#Burgeoning Day

[lailoken]

Happy Spring Equinox to all. It was a lovely Burgeoning Day on our end, which we spent amongst the buds and blossoms, being serenaded by the drumming of Grouse wings.

As we prepared an Ancestral Feast—which we hold on the Spirit Nights preceeding each of the Cardinal Sabbaths we observe—a small Moth flew to us and landed on our Votive Urn, where it stayed for most of the ritual. This felt quite propitious, since the moth represents an especially potent animal emissary of the Dead in our tradition.

[emry-stars-art]

Find the mer au masterpost here 💕

[hurymurry]

[distance-does-not-matter]

sitting in the garden wondering what comes next

only by leehi / visible light by alexander harding / spring by leon wyczółkowski / the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us! by sufjan stevens / thoughtful reader by franz dvorak / 11:23 a.m. by alexander harding / oxygen by mary oliver / the four loves by c.s. lewis / darling by leehi / oda with lamp by christian krohg / try again by jaehyun, d.ear / reading by lamplight (twilight: interior) by george clausen / sophie by the altogether / dusk by charlotte ager (@ charlotteagerillustration) / the ink dark moon: love poems by ono no komachi and izumi shikibu, women of the ancient court of japan / moonlight stroll by edward henry potthast / only by leehi

[pregtboy]

Boy who gets more pregnant the more people look at him with horny thoughts

Now place him on the beach re: your summer heat wave post

ooohh, rest in peace to that poor boy's swimsuit. doesn't even matter if it's trunks, a wetsuit, a one piece, or a bikini, he's gonna rip it. dude is probably already big when he steps onto the beach and within seconds he's bigger because he turns heads just by waddling into any space... hes already bigger than any beach ball, and he's gonna end up looking like a real beached whale if he plans to stay the afternoon!

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Truly my schedule of classes this semester could not be worse for the schedule of how my brain and body work

[dutybcrne]

"If I have to hear of even one more mushroom incident, I swear to Lord Kusanali, I will make them wish the mushrooms took them out-"

[thebibliomancer]

A thumbprint, some scrap, Odin’s Destroyer, testimony from those god struck down, scripture, and Tony Stark.

Apparently that’s what Celestials can be made of.

[arctic-hands]

About Me:

Is slowly becoming a physical media audiophile like my father

[cuttingstone]

my doctor muttering that’s strange. that’s unusual. to herself over and over again looking at my test results

[pleuvoire]

code geass is one of those shows you kinda have to "consume critically" because the politics are so all over the place but if you do you can have a good campy time

[dollyllama108]

Looking for BG3 recs/authors/friends to support

Starting a long, ambitious work is challenging not only because of the amount of time and effort that goes into it, but because of the slow growth compared to what short projects & visual mediums achieve on social media. A single reader can make a difference.

If you write high-effort fic for BG3, I want to be that reader for you, or help connect you with one.

Almost guaranteed to vibe with:

Long-form stories that focus on structure and themes

Anything written by autistic women 30 years or older

Anything written to challenge the reader

Romance is fine, I guess, as long as the focus is on the chemistry between the characters and not how much horny porny sexy sex they're having

No sex scenes is a huge bonus, but if the story's appealing otherwise, I'll just scroll past them.

Hard pass on anything written for fetish purposes. I don't seek to control what other people write, but this is a personal sexual boundary I feel is important to mention here.

And if your creations don't fit these criteria, may you have luck finding your people!

[fossore]

Saw a clip of the Top Gun: Maverick sailing scene and one minor deep dive into J/125s later I know way too much about them

Anyway, J/125s were manufactured from 1998 to 2003. Only 16 were manufactured!

The boat used for this scene is the Rufless, but they borrowed the spinnaker from another local J/125, the Velvet Hammer. One of the sailing technical advisors has crewed for the Velvet Hammer and was also present for the first sail of the Rufless.

A J/125 fully equipped for offshore racing can currently go for upwards of 300k, but anecdotally they could be had for much less in the early to mid 2000s, though much less in this case is still around 170k.

These boats may be best known for their consistent success in the Transpacific Yacht Race, a biennial race from LA to Honolulu. The Rufless finished first in its category in the 2021 race, but would up withdrawing after another boat lodged a regulatory complaint against it.

Anyway now I want a story where after leaving the navy Maverick gets into boat racing, especially since the 125s have somewhat stripped down interiors and were designed more for racing rather than cruising.

[tanadrin]

There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this appears to be just as true of present- day hunter-gatherers as anybody else. Many seem to find the prospect of living their entire lives surrounded by close relatives so unpleasant that they will travel very long distances just to get away from them. New work on the demography of modern hunter-gatherers — drawing statistical comparisons from a global sample of cases, ranging from the Hadza in Tanzania to the Australian Martu? — shows that residential groups turn out not to be made up of biological kin at all; and the burgeoning field of human genomics is beginning to suggest a similar picture for ancient hunter-gatherers as well, all the way back to the Pleistocene. While modern Martu, for instance, might speak of themselves as if they were all descended from some common totemic ancestor, it turns out that primary biological kin actually make up less than 10 per cent of the total membership of any given residential group. Most participants are drawn from a much wider pool who do not share close genetic relationships, whose origins are scattered over very large territories, and who may not even have grown up speaking the same languages. Anyone recognized to be Martu is a potential member of any Martu band, and the same turns out to be true of the Hadza, BaYaka, !Kung San, and so on. The truly adventurous, meanwhile, can often contrive to abandon their own larger group entirely. This is all the more surprising in places like Australia, where there tend to be very elaborate kinship systems in which almost all social arrangements are ostensibly organized around genealogical descent from totemic ancestors. It would seem, then, that kinship in such cases is really a kind of metaphor for social attachments, in much the same way we’d say ‘all men are brothers’ when trying to express internationalism (even if we can’t stand our actual brother and haven’t spoken to him for years). What’s more, the shared metaphor often extended over very long distances, as we’ve seen with the way that Turtle or Bear clans once existed across North America, or moiety systems across Australia. This made it a relatively simple matter for anyone disenchanted with their immediate biological kin to travel very long distances and still find a welcome.

love the idea that humans avoiding their annoying family by moving hundreds of miles away is part of our ancient evolutionary inheritance

[rubys-domain]

hm. guess I'll be back earlier than I thought

[kyorinrinswritingdump]

In this day and age, Everyone wants to burgeon To quick, easy fame No one is taking the time To grow at their own slow pace