#applachian

[badarchitectrecords]

Listen to this beautiful, stripped-down song, ‘In Shreds’ by Koro Kanto. Here is a small description by the artist. Koro Kanto is the creation of two small-town, public school teachers from Tennessee digging through the rag and bone shops of their hearts to bring their musical visions to life. Sharing song-writing duties, DV Sanders' voice carries each song with an ethereal sincerity, while Ben Ayers approaches the instrumental parts with an eclectic blend of the styles he has played and studied in his career as a professional musician. Starting with raw folk songs, the duo thoughtfully craft intricate and textured arrangements which carry strong influences of 60s Baroque Pop (and Baroque Period for that matter), Alternative Rock and Shoegaze, and a myriad of traditional folk styles from across the world.  For anyone that likes a little Beach Boys with their Cure, or Pentangle with their My Bloody Valentine, please give their heart songs a listen.

#youtube #Koro Kanto #new music #applachian #folk #indie

[resnihil]

Humpback Rocks via the Appalachian Trail

2-Nov-2023

#personal #fall #applachian trail #blue ridge parkway #blue ridge mountains #appalachia

[heavensmortuary]

one thing about me is that I'll go freaking crazy over a banjo. I'm not beating the mountain folk allegations

#krakens croaks #listening to it bc the moving guys are playing bluegrass at Top Volume and its like hell yeah #applachian instinct idk #call that appl-ache-ian aha <--- suffering thinking about leaving. girl you are moving 40 mins away into the city. stfu

[pr]

any of my followers familiar with areas around this route

we're lookin to do a roadtrip to louisville for a con in mid-june, and i'd love to know if there's anything interesting, yummy, or spooky to stop at along the way

#probably camp while we're in the applachian area too #or like...applachian ish? ozarks? either way i wanna camp there #natural wonders would be great as well! #also dont worry i have the starting point on just dallas not where i actually live lol #op #also iirc arkansas is shockingly gorgeous so i'm excited to see if TN/KY end up having the same unexpected beauty

[aworldofyou]

I love how our word when talking about supernatural is consider mythology or myth until white people see it and suddenly everyone swears these things exist.

#[ I’m watching Sam and Colby’s new episode about goat man bridge ] #[ and I’m just like dude goat man is in every part of the US and Canada ] #[ it happens all the time. and no- these things aren’t exclusives to the Applachian Mountains ] #[ that last comment isn’t a knock I’m just saying if it’s seen there it’s not just there ] #[ my bitch is - the fact we aren’t taken seriously in the world of supernatural discussions unless a white person sees it ] #[ out of character / salt ] i thrive best in it

[2percentsugar]

zekes enjoy the following. marginalized languages associated with the working class, getting mad at classists, uh (checks smudged notes) class strudel,

#zeke.txt #one day i will hit my head just right and have suddenly regained my applachian accent and then you will see. You will all fucking see /lh

[sourb0i]

Finally managed to find a copy of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and I really love that they gave Lucy Gray an Applachian accent. Canonically District 12 is located in Applachia (hence the coal mining), and there's so much history and thematic parallels there that someone more read than me could pinpoint, but just the fact that her character is acknowledging that connection is very cool. I wish that the original movies had done the same (imagine Katniss with an Applachian accent! Not speaking like a Hollywood-written character but a real person with an entire history!)

#sour speaks #sorry Katniss and Peeta (and everyone from D12) have Applachian accents now its cannon

[borealiszero]

Im in love with you

#YOU AAAAAAAAAAA #mentally im at the applachiane peaks rolling down giggling hysterically #[borealis.txt]

[puppy-steve]

[ hiraeth; ] - applachian eddie munson masterlist

ao3 | tumblr tag | playlist

part one part two

#cj talks #cj writes #appalachian eddie #steddie

[inusmasha]

*is sick and tired of being an adult living under capitalism and wants to run away to the mountains to live her cottagecore life*

*suddenly spends weeks day dreaming about Kagome training with Kikyo montage in some magical miko school in the mountains*

*spends months trying to wrap up Midoriko's introduction which was suppose to be just ONE CHAPTER*

*is sweaty because it turns into 3*

*but the rest of the story is playing in my head from start to finish on a loop*

*AND NOW I STARTED THINKING ABOUT SANGO AND HOW THE DEMONS SLAYERS FIT INTO THE MIX AND THEY ARE PROBABLY APPLACHIAN AND COUNTRY AF*

#This is just an excuse to draw everyone with a horse #im so bad at... just not complicating something #whihc is why i feel like i bore people LOL #THERES JUST TOO MUCH IM SORRY I CAN BARELY KEEP UP WITH MYSELF #mountain miko au

[drdemonprince]

Hi! How did you pick your name?

