#luminous lagoon

[bestjamaica]

Top Luminous Lagoon Tour Jamaica

For an evening filled with wonder and enchantment, look no further than the Luminous Lagoon Tour offered by Best Jamaica Tours. Located in Falmouth, Jamaica, the Luminous Lagoon is one of the island’s most extraordinary natural attractions, renowned for its glowing waters that light up the night. As the leading tour provider from Montego Bay hotels, we promise an experience that is both magical and memorable.

Our Luminous Lagoon Tour is meticulously designed to provide you with an unparalleled adventure. We offer private transportation from any hotel in Montego Bay, ensuring your journey is as comfortable and convenient as possible. Sit back and relax in our well-appointed vehicles while our professional drivers take you to this incredible destination. Upon arrival, your admission to the lagoon is included, allowing you to dive straight into the experience. Plus, enjoy a complimentary drink to toast to the beauty of the lagoon.

The Luminous Lagoon’s unique bioluminescence is caused by tiny microorganisms that emit light when disturbed. This creates a stunning glow-in-the-dark effect that is truly a sight to behold. As you move through the water, the glow surrounds you, creating an almost surreal atmosphere. Our knowledgeable guides are on hand to provide fascinating insights into the science and history of this natural wonder, making your visit both educational and awe-inspiring.

At Best Jamaica Tours, we are dedicated to providing the best Luminous Lagoon Tour from Montego Bay hotels. Our unwavering commitment to excellence is evident in every aspect of our service, from our punctual and courteous drivers to our informative and engaging guides. We aim to make your visit to the Luminous Lagoon an experience you’ll cherish forever.

Don’t miss out on this extraordinary opportunity to witness the magic of the Luminous Lagoon. Book your tour with Best Jamaica Tours today and prepare for an evening of unforgettable beauty and wonder.

[affreca]

Started a new spin that might actually keep me busy for a while. The top is a blend called the Luminous Lagoon. I feel in love with the color the first time I saw pictures; I adore pictures of bioluminescent algae. I could tell it was a World of Wool blend, but I wasn't willing to make an order directly. I found a couple of resellers on Etsy and picked the easiest. I've got a pound, I'm thinking a sweater with color work from some of the other blue merino/silk I spun for last year's scarf.

[acepalindrome]

I climbed up Dunn’s River Falls today and somehow didn’t die (but it felt like a close thing a few times!) Also there were some huge banana spiders hanging out on the way out of the park.

[ivryne]

🌺 C’EST ÇA L’AMOUR ˖ ࣪ ( how they love )

⋆ ᳝ ֺ featuring — ayato, childe, kaveh, alhaitham

꒰ genre ꒱ — fluff, js literally how they love so (gn!reader)

AYATO loves like the tranquil waters. The still, calm, underlying surface that’s not so easily shaken by the morning breeze. The ripples that formed as raindrops collided into bodies of water. Blows of a thousand winds won’t disperse the firm lagoon that’s foundation is buried within the core of the earth. The challenges you face with another became one that bounds the unshaken perseverance between the both of you. The love he has akins to the serene waves that’s bound to the moonlit nights, luminous, filled with undying grace and serenity.

CHILDE loves like the tidal surge. Waves that reach ‘till the crown of the heavens, soaring so greatly with infinite strength and determination to reach the clinging stars of the above. He is afraid not to show the love he has for his dear. He desperately yearns for the time he touches the sky once more just as he fell into the unshaken sands of the shore. The everlasting torrent that continuously returns to the comfort of the stars, no matter how high he has to reach.

KAVEH loves like the setting sun. The sky that’s paint in an orange-like hue accompanied by a red undertone. The golden hour that surrounds you in an epitome of light, reflecting your ethereal glow. He loves like there is no tomorrow. The sun alters the entire skyline just to declare it’s presence on the morning day, and it does the same as it flutters away. Kaveh shows extravagance to his words and gestures but those aren’t little sweet nothings of a mere eye candy, those are phrases and brackets that surrounds you like the orange hue of the afternoon. And he will alter even the heavens just to justify his love for you.

ALHAITHAM loves like the subtle rain. He does not need loud thunderstorms nor hurricane schemes to display his affection. Little droplets that collide with the epidermis of your skin is enjoyable not worrying. He loves without any care about the world, just like how those little drops cascade into humid soil without any doubt. He might not be expressive with his words unlike the rainbow that comes after the roaring skies but the way his pupils dilate as he watches your endearing smile, the soft smile that highlighted his usually vacant expression as you drew near, glows more than all the colors that the rainbow reflects. He treats you with such grace akin to a falling feather and the humid air after the rain.

