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[thecluelessdoctor]

Guess who's gonna try their hand in art fight

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[paper-starz]

The Howdy Protection Squad says otherwise, Doc…

Based on this post! That Dotty made!! It's set in the SAS Au!

A silly lil doodle that an anonymous lil birdy told me to draw (wink wink)!!

(Effie, Bailey, and Doc belong to @dottyorange )!!

(Self-aware swap Au belongs to yours truly!! :D)

[ricochetyears]

“And what, Effie just… shoots a bow out of boredom sometimes?” Remus asks, a playful edge in his voice.

Sirius laughs, a bit of mystery lighting up his expression. “I have this theory that she used to be Dauntless before she ended up in Amity, but she won’t talk about it. Every time I try to ask, she just goes, ‘Not now, lover boy.’”

Remus blinks, his face breaking into a smile he can’t quite contain as he hears Sirius singing the last words in a high-pitched voice.

“Lover boy?”

“Mm, Effie’s been calling me that since I was little,” Sirius replies, a hint of self-satisfaction in his smile, “It’s because I’m full of love. I love to love, what can I say.”

“Oh, is that so?” Remus raises an eyebrow, his amusement hiding the fact that he’s secretly marvelling at Sirius' words.

Lover boy. It fits him in a way Remus hadn’t realised until now. There’s a softness in Sirius, a fierce and fearless loyalty paired with a rare warmth. Here is a boy who’s been through hell and back, who’s risked everything he has, and yet he holds onto love like it’s his most natural instinct, his birthright.

For a moment, Remus' gaze lingers, watching the light glint off Sirius' eyes, catching in his grin. He sees something achingly beautiful in that—the way Sirius carries himself, fearless and unapologetically full of life, even in a place that tries to crush that out of people.

art cc: likeafunerall

[effie-bracken]

Childhood Challenge

- a challenge for @asongofgoldenfireandblackblood

One of the first lessons a child learns in the Riverlands is how dangerous the waters of the Red Fork are. It is a wide, lazy water that drifts through the middle of the land. The red banks look like a gash in the landscape from the clay that covers the area. This makes the water impossible to see after a rain storm clouds the water. All manner of dangers can befall a child who goes too near the edge. Poisonous snakes frequent the murky waters and will cause anyone to be lost beneath the currents.

Septa Maege had traveled from the Neck with their mother and brought the stories she told when Annora was a child. The nights were always filled with the Crannogmen and the many beasts that dwelt in the bogs around Moat Cailin. Effie would have dreams of the towers that scattered the land, its oily black stone reflecting like the wings of the dragonflies that filled the air around it. The ruins existed before the swamps surrounding it. The children of the forest called down the hammer of the waters to stop the first men from moving any further to the North, creating the flooding that created the Neck. The wooden causeway weaves past the towers who are slowly being reclaimed by the land, some barely showing from the brush that grew around them to take their place. Children are cautioned against playing on the causeway lest the spirit lights lure them into the entrapment of mud just a small step from the path. Floating logs would quickly turn into a lizard-lion that would immediately drag whoever trusted its presence into the murky water.

Stories such as these will raise cautious children, but it also makes a child confident they know what signs to look for, making the shield of caution fail.

When playing by the river Effie always made sure to keep away from the edge. The dried clay dirt would crumble underfoot, launching whoever into the water and swept down the river. Around the time of her eighth nameday, Emphyria had started her day at the river. Carrying her pole, she intended to catch some small fish to give to the baby turtle she had been keeping in a bucket at the stable. It was intended to be dinner for her father but she felt it had more life to live.

