#north thorne

[sirenpearldust]

[north-heats-stronghold]

Ranger's Training

Always gotta stay in top shape. And when it comes to the training sessions for the Ranger's crew, it usually involves with the other members sparring with North in a one on one. He is the captain for a reason people.

And afterwards, they all get ice cream as a treat. There's even a added challenge that if one of the crewmembers can beat North he pays for all the ice cream, otherwise they pay for there own.

(Zane is owned by @moonspiritleaf)

(Merrit is owned by @fishy0bishy)

(Zelda and Sparky are owned by @svetikfandomfrom0902)

(Thorn is owned by @infinite-hearts-333)

(Sunny and the art is owned and made by @novalizinpeace, always check her out for cool art)

(Space Rider's au made and owned by @onyxonline)

[infinite-hearts-333]

After so many sleepless nights and so much anxiety, Thorn turns to having a midnight drink. A certain dragon finds them.

“A little late to be out drinking, don’t you think?”

“Hm? Oh, yeah I guess. Couldn’t sleep.”

“I can tell. May I?”

“Yeah, sure.”

“I’m Ouřa Thorn, by the way.”

“North Heat. Leader of the Rangers. And you?”

“I’m the janitor. And the electrician right now.”

“Really? You look like you’d make a good space rider.”

“Ha-! Yeah- well, with my history, and my powers- I’m more of a ticking time bomb than a ‘good space rider’ but, thanks I guess.”

“History..? Problems with powers hmm? We have a few programs for that if you’d like me to help you get into one-?”

“No, no.. to risky. *sighs* What do you do when you know a part of you is a big danger?”

“I’m not scared of you,”

“Well you SHOULD be. You wouldn’t know, no one but a few do, and most of them are cultist that scream every time they see me…”

“Try me.”

“What?”

“Try me- I can take your power, I’m sure of it.”

“No, no you couldn’t, don’t be stupid.”

“I’m sure I can- try me Oura Thorn, I’m not scared of you.”

“YOU, HAVE NO IDEA WHAT DAMAGE IT CAN CAUSE- YOU-”

*aggressive huffing, tears welling up*

“Take a breath Thorn, it’s okay. You look like shit, man.”

“Haha… It comes with the territory of lack of sleep..”

“Well let’s start there, then. Come on, wheres your house.”

*mumbling* “The storage room….”

“….. Seriously??? Nope, alright, we’re going to my crews place then. Merrit made a some lavender tea last week, so you’re gonna crash on our couch for tonight.”

“Are you sure..? I don’t want to interfere..”

“You don’t have a choice here, if I’m honest.”

The next morning:

FINALLY ITS DONE

*disintegrates*

Wuff that took SO long, but I’m so proud of it damn. Good job me *pats back*

I just hope that it’s up to the beans expectations! Those who saw it seemed very excited and I’m berry grateful <3333333

North heat belongs to the awesome: @north-heats-stronghold

Zane in the last panel belongs to: @moonspiritleaf

And the au (space riders!) belongs to: @onyxonline

[celluloidrainbow]

PIER KIDS (2019) dir. Elegance Bratton The lives of Black, homeless queer and trans youth who call the Christopher Street Pier in NYC their home. Filmed over five years, taking place mainly in 2011, 2012, and three years later in 2016. The youth are interviewed over these years to show how time and experience changes, shinning a light on how queer people of color utilize spaces to create a chosen family, as well as highlighting the police presence in a community that relies on sex work for their main form of income. (link in title)

[ceiling-karasu]

Other Countries in the Squirrel and Hedgehog AUs, Part One, Plus OCs

Chaand Hadia (Moon Gift, Urdu)

For my AUs, I will have Flower Hill (North Korea) be very close to the country of Chaand Hadia (Moon Gift), located the left of the country. I'm ignoring the distance in between them for now, because this is fiction and I have decided it.

Location and Geography: Shares a border with Flower Hill. Plains, plateaus, mountains, rivers, fertile valleys, and ocean make for varied regions.

