#an ocean full of islands

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Y’all it’s only SIX DAYS until the Mandalorian season 3 and onLY EIGHT DAYS until the new Tide Lines album drops and I JUST

I’M UNWELL

[photographss-world]

"Bak birazdan ay da batacak

karanlık bulaşmasın ellerine.."

Attila İlhan...

[pellinni-photo]

seascape with island at night. rippled water surface in full moon light

[boneszphoto]

summer in the songhees nation

[awesomebutunpractical]

Done feeling okay. Back to the madness. This is fine.

[fieriframes]

[All aboard the ship of love. We're going full speed ahead, toot toot! The ocean is full of broken hearts. And the captain is a kiss! Ship of love, full of tender hugs. I must steer the course to the island of love. There are pineapples and crabs there. But I cannot eat them, too heartbroken today. It's the ship, it's the ship. The ship of love. I drive the ship, drive the ship. The ship of love. Look out for rocks, big scary rocks. The rocks are metaphors for my broken heart!]

[faaun]

LOVELY DAUGHTER UNSOUND MIND!

[shalomanna]

[paulpingminho]

[alteredstatesstuff]

the island

[earthjournalbyawildrose]

I walked until I could see no one else. I sat and watched the birds play in the air, gliding on the currents, resting in the oak trees. I earthed barefoot on the sand all the way to the mud sand, where my feet began to sink. We rested, we smiled, we played, we foraged. The clouds rushed hurriedly overhead, somewhere else to go across the sea and the sun danced below on the ground in shadow.

In a few weeks our art studio vision will become a reality. As we build it, I wonder what Earth transmissions will be born from this new space. How will I feel in a large space open to creativity? We go to her, Mother Earth, we return to our nest to think, to feel, to reflect on all that she teaches us daily. To portray those feelings on paper. I know who I am. I know what I am. Now I paint all that I am. Wild Rose

source

[aideshou]

🧡💛🌕🍑💛🧡

[long-coated-fellow]

I can't believe that Our Flag Means Death season 2 is coming out in two days. Like that's two whole full moons from now

[eventheodds]

tag drop

bonds:

you stun me with your smile and all you bring — angelictyphoon

it's the cracks that let the light shine through — full-of-mercy

well‚ if the sky can crack‚ there must be some way back to love and only love — angelictyphoon‚ full-of-mercy

i've never fallen from quite this high‚ fallin' into your ocean eyes — sixty-billion

feel the ache in my hands to hold onto you — wolfwoocl

rescue my heart‚ i'll drown without you — forgivenpunishment

'cause love will always heal our broken backs — typhoonvash

we could make the world a sweeter place — typhoonvash‚ forgivenpunishment

verses:

verse: love is a miracle (trimax)

verse: where the streets have no name (stampede)

verse: my cathedral is the badlands (outlaw)

verse: this too shall pass (horror)

verse: beyond entropia (ice planet)

verse: proximity to the inevitable (space horror)

verse: on an island in the sun (acnh)

verse: the darkness beyond the stars / the garden of everything (ffvii x trigun)

[xmoonbeams]

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!