Snow in Takarazuka

Beth Winter. Polish. Multifandom with a focus on musicals, the Takarazuka revue, whatever else catches my attention, and random beautiful things.

[yukinojou]

For the express purposes of pinning to Twitter, because Elon is an idiot and goodness knows when Twitter will implode entirely:

@bwinter.bsky.social

Here, of course

Beth Winter@AO3

Yukinojou_bw@instagram

And in the before times, @bwinter@twitter

[mammalianmammals]

Chinese Mountain Cat (Felis bieti), family Felidae, endemic to grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau of western China

Vulnerable.

photos: Shul Conservation, Scottish Wildcat Fdn, Wild Cats Worldwide

[lacetulle]

Elie Saab | Fall/Winter 2026 Couture

[don-dake]

Visit Original Link

RIP Bonnie Tyler [1951–2026]

[artingabout]

A seaglass kiwi made from kiwi seaglass

Behind the scenes:

My materials:

a collection of seaglass gathered on trips to Aotearoa New Zealand, including an abundance of lake glass as well

two broken paua shells

a piece of pounamu

copper tape & scissors

a pencil or dowel to smooth the copper tape down

flux

a brush for flux application

lead

soldering iron and all essentials for masking/ventilation/not dosing myself with lead fumes

dremel with diamond saw blade

diamond sanding belt

styrofoam shapes to serve as templates

This entire project came about because I collect seaglass wherever I go and to my surprise, AoNZ has a surprising amount of brown glass. In hindsight, it made sense since I collected it at waterfronts and beaches that are at prime tourist locations. Tourists discarding beer bottles in the scenic stretches of water. What a shocking development 😑

Since I've been pecking away at this one for quite some time, I forgot about taking as many pictures as I would normally take of the step-by-step of making this fellow.

For the base shape, I had a stash of old styrofoam balls and eggs from projects of Many Years past, which were finally put to good use.

In order to build the 3D shape in a way so I could remove the styrofoam base, I made both halves of the body first to get the shape right, then did the same with the head.

Once I'd secured all the joins on the insides as well at the outsides, I removed the styrofoam and soldered the two halves of the body together. When it was secured, I added the front of the head, leaving the back of the head open so I could solder the joins and ensure a stable connection point for the beak.

Next stage, before I could go further, was shaping the beak so I could make sure it would fit and hold fast. I'd already smoothed this piece of pounamu down and used my sanding belt to give it a more beaky shape.

Once the head was stable, I put a border of copper tape around the beak and attached it by soldering.

Fun fact: it was not, in fact, secure enough. The wee fella overbalanced due to being nose-heavy and fell off the table when I left it unsupervised and knocked the entire beak off. But never fear! We can rebuild him! We have the technology!

Once the beak was actually secured, I soldered on the back of the head and used some smaller pieces of glass to fill some of the larger gaps between pieces.

The final step of construction was cutting the broken paua pieces to add as the eyes. Note to anyone who wants to work with paua - always cut the shell either in water or under running water, because the dust and the smell is quite something.

After that, it was a case of giving the whole thing a thorough soak and scrub to get the flux residue and any stickiness and staining off.

I want to make a little stand for it because it's still a little bit uneven on the base. The nature of working with seaglass is that no two pieces are the same width or thickness, so there is a bit of a wobble where the base pieces didn't quite line up.

Still, it's a 3 year labour of love and is finished and I'm delighted!

[beardedmrbean]

Rick Rolled a entire stadium full of people, epic.

[bisexualbaker]

[Image: Post by Time Capsule Tales: "Rick Astley &the Foo Fighters perform "Never Gonna Give You Up" in the style of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", after Dave Grohl spotted Rick on the side of the stage aand just pulled him up to do the song." Video is as described by the post.]

[moniquill]

https://linktr.ee/stefankoidl

[vulcartist]

I translated the Ea-Nasir complaint into vulcan and engraved it in on a cooper plate

[tournevis-real]

The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen

[mysticplaces]

abandoned thermal power plant | Hungary

photography by Andreas S

[chuwenjie]

So stoked to share the official trailer for the Avatar Aang movie, now releasing JULY 25th on Paramount+!!

I’m so proud of our crew and honored to have been a part of this.. for everyone who has waited to watch the official release in order to support the artists and animators, I just want to say thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart - it truly means so much!!

[apolladay]

Have you ever bullied anyone?

yes

no

nuance

Remaining time: 5 days 9 hours

[shamebats]

For context: Jonis Josef is a famous Norwegian comedian.

[brightlotusmoon]

[luke-naberrie]

nigel farage resigning to try and delay the investigation into him and immediately restanding for election in the same constituency, only for every single major party to say 'yeah nah have fun pal, see you back at work for the investigation' and refusing to entertain him is hilarious enough on its own.

the fact that the only person running against him is fucking count binface, who is promising to build one (1) affordable house, is hysterical. and he has a not zero chance of winning.

[neon-voids]

[davidcronenburgers]

This is the greatest insult in the history of television.

[json-derulo]

it pains me to say it but the more people talk shit about the women who wear those shorts/leggings with the weird butt seam that looks like it gives you a terminal wedgie, the more compelled I feel to take the women’s side

[json-derulo]

ohhhhhh my godddddddd you saw someone wearing really tight revealing pants in public? should we throw a party? should we invite goody proctor

[json-derulo]

and while we’re at it, I’m done worrying about cameltoe. I don’t have time to be pulling and tugging at my clothes all day. if you can see the outline of my pussy you should say thank you and go about your business

[json-derulo]

SAME WITH NIPPLES!!!!

[json-derulo]

[starrynet]

what’s your favorite ship?

titanic

hms terror

uss enterprise

ever given (the container ship that blocked the suez canal in 2021)

captain ahab’s whaling vessel

ship of theseus

battleship monopoly token

mclennon

Remaining time: 5 days 3 hours

[nora-yoko]