#artist prepper

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In an attempt to preserve my comics, fandom art, and such and the love, effort, and fun I had while creating it, I've been uploading these digital collections for anyone to download ... because I don't see the point of having them buried in my PC catching virtual dust or subject to the nonsense-of-the-week that social media has going more often each time.

And so, I upload them to my Ko-fi shop for free/or on a pay-what-you-want basis.

What I create is for people, not for training software or giving random companies money. I firmly believe that art is only completed when it has a public and that you, dear reader, have an active role in completing a story by experiencing it. So these are for all the fans too, y'all make this house a home.

And if you ask yourself "Why get the PDF? " I have a couple of reasons:

I put a lot of effort into making some panels and details better, and the comics have fewer typos than the version I posted.

With the way social media deletes things randomly, I really don’t want these comics to disappear into the internet void… This is the best way I have to preserve them and for you all to enjoy them without having to print them.

Extra content! Since I develop ideas for YEARS, I like curating and organizing my ideas/drawings so the whole project feels cohesive, has some behind-the-scenes process, and looks rad af.

I don't like putting fanart behind a paywall but I'm not gonna lie, sometimes getting paid for a bit of hard work is rewarding and any tip means a lot to me. That's why these are up in a pay-what-you-want

I still have so much art to create,  organize, and share with you all! keep an eye on my ko-fi for more <3

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NYT's Notable Books of 2023

Each year, we pore over thousands of new books, seeking out the best novels, memoirs, biographies, poetry collections, stories and more. Here are the standouts, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

AFTER SAPPHO by Selby Wynn Schwartz

Inspired by Sappho’s work, Schwartz’s debut novel offers an alternate history of creativity at the turn of the 20th century, one that centers queer women artists, writers and intellectuals who refused to accept society’s boundaries.

ALL THE SINNERS BLEED by S.A. Cosby

In his earlier thrillers, Cosby worked the outlaw side of the crime genre. In his new one — about a Black sheriff in a rural Southern town, searching for a serial killer who tortures Black children — he’s written a crackling good police procedural.

THE BEE STING by Paul Murray

In Murray’s boisterous tragicomic novel, a once wealthy Irish family struggles with both the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash and their own inner demons.

BIOGRAPHY OF X by Catherine Lacey

Lacey rewrites 20th-century U.S. history through the audacious fictional life story of X, a polarizing female performance artist who made her way from the South to New York City’s downtown art scene.

BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton

In this action-packed novel from a Booker Prize winner, a collective of activist gardeners crosses paths with a billionaire doomsday prepper on land they each want for different purposes.

BLACKOUTS by Justin Torres

This lyrical, genre-defying novel — winner of the 2023 National Book Award — explores what it means to be erased and how to persist after being wiped away.

BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN by Jessica Knoll

In her third and most assured novel, Knoll shifts readers’ attention away from a notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy, and onto the lives — and deaths — of the women he killed. Perhaps for the first time in fiction, Knoll pooh-poohs Bundy's much ballyhooed intelligence, celebrating the promise and perspicacity of his victims instead.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

This satire — in which prison inmates duel on TV for a chance at freedom — makes readers complicit with the bloodthirsty fans sitting ringside. The fight scenes are so well written they demonstrate how easy it might be to accept a world this sick.

THE COVENANT OF WATER by Abraham Verghese

Verghese’s first novel since “Cutting for Stone” follows generations of a family across 77 years in southwestern India as they contend with political strife and other troubles — capped by a shocking discovery made by the matriarch’s granddaughter, a doctor.

CROOK MANIFESTO by Colson Whitehead

Returning to the world of his novel “Harlem Shuffle,” Whitehead again uses a crime story to illuminate a singular neighborhood at a tipping point — here, Harlem in the 1970s.

THE DELUGE by Stephen Markley

Markley’s second novel confronts the scale and gravity of climate change, tracking a cadre of scientists and activists from the gathering storm of the Obama years to the super-typhoons of future decades. Immersive and ambitious, the book shows the range of its author’s gifts: polyphonic narration, silken sentences and elaborate world-building.

