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Sunset Grazing

Please click on the photo to enlarge it. I searched for a decent location to photograph the latest lovely sunset in the Shenandoah Valley. I stopped when I came upon this scene of young steers grazing. The Black Angus scattered in the rolling pasture filled the foreground, while the local landmark of Mole Hill, an extinct volcanic core, dominated the background. The sunset orange-tinted cloud…

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We better get a much needed morales family hug at the end of the next movie OR ELSE (btw read this fic. bless)

Bonus messy doodle below but it’s got major spider verse spoilers!‼️‼️‼️

Earth 42 miles better get a hug and a kiss from his mom too

You know what I think metalcore has always needed? MORE CELLO

Let Rasputin get mad.

I don’t mean about personal stuff. That’s whatever. He can deal with that on his own time, or not because he has the emotional coping mechanisms of a concussed brick, but that’s not my point. My point is: everything sucks.

The solar system Red worked so hard on is absolutely trashed. Half the factions are here just to fight the other half while Guardians do the rounds for loot. There’s not one but TWO enormous derelict alien warships lying around illegally-parked. The Moon’s fucking haunted! Two moons and a planet are gone! Some anime-ass megamind cosplayer keeps swanning around like they can’t even be bothered to kill us! And his stuff! It’s morning noon and night people trying to use his stuff to do something awful! You can be angry, you can fight back, without invoking the war-for-war’s-sake that Xivu represents. You can defend yourself without becoming violence incarnate. Guardians have to learn to walk that line now or we’re all royally screwed anyway. We have to learn to use it as a tool, same as Stasis, without being consumed by it.

So let him get mad. Let him get furious, at high velocity. Let him address a spread of caedometric ordnance “To Whom It May Concern.” Let us see the anger of a gentle machine. Let the solar system remember who was here first.

(technically the Vex. but you get my point.)

teenagers loopholing around parental convention in order to join ancient blood feud incident, 0 dead 2000 injured

This is probably going to be a long one... I read this post by @ghostingtheinternet on Orym's quiet trauma and the subsequent reblogs of @4persephone and @sea-buns and it kinda triggered something I have been thinking of recently and putting off posting... so there are going to be tangents and references to that post. Posting it under the cut cuz it got really long *winces*

I was just rewatching some of the earlier episodes so... one thing I noticed about this progression of events is that... There were two major arcs in the beginning - Orym and his search for the assassins and Imogen's quest to research about her powers. It included Chetney's arc to visit the Gorgynei later on once the wolf reared its side and unpredictability but these were the 3 major points, which was equally concentrated on.

Until they discovered the connection between Ruidus and the assassins. Then it started growing big. Imogen and Orym's questions, even though totally different, started getting answers together but now the difference was, Orym was searching answers for something that happened in the past. The "who are the assassins and why did they attack?" While Imogen's was more along the lines of the present. The "What are my powers, how do I get rid of them/control them?" Not to mention them learning about Imogen's mother working with Ludinus and that she was alive.

And it is about that time things shifted and became more focused on Imogen because what Orym experienced and needed answers for are in the past. They know it is personal for him but every single time he talks about it, he says "It's my duty" that they started forgetting it was personal for him too, not just Imogen, who frequently complained about the dreams and insisted on finding her mother, and such. Predathos came up and they realised a lot more was in play but the one visibly affected by it all was Imogen, thereby letting Orym slide to the side. This is also why I think the others letting things slide like Chetney attacking Orym might have occurred. In a larger scale, it wasn't "that big"

Orym being viewed as the stable guy also kinda reflects on the same problem of visibility. Because, in all technicalities, Orym and Fearne are the only ones with no visible ticking bombs no matter how they insisted that Fearne was a ticking bomb because of her tendency to be... pickpocketing and creating chaos? They are the ones who suppressed their feelings the most unless someone kinda confronts them. But Fearne is not viewed to be stable because of her Fey nature and her chaos, which is different from what they experience.

Laudna has her compartmentalizing, yes but while she may not be vocal, it is clearly had her issues with Delilah and they are not sure if the necromancer is still around or not, making her a question mark. Plus her trauma is visible, Like Ashton's, who doesn't know what powers the dunamancy has given them, on top of their visible scars and chronic pain. No one knows when FCG will get over stressed and blow up and the last time they didn't clock it, he attacked them. Imogen, like Ashton, has powers she doesn't understand and destroyed an entire city block with said powers. Chetney is a newly turned werewolf, who has time and again showed he doesn't have complete control over the wolf at certain points and that he's working on it.

