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The moorland on Creag Mhòr by Trevor Littlewood.
#bog#bogs#bog pictures#pictures of bogs#photography#nature photography#nature conservation#nature#thesidebog#scotland#Creag Mhòr#trevor littlewood#didn't feel very boggy last week
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Love your art so much. Will you show us cool nature pics from your country? I'm literally so stoned I forgot where you live sorry.
Sure anon, why not. I'm not a photographer so the quality of these is kind of slushy at best. I like nature and wander around a little bit, but I rarely hike properly, so I don't go to that many scenic places. These are mostly from regular walks. Long post warning.
Summers are short but very green, and since we're at the arctic circle we get sunlight around the clock. Some of these were taken at midnight or early morning small hours. Most of Finland is very sparsely populated and covered in boreal forests.
Finland is a very watery country, lots of lakes in particular.
Sometimes you get intense sunsets
And winters are very cold, snowy and last about six months. In summer we have midnight sun and in winter there's the polar night to counter it. Around late December sun only rises for about two hours per day where I live so it's very dark for many, many weeks on end (which is wonderful if you get seasonal depression like I do). But sometimes the weather and lighting are just right and you get this ethereal pastel effect that I love.
#we also have northern lights pretty regularly and those can be magical but I'm not enough of a wizard to take good pictures of them#I have a friend who Photographs Nature With Intent and goes to all these natural parks to do it#but I'm not them so this is the best I can do#I particularly regret that I don't have any bog/swamp/marsh pictures to show you because they're actually really aesthetic locations#believe it or not#and an iconic part of Finnish nature#anonymous#long post#answered#lamentably the best ethereal pastel effect only happens on very cold days like from -20°C to -30°C#so if you take out your phone and remove gloves to snap a photo your phone battery dies very quickly and your fingers freeze#so it's a bit inconvenient
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after failing miserably the first go around, (crochet) Home's walls are complete! we're less than halfway there but hey! The Walls!
#wally. doesnt quite fit... but thats okay!#not all homes are meant to be entered i think#ok that top photo is. At An Angle.#ALL OF THE WALLS ARE SYMMETRICAL I SWEAR!!#i kept careful track as you can see on that sticky note!#counted the normal rows AND the blo rows!#FUCK I FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE ~freshly blocked~ FLOOR#photos from the bog#ok i got the walls (majority of it anyway) and the floor done#whats left is the wall Triangles + roof + detail#OH! and i need to get some felt#just a lil somethn to glue to the interior to make sure it remains Sturdy#this will be a box after all! fully functional and Delightful to have on my shelf!#what will i put in this small home. fuck if i know but we'll find out eventually!#maybe she'll hold my chapstick collection...#OH! OR MY STICKERS! the ones that dont have a Surface yet!#oh thats perfect :]c home can keep my unused stickers safe for me :]c
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I think Aether gives Dew one of his rings when he leaves on tour.
It's too big for him to wear, obviously, so Dew keeps it in his pocket. Uses it like a worry stone. But, just before it's time to start the first show, Dew realizes his uniform doesn't have pockets. It's embarassing, but he panics a little. Just a moment of overwhelm when the realization hits. Has to stop and catch his breath, swallow back the bile that rises in his throat.
Dew places that simple silver band on his vanity before he puts his helmet on, and just looking at it breaks his heart a little. The thought of leaving it behind hurts even more. Dew puts a hand on his chest, tries to center himself, and -
His necklace.
He feels it through his uniform, the press of the metal into his skin, and it feels like relief. Pulls down his balaclava so he can pull out the jewelry, and for the first time since Aether gifted it to him Dew unclasps the chain. Takes the necklace off just long enough to slide the ring on beside his pendant. He feels weirdly naked without it, hates having it off, and the second he secures it around his neck again he feels miles better.
Dew looks at the two pieces of metal next to each other and smiles. Happy that, in even this small way, Aether will still be out there with him.
#i really miss them you guys can you tell#dew takes a picture of the necklace with the ring on it to send to aether#who immediately gets choked up like the bog softie he is (at least when it comes to dew)#dew leaves it on the chain for the rest of the tour
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Absolutely obsessed with your steddie dad’s verse!!! Everything about it is just so good, thanks for sharing!
I love Moe, Robbie and Hazel, and I can’t get this idea out of my head that probably doesn’t fit the vision of this verse at ALL but hear me out. What if one day all the upside down stuff became public knowledge? Somehow documents get leaked, someone talks, idk. And it’s suddenly all over the news. Would be so interesting to see how Steve and Eddie would react to this and how they’d talk to their kids (who just found out about their parents saving the world from the news) about it 👀
So here’s the thing:
Realistically, I don’t think the story would ever get fully leaked, for two reasons (probably more, actually, but two primary reasons).