EASTBOUND by Maylis de Kerangal

In de Kerangal’s brief, lyrical novel, translated by Jessica Moore, a young Russian soldier on a trans-Siberian train decides to desert and turns to a civilian passenger, a Frenchwoman, for help.

EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by Heather Fawcett

The world-building in this tale of a woman documenting a new kind of faerie is exquisite, and the characters are just as textured and richly drawn. This is the kind of folkloric fantasy that remembers the old, blood-ribboned source material about sacrifices and stolen children, but adds a modern gloss.

ENTER GHOST by Isabella Hammad

In Hammad’s second novel, a British Palestinian actor returns to her hometown in Israel to recover from a breakup and spend time with her family. Instead, she’s talked into joining a staging of “Hamlet” in the West Bank, where she has a political awakening.

FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK by Alba de Céspedes

A best-selling novelist and prominent anti-Fascist in her native Italy, de Céspedes has lately fallen into unjust obscurity. Translated by Ann Goldstein, this elegant novel from the 1950s tells the story of a married mother, Valeria, whose life is transformed when she begins keeping a secret diary.

THE FRAUD by Zadie Smith

Based on a celebrated 19th-century trial in which the defendant was accused of impersonating a nobleman, Smith’s novel offers a vast panoply of London and the English countryside, and successfully locates the social controversies of an era in a handful of characters.

FROM FROM by Monica Youn

In her fourth book of verse, a svelte, intrepid foray into American racism, Youn turns a knowing eye on society’s love-hate relationship with what it sees as the “other.”

A GUEST IN THE HOUSE by Emily Carroll

After a lonely young woman marries a mild-mannered widower and moves into his home, she begins to wonder how his first wife actually died. This graphic novel alternates between black-and-white and overwhelming colors as it explores the mundane and the horrific.

THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride

McBride’s latest, an intimate, big-hearted tale of community, opens with a human skeleton found in a well in the 1970s, and then flashes back to the past, to the ’20s and ’30s, to explore the town’s Black, Jewish and immigrant history.

HELLO BEAUTIFUL by Ann Napolitano

In her radiant fourth novel, Napolitano puts a fresh spin on the classic tale of four sisters and the man who joins their family. Take “Little Women,” move it to modern-day Chicago, add more intrigue, lots of basketball and a different kind of boy next door and you’ve got the bones of this thoroughly original story.

A HISTORY OF BURNING by Janika Oza

This remarkable debut novel tells the story of an extended Indo-Ugandan family that is displaced, settled and displaced again.

HOLLY by Stephen King

The scrappy private detective Holly Gibney (who appeared in “The Outsider” and several other novels) returns, this time taking on a missing-persons case that — in typical King fashion — unfolds into a tale of Dickensian proportions.

A HOUSE FOR ALICE by Diana Evans

This polyphonic novel traces one family’s reckoning after the patriarch dies in a fire, as his widow, a Nigerian immigrant, considers returning to her home country and the entire family re-examines the circumstances of their lives.

THE ILIAD by Homer

Emily Wilson’s propulsive new translation of the “Iliad” is buoyant and expressive; she wants this version to be read aloud, and it would certainly be fun to perform.

INK BLOOD SISTER SCRIBE by Emma Törzs

The sisters in Törzs's delightful debut have been raised to protect a collection of magic books that allow their keepers to do incredible things. Their story accelerates like a fugue, ably conducted to a tender conclusion.

KAIROS by Jenny Erpenbeck

This tale of a torrid, yearslong relationship between a young woman and a much older married man — translated from the German by Michael Hofmann — is both profound and moving.

KANTIKA by Elizabeth Graver

Inspired by the life of Graver’s maternal grandmother, this exquisitely imagined family saga spans cultures and continents as it traces the migrations of a Sephardic Jewish girl from turn-of-the-20th-century Constantinople to Barcelona, Havana and, finally, Queens, N.Y.

LAND OF MILK AND HONEY by C Pam Zhang

Zhang’s lush, keenly intelligent novel follows a chef who’s hired to cook for an “elite research community” in the Italian Alps, in a not-so-distant future where industrial-agricultural experiments in America’s heartland have blanketed the globe in a crop-smothering smog.

