Hi there! I was wondering if you ever finished your series “the Blue Side of the Mountain”? It’s still one of my all-time faves. I still wonder what came next. (Unless I missed it?)

Hello!

Honestly this fic is *the* WIP of mine that I would love to see finished. I've really struggled with writing over the last year and a half, but it is still my hope to return to this series one day. I have a few chapters written beyond what's posted, but I've decided that I won't be posting anything until I have a finished product that I'm content with. I would hate to put up another handful of chapters and end up ghosting again (especially with where I've been leaving them off lol).

I can tell you this: Arthur and his wife are going after Dutch, and it takes them to the southern side of the RDR map.

Life's really picked up for me in the last year and I don't seem to have anything at the end of the day to give back to my hobbies. If I ever do finish this fic, I will be sure to tag you in it no matter how long it takes.

Thank you as always for your continued support, I really do appreciate it. Hopefully one of these days we'll all get to see the final chapter of Blue Side and I'll get to change that AO3 status to "completed" ❤️

no one:

dick, jason, tim, bruce:

Please please please reblog!

I don't have a lot of followers, and I REALLY want a pet! I'm seriously gonna show this to her 😅

setting off for a long journey

Looking Glass Falls, NC

some twilightcore from the drive up to the mountains the other weekend

Skarloey and Luke

Heading off to Explore Shenandoah National Park! by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pull off next to the Front Royal park entrance sign to Shenandoah National Park. The view is looking to the east down the Skyline Drive where one Jeep Wrangler was heading and several other park cars off in the distance around the Dickey Ridge Trailhead. My thought in composing this image was to use the road as a leading line and have the trees all around, adding to the setting and view ahead. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 7. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 7 where I added a Polarization, Foliage and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.

as i edit thor's promo i accidentally made the greatest thing i'll ever make, ever.

Winter’s Breath

what level of nostalgia is randomly remembering a movie you disliked as a child and watching it again to still hate it

Madeira Island

Madeira Island

“my side of the mountain” husband and “island of the blue dolphins” wife

Classic lit that kids should read in school (According to Me)

-Thunderhead by Mary O'Hara: There are limits to imposing one's own dreams and visions onto the future, and knowing when to step back and re-orient is wise and healthy. Don't hold your own version of success too tight, you'll miss the actual joys of life and the smaller but more significant victories that others celebrate.

Coming-of-age is re-writing one's vision of "success" to account for reality and finding joy and satisfaction in what you can do, not letting regret at what you can't do consume you.

-The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: Nature and nurture are both part of identity, and it's hard but normal to realize you have outgrown one family/name/identity and must begin building another. In the midst of this, pay attention to the values, needs and languages of your friends and social circles, as everyone is different, and the more you learn and reach out the stronger your kinship network becomes.

Coming-of-age is realizing you have grown up and must now live an adult life outside the childhood home, but that doesn't mean losing your childhood family/friends forever, just understanding the different parts of your life and where you fit best or need to be now.

-Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell: Sometimes life leaves you behind, but isolation is a blank canvas upon which to craft a new life, transcend cultural limitation, forge new relationships and find a fresh moral center.

Coming-of-age is choosing to live in harmony with nature and at peace with the circumstances that cannot be changed.

-Bonfire by Walter Farley: Growing up and growing old are both hard, our own prejudices can be our greatest obstacles, and sometimes the people we love most are suffering in silence. Showing love and support with gentleness works as well for ornery people as it does for horses, and it's ok to disappoint your mentors.

Coming-of-age is learning when the adults in your life are speaking from the limits of their experience, and when its time to move past them and into new experience without discarding them from your life.

-Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff: Rites of passage are odd and arbitrary, and using them as the sole benchmark for adulthood will always leave some people behind. But forming friendships independent of these rites, recognizing and respecting the Other and valuing diversity of experience is what brings about true maturity.

Coming-of-age is accepting as equal the people you once looked down on, and working on behalf of others who are weaker than you is the greatest strength.

-Emily of New Moon by LM Montgomery: Everyone sees and experiences the world in different ways, and those ways are informed and shaped by their past, their scars and their individuality. Living fully and creatively in one's own world is a rich experience that must be tempered with empathy.

Coming-of-age is learning to see past one's self and into others, empathizing with them and in turn accepting their empathy, even if it's in a form you don't always understand or appreciate.

-Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare: Learning to cope with solitude, take responsibility for big decisions, and build relationships with strangers are all significant adult steps but are also intensely transformative; you'll go through things that no one else in your family experiences or understands, but they will enrich your perspective and sometimes save your life.

Coming-of-age is making one hard decision after another, considering risks and consequences, and staying the hard course even if you don't know the outcome.

✨A gentle lamb bleats in a single call, sweetly, meekly. The wind carries its voice through the fluttering of leaves and over mountain tops, across meadows where baby deer dwell under the shadow of their mothers.

Precious lambs you are, Sweet whispers...✨

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Two beautiful dark skinned sisters who are twins are seen looking softly at the viewer, resting in a meadow like area. They are wearing long white dresses. with short puffy sleeves on their shoulders. One sister relaxes her head on her sister's lap while the other supports her sisters head. A little baby lamb also lay beside the twins, one ear up while the other ear is down. The lamb's white wool almost blends into the white dress's the sisters are wearing. In the background,the sky is a soft shade of baby blue, no clouds are visible. And there is a mountain in the background that stretches to both sides of the picture and a few trees at a distance.]