#it's snowing and windy af

[autobahnmp3]

gmorning im not going outside today after all alhmslj

[durzeh]

Just got home from a christmas dinner with my colleagues and I might actually burst from all the delicious food. Did I take any pictures? Nope. Was busy shoving food in my face like there was no tomorrow. But did take time to record the storm raging outside!

So beautiful! But it sucked so hard when we had to go outside to the car xD

[dragonheartstring360]

Some notes for anyone writing a character with glasses, from someone who wears glasses everyday:

- glasses need to come off before changing a shirt, unless it has a really big collar. Otherwise, glasses will get ripped off by said shirt collar.

- weather will affect how well you can see out of them, especially rain. Raindrops will dot glasses and it’s like trying to drive a car in the rain without working windshield wipers. Snow sometimes does this too, but not as bad, and lots of dust kicking up will make glasses dirty and foggy. If it’s humid enough (talking like swampy, Deep South levels, weather app says “90-100% humidity”), glasses will fog up when you step outside. If it’s crazy windy, glasses can fly off and the character should hold onto them or take them off and put them somewhere safe. They’ll usually get dirty or break in a pants pocket, so maybe have character carry around a sturdy glasses case if needed.

- not all materials are good for wiping glasses off. Some shirt materials just make it worse.

- if your character’s glasses are super dirty or smudged, they will be able to see it 24/7 as they look around and it’s annoying af.

- although glasses can keep things from getting in a character’s eyes (like something that’s been sprayed), it doesn’t protect our eyes all the time, especially if it’s coming at an angle or there’s a large amount. For that, you’d need actual safety glasses or goggles (and yes, they do make prescription goggles, but they’re not cheap).

- speaking of waves, for the love of god, DO NOT have your character swim with their glasses on. At best, they’ll get wet and they won’t be able to see. At worst, if they’re forced underwater or an ocean wave smacks them in the face, they’ll fly off and/or break.

- a crack in glasses is actually annoying af and makes it very hard to see.

- if a character’s face is wet, like from sweat or a ton of rain, their glasses will continuously slide down their nose and they’ll need to keep pushing them back up.

- lots of liquids other than water will make glasses opaque.

- glasses should be fitted pretty well to a person’s head. So if the character’s face is dry or there’s a moderate amount of wind, the “legs” that go behind their ears should be tight enough that they don’t just constantly fly off or slip down their nose. If they do, they’re too big (but obviously something a tornado will make them fly off).

- although I hate the whole “they took off their glasses and now they’re a ✨ model ✨” trope, people do tend to look very different with glasses on vs off - especially a character like Harry Potter who constantly wears their glasses. It’s not unrealistic that people who don’t know the character well (or even those who do, but just aren’t as quick) won’t recognize them at first without their glasses.

- as far as I know (correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve never been able to do this), if a lens pops out of the frames, it can’t be popped back in by non-professionals without the right tools. The glasses are just done for.

- if your character has contacts in (or this is a psa for anyone who wears contacts), DO NOT have them rub their eyes. The contact will pop out and they’re very translucent and tiny, so trust me, it will just fall and be lost forever.

- being able to see clearly out of one eye and not the other (like with a broken/missing lens or a contact falling out) causes headaches.

- glasses are expensive af in the US (idk about other places). One time when I didn’t have vision insurance, an eye exam and two frames with lenses (I have blue eyes and very extreme light sensitivity, so have to have prescription sun glasses as well as regular glasses) cost over $900USD. If you want the special frames that become tinted and basically turn into sunglasses when you walk outside, it will cost extra.

- speaking of those lenses that become tinted when you walk outside, they take awhile to fade back to normal after you go back inside. Your character needs to be prepared to still be “wearing” sunglasses for the first 5-10 minutes after they walk inside.

- if a character is wearing contacts, they can wear normal sunglasses. If not, they’ll need special prescription sunglasses to be able to see. You cannot wear prescription sunglasses with contacts in or you won’t be able to see anything. Ever tried to look through your friend’s glasses and everything’s weird and warped and giving you a headache? That’s what it will look like.

- not exactly glasses related, but people with lighter colored eyes will always have worse light sensitivity than people with darker eyes. I have very blue eyes and looking up at the sky on a sunny day will literally make me see stars, and especially if I’m driving towards the sun while it’s setting, I have to have my sunglasses on or I literally will not be able to see and tears will be leaking out my eyes the whole way home.

- speaking of prescription sunglasses, unless your character can see pretty far without their glasses or they’re far sighted, you cannot just take prescription sunglasses off and still be able to see, especially while driving. You just have to deal with it and keep the sunglasses on and look like a Matrix wannabe if it gets cloudy or starts raining, or you have to do the super speedy Dance of Death where you’re still watching the road in front of you, taking off one pair of glasses and putting the other on super fast (which usually requires you to use your mouth to open and close things).

- GLASSES ARE FRAGILE. Seriously, a very petite person could sit in them and snap them in half. They’re not something you want your character just throwing around.