LONE WOMEN by Victor LaValle

The year is 1915, and the narrator of LaValle’s horror-tinged western has arrived in Montana to cultivate an unforgiving homestead. She’s looking for a fresh start as a single Black woman in a sparsely populated state, but the locked trunk she has in stow holds a terrifying secret.

MONICA by Daniel Clowes

In Clowes’s luminous new work, the titular character, abandoned by her mother as a child, endures a life of calamities before resolving to learn about her origins and track down her parents.

THE MOST SECRET MEMORY OF MEN by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Based on a true story and translated by Lara Vergnaud, Sarr’s novel — about a Senegalese writer brought low by a plagiarism scandal — asks sharp questions about the state of African literature in the West.

THE NEW NATURALS by Gabriel Bump

In Bump’s engrossing new novel, a young Black couple, mourning the loss of their newborn daughter and disillusioned with the world, start a utopian society — but tensions both internal and external soon threaten their dreams.

NORTH WOODS by Daniel Mason

Mason’s novel looks at the occupants of a single house in Massachusetts over several centuries, from colonial times to present day. An apple farmer, an abolitionist, a wealthy manufacturer: The book follows these lives and many others, with detours into natural history and crime reportage.

NOT EVEN THE DEAD by Juan Gómez Bárcena

An ex-conquistador in Spanish-ruled, 16th-century Mexico is asked to hunt down an Indigenous prophet in this novel by a leading writer in Spain, splendidly translated by Katie Whittemore. The epic search stretches across much of the continent and, as the author bends time and history, lasts centuries.

THE NURSERY by��Szilvia Molnar

“I used to be a translator and now I am a milk bar.” So begins Molnar’s brilliant novel about a new mother falling apart within the four walls of her apartment.

OUR SHARE OF NIGHT by Mariana Enriquez

This dazzling, epic narrative, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, is a bewitching brew of mystery and myth, peopled by mediums who can summon “the Darkness” for a secret society of wealthy occultists seeking to preserve consciousness after death.

PINEAPPLE STREET by Jenny Jackson

Jackson’s smart, dishy debut novel embeds readers in an upper-crust Brooklyn Heights family — its real estate, its secrets, its just-like-you-and-me problems. Does money buy happiness? “Pineapple Street” asks a better question: Does it buy honesty?

THE REFORMATORY by Tananarive Due

Due’s latest — about a Black boy, Robert, who is wrongfully sentenced to a fictionalized version of Florida’s infamous and brutal Dozier School — is both an incisive examination of the lingering traumas of racism and a gripping, ghost-filled horror novel. “The novel’s extended, layered denouement is so heart-smashingly good, it made me late for work,” Randy Boyagoda wrote in his review. “I couldn’t stop reading.”

THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera

Trained to kill by his mother and able to see demons, the protagonist of Chandrasekera’s stunning and lyrical novel flees his destiny as an assassin and winds up in a politically volatile metropolis.

SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS by Ed Park

Double agents, sinister corporations, slasher films, U.F.O.s — Park’s long-awaited second novel is packed to the gills with creative elements that enliven his acerbic, comedic and lyrical odyssey into Korean history and American paranoia.

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey

This elegant novel resonates with implication beyond the taut contours of its central story line. In Novey’s deft hands, the complex relationship between a young woman and her former stepmother hints at the manifold divisions within America itself.

THIS OTHER EDEN by Paul Harding

In his latest novel, inspired by the true story of a devastating 1912 eviction in Maine that displaced an entire mixed-race fishing community, Harding turns that history into a lyrical tale about the fictional Apple Island on the cusp of destruction.

TOM LAKE by Ann Patchett

Locked down on the family’s northern Michigan cherry orchard, three sisters and their mother, a former actress whose long-ago summer fling went on to become a movie star, reflect on love and regret in Patchett’s quiet and reassuring Chekhovian novel.

THE UNSETTLED by Ayana Mathis

This novel follows three generations across time and place: a young mother trying to create a home for herself and her son in 1980s Philadelphia, and her mother, who is trying to save their Alabama hometown from white supremacists seeking to displace her from her land.