NOTE. i hope this wasn’t confusing as hell bc i wrote this in like 12am 💀 hope you enjoyed! like as well as reblogs are appreciated <33

© shrslair. do not copy, translate, or repost

[cassiopeapoetry]

Sunset Dream at the Blue Lagoon

Au Blue Lagoon, sous les couleurs du crépuscule, les eaux turquoise vibrent d’un éclat paisible. Le ciel se pare de teintes d’or et de rose, dans une danse douce où la lumière explose.

Sol de lave mêlé à la brume légère, dans un rêve où le calme est une lumière. La vapeur s’élève comme un voile éthéré, dessine une scène d’une beauté sacrée.

English translation :

In the Blue Lagoon, beneath twilight hues, the turquoise waters glow with a tranquil sheen. The sky dons shades of gold and rose, in a gentle dance where light bursts and flows.

Lava ground mingled with light mist, in a dream where calm is a luminous twist. The steam rises like an ethereal veil, painting a scene of sacred beauty unveiled.

#Cassiopeapoetry

[razz-is-queer]

my favorite albums:

ants from up there (black country, new road)

i brought you my bullets, you brought me your love (mcr)

three cheers for sweet revenge (mcr)

the black parade (mcr)

danger days (mcr)

american pastoral (andrew montana)

abbey road (beatles)

for emma, forever ago (bon iver)

twin fantasy (csh)

teens of denial (csh)

tea for the tillerman (cat stevens)

live at hoxton hall (cavetown)

16 / 04 / 16 (cavetown)

the rise and fall of a midwest princess (chappell roan)

august and everything after (counting crows)

tour to nobody (covey)

pure comedy (father john misty)

dope girl chronicles (field medic)

fade into the dawn (fm)

floral prince (fm)

songs from the sunroom (fm)

talon of the hawk (front bottoms)

demon days (gorillaz)

soak (guitar fight from fooly cooly)

fake blood (heart attack man)

tom (heart to gold)

s/t (horse jumper of love)

home, like noplace is there (the hotelier)

versace summer (jank)

a love supreme (john coltrane)

in the court of the crimson king (king crimson)

beats and breaks from the flower patch (kitty craft)

bewitched (laufey)

led zeppelin IV (led zeppelin)

s/t (little tyrant)

hold on now, youngster… (los campesinos!)

III (the lumineers)

the glow, pt. 2 (the microphones)

kind of blue (miles davis)

puberty 2 (mitski)

sports (mobo)

you’re gonna miss it all (mobo)

holy ghost (mobo)

best buds (mom jeans.)

a crow looked at me (mount eerie)

dawn (mount eerie)

after (live) (mount eerie)

in the aeroplane over the sea (neutral milk hotel)

pink moon (nick drake)

mtv unplugged (nirvana)

dear wormwood (the oh hellos)

somewhere city (origami angel)

pretty. odd. (panic at the disco)

all the toppings (panucci’s pizza)

stranger in the alps (phoebe bridgers)

montclair (live at the wellmont theater) (pinegrove)

everything so far (pinegrove)

the bends (radiohead)

in rainbows (radiohead)

kid a (radiohead)

a moon shaped pool (radiohead)

ok computer (radiohead)

yhitopifah (robo pumpkin)

reverie lagoon (seahaven)

every way of living (see through person)

birdie (slaughter beach, dog)

mellon collie and the infinite sadness (the smashing pumpkins)

siamese dream (the smashing pumpkins)

wall of eyes (the smile)

a light for attracting attention (the smile)

the queen is dead (the smiths)

carrie and lowell (sufjan stevens)

the age of adz (sufjan stevens)

shallow grave (the tallest man on earth)

the wild hunt (the tallest man on earth)

pleasant living (tiny moving parts)

effing (two knights)

igor (tyler, the creator)

chromakopia (tyler, the creator)

gawk (vundabar)

smell smoke (vundabar)

good old (vundabar)

greatest hits (the white stripes)

in case i make it (will wood)

the normal album (will wood)

the real will wood (will wood and the tapeworms)

everything is a lot (will wood and the tapeworms)

self-ish (will wood and the tapeworms)

s/t (wulfer)

acoustics (yvette young)

acoustics 2 (yvette young)

[love-takes-work]

Infloresce & Friends: Charity Festival benefiting the Chattanooga Trans Liberation Collective

I attended the wonderful charity stream for aivi & surasshu’s first anniversary of their label Infloresce, benefiting Chattanooga Trans Liberation Collective. It was a lovely time and included many special guest appearances, including (of special interest to some of my blog readers) Rebecca Sugar and Jeff Ball of Steven Universe fame and aivi & surasshu themselves. Here is an overall outline of the content of the TWELVE HOURS of streaming, including details about all of the performances! And if you’re interested in further supporting the Chattanooga Trans Liberation Collective, you can choose your donate option here.