Coming to a dip in the river bank, she settled down and cast her line into the calm pool that formed away from the current. After an hour or so of not catching anything she decided she needed to change her spot and saw another calm spot further up. As she climbed up the bank, the dirt gave way beneath her feet. Losing her footing sent the pole from her hand and into the water. Emphyria panicked, she wasn’t supposed to take the pole from the stable in the first place. Without thinking about how it had rained the day before, she jumped in the brown water expecting to catch the pole before it was carried away. To her horror, the water was deeper from the rain and moving faster. The weight of the dress dragged her under the current and all thoughts of the pole vanished. Struggling to get to the surface, she spat and thrashed trying to scream but the water quickly took the place of her breath as she was carried further and further. Her arms could not fight against the water and she caught flashes of the watery world underneath, too cloudy to see anything that would be with her. She tried to see where she was being taken and saw the form of a man running towards her, filled with relief as she felt his arms pull her from the grips of the current.

Despite the stern talk from her Lord father about how careless and unseemly she was acting for a lady of her standing, Emphyria would remember the lesson the river taught her that day. It was more effective than if her father had scolded her for a fortnight and she always had more caution around the river and remembered the feeling of the water whenever she went near the edge.

[doublepgspread]

Double Page Spread ep 255- Peter Krause

Last year, Ahoy Comics had a hit with the biting social satire, "The Wrong Earth" by writer Tom Peyer and artist Jamal Igle. Following the interactions of the hero Dragonflyman from one Earth and his counterpart Dragonfly from another, their worlds intersect. Now there is a prequel book, "Dragonfly and Dragonflyman", with art by Peter Krause. Krause joins Wendi to discuss the split personality involved in drawing these two timelines, his longtime partnership with Mark Waid on such books as "Irredeemable" and "Archie 1941", his upcoming mystery project "Blacking Out" with colorist Giulia Brusco, and being a very retro artist in a digital world.

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[honeyandfiregame]

What pet names would the LIs use with the MC when romanced?

I guess we’ll see this in the game, but I’ll answer anyway. Day, Dani, Koda, and Effie don’t give pet names.

Inias only kind of does. He sticks to “love” or “my love” and doesn’t really use anything else.

Niina really likes “babe” and she doesn’t often stray from that.

Zenos, I’ve talked about it before and you’ll see in previous asks, he’s kinda weird about it. He does the usual “love” and “babe”, but he’ll also call MC odd names like honeybee, snapdragon, dragonfly, and more that depend on the kind of MC and the situation.

Lily is also one you can totally guess based on asks. She calls the MC anything from darling, to sweetie, to sweetheart, to love, to hun/honey, etc, etc. Hell, she does this whether she’s romanced or not (she’ll even do this with a male/NB MC, but that’s in a friendly way)

[crystalleab]

“Today, I want you to compare the tone of Nina Simone’s 1965 song ‘Feeling Good’ and Michael Bublé’s 2010 version,” I say. I stand at the front of my classroom, in between the projector screen with frozen images of the two artists and my computer where I have sound files cued up and ready.

(I’m thinking of my fellow educators here as the school year begins once more. I’ve used this lesson in my high school English classrooms, and I must credit Ms. Sandra Effinger for the original plan. I start with a National Public Radio segment called “Vocal Impressions: Hearing Voices” from All Things Considered. First, we discuss tone, and Ms. Effie has some nice handouts with lists of tone words. We also discuss NPR—like “Who can tell me what NPR stands for?”)

“NPR invited listeners to take part in an originality experiment to describe how different voices sound. I’m inviting you to take part in that experiment. I’ll play a clip, and you write down whatever words or phrases come to mind, and then we’ll compare yours to the NPR Responses. This first voice belongs to Morgan Freeman. Talk to people near you about who Morgan Freeman is and then raise your hand if you can tell me something about him.”

Class continues in the way. In addition to Freeman, students listen to the voices of Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, and Patsy Cline. With each new voice, we compare student descriptions to the NPR audience responses. The class works to top their previous originality with each round.

“Great, you guys!” I say, “Now, we’re ready for Nina Simone. Do you know her? She’s a black American woman who first recorded this song in 1965. Think about her style, her tempo, and what she repeats. List words and phrases that convey her attitude. Here’s a copy you can write on. Michael Bublé’s version is on the other side.” And I press play.

