#the northern reach

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

What is thee best tree?

There is no "best tree"! Trees are all different, some more similar than others to each other, but none of them is objectively the "best."

[its-suanneschafer-author]

BOOK REVIEW: The Northern Reach by W.S. Winslow

The Northern Reach is W.S. Winslow’s debut novel, but it certainly doesn’t read as a beginner’s effort. It is an ambitious collection of interconnected stories (somewhat akin to the structure of A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan) told from multiple points of view over multiple generations. Winslow deftly handles this extended family filled with dysfunctional souls who suffer loves,…

[khawla-gfm2]

📰Khawla's Family Campaign Update: 60📰

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[clove-pinks]

In my mind I have this notion that USAmerican barbecue is a fairly recent culinary development and emerged sometime around the late 19th/early 20th century but NO!!! it is from the 17th century!!!!! (Not counting the Indigenous foodways that contributed to it, which are even older).

It's like a Tiffany Problem to me. Thomas Jefferson was making mac and cheese? War of 1812 soldiers were eating barbecue? Barbecue was an established and familiar thing in the southern parts of the Early American republic??

[stiwfssr]

Pleasant Valley | The Long Dark

[thewinedarksea]

we went to iceland! (pt 2, colorful version)

[lonely-soul-02]

Noel leaves Oasis: reading between the lines

From Tales From the Middle of Nowhere

Translating Noel:

The Roundhouse was...erm...very odd: that was fucking excruciating and my heart was ripped to shreds.

What' siz' name exploded with pretend rage: Liam was the angriest I've ever seen him

Strange cat: I know exactly why he was angry

Probably on his man period: I know exactly why he was angry

Didn't notice him getting any more hairy though: it's a miracle he restrained himself as well as he did

Onwards and sideways: we are fucked

Didn't stick around for the gig...couldn't be arsed: didn't want to fight with Liam, especially with him in that state and me in my state

Too many squares for my liking: Liam's people suspect I'm leaving and are not shy in letting me know what they think of me

The Gig in question, The Roundhouse Liam's anger on full display

Translating Noel:

I didn't enjoy it one bit: worst night of my life, maybe even worse than the Roundhouse gig

Dunno: I know exactly why

Couldn't get into it: couldn't concentrate I'm so upset

Very strange: we are fucked

Don't feel too clever: Don't know if I'm doing the right thing

Outrageous stomach ache: I feel sick with the stress and anxiety of what I am about to do

I'm coming down with summat: I can't handle this

Might have to get the doctor out: I'm not ok

Hope it came out of the speakers all right: hope nobody noticed my distress

Gutted: Heartbroken

Oh well there's always tomorrow: I know we're done

The gig in question, V Festival, Oasis' last

Translating Noel:

Dearly beloved: Dear Liam

I have been forced to leave Oasis: you have forced me to leave Oasis

The details are not important: the details are too much for me to handle

...the level of verbal and violent intimidation towards me has become intolerable: Oasis is no longer a safe space and I am too tired and emotionally vulnerable to try and resolve our many issues

The lack of support from my bandmates and management: no one will help us, everyone just stands by and watches us destroy our relationship

...has left me with no other option: I know I've always claimed to be the band's problem solver but I can't solve a problem as big as us by myself

...seek pastures new: I have to look out for myself

Thanks to @lily-bluey for the PDF

[just-slightly-chayotic]

trying to figure out where we're all moving in case tumblr does get nuked in between being like yeah this is the end of my social media era you can reach me by carrier pigeon from now on

[data-nerd-stuff]

Queer Youth Now

Calling all queer or questioning Australians aged 13-25!

Share your voice in this national survey!

[solofighterblog]

More of Hroarr's adventures are coming soon. This is just a quick note I'd like to share.

A lot of my inspiration for a Norse-themed Ironsworn campaign came from The Northern Reaches, a gazeteer written by Ken Rolston, published by TSR in 1988 for the Basic Dungeons & Dragons game. This is a photo of my copy of the gazeteer that I've had since the early 1990s.

[unsteady-calcium]

My Breath of the Wild Slow Livin' challenge is in its third iteration and let me tell you it is the only way to play this game

[debreuil]

i, quite frankly, love the way asoiaf milady is just committing crimes and flitting around the realm over a ~5 year span💀

[lidathedefiant]

After much research on the Plan of St. Gall and Benedictine monastic life, I have completed the first floor of the monastery as it would've looked during its height of operations, roughly 200 years, give or take, before Lida et al. find it on their travels. I will be making another floor plan showing it in ruins.

Something to note is that this is where they encounter the terror-feeder, because the Northern Reaches really was the gods' DeviantArt page. Though I modeled this on Christian monastic life, the experiences of these monks are fundamentally different and far less ascetic so I made some fundamental changes.

Let me take you through some of the design choices I made!

Directional focus is the Overlook of the Gods, so southwest. The cathedral points in that direction as do both chapels.

Original Benedictine monasteries had very limited access points to the inner sanctum. I modified this with a few extras, but I still maintained some separation between the acolytes and monks.

Which leads me to the big main storage room. This was actually a surprising distance from the kitchens in the Plan of St. Gall.

The original kitchen had no outside access, iirc, but was separated from the main building by a hallway. I maintained this here, as it was a pragmatic and not religious decision; kitchen fires wiped out a hell of a lot of monasteries and abbeys before they moved the building off. Now they still maintained zero outside kitchen access, condemning anyone trapped in the kitchen to death, but I digress.

Monasteries were fully self-sufficient. This bad boy would’ve had crops and livestock and breweries. I did not want to design all that out because it would be gone by the time Lisa et al. arrive, but I did keep chambers for the brothers-in-service.

This place would have had an old men’s rest home to account for. Remember, part of the reason this monastery is so popular and well-maintained is because there’s too many men born in the Northern Reaches. (Don’t ask me why, I’m working on it.) So they would’ve had services for old impoverished men who couldn’t marry and had no families. I’m giving them three men assigned to the role and then an additional six that are cycled through the ranks to fulfill the mitzvah (for lack of a better word) of caring for others.

I eliminated the Benedictine conversation rooms, as Lida monks are free to talk, but kept the warming room out of practicality. It would be prohibitively costly to maintain fires everywhere. In monasteries that had dormitories, monks typically slept over the warming room, which will happen here. But unlike the ascetic Benedictines, I’ve given the brothers-in-service and others sleeping in beds far from the warming room little furnaces.

The conservatory is also not a traditional Benedictine room. My boyfriend asked the question of whether the era (roughly modeled on the Middle Ages) would’ve had such tech, which is absolutely valid, but the gods gave them a lot of knowledge. Also, greenhouses in general date back to 30 AD, when the Romans did it before it was cool.

Now we get to the big question: what the hell is up with the arcana rooms? Well, I may have jumped the shark. In constructing this on Inkarnate, I saw they had summoning circles, and I wondered, what if they had been practicing forbidden magic? Not magic outlawed by the Magisterium, but the one form of magic outlawed by the gods? What if they had accidentally summoned the terror-feeder from cryo underneath the Overlook of the Gods and this was their downfall?

I don’t have all the answers yet and I have a whole second floor to build before I can demolish it, but it’s interesting to think about and damn this was fun to make.

[naviculariis]

We all be going through it rn huh-

[orionlancasterr]

Faction of plains storm chasers made up of ghouls, super mutants and really brave stupid humans

[scattered-winter]

mood from the family get together tonight .