Monochrome Melodies

The name's Maru! I'm an admin for acoolmegamanblog.I role play Atlas & Siarnaq in the RP group Neo Arcadia & Company. Pleased to meet you!

[solitary-shadows]

BOOTING UP SYSTEM.

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PASSWORD CONFIRMED. LOADING DATA. 

…WELCOME: SIARNAQ

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

Said it a year ago and I’ll say it again.

Pirate all your favorite shows, movies and games while you still have the chance.

Oh, and never stop supporting physical media.

[midnightnautilus]

whistles

trips

Oh no!! I just tripped Over this rock in The Garden! They really need to put up some kind of Wall… and I dropped my Link all over the ground…

I really need To Watch where I’m going, geez…

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

NO WAY

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I’ve been doxxed 😨

[thetetra]

I once worked on a phone campaign to disallow the trees around your crater from being cut down...

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I am deeply deeply in love with you 💙 Thanks so much for your conservation effort!

It’s the small things we all do together that can make a big difference! 💙💙💙💙 And you’ve done it!!!

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

People just gotta know what Crater Lake and Wizard Island looks like

[silent-calling]

What in the Skyrim

[jenroses]

been there several times. And yeah, Skyrim feels super duper Oregon in a lot of ways.

[fitzreiley]

We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?

The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.

The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.

So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.

So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.

As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like... 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.

[bogleech]

I excitedly added a thing about the old man before I checked the notes so now I'm gonna reblog this great story instead but here is the old man!!!

"The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day"

"THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY"

!!!!!!!!!!

[caroline-draws-stuff]

😴😴😴

[ruki-32]

[monochrome-melodi]

680 years ago, there were 7 nations in Miraland. Let's visit all of them together!

[ksilberne]

HAPPY PRIDE

[wardingshout]

Pokemon team for day 2! I love them all lots

[pianokantzart]

I think these two have irreparably rewired my brain. Who gave them the right to be like this?

[valtsv]

yes yes acts of violence often evoke eroticism and stabbing someone is potent penetration imagery but sometimes when i kill someone it's just because i want them to die

[valtsv]

honestly it's so hard to dispose of people you genuinely despise these days. can't fight them, that's too horny. can't impale them on your blade, that's way too horny. guns? don't make me laugh. killing them with your bare hands? having gay sex would be less gay. really anything that draws blood is off the table. can't hit them with your car because that's a sex thing too. tying them to train tracks - rope, bondage, nope, that's out. tossing them off a cliff requires skin-to-skin contact. poisoning them is kind of like an indirect kiss if you think about it. and arranging an assassination is too obsessive it's like having a crush.

[dunmeshistash]

[xandaren]

#smthing about this mini comic ive always liked is like. one its really nice to see stuff about the twins#but two that it seems like kaka is the more sensitive of the two of them#whereas kiki is the one comforting him#its sort of refreshing both to see kaka get to cry/be upset and narratively not have it be seen as a joke#it is painful. to be a child and be seen as an adult simply because you're different from the kids around you#and i think even thistle does a good job of this in a similar but different setting#how everyone sees thistle as an adult because of how old thistle is temporally. but elves mature slower#so even though thistles 'old' theyre still just a child. being given the responsibilities of an adult#what i do like though is that its clear kaka and kiki were raised very lovingly and this same sort of thing happened. it goes to show its#not just some bad people that mistreat others that cause kids to be adultified or abused#but societally this happens when different groups of people are only exposed to people like them. they end up hurting those who arent#and making assumptions that can be dangerous or just hurtful

-catmask

[shazleen]

CHILCHUCK TIMS SAYS WORKERS RIGHTS!!

Inspirational words for freelancers, hourly paid workers and salarymen alike

(There will be stickers, watch this space :,,)

[queer-as-city-folk]

There is a woman riding a high speed train across the plains of Europe to find you and kill you with her evil knife and she is honestly a pretty great person to hang out with if you ignore the murders

[incorrect-horse-battery-staple]

There is a woman stuck at a German train station with her evil knife. Her train was delayed 2 hours and cancelled.

[queer-as-city-folk]

She now has to take the bus

[absolem0]

when you get cleared of regicide charges in the middle of HW

[thecollectibles]

Art by Davood Moghaddami

[yuumei-art]

Moon phase choker 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘

Not sure if I'd wear that, I prefer to keep my neck intact

High resolution images and timelapse videos on my Patreon~

[monochrome-melodi]

You okay? I haven't seen you in a bit.

DM me!