#pillar testing

[townpostin]

Mango Flyover Project Achieves Key Milestone with Test Pillar Casting

Engineers Prepare for Rigorous Strength Testing of Initial Structure The 252-crore infrastructure project promises to enhance connectivity across Jamshedpur, with completion expected within 18 months. JAMSHEDPUR – The Mango flyover project marked a significant step forward with the successful casting of its first testing pillar on Tuesday. Located in the Bakri Bazar complex between Dimna Road…

[za0mbie]

Dropping these off on your doorstep🏃🏼

[snoodlebooper]

fuck it- i saw another artist post their fankid design and that reminded me that i havent posted any artwork of mine. so here!

i drew these a long time ago. shes my baby and i love her so much!!! her name is honey pillar and shes a little ball of fuzzy sunshine!!

((but now that i updated my character i feel like she needs a little update herself.... coming soon ig??))

[claiborneart]

You paddle out to a pillar, and lick it.

compared to the water, it feels almost warm to the touch.

When you lick it you taste salt¹, and a faint, familiar aftertaste that you can't quite place.

Your tongue sticks to it slightly, as you pull away.

now then,

What do you do?

1 - the water tasted completely fresh, in case you were now wondering.

[khaosssss]

animation thingy I wanted to do w/ opp Felix,,,, would’ve done more but my shoulders hurt. Also this is that one basshunter dota trend. So.

[wampabampa]

Lovelie on da brain…

Some doodles from the past few days. I’m trying to figure out how to do Lovelies big ass head CRJCNRJCJN

Peep oc I’m thinking abt doing a redo of

Casino!Howdy belongs to @/toastedmelow

Lovelie robs belongs to @/clownsuu

[raayllum]

I think what gets lost amid the Viren-Callum and Callum-Claudia parallels is while sometimes you have characters foil each other primarily because of narrative placement (Rayla and Soren in some ways, switching roles as sworn killer to protector and then back again), you can also have characters that parallel each other primarily personality wise (Ezran and Claudia for example), and characters that parallel each other morality wise (Rayla and Harrow) and then you can also have characters that parallel each other in all of the above. Narrative placement, roles, personality, morality, flaws, etc. All of it.

And that is what I’m talking about when I talk about how Callum’s morality differs from his friends. Ezran does not have the capacity to be a dark mage. At most, he could be like Terry, and even then, that’s a stretch. He does not crave power. Opportunity and justice, which are adjacent to power, but not power itself. It is out of character for Ezran to revel the destruction and upper hand that power gives him. It is not for Callum.

Rayla, although she has personality similarities with Viren (paranoia, gruffness, repression, etc) and narrative similarities with Claudia (daughter given dark task by father, wandering Xadia for two years on account of Viren, etc) does not have the capacity to be a dark mage. It’s not in her; she doesn’t have the incentive or personality for it (or for magic generally). She craves protection, which is of course adjacent to power, but not power itself. It was out of character for Rayla to walk away from the dragon in 4x05, indicating a massive character change for her from 2x07; Callum’s choice in each situation would remain the same. 

In 4x06, upon finding Soren’s armour, everyone else is focused on Soren. Rayla is beating herself up for letting something happen to him. N’than is being brutally honest. Ezran is trying to mitigate harm and look on the bright side for their friend. Callum does not take his eyes off of, and is entirely focused on, Rayla. Yes, he’s optimistic about what may have happened to Soren, but that’s specifically presented in him reassuring Rayla (and then again in 4x07 as well). 

Callum craves power (and freedom). He craves magic. He has a strong heart and a strong mind just like his friends, but he’s also a mage in ways that even Claudia is not. Claudia can look at ancient ruins and never wonder how to use them. She’s brutal out of perceived necessity. Callum is brutal even when he doesn’t need to be. Callum learns about moon magic and, like every magical object he’s encountered, he wants to learn how to use it. Just knowing is not enough. 

