#american wilderness

[troythecatfish]

Ringtail Appreciation Post

#ringtail cat #ringtail #appreciation post #animal appreciation #amazing animals #cool animals #cute animals #mammal #wild animals #animal #animals #animalblr #animal posting #tumblr post #mammals #beautiful animals #cute #north american wildlife #american animals #american wilderness #wildlife

[wanderguidehub]

Discover the Black Hills: Your Ultimate Hiking Guide to South Dakota's Hidden Gem

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#American Wilderness #Backpacking South Dakota #Black Hills #Black Hills Hikes #Black Hills Journey. #Black Hills Wildlife #hiking guide #Hiking South Dakota #hiking trails #Nature Trails #outdoor adventure #Outdoor Enthusiast #South Dakota Adventures #South Dakota Hiking #South Dakota Travel #wilderness exploration

[uovoc]

my sister and I both agree that one of the best parts about china was how there's food everywhere. And not just, like, bags of chips, but real hot, cooked, tasty food. You hike to the top of a mountain and there's a guy with a cart selling chicken skewers and freshly steamed corn on the cob. When you hike to the top of a mountain in america, what do you get? Nothing. An uninterrupted view of nature. Where did we go wrong as a country

#patter #actually I do know why it's different. it's different traditions of nature appreciation #American wilderness appreciation which is defined by lack of visible human activity #versus going somewhere to see one specific landscape feature that people have been writing poems about for thousands of years #so long as certain features are preserved it doesn't really matter if there's a McDonald's behind you

[crumb]

Colorado (1977) Ph. Nick DeWolf

#1970s #70s #cowboy #western #rocky mountains #western gothic #american pastoral #rural america #wilderness #colorado

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔜𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔤 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔦𝔫 (յգԴկ) 𝔡𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔐𝔢𝔩 𝔅𝔯𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰

#Young Frankenstein (1974) #Young Frankenstein #70's #70s #American comedy horror film #comedy horror film #Gene Wilder #Dr. Victor Frankenstein #Marty Feldman #Igor #eyegor #Igor (Young Frankenstein) #cinema #vintage #my gifs #my gif #my edit #1974

[ipromisetostaywild]

#keep it wild #homestead #backcountry #off the grid #wilderness #mountains #log cabin #life free #stay wild #rancher #american west #western lifestyle #ranch life #frontier #survival

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm watching SurrealEstate, because "what if real estate was haunted as a matter of law, and also haunted haunted" is a good premise, even if the show is fairly boring in execution.

#being an american woman in your thirties is basically an unending drumbeat of #YOU WANT BABIES!! YOU WANT PROPERTY!!! #and I know intellectually it's dumb but it's kind of exhausting to fight it back. #this show should be wilder; it should feature dumb inspectors and too-clever contractors and real estate agents trying to cut corners #and more than one person dealing with ghosts who are just annoying. not restless spirits or unsettled dead! #it's just great-aunt marsha or twice-removed uncle lawrence and they're horrible #and they will not FUCKING leave. THEY'RE DEAD AND THEY WON'T GO?!?!? #like a holiday dinner that won't end. it's the worst. #still. the show is aggressively fine so. #celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge

[thomaswaynewolf]

I made a slideshow to go along with Everett Ruess's Poem, Wilderness Song. It features places he went to & things he wrote about: The Sierra Nevadas, Cali coast, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Monument Valley, & the desert sands of the American Southwest.

Listen to the series if you haven't already.

#wilderness song #Everett Ruess #my podcast #the American Southwest #Sierra Nevadas #monument valley #Pacific Ocean #Grand Canyon #adventure #travel #my photo #southwest #desert #mountains #utah #photography #arizona #aesthetic #landscape #poem

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Hot take but the more I think about it the more I reckon they should've left the Russian aspect out of the Winter Soldier in the MCU. 

I know it's a part of the comics, and the name is meant to evoke the Cold War (Russian, Winter), but IMO it better suits the ‘Gitmo Army brat’ Bucky of the comics than the ‘Arnie Roth’ Bucky of the MCU; it doesn't fit with the MCU's specific backstory parameters. (Plus conflating Russian/KGB with SHIELD/Hydra just muddies the waters, for no particular purpose.)

Examples:

If Bucky was tortured by Nazi doctors in Russia it would've been under Operation Osoaviakhim, not Paperclip.

It doesn't make sense that Russians would name him after an American's quote about America. That's the exact opposite of what Russians would do.

Whereas it’s exactly what Americans would do if he was in American hands when the WS was created (ie. from early on). If comics!Steve can quote Mark Twain it doesn’t make sense that people don’t recognise a Thomas Paine reference in-universe. 

It doesn't make any sense, logistically, that the WS is tortured and operated on by Zola, who is in America (and stays there until he dies), unless the WS is also in America from early on.

