#la belle fleur sauvage - end

[foolofatook001]

hello Lord Huron fans who are also Magnus Archives fans:

I am assigning LH characters to the fears and I am drawing a blank on the Dark and the Corruption (and tbh the Buried and the End are a little shaky)

anyone got ideas?

[aturnoftheearth]

also y’know how some artists’ albums are like. a season. y’know oh this album is so autumn feeling or summer etc. well i don’t think lord huron has that obviously they have songs that fit that BUT i think they have albums for the times of day absolutely locked down:

lonesome dreams IS a morning album with its nature theme and its blue and tan colors and the feeling of setting out on the beginning of an adventure with songs like “ends of the earth” and “she lit a fire” and “i will be back one day” and i think “the ghost on the shore” is such an early sunrise song especially when paired with she lit a fire 🌅

strange trails is absolutely an afternoon album. TO ME. i think it stretches the bounds more than the other albums bc some songs are sooo night time themed BUT overall? “la belle fleur sauvage” and “meet me in the woods” and "cursed" and "fool for love" etc feel like wandering through the woods in the afternoon (maybe it’s autumn and the leaves are crunching or maybe it’s spring and everything is still dead except the new wildflowers or maybe it’s summer and everything is sooo green who knows) searching for SOMETHING. and also i think "way out there" and "louisa" both lead into late afternoon early evening really well 🏞️

vide noir is so obviously the night time album with the black and neon green colors and the range between lower waltzy sounding songs like “wait by the river” or “when the night is over” and the full blown speakers songs like “ancient names part 1&2” and “never ever” is so indicative of the way a night can start off really loud and rowdy but eventually settle into a quiet thing and the emerald star and the moon being so prominent…. in contrast to strange trails, vide noir is so firmly entrenched in night time it’s insane 🌃

long lost is such an evening album with the desert sunset vibe and the blue and orange color scheme and the theme of change and endings going with the last bits of sunlight signifying the end of the day and the uncertainty of tomorrow and time’s blur just being this beautiful amalgamation of sounds with the prominence of twenty long years' nostalgic twang oughhhhh my beautiful sunset album 🏜️

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Lord Huron Asks

Ends of the Earth 🌎 — What is a land you have always dreamed of seeing?

Time to Run 🏃 — If you were being run out of town on threat of hanging, what would your crime be?

Lonesome Dreams 🛤️ — What is your most frequent recurring dream, and what do you think it means?

The Ghost on the Shore 👻 — If you were a ghost, what place would you haunt?

She Lit a Fire 🔥 — Describe a stranger that you only met once but have never forgotten.

I Will Be Back One Day 🏜️ — What is your ideal place to settle down forever?

The Man Who Lives Forever 🌐 — How would you spend a lifetime of immortality?

Lullaby 🔪 — Who would you go to if you had nowhere else to turn?

Brother 👫🏻 — Who would you want by your side in an apocalyptic battle?

In the Wind 🌬️ — What is the one thing you would wait an eternity for?

Setting Sun 🌄 — Your lover has been unfaithful. Do you actively hunt them down for revenge or wait until they fall into your carefully-planned trap?

Love Like Ghosts 💕 — Rank your top three favorite quotes about love.

Until the Night Turns 🌠 — How would you want your apocalyptic remains to be found? (think Pompeii, but Lord Huron style.)

Dead Man’s Hand ✋ — What would be your reaction to finding a dead body by a desert road?

Hurricane 🌀 — What is your idea of thrill-seeking?

La Belle Fleur Sauvage 🌸 — What flowers do you want in your grave?

Fool for Love 💙 — What is the most outrageous thing you have done for love?

The World Ender 💀 — Describe your “coming back from the dead to take vengeance on your enemies” outfit.

Meet Me in the Woods 🌲 — What experience completely transformed you as a person?

The Yawning Grave ⚰️ — If you were an eldritch otherworldly being, what would you be and what would your domain be?

Frozen Pines 👽 — Have you ever encountered anything extraterrestrial, and if so, what was it?

Cursed 🖤 — What curse would a witch place on you?

Way Out There ⛰️ — What is the furthest you have ever gone from home?

Louisa 💞 — If you died, what is the one thing that could revive you?

The Night We Met 💜 — If you could choose one moment in your life to go back and change, what would it be?

Lost in Time and Space 🌌 — Where would you go to start a new life?

Never Ever 🎨 — How would your life change if you found out that your SO was just a figment of your imagination?

Ancient Names (Part 1) 🔮 — What part of your future would you like to know most?

Ancient Names (Part 2) 🗝️ — What do you believe happens after death?

Wait by the River 🏞️ — Where do you go to collect your emotions?

Secret of Life ⭐ — What is a dark secret of the universe that you would give anything to know?

Back from the Edge 💊 — What is the closest you have ever come to death?

The Balancer’s Eye 👁️‍🗨️ — What do you think is the one unforgiveable sin?