VICTORY CITY by Salman Rushdie

Rushdie’s new novel recounts the long life of Pampa Kampana, who creates an empire from magic seeds in 14th-century India. Her world is one of peace, where men and women are equal and all faiths welcome, but the story Rushdie tells is of a state that forever fails to live up to its ideals.

WE COULD BE SO GOOD by Cat Sebastian

This queer midcentury romance — about reporters who meet at work, become friends, move in together and fall in love — lingers on small, everyday acts like bringing home flowers with the groceries, things that loom large because they’re how we connect with others.

WESTERN LANE by Chetna Maroo

In this polished and disciplined debut novel, an 11-year-old Jain girl in London who has just lost her mother turns her attention to the game of squash — which in Maroo’s graceful telling becomes a way into the girl’s grief.

WITNESS by Jamel Brinkley

Set in Brooklyn, and featuring animal rescue workers, florists, volunteers, ghosts and UPS workers, Brinkley’s new collection meditates on what it means to see and be seen.

Y/N by Esther Yi

In this weird and wondrous novel, a bored young woman in thrall to a boy band buys a one-way ticket to Seoul.

YELLOWFACE by R.F. Kuang

Kuang’s first foray outside of the fantasy genre is a breezy and propulsive tale about a white woman who achieves tremendous literary success by stealing a manuscript from a recently deceased Asian friend and passing it off as her own.

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Got any book recommendations? (Im on a hold list at my local library for the goblin emperor)

it depends what you like! here are some books of various genres that really stood out to me over the past few months:

the bee sting by paul murray (tragicomic family saga)

glass and god by anne carson (selected poetry/essays)

what moves the dead by t. kingfisher (gothic fantasy retelling of "the fall of the house of usher")

the sundial by shirley jackson (psychological thriller about a family of apocalypse preppers)

borne by jeff vandermeer (post-apocalyptic "new weird" fiction about the bond between a scavenger woman and her adopted monster-child)

strange practice by vivian shaw (1800s fantasy with some really excellent vampires)

city of glass by paul auster (detective noir with bonus surrealism)

normal rules don't apply by kate atkinson (linked short stories)

monsters by claire dederer (essay collection about great artists who were terrible people)

[bidonica]

Me: I love this part of the map!

This part of the map:

(Previous adventures in pizza delivery: a Death Stranding playthrough blog)

Speaking of, today I went on a light hike with my father who's the actual mountaineer in the family and completely unprompted he asked me to explain Death Stranding to him. I am becoming afraid of my own influencing powers

Incredible insights about Neanderthals from acclaimed director Nicolas Winding Refn

Man it feels good to do these missions... look at the breathtaking scenery

What the FUCK

"If it's not too late" well it is! The Mountaineer is an npc I'm fond of but I wish he had better timing (btw it's ironic that Die Hardman warns you that preppers in the mountain area might be hard to convince to join the UCA while they're generally very nice and eager to enter the network)

Oh wow well

I guess I'll ignore that and the lightning and the loud cracks and go do other allegedly story-advancing missions. This is productive procrastination

Like this rookie porter needed saving (and for some reason was nearly impossible to find despite being a darker silhouette on a white background... first time I had to look up the solution to something in this game I kid you not) (yes I had skipped this one in my first playthrough) (I'm realizing I cut A LOT of corners the first time around)

A still untested hot spring?!? NOT on MY watch

Oh, so unlike Mama and the Chiral Artist this guy doesn't join you for a health restoring bath? Mh. I wonder why

Me: Deadman, you better not be in a chiral vortex when I get there to retrieve my beloved BB

Deadman:

The FUCK are you saying man (you read this in Norman Reedus' voice)

siiiiigh

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This day in history

THIS WEEKEND (November 8-10), I'll be in TUCSON, AZ: I'm the GUEST OF HONOR at the TUSCON SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION.

