Spring in Bac Ha, Vietnam, 2022 - by Khánh Phan, Vietnamese

Hoang A Tuong Castle

Hoang A Tuong Castle is located in Bac Ha, Vietnam. The white castle was built in the Asia-Europe architecture from 1914-21 by Hoang Yen Chao, the local ruler and leader of the Hmong ethnic group, about 70% of the population in the area before 1945. He was known to exploit the people, confiscating their land and forcing them to build the structure. The location was chosen according to Feng Shui theory and shaped like an enclosed rectangle. Hoang A Tuong Castle serves as a residence and a fortress. After Hoang A Tuong’s was exiled to France, the region was liberated, and the mansion was left uninhabited for many years. The castle has one main gate and two side gates adorned with elaborate carvings and guarded by soldiers. The palace grounds have 36 decorated rooms with arched balustrades, columns, circular staircases, and tiled corridors. There’s also an emergency exit tunnel behind the palace. The two-story main house has two auxiliary houses on both sides with ceramic tiled roofs. Its walls, bunkers, and battlements were reinforced with mortar mixed with sugar molasses. Hoang A Tuong's Castle is currently undergoing restoration but serves as a popular place for the locals and tourists.

LU WIND BUT HE'S A ITTY BITTY HUMMINGBIRD

Slingshot Proficiency!

+bonus doodle drafts

Uhm, possible spoilers i think for Marble Sky [made by @somerandomdudelmao in which you should go and check out if you haven’t read rn cause they be very cool very cool and very cool]

but—OMG I LOVE THIS BIRB AUUUHGHGHHGUGHUHURHUEHGI—

IN WHICH THEY ARE PERFECTLY FINE AND WE SEE SO SO MUCH OF THEM NYYYGUUH—

Guys guys guys — please trust meee she is A-OK and she is gonna be a teacher to Oscar as they make a pacifist alien befriending club

I am not in denial i have no clue what you’re talking about—

I ain’t got a clue what these so called ‘jars’ even look like yet but i sketched a thing out immediately and then at that point my intrigueness started to fade, and then the ref came out and for some reason that boosted my interest even further. But i know what a bird’s brain looks like now so thats something.

I just think she seems very cool

I may have also did some other doodles a week or 2 ago that i didn’t post cause the social of anxiety was kickin in high those days but I’ll put them under the cut if thou wishes to see

That is all ok buh byyeeee go see marble skiessssss

Your design of loki got me to listen to the bifrost incident in full and GOD IS IT AMAZING

Your loki design is very cool and I love her lots

thank you!!!!!!!

they really just left her by herself to wander around by herself like that though huh…

pink hair and pronouns

Okay, so, I want to paint a picture for you.

It's 1985. You're not allowed to watch TV on Saturday because of complex religious reasons, so you get Sunday morning cartoons.

So you find this weird French cartoon on Nickelodeon called Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. It's your He-Man (see above complex reasons).

And it has two dancing pangolins (you thought they were armadillos at the time because you're from the midwest) that are actually thousands-upon-thousands-of-years-old cyborgs from an underground kingdom of legless people that bounce along on spherical asses.

You try and tell people about this show, both at the time, and throughout your life thereafter, with the patchy memory of an 8 year old.

Most families didn't have cable in 85.

It didn't go well. It was not slogbical

So now you all get to bear witness. You all must behold...

The FLASHBIC.

I just finished reading Keep The Light Shining by @c-l-y-d-e and ohmygosh what an amazing story! I wanted to create something for the fic and while I was playing my RAV the other day after reading the scene where Slipher comes after Yugi I played this! (or well, something similar. It's hard to replicate improvisation for a recording haha!)

Now to ramble about what I was thinking when playing! SPOILERS for the fic tho so watch out!! - Recently, I've been trying to express more with my RAV Vast playing, I have the scale B Onoleo which offers both minor and major scales with it's 9 notes. I often play light/calm music, but for this I wanted to explore something more dramatic. At the start, I'm running my hands over the drum to replicate the sound of the ocean, I try to keep this up throughout the song along with the beat (which I sometimes mess up since I get nervous when recording but I think that adds to the way Yugi was feeling). The start is when Pegasus sends Yugi off into the water, it's scarily calm for too short a time. The beat starts to pick up when Slipher starts to show itself, reaching it's loudest when he finally appears from the water and Yugi is fighting to keep alive. Everything starts to calm near the end when Atem arrives to help him. Or something like that :p Some audio processing to make it sound better! Tongue drums are hard to record (>.<;) Hope people enjoy this! And I highly recommend reading Keep The Light Shining!!!

Again, a coffee latte and a bac xiu. Must have been the 50th latte of the stay ! We truly needed coffee since we didn't take any during our stay in Ha Giang ⛰️

im normal about him. btw

GOT ANOTHER JOB!!! WE UPPPPP

Can I expect any new fic on DrauKarn from you ? PS I absolutely adore your works ❤

First of all! Hello, Anon! Thank you so much for dropping by! This makes me feel SO GOOD! Phew! Nostalgia all over! SO, Thank you for sending this message!

And as for DrauKarna, Ah! Yes! I remember how I'd read 'Palace of Illusions' and loved it to bits, (and the StarB cast was SO GOOD-LOOKING and GIF-worthy that I'd absolutely loved that pairing to bits, and have written quite a few works on it myself, none as good as the ones that already existed :P), and now, if I write about them, (not sure if I shall in the same vein as before, since C. Rajagopalachari's version has really served to un-ship in my mind), it might be in some other form. Maybe an alternate universe in this day and age? Maybe some other version in the same timeline and universe if canon-compliant (certainly not in a romantic sense)? But if inspiration does happen to strike and blow my writers' block to smithereens, and I'm back to my full-fledged amateur writing, then, surely, but in a different form, and possibly with a LOT of warnings?

This is me thinking :D

And this is me with my heart melting in love for stopping by with this ask!

Oc's stuff

middleborough girls

we're undeniable

fine, fresh, fierce

we got it on lock

rip bea

happy 10-year anniversary to the time i woke up at 4am to a call from my neighbor when i was out of town. "your cat is fine, your house is fine, but your car's been set on fire."

a guy went a little nuts one night and just. went around the neighborhood setting stuff on fire. he got my car, a truck, a bunch of random belongings that had been left outside, someone's little fishing boat that was parked in the driveway... he even tried to set some porch furniture on fire, which got him felony charges because it would have set the rest of the house on fire where people were sleeping.

the good news is that my car was the first one hit, and you can actually see on someone's doorcam footage the firetruck on the way to put it out, and they stop to put out the porch furniture fire. bea saved some lives that night.

here she is on the news!

my copy of the hobbit was in the back seat and a few pages were still recognizable, but otherwise she was toast.

RIP bea, you beautiful berserker. i always knew you'd go out in a blaze of glory, but never thought it would be so literal.

i think my laptop fonally died 😔