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thetigershoard · 1 year

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Welcome to my sales blog, my little cubs! Please, feel free to DM me about *anything*. Questions, requests, compliments, orders, anything! Please forgive me if I seem a little uh.. unprofessional. It’s my first time opening this kind of thing!

That being said

The image included is an example of my personality vials, including straw flower that I pick myself, and straw flower fluff! With this one plant, I can make *so many of these.* But guess what? That’s not all I have available as micro trinkets! I also have available to me:

Bones

Stones

Crystals

Sand

Other small plants (micro clover, lawn ivy, etc.)

Preserved insects/crawlies

Furs, whiskers, and hairs

Seeds

Best part?

All of this is sourced fairly, safely, and without harm to any animals! All the things I find are already in their condition, I just clean them up!

Personality Vial Prices:

They vary but base prices are $15 for a large and $10 for a small

The base vials include one of what you’d like.

Extras vary depending on what you’d like, so please don’t be shy and ask away! I can also get my hands on things if I don’t have them, all I need is the money for it on top of your order!

Shipments/Orders:

Orders will be taken through CashApp, PayPal, or Venmo

Half now and half upon completion

Depending on S&H prices I may ask for extra money, but this will mainly happen with orders from across/out of country orders. Those of you who aren’t close, shop wisely! The more you spend on items the more reasonable the ratio of S&H will be to your order price!

All orders are set to be done within a week, but may vary.

Friendly Reminders:

I do have to travel to obtain some of the items! The prices I give are to cover gas costs, material costs, and labor!

Please be aware of allergies if ordering for someone! Ask them first! Some people are allergic to different things to the point they can end up in the hospital!

Be kind! I’m not a robot, I can’t do things nonstop like exercise or staying up! I need rest and can only do so much xc

Some of the things I travel for? I have to go dozens of miles to get. Please be patient, one can only afford to travel so much!

End Notes:

When you order from me you’re helping someone *survive*. We all know what days are like now, and how hard it is. Please appreciate that I choose to make people happy during these times instead of just myself!

Now, come one, come all, and visit my little shop! The first 100 orders get a *free* pocket vial!

Products shown above:

Single Stem Flower Vial, Strawflower, Base Vial, $15

A Thousand Wishes Vial, Strawflower, Special Vial, $25

Separated Blossoms Vial, Strawflower, Flop Vial, Sale, $10

#newstore #new products #selling #cutesy stuff #aestehtic #aesthetic maybe?? lol #autism art #autistic creativity #yay I’m finally breaking my comfort zone :D #please be nice

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voistly · 4 months

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tell ur current fave songs and the characters u associate them with :)

YAYYY i love sharing music i've been listening to so many songs to remind myself about my ocs.

ashiri is up first because she's been heavily comforting me these past few days. NOTE: these remind me of ash but i wouldn't consider all of them ash songs if dis makes sense. if you want the full ashiri music experience here is his playlist

volcano by jarboe

flavour of the month by rina sawayama

jackie by bossa nostra

zombie boy by magnetic fields

sour switchblade by elita harkov

next up is montross... montross is a city but its a character in its own way :) smiles.

towers by via mardot

along with brew by pilotredsky

i haven't shared the machine from corps stratum yet. partially because cs a big work in progress, far behind where xc is in writing. partially because the machine is more of a concept than a single character.

1-0 by bondage fairies

war without reason by heaven pierce her

she's my pusher by the crystal method

haven't shared much of vabris yet either. from an entirely different universe than xyrilverse (which includes both cs & xc). she's a mean girl & controversial pro wrestler who gets involved in some shady business on the side

ready to die by andrew wk

finger my twat by passenger of shit (WARNING FOR EXPLICIT ALBUM ART)

brackish by kittie

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queeranarchist · 1 year

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I posted 6,535 times in 2022

45 posts created (1%)

6,490 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@nonbinarydva

@sydneygremlins

@gynandromorphia

@boyscout-butch

@purplenickel

I tagged 212 of my posts in 2022

#horses - 32 posts

#horse - 31 posts

#maddy - 30 posts

#juniper - 17 posts

#freddie - 14 posts

#ottb - 12 posts

#personal - 9 posts

#later - 5 posts

#lys - 4 posts

#arab - 4 posts

Longest Tag: 124 characters

#and i was like okay dont want to out myself or give tou my dead name but lmao at my current name being marries to my old one

My Top Posts in 2022:

not a single braincell in that head

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We were clear in both the SJ and the XC at the hunter trials this weekend! Now to see if we can keep it up and have an acceptable dressage round at our first event of the year.

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My #1 post of 2022

And this is why you need to get clear consent before giving someone a kiss 😅

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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kadoodles-on-ao3 · 1 year

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It's been a while since my last aside so I felt like sharing what I've been working on in my free time! I promise I'm not lazy, I'm just busy and also really like starting new projects halfway through working on 8 other projects for some reason haha

Speaking of starting something new when I haven't finished something I started previously, Minh and I were planning on making a collab Shulkelia one shot for Valentine's Day! Obviously that didn't pan out haha but it's still being worked on and it's extremely cute and fun :) Hopefully it will be ready to post sooner than later! And I also will hopefully be able to work on Constellations soon as well!! (Seriously I feel. SO. bad about my hiatus, especially since I know how many interesting and fun rough-draft ideas we brainstormed up for it that are just waiting to be finalized and shared with the world!!)

Another thing I wanted to do for Valentine's Day but extremely missed the boat on was mass dumping the few good NSFW Shulkelia pieces on here (with a planned warning ahead of time as well as copious tagging and hiding under readmores, of course!), including a full translation of a doujin! However, it being a nearly 20-page comic with dialogue and onomatopoeia all over the place meant I couldn't go the normal route of putting the translation below the art, it would just be way too messy and confusing. So, I decided to open up Photopea and replace the Japanese text with my translation! I felt bad about editing someone else's work (still do haha) but there was just no other way to do it, there is. SO so much onomatopoeia in there that it would be a nightmare to do it any other way. But that fact also contributed to why I still have yet to finish the translation: I got wayyy too ambitious in my typical perfectionist way, and decided to use the clone tool to edit out the hiragana and katakana handwriting for the onomatopoeia and place English text in their places, rather than just put it in small, parenthetical text next to the original writing like manga translations typically do. And oh my GOD I should never have done that there are literal HUNDREDS of characters I had to painstakingly edit out and I'm STILL not even done yet no no no... But I'm so close to finishing it!! I have only a couple pages left and then it's good to go!! Expect to see it along with the other NSFW art of them (again, with multiple warnings far ahead of time plus careful tagging to make sure you won't see it if you don't want to!!) in the near future!

