#stewart lake

[ademella]

Windsor Trail

Sangre de Cristo Mountains

Pecos Wilderness

New Mexico 2023

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Nina Simone in Central Park, 1958.

Photo: Chuck Stewart via imgur

[quotidian-oblivion]

For the Merlin asks

8, 11, 13!

Heyoo!!!

8. One off character you wish had a bigger part.

11. Random Knights Headcanon.

13. Random Servant Headcanon.

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8:

Freya. She's not exactly one-off but I so so desperately wish she played a bigger part.

Because, c'mon. SHE'S THE DAMN LADY OF THE LAKE.

Magic beautiful water cat woman who guards the gates to death.

She deserves more than just being a mysterious hand who held and caught a sword. And Merlin deserved to have a secret water wife (i also love Freylin <33). Just think of the many possibilities and plots that could have happened. Just- just imagine. This is why i'm depressed.

11:

I told this to @tireddruid in conversation once and put it in one of my fics too, but I believe that after the Lamia incident, Gwaine woke up in the middle of the night after being recovered from what the Lamia did to him and then realized what he had done to Merlin. So he immediately went to Merlin's hut in the village they were staying in and just. starting crying. Silently and hard, beside Merlin's bed, full of remorse because damn it Gwaine's whole concept was that nobility came from the heart, not by blood. And what he did under the Lamia's spell wasn't noble at all.

Besides that, Merlin was his friend. The first person who took him to his home - gave up his own bed - to look after him while he was heavily drunk and barely capable of standing without support and didn't resent or rob him after that. Merlin was kind, caring, loyal and never - never - deserving of that kind of treatment or close to it. He was his first friend. He was why he became a knight. He was why Gwaine risked his neck to protect a noble and a royal. He was why Gwaine enteres the lands of hell. He was why Gwaine jumped into a battle against an undead army. Simply because Merlin asked. Simply because Merlin cared for him without cost when no one else did and wanted him to stay.

Who would want to lose a treasure of a friend like that?

Merlin then woke up 30 minutes later to find the crying mess of a knight and immediately knew that whatever doubts he had been having about the knights since the Lamia was untrue and Gwaine (and later the others too) would never willingly hold him in that regard. They fortunately didn't harm him too much, and it would take a while for Merlin to not flinch every time any of the knights made sudden movements towards him, but he would recover. And he would remember, just why he decided to befriend them.

13:

Agh. I thought about this one. And I don't particularly think much about characters beyond the main ones unless they relate to a plot of mine.

But one thing I assumed (but the show never confirmed) is that Merlin is quite popular among the servants.

I mean, does anyone remember Tyr Stewart? The guy evil!Gwen killed? He was outright threatened with death and his mother too, the poor man was traumatized and scared and anxious. Yet, he opened up to Merlin after some coaxing.

I don't think just anyone would open up to a random stranger, even in a higher power with the potential to end your life (cuz Merlin is tge manservant to the king), and trust them with information regarding yours and your loved one's lives. But he did with Merlin.

And this just proves to me that Merlin is in fact quite popular and friendly with the servants and patients and other commoners. The cook hates him, hey, but none of the other servants snitched on him when he snagged a pastry or dumpling or two. Especially not after Merlin sneaked them a piece ;)

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Thank you so much for the asksssssss! I had loads of fun thinking them up :D

[modernmanblues]

something about the countryside of england

[rabbitcruiser]

Clouds (No. 1120)

Bob Quinn Lake, BC

[hagfashion]

Martha Stewart made to look like Veronica Lake by Kevyn Aucoin for his book Face Forward (2000)

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[childoftheriver]

One of my faves

[reachingforthevoid]

Doctor Who: Battlefield

I rewatched this serial on 25 May 2023. I chose the original TV version on the blu-ray box set. The serial, Ben Aaronovitch's second for Dr Who, opens season 26 with quite a few bangs.

We begin in, of all places, a garden centre. The Brigadier (retired) is shopping with Doris, his wife. Meanwhile, the 1989 version of UNIT is worried about a storm brewing… it doesn’t take long before Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is back in uniform and back in action.

This four part serial includes an underlake sword, an atmosphere of doom and gloom in the TARDIS, an archaeological dig of a battlefield, comets, and knights of the round table from an alternative dimension. It’s set in an undisclosed near future England: a vodka and a lemonade total £5, and a king is on the British throne...

Brilliantly, the new Brigadier in charge of UNIT in the UK is a Black woman, Winifred Bambera. Ace makes instant friends with Shou Yuing, a young woman at the pub.

I adore the final scene where “the girls” (Doris, Ace, Bambera and Shou Yuing) drive off in Bessie for a night out on the tiles leaving the Brig, Ancelyn and the Doctor to mow the lawns and cook supper.

[kvothes]

10 and 11?

something that made you cry this year? i went and saw it’s a wonderful life in a big old lovely theater yesterday and i did indeed cry like a little bitch at the end

something you want to do again next year? put my entire body in lake michigan, good lord

[wyndsong]

To be a fly on the wallpaper. What is Greg saying? Greg must have been hot natured, his shirt was always open.

[ademella]

Stewart Lake

10,300ft

Pecos Wilderness

New Mexico

July 2023

[doublescribble]

Clint Capela and Isaiah Stewart

[bungitonthen]

15/10/22

time was - wishbone ash

a winter’s tale - jade warrior

the love in your eye / to catch me a brother / subsultus / debouchment / tilbury kecks - caravan

brainstorm - hawkwind

theme one - van der graaf generator

burlesque - family

o caroline - matching mole

wishing well - free

the boys in the band - gentle giant

desolation valley / waves - nektar

melinda more or less - curved air

hollow stone - khan

prologue - renaissance

blowin’ free - wishbone ash

bananas - man

hoedown - emerson lake & palmer

medicine man - barclay james harvest

marie antoinette - curved air

my friend the sun - family

do you believe in magic - nektar

seven by seven - hawkwind

and you and I - yes

(blowing free: underground & progressive sounds of 1972)

[dopescissorscashwagon]

By Mark Stewart 📸 : Mark's first shot from his most recent off trail backpacking adventure in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. What an amazing place and experience!

[rabbitcruiser]

Eddontenajon Lake, BC (No. 3)

This mountainous ecozone is between the Montane Cordillera Ecozone to the south-east and the Taiga Cordillera Ecozone to the north. The three zones contain the Canadian Rockies. To the east are the Taiga Plains, and to the west is Alaska, though the ecozone is also adjacent to narrow strips of the Pacific Maritime. It is characterized by tall peaks and extensive plateau. The northern plateau within the ecozone have a fairly gentle terrain, broken by numerous watercourses running through them, and are separated by wide valleys and their lowlands.

Just over 15% of the Boreal Cordillera, or roughly 73,320 km² consists of wetlands, of which 92% is treed wetland. It covers a total area of 471,400 km², with 241,240 km² of forest cover, of which 78.6% is softwood, 17.8% is mixedwood, and 3.6 is hardwood. The spruce beetle has been proliferating since the 1990s, and has destroyed vast areas of the spruce forest. The ecozone contains four forest regions - tundra, sub-alpine, coast, and boreal. There is also concern that the softwood harvest in southeastern Yukon does not have adequate natural regeneration.

Source: Wikipedia