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yvesdot · 6 months ago
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AHHHHH!!! The incomparable @furiousfinnstan made me this INCREDIBLE birthday commission... Kay with her thousand-yard stare and Atlas being cuddly. I love the classic Ninandrej use of screaming color, the shading on the bedsheets, the normalgirl PJs Kay is wearing (courtesy of Atlas, no doubt), the unshaven legs (!!!!)... How beautiful. It's absolutely perfect.
If you want to know more about these interdimensional sapphics-in-progress, check out the project page here. If you want your own excellent commission, Andrej's commission post is currently up here. And if you just want to throw him some money (you should), his crowdfund is here.
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yvesdot · 1 year ago
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HELLO! You ask at a wonderful time, as I have a fifth anniversary edition of my queer speculative fiction short story collection, Something’s Not Right, coming out this October. It follows various human and non-human characters as they grapple with what society believes is right.
Outside of that, I'm primarily working on outlining THE ONE AND ONLY UNIVERSE OF KAY RAINIER, a duology about a he/him WLW dimension traveler and the Victorian-cosplay-transbian he falls into bed with; and Forest Castles, a YA fantasy romance that aims to solve everything wrong with love triangles through the healing powers of bisexual polyamory and also so many swords. So many, so many swords.
Beep me anytime!
Writeblr Community Reach Out
HEY! I recently posted my new intro (which you should totally check out) but wanted to make a direct reach out to other blogs.
Interact this if you write, especially any scifi, superheroes, horror, thriller, futuristic, queer, or content adjacent to those! Feel free to tell me about your wips in the reblogs and tags and add me to any tag lists you have! It keeps me engaged with y'all's projects.
I'm also super tag game friendly so don't be afraid to tag me in things!
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toogayforthistoday · 5 years ago
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My F/O list
Finally getting around to making this thing, so here we go. I don’t have ship names for most of them (yet), so in the mean time, I’m using emoji’s that fit closest. I don’t have an issue with sharing, but if you do, feel free to block the appropriate tag! I’m doing my best to try and tag everything.
Names in Bold I am not comfortable sharing romantically
Main F/O’s:
My mains fluctuate all the time, but currently the Main ones are:
Porter Gage (Fallout)  🏴‍☠️🖤 #OTP: Underestimated to a Fault
Husk (Hazbin Hotel) 😼❤️ #OTP: Watch Your Cards
Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe) 🐍💚 #OTP: Green is our Colour
Touya ‘Dabi’ Todoroki (My Hero Academia) #OTP: Lighters in the Dark #gdi Dabi #jfc Touya
Alfie Solomons (Peaky Blinders) #OTP: Bow to the Bakers
Allison / Texas (Red vs Blue) #OTP: Houston We Are the Problem
Hiei Jaganshi (Yu Yu Hakusho) 🐉💜 #OTP: Hiebe
My Kids:
“Child” Familial F/O’s, and Fankids. I love them very much
Angel (Borderlands) Step-Daughter #Angel [Calls me Gabe]
Nero (Devil May Cry) Step-Son #Nero [Calls me Gabe]
Hitoshi Shinso (My Hero Academia) Son  #Rocker Bee Kittens [Calls me 'Mom’] #HK-57 the Malfunctioning Protocol Assassin Droid [Because of course I brought my son into Star Wars]
Eri (My Hero Academia) Adopted Daughter #Everything in Flux [Calls me ‘Mom’]
Cailean Elijah Solomons (Peaky Blinders) Son #Cailean Elijah Solomons [Calls me ‘Mom’]
Romantic F/O’s: 
I still love them very much, but my current attention is on the mains <3
Wolf (10th Kingdom) 🐺🌕❤️
Shaun Hastings (Assassin’s Creed) 📚❤️
Handsome Jack (Borderlands)  💪💔  #OTP: Are We the Heroes
Dr. Nigel Townsend (Crossing Jordan) #OTP: Cryptid Crypts
Skulker (Danny Phantom) 👻💚 #OTP: Compatible Hardware
Vergil (Devil May Cry)  🔵💙 #OTP: The Power to Protect You
Alistair Theirin (Dragon Age) 🌹💙
The Iron Bull (Dragon Age) 🐂💝
Cullen Rutherford (Dragon Age) 💰❤️ #OTP: The Ones Who Remain
Fenris (Dragon Age) ⚡💙
Anders (Dragon Age) 🚑💙
John Hancock (Fallout) ☀️💖
Robert Joseph MacCready (Fallout) 💸💕
Charon (Fallout) ����🖤  
Vincent / Angel (nikkzships OC from Halo/RvB) No Tags Yet
Arackniss (Hazbin Hotel) 🕷️🖤
Poly!Husk + Arackniss #OT3: Running the Speakeasys
Sesshomaru (Inuyasha) 🐕💜 #OTP: The Dog The Witch and The Broken Well
Dean McCoppin  (The Iron Giant) #OTP: Scrapyard Shindigs
Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) 🌌💙
Vetra Nyx (Mass Effect) 🌌💁💜
Shouta ‘Eraserhead’ Aizawa (My Hero Academia) 💤🖤 #OTP: No Rest For The Wicked
Hizashi ‘Present Mic’ Yamada (My Hero Academia)   🎤💛 #OTP: Loud Blondes Club
Poly!Shouta + Hizashi 💤💜🎤 #OT3: How to Speedrun a Family
Kisame Hoshigaki (Naruto) 🦈💙 #OTP: Fish Out of Water
Hanzo Shimada (Overwatch) 🐉💙🐉 #OTP: So Much for Stealth
Jesse McCree (Overwatch) 🐎❤️ 
Mako ‘Roadhog’ Rutledge (Overwatch) 🐷💗
Aleksandra ‘Zarya’ Zaryanova (Overwatch) 🏋️💗
  Carasynthia 'Cara' Dune (Star Wars: The Mandalorian) ⭐💚 #OTP: Looking in Alderaan Places
Dean Winchester (Supernatural)  🥃🖤 #OTP: The Other We Deserve
Diego Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy) 🗡🖤 #OTP: Yyou’re Jusst Like Me
Eddie Brock + Venom (Venom) ☣️🖤
Lambert (Witcher) 🐺💚 #OTP: Prickly Pair
Gambit / Remy LeBeau (X-Men/Marvel) 🎴💜
Queer Platonic F/O’s:
Not quite Romantic™, but Platonic™ isn’t enough to describe it.
Gaige (Borderlands)  ⛧❤️
Nisha (Borderlands) No Tag Yet
V (Devil May Cry) #OTP: A Facade of Memories
Merril (Dragon Age)  🌼💚
Dorian Pavus (Dragon Age)  🐍🖤  
Butch DeLoria (Fallout)  🕳️🐍💙
Cait (Fallout) No Tag Yet
Atsuhiro ‘Mr. Compress’ Sako (My Hero Academia) #TheShowmen🎭  
Jamison ‘Junkrat’ Fawkes (Overwatch)  💥💖
Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy  (Witcher)  🐦🖤
Addison ‘Addy’ Carver (Z Nation) #OTP: Blended Bats
Platonic F/O’s:
I will probably be constantly adding to this list as I forget all the time. These guys don’t have tags, if you want me to tag them, let me know!