Not XC related at all, but my most recent project has been making an Ao3 site skin (and, in the process, learning how CSS works) and it's been really satisfying! It's nothing super fancy, but it does create a noticeable improvement from the default (in terms of clarity/organization/readability, no offense intended at all of course!) and I'm very pleased with it so far! Once it's done I'll share it here, complete with notes on what each piece is doing to the layout and how, so anyone can use it and tweak it how they like! :)

I unfortunately haven't made any more progress on Xenoblade 3, sorry to say. And actually... it's partially because I'm worried that I'll end up liking Noah so much that I'll get even more distracted from writing Shulkelia or Xenoblade 1 in general haha... Like I'd never give up on that of course, 1 and its characters will always have a special place in my heart! But I can see myself getting swept away by The New Guy TM, much like I do with new project ideas popping into my head...

My FFXIV x Xenoblade 1 crossover has made some good progress! I've now finalized the outfits for over half of the characters I plan on making, after hours and hours of trying different chestpieces and dyes to get them as close to their canon outfits as possible! In fact, maybe I could share a little more about what exactly I'm doing, to show how I was having too much fun and made it a bigger thing than it had to be, to help explain why it's taking so long haha:

So originally the idea started out as "what FFXIV job best suits the playstyle/archetype of each of XC's playable characters?" (and I have a whole host of notes in my head about why that is from both a gameplay/kit perspective and a fandom-y General Vibes/Aesthetic perspective, which I will for sure post along with the pics). And if I could draw well, it probably would've ended there: I'd just have made some art of the cast posing with their weapons and call it done. But since 1) I can't draw the things I see in my head like I want to and 2) I like to over-complicate things for fun, I decided to pile onto this idea by not only adding more characters of (XC SPOILERS!!!) Alvis, Egil, Meyneth, and Zanza to the roster (including in terms of what jobs suit them each and why!) but also recreate everyone in-game! (I really wanted to do Dickson as well, but unfortunately there are absolutely zero mustache options that look like his :< There's only one that's even remotely similar, but the face is completely wrong for him (what facial features look like are tied to faces, for some reason; the Mustache Facial Feature creates a different type of mustache depending on which Face option you pick) so there's no way to make a character that looks sufficiently like him, at least to my standards. Maybe one day they'll add one that fits...? If they do I will for sure make Gunbreaker Dickson a reality!) This resulted in me needing to not only sit down for hours in XIV's character creator ensuring every detail was as close a match to their designs as possible, but also opening up 8000 tabs in Eorzea Collection and looking through every. single. last. glamour option. in the game for each. and. every. slot. for each. and. every. character. to find out how closely I could translate their weird (affectionate) XC clothes into weird (affectionate) FF clothes. Combine that with my stubbornness in wanting them to look as accurate as possible resulting in making two different outfits per character based on whether or not they can equip/glam the gear as the job that suits them most, (plus the fact that I'm doing [again, SPOILERS!!!] Mecha-Fiora in addition to Homs!Fiora as well as having three [three!] different job options for Shulk based on varying levels of both XC and XIV spoilers to avoid ruining twists for either game), and the fact that I went a step further and decided to also make alternate-race versions for the main party (that sounds... bad lmao. fantasy races, like elves and catboys and such) like half if-these-characters-were-instead-created-by-the-XIV-designers-in-an-alternate-timeline-what-race-would-they-probably-make-them-judged-by-me-like-their-jobs-on-both-lore-and-Vibes-TM and half if-the-XC-gang-existed-irl-and-played-XIV-what-would-they-make-their-characters-look-like, and reminder that each of these versions have two different outfit variants and each outfit needs a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 7 separate pieces each that also need to be dyed and have multiple different options to try on for every character and... it took a teeeeny bit longer than I was expecting to get through haha. But that's not at all to say it's a chore to get through; it's certainly been a process yes, but I've been having a lot of fun the whole time :) Finally getting every element just right, from all the details in character creation down to their eyebrow shape to finding the best option for every armor slot dyed just the right color, seeing it all come together and actually look quite a bit like the character is so satisfying! I can't wait to share them all, I hope someone out there enjoys the results as much as I did creating them! :) Oh, and I also will be making a glam list for each outfit as well as sharing my notes on what I picked in the character creator, so if you want to do an in-game/WoL cosplay as someone or maybe even make an alt named after one based on my recreation of them then it'll be easy for you! :)

Even though I haven't been keeping up with my fanfic writing as much lately, I do still get little ideas for things quite often and am typing them down in my doc for later! I have a gigantic backlog of things I could write: fanfics long and short, Shulkelia fics and Genfics, non-fanfic concepts both XC-related and not... rest assured, even if I'm not posting on here or Ao3 my mind is always buzzing with something and I'm always wanting to create more!

#aside #xenoblade spoilers #xenoblade chronicles spoilers #oh also don't forget about my voice line project!! that will be coming in june!! :)#is there anything i forgot...? uhh i want to do a melia and/or shulk cosplay someday #my bf has a monado prop and everything haha #i like making my own cosplays as close to from-scratch as possible #but i'm not great at sewing plus the xc outfits are outrageously detailed so idk if that'll pan out haha #oh and speaking of xc and my bf having stuff from it #i managed to snag an unopened(!!!) limited edition xc 1 that came with a special red classic controller!!!!! the european exclusive!!!!#i got it for him for his bday but i mean i paid for it and i live with him so it's sort of mine as well haha #it's very surreal to actually have and see it esp since it's near-mint condition...#thank you to whoever kept it all these years and was willing to sell it and ship it overseas!!#we will take extremely good care of it forever!!

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michaelcastaway · 14 years

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Moving On

Today I ran the last race of my freshman college xc season. I realized I had absolutely no motivation. There was no reason for me to run fast or give any amount of myself. I wasn't going to beat any of the seniors as a sign of my respect for then and their leadership they showed this season. I see now that if I had beat Dan, which was well within my grasp, I would have been first for the team but that doesn't matter now. As I look on the next three years it is clear God has placed this team in my hands. Something that I can use to glorify him. How will I do that. I will be first on the team which immediately garners the respect of the other runners and assures me the position of captain. The inclusion of a new coach in the mix. Even if it's P. Will be an interesting turn of events. I'm not sure what to do with that. I already have a great deal of respect for him and I think that if anyone can coach me to a national championship it's him. The only fear I have is that a transition in coaching could stunt recruiting. As it stands now we don't have enough people to field a team next year. That scares me. I think I need to decide to jump all into this thing. Currently I'm just using the team to further my own agenda but it's time to take control and stop consuming.

