#yes jonker

[sonneambedo]

let me be cringe for a moment let me let m

"They say tears are holy. That there is a certain sacredness to them, that there are much more tears shed to answered than unanswered prayers.

Bullshit.

I cried a sea enough for Noah's Arc, I bled when I couldn't cry anymore, I sweated my life out as I choked to death in the smoke. Do you know what blood, sweat, and tears brought me? A merciless death. Slow, painful, merciless death. As if that wasn't enough, I woke up, once again, almost out of oxygen; stale air choking me, again, again - and despite all that I clawed my way out. I managed to leave the hellhole. Literal..."

A ghost of a laugh escapes his lips.

"You do not deserve my mercy; you left me to die, and despite your grief, you let him live. I thought I was going to be the last one.

I will make sure I am the last one.

You will not stop me."

The words are not a plea, nor a command. They are a simply stated fact, nothing more, nothing less. 

Joker will die, innocents will live.

He will have his revenge.

girliepops and boyopops and theythempops im so normal and so sane and i am not cryign about smth i made real quick i am not

[zionanelequaso]

I’ve already decided I’m yapping. batman x bill cipher lore BEAM!!!!

warnings: yaoi, gravity falls spoilers, angst, yaoi, yaoi, did i mention yaoi, tbob spoilers(???)

okay. so. all the shit in gravity falls IS canon, but after stan punched bill into oblivion, bill met the axolotl and they made a deal. if bill somehow redeemed himself to the point of at least only being a little prankster, the axolotl would send him back to earth. so, the axolotl sent him to the theraprism, where 1 second in our world is 100 years there (this comes in handy for me). I still haven’t decided how many seconds in our world he was in there.

eventually he managed to redeem himself to the point of just being a mischievous being. so, the axolotl decided to send him somewhere that wasn’t gravity falls so he could have time to choose if he wanted to say sorry or not (keep this in mind). also bill got his powers back because the axolotl was feeling nice. bill got sent to gotham, and was just floating around before he met Batman. Immediately, he was quite enamored! having long moved on from ford (somehow.), he decided to start watching batman like a hawk. and follow him everywhere. and I mean everywhere. from the start, he knew Batman was bruce, yes, but he didn’t let him know that until the second time they crossed paths. yes, the second. so then, when batman was like “wait what” he went “ok so now you know I know who you are I’m gonna follow you like everywhere mk??” and for some reason, bruce (i switch between calling him either batman or bruce it just depends on how I feel okay) could find himself taking a slight “liking” to bill as well.

spoiler alert, they do get freaky on multiple occasions I’m just not writing about that stuff because I’m a minrorooririijhehjdjshdjia. leave that to your imagination FREAKS!!! (the only reason I’ve even included this fact is because I’m hypersexual!!! I won’t talk about them actually being freaks I’ll just include suggestive stuff leave me alone!!! [sorry I feel the need to apologize and explain myself a lot ok])

okay so there are multiple different ways this can go, but I mostly include 2 (with an occasional secret 3rd and 4th option)

option 1 which is actually the secret third option: since I haven’t watched or read anything with genuinely serious robins + I love love love silly robin with all my heart and soul, there’s this one, where robin (based off of Lego robin) has to just watch bill go BAZINGA over batman and be very confused.

option 2 which is actually the secret 4th option: everything basically stays the same, except ford somehow also got sent to gotham by the axolotl (with intent of having bill and ford meet up or something to see how bill reacts.) depending on how you’d feel, they can either meet pre-batman and get their yaoi back, or stanford can meet joker, have yaoi with that guy, meet bill and go “fuck off,” or they can just never meet and at some point stanford gets super close to redeeming joker. this part is a big joke my friend from school made that I expanded on but I think it’s super funny

option 3: everything stays the same, it’s just bill, batman, and the rogues.

