#floodtide

[capecodartandnature]

Super high tide at Bell’s Neck early this afternoon but that didn’t bother the whimbrels. No pics because I didn’t want to spook them reaching for my good camera 😉 So of course people insisted on passing by and they flew off anyway—lol! The life of birders… #capecod #capecodbirds #birds #saltmarsh #floodtide #hightide #september #nature #getoutside https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci-zDwDP5j3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#capecod #capecodbirds #birds #saltmarsh #floodtide #hightide #september #nature #getoutside

[joyffree]

Join us for the #NewRelease Tour with #Giveaway

Flood Tide (The Devotion Series #2) Angsty Slow Burn Romance by Tracey Jerald

When linguistics expert Iris Cunningham met Samuel Akin, she fell irrevocably in love. She nursed a crush on her best friend's cousin. From an instant attraction, it grew to something much more during four long years at college.

She hid despair. He didn't feel the same.

Computer savant Samuel Akin denied his feelings for Iris until it was almost too late. Every time he was with her, a flood of emotion swept over him. He craved her yet feared he couldn't be with her.

She dragged his sense out of self to sea.

Their lives irrevocably entwine when love guides them first to an alliance, then marriage and family. They submerge themselves into a sworn existence few are privy.

Validating the half-truths demanded by the terms and conditions of their livelihood, threads of honor and integrity that bind them are tested. Yet while alternately maddened and delighted by the other, they take an opposing side over a fundamental disagreement.

They regret little about their lives together, but this?

When faced with accusations of betrayal, can they stand firm together against the waves crashing against them during the tides?

Or will their love be swept away in a wash of heartbreak?

@TraceyJerald @AuthorTraceyJerald · Author Organized by ➱ Foreword PR & Marketing

#floodtide #devotion #angsty #slowburn #romance #kindleunlimited #traceyjerald

[emblazonet]

So - and I'm sure you are all going to be just shocked - I installed a bunch of Morrowind mods I've never tried before (mostly cities and landscapes, aesthetic things, a new companion I never tried before) and made up a new Nerevarine. Idk there's loads of things that aren't the main quest that I could be doing, but. I miss it? I just miss Morrowind so much, I haven't honestly played in years.

Bumming around Seyda Neen, picking mushrooms, barely able to kill mudcrabs... I'm home.

#Ofc a floodtide of story ideas are in my head now #I joke that MW is my muse but it really is #It primes the creative pump deftly #Morrowind #tes #Tesblr #I made the worst build too lmao

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Floodtide Serpent

"Pray to Thassa for *what*? A bigger monster to eat it? A wave that can wash it away? What then?" —Lindos, merchant of Meletis

Artist: Steven Belledin TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #$0.06 #steven belledin #floodtide serpent #born of the gods #creature #serpent

[melisaongmiqin]

Commission - Erien-58-typesetting-signature-200dpi

Commissioned by Erien Arkest. ( https://twitter.com/EArkest ) Featuring shipgirls Texas, Bunker Hill, non-shipgirl (obviously XD) Anderson Stevens and Bubo from his story "Fleetgirls at Floodtide". (Please follow him for more details~ ^3^).

Thank you very much for your kind support, generosity and permission to post! ^o^

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#melisaongmiqin #fanart #commission #azur lane #fleetgirls at floodtide #bunker hill #texas #bubo #owl

[sapphicbookclub]

Sapphic Books List: Bodyguards

What’s better than women protecting other women? Explore the lives of body guards, knights, and guns for hire!

Fantasy:

The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner

These Feathered Flames by Alexandra Overy

Alpennia series by Heather Rose Jones (Daughter of Mystery, The Mystic Marriage, Mother of Souls, Floodtide)

The Queen’s Curse by Natasja Hellenthal

Sword of the Guardian by Merry Shannon

Elemental Attraction by K. Aten

Science fiction:

Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth)

Godfall series by Barbara Ann Wright (Paladins of the Storm Lord, Widows of the Sun-Moon, Children of the Healer, Inheritors of Chaos)

House of Fate by Barbara Ann Wright

Contemporary:

Break in the Storm by Sherryl D. Hancock

Securing Ava by Anne Shade

The Bodyguard Affair by Anna Stone & Hildred Billings

Protecting the Lady by Amanda Radley

Guarded Desires by Anna Stone

Honor series by Radclyffe (10+ book series)

#sapphic books #lgbt books #wlw books #booklr #book recs #sbl

[convenientalias]

Bella Books (my favorite sapphic fiction publisher) is having another big paperback sale due to moving. Some books at $4. I know I post about it every time this happens but I'm a big fan of theirs! I just want ppl to know.