It makes the U.S. government look terrible, and they do a good enough job of that publically to afford any more hits to their rep so they keep that shit on lock
Nobody would believe it. Maybe there are whispers about the truth of what happened to Hawkins, Indiana in the 80s, but the second the words “monsters” and “superpowers” get thrown in there, nobody buys it. That’s why the cover stories work.
What I absolutely think would happen is ✨conspiracy theories✨
Like, come 2014 there’s a rising interest in true crime and conspiracy theories and some enthusiasts stumble upon the story. A few devoted folks pull a Murray and start building a timeline and they quickly realize that there are some pretty serious holes in the narrative. It kind of takes off from there.
Robbie is Eddie’s daughter through and through, so she’s totally into that kind of stuff. Steve and Eddie have always been relatively upfront about what happened to them in Hawkins (relatively, in that they have the “here’s what you’ll find if you google your dads” conversation with an extensive Q+A, but to avoid dumping trauma on their kids they stay light on the details), so she’s more intrigued than surprised when not only is she suggested a YouTube video about her dads’ hometown, but the video also mentions both of them by name.
Here’s the problem – like most conspiracy theories, it's true that some pretty damning evidence has been uncovered that the government probably didn’t want circulating. However the story is still missing key details in a way that makes the resounding conclusion this close to the truth, but not quite there.
Hence, this conversation Robbie has with her dads after she watches the video:
“So is it true that Uncle Will was abducted by aliens?”
Steve’s eyebrows fly up.
“Are people saying it’s aliens? It wasn’t aliens.”
“Was he though?”
“Uh…kind of. I guess.”
“Is it true the government put a fake body in the lake and pretended it was him and then when Will came back they had to pretend it was another kid?”
“Yep.”
“That’s fucked up. Is it true that Russia used a mall in Hawkins to build a secret lab?” Robbie asks.
“Yes.”
“Is it true they were doing research on the aliens and then one of them escaped and that’s why the mall got destroyed.”
“Not even close.”
“How did the mall get destroyed then?”
“Bunch of people got possessed by a shadow monster and he made them eat chemicals until they exploded and reformed as this giant mass thing that cornered us in the mall. We attacked it with fireworks. I wasn’t there for most of that, though. Just the end.”
“Whatever,” Robbie rolls her eyes, fully convinced that her dad is bullshitting her, “Is it true the Hawkins earthquakes were actually the aliens invading.”
“No – yes…kind of? Not earthquakes. Not aliens.”
“I mean…technically they kind of were aliens ,” Eddie jumps in, “Technically anything from a land foreign to yours is an alien.”
“They weren’t aliens,” Steve insists, “They were monsters. They were big and gray and their faces opened up and they had all these rows of teeth like sharks.”
“Sounds like an alien to me,” Robbie replies.
“Monsters.”
“Is it true Dad was attacked by them and he almost died and you saved him, Pop?”
“Yes, indeed,” Eddie says proudly before Steve can respond, “He’s quite the hero, don’t you think?”
“In space?”
“Nope. In an evil alternate dimension, and he dragged me all the way out through the portal and everything.”
Robbie rolls her eyes again, “Nevermind, you guys are useless. You’d think you weren’t even there.”
Steve sighs, “God, I wish that were true.”
In terms of how Steve and Eddie respond to the story gaining some attention from the general public, they do family viewings of the conspiracy videos made about the situation and make fun of the incorrect narratives. Their daughters fully do not grasp that their dads are telling the truth because, again, the truth does not seem real.
