#the heat is melting me

[maibeloved]

To anyone who is also dying of a heatstroke in this blazing summer heat:

#sora #kh sora #kh #kingdom hearts #kh fanart #sea salt ice cream #summer #the heat is melting me #es gratis llevan uno

[hedgehog-moss]

My recipe is for blackberry-frangipane tart, though I'm sure it could work with other fruit! (note: I tried with plums and found that the texture wasn't right, so maybe not with very juicy fruit)

For the frangipane filling, whisk in a bowl: white sugar (100g), melted butter (40g), almond powder (125g), and 2 eggs. If it looks a bit grainy rather than smooth that's normal. Spread it over whichever kind of crust you usually use for fruit tart (not sure what the English equivalent of pâte sablée is but that's the one I use)

Add your blackberries over it, enough to more or less cover the tart but only in one layer (you don't want to smother your frangipane). If you use frozen blackberries, do not unfreeze them before! It'll make the tart too watery.

Put in the oven for 20 to 40min at 180°C (depends on how powerful your oven is, but until the frangipane looks golden all over)

Bon appétit :) It's my favourite fruit tart!

#(my recipe says softened butter but i always let it heat for too long and get melted butter instead #and to be honest i've never noticed a difference in frangipane texture) #les puristes de la frangi qui font la leur avec de la crème pâtissière je vous admire ! #déjà que le beurre pommade c'est au-delà de mes moyens...

[oldkamelle]

Do you ever get stuck in a routine of the past?

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 fanart #tf2 sniper #tf2 animatic #traditional animatic #oldart #mercs #do you think he sometimes forgets? #anyway. i badly need to find a lightweight editor because the stickers are melting off my laptop from the heat #oh also #this was started all the way back in march #lag forced some heavy procrastination out of me

[sergle]

pointless trivia of the day: I get annoyed when people refer to cats kneading on something as "making biscuits" because biscuits aren't like breads, and should under No Circumstances Be Kneaded

#it makes me wonder if 'biscuit' used to be used to refer to bread rolls because otherwise. why would this be. #that cat's about to make some fucked up tough and chewy biscuits in that case!! this cat's restaurant is going under. #''what are biscuits then'' they're pastry and pastry absolutely hates to be Touched #they also have little sheets of butter in the dough that you want to keep Whole so you are desperately trying not to melt the butter #w the body heat coming from your hands #they eat like a bread but they aren't yeasted and they aren't kneaded

[aaronwhorechner]

you can't convince me that these two didn't fucking kiss somewhere in this episode bc why is this man's lips the SAME FUCKING COLOR AS EMILY PRENTISS' LIPSTICK????

#the heat is melting my brain let me just live in this super delusional moment lmao #cm rewatch #cm 7x14 #hotchniss

[bubble-jasmine-tea]

Apocalyptic Meltdown

#megaman #Heat man #pen sketch #traditional art #body horror? #idk man ask to tag #this was a pen doodle that got away from me haha #I can’t remember if heat man melting from getting too hot was in a side series or if my brain just. made it up #mega man 2

[madametrashbin]

Brainrot? Brainrot... or Drabble. Idk

I’m alive! Sort of? Honkai: Star Rail has viciously grabbed my brain the second I saw it and now I have thoughts... and this is also because I got yanked in by the throat from both the silly content and beautiful artwork.

And if it wasn’t enough to nail a coffin to my grave, Tumblr dropped a post from @channelinglament (which is this post right here) and now my brain’s keeping me up with thoughts.

Not sure if I’ll have enough energy to spare for actual posts, but maybe with enough food for thought, I might actually make a piece or two... might. Due to HSR’s brand of silliness, it might just be Shenanigans the Fic.

The thing that gets to me the most is the highest of Aeons part, like... the Aeon of Aeons and you know, while I still know almost nothing about how Aeons come to be, what if there’s that one Entity that just exists and gives power that basically ascends whatever is sentient.

Of course the term “Aeon” would not be applied until numerous of the ascended beings are present and people are suddenly aware that there are these powerful beings in the universe now that can literally affect everything and bring about a permanent change to their livelihood. One moment the universe is all calm and normal and then here comes the Aeons. People do not know how to feel about them at first.

Naturally, there will always be the curious type of people who would try to search for the cause of it.

Pop in lil old You, just trying to help everyone you come across who look to be in desperate need power to be able to change their unfortunate circumstances. Too pure of heart, harmless mischief maker, just overall the sweetest entity with the power to turn anything into gods... yes, this is how beings like Qlipoth and Nous are born.