Maya (Borderlands)
Krieg (Borderlands)
Axton (Borderlands)
Mordecai (Borderlands)
Brick (Borderlands)
Timothy Lawrence (Borderlands)
Wilhelm (Borderlands)
Nicoli Technus (Danny Phantom) #TechDeck9000🤖
Dante (Devil May Cry)
Lady (Devil May Cry)
Niko (Devil May Cry)
Zevran Arainai (Dragon Age)
Leliana (Dragon Age)
Oghren (Dragon Age)
Sten/Arishock (Dragon Age)
Isabella (Dragon Age)
Aveline Vallen (Dragon Age)
Varric Tethras (Dragon Age)
Cole (Dragon Age)
Cremisius 'Krem’ Aclassi (Dragon Age)
Sera (Dragon Age)
Blackwall/Thom Rainier (Dragon Age)
Cassandra Pentaghast (Dragon Age)
Deacon (Fallout)
Piper (Fallout)
Curie (Fallout)
Preston Garvey (Fallout)
Dogmeat (Fallout)
Amata (Fallout)
Niffty (Hazbin Hotel)
Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel)
Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel)
Charlie (Hazbin Hotel)
Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Liara T’Soni (Mass Effect)
Ashley Williams (Mass Effect)
Tali’Zorah Vas Normandy (Mass Effect)
Cora Harper (Mass Effect)
Jaal Ama Darav (Mass Effect)
Liam Kosta (Mass Effect)
Pelessaria ‘Peebee’ B’Sayle (Mass Effect)
Nemuri ‘Midnight’ Kayama (My Hero Academia)
Hidan (Naruto)
Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)
Din Djarin (Star Wars: The Mandalorian) #TheDadalorian🦏
Fennec Shand (Star Wars: The Mandalorian) #TheStoicShitstarters😈
Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
Castiel (Supernatural)
Eskel (Witcher)
Triss (Witcher)
Ciri (Witcher)
Keira Metz (Witcher)
Yennefer (Witcher)
Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Kazuma Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Shuichi Minamino/Kurama/Yoko Kurama (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Yukina (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Botan (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Keiko Yukimura (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Shizuru Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Familial F/O’s:
I keep getting adopted by people 👀👀👀
Kai Hiwatari (Beyblade) Twin
Dr. Zed (Borderlands) Weird Uncle
Moxxi (Borderlands) Motherly
Marcus (Borderlands) Fatherly
Tina (Borderlands) Twinsies
Jack Napier ‘Joker’ (Batman 1989) Father Figure
Vlad Masters 'Vlad Plasmius' (Danny Phantom) Father #Vlad Dadsters
Trish (Devil May Cry)  Sister
Wynne (Dragon Age) Grandmotherly
Leandra Amell (Dragon Age) Motherly
Vivienne de Fer (Dragon Age) Elder Sister
Nick Valentine (Fallout) Uncle
Alastor (Hazbin Hotel) Fatherly... Patron... Thing 🦌♡
Lilith (Hazbin Hotel) Motherly
Todd ‘Squee’ Castle (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) Younger Brother
Frank Castle (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Older Brother Figure #CastleGuard
Dr. Karin Chakwas (Mass Effect) Motherly/Grandmotherly
Admiral David Anderson (Mass Effect) Fatherly
Nakmor Drack (Mass Effect) Grandfatherly
Just the Entirety of the LOV (My Hero Academia) Siblings, the whole lot of ‘em #Leaguenanigans
Jin ‘Twice’ Bubaigawara (My Hero Academia) #TwiceTheFun
Kurogiri/Oboro Shirakumo (My Hero Academia) #TheOtherParent
Shuichi ‘Spinner’ Iguchi (My Hero Academia) No Tag Yet
Himiko Toga (My Hero Academia) No Tag Yet
Magne (My Hero Academia) #Miss you Mags
Inko Midoriya (My Hero Academia) Sisterly/Motherly (Dabi Ship Only) #MamaMido #NewtonsFirstLaw🔄
Izuku ‘Deku’ Midoriya (My Hero Academia) Nephew (Dabi Ship Only) #Curveball
Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia) Younger Brother (Dabi Ship Only) #GlareOfTheLimelight
Natsuo Todoroki (My Hero Academia) Younger Brother (Dabi Ship Only) #BrothersForACause
Fuyumi Todoroki (My Hero Academia) Younger Sister (Dabi Ship Only) #TeachingGrace
Rei Todoroki (My Hero Academia) Mother-In-Law (Dabi Ship Only) #MamaRei
Tomura Shigaraki (My Hero Academia) It’s Complicated (Dabi Ship Only) #NotInKansas
All For One (My Hero Academia) Father Figure...ish? (Dabi Ship Only) #Dad For One
Kakuzu (Naruto) Fatherly
Ana Amari (Overwatch) Grandmotherly
Reinhardt Wilhelm (Overwatch) Grandfatherly
Aberama Gold (Peaky Blinders) Uncle, Mum’s Brother
Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars) Motherly Mentor
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) Father #Ben Dadnobi
Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) The Fun Uncle Mentor
Mace Windu (Star Wars) The Bullshit Filter Mentor
Grogu (Star Wars: The Mandalorian) Nephew
Donna Hanscum (Supernatural) Motherly
Jody Mills (Supernatural) Motherly
Bobby Singer (Supernatural) Uncle
Vesemir (Witcher) Grandfatherly
Logan / James Howlett / Wolverine (X-Men/Marvel) Father #SupBub
Genkai (Yu Yu Hakusho) Grandmotherly
Tommy ‘10K’ (Z Nation) Brother
This got really long, really quickly. I have been doing this for a while, so that makes sense. Don’t really know how to end this, so... Don’t be afraid to self ship, no matter how old you are!!! Your F/O’s love you!
~ Gabe
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blogcompetnetall · 6 years ago
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Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle
Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle http://www.nature-business.com/nature-hurricane-michael-live-updates-category-2-storm-bears-down-on-florida-panhandle/
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Hurricane Michael was upgraded to a Category 2 storm as it barreled toward the Gulf Coast. It could hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane.CreditCreditNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Hurricane Michael strengthened into a Category 2 storm on Tuesday as it took clearer aim at the Florida Panhandle, which was bracing for a major hurricane to make landfall on Wednesday.
The hurricane, poised to become the strongest tropical system to make landfall in the mainland United States so far this year, has sustained winds of 110 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday morning. The storm’s winds are expected to increase, and Michael is on track to become a Category 3 storm later in the day.
Governors in at least three states have declared emergencies, and the local authorities are urging people to evacuate or to fortify their homes ahead of the storm.
Here are the latest developments:
• As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving north-northwest at 12 m.p.h. in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Click on the map below to see the storm’s projected path.
• A hurricane warning was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River in Florida. A hurricane watch was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Mississippi-Alabama border.
• Hurricane Michael could make landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday anywhere from Destin, Fla., to Apalachee Bay, the National Hurricane Center said. It was projected then to veer northeast — through Georgia and the Carolinas — before heading into the Atlantic on Thursday night.
• President Trump on Monday said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was in full preparation mode. “It looked a couple of days ago like it was not going to be much,” he said of the storm, “and now it’s looking like it could be a very big one, so we’re prepared, and good luck.”
• Gas, generators and other emergency supplies were reported sold out in many places, The Tallahassee Democrat reported.
Florida’s governor warns of a ‘monstrous storm’
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida pleaded with residents on Tuesday to heed evacuation orders and to prepare for a storm that he warned “could bring total devastation to parts of our state.”
“Hurricane Michael is a monstrous storm, and the forecast keeps getting more dangerous,” Mr. Scott said during an appearance at the state’s emergency operations center in Tallahassee, the Florida capital.
By Tuesday morning, a handful of counties had issued evacuation orders that were often targeted at visitors or people who live in mobile homes or low-lying areas. “If we need to have evacuations, local communities need to issue the orders now,” Mr. Scott said. “We cannot afford to wait.”
Mr. Scott, a Republican who is on the ballot next month for a United States Senate seat, has declared a state of emergency in 35 counties and deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard. He said he believed people were taking the storm “seriously,” but he also seemed to suggest that some local officials, familiar with the furies of triple-digit wind speeds and torrential rains, were perhaps not sufficiently fearful of Hurricane Michael’s perils.
“I think a lot of people have been through 110-mile-an-hour winds, they’ve been through 12 inches of rain,” he said. “I think what’s different about this storm that really concerns me is the storm surge.”
Weather forecasters, who have said storm surge could reach 12 feet in some areas, have issued a storm surge warning for the stretch between the border of Okaloosa and Walton Counties to the Anclote River. A storm surge watch is in effect on both sides of the warning area: from the Okaloosa and Walton county line westward to Florida’s border with Alabama, and from the Anclote to Anna Maria Island.
On Tuesday, Mr. Scott offered an admonition to residents considering whether to flee, and he said that time was running short.
“If you’re on the fence, don’t think about it,” he said. “Do it.”
Storm could hit ‘an incredibly vulnerable spot’
In many ways, climate change has made hurricanes worse: A rise in sea level is causing higher storm surges, and warmer air is leading to rainier storms.
With Hurricane Michael, local geography also has a role to play in the storm’s impact.
If the predictions of its path hold, the hurricane will be the first to hit this area since Hurricane Hermine in 2016, said Jamie Rhome, a storm surge specialist at the National Hurricane Center. That storm was a Category 1. Hurricane Michael is expected to strike land as a Category 3, a major storm with wind speeds of 111 to 129 m.p.h. That’s enough to uproot trees and tear off roof decking.
Wind, while a source of destruction in storms, is not the only threat. Surge can devastate coastal communities, and the rain dumped by storms can cause flooding far inland. Mr. Rhome noted that while this hurricane’s path was still not certain, its probable impact at the bend of Florida on the way into the Panhandle could be very destructive. “It’s an incredibly vulnerable spot,” he said. “Regardless of whether the track moves a little to the left or the right, or wobbles,” he said, “it’s going to be a bad storm surge event for somebody.”
[Here’s our guide to how hurricanes are classified and why a change in category doesn’t tell the whole story.]
Rick Luettich, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina, said that the area was especially susceptible to a large storm surge because of its “funnel-shaped geometry and broad, shallow continental shelf.”
If there is good news, he said it’s that the area of possible impact “is not as densely populated as other parts of the Gulf Coast, and therefore the human consequences of such a large surge should be less severe than if it hit further west on the Florida Panhandle or further east,” in say, Tampa.
[Does it seem as if severe storms keep damaging the same areas, and those areas are simply built up again? Part of that is the way disaster funding works. Read about it here.]
States throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic are also getting ready
Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia on Tuesday declared an emergency for 92 of his state’s 159 counties, following Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, who issued an emergency declaration on Monday.
The storm is expected to cross Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday, and then move offshore into the Atlantic on Friday morning. By the time it does, it will have swept over parts of the Carolinas that were deluged when Hurricane Florence, a Category 1 storm, struck last month.
“Because of the damage caused by Hurricane Florence and the fact that there’s still some standing water in places, we have to be that much more alert about the damage that Hurricane Michael could do,” Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference on Tuesday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina’s capital.
“We know we have to be ready, and hurricane-weary North Carolinians cannot let their guard down just because we’re fatigued with Hurricane Florence.”
Mr. Trump also warned residents in areas to the north to be on alert.
Florida is extending the voter registration deadline in some places
Election offices that are closed on Tuesday because of the hurricane will be able to accept paper voter registration applications on the day they reopen, whenever that might be, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said in a memo on Monday night.
The close of voter registration had been scheduled for Tuesday, four weeks before Election Day in a state with some of the country’s marquee races, including contests for governor and a United States Senate seat.
But Mr. Detzner, a Republican who faced Democratic pressure to extend the deadline, effectively waived the deadline, writing that his decision would “ensure that each Supervisor of Elections Office has the same amount of days to register voters at their offices.”
The extension will not apply in all 35 counties for which Governor Scott declared a state of emergency. Election offices in some of those counties, like Alachua, which includes Gainesville, and Hillsborough, which includes Tampa, were expected to be open for business on Tuesday morning.
