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[headgehug]

Japhy and Ray being normal about each other compilation

This:

Japhy, exhausted, running into town to get his groceries for leaving, spending money he doesn't have on stuff Ray craves

Ray's goodbye adjacent to the goodbye of Japhys woman

Ray making the soup Japhy taught him how to make

Ditching the big goodbye party to go hiking again

This:

Not to mention Japhy saying he'd been reading Whitman. And Ray's asceticism from women but obsession with his mentor? friend? companion? sure he's a raving misogynist but you know what they say...

All of this just because it's funny; but man is the line between friendship and romance blurry sometimes

[zephyrine-gale]

day 5 of drawing one dan heng dan feng a day until he comes out

[qteachoice]

[cloudysfluffs]

I love the way you drew Sam and Max in your art style! I hope you do more tk art of them (no pressure though draw what you want)

there is nothing id rather draw for you anon!!!! i LOVE making art of these two <3333333333

(dont worry, sam's got a sneaky way of escaping)

(ns//fw and/or fetish blogs please dni🙏🙏)

[wlwsakura]

rare pair: kisame x killer b

[rabbitmotifs]

of course i know that my childhood was definitely not the standard but it still blows my mind that some people didnt have Music Lessons when they were in like elementary-middle school. and not lessons where you learned how to play an instrument but rather where you sat next to your dad for 2-3 hours while he infodumped on various artists songs and concerts

[puppybong]

i start therapy tomorrow <-not scared except maybe a little bit

[hakuryuu]

the difference between d and dh in arabic is.........So subtle

[yinyuedijun]

EEP look at ur Valentine ♥️😵‍💫

WHGKSHSJSJ HES SO HANDSOME....SO PRINCESS.... thank you gray you have made my valentine's wonderful 🥺💞💞

[headgehug]

Dharma Bums - a rumination or something like

part 6: What's next?

(spoilers abound but it's not like anything crazy big happens in this anyways lol)

I really can't imagine that Japhy and Ray are reunited after the end of the book, as much as I want them to be. It would be satisfying, inherently romantic for them to have gone their separate ways and then to meet again, to travel together, to wander in and out of each other's lives, two souls connected.  But honestly I can't see that happening.  For all of Ray's visions of Japhy visiting him in different forms-- his mentioning that those are Japhy's real incarnations, as if the reflection in Ray's mind is truer than the source- it's better if that's all he has.

[w/r/t Japhy going off and disappearing on his journeys]

Ray says that a fair way away from the end of the book.  I think after spending the summer on Desolation mountain he won't necessarily hold that view anymore.  Japhy may not come back but: he won't have disappeared (Ray should know better- that which was never real cannot disappear- everything is empty and alive and whatever energy made up the concept of Japhy can't dissipate); he won't be gone (he's everywhere Ray goes, for goodness sake! he's in every conversation Ray has, he's down in the valleys, up on the mountaintops, he's in the pea and bacon soup over Ray's fire); but still, he does love them (Japhy-- and call this misogyny or prejudice, which is fair, or call it brotherly love, or just Love-- but his love language has never been the spoken word; it's the way he gives the shoes off his feet, the hours he spends in the kitchen cooking for everyone and their mother [even if he then flirts with her], it's the wisdom he shares and the time he very deliberately chooses to spend).

.... so, maybe Ray is right, in a sense.  Japhy leaves and he doesn't leave.  And Ray and everyone else love him enough to let him go; as opposed to Psyche, for instance, who has to be thrown off the boat (again... people like Psyche and Princess and Sean's wife and all the other women need their own stories told, because I can only imagine how reductive this telling is, but it does serve at least to demonstrate the way they don't, for whatever reason, understand each other in the same way Ray and Japhy do).

For the record, Alvah is likely wrong too, even if I love him for it, being a philosophical drama queen.

[firefromthegodspro]

learned recently Matt Mercer was involved in Dragon Heist (I was like just getting into D&D when it dropped and had no clue who he was nor was I actually paying attention to discussions on D&D) and as someone who's looked over both WOTC-Published Wildemount books

Yeah I see it. Not going to overhype the guy, he's as human and flawed as all of us, but I feel like the stuff he writes bleeds and oozes passion for TTRPGs, and I can see parts of that in Waterdeep.

