#siberian explosion

[historybetweenthepages]

1976

#book #literature #1970s #1976 #modern literature #john baxter #thomas atkins #tunguska #siberia #russia #siberian explosion #tunguska event #isaac asimov #youtube #video #videos #real stories #space #outer space #explosion #space and science

[aurumacadicus]

42 for number ficlet!

"You're a complete moron!" Tony shouted, waving his hands over his head for emphasis as he paced up and down the tiny shack they'd holed up in. "I said I could disarm the bomb. I said I could fly us out of there. I said I could handle it! And what did you do instead?!"

"I got blown up," Steve answered morosely.

"You got blown up!" Tony shouted, as if he hadn't spoken. "And now Natasha and Bucky are tromping around in the Siberian wilderness trying to find help because your dumb ass has to sit and stitch itself together AND! Barring HELP! FOOD. IN THE SIBERIAN WILDERNESS."

"Green pine-cones are perfectly edible and full of nutrients," Steve began.

Tony loomed over him on the tiny cot Bucky had wedged him onto, looking apoplectic with rage. "What did you just say to me."

Steve opened his mouth, then carefully closed it again, considering. On one hand, in literally any other circumstance, Tony might be interested to know about the fact that small, green pine-cones could be used as a food source in case of an emergency. Right now, though, he could see that Tony was wound tight. He had said that he could handle it. Tony was always rankled when he thought people underestimated him.

Steve didn't underestimate him, though. He knew Tony could disarm the bomb. He knew Tony could fly them out. He knew Tony could handle it. He knew all of those things. And he also knew that if there was even an inkling of doubt in Tony's body, he would have stayed to make sure everyone else got out safely.

But that would have meant leaving Tony behind. Steve was incapable of doing that. Not when he knew that Tony would easily throw his life away if it meant saving someone else's. So he'd taken the brunt of the explosion with the shield, so Tony didn't have a choice.

He'd do it again in a heartbeat, but he thought if he said so, Tony might actually use a gauntlet on him. So, instead, he said, "Will you at least hold my hand while you yell at me?"

"No," Tony barked, even as carefully took one of Steve's hands between his own. His thumbs moved back and forth slowly. "And my yelling is absolutely deserved."

"I know," Steve sighed, and even to his own ears, he couldn't keep all of the fondness out of it. He watched Tony's eyes soften and managed to give his hand a minute squeeze, trying to comfort him. "And then I'll tell you about the pine-cones."

Tony sucked in a wet breath. "If I never see a pine-cone again, it will be too soon."

#aurumacadicus answers #missblackmrblue #1-161 stony ficlet challenge #stony

[luna-rainbow]

Amygdala and the super soldier serum

I read this interesting meta about Steve's brain changes post-serum, specifically this bit:

Steve’s brain is smarter and faster, the neurons have a longer life span, the hippocampus — that’s your memory storage — is nice and healthy; whatever. But then they said that the part of Steve’s brain that increased the most in mass and synaptogenesis was the amygdala.

So I had to be a nerd and crack open a Neuroanatomy textbook. Accordingly, the amygdala forms part of the limbic system (which I've briefly talked about in another meta), one of the key parts of the brain that governs memory, emotions, and by extension, behaviour. It serves a role not only in creating and regulating emotions, but also in recognising facial and verbal cues for emotions.

Onward for super soldier angst!(?)

Neuroanatomy is still an evolving field so our understanding of amygdala function is still immature. There are multiple areas to the amygdala, but the main ones are:

Basolateral: this is the largest part of the amygdala and receives information from higher-order sensory cortical areas and the association cortex. In plain English, this area links sensory input (e.g. music, objects, etc) with particular emotions. I think this is what the original meta was describing -- a simple stimulus could be so much more intense for Steve (and presumably for other super soldiers too) because it would bring on an emotional response. The pure joy of a tasting vanilla, the melancholy of the smell of rain, the nostalgia of old music, the grief of seeing the Howlies' pictures. And because this area draws from the association cortex as well, I would presume the more he has a particular emotional response to a stimulus, the more it becomes reinforced -- so going to the museum to see Bucky and the Howlies again and again reinforces the sense of grief he associates with them...and that's what stopped him in his tracks when he saw Bucky with his mask off.

Central: this area is key in mediating an emotional response, and both receives and sends information to the autonomic system, which controls things like heart rate/blood pressure/breathing rate/"gut feelings". It plays a key role in fear conditioning. It forms a central part of the rewards pathway, meaning it often serves a role in addiction and (on the flip side) depression. It also forms part of the pain regulation pathways. This may mean Steve has a strong physiological response to stimuli he associates with threats, regardless of whether or not he can control his own emotional response, i.e. even though he is used to explosions and gunshots and he knows, rationally, he can deal with them, this area might still kicks his heart rate and blood pressure up and make him feel dread. This makes me wonder whether the same amygdala development applies to the other super soldiers. For example, the Siberian Winter Soldiers had a very heightened fight-or-flight response, and similarly with Walker. It also begs the question of whether the heightened fear and reward pathways were used for Bucky's conditioning. E.g. Bucky's look of terror when he was trapped under the beam on the Helicarrier, but after Steve freed him, he was still intent on finishing the mission, because he was conditioned to think not finishing the mission was worse than dying. A lot of headcanons also involve Bucky being given drugs of addiction by Hydra -- and while I think the neuroanatomy of addiction is still not well understood, this could mean that quitting those drugs are more difficult for super soldiers once they became dependent on them. (Also, my headcanon is that the other super soldiers get a kick out of hurting people and post-serum, that reward pathway goes into overdrive and it becomes an addictive action for them.) And also, another area that is still developing, the pain regulation pathway being affected could also mean either more or less chronic pain issues, and likely a different emotional response to pain.

Basomedial nucleus: I thought I'd throw this in here because even though it wasn't mentioned in the neuroanatomy book, it is mentioned in this article. This area is thought to have a role in motivational behaviours under the influence of sex hormones, and in combination with the olfactory (sense of smell) processing being part of the amygdala structure and this apparently being a big factor in animal sexual behaviours...make of that what you will, A/B/O fic writers!

I think most places where I've read about the amygdala points to it being a primal center for emotions, i.e. the emotions that are key to our survival, and fear being a major part of it, triggering the fight-or-flight response. I think this means -- and I think it's fairly well-backed by canon -- that super soldiers innately have a heightened response to threatening stimuli, and because most of them are skilled, enhanced and trained, they respond to threat with aggression.

What's key here is that emotional regulation is done by higher centers outside the amygdala (frontal cortex). What that means is that the person has to make a conscious, cognitive effort to override their instincts for aggression. I think it says a lot about Steve and Bucky that they do keep a handle on their emotions, despite the over-development of their amygdala -- I think it also is in keeping with headcanons about Steve secretly having a huge anxiety problem under his stoic demeanour. We never see Steve lashing out, and the only time we see Bucky lashing out was when he got flashbacks to his arm being amputated. In a way...it's even more amazing that Bucky is as placid as he is, because despite having his memories wiped and therefore being only able to depend on primal emotions to guide him, he still has enough cognitive control to control his fears.

I also wanted to briefly address the "bleeding heart" part of the original meta (which was kinda what prompted this dive down the rabbit hole). As mentioned above, amygdala deals with primal emotions like joy and fear and anger, while some of the other "emotions" listed in the meta - sympathy and guilt and sense of duty and altruism - they are high level cognitions. I am inclined to think that Steve's empathy didn't change after the serum -- he just remained the same empathetic person he always was (although he might feel the emotions more keenly), which helped him be a better super soldier than the Winter Soldiers and Walker, and probably helped him keep a handle on the instinctive aggression.

Lastly, I just wanted to touch on grief. The neuroanatomy of grief is complex, and involves many different networks of emotions, autonomic responses, memory, and sensory processing. This study is interesting in that it identifies that increased functional connections in the amygdala is associated with a more protracted grief response and development of depressive symptoms. So yes...it is quite possible that Steve's more developed amygdala (and Bucky's too, but we shan't talk about The Movie that Does Not Exist) means he feels sadness more intensely, for longer, and the abnormal reward pathways might send him down a depressive or self-destructive spiral where his perceived reward is by doing something self-sacrificing.

One last thing (I promise this is final) the amygdala is also involved in REM sleep, aka dreaming. Theories are varied, but there is thought that being the fear/stress centre, the amygdala likely has a major role in generating nightmares.

