#Also construction markets

[lunasilvis]

30. what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

Honestly can't decide between Jenna (my dog) or going out for a bike ride to empty the head and reload the spirit. Is riding one of those nifty conjoined deathtraps called tandem bikes together with Jenna an option in here...??

#Also a good breakfast. preferably on a slow sunday morning #With a strong cup of plain black coffee. no sugar no milk. yes please #Also construction markets

[icewindandboringhorror]

Current temperature inside of my room right now in the middle of the night whilst about to go to sleep... villain origin story...

#You just get SOOOOO tired of being hot all the time for multiple days straight.. with very little relief ever... hhHHHH #I forget that I literally lose my mind and become evil every summer like clockwork #I don't evenknow what I mean by that because I'm just as calm/monotone as ever lol.. but I just feel more evil.. low level pent up rage #or something. nothing changes on the outside but on the inside it's like hmm.. I'm like 5% more hostile than I usually am #not outwardly expressed still of course. but just.. my bones are made of a little more violence recently.. #percentages moving around. My character stats get a temporary modifier all summer where I feel chronically just a LIIIITLE more noticably #unhinged. like I will never do it of course. but I will think about. maybe I'll just throw all the plates at the wall and break every wind #ow with a baseball bat. No. I shant. I would never.. but .. I could. 5% more than I usually could. But I shan't. but let it be known.. I #c o u l d ...i COULD.. if I had to. but I don't.. but still.. keep the notion in the back of the mind.. hmm.. lol #And this is not even during a heat wave at the moment it's just like.. normal summer.. >:') #I think it's also largely the shitty apartment which was not built for coolness. Like older houses will have tall cielings and those window #above the doors and ceiling fans and be built high up from the ground and all these other ways to manage warm weather #naturally. but cheaply constructed dinky city apartments with no ventilation and windows only on one side and blah blah #It retains heat insanely like being trapped in a green house or something #even with all the windows open & fans in the house and stuff it just doesn't really move air well because the space is not made to do that. #Also really testing my anticapitalism/leftism/etc... sitting and thinking 'damn maybe I should play the stock market.. I should sell #some sculptures and overprice them.. howmuch could I charge for these clothes..' < *is desperate to afford a living situation with central #heating and air conditioning* #Haha! Guillotines?? who said anything about those? I LOVE rich people.. haha.. now what's a guy gotta do to instantly get about $50.000 ar #ound here? haha! kidnap someone and sell their organs? okay haha! I love the free market! going to home depot right #now to buy an axe! Don't you just hate taxes? so glad I live in the best country in the world under the best economic system on the planet #USA! USA!! USA!!! *visibly shaking. nose starts bleeding. you notice i am also levitating off the ground slightly* #ANYWAY gfgfgh.... winter......... my sweet child....i miss you so so much.... SUMMER you are my ENEMY #ah well now it's gone down to 80.4 Farenheight. cancel post. thats such an improvemtn surely I'll be able to sleep soundly now /s #what was I ever worried about? it's all good! haha!! *still levitating a little * #In better news - I have finished the Victorian Pharmacy documentary series and am now watching them build a medieval castle! and one of my #goofy joke song snippets suddenly got 6.000 views on youtube which was cool?? though very random? I made kale chips again. and had asparag #us. And saw a duck. carved a lot of things out of avocado pits. Little tidbits to keep me sane.. #See a funny little duck outside and go 'hmm... life is okay actually :) I no longer want to break windows :3' #then it gets like 85F inside again and you're liek NEVERMINDaaaaaaahhh!!!!! then you see a duck next morning and calm down :)

[hearditinapastlife2019]

are you jokinggggg an iconic piece of architecture in my city (not good but iconic anyways) was bought up and slated for demo to build condos and now the project is on hold because the housing market is bad. yayyyy more abandoned buildings downtown yayyyyy trying to build luxury condos when there’s a tent city in every park in the city yayyyy closing local businesses instead of trying economic reinvigoration strategies only for the former site of those local businesses to sit vacant for probably years yayyyy no consequences for developers

