#flare signal

[caracwinters]

Flare Signal (by @queenangst/achievingelysium on AO3) Fic Binding Update #5

I'M BACKKKKK

uni has been kicking my butt but I've finally had some time for bookbinding again. Spine is glued and endpapers are attached! Next up is trimming (which will take ages since I don't have a guillotine ;-; but it's WORTH IT)

#me: i'm not that much of a sucker for symbolism #also me: ehehehehehe the front endsheet has a blood splatter and the back one doesn't to symbolize the journey from villain to hero #bookbinding #fanbinding #fic binding #flare signal #fanfic binding #mha #bnha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia

[queenangst]

Hey! Wanted to reach out and ask, do you have a policy for people making nonprofit bindings of your fics? I've been getting into bookbinding lately and am hoping to make a hardcover of Flare Signal for a friend's birthday (it's her favorite fic of all time) but wanted to ask your permission first. Thanks :D

I don't have any policies about bookbinding - no one's ever asked me before! But I got the notification for your ask and that is SO cool and exciting !!!!!! I'm honored!

As long as it's not for profit and just a gift to your friend A THOUSAND TIMES YES

My only condition is if you decide to go through with it to please send me pictures!!

And I love craft and bookbinding and the process - this is only a suggestion, but personally I'd love to see your process and what you do with it! Fan bookbinding is super cool and I love seeing people post about it - if you're willing to share, I know there are plenty other fans who'd enjoy seeing it too! <3

(Also I don't. know. if this is weird or if she'd want it but I'd be happy to write a happy birthday message for your friend or something if you think that would be cool!)

I look forward to seeing what you make!

#the only reason my response is coherent is because i did spend the whole morning thinking about it going OOHAHAAAAA AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! #COOOL!!!!!!!! #so just know i AM freaking out #asks #flare stuff #flare signal #also so honored that its her favorite fic ;; thank u so much! #crazy to me people still read and think about it and all

[magicicephoenix]

I'm not sure if you're still accepting palette request but if you do: #6 "shy" for toon bendy (BATDR) or maybe #52 "plastic heart" for Twisted Alice?

an anxious demon and a murderous angel. what could go wrong?

batdr bendy with #6 - shy and twisted alice with #52 - plastic heart

#bendy and the ink machine #batim #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #bendy #alice angel #malice angel #doodle dump #dialogue dump #palette #yes the two links are to the same place. for continuity’s sake. it looks better this way okay #bendy outside the gent workshop w/ the signal towers struck me like a bolt of lightning. so glad i thought of it #tried to do the building from memory and had to redo it tho. i know it’s still not exact but the Vibes are what’s more important #had fun with malice’s hair! flaring out all fancy-like..

[puppetmaster13u]

Thinkin about @phoenixcatch7 's Possessed Doll au, and I was slowly rotating how like, Duke can use his powers while in a doll body. Ended up with this lol

#possessed doll au #art #sketch #duke thomas #possessed puppet au #signal #dc #I just like the idea of whisps of light gathering in his hands #Also I love his design- very proud of it #Visibly more mechanical than the other puppets #Probably ends up with rumors about how the Signal is the literal bat signal brought to life lol #Duke: I can use this to my advantage #He probably makes lil light birds for the kids in Gotham (shadow puppets? nah- lightshow puppets lol) #But they could also probably work as flares too #why yes he does have four ears and spikes down the spine lol #double communicators and sensors since he's the dayshift

[birgittesilverbae]

thinking about thomas lynch's "we get no choice. if we love, we grieve." and sister warrior after sister warrior finding a family in the ocs and being left indelibly inked by their time with their sisters and then falling away one by one by one, pawns sacrificed in a greater game, sister after sister after sister chewed up and spat out and left in the dust. warriors carrying their sisters and then carrying their memories and bending beneath the weight of all these ghosts. buoyed only by those who still stand beside them, who reach a hand out to raise them up, who will fall in a day or a week or a month but in that moment they're there with a forearm to grasp and a hand to hold and a shoulder to cry on, the tightness of bonds formed in those intimate isolated spaces.

love like a campfire, embers smoldering long after the flames have died off, and sitting by waiting and praying for them to burn out so you can finally, finally rest. beatrice with a chest full of embers from fires that had warmed her for so long, clinging to that last measure of comfort, the lingering heat of that love, in the wake of the ark

#warrior nun #mywn #sister beatrice #or smth idk love as a signal flare love as a campfire love as a flame love as something that can so easily burn you along with it #that can so easily consume you #just rotating love and fire recently no reason

[tri-pofdeath]

HI I'M GHOSTT and I'm fairly new to the Trigun fandom, and honestly just actually participating in fandom in general, but hi howdy. I mostly yell about Trimax here, and my favorites are Elendira and Livio/Razlo. I try to tag most spoilers but if you haven't read the manga it may be best to skip over this blog and maybe just look at my main LOL

My main is @ghosttmachine which will be a more familiar URL if you're looking from Twitter. I post all of my Nice Art there but this one gets some extras sometimes. I don't think I had too many Trigun follows there, but I figured I'd throw a little thing out to the wild just in case anyway

also if I'm being perfectly honest with myself, statistically speaking if you recognize a drawing of mine esp from twitter. it's this dead Vash

#I'm bad at intros but uhh i hope this gets the point across #throwing this here like a signal flare #trigunartist #trigun artist #my art

[milkweedman]

Hi, you said in your bio that you're chronically ill. I was wondering if you had any tips for knitting with chronic pain (assuming that's your flavour of chronic illness)? Or do you know anyone who could give me advice?knitting/sewing is my sanity-saver.

