#winter roof

[valtsv]

my only issue with the brutalist megastructure that reaches a thousand towering miles into the sky and is almost cosmically horrifying in its enormity is that i wouldn't be able to sit on the roof and smoke a cigarette while watching the stars without preparing several weeks' worth of hiking gear. and the arctic 80km/ph winds at the top would leave me horribly frostbitten and tear any exposed flesh that touched the cold concrete and metal skeleton of her frame from my bones. otherwise the perfect woman though.

[caleod]

25-11-23

[sovietpostcards]

Kirov street, backyard of VKhUTEMAS (art school). Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov (Moscow, 1989).

[world-of-yana]

[clawmarks]

The log of the sun; a chronicle of nature's year - William Beebe, Walter King Stone, ill. - 1906 - via Internet Archive

[dixt]

“pink skies in winter” ⋅ by fabienne delacroix 

[arcadebroke]

link

[something-feral]

"Appalachia" (19.05.24)

[15-lizards]

Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina today making me think ab how no one gives a fuck ab the south. Bush and his republican government didn’t nineteen years ago and today northern liberals call any natural disaster in a red state something we “deserve”. Our bad, so sorry every minority group down here has the sheer gall and audacity to exist in the Bible Belt

[il-predestinato]

More footage of Charles Leclerc with fans at Fiorano after the wet tyre test | December 7, 2022.

🎥: Scuderia Ferrari

[kundst]

Gustave Caillebotte (Fr 1848-1894)

Vue de toits - Effet de neige (1878)

Oil on canvas (81 x 65 cm)

[vox-anglosphere]

A rare snowfall in the thatched village of Shanklin on the Isle of Wight

[alejaolch]

a day apart downtown skyline of Nowy Sącz in Poland December 2023

[sovietpostcards]

Roofs of Zamoskvorechye (district in Moscow). Photo by Valery Usmanov (1966).

[scarecrow-in-a-hatake]

I was wondering if you have any advice to surviving ANBU... Sometimes it feels damn near impossible.

- Ray

Your name's "Ray"? Could have sworn I've heard others call you "Sunny" before.

Anyways. Yo. Owl will be happy that the career counseling certificates us officers have to get are being put into use, I guess.

Short answer: you're already doing great if you're still breathing and ambulatory. As in, you are alive and survived this far. Those who make it past the first two years after their initial trials without tapping out, generally have a good team of people who you can trust to have your back, and thus stay for the entire six-by-two of the contract.

Long answer: depends on what you're having trouble with.

If it's your skillset, try finding a more senior member of your team and ask to spar. Take those personnel evals that your superior officers have to conduct to heart, because we usually try to list areas where we think you can improve and how you could go about it.

If it's mental...

You joined for a reason. Whether through voluntary application or from being scouted, there was some part of you that wanted to be a part of something bigger when you signed up. Hold on to that feeling. It's the first pillar, and the one you're guaranteed to share with each and every agent by your side.

People regulate themselves differently. What works for others, might not work for you, but feel free to take inspiration and try new things if you feel like you're slipping. If you're the social type, drop by a restaurant or bar with your teammates or a touchstone and embellish a story or two of the weird things our missions involve, if you trust yourself to censor them appropriately. Crash at your touchstone's place for a night and be a winsome bastard. Find someone you'll swear to come back home to and stand by for as long as the world allows, or a few someones to take to bed and lose yourself in. Pace yourself by taking a mission or two with the general forces while you're off rotation. Sign on for a shift behind the missions desk at the tower or as a guest speaker for the Academy if you're desperate for a change of scenery. Variety is the spice of life, and all that.

Essentially, find something you enjoy and indulge it during your downtime.

Try to be home for festivals and holidays. I know we don't get a choice sometimes, but it's important to be able to see what we're slinking around in the shadows for.

[thresholdbb]

Realizing I’m gonna have to make the threshold salamanders I wanna see in the world