#illinois country

[volumes-and-vines]

A somber post holiday drive through the Heartland

[moodboardmix]

Rohe House Nr. 5, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Monika Pancheva Architect

[huariqueje]

Adams County, Illinois -   Kerry Simmons , 2023.

American , b. 1976 -

Gouache

[sangcounty]

Love in the Prairie State

[random-fun-polls]

Do you typically celebrate your birthday with friends? (Not milestone birthdays, just normal ones)

Yes, I have a party or outing specifically for my birthday

I get together with friends, but I don't point out that it's on/near my birthday

No, I don't make any special effort to see my friends near my birthday

It changes so much year to year that I can't answer

I don't have any friends that I could see on my birthday

additional nuance / my birthday cake has so much vanilla extract in it

[jvstinderosa]

Country Breeze

[mocury-moto]

god can you fucking imagine how wild minecraft must be in 17776. tens of thousands of new blocks and items. hundreds of biomes and mobs. someone will be grinding out mining away the entire world. a redstone machine in somebodys world has gained sentience like the satellites have. a full netherite beacon is considered early-game content. mooblooms still arent in the game. imagine

[atopvisenyashill]

“why would elaena marry a dornishman when they’re nasty evil people who murdered her poor innocent brother daeron”

maybe because once elaena grew up she realized that there were better ways of bringing dorne into the realm than violent conquest, and that daeron got the death he deserved from not just a nobility that is valid for fearing subjugation from valyria but also a smallfolk sick and tired of these people showing up every few decades to set their principality on fire, and put aside any anti dornish sentiments she may or may not have harbored as a child to see the way her family had directly attributed to their suffering, eventually even falling in love with and marrying a dornish man??

also, considering daeron ii attempts a type of proto-reparations act in bringing dorne into the kingdom, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that someone as intelligent as elaena would recognize the inherent racism in the targaryen conquest of dorne and especially considering the very loud anti-dornish, deeply anti intellectual faction in the blackfyre rebellions, realized they wouldn’t be kind or understanding of an intelligent woman like herself and had no interest in herself or her daughters (of which she had four!!) getting shoved back into the maidenvault again?

like, daeron i is on some andrew jackson manifest destiny shit, and if it makes me an asshole for thinking “god i wish someone had merked jackson before he genocided & displaced my ancestors, good on the dornish for realizing you can’t negotiate with imperialists” than i am perfectly comfortable being considered an asshole right next to my girl elaena.

[dreamyplaylists]

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

1957

For my 2nd track today, here's a soulful twist on a classic: 'You Are My Sunshine' by Andre Williams.

Williams transforms this familiar tune into a heartfelt, bluesy ballad.

His rendition is both tender and raw, it has an emotional depth that breathes new life into the song.

And here's the original recorded by The Pine Ridge Boys in

1939

[polkadotmotmot]

Jojo Anavin - Dream Machine (Pepsi), 2023

[volumes-and-vines]

A new month…soon a new season, a new landscape. B e a u t i f u l

S e p t e m b e r

[kalicofox]

The Semi-Soulmate AU That Nobody Asked For

Something nobody ever told Danny was that, well. He was the king. Everyone assumed that someone else had told him, and honestly, he was doing an alright job at the whole thing, so...

He had to know, right?

No.

No he did not.

Of course he didn't know! How could he have?

His first hint was when he woke up at the stroke of midnight on his twentieth birthday, falling apart.

He panicked, because of course he did. Panicking when you were dissolving into aether was something any sane person would do! But it didn't last, because then he was gone and there was only The Realms.

And it was beautiful.

You see, there are rules, and then there are rules.

And one of the rules was this: No King of the Realms can rule without knowing what, exactly, it is that they rule.

And so, typically, (typically, she says, when there's only been two Kings, and Pariah was anything but typical.) the newly crowned King would go on a tour of the realm. They would meet their subjects, and explore the far reaches, and, although it would take a while (ages, millennia, eons,) they would eventually return with at least partial knowledge of their domain.

Danny had done none of that.

Danny hadn't known, because no one had told him.

The Realms had waited. Patiently at first, and with slowly growing impatience.

One year.

Three.

Five years, and the new King gave no indication that he was even thinking about touring the Realms.

So the Realms took matters into its own hands.

And stole the king away.

He was everything. Everywhere. Everywhen, all at once. Forever and Always, all at once.

He could see everything.

Feel his subjects, going about their 'lives'. 'Living', and loving, and 'dying', and being reborn elsewhere in a cycle that took him eons (the blink of an eye, the beat of a heart) to comprehend.

Someone screaming caught his attention, such as it was.

One of his subject being dragged unwillingly into one of the 'living' worlds.

This wasn't too uncommon. It happened often enough, with the advances that the 'living' had made in medical technologies. But this one was different.

The portal was different.

Putrid and sickening, it was a blemish on Danny's The Realms' self.

He couldn't interfere. He tried. He tried to close the portal, to block it, to cut the summoning, but nothing worked.

Fate had her hand in this, and The Realms hated her.

He couldn't help. So he reached out, and embraced the subject, instead.

And for a moment, (an eternity of eternities), they were one.

Mixing, blending, learning, mourning,

and then the portal surged, and the other was gone.

And The Realms Danny mourned.

The Realms spat him back out onto his bed.

The room was still dark.

The clock read fifteen minutes after midnight.

His phone told him it was his twentieth birthday.

But he felt so, unbearably old.

[cuntwrap--supreme]

I've been doing a lot of grocery delivery in the country lately, so I ordered myself a nice bumper sticker so I fit in with everyone else's stuff :)

I've seen a lot of these lately, but they were all of a pride flag I don't recognize. Not sure which gender/sexuality has the red and white stripes with the blue with white stars in the corner, but I guess it's an ok design. The rainbow is the traditional LGBT flag, though, so I feel it symbolizes the collective queer community a little better and will be a little more noticeable/recognizable than niche flags, like this stars and stripes guy.

[sangcounty]

Love in the Prairie State

[nando161mando]

In a country where they want to arrest you for protesting, WE WILL NOT SHUT UP!