#*john mulaney voice* eh none of us really know our fathers#i could say so much more about this but i didn’t want this post to get bogged down sooo#lmk if you want more I guess#fun fact: my *redacted relative* worked on the Isabella Stewart Gardener robbery case#which i didn’t know until i watched the buzzfeed unsolved video about it and saw a picture of them#so in other words…this could totally play out like this#steddie#liv’s steddie dads verse#steddie dads#steve harrington#eddie munson
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oh yeah right art
Well they sure are kids
Here's Sunstone (Sun or Sunny), Aster, Fyre, and Ky
New iteration? What's that? Hahahahahahhahahaha ☺️
#No I'm throwing them into Amphibia#deal with it#Also damn#That quality#Cries in no wifi on my computer so I had to take a picture of it#I keep pressing j instead of i#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#rottmnt fanart#rise of the tmnt fanart#my art#tmnt iteration#Calling it into the bog#maybe#Might find something better#rottmnt leo#rottmnt donnie#rottmnt raph#rottmnt mikey
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okaayyyy soooo …. I may or may not be making fanart of your Forest God AU.👁👁 ( and possibly a spin off sorta AU story?? self indulgent ramble thing) and I was wondering if you have any examples of the boys antlers / horns ? My guess is that Sans has basically deer antlers but bigger and branch-like, skull has moose antlers but they’re misshapen and twist up in an odd way ( like that story that said they extend up like hands reaching out ), and red has caribou antlers. like a mix of deer and moose because I feel like he’d have the pointy parts of deer for fighting ( and general edgy aesthetic) but the shape and width of moose. I’m bad at explaining so i’ll just add an image. ignore the face shapes tho because I haven’t figured out how I want to really draw that yet and didn’t have examples ;-; it was all rushed hhh
That's absolutely perfect! You've nailed it. But just for the sake of it, here's the reference images I used when writing about the forest god boys' horn structure.
Sans - elk/stag
Red - Caribou/reindeer
Skull - moose/irish elk
Hope this helps!
#sorry for the late reply on this one#i do not have object permanence#as for face shapes- if its helps i pictured them as red and sans resembling large wolf skulls#and skull looking like a mix between a wolf and a crocodile#bog boy is very dinosaur-like
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#my pictures#walk#het vinne#nature reserve#bog#lake#wetlands#landscape photography#landscapes#reflections#Zoutleeuw#sky pictures#sky photography#water lilies#trees#september#of night and light and half light
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I am... so tired after work today. Have a very lazy bust up of an OC while I try to recover energy.
#my characters#hello this is my son vikram and hes a brat and i love him#the scarring is a gift from his sister when she tried to hug him but like as a dragon#cause his dear sister can turn into a dragon#and hes just like so in love with this fact and he researches and learns all about dragons#hes like a walking encyclopedia of dragon facts and he will tell you at the most bizarre times#did you know that bog witches are often not only in charge of the bog health but ALSO THEY#TAKE CARE OF DRAGON EGGS AND THATS ACTUALLY WHERE A LOT OF DRAGONS LIKE TO LAY EGGS#IN BOGS BECAUSE THE WITCHES OFFER PROTECTION#and his friend adlyn is like buddy how do you even know this#and he learned it from his sister who learned it as a dragon when she went flying around on a whim#so he just shrugs and is like oh you know...... just..... heard it from a reliable source#and then he and adlyn are traveling with a guy who is a very famous dragon slayer#and vik doesnt really get along with him much because hes super wary of what the guy would do to his sister#and so hes a brat to the guy v often#and also vik is fireproof as a gift from the witch that turned his sister into a dragon due to a misunderstanding#anyway i took more time typing these tags than drawing the picture but whatever shh#his sister falls in love with the dragon slayer though and she doesnt travel with them but she does appear a bit#cause she can fly around and yeah#the dragon slayer does get really fond of her as well as a human and then he just kinda#sees vik talking to her dragon form one night and is like what are you doing#and vik blurts out talking to the family messenger dragon - kinda like a messenger pigeon but bigger#and the guy just sighs and walks off because vik is .... v weird and this is not worth the energy
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Cranberry Shack
Walked on yet to be used paths in the cranberry bogs and found a small house. It was chock full of crates, old designs on them. Probably used to carry the berries.
There are lots of cranberry bogs where I live, you find nice stuff there. Just don't go after it rains hard, even with drains it's easy to flood the lakes and onto the paths.
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A bog in Northern Ireland by Eric Jones.
#bog#bogs#bog pictures#pictures of bogs#photography#nature photography#nature conservation#nature#thesidebog#ireland#eric jones
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why is usagi yoimbo so fucking good?
(an analysis.)
usagi yojimbo is one of the most interesting, well-told, intelligent, heartfelt stories i have ever read. it's stories are nuanced and likable, supported by characters and relationships you root for.
it's simple, balanced, and when things get serious, you feel it.
and if anyone had recommended it to me, i probably wouldn't have read it.
