#west north west

[thephantomofanastasia]

Really cool wicked fanart by APOLAR on Instagram - apolar.arch their work is incredible. Check their page out!

https://www.instagram.com/apolar.arch/profilecard/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[aidede-camp]

Wicked Witch…

[moved-to-slayfk]

posting here because this just doesn’t feel right to talk about in the horseimagebarn voice but this is extremely important to talk about.

my partner and i have returned to our hometown to stay with her family and my own has gotten a hotel here too (they moved to the town we currently live in after we did) so we are all safe and out of the thick of it

however there are tens of thousands of people who are not both in my own town and in the many surrounding it. appalachia will take an extremely long time to recover from this and there are more storms on the way. all i see on social media right now is people asking for shelter because their homes have been destroyed, or people asking for help searching for family members who are missing. hundreds of trees have fallen. hundreds of homes have flooded. roads are literally falling apart. preexisting sinkholes due to shitty pipes are opening up and consuming land. dams are on the verge of bursting and the only way to stop it is to release water so quickly it floods whole towns. all but one of our cell towers are down, so only people with at&t have service and the rest can’t contact anyone. over half the town still doesn’t have power. a major water supply issue occurred and the entire town is on a water boil order with no electricity to boil with. people are trapped in their homes and workplaces or out on the street because they have nowhere to go. law enforcement is blocking off roads but trapping people in the process. people have to be rescued by helicopter. our animal shelter has no water or power and boarding facilities have been flooded. entire villages like chimney rock nc are gone, and entire cities like asheville are cut off from the rest of the state and are completely inaccessible. ALL OF THE ROADS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ARE CLOSED. 400+ roads are closed because they are unsafe . that is INSANE!!!

when people say that climate change isn’t real, they don’t know what they’re talking about. climate change and its father capitalism are only going to continue to worsen lives in every way possible. i live in the mountains and our infrastructure is completely unprepared to handle hurricanes and it’s only going to get worse. it’s such a strange and eye-opening experience to live something like this when you think that it could never happen to you because that type of weather shouldn’t reach you in your environment. climate change doesn’t care where you live. it’s real.

western north carolina and the rest of the southeast that has been hit by helene need help. more people need to be talking about this so that the government DOES SOMETHING because the government historically fucking hates appalachia and it still does!!! the major state institution near me took DAYS to respond despite being the only place in town with power and wifi connection because they had to wait for the state to approve their response—they could have allowed thousands of people to evacuate days prior to the hurricane hitting us but they didn’t do anything before or after until it was too late!!! it’s bullshit!!! PLEASE get talking about this because something has to be done. climate change is going to continue happening and our mountains and the people in them are going to suffer immensely. hundreds if not thousands are now homeless. please talk about this look at the footage online of the wreckage and look how quickly our infrastructure crumbled. we need better. the people of appalachia deserve better.

i’ll get back to posting horses soon. but for now this is a lot. my friends are homeless and my family had to get off the mountain or be trapped there without power and water for days. we’re all safe but exhausted. i hope everyone who has been affected by this is staying safe. if you are in western nc, dm me. when i come back, if you’re in my area, im happy to bring supplies. stay safe everyone

[blackhart43]

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

If you watch the interview, you'll know that the girl here and another one sat in their tank and shelled kibbutz for 17 hours straight, and yet they're being hailed as heroes.

From the beginning, we knew Israeli forces were firing at their own people. We knew that Hamas doesn't have the weaponry to result the destruction we've seen. But since nobody believed, now the truth keeps unfolding about Oct 7.

Watch the interview with Yasmin Porat who was at one of the kibbutz's. She said Hamas treated them humanely, she said they were scared but they [hamas] didn't abuse them. The interviewer was taken aback. The interviewer asks if "terrorists" killed all the bodies lying in the ground but she said: "NO, it was UNDOUBTEDLY our forces." Her exact words. Google her name and listen to the interview.