When the Night Is Over 🛣️ — What is your favorite thing to do in the rain?

Moonbeam 🌗 — If you could appear in someone’s dream, what would you do?

Vide Noir ⚫ — If you were a drug, what would you be?

Emerald Star 💚 — Write a poetic description of your favorite person’s eyes, using as many unusual metaphors as possible.

The Moon Doesn’t Mind 🌙 — What do you look for in the night sky?

Mine Forever ♾️ — What can you not live without?

Love Me Like You Used To 💗 — Where would you go if you lost everything and wanted to feel something again?

Meet Me in the City 🌃 — Describe your ideal place for a secret rendezvous.

Long Lost 🗻 — Where does your spirit feel the most free?

Twenty Long Years 🍺 — You’re twenty years older than you are now, and you’re in a bar when a stranger comes up and asks you to tell them a story. What do you tell them?

Drops in the Lake 💧 — Describe yourself if you were a lake.

Where Did the Time Go ⌛ — What feels like it happened yesterday but actually happened a long time ago?

Not Dead Yet ☠️ — Would you rather be half alive or half dead? (Or do you think there is a difference?)

I Lied 💔 — Would you make a promise to someone you loved if you knew you could not keep it?

At Sea ⛵ — What would you do if you were stranded on a ship for a week?

What Do It Mean ✍️ — Write an epitaph for yourself.

Time’s Blur 🕰️ — What is the furthest out of your mind you have ever been?

Your Other Life 🎭 — If you could live a double life right now, what would your other life be like?

Mighty 🦁 — What frightening power would you wish for?

Son of a Gun 🔫 — How would you take revenge on someone who abandoned you with a child?

The Stranger 👥 — If you met Death, what would you ask him?

When Will I See You Again 👋 — Write a poetic goodbye to someone you will never see again.

Into the Sun ☀️ — Who would miss you the most if you sailed away, never to return?

The Problem with Your Daughter 💖 — If you had been kept hidden away for 20 years, how would you escape?

We Went Wild 🏝️ — How would you spend thirteen days on an island?

Moon Song ✨ — Write three superlatives that you think you could win.

The Birds Are Singing at Night 🐦 — What would put a smile on your face if you saw it as you were dying?

Last Night You Were a Dream 💤 — What is an experience that was magical the first time and disappointing the next time?

Ace Up My Sleeve 🃏 — What is the “ace up your sleeve” that you can always fall back on?

[somniorumfactus]

423: meet me in the woods, son of a gun, secret of life, lonesome dreams, (twenty long years snippet), in the wind, setting sun, lullaby

424: louisa, wait by the river, ancient names part i, I will be back one day, the world ender, (the moon doesn't mind + mine forever), love like ghosts, frozen pines

425: never ever, the balancer's eye, (moon song snippet), dead man's hand, the ghost on the shore, way out there, moonbeam, the night we met

426: cursed, we went wild, ancient names part ii, emerald star, la belle fleur sauvage, when the night is over, ends of the earth, vide noir, i lied

[grjarchive]

La Belle Fleur Sauvage (1989)

"I'll live yet to see him Regret the dark hour When he won, then neglected, The frail wildwood flower" - "Wildwood Flower," American folk song written by Maud Irving, best known as performed by Mother Maybelle Carter. [Epigraph from La Belle Fleur Sauvage] The fifth Strange Trails story is one of George Ranger Jonhson's most plain-cut romance novels. As he mentioned after the publication of Lullaby, he’d been wanting to write more “of tender things.”The story this time around comes to the patrons of George's Place from Remy Fusil, the Cajun Cowboy - a character who appears fairly little in the whole rest of GRJ's oeuvre, unless you believe certain theories of second identities (you'd be hard-pressed to find a character who doesn't have those!)

In retrospect, despite his seat in the hallowed pantheon of Strange Trails narrators, alongside such heavy-hitters as Frankie Lou and Buck Vernon, Fusil was a means to an end - that end being the introduction of Lee Green, who would play a major role in the whole rest of Johnson's works, develop from the sweet young flower of the Michigan woods she's portrayed as here, to, in the end of ends, that half-real eye-of-the-hurricane phantom haunting moonlit Mt. Monroe.

But we're getting two series ahead of ourselves. For now, in this book, GRJ deftly weaves together Remy and Lee's hesitant and, perhaps, a touch unreliably narrated romance, with the timeless legend of an unobtainable alpine flower - a legend that Remy swears is Cajun, but in other books we're told it might be Basque, or American folk. In other words, it's a story that comes from everywhere, and everyone. Maybe that's why this old tale's themes of obsessive pursuit ring through almost every page that GRJ ever set his pen to. Behind the kisses in the moonlight, there are always mountains unclimbable, withering flowers picked for ephemeral beauty once held, fools for love lying in the drifting snow, in the wind, lost in time and space, who'd give it all to pluck that fleur.

