#I JUST THINK IT'S NEAT

[lunarian-22]

Literally me. I agree so hard. 😂😂😂

He’s just happy it exists

[ramblesbiab]

excuse me mr tumblr waiter. This #transformation post is about someone’s workout journey when I specifically requested people being transfromed into pooltoys. please have more foresight next time thank you

[spirk-trek]

really love that for the metron design they went with "androgynous angel dressed head to toe in glitter"

[fusionmix]

Captain Marie-Philip Poulin. of the Montreal Victoire, trucks Minnesota Frost power forward Britta Curl-Salemme during a game on Jan 17th, 2025

[lathbora-virann]

The way he opens his mouth and gasps when Lavellan first kisses him makes me go mmmm

[revy-the-first]

"We're gonna shoot for the sky."

"What."

"Sometimes killing is a must."

"What-"

"It's treasure!"

"What."

"All I gotta do is open this bag!"

"What?!"

[kaijutegu]

@bramblepatch that is a really great question and there's actually a cool answer! Chicago has a robust public art program that has invested in the weirdest shit possible. And that's the point!

So Chicago has a lot of extremely normal sculptures- lots of historical figures, Lincoln, Goethe, this extremely shiny Alexander Hamilton...

And then there's some... other stuff, and it's mostly Pablo Picasso's fault.

So up until the late 50s/early 60s, most of the public art in Chicago was just... y'know, what we think of as public art. But in '63, the folks at the Chicago Civic Center wanted something new and fresh, and so they commissioned Pablo Picasso to do... well, really whatever he wanted. So he made this thing and ended up donating the design to the city. And the city was STOKED because this was Pablo Picasso we're talking about here, and so they started doing things like having all these press events and displaying the maquette without copyright notice and long story short, they accidentally turned it into the public domain... and they kinda leaned into that! it's public art, after all!

Naturally, art critics hated it, so that only made the city lean in more! Let's push boundaries! Let's go weird and abstract! Let's experiment and do things that other cities aren't doing! The push to collect and house contemporary art in the city also got a boost from the foundation of the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1967 and the development of the Art Institute's modern collection.

Then the 1968 Democratic National Convention happened and the statue got even MORE famous because of the pig. Jerry Rubin, Phil Ochs, and the other Yippies held a press conference where they nominated a pig named Pigasus for president of the United States right before the DNC kicked off. They held this at the Picasso statue, and then they were arrested for disorderly conduct. Yes, the pig was also arrested. The pictures and controversy surrounding everything about that convention shoved the Picasso into the spotlight on an even grander national scale, and it really became a striking emblem of the city.

So all this attention to a piece of art that made people really question what public art should and could be really pushed a lot of dialogue and decisions about art that the city continued to accept and commission. After the Picasso came Flamingo in '74:

Four Seasons, also in '74:

(less abstract but still VERY modern for civic art in what was the 2nd largest city in the country at the time)

Miro's Chicago in '79:

Monument with Standing Beast in '84:

And so on and so forth. This period of heavy investiture in large, public works of modern art helped cement Chicago as a place where contemporary art could thrive in public spaces- and we haven't really stopped! From Cloud Gate (the Bean) to Agora to a lot of neat, thought-provoking pieces scattered around the city. It's something I think is really cool, even if it did get us the nightmare that is Crown Fountain.

And if you want to read more about it, here's some more resources:

This guide is outdated, it's from the Rahm Emmanuel administration, but it has a lot of good pictures and locations for things. It also correctly uses the Sears Tower's name.

A couple of great blogs detailing and cataloguing Chicago's public art scene.

The Public Art Archive isn't Chicago-specific, but it has lots of collections to look at from cities all over the place!

A fascinating look at lost pieces of Chicago's public art- sadly, that now includes Monument with Standing Beast, since Google bought the Thompson Center and tore it down. (The Thompson Center had over 150 pieces of public art, an amazing collection... that's all in some state warehouse now. Hopefully it comes back or is displayed somewhere else that's public, since I'm not sure how much access we'll have to the Thompson Center once Alphabet moves in.)

Anyways I think public art is cool as hell thank you for reading this whole thing!

[theroundbartable]

Beware of Emrys...

for he walks in Arthur's shadow

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[kreate-io]

I ffeel like we don't see enough of characters with talents. Like a whumpee that can sing or has a heart in dancing. Maybe Caretaker has always loved to act, or they have the voice perfect for a radio talk show host. What about a whumper that draws, spending hours with a pencil in hand, doodling their whumpee tied up in a stress position.

It could be anything really, the love for wool, the mind for debate, the patience for chess, the skill for clay…

Idk just give your characters something they love. 🤷

[incorrectbatfam]

Only cool comic fans download the No Thanks app for iOS and Android that scans barcodes to check if a product is on the boycott list

[marisramblings]

I find it so fascinating that the Han Sooyoung that writes TWSA is the one that barely knows Dokja. In comparison to the HSY we follow, these two are practically strangers. HSY saw a sad, su1cidal, child and decided to dedicate her life to saving him. She doesn’t know Dokja like our HSY. This was a selfless-selfish act.

I personally think that ORV is a story about love and all the forms it can take. All love, to me, is the same at its core. YSA and the sisterly love she holds the company together with. Our HSY and the endless love she has for them all. The love between companions. ORV isn’t a romantic story but is a love story.

This other HSY feels like the love of a stranger. The kindness that motivates someone that barely knows you to move hell or high water. That HSY doomed the entire world for this little boy who would one day become this odd man she sees during her version of scenarios. She dedicated years to help this one person.

[intermundia]

At first glance, modern Mars doesn’t appear to be a very dynamic place. With an average surface temperature of about minus-80 degrees Fahrenheit and an atmosphere just one percent as thick as Earth’s, it is a freezing desert.

Strange, overlapping lines, often dozens of feet wide, can stretch for miles. Unlike many of Mars’ features, these are not relics. We see them appear and disappear. What are these bizarre, shape-shifting patterns?

In the mid-afternoon sun, heating of the Martian surface creates towering vortices, which can grow miles-high dust devils.

You might think that there was this tornado-force wind coming towards a rover, and it might pick the rover up and spin them around and do all sorts of horrible things. But in reality, the Martian atmosphere is actually very, very thin, and so you can have a dust devil pass over you, and you would barely even notice it. It’s thought that as these whirlwinds travelled over the rovers, they sucked dust off the solar panels like a vacuum.

But the cleaning power of the dust devils doesn’t just work on rovers. As they travel, these huge vortices suck up dust from Mars’ surface, exposing the darker bedrock beneath, leaving trails so large, we can see them clearly from space. There are no Martians creating the lines. The culprit is the Martian atmosphere.

Solar System: Storm Worlds on NOVA

[lyknest]

ThamePo : episode 1 -> episode 3

[lamardeuse]

you guys(gn) realize that while all of us like to bang on about how the silly weewoo show has rewired our brain chemistry or changed our lives or taught us things about ourselves and our place in the world, all of that has actually happened to Ryan too

[sucksinlosers]

Hi have a headcanon

I don't remember the exact line, but Gale says something along the lines of "man, if we weren't in this shit, I would court you properly" so what if

Once this is all over right

Him and Tav play pretend where they agree to meet up in a tavern somewhere separately from each other and pretend they don't know each other

And Gale, confidence boosted, just gets to... chat Tav up?

Bonus points if they do this when they're already married

Extra bonus points if Tav makes it more difficult by casting Disguise Self to see if Gale can still tell its them (he does, but sometimes it feels like cheating because he knows the feel of their magic so intimately that becomes more of a game to pretend he can't find them)

[mangofanarts]

Fallen From Grace