#//ooc: MAN that was fun to write! worldbuilding AND notos lore nuggets! YIPPEE!!!

[themareverine]

been there, tried that

#nailed it

[nevver]

No one wants to be here and no one wants to leave, Dave Smith (because)

[longreads]

How Concerned Citizens Drove a Neo-Nazi Out of Rural Maine

Christopher Pohlhaus planned to build a fascist training compound in the woods of rural Maine. The local journalists, veterans, lumberjacks, and policymakers weren't having it.

Pohlhaus, 37, is a former U.S. marine, an itinerant tattoo artist, and a hardcore white-supremacist influencer. He is loud and hostile, and proud to be both. His voice is pitched surprisingly high, and he has a slight Southern drawl. He has a large body and small bald head; a blue-black tattoo crawls up the right side of his face, from his chin to his forehead. Over the years, Pohlhaus has collected thousands of social media followers, who know him by his nickname: Hammer.

Hammer had been living in Texas for a few years when, in March 2022, he bought the land in Maine. He told his followers that he was going to use it to build a haven, operational center, and training ground for white supremacists.

Check out our excerpt of The Atavist’s latest blockbuster story. 

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[xxursweetsacrificexx]

this makes me so sad :((( #lana

“When I got into highschool I listened to a lot of rap and techno and eventually found different types of music that I loved like Elvis and Van Halen. My teacher in highschool Mr. Campbell, taught me who all the greats were in every genre and eventually I came to know what good music was.”

“I’m on fire but what can I do? I’m singing in the choir but I’m lookin’ at you. I’ll be outside, pick me up after school, Baby blue, baby blue. Pour me up a bit of that liquid courage, Lookin’ so good like Axl Rose. Cuttin’ school listenin’ to techno music, Will we ever do it right?”  - Baby Blue Love lyrics

“I was lonely,” she says, but “I had this teacher who was my only friend in school. His name was Gene. He read us Leaves of Grass and we read Lolita in class, and it changed my world, which was a really solitary world. I didn’t have a connection to anyone in class and when I found these writers, I knew they were my people.” Gene was just a few years older than her, fresh from Georgetown University. “He would sign me out and we would listen to Tupac and stuff in his car,” she remembers, “and he would teach me about old movies like Citizen Kane. He taught me everything.”   

“You sitting in your office, Dreaming of a different life. You say you wanna make me smile, and see my wild side. If we don’t leave town now, We’re never gonna get out of here alive. I’m walking home from school, My thoughts are drifting into space.” - Paris lyrics  (x)

“I was social, just in a different way. I loved my teachers. I feel like kids can be hard to get along with sometimes…”

“L-l-let’s do drugs, make love with our teachers.” - Boarding School lyrics (x)

“The first Biggie Smalls track that I really loved I would say, just like everyone else, was “Juicy”. I realized what cool was. I wasn’t that young - I was 15 and my best friend at school, who is still my best friend today, was actually my teacher. He was a white English teacher who played basketball and listened to hip-hop. I didn’t know what everyone thought was cool. He played Biggie Smalls for me in his car.” 

“I’d see you in the hall like, “Hello, hello”, Up against the wall like, “Let’s go, let’s go!”  Let’s get out of this place, ‘Cause you’re starting to waste, Within this teenage wasteland. So far, we are, Safe in the dark. You pull my hair and push me down, And chase me, make me run, You play me Biggie Smalls and then my first Nirvana song. So even then when no one’s friends, Were really serious, I knew you loved me by the way,You looked in second period.” - Prom Song (Gone Wrong) (x)     

“I really loved Eminem. And in high school, my English teacher introduced me to Biggie Smalls. I loved Me & My Bitch.”

“When i was 15 or 16 they sent me to the Kent School for fight my alcohol addiction, it was a private school in Connecticut where i didn’t have a lot of friends but a really young teacher, Gene Campbell, told me about hip hop and the beauty of soundtracks.” 

“I heard Biggie Smalls, Tribe Called Quest and things like that. My best friend was my teacher, He’s still my best friend now, and he played all that stuff to me.”

“When I was 15, I had this teacher called Gene Campbell, who is still my good friend,” begins Lana. “In boarding school, to become a teacher you don’t have to have a Masters. I was 15 and he was 22, out of Georgetown. He was young, and at school you were allowed to take trips out at the weekends. On our driving trips around the Connecticut counties, he introduced me to Nabokov, (Allen) Ginsberg, (Walt) Whitman, and even Tupac and Biggie. He was my gateway to inspirational culture. Those inspirations I got when I was 15 are still my only inspirations. I draw from that same well. It’s one world I dip into to create other worlds. Like this philosopher Josiah Royce once said: ‘Without the roots, you can’t have any fruits.’” (x)

“I remember when I was 16, I had a boyfriend. I think he was… 25? I thought that was the best thing. He had an F-150 pickup and let me drive it one time. I was so high up! I panicked and was worried I might kill someone – run over a nun or something. I started to shake. I was screaming and crying. I saw him looking over, and he was smiling. He said, “I love that you’re out of control.” He saw how vulnerable I was, how afraid, and he loved that. The balance shifted from there. I had the upper hand – until then.”