I realized just now that I've moved on. I'm at the point that I'm no longer bound by the past. I can be myself and find confidence in that. I wonder what she's doing right now? I hope she's moved on too. A mile for every minute we've spent together. I've run off the commitment I made to that relationship, payed the price, and moved on. I failed in that relationship. I was just taking from her. I may have been a gentleman and showed her respect but It was not respectful to entice her heart. In asking her to love me I took a part of her that her future husband will never have. Dating in it's current form is useless. Unless it's with the goal of marriage it doesn't honor either person. I really couldn't see dating someone for an extended period of time. There's a natural progression of both physical and emotional intimacy that have to happen at the same time. So I don't know where that leaves me. Dealing with a system I didn't create and almost our entire culture has bought into. I really need to learn how to communicate. Actually talk about things because people are more different then I could possibly imagine. Different societies(?) cultures come at things from completely different angles. It's selfish to assume that two people are on the same page emotionally or even psychologically.

Now let's make this note dangerous. Who are the girls here I would like to pursue? I feel like I've been here long enough to pick out a couple. I'm still in the socially handicapped freshman phase so it doesn't really matter. There's L. I've already fallen in love with the persona she portrays online but that is a dangerous place to be. I need to get to know her in real life but at this point there is no in. That's not entirely true because I think she is at least interested in who I am. Keep this open but don't stress about it. Then there's the interesting issue of V. I think she has a crush on the Facebook version of me which is funny. It's showed me how not to approach L. As for team mates they are off limits. Finally there are the two S's. The blond and the brunette. Why do I approach all relationships with girls from the perspective of marriage? Is that the only reason I'm here or is that what I've reduced women to In my mind. Simply future mates and not real people with which I can have meaningful relationships with... idk.

Why am I so disillusioned with school? I feel like classes are just a waste of my time. When you have a goal ahead of you it's hard to see meaning in pursuits that are distracting you from that. It doesn't help that none of my classes are really helping me get there. I don't really care about getting a degree from a college if it's not directly applicable to what my vocation will be. Art is so not straight forward like I would like. A business degree would be so easy. Our country is built on business. Even art is simply a commodity to be bought and sold. I'm just a machine that produces something someone else wants. Can I do anything with my life that is simply for the joy of the lord? Or will anything I do glorify him as long as I'm living my life in his service.

Next year:

Me - 28:28. Three more years

Z - 29:29. Two

M - 31:10. Three

J - 31:30. One

B??? Zero...?

M? That rounds out 5... (possibility)

Anyone? There has to be some more runners at coming...

No One I could drag from providence. ESP if soccer is at the same time. I couldn't take E away from the track.

I wish this thing would just type the answers back to me.

I'm A student of the sport from a consumer standpoint and as a spectator. Now I need to learn how to design workouts.

It's remarkable how much I need to be my own coach.

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livingwithlosingyou · 2 years

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Living with Losing You - 10/29/2022

I stayed up until 5:30am the next day (technically 10/30/2022)

Let’s dive into this, shall we?

I slept like actual dog shit last night. I think it’s because I ran out of my Hydroxyzine, and so my anxiety and hives have been acting up. The struggle is so real. I took Sadie to my parents to go play with the dogs first thing in the morning, and then jammed with my dad. It was nice to go over there and hang out!

After that I rushed home to put in my laundry and then needed to run a few errands. I called / texted Marissa and then grabbed us both brunch to eat at my apartment from PS obviously. We ate, then I decided that I needed to take a nap because I was barely making it. It was probably about 3 hours of sleep last night total. I also much have slept wrong because it hurt my back. Bridges hit differently today.

After I took a nap, I was super groggy. I just was not feeling 100%. I powered through it and got ready for the XC meet then headed out. The issue with this meet is that it was supposed to go super late, but I really was not feeling well. I also had two other obligations right after the meet. I will get into those later.

The meet went well! It was essentially a track meet during the XC season. We had boys and girls racing (in their correct heats, IYKYK). We saw a lot fo great performances and PR’s. Go team!!! It was also fun to run into other coaches and athletes that I used to compete against. It was like a little reunion. I realyl started to not feel great though, so I left at around 6:30pm.

I had promised Natalia that I would come to her and her uncle’s halloween / birthday celebration. I ended up just going as a coach since I didn’t have a ton of time to change before I headed over there. Plus, I was putting her present together, so. It had little notes in it explaining the gifts. When I got there, a lot of her family immediately came up and gave me a huge hug. I had not seen some of them in years. It really was nice to see them all though. Melissa and some other old coworkers were there as well. Overall, a great time. I ended up staying for about an hour and a half, and decided that I did want to “rally”.

That guy friend that I mentioned in my previous blog invited me to his friend’s halloween party. I dressed as “Milk gone bad” and Erika was Kim Possible. I invited Erika to come with me because I thought it would be nice to have someone else there that I know, and I didn’t want to go up there alone since it was going to be semi-late. I ended up picking her up on the way, and we didn’t even arrive until about 10:45pm. This party was mostly fun, very eye opening for me. It reinforced a lot of my core beliefs and boundaries that I have for myself. Also, I saw again what alcohol does to people. I just really do not find it appealing. It’s not my thing. Erika and I made the most of it. Life is full of lessons in 2022, love that for me. I do have a lot of blessings too though. I feel lucky in so many ways, and also full of worth.

We ended up leaving and going to another house (another of the guy’s friends). We played a high stakes game of pool, so whichever team lost, they would have to jump into the pool. I chose to be on Erika’s team, and we ended up destroying them. I am not sure what came over me, but I was able to sink like 5 shots. Ironically, it was all while that guy left the room to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, he thought that they were making it up. I ended up sinking the 8 ball in to secure the win, and into the pool they went. It was freezing outside, but the pool itself wasn’t too terrible. I ended up jumping in after, cause why not. Shortly after, Erika and I went home. I say it like the night ended early, but I did not get home until 5am. I am EXHAUSTED. I need to try and sleep as long as I can. I will probably only sleep a couple of hours again knowing me.

Good Night / Morning, James. I know you were with me tonight because I think you helped me sink all those shots during pool (lol). I harken back to celebrating halloween with you, and it is hard to think about. Even tonight that guy was looking through my instagram and saw the posts I made of us, and you could tell he was even so impressed by you. You were just so impressive. I wish you saw that. I wish you saw that, and realized how special you were. You still are so special. Whoever I end up with is going to have to respect that special place you hold in my heart, and he will.

For this morning if you could let me borrow your sleeping powers (James could sleep for hours on end, and anywhere), that would be greatly appreciated.