I use compression gloves, only knit with specific weights of yarn (the ones that are the least painful for me), and try to take frequent breaks, which for me looks like switching hobbies every 30 minutes or so (knitting to spinning to knitting, etc). I also do my best to be very gentle on my joints when i can, altho i honestly rarely have the choice at work.

Personally i have joint problems and migraines, so thats what im correcting for/trying not to make worse. Helpful advice probably varies depending on what youre trying to correct for. Really my only general advice is "when it starts to hurt, try to stop" and "if possible, save the painfully difficult stuff for when youre doing well, and make the easier stuff your usual work"

If anyone who sees this has got other tips please feel free to comment them

#i havent knit socks in a while and i realized my last wrist and thumb issue flare up was the last time i did socks #and also right now when im doing socks again #which is making me think maybe my wrists are better than i thought generally speaking but knitting just destroys them #socks specifically i tend to zone out with and ignore pain signals #idk what to do with that info tho. i guess knit fewer socks :( #anyway there may be some things like that which you can save for when youre feeling comparatively well #but chronic pain isnt actually my issue and i can and will work thru pain to the continual degradation of my joints #so rly the joints getting worse is what my problem is #so i dont know how much if any of this is helpful to you #sorry im replying right before i need to leave for work and thru a migraine so. might try and think of something more helpful and update #my answer #chronic illness

[ltwilliammowett]

Signal Flares

Even if this invention goes back to a man, we have a woman to thank for the fact that they are used at all. Pyrotchnic flares were invented by Benjamin Franklin Coston, but he died before he could give them to the US Navy. His wife Martha Jane Coston (born 1826) eloped with him at the age of 16 and married him early. Benjamin quickly became a naval scientist for the U.S. Navy's scientific laboratory in Washington, D.C. At the Washington Navy Yard, he developed a signaling rocket and a percussion primer for cannons. Due to a disagreement with the Navy, he left that post in 1847 and joined a gas company, but had long been battling health problems from the chemicals he had been working with. This led to his death in November 1848.

Martha Jane Coston (1826-1904) (x)

It was Martha who attended to his affairs and found a note on the subject of night signals. However, it was only a note and not elaborated and so she did for the next 10 years. With limited knowledge of chemistry and pyrotechnics, she relied on the advice of hired chemists and fireworks experts - with mixed results. Her breakthrough came in 1858 when she watched the fireworks in New York City to celebrate the completion of the transatlantic telegraph cable. She realised that her system needed a light blue flare in addition to the red and white signal flares she had already developed. She formed the Coston Manufacturing Company to produce the signal flares and entered into a business relationship with a pyrotechnic developer to procure the necessary blue colour.

(x)

On 5 April 1859, she was awarded US Patent No. 23,536 and sold this for $20000 for a pyrotechnic night signal and code system. Using different colour combinations, ships could communicate with each other and with the coast. But the patent was granted to her as executor of the estate of her late husband, who is named as the inventor. Captain C.S. McCauley of the U.S. Navy recommended the use of their beacons to Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey in 1859. After extensive tests that proved the effectiveness of the system, the U.S. Navy ordered an initial set of 300 flares and later placed an order for $6,000 worth of flares. However, she then secured the patent in Europe.

(x)

In 1871, however, she introduced her own system of different colours and patterns, which allowed ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communication and sold the signals to navies, ship owners and yachts around the world.

Eventually, in the USA, every United States Life-Saving Service station was equipped with Coston flares, which were used to signal ships, warn of dangerous coastal conditions and call surfers and other rescuers to a wreck. Many accounts of shipwrecks and rescues describe the use of the Coston flare, which helped save thousands of lives. Although Martha Coston died in 1904, her company, later renamed the Coston Signal Company and Coston Supply Company, continued until at least 1985.

These flares are still used today:

White flares are used to warn other ships of a boat’s position in order to avoid collisions. They are also useful for illuminating the water by night if there is a man overboard.

Orange distress flares are designed to be used for distress calls in daylight as they are easier to see than red flares due to the substantial clouds of orange smoke that are produced.

Red distress flares are used only in an emergency that requires immediate assistance. Because of their meaning, it is illegal to fire or ignite a red flare either on the water or along the coast in order to prevent calling out emergency services for lesser reasons. Red distress flares are used mainly at night because they are easier to see in darkness.