This is a twelve-hour streamed charity event to benefit Chattanooga Trans Liberation Collective, put on in honor of Infloresce's one-year anniversary. Infloresce is aivi & sursshu's record label for "gentle music that goes hard." With nine releases in the last year among their handful of musicians, largely populated by gender expansive and trans folks, are supporting the trans community with this event.

1. Breakfast Friends - Waffle Talk

This opening panel included discussion of trans community, the beauty of realizing how many people are queer in your community, music, and morning routines. aivi shares what's different about their morning routine because they have a child. Includes an interview with Evelina Kertay, a founding member and leader of Chattanooga Trans Liberation Collective, who shared information about fighting anti-queer laws on the ground without depending on the structures of the oppressor. 

She says it's very important for allies to be willing to put skin in the game and accept risk. Her message to trans people is that past liberation movements and queer elders can show us the way--it's a fight that's been fought before. (Also, ACAB and fuck ICE.) CTLC helps people access trans-friendly medical care, name changes, and escaping hostile situations.

2. Oops! All Bangers. Trans and Non-Binary Radio

With a quirky introduction about the Dunmucky Method of music-making involving a dollhouse as an illustration, we then get some bangers from various trans and nonbinary artists, played over rad videos of trans and nonbinary people from the south skating:

Featuring the following:

telebasher - "Savior"

Zantilla - "Lemon Pepper"

JER - "You Can Get It If You Really Want"

Maddie Lim - "Mango Habanero"

Saria Lemes - "That's Not Candy"

mandrasigma - "Trinket"

FLOOR BABA - "PREHISTORY"

miles morkri - "yarrow"

Ponpoko in the Distance - "Ukijima"

3. Battle Buds: Team Composition Challenge

This was so cool! Six battlers "duking it out friendship style" make music inspired by locations in Chattanooga, each writing a piece in one hour. miles and surasshu discuss the history and process of compos. Compo communities started on IRC back in the day--sometimes 30-minute or 1-hour competitions where people would make compositions and vote on them. Surasshu has competed in hundreds of them. The composers use many different utilities to make their contributions. Throughout the stream, the hosts checked in with each composer and let them talk about their process and philosophy.

Composers and their compositions:

Hunter Van Brocklin - Cerulean Caverns

Frums - Rosebloom Ravine

Ash - Luminous Lagoon

M Gewehr - Groove Gardens

Maddie Lim - Bubble Bay

mandrasigma - Tangled Terrace

4. Button Masher Performance

After another fun Dunmucky intro and music lesson, we get a performance from chiptune composer and performer Button Masher.

5. Digifu Classic

We are treated to some lovely digifu pieces with cool visualizers.

6. Cass Cuttlefish Performance

With another music lesson in the Dunmucky Method ("Structure, Purpose, Vision!") leading off...

We have Aubrey Halo, aka Cass Cuttlefish, sharing some great music, including one that's "too fast to be a waltz." A couple of the songs have lyrics! 

And we even get some cool pixel art from Aubrey.

Aubrey is now transitioning the previous “Cass Cuttlefish” social media to the Aubrey Halo name.

7. The Sandwich Club: Let's Talk About Games!

Next we have some folks talking about games and their contributions! Panel contributors were ChevyRay, Jessi, Ko, Hbomb, Isla, and SonicFox. They discuss experience as gamers, as developers, and as composers. They discuss what their first video games they remember playing, what video game characters are the hottest, whether Shadow the Hedgehog is cool, how much evil can a character do before they're irredeemable, and how to avoid burnout and burnout experiences.

8. Floor Baba Performance

A Muckyverse lesson teaches us about melody! Then Floor Baba takes the stage with a performance: We have MIDIs to jam to and accompanying cool art!

9. Maj7 Community Showcase

Very cool pieces by this collaboration between artists, accompanied by various inventive animations!

10. aivi & surasshu Performance

After another lovely and unhinged Dunmucky Institute music lesson, we get aivi & surasshu's set, opening with "Amalgam" from Steven Universe (Opal's fusion dance song). They then perform a cover of "Yuri on Ice." The next song, "Periphery," is from their upcoming album.

The promised “Love Like You” stream included the crowdsourced choir collected from Steven Universe fan contributions across the internet. 92 contributors sent in their voices! (Small brag: I was in there!)

11. Being a Trans Lawyer in the South

This section has an interview with a lawyer (who also skates!) named Alex Moody (they/them) discussing how laws affect trans and gender expansive people in Southern states, how Southern social movements work, and some of the necessities of playing nice with norms and expectations so we can get shit done. Learn legislators, bother them, make calls, access Mutual Aid where needed.

