#via archive.org

[eyeswideshut1999]

The View Askew website in the 2000s

[warrenwoodhouse]

Star Wars Stormtrooper Reversible Sequin Cushion - Disney Star Wars - Brands - Categories - Dunelm

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[fionaapplerocks]

Pitchfork: Fiona Apple recorded "Dull Tool" specifically for This Is 40. How did that come about?

JA: I'm a big fan of Fiona's. I asked her to do a benefit a couple of years ago for the Venice Family Clinic, and she did this amazing set, so I got to know her a little bit back then. I sent her the script to this movie, and then one day, out of the blue, Jon Brion said to me, "Fiona recorded a demo for you." I didn't know she would write anything. The song was perfect, and I knew exactly where to put it. She actually recorded a second song that we didn't have a place for in the movie, which is equally as great as "Dull Tool". It was heartbreaking not to put it in, but I'm sure it'll reach people at some point. It's a beautiful song. — Pitchfork interview Judd Apatow

[transmasczappa]

From Guilty Gear XX Yonkoma Kings: Volume 1 - via archive.org

[perfunctory-idols]

Beck interviewed in Milan, Italy on March 9, 2000 before his gig at the Alcatraz.

Photos from the concert (x)

[simsyfandomcave]

How to Write Strong Character Relationships

Note: If you're here for the Show Me The Voice blogfest, you can find my entry here!

Writers talk all the time about creating strong characters, dynamic characters, memorable and unique characters. It's the core of our stories-- it's not just about what happened, but who it happened to. But there's a side of character development I think we often neglect, and it's one of the most important parts of who human beings are.

Characterization-- who a person/character is-- can sometimes be shown more strongly through relationships than through anything else. A relationship between characters is often a whole plotline itself. But even when it isn't, your characters will never feel as strong, dynamic, memorable or unique if you ignore their relationships.

As I've gone to conferences and worked on Devolutionaries, I've tried to make my relationships as strong, dynamic, and memorable as the characters themselves. Here's a few things I've learned.

For a strong relationship, no matter the type, your characters should need each other. There should be something about each of them that needs the other. In Devs, my main character Ash needs each of the others, even if he doesn't like it (or like to admit it). He has a distrustrustful and antagonistic relationship with another character-- but he also needs the training this character can give him. And this character needs Ash's ability to take risks to get what he wants.

There should be at least one reason-- and maybe more-- that each of your characters needs the others. This is especially important in romantic relationships. They need to fulfill a need in each other.

Of course, if that's all you use to define your relationships, you'll have a boring story. Your characters should also be in conflict with each other. This doesn't mean they have to be fighting all the time, or even that they have to have exactly opposite characteristics. But there should be some aspect of your characters that causes conflict. In Devs, Ash and his love interest have conflicting moral views on a key issue. For Ash and another character, their similarities (stubbornness, distrust) are actually what puts them into conflict.

Just like a character changes, relationships must change throughout the story. A static relationship is a boring relationship. However the relationship starts in the story, it needs to be grow and be different in the end. Through the conflicts and the needs, the way the characters see and interact with each other will be different. This is not restricted to romantic relationships-- Ash's relationships with each of the main characters evolves over the story.

And finally, don't forget about the relationships of the non-main characters with each other. This is something I'm trying to fix in my revisions. Ash's relationships with the other characters are the most important, but the other characters have relationships with each other that make the story stronger and more real. It doesn't have to be a focus, but it should be an element in the story.

So, my friends, how do you approach your character's relationships? What have you found that helps make them stronger? What are some of your favorite character relationships in books and movies?

[unproduciblesmackdown]

interestingly the only mention i can find of a monastery loquarium is (rendered "loquorium") in "the california padres and their mission" by charles francis saunders and joseph smeaton chase, a book in the public domain:

The Mission relics at Santa Inés are many and interesting. Besides those used in the present-day church services, and the beautiful old vestments that are in the sacristy, there is a considerable collection arranged for interested visitors in an interior room of the convento — a room formerly used as the loquorium, where daily, after dinner and after supper, the friars were at liberty to come to rest for an hour from their laboring and praying, and relax in human chat.

the next paragraph also mentions this room now housing relics "patiently got together from all sorts of places," including "from the earth of the surrounding fields as the plough turns it up"

[thegroovyarchives]

1991 Anglo American Eyewear Frog Sunglasses (via: Pinterest/archive.org)

[thoughtportal]

If you’re looking for a good way to spend the rest of your week, Archive.org has unearthed a gigantic collection of cassettes from the mid-80 into the mid-90s.

According to their notes, the 30GB collection was saved from the archives of noise-arch.net and donated by former CKLN-FM radio host Myke Dyer in August 2009. Due to its size and obscurity, the collection hasn’t been properly notated but is said to include cassettes ranging from “tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indie, rock, DIY, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials”.

Head to Archive now to download the free collection. [via Electronic Beats]

We’re still going through Archive’s insane collection of in-store background music, the essential Attention Kmart Shoppers.

[glavilio]

From YARF! #17 (1991, via archive.org)

[themcrarchive]

MCR for Skratch Issue 86, April 2003 🦇

Scans via TomQ/archive.org

[prokopetz]

Your post about indie games immediately took me back in time to when I was younger and repeatedly playing the majesty of colors and this one other flash game that I cannot for the life of me remember the name of so I figured I’d pop in in case anyone else remembered it

You’re playing as a girl who was drowning iirc and could choose to swim to the surface. There were jellyfish and stuff trying to keep you down. There was a tumblr post including it and the majesty of colors and a few other games that I’d found and saved to my drafts on an old blog, but it’s been lost to time now

(With reference to this post here.)

I'm about 95% sure you're thinking of Daniel Benmergui's Today I Die (2008). It's unfortunately not been made available via the author's itch.io page, and the page for it on their personal website has been busted since 2022, but if you have a Flash emulator installed in your browser, you should be able to dig a playable snapshot from before it broke out of archive.org's Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000*/http://ludomancy.com/today/index.html

(Like I said, just pick a snapshot from 2021 or earlier.)

[warrenwoodhouse]

Fallout 3 Locations Guide (PDFs) (Fallout 3) (Gaming) (Game Guides) (Guides) (Warren Guides)

Original PDF Guide, Scanned & Archived by @warrenwoodhouse #warrenwoodhouse

Free for personal use only.

Free PDF listing all of the locations from the Wasteland and D.C. area in Fallout 3.

Created & Scanned By: Warren Woodhouse

Created Using: Google Docs

Official Website: https://warrenwoodhouse.tumblr.com/

YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/warrenwoodhouse

Feedback: CLICK HERE to use the feedback form.

Date of Creation & Scan: 11th August 2024

[cultreslut]

1966 energy conversion devices by NASA/Glenn research center via archive.org

[transmasczappa]

From Guilty Gear XX Yonkoma Kings: Volume 1 - via archive.org

[thingsorganizedneatly]

Graphic Tools & Techniques

by John Laing & Rhiannon Saunders-Davies

via Present & Correct

Book is available to view on archive.org