#harbor sans

[rub1x]

*bites the art*

Someone tell him to put those dogs away

[bookishfreedom]

serendipity used books aka my happy place

[rebouks]

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Ivan: If y'don't get that thing outta my face I'mma smash the fuck outta yours. Oscar: C'monnn you haven't eaten all day. Ivan: I ain't fuckin' hungry!

[emaadsidiki]

Playground of the Pacific ∼ Morro Bay 🌅

[emaadsidiki]

Life by the bay and the downtown. 🌊🏠

[emaadsidiki]

West Coast Winds 🌊🏭

[queenvladislaus]

~Choose Your Character: Skate Lookbook~

I was loosely inspired by Skate 3 and majorly inspired by skater fashion in my city for this lookbook! Hope you enjoy <3

CC links on my website (no a*s or pa*w**l EVER)

plz consider donating to my ko-fi if you like my stuff ;)

credits under the cut as always :)

@sheabuttyr @simandy @evellsims @its-adrienpastel @solistair

@trillyke @b0t0xbrat @jellymoo @0o0ghost0o0 @divinecap

@miikocc @magic-bot @cosimetic @kindlespice @jius-sims

@enriques4 @ikari-sims @marsmerizing-sims @saruin @poanl

@evoxyr @twisted-cat @simbience @simtric @buglaur @sammi-xox

@woosteru @christopher067 @greenllamas @pluto-sims @ayoshi

@aharris00britney @simstrouble @sagittariahx @hooppiway

@pralinesims @stamsim @arethabee @hauntedtrait @clumsytrait

@lamatisse @thepeachyfaerie @demondare-sims @serenity-cc

@mmsims @simpliciaty-cc

etc.

[wolfavens]

colours of 2022

[emaadsidiki]

West Coast Blues 🌊💙

[theunderestimator-2]

Pearl Gates (before her days as Pearl Harbour) performing at the Mabuhay Gardens with Leila and the Snakes in 1978 as captured by Chester B. Simpson.

Back in the '70s, Pearl had won a local SF contest as a tap-dancing boxer and was singing background vocals for glam rockers The Tubes while tap-dancing in boxing outfits. The band was part of the mid-'70s underground scene with a stage show unlike any other, a Rocky Horror Picture Show/Saturday Night Live combo of rock, satire and subversive routines.

It was during that time that Pearl "…joined a local band called Leila and the Snakes where she would sing while hula-hooping. As fun – and knackering – as that sounds, after a couple of years she became desperate to do her own thing and so Pearl Harbour and the Explosions were born. They released a tight, talked-about new wave album and toured with Talking Heads but soon Pearl felt the pull of the up-and-coming rockabilly movement. The rest of the band weren’t too sure, so Pearl broke away and moved to the UK to focus on her new sound. Music wasn’t her only reason for heading to England. Pearl had married The Clash’s bass player Paul Simonon and made a whole new gang of British pals, including Ian Dury, who gave her a gift of a British rhyming slang dictionary to help with her lyrics and who she joined onstage at The Hammersmith Odeon before many tours with The Clash…." ( thefortyfive.com/ )

She's been following a solo career since 1980 and is still active and rocking to this day.

(via & via)

[mintypsii]

koby and helmeppo hiding behind some rocks or something before ambushing a gang of pirates and koby goes WAIT i gotta recharge and pulls out luffys wanted poster and has a 2 minute flashback sequence before resolutely standing up and single handedly taking the entire crew down. helmeppo is sick and tired

[pamsimmerstories]

what should i do with them? let them be happy or this was a final goodbye?

transcription

[and they were exploring. quincy tried to lit up the bonfire] [but it wasn’t working for him] [he finally manage to put it out] [that’s when jeb found him] [jeb]: jesus, quincy! are you okay? [quincy]: touches jeb hey! don’t worry. i’m okay! [jeb]: you could’ve killed yourself, man. [jeb]: whispers what are you doing? [quincy]: there’s something i need to do before i let go, jeb. [jeb]: and what’s that? [quincy]: there’s only one way to know for sure why i’m obsessed with you. [jeb]: clears throat pants quincy… [quincy]: may i do whatever i want, jeb? nods [quincy]: breathless i need to kiss you more to know for sure [but it was jeb that grabbed quincy for a passionate kiss] [they put their clothes back on] [quincy]: after today, will you ignore me? or can we see each other again? [jeb]: look, i have to admit, this was fun. i enjoyed it. but we are different. we have different worlds, quincy. and also, what would you say to your parents? i’m not saying i’d want anything serious with you. but we couldn’t ever be a thing, for so many reasons. [quincy]: i… i don’t know, jeb. i really haven’t thought about it. but i would figure it out. [jeb]: well, i’m sure if you find someone else, you’ll find out. i gotta go. [jeb]: goodbye quincy [quincy]: mutters bye jeb