The deadline for online voter registration — 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday — was unchanged.
Alan Blinder and John Schwartz contributed reporting.
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/hurricane-michael.html |
Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle, in 2018-10-09 16:42:21
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yvesdot · 5 months ago
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Actually, to expand on the similarities between The Locked Tomb and KAY RAINIER-- I suspect a lot of people writing women who are human will spot similarities between their work and The Locked Tomb because women who are human are few and far between, even in queer traditional publishing.
(If you've missed my rants: women far more rarely get real emotion, real complexity, real conflict and aggression in their tradpub relationships. This is largely the domain of m/m, while traditionally published sapphic writing is far too often merely about drinking tea at the inn or friends-to-loversing over the high school summer.)
In particular, a lot of archetypes given to men are not allowed for women. e.g., The Fandom Ghost, whom you might instantly recognize:
...this crowdsourced tight-lipped furious perfectionist with his neat clothes and his scowling defensiveness and his biting sarcasm and his embarrassed desire to have a dude who is both sweaty and emotional take him apart.
It's a role usually reserved for men, because when a woman does any of this, we are quickly reminded it actually makes her a frigid bitch who needs to be taught a lesson (as opposed to the male version, who usually just needs to rest). It is therefore unsurprising that both Tamsyn Muir and I, as queer people who care remotely about women, happened to notice this lack and do something about it (Harrow, Kay). I pulled explicitly, as I often do, from my yaoi-but-make-it-women toolbox, and I wouldn't be surprised if Muir was similarly influenced by "what if mantrope but it's girl instead." Thus we wind up with exceptionally similar characters, utterly by accident, nonetheless with enough differences to both (hopefully) feel unique. Writing is excellent fun.
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yvesdot · 2 years ago
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Hello Atlas! You might be interested in my work-in-progress THE ONE AND ONLY UNIVERSE OF KAY RAINIER, which features both steamy scenes and some possibly familiar names... I also have the erotica-specific blog @yvesdotafterdark, which currently hosts one butch4weird novelette, Long Line. If you figure out where to go for the NSFW/NSFT side of Tumblr, let me know! I've just been searching in "nsfw writeblr" tags and hoping for the best.
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Hi! My name's Atlas, I'm 30, and I use they/them pronouns!
I'm a published author who writes spicy/steamy/kinky queer stuff involving a variety of genders and sexualities... and usually demons and vampires or whatever
I have a website if you want to learn more about my writing! You can also sign up for my newsletter and get a free preview of my MMM paranormal steamy romance Between Two Worlds!
I'm looking to meet other (ideally queer) authors of (definitely queer) adult stuff and share more about my writing on here :)) Open to tag games and stuff!
I just remade and am pretty new to figuring this stuff out so let me know if there are particular tags I should use/look at for 18+ writing!
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magicwebsitesnet · 6 years ago
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Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle
Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle http://www.nature-business.com/nature-hurricane-michael-live-updates-category-2-storm-bears-down-on-florida-panhandle/
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Hurricane Michael was upgraded to a Category 2 storm as it barreled toward the Gulf Coast. It could hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane.CreditCreditNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Hurricane Michael strengthened into a Category 2 storm on Tuesday as it took clearer aim at the Florida Panhandle, which was bracing for a major hurricane to make landfall on Wednesday.
The hurricane, poised to become the strongest tropical system to make landfall in the mainland United States so far this year, has sustained winds of 110 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday morning. The storm’s winds are expected to increase, and Michael is on track to become a Category 3 storm later in the day.
Governors in at least three states have declared emergencies, and the local authorities are urging people to evacuate or to fortify their homes ahead of the storm.
Here are the latest developments:
• As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving north-northwest at 12 m.p.h. in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Click on the map below to see the storm’s projected path.
• A hurricane warning was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River in Florida. A hurricane watch was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Mississippi-Alabama border.
• Hurricane Michael could make landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday anywhere from Destin, Fla., to Apalachee Bay, the National Hurricane Center said. It was projected then to veer northeast — through Georgia and the Carolinas — before heading into the Atlantic on Thursday night.
• President Trump on Monday said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was in full preparation mode. “It looked a couple of days ago like it was not going to be much,” he said of the storm, “and now it’s looking like it could be a very big one, so we’re prepared, and good luck.”
• Gas, generators and other emergency supplies were reported sold out in many places, The Tallahassee Democrat reported.
Florida’s governor warns of a ‘monstrous storm’
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida pleaded with residents on Tuesday to heed evacuation orders and to prepare for a storm that he warned “could bring total devastation to parts of our state.”
“Hurricane Michael is a monstrous storm, and the forecast keeps getting more dangerous,” Mr. Scott said during an appearance at the state’s emergency operations center in Tallahassee, the Florida capital.
By Tuesday morning, a handful of counties had issued evacuation orders that were often targeted at visitors or people who live in mobile homes or low-lying areas. “If we need to have evacuations, local communities need to issue the orders now,” Mr. Scott said. “We cannot afford to wait.”
Mr. Scott, a Republican who is on the ballot next month for a United States Senate seat, has declared a state of emergency in 35 counties and deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard. He said he believed people were taking the storm “seriously,” but he also seemed to suggest that some local officials, familiar with the furies of triple-digit wind speeds and torrential rains, were perhaps not sufficiently fearful of Hurricane Michael’s perils.
“I think a lot of people have been through 110-mile-an-hour winds, they’ve been through 12 inches of rain,” he said. “I think what’s different about this storm that really concerns me is the storm surge.”
Weather forecasters, who have said storm surge could reach 12 feet in some areas, have issued a storm surge warning for the stretch between the border of Okaloosa and Walton Counties to the Anclote River. A storm surge watch is in effect on both sides of the warning area: from the Okaloosa and Walton county line westward to Florida’s border with Alabama, and from the Anclote to Anna Maria Island.
On Tuesday, Mr. Scott offered an admonition to residents considering whether to flee, and he said that time was running short.
“If you’re on the fence, don’t think about it,” he said. “Do it.”
Storm could hit ‘an incredibly vulnerable spot’
In many ways, climate change has made hurricanes worse: A rise in sea level is causing higher storm surges, and warmer air is leading to rainier storms.
With Hurricane Michael, local geography also has a role to play in the storm’s impact.
If the predictions of its path hold, the hurricane will be the first to hit this area since Hurricane Hermine in 2016, said Jamie Rhome, a storm surge specialist at the National Hurricane Center. That storm was a Category 1. Hurricane Michael is expected to strike land as a Category 3, a major storm with wind speeds of 111 to 129 m.p.h. That’s enough to uproot trees and tear off roof decking.
Wind, while a source of destruction in storms, is not the only threat. Surge can devastate coastal communities, and the rain dumped by storms can cause flooding far inland. Mr. Rhome noted that while this hurricane’s path was still not certain, its probable impact at the bend of Florida on the way into the Panhandle could be very destructive. “It’s an incredibly vulnerable spot,” he said. “Regardless of whether the track moves a little to the left or the right, or wobbles,” he said, “it’s going to be a bad storm surge event for somebody.”
[Here’s our guide to how hurricanes are classified and why a change in category doesn’t tell the whole story.]
Rick Luettich, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina, said that the area was especially susceptible to a large storm surge because of its “funnel-shaped geometry and broad, shallow continental shelf.”
If there is good news, he said it’s that the area of possible impact “is not as densely populated as other parts of the Gulf Coast, and therefore the human consequences of such a large surge should be less severe than if it hit further west on the Florida Panhandle or further east,” in say, Tampa.
[Does it seem as if severe storms keep damaging the same areas, and those areas are simply built up again? Part of that is the way disaster funding works. Read about it here.]
States throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic are also getting ready
Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia on Tuesday declared an emergency for 92 of his state’s 159 counties, following Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, who issued an emergency declaration on Monday.
The storm is expected to cross Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday, and then move offshore into the Atlantic on Friday morning. By the time it does, it will have swept over parts of the Carolinas that were deluged when Hurricane Florence, a Category 1 storm, struck last month.
“Because of the damage caused by Hurricane Florence and the fact that there’s still some standing water in places, we have to be that much more alert about the damage that Hurricane Michael could do,” Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference on Tuesday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina’s capital.
“We know we have to be ready, and hurricane-weary North Carolinians cannot let their guard down just because we’re fatigued with Hurricane Florence.”
Mr. Trump also warned residents in areas to the north to be on alert.
Florida is extending the voter registration deadline in some places
Election offices that are closed on Tuesday because of the hurricane will be able to accept paper voter registration applications on the day they reopen, whenever that might be, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said in a memo on Monday night.
The close of voter registration had been scheduled for Tuesday, four weeks before Election Day in a state with some of the country’s marquee races, including contests for governor and a United States Senate seat.
But Mr. Detzner, a Republican who faced Democratic pressure to extend the deadline, effectively waived the deadline, writing that his decision would “ensure that each Supervisor of Elections Office has the same amount of days to register voters at their offices.”
The extension will not apply in all 35 counties for which Governor Scott declared a state of emergency. Election offices in some of those counties, like Alachua, which includes Gainesville, and Hillsborough, which includes Tampa, were expected to be open for business on Tuesday morning.
The deadline for online voter registration — 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday — was unchanged.
Alan Blinder and John Schwartz contributed reporting.
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/hurricane-michael.html |
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Hurricane Michael was upgraded to a Category 2 storm as it barreled toward the Gulf Coast. It could hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane.CreditCreditNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Hurricane Michael strengthened into a Category 2 storm on Tuesday as it took clearer aim at the Florida Panhandle, which was bracing for a major hurricane to make landfall on Wednesday.
