#I AM OBSESSED WITH THE CLOTHES

[simminginstars]

A mildly hungover bby running errands before going to spend the rest of the day at the beach.

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[gatoburr0]

I HATE how this turned out WITH A PASSION.

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Map Says Yes, Politics Say No: How Geopolitics Hijacked Your Holiday Plans

Welcome onboard! You're flying Flight Number 2025. We’ll be cruising at 41,000 feet, navigating through plenty of global conflicts, cautiously sidestepping airspace bans, avoiding military drones, dodging diplomacy, and graciously praying that on today’s briefing, our flight map will not appear far much similar to that of a war game.

Remember the time when aviation meant connection? Yea, that time... Shucks! When routes were drawn in graceful arcs between beautiful cultures and magnificent continents?

Uh-huh...

Well you need to wake up!

It’s currently a maze out there of closed corridors and spontaneous political detours. Every conflict on the ground seems to punch a direct vertical or horizontal hole in the sky. A missile strike in Ukraine means rerouting over who knows where. Scandinavia maybe? A drone attack in the Red Sea adds hours to a normally shorter Gulf-bound flight. Additionally, somewhere across the globe, flight crews are getting called in early to combat passengers' miss connections. Think about the repercussions that has on the price of fuel!

No... Scratch that! Another air traffic controller may be having a mental breakdown, quietly crying in the break room.

Take the Middle East for one. A flight to Tel Aviv presently isn’t just about weather patterns, but about navigating geopolitical minefields. Yemen? No words. Syria? Ukraine? Iran? Numbers seem to be going up lately. And, while airlines market these changes as “operational adjustments,” what they really mean is: please don’t ask how close that detour was to a restricted zone because I kid you not. We are trying our best.

Meanwhile, aircraft leasing has turned into its own international 'todo sobre' soap opera. After the Russia sanctions hit, Moscow shrugged and kept hundreds of Western jets like a kid refusing to return borrowed toys. That one move spooked the entire aircraft leasing industry. Contracts got tighter, premiums skyrocketed, and everyone begun asking difficult questions such as, “What if this happens to my holiday destination? Should I really leave my family behind? What if I get stuck? How long is this going to take?”

Lest we forget, it isn't just the machinery that’s only under pressure. Think of those flying the machines. Pilots, the crew, check-in staff, other technical personnel that you meet along your journey and those behind the scenes. Literally anyone who had to smile while navigating unstable skies are feeling it too. Flying over conflict-adjacent zones only adds a new flavour of tension and trauma.

Not quite calm now aren't we?

This is a mental toll that rarely makes the usual headlines. Briefings have now suddenly included crisis contingencies. Not forgetting the quiet glances during approach into high-risk airports. Lets face it. Some pilots and cabin crew are intentionally delaying calls to family and friends because they don’t want to say where they just flew. Airlines might mention resilience in their press releases, but hardly speak about crew fatigue dressed up as impeccable professionalism.

Now it’s practically a no-go zone if you’re from a Western airline. Why you ask? The Arctic; a region once praised as the future of shortcuts for transpolar routes. However due to the airspace stand-off with Russia, lets just say... Nah! Instead, lets continue burning more and more fuel, taxing more and more money.

And while we are at it, how about we pretend that the longest way around is equally just as great.

Now, bring the attention back to the most important places you'd pass by before going on that holiday you've planned for for months or even years. Airports.

Even those places aren’t what they used to be anymore. Consider them geopolitical stages. While some are symbols of national pride, others signify national trauma. While one is shut down by drones, another inadvertently become military bases. Just-Like-That. Hence, security searching lines and surveillance become longer and tighter. Think of the impact this has on freedom of movement.

Less-Less-A little less free.

Even so, aviation, just like humans have this resilience to adapt to any situation because there will always be a need to travel, and pilots will always fly. Cabin crew will always be there. Why? Because, airports eventually end up reopening. But, is it really adapting or absorbing to the current stakes? And what are we really absorbing? Geopolitics, risk, trauma, stress... Normalcy at cruising altitudes with a broadened smile and a blinking seatbelt sign to warn you to take your seat, because we are passing an area of the proverbial turbulence.

