#project lighthouse

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[nerdygaymormon]

Project Lighthouse

Lisa Diamond is a developmental-health psychologist at the University of Utah who has done some very important studies of LGBTQ mental health. She is working with Scout (Director of the National LGBTQIA+ Cancer Network) to launch a first-of-its kind effort to track the effects of the upcoming US election on LGBTQ+ individuals and their loved ones, as they unfold in the coming months. Because we’re living through an unprecedented historical moment, and we’ll need evidence to address its consequences. The inclusion of family members is a unique part of the study -- our partners, parents, children, siblings, and chosen family are all affected by what’s happening, and we need their voices, too.

Why is it called Project Lighthouse? Because lighthouses provide navigation in uncertain and dangerous waters. Right now, the waters have never been more uncertain or dangerous. Let’s do what our community does best: Unite and speak up.

Once the results are in, they'll be shared immediately with advocacy organizations around the country, so they can prepare for what’s ahead.

The study has been approved by the ethics board at the University of Utah, and the protocol has been registered on the Open Science Framework, to ensure scientific transparency and integrity. The survey is short, confidential, and available in Spanish and English – the anonymous survey link cannot be tracked.

Click here to take the survey: https://csbsutah.co1.qualtrics.com/.../SV_cFHwZIUJInSsUPc

[mothhue]

The Lighthouse bloom- The start of a new adventure.

The introduction "cutscene," title, and player/protagonist of a personal project that I've been tinkering on the sidelines for a while! It's a concept for an action-adventure game that'll never get made :]

[seachime]

reverse hermit>>>>everything

example for my new comm service ft. mizuki.... wanna commision smth similar? l1nk in replies!!

[supercalifragipopculturevomit]

A24/NEON. Your top 3 movies from this list:

Source: Trending TV (March 2025)

I've seen 18 out of 25... what a selection. Parasite and Perfect Days, for sure. Torn between La Chimera and The Worst Person in the World for the last spot.

YOUR TURN!

[pennybunpirate]

I can't believe I'm actually finally saying this but...I've started varnishing this thing. Which means.

It. is. almost. done.

[grievenotthespirit]

the lore behind these sketches is too long to explain

[thelibrarian1895]

Veilguard hobbies

Yes there is a book club

However I would like to propose another activity that the Veilguard does for team bonding, decompressing between missions, and passing time when they're not running around with Rook.

Knitting circle/stich 'n' bitch

It starts by accident, Lucanis is in the kitchen and has taken out his knitting, he's making himself a new cardigan, while he's keeping an eye on something he has roasting. The side dishes are all completed or will take only moments to finish. The main dish will take longer. He knows many dishes that take less time, less effort, but roasting is its own art and it's been a year since he's cooked anything. Besides all that, the ingredients available are limited. He'll need to go shopping.

Rook, because of course it is Rook, sees the knitting and does not comment. Instead, they leave for a bit and come back with an embroidery hoop, needles, and a collection of colored thread (Provided by the Lighthouse and unbeknownst to Rook, this is the first thing that the Lighthouse has provided to just Rook, not to Rook being partially overshadowed by the desires of the Dread Wolf in their head). Rook (My Ingellvar at least) embroiders as a hobby (among other hobbies). They take a seat by the fire and begin to place careful stitches. Lucanis watches as wisps begin to crowd around the mage, giving them better light for their needle work. Lucanis and Rook sit calmly together, the only interruption for either of them was Lucanis pausing at times to turn the roast and (in Rook's eyes) perform some sort of magic that made the roasting meat smell even more appetizing.

Lucanis sees the door open from his place in the kitchen and Harding peer inside. Like Rook, the dwarf leaves and returns. Harding arrives with more yarn and their own needles and silently sat at the table. She chose a spot outside of Lucanis's striking range and had her bow and quiver at her side as she cast loops onto her knitting needles. She's planning on mittens for the team.

Bellara is next, drawn by the smell, and gives a little "oh" of delight at the sight of the three. She leaves and returns with Neve. Bellara is holding a pair of knitting needles and Neve leads her through the basics while the detective's own fingers fly as she knits silk stockings. Neve, Lucanis, and Harding all keep an eye on Bellara's efforts and each offer tips and instruction as Bellara begins to knit a scarf.