The hurricane, poised to become the strongest tropical system to make landfall in the mainland United States so far this year, has sustained winds of 110 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday morning. The storm’s winds are expected to increase, and Michael is on track to become a Category 3 storm later in the day.
Governors in at least three states have declared emergencies, and the local authorities are urging people to evacuate or to fortify their homes ahead of the storm.
Here are the latest developments:
• As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving north-northwest at 12 m.p.h. in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Click on the map below to see the storm’s projected path.
• A hurricane warning was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River in Florida. A hurricane watch was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Mississippi-Alabama border.
• Hurricane Michael could make landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday anywhere from Destin, Fla., to Apalachee Bay, the National Hurricane Center said. It was projected then to veer northeast — through Georgia and the Carolinas — before heading into the Atlantic on Thursday night.
• President Trump on Monday said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was in full preparation mode. “It looked a couple of days ago like it was not going to be much,” he said of the storm, “and now it’s looking like it could be a very big one, so we’re prepared, and good luck.”
• Gas, generators and other emergency supplies were reported sold out in many places, The Tallahassee Democrat reported.
Florida’s governor warns of a ‘monstrous storm’
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida pleaded with residents on Tuesday to heed evacuation orders and to prepare for a storm that he warned “could bring total devastation to parts of our state.”
“Hurricane Michael is a monstrous storm, and the forecast keeps getting more dangerous,” Mr. Scott said during an appearance at the state’s emergency operations center in Tallahassee, the Florida capital.
By Tuesday morning, a handful of counties had issued evacuation orders that were often targeted at visitors or people who live in mobile homes or low-lying areas. “If we need to have evacuations, local communities need to issue the orders now,” Mr. Scott said. “We cannot afford to wait.”
Mr. Scott, a Republican who is on the ballot next month for a United States Senate seat, has declared a state of emergency in 35 counties and deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard. He said he believed people were taking the storm “seriously,” but he also seemed to suggest that some local officials, familiar with the furies of triple-digit wind speeds and torrential rains, were perhaps not sufficiently fearful of Hurricane Michael’s perils.
“I think a lot of people have been through 110-mile-an-hour winds, they’ve been through 12 inches of rain,” he said. “I think what’s different about this storm that really concerns me is the storm surge.”
Weather forecasters, who have said storm surge could reach 12 feet in some areas, have issued a storm surge warning for the stretch between the border of Okaloosa and Walton Counties to the Anclote River. A storm surge watch is in effect on both sides of the warning area: from the Okaloosa and Walton county line westward to Florida’s border with Alabama, and from the Anclote to Anna Maria Island.
On Tuesday, Mr. Scott offered an admonition to residents considering whether to flee, and he said that time was running short.
“If you’re on the fence, don’t think about it,” he said. “Do it.”
Storm could hit ‘an incredibly vulnerable spot’
In many ways, climate change has made hurricanes worse: A rise in sea level is causing higher storm surges, and warmer air is leading to rainier storms.
With Hurricane Michael, local geography also has a role to play in the storm’s impact.
If the predictions of its path hold, the hurricane will be the first to hit this area since Hurricane Hermine in 2016, said Jamie Rhome, a storm surge specialist at the National Hurricane Center. That storm was a Category 1. Hurricane Michael is expected to strike land as a Category 3, a major storm with wind speeds of 111 to 129 m.p.h. That’s enough to uproot trees and tear off roof decking.
Wind, while a source of destruction in storms, is not the only threat. Surge can devastate coastal communities, and the rain dumped by storms can cause flooding far inland. Mr. Rhome noted that while this hurricane’s path was still not certain, its probable impact at the bend of Florida on the way into the Panhandle could be very destructive. “It’s an incredibly vulnerable spot,” he said. “Regardless of whether the track moves a little to the left or the right, or wobbles,” he said, “it’s going to be a bad storm surge event for somebody.”
[Here’s our guide to how hurricanes are classified and why a change in category doesn’t tell the whole story.]
Rick Luettich, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina, said that the area was especially susceptible to a large storm surge because of its “funnel-shaped geometry and broad, shallow continental shelf.”
If there is good news, he said it’s that the area of possible impact “is not as densely populated as other parts of the Gulf Coast, and therefore the human consequences of such a large surge should be less severe than if it hit further west on the Florida Panhandle or further east,” in say, Tampa.
[Does it seem as if severe storms keep damaging the same areas, and those areas are simply built up again? Part of that is the way disaster funding works. Read about it here.]
States throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic are also getting ready
Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia on Tuesday declared an emergency for 92 of his state’s 159 counties, following Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, who issued an emergency declaration on Monday.
The storm is expected to cross Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday, and then move offshore into the Atlantic on Friday morning. By the time it does, it will have swept over parts of the Carolinas that were deluged when Hurricane Florence, a Category 1 storm, struck last month.
“Because of the damage caused by Hurricane Florence and the fact that there’s still some standing water in places, we have to be that much more alert about the damage that Hurricane Michael could do,” Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference on Tuesday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina’s capital.
“We know we have to be ready, and hurricane-weary North Carolinians cannot let their guard down just because we’re fatigued with Hurricane Florence.”
Mr. Trump also warned residents in areas to the north to be on alert.
Florida is extending the voter registration deadline in some places
Election offices that are closed on Tuesday because of the hurricane will be able to accept paper voter registration applications on the day they reopen, whenever that might be, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said in a memo on Monday night.
The close of voter registration had been scheduled for Tuesday, four weeks before Election Day in a state with some of the country’s marquee races, including contests for governor and a United States Senate seat.
But Mr. Detzner, a Republican who faced Democratic pressure to extend the deadline, effectively waived the deadline, writing that his decision would “ensure that each Supervisor of Elections Office has the same amount of days to register voters at their offices.”
The extension will not apply in all 35 counties for which Governor Scott declared a state of emergency. Election offices in some of those counties, like Alachua, which includes Gainesville, and Hillsborough, which includes Tampa, were expected to be open for business on Tuesday morning.
The deadline for online voter registration — 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday — was unchanged.
Alan Blinder and John Schwartz contributed reporting.
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/hurricane-michael.html |
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Hurricane Michael was upgraded to a Category 2 storm as it barreled toward the Gulf Coast. It could hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane.CreditCreditNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Hurricane Michael strengthened into a Category 2 storm on Tuesday as it took clearer aim at the Florida Panhandle, which was bracing for a major hurricane to make landfall on Wednesday.
The hurricane, poised to become the strongest tropical system to make landfall in the mainland United States so far this year, has sustained winds of 110 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday morning. The storm’s winds are expected to increase, and Michael is on track to become a Category 3 storm later in the day.
Governors in at least three states have declared emergencies, and the local authorities are urging people to evacuate or to fortify their homes ahead of the storm.
Here are the latest developments:
• As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving north-northwest at 12 m.p.h. in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Click on the map below to see the storm’s projected path.
• A hurricane warning was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River in Florida. A hurricane watch was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Mississippi-Alabama border.
• Hurricane Michael could make landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday anywhere from Destin, Fla., to Apalachee Bay, the National Hurricane Center said. It was projected then to veer northeast — through Georgia and the Carolinas — before heading into the Atlantic on Thursday night.
• President Trump on Monday said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was in full preparation mode. “It looked a couple of days ago like it was not going to be much,” he said of the storm, “and now it’s looking like it could be a very big one, so we’re prepared, and good luck.”
• Gas, generators and other emergency supplies were reported sold out in many places, The Tallahassee Democrat reported.
Florida’s governor warns of a ‘monstrous storm’
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida pleaded with residents on Tuesday to heed evacuation orders and to prepare for a storm that he warned “could bring total devastation to parts of our state.”
“Hurricane Michael is a monstrous storm, and the forecast keeps getting more dangerous,” Mr. Scott said during an appearance at the state’s emergency operations center in Tallahassee, the Florida capital.
By Tuesday morning, a handful of counties had issued evacuation orders that were often targeted at visitors or people who live in mobile homes or low-lying areas. “If we need to have evacuations, local communities need to issue the orders now,” Mr. Scott said. “We cannot afford to wait.”
Mr. Scott, a Republican who is on the ballot next month for a United States Senate seat, has declared a state of emergency in 35 counties and deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard. He said he believed people were taking the storm “seriously,” but he also seemed to suggest that some local officials, familiar with the furies of triple-digit wind speeds and torrential rains, were perhaps not sufficiently fearful of Hurricane Michael’s perils.
“I think a lot of people have been through 110-mile-an-hour winds, they’ve been through 12 inches of rain,” he said. “I think what’s different about this storm that really concerns me is the storm surge.”
Weather forecasters, who have said storm surge could reach 12 feet in some areas, have issued a storm surge warning for the stretch between the border of Okaloosa and Walton Counties to the Anclote River. A storm surge watch is in effect on both sides of the warning area: from the Okaloosa and Walton county line westward to Florida’s border with Alabama, and from the Anclote to Anna Maria Island.
On Tuesday, Mr. Scott offered an admonition to residents considering whether to flee, and he said that time was running short.
“If you’re on the fence, don’t think about it,” he said. “Do it.”
Storm could hit ‘an incredibly vulnerable spot’
In many ways, climate change has made hurricanes worse: A rise in sea level is causing higher storm surges, and warmer air is leading to rainier storms.
With Hurricane Michael, local geography also has a role to play in the storm’s impact.
If the predictions of its path hold, the hurricane will be the first to hit this area since Hurricane Hermine in 2016, said Jamie Rhome, a storm surge specialist at the National Hurricane Center. That storm was a Category 1. Hurricane Michael is expected to strike land as a Category 3, a major storm with wind speeds of 111 to 129 m.p.h. That’s enough to uproot trees and tear off roof decking.