Oh yes, and we end with another cliffhanger. As Remy leans back in George's Place, having finished his tale of romance, he lights up a cigarette and a Bob Dylan tune comes on the jukebox. No one, he says, could ever challenge that his love was the purest. And then, to a galloping 4/4 beat, he hears footsteps approaching.

Keep following this blog for more insight into Johnson's work through the years.

May you live until you die!

[elucienweekofficial]

AO3 Collection・Instagram・Twitter・Masterlist

📝Fics:

I Was Enchanted To Meet You by @c-e-d-dreamer

Lead Me Into the Light by @velidewrites

A Blaze in the Dark by @the-lonelybarricade

Love on Water Lillies by @vulpes-fennec

You Come Back, I'll Be Right Here by @tuzna-pesma-snova

Nature's Remedies by @starfall-spirit

Ars Amatoria by @fieldofdaisiies

Northern Lights In Our Skies by @kingofsummer93

Cinnamon and Honey by @velidewrites

This Fire Won't Burn Me by @separatist-apologist

Love on Water Lillies by @vulpes-fennec

and all those dreams singing by @writtenonreceipts

To the Ends of the Earth by @strawbrerian-writes

In Your Glow by @wilde-knight

La Belle Fleur Sauvage by @thegloweringcastle

The Honeymooners by @iambutmortal

Love and Light by @readingwritingwatching

This Must Be the Place by @areyoudreaminof

Spring Breaks Loose by @sunbrightheart

Prythian's Best Dressed Couple by @dimalry

🎨Art:

Nature by @stickyelectrons

"I can hear your heart..." art by @brielyasmin

Elucien in a flower field - comissioned by @separatist-apologist and @the-lonelybarricade from artist @krem-does-stuff

Elain and Lucien in nature - comissioned by @foreverinelysian from artist @zolyna_

Misty autumn morning by @laxibbeb

Elucien in nature - commissioned by @sanktadu and artist nysteller

Elucien art by @yanyk_art

Magic by @mei_lfong

Elucien dog parents - comissioned by @amandapearls from artist @gonzais_

Elucien pregnancy by @hmmr.art

Elucien dancing - comissioned by @separatist-apologist from artist @gracie-rosee 

Elucien nature art by @corcracrow

Elucien with a fox and fawn by @devilsnightz

𝒩𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 - comissioned by @acourtdelaluna from artist @indrakiin

Elucien kissing by @lib-arts

Elucien having a ciggie by @andrigyn

Elucien dancing by @hmmr.art

🎶Misc:

In Fading Hush of Eden Lost mooboard by @bloomingdarkgarden

Nature moodboard by @velidewrites

Elucien nature headcanon by @harperbrynne

CALANMAI moodboard by @lowlifeprincess23

Elucien scents and Elucien quotes by @acourtofthought

Elain & Lucien's fursonas embracing by @princessyuwa

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[roukabi]

Hee hee! hee hee ho! My grubby furry hands will contaminate everything you love!

(Designs are free to use with credit, if anyone’s interested!)

Exhaustive design notes/trivia/extras are under the cut!

[Image IDs: a series of animal designs for Vide Noir’s characters. Buck Vernon is a sand-colored whitetail deer (how creative) with dented antlers, a brown-and-white striped bandanna, and a guitar slung around his back. Lee Green is a peach-and-cream fox with a white lily above her ear. Frankie Lou is a clouded leopard with a wavy black ‘mane’ of sorts. Jasper and Hontanx are mutts; Jasper is slender and mostly grey with brown dorsal coloring while Hontanx is more boxer-like with short, white fur and grey patches. Johnnie is a german shepherd mix, with half of his face scarred by black-braining, and sports a red bandanna on his leg and a leather World Enders jacket. Moonbeam is a black lop-eared rabbit with lavender undertones, also wearing the World Enders jacket. Alex is a doberman with slicked-back hair, also (also) with a World Enders jacket and much smaller black scar on his cheek. Toby is a very scruffy rufous treepie (don’t ask), mostly tan with a black head and wings with white accents. Finally, Z’Oiseau is a melanistic Bengal tiger, where his stripes are large and take up the majority of his fur. The final image is a lineup of all characters, with heights considered. Each design is still sketchy, and construction lines can be seen. The artist’s signature overlaps each image. End IDs.]

Well, well, well. It appears I’m at the stage of obsession where I make furry designs for the characters. Because I’m always paranoid that I need to explain myself for everything I do, here’s the comprehensive guide to each design. If I’ve done a good enough job, you can tell who’s who pretty easily. 

Buck: Hmm, now how did he end up as a deer, I wonder...? 

Silliness aside, Buck’s antlers actually play a pretty big role in representing his psyche/self-esteem, as they break off in certain scenes until the end, where they become shattered stumps. Jasper breaks + steals one antler when Buck gets black-brained, which I’m sure can be used as a metaphor for something.