Love you lots.

Rest in Peace, James Burton Nichols

10/1/1993 - 7/16/2022

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the-starlight-papers · 3 years

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When you want short hair but you don’t want to cut it super short and you want to go sort of bob length but you run and you need to have a way to put it back so it’s not in your face but you want short hair

#note: my hair currently long #my goal shortness is my pfp #but I have like another month of XC to deal with and I don’t want to drive myself absolutely crazy while running #short hair people please give me tips #mine

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izicodes · 8 months

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September Coding Goals

Piggybacking off @leaveblackkbrosalone (hope you don't mind hehe) but I wanted to share my goals for this month!

☆ Learn SCSS ☆ Learn React.js ☆ Improve C# skills - get to mid-level knowledge

That's all and at the end of the month, I'll come back and see if I have improved or not - fingers crossed I do! 🤞🏾💗

#xc: note to myself #codeblr #coding #progblr #programming #studyblr #studying #computer science #tech

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gotravel2fly · 4 years

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The secret of the cross country flying

@Yassen Savov Paragliding

Because of all the new Coronavirus lockdown and the shitty weather after that, I managed to gather only about 20 hours flying until July, which is amazingly poor and low level, after all the magic flying last season. But traveling in 2020 is quite a challenge for everybody. So, after many plans going with the wind (only metaphorically speaking, unfortunately!) I decided to give it a go with an XC course/guided distance flying in Bulgaria, Sopot area.

Sopot is a small city on the southern part of the Balkans mountains, around 1h30 drive from Sofia, a 4h30 drive from Bucharest and a place where I’ve been a few times before. It is a cool place to fly and the weather here can be good for flying many days in a row especially in July and August, so I guess that makes it a reliable option close to Bucharest. It can be rough, it can be bumpy, but it can be flyable, so according to the experience of the pilot, it can be very rewarding or unsatisfying, even frustrating. In this magical place, where you can eat a great ice-cream right at the lift, good Bulgarian food at Rodeo, and talk to many nice and friendly pilots, I decided to learn to fly better.

One of the instructors is Niki Yotov from Skynomad, the one who told me about the course. He has been flying for over 20years and he knows very well the area, the particularities and the aerology of these mountains. He is a very good pilot and the one who managed the logistics for the course.

The other instructor is Yassen Savov, one of the best competition pilots World level, European champion and a crazy funny guy. I didn’t know Yassen before this, but I’m glad that I’ve met him now, he’s cool and I enjoyed very much flying with him. I hope that, at some point, my skills will be sharper so I can fly like him.

I figured that was a good combo for the guiding team, so I went along, it seemed the right thing to do. I also told Andrei Turnu, so that I can share the experiences with someone I knew. This is the link of the course, on Yassen’s site https://www.yassensavov.com/sopot-bulgaria-26-july-1-august/

The headquarters was at the nest www.nest.bg, Niki’s place, which I highly recommend because it really has good vibes, cool atmosphere flying-related and the place where we also had our theory sessions during the course, briefings and debriefings every day.

As the first day was forecasted with some overdeveloping of the clouds, we adapted somehow to the conditions. I know it is a small flight, but it was hard work there :)).

https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:raluca_dd/26.7.2020/11:14

The task was too optimistic for the day, but I had a really nice flight with Yassen and managed to turn back to the main landing place. I guess that we got the best what we could from that day as the plan changed accordingly. Honestly, if I were alone, I would go land much earlier, so the fact that we fly with the instructors is a good motivation for me. In bumpy air, I usually decide to land than to continue to struggle, but I guess that was just my lack of determination until now.

The course is held in this area, but actually not only in Sopot, as we ended in 2 hours drive take off from Sopot only on the second day. Some of the guys managed to fly very well and quite far by themselves or with the instructors, which is a very good thing. I managed to bomb-out twice, so not the best day for me. The conditions were not that bad actually, as it was proved by the others’ flights, but tricky for me, as it was a small hill near Plovdiv, with a quite strong wind at the take-off and some turbulent air, which I love by the way… So I took off, climbed in a thermal and then lost it on the way… It happens, I guess, but I decided I need some ballast in order to load my paraglider better and my wing to stay more stable.

The trouble is, as I guess most of the paragliding girls and light pilots, that I fly an S size glider and I don’t really load it maximum. XS size would be way too small, so a 65-85 is a good range, me having around 78kg with my equipment on.

The next day I took 4litres of water but there were no significant changes, with Yassen waiting for me on every jump and in every thermal… I felt a bit ashamed of that because I really tried and did my best..but my glide ratio nor my speed didn’t want to cooperate.

https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:raluca_dd/28.7.2020/09:48

We managed to get back near Sopot and land on a nice golden field. Yassen having his anti-G parachute thrown on every glide (although he flew with a Rush 4) just to wait up for me, priceless…

https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:raluca_dd/29.7.2020/08:38 – This one was my PR FAI triangle! Note to self: insist more where you consider it should work, don’t give up just before getting there!

But with an extra 5-6 liters of ballast, I felt like this is something I really had to do for a long time… My Rush 5 flies soooo much better and faster than I would have expected being overloaded, it seems. So with 9 liters of water ballast… It was just perfect! My every-day-collapses were a bit rarer, thou stronger, turbulence didn’t seem that annoying and the speed was amazing compared to the day before! I really felt I could travel by flying my paraglider, and not only feeling like moving around by bus! So days of the pure pleasure of flying with full speed at cloud base in the Sopot area… A dream coming true! Not the numbers are important, but the landscapes I got to see, the feelings I got to feel.. Just amazing!

https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:raluca_dd/30.7.2020/09:04

The preset task was 100km out and return to the west of Sopot. Although I bombed out on this flight, it was one of the best flights so far, I managed to stay at cloud base the whole flight over the mountains and then I had a low-save on a golden field, from 160m above the ground right to the cloud base, which allowed me to travel back for a few more km until the shadow came on the valley. The better option was to stay more on the right side when going back to the take-off, as the north wind entered stronger later in the day over the mountain.

@Svetli, at the Sopot take-off, Rush 4 and Rush 5

I don’t know how people get to learn how to do efficiently distance flying, but for me, it did not come naturally. It takes a lot of work, frustration, bomb outs and that uncomfortable feeling that I cannot do this. But actually, I can. I have learned a lot in the past year flying many hours in Colombia, India and around home, but I’ve learned even more in a few days on this course because the guys have worked hard on explaining how terrain should be approached, how the weather should be read, how the things should be working. And if you take it easy and shallow, it won’t work. You have to be committed to doing this. Every information should be processed and you should imagine very clearly the zoning in the air and the thermals and the clouds forming in order to get to fly far and fast. Of course, this course was held with people flying B wings and not competition level wings. It was a bit overkill, in my opinion, as Yassen and Niki fly way better than teaching us how to tighten the 360 in a thermal and when to push the speed bar. What I mean is that this course can be held for advanced pilots who want to fly fast in competitions or open distances.