option 4: bill comes in contact with the Justice league and somehow becomes a part of them. not explicitly, but yk he’s just there. this is probably my favorite

so, however this goes, there will always be a thing where bill gets sent back to gravity falls WITH batman (and others, depending on which interpretation you’re talking about [UNLESS you’re talking about the thing where stanford and bill DO cross paths]), and dipper gets the whole fam out, stanford tells batman everything, and bill just LOSES IT.

everything he’s worked for, just gone down the drain.

so, he can either become evil again and have to get ANOTHER redemption arc (but this time without the axolotl), or he can have a breakdown on the spot and beg for forgiveness.

if you choose the first option, he will get forgiven by his peers, but the pines family will still be wary. also, he’ll get the fuck out of gravity falls as soon as he can

if you choose the second option, bruce can either forgive him or not forgive him, which then evolves into either the 1st option or even more of a breakdown until either the 1st option or batman forgives him. that make sense??

and that’s basically it! here’s some stuff about bill

1. he actually did care about stanford or something in the past, he just felt like he had to purposefully hurt him so it wouldn’t have to be on accident (like his family)

2. he finally learned how to not feel the need to push people away!! yay!!!

3. he would get married to bruce. this is canon I’m bill’s 3rd eyelash

I wonder how alex hirsch would feel if he knew that someone out there shipped bill cipher x batman. that someone is me.

also jfc that was a lot more than I was expecting but it was super fun to write!!

[pillbugpaints]

killer moth but i got silly with it

+ doodle of TMWSL drury

[hardtchill]

What do you think Jonker needs to do to prepare for euros next year?

Stop calling up Spitse, Shanice, Jansen and Martens, they are just done. Spitse is way too slow and Martens brings absolutely nothing, the other two are always subs and don't bring anything a younger player can't.

Go back to 4-3-3 and give players like Kaptein more games like these.

This would be a great line up Daphne Wilms, Dijkstra, Dom, Casparij Daan, Jackie, Dam Pelova, Viv, Brugts

Subs: Kaptein, Leuchter, Snoeijs, Beerensteyn, Roord, Grant etc,

The youth has proven themselves and it's time they get a chance to take over. Keeping players like Martens and Spitse in your line up is holding everyone back.

[simcardiac-arrested]

idk man.

ARE YOU SERIOUS THE MOMENT I TRY TO GET UP AND PRACTICE FOR MUSIC CLASS. I DKNT KNOW EITHER MAN I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK . LLIKE WHAT THE FUCK. ********* IM ***** ****** *** I WILL SEE YOU IN ONE HOUR.

[gl1tchr]

Honestly I’m not too worried! First and foremost Matt made a whole series about The Penguin, a side character in the first movie, AND he encouraged Paul to make Riddler Year One. He clearly has a passion and desire to explore these characters more

Also, the amount of Riddler references in I think every single Penguin episode so far, including the fact that he still clearly had his followers running around…yeah our pal is going to return big time. He has to

OH YEAH Matt has been extremely passionate about bringing less popular Rogues back to the forefront. I was mildly disappointed the Joker showed up at all, but seeing how much effort he's put into each Rogue, I think Riddler is our guy. I also think this Joker will be very enjoyable compared to what we've experienced before, not to say I DISLIKE gritty Jonkers, but they've been the standard for a while. I'd unironically like to get back to something with a Gotham vibe. He's genuinely enjoyable to watch run around doing weird shit and that's the kinda of vibe I'd like from Barry Keoghan's Joker!

AND YOU MAKE ANOTHER GREAT POINT Reeves didn't just ABANDON Riddler in Penguin! Yes he hasn't shown up, but his impact is visible in every single episode, whether it be passively mentioned or his followers LITERALLY showing up (the guy on the subway, the protestors at Alberto's funeral, etc.) to remind us that his hold on Gotham is still going strong since his arrest.

