#iceaxe

[mirrorbent]

Mirrorbent Update!

In this one-page update, Piolet ponders the current situation, and her role in causing it.

Next update should hopefully come Before next Arc Number Day (5/4 for reference), unless something unexpected happens.

[drzootsuit]

FOREST BOUGHS - The black forest calls. Whispering tendrils of nighttime.

Let yourself sink. 

There is no need for anything beyond this. You have found what you seek. Now let yourself join the dance.

1. The dance?

FOREST BOUGHS - Yes, child. This is it. The destination all seek. Whirling, perfect, nothing. You have at last proven yourself worthy. Transcended existence. Freed yourself from it all, and found the other side.

This is where they go, when they leave you.

1. Wait, who?

FOREST BOUGHS - That is unimportant. All you need do now is embrace your reward. True oblivion.

2. No, I think I want to do the opposite of that

HORMONAL MESS - It doesn’t want its reward. What a humble thing it is. To come so far and attempt to return the prize. To grab the brass ring and then throw it away! Can it not feel the rushing fury inside of it? The endless parade inside it’s flesh?

3. Oh god. Ow. I feel sick. Let me feel something else? Please?

HORMONAL MESS - That can be arranged… how about a headache? A splitting, piercing headache! An iceaxe to the skull! Something, somewhere, is ringing! Awake, refuser of the prize! Awake, humble thing! Take in the light! And may it hurt! 

You awake to the taste of blood, and the sickening scent of feces. An acrid chemical tinge laces through all of your senses. Your hands feel stiff, as if blood is only now returning to them. 

1. What is this awful sensation?

NERVES (success) - filth. Plain and simple. Caked blood. Drool. Piss. sweat. Other unmentionable things. You can feel it all clinging to your skin. You’ve been lying in it all for ages.

SCHOOLING (success) -  That harsh smell is brandy. Not the cheap stuff, either.

PERCEPTION - This room is a complete fucking mess. Tiny pills surround your stumbling feet. 

MEDICINE (success) - brandy and pills? That’s no good dear, not at all. 

2. Medicine, be real with me. Is this blood mine?

MEDICINE - I’m afraid so dear. I think most of the other fluids may be ours as well. 

3. Oh god. It’s all in my mouth. How did this happen?

MEDICINE (failure) - I don’t think you’re in condition to hear my opinion, dear. You need water and sleep before we discuss mental health.

POINTED HAT - Stand up. This is no time to be lying around. Can’t you hear the doorbell?

1. The doorbell?

POINTED HAT - Doorbell means work. You have work to do. 

1. I have work to do like this? I don’t think I can do anything like this.

GINGERBREAD COTTAGES - Covered in blood and vomit? You can do anything like this. You can do everything like this.

POINTED HAT - you will be quiet. She doesn’t need you. Not now, not ever. 

NERVES - the doorbell is still ringing. They seem rather impatient. 

3. Every step I take makes me feel like I’m going to throw up. My hands are cold. Oh god. 

POINTED HAT - Walk, don’t run. 

As you drag yourself down the hall, leaving a streak of filth on the wall where you press against it to keep yourself upright, you manage to make it to the front door. The icy cold chill of fresh mountain air prickles against your skin, chilling the warm amniotic misery that coats you. 

Before the doorbell can ring again, you grip the doorknob. 

NERVES (success) - Open it only a little bit. It could be anything.

1. Open it just a crack.

On the other side, you see an old woman. Plump as an overstuffed pie. She seems nonplussed, but recoils when she sees you through the crack in the door. Even with it opened only a little bit, she is clearly taken aback by the view of your pulsating eyeballs and foul scent. 

TART-MAKING WOMAN - “Er… h-hello there? Is- is the witch of the house… in?”

COMMUNITY SPIRIT (success) - this woman is your neighbor. Treat her with trust and respect.

3. [Socialization - heroic] - Align your tongue and teeth and greet her with a proper neighborly how do you do.

FAILURE.

“MY BODY IS DRY AND THE WORLD IS A TORRENT OF SICK”

TART-MAKING WOMAN - Her face goes pale, and she seems to step back a bit.

“W-whatever you are, I- p-please, just tell your mistress I c-came to call. I shan’t bother you further. J-just tell her… it’s about my cat! I’m sorry!”

POINTED HAT - I can do cats. Cats are part and parcel. Get us cleaned up. And find our hat. We have work to do. It is a cold day in the alps. And you have a mission.

[lethalcontracts]

Fun Facts about Clay!

Pre-Masked:

-sweetest cinnamon roll of a man

-gay 🏳️‍🌈

-wonderful cook

-thalassophobia (fear of deep water)

-used a rubix cube to distract his thoughts during bad situations.

Post-Masked:

-none of the above.

