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Connemara is a Different Place...I always feel like I should need a passport to get there....like no one should need a passport ever for anything, obviously....But if I need a passport to get to Wales, I should've needed a passport for this....
#I am from rural Ireland#I am from VERY rural Ireland#So its not just that its rural#It's just. Different. Culturally. Geographically.#The burren is not different fwiw. Various surfing towns aren't different#Fermanagh isn't different.#A Gaeltacht thing?#Anyway. I'm having a nice holiday and eating lots of seafood :)#Me Fein
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personal rules for winter ❄
#this was fun bc i didn't intend for it to be kind of cryptic#i just wanted to make some reminders for myself about winter cuz i never learn#especially the back cover which i guess isn't really a rule but still stands. i'm in a rural place so when it gets dark it's Dark#and its hard to want to do anything#zine#mini zine#illustration#nonfandom#analogue art
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#art#anthro#fun me fact. when i was a kid i exclusively drew eyes like this because i was like “Its like anime!!”#i did it so much that in 2nd grade when we were doing a project where we had to make a video showcasing a talent of ours i drew an eye that#looked like this on a like big piece of paper and said my talent was “drawing anime eyes” but ig my rural missourian teacher didnt know wha#an anime was so when she turned my video on for the class she said my talent was “drawing animal eyes”#maybe she was actually just psychic and saw into my Furry Artist future who knows
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#evidence of life#regional gothic#religious gothic#nostalgia#memorycore#urban decay#(the rv is rusted to all hell)#rural decay#(because there’s no wood in urban decay apparently apparently this was literally shot in the most urban of areas lmao)#interiors#further proof that adrian is real like i was there in his family’s rv <3 my family’s rv <3#like yeah guys my girlfriend is real she just goes to a different school 🙄🙄🙄#photo took in 2024 feels like 2008 or 2009 to me…………#my photography#:3<3#bc its ur house hi ilu im posting this now bc you dipped on account of it being 4 on the west coast what do you think ive done for us mad@u#<- lying no mad just miss you yeah yeah take that gay shit to dms but i miss my girl fr he’s so pretty and 100% honking shoe rn <33
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honestly my state's pride was ultimately underwhelming this year for me, but i gotta say it's...somewhat nice that it can be boring? like im so accepted and validated by people in my life that pride no longer feels like (for me) an escape or outlet. i attended this specific event with my mom in 2018 and it was my first pride event. i was still in high school. i remember it literally brought me out of a deep depressive episode for a bit, because of how fun and affirming and safe it was. it was a celebration of me and people like me!
but now i kinda get that everyday in my life. so pride really only offers me a chance to hang with some friends, day drink, smoke weed in public, and pick up freebies at every tent. it's basically like any other holiday to me now. but isn't that amazing? that im so accepted and loved and celebrated as a whole queer person, that i can take something like pride for granted?
i'm super thankful for that. i'm still super thankful for pride.
and, i gotta say, it was really touching to see so many middle school and high school aged kids there, sometimes with their parents and sometimes by themselves. i hope they one day can find pride as "boring" as i do. i hope every queer person can.
#im stoned and feeling sappy waaaaaaaaaaaaaah#i love the queer community i love you all sso much#also i gotta say its interesting attending huge pride events like this#but then also going to the conservative rural small town ones#if you ever get a chance to go a pride event in a conservative area i recommend going#these people organizing it sacrifice a lot to get this done#one family i know literally got chased out of town for hosting a pride event which consisted of#a fashion show. a dog costume show. karaoke. cupcake decorating. planting sunflowers. and like. a cockatiel handler bc birb cool.#chased out of town. for regular ass things that were just rainbow flavored#those prides arent boring to me theyre so fuking integral and frankly still a form of protest#so yeah go to your local pride in a conservative area#but anyways thats a completely different topic why tf am i talking aout this in the tags
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Why I hate Golf
This is the Takapuna Golf Course in Auckland, New Zealand.
It is in the middle of Auckland's north shore suburbs.
According to their website, they are one of the most popular golf courses in Aotearoa and have an annual visitor count of 60,000 people. They don't clarify if that is individual unique visitors or recounts, but lets be generous and say its unique visitors. 60,000, not bad.
This is Eden Park Stadium (the little square on the right) and oh look there's another golf course on the left there, ignore that one for now.
(the above two images are at the same scale)
Eden park has a capacity of 50,000 people. Ed Sheeran was here earlier this year and sold out the two nights he performed. That's 100,000 people in a weekend all in that little red square. 60,000 in a year no longer seems so great.
60,000 people per year is also only 160 people per day. 160 visitors to a golf course that is 470,000 square meters in area. Now the average property size in Auckland is 500 square meters. So the golf course takes up the area of 940 houses.