Therefore, the next time your flight is delayed, or rerouted, or even canceled without warning, don’t just assume it was probably a lack of available crew or a technical glitch. It may very well have been a decision from above.

Government maybe? Who knows? Its no longer just turbulence. It’s the new normal. And no, there’s no safety card for that.

So, read and update yourself before you make any travel plans.

Till next time...

Source: Map Says Yes, Politics Say No: How Geopolitics Hijacked Your Holiday Plans

[ewwww-what]

The inseparable nature of two cousins who live in different towns and hate each other a little bit.

[ushsblog]

¡Teen Cedric and Teen Greylock! (And my hcs on them)

Yeah so I was thinking about how much I wanted to draw Cedric with long curly hair

Greylock is hiding something behind his back. My hcs down ↓

I also wanted to say that Greylock enchanted his bag so that it has no bottom and he takes out many things from there. (There was no more space to write that lol)

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

The tale of Alex Turner's girlfriend's jumper, Josh Homme, and the making of Humbug

(Extracts from Mojo Magazine, September 2009)

The jumper sealed the deal: the cable-knit jumper, belonging to his girlfriend. Alex Turner just happened upon it early one evening in the different late summer of 2008, as he waited for the telephone to ring. It wasn't so much the fact of it being a girl's jumper. He could get away with wearing a size skinny, after all. And besides, it would be dark at the gig he planned to go to later on. No, it was the cable-knit which gave him pause. Was he, Alex wondered, really a cable-knit guy?

His reverie was interrupted by the call he'd been expecting. Alex had spoken to Josh Homme before: the Queens Of The Stone Age leader declared himself a fan by marching into the Arctic Monkeys dressing room at a Belgian festival the previous year; later in 2007 the Monkeys supported the Queens in Houston. Compliments were exchanged, though Alex did wonder about the precise mutuality of this appreciation. Maybe 70-30? Obviously, the Monkeys were big fans of QOTSA: the Queens' sensual dirt-rock had been a key benchmark for their album Favourite Worst Nightmare. And Josh Homme? He had at least heard of Alex's band, and that was good enough. But now here he was, on the phone, accepting the invitation to produce the next Arctic Monkeys album. Alex deferred taking the conversation down to brass tracks. Airily, he mentioned his knitwear dilemma.

Homme was firm on the matter.

"Go for it, man."

But I'm not sure. I mean, it belongs to me girlfriend, and it fits, and it looks all right, but...

"Just throw caution to the wind," said Homme, as if issuing an imperial edit. "Let go of those inhibitions you've got there and just wear your cable-knit."

Sound, said Alex. So, about this record...?

"I listened to the demo," said Homme. "I heard 30 seconds of it and thought, You're coming to the desert." Then, to himself, he added with relish. "And little do you know what's about to happen..."

That evening, Alex Turner wore his girlfriend's cable-knit jumper. A month or so later, he and his three bandmates were picked up from a Los Angeles hotel by Josh Homme and driven out to the small Mojave Desert town of Joshua Tree, where they began recording the new Arctic Monkeys album. One phone abut cable-knitwear later, Arctic Monkeys were off to southern California for a hot date.

....

Presiding throughout this transformative process [of recording Humbug], during the warm autumn days or late into the chilly desert nights, would be Alex Turner's girlfriend's cable-knit jumper.

"Josh likes to speak in analogies, in terms of how things should sound," says the Arctic Monkeys' songwriter with a chuckle, as he reflects upon the six-month gestation of his band's new album. "Cable-knits got mentioned a lot during recording. He was like, if you can wear a cable-knit you can put a glockenspiel on a tune. It became a metaphor: you can wear a cable-knit and then sonically we can try something different. We went off on a little adventure. Because we were conscious that if this were really going to work, we would have to open up a little more than we have in the past. Joshua Tree really feels far away. You felt..." He frowns, reaching for the right word. "Unpoliced."

Which all rather begs the question: does that six and a half foot ginger hunk of abiding rockness Josh Homme wear cable-knitwear? A small smile plays around the corners of Alex Turner's mouth.

"He assured me he did."

....