-rubix cube is now mainly used as a trap item.

-is affected by the eclipse and will be absolutely relentless and feral.

-uses an iceaxe as a weapon to injure targets.

-uses auditory memories from host to try and trick targets.

-plays dead in the snow

-will camp the safehouse on occasion.

[waitingforwinterwinds]

ASOS; Steel and Snow: 26 JON III (pages 355-366)

"You know nothing, Jon Snow." - Ygritte, Mother of Memes

Jon and the wildlings prepare to cross the wall, Ygritte finds a cave with secret tunnels galore and lore.

The Reader thinks they should be allowed to take certain 'romantic tropes' away from some authors, and warns drinking game players to switch to non-alcoholics again. I know one thing, Jon Snow: alcohol poisoning is bad for you.

-

... Ygritte reconfirming that Jon basically wildling proposed to her, even accidentally and I spent five minutes staring into space on a mental tangent. Modern AU, the boys are at a pub, and Sam is nervous about proposing to Gilly, and Jon's not being much help, he's a few beers in and his advice is all "just do it." Sam's all "but how???" So Jon gets up, "like this," he says, steps over to a young lady nearby, grabs her attention, drops to his knees and proposes to her. She pauses, then "oh my gosh yes!" And the entire pub breaks into cheers. Someone was filming unrelated tiktok shit and the clip of the "proposal" goes viral. Meanwhile, Ygritte is introducing herself to Jon and joining his table because there's a bloke she's trying to avoid lurking elsewhere in the pub. Shenanigans, misunderstanding, and friendships ensue. Several years later, Jon proposes in the same pub but for realsies. Sam managed to propose to Gilly by accident while he was attempting to explain the Jon/Ygritte proposal that has lead to their fake-dating rom-com.

Sorry, super tired tonight. Focusing, Let's Go!

(Legit though, Book!Ygritte ignoring Jon's clear attempts to shut that shit down in the previous chapter really do colour this relationship in a bad light, unfortunately, between the canon accidental proposal and the sheer number of times I've seen this same/similar set up in someone chasing someone else to the point of stalking and having it framed as romantic by the narrative, especially by male writers who seem to have a secret to desire to be considered that desirable no matter how much of a piece of trash they are or how often they (their character) reject affection it is still offered to them (their character), to (by proxy) live out the fantasy of someone wanting them no matter how they behave because they can't just contextualise being desired in a normal or healthy way... where was I going with this? ... oh right: I've seen this relationship redflag played for laughs so often it's become background noise which is perhaps the most terrifying thing about it as a recurring trope.)

... Focusing for realsies, Let's Go!

I have no choice, he'd told himself the first time, when she slipped beneath his sleeping skins. ... A part, he tried to remind himself afterward. I'm playing a part.

yeah, see, the problem with written word is that there's only so much context regarding tone.

I could honestly read this internal dialogue as either "Jon's trying to cope with being coerced into sex he genuinely didn't want, attempting to justify and rationalise what happened so he doesn't have to face the idea that he was raped" or "Jon's looking for excuses to justify doing it, because he genuinely wanted to, but he didn't want to admit that he had abandoned his oaths so readily when he's spent so much of his life convinced he wouldn't be swayed by sexual interest."

Cause on the one hand: this series doesn't shy away from various form of sexual abuse, but on the other hand, I have way too often seen this type of scenario written in basically the same way, and the author thinking it is genuinely healthy and romantic.

Which one did GRRM mean? I don't know and it bothers me.

... Ah, and there's "you know nothing Jon Snow" back for sex joke meme purposes.

...teenage hormones, the true foe of the Stark household.

... Arson Iceaxe sounds like the online handle of a 12 year old edgelord.

... and meme'd again. Is this the chapter where GRRM subconsciously sensed "you know nothing, Jon Snow" would one day become a meme? should I add it to the drinking game list, do you think? things I add to the list seem to bugger off more quickly once they're on... except for Lemons in that one Arya chapter... (I've collated the list at the bottom of the post.)

"- There are hundreds o' caves in these hills, and deep down they all connect. There's even a way under your wall. Gorne's way."

Oh? And will that be playing a role at a later date, or is this just more flavour text?

"The way under the Wall was lost as well?" "Some have searched for it. The that go too deep find Gendel's children, and Gendel's children are always hungry. (...) There's naught to east in the dark but flesh."

Cave cannibals. awesome. I think I saw that episode of Supernatural. Oh but legit, Cave Cannibals would be so terrifying. Like that movie, The Descent? I think it was called.

🎶Secret Tunnel🎶Secret Tunnel🎶Under the ice Wall🎶secret secret secret secret tunnel!🎶 uhhh, then it goes... uhmmm... oh right 🎶AND DIEEEEEEE🎶

"He's of my village. You know nothing, Jon Snow. A true man steals a woman from afar, t' strengthen the clan. Women who bed brothers or fathers or clan kin offend the gods, and are cursed with weak and sickly children. Even monsters."