(Per Agent Carter) It also doesn’t make any sense that the man who created the WS mind-control techniques -- Doctor Fennhoff/Faustus -- is working for the SSR in America, with Zola, if the WS himself is not also in America when those techniques are implemented. 

(And we know that that tech stayed in America, not Russia, because in the Black Widow movie the Red Room had to go undercover in Ohio just to steal it, and this was in 1995!)

It seems significant that we only see the WS in Siberia a mere 10 days before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union (and Howard Stark knew about him / recognised him instantly, and called him Sergeant Barnes, like Zola did.) 

It doesn't make sense that the WS is shown being conveniently stored in a local urban bank vault in Washington, DC... but was previously shoved hundreds of miles out of the way, in the Siberian wilderness, where it would've been a massive pain in the ass for any American Hydra to get hold of him. (And if they did, for some reason, want to massively inconvenience themselves just for a cold-name’s sake, why not Canada or Alaska?) 

It doesn't make sense that MCU WS is shown exclusively speaking English to the American Hydra agents who have control of him in the present day... but then all his control-words were in Russian and suddenly he speaks only Russian to handlers before this... And yet, he’s back to speaking English again in the flashbacks from TFATWS?? 🤦‍♀️

IMO it would've just been simpler and more straight-forward if it was just Nazis who found Bucky at the bottom of the ravine, not Russians (might even explain why he didn't escape, post-fall but pre-brain damage; he would've been thinking he'd get repatriated pretty soon, when the war's over... and he's kinda right 😭). 

And it would ram home the 'we were the ones doing wrong' horror of CATWS, if Bucky had just been on US soil the entire time and nobody good knew.

Possible scenario: 

The Russians who found Bucky wounded in WWII handed him over to the Americans, since the war wasn’t over yet and the two sides were ‘officially’ still allies. (And/or because they didn’t realise what they had, and/or he was part of some POW exchange deal.)

By the time Stark, Carter & Phillips found out, they had already hired Zola and Fennhoff. 

They intended to use Bucky to reboot the eugenicist supersoldier program and also experiment in the field of mind control (a la Project Artichoke, MK/Ultra etc.) Which they knew people would object to, so they kept Bucky’s recovery quiet from the other Commandos, his family, etc. 

SHIELDra had Bucky in America all along, and the whole Russian Boogeyman / Russian weapons thing was just a cover so that Hydra Demagogues could blame every WS hit on the USSR, and thereby drum up convenient anti-Communist hysteria during the Cold War. 

(After scientists were sent there to work under Operation Osoaviakhim, Hydra grew slowly in Russia -- with the rise of (anti-Communist) capitalism, and with Fascism being typically the resort of anti-authority criminal classes. Hydra ideology flourished much more quickly in the US (where it would be conformist-authoritarian, not anti-authoritarian), because the US was already capitalist, and had already been doing Hydra eugenic science like Project Rebirth, back in WWII.)

Being a greedy liar and a thief, Howard Stark decided to take advantage of the end of the Cold War by selling the WS to the Soviet branch of Hydra, just days before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union made it moot, and stealing the WS from the Pentagon to patent it himself. 

He sold Bucky complete with the Red Book, which the Russians either translated while reading aloud, re-wrote in Russian for their own purposes (explaining why an American organisation’s supersoldier appears to have Russian trigger words; perhaps he doesn’t, they would work in any language?) and why Zemo read them aloud in Russian.

(And/or, maybe the Americans really did use Russian trigger words on Bucky, to perpetuate the ‘definitely-not-American’ Boogeyman mythos?) 

The Russians realised they had been double-crossed by Stark, and sent the WS after him and his wife in retribution, and to steal the WS serum back (which Stark may or may not have also promised but failed to deliver.) 

The other US intelligence agencies failed to look into it more closely because, once they discovered the sale of the WS, and the theft of the serum, they considered Stark and his wife traitors / double-agents, and thought it was best for PR if the whole thing was hushed up.

Despite now having a mind-controlled super soldier of their own, the Russians didn’t have the secret of creating new mind-control. This explains why they couldn’t control the other Winter Soldiers (despite them being Hydra ideologues before serum), and why the Red Room had to go undercover in America, to steal the secret of mind-control from SHIELD in 1995. 

Why would they have to go to America to get that intel, if it was already in Russia?