He’s also got big ol’ floppy ears. When I make animal designs, I try to mimic the form of someone’s hair via the ears or cheek fur, though, as you’ll soon see with Frankie, that’s not a hard-and-fast rule. You’ll also notice that he wears a bandanna, even though he doesn’t in the film. This is because I felt his design lacked color. And bandannas are cool. And my brain is addled with Hadestown parallels. 

“But Rook!” I hear you say, “If Buck’s a deer, how can he play guitar? And how is he supposed to hold a gun?” Well, the answer to the first question is that he plays with his teeth. Obviously. And the obvious conclusion to the second question is that he doesn’t need artillery when he has a crown of stabby stabby bone.

Lee: Lee is a fox - outwardly desireable and a character of multiple folktales. There’s not much to say about her design otherwise, except for the addition of a lily - referencing ‘Fool For Love’ with “I’m asking Lily to be my bride” as well as ‘La Belle Fleur Sauvage’. Oh yeah, and she’s way too big compared to the other characters in the height chart lmao pretend she’s the average fox size 

Lee fascinates me, and I think I’m the only one who thinks that way lol. It’s revealed at the end that she had Way more agency over her situation than everyone realized. Did she know about Z’Oiseau’s kill count before getting with him? Does she know now? AFWP says that she overcame the Vide Noir addiction, how did that go? Did severing herself from the drug sever connections to Z’Oiseau’s empire? What does she actually think of him? What are her songs like? Is she okay? Does she regret anything? Is she the same Lee who’s known as Lee Avery in the World Ender MV? AAAAAAAAAAAA

Frankie Lou: Picking the animal was easy, designing her was not. Clouded leopards are native to Cambodia, and I wanted Frankie and Z’Oiseau’s designs to complement each other in some way (I’d made Z’Oiseau’s design before I made Frankie’s). So there’s a spotty kitty and a stripey kitty. Clouded leopards are also insanely elusive, which adds to Frankie’s mysterious ghost facade in the film. 

I normally don’t like adding ‘human’ hair to animals, but when I initially made Frankie without her hair, it really felt like something was missing. I like the way it looks now, and her plumed tail ties it together. The spots are not end-all-be-all, and can be simplified for animation.

Jasper and Hontanx: What better to chase after our Arthurian White Stag (Buck) and Teumessian Fox (Lee) than a pair of hunting dogs? Jasper and Hontanx needed to complement each other in the classic “Big Guy, Little Guy” trope, with the ‘little guy’ (Jasper) being tall, slender, and shrewd, while the “big guy” (Hontanx) is muscular and rarely speaks. Their names even follow the Kiki-Bouba effect. 

I thought about making Hontanx fluffier, but the boxer look fits well, too. There’s some patches of longer fur around his neck and shoulders.

Johnnie: Everyone’s favorite little hurricane! Johnnie gives me exciteable puppydog vibes, so I made him a German Shepherd mix (mix, being “something fluffy”). His cheek fur is missing on his black-brained side, and his eye is a little messed up, but here’s what he looks like when he’s a-okay:

Moonbeam: Rabbits are associated with the moon in multiple mythologies, so it’d make sense to make Moonbeam one. I haven’t drawn her in her fortune teller gear, but I think she’s happier to don the World Enders jacket instead. She’s also got some purple undertones for flavor, and they make her stand out as the only design with a cool color pallete. She’s just got that transfemme swag, I suppose.

Alex: For a character who only appears for 2 seconds, Alex seems to have made a permanent impression on Vide Noir fans, including myself. Strong, tall, and effortlessly cool, I wanted him to look like a model World Ender. This mayyyy have resulted in him looking nothing like his younger brother, but maybe one takes more after their father, and the other, their mother. Idk. I have this whole backstory thing with Cobb where the Redmaynes have this godawful father that Cobb helps them... get rid of. Because Cobb is the better dad.

Alex is the last of this bunch to be a canine, which I’m sure you’re all glad to hear. I don’t know why there are so many dogs. They just have that rugged look to them that suits the World Ender/Bounty Hunter style. Well, these ones do, anyway. Not Lee.

Toby: Toby was by far the most aggravating to design, and it’s pretty apparent in the final result. I mean, have you heard of a rufous treepie? 

I had no idea what I wanted Toby to be, but I wasn’t about to draw another canine. As Z’Oiseau’s nephew, he’d be associated with birds by default, so I started thinking about the kind of bird Toby could fit - it’d have to be territorial, annoying, and/or aggressive.

 Like... blue jays?

 While blue is not a color I’d associate with Toby, for whatever reason, I was getting somewhere. Blue jays are a part of the family Corvidae. Corvidae has birds that are black. Blackbird = Z’Oiseau! See? There’s a connection! 

I scrolled down through Wikipedia’s corvid list until I came across the Rufous Treepie, a bird not only described as ‘opportunistic’, but ironically has a symbiotic relationship with local deer populations... It’s also large enough to get stabbed by an antler from a certain less-willing-to-cooperate deer. 

