#It’s the perfect theme park

[strewbi]

oh Knott’s Berry Farm, charming local fried chicken restaurant turned historical early California themed theme park. oh Christmas. oh billboard asking me if I want to be put on the “knotty list,” we’re really in it now.

[returntodreamland]

have a merry magolor day

[bogkeep]

saw some lego dinosaurs today :3

[gmanmedias]

🌈 🌈 🌈

❣️ ❣️ ❣️

☠️ ☠️ ☠️

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital painting of Alex Rogan from the film The Last Starfigher. It is a head shot of Alex with a disbelieving expression on his face, mouth slightly open. You can just see the start of his starfighter outfit on his shoulders. His skin and clothing is painted in warmer colours while his hair is partially in cooler ones. There's harsh rim lighting around his hair, and some of his shoulders. The style of portrait is done with a lot of colour-blocking and hatching textures. The background is a light blue, with shooting star shapes littered about. These shapes look like the logo of the Starlite Starbrite in Alex's trailer park.]

Inktober - Day 4 (Exotic)

Film - The Last Starfighter (Nick Castle, 1984)

[lace4forest]

Happy Birthday to the Blood God!

[angiestown]

compilation of christmas stuff I never posted

[zoekrystall]

Don't have much energy n all for boards rn but I am since days obsessed w a cute love song so have a moodboard of one of my all-time otps since I'm 5. 🩷 💙

Listened to:

Lollipop (Yum bi dum like Bubblegum) - Chromance

Runaway - Against the Current

Some Say (nightcore) - Nea

[yume-fanfare]

i really love how nicely parallel world ties ra*bits !! arc together

[bumpscosity]

too scared to go off anon but we are mutuals and i love seeing your posts about the disney rides and such. its like peeking in a window to something i know nothing about but enjoy seeing on my dash regardless

HAI MYSTERY MUTUAL!! glad ya like it! disney parks are a hyperfixation so it's always fun to post about for me :)

[creepyscritches]

Been making amigurumis for a little over a month and a half now and my hands haven't broken down from anything yet :Oc

Imagine the little babies I could be making now if I hadn't had to stop crocheting when I was 17 bc my hands were deteriorating so bad and I had to pick a single craft to focus on and leave everything else behind (it was 2D art lol....)

I. Can. Make. Them. NOW!!! No gods no masters no limits baby I'm making shit so cute it makes me want to crush them >:O

[karmathenightowl]

Listen, if Justin McElroy can do a perfect cover of Anything Can Happen On Halloween from The Worst Witch, then I feel he could pull off either one of the following eerie sounding songs...

Killing Moon by Echo & The Bunnyman

Dead of Night by Orville Peck

Welcome to My Nightmare by Alice Cooper

The Headless Horseman from Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Blood on the Saddle by Tex Ritter

[tvrningout-a]

while i’m on break, i’m thinking about chiyo’s birthday tradition of going out for ice cream and arcade games with her cousin naoki :’ ))

[mcmansionhell]

we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.

The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.

It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.

And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Or so you think. Everything the interior design tries to hide, namely how unceasingly peculiar the house is, it is not entirely able to because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.

Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.

A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.

Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.

At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.

And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.

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[garygoldenbignaturals]

reached chinatown in vtmb earlier tonight. ive only heard people talk about how bad it is. and yeah. everyone was right

[echidnana]

it is really annoying like we personally see it a lot bc we're chinese but there really is this like. weird double perception of east asian culture? like ppl will say "oh I'm not racist against japanese people I watch anime how could I be!" when you can very much consume a culture while being biased against the people as well. like in western society east asian culture is just Part of it like there's boba shops everywhere and anime is super popular and a ton of people love the aesthetics of japan and korea. while simultaneously not seeing people from those cultures as actual individuals and dismissing discussions of the histories and not aesthetically pleasing cultures of those countries.