Books I would recommend that are currently on sale:

THREE WHOLE BOOKS of the Alpennia series are on sale! Daughter of Mystery, The Mystic Marriage, and Floodtide. Any of these books I would highly recommend! Mystic Marriage is my favorite (I'm a big fan of Jeanne and Antuniet, both together and separately), but Daughter of Mystery is the first book. While Floodtide is more of a side novel--could probably be read on its own with only a little "wait, who are all these noble lesbians in the background" confusion.

Alone by E.J. Noyes is half thriller half romance, a novel about a woman partaking in an experiment on the effects of isolation on the psyche, and the woman who disrupts the experiment three years in, putting our MC's possible magnificent earnings in jeopardy (not to mention, she's suspicious as hell and also might be a hallucination. there's a lot going on). I read this in covid days and thought it was a bit eerie that it came out in 2019. It's a good read.

I Left My Heart by Jaye Maiman is a solid murder mystery with a side plot of lesbian romance (also, the character murdered is the MC's ex. Not a spoiler. You learn this very early on. It's pretty sad). Probably other Jaye Maiman books are also good if on sale but this is the only one I've read.

Don't know how long this sale will last (I'm making this post on August 4) but while it does, I'd just like to recommend these books and the publisher in general to anyone who loves f/f fiction :)

#book sale #lesfic #femslash #queer books #lgbt books #alpennia

[scotianostra]

December 19th 1923 saw the birth of the Scottish actor Gordon Jackson.

Gordon was born the youngest of a family of five children in Glasgow in 1923. He attended Hillhead High School, but while there took part in a number of BBC radio shows including Children's Hour. After leaving school at the age of 15, he went to work as a draughtsman at Rolls-Royce. In 1942, Ealing Studios were looking for a young Scot to act in The Foreman Went to France and Jackson was suggested. Further film work followed, including San Demetrio London, and The Captive Heart. Perhaps the most memorable film in which he starred during this period was Whisky Galore!

In 1949, Jackson starred opposite the Scottish actress Rona Anderson in the film Floodtide. The two married on 2 June 1951, and had two sons. He also made his London stage debut in 1951 in Seagulls Over Sorrento. During the 1950s and 1960s Jackson appeared in TV shows such as The Quatermass Xperiment, The Adventures of Robin Hood, ABC of Britain, The Navy Lark, Gideon's Way and The Avengers as well as in films such as The Great Escape, The Bridal Path and the The Ipcress File.

Real fame came with his role as the butler, Hudson, in sixty episodes of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs that ran from 1971 to 1975. In 1974, he was named British Actor of the Year; in 1976, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor; and in 1979 he was awarded an OBE. In 1977 he took on the role of George Cowley in The Professionals which ran for 57 episodes. He was involved in a wide range of projects during the 1980s, including narrating afternoon cookery shows in New Zealand and films such as A Town Like Alice (in which his performance won him a Logie Award), The Shooting Party and The Whistleblower. He died in London aged 66 in 1990

#scotland #scottish #history #actor #theatre #television #cinema

[elsewhereuniversity]

I need a name to catch me as the floor gives out below my feet

Floodtide

#names

[plethoraworldatlas]

In the racial-reckoning summer of 2020, local leaders in a small American town gathered for a contentious vote on whether to take down a statue that honored a man who was, as one assessment read, “steeped in racial division, violence and injustice.” Would they join local leaders from cities in Virginia, Alabama and other states to remove a memorial praising a figure who symbolized a “historical trauma” that still caused anguish and anger among their constituents? The town council listened, and debated, and finally decided. By a margin of 6-1, the seven members voted to join the floodtide of decisions elsewhere to take down another symbol of historic oppression.

This statue, though, had nothing to do with the Confederacy or the Civil War. Rather, this vote took place in Alaska, in the small coastal town of Sitka (population 8,400), located on an island about halfway between Anchorage and Vancouver, British Columbia. And the statue was of a Russian, a merchant by the name of Aleksandr Baranov, a key figure in Russia’s conquest of Alaska over 200 years ago. The resolution authorizing the removal said Baranov, who was Alaska’s first colonial governor, “directly over[saw] enslavement of Tlingit and Aleut people,” a policy that was “often justified under a theory of racial and cultural superiority.” Baranov’s criminality — which included, among other things, the “violation of Native women” and “murder and theft of Indigenous property” — was so depraved that local Tlingit nicknamed him “No Heart.”