Now this gets me thinking that the Paths existed as one big, singular Path with you as the origin point and the ending point. When you gift a part of your power to someone/something, a piece of the path branches out of the main path but still remains connected to you... whether out of devotion or because it cannot exist without you is up in the air (your choice tbh).

The people/Aeons would just feel so grateful to be chosen, to be given so much power to do what they wished to change/do most... this was before they discovered there were others like them, doing things different from them that may clash with their ideals and suddenly there’s an all out war because each of the Aeons believed that the others were sullying your name by abusing your gifts.

(While the Dusk Wars are happening, you remain in ignorance to the wars because there are mortals that are calling for help and you just can’t look away from them.)

Eventually most of the Aeons are either killed off by each other (i.e, Tayzzyronth the Propagation) or assimilated into another Aeon (i.e Ena the Order), leaving a great many Paths masterless and fraying in shards, which suddenly starts to affect you badly and the poor Aeons who were just trying to do your name justice are panicking.

No one knows what happened, or what was happening to you, and when Akivili disappears/died, you disappear as well. Everyone is grieving, and there are no more new Aeons appearing anymore.

Thus you are assumed dead by the universe  (this part came from another post that I can’t quite find ;-;) and later become forgotten just because... idk. Haven’t thought much past this.

Plot twist for the universe (not really a plot twist because there would be no story without the star of the show), you are not. You just got a bit (super) sleepy because the Paths that are masterless are without an ending point and therefore drains you because there is no one there to receive the power from the separated Path. You spent a lot of your energy mending the masterless Paths back to you which made you fall asleep by the time you were done.

When you wake back up is when the game starts, and being so out of touch with the timeline of the universe, you’re just one curious bean trying to figure out what’s going on.

No one can see you now though, which is just sad for you, but you realized they can sense you so you’re just doing your best to help them now. Kafka and Silver Wolf do not understand what’s going on except the strange warm and homely feeling that makes them feel invincible is suddenly there.

Also a mischief maker if the randomly destroyed property by the subtle urging is anything to go by... yeah, there’s something there.

Kafka and Silver Wolf feel oddly disappointed when the sensation leaves, but returns to Elio and mentions it to him. He then tells them that he may or may not have withheld information from them that an Aeon (the OG of Aeons) was going to be helping them. However they react is up to your thoughts... I haven’t thought of something for that part yet.

When MC (could be either) wakes up, the first thing they actually see is You... which makes you delighted because Yay, a friend to communicate with!. Neither March 7th nor Dan Heng could understand why the MC is talking to nothing, until they felt the warm and fuzzy presence nestled into them that they are suddenly aware that MC might be interacting with a higher existence that might be an Aeon.

They are naturally wary of you at first, but upon seeing the way MC interacts with you, doing some silly stuff by your apparent urging... they realized you’re pretty harmless and also very nice (in what way, also up in the air).

[Going back to the subject of other Aeons who are essentially your Emanators by all but name, they do not know you are alive until Nanook catches sight of you/felt your very real presence with the MC when the Doomsday Beast battle happens. They are very happy you’re back, but they’re very upset because why didn’t you tell them you were back? For what reason, you guys can think about it. 

Anyways, you’ve got an Aeon stalking you and MC now, keeping a close eye on you especially because they nearly lost you once and would like it if you didn’t actually die this time. When MC starts getting acknowledged by more of the Aeons, more of them are also going to notice you too and then join Nanook with the stalking thing.

Eventually if they do find you in reality... well, that’s up to your imagination. It can also be a race between them and the mortals who start to see you physically too since you’re the sweetest existence to ever come into the universe and it’s a must to protect that innocence of yours (or for some other reason).

Also highly debating if Aeon!You would be either Aeon of Origin (the beginning of the Paths/the Origin of the Paths if going by this type of story) or Aeon of Guidance because of the in-game thing that we all do.]

Uhh... that’s all my brain can come up with here... so I shall see myself out now! ;D

#sahsr x reader #self aware au #honkai star rail x reader #hsr x reader #I apologize to everyone who followed me for not doing anything here for a long time #lots of stuff happened #but also burned out #still burnt out to a crisp rn #especially with summer approaching over here #I don't do well being melted alive by the heat ;w;

[fruitpunchsamuraisworld]

Send help I'm melting! Special appearance by kitty

#me #gay #selfie #this heat can fuck the fuck off #im melting #global warming is real

[scorchrend]

neopolitan ice cream

heavily inspired by @alfheimr 's works!