Now put that together with two super soldiers living with PTSD and one canonically waking up from a nightmare...

#medical meta #steve rogers #steve rogers meta #bucky barnes #bucky barnes meta #long post

[tomorrowusa]

A reminder: DICTATORS WILL NOT KEEP YOU SAFE

Some people think that letting a dictator run the country will keep them safe. But a dictator's primary motivation is to accrue personal wealth and power – not to benefit the country or its people.

Vladimir Putin's ambition is to become known as the Peter the Great of the 21st century. He aims to achieve that by restoring the territory and hegemony of the decrepit Soviet Union. So far, Putin's invasion has cost hundreds of thousands of Russian lives, has been a serious drain on the country's resources, and has caused Russia's international reputation to plummet.

The Kremlin casts President Vladimir Putin as something close to a savior, a strong leader who has brought stability and security following the chaos of the Soviet collapse. The mass-casualty events that have punctuated his nearly 25 years as president or prime minister -- and the recurring images of explosions, flames, and helpless victims desperate to escape harm -- badly undermine that narrative. Instead, analysts say, they tell a story of a leader whose focus on the protection and prolongation of his own power have come at the expense of the security of the people. Putin’s critics say that more than three decades after the demise of the Soviet Union, Russia remains a country in which the state puts its own interests far above those of its citizens. The biggest example is the war against Ukraine: Before the full-scale invasion of February 2022, when Russia was massing tens of thousands of troops at the border and the United States was warning that the onslaught could begin any day, many observers predicted Putin would hold back because a massive attack would harm Russia’s security, not improve it.

Putin's secret police are too busy hunting dissidents, liberals, anti-war activists, and gays to be much concerned about genuine security threats. And this culture of repression was already in place before Putin started the war.

This leaves Russia highly vulnerable to real extremists, analysts say, and to deadly disasters in which corruption, corner-cutting, and negligence cause or exacerbate the effects of avoidable accidents like the fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo in March 2018, seven days after Putin was declared the winner of that month's presidential election. “The intelligence services are focused on political investigation and intimidation of citizens. They do not fulfill their direct responsibility to protect society from real threats,” Russian political observer Dmitry Kolezev wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Putin's control of media has made sure that nobody can criticize the way things are run. So everything the government does is publicly portrayed as wonderful. Then when something goes badly wrong and is too big to cover up, people are puzzled at how such a thing could possibly take place.

The March 22 attack at the Crocus City Hall outside Moscow “looks like a grandiose failure” on the part of the state, he wrote. “Fantastic amounts of money are spent on ‘security,’ but in reality, this security is not provided.” Under different circumstances, the political opposition and independent journalists would press the government on this problem, seeing to ensure that security forces do their job and that money is not misspent, Kolezev wrote. “Unfortunately, neither of these groups has access to national television, where they could speak quite loudly about this.” Instead of serving as checks on the state authorities, in other words, these groups are their targets. “Russian security personnel have been trained to look at specific, politically important ‘threats,’” Andras Toth-Czifra, a fellow with the Eurasia Program at the U.S.-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, wrote on X, adding that “due to resource/time/manpower constraints this means that they have less capacity to look at and prevent actual threats.”

When dictators are responsible to no one, they have no obligation to act responsibly.

Putin’s sluggish reaction to the Kursk submarine disaster during his first year in office is an example, and experts say bungled responses to the Nord-Ost theater attack in Moscow in 2002 and the Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia in 2004 increased the casualty counts. The predominance of the priorities of the state and its senior leaders over the interests of citizens is not a new problem: It stretches back to Soviet times and the tsarist era, and it’s a phenomenon that dissidents, rights activists, and opposition politicians say must be reversed if Russia and its people are to thrive. But Kremlin critics say it has become more pronounced as Putin’s rule drags on. Among other things, they point to the war in Ukraine, which has caused hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties even as Putin, securing a new six-year term in what opponents and analysts say was a tightly controlled vote marred by millions of falsified votes, used the election to portray himself as the indispensable leader of a deeply united country.

#dictators #vladimir putin #russia #repression in russia #security #dictators will not keep you safe #crocus city hall #krasnogorsk #isis-k #terrorism #invasion of ukraine #россия #владимир путин #диктатура #диктаторы не защитят вас #красногорск #нет войне #путин – это лжедмитрий iv а не пётр великий #путин хуйло #путлер #полицейское государство

[mgs3dickeater]

oc tag masterpost

oc art: #ocs

character tags separated by use/universe (these are mostly aesthetic/meme tags! youll only get that kind of information here)

lance, foot soldier for the MSF, eventual successor of the big boss, bassist in another life: #bengal, #peepaw, #lance

cassandra, explosive explosives specialist for the MSF, soul of a drummer: #rat, #cass (owned by @ elfrootenthusiast)

joaquin, sniper with a bad attitude for the MSF, anyways, heres wonderwall: #jackal, #jack (owned by @ purplecodedman)

#lancecass, #lancejack

roger, troublemaking pilot for the diamond dogs, snot-nosed brat: #hyena, #roger

andy, veterinarian-turned-medic for the diamond dogs, sweetest little kid youll ever meet: #barn owl, #andy

siberian, evil scientist failed clone-son of lance and cass: #siberian

caspian, mostly successful direct clone-son of lance who is a very normal boy: #caspian

javan, actually normal but combatively disappointing clone-son of lance and jack: #javan

isaiah, prolific neurosurgeon slash living dead working for siberian simply to pay forward: #isaiah

pip, surrogate daughter of isaiah and engineer working under siberian and learning everyday: #pip (owned by @ elfrootenthusiast) (not much there but i love her)

will be added to in the future 💪

thank you good day feel free to ask about them always

[bridenore]

HD Mostly set outside the UK fic recs - Others

Here are a few drarry recs that are mostly set in outside of the UK, North America or the EU. Listed in alphabetical order.

Aeternus Solem by @onbeinganangel  [36k]

On December 1st, Harry Potter gets sent halfway across the world to attempt to break a possibly fatal curse on an unnamed British Unspeakable — except said Unspeakable is not unnamed at all and Harry has been in love with him for over four years.

Ai by talkplaylove [18k]

Harry Potter wanders into a bar.

Call Me by Your Name (And I’ll Call You by Mine) by @acupforslytherin [35k]

My dearest Harry, because no matter how far we are, even two different worlds apart, I can never tell where you end and I start.

Draco never expected Potter to find his way back to his life, especially after seven years of no contact, but here he was. With Potter’s will in his hands, his own name written in that untidy scribble he recognized anywhere, Draco had to accept this was his time to reopen an old wound, revisit painful memories, and relearn everything he thought he knew about his past.

Connecting Lines, Connecting Crimes by sleepstxtic [15k]

Magic is going haywire after ley lines all over the world are mysteriously failing. A cross-border Task Force is set up by the League of Wixen Nations with Expert Cartologist Draco Malfoy and Ley Line Specialist Pansy Parkinson being called in from Britain to work with Magi-Geographers Harry Potter and Parvati Patil in India. But can they get to the root of the issue before it’s too late? Featuring: an excessive use of holograms, numerous references to food, and lots and lots (and lots!) of travel.

Forged through flowing water by @tedahfromtayla [40k]

When Hermione sets up a diplomatic mission to begin repairing the damage British colonisation did to Indian magical communities Harry isn’t going to pass on the opportunity to visit and help his family’s home country. Maybe he should have asked a few more questions about the personnel she had recruited for it before signing on because Malfoy surely has an ulterior motive to be there.

Or

Harry goes back to India to rediscover some of his lost roots. He meets Malfoy there. Hijinks ensue!

The Great Magic Sex Mushroom Fiasco by Magnolia822 [6k]

Lost in the Siberian wilderness without food, Aurors Potter and Malfoy are forced to improvise, with unexpected consequences …

Grounds for Divorce by Tepre [122k]

Malfoy finds a coin. Harry finds a letter.

A story about histories, a story about families. A story about a lemon tree somewhere in Upper Egypt.

Potential Gravity by @lol-zeitgeistic [32k]

Draco is not good at Cards Against Humanity, but Harry’s not good at being human, so it all works out. Except for the explosions. And Harry’s inability to live when Draco’s not around.

Sæglópur by @femmequixotic [34k]

After a difficult breakup, Draco finds himself dragged to the land of magic, law, and natural wonders where, of course, nothing goes as planned.