940 homes worth of land for 160 people.
And that is Auckland housing sizes. Auckland is horribly designed and very spread out. Let's instead look at Barcelona, considered one of the most well designed cities in the world.
This is Takapuna golf course side by side with Barcelona
(The scale is as close to being equal as I could get them, I don't have ArcGIS data for Barcelona so had to use google maps)
Each red square overlaid on Takapuna Golf Course is exactly 133m in height/width, the same size as each city block in Barcelona, road width included.
There are 23 Barcelona blocks worth of space in Takapuna Golf Course with room to spare. About 640 people live in each Barcelona block, that's 15000 people.
15000 peoples worth of homes and living spaces, sacrificed so 160 people can play golf in a day.
Now this is just one golf course in a big city, what's 15,000 people to a city of 1.6 million, who cares right?
Here is a wider shot of Auckland City.
Those red dots? They're golf courses.
There are 16 golf courses inside the metropolitan area of Auckland City (4 not pictured as Auckland is too spread out to get one clean screenshot). Keep in mind these are not rural golf courses out in the country, these are right beside housing developments and shopping malls. And for the record I could not find a single golf course in the Barcelona metropolitan area, you had to go out into the country before finding one.
So lets multiply that 15,000 people by 16 golf courses?
240,000 people.
With Auckland City's golf courses you could house 240,000 people comfortably with some good urban planning.
That is why I hate golf.
#For the record I'm not 100% against golf I just think if you have the time to play the most boring sport in the world#Then you also have time to drive 30 minutes out into the country side to play it#golf courses water usage is a whole other story but they aren't uniquely wasteful so thats why I havent mentioned that#golf courses in dry areas with water shortages are even worse than a waste of space and it doesnt matter if theyre urban or rural#but for golf courses in a place like auckland theyre water usage is generally fine and its the waste of land use that bothers me so#Auckland#New Zealand#Aotearoa#Golf#Barcelona#Why i hate golf#golf hate
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I promise I'm working on stuff btw its just going incredibly slowly
#im just kinda working on whatever i can handle#so finishing up a couple of oneshot comucs#tried sketchjng Rural Au buts its so much detail intensive work#i think ill have to work on kid leo or l330n instead#idk well see#gonna try and finish these two oneshot comics first
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This little guy was grooming himself <3 - Botanical Garden (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
#look at him touching its nose#just a lil guy#he's so cute omg#cottagecore#nature#naturecore#rural#garden#squirrel#Kazakhstan#Almaty#Казакстан#Алма-Ата#Алматы́#Asia#Central Asia
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Move complete 😭
#there were more tears than i thought i had left in me#it hurt a lot#but many hours of driving later and we have made it#everything is unloaded#and now i just have to go through the ordeal of unpacking and getting everything organised#my parents are insisting that not everything i have brought will fit#but their solution is 'storage unit' - readers this storage unit it a random shipping container on some plot of rural land#that has a string of break ins on its history#so i am not enthused about putting any of my things in this storage unit#but more than that#these are *my things*#i have already parted with so much to get it down to these few boxes and items of furniture#i will make them fit no matter what#they just have to give me a few days to try out different configurations of furniture and stuff#and i will figure it out#i will#if im gonna live here then you can be certain im gonna make it feel as much like a home as possible#so yeah#the hardest part is over!!#we can start to work on healing#looking forward#we move#no matter what#we keep moving forward
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living somewhere where gambling is entirely illegal i oft forget that other people really can just. Go Gambling. buy a scratch off at the gas station etc . here you have to drive like 100+ miles to play poker or get alcohol over 5% at the store
#vixen rambles#its so funny thst utah is very strict on stuff like that because like. rural utah is FLOODED with stoners my god#everyone just scrapes their way to the nevada or colorado border
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Me: I would love to live in the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons universe.
Person Who I Made Up For This Post: Oh yeah! Harvest Sprites and magic, right!?
Me: No, I want to have food that isn't controlled by my government because even if I grow my own food here in the real world and run a farm, the government can and will put their dirty paws in it and if it isn't the government it's Big Agriculture goons who bully smalltime farmers. Those issues aren't really a thing in Harvest Moon and when they are, they're really not. I wish for the fantasies of freedom.
#harvest moon#story of seasons#i dont know why im like this#i just grew up in a farming community hearing abt it from my elders#And now i get to see those same problems play out on a global scale#so playing harvest moon is basically my ultimate escapism and its not even bc of the harvest goddess#i forget the goddess and sprites exist tbh#pioneers of olive town doesnt even have a harvest goddess#i just want a walkable rural community thats close knit where everyone is unique and loves one another is that too much to ask for?