#20yrsago Vintage glasses-frames at decent prices https://memex.craphound.com/2004/11/07/vintage-glasses-frames-at-decent-prices/

#15yrsago Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs https://web.archive.org/web/20091108015518/http://torontoist.com/2009/11/disgruntled_star_editor_takes_revenge.php

#15yrsago Danish anti-piracy group gives up https://web.archive.org/web/20091112102256/http://freeform101.org/?p=357

#10yrsago Book of seashell scans bound in a seashell https://www.tumblr.com/laurenabishop/84561495428/scallop-shell-artists-book-that-i-made-filled

#5yrsago The case for breaking up Disney https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disney-part

#5yrsago Guillotine watch: Louis XVI’s final chateau, never occupied by royalty, is for sale, just in time for the next revolution https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/10/04/a-sleeping-chateau-untouched-since-the-revolution-is-for-sale/

#5yrsago Leaked internal docs show that Facebook shuts down access to user data to kill competitors, but claims it is protecting users https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/leaked-documents-show-facebook-leveraged-user-data-fight-rivals-help-n1076986

#1yrago Naomi Alderman's 'The Future' https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/07/preppers-of-the-red-death/#the-event

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hello friends :-) below the cut are the summaries of the verses for my original characters as well as some info on them. it doesn't include all of them and i'll be working on a follow up with the rest! it also does not go SUPER into details about backgrounds or personality, because i personally find that those things are more fun to introduce during threads. if its not enough however and u still feel a little lost when / if i send u an ask meme / ask for a starter, pls feel free to send me a dm!

kirin keyes. 30. she / they pronouns. keke palmer fc.

main verse: ex (?) - scam artist lawyer working out of miami, shamelessly inspired by the one and only saul goodman. good person deep, deep, deep down but undeniably materialistic and desperate for success. superficially charismatic, tends to become a stuttering mess when there's real feelings on the line. alt. verse includes them working in (insert town name where your muse can be found) after their involvement with a miami crime org. went sideways and put them on the run. the boys: works as either a reporter for vought news international or as an in company attorney. they're either unpowered or has the ability to manipulate time, working similarly to curtis’ powers in the show misfits e.g. their power only triggers when a strong feeling of regret occurs. bridgerton: probably working as barrister to one or several of the families within the ton, trying to sell themselves into other families. might also be trying to scam them out of their money, who knows! cyberpunk: this verse is seriously underdeveloped but i think it could be fun to write them as being a fixer, idk! baldurs gate: hailing from waterdeep, they were ( prior to being kidnapped by the netherbrain ) an eloquence bard involved with a legal organization known as the lawyers. i imagine them as a companion rather than tav in this verse, and their approval goes up when the pc: avoids combat through charisma based checks, tricks an npc into giving them something, is nice to the elderly and to children. while in the party they can be overheard getting along well with most of the other party members, exceptions possibly being lae’zel, shadowheart and minthara. lots of stupid banter hehe

rune floyd. 30. they / them pronouns. katy o’brian fc.

main verse: left their suburban hometown with their adoptive father after the traumatic death of their mother. they end up owning and living at a farm, isolating themselves from the rest of the world and only interacting with other people through trading various goods. they're quiet, hard-working and have a good head on their shoulders - also a little bit of a saviors complex. the kind of person that would stop to help a stranger stranded on the side of the road. the boys verse: either works as security personnel / a personal trainer at vought or could still be a farmer the same as their main verse, interacting with a character through said being on the run and stumbling across their farm, etc. their powers include superhuman strength and invulnerability, think luke cage. various apocalyptic verses: even in their main verse, rune and their father are preppers. the same stands for these kind of verses. maybe your muse could end up stuck w them by stumbling into one of the traps set out around their farm? maybe they get trapped together during a storm? etcetc (-: ( if u cant tell i love forced proximity plots ) baldurs gate: nothing super established here, besides them being a barbarian class & a tiefling who can be found in the emerald grove & traded with. maybe they offer to join tav after the goblin camp is dealt with??? maybe theyre simply a reoccuring traveler who the party runs into throughout the various acts

ophelia han. 23. she / her pronouns. song yuqi.

main verse / the boys: the youngest and newest addition to the seven. grew up in a christian household, put in the limelight early through various pageants and such. was in a car accident involving her older brother as a teen, in which she was the only survivor. this, combined with her childhood — and her neurodivergency makes ophelia come across as cold, robotic; fitting to her powers which are essentially that most of her body ( beneath her skin ) is mechanical, though simultaneously alive. she regenerates at almost any injury and can shape her limbs into various weaponry. she does what vought tells her to do, because it's what she's used to, but her loyalties are fragile. gen v: the ice princess of godolkin. would be at the top of the rankings if they were solely based off skill and studies, but she lacks in charisma and popularity with the other students. would most likely side with cate and sam at the end of season 2.

