his advisor and invites him to atlantis, even though there's a rule against air breathers seeing atlantis. Starbuck maneuvers it so that arthur and garth are stuck in the dungeon depths and missing. Mera goes to search for them and leaves Starbuck in charge as regent, where he starts setting up a war between Atlantis and the surface. The atlanteans are b not shown to be of one mind about Starbuck, some buy his fear mongering and others don't

Aquaman #35: Black manta uses a photon transducer to pump some chemical into atlantis, that makes the dome react with water by boiling it. arthur and vulko have been developing a project X, a shot that will enable atlanteans lungs to adapt to air breathing again, to save atlanteans, who cannot exist in the air-filled dome for more than one hour.

Aquaman #38: There is an underwater raider committing crime. The Liquidator, an ancient mutant who has the ability to sense good and evil somehow, appears to punish him because he's getting away from Aquaman (and it's revealed the Liquidator was always an atlantean tool for defeating evil, they just hadn't needed it while Arthur was around until now). It appears as if Arthur is the evil person and the liquidator tries to kill him, arthur flees, Garth and Mera also wind up going trying to rescue Arthur. Ragnar, some guy who was in Arthur's guard (?) tells the populace that Arthur must be evil because the Liquidator never makes mistakes, and says he's in charge now. It turns out that Ragnar was actually the raider who had given Aquaman a potion of evil-ify you to make the Liquidator think that Arthur was evil. I'm not sure we ever see the Liquidator again.

more atlantean political stuff to come as continues.

[dea1art]

Xiao is here!

[silveragelovechild]