Feeling Good

Nina Simone

Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel

It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life for me yeah

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me Ouh And I’m feeling good

Fish in the sea, you know how I feel River running free, you know how I feel Blossom on the tree, you know how I feel

It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life For me And I’m feeling good

Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don’t you know Butterflies all havin’ fun, you know what I mean Sleep in peace when day is done, that’s what I mean And this old world, is a new world And a bold world for me

Stars when you shine, you know how I feel Scent of the pine, you know how I feel Oh freedom is mine And I know how I feel

It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life For me

And I’m feeling good

It’s fun to watch their little faces light up when the horns start. Afterward, we share some words. “The blues…strength…painful…broken…sadness,” they say.

“Okay, same thing for Michael Bublé. What do you know about him?” I say, and then we discuss some obvious and not so obvious differences. “He’s Canadian, and this is 2010.”

“Let’s hear some of your words,” I say.

They say, “Positive…inspired…optimistic…upbeat…smooth like silk.”

“Okay, now I want you to take your lists and combine your words into an adjective-noun phrase. You might have to play with the parts of speech to make it work. For example, optimistic and upbeat are both adjectives. How do we make optimistic a noun?”

They raise their hands. “Optimist…optimism,” they say.

“Perfect, now add upbeat to that. Upbeat optimism. That sounds sophisticated, right? Now do the same thing for Nina Simone. Do you need to hear it again?” I say.

It’s always a unanimous “YES!” They don’t even realize they’re learning. Ha! And the beauty is, this game could go on and on. Every Monday could be “Remake Monday,” and we can always start with music, and we can always think about “Feeling Good” no matter our circumstances. There is so much power in choosing our attitudes. What I’ve always loved about teaching English is the inherent opportunity to teach psychology. And they don’t even realize. Ha! (I take that back. Some do catch on when they start to know me.)

Eventually, we make it to something like the example below (which may have been written by a teacher), but then the next time around, maybe they work with a partner, and then the next time they’re on their own. After twenty years in the classroom, I’ve discovered kids need this sort of gradual release when trying something new or even when revisiting skills after a long summer. Oh, and I might have a great handout for Verbs to Use When Writing about Literature.

“Feeling Good” with Simone and Bublé

With virtually identical lyrics, Michael Bublé’s performance of “Feeling Good” conjures inspired positivity while Nina Simone’s rendition portrays bluesy strength. Elements of nature relate to each artist. Bublé sings of birds, the sun, fish, and the river knowing “how [he] feel[s]” as well as the dragonfly and butterflies knowing “what [he] mean[s].” The natural world not only influences his mood but identifies with Bublé’s upbeat optimism of each new day.

The racial injustice that ignited the civil rights movement in the U.S. underscores Simone’s broken tone. Her tangible sadness stands in stark contrast to Bublé’s zeal. Her heart-rending tenor conveys that nature knows and empathizes with her woes. When Simone sings, “It’s a new dawn/It’s a new day/It’s a new life/For me/And I’m feeling good,” her tone reveals both her suppressed pain and her resolute strength. Not only does her “new life” imply that she will overcome the past, but she “feel[s] good” and determined for a better tomorrow.

It's just another Re-make Monday! “Today, I want you to compare the tone of Nina Simone’s 1965 song ‘Feeling Good’ and Michael Bublé’s 2010 version,” I say.

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[joefoley]