I know how much I annoy Vladut with my slow flying that he only very rarely has the patience to wait for me (actually only twice that happened..). But I guess patience is something everyone has to deal with.

@ Svetli, at the Sopot take-off

We had on this course incredible good weather, kinda tricky, but if you fly with the right people nearby, it can be awesome! The 6th day of the course was really amazing, as I guess no-one expected to be epic weather for the day. The forecasted strong North wind was not really that strong and let us fly to the east and then southeast, with incredible cloud base 3200+. After beautiful site seeing over the Botev Peak, we flew out from the mountains and traveled at the cloud base over the flatlands to the southern part of Kazanlic and then south passing by Stara Zagora.

https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:raluca_dd/31.7.2020/09:06

The preset task was to Haskovo, but the wind was too westerly on that part so the new plan was Bulgaria-Greece-Turkey border. So after 7h flight and many thermals away, the goal was completed by all the three students flying that day in the course… What a day! 175 km, a personal best of distance flying and airtime. We had 2 different routes, Jack and I were with Yassen and Andrei was with Niki, but we managed to land in the same spot. At the landing, the bus was waiting for us, many thanks to Ivan for the retrieval. Actually every day was very well organized and the retrieval bus came very fast every time.

This is the team for this flight, Ivan was taking the photo.

Best guiding ever, I feel that I have made progress, I have learned a lot of things while flying but also in theory sessions. Amazing job, guys!

The 7th day of the course was also flyable though pretty strong NW wind at the Brestovitsa take off. I somehow managed to take off and then fly by myself for 45km with tricky strong wind and complete the small task. https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:raluca_dd/1.8.2020/11:08

Overall, it was a really great experience this XC course, with 2 of the best instructors I could have for teaching me stuff about cross country flying, having epic and amazing flights every day for a week… That is very consistent weather in the Sopot area, but actually, Bulgaria has very good weather most of the time… I would really like to fly again with the guys and maybe see some new places to fly in the next months if Corona will allow us.

Oh, I forget to tell you about the secret of cross country flying… I actually missed that because Andrei and I were late for the beginning of the course and the secret had already been told :)))

#paragliding #sopot paragliding #xc guiding paragliding #cross country

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doodle-skeleton15 · 4 years

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So I’m doing this thing because I thought it’d be a cute idea and I felt like doing some Poth stuff. Okay? Okay XD

I’ll be drawing a Poth picture and writing a short scenario for each day of this challenge ^^ Also I’m on holiday at the moment so I have a lot of spare time lol

Have it!

I was sitting in the living room watching a Mettaton show with my brother Raven when I heard a ‘ping’ resound from my phone. I tried my best not to smile as I picked the small device up, knowing Raven was watching me.

“You still set up with that weirdo?” Raven said giving me a filthy look as I opened the message. I rolled my eye, typing a quick reply before getting up.

“What’s your deal with him Rae? He’s a good guy,” I countered as I walked towards the coat rack, taking the cloak my dad’s brother had made for me and slipping it on.

“Well the last ‘good guy’ you were with ran off to who-knows-where!”

I groaned at my brother’s complaints. I knew Raven didn’t particularly like Palette but c’mon - he was my boyfriend! Can’t he just lay off for once?

My mood instantly brightened as I heard the chime of our homes doorbell.

‘That’s him!’ I thought excitedly, making my way over to the door and opening it to reveal Palette smiling at me, his cheekbones tinted with his gradient blush.

“Hey Gothy, ready time go?”

“Ready as I’ll ever be.” I grabbed my keys from the cabinet by the door and stepped out. “Tell mum I’m gonna be out for the rest of the day!” I called back to Raven as I turned to close the door. Said skeleton gave me an unamused look but nodded to let me know he would. I smiled despite his sourness and closed the door, quickly turning round to hug Palette.

I could tell the artistic skeleton was surprised at my spontaneous affection as he took a few seconds to hug me back. He chuckled and happily nuzzled the fabric of my cloak.

“What’s this for huh?” he said teasingly, making me pull back so I could give him a shy smile.

“Just a thank you for getting me out the house.” He smiled at my words and began to walk in the direction of the park.

“Well you’re in luck cuz not only am I getting you some much needed Vitamin D but you also get to enjoy some of the best nice cream I bet you’ll ever have tasted, all while being in the company of a charming date,” Palette said dramatically, presenting our planned outing with obviously rehearsed gusto. I couldn’t help but laugh at his performance, playfully looking around before smirking at him.

“Oh yeah, where’s this date then? I don’t see any Prince Charming.” I laughed again as Palette shoved my shoulder, chuckling lightly himself.

“You are relentless!”

We fell into idle small talk as we walked the rest of the way to the nice cream shop. It was located just outside the park so it was a perfect place to take a small break before we spent the rest of the day together.

Palette smiled as he held the door open for me, gesturing me in with his hand.

“After you, my love,” he said making me roll my eye, though I still pecked his cheekbone in thanks as I walked past. He followed me in and we found a nice quiet booth in the corner that we could sit down in.

We ordered and waited for our nice cream to arrive; we had ordered one to share, two scoops of our favourite flavours. Plain vanilla for me and bubblegum for Palette. They were brought over and I couldn’t help but grin. It wasn’t often that I was allowed nice cream so this was an especially special treat for me. I scooped some of the bubblegum nice cream onto my spoon and held it up to Palette with a smirk.

“Open up~” I said tauntingly, making him blush before he smirked back and opened his mouth. I placed the spoon into the opening and he ate it with a smile.

“It’s nice to see you getting more confident Gothy,” Palette said, propping his skull up on his hand. I chuckled, scooping up some vanilla nice cream for myself.

“What’s the note say?” I asked as I placed the spoon in my mouth.

Palette scoffed as I changed the subject and picked up the little slip of paper that had come with our treat. He scanned the message on it, letting out a snort before folding it up and placing it beside him.

“What’d it say?” I tilted my head at his reaction, pouting as he shrugged in reply. “C’mon Pally, tell meeeee,” I whined reaching my arms out to make grabby hands at the piece of paper. Palette laughed at my actions and took ahold of both of my hands, holding them gently.

