joannalannister:

At last, weary and feeling finally defeated, he sat on a step below the level of the passage-floor and bowed his head into his hands. It was quiet, horribly quiet. The torch, that was already burning low when he arrived, sputtered and went out; and he felt the darkness cover him like a tide. And then softly, to his own surprise, there at the vain end of his long journey and his grief, moved by what thought in his heart he could not tell, Sam began to sing. 

His voice sounded thin and quavering in the cold dark tower: the voice of a forlorn and weary hobbit that no listening orc could possibly mistake for the clear song of an Elven-lord. He murmured old childish tunes out of the Shire, and snatches of Mr. Bilbo’s rhymes that came into his mind like fleeting glimpses of the country of his home. And then suddenly new strength rose in him, and his voice rang out, while words of his own came unbidden to fit the simple tune.

–The Return of the King

Sam starts singing in the darkness! I had completely forgotten this from my last read! And it’s Sam’s singing that turns the tide and lets him find Frodo! What a beautiful moment, what a perfect example of eucatastrophe. I feel like I’ve found a gem, I feel like I’ve found part of the inspiration for GRRM’s series title. 

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hotdogsngiggles:

accursedsith:

melthemagpie:

lies:

Favorite practical effects: The war rig vs. the berm

for redshoesnblueskies

#SERIOUSLY#WORLD BUILDING#YOU ARE SO USED#TO your vehicle being ON FIRE that you have built something into it#to use the excessive sand of your environment#to make it NO LONGer on fire#oh my god  (via whisperingkuiperbelt)

The fwoosh of the sand over the fire, the roar when the rig moves out of the sand like it’s a living beast, IS SO GOOD, I fucking love this movie

i need to rewatch this

same

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blastedheath:

Frederick Judd Waugh (American, 1861-1940), New England Seascape. Oil on canvas, 25¼ x 30 in.

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‘Hundreds of thousands, if not millions’: New Mexico sees massive migratory bird deaths:

perishedoffits:

lies:

perishedoffits:

lies:

perishedoffits:

lies:

perishedoffits:

@lies, have you seen this? I wonder if there’s anything people in SoCal can do. Put out extra water, etc.

I had seen the story come through on bird twitter, but hadn’t read it until now.

Last week I was in the eastern Sierra Nevada, not far from the Creek Fire, and I noticed what seemed like an unusually large number of Yellow-rumped Warblers in the trees around the place we were staying. Like, I’d look out the condo windows and count 20 warblers, most of them first-year birds, flitting around feeding in the pines. It reminded me a little of the Thomas Fire’s aftermath near where I live in southern California, where we appeared to have lots of “refugee” birds in unburned areas during and after the fire. That makes me wonder if the extensive western wildfires might have pushed a lot of migrants out of their normal range or otherwise disrupted their migrations, leading to them heading south to New Mexico while in an insufficiently-nourished state to complete migration successfully.

Molt and migration are hugely costly undertakings for birds. It doesn’t take much disruption for them to get behind their “energy curve” and die in large numbers from starvation. That (of course) is one of the big risks of climate change: by shaking up what had been a relatively stable set of conditions over long time scales it can lead to mass die-offs (and not just for birds).

The article isn’t very detailed, and seems to be playing up the most-ominous-sounding quotes in a way that is intentionally alarming. I’m not trying to dampen anyone’s sense of alarm, but I’m suspicious of quick-hit science reporting that sensationalizes in a ploy for virality and readers. So I’m not sure how worried to be about this without hearing more. The article mentions that the dead birds are being examined to try to determine cause of death, which will be helpful in terms of trying to figure out the bigger picture.

Thanks for mentioning it. It’s definitely interesting and concerning.

I hope it’s sensationalist reporting, but given how many dire articles about nature in general are coming out lately, it’s hard to feel like I’m overreacting. Of course I hope I am.

Hopefully the ornithologists release reports to the news outlets once they have studied the birds more, rather than keeping the articles behind paywalls. (I clicked through to one bird study last night, and 48-hour access was $10, while a permanent PDF was $60. A PDF!)

Here’s a good explainer from Twitter: https://twitter.com/jg_hayes/status/1305533477438156800

https://twitter.com/jg_hayes/status/1305533477438156800?s=21

I didn’t know that New Mexico had snow, and I definitely didn’t hear about the high winds. 

This video is disgusting. 