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This is going to sound so stupid but I only today realised that a significant number of people like....look down on retail & service industry work.
#Nothing like happened i'm just listening to Debt by David Graeber & thinking about things#Remembering when my coworkers wife was working in a cafe while she finished her masters#And I was like - ah I like that cafe! Does she like the work?#& he scathingly said#'well. its cafe work'#I feel stupid! This should be obvious!! I know people treat service industry workers like shit!#I guess my mammy - who raised me on her wages from 5 jobs at a time including everything from#Cross border peace development work to cleaning bedrooms in a b&b -#Simply did too good a job teaching me that any job worth doing is worth doing well. Has inherent dignity. Etc.#Also I have many friends who prefer being baristas to like. High paid lab work#Also i'm from a rural area where farm work is considered the Real Work& everything else is just filling in the gaps#And I grew up surrounded by teachers & civil servants & nurses who would pull a few shifts at a bar or hotel to make ends meet#So. I never really computed that some of this work is considered lesser.#tthat the people who do it are consdjered lesser by some.#And not just by outrageous snobs. By like. Average ppl with jobs that they can sit down in#This is blowing my mind I need a minute#Me Fein
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cozy color..
#transformers#starscream#knock out#knockscream#koss#kept freaking out n stimming over this while drawing it#i am SO HAPPY with how it turned out!!!!!#even tho the coloring process was a NIGHTMARE#just. hmngh. peace after war. star prolly escapes jail and hunkers down as far from civilization as he can#there is nothing left for him to fight for—the world he knew is long gone#maybe ko finds him while on a drive through the more rural parts of cybertron#he’s thinking the same thing#not sure what happens from there—maybe ko brings him back and they start a new life together#maybe ko stays with him in the ‘country’#either way. love and grief. you know the drill#you can’t go home again and all#that’s way sadder than i was thinking it would be#but its hopeful dw i like happy endings
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i think that veganism as a political movement has a lot of interesting things to say about how food agriculture has been shaped by consumerism and the way its alienated the average westerner from food production especially around meat. its a cruel cruel industry for everyone involved and it sucks.
unfortunately it also overwelmingly falls victim (like a lot of other socially progressive political movements lol) to a complete inability or perhaps a refusal to engage with rural indigenous communities especially in the global south. which is ironic because (like a lot of other socially progressive political movements) much of their theoretical framework for reforming society Depends on rural indigenous communities especially in the global south ^.^
#this isnt just about how a lot of rural indigenous communities cannot survive on a vegan diet altho that is part of it#but its also more importantly about how a lot of the global north cannot survive on a vegan diet without exploitation!#and a lot of my issues with veganism as a political movement stems from the fact that ive never heard of a vegan solution to#food production that isnt reliant on restructuring imperialist foodways but just Making them Vegan Now#meanwhile you look at historic examples of widespread adoption of veganism and vegetarianism#and theyre almost all in subtropical fertile regions with a huge diversity of native grains and fruit and veg#i guess the uk is a good example of it because the uk already imports so much fruit and vegetables#the uk as an island in a temperate/subarctic position cannot grow the amount of food required to feed their population on a vegan diet#this goes for a lot of europe and north america in fact. so if the whole world was just gonna switch to a vegan lifestyle#the global north would largely be fed by the global south (as it is now)#perpetuating systems of oppression of both land and people in the global south. not much would change on that end#this is largely because a lot of vegans are these super alienated super priviliged white settlers from the suburbs#and they project their alienation onto others#anyway i think about the politics of veganism a lot for someone who will never be vegan (due to geographical and ethical concerns)#probably because until recently my family and others in my area have relied on hunting for food
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mini sketchbook dump. lowkey forgot this thing existed until last week
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1. based on one of the pics i took w hivemind, i told them to do cute poses and riley decided to just go O__O at the camera??? hes so silly <3
2. another livemind thing but this time it's from the video i took of them slow dancing. if i ever say no to a hivemind gay moment... call the cops my identity has been stolen for sure
3. finally drew one of my favorite little hivemind moments EVER oh my god they are so cute. literally me and who
4. this is just a cute pic of riley that i'd drawn literally right when i started doing hivemind fanart so i thought i'd redraw it. adding both the ref pic and my drawing from june 2023 so you can gawk at how much more angular my style has gotten
5. my dearest hex aka @gaydonweaver sent me this old pic of graydon (from a 2018 video i think) and i was enamored with his fluffy hair so i had to draw it
5. another one of my favorite cute hivemind moments... real compilationheads will recognize this as the thumbnail for 'hivemind juicy kissable boyfriend moments' which i remember riley being caught watching on stream 😭 im never gonna forget that i think its so fucking funny
also the section under the cut is a SAFE SPACE so here's some silly and kinda embarrassing sona doodles i did around these
#hivemind tv#my art#fanart#furry#fursona#2024#sketchbook#OMFG i have had it up to HERE with my campus' scanners these things SUCK#tried all three methods of scanning shit at my library and all of them managed to fuck up a pic of baa-deca that i was gonna put in here#fully need to inherit my parents nice canoscan or just buy one. i finally have a biology job for the summer thats in like rural colorado#(aka way way way far from the nearest public library or anything) so i could use one LOL#anyway please enjoy#also disclaimer for the gay moments love wins etc things i dont think these youtube men are gay i just think its cute when theyre all#affectionate with each other and shit. the hivemind bromance mega compilation should be in the library of congress#you can tell im feeling ravenous in a gay way recently because i keep fucking watching it
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It's always interesting to hear about people's weird/unexpected "alternate life paths". Like, something that you could have done with your life, a job you almost took, a school you almost went to, etc - that was still actually realistic enough that it could have happened, but NOW it seems to not suit your current personality.
