#yay record

[mintytremolite]

Some doodles before bed

Bonus

They're fun to draw :P

[pasdetrois]

Lovers Surprised by Death (1510) by Hans Burgkmair the Elder Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

[cultivating-wildflowers]

STOP RECORDING YOURSELF PERFORMING ACTS OF CHARITY OR KINDNESS AND THEN POSTING THE VIDEOS FOR INTERNET CLOUT

[wyllzel]

vivienne roasting blackwall for approx. 4 minutes (sadly non-exhaustive)

[margridarnauds]

There is a very, very small chance, if you live in the States and deal with people from, say Oklahoma, Illinois, Texas, etc., you might hear of what are called "Mineral Rights". You might think "Oh, grandma just died, and so I just inherited a bunch of land." Before you, idk, start harassing family friends because you're convinced they're hiding the Truth™ from you, here is a short, convenient guide to mineral rights:

They are not rights to the land, they are rights to the minerals. Hence "Mineral Rights".

You only own what's beneath the surface and any income you get from the oil companies (derogatory). You cannot build a barn on top of it. You cannot sell it to anyone so that THEY can build a barn on top of it. Because you do not own the land. You own the rights to the minerals. The Mineral Rights, if you will.

You do not even always have the right to decide who drills, because, if you don't lease to anyone, they will often decide to pool you in with the neighboring plots, because they are *just that considerate*. (There is no universe where that mineral is not getting drilled.) Or "horizontal drilling" which means that they just take your oil while they're getting your neighbors'. Isn't that fun? Doesn't it make you want to chew glass?

Because the oil companies control the degree of oil drilling, measure the output, AND write the check, if you had any hopes and dreams of becoming a wealthy oil baron, good luck.

Also please make sure that you are actually on the trust that you are trying to get access to so that, idk, you don't harass family friends before you realize that your family member disinherited you a couple of years back, because that would be *really* embarrassing.

[creatively-cosmic]

POKEMANIAC STEVEN'S TEAM.

[the-words-we-sung]

Day 7: purple 💜

Can you hold me?

For Simon’s Month 2024 hosted by @youngroyals-events

[wander-wren]

i’ve been trying to look for critique of 17776 but it’s actually quite hard to find. not because i dislike it (i don’t think you could look at my blog and come away thinking i dislike Football Satellite Story) but because i just like to see critiques of things i like sometimes. opens up the old brain.

plus there are certainly things that i could critique in the story, i just haven’t quite figured out how to articulate them. most of them feel like quite low-hanging fruit, anyway—the whole narrative is predicated on time essentially pausing in the 2020s, plus apparently all bad things have been eradicated (war, hunger, money, i don’t know if it’s explicitly stated but i assume bigotry etc). american government still exists as it does today, at least in name—there is a president and governors. quite a lot to unpack there.

i read 17776 as a utopian story. it’s not a perfect world, but as jon bois says several times, the imperfections are necessary, deliberate, chosen. therefore….don’t they make it perfect? up for debate. it’s certainly the only utopia i’ve encountered that i respect, for the simple fact that it never turns out to be a lie or boring.

that said, there is SO much of the world of 17776 that we don’t see. we don’t see disabled folks, and we especially don’t explore what that looks like with the nanos. we don’t see people from the places that were underwater, that juice tells us survived and “continue their cultural practices elsewhere.” we don’t see anyone wrestle with the premise, that is—no more children. no making new families. no change. a flooded world. an infinite sun. the unfairness of everyone who didn’t make it to the end of the world. and of course you can say, to the last bit, that it’s been 15,000 years, people have already done all of that wrestling. you’re telling me it doesn’t still hit them?

that’s not even touching on the fact that we don’t see the rest of the world. we don’t know what happened to it, what the politics are, what land has even survived. jon bois is very insistent on glossing over all of the difficult questions.

and i’ve written before about how i admire that, for the guts alone if nothing else. why don’t people die? who knows! what about this bad thing? it’s gone. what about this problem with the world? it’s fine.

so 17776 is flawed, mostly in that it is deeply american and apparently uninterested in engaging with the less comfortable parts of its premise. for the first, i want to know what else anyone expected from a story titled “17776: What Football Will Look Like In The Future.” for the second, i maintain that changing that would require that jon bois had simply written a different story.

17776 is ultimately a positive narrative to me. i almost said hopeful, but it’s not that. there’s no hope after the end of the world, there’s no need for hope. it’s just content, despite the occasional dips. this is the part i struggle to articulate, because i so clearly understand where jon bois needed to go, and it is obvious that he was steamrolling over any pesky bits that would detract or distract or slow him down in getting there (again: guts). i respect it.

would telling those grittier narratives, turning this utopia into a dystopia, be worthwhile? certainly, to some. would it wreck the existing themes/message? very probably. would that make a better story? do the themes deserve to be wrecked because the way they were presented is flawed?

up to you.

[crimeronan]

i can't believe i still have no voice. i wrote a song i'm pretty pleased with and i can't even record properly yet because my singing sounds like a slowly wheeze-dying cat.

[todayisafridaynight]

journalists underestimate the magnitude of my addiction and how far i'll go for the bit

[calamitymentality]

additional birthday post

[lesbiangiratina]

REJOICE UNUSED TESTAMENT KY INTROS FINALLY IMPLEMENTED

[morn1e]

Dude looks so stupid in this icsnt💔💔kill himnowplease

Aslo don't mind my fucked up ass writing

he is so fucking ugly😢OUUUUUUU OUUUUUU - KABILLION HP DAMAGE OUUUUUUU WHAT😢 OUUUUUUUU deceased

[drfunkbeat]

[ID: a digital painting of King Carnelian from Idolish7's Hoshimeguri story. He's sitting on a throne carved from light purple crystal atop a gold pedestal. In one hand, he holds up an alexandrite crystal rabbit and looks at it wistfully. Light refracts off of it. The room has purple crystals all around, along with large windows behind the throne. Rainbowy light colors them slightly, and you can see the starry night sky through the windows. The second image is a closeup on him and the rabbit. End ID]

happy holidays @soniapiwe, i'm your secret gifter for the i7 gift swap!! since you mentioned mitsuki and the AU stories in your prompt, I thought what better than an AU mitsuki ^_^

I did a lot of experimenting with this and i think it turned out as one of the coolest things I've ever made! hope you like it too, and happy new year 🎆

[ID: two more closeups of details. End ID]

[singingowlfeather]

I was in a grumpy mood this morning. Then, I heard ' Popular' from Wicked on the radio as I was doing laundry. Now I feel much better!

[aelyosos]

this is neither here nor there, & a silly thing, but after two yrs i finally picked a date for ocean’s birthday the other day 🫣 it’s december 5th !