[gourmetprincipito-blog]

One of the weirdest and worst parts of being an artist in the internet era is the unavoidable commodification of something that was previously entirely personal. Trying to make a living as an artist means constantly pitching yourself to everyone all the time, it means conversations about how to transform your poetry and expression into more accessible and more lucrative versions of themselves. It’s a brutal and extremely intimate example of how capitalism infects everything in society.

As a young punk kid I was deeply inspired by bands like Bomb the Music Industry! and Defiance, Ohio, who proved it was possible to carve out a niche in counterculture without compromising your ideals. Free digital downloads of all music, spray-painted t-shirts instead of merch, and booking shows in all ages and inexpensive venues blew me away as a kid and I emulated it with my music career as well.

But even in these spaces - the most progressive and least commoditized I’ve seen in my life - the game of capitalism is still not really something you can withdraw from. In fact, trying to exist outside of the traditional structures just forces you to do *more* of what you disagree with. Independent artists have to be their own publicists, managers, agents, etc. and it so quickly becomes something entirely different than you set out to do.

Few pieces of art even approach this dilemma but even fewer do it with such clarity and profundity as “Side Projects Are Never Successful,” by Bomb the Music Industry! Perfectly expressing the begrudging acceptance of our situation with a tongue in cheek declaration that we are all born businessmen and all creations are products, illustrating how capitalism spreads itself over every facet of society - even its perspectives and philosophies.

“The glares on our windshields, we can’t even see each other’s eyes. Just McDonald’s cups and wrappers that they’re throwing at full speed. And yes, I long for a shadow, and yes, I always appreciate the irony that the only cool cover that allows us to see is a goddamn billboard! Yeah a billboard is the only thing preventing us from blindly crashing.

And we’ll never see a city not marred by advertisements, we’ll never see a future not working for these companies. It’s sure as shit not getting better so we might as well accept it now.

But that really shouldn’t cheapen anything because, baby, we’re all born to be businessmen. Every Fugazi record has a catalog number and a price tag, and every independent label is selling you another goddamn product.

But no, *we’re* not slaves to the music. No, *we’re* not slaves to the company, baby,

We do what we’re born and raised to do and when you’re creating something you’re producing something and the act of producing leads to the creation of a product.”

The song beautifully pairs this commentary on capitalism and art with another on the apocalypse and the futility of rugged individualistic and billionaire doomsday prepping, effectively shattering the concept entirely in a few lines.

“That orange ball, yeah that burning orb of fire in the sky is gonna explode and we’re all gonna die. Except for the privileged few who, quote unquote, “think ahead,” and drive their SUVs down to their bomb shelters. Complaining about no air conditioning because, baby, we ain’t got no more electricity.

They wanna rise with the sun, be a leader with a gun. Be a leader of what? Like a hundred and one? Fuck if, I’m gonna hang out on the rooftop when it comes.”

These two threads join in a hypothetical where, post-apocalypse caused explicitly by capitalism, capitalism still defines the social structure. It also parodies accelerationism and doomsday preppers again, effectively showing that the things these communities hope to achieve for themselves and society through apocalyptic scenarios are simply negative byproducts of capitalism. A punk rock reiteration of the famous Mark Fisher quote, “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”

“When it’s dark, it’ll be night time, baby, and I’ll get my ass on up out of this mess. The only stores that are open, baby, yeah, they’re gonna sell beer and they’re gonna sell ice cream and we’ll drink drink drink and get drunk drunk drunk. And we’ll talk talk talk about how much much much, how much fun we had, yeah, we were fucking the world.

When the sun drops you ain’t gonna be hungover the next day. When the comet hits there won’t be any bills to pay. When the bomb drops it’s gonna be a four day weekend, hey hey. When the sun’s gone I’m gonna feel great! Finally!”

