#tempest prognosticator

[occult-research-bibliography]

eBay?

Did you know that leeches were once used to predict storms? Well, a tornado warning just dropped and my squad is climbing

[space-stalagmite]

Tag yourself are you an absolutly stupid or positively prophetic westher leach

[scooplery]

me, 7am: hmm i wonder why my head hurts so bad even though i Just woke up

the radarrrrrrrr:

[margindoodles2407]

this joke will never not be funny to me

bonus

[artsy-hobbitses]

Is there a pet squad? It seems like every time I see something new about a character, it that they end up with a pet. So like the pet avengers or dc superpers version in ties that bind au a possible thing? Also who on both sides has a pet?

I DID NOT INTEND MOST OF THEM but animals just. Happen to some of these folks XDXD

Lesse...

AUTOBOTS:

Esmeralda the cat (Prowl and Jazz) - Jazz brought her back during one of his missions, Prowl basically became the dad who's like "I don't want pet" and a month later has her riding on his shoulders.

Dakshi the ovcharka (Kup) - Big dumb, big fun and big monstrous when you get him in the mood. Usually found roughousing with the Wreckers.

Molly the cattle dog (Ironhide) - Little dynamo of a dog, absolutely bouncing off the walls since she has no cattle to HERD NOW so she herds people instead.

Dunedan the Irish Setter (Mirage) - An old gentleman like his owner and Mirage's sightdog during hunts.

Avalon's Renaissance the horse (Mirage) - A riding horse who has seen better days and now enjoys leisurely canters with her master through the woods of Alpha Trion's estate.

Bigwig the rabbit (Bumblebee) - Is a gift to Bee from Optimus! Is also a right bastard to anyone not Bee, Bee's friends or OP.

An assortment of medical leeches (Ratchet) Many are named, mostly off famous vampires, and they live in a tempest prognosticator he had specially made for them.

A flock of pigeons (Optimus Prime) All are named and wear tags. OP doesn't have a favorite, and refers to them as his Mantiq Altair.

A murder of crows (Drift) They are not individually named, since Drift doesn't really consider them pets in a traditional sense, he simply feeds them and they see him as a human friend and bring him little gifts as such. However, he does refer to them affectionately as "The Crass Ones", because Sludge once asked him what these birds are called (he has some speech issues from the experimentation done on him and is working on remembering names of things around him) and while Drift told Sludge they were crows, he also told Sludge they were known as 'Karasu' in his language. Sludge misconstrued it as 'crass', became distressed and gently asked them to be kind to the nice man feeding them, and Drift found that so sweet/funny that the name stuck.

Tabiba the dove (First Aid) - A gift for First Aid from her uncle, Hotspot, when she graduated medical school.

Serpico the German Shepherd (Nightbeat) - Was the K9 Nightbeat worked most often with while he was a cop, and when he left to go underground/work from the shadows, he 'liberated' Serpico and Serpico chose to go with him rather than stay at the precinct. Is Nightbeat's scenthound and 'bodyguard' during stakeouts.

Lelaps and Boudicca the Maned-subtype Turbofoxes (Alpha Trion) - These were former sentry hounds of the Quintessons and were freed/reprogrammed by the Primes to help them instead.

DECEPTICONS

Old Fella the Pit Bull (Barricade) - Was rescued from an illegal fighting pit, and has long passed his best days. Was intended to be rehomed, but Barricade grew too attached to him, and with Megatron's blessings, decided to keep him instead.

Najmina the falcon (Skywarp) - Skywarp's pride and joy, and his scout during recon missions.

Buster the Jack Russell (Thundercracker) Your standard Jack Russell Terrorist so named because she would bust everyone's balls (her original name was 'Ballbuster') at Marissa Fairborne's base. With Marissa's encouragement, was adopted by Thundercracker who was feeling lost after leaving the Decepticons and needed an 'anchor'/something to care for while he figured out a new purpose in life.

Mollica the British Shorthair cat (Nickel) - One of those "there is a cat in my house, I do not own a cat" situations. This thing just sauntered into the DJD's quarters, almost slapped Tarn's mask off when he grabbed her and Nickel immediately fell in love and insisted on keeping her if only for her audacity. Her being around Tarn has not endeared him to her one bit

Graymalkin the Sphynx cat (Starscream) - Post war, adopted by Starscream as a companion.

[youare-number6]

Steampunk T.A.R.D.I.S Control Room

These TARDIS control rooms are loosely based on the 19th Century Tempest Prognosticator. Some of them have windows, why doesn't the TARDIS have windows? If it can be bigger on the inside then it should be able to have windows on the inside that aren't visible on the outside.

[arcanarubinaito]

Headcanon Post (1)

“Leech Barometer”

Okay so we all know about the Leech Barometer right? No? Okay well if you don’t, it’s a contraption that utilizes leeches to create a storm warning system. You heard me right: leeches.

The Leech Barometer—originally named the “Tempest Prognosticator”—used natural leech behavior as a warning system for incoming storms. When atmospheric pressure falls and the oxygen content in the water drops, the leeches instinctively try to move to the surface. It’s a neat little trick to predict bad weather, so George Merryweather (talk about names reflecting one’s job lmao) created a device that took advantage of that fun little fact. The Leech Barometer essentially consists of twelve bottles in a circle under a bell. Small hammers would strike the bell once the leech climbed high enough. I’ll link the Wikipedia article below, it goes into more detail about the mechanics.