12. Battle of the Bits Listening Party

After a week-long battle with 69 entries, we get to listen to the top 11!

#11 blower5 - hi

#10 doctorn0gloff - the trials of blossoming

#9 telebasher - NEVER GIVE UP !!

#8 rewitkin - travel log

#7 robotmeadows - we used to run around and not get tired

#6 october - you and me 'til the world ends

#5 damifortune + slash - a chipped stylus

#4 paperaviator - just existing (in a good way)

#3 zenkusa - A Picnic at Twilight

#2 petet - willow

#1 pedipanol - Together

There were also individual awards in the categories of Friendship, Community, Trans Rights, Inflorescence, Charity in Pants, Overall. Very cool.

13. miles morkri Performance

We get another set of instructions to teach us about the Dunmucky method, and then we're on to see miles morkri! This performance has some great vibes with miles singing and playing. I loved this one!

14. STAFFcirc Community Showcase

STAFFcirc composers have their pieces featured with more stunning visuals.

15. Rebecca Sugar & Jeff Ball Performance

Another music lesson teaches us about texture in the Dunmucky Method. And then, we get Rebecca Sugar and Jeff Ball sharing a special performance!

They begin with a guitar and violin duet of "Everything Stays."

Next we are treated to the full version of "Change Your Mind," and then "Love Like You," and finally "Escapism."

It was so special to get to hear Rebecca performing again. I missed seeing performances like this.

16. The Ice Cream Social: Let's Talk About Toys!

miles, aivi, Loni, mandrasigma, and Marcie have a chat about toys, with a big focus on Hot Wheels. They discuss what everyone's favorite toys were as children. Character cars look like taxidermy to aivi. They have started collecting Hot Wheels cars after having a child who is obsessed with cars. 

As an incentive to get to $10,000 on the donations, mandra offered to show a "cursed" Toad-inspired Hot Wheels car. And it happened. (And it was cursed.)

17. telebasher & amimifafa Performance

Another visit from the Dunmucky Institute later, we get some wonderful melancholy, chill music from telebasher & amimifafa collaborating.

18. Infloresce Records Community Showcase

Infloresce artists have their pieces compiled and showcased with more wonderful music videos and visualizers!

19. Zantilla Performance

Lesson 9 from the Dunmucky Institute provides an interlude, and then we get a performance from artist Zantilla. Metal guitar-led music with visuals of the artist going hard jamming out on guitar.

20. Moonlit Vibes: Trans & Non-Binary Radio

Yet more wonderful night-themed songs from trans and nonbinary artists, featuring more great skating videos, this time with a night palette tint. We got some cool stories about the meanings of the songs, the importance of leaving space in music, the despair some trans people feel and make art about, and how aivi ended up working with Zantilla.

Featuring the following:

Slide20XX - "thick as thieves"

amimifafa - "phytogenesis"

aivi (ft. Zantilla, Michaela Nachtigall) - "Tiger"

TV-MA - "I Want to See the Angels"

Isaac Shutz - "Summer Rain"

Lena Raine - "Full Moon Memories"

Siphosomes - "Canopy >> Stars"

paper aviator - "On Foot"

21. quarkimo Performance

Some beautiful night music closes us out with quarkimo playing candlelit piano.

22. Curtain Call: End of Stream Hangout

The Dunmucky Institute takes us to the exit of the stream, with a return of the dollhouse, and some very nice messages about the importance of making art.

With a final plug for the Chattanooga Trans Liberation Collective, the organizers have a celebration that everything worked and nothing broke for the whole twelve-hour stream. There were lots of thank-yous and information about who contributed what. Much outpouring of gratefulness and love was had.

I did not initially intend to attend a TWELVE-HOUR STREAM but by gosh that’s what ended up happening. I care very much about trans rights, as a fellow Southern-state-liver who is watching the freedoms and safety getting scrubbed out of my communities at a frightening rate. Evelina Kertay of the Chattanooga Trans Liberation Collective was a WONDERFUL speaker and badass and I would have loved to hear way more from her, and I believe her trans-led organization is going to DO THE BUSINESS as we fight these laws and prejudices. 

I’m really glad I attended.

[joelscurls]

rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people

thanks for the tags @janaispunk @reddedmiller 🫶🏼

j - juicebox, the strokes

o - ophelia, the lumineers

e - eros, young the giant

l - lagoon, dora jar

s - stick, banks

c - cooks, still woozy

u - undo, the 1975

r - run, vampire weekend

l - love galore, sza

s - streets, doja cat

npts: @amanitacowboy @chaotic-mystery @beskarandblasters @planet-marz1 @bastardmandennis @beardedjoel @kiwisbell @tieronecrush @northernbluess @hearteyesforjoel

[bestjamaica]

Tours from Hilton Rose Hall Montego Bay

Located on the beautiful beaches of Montego Bay, Hilton Rose Hall is the perfect place to begin your Jamaican adventure. Whether you’re an adventurer, nature lover or history buff, there’s something for everyone.

