#weird house stuff

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is the house's wine cellar! Let me go outside and get us some wine. BRB. Maybe.

Is there a door? With a lock? This is crazy. It's a dungeon. Look how far down it goes.

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

[allroseshave-their-pricks]

My roommates keep stealing my tools because they don't have any, so I'm curious

[theythemmer]

r we phuckin w the phaltar

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

can't get over how fucked up and weird nahyuta is... like i don't mean in the surface-level haha "what's crack-a-lackin homie" way, i mean this kid who grew up on the run as essentially a wanted criminal, who got separated from his brother in the middle of his childhood, throwing himself into monk training and religion to find some semblance of peace and meaning to his suffering, only to end up tortured and held hostage by his own aunt and having years worth of blood on his hands from all the people he sent to their deaths... helpless and drowning with his sole hope being that dhurke would save him, then finding out that dhurke was already dead and he'd lost his chance to ever reconcile... and not wanting to lose apollo on top of it too, but not able to bring himself to sacrifice rayfa for it!! watching his mother get shot in front of his eyes!! his family members all being used against each other as chess pieces to control him!!! and there's nothing he can do!!!!

and like even just as a person the way he's so down to just infodump about whatever he's been researching and how his interest in science alongside his deep spirituality complements his partnership with ema, who he is way nicer to than literally any other prosecutor ever treats their detective, he's so weird and curious and genuinely sweet under the cruel façade... he is so much. can't get over how he's a prosecutor AND a monk and even a prince. he's literally the actual prince regent of a country. he's THE androgynous icon. and he's hot!!!

[meamiki]

mira !!! :]

[so-i-did-this-thing]

My latest thing has been bidding <=$5 on vintage "smalls" lots on Auction Ninja, ignoring the website, then seeing what I have managed to win days later.

Latest win: this collection of toy bird whistles (part of a larger lot of random stuff), most likely from the 1940/50s.

[spectacledraws]

reallyyy old really gross deltarune hypothetical ch. 3 doodles like these are basically fossils at this point. but I don’t think I ever posted them bc they were just brainstormin. but they’re fun I still like my guys!

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

lil comic practice with my favourite moment from The Haunting of Hill House, can't believe Shirley Jackson invented toxic yuri all the way back in 1958 <3

[pettymaisie]

࣪ ִֶָ☾ You're just as sane as I am

[apriltempleos]

[lagosbratzdoll]

Ryan did a bunch of interviews recently that I've been reading and I have some thoughts. You can find the interviews here and here.

There's a lot of terrible stuff in it but I don't have the time or inclination to bother with all that. I'm going to be focusing on two things he said in the interviews.

Starting with this from the House of the Dragon podcast which I've linked above.

In it, Ryan talks about why he decided to contrast the lives of Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White with the lives of the privileged Targaryens. It was fascinating to get a peek into his head.

Ryan reads a rapist and thinks "this is a person worth deepening. We need an in-depth exploration of what goes on in this rapists head. We need the audience to sympathise with them."

Which wouldn't be so bad on its face, there's always room to analyse a fictional rapist. The problem is that he then reads about a little Black girl who raised herself on a tiny island rising up to become a dragon rider on her own merit. A little girl whose Valyrian heritage is constantly debated and discounted. He reads that and decides that there's nothing worth exploring there. Her story isn't unique. She isn't unique. In fact, she's so common that while we adapt and humanise not one but two rapists, we're going to erase one Black girl and turn the other into everyone's punching bag.

Then I read his puff piece from Big Think.

This is a fascinating glimpse into his thought process. I read this and Ryan Condal's baffling decisions began to make a little more sense.

By his own admission, Ryan's ideal show is one where Black women are erased, flattened and ignored. He claims to write powerful women but we've not seen hide or hair of these women. In Ryan's show, nothing is ever deliberate and the women are largely passive participants in their own lives.