I just recorded this up in Velarde, N.M. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m told of other dead migratory birds found in Hernandez, Ojo Sarco and El Valle de Arroyo Seco. https://t.co/GpeFZbyuW7 pic.twitter.com/XXVM4AZrDu

— objectivity haver (@austieJFish) September 14, 2020

Another good article, this one about fire as a stressor for migratory birds: https://ca.audubon.org/news/how-do-californias-megafires-impact-birds

How Do California’s Megafires Impact Birds?

That article sums up pretty much everything I’ve read in bits and pieces everywhere on the web. Good read.

Here’s a really good follow-up piece by Jenna McCullough, a PhD student at UNM. She argues that the likeliest explanation is that the sudden cold snap and wet, snowy conditions killed or grounded flying insects, which in turn stressed migratory birds like swallows that depend on them as a food source: The data behind mysterious bird deaths in New Mexico.

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runnyeggsnham:

 @brontes requested Persuasion + water color theme (blue and sea greens)

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dont-do-murder:

Welcome, friend, to

Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Invite Only Casual Dinner Party/Gala For Friends Potluck

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ksjanes:

Goodbye August and welcome September.

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huariqueje:

Four seasons in Japan, Spring lake surface   –   Ono Chikkyo , 1974

Japanese, 1889–1979

color ink on paper

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lsleofskye:

Pink glove

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martacorss:

Marta Cors | instagram | prints | more prints

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suonko:

by Mauritz Frederick Hendrick De Haas /detail/

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catonhottinroof:

Cesare Laurenti (1854-1936) 

Sunset, Girl in Ocean

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‘Hundreds of thousands, if not millions’: New Mexico sees massive migratory bird deaths:

perishedoffits:

lies:

perishedoffits:

lies:

perishedoffits:

@lies, have you seen this? I wonder if there’s anything people in SoCal can do. Put out extra water, etc.

I had seen the story come through on bird twitter, but hadn’t read it until now.

Last week I was in the eastern Sierra Nevada, not far from the Creek Fire, and I noticed what seemed like an unusually large number of Yellow-rumped Warblers in the trees around the place we were staying. Like, I’d look out the condo windows and count 20 warblers, most of them first-year birds, flitting around feeding in the pines. It reminded me a little of the Thomas Fire’s aftermath near where I live in southern California, where we appeared to have lots of “refugee” birds in unburned areas during and after the fire. That makes me wonder if the extensive western wildfires might have pushed a lot of migrants out of their normal range or otherwise disrupted their migrations, leading to them heading south to New Mexico while in an insufficiently-nourished state to complete migration successfully.

Molt and migration are hugely costly undertakings for birds. It doesn’t take much disruption for them to get behind their “energy curve” and die in large numbers from starvation. That (of course) is one of the big risks of climate change: by shaking up what had been a relatively stable set of conditions over long time scales it can lead to mass die-offs (and not just for birds).

The article isn’t very detailed, and seems to be playing up the most-ominous-sounding quotes in a way that is intentionally alarming. I’m not trying to dampen anyone’s sense of alarm, but I’m suspicious of quick-hit science reporting that sensationalizes in a ploy for virality and readers. So I’m not sure how worried to be about this without hearing more. The article mentions that the dead birds are being examined to try to determine cause of death, which will be helpful in terms of trying to figure out the bigger picture.

Thanks for mentioning it. It’s definitely interesting and concerning.

I hope it’s sensationalist reporting, but given how many dire articles about nature in general are coming out lately, it’s hard to feel like I’m overreacting. Of course I hope I am.

Hopefully the ornithologists release reports to the news outlets once they have studied the birds more, rather than keeping the articles behind paywalls. (I clicked through to one bird study last night, and 48-hour access was $10, while a permanent PDF was $60. A PDF!)

Here’s a good explainer from Twitter: https://twitter.com/jg_hayes/status/1305533477438156800

https://twitter.com/jg_hayes/status/1305533477438156800?s=21

I didn’t know that New Mexico had snow, and I definitely didn’t hear about the high winds. 

This video is disgusting. 

I just recorded this up in Velarde, N.M. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m told of other dead migratory birds found in Hernandez, Ojo Sarco and El Valle de Arroyo Seco. https://t.co/GpeFZbyuW7 pic.twitter.com/XXVM4AZrDu

— objectivity haver (@austieJFish) September 14, 2020

Another good article, this one about fire as a stressor for migratory birds: https://ca.audubon.org/news/how-do-californias-megafires-impact-birds

How Do California’s Megafires Impact Birds?