One of the most popular tours from Hilton Rose Hall is the Dunn’s River Falls and Blue Hole. Climb the falls at Dunn’s River and dive into the pools at the Blue Hole in Ocho Rios. Full day of fun and adventure.

Another favorite is the Luminous Lagoon Tour, just 30 minutes away in Falmouth. Famous for its glowing waters, this natural wonder is best seen at night. The glowing waters is one of Jamaica’s must see attractions.

For history and culture buffs the Rose Hall Great House Tour is a must. Located just minutes from Hilton Rose Hall, this historic estate gives you a glimpse into Jamaica’s past and the legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall. Guests can also visit the Montego Bay Craft Market to shop for local souvenirs and crafts.

Nature lovers shouldn’t miss the bamboo rafting on the Martha Brae River. Float down the river on a handcrafted bamboo raft while your guide tells you all about Jamaica’s flora, fauna and folklore.

Lastly, head to Negril’s Seven Mile Beach for a day of sun, sand and sea. End the tour with a visit to Rick’s Café where you can watch cliff divers and enjoy the sunset.

At Best Jamaica Tours we make sure your excursions are hassle free, safe and fun. Whether you’re traveling solo, with family or in a group we cater to all sizes and pick up from Hilton Rose Hall. We guarantee a Jamaican experience to remember.

[cloudcountry]

Luminous Lagoon, Jamaica

One of the popular bioluminescent beaches.

"Why does the water glow? The water in jamaica's luminous lagoon is full of millions of dinoflagellates, which are a type of algae or marine plankton. At nighttime, these microscopic organisms start to glow when they are disturbed."

Pictures from Google:

YES THE ALGAE IS SO PRETTY IVE HEARD OF THAT PLACE BEFOREE!!!!! its so gorgeous dreamy sigh

[adventuresofoswald]

"Fancy islands in the World Showcase lagoon."

[Note from Waddles: this was before the original Luminous was cancelled & the show pieces were dismantled and removed.]

[unofskylanderspages]

Listed below are the hats in Spyro's Adventure, where they can be found (in both versions), and their stat bonuses:

Anvil Hat: Shattered Island (Console) / Ashburrow (3DS) (+5 Armor)

Beret: Crawling Catacombs (Console) / Cinderstream Pass (3DS) (+15 Critical Hit)

Birthday Hat: Perilous Pastures (Console) / Towersight Fields (3DS) (+2 Critical Hit, +1 Speed)

Bone Head: Cadaverous Crypt (Console) / Daystar Temple (3DS) (+3 Speed, +7 Elemental Power)

Chef Hat: Darklight Crypt (Console) / The Spectery (3DS) (+10 Critical Hit, +10 Elemental Power)

Combat Hat: Battlefield (Console) / Dreamgardens (3DS) (+15 Elemental Power)

Coonskin Cap: Falling Forest (Console) / Flooded Viaducts (3DS) (+10 Critical Hit)

Cossack Hat: Empire of Ice (Console) / Coldburn (3DS) (+10 Elemental Power)

Cowboy Hat: Perilous Pastures (Console) / Cinderstream Pass (3DS) (+2 Critical Hit, +2 Armor)

Crown of Light: Cadaverous Crypt (Console) / Luminous Quarry (3DS) (+15 Armor)

Eye Hat: Crystal Eye Castle (Console) / Snowblind Hills (3DS) (+5 Critical Hit, +5 Elemental Power)

Fancy Hat: Stormy Stronghold (Console) / Thundersquall (3DS) (+1 Speed, +2 Armor)

Fez: Stormy Stronghold (Console) / Lava Flow Grotto (3DS) (+5 Elemental Power)

General's Hat: Goo Factory (Console) / Galecrack Castle (3DS) (+7 Critical Hit, +7 Elemental Power)

Jester Hat: Sky Schooner Docks (Console) / Leaflook Village (3DS) (+1 Speed, +2 Elemental Power)

Lil Devil: Lava Lakes Railway (Console) / Frostsedge (3DS) (+9 Speed)

Miner Hat: Molekin Mine (Console) / Lava Flow Grotto (3DS) (+7 Armor, +7 Elemental Power)

Moose Hat: Treetop Terrace (Console) / Whipwind Mountains (3DS) (+2 Speed, +5 Armor)

Napoleon Hat: Leviathan Lagoon (Console) / Sunblight Wood (3DS) (+5 Armor, +5 Elemental Power)

Pan Hat: Shattered Island (Console) / Radiant Fountain (3DS) (+2 Armor, +2 Elemental Power)