The Spider and the Moth by marguerite_26 [10k]

Young Auror Harry Potter is sent to Morocco to investigate a potion smuggling ring. He quickly realises he’s in over his head with both the assignment and the primary suspect.

Survival of the Species by @romaine2424 [46k]

Draco approaches Harry on the 9 ¾ platform, after their sons have boarded the Hogwarts Express, and invites him over for tea.  The discussion they have leads them on an adventure that neither could have expected. There be dragons! HPDH compliant.

Ticking Time by calrissian18 [5k]

Draco moves to Egypt to escape his past. Of course Potter has to come along and be a tangible representation of it.

Through Worlds by @rain-beee [42k]

Harry is looking for a new start, and he’s travelled the world to find it. Now in Japan, a chance encounter with someone from his past threatens to distract him from his goal, but when he runs into them again and again, he begins to wonder if maybe he’s found what he was searching for all along.

The Unspeakable by @the-sinking-ship [24k]

Healer Draco Malfoy took the job at the International Department of Mysteries for the paycheck and the prestige.

But what he got was Unspeakable Harry Potter and the most fascinating curse he’d ever seen.

I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I did!

#my recs #drarry #drarry recs #theme rec

[jessread-s]

Thank you Riveted by Simon Teen and Chloe Gong for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

‼️MAJOR SPOILERS FOR FOUL LADY FORTUNE AHEAD‼️

✩🚂❤️‍🔥 Review:

“Last Violent Call” picks up during the events that transpire in “Foul Lady Fortune.” Both novellas seamlessly interrelate with Gong’s other works as well as each other.

“A Foul Thing” (the first novella) alternates between the perspectives of Roma and Juliette, who miraculously survived the explosion that brought “Our Violent Ends” to a close. Now in their mid twenties, the two have established themselves as the head of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang using secret identities. When a series of deaths that bare striking resemblance to those that died of the madness occur in nearby towns, Roma and Juliette have to sacrifice their peaceful, quiet life in the country for the greater good.

I absolutely LOVED reuniting with my favorite characters from Gong’s “These Violent Delights” duology. Roma and Juliette deserve every happiness together. Seeing the two cook, admire each other, navigate their new lives together, and save each other from their own nightmares without threat to their lives brought literal tears to my eyes. Their every interaction is so beautifully written and incredibly adorable.

Just months after the events of "A Foul Thing" and "Foul Lady Fortune," "This Foul Murder" (the second novella) centers around Benedikt and Marshall. Called upon by Roma and Juliette to find Lourens, a gifted scientist, Benedikt and Marshall settle in for their week long ride aboard the Trans-Siberian Express. Their plans to stick to their tight schedule are ruined when a passenger gets murdered in the dead of night. In a race against time, Benedikt and Marshal take on the case to keep the train moving. The more the mystery unravels, the more they realize that the murderer has ties to their own mission.

“This Foul Murder” leans into the Agatha Christie/classic murder mystery formula, which I absolutely loved! The shocking plot twists paired with the return of two characters I hold near and dear to my heart made for an entertaining read. I especially enjoyed learning about Benedikt and Marshall’s lives post “Our Violent Ends” and seeing their romance thrive years later!

“Last Violent Call” beautifully sets up Gong’s untitled “Foul Lady Fortune” #2. I cannot wait for the chaos that is bound to unfold when worlds collide in my most anticipated read of 2023. Rosalind is in for the biggest surprise of her life.

➤ 5 stars

Cross-posted to: Instagram | Amazon | Goodreads | StoryGraph

@chloegong​ @rivetedbysimonteen​

#last violent call #a foul thing #this foul murder #secret shanghai #these violent delights #our violent ends #foul lady fortune #flf #TVD #ove #chloe gong #romajuliette #juliette cai #roma montagov #benmars #benedikt montagov #marshall seo #Novella #historical fiction #ya romance #ya fantasy #fantasy romance #fantasy mystery #shakespeare retelling #booklr #book blog #book blogger #YA Books #book review #Book Recommendations

[astarlow]

can we get headcanons of a couple of ow girls (your choice) as the reader's roommates please?

Characters: D.Va, Zarya, Sombra Form: Headcanons Warning: None Word Count: 801

D.Va

🐰Fun times all day long baby

🐰I really hope you don’t mind the slight screaming or the constant talking in the middle of the night

🐰Because that’s basically what will happen

🐰Still, Hana is considerate of your person. If you do really mind it, she’ll try to change her schedule and sound-proofed her room

🐰If you’re willing, she’s going to invite you to her streams. She has plenty of games.

🐰The first time you came to her streams, her chat kept spamming “And they were roommates” with other suggestive emojis

🐰The mods had a hard time handling the ones that went overboard

🐰You had to ask her why she was so red at the time and she just avoided your question

🐰But being Hana’s roommate isn’t all fun and games

🐰That’s noticeable when she comes back from missions bruised and weary

🐰Most of the time, you are asleep but on the rare occasions where you are awake, you take care of her

🐰She always brushes it off, putting on her D.Va persona but you know better than that now

🐰In the confines of your shared home, you want her to know she can rely on other people too

🐰She often has nightmares so I hope you’re okay with her asking to sleep with you to calm her racing heart down

🐰If you’re a night owl, you even take her out to have a little stroll in the city

🐰She thanks you by gifting you tons of trinkets 

Zarya

💪Being roommate with Aleksandra is refreshing

💪She’s waking up early but she tries to be as quiet as possible, knowing you are still asleep

💪She makes breakfast for you two then leaves for her morning jogging

💪If you’re awake, she doesn’t hesitate to ask you if you want to come with her

💪She has tons of plushes in her bedroom, when she was younger it used to soothe her between all the explosions and shots being fired, nowadays she keeps them because she likes them

💪If you ever need one, she won’t hesitate to let you borrow one or two or even her whole collection, just promise you will take care

💪Doing sport together! She’s going to propose musculation first because it’s her field but if you don’t like it, she’s going to try other sports too. As long as she can keep her body fit

💪If you don’t like sports, she won’t force you but she still tells you to take care of your body. Just a walk around the park is already a good step

💪Another busy soldier too

💪When she tells you she’s going to come home after a mission, you make sure to run a bath for her. She’s always surprised when you do but a good kind of surprise. She thanks you by hugging you like “big, fuzzy Siberian bear”

💪She loves cooking for you! So don’t be surprised if meals are already prepared in the fridge and you just have to warm them up to eat them

Sombra

💻Sombra is definitely an interesting roommate

💻She’s super open with you, and often plays pranks on you as well but she is definitely secretive about her work too

💻She knows way too much about you while you barely know her name (you don’t)

💻She tells you she works on computers and cybersecurity but you have a feeling she isn’t telling you everything

💻You don’t mind as long as she doesn’t bring trouble to your shared flat

💻She likes to play pranks on you, as previously said, nothing too major though. She likes to frighten you in the middle of the night. It can go from faking an intrusion or just disguising herself as a monster. She likes having a little bit of fun, sometimes to your dismay. One harmless prank she likes to pull is putting googly eyes all over your stuff. From all sizes. To put on your mugs, your clothes, your phone. Everything

💻In return, you attempt to pull pranks on her back. Though you never enter her room. That’s the one big rule you agreed upon and never shall you cross it. 

💻So it’s mostly in the living room your pranks are being played. You like to put wasabi in her food, replacing the ground coffee with dirt. Though you leave half of it so it actually has a good consistency

💻Let’s just say your household is definitely lively

💻Free movies from her so it means a movie session every week with her! Not only movies, she tells you she can give you free streaming services too. As long as it’s on the internet, she can give it to you for free. A part of her job she says

💻At the end of the day, you wouldn’t have any other roommate than Sombra

#d.va x reader #zarya x reader #sombra x reader #hana song x reader #aleksandra zaryanova x reader #olivia colomar x reader #asked and answered #ow writing

[cypriathus]

Here is one of my anti-villain OCs!

WARNING: There is a brief mention of genitalia and I go into detail about how abandonment issues affect the following character.