Wind, while a source of destruction in storms, is not the only threat. Surge can devastate coastal communities, and the rain dumped by storms can cause flooding far inland. Mr. Rhome noted that while this hurricane’s path was still not certain, its probable impact at the bend of Florida on the way into the Panhandle could be very destructive. “It’s an incredibly vulnerable spot,” he said. “Regardless of whether the track moves a little to the left or the right, or wobbles,” he said, “it’s going to be a bad storm surge event for somebody.”
[Here’s our guide to how hurricanes are classified and why a change in category doesn’t tell the whole story.]
Rick Luettich, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina, said that the area was especially susceptible to a large storm surge because of its “funnel-shaped geometry and broad, shallow continental shelf.”
If there is good news, he said it’s that the area of possible impact “is not as densely populated as other parts of the Gulf Coast, and therefore the human consequences of such a large surge should be less severe than if it hit further west on the Florida Panhandle or further east,” in say, Tampa.
[Does it seem as if severe storms keep damaging the same areas, and those areas are simply built up again? Part of that is the way disaster funding works. Read about it here.]
States throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic are also getting ready
Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia on Tuesday declared an emergency for 92 of his state’s 159 counties, following Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, who issued an emergency declaration on Monday.
The storm is expected to cross Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday, and then move offshore into the Atlantic on Friday morning. By the time it does, it will have swept over parts of the Carolinas that were deluged when Hurricane Florence, a Category 1 storm, struck last month.
“Because of the damage caused by Hurricane Florence and the fact that there’s still some standing water in places, we have to be that much more alert about the damage that Hurricane Michael could do,” Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference on Tuesday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina’s capital.
“We know we have to be ready, and hurricane-weary North Carolinians cannot let their guard down just because we’re fatigued with Hurricane Florence.”
Mr. Trump also warned residents in areas to the north to be on alert.
Florida is extending the voter registration deadline in some places
Election offices that are closed on Tuesday because of the hurricane will be able to accept paper voter registration applications on the day they reopen, whenever that might be, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said in a memo on Monday night.
The close of voter registration had been scheduled for Tuesday, four weeks before Election Day in a state with some of the country’s marquee races, including contests for governor and a United States Senate seat.
But Mr. Detzner, a Republican who faced Democratic pressure to extend the deadline, effectively waived the deadline, writing that his decision would “ensure that each Supervisor of Elections Office has the same amount of days to register voters at their offices.”
The extension will not apply in all 35 counties for which Governor Scott declared a state of emergency. Election offices in some of those counties, like Alachua, which includes Gainesville, and Hillsborough, which includes Tampa, were expected to be open for business on Tuesday morning.
The deadline for online voter registration — 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday — was unchanged.
Alan Blinder and John Schwartz contributed reporting.
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/hurricane-michael.html |
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I have been trying to formulate words regarding this very nearly all day and every single time I have failed to get anywhere near how good this is. What do I even say. For those who don’t know, Nina opened art requests and I requested Kay and Atlas from THE ONE AND ONLY KAY RAINIER, and oh my God has Nina delivered. Now back to my praise.
I’m still unbelievably warmed by the fact that you did it at all, and not only did you do a free request for someone, you did three separate pieces. And your style is so beautiful and it works so well here, and every single thing is so good. I genuinely cannot thank you enough; I will be printing all of these out and hanging them on my wall so that I can continue to look at them intermittently and smile.
The first piece is so wonderful. They’re in a bar together. This makes me happy partially just because it’s not something they get to do in canon, and I like the idea of them meeting in a more normal way than they do. And you can really feel the “Atlas regaling Kay with niche poser goth troubles” vibes, and also the “Kay reconsidering just how badly she actually wants to sleep with Atlas” vibes in the expressions and posing. The color scheme. The outfits. The drink on the left. The outfit of the person on the right (a style icon, I presume.) I am thinking about the fact that in canon Atlas does not drink and I have so many ideas about what he might therefore have in his glass because it is undoubtedly worse than alcohol. Oh my goodness I almost forgot to mention Kay’s little curl of hair at the top.
Moving on to the second piece. Look at them. I’m making little squeaking noises again looking at this image. There is something about this image that is an EXACT aesthetic I adore-- so intensely, in fact, that there is actually a scene in the real KAY canon wherein Kay falls asleep on Atlas in a bus. And I recall thinking, most recently two days ago, if only Atlas could have a paired scene where he falls asleep on her but oh well some things are not to be had. Until now. Because this is so beautiful and soft and gentle and it would look exactly like this. Even the background is exactly as I imagine it... oh to be on this bus... Everyone shut up so I can admire Atlas’s fashionable jacket that he definitely did not pay for.
Atlas lipstick print on Kay who is reading. I cannot think about this too long or heart emoji begin pouring like steam from my ears. Her neck. Her mouth. Her nose. The fact that she is a little bit dressed-down, probably in her bedroom, probably being actively ogled by Atlas who is very proud of his handiwork. The book being Kay-colored. The little curl of hair at the back of her neck. I am quickly losing the ability to do anything other than list elements of this image because it is so beautiful.
In general I just really, really love your art style; it’s incredibly unique and lends itself to a fascinating style of shading. I could look at it for hours just moving closer and further away; I love how the colors ‘build up’ in such an intuitive way, giving each piece real depth and physicality. You are so wonderful, thank you so much for the art. 
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& while i am posting things today. some more maxwriting, specifically two mini-fanfictions for yves. @yvesdot​ ’s WIP the one and only universe of kay rainier (would recommend! arguments to lovers! he/him wlw! interdimensional (?) shenanigans!) one of which also features an OC i've mentioned a few times on this blog but done historically very little with.
it’s occurred to me in my moment of posting that neither of these pieces have titles. oh well.
THE FIRST ONE
you ought to send yves. some bingo prompts. anyway, i sent them kay + daemons, and then immediately realized i had ideas and thoughts about that, too. so i wrote my own version. unlike theirs, this is vaguely set in the HDM universe, which is funny because i haven’t read HDM and learned everything i know from waya vivji, a single war and peace fanfiction, and also wikipedia just before i wrote it. the notable context here is that daemons are usually the “opposite sex” of their humans, and if i got that wrong do not tell me because i am embarrassed.
Kay is a precocious child; she is twelve years old when her daemon settles. Chesire is a sleek dark mahogany, a ferruginous hawk with a wickedly curved beak and eyes that glitter like beads. He is also male. This, for the Rainiers, is not done; even the absent Ariel, despite his eccentricities, had a properly gendered daemon. It unsettles Kay in a way she will not place for many years; still, as soon as she registers her disappointment (for it must be disappointment, surely; nothing more), she’s awash in guilt.
“How lovely,” she tells him, stroking his glossy new feathers, keeping her voice low less to keep out her father and more because it is only polite. Cheshire bobs his head and flutters his wings and seems, very slightly, to preen. He must be able to sense her uncertainty, the subdued flatness to her voice, but he is a Rainier as well; the polite thing is to ignore it, and he does.
“How curious,” Father says, stroking Fauntleroy’s velvet ears.
“Not unheard of,” the dormouse says from her seat in his breast pocket. Constantine inclines his head slightly; he does not deign to offer more.
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When the Neighborly enters the house the jackal stalks at his heel, ears pricked at attention, wet black nose gleaming, mouth crooked open in a canine grin. With it comes a distinct smell — not unpleasant so much as it is unbalancing, an earthy scent, filling the foyer as its claws click on the floor. Like his clothes, it is black, head to toe. They aren’t usually. Kay wonders if it’s coincidence, if perhaps he dyes its fur so it will match.
She thinks of it as such — it — because to be frank she is not sure what to make of Atlas, and what to assume about his daemon. During the customary introductions, Cheshire perches atop Kay’s shoulder, and Fauntleroy emerges from her pocket to whisk up to Father’s collar and cling to the fabric to study the Neighborly. He can’t stay quite still. His hands twitch at his sides. He shifts his weight. The jackal paces maddening circles around the room, eyeing the dark walls and the fine wooden furniture, too dignified to lower its head and sniff but not too good to cast judgment without speaking. Every time it passes Kay in its slow inexorable orbit, Cheshire’s claws tighten on her coat.
“It’s a pleasure, Atlas,” Constantine says stiffly, extending a hand to shake with an expression that suggests he’d rather have it removed.
Atlas shakes, grinning easily, a looseness to his motions, and then he tilts his head and says, “Anubis.” In a moment the jackal’s at his side, curling around the backs of his legs to turn its wet smile on Kay’s father. It’s too large; that’s what she decides. How does he take it anywhere? Why hasn’t it learned to behave? Unless this is his goal: to part rooms, to announce his presence as soon as he steps through the threshold.
“Anubis,” she says, the first time she and Atlas are alone. “Like the god?” Atlas and Anubis; it is the sort of half-joke she can appreciate.
Anubis looks up at its name. Atlas looks at it. “I don’t know,” he says. “It was my sister’s idea.” He looks to Cheshire, who has settled near Kay’s inkwell to reorganize her pens. “And this is…”
“Cheshire.”
“Cheshire,” Atlas repeats, piercing glinting as his eyebrow quirks.
“When I was younger, I thought he would be a cat.”
“I thought she’d be a crow. Probably better this way. Crows are poser birds.” Anubis snorts at that, a sound both doggish and human.
“She is… she, then,” Kay says carefully.
“Oh, yeah. Apparently that’s weird.” Atlas leans back in Kay’s chair until the front legs leave the ground.
“Is it,” Kay says.
Atlas’s eyes flit around her face, like he knows what she’s asking; his smirk doesn’t lessen. “Well, women have male daemons, right? Ask Cheshire.”