[raevenlywrites]

More dumb kitty nicknames, in no particular order

[satoshi-mochida]

Persona 1 Phone Game, ‘Persona: Anomalous Tower Chronicle’ Receives English Fan Translation

From Noisy Pixel

Several Persona fans have united to release an English fan translation for the highly obscure Persona mobile game Persona: Anomalous Tower Chronicle. This 2006 title is a spinoff of sorts of the original Persona, Megami Ibunroku Persona, and it’s a gameplay-heavy experience with not much story to speak of.

Players form a party of four to navigate a tower and acquire orbs in order to reach the structure’s roof. The battle system should be familiar to those who have already played the first Persona. Interestingly, this game was made officially accessible in Japan in September 2023 via G-MODE for Steam and Nintendo Switch. So, it’s neat to see that accessibility made it even more convenient for prospective Western players, thanks to the efforts of dedicated fans.

You can view the credits for this fan translation project below, and yes, these are all verbatim:

Graphics Editing – agarpac

Main Translator; Beta Tester; First to Beat the Game – Gabriulio

Project Originator – Kaisaan

Title Logo/Banner Editing  – Laventory

Game Hacking; Work on the Patcher – MKCA

Steam Deck Tester – Alexandra IDV

Lurker – Apollo

Lurker – Bread__Guy

Hyped Supporter; Game Mechanics Analysis – Ginger

Translation Fixes – Hee-Ho

Steam Deck Tester – Hiro

Lurker – Jonker Kujo

Survey Participant – Kularian

Lurked; Asker of Dumb Questions – Lemonov

Tester; Bug Catcher – Lorenzo

Steam Deck Tester – Mordexai

Lurker – Not_a_bear

Tester – Quantum_Dog

Survey Participant – SkyRaiderG7

Lurker – Toppis

Could Not Beat the First Boss – Vanessa

Special Thanks

JTR

For help in sifting through Chinese esoteric and literary knowledge in pursuit of better translation.

Kaisaan

For starting the project and getting the team together.

Quantum_Dog

For letting us headquarter on his Discord server.

You can access and download the English fan translation of Persona: Anomalous Tower Chronicle via GitHub and purchase the game itself via Steam.

The following note is also significant:

PSP Translation Differences

While this translation follows the official English localization of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona for PlayStation Portable, some deliberate changes have been made. A document listing the differences is available here.

Lastly, Quantum Dog and Alexandra_IDV shared a message on Twitter for those intending to play this fan-translated title on Steam Deck.

[nebulaleaf]

What color would u say Akira’s eyes are? I see a lot of people say gray and I’ve also seen red, but I always thought they were a dark brown

You’re starting a cult around him so I figured you’d have an opinion

ok 1) not starting a cult that's just an in-joke making fun of a silly anon i got. 2) yes i do have an opinion. but also ...... FACTS !!! I usually go grey as the normal default but I understand the confusion. Official artworks for merchandise range from black to a light blue 😭. Lets take a trip down model / reference lane, shall we? First up: P5D!

We'll rope P5 / P5R into this too, because it's the same colour. Akira's eyes appear this shade... almost always! The metaverse, the real world... grey as graphite. Ah, but "almost! almost!?" you cry! Yes, yes. There's one exception.

Recall the persona awakening scene. Recall *all* of them, actually. All persona users have their eyes turn yellow when tearing their mask off.

This holds true for their models as well! For a few frames, during the summoning animation, their faces turn black and their eyes turn yellow. It's easier to see on some characters than others. (Others being joker. this took me SO long to scrub for.) Now, lets look at his sprites! So I guess we can call this part uh, Persona Q.A? (That's what these sprites are from, anyway...)

Now these eyes definitely look black! Honestly I think you could argue that the previous set were black too. On their own, they seem grey but the key thing to compare them with here is Akira's hair. They're both the same colour in the sprites and uh, that's definitely not grey hair. Now the anime! I won't be covering P5A: The Daybreakers because. Well. It'd just be more "Wow it's black. Now it's black again." P5A Is interesting because I swear to god his eyes were red when they were in mementos. but i must've imagined that???