[bookishfreedom]

my happy place ✨

[mareislandfoundation]

Raw Courage

Christmas Day 1941 Seaman First Class Donald Stratton arrived at the Mare Island Hospital with life threating burns over much of his body. A little over two weeks before he was trapped with six shipmates high above the main deck on the sky control platform of the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39). A surprise attack by aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy had turned the battleship into a burning hell on earth from which there could be no escape. As he told the story "A bomb blew up the forward magazine of the USS Arizona and the ship was engulfed in flames. I and five others were located on the anti-aircraft gun director’s platform above the bridge when the forward powder magazine blew. All of us were badly burned. I was burned over 80% of my body. At that point, the only possibility to evacuate the ship was to dive in the water, which was 80 feet below and was fully engulfed in flame. That was not an option for survival.”

The United States was at peace as earlier when General Quarters sounded aboard the USS Arizona while moored at the huge naval base at Pearl Harbor.   Japanese planes had just been sighted bombing nearby Ford Island. Hearing the alarm, Seaman Stratton rushed to his battle station as a sight setter in the Port Anti-Aircraft fire director. Within minutes of his arrival at his battle station a Japanese high-altitude bomber dropped an armor piercing bomb that tore through the deck of the ship and ignited a million pounds of explosive, and thousands of gallons of aviation gas and fuel oil. The massive explosion completely enveloped Stratton’s battle station as the ship settled to the bottom of the harbor, her back broken and her sides blown out. Trapped above the flaming wreckage Stratton and six others were saved when another sailor, Joe George, aboard the repair ship USS Vestal that was moored alongside the Arizona acted. Despite direct orders Joe George threw the men a line and refused to cut it until the men made it to safety. Stratton and five other survivors from the sky control platform managed to make it over the flaming seas surrounding the burning hulk of the Arizona to the deck of the Vestal by climbing hand over hand down the line as the Japanese continued to attack.

The burns on Stratton’s arms were so bad that his skin sloughed off as he worked his way down the line to the Vestal. With burns over much of his body he was taken to the Naval Hospital at Pearl which was overwhelmed with patients. The decision was made to evacuate some of the patients to the mainland thus Seaman Stratton and 196 other seriously wounded sailors and Marines were transported on the blacked-out transport USS Scott arriving at the Mare Island Hospital on Christmas Day 1941. Seaman Stratton was successfully treated at Mare Island with what were then innovative burn treatments for several months until he was transferred to Corona, California for a convalescence. Due to the severity of the damage to his arm and leg he was medically discharged in September 1942. Unbelievably, when his injuries allowed, Donald Stratton re-enlisted in the Navy and went aboard the destroyer USS Stack at Naval Station Treasure Island in 1944. Aboard the Stack Seaman Stratton turned the tables on the enemy as he and the Stack participated in the invasions of New Guinea, Halmahera, Leyte, Luzon and Okinawa.

After the war Stratton took up the cause to secure a posthumous medal for Joe George, the sailor from the Vestal who helped rescue the six men from the sky control platform. Joe George was never recognized for his role in saving the men because he disobeyed a direct order in not cutting the line to the Arizona until Seaman Stratton and five others had made it across. Lest you think the Navy was being too cold-hearted in denying recognition for Joe George, the Vestal was at risk from the ongoing explosions and fires from USS Arizona as well as the ongoing attack. Vestal had been hit with two bombs and was sinking when Joe George was ordered to cut the line. The fact is, Vestal could likely have pulled away snapping the line, but the site of those desperate men likely influenced more than just Joe George on that awful day. Despite the circumstances, in 2017 the US Navy acceded to Donald Stratton’s persistence and posthumously awarded Joe George the Bronze Medal for Valor.

Dennis Kelly

[graveyardrabbit]

[lonestarbattleship]

USS SAN FRANCISCO (CA-38) departing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for Kwajalein.

Date: January 22, 1944.

Admiral Furlong Collection

Digital Archives of Hawai'i: PPFUR-3-15-020