Viren and Callum are both people willing to do “anything” to protect their family, even if Viren’s more complicated because he’s also more willing to sacrifice them, and Callum is not (with perhaps the sole exception of letting Ez be under the ice for a dangerously long time). This is especially highlighted in S4, textually. Ezran and Rayla are both willing to sacrifice precious items connected to their fathers. Callum (at least for now) is not. 

Callum is genuinely tempted down the path of being a dark mage when he thinks he has no other magical options. He rejects it still holding onto hope, perhaps, that he can be a primal mage. And like I’ve already said, Rayla and Ezran would not have been tempted into it at all. Claudia isn’t either because she doesn’t see anything wrong with dark magic in the first place. But Callum does. In this way, Callum’s pursuit of magic has the most in common with Viren’s, where he knows it’s dangerous, and knows it may not always end well (“I have nothing left to lose”) and yet he chooses it and Aaravos anyway. Callum also has a self-preservation streak that Viren, Rayla, and Ezran do not (at least marginally). He rarely throws himself into anything in which he has zero hope for survival; even when he takes Ez’s spot in 1x02, he still argues with Rayla on behalf on his own life; he easily is talked down by one word from Rayla when it comes to letting Sol Regem burn him to a crisp in 3x01. (Compare and contrast with how Rayla argues with him for her own death in 3x08, or how Viren places his life in Aaravos’ hands in Lux Aurea.) 

And yet in spite of how much the show emphasizes just how much he loves magic, and loves using magic (“figure out how he could use the cube” and what he could “achieve” with it, S2 novelization), it also shows us time and time again that the people he loves - namely Rayla and Ezran - are even more important to him than magic. 

[Cue Callum dropping his staff - “It means a lot” - to pick up Rayla’s sword only to then throw that away, too, when he sees her hand to run right at her]

And even over his freedom and well-being:

C: I was his puppet. I felt so weak and out of control. I’m not afraid that he’ll hurt me. I’m afraid that he’ll use me to do awful things. Or hurt people I care about. That’s why all I’m asking is that if he takes control of me again, you have to kill me. I need you to promise. 

Among the trio, Callum is the one with a more skewed morality and greater capacity for remorseless violence. He’s the one with a raging and then ice cold temper. He’s the one who has the most in common personality and morality wise with Viren and Claudia and even Terry. Not entirely the same, of course - there’s a reason he’s not on their side - but the most similar, I think. 

And I think that’s why 1) Callum is such a fascinating character, especially for a protagonist and 2) disappointing sometimes, when people take away his claws and teeth. Because he absolutely has them, and I hope we can only continue to see them play out even further as we go along.

[herearedragons]

WIP Thursday

thanks for the tag, @ndostairlyrium! I'm going to share another snippet of the PoE wip.

At night, as they sit by a bonfire behind the house with cups of springberry tea, Selene says: “You know, I don’t really know how to dance. Think you could teach me?” The question is so out-of-nowhere, and she says it so calmly, that it takes Edér a second to actually get what she’s saying - and then he does, and there goes his attempt to keep a lid on those thoughts again. Anyone else asking him this, he’d assume they were hitting on him. It’s just the kind of question you get asked with a smile or a wink, and if you fancy them back, you say sure, I can show you the ropes, and see where it goes from there. But Selene hasn’t smiled or winked, she’s just sitting there looking at him over the fire, and he’s pretty sure she’s really just asking.

tagging: @solas-backpack-mug @curiouslavellan @layalu if any of you have wips to share!

[bragganhyl]

I now have polls and decided to be basic about it

[saddramaticsleepypoet]

🐈‍⬛

I'm not a feline! Stop this!

[gingaswag]

WELCOME TO POOP MOUNTAIN

[quillheel]

im not immune to them im really not

[quinttyz]

“Watcher, please tell me this is not just another dream I’m having…”

[sandara-and-coco]

Project ME Scenery 🍃

[maranull]

i'm 99% sure no one that follows me cares but look at my cool design for this bridge

[phynoma]

My tags aren't working for ONE SPECIFIC FANDOM and I need to know why 😭

Edit: adding a link?