So that’s what I went with. Toby’s meant to look more like a fledgling, given the scruffiness. I took some creative liberties with facial markings, but like. Who cares. 

“But Rook,” you say, “If Toby’s a bird, and Z’Oiseau isn’t, how are they related?” Well, the obvious conclusion to come to here is that you should stop asking questions.

Z’Oiseau: It’s Zazo time! With a name like 'bird’, you’d expect him to be a bird. But I figured that making him a big cat would play very well into the irony of his name and would present him as a real threat. After all, you didn’t find Tobey very scary, did you? And who names a bird “bird”? 

Because Z’Oiseau’s original name, Zozo, is Euskara, a language spoken in the Pyrenees, that was my first place to look for animals. Nothing jumped out to me, though, so I moved on to looking up big cat species and hoping for the best. Then an idea came to me - what about a tiger, but with reversed stripes? It’d fit the reasoning behind the “blackbird” name, and he’d be the most powerful big cat out there. To my surprise, melanistic tigers do exist, and they’re really cool. I picked the Bengal tiger of India for Z’Oiseau, as most of the ‘black tigers’ have been spotted there. 

Z’Oiseau’s stripes can be simplified for animation or what-have-you. Or you can draw every individual stripe as presented in the photo, I’m not gonna stop you.

Well, that’s that! Might make Tubbs Tarbell and Cobb Avery later. For now, as a reward for making it this far, here’s some silly scribbles + shitposting:

[sergeifyodorov]

I just reread strange trails and I'd love to know your inspirations for it! Your ideas behind the worldbuilding, the genesis of the plot, all that good stuff if you'd like to share!

the backstory

im a college student and was unemployed all summer. in order to pass the time while waiting for local jobs to reject me i started a crochet project. throughout pretty much the entire month of june. and possibly also may. i would make my squares and listen to the strange trails album. straight through. every day. i may have gone a little bit insane.

but it's okay. i'm already insane.

lord huron (the band who made the album) has like. lore. am i familiar with this lore? no i am not. am i aware nonetheless that there is lore? yes absolutely. if you listen to their discography there's definitely lore -- recurring themes (resurrection, adventuring, magical seductive women, etc), motifs (depends on the album but strange trails is big on flowers, trees, snow, although there is one song that's set in the desert), characters (they keep mentioning a guy called the world ender.) anyHway the point of all of this is that the music is [solid 7.5 out of 10 but it scratches my exact brain itches] and very evocative of the imagery and idea of a deeper world. my favourite off the album (and one of my favourites in the discography) is la belle fleur sauvage, which tells the listener about a long perilous quest for some mythical thing (a flower. also a woman. metaphor), although one of the ones whose imagery i enjoyed the most is frozen pines, which is a little less concrete but invokes images of cold, the side of a mountain, strange happenings, etc.

the idea

those songs are definitely the most direct inspiration for it but unfortunately my process for developing ideas is kind of terrible because it involves less "sitting down and coming up with stuff" and more "wait for a 60% formed idea to smack you upside the head like rapunzel in tangled and her cast-iron frying pan." which quinn and his sad little corpse did.

if you go back far enough in the quinnfic tag on my blog u can see the post right after it Happened. the idea was literally "quinn hughes carries a corpse up a mountain, and horror."

so i take this little piece of grit from which my pearl of questionable moral integrity will be built and i ask it questions. first off: quinn, why are you on that mountain? who is the corpse? is anyone else with you? soon enough petey decided to join him (although quinn is and was always the protagonist/pov character). the body was The Ghost Of Vancouver before it was brock over top of that.

another inspiration, which i realize i'm leaving out, is this

this is artist grayson perry's work "hold your beliefs lightly" from tomb of the unknown craftsman, and this image of a long perilous upward journey towards some sacred place really combined together with la belle fleur sauvage to form the base idea of the world for the work.

and of course why would you carry a corpse up a mountain to some sacred place if you couldn't resurrect it at the end?

quinn

im big on metaphor. if i'm writing something long it has to have a Point to it, some larger theme than romance and stuff (this is mostly because i'm bad at writing romance)(and also big on curses and the like.) and also because quinn hughes asexual barb i never fucked/i never fucked/all my life man, fucks sake. this was also being written right before the peak of Canucks Captaincy Debate, and in our hearts didn't we all know quinn was going to be the one to wear the c?

so it became pretty clear pretty quick that as well as my attempt at writing horror that this was going to be a quinn character study -- and this is where i should talk about my other fic scheherazade.

in scheherazade, auston actually doesn't make a lot of choices -- he tags along, arguing with the narrator/bill, and only starts to take an active role in the way the story is going near the end, when he finally gets sick of it all. quinn, however, is not at all the same kind of person as auston. he's less artistic and more practical; an older brother instead of a younger one; jewish; not nearly so squeamish. he takes an active role in the story from the very beginning, showing up to the base of the mountain with his pack full, both prepared and not for what lies ahead.