The Farmhouse Villa for Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket most likely takes place a few hours from the border between Flower Hill and Chaand Hadia.

Government: democratic parliamentary federal republic but local cultural rules specific regions.

Economy: The economy is largely based off of herbs, medicines, and dyes, with large exports of textiles. Essential medical compounds are grown in villages around the country or on mountaintops. Herbalists are seen as an essential job, and doctors that travel between small villages and neighboring countries are commonplace.

Flower Hill provides a lot of silk to Chaand Hadia, and receives essential medicines, dyes, and weapon components (in secret) that they may not have been able to grow or find themselves.

Demographics: hog deer, goats, sheep, boars, mongoose, Indian pangolin, striped hyenas, black and brown bears

Culture: Each province has it’s own rules and specific clothing styles based on the standard. Important families carry a detailed pocket compass to identify themselves, although the meanings can vary, and the presence of one can be a coded message.

Foreign Relations: Balanced and outwardly neutral, although getting more and more friendly with Flower Hill. Very friendly with Chambelli Koh.

Relation to Flower Hill: Alongside regular trade, secretly smuggles extra weapons and medicines into Flower Hill, possibly even up to weapons of mass destruction. After all, if Flower Hill falls the the Weasel Unit, their own coastlines will be next. Will not do anything overtly to support their neighbor, though, unless pushed.

Traditional Clothing Style (Not military attire): Shalwar kameez, hijab, Niqab. Clothing used to be more plain until they began acquiring large amounts of silk from Flower Hill.

OC Character: Soor-Hiran (May appear Briefly)

Rei-Does-Stuff mentioned the idea of a goat that could smuggle weapons and such into Flower Hill, and to Geumsaegi. I made a joke about the deer I had made in Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket, who does kind of do that. They responded with the concept of the Pakistani hog-deer, with absolutely no hesitation. Later, they discussed how Pakistan was such a close ally of North Korea, to the point that they smuggled nuclear weapons into the country. Well, that was also a background plot (not a spoiler), and the deer smuggling weapons and poisons may be a larger plot-line in the current AU. So, we got to talking.

As such, I would like to formally dedicate my Hog-Deer Smuggler, Soor-Hiran, to @Rei-Does-Stuff.

Gender: Ambiguous.

Country: Chaand Hadia (Moon gift, Urdu)

Alliance: Chaand Hadia

Attire: Hijab, loose trousers and shirts (Shalwar kameez), but province styles are blended together.

Skills: Herbs, medicine, espionage, deceit, eavesdropping, eidetic memory of mountain paths and plants, and schematics.

Weapon: Poison needles.

Day job: traveling herbalist, doctor. Is allowed to travel between Chaand Hadia and Flower Hill, and works with the commanders in Cherry Valley, as permitted by their own government. Alongside medicines, they bring materials for weapons, schematics, and messages pertaining to Weasel Unit movements and acquisitions. Their village is next to the border of Flower Hill, so it is easy to travel in between.

Works with: markhor goat group of apprentice herbalists and couriers. But they may be more than they seem to be...

Secret Job and backstory: While they will happily accept requests from Flower Hill, Soor-Hiran's group secretly works as a black market smuggler. Other weapons, foods, stolen items, jewels, and information are sold to those willing to pay the price. So far, the Weasel Unit has been unable to afford their cost, but how desperate will they get until they are willing to pay?

Likes: Silk, moths, flowers

Dislikes: being belittled for their culture

Personal Item: Beloved family antique pocket compass/sundial. This specific heirloom allows them free entry into Flower Hill.

OC Character: Pangulggot

Gender: Male

Country and Alliance: Chaand Hadia

Attire: loose trousers and shirts (Shalwar kameez)

Skills: medicine, ignoring things that don't apply to him.

Weapon: nothing other than his scales and claws. Is far too mild mannered to fight back if attacked for the most part. His scales prevent him from being harmed.

Day Job: traveling herbalist and medicine worker, bringing important medicinal components to Flower Hill

Works with: markhor goat group of apprentice herbalists, guards, and couriers

Likes: his job, Lily of the Valley flowers

Dislikes: People trying to eat Lily of the Valley Flowers. They are poisonous, but yet...