Like for example, I currently hate advertising (how manipulative it is, brands trying to be 'relatable', social media amplifying it to an obnoxious extreme, etc.) so much that even seeing a little ad before a youtube video is grating to even witness, but there was a point in time where I was genuinely seriously considering going into marketing/making commercials as a career lol. Or like, I have a relative who was very inclined to be a pastor when they were younger, even though today they're a super strong atheist, etc. etc.
#BECAUSE I knew I really liked filming and editing things and doing set design and costume design (from having done little bits of that#here and there in media classes and my own stuff - i used to be a lot more into making videos than I am now). BUT I was always thinking#that a movie is WAAY to big and long. even a short film. So I was trying to think of ways I could still like#have the fun of scouting locations to film and dressing up actors and etc. etc. without it having to be a Huge Million Dollar Production#on tv show or movie level. SO then I was thinking about like... just doing commercials. Or music videos. Like shorter things where I still#get the fun of the filming and everything but it's less of an intensive long term project.#So there is an alternate version of me (I suppose if i somehow did not end up having physical and mental health issues#as badly somehow.. or like.. randomly came into wealth and was able to pay my way through a nice college despite missing#days constantly being out because I'm sick or something lol) that works in some corporate advertising office coming up with commercials#and directing or filming them or doing the sets for them or something in that general vicinity.#I also was considering being a corporate psychologist. or whatever its called.. oh from google:#''Industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists study and assess individual group and organization dynamics in the workplace''#I don't think I even knew what the job entailed. I was at the time just thinking like.. the type of person that comes into a business offic#and gives everyone personality assessments or does MBTI or big-5 testing crap for whatever reason that some businesses get that#done for people. Really i just wanted to be in a Corporate Big Office setting yet still do psychology. Because I used to be really fixated#on living in a big city. Like the ideas of everything being walkable. picking up a coffee in the morning. walking to my job in a Big#Skyscraper Building. people watching in a huge hotel lobby for lunch. flying frequently (I love airplanes and airports aesthetically).#living in an apartment with a giant window overlooking the city. etc. etc. BUT that was before i had really BEEN to a city. Then I actually#hung around a city a few times and went places and I was like... AUGh... The Sensory Overwhelm.. cars people lights loudness noise scary#everything happening all at once. etc. etc. (though even when I wanted to live in a city i NEVER strove for the Night Life. when i say I#enjoy city imagery I mean like... in the day time. Many people who like cities talk about The Night Life and post pictures of cities all#lit up at night and clubs and dancing and restaurants. none of that EVER appealed to me. perhaps a sign I am not a real city person. Like#I am NOT standing in a crowded bar full of loud people in the middle of the night lol.. get AWAY from me!!) but I do adore the#architecture of like bright white clean sterile modern spaces like huge airport lobbies or malls or etc. I think thats what reminded me of#city and what I liked about the idea of that life. Like I always LOVED the layout of schools and hospitals and trainstations and public#transport in general. Though even then I knew enough that I would not be a good architect/city planner. so I guess my adoration for those#spaces was merely to be channeled into LIVING there. but then I realized I didn't even really want to do that that much. I mean I still#definitely aim to live NEAR a city. like the little areas outside of it. I would never live in a rural place 4 hours from anything. I liter#ally just COULDNT since I need close access to hospitals sometimes lol. But I used to want to live in the CENTER of citites like high rise#condo. and now I'm like.... eh....... perhaps a smaller quieter walkable space nearby lol.. ANYWAY.. alternate me in my Business Suit eheh
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