#briar patch

[cann1bal-kitt3n-x]

[sanguinyte]

Piece i had drawn by /commissioned from @thapunqueen !!!!!!! It came out rly rly well, my courier Remmy and arcade... :)

[britishassistant]

So I read the part about all the lieutenants arguing over kidnapping Yuu that ended with Yuu waking up and saying whoever had breakfast could before going back to sleep. Did Lilia just beat everyone else up with extra vigor at that point because he was excited to have Yuu try their cooking?

Also, I can imagine one of the more dangerous crimes Diasomnia pulled off was completely by accident. Lilia was determined to do the cooking for a public event, and caused everyone who attended food poisoning. This included the heroes that all decided to attend, except the Champion who fasts all the time. More people got away with crimes in the following days than usual while the heroes were recovering. XD

Lilia did, in fact, gain a gleam in his eye at those words, bodily bundle Yuu up like a burrito, and escaped across the city before anyone could stop him.

Rook tried his best, but unfortunately, Batman is one of the few beings too fast for him to stop.

And yes, the vast majority of Diasomnia’s crimes usually stem from Malleus wanting to impress Yuu, Silver falling asleep somewhere he shouldn’t, Sebek deciding more people need to know about how magificent Tsunotaro is, or Lilia wanting to provide food.

The less said about the incident with the soup kitchen, the better.

Briar Patch has become a famously picky eater for this very reason, and often teams up with the Champion against these formidable foes.

[sshbpodcast]

Episode 144: Apostasy

Star Trek: Insurrection

What happens when you toss "Who Watches the Watchers", "Journey's End", and "Homeward" into a blender, sprinkle a DASH of The Wrath of Khan angst over getting old on top, and then bake for 1 hour 43 minutes? The absolute clustercuss that is the thoroughly middling Star Trek: Insurrection! A planet has some magic space dust that's basically a fountain of youth, and the Federation has decided "screw ethics" to get their hands on it with the help of F. Murray Abraham doing his best Brazil face.

Also this week: lost opening, dumb puberty jokes, and ever-increasing stakes.

[witch-hattery]

One of my more tinfoil beliefs is that Song of the South was declared racist and buried to limit the cultural reach of the "briar patch" story because of how effective it could have been in dismantling various propaganda campaigns.

[ninatchka]

Those pesky alien spaceships are back again.

[ckret2]

on the one hand i keep holding off on drawing too much billford in my fic's universe because they're ages away from reaching that point and i don't wanna spoil things too much

but on the other hand if i wait until it's Actually Happening in the fic to start drawing it, everyone who's currently interested in billford will have moved on and won't see it

conclusion: i gotta draw more billford

[honeysickledream]

i love the idea of soap having a big family but…he’s not all that close with them nowadays. in fact, it’s been ages since he’s seen the gaggle of cousins he used to play pretend with in the back garden or even in the woods. family reunions aren’t commonplace anymore because everyone is so damn busy or spread too far apart. his favorite cousin is living in the U.S doing something, Soap’s never tuned in to the technical speak, and the rest are all busy getting their degrees, focused on being part of the workforce, and/or making their own families.

Soap’s closest to his Ma and Pa. they video call at least twice a week when Soap’s not deployed, and he spams his parents with stupid memes and goofy videos at odd hours of the night. He’s close with his older sister, too, talking to her about once a week for a short amount of time. She updates him on his nieces and nephews, the cat he rescued but can’t keep on base, and any shocking gossip from their hometown. He’ll send her pictures of the animals he sees, occasionally will send her a funny post, and maybe once a quarter they meet up to have dinner and see a show.

He can’t remember the last time he hung out with his older brother, though. Maybe a year or two ago? Soap will text the fucker only to get a reply a few weeks or a month later, then it’s radio silence. His brother is like that with everyone, so Soap doesn’t take it personally (most of the time).

At first, Soap hated the change, hated the distancing his family went through. He thought he was losing everything and everyone, but he came to realize it’s not like that for the most part. The people he has in his life are there solidly and that’s what’s important. And when he brings you home for the first time, you’re not overwhelmed by his 16 first cousins, 12 second cousins, 3 aunts and 6 uncles, his Ma and Pa and sister and brother and all their kids. It’s a mellow evening, the closest adults in the family able to relax and get to know you while you do the same.

He wants that tight knit family with you one day. He wants your kids to know all the cousins, yes, but he also wants them to have the security of solid relationships with those closest to them. He wants them to know that even as family members pull away or seemingly vanish off the face if the earth, that there are still people who exist and love them, who share a million memories with them and will happily make a million more. He doesn’t want them to struggle with the feeling of losing security and love like he did.

