#dreamship

[enchantedbook]

'The Blue Bird Dreamships' by Frederick Cayley Robinson, (1862 - 1927)

[smokycoffe]

Is there someone here who wants to remove me from the mcyt fandom? I can't stop drawing them god. I feel like in my childhood drawing rubius fhg

well at least I'm happy with my life currently, in other things the first drawing is from a fic called "the mask" it's a slow burn luckity but it's great and I don't really like the omegaverse , so imagine how good it is what is this

here (It is a fic in Spanish, but nothing that Google translate cannot solve)

[sailormoonsailorstars]

people will joke about the time fuckery in sailor moon and are dreamshippers (Helios x Chibiusa) but then they get mad when u ship Chibiusa with Hotaru because they either think Hotaru is like a billion years older or that Chibiusa being 900 is literal

and it’s like. ok did you guys watch or read sailor moon with your eyes closed? because I’ll break it down very simply for you! Hotaru/Sailor Saturn is basically the same age mentally and physically as Helios/Pegasus

Chibiusa is 900 CHRONOLOGICALLY. She is not literally that old, the entire point is that the silver millennium family ages very slowly as to serve their people longer

I think people get confused on Chibiusa’s age because she time travels between the past and future quite a few times especially in the 90’s anime but- she’s clearly not the same age in s2 as s5 etc

But like Helios and Hotaru she doesn’t have a listed set in stone age, but let me continue

“Hotaru is too old!!!!” Hotaru isn’t old enough to be Usagi or the other inner guardians ages, and while I agree that before her rebirth she’s probably a bit older it’s really not that strange of a gap and the gap is never stated

but Hotaru being the guardian of death and rebirth… is reborn as an infant and rapidly ages until she is Chibiusa’s age. Like literally the exact age, they go to school together

they also look very similar in height and face etc, so. by the end of the main story that is shown on screen they are the same age

and then the “they’re too young to be shipped!!! Let them be friends!!!” and 14 isn’t? they’re not like 5 idk what you want me to say here + most people that say this ship her and Helios anyway so I don’t rlly get it

thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

halfway through a 1994 cybersecurity scifi, i thought i had a good grasp of what it thought would happen in the near future, and then it hits me with a phrase like “local nuke”. on the new hampshire coast???? local against who????

[almeriamovies]

Pico Alfaro, Tabernas desert, Almeria.

[kyuuhinajinchuuriki]

💙𝐴𝑠𝑢𝑘𝑎💘𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑎𝑛🩵

═════ ꧁ 𓆩💎𓆪 ꧂ ══════

𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐌𝐲 😊 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔💕 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝒀𝒈𝒐❢🥰𝑮𝒙; 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞：

𝐽𝑦𝑢𝑑𝑎𝑖✗𝐴𝑠𝑢𝑘𝑎, 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑎𝑛✗𝐽𝑦𝑢𝑑𝑎𝑖, 𝐽𝑦𝑢𝑑𝑎𝑖✗𝑌𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑙, 𝐷𝑎𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑖✗𝑇𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎, 𝑌𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑙✗𝐴𝑠𝑢𝑘𝑎, 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐽𝑦𝑢𝑑𝑎𝑖✗𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘-𝑌𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑙 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑎𝑛, 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐽𝑦𝑢𝑑𝑎𝑖✗𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐼𝑐𝑒 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑢𝑘𝑎, 𝐀𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐟 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐈𝐬 😅𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐈😂𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝💭) 。

𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫：???🤔 🎨🖌

[art1for2the3masses]

Frederick Cayley Robinson, Dreamships, 1910s

[homemadebabka]

also can’t explain how happy i am that all the one piece endings compilations are outdated now

[waffletoast215]

Happy birthday to Usagi + Chibiusa! Skipped on it last year cause drawing human characters is hard for me so I didn't feel like it lol. This year you get them with the main people I ship each of them with.