the mountain

vancouver is smack in the middle of the north shore mountains, so there's a million hiking trails about, but the one i can most easily think of (as someone who hasn't been to vancouver in several years) is the grouse grind trail, a popular and fairly short trail that the canucks prospects actually do every year, so i knew quinn and petey (both vancouver draftees) would be familiar. i've never actually done the grouse grind, which was part of the reason i decided to kind of. toy with reality. you can't call me out on inaccuracy when it's Not Real On Purpose (although the sign at the 1/4 mark is copied directly from photos i've seen.)

petey and the plot

once i added petey, i knew i'd have to get rid of him -- a lot of the scene ideas were quinn-only, and petey's way too sarcastic and useless (AFFECTIONATE) to engage seriously with the ideas presented to him like quinn would and did. so i needed to divide them up.

the original plot idea from the outline is actually pretty similar up until the end of chapter 6 (the conversation w the ghost), but it differs in a few crucial ways -- one, quinn breaks down again, crying and everything, and two, he actually does go through with the resurrection instead of using his wish to get petey down the mountain safely. i realized around then that this wouldn't work with the quinn i'd created, especially after his argument with the ghost: he's far less focused on glory than stability, less interested in the cup or his contract and more interested in the safe long bet than high rolling. in a cold, wet environment like the mountain it's a lot easier to get hypothermia without noticing than it is in a dry environment, even if the dry environment is several degrees colder than the wet one. and quinn would know that, having seen petey's thin little sweater and knowing his stubborn ass is going to freeze.

so after that it became about hypothermia. i actually had a bit of a writing pause after this because i knew i was going off-outline, so i had to kind of inch ahead until i knew where i was going. but i'm happy with how it turned out!

[p1nkcanoe]

la belle fleur sauvage

[ rain x cumulus fluff ]

summary: cumulus presents a gift to rain and reminds him of just how beautiful he is.

warnings: suggestive at end, waist beads, body worship

word count: 693

INSPIRED BY THIS TWITTER POST

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“You look beautiful. Do you like them?” 

Rain nods. There’s a lack of words that gather on his tongue. He watches through his own reflection as Cumulus ties the last knot between a string of glass beads wrapped loosely around his waist. They glimmer as they roll and shift over the flat of his abdomen, finding their resting place along the tops of his hips. There's a warmth blooming in his tummy that tingles and flutters when Cumulus reaches around and adjusts the beads, her fingertips brushing over cool skin in fleeting touches, and he likes it. It’s a feeling he only feels with her. It’s the color of yellow daffodils and feels like a perfect spring morning. He thinks that if he were to open his mouth it would taste like raw honey. He catches on violet eyes fleetingly through the mirror before he finds his own. She whispers praises into the air that only he can hear and worships his skin with teeth and tongue. He’s pink to his ears with blush.

His shoulders are up high by his ears, his arms bent at the elbow and hovering near the top of his chest so as to not interfere with her work or disrupt her focus. In truth, he isn't quite sure what to do with himself. She’s gentle, worships his body like it’s art, and he stands there, a muse. She forms tight circles around him, making minor adjustments to the beads and making sure they sit perfectly in their lowest point just under his belly button. It tickles and he’s instantaneously covered head to toe in gooseflesh. 

“I knew they’d look gorgeous on you,” she compliments and rounds her way to his back to test the knot one last time. Her delicate fingers on the small of his back send a shiver up his spine and Cumulus giggles, followed by a mumbled apology and a press of her lips to the center of his back. Rain’s eyes flutter closed. “Couldn’t get the image out of my head until I finished them.” Small hands surround him on either side of his waist, just above where the ghoulette positioned her beads, and his tummy explodes in a flurry of warmth and golden admiration when she presses her palms to the center of his chest and anchors their bodies together. Her chest, his back. He lets her hold him with the embrace of a lover, bonded throughout their second opportunity at life. Slowly, and with a little coaxing, Rain drops his shoulders back into place and holds onto her hands like she’ll slip away and the feeling will dissipate. 

The ghoulette shifts against his back and lays her head against the side of his bicep. Her skin is soft, flawless. Her snow white hair falls over her right side and she sighs, puffing it out of her face. 

“My pretty Rainbow. Look at yourself– look how beautiful you are.” 

Rain opens his eyes but just barely enough to watch the way that Cumulus worships his skin and body, slowly, with her palms. He follows her lead, his hands glued to the back of hers by his fingers. They explore his stomach, the ridges of his ribs, the flare of his gills, and each fold, stretch, and press of his skin causes the string of blue glass beads around his waist to shine and shift under warm lamp light. Over and over and over again he gets caught in violet eyes. It turns him pink. 

His breath catches in his throat when she drops her hand and traces over the string, a million shades of blue, from hip to hip and lets her fingernails catch between the beads. It’s quiet for a long while as Rain loses himself to the flutter in his tummy. Cumulus looks at him like he’s the most gorgeous thing she’s ever seen. It makes him weak. 