He traced his thumbs around the holes in each of my hands, all while maintaining eye contact. I blushed at the affection, which made Palette smile triumphantly.

“Your hand looks heavy. Let me hold it for you,” Palette said and this time it was my turn to snort as I pulled my hands back to stifle my laughter.

Palette blinked at me in confusion, which only served to make me laugh more. I eventually calmed down and smiled at him, my face flushed after my little episode. Palette was pouting at me, clearly not as amused as I had been.

“Goth, that’s seriously what the note said,” he told me, handing me the piece of paper. I read it and my eye sockets widened before I laughed again.

“Oh God Pally, I’m so sorry,” I said apologetically, smiling as he huffed and crossed his arms. “It’s just... you say stuff like that normally!”

“I’m never that bad!”

Pfffft- I can’t draw people (let alone skeletons) holding hands for the life of me so I hope hand touching specifies XD It looks so sketchy ahhhh I sorry XC

Goth belongs to @nekophy

Palette belongs to angexci

Raven belongs to idk sorry ;-;

Geno belongs to @loverofpiggies

Reaper belongs to @renrink

Many apologies for probably screwing up the characters XD

#poth #palette #goth #undertale #otp

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goatyellsateverything · 5 years

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Uuuuhhhhhaaaagggg!!!!

So I think the reality of The Trip is finally setting in and causing no small amount of anxiety.

3 weeks.

I've got 3 weeks before I'm all on my own for the winter.

Sure, I'm not 100% alone. My brother is only about 10 minutes away and Kage would drop practically everything if I asked her to stay with me for a few days. But its different not having someone close by, seconds away should something happen. I kind of wish I was on better terms with my extended family, in a way. Though, I kind of have a feeling something may blow up there (which is another point of anxiety) but I've got the emergency and not so emergency number for the local PD on speed dial. And it's not like I cant go to the neighbors if there was a real and true emergency like a fire or something (note to self: check fire alarms before the rents leave).

Maybe I'm just venting here as a way to remind myself I do still have a support network if i need it. Maybe its hit harder tonight because I'm nervicited about tomorrow and the Waddle...

I kinda just want to take a half a sleeping pill and go catatonic for a few hours but I need to be coherent tomorrow so that's not an option. Xc

#goat noises

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99dreams1nightmare-blog · 5 years

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My 3.. “Christian” beans, xDD

First - Myron (Also he’s not wearing shorts, I swear to whatever god is out there, xDDDD)

Second - Vritra

Third - Nyven

They’re apart of this roleplay I’m making called mindset. These 3 would be considered the “antagonists”, let me explain, owo

Mindset takes place in a heavily Christian private school, usually I hate school roleplays because, they’re a good idea at first then the idea falls because.. School isn’t exactly an interesting place, but I’m trying really hard to make this one interesting.

Any “athiests” found in the school will be taken to the basement of the school. Where, they may die immediately, Or be taken to the judgement arrangement room, where they’re put into classes with the teachers being Nyven, Myron, And Vritra. (Though, vritra doesn’t show up until really really late into the roleplay)

Once they’re put into classes, it would be announced by Myron and Nyven that the last 3 out of 20 students get to leave unharmed, but a student will be killed off each week, if nobody dies on there own, henceforth, the students will have to kill eachother so nobody else dies, bUuUUt, that isn’t just it, >:3 If they are caught killing another student, a class trial is held to decide if they are guilty or not guilty.

The classes themself are basically hell, Well.. A very diluted version of it, xDD

3 students would be chosen every class for the “activity”, and by that, I mean possibly tortured. I’m getting there, Okay? I’ve only been working on this idea for 2 days off and on, xDDD

I have to put 20 characters in here, Not including the 3 “priests”. Aka Vritra, Nyven, and Myron-

But uh-

Heres what I have so far for the characters, xDD

Mindset’s characters

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Lazarus - A precious bunny boi, he’s pretty damn shy, except for.. Uh.. That 2nd and 3rd part, xDD The Poor bapy breaks easily under pressure and has trouble even looking at people,

Lazarus: ..? O-Oh..I-I’m Sorry.. I’ll leave..

Lazarus: What do you mean..?! That’s so goddamn stupid! AGGH.. JUST SHUT UP ALREADY, WONT YOU?!

Lazarus: ..Hmph.. I’m already quiet as it is.. Why *should* I shut up?

Rowan - Maxwell’s twin, she’s majorly narcissistic and bossy, but she can be.. Kind of nice at times, But she’s super fukn pretty, so there’s that? xDD

Rowan: Haaahh? You better have a good reason for interrupting my nap!.. >:C

Rowan: OI. Perv, Give me your jacket, It’s cold.

Rowan: Hmph, Dumbass.. Making me do stuff myself.. What does he think I am?!..

Maxwell - Rowan’s twin sister, she’s the smarter of the two, obviously, Rowan is fucking stupid, xDD Maxwell doesn’t exactly hesitate to insult someone, Or.. Hesitate on kind of anything, Though due to that, she has never exactly had any friends so she gets all excited and shit when she makes a friend, so that’s cute, xDD

Maxwell: No, it’s not that, it’s the other answer, Jeez.. Are you really that dense?

Maxwell: Woooahhh..~ I have a friend! .o.

Maxwell: Tch, Shut it, you’re starting to annoy me..

Aromara - Myron’s favorite student, Even Though she’s a complete pervert, she sees Myron as a big brother and respects him. Though, she lacks any kind of manners. She’s a bit unfinished, tho! But I’m getting there, xDD

Aromara: Fuck yeah! Gimme this shit! >:D **she chugs a can of soda** WOOOOO!~

Aromara: HAHAHAHA! INSULT ME AGAIN! AGAIN! AGAIN!

Aromara: Wha?! Hey! Shut up! That’s my line! >:0

Isamu - This precious little creature respects any kind of rule, Not hesitating to call someone out on it, he doesn’t blush very much unless someone tries to hold his hand. He hates sweets with a fukn p a s s i o n, but he’s still precious, xDD

Isamu: ..Mmmmm.. xc **red red red-**

Isamu: I really appreciate it!.. But.. I don’t like sweets. Sorrry,

Isamu: That’s.. A lie.. At the start of the trial you said you were in class 102? You filthy liar! Liar liar pants on fire!

Edgar - A big fukn teddy bear, Not literally, He’s just really tall, xDD he’s pretty damn childish in the long run, Though, he only has one eye and no mouth, He manages, he usually writes down in a little note pad to talk to people. Truthfully, he has never even mentioned religion once, the only reason he’s in the basement of the school is because people think he looks like a demon.