#i rushed this because i lost steam lol so its not clean at all. still want to post this one #pokemon #nimbasa trio #submas #elesa #ingo #emmet #art #the knight's testaments #the thumbnail is a lot cleaner but ykw this heat is hellish and melting me i cant sit at my desk any longer HELP #anyways insp's art is so good i think about it a lot. i love the use of shapes and negative space and urg have got to osmose that into my h #into my head auuuua

[puppetmaster13u]

Even More Meat Marionette Au

But a lil drabble <3 Because my ADHD snatched this au and isn't letting go.

  There were tunnels under Gotham. 

   Everyone knew about them, even if they were rarely spoken of. There were tales about them, some whispered in hushed voices from mother to child, others creeping across withered pages stained with age. Stories of creatures, of living shadows, of men going mad, wailing about the things beneath. 

   No one went into the tunnels. 

  Not purposely at least. 

   For one Bruce Wayne, he had fallen the first time- slipped into a well after a night of rain and into those dark caves with stone as black as night and just as stained with blood as the rest of the city. 

   No one had gone down for a long time, and no one should have gone down for longer still, but the rain had made the crumbling stones slick, the child reaching just a hint too far, and so down he went, nails scrabbling against unyielding rock and blood dripping from soft skin. 

   The child did not scream, even if his terror was sweet in the air as his blood mixed with the water soaking his clothes. He did not stay, just like the others before him, but the caves remembered the sweetness of the fear he brought. 

   No one went into the tunnels, not anymore. 

   Yet the child did. 

   Oh he wasn’t a child anymore, not to humans, but to the ancient caves, he was still but an infant. He’d eventually leave, and they’d still be there. They had been there long before, and they’d be long after even when the city turned to dust in the sands of time. 

   And yet… 

  And yet. 

   Yet he kept returning, night after night and day after day, running a hand along the stone that should have chilled him to the bone. His fear was still ever so sweet in the air, even if it was lessening over the time. It was… curious. 

   There was still the scent of fear, of terror coming from the human, but it also wasn’t. It was coming from him, but it wasn’t his own fear. 

   The emotion clung to him, but it wasn’t his. It was others’ fear, others’ fear he was bringing down to the cavernous tunnels. Others’ fear he was feeding It, unknowing or not. A gift, a meal, something for It and It alone. 

   It was only polite to return the favor, to gift the little human something to fight and terrify. As much as the spilled blood pleased It, the tunnels understood that it would be far better for Its little human to stay healthy, to be able to bring blood not his own. 

   The city was always full of corpses and the tunnels stretched far longer than humans realized after all, It could reach any who fell. Purposeful deaths, accidental, it made no difference to the bloodstained stone beneath. 

   It would call to Its little human soon enough, Its gift was nearly complete after all. Something to fly without the creaking metal or suits of wires. Something new, something It hadn’t formed before. 

   After all, what use would It have for a living body? What use did flesh and stone need to move? It had been here for a long time, and It would be here longer still, but perhaps, perhaps just this once another would last past the crumbling of life and bones turning to dust. 

   A gift, from the tunnels to him. 

   For one Bruce Wayne, who had returned to them with sacrifices of flesh and blood and fear each night. For one child who had fallen and returned to the depths of the tunnels, for one child that was Its.

This is a combo of my Au & @phoenixcatch7's and you need to check out their Possessed Doll Au because it's amazing <3<3

#writing wip #meat marionette au #batman au #batman #bruce wayne #lovecraftian vibes #The tunnels under Gotham: He's just our funny lil guy <3 #Gothamites: *Screaming crying vomiting* #The tunnels: We love him <3 #Bruce: *Crying & clinging to his exposure therapy bat plush* #The tunnels: he's such an adorable lil mortal boi <3 #He's baby to them even if they're distinctly not human in their thinking #Someone turned up the heat in the house and my brain is melting or else I'd be writing from bruce's pov #about when he first gets his meat puppet body & literally wakes up in it #but it's like 80 degrees because my mom has a medical condition that is the opposite of me easily overheating :/ #Anyway have a drabble and I hope yall like it #Writing wip #wip #drabble #gotham #this is like not edited at all so it might not be clear lol

[synthetic-psychedelic]

It’s too hot 🥺🥵

#British heat is something else #me #mine #snap #selfie #Brit #🥵 #🥺 #melting

[wimbledon2008]

having hate sex with your rival with benefits is all fun and games until you're asking him to stay the night and making him a tuna melt

#A TUNA MELT #that's such an unsexy food brother you are in L O V E #we're entering the husbands era and i fear i'm going to be unwell #he asked him if his ginger ale was cold enough 😩 #yes i'm reading thee gay hockey book from goodreads and unfortunately it does slap #heated rivalry #game changers #rachel reid #book rec #do NOT judge me if you go and look it up i do not control the book cover #eta: I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY'RE FUCKING AFTER EATING TUNA MELTS WITH NO TEETH BRUSHING INTERLUDE. FOUL.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

and thus begins the season of 100+ degree heat every single day...