#there’s the SAME THING going on at a church just up the street from it too. it was supposed to be turned into condos YEARS ago #like 2010s #and now it’s almost 2024 and the scaffolding is still there disrupting a whole block #and there are no plans for construction or anything like girl wtf. at this point the city should be allowed to repossess and build #social housing #but all of our social housing is disappearing anyways in favour of redevelopment models that include more market units than social housing #units anyways <3 #also huge shoutout to the massive social housing complex that was supposed to become a mixed income housing development but is also sitting #vacant while private companies try to appeal the development. all while there’s a huge encampment RIGHT across from it #but those same private companies aren’t appealing luxury condo plans that would be negatively impacted by said private companies MORE #i hate it here so much… all housing should be free and iconic identity-forming pieces of architecture should be left alone #and all vacant lots (and parking lots tbh) should be repossessed to make something nice #and all condo developers should throw up forever and die #yay <3 i love urban planning <3

[tintenfischie]

Constructive comments in the Tacoma subreddit

#Tacoma #Punk Rock Flea Market #there were legitimately constructive comments as well #but this feels very in character for Pierce County #almost typed Pierce Cunty so there's also that

[werewolfpdfs]

barbie isn’t a feminist or misogynistic she’s a plastic toy

#i know this sounds like im being a hater but imagine me saying this as genuinely and earnestly as possible #cause like ok. you have Barbie™️ the product produced by Mattel and marketed AS empowering #and then you have barbie the character in the general cultural imagination of…anyone who knows what barbie is #and opinions on THAT range from Misogynistic Consumerist Insecurity-Creating Stereotype #to Girlboss Empowering Femininity Do-Anything-Be-Anything Feminist #and this feels obnoxious to say because I thought the movie was mid but they did like. very briefly conceptualize this as like #barbie is a construct barbie isn’t real and as such barbie is whatever exists in the minds of really kids but also i suppose #other barbie enthusiasts hahah. and because of that barbie becomes a figurehead for womens leadership and strength OR a reenactment #of patriarchal norms (kids very much will take barbie’s scrubs off and marry her to ken and have her be a housewife lol this is a Thing) #or or or barbie is a vehicle for discovering lesbianism. or playing imaginary torture. #so like in the most detached I Don’t Even Care About Barbie I’m Just Postin Here way possible. Barbie is a plastic toy. #everyone ignore this im just talking on my silly little blog #old man yells at cloud

[astererer]

poncho doodles ft @bellafragolina ‘s haunter hybrid in a scene redraw down below :)) i like to think that when a misdrevous hybrid becomes a mismagius there’s a tradition of receiving a hat and cloak/poncho as like a coming of age gift of sorts by family members (usually they r handmade), but it’s also expected that once a mismagius, they should make at least one of each themselves so that there’s always a spare should it be needed (or just to have different styles for different occasions). aster doesn’t usually wear her poncho though — she has her reasons xx

#pokemon hybrid au #literally had this idea in my brain since like this morning #me art #am i implying that all mismagius hybrids r skilled in millinery and clothing construction? #no actually quite a few of them have very shoddy looking hats and cloaks bc 1 hat making isn’t easy #2 some people just don’t have the time or patience to learn how to sew and/or craft well #ofc some mismagius hybrids saw a gap in the market and set up their own shops so those who can’t/don’t want to make their own #can just buy a set instead #but for the traditionalists you can tell where a person is from or who their family is based on the stitch of their cloak/poncho #or the shape of their hat #wow lore dump in the tags lmao #also renee i hope u like the dumb redraw thing consider it a wee surprise gift :)) #oc aster #oc renee

[prophecystation]

i feel like discourse about hockey (and sport in general) would really improve a lot if more people realized that spectator sport is a form of narrativized media and applied their literacy skills accordingly