#indigenous rights #Alaska #fuck russia

[thelypteriiis]

redacted theory update 9.6

original here

update 1.0

update 2.0

tldr: closeknit, the most likely perpetrators of inversion, want a line to death via sunshine's connection to brachium who is guarding the weaver's prison disguised (for humans) as a river of death/meridian that wipes human's memories due to their incompatibility with it. blake, a closeknit acolyte may have (accidently) trapped avior and starlight who are potentially being manipulated by the weavers trapped behind the meridian to bring it down and free the weavers. while james and asset try to keep it all intact with little to no understanding how the meridian really works or what it even is. and there's a d(a)emonic group that may also be trying to bring the meridian down to favor their own agenda. elliott, who escaped thanks to scorpius (one of closeknit's captives which was probably supposed avior's fate) is on the hunt for someone in the department (sweetheart!! milo!!) to bring down closeknit and free sunshine.

all in all this could be the lead up to the cataclysm. inversion 2.0 but far, far worse.

so last we left off i was pretty convinced that love/asset is going to act as an intermediary between aria and elegy (which we now know is called terra by empowered humans) and that still seems to be the case, just in a less literal sense. it seems like james and ets intends on using asset to figure out how to aid in the meridian's healing abilities or mimicking the function of the meridian itself to prevent its fall and ultimate devastation of terra seen here:

"But if we’re going to reinforce it, we need to better understand how it does that, and if there’s a way for us to either bolster that function or to recreate it artificially on our own."

james states earlier in the same video that the meridian is deteriorating because of how often it's being "punched" (as we've seen it referred to by many many others) by empowered people. there are more empowered people using their powers more frequently. he also mentions a variety of magical universities here (i'd love to see freelancer and gavin get pulled into this whole meridian mess but that might be too much for the poor damn crew) we'll probably get more info once we learn whatever james is greenlighting for asset to access.

during this discussion, there's a lot more meridian as a cloth and water descriptors used. further support that it can be seen either way

"That process involves pulling it through the Meridian. And that act of puncturing it has a corrosive effect on weft and weave of the Meridian itself."

"When empowered humans call on magic, they siphon magical energy out of Aria."

"While the exact details of its composition still aren’t clear, we do know for sure that it acts like a dam of sorts, one that holds the magic of Aria away from our own reality."

"And the Meridian is the only thing holding back a floodtide of it that will completely unravel our plane of reality if it touches us."

all this makes me still pretty confident in the main bones of the original theory: brachium (and in turn elliott, sunshine, and closeknit too), avior/starlight, and the weavers are all very much tied into project meridian, although in varying degrees. avior's logo, the needle, and the sewing/needle references in his audios feels like a further connection to the meridian fall prevention program. especially with how confident starlight has been about feeding themselves to the meridian (more on that in a moment).

i've also acknowledged it on tiktok, but erik loves using water as a metaphor for things (seen most often in ivan and kody) so the balance connection may be a bit of a stretch but im running with it until im proven wrong. especially if blake was the dreamwalker that avior encountered. that brings me to who might be doing the final ripping down of the meridian: avior and starlight.

we've learned a lot about the meridian and their situation since my last update. avior, in taking the time to consider your demon's words, mentions that the meridian is giving starlight back their memories. up until now, and aside from avior in general, we never see the meridian mentioned as sentient. it always is spoken about as a barrier, a dam, a cloth, something that isn't alive even by other demons (gavin mostly). so why is it at every turn being spoken about like it's alive by avior? is it just the nature of his connection to the meridian? how long he's been stitched into it? or is it like i originally theorized: the weavers/sovereigns are using avior and starlight to rip their way out of the meridian that is sealing them in? and starlight's repeated exposure to the meridian, which has been stated multiple times by multiple characters, humans are not compatible with, are what's making them so eager to jump? like they are being influenced by the powerful creatures behind the thin cloth?

i'm a little more convinced of this because starlight has had more alone time in their hellscape since avior's confession. even in his most recent update (8.30) it seems like he hasn't had such an active role in starlight's life as he had in the past. that paired with this wanting to "restart" not with avior himself but restart entirely seems weird. could this restarting be the weaver's wanting (and influence on starlight) a fresh start since they created both d(a)emons and humans who ultimately ended up turning on them and sealing them away? plus starlight either doesn't care about their life or is pretty damn confident that they'll be fine afterwards which again is weird. all this on top of the meridian being extremely weak and james being especially nervous that it could fall at any minute seems too opportune. the weavers see their moment on the horizon and are taking it, despite james and asset's best efforts.

