#concrete decks

[carmen-hathaway]

Transitional Deck - Deck Inspiration for a mid-sized transitional backyard deck remodel with a roof extension

[morningstarseniorlivingblog]

Indianapolis Transitional Deck Deck - mid-sized transitional backyard deck idea with a roof extension

[smileyobrien]

COUNTDOWN TO LOWER DECKS SEASON 5 5 WEEKS – Main Cast

[seiwas]

thinking about pro-hero kiri with preschool teacher!reader 🥺

[loveandlegacy]

i keep seeing people on the subreddit express like pretty intense anxiety that s2 will be really bad and i don't want to make a whole post on the subreddit to say this given that i think it wouldn't be super well received so. i'm saying it here on my blog instead. but i think in general the people who feel this way would benefit from remembering that at its core, before it is anything else, arcane is currently a 10 and soon to be 20 episode long advertisement for league of legends. i don't mean this to detract from the very real artistry that has gone into the show and i sincerely believe that the whole project has helped reset and shape what people imagine is even possible for feature-production level animation in the west. i am very glad it exists and i cannot wait to see what ripple effects it has on the animated film and tv landscape in the coming years.

but. but! at the end of the day this creative project is owned by one of the most powerful studios in games and its existence is guided primarily by how much value it will bring to riot and tencent as entities. you can see this even in the fact that people are already referring to the trailer to predict what ambessa's kit will look like and what new skins jinx and vi are likely to get — to say nothing of all the teasing around viktor's VGU.

i don't want to be a debbie downer and say that all good storytelling is inherently incompatible with capital interests because i think there's plenty of evidence to contradict that, but i do feel like a helpful reality-check sometimes is to just remember that things like production budget, episode count, and even character presentation are at least partially dictated by a room full of people whose primary interest is a return on investment. so yes, there's a decently strong chance the season could be bad story-wise, but like. whatever. it will probably still be very visually influential and instructive as a work of animation. and regardless of s2 there's plenty to enjoy and learn from and appreciate about season 1, or we wouldn't all be here. sometimes it's about the journey or whatever they say y'know?

[theonewhowails]

been pondering this bad boy

like. that symbol there on the sign line, which is used in our cult. is it actually a SIGNATURE? a name?? of narinder? the lamb? of death itself? rotating this one

[some-pers0n]

Godd I forget how great The Stereosexuals are. I love misogyny rock <33

[arc-hus]

Observation Tower, Negenoord, Belgium - De Gouden Liniaal

http://www.degoudenliniaal.be

[radioclashh]

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[jennycalendar]

booted up the ten year old ipod that my dad let us play with in middle school & that when i was eleven i was obsessed with bc my parents were SUPER stringent re: screen time but they let me go nuts with this bc it was just full of my dad’s favorite music (and also some games that i suspect they didn’t know about + that i would play in bed as my Secret Silly Tweenage Rebellion), and immediately it hit me with this

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

Today, December 11th, we celebrate the birthday of acclaimed poet Keith Waldrop (1932-2023). Waldrop was a prominent voice in American poetry and renowned translator of French literature. He was known for writing poetry that expressed a fascination with the world and philosophical perspectives. Waldrop met his wife Rosmarie (b. 1935) while stationed in Germany during the 1950’s and the two established Burning Deck Press in 1961 after settling in Providence, RI. The press was committed to publishing experimental poetry and prose for fifty-six years and closed in 2017. 

In honor of Waldrop’s birthday, we’re sharing Letters from Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop. Published in 1970 by Burning Deck in an edition of 500 copies, Letters from Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop is a collection of concrete poetry that plays with the visual elements of typography. The couple collaborated on the book, alternating the authorship of each page to create a delightful conversation and graphic menagerie. Special Collections holds several of Keith and Rosmarie’s collaborations and over 120 Burning imprints accessible here. 

View other Milestone Monday posts.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[marenwithanm]

Girl help I've become a trekie a few decades late.

[epersonae]

ohh i wanna know what you've got going for ep 5.5 👀

Another document with almost no text in it (that whole list is either: thousands of words OR three paragraphs/a vague outline/incoherent notes, no inbetween) - BUT

As I told @emi--rose on a video call last night, for the moment I'm setting Izzy way over there, probably (my internal irritation about the fact that at some point I will end up writing S2 Izzy is immense btw) - and focusing on and intertwining two things:

Ed doing repair with the rest of the crew - both in the literal "fixing things on the boat" way and in the (re)building relationships way

Ed and Stede actually going slow (slow for them, we're talking days, not weeks) and what the hell does that look like, like yearning where they both know it's yearning

I'm at this stage where I have notes and ideas but not yet what I think of as an "entry point" - something I've learned about my writing process is that I can sort of noodle on an idea indefinitely and that I need a specific image or chunk of dialogue or narration before I can actually get going. I feel like I'm in a holding pattern with this idea until something clicks like that, but I feel weirdly confident that it will.

[steakout-05]

hey barry there's a bus coming you might wanna watch out

watch out barry

barry

BARRY

BARRY WATCH OUT

BARRY

THE BUS

ITS GETTING CLOSER JUST MOVE OUT OF THE WAY

DEAR GOD HE HAS HIS HEADPHONES ON HE CAN'T HEAR US!!

BARRY NOOOOOOOOO

[robertsbarbie]

i love kc but sometimes our sports teams piss me off

[whoviandoodler]

[ID: a digital drawing of varian from transatlantic walking on a narrow board whilst surrounded by ropes that bind his ankles and wrists. he has his hands over his eyes and is lit by an eye in a window behind his head and six candles on the windowsill. there is a white stylized star over his chest. end ID]

Shield yourself from the truth- what if its light blinds you? Shield yourself from the love- what if its warmth burns you?

Yet, blinded and burned, You will at last know the world in all its glory