Pirate Doo Rag: Pirate Seas (Console) / Pontoon Point (3DS) (+4 Speed)

Pirate Hat: Pirate Seas (Console) / Windjammer Bay (3DS) (+20 Critical Hit)

Plunger Head: Oilspill Island (Console) / Magma Bank Island (3DS) (+2 Critical Hit, +2 Elemental Power)

Propeller Cap: Sky Schooner Docks (Console) / Towersight Fields (3DS) (+3 Speed)

Pumpkin Hat: Darklight Crypt (Console) / Wighthaunt (3DS) (+10 Armor)

Rocker Hair: Creepy Citadel (Console) / Snowblind Hills (3DS) (+7 Critical Hit, +3 Elemental Power)

Rocket Hat: Troll Warehouse (Console) / Flooded Viaducts (3DS) (+6 Speed)

Royal Crown: Dragon's Peak (Console) / The Wingwarrens (3DS) (+10 Critical Hit)

Santa Hat: Empire of Ice (Console) / Winterwatch Keep (3DS) (+20 Armor)

Spiked Hat: Battlefield (Console) / Sunblight Wood (3DS) (+7 Critical Hit, +7 Armor)

Spy Gear: Troll Warehouse (Console) / Icelight (3DS) (+2 Speed, +5 Critical Hit)

Tiki Hat: Dark Water Cove (Console) / Waterwalk Way (3DS) (+10 Elemental Power)

Top Hat: Stonetown (Console) / Stormseye (3DS) (+5 Armor, +5 Critical Hit)

Trojan Helmet: Crystal Eye Castle (Console) / The Proving Grounds (3DS) (+10 Armor)

Tropical Turban: Dark Water Cove (Console) / Aurora Peak (3DS) (+2 Speed, +5 Elemental Power)

Unicorn Hat: Quicksilver Vault (Console) / Daystar Temple (3DS) (+12 Armor, +12 Critical Hit)

Viking Helmet: Shattered Island (Console) / Glacial Slopes (3DS) (+5 Critical Hit)

Wabbit Ears: Lair of Kaos (Console) / Leaflook Village (3DS) (+5 Speed, +12 Armor)

Winged Hat: Dragon's Peak (Console) / The Pit (3DS) (+12 Speed)

Wizard Hat: Arkeyan Armory (Console) / Treetop Circle (3DS) (+25 Elemental Power)

[buffalojournal]

Two Poems by Morgan L. Ventura

A Brief Synesthetic History

When I look around it could be said we are living in dark times, the walls & skies & sea & clouds & spaces within me, obsidian smoke, pitch tar, pooled oil. It tastes of ash & petrol & mould & the edge of a boiled knife & I hear the whooshing whooping of distant stars – black holes – ebony arias bending, twisting vibrations. What’s true is I want brighter times, amber & magenta times, spirals of smiling roses & giddy peonies, & detonations of laughing citrine. Times that carry the blush of wisteria, caramel popcorn, earnest eucalyptus. I was born in green times – aventurine smiles & verdant yards blooming viridian jewels, emerald & jade hanging from low branches, wistful and content. The 80s rainforest transmutes blue. Periwinkle times, the 90s breathed cornflower winds and bluebell gales, husked sapphire on metal plates, glimmering robin eggs on cedar porch chirping an unearthly jingle piercing aquamarine eyes of my father who knew only sadness. The sky only spoke rain, it was falling sea, shredded wave, lacerated labradorite, cascades of troubled cerulean. Shocked like glaciers arguing, raging because all’s spilled into red. A time of crimson, furls of fuchsia in the tide of blood after flames across New York, after strikes in Chicago, after death in the family. The 2000s were carnelian, lay the bead beneath my tongue, the rubies on my eyes, enshrine me in magma, encrust me in this livid tomb. Vitrine of vermillion, what is a body but stained glass, medieval sun never modern. The next era’s violet, arched, mutilated candy blossoming from irises in the back. In the evening light it all shivers purple, bruised lilacs yammer & portend a luminous love. Amethyst troves in the attic squirm & emit warmth, simmering with snapdragon & grapes, pisco vineyard from a decade ago, time punctured by lazy lost lagoons. Take me now into what seems like blank times, off-shades of pale peeling into crystal pears & glass shards as we wait, & the iridescent soul in the body of the future, the cloud high above spitting quartz & splitting mirrors, declares these are rainbow times, & I have to tell you, I love all the colours, I want all the colours. World, let me bathe in your prisms & drink your light. This marbled soil, this striated sky. I’d be no one & nowhere without.

 Internal Monologue of an Anthropologist in Paris

i.

My mother said if I fail on my new adventure I can live in her closet.