could blake have been trying to trap avior similar to how closeknit have scorpius trapped? seeing as camelopardalis is a serenity d(a)emon and scorpius is an incubus memory modification can be a skill any d(a)emon has yet (like how any d(a)emon can do any kind of magic as long as their well fed) only some have a level of expertise so it's not completely out of the ballpark that closeknit is kidnapping d(a)emons with the intent on adding them to their abusive lineup.

we've also got a vega update that is very interesting. in my original theory i thought love/asset brought down the wards on the prisons, but according to vega, it was the solitaires, a group that wants d(a)emonic independence from humans. similar, yet opposite, to closeknit. the line in particular that is interesting was:

"Yes. I speak of the Sovereigns. Your youth again betrays you, my darling. They are not legend. They are history. And they are opportunity. Autonomy."

the opportunity part is what caught my interest. are the solitaires trying to do what closeknit is but in favor of d(a)emons? where closeknit wants the weavers back to crush d(a)emons, assuming the weavers want revenge, do the solitaires believe that freeing the weavers will be the final act that severs their reliance on humans? hoping to seal off aria from terra so that humans can no longer siphon off the magic/arcane that makes up their plane? seeing as d(a)emons were fine and didn't need to feed on anything until humans were created and they were severed from the sovereigns. but are these groups working alone?

i've seen theories floating that closeknit and ets (james' company) are working together (mostly im guessing in the way that ets is funding closeknit as a front to gather information and money) and that could be possible. i can also see them playing both sides (closeknit and the solitaires) with james' mention of being willing to doing anything to ensure the safety of terra. but i dont see the few empowered people in ets being anyone that the solitiares would trust. and if ets is working with closeknit they definitely are aligning themselves with some genuinely fucked up hatred. for asset's sake i really and truly hope that james is just as well-intentioned and transparent as he says he is.

scorpius' deal with elliott also has me wondering where that's headed. elliott is going out on the hunt for someone that will convince the department to do something about closeknit (im really hoping for milo and sweetheart who are already experts in bringing down wards and are associated with the department. or maybe warden? manipulated by vega to foil plans to prevent the meridian's downfall) how is this going to loop into the main plot? could elliott stumble into starlight during the time they were outside of the meridian before avior pulled them back in? or will he hunt down james and aid in the plan? elliott is honestly a wild card right now.

andddddd as a final nail in the coffin, morgan and the rest of the seers can not foretell what is going to happen. noted here:

"Sight is bound inexorably to humanity. To this plane of existence, to this reality. No one really knows why, but it's a fact. And one of the results of that fact is that actions made manifest on or of other planes of existence are Obscured as well. Aria... Death. We're blind to what happens in those places. Our magic can't account for them."

this opens the door to a lot of players being unaccounted for not only by the department but by humanity and d(a)emonic kind as a whole.

all this is going to accumlute in a terrible event as i foresee it. think inversion 2.0. think the cataclysm. if the cataclysm isn't another imperium situation and a canon event (i’ve combed through the post and can’t find anything that would imply it isn’t. the only thing is that towards the end cataclysm glitches into imperium and then reverts back. in the imperium au the meridian falling seems a lot more immediate. could this be a chance to peek behind the curtain of what’s to happen if everyone fails to keep the meridian up? that’s what i’m thinking) that's what we can be building up to. especially since there are soooo many threads left untied. dahlia was the first cornerstone city to be attacked. what if it happens on a large scale? paired with all the other above mentioned factors?

in the end we’ll have to wait and see. there’s a whole month of releases (that don’t seem to be lore heavy in the meridian regard) before we maybe get answers. either way i’m excited. as always, if i missed anything, something’s not clear, or you want to chat about lore pls message me!!

#redacted asmr #redactedasmr #redacted #redacted asmr theory #redactedasmr theory #redactedasmr project meridian #redactedasmr the balance

[lokislynx]

Good news is Astarion is absolutely filling the void of my slight "obsession" of Tom Hiddleston (well Loki mainly). And Astarion comes like a floodtide; fast and all over...

Uups. That sounded a bit naughty...

#life is

[absenceisaformofwinter]

Now it’s high watermark

and floodtide in the heart

and time to go.

The sea-nymphs in the spray

will be the chorus now.

What’s left to say?

Suspect too much sweet-talk

but never close your mind.

It was a fortunate wind

that blew me here. I leave

half-ready to believe

that a crippled trust might walk

and the half-true rhyme is love.

Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

#seamus heaney #poetry

[melisaongmiqin]

Commission - Erien-35-text-typesetting-signature-150dpi

Commissioned by Erien.

Featuring various main characters from his stories.

Thank you very much for your kind support, generosity and permission to post!