My old middle name used to be Dawn, and in my Cleveland area accent people always misheard it as Don, which my childhood self quite liked. So I knew once I started hunting for names that I was pretty sure I wanted something starting with a D.

The other major contenders that I contemplated were Damon (as in Albarn, which felt like a bit much) and Dale (a nod to my Applachian family), but I ended up arriving at Devon, which felt more classy and academic and English, and so more or less in the realm of what I can easily lay claim to. I'd always liked the name because it was androgynous but leaning masculine. One of my fellow cellists in high school had that name, as did an old buddy from college, and another friend in the local writing scene, and each of them was cool and smart and unassuming, but it also didn't feel too overused of a name either. And it sounded good with my last name.

[thelonelybrilliance]

2023 Reads: thelonelybrilliance

Final count 72! I set a goal of 52 originally but raised the bar when I realized that would only bring me into early November.

Decided it would be fun to share some stats and recommendations along with the full list.

First, ten recommendations:

The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (best completed series)

Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write (best new poetry read)

Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything (best memoir)

E.B. White, Here Is New York (best short read)

Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist (best journals)

Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family (best children's lit)

Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout (best poetry memoir)

George Eliot, Middlemarch (best classic)

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (best food writing)

Red Rising series by Pierce Brown (best sci-fi/ongoing series + best audio drama (Red Rising (Book 1))

Of my 72 reads, 31 were rereads, 41 new . Four were audiobooks, the rest print (primarily e-books). My longest read was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. My shortest read (I think? A lot of poetry collections are short) was the longform essay, Here Is New York by E.B. White. I read the most books in December (15) and the least in June (2). 50 authors were women, 21 were men, and one poetry collection was multi-author. My most-read authors were as follows:

Megan Whalen Turner (7 books)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (6 books)

Louise Glück (5 books)

Elizabeth Wein (5 books)

Jane Austen (3 books)

Pierce Brown (3 books)

Full list organized by month under the cut!

Favorites: Bold | Rereads: Underline

Fiction: Blue | Non-Fiction: Red | Poetry: Purple | Audiobook: *

JANUARY

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

2. Annie Chagnot & Emi Ikkanda (eds.), How Lovely the Ruins

3. Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

FEBRUARY

4. Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

5. Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

6. Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

MARCH

7. Rita Dove, Playlist for the Apocalypse

8. Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

9. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

APRIL

10. Megan Whalen Turner, Moira's Pen

11. Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

12. Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

13. Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

MAY

14. Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

15. Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

16. Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

17. Elizabeth Wein, A Coalition of Lions

18. Elizabeth Wein, Sunbird

19. Elizabeth Wein, The Lion Hunter

JUNE

20. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

21. bell hooks, Applachian Elegy

JULY

22. Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line*

23. C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

24. Elizabeth Wein, The Empty Kingdom

25. Dorothy Dunnett, Spring of the Ram

26. Michael Bazzett, You Must Remember This

27. Lisa Ampelman, Romances

28. Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

29. Natalie Diaz, Post-Colonial Love Poem

AUGUST

30. Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

31. Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

32. Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

33. Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

34. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

35. Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

SEPTEMBER

36. Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write

37. E.B. White, Here Is New York

38. Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything

39. P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

40. Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

41. Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase*

42. Tobias Wolff, Old School

OCTOBER

43. Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance*

44. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

45. R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

46. Louise Glück, Vita Nova

47. L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

48. L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

49. L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

50. Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind

NOVEMBER

51. Ron Rash, Poems

52. Louise Glück, Meadowlands

53. Tom Perrotta, Election

54. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

55. Louise Glück, Averno

56. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

57. Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

DECEMBER

58. Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

59. Pierce Brown, Red Rising*

60. Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

61. Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

62. Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

63. Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family

64. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

65. George Eliot, Middlemarch

66. Louise Glück, Ararat

67. Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

68. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

69. Kate Baer, And Yet

70. Marguerite de Angeli, The Lion in the Box

71. Pierce Brown, Golden Son

72. Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

#booklist #my reading #my booklist #2023 booklist #2023 reads #my reads #2023 wrapped #bookblr #book recs

[bunny-yuck]

Do you have any OCs? If so, tell us about them.

hi!! thank you so much for asking about my little guys :) !! i do have quite a few ocs BUT i'll tell you about the ones that will be in upcoming projects ! however, if anyone is interested i do have pleeeeenty more ocs to gush about :) !

chris, wendell, and lance are from a dating sim i'm working very hard (but very slowly) on called "eat your heart out!". they're basically just trying to survive, but more importantly, find love during the zombie apocalypse!