#sorry these tags are so long #this is not about anybody on this website i just need to stop looking at the bird app #but actually though media coverage of spectator sports exists to construct narratives around athletes/teams/etc. #so if we look at this whole mitch marner/sheldon keefe bullshit #(which is what has me kicking off about this currently) #positioning the two of them as being opposed to one another within the wider narrative of this leafs team #lends itself to a couple different constructed storylines #the first is the continuation of the Mitch Marner Villain Arc (derogatory) #which is playing itself out as sort of a rise-and-fall story structure wherein marner comes into the locker room as a revered hometown hero #and then through time and tricks is made out to be a Whiny Baby Man Who Wants All The Attention And Plays The Hero Too Much #by the way you should be reading that as: #Mitch Marner Wanted To Be Paid The Value Of His Physical Labour Which Is Considered Morally Reprehensible Under Capitalism #And Therefore Everything He Does Now Is Bad #but i digress #the logical conclusion of this narrative is either he wins a cup with this team or is traded and forever villified in the toronto market #either he has a so called redemption arc or becomes a tale of caution basically #the second narrative is that there is a rift in the toronto locker room #this one's a little more straightforward in that it gives fans a side to back in a theoretical conflict #everybody likes to have a good guy to root for and a bad guy to root against it's really just a matter of who you perceive as being the hero #it also lends itself nicely to an overarching narrative surrounding the team and its playoff struggles #hey everybody look at this team that can't make it out of the first round. what the fuck is up with that. #the fun part about this narrative is that you can project whatever the hell you want onto it #are they overcoming adversity? are they distracted? is this kyle dubas' fault? is the team better or worse for it? you decide! #and at the end of the day all of this drives visibility and clicks #which drives (you guessed it) profit #anyways i'm not saying all this to be like 'hurr durr media bad' or whatever #there's a ton of sport media that is highly informative and responsible and incredibly important and i respect the hell out of (most of) it #what i am saying is that when an article comes up that is not based in verifiable fact #(and even when it is! but especially when it isn't) #please please ask yourselves why the person and/or publication writing it is doing so in the way that they are

[danielpowell]

Imagine not liking season 1 of Archive 81

#mel talks a81 #liiike how could you not be so enthralled by the sound design #maybe I'm just a nerd but the car scene and the walk through Visser were euphoric #I could feel the space #I was captivated #and all of the residents story are mundane but have that tinge of odd to them #you see the magic in the every day #and how a vast unknown world leaking into our own can be overlooked #and only the obsessive or detail oriented will seek out answers #and find themselves entangled #but most importantly: the lonely #ones that felt lost and wanted community #and that intrigue and belonging and comfort #being exploited by those who saw potential gain #it may call those wanting something to devote themselves to #but it also beckons those who are devoted to controlling a constructed market #'we constructed this building as a bargain to a power' #sorry but if you can't the amazing set up and the lives s1 brought we probably would fail to be friendly towards each other #<- a81 url blog has feelings for their source

[nulfaga]

maybe foundation explains this, my 1 p*rate site didn't have it and i cbf to shop around bc the art style is ugly but it baffles me that thane's first kill in 2158 was a human. you know for his training as part of the compact. right. so what human pissed off the hanar so badly (within A YEAR of first contact) that they wanted him dead. was he just a holdover from the war w/ the turians that no one knew what to do with. who was this guy. did he make it to kahje somehow or was thane carrying out interplanetary hits from day 1. so many questions

#this was 10 years after earth even discovered the mass relays lmao #humanity just had a KICK ME sign on its back right off the bat ig #also. something something thane's first kill as a child (a clumsy affair where he barely escaped w his life) being a human #something something he's a human culture buff who's read locke and the princess bride #and who takes his son to new mexico (home to roswell. come on) #something something kneeling in front of irikah & asking her to 'save him' & promptly rushing into a family life he wasn't equipped for #the very moment he caught on that freedom was an option #again idk if theres a timeline for all of this but i like to think he was VERY young when he and irikah got married & had kolyat like 20ish #(and anyway he can't have reasonably been much older can he. if he was even 25 then kolyat is 13 by the time of me2. #you look me in the eyes and tell me that is a 13 year old. there's no way) #but the reason i like it narratively is it's so like farcical and tragic like #the compact as a social construct stunted him so badly that the moment he saw an alternative he just went for it no holds barred #while being a traumatized adolescent killing machine w no marketable skills outside murder #leading to this batshit situation where he suddenly has a son he barely knows how to interact with #and then he has to fall back on the murder thing ANYWAY because he's no good at anything else #and kolyat age 10 gets to listen in while his father asks his mother's blessing to go shed some blood in order to put food on the table. #the fact that thane still talks abt the compact with pride in me2. when it set this batshit miserable tone for his life for NO REASON #massively effectual

[britneyshakespeare]

The people on here who like gatekeeping books and literature should fight next about whether or not you should turn off autocapitalization.

