#spring damage

[inc-immigrationnewscanada]

Sask. property owners should be on look out for spring damage

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Saskatchewan is beginning to see a slow melt of the snow as spring sun warms the air, but the constant freezing and thawing can be trouble for homes, experts say. Winter might be over, but the cold temperatures still linger after the sun goes down, and the resulting ice can severely damage homes if it isn’t dealt with in a timely…

[littlefeltsparrow]

Schrödinger’s Feyre: Where Feyre is simultaneously a cunning and badass girlboss with a mind of steel and a fragile little lamb who doesn’t know any better. When they’re proud, she’s a skilled strategist and competent High Lady, but when it comes to facing the consequences of her actions and the implications of her power, suddenly she’s a little baby waddling through fairy land.

[lucksea]

really fast comic i was gonna draw fully sheared cam but then i did not like it. they looked weird

[mermaidsirennikita]

okay but in Armand’s defense it would indeed be extremely annoying to put all this work into gaslighting a broken man into being something resembling stable for SEVENTY-SEVEN YEARS only to live with the knowledge that he’d spin back into chaotic mess with a dude who says shit like “LEWEE WE BELONG TOGEZAIR OUR HEARTS ARE JOINED BY A CORD!!!!” as soon as the dick was back in play

[yaralulu]

I wonder if tamlin not getting any better has anything to do with the constant antagonizing visits from his mortal enemy who has taken literally everything from him and is a reminder of everything he’s now lost but who knows lol 😍.

It’s heavily implied in acosf that rhys visits the spring court in order to try and help tamlin but genuinely in what universe is that a good idea ?? Can you imagine the guy who basically told you to off yourself just always showing up at your court uninvited like ?? Rhys may be there with the intent of “helping” tamlin (he needs him in case theres another war but I’ll indulge his delusions) but his mere presence is probably wildly triggering to tamlin and he absolutely knows this.I bet you if rhys didn’t show up for like six months tamlin would be tremendously better than he is now.

Rhys stop obsessing over tamlin challenge !!

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Tori’s short hair is really gonna make me cry at 1 am right now isn’t it?

[elisabethc01]

“Tori! I really don't care!”

I stop talking. I look at her. I wonder if I'll end up like her.

Not caring whether my daughter has a skirt to wear to school.

And then I realize something.

“You know what, Mum?”

I say, starting to actually laugh at myself.

“I don't even think I care either.���

- Alice Oseman, Solitaire

[phoenixcatch7]

Honestly can't get over the three springs quests, in that link and hylia held multiple, actual conversations, where hylia asked him to check on the mother statue, he explained the situation, and she thanked him and asked for a dragon piece again, that the offering might boost her power and she could send it through to the big statue. That, and the bargainer statue possessing her plateau statue, implies a really weird relationship between hylia and her idols.

Like anyone listening to link about it would be like,

Link: and then I found my first sages will! I had no idea what it was for at the time, hylia had mentioned it but she never explained -

Person: hold up hold up hold up. Lady hylia? The mother goddess?? Protector of hyrule???

Link, who's only ever been able to remember getting instant responses and knows zelda not hearing anything was a big deal the whole kingdom knew about:...... Yeah?

Person: lady hylia?

Link: *mildly discomfited* yes?? I mean she's busy but I keep her updated, you know? I trade the sages wills with her to enhance the vows, but like I said, I didn't know that at the time, and I'm finding these things just in chests, I'm really not sure they're corporeal enough for -

Person: can we rewind hylia talks to you??

Link, cottoning on a bit: is that not... Normal?

Person, shrieking: NO THE HYLIA STATUE COMING TO LIFE AND TALKING TO YOU ISN'T NORMAL NO ONE DOES THAT????

[heresiae]

for the second year in a row we're having a rain season in Northen Italy. if it will repeat itself the next one it should get at least a cool name. it's the least that can happen to mitigate the fact that I'm doing laundry calculating how many sun hours we have before I have to collect it from the clothesline.

(and that I put the comforter away literally last week and I still have a heavy quilt on the bed... it's still only 21°C in my house ffs!)

[bxnnie-bxwl]

withered version of my spring bonnie design.. call him now springs for short heheh.. its for an au :)c

[lepitorus]

making a great impression on the health & food safety inspector

[nordfjording]

theres a super cheap house at the edge of the woods past a goat farm in an offshoot valley not too far from home and we joked abt me buying it because the monthly loan payments would be the same as my current rent and now im like. actually.

[organicsaturdaychurch]

Besides my furblet and furbling who are not pictured in grains these are all of my non oddbodies so far!!

