#new angel*

[highladyofterrasen7]

I can see a theme

[meanslackofart]

me liking distraction more than my real life is at times dangerous because when the distraction is gone, I'm more lost than ever

[makeupinthedrawer]

what would you say new angel is about? like i need this spelled out for me. i’ve seen so many references of people mentioning drugs as the “darker meaning” but i don’t really know

so i could have SWORN i did an in depth analysis on new angel but i can’t find it in my archive or in any of my friends/mutuals archives (so maybe we just talked about it in a group chat and i forgot oops!) but i touched on it a little when Heaven first came out!

this is obviously just my opinion and interpretation, so the only person who knows the facts is niall horan! but, this is why most people believe there is a darker meaning behind such an upbeat song:

in the spotify notes niall says new angel is “about something in particular- that i won’t mention” which is the first indication it has to do with substances. also the lyrics “to save me from myself” contributes to that as well because even though the song is upbeat, the lyrics are quite dark and about being lonely and needing to be saved from himself… so i don’t want to fully say self harm because the implications of that are very personal and heavy, but he clearly wasn’t taking care of himself. this is also highlighted during the bridge “i’ll give you what’s left of me, cus you feel so heavenly” he’s quite literally telling us he’s deteriorating but the feeling in the moment is too good. which is immediately followed by “i don't know what's best for me” !!!!!!!!!!! like i fee like that line is self explanatory

also i feel it’s important to note that during press for heartbreak weather, he constantly brought up the fact that he loves to make sad songs sound like happy songs, so if he were to ever disguise a dark song with an upbeat production, it would be on the heartbreak weather album.

but everyone has a different interpretation of music and at the end of the day, niall wants his music to relate to the listener instead of his personal life so don’t take any of this as me stating a fact about his life.

[thefootnotes]

I NEED!!! A NEW!!!! ANGEL!!!!!!!

[shadowbrightshine]

My idea for an angel design I made last year during a Christmas party.

Body

Non traditional body, strings are used to tie all the limbs into a central chariot wheel, not all the strings need to be visible, limbs can cover other limbs. 

They are not bound to the wheel. The strings just connect it, so it’s like floating limbs held loosely together around the wheel. Like a puppet. 

Arms

First pair of arms. Scaly and clawed, like a lizard. They hold the wheel, can be located anywhere on the angel as long as they hold the chariot wheel at the center. 

Second pair of arms. Furry with paws like a lion. Hold onto the first set of arms and support them. 

Legs

Bird talons, mostly hidden by the wings. 

Wings 

One set of wings. Large, wide, semi translucent dragonfly wings with patterns like stained glass windows. 

Just one pair instead of four like normal dragonflies. (alternate) the other pair is spread out like a traditional angel.

Instead of being spread out, they are folded down, like a robe. 

Cover the legs. But semi translucent so the legs are kinda visible.

Shaped like this*, but folded over each other slightly like an upside down V or an X but most of the wing is in the bottom.  Refer to pic down below

The top part of the wings are held together by a double sided blade that stabs through them. Like pinning something together.

[ellaknowslucifer]

Only liam left with the angel tittled song now

[captainsaltypear]

IS ANYONE ELSE GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS OR

[thedays2010]

douglas stuart, young mungo

[yourangle-yuordevil]

That time in ancient Greece when Aziraphale needed a speedy horse and accidentally invented the pegasus

VS.

Whatever Crowley had going on in medieval times

[reasonsforhope]

As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

[makeupinthedrawer]

New angel storyline has made me kinda curious ngl

LMFAO apparently this was sent in january😭😭 i'm so sorry i never got this notification?

haha i think the song is kind of self explanatory but yeah i know he's an adult and everything but i just cannot picture him doing... that (IYKYK) but he's human! i couldn't be happier he's in a better place <3

[sher-ee]

Saving America from Authoritarianism is the main goal. President Biden is making sure that will happen by passing the torch. It’s time to run with that torch.

Donald Trump will not be returning to The White House.

We are not a cult we are a movement.

[highladyofterrasen7]

So I recently payed attention to the lyrics of new angel.

Um.

Yeah.

[merdie]

she fairly on my parents oddly till i new wish

[dragon-spaghetti]

Do you think sinners miss the night sky..?

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