[orkowhereheshouldntbe]

[ALT available, ID: a screenshot from the game Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade: Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures. Sam the Lion and Penelope the Parrot (the titular Rabbit is absent) are looking town into the cave hideout of the Pierats, a group of rat pirates. The Pierats (pronounced pie-rats, in case your screen reader screws up) are sitting around a campfire, surrounded by piles of cheese. Orko is sitting with the Pierats. /end ID]

Orko in Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade. What Pierat songs will he sing?

[tylviasilly]

BWAHAHAHAHA!

This week's Saturday night Photoshop shenanigans are brought to you by the letter "B".

[mechachimera]

EB ship names my friend, partner and I came up with

Claus x Ness: Cluelessshipping

Ninten x Claus: Heavymetalshipping

Ninten x Loid: Rocketshipping

Ninten x Ana: Melodyshipping

Ninten x Lucas: Heartshipping

Ness x Lucas: Emissaryshipping

Ness x Paula: Tokenshipping

Jeff x Tony: Wintershipping

Claus x Fuel: Sunshineshipping

Flint x Hinawa: Matchshipping

Lucas x Fuel: Sparkshipping

Jeff x Ness: Mechanicshipping

Poo x Ness: Starshipping

Lucas x Nana: Seashellshipping ( joke name: Yapshipping)

Loid x Ana: Purposeshipping

Ana x Paula: Ribbonshipping

Jeff x Paula: Rescueshipping

Jeff x Poo: Enigmashipping

Paula x Poo: PKshipping

Flint x Lighter: Flameshipping

Flint x Duster: Sympathyshipping

Teddy x Duster: Scrapshipping

Ninten x Pippi: Badgeshipping

Ness x Pokey: Fatedshipping (joke name: Friendshipping)

Kuma x Duster: Castleshipping

Masked Man x Lil' Miss Marshmallow: Servantshipping

Ness x Ninten: MCshipping

Alec x Wess: Elegyshipping

Teddy x Kuma: Riotshipping

Leo x Kuma: Smokeshipping

Teddy x Leo: Lawlessshipping

Travis x Meryl: Sightshipping -

Travis x Floyd: Dragshipping

Travis x Lucas: Dreamshipping

Meryl x Floyd: Spotlightshipping

Leo x Duster: Loneshipping

Travis x Ness: Mindshipping

Travis x Ninten: Sleepyshipping

Travis x Claus: Peppershipping -

Teddy x Leo x Kuma x Duster: Arsonshipping

Ken x Ninten: Parallelshipping

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 5/21/2024

get a load of this cat

listening

one of my favorite bands, Joywave, dropped a new album last week! it is not my favorite album of theirs but so it goes. perhaps it needs more time to grow on me. Sleepytime Fantasy kicks off my favorite section of the album. video game enchanted ice cave dream sequence music.

i must stay true to my own rules for this series (not a rec series, genuinely what i've been into the most this week) and the song that's been on loop all week is a genshin impact character's theme music (punchy wolf-coded ice cop who is the duke of the prison he. runs? administers? don't worry about it). unfortunately a bop. the character music lately has been a lot more modern and experimental than i expected? this one has a police siren drop

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reading

thank you mackintosh.

i really, really enjoyed Trouble And Her Friends by Melissa Scott (LAMBDA award winner 1995)! @delta-orionis and i frequently ask ourselves "what if neuromancer was good?" and this scratches that itch for me. it is often difficult for me to take neuromancer's protagonist henry seriously, but this book features a pair of extremely practical dykes. it opens on the passing of a new american law criminalizing big swathes of online activity, passed despite a presidential veto. description from amazon

Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against the encroachments of civilization. It's time to adapt or die. India Carless, alias Trouble, got out ahead of the feds and settled down to run a small network for an artist's co-op. Now someone has taken her name and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she had tried to retire-but has been called out for one last fight. And it's a killer.