Shtoparvuzke Kerumazhov is a 43-year-old Russian-born incubus that serves as an anti-villain assassin for the Gloomy Meadowlark Syndicate (GMS). When he encounters new people, he’s mousy and cautious at first, but will become more bold and congenial overtime. He's a hard-working individual, but there are occasional instances where he slacks off due to feeling somewhat slothful and unmotivated to do his duties and daily chores. He has a habit of talking too much in a tactless manner, and his verbal aggression is all directed at people who get under his skin. He finds solace in pulling pranks and telling jokes, but will drop the act when the person he’s goofing around with is being serious and feeling uncomfortable. He’s highly opinionated when it comes to environmental and political matters, and can be quite defensive when people try to challenge his worldview. Like most libertine demons, he’s a flirtatious seducer that enjoys living a life of hedonism and sexual prowess, but tries to lead a healthier sex life. He has a great deal of pride in himself and is courageously self-expressive, telling people off when he receives unnecessary backlash for being his authentic self. He’s overprotective of his friends and coworkers as well as vulnerable members of society and the natural environment. He absolutely despises abusers of any kind, and possesses an unyielding soft spot for animals and flowers. He shows numerous signs and symptoms of abandonment issues such as seeking out reassurance that people won’t leave him, trouble with communication, and difficulty trusting the intentions of others. Shtoparvuzke also experiences struggles with emotional intimacy, anxiety within his relationships, feelings of worthlessness, and excessive neediness.

In his common human form, height is close to 5’ 10” (177.8 cm) and his body type is a rectangular mesomorph with a chiselled musculature, square chest, and a well-endowed penis. He has thin lips, mildly tan skin, ice green eyes, and medium-length, lived-in, middle-parted red blonde hair with natural curls and sideburns. He has saffron-yellow stitches on his arm and leg joints, a strangely smooth body, and pearly white teeth with prominent canines. His back is carved with a Slavic hexafoil that creates a blue-orange aura around his being during times of danger, protecting him from fire, storms, lightning, and war. He wears a blue-and-white telnyashka and a burgundy button-up T-shirt that he leaves wide open. He has a dark aqua Russian honour guard’s standing-collar tunic with a blood red plastron and steel-grey sneakers. He dons jeans that have EMR camouflage and an oversized Siberian lynx fur jacket for the coldest days of autumn and winter. His black rabbit fur ushanka possesses earflaps and an embroidered insignia of a cornflower with a fiery sun peering from the horizon behind it. He has a big olive-green duffle bag full of cartridges for his firearms as well as a PL-15K Lebedev pistol with a suppressor, a NRS-2, a RMB-93, a Lobaev Sniper Rifle, and a GM-94. For his GM-94, he carries around VGM-93.900 high explosive fragmentations, VGM-93.100 thermobaric ammunition, VGM-93.300 smoke and VGM-93.200 tear gas canisters, and VGM-93.600 rubber slugs in his duffle bag.

In his demonic form, he retains the same height and body type, but appears to be a bit smaller and noticeably slimmer. He has charcoal black skin, bronze-hued roe deer hooves, cape bushbuck horns, large bat-like wings, rusty red carnivorous teeth, and a body that’s abnormally cold. His luminescent tail of yellow-orange possesses the shape of a flying bolide with a white circular tip that’s outlined with glowing cyan. His shimmering azure mane is in a medium-length shaggy crop, and he has curly circumareolo-sternal chest and disperse abdominal hair in the same hue. His serpentine sunburst green-gold eyes have light red pupils, black sclera, and no eyelids. His head is adorned with a flower crown of myrtle, periwinkle, and red mistletoe berries, which was a gift from his adoptive mother. He dons a silver waist girdle of dried cornflowers, a raspberry-hued sharovary, and luxor gold anklets with a metallic green sheen.

Shtoparvuzke was born with the Curse of Litavets, which causes anyone he loves to experience weight loss, insanity, suicidal thoughts, and vivid hallucinations of supernatural torment. Any gift that he tries to give to those he platonically and romantically loves turns into horse viscera at sunrise. He can take on the appearance of a deceased spouse or lover to seduce people and use his malleable body to alternate between his regular self and his usual human form. He projects seductive thoughts into the subconscious of mortal beings and lesser immortals, stimulating their brains’ pleasure centres through touch, voice, and thought. His kiss can either kill a person through soul absorption and tantric metabolization or enslave them, depending on his current intentions when the individual he’s dealing with. He can enter the dreams of sleepers and manipulate them, turn invisible, and hypnotise people through whispering sweet nothings in their ears. He’s able to use flowers to teleport across the multiverse and understand and speak all languages, but can’t write them. He can put people to sleep by whispering a string of gibberish words during noon and cause severe headaches, paralysis, and lower back pain. Similar to all libertine demons, Shtoparvuzke possesses greater physical capabilities and attributes that are far superior to that of the average human.

FAMILY:

Unnamed succubus mother

Unnamed human adoptive parents

Guloteva Lykzresupa (lover)

Veltozurich Skulazorte (ex-boyfriend)

Shunazlobime Girvathenopus D’Lampekotinus (ex-girlfriend)

Many ex-partners

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Shtopar (by most people and self-proclaimed)

Aggressive sex friend (by Tefsakomphuni)

Pussy-fingering fuckup (by Tefsakomphuni)

Fiery Serpent (by Tulvagoren)

Ljubomora (“love torture” in Serbian) (by Mesciwojna)

Quần què (“a sanitation pad” in Vietnamese) (by Budiechalon)

The Liar Beyond’s Grace Reach (by K’Teschalopzurvi)

Schluckspecht (“guzzling woodpecker” in German) (by Veltozurich)

My drinking pal (by Veltozurich)

Retarded dhole (by Ymgaliten)

Gutball (by Blovazurcht)

My statue of delights (by Guloteva)

My handsome lil’ cornflower (by Guloteva)

Kardoula mou (“my little heart” in Greek) (by Guloteva)

Mister Gancanagh (by the Dobhavulen siblings)

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

He’s omniromantic

As an Æylphitus, the different parts of his name have special meanings: Shtoparvuzke means “corkscrew” and Kerumazhov means “black stain”.

His mother gave birth to him in a corn field somewhere in Izborsk and abandoned him shortly after, but would end up being raised by an unmarried human couple.

He’s still surprised that his human parents bothered to adopt him and raise them as their own due to being an incubus.

Once he was a toddler, he mastered his shapeshifting abilities and adopted a human form to blend in with the rest of society and his household.

He likes to give beautiful gifts to grieving individuals and help with maintaining the livestock that his family possesses.

He finds solace in roaming the fields of open country during midday

He tries to spend as much time with his lover due to being aware that she’s slowly dying because of his curse affecting her.

Due to the lack of a spinal cord, his body has a fifth type of vein, which he refers to as the neuronic veins. The neuronic veins cover a good majority of his internal body, carrying neurons back and forth from the brain to whatever body part he intends to control.

He’s completely deaf in his left ear

He can’t pronounce certain words that pertain to religious beliefs and love

He prefers to attack people by breaking their arms, legs, and/or neck

His secret bodily weakness or physical Achilles’ heel is his left testicle

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[ratatoulliesparadiddleofshame]

The Tunguska Event: A Comprehensive Analysis

Abstract: The Tunguska Event, transpiring on June 30, 1908, in the remote Siberian region of Russia, remains one of the most enigmatic occurrences in scientific history. This report provides an in-depth examination of the Tunguska Event, encompassing its historical context, the nature of the event, prevailing theories, and its enduring scientific significance. Utilizing a diverse array of primary and secondary sources, this study aims to elucidate the multifaceted aspects of this phenomenon and contribute to a deeper understanding of its complexities.

Introduction: The Tunguska Event denotes a cataclysmic explosion that devastated an extensive swath of uninhabited forestland near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia. Despite the absence of human casualties, the event left an indelible mark on the landscape, flattening approximately 2,000 square kilometers of forest. The lack of a discernible impact crater coupled with the absence of conclusive evidence regarding the event's origin has spurred decades of scientific inquiry and speculation.

Historical Context: The remote and sparsely populated nature of the Tunguska region compounded the challenges associated with documenting the event. Initial reports emerged from nearby towns, with witnesses recounting a luminous object streaking across the sky followed by a deafening explosion. However, the event's significance only became apparent following expeditions led by Russian scientist Leonid Kulik in the 1920s, which revealed the extensive scale of destruction.

Nature of the Event: The Tunguska Event is characterized by a series of distinct phenomena, including an initial bright flash visible over a vast expanse, followed by a shockwave that toppled trees across hundreds of square kilometers. Eyewitness accounts and subsequent scientific investigations attest to the absence of a discernible impact crater, leading researchers to postulate alternative explanations, notably the aerial burst of a celestial object.