That's just not a thing that happens! It's grey! The only exception is the... [shudders] All Out Attack. (Which also happens in P5:the game. forgot to mention that earlier; but it could be chalked up to mere aesthetic choice)

My assumption about red-eyes is at least partially true though. Nnnot in the sense that what I thought happened, happened, but more-so... Whenever Joker is depicted with red eyes, it's in his PT outfit. And like... only that outfit.

Mementos mission loves doing it. p5a does it. Artists do it. my BRAIN does it. Q2 also does it!! (hi all out attack. again)

other notable mentions for Doin' It Red While Being Joker are Akirby and the Official Jonker Nendo. Idk what that means but! Yeah

A few promo arts do the red-eyes thing like this original key art and multiple official illustrations for p5's release. I think it's just a fun aesthetics thing honestly. p5 is red. akira is from p5. slap some red on that bitch on him eye.

[ key art | strikers art | og p5 art ] So that solves that mystery. I think the idea of brown eyes either comes from being realistic (black eyes irl are just really really dark brown) op's colour palette ooooooooooor.... misunderstanding an official palette!

This is Q2's cut in graphic. The eyes look kind of brown, right? But it's mostly just a lighting thing. The face is darkened and the eye's colour is lightened to give that slick piercing-gaze-through-the-shadows effect.

(Q2 Akira is pretty pasty, as we can see here. the skintone matches the brightest highlight in the cut-in image.)

striker's sprites eyes look pretty brown too, but if you look at the hair and shadows, you can see it's because everything has a brown hue. we're doing black without doing black! (...except for the deepest shadows and lines, but cmon. if you put black on black its just gonna look like a big ol' blob.) this same effect is often used in many tribute artworks for p5 that aren't in the usual black/white/single colour style or crossover artwork because............ well it's basic colour theory. The only exception to the "rules" i've laid out here I have ever seen is the artwork done for Persora The Golden Best 5th Album artwork.

WHY ARE THEY BLUE. THAT'S WRONG. anyway. hoped this post helps you. my personal opinion is grey / silver if i wanna get all OOooh FANCY when writing a fic and waxing poetic and then yellow when summoning a persona or using some kind of spell in mementos. don't see brown in the slightest and red... yeah, i'll pass on having that be his default in mementos? maybe? idk i go back and forth on it lol. just get jiggy with it

[peripaltepsy]

Rating Subway Surfers drip, part 1: Jake

Let's examine our dear default boy who's trans because I said so.

Part 0 (the rules)

This is a perfectly good outfit, but not enough of a banger to receive a Drip Certificate. But guys, look at his cap. My man DIY'd his gang's tag on it. Mad respect 🙏 bro's insane 🙏 I'll rate his default look as soft-drip.

Naahh thats better now. All black got drip. Look at his confident grin, sunglasses and the edgy fingerless gloves! I didn't like the white shoes BUT remember he's also wearing ANOTHER CAP with his fucking GANG TAG plastered on it as he does his illegal activities. I say he has now rightfully earned his DRIP CERTIFICATE! What a madman.

Ok, so, guys. Red is my favorite color. But the thing is, you gotta be SMART about red fits, u know? I'm gonna be honest man, not even the cap can save it. I think he tried too hard but got no edge, he's not giving thug life vibes, he's giving french fry covered in ketchup. 😔 Sorry man, ur fit is ugly. Maybe take off the jeans jacket? (Love his smile tho)

Zombies are cool but at this point I'm tired of seeing recolors of his original fit with small variations. ESPECIALLY in a zombie design, which could go really hard but turned out underwhelming. I'll rate it as boring and move on.

AAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!! JONKER JUMPSCARE!!! Imma rate it a society/10 with no drip certificate.

Remember what I said about red fits? I believe this is a good one. Turns out all Jake needed was sunglasses and gloves AND TAKING THE JEANS JACKET OFF to drip out his looks. Yes, it IS a recolor of his default look with small variations, the same shit I whined about, BUT this one goes hard. Red sunglasses are edgy, and powers beyond my comprehension are forcing me to hand this one a DRIP CERTIFICATE.

