#octarine

[dimity-lawn]

[octarinecat]

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Meme from twitter, original post here.

[aeshnacyanea2000]

Water on the disc has an uncommon fourth state, caused by intense heat combined with the strange desiccating effects of octarine light: it dehydrates, leaving a silvery residue like free-flowing sand through which a well-designed hull can glide with ease. The Dehydrated Ocean is a strange place, but not so strange as its fish.

-- Terry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic

[inthemoodformoodboards]

[fearecia]

So, hooray for rampaging sun giving us the Aurora...

But I just have to ask... Did anyone else make this connection?

[chaosteddybear]

Beauty and the Beast fic trope? 😸

OH NOW THAT IS A FUN ONE. Thanks for the ask hehe

Definitely Mix and Sasli 😂 him unleashing to protect her (even when not needed), but being very calm and supportive when with her alone.

She keeps him on a leash though. Damn, it fits too well and reminds me of his original intro 😂

[kurticus]

I want someone to write about Gender the way Sir Terry Pratchett wrote about color or anything else. About going past the binary and discovering gender no one has ever considered. But taken way to literally and silly to be any kind of real world parallel.

The way octarine was the color beyond color.

Or how Knurd was being sober beyond sober.

I want to read about a gender that was too gender. That male or female dared not dream of its existence.

[octarinespill]

Kevin Weckbach - Loud Silence, ca. 2018-2023

[octarineblues]

supporting communities & people impacted by the Southport attack and the far-right riots in the UK

here is a list of community fundraisers I found, starting with those aiming to support the Southport community after the appalling attack at a children dance party, to the fundraisers helping those affected by the subsequent racist and Islamophobic far-right/nazi riots

Edited on 5 August to include Middlesbrough fundraisers. Edited on 6 August to correct the link on the Books for Spellow Lane fundraiser, to adjust the name change for the Belfast fundraiser, and to adjust the wording in the second last paragraph.

Southport:

Southport Strong Together Appeal - organised by the community foundation for Merseyside, for those affected by the Southport knife attack

United for Southport families - the funds will be distributed among the nine families of the children who were at the party

Swifties for Southport - a fundraiser for the Alder Hey Children's charity, which supports the victims and the affected families, as well as first responders and clinicians. Extra funds will also support the wider Southport community

Fundraiser for the Southport Mosque - a fundraiser to aid rebuilding or possibly re-locating the Southport Mosque after the damages it suffered during the riots

Rebuilding Windsor Mini Mart - fundraiser to rebuild the locally-owned grocery store that was targeted during the attacks, broken into, and looted

Liverpool:

Fundraiser for the Spellow Hub - the Spellow Hub was broken into, looted and set on fire at night during the riots. The Spellow Hub is a newly created one-of-a-kind (in the UK) institution, which consists of a library as well as a community centre with a mission to help people get education and pathways to work

Books for Spellow Lane - another fundraiser for the library in the Spellow Hub, to replace the books and rebuild the library there edit: included the correct link

Hartlepool:

Fundraiser for the Nasir Mosque - the Nasir Mosque was attacked following Southport riots; this fundraiser is organised by Hartlepool citizens to help the mosque deal with the damages as well as to show appreciation for the role of the mosque in the community. edit: the funds will be also distributed to the local community!

Rebuilding the Farm Shop - the shop was targeted during the riots, and when the owner and his son tried to protect it, they were also violently attacked. The fundraiser is to help fix the damages to the store.

Sunderland:

help rebuild Citizens Advice Sunderland offices after arson - two of the Citizens Advice Sunderland offices were set on fire during the riots, and one of them is completely destroyed.

Hull:

Hull Help for Refugees - a local fundraiser to support the Hull Help for Refugees charity, the donated money will be re-distributed to community members affected by the riots

Fundraiser for Hull Help for Refugees and Welcome House in Hull - collected money will be donated to the two charities

Belfast:

help fix racially motivated damages - originally the fundraiser for the Sahara Shisha Cafe which was targeted by the far right in Belfast during the riots, now a fundraiser for all affected businesses in the area. edited to reflect the change of the name of the fundraiser to avoid any confusion

Middlesbrough:

Supporting residents after the riots - Middlesbrough has suffered so much during the riots, lots of businesses as well as just regular family homes were vandalised, had their windows smashed or even were broken into. This fundraiser wants to distribute the funds between affected people to help them fix the damages, and to generally support the local community. the newest fundraiser, imo potentially the most urgent one

Fundraiser for a Care worker's car which was set on fire - a car belonging to an employee of a care agency was set on fire during the riots while he was on shift at a care home.

If you want to donate locally but there is no fundraiser to support where you live, consider donating to your local charities oriented towards Muslim or PoC communities, or towards anti-racist and refugee organizations! And go support your local Muslim/Arab/Black/Asian/Refugee owned businesses!

If you have any information about other local fundraisers, feel free to add to the post or don't hesitate to let me know and I will add them here! We have seen so much hate in the past few days, we have to stay strong and keep supporting each other!

Stay safe everyone 💛

[dimity-lawn]

Did anybody else see a thin black ring around the sun during yesterday’s eclipse (obviously whilst wearing the eclipse glasses)?

It reminded me of the octarine glow sometimes described in Discworld. Were any of you reminded of that or was it just me?

[octarinecat]

Um hello, it's me again with the same character, I hope you don't mind! 🥺 I really wanted to check if I'm levelling up and can make art without lineart (which is my art nemezis). Under the cut are some close ups.

[aeshnacyanea2000]

It was the King Colour, of which all the lesser colours are merely partial and wishy-washy reflections. It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.

-- Terry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic

[inthemoodformoodboards]

[octarinespill]

Olivia Steele - I Dream Of You In Colors That Don´t Exist, 2017

[lemonsdaily-artdump]

@octartin pointed out to me we both play COS barovian native clerics named Kasia/Kaisa who are being set up for the reveal that they are the reincarnation of St Markovia.

What a coincidence

They told me about how Kaisa awoke some 150 years or so before the events of their campaign. She awoke alone in a cave in mount ghakis dressed in a wedding dress with no memories at all.

And idk that mental image is so chef's kiss to me I had to hyperfixation doodle it in like 3 hours

Hope you enjoy, friend, and thank you for chatting so much with me! I really love being able to share this campaign stuff with you <3

Tumblr is not letting me upload a better quality file of this.... Hdjsjdjf mad

[embracing-the-ineffable]

I think we really need an octarine sonic screwdriver to solve this, though! 😂

Was Good Omens season 2 set during 2019? Who can say? Maybe Neil Gaiman, but probably not the Amazon Prime marketing department... (?!)

From Aziraphale & Crowley's Timeline of Interconnectedness - released yesterday by Prime Video's YouTube channel.

They're also rather vague about some of the other dates, and scenes from the present day of seasons 1 and 2 are mixed together. I assume this is just weird marketing. Unless it's a Clue? 😅

Edit: Neil says "First time I've seen it and it seems to think Season 1 and Season 2 all happen in 2019, doesn't it?"

I'm going to file this under the "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" category of Good Omens shenanigans...

With thanks to members of the @ineffable-detective-agency for pointing this out!