#weater

[vrkhvsk]

Clouds over the Yenisei August, 2023

[greenhouseaffect]

2015. Greenhouse Affect #34. Published in the Boston Compass

[the-fandom-crossroads]

*wakes up at 8am*

Weather app: -4F

Me: That's illegal.

Who ever decided global warming should change to climate change causing extremes in both directions. You suck.

TLDR: for non-Americans that is -36C

[myreitha]

I think everyone's gotten theirs by now, so please enjoy the linocut I designed, carved, printed on cards and sent out for February's International Correspondence Writing Month :)

[Image Description 1: A black linocut print featuring a moth with sparkling star eye patterns on its six wings and surrounded by a starburst of lines and small stars. End description.]

Some process and more details under the cut - including the other stamps I carved to go on the envelopes and inside the cards!

Please enjoy my chaotic printing station and my beautiful stack of shelves, baskets, and my baking racks being used as a place for all the prints to dry (well, most of them)

I also carved individual stamps of the starry eyeballs based off the eye shapes in the moth's wings. I love love love love how they came out, and also had a lot of fun with the variety of little star stamps I made to embellish things with.

[Image ID 2: A photo of my kitchen table overtaken by a precarious stack of wire shelves and racks that are covered in drying prints. In front of the drying prints is my printing surface where the ink, roller, and the linocut are visible. Image ID 3-4: Photos of the envelopes used to send the cards, they've got stars stamped on the front and a large starry eye stamped on the flap. The eyes are two different variations of a similar design and match the eye pattern on the moth's wings. End Description.]

For funsies, please also enjoy how gorgeous this design came out on brown paper

[Image Description 5: Another image of the same print, this time on brown paper intead of white]

[fruitcoops]

Source/ Sink

The trials of sharing a bed for Day 6 of @oknutzy-week-2024 , with prompt B5: “Good Morning to Me” and prompt E4: “Chest”. Characters by @lumosinlove!

Summer in Gryffindor was so mean to him, personally, and Leo woke up at 3:30 in the morning in a rage.

This was why they couldn’t have nice things. He wanted the heat—he wanted to feel lovingly parboiled, lightly steamed, cozily broiled from June to August. Sometimes, he was lucky enough to get a few days in September, too. It was July. He should be baking like a happy cream puff right about now, yet here he was, freezing his ass off in his own damn bed.

Ridiculous.

Leo scowled at the ceiling and shivered against his will. He cast one longing look at the closed windows and debated the merits of getting up versus staying here to suffer in silence for a long, long, fifteen seconds.

The air conditioner kicked up with a low rumble in the ducts above him. Leo’s vision went red.

If Logan wanted to sleep in an icebox, he could do it on his own. He was obviously the only one, as evidenced by Finn’s current state bundled in his and Leo’s share of their blankets. The top sheet rippled in a gust of fresh freezer air that made Leo tremble in his light pajamas.

Fuck it. It was two against three, and he wasn’t waiting until the morning to lay down the law. Logan didn’t deserve the middle spot if he was going to let Finn steal Leo’s blanket from across the damn bed. The middle spot was for people who would use it with honor and dignity and responsibility.

Leo reached over, jammed his arm between Logan’s belly and Finn’s back, and yanked.

Logan slid backwards a foot across the mattress. A sleepy, confused flail jerked to a stop when he collided with Leo’s chest—the warmth began seeping into Leo’s body immediately. Logan was still yammering on about something or another, but Leo was far too busy tucking himself up all along the space heater that was his most northern boyfriend to really listen. Drowsiness drizzled over his brain, smothering the fury.

Logan’s ribcage heaved with a sigh. “Good morning to me, I guess.”

“You’re so warm,” Leo murmured into his soft skin, pulling comfort straight from the back of Logan’s shoulder when he pressed his face to it. “Mmmm.”

“We have blankets.” Logan’s voice was hoarse and rough from his sudden wakeup; the French sounded crackly, less practiced, and Leo loved it so much.

“Toasty,” he hummed into the crook of Logan’s neck. He slung one leg over Logan’s hip and pushed his other knee into the sensitive bend of Logan’s own, bringing the last inches of them together. Each of Logan’s breaths put pleasant pressure on his chest. Heat radiated from his torso onto Leo’s arm, wrapped tight to keep him near.

“Qu’est-ce que…” Logan shook his head, hair tickling Leo’s forehead. “What? Why? Sheets.”

“Harzy stole everything.” The kiss he left on Logan’s shoulder sounded loud in the relative quiet of their bedroom. “So I stole you. I’m cold.”