TLDR; about their personalities because i do have their abouts somewhere in the "eat your heart out" tag on my blog

chris: flustered very easy, has never had any romantic partners and doesn't know how the whole "flirting" thing goes. strong and loyal though and very protective! also... a lil dumb JLKSD

wendell: loving and nurturing, has a fondness for meek and timid things. leader amongst his peers almost his entire life, great listener but will also talk your head off!

lance: very emotionally distant guy. you would really have to fight to get any aspect of his personality known. is a crybaby behind close doors. difficult.

justin and alex are from this horror comic idea that i might talk more about later, but essentially they're evil e daters lol

justin is more of the asshole type that does whatever he wants but thinks alex is cool enough to date and gush about the evil little things he does.

and alex, of course, eats up every gory detail justin throws at him.

and finally this is jude! jude is from a comic idea me and my boyfriend @yam-writes have! jude and his old best friend archie seem to reconnect after archie comes back to his old hometown in the depths of appalachia! the story has a lot to do with applachian folklore since the boyfie and i are from there :)!

but yeah! that's what i got! again, i have some more old ocs (like my "strange attractions" ocs which i wanna work a lot more on that story since that comic idea is my baby. and rudy from "touch red"!) but these are the ones that i'm focused on at the moment!

thank you so much for that ask :D !!

#bunask #bunart #ocs #eat your heart out #chris #wendell #lance #jude #justin #alex #bro i am so awful at naming my ocs look at these tags JKLDSFAKJL

[persephoneprice]

i have like 30 drafts and they’re all either half finished thoughts on applachian culture in the hunger games or half written sentences about character headcanons that I don’t even know what I was trying to say

#Lily rambles #I have so much thoughts about appalachia & the hunger games

[hambor12]

Spade has such a cute design! Can we learn a little more about her?

So let's discuss: SPADE.

A sweet and folksy capon from the country settlement of the Blasted Heath. She is K’uro’s top pupil and de facto protégé, being inordinately skilled and cunning in the field of magic and Practical Application of Magic. While friendly and genial, there’s always an aura of uneasiness she emits.

Possibly because her home, the Blasted Heath has been mutated and malformed by an eldritch meteorite for decades.

Other facts about Spade:

She has many, many siblings, mostly sisters. The predominant naming scheme is "digging implements" (Kunai, Mattock, Dolabra, Shovel) which also extends to her family name.

"Etoile" is French for star. In Spade's case, it is a play on the term "E-Tool" or entrenching tools, military shovels designed for building trenches and sometimes as weapons a la TF2's Soldier.

She attends Darkmoon Research Institute, a Nurnian magical research college founded by K'uro Leliel, to foster research into the science of magic and how different types of magic even from other worlds and disciplines interact.

The Spade motif of her name is present in her facial markings, a print on her rear end, and in the shape of her hair.

The beads around her neck are technically enchanted wards but are primarily heirlooms she's attached to. She's not even aware of any wards in them, she just wears them at all times.

Has a strong Northern Applachian accent, like the rest of her family.

Primary motifs aside from the Spade she's named for are cephalopods (mainly octopi and cuttlefish), and the colors cyan, yellow, and magenta. Note the "ink" theming there.

#oc #teamverse #spade #rabbit #anthro #bunny #hambor12

[phoenixflames12]

Applachian Spring AND Variation 15 from Dunkirk coming on whilst writing flashback scenes? Howls and weeps and sobs for days and days and days whilst writing chapter 5 of go and luck go with you (chapters 1-4 on AO3 here)

‘He’ll be all right,’ she’d murmured, thinking of that deathly pale face that she had first seen when Francis had carried him in from the car.

He’d been wrapped in as many blankets as her husband could find, his breathing a hushed rattle in his throat.

Bird thin and shaking and looking far too small to be eleven, he hadn’t woken when they had peeled him out of his sodden school uniform.

Had found a pair of pyjamas folded at the bottom of the satchel, chafing warmth back into the icy hands, rubbing towels over the gingery-blond hair (too blond to call it auburn) until it had stuck up in curls around the pillow.

It should have been his mother doing this, Lucy had thought, looking down at the thin, flushed face. At the eyes flickering, listening to the hollow rasp of his breathing.

#mine #writing #fanfiction #work in progress #itv endeavour #endeavour morse #francis bellamy #lucy bellamy #dorothea frazil #thoughts?