#camera recommendation

[righteousenjoymentofthunder]

just. dropping this here

[vermwerm]

GRAB HIM BY HIS STUPID HOTDOG SHAPED HEAD !!!!!

[thou-babbling-brook]

“You have not yet served your purpose,” Minerva says, “You are meant for more. As are the other two.”

Fan art of my friend @rk1kincorrect’s fic, Qurbān. You can read it here!

[darkwood-sleddog]

Trail camera captures from the past few months!

Besides the obvious daily gray squirrels, red squirrels, and chipmunks, the larger trees also seem to be supporting the population of flying squirrels that we evicted from our house years ago (not shown in any photos here because they are TINY).

In the photos in order per row we have:

White Tail Deer (baby is so cute!)

North American Porcupine, Striped Skunk

Eastern Coyote (butt only)

more White Tailed Deer

Black Bear doing its monthly drive by to fuck up my compost bin

Fisher/Pekan

Raccoons (god...so many raccoons. They're here every night)

Wild Turkey

Gray Squirrel, Barred Owl

Bobcat! (I haven't captured one on a camera in almost two years)

Red Fox, Ruffled Grouse

[cheruib]

something i wanna pick up so bad this year is film photography... i love the world i love seeing beauty in it i love taking a picture that would remind me of a certain special moment or a ray of sunshine falling on the sidewalk.. it would be such a perfect hobby for me

[runawaymun]

Maedhros or Maglor dragging Elrond and/or Elros on a sled (#6).

Here's Elros and Mags! :D

[soulmvtes]

just dropped off my four rolls of summer film :)

[o-uncle-newt]

I WENT TO OXFORD

It was rainy but basically perfect- and now I have a question.

Anyway, first thing I did, while waiting for my Bodleian tour to start, was do the (very quick) "Harriet finally goes up like straw" walking tour, from the Broad Street gate of Balliol to New College Lane just past the Bridge of Sighs. It was excellent.

Below is the first photo I took- of the intersection of Broad Street and Catte Street (in my copy of the book spelled Cat Street), or the Holywell Corner, as Harriet calls it. This photo is how Peter and Harriet would have seen it, though presumably at night time (and I guess, potentially, on the other side of the street). From here, they'd cross ahead and to the right, and walk on the left side of Catte Street a few yards to New College Lane.

For those who like me have memorized the last page of this book- does anyone notice anything interesting?

I'll set the scene- they're walking back, and Peter drops that

'I have been afraid,' he said simply; 'because I knew that from anything you said to me here, there could be no going back.... But I will ask you now, and if you say No, I promise you that this time I will accept your answer. Harriet; you know that I love you: will you marry me?' The traffic lights winked at the Holywell Corner: Yes; No; Wait. 

Wait what? What traffic lights?!

I can confirm, I walked on all sides of that intersection and couldn't find a traffic light or any indication that one had ever been there. No traffic light, no pedestrian stoplight, no nothing.

I have to assume that, however much Sayers might like metaphors and allegories and such, she wouldn't invent a traffic light for the sake of one. But maybe she did? Or maybe one did exist in 1935 and has been since removed in the name of some kind of renewal project? Is it related to the New Bodleian (now Weston) library being built starting in 1937 on that corner, or totally unrelated?

I'm not going to pretend that any of this matters, just say that a) I am always interested in things like this, whether they are important or not, and if anyone knows please tell me and b) it's a tribute to Sayers that so many of the scenes in the book felt so vivid that seeing the locations in person felt like returning to them- and that something feeling even slightly off from that could be jarring.

Bonus photo, to thank you for bearing with me- picture two Senior Members of the university closely and passionately embracing just past the bridge over there.

[marble-pop]

yeowch

[sonicranger1]

CLH Redraw that only took me 12 hours this time let's gooo 🕺 (Click image(s) for better quality)

And the non-filter camera thing version

(OG screenshot under the cut 👇)

[residentalucardkisser]

i know that bitch girlycard would've grated that butler to shredded walter cheese if he wasn't in that flying fire hazard

[appleplaid]

My look today, with the company of Modest Mouse of course! ⭐️🍏

[pivsketch]

drawing crossed arms is tricky so i opened up some 3d models on sketchfab and drew my TAGCEN guys crossing their arms. from various angles. perhaps i will learn something

if you dont know: tons of people do photoscan/photogrammetry stuff and upload it to sketchfab as a 3d model that you can freely rotate around and view in your browser. its really good for reference!!

[sydmarch]

[mzminola]

I’ve said before that one reason I like the canon tidbit that Tim was a city kid while Janet was alive (the Drakes didn’t live in Bristol until after Jack’s coma was over) because it makes Camera!Tim more plausible.

But also? I think it makes Tim’s canon origin motivations more plausible. Tim imprinted pretty damn hard on Dick Grayson, and subsequently Robin, but little kid Tim was just as obsessed with Batman, and with seeing the Dynamic Duo as important symbols for the city.

Why would a kid from out in the suburbs care about that?

Sure, tracking caped vigilantes in the news is an interesting hobby, but the level of attachment Tim had? It’s possible for a tourist, I guess, but it says local to me. It says someone who directly sees the effects.

We get some interesting similarities and differences with other Batkids. Jason and Tim are from disparate economic classes, and Jason is explicitly from the part of town Batman didn’t bother patrolling in. Jason had every reason to see Batman as useless at best and an active threat to himself and his community at worst. It takes Bruce giving Jason the resources to help people himself to change that view. Batman didn’t matter to Jason as a symbol, he mattered as a parent.

Tim is theoretically from a part of town that benefitted from Batman; everywhere in Gotham is dangerous, but there might’ve been a drop in street level crime in Tim’s neighborhood when Bruce patrolled there, an uptick in corporate crimes actually getting the evidence to prosecute, a drop in mafia’s controlling things. That’s speculation though; maybe Batman didn’t make a lick of difference, he was just visible.

Cass is raised outside Gotham as an assassin, but spent an unknown amount of time as a Gotham street kid. We first see her in the city in canon after the earthquake, when everything’s gone to hell and the vigilantes on the ground are making a difference when the government gives up on them. Like Tim, she sees Batman as an important symbol, though this seems to be less about Gotham, and more about the contrast to her assassin upbringing.

Stephanie is from the Manchester suburb outside Gotham, and her view of Batman isn’t based on the city at all, but on his direct effect on her family. By the fact he foils her villain father’s plans. Steph comes to care about his opinion of her, but he’s not a symbol the way he is for Tim & Cass.

There’s probably something to say about city-dwellers Jack & Janet sending Tim to boarding school, but I don’t know enough about that subject to get into it.

[sunshiinnne]

"I'm learning the language of the World, and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me...even the flight of the hawks."

The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho

(P.s I've read this book like a couple times and I discovered something new every time like there's so much between the lines. This is the one book that i mostly carry with myself around.)