Your honor, the pic goes hard

[sunset-bridge]

Goro is so funny he'll be like "upgrading from feeling unwanted and not special at all and only really thinking about my evil plan and thinking my feelings for revenge are all i need, to realizing my funny rival actually likes me and spending time with me, so now i instead will only care about YOU yeah i dont even need any other human connections who gives a shit yeah theyre not even The Jonker(tm) . Revenge plan is OUT a singular (1) human connection is IN! This is all i need any other human connection is worthless if its not You. This is completely healthy im sure yes"

[vespertin-y]

more liveblogging YIPPEE!! this time it’s the first half of ch1′s daily life.

-”monokuma will never directly commit a murder” bro don’t you threaten to kill all of them like two days from now??

-himiko’s vibrating sprite 😭 she is my spirit animal truly

-oh, shuichi and rantaro’s dynamic is GREAT. shuichi pulls kaede aside to ask if she thinks an ultimate talent is “really something you can forget” and iirc rantaro says he thinks shuichi is the most suspicious person in his FTEs - they both clearly suspect the other of being the ringleader and it’s fantastic. especially since their shared fondness for kaede makes them interact more than they’d probably like.

-we meet again, manhole gonta cg, we meet again. you have not gotten any prettier.

-kokichi’s first instinct when faced with a big hollow place is to yodel, and honestly same. echos r fun okay!!

-rantaro gets so much snarkier upon rewatch - you realize how much of his dialogue is just taking the piss. him saying “oh, how considerate” when they find the exit sign still makes me giggle.

-kaito thinking kaede is the COOLEST WOMAN ON EARTH and kaede thinking he’s sooo lame is such an underrated dynamic. “gimme a hug!” “no 💖” lives in my head rent free.

-kokichi’s speech after the death road of despair is what made me sit up and take interest in him and in kaede as characters and it still holds up so good hpsuhag,,,,i don’t have a ton of bigbrain thoughts about it but please know i am thinking about high empathy/low compassion kokichi and low empathy/high compassion kaede every single day. autistic queens.

-kokichi literally just says they need to find another way out and rantaro’s immediately like “murder?? you want to do a murder, you little gremlin????” then tenko freaks out, kokichi tells her to chill, and she threatens to smash his head into the ground!? it seems to me that the writers had a set dynamic between kokichi and the rest of the group, but forgot that by this point in the story they haven’t written anything to justify it - even with rantaro’s paranoia and tenko’s anger issues, this is excessive. HILARIOUSLY, this makes the scene read as his fucking jonker origin story. tenko, you fool, you should’ve taken the bubblegum...! look what you’ve gotten us all into...!

-the dorm rooms are INSANELY swanky. i’d want to live there, if not for the...everything else......

-them having tons of copies of the same outfit is so funny. tsumugi put her heart and soul into those costumes and you WILL wear them.

-that’s the end of day one! i’ll be keeping track of them, just so you all can understand how RIDICULOUS v3′s timeline is.

-i once saw someone point out that there was zero reason for maki not to take the first blood perk, and now that HAUNTS me. she would only be responsible for one death since there’s no class trial, and we know that ever after five chapters of ✨bonding✨ she’s still willing to murder all her “friends” in a petty revenge plot, and she’s supposed to be willing to do ANYTHING to keep her orphanage from going under. completely irrelevantly, did you know maki being an assassin was actually added later in development than kaede being the first killer?

-despite him definitely knowing that monokuma isn’t really dead, kokichi insists wholeheartedly that the killing game is “cancelled” - it’s one of his more obvious ploys imo. even if it can only delay deaths for a day or so, he’s willing to throw all his acting chops behind it.