So, with 5 being visible ticking bombs and one being unpredictable, it falls onto the only other person in the group to be the moral, stable one. It does not help that he has the guard mentality, due to trauma and training, which makes him put the others before him. One of the major things which might also affect this thought process is the fact that "the others are going through this currently and need a solution now while I have been dealing with my trauma for the past 6 years so it might not be as important" idea he might have. He knows his grief isn't going to miraculously vanish when he finds answers but he knows if he helps his friends find the answers they need and resolve their problems, they would be able to move on.

So he's not going to talk to them. He's not going to burden them. He is just going to suffer quietly because he knows that it won't affect the others as visibly. He might be hurting himself more and more in this quest for answers but it isn't important because it is personal and not visible. He hides it because they need to resolve the problems that are more immediate and thereby festering his own guilt and grief if he isn't able to attain his own answers or heal himself in the process. Be it the hurt of seeing Will again when he died only to come back to life and facing the guilt that he was alive when Laudna is dead. Be it the resignation and the barely held back anger when People debate on whether Ludinus is right and he has to remind people again and again and again that he and many others have suffered personal loses due to the person because of the mad mage of Wildemount.

As @sea-buns said, Ashton looks past that and acknowledges that Orym doesn't always have to be stable and level headed and tries to offer him support, directly and indirectly along with Fearne. And Dorian while he was there because as you mentioned, he is not going to say out loud that "I have a problem! Help!" I think they try their best to make Orym take a step back and relax and not just worry or be caught in his mind, especially after what was revealed during the solstice.

It also reminded me of Orym's conversation with Chetney. He specifically said "I wasn't trying to hide. No one just asked me about it." You ask, he might tell you something to appease but not everything.

He also specifically said to Bor'Dor that he was unassuming and he uses it to his advantage. He is used to being in the background even if people seem to look up to him for support. He is used to being ignored. He is used to being that guy in the corner who is there but people don't notice until he speaks. Or in his case, when he's in a fight.

Deni$e commented on how he had a huge personality, and it is true. The way he holds himself, carries through day to day clearly makes it look like he's holding things together that when he commented on how he's never felt so small, it hits differently.

I don't think Orym will pull a Scanlan but like @4persephone said, rather show it through fights and risky, suicidal moves, running himself to the ground and just suppressing everything until he no longer can.

the number one thing to remember when writing taivan fic is that there should always be the underlying tension of something bad about to happen, even and especially when there is no reason at all to believe that it will

the way i R A N to draw this ksdjkl (@sepiamestus ty for the idea 🫶)

I need the mecha to learn about Yellowstone because they'd have three conclusions:

Oh that's so cool, wow

Hey! We had places similar to this on cybertron! (They do iicr, and they'd start reminiscing about home)

(or, my current thought right now upon hearing the word "Yellowstone" on the TV,) Primus and the thirteen that is fucking terrifying

The Ring of Fire contains between 452 and 915 active or dormant volcanoes, around 75% of the world's total . The Ring of Fire stretches over 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles) and touches 17 different countries, Read more here

A mana base is like an ecosystem, the more weird and diverse it is, the more fun you’ll be having in your games

Hey everyone! This is my new blog! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

I'm so excited to share my daily thought and love for volcanoes! They are my favorite thing in the world. (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)

I love volcanoes so much that I live near the Yellowstone Caldera, which is a super volcano! It's predicted to be capable of wiping out a third of the U.S. if it ever exploded, which is so fascinating!!

Info dump warning!!

The Yellowstone Caldera so fascinating! It hasn't erupted in ~7,000 years! That's so Wild!!!!!

It's predicted explosion would be DEVASTATING to the U.S. and would wipe out most surrounding states! You would have to go to the furthest corners of the U.S. in order to avoid the lava!!! It's estimated that everyone within 10,000 miles would be dead nearly immediately! Wow!! (⁠☆⁠▽⁠☆⁠)

I sure do love this volcano, it is my favorite volcano!

Okay, that's all for my first blog, I can't wait to share my thoughts and ideas with you all!

BUH BYYYYE (⁠＾⁠∇⁠＾⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♪

I know I can't judge Gale at all for doing dangerous shit in the pursuit of knowledge as I've legit climbed into volcanic craters to look at rocks more than once