#mount tone

[fishmech]

promotional photos from the now defunct Mount Tone Ski Area website (~2001-2005)

part 6 of 7

[arrayed-in-purple]

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞

(OC)

[the-cryptographer]

find it so weird that there's suddenly a huge horse breeding ranch outside Redcliffe in DAI. I know horses get a few mentions in dialogue and lore in DAO, and I believe we see a few oxen in the game(?) - or at least carts that must have been drawn by them or other beasts of burden (Bodahn and Sandal would need one, oc). but I thought it definitely added to the characterisation of Fereldan that the protagonists travelled place to place on foot and we saw no horses anywhere - no mounted cavalry at Ostagar. The image of Loghain enlisting untrained farmers as foot soldiers to fight and ultimately win against Orlesian chevaliers, who we assume from the root of the French word are horse-mounted soldiers, is impressive because of the odds against him. And that image seems burned into nationalist Ferelden rhetoric as much as the elevation of their preferred war animal - the Mabari.

So it seems to me horses were a rather rare in Ferelden as of the time of the Fifth Blight - and while they saw some uses as couriers or other functions of elite private business - they were not so widespread as to be used en masse for transport or as a vehicle of war. So it's a bit strange that they were wholly adopted a decade later in DAI, but it's hard to say at this point if we should just chalk no horses in DAO up to the fact that nobody wanted to animate one, or chalk it up to it being another way DAI bled a lot of the existing character of the Fereldan landscape out of the game.

[fingertipsmp3]

Had THE funniest dream last night

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

✨🔮Black Stallion Magic🔮✨

[transmechanicus]

Tricking myself into liking certain 40k weapons by imagining their equivalents in DOOM or Titanfall.

[spidermilkshake]

AND YET MORE FARMERS OF ANCARDIA

Ogres are often unfairly characterized as cruel brutes who capture folk and fatten them up for slaughter. It's perhaps more accurate to say they take part in forms of agriculture that the very humans, elves and dwarves that revile them have boiled down to an impartial process long ago--in many ways, learned from humans, though catered to the ogre society's preference for both an avoidance of mess and of good optics and ethics. Many of the different ogre communities are known to keep various animals in contained pasture for eventual meat slaughter--though getting the full years of the animals first and the various byproducts (largely wools, milks, and sometimes eggs) in the process. Once the various deepmara, dire rats, cattle, boars, giant arthropods or birds are old and hobble about under their ponderous weight and old age, ogre farmers tend to put them down via heavy crossbow or heavy axe in darkrooms, and utilize every part of the well-aged meat in roasts and especially sausage-making. Ogres are full carnivores, and so they have a special kinship with a select few tame cave bears... these beasts also quite like a succulent aged sausage, and so special measures must be taken to ensure their greedy pets do not demolish their winter's stores in a day or two!

The Orcs have a wide variety of farming traditions to their name--though here is shown the Orcish method of mushroom farming in the deep places of their world. Orcish engineering fixes hooks into the walls of certain areas of lower light, and straight lengths of wood from either nearby Underforests or imported Surface woodlands if there are no neighboring forest zones are laid in them in rows and drilled to introduce fungal threads of edible species. As each log breaks down, new logs are slotted in, producing a deep, moist layer of compost behind the current logs. Aquaducts were built to channel water below the layers and down the rock walls to keep the humidity up enough for optimal mushroom fruiting, but as a side effect the common Deepwhisker catfish among a variety of alga and aquatic invertebrates of the Underground end up infiltrating these cool, shallow channels. Alongside this orc farmer is a loyal tamed timber wolf--as orcs are strong enough and independent enough to provide a wolf with a beneficial partnership.

Many would not understand the concept of a Pixysh farmer, strictly due to the highly decentralized and anarchic manner in which Pixies operate. Individual Pixie family groups and small communes, however, do very much engage in care and encouragement of various tree and herbaceous plant species within their lands--most especially the fruiting shrubs, which provide sugary berries and fruits which can be more easily preserved for their high energy in winters. Here, a defensive Pixie farmer fights away various large birds and other threats from the family's rowan berry tree, grabbing up as many fruits as can fit in his satchel as possible at a time.

Quickling society is as far removed from the remainder of Surface cultures as can get--isolated to their canopy cities in the southern Heartlands and the Nechola woodlands. Within these equatorial climes, they are known to engage in a number of farming techniques both high above the forest floor and down amongst the trunks--most notably, mushroom farming, such as the Quickling farmer shown here atop his silver wolf mount checking upon the new growth of Elm Oyster mushroom below the lowest basements of his people. Quicklings in the canopy are more known from taming various small falcons, parrotlets, and songbirds, as well as cultivating light-greedy crops such as tomatoes and sour-gherkins.

[sunsetrubdowns]

Do any of my tumblr mutuals want to rent a 2 bedroom apartment with me. Theres one open on my block and the building is really cute do you want to come view it with me

[scydiahs]

Living Room Home Bar in Milwaukee Example of a mid-sized transitional open concept medium tone wood floor living room design with a bar, gray walls and a tv stand

[fishmech]

promotional photos from the now defunct Mount Tone Ski Area website (~2001-2005)

part 5 of 7

[daily-borgia]

Modern Bathroom in Boston

[xstarkillerx]

again, sorry for being so slow to get to asks, editing this film is making me genuinely want to die, things keep going wrong and I want it out of my site

[elise-rosy-unicorn]

Living Room in London

[melbourneacupuncture]

Living Room - Transitional Living Room

[kyomi-shi]

Nashville Living Room

[worldoflunatriix]

Los Angeles Midcentury Living Room