Kay and Cheshire look at each other. Cheshire fluffs his feathers and says, “This is dull.”
Kay is less certain. She does not smile at Atlas, but some of the edge has smoothed from her voice. “I should like to watch you explain it to my father.”
“If he could take it,” Atlas says. “What’s the mouse’s fucking name again?”
Cheshire steps back and forth, feathers ruffling, until Kay sets a hand out to still him, gentle, comforting. “Fauntleroy.”
“Christ,” Atlas says. “Bless you.” When he catches Kay stiffening, he relents a little, letting the chair clatter back to the floor. “Fits the vibe, I guess.”
“As yours fits you,” says Kay, making it as uncomplimentary as she can.
“Guess my soul’s black,” Atlas says cheerily. He balls up a piece of paper and tosses it to Anubis, who, flopped across the floor, doesn’t move. “Not the weirdest thing about us.”
“Well,” Kay says, “I think it would be rather unfair for me to talk about oddities,” and she takes a small victory in the look they share: not friendship, not fondness, but something like an understanding, reached in the quiet moment before Cheshire hands her another pen and she resumes her work.
THE SECOND ONE
this one’s a bit older but i never posted it until now, at yves.’s urging! i think i was doing... camp nano last year? or something. and couldn’t think of what to write. or maybe i couldn’t focus on my project because i was thinking about my other project, the butch4butch hamlet retelling i still haven’t written. to which yves. said, “write kay x your lesbian hamlet character,” to which i said, “you don’t think i will, but i will,” and i did. so really this is yvesmax crossover fic.
It is annoying, Holden’s habit of dropping by whenever she likes. This can probably be attributed to the fact that Holden, herself, is annoying. Kay can only adjust the items on her desk (pens, mainly) so many times; she is caught up in an aggravating state of waiting but also not waiting, and she does not care for that.
Just as she thinks so, there’s a knock at the front door.
Holden doesn’t ring the doorbell anymore. She did that the first time and Kay came down the stairs a few seconds too late to find Father staring at the creature in his front hall, looking like he didn’t know whether he should be put out or concerned. “I think the earrings got him,” Holden said later, on Kay’s bed, tapping the crosses hanging inverted from her ears. Kay’s opinion was that it was all of her, from the messy post-buzz hair to the propensity for suits to the Doc Martens to the way Holden leans on any available surface.
She opens the door and Holden is leaning against the doorframe. Which looks a little more awkward coupled with whatever she’s carrying under her arm.
“Hi,” she says.
Kay blinks slowly.
“It is late,” she says, spinning on her heel and heading for the stairs. Behind her, she hears the quiet click of Holden closing the door. The grandfather clock in the front hall is ticking toward eleven.
“I never get over how weird this place is.” When she glances back, Holden is peering into the nearest glass cabinet. “Like a little dollhouse.”
“Thank you,” Kay says stiffly. She cannot decide whether she is irritable.
“And this is coming from someone whose parents were devoted to taxidermy.” Holden follows her up the stairs, hands shoved into the pockets of her suit jacket, looking entirely too comfortable here, and Kay decides that she is irritable after all.
“I do not know what you suppose your business is here,” she says. “Especially as it is almost an hour past ten.”
Holden shrugs.
“Do not shrug at me.”
Holden opens her mouth as if to speak, then casts a glance behind her. There’s no one in the darkened hallway; Father is in his office. Still, Holden waits for Kay to shut her bedroom door.
“I know I’m late,” she says, slouching back against it. “Sorry. I lost track of time in the bookstore.”
Kay blinks. “You are late to see me because you went to the bookstore,” she intones.
She says nothing as Holden withdraws the books from under her arm and extends them. “I really wanted to find Carmilla for you,” she says. “Like, the oldest print version I could find.”
It certainly looks old. Kay purses her lips. “I own Carmilla.”
“I know. But, like… it’s vintage.” Holden attempts one-handed jazz hands. “I have a sentence in my notes app from six months ago that just says carmilla but like the old edition.” She shuffles the stack of books. “And then I sat down for — look, I swear I was trying to be timely about it. Trying to be punctual.” She pops the P. “But time isn’t real and I read two chapters of Pride and Prejudice and I don’t know if you own that but it feels like the kind of thing you’d find sexy.” Her smile glitters. “And then — I know The Catcher in the Rye isn’t your thing. But I wrote in this one, so.”
Kay reaches out, very carefully, to take the books. She does own Pride and Prejudice, actually, but she still feels a pang. She flips through The Catcher in the Rye and is met with scrawls of black-ink handwriting, filling up the margins and underlining passages.
“Thank you,” she says, very softly, and moves to set the books on her desk. “You didn’t have to… get me anything.”
“I like knowing that my parents’ money is fueling homosexual agendas,” Holden says pleasantly. When Kay turns around, Holden catches her hand and steps in closer, showing her teeth in a smile. “But I’ll try to be on time from now on.”
“As you should,” Kay says, pulling Holden a few inches closer.
Holden raises a hand to caress Kay’s cheek. “That said,” she says in a low voice, “now that I’ve — what did you say. Now that I’ve fulfilled my business here, I can think of a few things we could do. Unless it’s too late.”
Against her will, Kay smiles.
“I suppose we can extend your stay a little longer,” she says, and their lips meet.
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Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle
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Hurricane Michael was upgraded to a Category 2 storm as it barreled toward the Gulf Coast. It could hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane.CreditCreditNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Hurricane Michael strengthened into a Category 2 storm on Tuesday as it took clearer aim at the Florida Panhandle, which was bracing for a major hurricane to make landfall on Wednesday.
The hurricane, poised to become the strongest tropical system to make landfall in the mainland United States so far this year, has sustained winds of 110 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday morning. The storm’s winds are expected to increase, and Michael is on track to become a Category 3 storm later in the day.
Governors in at least three states have declared emergencies, and the local authorities are urging people to evacuate or to fortify their homes ahead of the storm.
Here are the latest developments:
• As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving north-northwest at 12 m.p.h. in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Click on the map below to see the storm’s projected path.
• A hurricane warning was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River in Florida. A hurricane watch was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Mississippi-Alabama border.
• Hurricane Michael could make landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday anywhere from Destin, Fla., to Apalachee Bay, the National Hurricane Center said. It was projected then to veer northeast — through Georgia and the Carolinas — before heading into the Atlantic on Thursday night.
• President Trump on Monday said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was in full preparation mode. “It looked a couple of days ago like it was not going to be much,” he said of the storm, “and now it’s looking like it could be a very big one, so we’re prepared, and good luck.”
• Gas, generators and other emergency supplies were reported sold out in many places, The Tallahassee Democrat reported.
Florida’s governor warns of a ‘monstrous storm’
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida pleaded with residents on Tuesday to heed evacuation orders and to prepare for a storm that he warned “could bring total devastation to parts of our state.”
“Hurricane Michael is a monstrous storm, and the forecast keeps getting more dangerous,” Mr. Scott said during an appearance at the state’s emergency operations center in Tallahassee, the Florida capital.
By Tuesday morning, a handful of counties had issued evacuation orders that were often targeted at visitors or people who live in mobile homes or low-lying areas. “If we need to have evacuations, local communities need to issue the orders now,” Mr. Scott said. “We cannot afford to wait.”
Mr. Scott, a Republican who is on the ballot next month for a United States Senate seat, has declared a state of emergency in 35 counties and deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard. He said he believed people were taking the storm “seriously,” but he also seemed to suggest that some local officials, familiar with the furies of triple-digit wind speeds and torrential rains, were perhaps not sufficiently fearful of Hurricane Michael’s perils.
“I think a lot of people have been through 110-mile-an-hour winds, they’ve been through 12 inches of rain,” he said. “I think what’s different about this storm that really concerns me is the storm surge.”
Weather forecasters, who have said storm surge could reach 12 feet in some areas, have issued a storm surge warning for the stretch between the border of Okaloosa and Walton Counties to the Anclote River. A storm surge watch is in effect on both sides of the warning area: from the Okaloosa and Walton county line westward to Florida’s border with Alabama, and from the Anclote to Anna Maria Island.
On Tuesday, Mr. Scott offered an admonition to residents considering whether to flee, and he said that time was running short.
“If you’re on the fence, don’t think about it,” he said. “Do it.”
Storm could hit ‘an incredibly vulnerable spot’
In many ways, climate change has made hurricanes worse: A rise in sea level is causing higher storm surges, and warmer air is leading to rainier storms.
With Hurricane Michael, local geography also has a role to play in the storm’s impact.
If the predictions of its path hold, the hurricane will be the first to hit this area since Hurricane Hermine in 2016, said Jamie Rhome, a storm surge specialist at the National Hurricane Center. That storm was a Category 1. Hurricane Michael is expected to strike land as a Category 3, a major storm with wind speeds of 111 to 129 m.p.h. That’s enough to uproot trees and tear off roof decking.
Wind, while a source of destruction in storms, is not the only threat. Surge can devastate coastal communities, and the rain dumped by storms can cause flooding far inland. Mr. Rhome noted that while this hurricane’s path was still not certain, its probable impact at the bend of Florida on the way into the Panhandle could be very destructive. “It’s an incredibly vulnerable spot,” he said. “Regardless of whether the track moves a little to the left or the right, or wobbles,” he said, “it’s going to be a bad storm surge event for somebody.”
[Here’s our guide to how hurricanes are classified and why a change in category doesn’t tell the whole story.]
Rick Luettich, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina, said that the area was especially susceptible to a large storm surge because of its “funnel-shaped geometry and broad, shallow continental shelf.”
