#snow patterns

[miamaimania]

"Flying Over Afghanistan" by Ro Hutt - Aerial views reveal snow-dusted mountains, where rugged peaks meet the sky, and a lone helicopter traverses the vast expanse.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Winter Isn't Over Yet Part 1

Did you know that it's frickin cold?

Looks nice, though. :) All my photos, unedited.

[dfl-inc]

AI image generation

[filosofablogger]

Saturday Surprise -- Let It Snow!

Happy Saturday afternoon, friends!  Miss Goose (granddaughter Natasha) and I have an appointment to get the latest Covid vaccine at 3:00 this afternoon, and since I slept ’til almost noon, I don’t have much time to write an afternoon post, so I decided to share one of my Saturday Surprise posts from back in 2020!  This one seems apropos, since we are predicted to get a snowstorm tomorrow and into…

[swordmaid]

jon/dany art trade for @saessenach 🖤❤️

[elodieunderglass]

And one amang, an Iyrysch man,

Uppone his hoby swyftly ran…

WAIT HANG ON - slamming the brakes on drawing this stupid picture - do you nerds even KNOW the etymology of the word “hobby”? The thing you do for pleasure? The thing you have too many of? The thing you spend too much money on and share with your friends? The thing tumblr probably is to you? Those hobbies?

It comes from a now-kind-of-extinct breed of Irish pony-horse. It was called the Irish Hobby. Supposedly the hobby got its name from the Gaelic word obann, or swift. They definitely were. They’d obann your pants clean off.

Fast tough little bastards, built for rough terrain and renowned for their speed and stamina, hobby horses belonged to the Celts, and their highly annoying style of mounted warfare. but their conquerors liked hobby horses a lot, kept them, used them for themselves, and found them useful enough, despite the fact that they also had famously useful things like mounted knights or horse archers. A lightweight Irish warrior, mounted on a hobby horse, was called a hobelar.

Reportedly and in depictions, hobelars rode without stirrups. Or saddles. Or bridles. Or - well - this is all sounding very improbable, because the hobelars COULDNT have just been charging around basically bare-assed on naked ponies, screaming, and somehow in the process undoing the composure of actual mounted armoured knights. Knights who, I remind you, had stirrups. Stirrups are useful! It’s quite likely the hobelars had some gear. And clothes. and weapons. And the ponies probably had some tack - I am picturing a bellyband that you could at least hang a saddlebag on, and a neck rope for catching the bloody thing, even if not a saddle. But the overall impression, somehow created by people on darling little ponies, was apparently quite striking and fearful.

I mean. God Forbid People Have Hobbies.

Anyway after a while, whatever people became the British had eventually conquered all of the rough terrain that hobbies were best at, and horse archers just got sexier, and mounted knights became aristos, and all the bog and forest people had been subdued, so it was time to sunset the hobelars. but WAIT! Hobby horses are still tremendously fun and appealing! They’re so fast! and you can ride them without a saddle! Sure, they’re not up to the weight of a mounted knight, or indeed a lot of guys… but surely we can still find a use for a hobby or two? In the back garden? Somewhere?

At which point an English king decided to keep hobby horses just for fun. No military application. No further development of the technology. Not for fun. Just as expensive, pleasurable, pets. Just for the joy of the thing.

And that is how hobby (activity done purely for pleasure) comes from hobby horse (small horse) possibly from obann (swift.) they’re very interesting and you should look all this up for yourself! because it sure sounds like Elodie doing a bit, doesn’t it?

Today, Irish Hobbies are functionally nonexistent. References for drawing include the Kerry Bog Pony, the Connemara, and (I personally think) Dartmoors and Exmoors. They’re said to have lent their speed to the Irish Hunter/Sport Horse and from there to the Thoroughbred, but every damn horse in the world claims relation to the Thoroughbred, and they can’t be THAT thoroughly bred.

At any rate - you can never have enough hobbies. Just be glad that yours aren’t expensive beasts with minds of their own, eating their heads off in the pasture! …Unless they are. In which case, you’re part of a proud tradition.

[spongebob-connoisseur]

People like to characterize human Spongebob as some waifish barely 20 years old looking twink but honestly I think he'd be more like Pat from the UK version of Ghosts.

The shorts, the passion for what he does and his craft, the dorky glasses, the positive and all forgiving attitude, the knee high socks, the love of nature and the outdoors, the tie, the love for his friends and family, the shoes, the love of pranks, the OVERALL WHOLESOMENESS AND GOOD NATURE

[kafkasapartment]

Fire Escape in Snow (New York), 1946. Fred Stein. Gelatin silver print.

[zegalba]

[nemfrog]

Snow-flakes : a chapter from the book of nature. 1863.

Internet Archive

[monbons]

Happy Birthday Baz!

The perfect suit for the perfect birthday for the perfect man. Twenty-eight never looked so good.

@rainbowrowell

[copepods]

finished my refs for the siblings! plus an alt robeless pebbles

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Winter Storm Part 2

I will admit that taking pictures probably considerably lengthened my walk home. By the way, I did not write that. My maple leaf would have looked more like a maple leaf. No offence to the artist, though, who was likely a child. I thought it was cute.

All my photos, unedited.

[thecutestgrotto]

Animated Snowflakes

Since the second one may appear easier on a darker theme I made the last one identical but it’s more opaque/light theme friendly*

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Hi hello I don’t have little doodles for you this time but I wanted to say I love you very much (in the most platonic normal way) and I love your fics very much (in an even more normal way) and the ending of the last chapter is not going to help me sleep for the following week :D

So uhhhh zhongli’s ceremonial robes design? Just out of curiosity 👀not at all because I really want to draw him 👀👀

(Also do you have some kind of update schedule or is it motivation-based? Again out of curiosity im not like already going through withdrawals or anything)

Anyway genuinely loving jg thanks for the update 💜💜💜

ask and i shall deliver

as for the update schedule, it's technically not set but i do upload every like. 9 to 12 days. i'm pretty consistent w it too so i guess that's the schedule hahah

[elodieunderglass]

Don’t know if it’s against the rules to complete TWO egg projects. However I’m learning to become a silversmith and I’ve finished my first ring. It’s not perfect at all, but many hours of time and effort and a whole lot of learning are in it!

aaah is that labradorite? my favorite!

You can certainly pelt Killie with another egg, you've been such a good friend to him that you deserve to get him with an ostrich egg.

But in all seriousness that's a lovely ring, and you've been extremely busy this month, encouraging others, showing kindness and progressing your own creative works. Well done.