-you know that meme that goes “god made me mentally ill to nerf me”? that’s shuichi. he’s a side character that becomes the protagonist. he has a plan to catch the mastermind in CHAPTER ONE. he is breaking the danganronpa formula so bad. tsumugi had to pump him full of depression or else he would have crushed her show like a nut on day one. the detective. he destroyed his narrative. yes. YES. the detective is out.

-KAEDE TOLD MIU TO SHUT THE HELL UP...u know it’s serious when u get *kaede* to curse omg

-”hey,do you think this door is connected to monokuma somehow?” “i think it might.” and here we get our first reminder that v3 was translated by character, not by scene. the translators mostly stuck to their individual character’s dialogue without much communication, and it leaves lots of little blips like this.

-and so day two ends!

-the way they just...take the wind right out of monokuma’s sails is so funny. he’s so excited for this yokai gimmick!! and then miu tells him to get hit by a second car, tsumugi complains that his outfit is bad, and korekiyo starts explaining the difference between ghosts and yokai in excruciating detail. monokuma’s one weakness: pretentious teenage nerds...!

-the additional time-limit motive doesn’t make sense to me when it’s been ONE DAY since he introduced the first one!? it feels like a last resort, something to be used after they refused to take the bait. fits much better with a more stretched-out timeline, where they were in the school for a month or so with no murder before monokuma snapped and told them to kill or else.

-rantaro questions if he can even trust himself because of his missing memories. of course WE know he’s not gonna get hajime’d, but it’s a reasonable fear!

-”that’s why i didn’t want to talk about this in front of everyone...if we told them now, they might all try to find the mastermind, and be led to murder. that’s why...i could only tell you, kaede.” oh, shuichi......(┬┬﹏┬┬) kaede just goes dead silent after this too, before changing the subject. she doesn’t have a murder plan yet - she can’t have one, not before they’ve gone to the warehouse - but she’s certainly Considering Options.

-there’s part one of daily life! like and subscribe, i’ll be posting the second half momentarily :]

[thelatestbyte]

Sustainable Architecture: 3 Top Trends By: Carla Chinski Twitter: @thelatestbyte

Exploring the Future of Sustainable Architecture Is it possible to build a future that is both sustainable and stylish? Believe it or not, that's the question keeping architects up at night. And to our collective relief, the answer appears to be a resounding "Yes." From buildings that breathe to towers draped in greenery, we're taking a look at the most significant trends and innovations shaping the future of sustainable architecture.

Many forward-thinking companies are already tapping into these emerging sustainable architectural trends. Among them, Google stands out with its planned new campus in Mountain View, California. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio, the building, encased in a canopy of solar panels, is planned to be net energy positive, producing more energy than it consumes. Meanwhile, Amazon's Spheres in downtown Seattle have taken biophilic design to a whole new level, providing an indoor rainforest for its employees. Then there's Etsy's Brooklyn headquarters, renowned for pushing the envelope on sustainable workplace design, with its rooftop garden, living walls, and an impressive commitment to zero waste.

3 Architectural Innovations First on the list? Living buildings. It's no secret that green spaces have a positive impact on our mental health, but how about embedding them directly into our architecture? Living buildings - not just buildings with a few potted plants in the lobby, but actual structures designed to integrate and sustain life – are gaining traction.

Renowned architect Michael Pawlyn, in a recent conversation, shed some light on the trend: "This isn't just about aesthetics. These structures are designed to improve air quality, reduce urban heat islands, and even produce food. It's a holistic approach to sustainable design." A prominent example? The proposed Uptown Tower in Portland, designed by Skylab Architecture, is said to feature a water harvesting and filtration system, solar energy panels, and even vertical farming facilities. That's some real forward-thinking design if we've ever seen one.

Then there's the rise of smart materials. Remember when self-healing concrete seemed like something straight out of a sci-fi novel? Well, it's here, and it's just one of the many smart materials poised to revolutionize sustainable architecture. "Self-healing concrete is embedded with bacteria that spring to action when cracks appear, releasing limestone that fills the gaps," says Dr. Henk Jonkers, a microbiologist at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and one of the minds behind this innovation. The benefits, he explains, include longer-lasting structures and reduced carbon emissions associated with frequent repairs and replacements.