Jeff Rosenstock, the songwriter behind Bomb the Music Industry! and now working as a solo artist, once stated his belief that, in a culture of disposable products and disposable people, cynicism and post-truth, obsessed with outrage, etc. the most punk rock thing possible is to build lasting communities and foster positivity. To remain hopeful and work toward something better.

That inspired me over a decade ago and I try to keep that in mind on a daily basis. We don’t have to wait for or cause the apocalypse to improve things for ourselves and our neighbors and our loved ones. There is still good to do, even in a bad system.

[perihealing]

i feel like i look like a bratz doll by way of bushbaby weirdo today and im kind of living for it. the y2k fashion trend is great. i'm able to get back to my roots as a peak oil prepper child in fun and stupid ways.

i think i used to find the aesthetics scene in the city i live in extra intimidating because it represented a set of urban aesthetic choices i could not relate to, so i'd be building this uncomfortable patchwork while i tried to make my self expression look like other people's. but it can't! it doesn't. my cultural context looks so deeply fundamentally different. learning to take that and run with it creatively has been an embarrassing and exhausting exercise full of awkwardness, but also really artistically fulfilling.

[phoenixdown-and-fairydust]

I swear so many preppers have this image of themselves as the big bad Walking Dead, Bioshock or Fallout style hero, while fundamentally misunderstanding why which characters would survive and why. So many people go down the road of "we can just raid stores and abandoned housing", without realizing that their standoffish, reliance on hoarding has bumped them down from their imagined statue of the Lone Wanderer to Raider #9778 who if they're not careful to not become too hostile towards other survivors are going to secure a target on their own backs from the groups that organize and practice diplomacy who will work together to take out the problem. Best case scenario these raid and weapons reliant survivor's will burn through pre-made supplies and their neighbours' good will and are left to die to fallout of their selfish lone wolf prepping that did them no favours, either by illness/injury, exposure or starvation. You're going to want people who can farm, cook, preserve, textile artists, veterinarians, doctors but not just modern medicine, you're going to want people who have knowledge of the history and natural remedies like the old country doctors, honestly a lot of people with history backgrounds because the day to day skill knowledge many of them gather, like how a lot of things we take for granted due to automation were done before. How many of you actually know how to build a fire for heat vs cooking? How many of you know how to grind grains and have the knowledge and stamina to make bread by hand? I work in a historical kitchen, and I see people not used to cooking without a stand mixer get winded and sore beating eggs. Real apocalypse survival would be more about communicating knowledge and teamwork to rebuild than guns blazing combat only watching your own back.

Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew

[businesscasualart]

Are you interested at all in fictional magic systems/hypertechnology at all? If so, what's your favourite one and have you thought about making your own?

HEY HEY sorry, I’ve been excited to respond to this for a bit but…hail….wrecked my house…everyone is safe! We put some boards over broken windows! It’s just an ordeal and not something we can afford, but we should still be good in every other aspect! I live on a farm with a borderline doomsday prepper family, it’s gonna take more than a lil property damage for us to suffer 💪💪

Shockingly, no! I don’t typically care much for magic systems and…hyper-technology?? That’s like futuristic, sci-fi type tech right? I would assume.

I feel absolutely insane for it and its constantly shooting me in the foot as an artist/writer, but typically it takes a lot for me to care much about those types of systems.

There’s some I’ll get real obsessed over tho, commonly they’re someone’s OCs’ world. Like when someone is making up magic systems and cool tech for their characters, I can really get behind that sometimes!

I’ve just always been more character oriented than huge into world building ig <\3 and MAN it makes things harder for me, smh, ask me any questions about my OCs’ worlds and there’s only like, a 20% chance I’ll have an answer. I’ve definitely ATTEMPTED making my own, but with minuscule success. <\3

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[literallymechanical]

We should make kids read Ada Palmer's Too Like The Lightning and decide if they are an:

Individualist athlete/artist/politician convinced that they are the next Great Man of History

Good samaritan nurturer with a patronizing moral superiority complex

Conlanger deeply committed to elaborately ritualized social systems that border on LARP

Natural capitalist with personal, economic, and political value tied to land ownership

Smug evo-psych INTJ ivory-tower academic

Futurist technological-utopian starry-eyed workaholic scientist

Hardcore paranoiac prepper natural-law-pilled anarchist

European

These are your only options.