“Very young. Poetry, then short stories, then finally songs, awful ones initially. I studied philosophy and metaphysics. This passion for words I own to my best friend Gene, my English teacher at the time. He showed me, when I was 15, the books by Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg… Suddenly I no longer felt lonely, lost in my dreams. I finally knew that there were people like me, a bit weird, out of it. I really was saved by the beat poets. They opened a huge window for me, reassuring my mental health. In Lake Placid, there weren’t many people who shared my universe, so the books became my close friends. They’d tell me about New York, about people of whom I became close. I recovered this mood studying philosophy, surrounded by people who weren’t ashamed of questioning, of asking “why do we exist?” instead of “what will the weather be tomorrow?”

“I remember when I was 15 or 16 years and my parents sent me to Kent School, a private boarding school in Connecticut so I could fight my addiction to alcohol. I had a very young teacher, Gene Campbell, who introduced me to hip hop…That kind of set things in motion for me and my music evolved over the course of the next few years especially after I moved to New York which was a very troubled time but also a very creative one as well.”

[nanaluvbug]

🧀🥪🌶️🥭 The Ravening War portraits  🧀🥪🌶️🥭

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[ID: a series of digitally illustrated portraits showing - top left to bottom right - Bishop Raphaniel Charlock (an old radish man with a big red head and large white eyebrows & a scraggly beard. he wears green and gold robes with symbols of the bulb and he smirks at the viewer) Karna Solara (a skinny young chili pepper woman with wavy green hair, freckled light green skin with red blooms on her cheeks. she wears a chili pepper hood lined with small pepper seeds and stares cagily ahead) Thane Delissandro Katzon (a muscular young beef man with bright pinkish skin with small skin variations to resemble pastrami and dark burgundy hair. he wears a bread headress with a swirl of rye covering his ears and he looks ahead, optimistic and determined) Queen Amangeaux Epicée du Peche (a bright mango woman with orange skin, big red hair adorned with a green laurel, and sparkling green/gold makeup. she wears large gold hoop earrings and a high leafy collar) and Colin Provolone (a scraggly cheese man with waxy yellow skin and dark slicked back hair and patchy dark facial hair. he wears a muted, ratty blue bandana around his neck and raises a scarred brow at the viewer with a smirk) End ID.)

[70sscifiart]

One of my favorites by Paul Lehr, used as a 1971 cover to "Earth Abides," by George R. Stewart. It's also in my upcoming art book!

[cinemaocd]

OK So Mantel actually leaked this spoiler to the Guardian and the tv show went ahead and omitted it...

:(

“Mantel’s treatment of Anne’s adversary, Jane Seymour, is subtle. The young woman who will become Henry VIII’s third wife and queen has, she says, been “like a sleeper”. In Wolf Hall we catch brief but telling glimpses of Jane, notably when Anne Boleyn finds in her bed a drawing of a headless queen: “I mention that that was the night when Jane turned up Anne’s bed – and I’m not exactly saying she put it there, but she might have”. A character of whom we know little historically, there is, Mantel says, “the assumption that she was stupid, entirely passive, an instrument in the hands of her brothers”. Yet, she considers, “I cannot see how that can have been so. I think she must have been smart. She played her hand with great coolness, and so I began to invent this subversive woman who is so mouse-like people don’t even know she’s there.” In The Mirror and the Light, Jane will get some of the best lines. “We’ll come to the scene where people will want to know about Jane’s wedding night with Henry.” Mantel pauses, toying with her own wedding ring. Jane will, she continues, emerge from the bedchamber the morning after her wedding night, and tell the assembled court that “Henry wanted her to do some very strange things” – Mantel grins – “and the court is all agog, but it turns out that what he wants her to do is go down to Dover with him to see the new fortifications.””

— The Guardian {x}

[taizooo]

もともとは10年ほど前にTumblrにすごくハマっていて。いろんな人をフォローしたらかっこいい写真や色が洪水のように出てきて、もう自分で絵を描かなくて良いじゃん、ってなったんです。それで何年も画像を集めていって、そこで集まった色のイメージやモチーフ、レンズの距離感など画面構成を抽象化して、いまの感覚にアウトプットしています。画像の持つ情報量というものが作品の影響になっていますね。

映画『きみの色』山田尚子監督×はくいきしろい対談。嫉妬し合うふたりが語る、色と光の表現｜Tokyo Art Beat

[layla-keating]

#thistension

XO, KITTY — 1.09 “SNAFU”

[foodffs]

Noodles with Lamb Sauce (Laghman, 新疆拌面) Xinjiang laghman features chewy noodles served with a bold and rich lamb and tomato sauce that is bursting with flavor.

Recipe: https://omnivorescookbook.com/recipes/uyghur-style-noodles-with-lamb-sauce

[lesserknownbots]

CJ from Hello World (MSPFA) by phasedsun?

[nevver]

Arts & Architecture, Sander Patelski

[shitakeo33]

よく「発明は1人でできる。製品化には10人かかる。量産化には100人かかる」とも言われますが、実際に、私はネオジム磁石を1人で発明しました。製品化、量産化については住友特殊金属の仲間たちと一緒に、短期間のうちに成功させました。82年に発明し、83年から生産が始まったのですから、非常に早いです。そしてネオジム磁石は、ハードディスクのＶＣＭ(ボイスコイルモーター)の部品などの電子機器を主な用途として大歓迎を受け、生産量も年々倍増して、2000年には世界で1万トンを超えました。

世界最強「ネオジム磁石はこうして見つけた」（佐川眞人 氏 ／ インターメタリックス株式会社 代表取締役社長） | Science Portal - 科学技術の最新情報サイト「サイエンスポータル」

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[theroyalweekly]

HRH The Princess of Wales in Southport today, on her first engagement since completing chemotherapy. It’s so good to see her!❤️ --