I can also tell that he was a consultant, not a writer, because half the cool shit falls apart like they didn't have time to flesh it out (oh how the chase sequence haunts my nightmares)

[archinform]

Fisher Building, Chicago

343 South Dearborn Street

Completed 1896; addition 1907

Charles Atwood, D.H. Burnham & Co. architects

1907 addition, Peter J. Weber, architect

2001 restoration and adaptive reuse, Pappageorge Haymes, supervising architects

by Roger Jones, August 2023

Fisher Building, photo by Roger Jones

Lucius Fisher (1843-1916). He was a Chicago, Illinois paper company magnate and architect. In 1895, he commissioned Daniel Burnham and Company to build the 20 story, 275 foot tall Fisher Building in the Chicago Loop.

Fisher Building, Chicago, taken April 29, 1896. From The Inland Architect and News Record, May 1896. [Link to full article PDF here]

The writer of the 1896 article described the building thus:

But here, for what we believe to be the first time in human experience, one of the highest commercial buildings in the world has been erected almost without any bricks. It fronts on three streets, and on the remaining side adjoins other property. The fronts are covered with cellular terra cotta on the outside, not in imitation of a wall, but following upward the steel supporting members, and closing in the transoms between the windows, leaving two-thirds of the exterior to be enclosed by glass… Only two bricklayers were employed at any time in this part of the work.

(Left) Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912)

(Right) Charles B. Atwood (1849-1895)

The Fisher Building, 343 South Dearborn Street in the Chicago Loop, was commissioned by paper magnate Lucius Fisher. The original 18-story building was completed in 1896 by D.H. Burnham & Company; the architect was Charles B. Atwood, who died before the building's completion. An addition was later added in 1907.

Some facts about the building, from the Emporis site:

The original wing was only the second building in Chicago to reach 18 stories (after the Masonic Temple), and is the oldest still standing at that height.

Because of the building's great height for its time, the usual spread foundations were supplemented with piles underneath them to support the added weight.

The second floor was originally a banking room, and has especially large windows compared to the floors above it.

To enhance the facade's vertical emphasis, most of the ornamentation is placed on its horizontal members, reducing the banding effect that would occur if they were blank.

The Gothic ornament is in the 15th century style of Bruges and Rouen.

Declaring the structure a Chicago Landmark in 1978, the Landmarks Division noted:

Cladding this early skyscraper with Gothic-inspired, terra-cotta tracery was not a casual stylistic choice. Its designers looked for inspiration to the early Gothic cathedrals of Europe, which shared common characteristics of tallness and often having more glass than masonry. Cut glass door panel Eagles and mythical beasts decorate the upper stories, and aquatic creatures and seashells--a visual pun on the name of the building's original owner, Lucius G. Fisher--are found at the base. A later addition to the north is largely a repetition of the original design, except for the absence of bay windows.

Early postcard views of the building

Archival photos

Fisher Building under construction (left) and on completion (right)

Van Buren (main) entrance; Lobby stairs

Entrance hall

First story entrance corridor in 1896

Original elevator cage

Original elevators

Advertisement for Winslow Brothers, who executed the metalwork for the Fisher Building

Late 19th Century Cast Iron Elevator Lobby Door from The Fisher Building, listed for sale on 1stdibs.com. Compare to original elevators photo above.

Rendering of the 1907 addition, Peter J. Weber, architect

Other illustrations

Upper elevator grille. Art Institute of Chicago

Elevator frieze panel. Urban Remains, Chicago.