#weird to see these english snobs who hate internet trends still partake in internet speech and grammar constructions #also. if u hate YA so much just keep it out of your mind. stop arguing w ppl who like it!!! #and by making posta shitting on things ppl like. that is rhetoric and therefore an argument. #in the literal sense #but i mean ive never seen one of these posts that wasnt combative so idk y ppl who make them get surprised when they invite anger in return #you CAN critique writing and tropes you perceive to be lazy wo attacking those who harmlessly consume it #or just assuming there's no good literature anymore??? bc it's not as marketable??? ok......... #tales from diana #text post #the arbitrary separation between what is perceived to be highbrow and lowbrow is as outdated and prejudicial as #the phrenology from which those terms are derived.

[prince-of-calydon]

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#just venting down here i guess #tw vent #dont reblog #this is about the thebaid musical #filling this up with extra tags just in case you don't wanna see my problems lmao #lately ive been feeling like. all of this was for nothing idk #i know my music isn't the best but my brain hasn't been very nice to me as of late #it's trying to convince me that all my songs sound the same and they're not even rock they're just pop with a rock guitar soundfont urhrjgjf #made even worse by my rejection sensitivity taking constructive criticism from my friends on the lyrics #and turning it into 'it sucks it bad booo we hate it why did you make this' #and i have to do a presentation on it bc it's school funded??? i have to show my music to tens if not hundreds of people??? #idk. it's fucking me up and i'm wondering if im capable of doing anything that ISNT marketable to children. #I've also never been too fond of my singing voice and now this whole project is just demo after demo after demo and sometimes it sounds good #and other times it sounds like I should just trash it #hfbdjfbfhfhrh. head full many thoughts.

[lizardsfromspace]

I do have to impress on anyone who wasn't around for it how batshit the reality boom of the 2000s could be. Especially on Fox.

Here are some 100% real 2000s reality shows:

Who's Your Daddy? A woman has to guess which of eight men is her biological father. One of them really is, and if she guesses right she wins $100,000. If one of the seven fake dads convinces her to guess them, he wins $100,000.

Black. White. A white family learns about racism by living a month in blackface, while a black family spends a month in whiteface. The black family was a real family, but the white family was just some actors hired to put on blackface to prove racism exists

Without Prejudice? Five strangers decide which of five strangers gets a cash prize based off clips and their answers to political questions. Cancelled when one of the choosers openly said he'd eliminate all black contestants

Welcome to the Neighborhood. Three conservative white families in a Austin subdivision decide which diverse family gets to move in. Unaired due to being literal housing discrimination

Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay. Two straight men try to pass themselves off as gay and whoever seems more gay gets $50,000. Unaired due to. Due to. Due to

Playing It Straight. A woman tries to find love among fourteen men, half of whom are straight and half of whom are gay, and she must eliminate two men she believes are gay each week. If she ended up picking a straight man in the end, they'd split a million dollars; if she picked a gay man, he'd win a million dollars

Boy Meets Boy. This was Playing It Straight but starring a gay man and he had to eliminate straight people

Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? He wasn't a multimillionaire. He didn't even have a million dollars in liquid assets. He had a battery conviction Fox claims they didn't see. Because it was the 2000s, somehow this ended up with the woman he won being widely vilified and turned into a national punchline. How dare she complain about a massive corporation tricking her into marrying a lying abuser, good thing Matt Lauer's there to take her down a peg

The Swan. A "ugly" woman is given plastic surgery and wins a prize if she's the hottest at the end of the season. If she's not hot enough by the show's standards she's eliminated and called ugly on national TV

The Biggest Loser. Overweight people engage in competitive crash weight loss that often led to awful health complications. Studies showed basically everyone on the show regained any weight they lost once it was over and they didn't have abusive trainers demanding they take huge health risks to win a competitive weight loss competition. Like the others, this one was cancel-oh, it was a massive hit that ran for 18 seasons? Yikes!