- there are varying levels of how well someone can see. There’s farsightedness and nearsightedness. Some people don’t have that much trouble and can see pretty far, so only wear their glasses as needed. But some people (aka moi) can genuinely only see a few inches in front of their face. Like if I ever lost my glasses or they broke, I’d be done for. I wouldn’t be able to work or drive or do anything around the house.

- glasses need to be replaced about once a year because of possible prescription changes or sometimes lenses losing their strength and becoming harder to see through. Trying to tough it out after long enough will give your character headaches/migraines and sore eyes from eye strain.

- some mascaras (especially thick ones) will smudge glasses when the character blinks. Same with false lashes (although they’ll brush instead of smudge). Usually less intense mascaras and shorter fake lash lengths are better.

- eye makeup is harder to see with glasses on.

- please, please, PLEASE stop using the whole “omg look how much prettier/more attractive they are without their glasses” trope. Not everyone’s eyes can handle contacts and some people prefer wearing their glasses. And it makes those of us who prefer glasses or have to wear them feel like shit, especially because there aren’t a lot of characters with glasses in media who don’t become the butt of a joke (ie the one wearing glasses is the “ugly duckling” for it like in princess diaries, or like Velma from scooby doo always losing them and patting around, or people who wear glasses will always be some sort of dorky/insufferable know it all).

- glasses come in all shapes, sizes, and colors and can be used to actually enhance a character’s style! Some of them even have magnetic frames that click in place over the simple pair, so have fun using glasses to build your character’s style.

- edit to add: no one ever purposely falls asleep with their glasses on. You will crush and break them when you roll around. However, if a character does accidentally fall asleep with them on, a love interest gently taking them off so they don’t wake them up and setting them on the table next to them can be a super cute moment.

- whoops thought of some more. Hair products, especially hairspray, can be a bitch to get off glasses and doesn’t always just rinse off with water. If they’re spraying anything, including dry shampoo, the glasses have gotta come off and get out of the line of fire first.

- hair can and will get caught in the little hinge by the legs and we do occasionally not notice till we take our glasses off and rip a hair out of our heads.

- be careful when you comb or brush, cuz if the glasses legs get caught in the brush or comb, it will be ripped off our face.

Hope this helps! May the writing gods bless your work 🤓

[katzenprinz]

Who likes/dislikes rain and thunderstorms/extreme weather? We know that Jason watched a tornado and Salim thought he was crazy for it. I guess Jones would be used to Blizzards? And Kim, i think.

So, the area of Iraq that Salim is from does see snow occasionally, but it is primarily in the mountainous areas and since Salim was often not home due to being a soldier, I like to think that he has seen snow, but not often, and is definitely not used to it at all. (And this is something that is going to come up much later in Say Nothing~) Thunderstorms are fairly common there, so those do not bother him, either, and dust storms are even more common. I imagine he is used to having to keep his face covered due to dust storms, and is not the type to complain too much about them. At least until they have passed and then he'd be like, "I need a bath now." But full-on tornadoes? He has heard of how bad they can be and the idea of /watching/ one is absolutely crazy to him. If he were to ever be somewhere when one was happening and Jason tried to go watch it, he would wrestle Jason to the ground and insist, "I did not lose you to a vampire, I am not losing you because you are too much of a jarhead to know you cannot take on a tornado!" Jason is good in any weather. Doesn't matter. Feet of snow? A typhoon? Lightning storm that looks like the 4th of July? He's been through so much, none of it bugs him. Eric and Rachel are very, very accustomed to the snow, being New Yorkers - they went ice climbing for their honeymoon, ffs. I could see Rachel really enjoying snowy and rainy days, honestly, due to the quietness they bring. She doesn't get to slow down very often but when the weather is a little dreary it feels like the world moves at a slower pace. Eric likes those day too, but where Rachel enjoys being inside with a cup of tea or hot chocolate, Eric prefers to be outside in the snow. That nerd would absolutely go out with microscope slides to collect snowflakes on for them to look at, and would bundle up and take a telescope out and enjoy the winter sky. Nick is a summer boy. He's from Chicago. It's windy af and cold there, which he is used to, but he gets enough of it after, like, a week once fall hits. He thrives when the sun is out. But in the snow? Complaints. So many complaints. Glaring from inside the puffiest jacket you've ever seen. Rana is purely unflappable. She has been through rockslides in dig sites. She's had to crawl through narrow passages. She's done so much travelling around western Asia and some into Europe and seen so much - what's a little weather? Sun-Hi is pretty similar to Rana, too. She is a military doctor and usually travels with a particular unit, but she has been assigned to several teams, so she has been to multiple countries and she just focuses on her job too much to be concerned about weather - unless that weather could harm them. In that case, she is giving lectures about staying safe and making sure they requisition emergency supplies, doing re-trainings with the field medics, etc. For the goslings and Jones, honestly, they're all Force Recon, so they're pretty similar to Jason. The training that they have to go through is so brutal and they are put through exercises that push them to their very limits. (Such as pulling themselves through pipes/tunnels that are very narrow and almost totally filled with water.) They are prepared to face harrowing elements. I think, of all of them, Mosson would have difficulty in extreme heat. He's no longer a werewolf, of course, but Gabe and I have discussed that we think there are residual effects of being a werewolf that don't go away even after the curse is broken. So Mosson running hot would be one of those. (Kim has to remind herself of this whenever she does a physical check up on Mosson because he is normally around 100 degrees, which would register as a constant fever.) And yeah, Jones is the type of person to take ice baths. He's basically a polar bear. Dude loves the cold. And yet, he also loves the heat. Bastard gets a beautiful tan when it's sunny out.