#i will be digging a hole and crawling into it thanks. i will Cover myself with dirt and not come out #the sun is almost completely down and its still over a hundred out. sigh #~its the most wonderful time of the year~ #im placing personal bets whether or not itll hit 120 (im strongly betting Yes) #maybe i should go live in antarctica #vibe with penguins. get killed by a leopard seal. you know how it is #instead my options are: the dirt / walk off into the desert and perish #i wake up every morning miserable and sweaty <3 this is so fun <3 #so jealous of the puppets rn. they dont have to deal with this #put me on a temperature regulated set bois #my laptop: heat warning in effect #YEAH NO SHIT. HONEY. #gonna need to start using my ceiling fan soon just to get some fuckin Sleep #the ac is not enough during the day #absolutely unprompted #i was wondering 'oh why am i more irritated than normal why am i more fatigued than normal' #OH YEAH. BECAUSE ITS MISERABLE OUT. #melting into a puddle of bog... goo... that's just water. hm. #turning into an actual physical bog #sphagnum and tannins and everything #i wake up. i drag myself out of bed. i sit at my desk and dissolve. rinse and repeat #this has been my routine for Days now <3 #i hope yall are having a cooler more tolerable summer! #but given the absolute state of this planet uh! i doubt it! still! i have hope! keep cool guys

[thesherrinfordfacility]

LWA: Regarding the halo: we see a variant in the Job minisode. When Aziraphale does his "avaunt" speech, he has a full-body aureole, which unlike the halo around the head is /not/ an angelic attribute in religious painting and sculpture. The design of Aziraphale's aureole, with golden rays emanating from his body, looks like it was modeled on Marian iconography, as in the case of the Virgin of Guadalupe (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/635401). There are a bunch of other examples, like the Madonna of Humility at the Getty Museum, where both the Virgin and God have ray aureoles. I am not sure where the design team thought they were going with this, although it fits with the Madonna pose they used for that promotional photo of Aziraphale in his Job robes.

ahhhhh this is so interesting!!!✨ i had no idea before this that there was such a nuance between aureole and halo, and their individual meanings in iconography (and thats not even taking into account different individual depictions like mandorla etc!). given the - as ive now learnt - very subtle but definite distinction between the two, and their individual meanings in religious contexts, it seems reasonable that the design team might have gone to some lengths to research it similarly!!!

(and now i shall spam you all with research because i am excited and Must Share)

so as LWA, the oracle of all truth, has said - ep2 where aziraphale appears to crawley shows him with an aureole surrounding him, much like the multiple depictions of Our Lady of Guadalupe (above is the Virgin of Guadalupe, by Salcedo, 1779). other depictions/notable copies of the original however include:

(L-R: de Arellano, 1691, Gonzalez, c. 1698, and the original from cy/16th, upon which they're based which, as far as i can find, has no confirmed artist?).

and coming back to italian renaissance (which im slightly more familiar with), the following works show the same:

(L-R: Madonna and Child with Two Saints, Pisanello, c. 1445, The Last Judgement, Michelangelo, f. 1541, and Baptism of Christ, Verrocchio and da Vinci, c. 1475)

it is especially prevalent in christian religious art, but as LWA said it does appear to be mostly used for religious figures, and not necessarily angels or saints (most of those are depicted with halos instead). most examples, like the ones above, that ive found seem to be used exclusively for jesus and mary. in other religions such as buddhism, aureola appear to be shown in the form of a mandorla (an almond-shaped field) that surround enlightened beings, such as Buddha.

let's move onto halos; ep6 shows our funky angel removing his, and is shown in the form of a ring, emitting the same kind of light as the aureole. disks have been depicted in art from well before the time of christ, including in ancient egypt (ra) and in iran (mithra).

funnily enough, finding depictions of ring halos rather than disk/plate ones was actually quite difficult? either way - above shows Virgin of the Rocks by da Vinci, f. 1486, shows a subtle but clear ring halo over Mary's head. keeping with the cy/15-16th onwards for fair comparison, showing a combination of disk and ring halos:

(L-R: Branchini Madonna, di Paolo, 1427, Madonna of the Book, Botticelli, c. 1481, and Deposition of Christ, Raphael, 1507)

these all again are examples depicting christ and mary, so what about angels? i found the best example to look at is the annunciation to mary, as this was the subject of a number of notable pieces in the same time period:

(L-R: da Vinci, f. 1476, Fra Angelico, 1450, and Botticelli c. 1490)

all show gabriel with a halo around their head, as opposed to an aureole. the one that fascinated me though is botticelli; there is relatively little known about his depictions of the annunciation, but there are multiple - the above is in glasgow, there is another in new york, and the last is the Cestello Annunciation). however, in the first two, glasgow and new york, there is a clear feature of an aureole-type shaft of light coming from behind gabriel, and shining upon mary.

i certainly think that it's mostly representative of god's gift being bestowed on her, ("The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee.", Luke 1:35) but the perspective of the glasgow painting almost shows like the light comes from a crack in the wall, and would suggest that aziraphale stepping out from the aureole as some sort of glorified portal is a mirror of this.

anyway, because ive rambled on long enough about nothing truly insightful; what is the point in these two different displays? well, from my research, it seems to be that aureola are used to surround the head or the body, and iconographically represent divinity, glory and, depending on the subject/context, enlightenment.

but given that it has largely been reserved in art for the depictions of the holy trinity as well as mary, to outright use it in connection with aziraphale seems... strange. in this particular scene, or part of his story, why has he been purposefully elevated to the same level of importance and power? we have no reason to suspect from the ensuing dialogue that god sent aziraphale deliberately in her name to thwart crowley, carrying her power... or did she?

the halo however appears to be specifically used for instances of depicting angels or saints (in the case of gabriel and various apostles in multiple artworks), as well as jesus and mary. so that to me would suggest that halos are somewhat specifically meant to represent innate saintliness and holiness, inherent divine nature. were specifically touched by god's grace and love, and were embodiments of god's will.

what this necessarily means in relation to aziraphale though, beyond him obviously being an angel, a representative of the heavenly host, and a messenger of god's will etc... im not entirely sure.

there is presumably no reason for him to be depicted with an aureole unless, as LWA suggests, it's to draw parallels to artwork where mary is especially shown as having one. but in the context of s2 (and the job minisode), isn't this a little out of field?

another thing - aziraphale does seem to be able to turn it on and off like a tap, suggesting that it's there in the narrative for sheer Impressiveness, to Look The Part, in front of a demon... so, is it only for design purposes, because cinematically it's bloody cool to look at? or is it meant to give insight into aziraphale's thoughts and beliefs?

with it, would he (in aziraphale's mind, bless) look intimating enough to thwart crawley's 'nefarious plan' with minimal effort? possibly, but i doubt it; im a pretty firm believer in Reasons for certain design choices, especially ones that would take a lot of post-production work to animate. so, could aziraphale have chosen to appear with the aureole, to be suitably intimidating, but after having his faith in god's will shaken after the events of job, chose not to manifest it again, because its symbolism no longer rings true for him?

#this response was an insane amount of effort #especially whilst melting in 28c heat #good omens #ask #everyone say thank you to LWA for another stellar observation and insight #fun fact: i read 'job robes' as jobes and now they will only ever be jobes to me #jobes (job robes) #halo theory #mary/pieta spec #s2 meta #costume meta

[artsy-alice]

💖 ALI UPDATE 💖

Heads up for #MayKofiRun24 folks - I actually intended to start working on ur pieces today… then I realized I'll have to be out all weekend for family stuff & that means I gotta do all my chores before then 💀

So!! I will start properly next week!! See ya! 😘

#(psa) #MayKofiRun24 #drawing shall start next monday bc this weekend is mother's birthday #u gotta show up for mother's birthday ok #also pray for me to get chores done in this HEAT i am melting #the global is warming indeed

[dirt-str1der]

I had a weird dream the other night

#Listen to my problems #we had just found out on the news that a huge meteor was going to hit us and there was nothing we could do about it but enjoy the next two #minutes of our lives. my childhood best friend was just telling me about how shes never had strawberries dipped in chocolate so i #rushed home to prepare some. i could see a bunch of them outside the window dragging a couch out to watch the meteor as it fell #and i kept looking up nervously as i made it and in the final fifteen seconds i rushed out laughing in apology and thrust the bowl into her #hands and she made space for me on the couch with all our other friends and i fed her two and gobbled one down myself #they tasted pretty bad but we were both laughing about it and i fed her the last one #my fingers were pressed to her lips and they were so soft and the heat from the comet was practically boiling us and everything was cast in #orange and yellow and i pushed her against the sofa and hugged her and smeared the melted chocolate on her face and kissed her #we looked at each other grinning like crazy and she said thanks for the chocolates. and i was like :') and then it hit us #so what was that all about ?