Prevailing Theories: Numerous hypotheses have been posited to elucidate the origins of the Tunguska Event, ranging from meteoric impacts to cometary explosions and even exotic theories involving anti-matter and black holes. Among these, the leading explanation proposes the airburst of a stony asteroid or comet, with the resultant shockwave causing the observed devastation. However, challenges persist in reconciling certain discrepancies, such as the absence of significant meteoritic material at the impact site.

Scientific Significance: The Tunguska Event holds profound implications for various scientific disciplines, including astronomy, geophysics, and planetary defense. Insights garnered from the study of this event have facilitated advancements in impact modeling, risk assessment, and the development of strategies to mitigate the potential threat posed by near-Earth objects. Moreover, ongoing research endeavors continue to refine our understanding of the dynamics underlying cosmic collisions and their ramifications for terrestrial environments.

Conclusion: The Tunguska Event stands as a testament to the enduring mysteries of the cosmos, captivating the imagination of scientists and laypersons alike for over a century. Despite concerted efforts to unravel its enigma, numerous questions persist regarding the precise nature and origin of this singular phenomenon. As scientific inquiry progresses and technological capabilities advance, it is conceivable that the Tunguska Event will continue to yield insights into the dynamic interplay between celestial bodies and our planet.

References: [Provide a comprehensive list of scholarly works, scientific papers, and authoritative sources consulted in the preparation of this report.]

#viva la fuck you

[themculibrary]

One Word Fic Titles Masterlist 2

part one

Action (ao3) - EmilyWeaslette mj/peter N/R, 95k

Summary: Peter stepping into the limelight, as seen through videos.

Anew. (ao3) - IViv tony/stephen M, 130k

Summary: In death, there was no glory, no redemption, no salvation.

Only darkness and ice—or that was what Tony thought. He closed his eyes in a Siberian bunker and opened them again on his 41st birthday, with War Machine flying into the distance.

Assemble (ao3) - Stand_with_Ward_and_Queen T, 201k

Summary: Ten years after Thanos' defeat, Clint Barton, with help from Stephen Strange and a SHIELD agent named Leopold Fitz, brings the Avengers, plus Peter Parker, Scott Lang, and T'Challa, from a few months prior to The Avengers Civil War to show them the future so they don't repeat the same mistakes.

Bulletproof (ao3) - foxxcub steve/tony E, 20k

Summary: At age fifteen, Steve Rogers had been in love with Tony Stark.

By age twenty, he’d (mostly) gotten over it. And then he promptly became Tony Stark's fuck buddy.

Ceasefire (ao3) - ipoiledi steve/bucky E, 4k

Summary: It's too hot out to be alive, is what it is.

Countdown (ao3) - ShesLikeTexas steve/tony, pepper/happy, bucky/natasha E, 96k

Summary: Mob Boss Steve Rogers kidnaps Tony Stark and gives him 365 days to fall in love with him.

Counterpart (ao3) - sara_holmes steve/tony M, 217k

Summary: coun•ter•part [koun-ter-pahrt] [noun] 1. a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function. 2. a copy; duplicate. 3. one of two parts that fit, complete, or complement one another.

Just because Hydra used the DNA of a Captain America from another dimension to create a lab-grown, six-year-old super-soldier, it doesn't mean that said six-year old super-soldier is biologically Steve's, right?

(Where Steve wants to ban Clint from bringing things home from alternative dimensions, until he doesn't.)

Eternity (ao3) - STARSdidathing loki/tony T, 4k

Summary: Tony's been staying away for days at a time, sometimes longer. He won't tell Loki where he's been or what he's been doing, but Loki already knows the reason. Eternity is a long time to commit to one person.

Heat (ao3) - Deastar bruce/natasha E, 22k

Summary: Bruce tries to think of a different angle; there are some facts they’re stuck with, but they may be able to change how their captors perceive those facts. After a moment, he suggests, “What if we make them think—not try to hide that you’re in heat, that’s the truth we could build on—but make them think… you’re in an omega’s heat?” He can see that Natasha immediately likes the idea, but she’s turning it over in her mind, poking at the weak spots, testing the sharp edges. Imprisoned together in a cave, Bruce and Natasha turn their higher thought processes to escape. But not all instincts are bad instincts.

Heroes (ao3) - Overlithe sam/bucky E, 29k

Summary: It’s their first day off in a month and after an exhausting mission all Sam wanted to do was to stay home instead of being dragged by Bucky on a tour of DC’s touristic highlights. But a superhero’s work is never done, especially not when there’s explosions, problems you can’t punch, and a screening of the Greatest Film of All Time.

A slice-of-costumed-hero-life story about loss and hope, the past and the future, and killer bird gifs. (Set a few years after TWS & CA:CW and featuring BuckyCap and FalCap. Also, they make out while in costume, which I feel is the most important part of this summary.)

Homefront - copperbadge steve/tony E, 12k

Summary: Steve Rogers is a capable leader, a kind and cheerful man, a good friend, a strong role model, and a loyal soldier. He's also teetering on the edge of suicide.

Interlude (ao3) - sarahbeniel bucky/darcy E, 66k

Summary: Bucky and Darcy are having trouble communicating. When Bucky suggests they take a break, she assumes it's over. But sometimes a break is just what the doctor ordered…

Orgasmus (ao3) - OhCaptainMyCaptain steve/bucky E, 13k

Summary: It had always felt like his life was nothing but decision-making; what with work, taking out the dames, making ends meet all the time at home - Bucky was always expected to have the answers. That’s how society told him he needed to be. When he was at home, though, things were different. The second his shoes came off and that front door was closed, the only thing Bucky had always wanted was for someone to take care of him.

Ravioli (ao3) - monobuu bucky/tony M, 7k

Summary: Bucky attempts to get Tony’s attention by claiming Pop Tarts are Ravioli. Tony reacts as one might expect.

Run (ao3) - itsallAvengers steve/tony T, 6k

Summary: Steve took a long breath, shutting his eyes and putting two fingers up the bridge of his nose.

“So you’re telling me… you decided it would be a good idea… to start a fight when you were outnumbered… twenty to one?” He asked shortly.

Tony grinned then, and nodded his head.

Salami (ao3) - L1av steve/bucky E, 25k

Summary: Everyone hears stories about the idiots who have to go to the ER to get random objects removed from their asses. If someone told Bucky he’d be spending his weekend in the hospital for one of the most embarrassing occurrences of his life, he’d probably laugh in their face and tell them to go fuck off. But here he is, in the ER with eleven inches of packaged, cold salami stuck up his ass. To make matters worse, his nurse is really hot. Really hot.

Join Bucky for one of the most awkward and yet comical experiences of his life that leads to self-discovery, trust and maybe even love.

Spellbound (ao3) - missbecky steve/tony E, 31k

Summary: After their alien hosts witness yet another heated argument between Steve and Tony, they are hit with a powerful magic spell in order to teach them a lesson. Now they are stranded and alone on a hostile planet. One of them can't see and the other can't hear, and the only way back to safety is on foot. And the Forest is full of dangers…

Sprinkles (ao3) - The_Nerd_Alert steve/bucky E, 225k

Summary: When people asked him 'So Mr. Rogers… what is it you do for a living?', they expected some epic answer; something heroic and demanding, and completely fitting this Herculean supermodel standing before them. That was not the answer they got. Instead, Steve would just give them a knowing look. Steve would laugh. Steve would always answer with a huge smile, ready to take them all by surprise. What was his answer?

'I bake cupcakes for a living.'

Steve Rogers owns the best Cupcakery in Brooklyn. The garage that just opened across the street, however, may be driving business away with its seemingly dirty and rough-around-the-edges staff. Add in the stress of planning a wedding with his fiancée Sharon, plus a high-strung finance manager, and Steve was a nervous wreck. But when the drop-dead gorgeous mechanic with a sleeve full of tattoos and long brown hair comes into his shop one day with a nervous smile and two dollars in his pocket, Steve doesn't think anything could really come of this chance meeting. It's just harmless flirting. Right?

Boy was he wrong...

Targeting (ao3) - queenmab_scherzo steve/bucky E, 149k

Summary: Steve and Bucky end up playing for rival college football teams.

Winterheart (ao3) - orphan_account loki/tony M, 144k

Summary: For his crimes, Loki’s punishment began in a lonely and endless winter. For Tony’s sacrifice, his imprisonment began with a rescue.

A story of ugliness and beauty, inside and out, and learning what the word ‘monster’ really means.

