#windstorm

[chasingrainbowsforever]

“Gobi Desert" 

By Christian Hartmann

[barometric]

6/29/23 derecho in Maryville, MO

[solarbird]

we are not going to space today

[indigopoptart]

EPHEMERALITY

in honor of my birthday being yesterday, take art from my first ever—and dare i say one of my most dearest—concepts!

+ plus some more WINDSTORM doodles below the cut ofc <3

ugh i miss these guys

they remind me of my love of fantasy

[1five1two]

'The Windstorm'. Antônio Parreiras. 1888.

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[ink-asunder]

I think horse girl movies are a lot like bodice rippers and the romance genre as a whole in that the general public is criticizing this thing that is more or less intended for a specific demographic, and also that criticism is based obtusely in reality without ever having an understanding about what these genres are actually for.

Problematic romances are power fantasies for women, and in so many cases, the problematic aspects ONLY act as a framing device to get the woman IN the empowered situation. (Like, the beginning of Fruit's Basket is wild, but all of the weird and kinda shady elements are just there to get Tohru in a situation where she is in a secure but whimsical and interesting living situation, she's surrounded by overprotective boys she could probably date, and she's fulfilling an unselfish purpose and changing another person's life for the better via being a stellar and selfless house keeper and eventually breaking the curse.)

Horse bond media (both horse girl and horse boy movies) are in very much the same situation because people who don't like horses don't get it, and trained equestrians get hung up picking apart technical details and decrying any horse movie as "bad" because "horses don't have eyebrows" or "the girl horse is feminized" or "this that and the other is unrealistic." Both parties neglect to realize that horse bond movies are for the disempowered (teenage girls and men in prison) and the movies are ABOUT connecting very deeply with a nonhuman entity that is both equally misunderstood and no one in the world WANTS to understand them.

If a horse is difficult, it's branded as dangerous. If a person is struggling in a way no one has patience or empathy for, they're treated like they're dangerous or a lost cause, therefore being isolated and disempowered. But that person sees a horse and they see someone who cannot advocate for themself who just needs a little gratitude or understanding or accommodation. The "special weshial white girl" gives the horse that, and they find self actualization within and empower each other.

In the words of Torr from the incitus movie Monocerus, "It's not about being good, Sara. It's not about horses at all. It's about you."

[gebo4482]

Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori

Announcement Trailer

Website / Steam

[huffle-dork]

Since we’re all wrapped up on the Septicheroes chapters of SITCV here’s Windstorm and Bro being silly <3 love they!!

[kamala-laxman]

Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.” Elisabeth Kubler Ross

[mysticsparklewings]

Obscutober 2024 Day 11: Derecho ⛈️

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Derecho (n.)

a widespread and severe windstorm that moves rapidly along a fairly straight path and is associated with bands of rapidly moving thunderstorms

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Today’s word is proof that I did not go over the prompt list with as finetooth of a comb as I should have—We really didn’t need “rolling wind storms” and “trees dead-from-storms” back-to-back. 😅

Oh well! Not much to be done about it now. 🤷‍♀️

Click the "Keep Reading" and we'll talk more about my thoughts/process for keeping this one as different as I could from yesterday's. ✨

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Just to reiterate: I honestly cannot believe that when I was making final adjustments to the Obscutober prompt list that I both didn't notice this little string of nouns we seem to be stuck in (aside from Day 9 serving as a break) and also that "Rampike" and "Derecho," both storm-related words that made it on the list, ended up back-to-back. 🤦‍♀️

And it's not the fault of total randomization, either; I did randomize the words at first, but then deliberately moved some around for reasons much like this...I just somehow missed these two in the process. 😅

Then I still didn't notice until I looked at the list to get started on today's mandala. 🙄

So, naturally, I went into working on this mandala a little worried that I'd have trouble making it different enough from yesterday's. This was not helped by the fact that I came home absolutely wiped after being out most of the day yesterday, so I was in no position to even attempt getting started before going to bed, and then I also slept in late this morning, which set back my whole schedule for the day.

