#ski-in/ski-out

[darlingofdots]

my parents are on holiday in their mobile home

they're expected back this upcoming weekend

I just spent ten days in my childhood home to keep an eye on things

I have hidden 100 small yellow ducks all over the house

I am very excited for my parents to be back

[techdriveplay]

Falls Creek Buried Under 45cm of Fresh Snow

After a week of snowy weather in Falls Creek, we’re excited to report an additional 33 centimeters of fresh snow overnight on Friday. Heavy snowfall has continued throughout today, adding another 12-15 centimeters, with official numbers to be released tomorrow morning. This brings our total seven-day snowfall to well over 70 centimeters! Following a slow start to the season, winter has truly…

[mobius-m-mobius]

#my man was NOT subtle 🤣😉

+ bonus: message received 😅

[raepliica]

priest guy sending mixed signals, what is he up to?🤨🕶🤏

~~~

[Image Description: A warm-toned comic featuring Trigun98 characters. It opens with Vash shouting "YOWCH!!" as a half-eaten donut flies through the air, a bruise on Vash's tongue. Meryl, editing papers, is annoyed as he complains: "Ow! Ow! I bi'e my 'ongue..." "What's the rush?" Meryl asks, "They're all yours." Vash, still hurt, tries to explain: "They're jus' sooo good!" Meryl argues back, "Well, savour it then!" Wolfwood has been watching the scene unfold as Meryl continues, "Satisfying your sweet tooth doesn't come cheap, unfortunately." Wolfwood clicks his lighter open and closed, again and again. Without a word, he leans closer, his thumb on Vash's lips. "Wolfwood...?" Vash trails off. Then, Wolfwood opens Vash's mouth and knicks his thumb on one of Vash's canines in one fell swoop. "Wah? Huh??" Vash says as Wolfwood pulls his bleeding thumb away. He licks the blood off the wound then snickers at Vash. Meryl looks disgusted, Vash has lit up in an embarrassed explosion, and Milly remarks, curious: "Those are surprisingly sharp, Mr. Vash!" Question marks float around Vash, and his donuts lay discarded on the table. Each panel is signed by raepliica. End ID]

[ciearcab]

skies so blue

+ full piece and closeup for better visibility c:

[nebuladreamz]

SECURITY ALERT.

felt. silly and wanted to do a little something more for my birthday besides the birthday comic so woe, starlit eclipse be upon ye except it's me fucking around with how to do uv lights (I FUCKING LOVE UVLIGHTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

CLOSEUP

[geopsych]

Just a fabulous sky this morning and I had crows watching me and chimney swifts chattering not too high above me. I try to look for something good each day and today I only had to step off the porch.

[cheecats]

Full non serious but, could you imagine if Moonpaw was like. A One eye reincarnation?

OH NOW WE'RE TALKING!!!!!!!

Something something, the clans taking comfort in assuming her orange pelt looks similar to Firestar's, but it's actually One Eye's pelt-- and Leafstar feels something like intrinsic dread every time Moonpaw smirks at her... She feels a sharp pain through her paw and a sickness crawling down her throat and stomach every time she looks into Moonpaw's hidden eye. But there is no wound, and there is no sickness.

[shadow3142]

DO I LOOK LIKE HIM?

[maureen2musings]

emilie.hofferber

[joehills]

I’m not having dreams about playing Decked Out in Minecraft on the HermitCraft server, I’m having dreams about Decked Out as a cultural phenomena out in the world around me.

Week 1: Decked Out as a multi-floor Liberty Science Center exhibit (with signage announcing a new HermitCraft outdoor playground area opening this spring).

Week 2: Decked Out as a skee-ball-like game in local arcades, where folks stand in lanes next to each other rolling balls up a ramp to make progress. Instead of the balls staying in the machine once rolled, some of them eject back toward you to be caught from mid-air.

Week 3: TV news announcer opening a segment with “Decked Out without Santa?!” and talking about local malls not being able to find enough Santas to hire for their Decked Out dungeons this Christmas season.

[hoofpeet]

I sincerely hope whoever invented airbnb explodes . Genuinely

[millportisntreal]

My friend (the one who introduced to aftg!) was talking with our other friend about vacations and I was only half paying attention but THEN I hear her say “oh I’ve never been skiing” and I’m activated like a sleeper cell, just whip over and go “Kevin?” and she looks at me like I’ve grown two heads so I say again “Kevin Day?” and it took a second she burst out laughing after she finally understood

[artaintfartwarriors]

Could i perhaps get moonpaw design please?

This is probably my 5th attempt at designing her, and I’m still not satisfied, but here she is!

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[toyastales]

You are a celestial being.

Sweet dreams!