#themculibrary #masterlists #marvel #mcu #fictitles #fictitles masterlist

[botheringlevi]

Happy birthday! I was hoping I'd run into you today; I know you're busy but I wanted to give you this. It's a heated jacket. You mentioned struggling with the cold, I have one myself as it's a life saver in the winter... This way, you're not stuck indoors. And if you'd be interested, I could take you to some of my choice hiking spots. Or, if the high energy at base is getting to be too much (I'm pretty sure I heard a series of explosions from the barracks last night?), you could pick somewhere for us to escape to. I get cold easily so, finding a fire to curl up by afterwards could be nice.

For my question today, did you and your mom have any traditions for Christmas or your birthday that you've retained?

I'm enjoying some peace and quiet today. I'm still in the process of unpacking in a new place, and have almost finished painting my room. There's a mural I have in mind that I'm trying to get just right. The cats are bouncing around the room tripping balls on catnip, the songbirds outside are getting fruit and mealworms, and I have my delinquent lizard son perched on my reading chair engaged in a post-banana-gorging nap. Trans siberian orchestra is playing in the background. I'd call that a good Christmas. And better now that I've seen you.

I'll get out of your hair now but, feel free to call me if you need a quick escape.

[Previous ask(?)]

Not too busy to not talk. *Takes jacket* Heated? How much did you drop on this?—Half of your life’s savings I’m guessing, since you have one for yourself.

*Scrunches nose* You don’t have to take me anywhere. Nibbles could use the exercise. We’ll take him. I don’t care where we hike, as long as the slush is at a minimum.

I’ve answered something similar before. To summarize, my birthday was never conventional. I’m not sure her… estimations ever landed exactly.

*Thoughtful* …Traditions. The days we’d celebrate, she’d take off work if she could. If not… depending on whoever was supposed to look after me that day, we'd do something that was entertaining for a brat my age.

Sometimes, there was candy. Or the Underground’s version of it. Just a lemon cut into slices. That’s as far as lasting traditions go… if you want to talk about the present.

I see… You really know how to describe a scene, don’t you? I don’t know why you’d want to keep a lizard for a pet, but everyone seems happy enough. Including you.

*Scoffs* We’ll see. See you later.

#levi.answers #levi.is.fond #.mom. #levi ackerman rp #shingeki no kyojin rp #aot levi #attack on titan rp #aot roleplay #levi shingeki no kyojin

[moonliiteallniite]

A lengthy post cataloging my 60+ vial perfume collection

This is mainly a post for me to keep track of my ever-growing collection of perfume samples and bottles. In the future I’ll probably dedicate a post to each one to give my thoughts and reviews! But all that aside, here’s every perfume I’ve collected so far, with names and descriptions included.

BPAL SAMPLES

Alice’s Evidence - Containing nary a neutron of meaning: Rum-quince-cassis with prune and a bit of black ginger

The Antikythera Mechanism - Teakwood, oak, black vanilla, and tobacco

Al-Shairan - His scent is fiery, bright and thick with sweet sinfulness: clove, peach and orange with cinnamon, patchouli and dark incense notes

Blood Kiss - Lush, creamy vanilla and the honey of the sweetest kiss smeared with the vital throb of husky clove, swollen red cherries, but darkened with the vampiric sensuality of vetiver, soporific poppy and blood red wine, and a skin-light pulse of feral musk.

Bayou - A lazy, warm deep green scent with a thick aquatic undertone: Spanish moss, evergreen and cypress with watery blue-green notes and an eddy of hothouse flowers and swamp blooms

Black Lily - Breathtaking darkness, a vision of grace in shadow

Burial - The Dark Side of Earth: deep, brooding forest scents, including juniper and patchouli. The scent of upturned cemetery loam mingling with floral offerings to the dead

Chimera - The fiery, volatile scent of cinnamon, thickened by myrrh, honeysuckle, and copal

The Coiled Serpent - A potent yogic oil that stimulates the kundalini, provokes spiritual awakening, and releases the energy seated in your root chakra

Death Cap - A lethal poison bundled up in a dainty, innocent little package that was oft times found in ancient witches’ flying ointments and astral projection balms. A warm, soft, ruddy scent, earthy and mild

Delight - In ancient India it was believed that a specific combination of flower petals, when strewn across a couple’s bed, would amplify desire and sexual pleasure. This blend is a blend of the same floral essences, refined into a gloriously sinful perfume blend. Frangipani, with rose, tuberose, and jasmine

Deep in Earth - Rose geranium, Spanish moss, Irish yew, and graveyard dirt

Eat me - Three white cakes, vanilla, and red and black currants

Evil - Smouldering opium tar, tobacco absolute, green tea, black plum, kush, ambergris accord, ambrette seed, and costus root

Greed - Base and earthy, yet glittering with golden notes: patchouli, heliotrope, copal and oakmoss

Gnome - An explosive blend of effervescent golden ginger and black peppercorn with sarsaparilla, gurjum balsam, nutmeg, gear lubricant, and smoke

Highwayman - Vetiver with gardenia, blood red rose, night-blooming jasmine, a dash of cinnamon and a faint hint of leather

Inferno - The Dark Side of Fire: cinnamon, bitter almond, and neroli. Heavily spiced, torrid, and possibly conflagrant

Juke Joint - A bawdy, gleefully wicked and unruly scent: Kentucky Bourbon, sugar and a sprig of mint

Jezebel - A gloriously decadent blend of honey, roses, orange blossom and sandalwood

Miskatonic University - The scent of Irish coffee, dusty tomes and polished oakwood halls

Mata Hari - Her scent is striking and bold with a delicate yet dark undertone: five roses with soft jasmine, warmed by vanilla, fig, tonka bean and mahogany, spiced with a drop of coffee bean

Nephilim - Holy frankincense and hyssop in union with earthy fig, defiled by black patchouli and vetiver, with a chaotic infusion of lavender, cardamom, tamarind, rosemary, oakmoss and cypress

Old Demons of the First Class - Siberian musk, black clove, opoponax, tonka, black pepper, and neroli

Perversion - Smoky rum and black tobacco with a whisper of steamy leather with a splash of crystalline chardonnay, layered over a sensual, sweet, and deceptively magnetic base of tonka

Sjofn - Our song to the Norse Goddess of Love is scented with apples and birch and bound with apple blossoms

Seraphim - A perfume sacred to the highest of the angelic hosts: calla lily, wisteria, white sandalwood, Damascus rose and frankincense

Schrodinger’s Cat - A paradoxical scent experiment! – tangerine, sugared lime, pink grapefruit, oakmoss, lavender, zdravetz, and chocolate peppermint

Tiefling Therapist - A soothing, centering blend of white and red sandalwood, champaca attar, frankincense, and brimstone

Whitechapel - White musk, lime, lilac and citron

Wilde - A sophisticated traditional gentleman’s cologne, with just the slightest taint of patchouli’s passion, tonka bean’s decadence, the philanthropy of bergamot, moss’ cynicism, the sharp wit of lavender, and the hopeless romantic longing of jasmine and thyme

Yorick - Grave dirt, bone, decay, angel’s trumpet, and moldering scraps of shroud: the essence of finality

Zombi - Dried roses, rose leaf, Spanish moss, oakmoss and deep brown earth

(As an aside, about half of these are free imps that came with full size bottles I ordered!)

