#proto-house

[spilladabalia]

Paul Hardcastle - Nineteen (Destruction Mix)

[moochilatv]

Real Pleasure presents: Soma

Italo pop disco ! Great tune and new EP for Kevin Claxton.

About the song:

Channeling 80s dance mixes, italo disco, new wave, and synth pop, Soma (Edit), and the Real Pleasure's new EP Zones, filter nostalgic influences through the cathartic release of LA’s humming warehouse parties. Expect maximalist indie dance and proto house replete with vintage hardware sounds and undeniable synth hooks.

Real Pleasure is the artist project of writer / producer Kevin Claxton (formerly Vaya, Chicago Singles Club). 

Real Pleasure’s sound bears a sunny LA influence, marrying the the grooves of classic 80’s and 90s pop and dance and embracing the left field writing and production of Claxton's indie art-pop roots.

The forthcoming indie dance EP Zones (OUT NOW) was released in October 2024, channeling 80's synth pop, italo disco, and new wave into a thumping indie hardware house package ready for the dance floor. The first two singles, Neo (Edit) and Layer 5, are out now.

Listen the full EP in bandcamp:

Written and recorded in 2023-2024, Los Angeles, CA Written and Produced by Kevin Claxton Mixed and Mastered by Nick Garcia Artwork by Melanie Lee & Jordan Morrell

[homeofhousechickens]

Chickens likely domesticated themselves the same way wolves did which is basically by hanging around our settlements and eating our refuse.

Living with chickens in this sort of way was likely happening way before the estimated times of 8,000- 10,000 years ago. The relationship was likely already long established it was just during that time some chickens started developing smaller/weaker adrenal glands which caused them to become much easier to raise and handle which eventually lead to the domesticated chicken we know of today (and how that happened so suddenly is a completely different but very interesting topic)

Also due to this you could argue that there isn't any true wild red jungle fowl left untouched and uninfluenced by humans anymore. Not only due to constant cross breeding with domestic chickens but because red jungle fowl are still doing what their ancestors did in their current range, if there is a town or village nearby the bravest junglefowl will still choose to intermingle with the village and eat the refuse, agricultural byproducts, and waste. People will still catch and care for these "wild" birds like their ancestors did. This isn't to say we shouldn't try our best to preserve the wild red jungle fowls wild genetics, their should be populations left to be in their natural environment but it's likely they are not truly same wild birds they once were thousands of years ago and honestly that's OK because thats how its been for thousands of years.

[plein-air-on-gorkhon]

plague city, night

[companion-showdown]

Who is your favourite companion?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

propaganda under the cut

Ace McShane

She's brilliant. One of the best written and developed companions of the classic series, such a template for the modern era. So many different fates and stories across the different media. If you don't love her in one you're bound to in another. And then she got her return in the new era to boot. Oh yeah; and beating the crap out of a Dalek with a Gallifreyan enhanced baseball bat. What a legend. she's... ACE! (@seven-times-champion /@elden-12 )

Ace is the natural predecessor to modern female companions. She's a fighter, smart, caring, an explosives "expert", a match for the Doctor despite being so young. She follows her own morality, will smash a dalek with a baseball bat no problem, and has a banging wardrobe! (anonymous)

Donna Noble

you already know who she is bc she's the most iconic companion of all time. imagine teleporting into the tardis on the worst day of the doctor's life (so far) and not clocking any of his angst and SCREAMING at him to take you back to your wedding not only is this THE funniest introduction it's symbolizing how she saw the doctor at their worst, underneath the front that they put up, and due to this she understands them on a level like nothing else and changes their life forever. "you don't just need someone to stop you, you need someone to keep you going". AHHHHHH. she isn't in love with the doctor she calls them out whenever they're being awful and need to be whacked on the back of the head. she is filled with so much compassion for the smallest person she reminds ten of the kindness that was beaten out of him and she is so so loving to everyone except for herself. she loves her trans daughter so much. she changed the narrative of the doctor back from the tragedy it was into something hopeful. healing is real and possible through the power of queerplatonic relationships actually. donna sweep or i blow up the website (@aq2003 )

[rosemaryslullaby]

[monsterboyblood]

The first location I’ve actually drawn references for, it’s Proto Man’s cabin :)

[characterswithcolorsnamesfight]

Prelim Poll 28

Propaganda here

[plasticsweets]

Made In France OP, Pink House

[sssstimetocome]

quick draw m! byleth

too long not draw fe stuff I'm sorry to myself bcs I train to draw db character

[romanceyourdemons]

per usual, these emails find me in the cubicle freaking it sensitive style

[spilladabalia]

Manuel Göttsching - E2 E4 clip

[russian-spider]

"I am meant to serve you until death or the end of our story"

what does Daemon mean by that exactly? wouldn't death be the end of their story? in the book (spoilers!) there were rumours he survived the battle above the Gods Eye (which sounded ridiculous to me at the time), but thanks to Alys we know he does die... this line though, after those visions and Daemon's newfound conection to the supernatural side of things, it has me thinking that maybe there's more to it, considering the sacred island full of weirwoods and the fact that his body was never found. maybe the Old Gods have plans for him that go beyond that battle and the writers want to keep Matt Smith for S4, maybe he has a role to play even after death. Daemon dies in Harrenhal, but does he stay dead?

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

Hebden Bridge Times - Friday 20 November 1981

It appears as if the early Lux Madriana group of Hebden Bridge were geared up in the early 1980s to do a lot of Madrian outreach!

[tovaicas]

anyways my friends activated my conlang brain and I've made smth insane as usual

red is influences, blue is Elezen-family languages, green is like a mix bc I see the Alliance cities as having a trade language (that critically is limited to them).

I see Duskwight as a separate language from Black Shroud Elezen (but sharing a lot - easy enough to learn for those speakers). Coerthan and all its derivatives are a whole different language under the Elezen umbrella and isn't mutually intelligible with BSE. Because they split so early, they probably don't share much more than root words and etymologies; within the same family so not difficult to learn for other speakers of Elezen languages, but very distinctly different.

(also I'm not listing them but the branches extend to include other diaspora Elezen languages)

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