#dat's me #bucky barnes #bucky meta #meta #mcu #mcu meta #POSSBLE SCENARIO UNDER THE CUT #bout to post a hot take while spaced out and sleep-deprived #always a wise decision! #of course it doesn't follow that a thing is good just because it is in the comics #it could be a comic written by mark millar after all #what is the watsonian explanation... #for this preposterous east coast american / siberian wilderness set up?? #what does the russian aspect add to it? why was it necessary for the plot? #at first it looked like the russian stuff was just a cover up by americans to conceal bucky's true identity #but then in CACW they went full blown russian with it and that.... doesn't actually make sense for this MCU #time for a catnap

[madcat-world]

The Last of the Ocean Wilderness (1 of 2) - Sija Hong

#the Last of the Ocean Wilderness #Sija Hong #Scientific American #cover art #ocean #sea creatures #skeletons #surrealism #digital art

[probablyasocialecologist]

Before the colonial conquest, much of the US was a managed forest-garden. Through controlled burns, bison runs, terracing, earth works, and farming, the entire continent ranged in between what used to be understood as hunter-gathering and settled agriculture. It was not a pristine “first nature,” wilderness, or unsettled. People lived in and remade nature.

Max Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal

#Max Ajl #wilderness #native americans #farming #forest garden

[mxchaelridley]

Wouldn’t mind getting lost here for a while. 📍Wire Pass Slot Canyon, Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Utah

#wire pass slot canyon #vermilion cliffs wilderness area #utah #american southwest #get outside #mine #michael ridley

[fictionadventurer]

After very little research into the other writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, my hypothesis about the Little House authorship question is that the writing is mostly Rose's, but the heart is Laura's.

In Laura's newspaper columns, the parts that sound most like Little House mostly come from the extracts she shares from Rose's letters (incidentally, it's kind of adorable how proud she is of Rose: "My daughter's in France!", "My daughter's in Albania!", etc.) The prose of Old Home Town, Rose's inspired-by-my-childhood-home novel, has some of the same concise descriptive prose that I've come to associate with the Little House style (I could hear passages in the voice of the Little House audiobook narrator).

Yet the Little House soul is all over Laura's columns. She's fascinated by the simple tasks of life, believes in home and family and hard work, believes in holding onto the goodness of childhood and looking forward with hope toward the future. There's an optimism, almost a romanticism, about life. The children's series that bears her name clearly comes from the same woman.

Rose, by contrast, is much more pessimistic. When writing about childhood, she's almost cynical about the life of a small town. She highlights the dark stories underlying the wholesome exterior, is extremely sensitive to the pitfalls of the social scene around her. Part of the difference is that Rose is writing for adults, but there does seem to be an essential difference in the personality behind the pen, despite the stylistic similarities to Little House.

(At the risk of pop psychoanalyzing people long dead, Rose seems much more neurotic and introverted and sensitive than her mother. In her writings and in the books about her childhood in Missouri, she comes across as child of a fairly comfortable modern life, with all the modern anxieties, in contrast to a woman who grew up starving on the prairie and knows that there are much worse things to endure than small-town gossip).

It's not much of a thesis, but I'm just fascinated by the fact that the Little House series can share so many stylistic similarities with Rose's writings, yet feel so much more like Laura.

#little house #laura ingalls wilder #rose wilder lane #i did not finish old home town because it came uncomfortably close to deal-breaking swearing and i don't feel like dealing with that #but the book was interesting in its way #rose clearly has an agenda about women's rights #but in focusing so heavily on social justice it loses a lot of heart #if the mother is supposed to be based in any way on laura she's a bit harsh as a mother #though more open-minded than her neighbors #(always standing up for the gossiped-about women) #rose's stand-in (i'm going to assume it's a stand-in because cranford has trained me to assume #(that any first-person narrator in a book based on the author's childhood hometown is a self-insert) #kind of disappears into the background #and it's very tempting to consider how the woman who made her living as a ghostwriter disappeared behind others' stories #(also this book unfortunately seems to confirm that almanzo was a mason) #(sorry mom) #(seeing the freemason symbol on pa's grave was my most terrifying moment as a catholic little house fan) #(i'm pretty sure my mom threw holy water on it) #(took me a few years to get over that) #(now i've just accepted that american history is full of freemasons) #(and as long as she's not spouting anti-catholic propaganda her books are fair game)

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

I was born in the shadows of preachers and saints I was raised in a house of God But the blood on my lips and the dirt on my face Is all the religion I've got

#religion #wilder woods #mine #photo #photography #photographers on tumblr #texas #southern gothic #western gothic #rural #rural gothic #south west #american south #western #americana #american gothic #digital #nature #landscape #country #gothic #small town #small town gothic #small town america #church #catholic guilt #religious #religioncore #♡

[avant-garde-nectar]

#mine #photography #art #aesthetic #love #dream #southern gothic #appalachain gothic #witchy woman #tennessee #tn #wilderness #past lives #artists on tumblr #photographers on tumblr #southern charm #southerncharm #appalachian charm #appalachiancharm #american gothic #americana

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

#Young Frankenstein #1974 #70's #70s #b&w #American comedy horror film #comedy horror film #Gene Wilder #Dr. Victor Frankenstein #gif #intro #my gif #my edit