#deserts are not empty

[chickensoup1025]

Back from Double Life:

"Pinch yourself." Grian whispered to Scar, too afraid to break the delicate atmosphere they found themselves in. He dared not hurt Scar himself, he couldn't bare to–any more than he's already done.

Scar immediately obeyed, pinching the skin of his own forearm. Light enough so he wouldn't bruise, but hard enough to hurt.

Grian's eyes turned misty. "I can't feel you anymore." He rubbed the skin of his own arm where just hours ago he would've felt a reflection of his best friend's pain.

[adhamabbas]

في شروق الشمس أعظم آيات الجمال

[achillean-knight]

I might just die of thirst from the lack of anything KH related and this happening

[thegoodmorningman]

Happy Monday. Try to survive it.

[imaginal-ai]

The Long Road" (0002)

(More of this series)

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[desertsportshipping]

Leon was still annoyed that his boyfriend had gone and stolen three Pokemon just so that Hop and himself could have starters, but he could never stay mad at Wes for long. Especially not with that damn smile.

When thinking about or drafting the Pokemon fan game idea I had, the tutorial/beginning sequence involved Wes stealing the Galar starters so that he could give them to Hop and Leon (and Gloria), and Hop meets him as he's running from the Pokemon breeder.

Masterpost - Ko-Fi

Tag List: @cipher-legal-and-ethics-dept

[theladyofbloodshed]

i still cant believe rhysand became the blueprint for many mmcs when not only is he an abuser, he's also boring as fuck!!! that man has no personality whatsoever beyond hello feyre darling

[sitting-on-me-bum]

The Empty Quarter: Photos by Maxime Daviron

The Rub’ al Khali desert, United Arab Emirates, also known as the Empty Quarter, is one of the most expansive deserts in the world. Spanning over 650,000 square kilometers across the Arabian Peninsula, this sea of sand is incredibly beautiful and desolate.

[overcitylightsphotography]

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[flagellant]

The more I think about Wildmender the more I grow invested in it. It's a fascinating interpretation of terra nil and solarpunk since so often the genre is fundamentally rooted in settler-colonialist philosophy, and even games which are intended to be the opposite of that--terra nil comes to mind as the obvious one--just end up actually revealing a different side of the factorio problem, because terra nil is an incredible impersonal restoration of ecological systems. Terra Nil acknowledges climate destruction on a global catastrophic scale and it accepts the responsibility to fix that, but it isn't shown as a human act, nor does it really allow itself the realism of just how terrifyingly impossible the task is to try and literally fix the entire world. Its game structure is supposed to be the anti-factorio but its puzzle structures focusing on efficiency and robotic engineering patterns of rewilding end up feeling more like a dialogue than an inversion. It's trying to say that the idea of humanity as fundamentally destructive is wrong while it doesn't actually ever address the human element.

And then there's fucking Wildmender. A game where you are a single human child in a world of endless wasteland and death, where the only other things are ghosts who remember a halcyon era and the hubris that ended it, wraiths which are consumed by their own greed and destruction of the land for their cursed immortality, and a couple god statues. The entire map is just ceaseless grief, filled with the literal dessicated remains of all the biodiversity that came before the countless disasters. And it's a big fucking map.

And then...the game gives you a shovel and a sickle and a mirror that shows the wraiths what twisted reflections they've become.

And the game says, "The entire world is waiting to be better, and the only way to do that is by doing it yourself, long and hard and hopeless as it seems."

I cannot emphasize enough how overwhelming the task you're handed. There is not a single speck of life left in the world. You are given a shovel and a water bottle and just...expected to do something about it. To look at the literal endless wastes and think you can heal it.

This is what Wildmender cherishes that Terra Nil denies: This is an impossible task for you alone. But it has to be done...and you can actually do it. The way you can turn sand into soil and dig irrigation channels is beautiful. Every single scrap of land that you reclaim is something you had to do on purpose. You had to do it yourself. You had to actively choose how to do it.

And the game makes the reward of even just getting a bit more water into the sand feel like victory. Your starting oasis turns from soil into lush and beautiful meadows--sure, technically instantaneously by doing magic on a specific type of plant. But it took me 4-5 hours before I got there. You have to travel so far into the desert to learn how to grow grass again, and then you realize that this endless hostile wasteland is a fraction of the map you're given. And you look at this sudden profusion of meadowy grassland surrounding your spring and despite how sudden it feels you remember how big the world is. You made more progress in a minute than you did in 5 hours and it's not even a speck on the map. How the fuck is this gonna happen?

And the answer is by accepting that it's going to take a long fucking time and a lot of hard work.

That's how it's gonna happen. Get to work.

[kusuokisser]

listen to me listsn very closely. saiki takes teruhashi to the bottom of the ocean sometimes as a date (aand uses all the necessary powers to keep her alive nd comfy)

sure its not the most romantic thing on its own but. He does it because he wants his sole focus to be on her. He wants To be able to focus on her without everyone elses thoughts and She Knows

[terryfuckingturniptruck]

30. The Big Empty 🌌 🏜

Had fun with a new medium : watercolor gel crayons. 🎨🖍🖼

[kashe86]

Motherfuckers talk too much about the Megaladon as if it’s the scariest thing to ever exist in the ocean and “ooo wouldn’t it be nuts if it’s still alive down there today!?”

As if there weren’t vastly more terrifying animals already living down there.

I present: The Humboldt Squid.

Don’t think it’s all that scary next to a gigantic great white shark?

Well… it averages about 5ft in length (i.e. about as long as most people) and weighs an average of 110lbs.

They travel in shoals of 1,200 individuals, have a reputation of being aggressive towards humans (although this may only be under specific circumstances), and have been seen migrating as far north as Alaska from the warmer waters off of Mexico.

Colloquially, they’re sometimes called “Diablo Rojo” or “Red Devil” for their tendency to flash red and white colors while attacking.

Fuck the (extinct) giant shark, there’s much scarier things in the ocean as is already.

[0yorixu]

Desert duo I love them so much urhhhfhf

I should be sleeping right now for my trip that I have to wake up at 5 for but drawing urges told me to draw desert duo and sleep on the ride instead

[sarahserinde]

Roughly 24 hours of progress on my project for this year's Desert Bus Craftalong so far, out of an estimated 180 hours. So we've got a ways to go yet, but I think this moon came out pretty well.

As is tradition, I'm not telling what the subject is, but that silhouette might look a little familiar...

Also, if anyone needs a reminder, today (May 27) is the last day of the Craftalong submission period, so if you're thinking of submitting a craft idea for this year, get it in before midnight PDT!

(Yes, I started this before submissions even open, because if I didn't, I'd never have enough time to finish by the deadline. Cross stitch takes a lot of time! Also I procrastinate working on the pattern a lot.)

[reeama-the-mage]

Cowboy Love!!!!!! Cowboy love😍😍😍😍 Cowboy Love <3 <3 <3 <3