#hot air ballooning

[nmnomad]

Good morning! No balloons to chase around Corrales this morning, but that was a glorious Fiesta. Based on the second weekend at Meadowlark, it looks like a few of you headed to the sandbars to enjoy the flyover and splash & dash. I definitely got PLENTY of photos and video clips this year.

[kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon]

Gift fic: A Lock Upon His Lips

A gift for @ukcalico! Happy birthday! 💖

Good Omens, Explicit. Follow-up to Sea Change, my f/f canon-AU fic. See below the cut for extended description, warnings and tags.

Read it on the AO3!

Biggest beta thanks to @brenna and @on1occasionfork for reading this quickly and giving the best feedback! You are both amazing 🤩 Also tagging @goodomensafterdark -- it's the best place for goblining ❤️ Come join us there! No better time than the spooky season!

CW/TW and Tags:

M/M, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Not Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe - Canon, Historical, Edwardian Period, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, References to Oscar Wilde, Literature, Poetry, Expositions, World Fairs, Angst, Longing, Mutual Pining, Longing through denial, Bittersweet Ending, Kissing, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Top Crowley (Good Omens), Bottom Crowley (Good Omens), Top Aziraphale (Good Omens), Bottom Aziraphale (Good Omens), Edging, ballooning, Ferris Wheels, Getting to Know Each Other (Through Sex), Running Away

Summary:

Paris, Autumn 1900: Aziraphale has been looking after Oscar Wilde for the past two years. He takes a day off from guardian angel-ing to attend the 1900 Paris World Fair, L'Exposition Universelle, and happens upon a familiar person in a not-so-familiar body.

(This is a canon-compliant AU: Az is an angel, Crowley is a demon, and they're hereditary enemies who've met only once before. A follow up to Sea Change and the AU and events in that story. You don't need to read that one to enjoy this one!)

Excerpt:

A smirk flickered over that mobile mouth — the mouth that had closed over Aziraphale’s in a secluded alcove, that had licked sweet wine off the tips of his breasts, followed the sticky track of it down between his legs to close around the throbbing bud of his Effort. The memory had him stiffening and flushing in more ways than one, and Aziraphale was whipped back to a snippet of conversation in that same alcove between the gasps and sighs: Other days I feel like a woman and I am. Other days I call myself he but have tits. Other days she but there’s a cock dangling between my legs. Some days both. Some days neither. Some days… everything. He flushed deeper at the instantaneous overwhelming desire to know just what was between Crowley’s legs at this moment. What was in Crowley’s mind, this very second. Which told him that this and every subsequent second of this was a mistake. “This is a mistake,” Aziraphale said, and turned to go. Crowley’s voice came almost immediately, just a shade too quickly. “What? Well — er. Possibly, but there are compensations.”

A Lock Upon His Lips (AO3 Link)

[mrcokrft]

[simonh]

You Just Walked Away by Thomas Hawk

[lionofchaeronea]

Falling Stars Observed from the Balloon, illustration by Albert Tissandier for the second edition of James Glaisher's Travels in the Air, 1871

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[sixpenceee]

Hot air balloons in Turkey

[viejospellejos]

Coming in hot

[maureen2musings]

Spring in Cappadocia

hobopeeba

[retrogamingblog2]

Prepare for trouble

[todays-xkcd]

My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.

Modes of Transportation [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A chart is shown, where the Y axis is labeled "Convenient for travel" and has an arrow pointing up and the X axis is labeled "Dangerous" and has an arrow pointing right.]

[In the "Zone of practicality" (top left area of the chart):] Trains Airliners Cars Scooters Bicycles Boats Walking

[In the "Zone of specialty and recreational vehicles" (from the top right to the bottom left):] Motorcycles Helicopters Light aircraft Go karts Skateboards Rollerblades Skis Unicycles Sleds Bumper cars

[Labeled "?????" (in the bottom right corner):] Hot air balloons

[Caption below the panel:] Hot air balloons are the optimal mode of transportation, if your optimization algorithm has a sign error.

[nmnomad]

I didn't take many photos this morning. Live-streaming short bits on multiple platforms. A few balloons got low enough to splash and dash further south, but most of them were too high to make the drop. Beautiful morning.

[factual-fantasy]

I felt like drawing more of Grim and V. They're so cretuare 🥺💞💞

I also tried to experiment with Sylvester's body type a little. The whole idea behind getting a male Sylveon was to try and make him look more pointy and masculine. I think I'm gettin somewhere with him! :0

[simonh]

She Was Mostly Incapable of Making Decisions by Thomas Hawk

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Ancient hero’s mask, pt. 2

(1-2)

Sure sucks that there’s no Song of Healing in TOTK huh? Maybe he’ll find the Ocarina of Time somewhere in the Depths before Purah manages to convince him to let her poke around at his internal organs with a scalpel. Eh, Link can trust her, she’s a doctor!

Purah seems like she’d be such a fun character to expand upon. Their chaotic friendship potential is unparalleled. Both respected pillars of their community but they also are huge nerds with polar opposite hyperfixations.

Maybe I’ll do a little comic with an original storyline about breaking the Hero’s Aspect Mask’s curse. Could be fun!

These games should have been called The Legend of Zelda: Breadth of the Wildlife Photography Opportunities. The Link I play would kill Ganon thrice more for added album space to fill with pictographs of his horse in scenic locations.