(spoilers for usagi yojimbo: volume two; jizo. fair warning: this will probably go long.)
i picked up uyv2 on a whim. i wasn't really planning on reading it, and if i did, i didn't think i would particularly like it.
but it was related to my current hyperfixation (they didn't have 'the last ronin' in stock, which was what i was looking for), and it was a special day, so i thought, "fuck it, i'll buy this."
a couple days later, i finished it and immediately needed more. yada yada, tale as old as time.
but what exactly made it so good? a lot of people will get into media and be hooked by the very first installment. usagi yojimbo, for me, required a little bit of faith.
i started with uyv2: issue one, aka 'shades of green.' if you're a tmnt fan, this is a great jumping off point, because it lures you in with tmnt lore all while putting intrigue in your mind about what these other guys are doing, i guess.
there are callbacks to past comics that might interest you by creating a greater sense of lore and history. you'll find yourself eventually wandering back and maybe reading the next installment, just because.
this is very good, because the next installment following the shades of green arc (at least, in the usagi yojimbo saga: book one') are the "side stories," which will stick in your mind until your thoughts are overtaken by the funny rabbit guy, and you give in.
i love shades of green as much as the next guy, but damn, those side stories fuck. even if you didn't give a shit about the turtles and only read the stories (and maybe the origin tale), it is my belief that you would know basically everything you need to know.
jizo is what originally "hooked" me. in the og comics, it was a side story for the first part of the shades of green arc, which was ingenious, seeing as it's fucking amazing.
in my humble opinion, jizo is an example of sakai at his best. it's eight pages long with three panels per page, each following the same composition. its so simple, and yet, throughout my read-through of volume two, i found myself returning to it again and again.
it starts off with an image of a road, with a series of travelers passing by. a woman toting a small stone statue brings it to the edge of the road and starts on an iconic sakai infodump, with might disinterest some, but fully delighted my autistic mind!
(here she is, by the way.)
she explains (by talking to the statute) that said statue is a representation of 'jizo-sama,' "guardian of the souls of lost children. her son was murdered five days ago on this very road, and the ones responsible, a party of bandits, have not yet been caught.
her hope is that by praying to the statue, nobody else will suffer the same fate.
she also explains some lore-- that the souls of lost children are "doomed to pile stones in the dry river bed of souls." by offering pebbles at the statue's base, she hopes to ease her sons' burden.
she then leaves, noting a chill in the air, and promises to bring back a coat for the statue the following day, in order to keep it warm.
now, by all accounts, this is an example of bad storytelling. just info-dumping is uninteresting to the audience, and clunky. well, here we are reminded that actually, if your story is worth telling, nobody gives a shit if you commit "writing sins" (see 'lord of the rings' for more examples of this. yes, uy is good enough to be compared to lotr.)
but anyway, the day progresses. there are lots of fun details in these scenes --
--like this guy ^, who we meet/meet another person akin to later on in volume two (music from heaven). we also see a couple of people make offerings on their way past, which is nice (:
night falls, and with it comes-- holy shit-- its the funny rabbit guy again!
he's alone, just passing by. he doesn't even seem to notice the statue on the side of the road.
we then get some of my all-time favorite uy panels, and a perfectly-executed scene showcasing some of usagi's core beliefs and character.
so the bandits (yes, those bandits) attack. and usagi five-v-one's them. the guards come, clean things up, etc etc. more usagi characterization shines through. and usagi leaves.
all the while, jizo-sama observes.
but wait. if you're anything like me, you might notice a small detail between in two frames.
that's right-- the statue of jizo smiles. which could be creepy in any other context, but its only for a single panel, so you might assume it was just a quirk of the artwork on that one page.
but, no.
in the morning, the woman comes back.while wrapping the statute in a coat, she says, "huh? your expression has changed-- you look more at peace-- but that's impossible! isn't it?"
she ultimately decides not to worry about it, but does mention that it'll probably cause more people to be willing to give offerings as well. which leaves us with our final panel.
so. what exactly does jizo accomplish?
well, a lot of things. it sets up worldbuilding for the more 'mystical' side of uy, introduces us to sakai's ability to make you feel like you've been punched in the gut in a good way, and characterizes usagi using only eight of the twenty-four panels that make up this story. in which, he doesn't say a word.
but beyond that. why does this work so well?
for me, a part of it is the inversion of the idea of "fate." let me explain-- in a lot of stories like this, there's this underlying trope of the "chosen one" or that things will end up a certain way. while these stories aren't bad, i generally find myself uninterested in the idea of beings beyond our comprehension pulling the strings for characters that are "special."
these characters are chosen ones. they're supposed to know everything that will go down, because they're important. whether or not fate actually plays a part, you get this idea that they were always supposed to be 'chosen,' in some way or another.
uy doesn't do that. while there is some "meddling" implied, it's not because usagi is the specialest boy ever. he's just some guy making his way through japan while trying not to starve. just... figuring himself out.