What is your Hogwarts house?

I've been thinking about this. It was so easy when we were kids and didn't have critical thinking skills and twitter didn't exist – four color-coded choices with fun names and plenty of knockoff merch. Does gen alpha have a substitute these days? Is there a popular middle grade book series out there where you and your friends can debate who is Protagonist, Nice, Nerdy, or Edgy? The children yearn for a classification system!

This is a legit question that I am asking! I'm out of touch with middle grade/young adult lit, and my nephews are still on picture books. Maybe I'll ask my cousin's 15 year old at the next family holiday.

[the-blackorchid1]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: SOG THROWING AXE set of 3 & BLACK SHEATH outdoors off grid prepper.

[jonkipps]

Jon Kipps Deep Adaptation

Exhibition: 7 – 28 April 2023 Private View: Thursday 6 April, 6-8pm

“I find them something like ‘runes’ built from the off-casts of late capitalism. Something like a Star Trek episode where Kirk and Spock beam down to a new planet to find the locals worshipping a Ford Mondeo hub-cap - holy relics (or in your case materials) from a collapsed society.” Simon Faithfull, Artist

Standpoint Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculptures by Jon Kipps, the artist’s first London solo presentation.

‘Deep Adaptation’ has been developed over the past year by the London-based artist Jon Kipps. Kipps is interested in the way we choose to model and customise our environments and surrounding commodities, particularly objects associated with asserting or diffusing power, restricting behaviour and understanding social hierarchies. Examples include hostile architecture design, homeless spikes and skate stoppers, as well as car body modifications, coastal defences and less obviously aggressive forms of urban infrastructure, such as in bollards.

Developing from this line of interest, imposing obstacle sculptures, such as Lightning Bolt (2019-23)and Power Trip (2020-23), feature throughout the exhibition as assembled, freestanding objects, as well as flatpack ‘kits’, suspended on bespoke colour-shifting supports. The ‘parts’, when displayed on the wall, fall in very specific arrangements, ready to easily switch back and become fully ‘functional’ as freestanding objects once more. These are unique portable objects, ready to be deployed in a variety of contexts and situations whilst being tailored for the user, like an ex-military vehicle reimagined and customised to accommodate the doomsday prepper’s needs.

The adaptability of the objects is taken a step further with the knowledge that the sculptural outlines are designed to contour around the luggage compartments of the various vehicles that transport them. For example, the need for Power Trip to be transported to Serbia during the 2021 lockdown in a Suzuki Swift and the lopsided outline of Peace Test (2023) takes into account the artist's daughter’s car seat in the family vehicle.

A series of small wall-based sculptures puncture the architecture of the gallery space, some of which expose unseen layers of the building while subtly fitting into our environment. These works, including Planes Mistaken for Stars (2022) and Yourcodenameis:milo (2022), stem from a curiosity about the design of symbols and how we are encouraged to interpret and perceive objects that make up our surroundings.

Like warning markers to guide away from hazards, these arcane architectural fixtures draw the viewer close, creating moments of pause throughout the exhibition. Unlike traditional symbols, which are often designed to associate with a linear message, Kipps’ hybrid sculptural objects explore combinations of broad influences, and are therefore imbued with curious references and connotations.

Kipps is a considered artist, deft with the materials he uses, and while the sculptures are carefully composed and the forms appear assertive, he chooses to undermine this authority by working with waste materials, including offcuts, stickers, paper pulp and unused packaging. He will often manipulate the materials, shifting our perception of them while instilling them with low-fi power. For example, he might spray paint cardboard pulp shapes to resemble a bronze patina or use dyed MDF to suggest a much more robust material such as steel.

More recently, Mycelium packaging has become a key component for the artist. Mycelium is a fungal mass of branched, tubular hyphae, integral to plant and soil health. It can be moulded and grown to form different shapes, providing endless sculptural opportunities without producing a cost to the environment. Such material has the potential to become commonplace in everyday life, replacing polystyrene packaging - humans collaborating with fungi to solve problems created by a consumerist lifestyle.

The title for the exhibition is taken from the climate change paper: ‘Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy’ by Jem Bendell.