If you missed 'Eggs & Soldiers' when it screened in Ireland, Italy, Greece, France, Cyprus, Latvia, Madrid, Barcelona, Toronto, Chicago, Providence, Manhattan, Crown Heights, Astoria, Inwood, Bellmore, Syracuse, Asbury Park, Cape May, Trenton, Bethlehem, Beaufort, Long Beach, Carmel, Mobile, Memphis, Harrisonburg, Chicago, Las Vegas or Seattle tomorrow is your chance to see our film at the Port Orchard Film Festival where it is having it’s Washington State Premiere. - - EVENT: Imelda O'Reilly's short film 'Eggs & Soldiers' at the Port Orchard Film Festival https://portorchardfilmfest.com - DATE: Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 2:00 PM - LOCATION: Dragonfly Cinema Theater 2 822 Bay Street Port Orchard, WA 98366 - TRAILER: Eggs & Soldiers https://vimeo.com/123767059 - TREATMENT: A single Irish construction worker in New York City forgets to buy the tree on Christmas Eve. Ned the older son's humanity is challenged when he risks everything to allow his younger brother Marco to experience a real Irish Christmas. - INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/pswoon/ - Port Orchard FF - Facebook https://m.facebook.com/portorchardfilmfestival/ - Many thanks to our amazingly talented cast, tireless crew and generous IndieGoGo supporters. - CAST: Deema Aitkens, Quentin Maré, Jomil Elijah Robinson, Daphne Gaines, Michael McMonagle, Don Close and Savannah DesOrmeaux - - CREW: Imelda O'Reilly, Joe Foley, Guy Morgan, Alan Maxwell, Jodi Gibson, Scott Jones-Brothers, Michael David Bevins, David Giesbrecht, Frederick Helm, Judy Bowman, Joel Diamond, Cory Maffucci, Victoria Negri, Phillip Kimsey, David Pascal, Tim Donovan, Jake Bjork, Thomas Zaccheo, Erica Gould, Effie Fradelos, Greg White, Jose Martinez and Damien Leone - #EggsAndSoldiers #FilmingNYC #PortOrchardFilmFestival #POFF #ShootingNYC #ScreeningWA #WestCoastPremiere #Shooting4K #RedCinema #RedScarlet #4KHD #ZeissLenses #SupportingIndependentFilm #ChristmasInNewYork #ImmigrantStrong #OhChristmasTree #FairytaleOfNewYork #Inwood #WashingtonHeights #ElAlto (at Dragonfly Cinema)

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[thecluelessdoctor]

i told you I was gonna make a Effie redesign.

:D

Allow me to charm you into reblogging *ahem* PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEA-

[paper-starz]

And how can I just FORGET about these doodles???????

(Once again folks!!! This OC does NOT belong to me!! But to @dottyorange !!)

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[turfandlawncare]

A Glimpse of a Lunatic’s Garden by Allen Bush

Jamie Dockery, wizard of farm and garden. August 12, 2017.

I don’t know anyone on this planet, or galaxy, with more runaway enthusiasm for gardening than Jamie Dockery. And that’s not all. Besides his rabid determination to grow anything with chlorophyll, Jamie also raises little cows, little goats, chickens, ducks, donkeys, and tends an aviary with finches and canaries—all of this on his ten-acre farm in Salvisa, KY, not far from the Kentucky River.

Ansel, the newborn, black and white calf. March 26, 2017.

“I’m a full blown nut job,” Jamie confessed during a lecture he gave early last spring called: “A Glimpse of a Lunatic’s Garden.”

This was one of nearly 50 talks Jamie presents each year as part of his day job as the Fayette County Extension Agent for Horticulture Education. Jamie’s first love, after his livestock, is perennials, but he is no one-trick pony. He’s extremely knowledgeable on trees, shrubs, and fruits and vegetables, too.

The little cows in early May.

Jamie trials many new plants and vegetable seed items in Salvisa. At his recommendation, I have planted two disease-resistant apple varieties ‘Liberty and Enterprise’. And Jamie told Rose recently about the thornless Prime-Ark Freedom® Primocane blackberry variety that produce a second crop later in the season, on new growth.

Jamie tours the vegetable garden with Tay Breene and Rose Cooper in mid-May.

Jamie muscled through 200 slides in an hour and 40-minutes. There was not a dull moment.

“You’re going to kill plants. Don’t worry,” he advised.

“I avoid pastel colors; I prefer crayon box colors,” he said.

The celandine poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum) has “glow-in-the-dark yellow sap.”

The popcorn plant, Senna (Cassia didymobotrya) “smells like popcorn for a few seconds before it begins to smell like stinky jimson weed.”

Jamie and Rose Cooper with the popcorn plant, Senna (Cassia) didympbotrya in early October.