[honestlyangrypeace]

Marico Oog, South Africa: Marico Oog is a natural spring located on the Grootfontein farm in the North West Province, belonging to Willie Muller and his family... Legend has it that this spring is fed by a deep underground aquifer, connecting its waters to the Okavango Delta in East Africa. Crystal clear water, floating water lilies, and a fresh water bed of broad-leaved plants are what creates the fairy tale called Marico Oog. This place of magical beauty is home to various fish species, crab and fresh water eels... Lichtenburg is a town situated in North West Province, South Africa. Wikipedia

[hauntedorpheum]

Old Hollywood having a gay old time!

[sirenpearldust]

Israel has the most moral army in the world 😂

The so called ‘peace seekers’.

[alanaisalive]

I love the tropical palm trees for Clackmannanshire.

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[ichiwashername-o]

Coming soon to a Tumblr near you-

Dangerous Secrets, a modern retelling of the classic Wizard of Oz with a Wicked twist. Join Dorothy as she travels across Oz to seek out the Wizard for his help to get back home! Along her way, she meets a colorful cast of characters, each with their own dark secrets that Dorothy must unravel. And so too does the dark hidden underbelly begin to emerge from behind the bright shining curtain that is the face of Oz.

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And now, finally, an update on my fanfiction and plans for how I intend to post the stories!

To bring everyone up to speed, I am re-releasing some long-forgotten Wicked fanfics of mine, and also uploading a rewritten version. This story features a slightly aged-up Dorothy (17 yrs old) from a more modern day, giving her far more nuance and agency, and a bit of resistance to all the shenanigans she's getting thrown into.

To not spoil the fun for all of those who are new to my work, I decided to post both old and new chapters simultaneously, so you can then pick and choose which version you want to read first (or even read at all XD)

That does mean that updates will have a sizeable gap between them. How long? It's impossible to say. A lot of this hinges on a multitude of factors, such as the demand of my day job and if the writing gods smile upon me or send a plague of writer's block upon my house. I also intend to add illustrations, which will add to the time between updates, but I promise it will be worth the wait.

As such, I am hoping to build up a bit of a buffer before I begin posting. That way I can do my best to minimize time between posts.

The first chapter will be released THIS THURSDAY, the 16th.

I hope you all are excited as I am! And I will see you all then!

[thephantomofanastasia]

I expected Idina and Kristin to have cameos, but never imagined they’d have an entire verse to sing during One Short Day. I cried tears of joy.

Photo credits to Idina and Kristin on IG

[arte072]

In the godswood she found her broomstick sword where she had left it, and carried it to the heart tree. There she knelt. Red leaves rustled. Red eyes peered inside her. The eyes of the gods. "Tell me what to do, you gods," she prayed. For a long moment there was no sound but the wind and the water and the creak of leaf and limb. And then, far far off, beyond the godswood and the haunted towers and the immense stone walls of Harrenhal, from somewhere out in the world, came the long lonely howl of a wolf. Gooseprickles rose on Arya's skin, and for an instant she felt dizzy. Then, so faintly, it seemed as if she heard her father's voice. "When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives," he said. "But there is no pack," she whispered to the weirwood. Bran and Rickon were dead, the Lannisters had Sansa, Jon had gone to the Wall. "I'm not even me now, I'm Nan." "You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the north. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you." "The wolf blood." Arya remembered now. "I'll be as strong as Robb. I said I would." She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought it down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. I am a direwolf, and done with wooden teeth. - Arya X, ACoK

Arya is so rarely associated with faith and prayer in this fandom, yet when she prays to the Old Gods for guidance, they respond and restrengthen her sense of self. Arya of Winterfell! Daughter of the North! She is a direwolf and done with wooden teeth! ✨🤍🩶🐺✨

[witchofthemidlands]

i know the ozians have a unique ozian dictionary but one thing i have never believed in the 16 years of my hyperfixation of wicked that the word “swankified” is in there. fiyero 100% makes up his own words & they get increasingly more deranged, he comes up with them, sometimes in the dead of night, elphaba & glinda look at him & it immediately kills the mood.

[blackhart43]

[mohammedhabib90]

Life is so cruel 💔