Left 2 right we have

Vivian Neldaughter (she/her)

Ametrine Plinko (it/its)

Cumulus Panacea The Gaseous Light (any pronouns)

Dmitrius Boycolor (he/him)

The first 2 I got for my birthday and the other 2 are from Christmas!!

[lovelyunknown]

Murder drones EP 7 and 8 teaser got me thinking that they're doomed by the narrative.

God, what would the pair be willing to do for each other.

[thedreadvampy]

btw about Neil Gaiman I periodically agree with the 'Neil Gaiman is annoying' stuff bc I feel like both he and Amanda Palmer seem like people who I would go insane stuck in a room with bc we have very different ideas about art and suchlike. and I also do think that the career trajectory he's on lately is cynically redoing his greatest hits and pretending that was the dream all along when it clearly was not. which is at best meh.

having said which

as far as I can tell by far the most common complaint about Neil Gaiman is "Snow, Glass, Apples is problematic/gross/it's got incest and rape and frames the child as the aggressor"

which strikes me as a weird complaint to pull out of a 40 year body of work tbh when that short story is pretty clearly coming from a place of 'how far can I push this'. like you don't have to like the story. I don't really like the story. but it is. a horror story.

like and this is the thing with particularly 90s alt horror right? a lot of the interest is in transgression and sitting in the worst possible perspective and seeing what happens if you pull those strings. like I really like Clive Barker for example but there's a good chunk of his short stories that I'm like I'm not picking up what you're putting down Clive this seems Kinda Off. but that willingness to write some trite or Bad Message horror fiction that doesn't land is imo a side effect of being willing to try writing uncomfortable and unpleasant fiction at all. which is what horror is for, among other things, it's for creating discomfort as a form of catharsis or engagement.

like I am not a huge fan of the type of sex-horror that pops up in a lot of Gaiman's work and other contemporary horror writers - to me I don't find it upsetting or horny it just ends up feeling kind of edgy and tryhard - but I'm also a bit like. it does seem like a lot of people's beef with Neil Gaiman is that In The 90s He Was A Horror Writer

and this approach to Problematic Horror in Snow, Glass, Apples I find kind of microcosmic of how The Discourse often approaches art in this kind of 1:1 way. if you write a story which seems to line up with rape apologia it can only be because you agree with it. if you write a story about transphobia you're a transphobe. if you write a story that makes me genuinely uncomfortable you're attacking me.

but artwork, especially art like horror that's not necessarily trying to provoke enjoyment as its main response, is necessarily hit and miss. and if what you're shooting for is discomfort then whether it works, falls flat or goes too far incredibly depends on your audience. and making good art - as in art that makes its audience think, art that opens the audience up to discomfort and catharsis and sticks with them and changes them - requires the space to experiment and tbh the space to fuck up. like they aren't all going to be winners and they certainly aren't all going to work for you as a singular audience.

personally I don't see the appeal of Snow, Glass, Apples, less cause it's nasty and more cause it's hack. ooh an edgy monstrous version of a fairy tale where there's lots of rape and cannibalism? you're soooo original Neil. but like. that's fine. I don't really vibe with like 70% of Neil Gaiman stuff I've read but I still like Neil Gaiman because the stuff that works for me really works for me.

idk I think there's a lot of folk on this website who shouldn't interact with horror cause they clearly aren't interested in being horrified. that's not everyone who dislikes Snow, Glass, Apples, but it's a real undercurrent to a lot of the criticism and tbh this kinda vibe is shit for art. making standout art What Is Good also requires being ready to make art which stands out for the wrong reasons. sometimes they'll be the same art to different people.

[hirazuki]

Re: Naruto characters I dislike -- under the cut! :)

The thing with Danzo and Tobirama is that, I get it. I might not agree with it, at all, but I get where they're coming from and, honestly, I am very much self-aware enough that, if I had lived through their same experiences, I can't say for sure that I would have done any different. Did they do terrible things? Absolutely. But, again, I can't proclaim with surety that I'd be any better. Like, I can sit here from my current seat and judge them, but experiences color perception and I'm just as susceptible to bias as everyone else is. Who knows what my outlook would be had I lived through the First and/or Second War.

The thing with Rasa and Chiyo is that, there is some resolution. It's definitely too little, too late, especially in Rasa's case, but there is growth and admittance of fault there so that, even if I don't actually like either character, the character development present in the storyline (particularly for Chiyo!) is such that it somewhat cancels my dislike out, leaving me with largely neutral feelings. I did used to have stronger feelings against them, but I suppose it's true that you mellow out with age lmao

The thing with Hiruzen and Hagoromo and Fugaku is that I neither get it, nor is there any character development or admittance/recognition of fault on their part XD