Wife Swap and Trading Spouses. These were the same show and had a wife from one family go to another family that was different politically, racially, culturally, religiously etc. Most famous for the God Warrior

At the time people focused on the likes of Fear Factor but looking back it's wild how many of the worst shows toyed with politics. So many of these shows have a premise that's like "what if we exposed these conservatives to these people they hate?" or hyping themselves up as Important Experiments. Then they'd freak out when they got the kind of viral bigoted freakout they were trying to construct the whole time.

There were also a bunch of horrible reality shows, thankfully this time mostly unpopular, in the 2010s that based themselves around economic themes as a response to the market crash, but that's a story for another time

#television

[barnbridges]

virginia (colonial), indiana and st louis are basically the only places mentioned in sound and fury that aren't jefferson, mi so.... coughs now in hc julian morrow is from indiana ur welcome

#faulkner's absalom takes place in virginia #and st louis especially banks and construction are mentioned a LOT in jason #there's also mentions of the new york stock market but ofc there are jason is a daytrader cryptobro :(( #but imagining julian morrow as being from like not even indianapolis like fucking #garry indiana or god forbid south bend #im pissing myself laughing you're welcome

[nonasuch]

IT IS TIME: Miss Universe National Costume 2023

it's here! the Met Gala for people who actually understand what camp is!

yes I'm like 3 months late, but I sat down and watched the damn thing. I put up with the horrible little rhyming couplets for each contestant so you don't have to. and without further ado:

Albania: Starting off very Victoria’s Secret this year! Apparently it’s gold for important symbolism reasons, not just because everything in this competition is blinged out to within an inch of its life. The wings do look nice in motion!

Angola has a good balance of bling, actual cultural dress, and oh hey it has surprise bonus art on the back! That will be a theme this year.

Argentina: Why is there a guy in a hat right down at the bottom edge of her cape. He looks like he’s staring at her butt. How does this represent their flag.

Aruba: This is fine. I like the coral. She thinks climate change is bad. Her parrot is clearly way too heavy to hold up and it wobbles like crazy in motion.

Australia: This is now multiple years in a row that Australia has just worn a fucking prom dress. It’s got native wildflowers on. You could have made this exact same dress with a Great Barrier Reef theme and I would have liked it 80% more.

Bahamas: This costume is allegedly based on a 19th-century doll from the Bahamas “world famous straw market,” which is already bullshit; I googled “bahamas straw market antique doll” and like. they both have big skirts? I guess? Anyway now I’m too distracted by the way she has a hoop skirt awkwardly jammed under there and hiked up on one side. Minus ten for poor construction.

Bahrain's theme is “Bahrain’s pearl heritage,” which like. I guess? The headdress and yoke are pretty. Put more pearls on the actual outfit. Kudos for getting to wear pants.

Belgium: Girl. No. Why is your theme “Latin dance” and why are you wearing a spangly cocktail dress with a totally unrelated piece of fabric fluttering behind it? (Apparently the fabric was designed by a member of Belgium’s royal family? Who is a fashion designer? This is what nepotism gets you.)

Bolivia saw Aruba’s parrot and was like, I can do that better. And she was right! It’s way less wobbly and the costume as a whole does work better. Also made from recycled materials, so we’ll see if that’s a theme again this year. The back of the cape is nice too.

Sadly, Bolivia's parrot supremacy was short-lived, because Brazil was like, bitch please. I see your sad little parrots and raise you FOUR giant parrots, and also the shoulder parrots are articulated and can turn their heads back and forth. I think Brazil wins the parrot competition that only she knew she was in.

#miss universe national costume

[fiapple]

okay i posted something about this earlier but have since gotten advice from a tailor, so i'm going to share that in case someone else may find it useful.

online instructions about anything can be a little prototypical, and this is especially true when it comes to things relating to physical variance. so if you have hip dips/divets/dimples/whatever you want to call that inward curve, and you find that you have trouble getting bottoms that fit you even when measuring, measure on a bit of an angle.

i know some sources online say not to do that, which is where i personally got really fucking confused, but don't do it. do not measure the widest part of your bum, then around the hip dip just because that is what people who, more often than not, do not have that divot position as across.

hip dips are a bone structure + muscle thing, you need to account for it.

your goal is to get the widest point on your hips AND the widest point of your bum included in the measurement. just make sure that the measuring tape is flatly on one side, and is taut but not squeezing you.

happy wardrobing.