“Mm.” One of Logan’s arms stretched out toward Finn’s personal, selfish burrito and began carefully prying their quilt loose. Leo plastered himself close and watched through a single half-lidded eye.

Success. Finn mumbled something in his sleep as the blanket came free (the things Leo would do to be huddled between his furnace of a body and the two other blankets he had fashioned, unconscious, into a den) and Logan threw one end of it blindly over his shoulder.

“Yours,” came the half-yawned instruction. “Take.”

Leo beamed and shuffled it over them both. The end even covered his frozen toes. Logan gave no protest when he laminated them together again, only a brush of his hand over Leo’s forearm and a light laugh. Leo felt every hitch of it on his palm and closed his eyes.

Warm, at last.

[sagent-of-chaos]

bent candle sticks

[machinespirited]

I really feel like LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO is the like. The only positive emotion the World Eaters are allowed to feel

[charcoalsdestiny]

my @rottmnt-oc-secret-santa gift for @iliveinsideofyou !!! i hope i did him justice ^_^

Extras and some yapping under the cut, lol

bonus doodles from when I was teaching myself to draw him (I don't usually draw facial hair past some scruff) and the drink choice teasing <3

I originally planned on doing his mutant design but. I've been struggling with art lately so his human design was a little easier for me.

I hope you like it!

[born2b-beheaded]

@ilovebeatingmywife hey fag

[maochira]

[itsaash]

[Podfic] of Coast to Coast by lumosinlove

Who wants to start their weekend with some FinnLo angst?! We have been working on the podfic of coast to coast!

Chapter 1 here on ao3

Featuring @peggyrose19 @heyitssmiller @arrowofcarnations

This podfic literally wouldn't be possible without my partners in crime, and I can't express how much I love receiving lines from you beautiful people! The angst, the love, the bloopers. It's gold. And it's funny how little dialogue I say in this podfic

Thank you again to @lumosinlove for these stories that continue to break my heart and put it back together, even when I've listened to the chapter countless times editing (art also by Hazel of course and used with permission!)

I have a pretty good head start of chapters done, so I'll probably post new chapters every 3-7 days. Editing the first few chapters was hurting my feelings so I had to start posting and share that feeling with y'all as soon as possible :)))

[baradesign]

Ask time! What do you think is worse: super cold weather or super hot weather?

Super hot weather! I can always keep layering up until I look like a round plushy and can’t even walk, but I can’t take my skin off and going naked is apparently ilegal…

Besides! Wearing a stupid bra in hot weather is AWFUL! So no, fuck that. I’ll take freezing weather over hot weather any day!

[bylightofdawn]

Guess who decided it would be a bright idea to leave the house and go get some thing that she forgot at the store before the ice storm hits.

 Also, why don’t I own a single pair of sweatpants? I’m legitimately rocking leggings underneath my jeans and it’s doing nothing. My upper half and face are great but my poor legs are freezing in this car as I’m waiting for it to heat up.

EDIT: My reward for braving subzero weather.

What is it with cold weather that makes you crave ice cream? It’s the most contradictory craving. Also holy shit Oreos cookies and cream ice cream is absolute garbage. How did you manage to make your chocolate that GRAINY. I know it’s supposed to be crunch chocolate but that was the worst ice cream bar I think I’ve ever eaten or definitely one of the top five worst. 😞

[newmayhem]

Wardrobe & Styling: Risika PT1

As always, I’ll keep using original names if I’m talking specifically about the original iteration and in quotations and stuff, but I’ll be referring to everyone by their new names in all other situations.

Welp, I guess I'm officially back! In a nutshell, work got really busy and I got distracted by a few other hyperfixations (and I also got a bit self conscious now that I realize this blog actually kind of has an audience). I was going to do a big post explaining what I’ve been up to, but I it was taking too long and I didn’t feel like it, so I guess I’m going to just jump right back in!

I recently started watching a lot of youtube videos about fashion and costuming in movies and tv shows, so I thought it might be cool to do a short series about how I’d dress these characters for my version of the story. Starting, of course, with our girl Risika!

Canon outfits

We don’t get a lot of detailed clothing/outfit descriptions in general, but here’s what we have for her:

Chapter 1 (Now) - Black jeans and a black t-shirt

She doesn’t always wear black, but that was the color of her mood that day.

She also says in this chapter that she wears a silver ring set with a garnet stone

Chapter 15 (1704) - Mens clothes and tangled, unkempt hair

Wearing long skirts was getting too cumbersome for her

Chapter 18 (Now) - Black tank top → cropped body hugging gold tank top with black jeans

Generally keeps her hair its natural old gold color until the end when she adds black stripes to it.