Alkemia Samples

Salome - A seductively inspiring arrangement to pique the lustful imagination. An overture of not so innocent magnolia underscored with a sly caress of Queen of the Night, a fulsomeness of nubile black grapes and plums, skin musk bathed in spilled cognac, and ruthless twist of bitter orange, blended with an ancient Arabian love philtre of crushed vanilla and tonka bean, mysore sandalwood, vetiver, cedar, and red oud

Caveau Des Innocents - Tabac, dark coffee, piquant cloves, rum soaked pears, candied citron, dark caramel, and star anise bathed in intoxicating swirls of opoponax, labdanum, hashish, benzoin resinoid, vanilla incense, and guaiac wood

Ghost Fire - A luminous attraction of ethereal white ambers. Hauntingly beautiful

Sigil - A recipe in an ancient 16th century grimoire that includes olibanum frankincense, lignum aloes, bdellium, styrax, black honey, and euphorbium; the essence of "Stones of Immortality" - opium thebaicum, dried citrus, and the quintessence of gold; and an alchemist's compounding of coffee beans and ritual herbs

Hippie Spirit - A bohemian love-fest of resinous head shop incenses, sexy skin musk, slightly dirty patchouli, groovy champa blossoms, and flowering cannabis

Gothique - The scent of midnight mass in a medieval cathedral. A Byzantine monastic incense recipe of Somalian frankincense, styrax benzoin, Arabian myrrh, cassia, spikenard, canella, Liquidambar orientalis, labdanum, Atlas cedar, and vetiver

Carmilla - A tantalizing enigma of Ambre marocain, cashmere musk, Malgas lily, Ylang-ylang, dark Bourbon rose, soft patchouli, and erotic whispers of jasmine incense

In a Northern Wood - A primeaval forest sanctuary of Elemi balsam, balsam fir needles, charred cedar heartwood, dark oakmoss, opoponax, aged oudwood, deerstongue fern, woodsmoke, aromatic fungi, patchouli, and loam

Dusk in Autumn - An inviting mystery of amberwood, Lapsang Souchong tea, salted cream caramel, and spiced teacakes

Nature of the Beast - An animalistically sensual carnality of Amyris wood, Elemi balsam, and raw dark musk with Haitian vetiver, ambroxan, spiced patchouli, labdanum and botanical pheromones

Carnival of Illustrious Hearts - A glitteringly gourmet gala of French sugarcreams, candied orange blossoms, raspberry cotton candy, rosewater torte filling, and Bourbon vanilla amber

All Hallows Eve 2021 - A spookalicious cauldron of magic, mystery, remembrance, childhood nostalgia, and sweet blessings for darker times. Warm toasted marshmallows, drifting woodsmoke, black licorice, star anise, cardamon pods, sugared amber, tonka beans, and patchouli infused bourbon vanilla

Memoriam - An olfactory ode to love and loss. Heirloom roses, memories wrapped in woodsmoke, a scattering of ashes

Industrial Sabotage - A cataclysmic wreckage of burnt wires; twisted melted steel; shattered machinery, and gunpowder

The Center of the Universe - From astronauts' descriptions of space and aliphatic esters of the Milky Way - welded metal, gunpowder, burnt almond cookies, ozone, raspberries, rum

Deus Ex Machina - Fire hardened steel, rusted iron, warm motor oil, wet cement, burnt copper wires, and grey amber

Saint Louis Cemetery #1 - An atmospheric brooding of Spanish moss, crumbling stone, old cement, red clay brick, and graveyard dirt

Supernatural - A prismatic shapeshifter of Iso-E, Ambrox, cruelty-free Tonkin musk, and intricate spirals of aroma molecules

Black Iris - The spring forecast is rainy with a chance of purple. Purple iris and Queen Elizabeth orris root pillowed in a soft nimbostratus raincloud

Charming of the Plough - A paen of the awakening earth - bright new greens, freshly turned soil, well worn leather, anise hyssop, smokey lavender, sexy-dirty indolic jasmine, vanilla grass, and oakmoss

Frondescence - A verdancy of fresh fern fronds, wild geraniums, damp moss, green patchouli, vetiver root, early meadowgrass, and tumbling wetland streams

Inner Sanctum - A spiritual serenity of Hinoki temple cedar, carved Palisander rosewood, white ambergris, lemon cypress, sandalwood incense, grounding vetiver root, and healing sandalore

Surcie - A sweet confection of affection - heavenly rosewater chiffon, soft jasmine musk, flirty mandarin orange, creamy vanilla, and alluring Egyptian amber

Tulips and Chimneys - An urban springtime of rainy aldehydes, wet asphalt, industrial steam engines, farmer's market bouquets of fresh tulips, Toulousain violets, mint pastels, and a warm touch of clove viburnum

Lover Tells of the Rose - Rambling wild roses, lemon verbena, white pearl tea leaves, white patchouli, and a springtime rebirth of new greens and wet mosses

Gaea - Forest loam, new ferns in decaying leaves, maple sap flowing over lichens, mosses and wet stones at the edge of a vernal pool

Shinrin Yoku - A forest hymn - Japanese grapefruit, petitgrain, black pepper, spicebush, sunlit green cedar, conifers, green patchouli, vetiver, stream water, wet clay, and dark loam

Baccante - High bush blueberries, wild ivy, Spanish lavender, aged oakmoss, tonka, decaying bark, and forest fungi

Vert sur le Vert - Green, green, green, and more freshly smooshed sweet greens, new grasses, new leaves

Midnight Garden - An incantation in the language of flowers: tuberose (dangerous pleasures), lily (majestic beauty), honeysuckle (binding love), gardenia (secret passions) and moonflower (inspiring love)

BPAL Full Sizes

Nosferatu - As soft as grave dust and as dry as a breath drawn within a long forgotten crypt, this is Nosferatu: desiccated herbs and gritty earth brought to life with a swell of robust and sanguineous red wines

Anubis - His scent is a blend of holy myrrh, storax, balsam, and embalming herbs

Oblivion - Salvation found in darkness beyond darkness, the blessed sleep of nothingness. Dark musk, wood spice, labdanum, patchouli, dark African woods, and saffron

Worm Moon 2011 - This is a melding of Victorian Grotesquery and springtime fecundity: mold-crusted dirt, decomposing organic matter, coffin wood, drooping funeral flowers, congealed blood, gloomy lunar oils, and cuckoo flower with something moist lurking underneath

Dark Chocolate, Whiskey, & Hazelnut Cream

Phallus Acrobatics - Strawberries, blueberries, heavy cream, honey dust, lotus root, ylang ylang, lavender, and vanilla flower

P*nis Penetrating a V*gina in a Pickle Barrel - Lemon peel, lemon leaf, white musk, white tea, cardamom, petitgrain, star anise, and raw ginger

Womb Furie 2022 - An itch that needs to be scratched: Snake Oil and three types of honey

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Halloween Alchemy 2021 - Halloween spice cookies, apple butter, a dusting of pumpkin spice, oak leaves, pine needles, and a nostalgic nibble of candy corn

Lavender Dreaming Alchemy - A pride month alchemy of history and symbolism - sheer summer florals, flirty skin musks, and playful aquatics with a streak of French lavender, bitten ripe peaches, and oranges on offering plates.

Other

Epicene (by Blial Cabal) - Red Peppercorn, bergamot, fig, oakmoss, amber, cedarwood, tobacco, vanilla

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[queenlucythevaliant]

Alright Knitting Circle, what's your totally unattainable bucket list of places you'd sell a kidney to visit? Everyone's got one. I'll start:

Any beach at sunset on Kwajalein, Micronesia because my mom lived there as a kid and I grew up hearing stories

Stroll the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, ideally during the summer for the White Nights.

An opera at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. I have my favorites, but honestly I'll take whatever I can get.

The Eagle and the Child pub in Oxford. Because Narnia.

The Burgess Shale in British Columbia for the beautiful explosion of invention! Genuinely I find the Cambrian Explosion so so beautiful and if I say any more this bullet point will become a dissertation.

Katmai National Park in Alaska, July-August for the bears 🐻

Jerusalem, Israel. I can't be much more specific than that, but you know the stuff I'd want to see. I, like basically every other Christian, would love to walk where Jesus walked.

Uyuni Salt Flat, Bolivia. To stand in the sky!

Stolby Park in Siberia (near Krasnoyarsk). I have this fascination the desolate landscapes and Siberia is top of my list. Stolby is probably the most accessible option. I'd also take tickets for the Trans-Siberian railroad if I could get them, but unless I marry a billionaire it seems unlikely.

Wadi al Hitan/Whale Valley in Egypt. Fossils! Dun dun dun.

#knitting circle #you can tell a lot about people by where they'd like to travel! #gimme your top 10! #be super detailed! #i would love to see! #add onto this post or make your own and tag me #hearing about people's crazy travel aspirations is always so fun

[artisticopy]

I hate everything in the shade on the other side of the light.

hey, isn’t that kasper bradley ( nickname: laslow )? i think that the twenty six year old from Beverly Hills, California works as a receptionist for joker’s casino, private fashion designer for his own e-commerce store, and former art forger for the grim fox, but outside of that people describe them as the leather jacket with custom paint, the runaway rich, the transformed soul, and the constant smell of markers, paint and pencils. i hear they are short fused & incredulous, but they are also known to be confident & articulate. consider giving them a visit at their home in the marionette and get to know why they’re called the copy cat.

