Surface Bird

RACHIS: An inescapable, sagacious, terrifying and lethal individual of mysterious and indistinct gender.

[cameoappearance]

So the Skype FL chat has been tossing around high school AU ideas and one of them is our TINY GENDERQUEER CHILDREN trading clothes. Mini!Rachis actually wants the skirts and other frilly things that mini!Casey and mini!Thurlow are so keen to get rid of!

Thurlow’s shirt should by rights be black with white text, but that’s a pain to draw. Casey’s should have some gothy type band on it but I couldn’t figure out how to make that apparent with a pile of clothes in their arms and another shirt on top of their T-shirt.

[rachidial-blog]

((Doop doop jumpin' on the Poke-traaaiiin. Ignore the fact that I used a Weavile Cosplayer, the mask was just the most fitting. Dial is their fancy mask bird, Laddie is their Haunted-looking Herdier, Fidget is their Sulky Crobat, Lamplighter is their Phosphorescent Joltik, Nafteta is their Bengal Arcanine...ess, and George is their Clay Golurk.))

[destringed]

So...

I’m meeting a particularly old and cunning Snuffer in the Flit who I’ve been making paranoid for some time. He apparently promises to do something quite horrible to me if I’m lying to him.

Of course I’m lying to him. He’s taking advantage of L.Bs, for goodness’ sake.

Would anyone like to tag along? I’m sure it will be an experience for all involved.

[rachidial-blog]

How horrible, precisely? Did he say? Beings like that tend to, I've found. In any case, I'd be happy to join you. I've killed a few Snuffers before, and an especially clever one... Well, it sounds interesting, and it sounds as if you might like the help.

[rachidial-blog]

((I AM NOT GOOD AT PONE SO HERE HAVE SAILOR RACHIS)) 

[wtfevolution]

Sometimes evolution has terrifying fever dreams where everything is beautiful but nothing makes any sense. Shapes and colors appear and disappear and rearrange themselves like mad ghosts, and nothing ends up quite where it’s supposed to be. What do these dreams mean? Evolution doesn’t know. But when it wakes up in the morning, it makes some really weird-ass birds. 

[rachidial-blog]

Well, I feel that was worth it. And the Masters have been quite generous—not only Mr Pages (what a change, for him to be giving me illegal reading materials!), but Mr Spices as well, who was more than happy to supply me with Bazaar Permits in exchange for love stories, at quite a reasonable rate. That the exchanges took place in the Flit, with its grand views, while those in the Great Game were especially careless in their own dealings was just an unexpected bonus. Would anyone care to stop by for housewarming? And, Casey… You are always welcome, if you need to talk.

[destringed]

Oh, excellent. Perhaps you won’t need to store half your creature comforts in my steamer, eh? I’ll have to drop in at some point.

Unexpected bonus, indeed.

[rachidial-blog]

And here I thought you enjoyed having such easy access to a landau and a voluminous library. You know you're always welcome, love. Perhaps we can exchange a few secrets over wine. 

[rachidial-blog]

Well, I feel that was worth it. And the Masters have been quite generous--not only Mr Pages (what a change, for him to be giving me illegal reading materials!), but Mr Spices as well, who was more than happy to supply me with Bazaar Permits in exchage for love stories, at quite a reasonable rate. That the exchanges took place in the Flit, with its grand views, while those in the Great Game were especially careless in their own dealings was just an unexpected bonus. Would anyone care to stop by for housewarming? And, Casey... You are always welcome, if you need to talk.

[odditiesoflife]

Ghosts of the Past - Decayed Daguerreotypes from the Matthew Brady Studio, 1844-1860

Daguerreotype portraits were made by the model posing (often with head fixed in place with a clamp to keep it still the few minutes required) before an exposed light-sensitive silvered copper plate, which was then developed by mercury fumes and fixed with salts. This fixing however was far from permanent – like the people they captured the images too were subject to change and decay. They were extremely sensitive to scratches, dust, hair, etc, and particularly the rubbing of the glass cover if the glue holding it in place deteriorated. As well as rubbing, the glass itself can also deteriorate and bubbles of solvent explode upon the image.

The daguerreotypes above are from the studio of Matthew Brady, one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War which earned him the title of “father of photojournalism”. The Library of Congress received the majority of the Brady daguerreotypes as a gift from the Army War College in 1920.

[liferuin-deactivated20141216]

India Lawton Scars, 2013

[giveatwirl]

[saranicolette]

I like this effect.

[rachidial-blog]

…Well. I get the feeling I will be doing this for a while yet. 

[destringed]

It’s the circle of addiction, I suppose. And anyway, you’re doing the individuals you’re taking it from a favour. No use having them fall back into the old habits, hmm? I’ve heard unpleasant things about honey-mazing.

[rachidial-blog]

That is true. And those who see no need to quit would find their supply somewhere. Redistribution is one of the best things I can do under the circumstances, I suppose. At least I am finished with them for the moment. 

[trickstercheebs]

[rachidial-blog]

Oh. Hmm... Someone was giving away coffee this evening... Three cups each person. It seemed strange, yes, but having work to do, I thought: Why not? Really, what's the harm? To make a long tale much shorter, I have half the Bazaar Permits I need for premises there, my entire body burns, and I feel as if I shall never sleep again.

[rachidial-blog]

...Well. I get the feeling I will be doing this for a while yet. 

[destringed]

A word of advice, to new Black Ribboners.

I suggest you train long and hard before you even think of fighting Feducci. The man rides a destrier, for one thing, and that’s all I have to say on the subject.

[rachidial-blog]

I'm sorry, Lynn, it didn't even occur to me to warn you. I thought it would be a while yet, before you challenged him. Are you all right?

[dmoldovan]

[tentacular-art-blog]

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