#Worlds away

[evydraws]

I got to paint character art for the amazing cast of the Worlds Away storytelling podcast... and got to listen to the first episode early. Guys. If you like thoughtful sci-fi, characters with everything from lovable awkwardness to ALL the trauma, and mysterious space missions... give their podcast trailer a listen.

Also, the team's on a variety of social media, including IG, where the portraits will be revealed in full next week!

[sweepseven]

Any thoughts on Worlds Away?

Yes! Great concept! Love it! Wish we could have gotten a touring version when touring shows' worlds were equally compelling! I don't really care about the story, but it's nice to see such quality footage of the Vegas shows, and often from new angles, characterizations, etc. Nothing like ricocheting from "what if there were MERMAIDS but also a SLAVE TRADE and also the BEATLES WERE THERE, KIND OF." The musical arrangements are lovely as well.

It's also an compelling contrast to Solstrom, which was the last time different shows were smashed together similarly. That was meant to be a celebration and artistic experiment. Worlds Away is a candid advertisement. We get good footage so I don't really care, but y'know, it's just another interesting data point in the transition from artistic to capitalist CdS.

[liliakier]

'Worlds away, how can I reach you?'

Some art for this lovely album by Lindsay Schoolcraft

[blessthewave]

It doesn’t matter.

[thedaily-beer]

Pure Project Worlds Away Hazy Triple IPA (Picked up at Windmill Farms). A 4 of 4. Just a stunning hop combo here that’s bursting with tropical and stone fruit and some herbal qualities in the background. As this warms it gets more complex -- a thicker body than usual, even for something hazy, and you just get more hop complexity with each sip. Juicy and clean despite the ABV, and not overly bitter in the finish, either.

[witchmd13]

I remember being at the clinic i worked at at the time the day evermore dropped 3 years ago. I was with a colleague and i couldn't process that she dropped a second perfect masterpiece months after the first just like that. I just kept refeshing my messages until i went home and heard the album for the first time. happy brithday evermore 💛

[yourleastfavoriteguyinthechairr]

AUTOCORRECT WHAT— NO-

[thisischaosmagicmoogle]

skeler. - ＷＯＲＬＤＳ ＡＷＡＹ

[sassooda]

Here we have Turned Naoya and Gojo! 🥰🥰🥰 I’ve been really in the mood to paint lately but let me note that both of these are still currently incomplete. I have to let them dry.

I will certainly be making one of all the turned!

[redvelvetwishtree]

[historyandmemes]

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than half a million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving, according to a report Thursday by the U.N. and other agencies that highlights the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s bombardment and siege on the territory in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The extent of the population’s hunger eclipsed even the near-famines in Afghanistan and Yemen of recent years, according to figures in the report. The report warned that the risk of famine is “increasing each day,” blaming the hunger on insufficient aid entering Gaza. “It doesn’t get any worse,’’ said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza. And at this speed.” ... At the start of the war, Israel stopped all deliveries of food, water, medicine and fuel into the territory. After U.S. pressure, it allowed a trickle of aid in through Egypt. But U.N. agencies say only 10% of Gaza’s food needs has been entering for weeks. (Dec. 21, 2023 | Source)

DON'T LOOK AWAY.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

[yourleastfavoriteguyinthechairr]

laughing as i write while torturing my poor readers