“Rainbow, will you allow me to show you exactly how beautiful you are?” 

Rain nods. His heart is in his throat. His eyes flutter closed again when the ghoulette places her lips against his skin and drops down gracefully to her knees. 

[slipper007]

Rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people.

Thanks for the tag @undeadcas 😊

La Belle Fleur Sauvage - Lord Huron

The End? - David Arnold, from Good Omens s2

Distorted Light Beam - Bastille

Breakeven - The Script

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen

Dead Man's Hand - Lord Huron

Level 1 (3 Dimensions) - Victor Butzelaar, from The Past Within

The Pink Room - Angelo Badalamenti, from Twin Peaks FWWM

Without Me - Halsey

Eat Your Young - Hozier

Tagging: @blue-eyed-cutiepatootie @wormstacheangel @thisisapaige @angelcasendgame @hauntedpearl @snailmailing @icefire149

[heartshapedcas]

Was tagged by @castielsupernatural @emeraldcas and @pinkinthenightdean to do this! (Thanks pals mwah💖)

rules: answer some questions and tag 20 people you are contractually obligated to get to know better

name: Maddy!

star sign: sigh. Leo

height: 5'4

time: 11:15pm

birthday: August 6th (this question just made me realize how close I am to being 28! yikes!)

favourite bands/artists: lord huron, first aid kit, hozier, Allison ponthier, Phoebe bridgers, etc etc

last movie: watched the second venom movie with my cousin for her bday

last show: um. The originals, once again my cousin picks all my media for me, sorry for watching bad TV I run a supernatural blog

when did i create this blog: I made this sideblog in like, march or april of last year I think?

what i post: Supernatural! Things that remind me of supernatural! Nature! Music! Roadtrip things!

last thing i googled: big eden, to see if I could find a place to watch it online!

other blogs: my main is @sendmetothemountains

do i get asks: once in a while yeah and I love it<3

following: 746 (tons are inactive though I've had my main since like 2015)

average hours of sleep: usually 6 to 7 hrs

instruments: OOOOHHH OK I only really play my acoustic guitar <3 but I have a problem where I buy(or am gifted) instruments with the intention of learning to play them and never do, SO I also have a violin, banjo, 12 string guitar, mandolin, harmonica, djembe, an electric guitar, and the piano my family still has which I sort of remember how to play from when I took lessons as a kid! I love instruments

what I'm wearing: black shorts and a tie dye shirt that says keep choosing love

dream job: *nervous laughter* god I wish I knew the answer to this question

dream trip: roadtrip with the mutuals ok but also I've always wanted to go to Ireland and I've always wanted to go to Iceland! I also think it would be cool to do a cross Canada roadtrip, but I also want to do a roadtrip all the way down the coast, but also a roadtrip up to Alaska, honestly, idk, literally anything, any trip, every trip

nationality: canadian

favourite songs: a few all time faves: just like heaven by the cure, landslide (the chicks version), from eden by hozier, emmylou by first aid kit

and a few more current faves: long lost, ends of the earth, la belle fleur sauvage, love like ghosts, the birds are singing at night ALL by lord huron, angel by first aid kit, the man himself and forbearance by gang of youths, halls of sarah and this tornado loves you by neko case, ceilings by lizzy mcalpine, julia by hollie col, lafayette, hexie mountains, kalahari down by orville peck, bees by the ballroom thieves, make it holy by the staves, good legs by jensen mcrae. Ok. Forcing myself to stop, sorry

last book I've read: I haven't finished it yet but I'm reading Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong!

top 3 fictional universes I'd like to live in: stealing Sophie's answer of the fictional cell universe she invented and also her tags answer of halloweentown. Also stealing Sammy and Mel's answer of lotr universe, we have no original thoughts here sorry<3

I'm assuming everyone has either done this already/doesn't want to, because I was tagged while I was away! But I'm gonna tag some pals anyway<3 if u guys want to and haven't yet! @theghostontheshoremp3 @tornadocountrymp3 @meatmensch @monstermoviedean @jasminecas @cuntcas @heartcastiel @queerstudiesnatural @tiarnanabhfainni @cashairytits @blushmp3 @novaklesbian 💓💓💓

[aturnoftheearth]

Anon here! Cheer me up, if you don’t mind :D Thank you! <3

OMG okay hiiii so!

general upbeat feel-good songs: time to run, she lit a fire, the man who lives forever, the stranger, until the night turns, hurricane (johnnie’s theme), la belle fleur sauvage, fool for love, cursed, louisa, back from the edge, moonbeam, mine forever, and not dead yet

songs that will make you feel like you’re taking deep breaths of fresh air and sighing contentedly and looking up at beautiful trees and the bluest sky: ends of the earth, lonesome dreams, i will be back one day, the birds are singing at night, meet me in the woods, long lost,

[melit0n]

Mel I just listened to Love Like Ghosts and I would like to crumble in on myself like a dying star. How dare you do this to me. /pos

(making my way through the rest of the album but gods damn did it start out for blood)

Sorry it took me a minute to get to this Flood!

