Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect of the Sixth House 📘💀🗡
(psst, the timelapse of this can be see on my patreon!)
Guys I am begging you please read Brennan Lee Mulligan's story about the Insane Christmas Party. He does not even BEGIN to describe it in the Fireside Chat.
PLEASE. Please. Please take the time to read this.
“The reason this champagne is on the house is that the house is largely on Africa, South America and rural India”
This line is so fucking good
Stitched this screamy boi for a friend’s birthday. I’ll never work with Sulky metallic threads again 😆 by tdgonex
The best doggy
Source: instagram.com
#it is impossible for me to communicate how excited would be if a large dog just lumbered up to me and acted like this#like he just wanted to be patted and befriended#there's one person who brings their dog into the store I work at regularly and every time she sees me this dog#runs as close to me as her leash allows and tries to cuddle me#and she whines if I don't pet her at least once and it's the best thing about working rettail
My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.
This is a post of critical support for bland English cuisine and unhinged Brazilian pizzas and everything else I don't understand. Turning food, something literally every person on earth enjoys, into a moral or cultural judgement is, well, if it's not full-blown reactionary and parochial... then it's at least kind of nasty, huh?
Incidentally, this is a great example of why it is absolutely vital to defend human rights in all cases; the instant people work out which categories are publicly viewed as indefensible, they start figuring out how to fold other types of undesirables into those category.
Eg. Pornography criminalized? Great, information about birth control, sexual education, and writing by feminists and LGBTQ people are all pornography now.
Terrorism? Literally all activists are terrorists if you put a good enough spin on it! Easy.
And, of course, “sex offenders” includes teenagers who take nude selfies, sex workers of basically all kinds, LGB people in jurisdictions that criminalize gay sex, often trans people in ones that criminalize crossdressing…
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
oh my god this New Yorker article about the Titan holy fucking shit fuck???
Some notes: 1. the electrical system was designed by engineering undergrads who were working as interns. 2. because it is illegal to take passengers on an unclassed experimental submersible, they called the passengers "mission specialists" & instead of buying tickets they made donations. 3. the satellite beacon was held onto the outside of the sub with zip ties. 4. when Lochridge (the whistleblower) quit, Stockton Rush asked HIS FINANCE DIRECTOR if she wanted to be the pilot and she was like "sir I am an accountant" and the experience of having her boss ask his accountant to be the pilot made her so freaked out that she ALSO quit the company 5. the carbon fiber used to make the hull was bought from a deep discount from Boeing because it was past its expiry date for use in airplanes
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE
You can be cool but you’ll never be Hobie Brown in Spider verse cool
You know Miles “Who’s Morales” Morales, Gwen “Gwanda” Stacy and Pavitr “This is your daughter, I do not know her” Prabhakar are all absolutely horrible liars, but Hobie? Hobie is the extremely rare Spiderperson who can actually lie perfectly, and he can, will, and certainly does use that to his advantage.
"the average spiderperson can lie" factoid is actually a statistical error. the average spiderperson cannot lie. spiders horb, who lives in a sewer and lies over 10,000 times a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
he lies specifically by telling the truth in a way that nobody believes, which is my favorite thing.
"Hobie you're not helping"
"Good".
From The New Anecdota Americana, 1944
diversity win! this farmer is poly
“nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life” ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level
issa samb (1945-2017), senegalese painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright, and poet, in patterned clothing
mod reaux
𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹
[ID: July 1. Too tired. END ID]
mood
Source: shi-saa
two very good fictional relationship dynamics:
1. i would find you and love you in every universe. our love is inevitable and transcends reality as we understand it
2. this is the only universe where the dominos fell exactly right so that we could fall in love. we have something unique and we have overcome so much to get here
Anyone else have that thing where you get stressed out when someone else is in a bad mood because now it's your responsibility to make them feel better, but if you're in a bad mood and someone tries to cheer you up you get stressed out because now it's your responsibility to pretend that it's helping to make them feel better.
Oh so this is probably a trauma thing too. Bitches have one terrible childhood and then make it their whole personality. I'm bitches.
Tales from Alderwood
Chapter 1: The Fluke (part 1)
More comic! This chapter's a little longer than I'd like to cram into one post (and I reckon future chapters will also fit the same bill) so I'm splitting it up into a couple posts.