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wtxch:

Macro Photos of Butterfly Wings by Chris Perani

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‘Hundreds of thousands, if not millions’: New Mexico sees massive migratory bird deaths:

perishedoffits:

lies:

perishedoffits:

@lies, have you seen this? I wonder if there’s anything people in SoCal can do. Put out extra water, etc.

I had seen the story come through on bird twitter, but hadn’t read it until now.

Last week I was in the eastern Sierra Nevada, not far from the Creek Fire, and I noticed what seemed like an unusually large number of Yellow-rumped Warblers in the trees around the place we were staying. Like, I’d look out the condo windows and count 20 warblers, most of them first-year birds, flitting around feeding in the pines. It reminded me a little of the Thomas Fire’s aftermath near where I live in southern California, where we appeared to have lots of “refugee” birds in unburned areas during and after the fire. That makes me wonder if the extensive western wildfires might have pushed a lot of migrants out of their normal range or otherwise disrupted their migrations, leading to them heading south to New Mexico while in an insufficiently-nourished state to complete migration successfully.

Molt and migration are hugely costly undertakings for birds. It doesn’t take much disruption for them to get behind their “energy curve” and die in large numbers from starvation. That (of course) is one of the big risks of climate change: by shaking up what had been a relatively stable set of conditions over long time scales it can lead to mass die-offs (and not just for birds).

The article isn’t very detailed, and seems to be playing up the most-ominous-sounding quotes in a way that is intentionally alarming. I’m not trying to dampen anyone’s sense of alarm, but I’m suspicious of quick-hit science reporting that sensationalizes in a ploy for virality and readers. So I’m not sure how worried to be about this without hearing more. The article mentions that the dead birds are being examined to try to determine cause of death, which will be helpful in terms of trying to figure out the bigger picture.

Thanks for mentioning it. It’s definitely interesting and concerning.

I hope it’s sensationalist reporting, but given how many dire articles about nature in general are coming out lately, it’s hard to feel like I’m overreacting. Of course I hope I am.

Hopefully the ornithologists release reports to the news outlets once they have studied the birds more, rather than keeping the articles behind paywalls. (I clicked through to one bird study last night, and 48-hour access was $10, while a permanent PDF was $60. A PDF!)

Here’s a good explainer from Twitter: https://twitter.com/jg_hayes/status/1305533477438156800

https://twitter.com/jg_hayes/status/1305533477438156800?s=21

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jkrikis:

amorgos

© 2020  Yiannis Krikis

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aish-rai:

“It would be very hard, indeed, my dear, if poor Isabella were to be anywhere but at Hartfield.”

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anais-ninja-bitch:

literary hot take: herman melville would have been a BIG fan of “the lighthouse”.

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sylvia-morris:

Hey friends if you wanna listen to me talk about my illustration thought processes (and, for those of you outside of Oz, laugh at my accent) now is your chance. 

Blog post rambling a little more.

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‘Hundreds of thousands, if not millions’: New Mexico sees massive migratory bird deaths:

perishedoffits:

@lies, have you seen this? I wonder if there’s anything people in SoCal can do. Put out extra water, etc.

I had seen the story come through on bird twitter, but hadn’t read it until now.

Last week I was in the eastern Sierra Nevada, not far from the Creek Fire, and I noticed what seemed like an unusually large number of Yellow-rumped Warblers in the trees around the place we were staying. Like, I’d look out the condo windows and count 20 warblers, most of them first-year birds, flitting around feeding in the pines. It reminded me a little of the Thomas Fire’s aftermath near where I live in southern California, where we appeared to have lots of “refugee” birds in unburned areas during and after the fire. That makes me wonder if the extensive western wildfires might have pushed a lot of migrants out of their normal range or otherwise disrupted their migrations, leading to them heading south to New Mexico while in an insufficiently-nourished state to complete migration successfully.

Molt and migration are hugely costly undertakings for birds. It doesn’t take much disruption for them to get behind their “energy curve” and die in large numbers from starvation. That (of course) is one of the big risks of climate change: by shaking up what had been a relatively stable set of conditions over long time scales it can lead to mass die-offs (and not just for birds).

The article isn’t very detailed, and seems to be playing up the most-ominous-sounding quotes in a way that is intentionally alarming. I’m not trying to dampen anyone’s sense of alarm, but I’m suspicious of quick-hit science reporting that sensationalizes in a ploy for virality and readers. So I’m not sure how worried to be about this without hearing more. The article mentions that the dead birds are being examined to try to determine cause of death, which will be helpful in terms of trying to figure out the bigger picture.

Thanks for mentioning it. It’s definitely interesting and concerning.

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