My French roommate has shit in my bed after having a midlife crisis at 29.

On television I look like an idiot. Even smart, floral blazers from the 10th Arrondissement make me look like a cartoon character because I’m very small.

They want to hire me as a curatorial fellow at the Musée du Quai Branly but then I have to stay here and oh, how I know the Parisians suffer.

Every Thursday there is a voracious vacuuming in the flat above me at 6am and I am suddenly murderous. I strike the ceiling with my broom and the ceiling strikes back.

ii.

My life is an Antonioni film. At the Sorbonne, I’m asked to describe my unwritten doctoral thesis in front of four medieval historians and a self-proclaimed spiritualist who spends most of his time at Père Lachaise by the grave of some important figure whose name I can’t remember. I whirl around in my seat and quip, “It is about nothing with precision.”

iii.

The community in Oaxaca wants me to ask the Mexican government to return the collection it stole but I’m merely an anthropologist, when did we ever hold power?

Margaret Mead was barely 5’0” and carried a walking stick taller than herself, which she’d use to intimidate men. That’s power.

I’m invited by the History Channel to appear on Ancient Aliens after my undergraduate advisor, a certain Mayanist, declines and thinks it would be hilarious to give them my personal email. “We will pay you $300,” they tell me. I think seriously about it.

Pseudoscience is absurd but my life is absurd. My next-door neighbour smokes cigarettes naked while his parrot shits on the patio. A colleague informs me they irrationally hate my surname.

“Would you like a career in anthropology?” my PhD advisor asks me after I tell him about the invite. This, coming from a man whose faculty headshot features him sacrificing a chicken.

Anthropologists don’t deserve careers, I think. But I sure enjoy all the grant and fellowship money, society’s conviction that we are worth something because “we are scientists.”

I don’t want a career, I conclude.

iv.

Over lunch in the EHESS cafeteria, my friend says everyone here complains too much and that the Parisians are insane and create their own chaos.

My brother texts me because my mother is in jail. She should stay there.

I go for coffee with an artist in Le Marais. The owner comes out to scream at all of us who dare to use their laptops and take up too much time – or space.

Claude Lévi-Strauss helped found UNESCO. Franz Boas died in his arms. Claude’s a structuralist and I despise structure. Will I die in the arms of anyone?

When Bronislaw Malinowski died, we all found out that he was a pervert. His field notebooks were festooned with scribbles of his interlocutor’s boobs.

“Anthropologists are very interesting, no?” asks the barista I’ve befriended at perhaps the most hipster café I could find.

I don’t know, are we?

Am I?

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Luminous Lagoon, Falmouth, Jamaica 

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Sublunary

This action also takes place on Turn 12. Corobel has 2 points remaining.

Command Avatar to Create Race (-1): The Two Stars create the Eight-Eyed, a subrace of arachnid-cicada Tiktik, to guard the tunnels of the Moon. The souls of the Refusers (those who refused Haeberik’s gift of vampirism and were secreted away in the heart of the moon) are alloyed with those of Tiktik and sharpened on the whetstones of those sharpest demigods, the Two Stars. They haunt the lava-tubes and chambered caverns, dwelling in honeycombs carved of pale basalt and gleaming in the ghostly light of moonstones.

Command Avatar to Found City (-1): Coryphaeus draws lunar settlers along the coast to the ancient crater-lagoon whose centre is the Court of the Two Skies. Here, they find great vaults on a superhuman scale, riddled with neatly-curving caverns, fluted and ribbed with gentle veins of silvery rock. Spires and pinnacles tower above. Through these, the lunar winds and the voices of the Coryphaeus sing the Moon’s part in the Music of the Spheres. They build the city of Periapt.

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There follow some facts about the Moon.

The greatest vault is the Court, which is chambered like a heart; it contains the Firefly Embassy, where emissaries of the stars keep their strange council with the Faces of the Moon. In the Chamber of Visions, arsenal of the Sky, the celestial portents clamor silently: comets await their appointed times; meteorites, kin of the Great Serpent, crouch, eager to blaze and die.

The stone is slightly living, for it is the flesh of a god. (This is true everywhere on the moon, but especially here.) Like all living things, it feels a gentle tendency towards light, which draws it upward, spinning it into pearlescent spires and beehive kopjes. And the moon (everywhere, but especially here) seems to generate a kind of small stone, somewhat like a pearl; the colonists say that, whenever someone takes a secret with them to the grave, it lodges within the moon, and these are the pearls that grow around them, wept out like tears.

The gravity of the moon is just low enough that it’s a noticeable change from World standard. The Secret within weights heavy on the heart of the world and draws things to it as a tragedy is drawn to its conclusion.

