#best budds

[best-character-named-x-poll]

have you done your daily click

[achilles-the-boy-of-gold]

I need more schitt's creek mutuals 😭. Does anybody like schitt's creek because I'm currently hyperfixating

[thelovelesslesbian]

this is bravery

[stoportotouch]

they should cast me as claggart. i would look so haunted singing "but alas, alas, the light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehends it and suffers".

[badopenttdideas]

No advice this time

Just two RDC's being cute

(also this is what a passing loop looks like)

[rottedbrainz]

Chapter 2! It's finally out baby! Giovanni is so silly! I can't wait to write more of him! Also his relationship with Libb! THEY ARE SO WHOLESOME!! But Libb needs to have that talk with him when it comes to Valerie.

(Not implying that Valerie is a bad kid! Get that out of ur head alr?)

Anyway hope you guys enjoy the fic!

Okay it's fixed! Good to go now!

[vulpinesaint]

did 90 pages of my reading for three different classes is everyone proud of me :) finished the chapter on judaism for my sacred texts class, read "an apology for poetry" by sir philip sidney for my lit theory class, and did my two chapters of reading from the truth about stories by thomas king for my folklore and mythology class. and wrote a summary paper on that sacred texts chapter. and did my little writing assignment for my french class. all while sick. who is going to kiss me on the forehead and tell me i did a good job

[skeletalheartattack]

wait hold on now I am genuinely curious: Why is D-Sides your favourite Gorillaz album? I never vibed with it myself so I am interested in hearing what you like about it that I'm missing out on.

so, i haven't listened to Gorillaz in a long while, nor do i tend to listen to music that actively these days, but i re-listened to the entire album, side 1 and side 2, to try and come up with a reason why i like it so much. i do want to preface and say, yeah, the album (side 1 atleast) is very "plain", there's not a whole lot going on, nor are there any guest artists on any of the songs.

but in listening to the album again, a few things kinda appear in my brain regarding the album. one is that it brings back a set of memories of taking trips to and from Ohio to live with my mother and step-father during a few breaks between high school, and how a lot of the songs in the album i remember heavily listening to while trying to sleep in the back of their car (i'm 6'2", and sleeping horizontally in the back of a moderately small car was. not great). i had the main 6 albums before Humanz installed to my kindle, since Humanz hadn't come out yet as these trips were between... 2014 and 2016. i mainly remember hearing D-Sides the most i feel on those trips, whether it be intentional, or my sleep patterns would have me looping back around to D-Sides... that or i mostly started with D-Sides at the beginning of those trips.

another thing i'm kinda thinking about after having re-listened to the album is how much side 1 kinda reminds me of Boe, in terms of the vibes; there's a lot of somber vibes i get from some songs that fits well for him (Hong Kong and Spitting Out the Demons both being notable songs that remind me of Boe himself, and also of those long trips). side 2 on the other hand, it's remixes remind me a lot of the Sims 2, specifically the console version, as i associate a lot of Sims 2 with it's console selection of music... which is mostly a more heavy focus on the electronic tracks from the PC version; a lot of the remixes feel like something i could hear playing on the radio while i'm controlling my sim around and doing tasks.

last thing, maybe, is that i never hear folks refer to D-Sides as one of their favourites, so maybe that's why i have it as mine. out of respect perhaps.

[thebestestwinner]

Top two vote-getters will move on to the next round. See pinned post for all groups!

[gatutor]

Yvette Dugay-James Best "Cimarron kid" 1952, de Budd Boetticher.

[randomrichards]

RIDE LONESOME:

Brigade finds outlaw

Others help him on journey

What are their motives?

[downthetubes]

Sports art and cartoons by Harold Riley, Leslie Illingworth and more offered in upcoming Sports Memorabilia Auction

A look at some of the sports-related art coming to auction in a massive two-day sale from Graham Budd Auctions next month

A file of memorabilia relating to the renowned artist Harold Riley, who died earlier this year, and projects conducted for Manchester United’s legendary manager Sir Matt Busby is being auctioned by Graham Budd Auctions next month. It’s being offered as part of a much wider mammoth two-day Sports Memorabilia Auction, that includes a number of standout lots such as the 2022 World Cup Final…

[acricketcannot]

FUCK YEAH CONCRETE

AYO what up, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted over here lol uhhh gonna be real I got a job now, it’s pretty sweet, but omg I’m so tired. Taking care of 11 babies for most of the day, plus an hour where I help out with the FOUR YEAR OLDS. omg. It’s chaos, but I love my babies they’re precious it’s an awesome job. BUT HERE WE ARE I’m managing to art some more again! Gettin used ta the hours so I now have time to draw instead of power napping!

[whollysensei]

since people liked my previous best budds drawing i think it's only fair to draw more of it so now they're YOUNGER

[whencyclopedia]

Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was a 19th-century American author of novels, short stories and poetry. He is best known for his novel Moby Dick, published in 1851, and his short stories Bartleby the Scrivner and Billy Budd, Sailor. Despite his early successes as a novelist, Melville died in 1891 in relative obscurity.

Early Life

Herman Melville, the third oldest of eight children, was born on August 1, 1819 in New York City. His paternal and maternal grandfathers were both Revolutionary War heroes — a point of pride in the Melville household. His father, Allan Melvill (the “e” would be added in the 1830s) looked proudly on his family’s heritage, tracing it to the Scottish Renaissance. Melville’s mother, Maria Gansevoort, was of Dutch descent. The young Melville spent his youth living in luxury. His father was a dry-goods merchant who tended to live beyond his means. He alternated between enthusiasm for the future of business in America and the fear of a recession. This nagging fear caused him to borrow money from his wife’s family. In 1832 Allan Melvill fell ill and died in a delirium, leaving his family heavily in debt and dependent on Maria’s family for financial help.

At the age of twelve Melville left school and began working a number of menial jobs: clerking at a bank and later at his brother Gansevoort’s fur-cap store. In 1837 he moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts to run his Uncle Thomas Melville’s farm. Thomas had gone west seeking greener pastures in Galena, Illinois — pastures he would never find. At the age of 18 and unemployed, Melville briefly taught in a country school near Pittsfield. The following spring he took a course in surveying and engineering at the Lansingburgh Academy in Albany, but the Panic of 1837 left him without work. Unemployed at the age of 20, and following the example of one of his cousins, he signed on as a cabin boy on a ship bound for Liverpool – an experience he would recount in his novel Redburn.

After returning home aboard the St. Lawrence, Melville again failed to find employment. Seeking further adventure, and possible employment, in June of 1840, he and his friend Eli Fly headed west to Galena where Uncle Thomas proved to be of no help. They travelled down the Mississippi to the Ohio River and then eastward back to New York. In January of 1841, at the age of 21, Melville took “desperate measures” and signed on with the Acushnet, a whaler out of New Bedford, bound for the South Seas. Melville would be gone for almost four years. It was a time that he considered as an education. It would provide him with enough experiences for four relatively successful novels and one not so successful.

Herman Melville, c. 1846

Asa Weston Twitchell (Public Domain)

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