Going off of just this, it seems like Risika is pretty utilitarian when it comes to clothing choices. Very simple, no frills (literally), mostly/exclusively black (contrary to her own narration)…up until when she’s dressing for her fight with Aubrey.

I take this to symbolize Risika’s character journey from being depressed, antisocial, and wanting to hide away from the vampire world (or at least pass through it unnoticed) to embracing her predatory nature and being comfortable with being seen and making her mark as a part of vampire society.

My Version

I want to stay along these same lines as the canon, but add some more nuance and details.

Generally, Roksana favors earth tones and natural materials (to show how attached she is to nature and humanity). She doesn't like things clinging to her too much but she also doesn't like things that are so baggy or flowy that they get in the way (to show her yearning for freedom).

She hates button-ups (too stiff and formal); she likes dresses and skirts in theory, but doesn't often reach for them on a regular day.

For the most part, she likes to keep things simple for her main apparel pieces—solid colors, basic shapes. Shoes and accessories is where she likes to have more ornamentation.

She tends to keep her accessorizing to a minimum because she likes to be able to move unencumbered. She hates carrying bags or wearing hats but she has a pretty extensive shoe repertoire. Her shoes are practical but well-crafted and even ornate.

When it comes to jewelry, gold is her preferred metal. She's not super into precious stones or pearls. She likes wooden or clay beads and semi-precious stones like jasper, jade, or lapis lazuli.

These days, she doesn't wear much makeup, but during time periods where heavy makeup was a thing, she'd wear it in order to blend in.

She typically styles her hair in whatever is fashionable at the time, but prefers to wear it down in its naturally curly/wavy state.

She's more interested in how things feel as opposed to how they look, so comfort, mobility, breathability, and texture are very important to her. She doesn't like feeling trapped.

I really want her wardrobe to speak to her innate longing for freedom and her resilience as well as her connection to the past. I also thought it might be interesting to hint at a secret craving for luxury (a contrast to the idealized image she has of her saintly brother in order to make her feel even more guilty and self hating after she becomes a vampire) and a desire for comfort (or rather, to stay in her comfort zone) but at the same time always being prepared to flee.

1701

I'm still researching the specifics of what was worn at this time/place (it's been surprisingly really difficult to find info about late 17th/early 18th century fashion in Mexico) so I'll probably do a more detailed followup post later on, but Roksana would basically be wearing whatever other people of her social class were wearing in terms of silhouette, fabrics, etc. I don't she would have much flexibility when it comes to self expression at this time (clothing was expensive to make so she probably wouldn't be very trendy or experimental as a working class woman). I think she would favor solid colors over prints and she'd wear almost exclusively earth tones except for a blue rebozo (a long woven shawl of Mexican origin; image below) that was her mother's (blue to represent a touch of the supernatural). No jewelry, either, except for her rosary (although, I'm not sure if this actually counts as jewelry) that was passed down through her father's family.

Because she was raised without her mother and apart from her mother's family, aside from the rebozo, her clothing wouldn't really have many indigenous or African elements to it.

NOW

While she's not into metallics and synthetics, I do picture her style as kind of reminiscent of Y2K era R&B singers, especially in terms of silhouette (small, fitted tops, big pants, chunky shoes), but there are also some goth elements like corset tops, square or high necklines, the occasional puff or bell sleeve. She loves crop tops! For bottoms, she liked wide leg pants, utility/cargo pants, and joggers.

STYLE NARRATIVE

Closer to the beginning of the story, Roksana's outfits are very subdued. It's like she's constantly trying to camouflage. She's also wearing more historical looking clothes to show that she's kind of trapped in the past.

Towards the end, she starts to incorporate some bolder, more eye-catching elements, especially metallics, which also feel more futuristic, like she's finally ready to move forward and she's ready to be seen.

She also starts to dress a little more like Andros, who I picture as having very bold style.

Also, because in my version her hair is dark and curly/wavy, the tiger stripes in her hair aren't going to work out so well, so I was thinking of giving her tattoos, like tiger stripes along one arm, her shoulder and down her back (I have no reference photos for this because everything I could find on pinterest and google images looks stupid). This would not only symbolize her embracing being a predator, but it also shows that she's becoming a little more like Andros (who has tons of tattoos).

This post is already getting too long, so stay tuned for Part 2 where I go into specific outfits!

[karilapio]

If we reported Western countries like we do nom-western countries

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