Spring's promise of sun is honored
When winter's weighed down on us
Visions in white
Raw fury in flight
Clear as diamond, yet fragile as ice
My heart is racing
- Return to Oblivion (Shiva Eden's Refulgence Theme) Shadowbringer goes Rock
An edit of a clip I made a while back of an Au Ra I've wanted to make for a while, now. Details below the cut!
So, I realized that the first version of this I shared had the mouse cursor pop in for a few frames, and I got annoyed, so I went back to edit that out...and ended up having a hard time fixing it since there's audio, and I can't just remove those frames at the point at which the mouse came on screen! That said, I ended up making a better version of what I was trying to do the first time! (Microsoft Clip Champ is actually really good - especially considering how shit most Microsoft stuff is. I've found I don't even feel tempted by their premium plan, either, with how much good stuff is free.)
All photos mine, unedited except for a couple of the frost photos edited to bring out colour and contrast, and the second down on the right, which I put a blue-gray layer over.
Featured glass include windshields, skylights, passenger windows, house windows, and windows on public buildings.
I rescued an orchid from the grocery store last night. It looked small and pathetic, and next to the vibrant purples of the other plants, it was a subtle and lovely burgundy with interesting patterns on the petals. I have had very little luck with plants (other than the Christmas Rose I named Audrey III after it took over the kitchen) but I won't get better if I don't try.
Looked up orchid care instructions on the ride home, so the first thing I did was unpot it to inspect the roots. The poor things were tangled up in a dense brown spongelike thing that was definitely not any sort of potting medium designed to let it breathe and definitely way too damp. Some of the leaves were cold-burnt or broken, there was fuzzy mold on part of it, some of the roots were already browning and squishy from rot. I trimmed everything out carefully, cleaned as much of the brown sponge off as I could (it's adhered to some of the roots and I'm afraid to scrub too hard), and dug out the African violet pot that I got from a craft fair in my hometown years ago.
It's currently recovering wrapped around a little statuette of a shaman with a sandstone base soaked in water, on the windowsill in the bathroom to maximize indirect light, warmth, and humidity. No idea if it'll survive (I'm REALLY concerned about the root rot, which is why I'm letting the roots air out). But I ordered some potting medium and fertilizer which should arrive soon, so we'll see.