If there is good news, he said it’s that the area of possible impact “is not as densely populated as other parts of the Gulf Coast, and therefore the human consequences of such a large surge should be less severe than if it hit further west on the Florida Panhandle or further east,” in say, Tampa.
[Does it seem as if severe storms keep damaging the same areas, and those areas are simply built up again? Part of that is the way disaster funding works. Read about it here.]
States throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic are also getting ready
Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia on Tuesday declared an emergency for 92 of his state’s 159 counties, following Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, who issued an emergency declaration on Monday.
The storm is expected to cross Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday, and then move offshore into the Atlantic on Friday morning. By the time it does, it will have swept over parts of the Carolinas that were deluged when Hurricane Florence, a Category 1 storm, struck last month.
“Because of the damage caused by Hurricane Florence and the fact that there’s still some standing water in places, we have to be that much more alert about the damage that Hurricane Michael could do,” Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference on Tuesday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina’s capital.
“We know we have to be ready, and hurricane-weary North Carolinians cannot let their guard down just because we’re fatigued with Hurricane Florence.”
Mr. Trump also warned residents in areas to the north to be on alert.
Florida is extending the voter registration deadline in some places
Election offices that are closed on Tuesday because of the hurricane will be able to accept paper voter registration applications on the day they reopen, whenever that might be, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said in a memo on Monday night.
The close of voter registration had been scheduled for Tuesday, four weeks before Election Day in a state with some of the country’s marquee races, including contests for governor and a United States Senate seat.
But Mr. Detzner, a Republican who faced Democratic pressure to extend the deadline, effectively waived the deadline, writing that his decision would “ensure that each Supervisor of Elections Office has the same amount of days to register voters at their offices.”
The extension will not apply in all 35 counties for which Governor Scott declared a state of emergency. Election offices in some of those counties, like Alachua, which includes Gainesville, and Hillsborough, which includes Tampa, were expected to be open for business on Tuesday morning.
The deadline for online voter registration — 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday — was unchanged.
Alan Blinder and John Schwartz contributed reporting.
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Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle
Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle http://www.nature-business.com/nature-hurricane-michael-live-updates-category-2-storm-bears-down-on-florida-panhandle/
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Hurricane Michael was upgraded to a Category 2 storm as it barreled toward the Gulf Coast. It could hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane.CreditCreditNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Hurricane Michael strengthened into a Category 2 storm on Tuesday as it took clearer aim at the Florida Panhandle, which was bracing for a major hurricane to make landfall on Wednesday.
The hurricane, poised to become the strongest tropical system to make landfall in the mainland United States so far this year, has sustained winds of 110 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday morning. The storm’s winds are expected to increase, and Michael is on track to become a Category 3 storm later in the day.
Governors in at least three states have declared emergencies, and the local authorities are urging people to evacuate or to fortify their homes ahead of the storm.
Here are the latest developments:
• As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving north-northwest at 12 m.p.h. in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Click on the map below to see the storm’s projected path.
• A hurricane warning was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River in Florida. A hurricane watch was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Mississippi-Alabama border.
• Hurricane Michael could make landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday anywhere from Destin, Fla., to Apalachee Bay, the National Hurricane Center said. It was projected then to veer northeast — through Georgia and the Carolinas — before heading into the Atlantic on Thursday night.
• President Trump on Monday said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was in full preparation mode. “It looked a couple of days ago like it was not going to be much,” he said of the storm, “and now it’s looking like it could be a very big one, so we’re prepared, and good luck.”
• Gas, generators and other emergency supplies were reported sold out in many places, The Tallahassee Democrat reported.
Florida’s governor warns of a ‘monstrous storm’
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida pleaded with residents on Tuesday to heed evacuation orders and to prepare for a storm that he warned “could bring total devastation to parts of our state.”
“Hurricane Michael is a monstrous storm, and the forecast keeps getting more dangerous,” Mr. Scott said during an appearance at the state’s emergency operations center in Tallahassee, the Florida capital.
By Tuesday morning, a handful of counties had issued evacuation orders that were often targeted at visitors or people who live in mobile homes or low-lying areas. “If we need to have evacuations, local communities need to issue the orders now,” Mr. Scott said. “We cannot afford to wait.”
Mr. Scott, a Republican who is on the ballot next month for a United States Senate seat, has declared a state of emergency in 35 counties and deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard. He said he believed people were taking the storm “seriously,” but he also seemed to suggest that some local officials, familiar with the furies of triple-digit wind speeds and torrential rains, were perhaps not sufficiently fearful of Hurricane Michael’s perils.
“I think a lot of people have been through 110-mile-an-hour winds, they’ve been through 12 inches of rain,” he said. “I think what’s different about this storm that really concerns me is the storm surge.”
Weather forecasters, who have said storm surge could reach 12 feet in some areas, have issued a storm surge warning for the stretch between the border of Okaloosa and Walton Counties to the Anclote River. A storm surge watch is in effect on both sides of the warning area: from the Okaloosa and Walton county line westward to Florida’s border with Alabama, and from the Anclote to Anna Maria Island.
On Tuesday, Mr. Scott offered an admonition to residents considering whether to flee, and he said that time was running short.
“If you’re on the fence, don’t think about it,” he said. “Do it.”
Storm could hit ‘an incredibly vulnerable spot’
In many ways, climate change has made hurricanes worse: A rise in sea level is causing higher storm surges, and warmer air is leading to rainier storms.
With Hurricane Michael, local geography also has a role to play in the storm’s impact.
If the predictions of its path hold, the hurricane will be the first to hit this area since Hurricane Hermine in 2016, said Jamie Rhome, a storm surge specialist at the National Hurricane Center. That storm was a Category 1. Hurricane Michael is expected to strike land as a Category 3, a major storm with wind speeds of 111 to 129 m.p.h. That’s enough to uproot trees and tear off roof decking.
Wind, while a source of destruction in storms, is not the only threat. Surge can devastate coastal communities, and the rain dumped by storms can cause flooding far inland. Mr. Rhome noted that while this hurricane’s path was still not certain, its probable impact at the bend of Florida on the way into the Panhandle could be very destructive. “It’s an incredibly vulnerable spot,” he said. “Regardless of whether the track moves a little to the left or the right, or wobbles,” he said, “it’s going to be a bad storm surge event for somebody.”
[Here’s our guide to how hurricanes are classified and why a change in category doesn’t tell the whole story.]
Rick Luettich, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina, said that the area was especially susceptible to a large storm surge because of its “funnel-shaped geometry and broad, shallow continental shelf.”
If there is good news, he said it’s that the area of possible impact “is not as densely populated as other parts of the Gulf Coast, and therefore the human consequences of such a large surge should be less severe than if it hit further west on the Florida Panhandle or further east,” in say, Tampa.
[Does it seem as if severe storms keep damaging the same areas, and those areas are simply built up again? Part of that is the way disaster funding works. Read about it here.]
States throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic are also getting ready
Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia on Tuesday declared an emergency for 92 of his state’s 159 counties, following Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, who issued an emergency declaration on Monday.
The storm is expected to cross Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday, and then move offshore into the Atlantic on Friday morning. By the time it does, it will have swept over parts of the Carolinas that were deluged when Hurricane Florence, a Category 1 storm, struck last month.
“Because of the damage caused by Hurricane Florence and the fact that there’s still some standing water in places, we have to be that much more alert about the damage that Hurricane Michael could do,” Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference on Tuesday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina’s capital.
“We know we have to be ready, and hurricane-weary North Carolinians cannot let their guard down just because we’re fatigued with Hurricane Florence.”
Mr. Trump also warned residents in areas to the north to be on alert.
Florida is extending the voter registration deadline in some places
Election offices that are closed on Tuesday because of the hurricane will be able to accept paper voter registration applications on the day they reopen, whenever that might be, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said in a memo on Monday night.
The close of voter registration had been scheduled for Tuesday, four weeks before Election Day in a state with some of the country’s marquee races, including contests for governor and a United States Senate seat.
But Mr. Detzner, a Republican who faced Democratic pressure to extend the deadline, effectively waived the deadline, writing that his decision would “ensure that each Supervisor of Elections Office has the same amount of days to register voters at their offices.”
The extension will not apply in all 35 counties for which Governor Scott declared a state of emergency. Election offices in some of those counties, like Alachua, which includes Gainesville, and Hillsborough, which includes Tampa, were expected to be open for business on Tuesday morning.
The deadline for online voter registration — 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday — was unchanged.
Alan Blinder and John Schwartz contributed reporting.
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/hurricane-michael.html |
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Oh I just... never reblogged this?? I’m putting it in my queue so it’ll be even longer. Anyway I just found this in my tabs and it makes me... so happy... Atlas’s fuzz. Kay’s eyebrows. Constantine’s triangular haircut. Yes very good.
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i am begging all of you to please please go read @yvesdot’s KAY RAINIER page... wlw... dimensional traveling... sexy emo aesthetics.... 🥺. here is some atlas (singehandedly invented nd and he/him wlw rights, no biggie)
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Nature Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 2 Storm Bears Down on Florida Panhandle
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Hurricane Michael was upgraded to a Category 2 storm as it barreled toward the Gulf Coast. It could hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane.CreditCreditNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Hurricane Michael strengthened into a Category 2 storm on Tuesday as it took clearer aim at the Florida Panhandle, which was bracing for a major hurricane to make landfall on Wednesday.
The hurricane, poised to become the strongest tropical system to make landfall in the mainland United States so far this year, has sustained winds of 110 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday morning. The storm’s winds are expected to increase, and Michael is on track to become a Category 3 storm later in the day.
Governors in at least three states have declared emergencies, and the local authorities are urging people to evacuate or to fortify their homes ahead of the storm.