#naval history #signal flares #martha jane coston #19th century #age of sail #age of steam

[yunogf]

#nctinc #jaehyunnet #jaehyun #gifs*jaehyun #mine*works #many things to say but i will say none of them #we're stranded on this island i tell jaehyun to use the signal flare to send for help &he's on the shore doing this #ppl died jaehyun

[sunlitriddle]

I realized the other day that .hack doesn’t get enough love, and I’m about to make that everyone else’s problem

WIP of the Descendants of Fianna, the Azure Trio, definitely about to do something that will destroy Balmung’s sterling reputation

#bre draws #.hack//imoq #.hack fanart #dot hack #dothack #.hack #fanart #descendants of fianna #idk other tags to send my signal flare to the five other dot hackers on this hell site

[caracwinters]

Flare Signal (by @queenangst/achievingelysium on AO3) Fic Binding Update #4

after a very very long time spent sewing (and crying over how my weaver's knots kept coming untied), the text block is put together! I can hold it like a real book now and it's very satisfying

this will be the last thing I can do on this particular project until April since I'm traveling back to uni and don't have room in my luggage to transport it with me. but it'll be here waiting, and by the time I can get to it again, I'll have more experience with gluing and making the case, so I can ensure it'll look as awesome as possible!

#seriously though I regret not splitting this into two volumes #this thing is MASSIVE #or maybe it just feels that way because it's my first time doing more than 500 pages #bookbinding #fanbinding #fic binding #fanfic binding #flare signal #mha #bnha #boku no hero academia

[epithetrequestithets]

Idk how I (Zora Crazy) ended up with an inbox that’s 80% Rick and Giovanni

Where r my girls,,,, where’s Zora,,, where’s Percy,,,,

#this is a signal btw #GET THEM IN HERE‼️‼️‼️ #i hold this post up like a flare #percy fans…. find me percy fans… find me….. #epithet erased #zora salazar #percival king #mod #okay well I know how rick got there #I think I summoned like every Rick Fan a while ago

[dougielombax]

Apparently this is a 37mm Russian signal revolver.

I’ll assume it was used to launch flares if that’s the case.

They sure as hell aren’t gonna miss them coming from THAT!

LOOK AT THIS SHIT!!!!

This is comically impractical!

I wonder if one was ever used to kill a man.

It must’ve been considered at least.

As impractical as such a feat may be.

It looks like something you’d use to kill the final boss of a resident evil game!

The Catholic Church probably has one of these stored away in Rome or some such place if it feels it needs to kill god or some shit. Idk.

I’m pretty sure Hellboy had one of these.

The kickback would probably shatter your wrist, snapping your forearm, and your humerus to boot.

But hey! The home intruder has been reduced to a red smear on the wall!

They’re still finding the bastard’s teeth in the village down the road!

But you’ll probably need to get an amputation for what the sordid monstrosity of a weapon did to your arm.

OH WELL!

Truly the biggest iron! Marty Robbins be shittin’ hisself twice right about now (Sharty Bobbins)!

Amazing!

I mean it’s obscene but it’s amazing!

Holy shit!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #weapons #guns #firearms #revolver #signal #flare #signal flare #flare gun #sort of #big iron #the biggest even #37mm #holy shit #no context #rants #shitpost #catholic church #hellboy #recoil #intruder #hypothetical #to shreds you say #amputation #marty robbins #shit yourself and die #fallout new vegas #obscene #amazing

[hellhoundstooth]

hey, bud..... how are you doing.... you've listened to get lonely for the last hour and half

#and send your name up from my lips... like a signal flare #should have bought the get lonely sweatshirt #even though i don't wear sweatshirts

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Guys just let them in

I'm rly surprised that after Gabriel/Beelzebub went canon and basically established "any angel x any demon" crackshipping as the Good Omens fandom norm, there hasn't been a massive outpouring of SPN/GO crossovers with Demon!Dean x Cas. like guys. this is THE UNIVERSE. the one where gay angel/demon ships ARE the template.

they literally had the Metatron as the most recent new villain and he's still the absolute worst.

They partnered with THE HILLYWOOD SHOW. to announce the METATRON TWIST VILLAIN SEASON

HOW MUCH MORE OF A SUMMONING DO YOU NEED

#“dean is dead and cas is gone” ok??? #well demons can go wherever the fuck they want and Good Omens could barely have summoned Dean's demon ass out of the afterlife #if they sent up signal flares and blasted led zeppelin and coated soho in PIE #good omens #supernatural #deanmon #demon dean #destiel #castiel #if you're cold* they're DEFINITELY COLD*. PLEASE LET THEM IN #*in shreds after a fucked up finale #also I'm not excluding Sam. he can come i just dont think yall are ready for my take on Gaimanverse Sam Winchester

[filthforfriends]

Dear anon,

Agreed.

#vaginismus flare is already making my life UNLIVABLE rn #so this is what we’re doing #the internalized misogynists can virtue signal off into some other sunset tonight