There was a slide with a “cacophony” of bright flowering daylilies including ‘Rainbow Towers’, ‘Lemon Madeline’, ‘Heavenly Dragonfly’ with Echinacea purpurea and Chrysanthemum ‘Becky’.

Effie (L) and Diesel (R) along the summer border summer. Dockery photo.

Jamie keeps a sharp eye open for old, passalong plants. He has several old bearded Iris, about which he is philosophical: “They persist.”

Summer Sorbaria sorbifolia. Dockery photo.

Jamie also got excited (he’s easily excited) about the false spiraea, Sorbaria sorbifolia, with one caveat that momentarily knocked the shrub off stride for me: it is “vigorous” (meaning, suckering like crazy).

I perked up again when Jamie said, “This hardy shrub will take any abuse you can throw at it.”

Good advice, but that was only a teaser.

Jamie uncorked the closer.

“It has ginormous astilbe-like flowers for two or three months and is disastrously beautiful,” he said.

Jamie dares timid gardeners to be cautious of fads but not to be shy about trying new plants. Be patient; be bold. Cross the threshold to garden discovery.

Sit a spell.

Rose and I met Jamie through mutual friends who garden and swap plants. Jamie spends free time in Salvisa. (He lives in Lexington during the week with his partner Gerry.)

Washtub tower of succulents.

Jamie initially built a run-in shed in Salvisa for his goats, cattle and donkeys so they could be protected in inclement weather. He liked the animal shelter so much that he added a modified run in—a simple house (1500 sq. ft.) with a wood stove. There is no electricity.

Summer daylilies—’Rainbow Towers’, ‘Lemon Madeline’, and ‘Heavenly Dragonfire’ with Chrysanthemum (Leucanthemum) ‘Becky’ and Echinacea. Dockery photo.

  Animal farm and garden.

The Salvisa farm and garden originated from a child’s dream of kittens, puppies and memories of the refrain, “No, you can’t keep that until you get older.” His patch of soil and sentiment is a walk back in time to a childhood of canned vegetables, medicinal herbs, no running water and big snowball bushes (Viburnum macrocephalum). His farm and garden are homage to the self-sufficient lifestyle his maternal grandparents lived in rural Russell County, in South Central Kentucky, near Lake Cumberland.

Potted carnivorous plants in mid-summer.

Jamie grows a keepsake flameleaf sumac shrub, Rhus copallinum, harvested from from root stolons dug from his grandmother’s garden. The orange-red fall leaf color and bright-red seed heads are stunning. He soaks up inspiration wherever he goes. “I have taken hostages from everyone I met along the way, ” Jamie said.

The buzzard has feathers made from bean pods of a honey locust. Osage orange tree in the background.

He invited friends—more hostages—out to the farm the weekend before Halloween. It was a raw, wet-cold evening. The vegetable garden was winding down. Light frost had already nipped the lablab beans. Jamie set up several fire stations to keep everyone warm. The gardening maestro’s luscious, lunatic garden was a backdrop for the season’s closing event.

Jamie’s newly completed seasonal sculptures made their debut.

Halloween ghoul with $10 bucks worth of Walmart fabric, burlap sack and nimblewill hair. Dockery photo.

Now he is preparing for cold weather. Jamie never stops. Tender plants go to Lexington and spend the winter under grow lights in the basement of his Lexington home. His canaries and finches go to town, too.

Our 2016 gift of Christmas greenery from Jamie.

Christmas decorations will get underway soon. Jamie will start with sprigs of boxwood, Magnolia D.D. Blanchard, Nandina and red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) If he is lucky, he might add the beautiful pheasant back mushroom—if he finds one on a decaying log. And who knows what else.

“I make the decorations for my friends,” he said.

Little Dude, the noble donkey. He guards the livestock from coyotes.

  Plenty of Osage oranges to go around. Crocus speciosus in foreground.

There is no need to call ground control when you’re held friendly hostage in the swirling orbit of Jamie Dockery’s lunatic garden.

It’s all fun.

As any garden should be.

A Glimpse of a Lunatic’s Garden originally appeared on Garden Rant on November 8, 2017.

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