The previous evening Alex finally spoke to Josh Homme for the first time since Humbug's completion. After expressing his delight with the end results of their combat crawl through the Mojave badlands, Homme enquired whether Turner was going out later. Alex informed that he was. "Cable-knits?" asked Homme. "Cable-knits," said Alex, the Arctic Monkey, comfortable in the embrace of the strange.

....

[ffalisred]

people with blue eyes be like.......@fir-fireweed

[adamant-hearts]

‘Past Self in Mirror’ concept but with Blade/Yingxing

(ᵕ—ᴗ—) I made it even more self indulgent by designing female hanfu outfits for both of them, not meant to canonical at all, just pretty!

~~~

Zoom-in under cut because ✨compression✨is my mortal enemy

[bodega-catto]

Gojo fell first AND hardest what a gay disaster

[lithi]

Ngrhrhtrrhgggrrrr

[llitchilitchi]

A lil lady out for a stroll

[sneakobee]

Bright colors babyyyyyyyyyyyy

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Map Says Yes, Politics Say No: How Geopolitics Hijacked Your Holiday Plans

Welcome onboard! You're flying Flight Number 2025. We’ll be cruising at 41,000 feet, navigating through plenty of global conflicts, cautiously sidestepping airspace bans, avoiding military drones, dodging diplomacy, and graciously praying that on today’s briefing, our flight map will not appear far much similar to that of a war game.

Remember the time when aviation meant connection? Yea, that time... Shucks! When routes were drawn in graceful arcs between beautiful cultures and magnificent continents?

Uh-huh...

Well you need to wake up!

It’s currently a maze out there of closed corridors and spontaneous political detours. Every conflict on the ground seems to punch a direct vertical or horizontal hole in the sky. A missile strike in Ukraine means rerouting over who knows where. Scandinavia maybe? A drone attack in the Red Sea adds hours to a normally shorter Gulf-bound flight. Additionally, somewhere across the globe, flight crews are getting called in early to combat passengers' miss connections. Think about the repercussions that has on the price of fuel!

No... Scratch that! Another air traffic controller may be having a mental breakdown, quietly crying in the break room.

Take the Middle East for one. A flight to Tel Aviv presently isn’t just about weather patterns, but about navigating geopolitical minefields. Yemen? No words. Syria? Ukraine? Iran? Numbers seem to be going up lately. And, while airlines market these changes as “operational adjustments,” what they really mean is: please don’t ask how close that detour was to a restricted zone because I kid you not. We are trying our best.

Meanwhile, aircraft leasing has turned into its own international 'todo sobre' soap opera. After the Russia sanctions hit, Moscow shrugged and kept hundreds of Western jets like a kid refusing to return borrowed toys. That one move spooked the entire aircraft leasing industry. Contracts got tighter, premiums skyrocketed, and everyone begun asking difficult questions such as, “What if this happens to my holiday destination? Should I really leave my family behind? What if I get stuck? How long is this going to take?”

Lest we forget, it isn't just the machinery that’s only under pressure. Think of those flying the machines. Pilots, the crew, check-in staff, other technical personnel that you meet along your journey and those behind the scenes. Literally anyone who had to smile while navigating unstable skies are feeling it too. Flying over conflict-adjacent zones only adds a new flavour of tension and trauma.

Not quite calm now aren't we?

This is a mental toll that rarely makes the usual headlines. Briefings have now suddenly included crisis contingencies. Not forgetting the quiet glances during approach into high-risk airports. Lets face it. Some pilots and cabin crew are intentionally delaying calls to family and friends because they don’t want to say where they just flew. Airlines might mention resilience in their press releases, but hardly speak about crew fatigue dressed up as impeccable professionalism.

Now it’s practically a no-go zone if you’re from a Western airline. Why you ask? The Arctic; a region once praised as the future of shortcuts for transpolar routes. However due to the airspace stand-off with Russia, lets just say... Nah! Instead, lets continue burning more and more fuel, taxing more and more money.

And while we are at it, how about we pretend that the longest way around is equally just as great.

Now, bring the attention back to the most important places you'd pass by before going on that holiday you've planned for for months or even years. Airports.