And yeah, almost all of the songs have me like that; some of them definitely take on more happy tunes but still somehow end with my sniffling and trying to suck tears back into my eyes.

Even so, Love Like Ghosts is one of my favourites!! Along with The Yawning Grave, Way Out There and La Belle Fleur Sauvage!! All of them are so good tbh.

Lord Huron is like, a between of The Oh Hellos and Hozuer to me (hence why I've been trying to get more into Hozier), so they've easily ended up becoming one of my favourite bands!

It's also pretty fun to watch someone who doesn't know them learn 'The Night We Met' was made in 2015 (doesn't feel that long ago whatsoever :']) instead of 1950 lol

[lilstjarna]

Nice

Nice est aujourd'hui la capitale des Alpes-Maritimes sur la Côte d'Azur mais elle fut pendant longtemps une ville italienne. Située au bord de la méditerranée, dans la baie des Anges, elle rend hommage à son passé avec ses façades aux couleurs chaudes.

La cité est bordée par des plages de galets où il fait bon farniente l'été mais propose aussi une importante offre culturelle avec ses nombreux musées ainsi que de jolies promenades verdoyantes, au cœur du centre-ville et dans les collines sauvages environnantes.

Comment venir ?

Nice se situe :

en avion : 1h de Paris, 1h de Toulouse

en train : 25min de Monaco, 30min d'Antibes, 40min de Cannes, 40min de Menton, 1h10 de Grasse, 1h30 Saint-Raphaël

en voiture : 30min de Monaco, 40min d'Antibes, 40min de Menton, 45min de Grasse, 50min de Cannes, 1h10 Saint-Raphaël, 1h50 de Saint-Tropez

en bus : 20min d'Antibes, 30min de Cannes

Les villes du bord de mer en région PACA étant particulièrement bien desservi par le réseau ferroviaire je vous conseille fortement de profiter d'être à Nice pour visiter d'autres cités balnéaires méditerranéennes.

Quand et combien de temps ?

Pour un grand week-end de découverte de la ville ou pour une petite semaine de vacances de repos, Nice s'adaptera à vos envies. En été comme en hiver l'ancienne cité italienne et celles à proximité vous offriront du soleil, de jolies couleurs et de quoi vous occuper.

Attention toutefois aux périodes de vacances scolaires, notamment celles d'été, et de jours fériés où la ville risque d'être prise d'assaut par les touristes.

Quoi voir à Nice ?

Des lieux et bâtiments historiques : Vieux Nice, marché aux fleurs du cours Saleya, Palais de la Préfecture, place Saint-François, place Rossetti, tour Saint-François, place Masséna, quartier Belle Époque, palais Lascaris, place Garibaldi, Villas Castor et Pollux, boulevard Franck Pilatte, tour Saint-François, ruines romaines (les arènes et les thermes), port Lympia

Des promenades et espaces verts : Promenade des Anglais, Promenade du Paillon, Château de Valrose et son parc, Colline de Cimiez, mont Boron et le mont Alban, promenade du phare, sentier littoral, cascade de Gairaut, colline du château de Nice, parc Vigier, jardin Albert Ier, jardin de la villa Masséna, jardin du monastère

Du patrimoine religieux : chapelle de la miséricorde, cathédrale Sainte-Réparate, église Sainte-Jean-d’Arc, cathédrale orthodoxe russe, cimetière du château, église Sainte-Rita, église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur, cathédrale Sainte-Répérate, église du Gesu, monastère des Franciscains, église Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice

Des musées : musée Chagall, musée d’arts asiatiques, musée masséna, musée Terra Amata, musée de la photographie Charles Nègre, musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, musée International d’Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky, (musée des instruments de musique de Nice), musée Matisse, musée archéologique

Quoi voir dans les environs de Nice ?

Des villes et villages : St Jean Cap Ferrat, la Corse, Menton, Monaco, Saint Agnès, Eze, Antibes, Grasse, Îles de Lérins, Saint-Tropez, Juan-Les-Pins, Mougins, Saint Paul de Vence, Biot, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Vence, Rimplas, Clans, Utelle, La Tour-sur-Tinée, Ilonse, Marie, Tournefort, Saint-Sauveur-Sur-Tinée et Bairols

Des espaces naturels : bords de la baie des anges, l'Estérel, vallée de la Vésubie, vallée de la Tinée, Camps des Fourches, Col de Pouriac, Auron, Lacs de Vens, Isola, Arboretum de Roure, canyon du Vallon du Moulin , la Colmiane

Des lieux uniques : Villa Rothschild, villa Kérylos

crédits photos @lilstjarna

[tide-n-seek]

One Helluva Performer 🎸🥀⚰️

Lord Huron at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Fall Tour 2021 🤠

[thebigcomed0wn]

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