Lastly, we're seeing architects get serious about energy-efficient design, putting the focus on passive solar design and net-zero energy buildings. It's not just about solar panels on rooftops anymore – the whole building, from its orientation to the choice of materials, is designed to minimize energy use and maximize energy production.

On the social front, these sustainable architectural trends hold promise for creating healthier, happier communities. Urban areas, often associated with pollution and isolation from nature, could be transformed into living, breathing ecosystems. This biophilic design approach could reduce stress levels, improve air quality, and foster a renewed connection between city dwellers and the natural world. Furthermore, as architects continue to innovate with energy-efficient designs and smart materials, we could see a decrease in buildings' energy consumption, which currently accounts for a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions. This shift could play a crucial role in mitigating climate change and its social and economic implications.

Annie Argento, a pioneer in net-zero building design and a professor of architecture at the University of Toronto, describes the shift: "We're moving from an era where we designed buildings first and figured out the energy later, to one where energy efficiency is driving the design process."

Conclusions What does all this mean for the future of architecture? Well, it's hard to say, but one thing is certain: we're on the cusp of some truly exciting changes. Architects are showing us that we can live in harmony with nature, not just in it. And as we stand at the precipice of a new architectural era, it's safe to say that the sky is no longer the limit, but the blueprint. In the grand scheme of things, the burgeoning trends in sustainable architecture are about more than just novel design elements or technological wizardry. They represent a fundamental shift in how we conceive of buildings and urban spaces, reimagining them as integrated parts of the natural environment rather than isolated or antagonistic entities.

By embracing living buildings, smart materials, and energy-efficient design principles, we are moving towards a more harmonious relationship with the planet. This isn't just a matter of creating structures that are environmentally friendly - it's about fostering a deeper connection to the natural world, reducing our carbon footprint, and making our cities healthier and more vibrant places to live.

The future of sustainable architecture offers an intriguing vision of an urban landscape where the built environment and nature are seamlessly intertwined. It's a thrilling prospect, a challenge to the status quo, and, most importantly, it's an opportunity for architects to redefine their role and responsibility in shaping a sustainable future. So, here's a thought: the next time you find yourself walking by a massive concrete jungle, imagine a world where those towering structures breathe, heal themselves, and give back more to the environment than they take. Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it?

[meademalove]

Dama and Jill do not play the same position. One is a DM and the other an attacking mid. It basically means Jonker could play Groenen a bit higher up with Dama behind them or he moves Pelova to midfield, which is what I’d like to see.

Ohhh, yes, if he does that, who plays wingback, or do they go to a back 4, if so, can they cope?

[cybilsawards]

The Morning RSS - Tuesday edition (8.29.23)

Not sure where Monday went, but here we are. Welcome, Tuesday. LOTS of new books to share, some recs from Colby Sharp's 5th graders, and new titles for adults who read for *thrills*

Rich In Color has all of the YA titles by authors of color releasing into the world today. Have to say, most intrigued by ALL YOU HAVE TO DO by Autumn Allen

Not only is Colby Sharp sharing the books that his fifth graders are reading the second day of school, he's also got a tour of his classroom library. Watch or listen, your choice.

We couldn't say it better than Travis Jonkers (aka 100 Scope Notes), so here it is: "In this video, Reynolds discusses Stuntboy, and also shares his thoughts on Literature vs. Literacy, book bans, and what superpower he’d want to have (it’s unexpected and perfect)."

Over at Ms. Yingling Reads, Karen has six middle-grade fantasies that she says "were all good, and would be a fantastic fit for the right reader." What's the right reader? Karen explains in her mini-reviews.

Young adult AND adult thrillers? Yes, please! The Off the Shelf Staff has compiled a collection of 16 new thrillers to take you into fall - and the spooky season!