Even those places aren’t what they used to be anymore. Consider them geopolitical stages. While some are symbols of national pride, others signify national trauma. While one is shut down by drones, another inadvertently become military bases. Just-Like-That. Hence, security searching lines and surveillance become longer and tighter. Think of the impact this has on freedom of movement.

Less-Less-A little less free.

Even so, aviation, just like humans have this resilience to adapt to any situation because there will always be a need to travel, and pilots will always fly. Cabin crew will always be there. Why? Because, airports eventually end up reopening. But, is it really adapting or absorbing to the current stakes? And what are we really absorbing? Geopolitics, risk, trauma, stress... Normalcy at cruising altitudes with a broadened smile and a blinking seatbelt sign to warn you to take your seat, because we are passing an area of the proverbial turbulence.

Therefore, the next time your flight is delayed, or rerouted, or even canceled without warning, don’t just assume it was probably a lack of available crew or a technical glitch. It may very well have been a decision from above.

Government maybe? Who knows? Its no longer just turbulence. It’s the new normal. And no, there’s no safety card for that.

So, read and update yourself before you make any travel plans.

Till next time...

Source: Map Says Yes, Politics Say No: How Geopolitics Hijacked Your Holiday Plans

[la-belle-histoire]

Princess Hélène of Orléans, 1905.

[joethehoeee]

Stricklake month 24 : Shipwrecked/Resort

I chose shipwrecked and went overboard with it. Not as much as last prompt but still...

SO I AM DONE. Did it take me forever to figure the pose out??? YES. Did I give up????? almost- BUT I DIDN’T.

Sooo. Walter get's shipwrecked as he is on a mission for his overlord Gunmar. He get's attacked and looses continuousness after a hard wood hit him on his head. However...a mysteriously and utterly beautiful creature seemes to save his life.

My written prompt for the picture ⬅️ press on me :3

Anyways, you will get a more lighted drawing:

And now closeups:

Small Infos about the designs/Story Ideas:

Barbara was REALLY hard. I had like 10 sketches of her face bc for some damn reason is that woman my NEMESIS TO DRAW. I kid you not her face is something else. I am not skilled enough. Though I managed to find something I liked. Obviously I toned down her colors to match the sea and used her signital colors. The markings on her eyes obviously resemble her glasses and I gave ger piercings...Just because.

Walter was easy as ever. I draw him so much that he just appears on my pages. He obviously slays with his outfit, mullet and piercings. Though he would wear it in canon...no? I mean maybe not a croptop but then again...he basically wears nothing anyways. He has the sigil of the Janus order on his gloves (fingerless bc UGH. HE IS GOOD LOOKING) and wears some form jewellery/accessories on his horns bc it looked nice.

Story wise it will be as I wrote above in the summary BUT you all get Info to the World building. As in 2023 Stricklake month fire/water (see in my masterpost) there is a war going on between the magical creatures/humans who ALL hate each other. (I am a sucker for magical wars) Only the trollhunter, Jim, will be able to retriev peace amongst the races with help of the first ever cross-raced couple Walter&Barbara. Walter is a changeling commander who recruites trolls/changeling for his overlord Gunmar and kills who refuse to bend the knee. He is the head of the Janus order who is secretly working on killing Gunmar to help the future trollhunter (Jim will be AFTER Barb meets Walt, He will also give Jim a gem that allows him to take a troll like form later). Walter gets caught one day and they ambushed him eventually. He is surprised and almost dies...but gets saved. The Story is simple enough, tell me some ideas to change or how it goes forward if you want <3

[tapestryundone]

im a big fan of when people give the voices clothes or give them an appearance that still mimics the look of them having clothes. that said none of my voice designs have clothes despite my fondness for the concept. this is rooted in the fact that i dont know how to design clothes

[hunnam]

I saw your tags from the other day and knew i should enable your obsession 🤩

Akahsdjkhsjkfhsdjk. I need to do this to him SOOOOO BAD. His tits are soooo insanely juicy and thick. I am in love with him. But also his face too, he's sooo handsome and good looking. Nick Aldis call me anytime of the week, I'm free.

[moe-broey]

My homunculus

Hashtag my homunculus