Here are the latest developments:
• As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving north-northwest at 12 m.p.h. in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Click on the map below to see the storm’s projected path.
• A hurricane warning was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River in Florida. A hurricane watch was in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Mississippi-Alabama border.
• Hurricane Michael could make landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday anywhere from Destin, Fla., to Apalachee Bay, the National Hurricane Center said. It was projected then to veer northeast — through Georgia and the Carolinas — before heading into the Atlantic on Thursday night.
• President Trump on Monday said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was in full preparation mode. “It looked a couple of days ago like it was not going to be much,” he said of the storm, “and now it’s looking like it could be a very big one, so we’re prepared, and good luck.”
• Gas, generators and other emergency supplies were reported sold out in many places, The Tallahassee Democrat reported.
Florida’s governor warns of a ‘monstrous storm’
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida pleaded with residents on Tuesday to heed evacuation orders and to prepare for a storm that he warned “could bring total devastation to parts of our state.”
“Hurricane Michael is a monstrous storm, and the forecast keeps getting more dangerous,” Mr. Scott said during an appearance at the state’s emergency operations center in Tallahassee, the Florida capital.
By Tuesday morning, a handful of counties had issued evacuation orders that were often targeted at visitors or people who live in mobile homes or low-lying areas. “If we need to have evacuations, local communities need to issue the orders now,” Mr. Scott said. “We cannot afford to wait.”
Mr. Scott, a Republican who is on the ballot next month for a United States Senate seat, has declared a state of emergency in 35 counties and deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard. He said he believed people were taking the storm “seriously,” but he also seemed to suggest that some local officials, familiar with the furies of triple-digit wind speeds and torrential rains, were perhaps not sufficiently fearful of Hurricane Michael’s perils.
“I think a lot of people have been through 110-mile-an-hour winds, they’ve been through 12 inches of rain,” he said. “I think what’s different about this storm that really concerns me is the storm surge.”
Weather forecasters, who have said storm surge could reach 12 feet in some areas, have issued a storm surge warning for the stretch between the border of Okaloosa and Walton Counties to the Anclote River. A storm surge watch is in effect on both sides of the warning area: from the Okaloosa and Walton county line westward to Florida’s border with Alabama, and from the Anclote to Anna Maria Island.
On Tuesday, Mr. Scott offered an admonition to residents considering whether to flee, and he said that time was running short.
“If you’re on the fence, don’t think about it,” he said. “Do it.”
Storm could hit ‘an incredibly vulnerable spot’
In many ways, climate change has made hurricanes worse: A rise in sea level is causing higher storm surges, and warmer air is leading to rainier storms.
With Hurricane Michael, local geography also has a role to play in the storm’s impact.
If the predictions of its path hold, the hurricane will be the first to hit this area since Hurricane Hermine in 2016, said Jamie Rhome, a storm surge specialist at the National Hurricane Center. That storm was a Category 1. Hurricane Michael is expected to strike land as a Category 3, a major storm with wind speeds of 111 to 129 m.p.h. That’s enough to uproot trees and tear off roof decking.
Wind, while a source of destruction in storms, is not the only threat. Surge can devastate coastal communities, and the rain dumped by storms can cause flooding far inland. Mr. Rhome noted that while this hurricane’s path was still not certain, its probable impact at the bend of Florida on the way into the Panhandle could be very destructive. “It’s an incredibly vulnerable spot,” he said. “Regardless of whether the track moves a little to the left or the right, or wobbles,” he said, “it’s going to be a bad storm surge event for somebody.”
[Here’s our guide to how hurricanes are classified and why a change in category doesn’t tell the whole story.]
Rick Luettich, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina, said that the area was especially susceptible to a large storm surge because of its “funnel-shaped geometry and broad, shallow continental shelf.”
If there is good news, he said it’s that the area of possible impact “is not as densely populated as other parts of the Gulf Coast, and therefore the human consequences of such a large surge should be less severe than if it hit further west on the Florida Panhandle or further east,” in say, Tampa.
[Does it seem as if severe storms keep damaging the same areas, and those areas are simply built up again? Part of that is the way disaster funding works. Read about it here.]
States throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic are also getting ready
Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia on Tuesday declared an emergency for 92 of his state’s 159 counties, following Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, who issued an emergency declaration on Monday.
The storm is expected to cross Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday, and then move offshore into the Atlantic on Friday morning. By the time it does, it will have swept over parts of the Carolinas that were deluged when Hurricane Florence, a Category 1 storm, struck last month.
“Because of the damage caused by Hurricane Florence and the fact that there’s still some standing water in places, we have to be that much more alert about the damage that Hurricane Michael could do,” Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference on Tuesday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina’s capital.
“We know we have to be ready, and hurricane-weary North Carolinians cannot let their guard down just because we’re fatigued with Hurricane Florence.”
Mr. Trump also warned residents in areas to the north to be on alert.
Florida is extending the voter registration deadline in some places
Election offices that are closed on Tuesday because of the hurricane will be able to accept paper voter registration applications on the day they reopen, whenever that might be, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said in a memo on Monday night.
The close of voter registration had been scheduled for Tuesday, four weeks before Election Day in a state with some of the country’s marquee races, including contests for governor and a United States Senate seat.
But Mr. Detzner, a Republican who faced Democratic pressure to extend the deadline, effectively waived the deadline, writing that his decision would “ensure that each Supervisor of Elections Office has the same amount of days to register voters at their offices.”
The extension will not apply in all 35 counties for which Governor Scott declared a state of emergency. Election offices in some of those counties, like Alachua, which includes Gainesville, and Hillsborough, which includes Tampa, were expected to be open for business on Tuesday morning.
The deadline for online voter registration — 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday — was unchanged.
Alan Blinder and John Schwartz contributed reporting.
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/hurricane-michael.html |
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Writer Questionnaire Tag Game
Tagged by @avi-why who answered such wonderful questions I couldn't believe the ones he posed were even better!
is there a common piece of writing advice that you disagree with? alternatively, is there one you think (generally) most people should follow?
“Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.” <- why I will never recommend On Writing, a memoir, as a how-to book on craft.
Keeping on theme, I think anyone looking to 'improve' their writing should get into analyzing plot structure. How do their favorite movies work? How do their favorite books work? What differences do they find between novels and short stories by an author they like? What makes a "boring" story to them? Do cultural folktales from their family share any similarities to each other in their beats? You don't have to outline your work (though I'm also a believer in learning how to, for similar reasons); plot knowledge is nice to have just to ambiently improve the way you think about your stories as you tell them.
you can have dinner with any author, living or dead. but the catch is that after the dinner, you and that author will team up against a third writer in a no holds barred cage match throwdown. which 2 authors do you pick?
Lewis Carroll, before I even finished reading the question, because she and I could have a great time. Then I got stuck because I don't know who I'd want to fight that I'd really have a chance against, and I feel like I wouldn't really want to physically defeat anybody. Maybe if we were up against a recently-beloved currently-hated public figure we could raise money for charity, or something.
have you ever experimented with poetry, plays, or screenwriting? what was the result?
I have written poetry and I've written a few script versions of scenes (on Patreon!) and I just don't understand the fundamentals of either. What really baffles me about screenwriting is how one can imagine so thoroughly what they want (?) a given scene to look like, only to distill it into a text-only medium. How do you keep it all in there, while leaving all the 'extraneous' bits out? And how do you see the potential when reading and evaluating it? How do you tell the difference between a script that is bad, and one that can be made good in the shooting and casting and acting and directing? How do you delineate what is the screenwriter's job versus, say, the composer or the costume designer's? Don't even get me started on poetry.
(If you have answers to these questions you're welcome to peep me anytime; I love hearing people talk about art.)
what type of rancid twitter discourse would your current wip generate? Well, in Book Two there's a scene where someone mentions Kay having an Oedipus complex in passing, to which Kay says they've clearly never read the play, and they say of course they have, and nobody ever addresses the claim again. So there's that.
what author would you love to be compared to? what author would you hate to be compared to? I'm rarely picky about being compared to authors (or texts) people like, though I think the big ones that have been done repeatedly are Carmen Maria Machado and Lemony Snicket. I only think I'd mind being compared to authors if I felt the reasons for comparison were unappealing-- e.g. "your prose reminds me of [author whose prose I dislike], because [thing I dislike about their prose]," or "your work has wonderful political messaging, just like Harry Potter." There's a point at which you start feeling sorry for yourself.
design the ideal piece of merch/swag for your wip.
The obvious answer is custom mantel clocks for each of the characters (Constantine would be a little grandfather clock, Kay something lovely and see-through and mechanical, and Atlas a simple black mantel clock to match his in canon), but why not consider a universe in which we also do Kuroshitsuji-style shoes?
free space: what's one thing you really want to talk about in your writing that no one ever asks about?
I do a lot of foreshadowing throughout KAY that isn't going to be discussionworthy until Book Two. Depressing! I also think mysterygf's morality is very interesting as someone who has to write it; I want her to seem one-hundred-percent justified in everything she does to some people, and the devil personified to others. Again, though, how are we to discuss this when I haven't written the book. Speaking of which, off I go...!
Five questions for @asablehart @goose-books @musetta3 and anyone else who'd like to pick up the tag!
If someone has just come here from the tag game, what piece of yours should they read?
Is there an overlap between the genres you won't read and the ones you won't write? Are there any genres you'd like to write but, for whatever reason, haven't? Why?
What's the last book that really positively surprised you? Why didn't you think you'd like it, and why did you like it in the end?
Self-pub, indie pub, or tradpub?
What would you like teenagers to think of your work? This is regardless of what age groups you write for, because they're going to get ahold of it anyhow.
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