Edgar: . . . “I don’t understand.. What do you mean?.. I know I look a little weird but I’d never hurt someone..”

Edgar: . . .

Edgar: ..”I’m sorry.. I can’t speak..”

Myron - A superficial, verbally abusive bean, he rarely acts kind to people, Not even Nyven, he’s iconic for being the loudest and strongest of the 3, Truthfully he was saddened to see his “little sister” put in the basement, but he probably wouldn’t hesitate to kill her.

Myron: Hmph, All I wanted to do was help. How rude of you.. I can’t believe you.

Myron: Get off of me, you dumb bitch, I aint’ your “big brother”, Aromara. Let alone, friend, Leave me alone, I’m busy. (Aromara: bRotHer tHiS iS bEtRaYaL ;O;)

Myron: Oh.. It’s okay, I don’t mind as long as it pleases me, After all.. Your mine, got it?

Nyven - A sort of.. Biopolar bean, one second he’s acting all shy and shit and the next he’s stabbing your eye out, Tsuyoshi learned that the hard way. Also may have a few yandere tendencies and very sadistic but we don’t talk about that, xDDD

Nyven: ..Sorry about this, I can’t let you continue through here, So leave before I must use force.

Nyven: Love.. Oh my honey.. Ahhh.. Is this what Love feels like..? I love it.. I love it! I’ll never let go of this feeling! Ahh.. uwu (Creep, lOl)

Nyven: Mmm.. I’m sorry.. Are you just a pussy or are you really gonna step up to save them?

Tsuyoshi - Hes a new bean that I just added, I’m planning on him to slack off a lot during class and shit and mostly just be really easily pissed off, Though, his only friend is Isamu who has, Might i say, dragged him across the floor to class one day. Moral of the story, He’s a lazy ass hOe, xDDD

Tsuyoshi: ..Mmh.. Don’t give a shit.. Go on without me..

Tsuyoshi: ..Eh? What the hell? That’s not what I meant, Jackass.. Now let me sleep.

Tsuyoshi: Why do you think I killed him? Do you really think I have the time to do any of that shit? I’m busy doing more important things. Like sleeping.

Vritra - This guy is so easily obsessed, He easily falls in love, which might I say will probably play a part once he appears, He’s.. Definitely a low-key demon, Only one of the 5 main characters able to see his horns an tail (a boi named Shiro). Whilst Nyven and Myron.. Might know? It’s hard to tell.

Vritra: ..Hehehe..~ Look, Veve! His eye has fallen out.. He’s starting to decompose!~ Isn’t it just wonderful..? Haha..~

Vritra: ..How boringg..~ I was really excited to execute someone today!~ xc *he sighs* Maybe tomorrow.. qmq

Vritra: Comebackcomebackcomeback!~ Don’t run from me!~ I’m going to catch you anyway..!~ Where have you hidden, my dear?~ I know you’re in here.. Ehehe..~

And for the main characters I mentioned earlier!

Those characters are gonna be played by my girlfriend, Izzy. I haven’t exactly gotten her to make examples of their personalities and shit, but I don’t mind explaining them myself, xD

Shiro - An awkward boio, He’s a hint of stoic with extra truth. Tbh I’m excited for this boio, xDD

Strawberry (gonna be changed) - He’s pretty chill, flirty at times, but probably gonna handle all of the murders the easiest.

Lucy - Obsessed with the idea “perfect”, henceforth why she ends up hanging around Rowan a lot (who is far from perfect because she’s such a bitch, but eh, xDD) And she’s pretty insecure of her own body, sadly. Love this bean, tho, xDD

Yuri - ..I honestly have no idea how to describe her, I know that here, she’s probably gonna be one of the first to go, she seems like she would break really easily under pressure, Poor Yuri, xDDDD

*..forgot the name - This is Yuri’s brother, he’s really fukn chill and harmonicas his sadness away, he’s probably gonna handle everything okay-ish until Yuri dies, which is sad, but hey! Most of the characters are gonna die anyway. xDDDD

So.. Yeah,

That means I only need to makee.. 8 more characters? I think? xDD

Aromara

Lazarus

Edgar

Tsuyoshi

Maxwell

Rowan

Isamu

Strawberry

Yuri

Lucy

Shiro

Yuri’s brother

So that’s 20 - 12, Woo! 8 characters left! xDDDDD

Batteries not included

— — —

Nyven

Myron

Vritra

Welp, That’s all folks! That’s Mindset. xDDD

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dlskss · 6 years

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XC KLR Trip

Day 6, rained hard with wind,thunder, & lightning for about 2 hours before sunrise. Then quit Just a bit wet, no problems. Had an apple and granola bar, drank water. Packed up and left. Short 3 hour ride to Medicine Lodge KS. In the rain for 2/3 of the time. Windy too! They live about 3 miles back on Kansas dirt roads. When wet they were slick, although sand content helped eliminate stickage to the tires. So I was able to ride back to their house with only 1 tip over=3. Family returning from church helped me lift the bike. No further mishaps. Uncle Denny was standing outside because he thought a helicopter was around, but it was me. KLR has an unpacked Supertrap "muffler ". They were astounded. Hosed myself off out front, including the socks and sandals I have been riding in since Arkansas, 3 days ago. Said our hello' s then promptly took a shower, then was fed chicken casserole famous in our family. Borrowed clothing my entire visit, while I rearainged EVERYTHING. AHH to be pampered, fed, and entertained, what a luxury. They invited me to stay and join their family gathering there over the 4th, about 20 of my cousins and families. The weather was forecasted to be around 100 highs for the next 5 days then still hot, but rainy aftetwards. Steak and Baked potato, corn,rolls for dinner. Bundt cake before bed. Day 7, OFF BIKE, Rained hard overnight. Coffee, Sausage, and Pancakes for brkfst.Afterwards repaired my boots. Cleaned everything real well with acetone, then used a combination of GOOP and 6000 adhesives. All fits well ,let dry until tomorrow. Off to Pratt, KS, to buy lumber for picnic table leg extensions. Also need straps for baggage support. Found one of the sidebag brackets had broken. Turns out their neighbor has a weld shop and kindly repairs it. I make a 2x4 the width of the bike + bags as an upper support, needing staps to pull upward releaving some weight.Pictures are in order. All the rain has the lake up 18". Their dock was sunk on one side. Need tools. Off to Pratt in the F1500. Ginney dropped at Grocery, Denny & I off to lumber yard. Lunch at Pratt, great Mexican food. Back home fix table legs, but not dock. Try to fish from neighbors dock, but snag a tree and lose tackle. No fish. Pork chops, mashed potato/gravy, fresh green beans, for dinner. Drank iced tea. Bundy cake later foe desert. Off to bed. Day 8, OFF BIKE, beautiful out. Went fishing after brkfst of coffee, scrambled eggs, bacon , English muffins. Hooked a few, but few landings. Back for lunch, leftover smorgasbord. Naps afterward. Finish up boots, continue rearainging stuff on bike. Tighten shifter lever. Lube and adjust chain. Overall check, Czech. Getting better organization. Dinner of hamburgers, brats, baked beans, and homemade potatoes chips. Out fishing after dinner. Caught a channel cat, 1 smallmouth, and 4 crappie. Thru them all back. Bikes packed ready to leave tomorrow for Colorado, Day 9, up to sausage gravy and biscuits. Sausage patties and coffee and Orange juice. Why am I leaving? Suit up and on may way again. They dis a lot of roadworks the past 2 days, and they were dry. Easy out. Follow rt 160 west all day. Thru the Comanche National Grasslands. Wide open spaces, 101 degrees with blustery sidewinds. Gas cap vent not releasing pressure , Needs attention. Creating rich condition. Managed pressure Managed to get around 500 miles in and ended at Ft Garland Colorado. I've reached the mountains!.Was scoping out camp possibility, and Got some recommendations from a local. Beautiful night, full moon, mountains all around. I did see a major fire about 15 miles from here. Quite an attraction. Good camp, no bugs, cool out, legal... Stroganoff for dinner, no lunch. Never got off the bike all day. 2141 miles total. TAT no mo. I've been winging it for the most part. Looking for the best opportunity. Quite fun On a side note, I'm now keeping all my riding gear in the tent with me. After watching the Kansas News and seeing baseball sized hail ? If I'm as unfortunate in a tent, seems the helmet could be needed. .