this startled me by how fun and competent it is! i tried reading one of the author's books last year (Dreamships) and had a miserable time with the pacing and flow of information. there are echoes of the pacing issues i had with the last book-- this is a nearly four hundred page hardcover, we have a lot of Next Locations to go to, and we are going to take our fucking time getting there. a road trip book, rather than a destination book. Scott has gotten way way better at fleshing out those locations— an artists' co-op has their skylights set to amber to hide the wear and tear on everything in their central hangout space when the feds show up. i also connected with the inciting incident way more-- someone stealing a female hacker’s name and style is instantly relatable. i am riding shotgun with Trouble. i am ready to throw down with her.

it's a very physical book in many ways, bc it has three brief sex scenes, is very concerned with sensuality in both senses of the word, and overall it's like the background in an anime that’s full of dials and buttons and little blinky lights. written in 1994, fascjnating how much concepts of VR and sensory inputs have not changed, but everyone still has the equivalent of an enormous old school desktop and giant CRT monitors set up. everyone is constantly lugging around so much physical tech. the stuff that makes you better at hacking in the net is quick reactions to VR sensations, the only way to get that cutting edge sensation is to get a physical chip or “worm” in your head, and the only people who do that are the core outcasts and freaks of the internet (the gays, the women, the people of color, the all three, presumably the furries as well). from that day to this���

there's an interesting contrast between Trouble and her old partner Cerise stalking the virtual reality bazaars/being queens of the BBS undergrounds, and the danger they feel and face when moving about in the real world. some reviewers are very cranky about how negotiations on and offline feel the same but i did not feel this particular quibble. communication is communication. it is known both on and offline that they're 1) women and 2) lesbians. they're in less physical danger online but slurs can still happen no matter where they are. also, i am well used to the necessity of having to posture and peacock and be kind of a bitch to establish myself in order to get anything done in coding/hardware scenes, which is something i don't think any of the male reviewers of the day ever had to think about.

some cowboy shit goes down at the end that had me hooting and hollering, and Scott handled the hacking scenes in an interesting way-- a sort of abstracted duel? terrific "fight" scenes. very interesting at how she will move things around in order to treat scenes in ways she's good at-- like establishing very grounded locations that feel real, physical sensations, and fight scenes-- instead of just kind of slogging through a very surface level high-overview travelogue like in her last book. ive been stuck on a fic chapter for like four years and this is making me think about doing it the fun way instead of the way i thought it should be done. this may be obvious but i am an amateur and more importantly an idiot.

this was a $6/1 book special last year at one of my favorite thrift stores, a religious shop with the absolute worst vibes in the greater houston area but some of the best stuff

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watching

Five Dolls For An August Moon (1970, dir. Brava). sometimes you see a cool title on kanopy and you don't have a better way to kill an hour and a half. plus it had some guys i know from cowboys. tw for a suicide's body in the first fucking ten seconds of the trailer, which is a weird trailer choice bc u don't actually see most of the murders in the movie.

ive watched a fuck of a lot of spaghetti westerns so i feel i am somewhat qualified to tell you this is one of the worst dubs ive ever seen. the lines actors are quarter-heartedly delivering do not always make a lot of sense and only occasionally match the subtitles. i am assuming this is the original dub, bc kino lorber generally does a pretty okay job restoring things?

this is not a good movie (extremely troubled production, director swap three days before filming, made on a shoestring budget, the actors mostly wore their own clothes, etc). it is not very good at maintaining tension, because it is a film that first and foremost Looks. beautiful fucking sets, beautifully decorated. the exterior is a matte painting, a sort of frothy dream-bubble of sixties architecture. most of the interiors are apparently a real house. incredible experimental burbling soundtrack full of Weird Sounds.

sorry about the tubi interface and our old friend the activate windows logo.

there are so many fun directorial flourishes and staging, but it does get a little wrapped up in itself. this made me think of The Secret of NIMH, a beautifully animated talking-animal film that gave me nightmares as a child, where the animation tricks and sparkles and moving parts sort of all get in each other's way to produce something less than the sum of its parts. this sort of happens here. i'm going to yoink this from a review:

Bava’s eye for exquisite compositions is equally evident. One scene in particular stands out in this regard: The filmmaker shoots an otherwise humdrum fistfight through wooden latticework that breaks the action up into an abstracted mosaic effect. The fight culminates with a table being upended, which in turn unleashes a myriad crystal spheres. The camera follows along as the spheres tumble and cascade down a spiral staircase and roll across a tiled floor before plopping like so many bath bubbles into a tub. The scene concludes with the revelation of a recently deceased character caught in what you’d have to call a tableau morte. It’s a dazzlingly orchestrated sequence, easily on par with more famous Bava set pieces.

it's gorgeous! there's also So Much going on. another lovely bit of business: as each person dies they get wrapped in plastic sheeting and put in the walkin freezer. next to slabs of beef. not a subtle film, and i don't mean it as a diss, bc where's the fuckin fun in that?

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playing

i have not been doing much of anything here except listen to podcasts and work toward the two-thousand-fish-caught achievement in genshin. impatiently waiting for Clorinde to be released in several weeks. that one button needs a raise. it is So funny to see genshin characters with fucking guns. very sword and pike based societies so far

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making

every time i have tried to make one of these samplers for Me it's gone horribly wrong or been somehow destroyed so i'm making this one for my brother's upcoming birthday, bc he will have off-campus housing next academic year, in an attempt to peacefully do some fucking cross stitch and get something out at the end of it. pattern here on etsy

[almeriamovies]

Waikiki de Cabo de Gata aka Playa de Monsul in "(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1" by Michael Herbig (new entry) A stupid and funny comedy, had the most successful opening day of a movie in Germany ever (2004).

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

The Blue Bird Dreamships – FC Robinson // Wendy – Maisie Peters

[asparklethatisblue]

The Adventures of the Dreamship Error

or the Traumschiff Surprise x The Terror mashup I felt like we all needed in these tiring times

translation under the cut

Francis: did your bring your passport?

James: of course

Francis: closed the windows?

James: yes, I even closed the blinds!

Francis: oh for the love of god, stop closing the blinds all the time, that way everyone immediately knows we're not home!

*

Francis: he isn’t even a pureblooded Vulcanette

James: am too!

Francis: nooo you’re a mongrel dog!

James: gasping

*

Francis: there is something, that you still need to know

James: what is it?

Francis: I’m… an absolute loser in bed

James: Francis! Me too!

*

Off screen: oh! Someone laid down on the floor!

Francis: yes. That is John

*

Francis: Ow! Schrotty are you insane!

James: mutiny! 

Francis: Do that one more time and you’ll be sleeping in a single bedroom in Honolulu!

James: absolutely, ey

*

James: Pulle (Bones) was right. I’m simply too fat!

*

Hickey: Captain?

James: careful, don’t get too close

Hickey: the measuring of the automatic control system shows a certain smooth factor. They’re using strong vibrating modulations to push through to us. 

Francis: and… so?

Hickey: should I let them penetrate, Captain?!

James: gasping

*

Francis: And what are you supposed to be? 

James: I’m the Captain 

Francis: pft, you just fucked your way to the top

James: so? What’sthe issue with that?

*

 Sir John: Pugspeed!

Silence

Sir John: Pugspeed!

Gore: Captain, begging your pardon, but pug speed is currently kinda dumb

Sir John: why

Gore: we’ve got weasel damage

Sir John: very well, time to go home!

*

Jopson’s line: it’s ok daddy, you can count on me!

*

Lady Jane: there they are!

Barrow: I can’t believe it, how can someone get so far off course?

Lady Jane: contact them at once!

James Ross: they’re at the arse end of the world?

John Ross: does that surprise you?

*

Francis: do you even know who I am? My name is Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, Captain of the Terror, and i carry both the responsibility for that sofa, as well as for my crew of over 40 men! And I’m telling you, it’s not easy to feed that many mouths