Eventually Lucanis finishes making dinner and puts away his knitting. The other four put away their own projects and set the table. Then his new teammates fall upon the meal as though they've never tasted food before. Between the praises for his cooking and the...interesting sounds the other four make, the Crow can only hope that the worst of his blush is hidden by his beard.

The next time he knits in the kitchen instead of the privacy of the pantry, it happens again. First Rook with their embroidery, a garden of flowers blooming from their needle, then Harding with their own knitting and her bow and quiver. Then Bellara with her slowly lengthening scarf and Neve and her stockings.

It happens again. Each of them brings their own project. Bellara is the first to break the silence to question Neve about a case involving a particular magister. Lucanis recognizes the name and he bites the inside of his cheek to keep from smiling. Rook doesn’t recognize the magister's first name but they do recognize the family name. It seems they had a Nevarran ancestor, an ancestor who was and still is very chatty. Rook regales them with stories from the magister's many times great uncle and scandals of the Blessed age that caused the uncle to retreat to Nevarra. Harding offers delicious bits of gossip from the Inquisition.

The next week the magister is dead and Neve's needles click with outrage as she describes what has to have been murder but the magister had been in a locked room and there was no trace of magic or poison. The man had dropped dead in a locked room! Rook offers to try to raise the magister to see if he knew anything about his death and Bellara postulates various outlandish theories that Lucanis makes note of because some of those could be viable. Harding is more curious about who wanted the magister dead rather than the method of death which causes Neve to think out loud and she may end up revealing more magisterial gossip than she intended.

The next week Lucanis will have heard back from Teia and Viago and be able to answer at least some of Neve's endless questions about the case. He can't tell her who paid for the contract or exactly how it was done, that would be unprofessional. But he can confirm for her that it was murder and let her know that the door had not been locked when the Crow entered the room. Her needles still clack loudly as she knits more silk stockings. Rook's garden is finished and now hangs above the stove, lavender and other purple flowers he doesn’t recognize, encircling a phrase in an old Nevarran twist on ancient Tevene that Rook refuses to translate. Rook works now on the heels of the stockings that Neve has finished, embroidering snakes in bright blue and yellow and pink tulips, adding strength, flexibility, and length to the silk stockings as well as a sense of style for the detective. Harding has finished her own mittens and is working on another set in bright yellow. Bellara's scarf continues to grow in length. All of them are trying to guess what Rook's embroidered decoration says, each of them coming up with more outlandish ideas.

Emmrich joins them and he works on cross stitch design on a waistcoat. Manfred serves them all tea and then wields his own needle and thread, deftly working through the mending that they’ve all kept to themselves but now find piled up in a basket by Manfred when they gather. It's the first time they gather when Lucanis isn't cooking something that takes more time than it does attention. Rook is embroidering flowers onto woven bands, lavender and others he doesn’t recognize. Bellara asks Emmrich to translate Rook’s previous project and the older mage nearly spits out his tea when he sees the little circle of purple flowers and Tevinter-Nevarran. He refuses and Harding postulates that it’s something very rude. Bellara counters that’s something scandalous instead. Rook diverts them with gossip she overheard while in Treviso and Lucanis finds himself under interrogation about Antivan merchant princes and their love affairs.

Davrin carves new knitting needles for those who knit, all of them have customized decorations on the ends of their needles so they can be told apart quickly and easily. Bellara proudly leads him through the basics so he can start his own scarf. Assan is given his own ball of yarn to keep him from the yarn being used by the others. He’s also diverted with scritches by those who have paused because of hand cramps and snacks from all of them who can sneak the treats past Davrin’s sharp eyes. Davrin is on Harding’s side that Rook’s project says something rude.

Harding stops bringing her bow and quiver and instead provides her Ma’s apple pie. Rook brings cookies from her favorite Nevarran bakery. Taash brings Rivani fruit.

Taash initially helps Manfred with the mending but the wisp of Curiosity has very high standards for mending and Taash’s stitchwork leaves much to be desired in the eyes of Manfred. Manfred does not tell Taash that Taash’s work is not good enough. Taash does not realize until they see Manfred reinforcing the seams on a shirt that Taash had just finished reinforcing. Taash instead starts to knit hats and complains about idiots in the Lords that have no idea about the difference between different dragons. Their first project is a hat for Harding. Taash is on Bellara’s side that Rook’s first project has something “spicy” on it.

Bellara will end up with a scarf that could be wrapped around the neck of a giant. All of them will have knitted hats that match their personalized mittens. All of them have stylish silks stockings with clocked heels and embroidered bands on the hems of their sleeves and collars. And all of them will have all the good gossip.