In Ryan's ideal show there's no room for a little black girl to claim a dragon with nothing but faith and her wits. In Ryan's ideal show we need all of the rapist men but the Black women are interchangeable AND replaceable.

In Ryan's ideal world, it is too much to ask that a Black girl be adored, have songs written about her and knights joust for her favour. In Ryan's ideal show, Black people aren't fully developed characters, they're props that he forgets about for episodes on end.

And that is why the show will continue to drop in ratings. When I saw the Nielsen numbers for the premiere, I laughed until I cried. The biggest streaming day ever for Max and they couldn't beat The Boys or Your Honour. The most recent numbers are even funnier.

But don't worry gang, House of the Dragon is doing great. It's now number three. It finally beat a four year old show! Everything is fine.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

And, now, courtesy of "Ugly Irish Houses," an apt. in County Limerick with a living/dining room that is a total immersion experience. It brings you into "a totally different world and dimension" where you "totally forget where you are." Don't worry, if it should drive you mad, the walls are pretty well-padded. Ready? Let's go.

You enter a hall with a wavy light in the ceiling. It's just a tiny, weirdly laid out apt. with one total immersion room experience.

Entering the other dimension, it's all about the red light. It's kind of wavy on the floor.

This is what it looks like with the lights on. I didn't even see this other stuff. How disorienting. Do you see the upholstered wall? It has so many indents it looks like the previous tenant was trying to escape.

Apparently, you can also sleep in here, and eat in here. So, you can spend most of your time in the total immersion room.

Should you require a break, you can turn the red lights off. But, it's such a small space.

Should you require a bigger break, you can retreat to this lofted room with a very dark loft and crazy half stairs that look like they're going through the wall. So, it keeps the experience going.

If you're going from the living room to the kitchen, and want to stay immersed, there are red lights in the kitchen that you can put on.

Any time you want to leave the room, you can always sleep in here.

[francesderwent]

haha wouldn’t it be cute if we just brought all our duplicate books to the wedding and dumped them on a table and called them favors? wouldn’t that be funny? haha we could make a sign with a stupid joke like “two houses alike in dignity—and literary taste” wouldn’t that be sooo silly. …UNLESS

[stuck-in-jelly]

Cant stop thinking about how apparently Season 7 is going to be Ezran’s season and the slow and steady build up to a breaking point for him.

Ezran is in a weird delicate balance, walking across the tightrope of being a child and being a king. We see both sides equally, we see Ezran’s barely clinging childlike mannerisms and we also see him command and lead both with love and with force.

And he is equally regarded in this manner by the people around him, some addressing him more as a child then king and others more king then child.

“Who is this child?” “Such childish dreams.” “You deserve time to do kid things” “the whining child king.” vs “He is a King!” “Because you know-you’re the King.” “That is what King Ezran decided.” “I serve the true King.”

That is already a lot to try and balance, his wants versus his duty as a king but now that balance is being tested.

The weight of everything is starting to crash down. His stressful rule as a king in a time of insurrection and war, his own people pushing back against his ideals and attempts at progress, his citizens and home decimated by a dragon, his father’s murderer being freed by his own brother, and now the releasing of an ancient evil.

No one told him his father was dead, too worried to tell a child horrible news, and no one had told him the plan to bring Runaan back, hardly giving him a second thought.

The more I think about it the more my brain drifts to this section from the season 2 novelization:

“No. No, no no!!” Ezran shouted. He didn’t care if he sounded like a two-year old.

“Ezran. It’s going to be okay,” Rayla started to say.

That was about the dumbest thing anyone could possibly say, Ezran thought. Nothing was ever going to be okay again.

Just the moment Ezran fully reverts to being a small kid again, when he stops caring that he is acting like a child because he is a child because he is mad because its all hitting him at once and it isn’t fair.

I want to see how he takes it all

[f0point5]

Everyone fangirling over Max’s living room has me so confused because what do you mean he has an off white couch on a grey rug and a coffee table whiter than a Love Islander’s teeth…all in front of that (gorgeous) dark shelving