Am available for Commissions. ( [email protected] )

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#melisaongmiqin #commission #ayumu #a fox in paradise #dylan evans #gauze #american hero's journey #nasuh #on angel's wings #arthur #a dance of wyverns #anderson stevens #fleetgirls at floodtide #caafe #mass effect #quarian

[hauntedsharkstrawberry]

future, he should tie his community to Guadalajara and to British commerce. He successfully negotiated his children’s transition into prominent positions in the new English-dominated world. Yet it seems likely that he looked back on 1810 as a moment of great loss.ReferencesAltable, Francisco. 2013. Vientos nuevos: Idea, aplicación y resultados del proyecto borbónico para la organización del gobierno y el desarrollo de la población y economía de las Californias, 1767-1825. La Paz: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. 1884.History of California, Volume I: 1542-1800. San Francisco: A.I. Bancroft and Company. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. 1885. History of California, Volume II: 1801-1824. San Francisco: A.I. Bancroft and Company. Bao, Muping. 2006. “Trade Centres (Maimaicheng) in Mongolia and Their Function in Sino-Russian Trade Networks.” International Journal of Asian Studies3(2): 211-237. Besseghini, Deborah.2020a. “British Trade and the Fall of the Spanish Empire.Changing Practices and Alliances of Antony Gibbs & Sons in Lima during the Transition from Viceregal to Independentist Rule (1820-1823).” Nuevo Mundo/Mundos Nuevos20[online]: 1-20.doi:10.4000/nuevomundo.79632.Bonialian, Mariano, 2014. “Nuevos problemas sobre una vieja controversia, el flujo de plata entre América y China durante el siglo XVIII.” In Oro y plata en los inicios de la economía global, edited by Bernd Hausberger, and Antonio Ibarra, 217-249. Mexico City: El Colegio de México.Bonialian, Mariano. 2017. “Comercio y atlantización del Pacífico mexicano y sudamericano: la crisis del lago indiano y del Galeón de Manila, 1750–1821.” América Latina Historia Económica24(1): 7-36. doi: 10.18232/alhe.v24i1.791. Cabañas, Joaquín Ramírez, ed. 1944. Comercio extranjero por el Puerto de San Blas en los años, 1812-1817.Mexico City: Archivo Historico de Hacienda.Cheong, Weng Eang. 1971. “The Decline of Manila as the Spanish Entrepôt in the Far East, 1785 –1826.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies2(2): 142-158. doi:10.1017/S0022463400018579Cook, Warren. 1973. Floodtide of Empire: Spain and the Pacific Northwest, 1593 to 1819.New Haven: Yale University Press.Crossley, Pamela Kyle. 2008. What Is Global History?Cambridge: Polity. Del Valle Pavón, Guillermina. 2012. Finanzas piadosas y redes de negocios: Los mercaderes de la ciudad de México ante la crisis de Nueva España, 1804-1808.México: Instituto Mora.

[scotianostra]

December 19th 1923 saw the birth of Gordon Jackson who became a much loved actor on stage, TV and film. Gordon Jackson was born the youngest of a family of five children in Glasgow in 1923. He attended Hillhead High School, but while there took part in a number of BBC radio shows including Children’s Hour. After leaving school at the age of 15, he went to work as a draughtsman at Rolls-Royce. In 1942, Ealing Studios were looking for a young Scot to act in The Foreman Went to France and Jackson was suggested. Further film work followed, including San Demetrio London, and The Captive Heart. Perhaps the most memorable film in which he starred during this period was Whisky Galore! In 1949, Jackson starred opposite the Scottish actress Rona Anderson in the film Floodtide. The two married on 2 June 1951, and had two sons. He also made his London stage debut in 1951 in Seagulls Over Sorrento. During the 1950s and 1960s Jackson appeared in TV shows such as The Quatermass Experiment, The Adventures of Robin Hood, ABC of Britain, The Navy Lark, Gideon’s Way and The Avengers as well as in films such as The Great Escape, The Bridal Path and the The Ipcress File. Real fame came with his role as the butler, Hudson, in sixty episodes of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs that ran from 1971 to 1975. In 1974, he was named British Actor of the Year; in 1976, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor. In 1977 he took on the role of George Cowley in The Professionals which ran for 57 episodes. He was involved in a wide range of projects during the 1980s, including narrating afternoon cookery shows in New Zealand and films such as A Town Like Alice (in which his performance won him a Logie Award), The Shooting Party and The Whistleblower.

In December 1989, he was diagnosed with bone cancer; he died on 15th January 1990, aged 66, in London. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.

#Scotland #scottish #actor #television #theatre #cinema