in thise story, the only people who know the full extent of the narrative are ourselves and the statue of jizo. the woman shows no indication that she's heard of the bandits' capture, and for usagi, this is just another night.
it's meaningful because we get to see all these parts of the story come together, while knowing we are the only ones this is meant for. this isn't a grand story or some epic of old. it's just a small, intimate moment of retribution.
the gods-- or, in this case, jizo-sama-- doesn't care about heroism outside of this moment. it's left vague whether or not the statue or any being it represents put this moment into fruition. if anything, it could just be a coincidence, and the statue is smiling at in gratitude.
regardless, it feels so much more meaningful than if it had been done any other way. usagi is just a character traversing these lands, weaving in and out of stories, many he will never know the full extent of. and that feels real. genuine.
i do think that this changes a bit, later on in the comics, but this beginning sense-- that usagi is just travelling through a greater world, pulled this way and that for no particular reason (unless otherwise noted) is very refreshing for a series like this.
jizo does a lot of other stuff, too-- like that core characterization i mentioned above-- but this post is long enough. i wanted to get more into other aspects of why uy is so good, but there's just so much, and honestly, you should read it yourself if you haven't already to find out what. (at the very least, read jizo-- it's short, but very, very good.)
i might do more of these for the rest of uyv2 and how it hooked me, but for now, i this this works well enough to begin answering the question of why this series is so good.
(okay, i caved-- the core characterization is his unwillingness to fight unless it's necessary. now, go read jizo!)
#tw blood#blood#yes btw that is leonardo#another win for the leosagi community /lh#long post#tw long post#analysis#my writing#my analysis#usagi yojimbo#uy#undescribed#i was gonna do an entire thing but like.... maybe some other time.#i have stuff i should be doing instead lmao (though this was fun)#less picture this time guys i'm sorry#i just didn't want to bog it down with stuff i felt it didnt need#unedited#sorry about that but i really should be writing my fic lmao
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Everyones fighting mesnwhile at the lake Eddie is still floating there.
this is not au canon & very rushed but by fuck did i have a little laugh
bonus:
#eddie waking up goes Vaguely Like This actually....#emphasis on Vaguely.#for anyone curious as to why he isnt getting up on his own#He Is So Fucking Waterlogged. He Is Too Heavy To Move#he can barely lift his hand!! it takes all his energy!#so hes just gonna... lie there for a spell...#rambles from the bog#scribble salad#wh lights out au#in my mind whenever im thinking about lights out#whenever im picturing a scene from act one#my brain will occasionally cut to eddie in water#no matter whats happening. sally is about to get frank?#hard cut to the silence of eddie facedown in the Lake™️ for a couple seconds#before resuming where we left off#its... Amusing...
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Rock Monkies AU - The Family's Reunion
Info on how Quiyue and Xiaotian got reunited with Wukong and Liu'er (mainly Qiuyue's)
The original idea was supposed to be a funny one, with of course lots of tears (of joy). The creator however went "sike! It's all angsty now! :3" and this happened.
We were talking about vines and he got an idea out of it so yea.
Have fun reading
#Gosh I hope the pictures are not jumbled up#Funny idea turned into angst#Writer things#This may or may not change depending on what bog wants to include#Gibbon by the way is the bare armed gibbon#I will be making a reference sheet of her#Maybe#I already have a design but it needs to be polished#And the approval of bog#monkie kid#lego monkie kid#monkie kid au#Rock monkies au#shadowpeach#lmk sun wukong#lmk mk#lmk macaque#monkie kid sun wukong#monkie kid macaque#lmk six eared macaque#monkie kid mk#qi xiaotian#monkie kid oc#sun wukong#six eared macaque#liu er mihou
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the immense mental strength that is required to go through and back up all of my mortifying Teenager Era writing and art from my ancient ipad mini... i want to magnet it onto the fridge and use it to display a kanban board or something for household chores, but UNFORTUNATELY, this process requires me to confront things like 1) my defunct webcomic (TERRIBLE) 2) ancient fanfiction (ALSO TERRIBLE) and 3) overwrought trying-to-be-poetic notes about Struggling With Self-Harm from when i was fifteen
#the trashcan speaks#extreme whiplash because theres also a bunch of pictures of roughly contemporary oil paintings#which are like. actually good???#and then RIGHT NEXT TO IT there's your bog standard Uncomfortably Flat Anime Girl With Hands Behind Back#i thought i was just fundamentally Bad at digital art but in hindsight the actual problem was 0 practice drawing humans
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