[darkwood-sleddog]

it's kinda weird how mushing has turned two of people's least favorite months of the year into my favorites.

November: no snow yet, but the weather is wet and gray and terrible but no tourists, empty af trails, nobody walking their under-socialized dog. Only people out are regular trail users, weather is also cold enough for significant mileage with sled dogs. A+

February: snow, but VERY cold, usually windy. buuuut because it's cold nobody is on the trails, snow is no longer super wet, so firmer, yet not icy like late december/january. trails mostly likely to be groomed nicely this time of year if possible. More sunshine & daylight. Sunrise runs this time of year for sled dogs are AMAZING when the light hits the frost covered trees juuuuust right. A+

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

The Cascades, just an hour's drive east of me, are getting smashed with snow. My area is soaking with rain and windy af, and the coast is a mess.

I hope the snow sticks around. Snowmelt keeps the wildfires from getting too extreme.

[fabioquartararhoe]

it’s so cold, its windy af and it snowed and i don’t have winter tires yet lol i love winter

[nitrozem]

The gd weather pattern around here in spring is, ohh nice weather, moderate, next day: HERES A SNOW STORM, or snow, temp drops and then it gets windy af.

You know the saying that your city/town has two seasons? Winter and CONSTRUCTION.

[annbourbon]

aww which country are you from?? I like you tooo! OOOH summer vibess!

Mexico! It's always hot here, except when it's not lol so it's freezing inside the house but outside it's nice and warm until it's late, then it's windy and cold AF. And no, most houses have no idea what a heating is. And, there's no snow... I have never seen snow irl... it'd be a dream come true lol

Where are you from?

[eldritch-horror26]

Ok with the huge blizzard/cold front thing that happened and everyone in the Midwest was complaining about how shitty it was but like however shitty it was there had Iowa was probably worse. They had it rough. Went up there on Friday, the day after the blizzard (we were originally gonna go there on Thursday but the highway was closed) there were 12 semis and over 20 cars in the ditch, it was really windy and we were getting blown all over the road. Super cold all weekend, the warmest it got was about 2. It snowed the night before coming back, at one point on our drive back someone got absolutely fucking plowed by a truck after spinning out right after we drove by another wreck, there were two more in front of us that were so bad traffic was at a standstill for miles on the interstate so we took a smaller highway and it was completely covered in snow, someone slid off the road bc they took a curve too fast, overall our 6 hour trip took 8 hours. It was cool tho cause we were driving by this one guy in some kind of sudan? (Idk you know I don’t know shit about cars) which a cooler on the back so we called him cooler man and we were practically racing him all the way back but we lost cause cooler man was going like 90 and weaving through traffic like a border collie doing agility and while my dad may be an aggressive af driver he just couldn’t beat cooler man. And that’s just traveling there and back, you don’t even wanna know the crimes and general other stupid shit my grandpa did. It might not be redneck country up there but it sure is something.

[thiscatiscreepy]

I saw the Fahrenheit vs Celsius post again it's so fucking baffling to me that Americans think that noone, like, Uses Celsius outside of science???

Bitch I live in a place where 12 degrees outside means I can finally wear my denim jacket again what the Fuck are you on about.

[the-dragonborn-cums]

I woke up really early this morning and it sounded like the wind was going to whisk my entire apartment complex away.

[observethewalrus]

I keep hearing this noise that sounds like a kitten meowing but could just as easily be my weird-ass heater and i hope it’s not a cat but there are a lot of strays that wander around my neighborhood and i hope they’re all safe and warm

[dollsonmain]

So it didn't actually start snowing until I got home from work today, and did not stick at all, but it looks kind of wet out there right now, and it's windy AF so probably icy.

Supposed to snow for the next 11 hours but not really stick.

[prodiigy-blog1]

Drove to the white mountains near NH, only to find the gate closed. So my dad and I took a nice walk to Basin Pond. Wicked cool. (Location- White Mountain National Forest)

[brilapse]

it was suuuuuuch a beautiful day out yesterday, not cold but not hot, juuuuust right and look at that cloudless blue af sky!!!! No clouds or rain in nfld is RARE lol - think of England’s weather lol. It’s pretty much the same except in the winter we get significantly more snow, it doesn’t get too cold, it’s usually a mild temp winter but a looooot of snow. Though when it is a windy cold winter day, the wind cuts right through your bones because of the Atlantic Ocean right there lol

anyways for comparison here’s this morning: 😂