Wildlings and old gods not into incest, and understand the correlation between inbreeding and the genetic degradation caused by inbreeding.

Yet more people smarter than Cersei and Jaime.

His guilt came back afterward, but weaker than before. If this is so wrong, he wondered, why did the gods make it feel so good?

I have a sinking feeling, I know which interpretation GRRM was going for.

*casually kicks GRRM out a window onto a safety net below* You live only because we still await the Winds of Winter.

Well, at least Jon feels some shame over breaking his oaths. Unlike Robb.

Drinking Meme Game:

"-There now, there now, yes, sweet, sweet. You know nothing, Jon Snow, but I can show you. -" ... "A dead end?" "You know nothing, Jon Snow, It went on and on and on. -" ... "- He died as well." "You know nothing, Jon Snow. Gendel did not die. -" ... "You're older than me." "Aye, and wiser. You know nothing, Jon Snow." ... "If you want to look, you have to show. You know nothing, Jon Snow." ... "You know nothing, Jon Snow. Noth-oh. Oh. OHHH." ... "He's of my village. You know nothing, Jon Snow. A true man steals a woman from afar, t' strengthen the clan. -" ... "- I thought you'd know to pluck me then for certain, but you didn't. You know nothing, Jon Snow." She gave him a shy smile. "You might be learning some, though."

You know nothing, Jon Snow = 8 x 🧋

[weekendviking]

When I was doing fieldwork in the southern Andes in Patagonia, being from the high country of NZ/Aotearoa, I wore the mountain heavy weather garb of my people (viz: Broad felt hat, full length caped oilskin duster raincoat, good big leather hill boots, and because I'm also assigned geologist, belt and holster with long handled wooden rockhammer that was long enough to be an iceaxe or short staff).

This got me some looks from the locals, but one of my field assistants asked for me to bring one of those coats for him next season.

Anyway, I spent a lot of time between fieldwork in the local big town of the Aysen region, Coyhaique, and for a brief few summers in the mid '90s I was sufficiently oftenly seen there that I was recognised by many of the locals as some form of Cryptid. In particular, there was a local street lurker, living rough, and he and I had essentially the same silhouette, as he also wore a long, many layered and battered oilskin coat. But he hat better boots, proper Gandalf grade boots. We were at 'we don't share a mutual langauge well enough to talk, but will give each other the head nod gesture from across the square because we share a Look' level of contact.

One time a shopkeeper was hassling him a bit (mostly good humouredly) and I happened to be passing on the other side of the street, and he added me to his rant, which from my bad spanish was something along the lines of 'Look out, there's more than one of us, there's the other, we could hex you if you don't pay us respect', so I fluffed up my coat and looked street wizardly with stern eye in mutual support.

Then we swirled off in our separate directions, long coats whirling dramatically in the wind.

you have to pretend to be a wizard sometimes, for your health. the obvious method is d&d, but you can also open the dishwasher on cold mornings and raise your arms dramatically as you're enveloped in the steam, or you can find a really good stick to walk around in the woods with, or you can run a bizarrely dedicated rp blog on tumblr. but it's an important component of human well being to occasionally pretend to be a wizard.

[artemis-unearthed]

"It has been rather quiet as of late ."

Lara swerved the car after a moment , throwing them both sharply to the left. Trinity obviously had other plans than the nice day out Sam had been wanting for a while , and the archaeologist could bet it was something to do with the artifact in her emergency bag. It had been placed carefully in there amidst bundles of rope , her iceaxe and most important pieces of equipment , and she rarely left it out of the vehicle if she could help it .

". . and that was the plan ."

The car turned down another side street , and Lara was happy enough to assume they'd lost a half of their tail. Maybe the day could still be scavenged , or they'd have yet another bout of evasion before they moved onto the next piece of the puzzle .

@superboyandtheinvisiblegirls from here

[shefightslikeagirl]

Framed handwritten Thank God I'm Pretty lyrics, auctioned off on Emilie's eBay in February of 2009.

Winning bid: $940.00, to a collector known in the fandom as "IceAxe."