Lucanis will learn what Rook’s project said.

edit: if you choose to adopt embroidery as one of your Rook's hobbies then your Rook shares their little message with their love interest or their best friend if the choose not to romance anyone.

edit: My Ingellvar likes floriography and where according to banter Emmrich would be a botanist if he wasn't a mourn watcher, my Rook would probably be a florist if she had to choose a different line of work. I imagine florists do very good business in Nevarra. Pink tulips are for caring, good wishes, confidence, and friendship. Lavender, besides being a reference to a certain outing in Treviso, has several conflicting messages by itself but can refer to a confession, anything further would depend on the flowers around lavender.

Notes: Yes Neve could buy socks but before machine industry, most people made their socks. The "clocking" was a way to show style as well as help make stockings fit better. Among the people in Dock town we mostly see people who are barefoot or in sandals. Those implied to be upper class have clothes long enough and shoes tall enough that socks are not necessarily immediately noticeable but are likely for people able to afford nicer clothing. Neve is not rich but Neve is very stylish. She can make socks, though she'll probably take socks and mending as her fee from some of her clients in the past. Taash is okay at mending, Manfred just has higher standards. This is taken from my great grandma's attitude towards sewing. If your work did not meet her standards, she would wait until you were gone and then unpick your threads and redo them herself. If you were related to her then you would see her unpick your stitch work. I never dared to work on a quilt with her because I knew for a fact she'd unpick my stitches. For Rook's embroidery and Emmrich's cross stitch, I'd like to think that a relatively easy way for a mage of limited means to make themselves look more prosperous and thus like a mage who has connections or a patron that make them unsafe to mess with is to add fancy thread work, threadwork that looks fancy enough to have to have been expensive to commission, to their clothes until they have the means to be more obviously the sort not to mess with due to Connections and Political Power. Some mages learn to make lace and add it to their robes for the same purposes. And some Southern mages learned fancy work like that in the hopes that they could use the not magical skills to support themselves if they ever managed to destroy their phylactery and get away from the Circle.

[thecluelessdoctor]

Also guys hear me out.

Stan totally had a pirate hyperfixation at some point. PLEASE- CRIES.

I'm not projecting my hyperfixations from current and childhood onto him shut up

[cameforstuff]

calypso

Maddie song?

Yes. Sails alone is so good for her story.

Both for vibes and for her listening to it.

She is super into anything to do with the sea and would definitely listen to sea shanties and sail fairing related songs.

[resident-rats]

I really want to write fanfiction where Leon goes insane by the sea, but I think that’s also just me projecting bc I am also going insane by the sea 🤝🏻

[projectlighthousefics]

Featured Fic #3: My Favorite Ghost

Today's featured fic is "My Favorite Ghost" by @cassieoh and @diminished-fish

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Heaven was dim. Not dark. Not dead or even dying, simply… different. Shadowy.

The sudden presence of shadows in a realm of pure light probably should have frightened him, but all he felt was bewildered. It was so strange. So absolutely mystifying. Shadows piled in the corners like soft blue gossamer, draped themselves across the corridors in shifting grey veils, cloaked entire chambers in hazy fog. It lent a quality to the atmosphere that was simultaneously cavernous and diminished — the subtle, impossible architecture of the place suddenly impossible to ignore.

He wished it frightened him. Fear was a far simpler state of mind than bewilderment. Fear inspired action, provided a goal and a direction. A purpose. Having none of these things, he wandered.

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[mothhue]

[Tutorial]- It's time to wake up!

Woke up 10 minutes ago, immediately fell twice on their face. You're doing great sweetie everyone wish them luck

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Hi, I love your web weaves and I was wondering if I could request one about the odd things children hold onto in their adult lives. Something to go with "She was certain that he was thinking, we are not going to the Lighthouse tomorrow; and she thought, he will remember that all his life." From To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Thank you, I hope you have a wonderful day!!

i hope this is what you were looking for !!

B.N Pressman Stories of My Childhood / Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse / @luvingsunshine / The Florida Project (2017) dir. Sean Baker / @ritikajyala the flesh i burned

[te001e]

me when i hear tondemo wonderz

[andromedacarriesaxes]

you know, I don’t think I ever posted this one

Luchi on the mind… Its a pity that campaign feel apart, I’ll probably reuse him sooner or later