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bm-europe-trip · 6 years

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6/21 Eagle’s Nest and Salzburg

Me? Ahead of the game, at the end of the tour? Inconceivable! All jokes aside, today was actually an amazing ending to the tour of a lifetime.

This morning, we woke up at 5:30 to be ready to leave for the Nest by 7...we were not happy campers to say the least. However, the entire bus slept the nearly 3 hour drive we took so it kinda balanced out?

Once arriving at the Nest, we were early, so our guide took us to the ruins of Hitler’s home. The only thing left was a foundation wall from when the Allies bombed the mountain in 1945, and when the house was demolished in 1952 to prevent anyone nefarious from making it a pilgrimage site or anything.

(Side note: we HIKED through the woods to see these ruins, which was fine coming down, but was brutal coming back up. I can definitely tell my XC coach that I was working during my trip)

We then took a bus to the top of the mountain, then went through a tunnel and up an elevator to get to the main building. We packed forty people in a small elevator for forty seconds, but we all managed really well. Once through, our tour guide led us a little before allowing us to go off on our own. Everyone except Ms. Piatak and I hiked to the very top of the trail on the mountain (we got like halfway before going back down and getting Coke and a pretzel).

The view was breathtaking. An avid fan of The Sound of Music, I was living my Maria Von Trapp fantasy walking through the Alps. Even though we did not visit it, we could see the field where they filmed the opening to the movie.

Before we knew it, it was time to return to the bottom of the mountain to head to Salzburg. Vanja, despite her schedule, let us stop and snag a snack before heading to Austria.

I need to repeat myself-I absolutely love the Sound of Music, so visiting Salzburg was one of the coolest moments of my life. While our tour was mostly centered around Mozart, finding out that there was a tour of just the film sites has given me incentive to return one day.

After our short bit of free time, we were herded back onto the bus to head back to Munich for our final Europe meal :(. Because my trip is not over just yet, I’m probably going to post my final thoughts tomorrow when we’re in the airport. For now, auf wiedersehen!

#eagle’s nest #travel #europe trip #traveling #traveler #salzburg #sound of music

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boredompaw · 4 years

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Day 8

The long awaited beginning of remote learning, phase three began today. There plan was to awake at seven this morning, so I'd have an hour to consume breakfast, but alas, I slept through my alarm. Finally coming top my senses around 7:40, I hurried to eat, and I changed my top out of pajamas, just in case I wanted to turn on my camera function. That wasn't the case. My first class, chemistry honors, was short abs slightly confusing. I still remembered the concepts, but they were rather hazy in my mind. It didn't help that there wasn't much review of thermo chem before we hopped into the lesson, but I suppose it's expected that we self prepare, being honors students. The rest of my classes were easier, and as a bonus, they passed rather quickly. The only downside being that all the teachers assigned the week's homework in one sitting, leaving it up to us to divvy up. While I like the freedom it gives me, I also am slightly anticipatory over how I will be able to manage my own time. It's a good skill to learn, though so I will work through it with zeal. During the two hour lunch break, I decided to play Sky, and managed to recruit one of my friends to play with me, improving the game experience substantially. Most of my time during 2nd and 3rd period, world history and english 2 honors, respectively, was spent surfing tumblr, pinterest, and instagram. While I was listening to the teachers' droning, I couldn't stop myself from looking at fandom material. I don't fangirl often, but when I do, it tends to be all out.

Most recently, the fandom happens to be The Raven Cycle/The Dreamer Trilogy. After class, I forced myself to go run for around five miles, although I chose the most miserable time to go. 2:15 ish was peak temperature, but I somehow managed to convince myself it would pay off, because during XC season, we ALWAYS run and train during peak temperature. Anywho, it was not fun, especially because I chose a route that went up a big ass hill, and I drank too much water before my run. Also, wearing new running shoes is tricky, because I don't have my old laces tied and set. The shoes have to be broken in to sometime, though, and it is better soon than later. When I arrived back at home, my mother was rather irritated that i had gone running when it was so sunny, saying I'd get super dark, and my face would get patchy. She didn't ket me shower until 20 minutes later, which I spent in miserable sweaty purgatory, wanting to cool off, but moving means sweating more... I did get to take a nice cool shower, eventually, much to my relief. After this, I chose to begin the homework grind, with the goal of finishing chem and math, but it was not fated to be. I still have half of my week's chem homework, a lab simulation, all of math homework-- due on THURSDAY, world history notes and a project, due on Friday, an english essay rough draft for the STAR, and more to pile on from tomorrow as well. Somehow, it seems more hectic without school than with, and it's just convinced me more that school, in person and physical, is a way better alternative than any "self motivated" options, specifically for me. I should probably go to sleep... I want to get more hours of sleep like a non school day... haha.

#journal #journaling #remote learning #coronacation #time to sleep #boredompaws journals

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