[mumblelard]

halfway to halfway or happy imbolg imaginary constructs

i hadn't found any rushes. i guess i need to figure out how to split and bend that river cane

i know there will be an end, at least for this embodied me, but lately that future, the future, the FUTURE, has been feeling further and further away. zeno's lost paradox of time. every moment is half again slower than the one before.

anyway, it's not the worst feeling i've ever had. i have sorrows for the world but also joys and the grace to appreciate both. it's a balance i can live with for now

[the-northern-continent]

Will never stop being funny to me that Veilguard ends with Rook throwing a [very Orlesian voice] rabbit into a literal briar patch

[cann1bal-kitt3n-x]

[sanguinyte]

writing this original universe / storyline right, and i made a playlist for the songs that remind me of certain characters / scenes / vibes etc right.

I could not explain the story or vibes to you right now if i fucking tried. thanks .

[bevanne46]

Pumpkin Spice Quilt Tutorial

Photo Credit: www.missouriquiltco.com Learn how to create a stunning autumn-inspired quilt with a precut 2 ½” jelly roll fabric using the beautiful pumpkin quilt pattern from Missouri Quilt Co.

The tutorial also includes a bonus section that teaches you how to make a vibrant and multicolored pieced sashing, which adds a unique frame to the pumpkin motifs.

The finished quilt measures 75 inches in width and 81 inches in length.

Jenny demonstrates how to make an adorable pieced pumpkin quilt using 2.5 inch strips of precut fabric (jelly rolls). For this fun fall project, Jenny chose Brandywine Batiks Strips by Kathy Engle for Island Batik. She also used Heat n Bond fusible interfacing. Jenny's pumpkins come together quickly with easy-to-make strip sets and snowballed corners. Bonus: learn how to create multicolored pieced sashing that will frame your little pumpkins with style!

Tutorial Here: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/blogs/missouri-star-quilting-tutorials/make-a-pumpkin-spice-quilt-with-jenny

[dunnywabbit]

Hiking

Before you even go hiking, here’s some ways to prepare:

Start hydrating three days before your hike. Trust me, you’ll feel much better the day of.

Trim your toenails so you don’t bash them against the inside of your boot, that shit hurts.

Essentials for your daypack:

More water than you think you’ll need.

Snacks! Lots of snacks! A good mixture of protein and carbs will keep you energized and satiated.

Navigation tools. Don’t rely on a phone; some places won’t have service. I recommend learning to utilize a compass and a map or investing in a satellite GPS.

Lighters and/or matches.

Headlamp or flashlight with extra batteries.

Sun protection, either in the form of a hat and/or sunscreen.

Layers for different weather scenarios.

First aid kit. Definitely bandaids, Ace bandage, neosporin, maybe even bug spray. I find tweezers are worth it.

Knife/multitool.

Emergency shelter, like a tarp or tent.

While on trail…

As soon as you feel a hot spot coming on, take care of it. Get it covered to prevent a blister from forming.

If you hike with a furry friend, keep them on leash, pack out waste, and make sure you check if a trail is pet-friendly.

Yield to uphill hikers so you don’t break their momentum. Bikers yield to hikers but everyone yields to horses.

[the-garden-in-the-briar-patch]

I highly recommend letting your friends name your plants at 3 in the morning. It's fun, and then you get a bunch of strawberries named for various Knights of Camelot and you also get to inflict psychic damage by saying things like "Lancelot is in flower" and "Mordred lies rotting on the ground".

[internutter]

Challenge #04379-K361: It's Just Like Home

A troop of Marines land on a planet they considered "a bit warm". Their enemies never stopped to realize what "a bit warm" meant to humans. -- Anon Guest

[AN: I'm from a country where it regularly gets above fifty celcius during summer. High forties are "a bit warm"... but that kind of depends how thick the air soup gets]

Space Marines have what you might call a... Reputation. Always with the ellipsus and the capital. If you want a polity or group eliminated with extreme prejudice, you call in the Space Marines. Amongst the Space Marines, there's a few subgroups who have a... Reputation. One of them is the group who come from N'Oz.

If you want raw cunning, if you want guile, if you want Space Marines who will pull a Briar Patch Manouvre into places where angels may fear to tread, you want the Space Marines from N'Oz.

One famous example is the Luring of Dagiili.

[Check the source for the rest of the story]