The leeches used were presumably medicinal leeches since that’s what Merryweather refers to when talking about their sensitivity to weather conditions, and the device was more or less inspired by poetry. (“The leech, disturbed, is newly risen, / Quite to the summit of his prison.” Edward Jenner, Signs of Rain) It was fairly accurate but couldn’t actually tell you when the potential storm would hit. The more rings from the bell, however, the more likely it was for a storm to show up.

I have such a strong mental image of Julian kicking down Nadia’s door one evening, as a storm is brewing on the horizon, and aggressively pointing at a jar he’s holding. It takes Nadia a minute or so to realize what Julian is saying, but once she does he has her full attention. The leeches climb when a storm is approaching? What a fascinating concept.

The two of them immediately start discussing how they could create a storm warning system with the leeches. One could always look at the jar, but when you’re as prone to getting lost in one’s work or thoughts like Julian and Nadia are? They’d completely forget.

Julian is the one to suggest bells. The actual logistics on how to get the leeches to ring said bells, however, was Nadia’s idea. They spend an entire night working on a prototype, but by the time it’s finished the storm had passed and the leeches had settled. It isn’t until the next storm rolls along—they don’t have to wait long, it is a costal city after all—that they get the chance to test it out.

By the Gods, it worked! Only… well now there are pieces of whalebone floating in the water, and it is difficult to set back up again. Far more of a hassle than it needs to be. Once they fish out the whalebone and realign everything, Julian makes sure to tie the whalebone up with a string so that they can easily place it again after the next storm.

For areas like Nopal, it would make a great signal for when rain water would come. And Vesuvians in areas prone to flooding could use it as a signal to prepare. It was a brilliant invention!

Just, ah… perhaps not very streamlined. It takes up quite a bit of space and producing the prototype alone wasn’t cheap. They have the device moved into the new research laboratory Nadia had commissioned a while back, and now the question they both share was why the leeches behave this way.

(Asra and Portia frequently stop by to make sure they’re both eating, drinking, and taking breaks whenever they have the time to go on a research binge.)

Links & Inspiration

Wikipedia - Tempest Prognosticator

Australian Museum - Leeches

Atlas Obscura - The Rise and Fall of the Leeches Who Could Predict the Weather

Here’s the inspiration for this post. I couldn’t find the original, so here’s the crappy cropped version from Reddit. If you can find the original, please send me the link!

[airmetsierra]

favorite word?

tempest prognosticator

i guess that's two words, whatever

[alkemylabz]

if it brings me mirth i will refer to my mundane life through wizard words. i cast fry this egg using my frying pan as a conduit for the heat energies this stovetop radiates through its fire glyphs. i take a potion of enhanced sight and mind every morning with my breakfast. i scried the tempest prognosticator and it said that its going to rain soon

[invisiblemelonmoose]

@tempest-prognosticator

Oooo that's a good idea

[toobwaysider]

Giving advance notice for this, because it likely will be a packed house at The Wayside that night.... On April 22, the eve of Shakespeare's birthday, the Tuesday Cinephiliacs Society will be gathered in the tavern for a double-bill celebrating the works of the Bard. First up will be a grim gangster flick from 1955 - "Joe MacBeth" starring Paul Douglas and Ruth Roman. And then the tone will be lighter as the evening winds up with "Strange Brew", a comedy with Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis as Bob & Doug MacKenzie. (It's a very loose adaptation of "Hamlet".) Last year's offering was the first time the TCS veered away from faithful adaptations of Shakespeare by presenting "Forbidden Planet" ("The Tempest") & "West Side Story" ("Romeo and Juliet"). Nelson Thursby, who founded the Cinephiliacs, is already looking ahead TWO years - in 2027, they will be showing "Hamlet" & "Henry V", two Shakespeare movies starring Lord Laurence Olivier. (It's to mark the occasion of the 120th anniversary of Olivier's birth year.) As for this coming Tuesday, in recognition of this Sunday's meteorological prognostication, The Wayside will be unspooling two Bill Murray flicks - "Caddyshack" and, of course, "Groundhog Day." (The Tuesday Cinephiliacs Society was a great idea to get people into The Wayside on a normally slow night for the pub. And owner Timjimmy tells me that it also draws a huge crowd of the "Endies" - those phantoms trapped in Canterville who are otherwise known as the "Nearly Departed". Not that they do any drinking, but at least they don't take up the seats....)

[sappymix1]

If you were a leech someone would scoop you up from your lovely mud and put you in leech barometer

https://www.tumblr.com/sixthrock/651535526235652096/tempest-prognosticator-absolutely-sounds-like

???? okay sure

[plaguedocboi]

Oh ok now that the storm is over you’re gonna start climbing. That makes sense

A hurricane is coming and the Squad does not care at all

[owllover2319]

devastated (my family doesn’t think the tempest prognosticator (aka the leech barometer) is as cool as I think it is)

[pups-2-dust]

With Tumblr as my confessional I must say I'm so unwell that last night before bed I saw the post about the leech barometer also being called the tempest prognosticator and how it's something a wizard would have and then fell asleep thinking about Gale being hyped to show my ranger his tempest prognosticator and my ranger being like "Gale this is leeches"