#advice #clothes #fashion #measuring #i'm also gonna tag some clothes construction stuff in case any of you lot find this useful??? #sewing #cosplay #clothes making #tailoring #wardrobe #wardrobing #queer fashion #lgbt+ fashion #fashion tips #clothing tips #hip dips #hip dimples #i'm also gonna tag this bopo because i know some people more involved in that community can have trouble finding clothes even when smth #even *as it is marketed* should fit them for a variety of reasons but this might help #like at least with checking sizing against brands and the specifc cut of bottoms & various fits etc #everyone should get to style themselves #so yeah in case any of y'all get smth from this: #body positivity

[vexwerewolf]

The thing is, D&D is not a game.

I know that sounds insane, but hear me out: D&D is not a game, it is a games console. You don't actually "play D&D." You play "Dragon Heist" or "Tomb of Annihilation" or "Ghosts of Saltmarsh" or "your GM's homebrew campaign" or "the plot of Critical Role Season 1 reconstructed from memory" on D&D.

For quite a long while now - possibly literal decades - D&D hasn't even been the best games console, but it's been "the one everyone knows about" and "the one my friends have" and in fact it's "the one whose name is almost synonymous with the entire medium of TTRPGs," like how "Nintendo" or "Playstation" could just mean "games console" to people who didn't understand games consoles. They might not have heard of a "tabletop roleplaying game," but most people have heard of "Dungeons & Dragons."

For this extended metaphor, D&D is Nintendo back in the 90s, or Playstation in the 2000s. Sometimes you say "oh let's go to my house and play Nintendo" or "c'mon dude I wanna play Playstation" but you're not actually playing Nintendo or Playstation, you're playing Resident Evil or Super Mario Bros or Jurassic Park or Metal Gear Solid or whatever on a Nintendo or a Playstation.

Now, this metaphor is going to get even more tortured, but remember how when the PS2 and the original X-Box came out, they used a standardised DVD format, but the Nintendo console in that generation, the Gamecube, used discs but they were this proprietary tiny little disc format that they had control over? That essentially meant that it was really difficult to make third party titles for the Gamecube that did literally anything that Nintendo didn't want them to do, and also essentially gave Nintendo an even greater ability to skim money off the top of any sales?

So that must've seemed like a smart business decision in their heads. But the PS2 and the X-Box used DVDs. This was a standardized format which gave Microsoft and Sony way less control over who made games for their consoles, but that actually turned out to be a good thing for gaming, because it meant that the breadth of games that you could play on their consoles was massively increased even if some of them were games Microsoft and Sony didn't really approve of. (Also it's worth nothing that the PS2 and the X-Box could just play DVDs, which meant if your household was on a budget, you didn't need a separate DVD player - your games console could do it for you! This was actually a huge selling point!)

What Wizards are currently trying to do now is kinda-sorta the equivalent of Sony suddenly announcing that the PS5 will only accept a proprietary cartridge format they hold the patent on, will control the content of and charge money for the construction of. This possibly seems like it could be a moneymaker in your head because you hold market dominance (apparently the PS5 has 30 million units shipped compared to X-Box Series X 20 million units) and so many people make games for your console, but what it actually means is game devs and publishers will abandon your product. If it takes so much more work, the scope of what they're allowed to do is so much more limited and they're going to make less money off of it, they just won't bother. They'll go make games for the X-Box or PC instead.

To use another computer metaphor, D&D is Windows - it might not be the best system but it's the system most people are familiar with and so it gets the most stuff made for it, but there's is an upper limit on the bullshit people will take before they decide fuck it and get an Apple or learn how Linux works.

TTRPG systems are a weird product because you're not selling people a game, you're selling people a method to play a game. All the actual games are created by the community - even prewritten campaigns needs to be executed via a game master. Trying to skim money off the community will mean they'll eventually give up on you.

#open gaming license #dungeons and dragons #ogl #ogl 1.1 #opendnd #wizards of the coast #one dnd #d&d #dnd #tabletop gaming #tabletop roleplaying games #ttrpgs