✱ LAYER ONE ... the basics.

full name: + kasper conrad bradley. preferred name: + kasper. date of birth & age: + july 21st &. twenty five. place of birth: + beverly hills, california. zodiac sign: + cancer. gender & pronouns: + trans man &. he/they. orientation: + bisexual &. biromantic spoken languages: + english, chinese, and learning french. occupation: + receptionist - joker's casino, ecommerce fashion store owner, and former art forger.

✱ LAYER TWO... the appearance.

hair color: + jet black and lilac hidden underneath. eye color: + brown. height: + 5'11" (180 cm) scars: + upper chest scars, and quite a few amongst his sides and back. tattoos: + only posesses a small infinity symbol behind right ear. piercings: + multiple ear piercings, hips, and tongue.

✱ LAYER THREE ... the connections.

parents: + estranged. children: + none. pets: + a siberian husky named loki, and a russian blue cat named luna. relationship: + single.

✱ LAYER FOUR ... the observations.

emotional control: + very much controlled, but if he gets overwhelmed it becomes very much a bottle waiting to explode.

alcohol usage: + can usually be found with wine.

✱ LAYER FIVE... the past. ( TW: vague mentions of death, car accidents. will be vague/will jump around ! )

Born of a higher class family and the eldest of their set of triplets, kasper lived a comfortable life... well.. not at first. You see, he was originally known as kassidy. The eldest daughter of the newfound rich who found their calling inside the inner hollywood circles as part of the jewelry, lingerie and overall fashion business around.

The triplets always lived a much more spoiled life than most. Getting all the toys, the clothing, private schooling to ensure their futures were set... however, kasper never did find that comfort in any of the sort once he turned the age of fifteen. He was used as different forms of modeling for his parents work, and it only became worse as time progressed. He stole and borrowed his brother's clothing, looked into his different potential support systems, and knew to keep it as hidden as he could whether it be binders or even the wrapping of his chest to help cope with the faint waves of dysphoria he held.

He became rebellious. His parents despised the behavior and knew to try to pry, but luckily his siblings managed to keep their minds distracted from his true issues at hand when it came to the concept of kasper finally... well.. becoming kasper. He found himself diving into things he didn't know, hiding away money as if his parents would dare to notice the spare change of thousands escaping their accounts and into a private one of his own once he turned eighteen.

The final time he avoided his parents was the last time he truly held a source of contact with them. They wanted him to appear for a rather .. exposing shoot regarding a new line of clothing. Which he refused. At first it was simple no's, turning into more harsh attitudes, till it finally became an explosive argument of kasper truly explaining who he was. Of course it was a screaming match and he heard words no child would ever wish to hear from his parents, and as soon as he walked out the studio? He made sure he wouldn't hear it again.

NEW START.

He would end up packed up and filling the back of his car before simply driving off for miles.. however, it was a rather harsh storm and he wasn't having the best state with his emotions. No one fully could comprehend what happened when his car swerved and soon enough rolled over a gaurd rail into the sea below. The area being known to be a death valley not many are able to be recovered from due to how harsh the currents were and the constant shifting of the tides. Most would be happy to say that truly was the end of his harsh start... wasn't entirely true.

Laslow appeared fine in the upper edges of california with the smallest sense of annoyance when it came to the constant phone calls from his two siblings who he had to pretend to reassure on his current condition. The access of funds he never knew he could reach was truly a time of pure joy for kasper. He continued his small fun of painting, humming along as his clothes began being stained with different shades, the smell of different elixirs being formed... and the casual copy of identical brush stroke counts soon making his bank account and fun fly higher than ever before. He found fun in the small bits of assignments he was able to keep close, but once his jobs began to decline.. so did his sanity.

He dived deep into the fashion scene in order to keep his hands busy, going through a few years of college in order to progress his stances further. He became rather successful as he experimented with his style alongside the newfound rememberance of his jewlery making. At first it began as a small hobby, but it soon progressed into the full points of a career once he saw the amount of orders he began to recieve. He had stayed in california the entire time, but soon felt the need to let himself loose and began his progression into moving to Alaska.

Now, why would a boy who grew up in the heat want to be in the bitter cold? Purely, if be truthful, was to begin a new start with a new name and his truest identity. Plus he also craved the comfort of the silence and nature around him, and it showed when he arrived and found himself a condo for himself with the perfect comfort of the cold, but held the continous stances of luxury in the middle of nature.

His assignments began once more, but it wasn't hard to realize it became scarce. At first it was once every three months, to once every six.. to now none after two years.

His time in town did offer him a chance to keep the sanity going, especially with the concept of the job of being a receptionist for a casino. He loved the idea of seeing people so happy winning and begging for money to continue to play. The idea of being able to tell someone no if they get too much, the potential flings he got in order to slip some a little bonus at the beginning.

He has thrived in town for almost four years since he moved over. His business began to flourish even more and he found himself in the best place: On his porch with a cat in his lap and a bottle of wine practically being drank like water.

#꒰ kasper꒱ - introduction. ❞ #anchorintro

[antoniakidman]

Captain America: Civil War

Plot In 1991, the brainwashed super-soldier James "Bucky" Barnes is dispatched from a Hydra base in Siberia to intercept an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum. In the present day, approximately one year after Ultron is defeated by the Avengers in the nation of Sokovia,[a] Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson, and Wanda Maximoff stop Brock Rumlow from stealing a biological weapon from a lab in Lagos. Rumlow blows himself up, attempting to kill Rogers. Maximoff telekinetically diverts the explosion, accidentally destroying a nearby building and killing several Wakandan humanitarian workers in the process.

Thaddeus Ross, the U.S. Secretary of State, informs the Avengers that the United Nations (UN) is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish a UN panel to oversee and control the team. The Avengers are divided: Tony Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultron's creation and Sokovia's devastation, while Rogers has more faith in his own judgment than that of politicians. Meanwhile, Helmut Zemo tracks down and kills Barnes' old Hydra handler, stealing a book containing the trigger words that activate Barnes' brainwashing. At a UN conference in Vienna where the Accords are to be ratified, a bomb kills King T'Chaka of Wakanda. Security footage indicates the bomber is Barnes, whom T'Chaka's son, T'Challa, vows to kill. Informed by Sharon Carter of Barnes' whereabouts and the authorities' intentions to kill him, Rogers decides to try to bring in Barnes—his childhood friend and war comrade—himself. Rogers and Wilson track Barnes to Bucharest and attempt to protect him from T'Challa and the authorities, but all four, including T'Challa, are apprehended by the Bucharest police and James Rhodes.

Impersonating a psychiatrist sent to interview Barnes, Zemo recites the words to activate Barnes's brainwashing. He questions Barnes, then sends him on a rampage to cover his own escape. Rogers stops Barnes and sneaks him away. When Barnes regains his senses, he explains that Zemo is the real Vienna bomber and wanted the location of the Siberian Hydra base, where other brainwashed "Winter Soldiers" are kept in cryogenic stasis. Unwilling to wait for authorization to apprehend Zemo, Rogers and Wilson go rogue, and recruit Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang to their cause. With Ross's permission, Stark assembles a team composed of Romanoff, T'Challa, Rhodes, Vision, and Peter Parker to capture the renegades. Stark's team intercepts Rogers' group at Leipzig/Halle Airport, where they fight until Romanoff allows Rogers and Barnes to escape. As Rogers and Barnes are escaping, Rhodes is inadvertently shot down by Vision, and becomes partially paralyzed. The rest of Rogers' team is captured and detained at the Raft prison, and Romanoff goes into exile.

Stark discovers evidence that Barnes was framed by Zemo and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers' destination. Without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes, unaware that they were secretly followed by T'Challa. They find that the other super-soldiers have been killed by Zemo, who then shows them footage that reveals that the automobile Barnes had intercepted in 1991 contained Stark's parents, whom Barnes subsequently killed. Enraged that Rogers kept this from him, Stark turns on them both, leading to an intense fight, in which Stark destroys Barnes' robotic arm, and Rogers disables Stark's armor. Rogers departs with Barnes, leaving his shield behind. Satisfied that he has avenged his family's deaths in Sokovia from the Avengers' actions by successfully fracturing them, Zemo attempts suicide, but he is stopped by T'Challa and taken to the authorities.

In the aftermath, Stark provides Rhodes with exoskeletal leg braces that allow him to walk again, while Rogers breaks his allies out of the Raft. In a mid-credits scene, Barnes, granted asylum in Wakanda, chooses to return to cryogenic sleep until a cure for his brainwashing is found. In a post-credits scene, Parker explores the features of the web shooters built for him by Stark.

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