Backstory: They do very much love their name. However:

Pangulggot is aware that authorities act strangely when they say their name, and tries to hide it, since there is something going on that they probably should not know. Possibly a dangerous individual with the same name, or a military code word…?

Whatever it is, they sure notice that it gets them pulled into empty rooms while going through customs and checkpoints as ‘randomly selected,’ for extra questioning that sure sounds like they contain specific phrases for a specific person he is not.

[vvrong]

9AM

[grapefruit-personified]

Hello everyone, sorry I have been so quiet recently, it is the last two weeks of my semester and between work and school, I have been super busy. I do need to ask however if y'all would like to please assist me in my final paper for my Cultural Anthropology class. Below you will find a link to a Google survey, it is completely anonymous and most questions are optional. The survey is on fan experience between the NWSL and WSL as well as women's sports fan spaces versus men's. I would really appreciate it if some of y'all could fill it out to the best of your ability to help me collect some supporting data. Thank you all for taking the time and I hope to be back with my normal content soon.

Again thank you so much for taking the time to read this and possibly filling out the survey above.

[emotionalsupportsoccerball]

NWSL Playoff thoughts.

FUCK YES THE WAVE WON THE SHIELD I’m so happy for them they so deserve this, they Jaedyn Shaw and Naomi Girma of it all just sends me over the edge. Also Dalhkemper and Girma USWNT backline when?

Portland was always gonna be here idk what to say about that, and then the Courage I mean good for them for fighting for it.

OL MY BABIES CONGRATS. They had a real OG game with that Pinoe brace, here’s hoping she gets another one in playoffs!

LA is fine I guess idk I don’t very much like them.

GO BATS Y’ALL SCARED ME SO BAD BUT I’M GLAD YOU’RE HERE, I fully believe you can do this.

My condolences to the Spirit (and Andi and Trinity in particular) but god I hope that man gets fired. That’s all! Goodnight!

[incorrectnwsl]

This season is playing fast and loose with my feelings. That’s all I can say.

[saytrrose]

POST ART ANY ART I CRAVE ART RARARARA

Anything? Hmm

My dnd ocs ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[infinite-hearts-333]

La Familia

Took it upon myself as a challenge with this one >:D it was lots of fun both drawing, colouring and conversing in the creation of this photo! Many thanks to the many talented owners that let me draw their cuties (and put up with my pestering lol) defiantly am exhausted now that it’s done wuff.

Thorns family is one to be quite unique- but as they say, blood is thicker than water. In their eyes- they are proud to call the misfit crew of critters their family.

Credits!

@novalizinpeace

@north-heats-stronghold

@fishy0bishy

@moonspiritleaf

@starastarship

@darktapufifi

@williammorgan45

Au belongs to @onyxonline

[rangers-arecool]

They move through shadows and walk darkened paths of old to protect others. But who protects the Ranger should they need it? Those wandering Men of the North with clothes of green and grey, a past that lies in ancient ruins and hidden archives. Who do they turn to when that last thread of safety is torn away?

[invinciblerodent]

"I need to rein it in, I don't know the characters yet, so I won't write fic about them- it'd just end up being out of character anyway."

(proceeds to write like four pages)

"well, okay, that's.... fine, it's ambiguous enough, they barely speak. but i won't mention the kind of tattoos this character is supposed to have without seeing what options I have for them in the cc, just to keep things neat and canon-accurate."

(proceeds to spend like half an hour brainstorming ideas for exactly that)

[blushing-badger]

How Shrike got his name...

[noodle-fc]

Sophia girl, what are you doing? You had a yellow for delaying a restart earlier. Why would you test Chesky? She loves fucking shit up. Don't give her a reason.

[potatoesandsunshine]

the courier: she’s my ex but we’re cool

cass: well i would hope so because she raises deathclaws for pit fighting

the courier: yeah haha i used to get her the eggs for that

cass, who barely managed to avoid the unmarked deathclaw omelette quest: what.