#the madcap

[themadcapmathematician]

The thing about public transportation is that it often operates at a loss or at least pretty thin profit margins no matter how much the ticket prices get raised. In a lot of places, service is bad, operator pays get cut while they're overworked, wait times are ridiculous, no one can get places in a timely manner most places, if you can get places at all, and a profit still isn't being turned

But the money and human suffering and indignity that public transport saves can't be quantified by profits from ticket sales. "Can people get places in your city easily to work, to school, for leisure, for socializing? How much money do you save when your workers get to their jobs on time? When people can access healthcare and government buildings easily? How much pain and suffering and human life do you save when people know they'll never be stranded in your city or town no matter the time, day, or how much pocket change they have?" these aren't questions answered by "it makes profit" and the necessity of infrastructure can't be measured by profit, you have to think long term, you have to look at benefits in more abstract ways, and all Business Models are deeply bad at that kind of planning. It isn't a mystery why a machine that exists to make profit right now isn't a machine that's good at making a robust system that focuses on long term benefits, fiscal or ethical. the fact that people are still struggling futilely to turn something with benefits that abstract and that vital into a dispenser of narrow, short-term return is fucking infuriating

Public transportation should be free and well-funded because a place where no one can get anywhere is a place no one can exist in public, and that's bad for the economy but it's also bad for human fucking dignity

[tidalpooles]

rq, a Reini that I forgot to post (and a little Roland too)

- Roland belongs to @madcap-ian

[xortakesbrush]

“They call me ‘the exfoliator’..”

💥💥Meet madcap! Now fully coloured and with some personal background!

(Scroll down my blog to read how I headcanon his lore)

(I would be very glad if you reblog this tyvm <3)

I would also be glad if you gave me some of your headcanons!!! I think it would be cool if madcap stayed as the product of our community hehe

[wormizette]

BRITISH COLONISER

[breaddiana]

Ora ora

Original:

[more-relics]

 Syd Barrett London 1969. © Mick Rock

[bob-mirum]

It was a trade :v

[guessimdumb]

Syd Barrett - Dark Globe (1970)

I knew the version on Madcap Laughs, and I'd heard the version on Opel, but this one (released on a bootleg in 1986) is very different from both. The Madcap Laughs track is painful and out of tune at times, whereas this one has "a ghostly and slightly out-of-sync vocal shadowing the main one. That ghostly shadow enhances the woozy mystique of the recording considerably"*

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue December 1973

Marisa Berenson in a short silk georgette dinner dress. By Oscar de la Renta (Werner fabric). Cartier jewelry, David Evins shoes, feather boa, Madcaps for Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. Carita Hairdressing.

Marisa Berenson dans une courte robe de dîner en soie georgette. Par Oscar de la Renta (tissu Werner). Bijoux Cartier, chaussures David Evins, boa en plumes, Madcaps pour Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. Coiffure Carita.

Photo Helmut Newton vogue archive

[killcityarchive]

Syd Barrett, 1969

Madcap Laughs photoshoot.

Photography by Mick Rock.

[themadcapmathematician]

[ID in alt.]

[tidalpooles]

A gratuitous Logan for your consideration

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Logan belongs to @madcap-ian

[xortakesbrush]

10th class update when????

[iggyinuit]

Syd's painted floorboards are for sale. Read the Church article at: https://atagong.com/iggy/archives/2024/06/the-case-of-the-painted-floorboards-v-2024.html

[starleska]

swear on my life Nordic Bunny is a mental demon who just cannot be exorcised 😭💖 thought i'd put in my dues with this weirdo, but i'm still sitting here like 'oooh...i wonder what brand of lipstick he uses...🥴💖' (and i know just how to find out-!!)

[breadjustbread]

I mean, I have a theory why valve would delete my favourite character from game😔

Sooo don’t take it too serious-

What if Madcap was Scout’s eldest brother who ran away from family like Spy does so Scout was too young to remember Madcap so good (just like a Spy) so Madcap began working as merc and after Spy recognised him he started keeping eye on him, so after Scout joined the team Madcap got really uncomfortable with all family issues between Spy and Scout, so after a few years working as merc he decided to quit leaving Scout HIS dog tags but cause Scout can barely read, he couldn’t read the name on dog tags, but when he found out, Madcap already wasn’t there.