And now you know why today's is going up a little later than I'd really like, too. 😅 Sometimes I just can't catch a break from myself!

"The Ongoing Saga of Mystic's Poor Pacing" aside, I did what I could to separate today and yesterday without totally abandoning what I felt really was the best fit for the word. Primarily, I opted to use black lines instead of white. Though had I realized these two words were next to each other before I made yesterday's, I think letting Derecho have the white lines and making Rampike have black would've been the better way to go. Dead trees would've made a black silhouette work better, white lines make more sense for clouds, etc.

Still, I did what I could and tried to use the black lines to my advantage to focus on lighter, "this is the blue the sky uses to warn you that rain is very much on the way," blues and lighter grays, like maybe if yesterday's colors were a storm at night, this one is a storm during the day when there's more light.

But, of course, since the definition specifically mentions thunderstorms, I felt like I still had to get some little lightning bolts in there. I kept them intentionally small since "Derecho" is more about the wind that precedes the storms, but these did get more proper "lightning shape lines" versus yesterday's lightning mostly being a strong suggestion based on color placement.

However, swirls for "wind" were, in my opinion, completely non-negotiable. But I did try my best to structure them differently and give them a tad more complexity than yesterday's. If we were looking at just the line work, I'm not fully convinced I pushed them far enough, but I think the coloring helps sell the differences a lot more. Then, I had briefly considered adding some kind of rain representation to yesterday's art—whether in the mandala lines or in the background coloring. You can probably guess that I am now super glad I didn't, because that gave me one more tool up my sleeve to help make today's mandala noticeably different! I'm not entirely sold on the exact way I ended up doing the raindrops, but I didn't really have any better ideas so once I was able to get them shaped in a way I was happy with, I opted to just roll with this and try not to otherwise worry about it too much. I think the main thing that bothers me is the raindrops look "too calm" and not really like they're coming from a storm. Again though: I didn't really have any better ideas. I tried a couple of things before settling on what you see and none of it was jiving with me. 🤷‍♀️

For as worried as I went in though, and for what quibbles I still have, I like it a lot more than I thought I would! So I'll consider that a success and cut my losses for today. 👍

...I feel like this description should be longer, but I think you all want to read a play-by-play of drawing a lot of swirly shapes several times about as much as I feel like writing one. Which is to say: Not very much at all!

So I'll just leave it here, and hopefully I can get this baby cross-posted in record time because I haven't had dinner yet and won't want to get started on that until cross-posting is either done-done or very close to it. 🤪 See you Sparklers tomorrow! 🤗

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See the Prompt List

Artwork  © me, MysticSparklewings

Obscutober Concept Inspired by nikolas_tower

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[photozoi]

Last nights storm brought winds, and this Doug lost his head.

Just blew his top.

The downed part of the fir goes from left to right across this photo. It covers our path to the barn, and a whole pond and is at least 150 feet long. There will be a bit of clean up, as the path needs to be clear but most of this fir will be left for wildlife habitat.

[barometric]

7/5/22 derecho in SD

[patchthemedic]

OC Commission for @nxtequal of ArcEye [little gray and yellow dude] and Windstorm [big purple-blue dude]!

Thanks again friend! :D

If you like what I do, check out: https://patch-themedic.carrd.co/ for all my links and information!

[vintageslideshow]

Told you not to let Junior drive. 1995

[sunnidaydreamer]

Just watched the most glorious video relating to an upcoming horse game called Legend of Khiimori and I guess people are losing their minds.

Because the developer responded to a tweet where someone said they'd buy the game if it didn't appeal to the "woke", but as the developer had her pronouns in her profile that wasn't likely. Said developer replied that "For every similar comment they would add a new set of pronouns" paraphrased.

And there are people taking that comment at face value and saying they gutted their potential buyers by adding more pronouns.

In the game itself you don't choose your pronouns. You play as a female character, the steam page even has the female protagonist tag.

This is too much XD