Architectural Description from the 1965 Historic American Buildings Survey Report [Link to PDF of report here]

PART 11 ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION A. General Statement: I. Architectural character: The Fisher Building is a large office 'building designed by the firm of D. H. Burnham Co. in 1895. It has been cited by the Chicago Landmarks Commission and it is indicative of the level of achievement in skyscraper design attained by the architects of the Chicago School. The steel cage structure is sheathed in a curtain wall of decorative terra cotta and glass, providing ample space and light for the occupants and making it possible for the building to be erected relatively quickly and economically. B. Description of Exterior: 1. Over-all dimensions: Rectangular 70'-6" (five-bay south front) x 150' 0" (eleven-bay west front), including addition. Eighteen stories. 2. Wall construction, finish and color: The original block of the building had tripartite projecting bays alternating with planed surfaces. Bays end at sill of 17th story. Arches of varying width span the window openings of the 17th floor. The original salmon terra cotta finish is now coated with a black patina from the soot and dirt of the city. 3. Openings: a. Doorways and doors: The arched entrance on VanBuren Street, originally the principal entrance, is intact; that at 343 South Dearborn Street has received a 20th century I 'modernization"--a polished granite portal with plate glass and aluminum doors. The original doors from the vestibule inside are decorated with an ornamental fish cut in the glass panels. b.. Windows: Mostly one-over-one light, double-hung windows; those of the original building are grouped three to a bay window, two between; in the north addition, the windows are placed in a plane in groups of three. At the 17th floor the lights are gathered under wide arches; at the 18th they are again in threes with transoms above. The first floor display windows have been disfigured by a variety of signs, aluminum panels, and other attempts at commercial modernization. ...General setting and orientation: The buiIding occupies the southern portion of a narrow block at the south end of the Loop. Its neighbors are the Old Colony Building (HABS No. ILL-1053) to the south and the Monadnock BuiIding (HABS NO. ILL-1027) to the west. The buiIding fronts the sidewalk line on three sides and is adjacent to the elevated on VanBuren Street. Prepared by Larry J. Homolka, Historian and Assistant Supervisor National Park Service August, 1965.

My Photos:

Links / Sources:

Architecturefarm - old chicago skyscraper of the week–Fisher Building

Chicagology

chicago.designslinger

Emporis Buildings on the Wayback Machine – Fisher Building Chicago

HABS Report 1965

Historic Structures

cityclubapartments.com - Daniel H. Burnham's Fisher Building interior lobby original elevator doors executed by Winslow Brothers

Chicago Landmarks - Fisher Building

Researchgate

Urban Remains - Fisher Building

Urban Remains - Fisher artifacts

Wikimedia commons

[ggblasts]

Spotted: The first round of arrivals for the Horror Night! Evelyn dressed up as a hot nurse. Waverly dressed up as Lola Bunny. Blair showing off her pregnant figure in a beauitful white gown. Mary dressed up as a goddess (I think) and looking hot. Tony dressed up as Deadpoo and going probably against DC protocol doing sol. Dimitri a rockstar. Monet as Flora from the Winx Club, which is odd because I didn't even think she was old enough to know who the Winx Club was. And Jordan as Jack Skellington. I don't even have to see Frnakie's costume to know who she'll be dressed up as. So far these looks are pretty sub par. Some are better than others in my opinion, but the night is still young and others can come in and dethrone the ones I think are good. Keep the looks and the drama coming. XOXO, Gossip Girl

@evelynxsimmsx @waverlyxbroder @theblairw @marryy-bowderxoxo @tonyxsalazarx @dimitrixharrisonx @monetxdexhaanx @jordanbarnes

[thenerdsofcolor]

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: 'Unbroken Blossoms'

There is a sense of tragedy to acknowledge that whenever there is progress made with any given historically underrepresented community in the United States, history always finds a way to repeat itself. Are we doomed to keep repeating that cycle? Such is the question presented in the East West Players production of Unbroken Blossoms, a world premiere play written by Philip W. Chung and directed by…

[theplaygroundkrp]

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[headgehug]

putting aside that this is like not true at all (to my surface level knowledge ofc), does it imply that the other partygoers are better Buddhists than Ray is, being reclusive and always drunk and sad and lonely? he thinks of himself as the greater Buddha and thinks that they aren't applying themselves-- distracted by worldly things while he sits quietly and ponders but- maybe real spirituality has always been in other people. or actually maybe they're all dirty no good beatniks have I considered that