[scorpion6knives]

Say whaaaaaaat??? 😬🇺🇸 #fangirling #bladeshow #iceaxe (at Cobb Galleria) https://www.instagram.com/p/BydrUJuAzrv/?igshid=1npf2ayq81r18

[tanadrin]

Russian Revolution Alignment Chart

Lawful Socialist: Julius "Too Pure For This Revolution" Martov

Neutral Socialist: Leon "Iceaxe" Trotsky

Chaotic Socialist: Vladimir "Zero Chill" Lenin

Lawful Liberal: Alexander "Too Dumb to Live" Kerensky

Neutral Liberal: Georgy "Know When To Fold 'Em" Lvov

Chaotic Liberal: Alexander "Literally Succumbing to Syphilitic Insanity" Protopopov

Lawful Reactionary: Nicholas "You Can't Have a Revolution, That's Illegal" Romanov

Neutral Reactionary: Alexander "Too Little Too Late" Trepov

Chaotic Reactionary: Alexandra "Why Can't We Just Hang Trepov" Feodorovna

Honorable mentions:

Sergei "The Only Competent Bureaucrat in Russia" Witte

Pyotr "You Tried Dot Jpeg" Stolypin

Wilhelm "Ain't I a Stinker" Hohenzollern

Michael Alexandrovich "Don't You Dare Try To Make Me Tsar" Romanov

Nicholas "How Can We Blame This On The Jews?" Romanov

Grigori "Honestly I'm Surprised It Took That Long For Someone To Shoot Him" Rasputin

Nicholas "It's Amazing One Man Can Fuck Literally Every Single Thing Up This Badly" Romanov

Joseph "Stagecoach Robbery? What Is This, The Mexican Revolution?" Stalin

Kamo "Pistachio Disguisey" Ter-Petrosian

Joseph "Surely Letting This Guy Eventually Take Over the Party Will Be Fine" Stalin

Mexican Revolution Alignment Chart

Honorable mentions:

Venustiano “My God, This Revolution is Full of Revolutionaries!” Carranza

Henry Lane “Asshole” Wilson

Bernardo “This Guy Won’t Shoot Me! Stupidest Death” Reyes

Félix “Too Dumb to Live” Díaz

Pancho “Reserves Are for Pussies” Villa

Pancho “The Bandit King” Villa

Pancho “There Is No Word In Spanish For Retreat” Villa

Pancho “There’s Nothing You Can’t Fix With A Good Cavalry Charge” Villa

Pancho “Except Machine Guns and Entrenchments” Villa

Pancho “You Only Escape The Firing Squad Once” Villa

[lodgeshizuoka]

REI Pickel 全長 約80cm #REI #iceaxe (LODGE heavy&duty outdoor equipment store) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByCYvc2gHco/?igshid=i7mw0nrmw6j3

[alexabadigear]

How To Choose The Right Ice Axe: The Best Guide

A right ice axe is one of the most valuable and necessary equipment’s that every skier or climber should have. When purchasing your first ice axe for your expedition, consider the kind and amount of skiing activity that your axe can sustain. Ice axes are employed in various activities for summiting snow-covered peaks and rocks, including traditional mountaineering, scrambling, hiking, ice climbing, and skiing. As a result, selecting the appropriate Ice Axe is critical if you want to get the most out of this equipment. This article will be the perfect step-by-step guide on how to choose the right ice axe.

Wanna read more, Click here.

[startrevlegos]

Don’t look down! ⛏ Slide 1: Final edit Slide 2: Raw photo Slide 3: The summit ;) #startrev #startrevlegos @lego #adventure #freesolo #iceaxe #mountainclimbers #winter #rockclimbing #legophotography #legophotographer #macrolens #stickytack #photoshop #legomaniac https://www.instagram.com/p/CpAsgzarIP-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[topgearlab]

How To Choose The Right Ice Axe: The Best Guide

A right ice axe is one of the most valuable and necessary equipment’s that every skier or climber should have. When purchasing your first ice axe for your expedition, consider the kind and amount of skiing activity that your axe can sustain. Ice axes are employed in various activities for summiting snow-covered peaks and rocks, including traditional mountaineering, scrambling, hiking, ice climbing, and skiing.

[fancygirlplays]

[mount-moksha]

#mountmoksha #climbing #mountaineering #icewallclimbing #indianmountaineering #nimas #advancedmountaineeringcourse #arunachalpradesh #climbersofindia #iceaxe #climbingnation #girlwhoclimb #womenmountaineers #indiangirl #fitindia #fitnessmotivation #fitnessinspiration #strongwomen #heightgain #amc #expedition #climbinglife #climbinglovers #climbinggirls #mountaineeringlife #fit #fitnessfreak #naturelovers #natureishome #adventureindia (at Arunachal Pradesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/COIBcUVLX-G/?igshid=1n44oq90g0g8p

[mackywall]

🇨🇵 Croquis de recherche : base du piolet Tombe Raider / 🇬🇧 Research Sketch : Tombe Raider Ice Ax Base #cosplay #sketchbook #sketch #piolet #tombraider #laracroft #videogame #videogames #evafoam #wip #iceaxe https://www.instagram.com/p/CL1-hY6Djnu/?igshid=bam0n55jypz3