The Conquest and its bloody culmination struck every plant on the watching moon white with grief and fear. (This only applies to parts of plants which are normally green, and some are still transparent, red, luminous blue, or various other exotic shades; this is because the Moon “has a sense of aesthetics, you know, it’s important to introduce some contrasts here and there. Plus, I like cornflowers.”)

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Explore the Wonders of Jamaica: Top Tours and Experiences

Jamaica, the land of reggae, rum, and breathtaking landscapes, offers visitors a chance to explore some of the most enchanting attractions in the Caribbean. Whether you’re a thrill-seeker, a nature lover, or someone looking to immerse yourself in culture and nightlife tours, Jamaica has something special for everyone. Let’s dive into some of the top experiences you can enjoy during your trip.

Blue Hole Ocho Rios Jamaica: A Hidden Gem

Nestled in the lush hills of Ocho Rios Blue Hole is a slice of paradise waiting to be explored. Known as one of Jamaica’s best-kept secrets, this magical spot features cascading waterfalls, deep turquoise pools, and a serene natural environment. Visitors can:

Swim and Dive: Plunge into the refreshing waters or test your bravery by jumping from various heights into the pools below.

Explore Hidden Caves: Discover secret spots around the falls for a more adventurous experience.

Take Stunning Photos: The picturesque scenery is perfect for capturing unforgettable memories.

Bamboo Rafting Jamaica: Relaxation Meets Adventure

Glide down Jamaica’s tranquil rivers on a hand-crafted bamboo rafting. This unique experience is perfect for couples, families, or solo travelers seeking a peaceful escape. Popular spots for bamboo rafting include the Martha Brae River and the Rio Grande. Highlights of the experience include:

Scenic Views: Marvel at the lush vegetation and listen to the soothing sounds of nature.

Personal Guides: Learn about Jamaican culture and history from your knowledgeable raft captain.

Optional Add-ons: Enhance your trip with a limestone foot massage — a true Jamaican treat!

Horseback Riding in Ocho Rios: Ride Through Paradise

Experience Jamaica’s beauty on horseback! Horseback riding tours in Ocho Rios offer a unique way to explore the island’s diverse landscapes. From lush jungle trails to breathtaking beach rides, this activity is perfect for all skill levels. Most tours include:

Guided Rides: Knowledgeable guides ensure a safe and enjoyable experience.

Beach Swimming: Some tours even allow you to ride into the crystal-clear waters for an unforgettable swim with your horse.

Family-Friendly Fun: Suitable for children and adults alike.

Luminous Lagoon Tour Jamaica: Nature’s Nighttime Spectacle

Prepare to be amazed by the natural wonder of the Luminous Lagoon tour, one of the few places in the world where bioluminescence occurs. Located near Falmouth, this tour is a magical nighttime adventure. What to expect:

Glowing Waters: Watch the lagoon light up as you glide through the water.

Swimming Opportunity: Dive in and see your movements create a glowing effect.

Educational Insights: Learn about the microorganisms that cause this extraordinary phenomenon.

Taste the Tropics: A Culinary Adventure

Jamaica’s cuisine is as vibrant as its culture. Embark on a Taste the Tropics tour to savor authentic Jamaican dishes and drinks. Highlights include:

Street Food: Sample jerk chicken, patties, and fresh tropical fruits.

Rum Tasting: Discover the island’s famous rum and learn about its rich history.

Cooking Classes: Learn to prepare iconic Jamaican dishes like ackee and saltfish or curry goat.

Nightlife Tours Jamaica: Party Island Vibes

Jamaica comes alive after sunset with a vibrant nightlife scene. From beach parties to reggae bars, there’s no shortage of places to dance, drink, and mingle. Popular activities include:

Club Hopping: Visit some of the hottest spots in Montego Bay, Kingston, or Negril.

Live Music: Enjoy reggae and dancehall performances by talented local artists.

Beach Bonfires: Chill by the fire while listening to the waves and strumming guitars.

Convenient Jamaica Tours Transportation

Getting around Jamaica is easy with reliable tour transportation services. Whether you need airport transfers, private drivers, or guided tours, transportation options are designed to make your trip stress-free. Benefits include:

Comfortable Vehicles: Enjoy air-conditioned rides in modern vans or buses.

Friendly Drivers: Local drivers double as guides, offering insights and recommendations.

Customizable Itineraries: Tailor your journey to suit your interests and schedule.

From the thrilling adventures at Blue Hole to the tranquil beauty of bamboo rafting and the enchanting glow of the Luminous Lagoon, Jamaica offers unforgettable experiences for every traveler. Whether you’re indulging in its flavorful cuisine or soaking up the vibrant nightlife, every moment spent on this island is pure magic. Plan your trip today and uncover the treasures of Jamaica!