#city blocks

[xltl]

youre so on my mind

#walter wick #city blocks #zoom in on me

[ostermad-blog]

Dungeon23 15jan23 hex 8,5 - Tenement Workshops

Before we get to today’s block, I want to make a procedural note. We’ve been working in a spiral, extending out from the city’s center, which works passably well. However, in doing so, I omitted some rather important information from blocks 3,7 and 7,5 as I didn’t pay attention to the synagogue next door to both, which recontextualizes them somewhat. When we finish with Zamość and move on to the next city, I’ll try to place landmarks down first and then fill in the interstitial blocks. Block 3,7 errata: Much of the food available for purchase at the Salt Market is halal/kosher. Even the goyish food vendors are likely to look into paying the rabbi to certify them kosher. Block 7,5 errata: rather than szlachta apartments, these residences are for the high-rolling Jews. Okie, onto the new stuff. I debated calling today’s block mixed-use but decided to use Tenement Workshops to disambiguate between 7,5 and 8,5. We’ll find no inns or taverns here - visitors from out-of-town will stay with kinfolk, and the rigors of kashrut make maintaining a kosher tavern challenging. Most of these buildings will be workshops for Jewish crafters and artisans, with housing above. Now, the trade guilds were expressly Christian and thus did not permit Jewish members. The way both communities worked around this was twofold: as part of the condition of allowing Jews to settle within the city, the Jews were forbidden from specific trades (in Zamość, Jews were prohibited from being cobblers, furriers, and potters), and Jewish crafters formed their own guild-like associations (havurot). From the little research I’ve done, the strength of these havurot depended greatly on the degree to which the existing trade guilds resisted Jewish members. In our Zamość, we’ll say that resistance is fairly strong, and consequently there are several robust havurot. Jewish player characters will, as in blocks 3,8 and 7,5, find temporary housing and food through kin-relations, as well as be able to learn all the gossip the Jewish Quarter has to offer. Jewish characters without a kin-relation have an opportunity to entrench themselves into the Zamość Jewish community if they’ve a spare nibling or kid they can apprentice to one of the crafters. This does not come for free: it would require an act of service for that crafter, or a sizeable financial gift. Characters with a more duplicitous bent could suborn away dissatisfied apprentices, but doing so would burn any bridges they had in Zamość. Non-Jewish characters will find little of interest here. Some shopping, artisans they could commission for custom work, etc. 

#dungeon23 #city23 #blocks #city blocks #zamość blocks #ttrpg #ttrpg design #indie ttrpg #nowa polska #gelgelim

[believing-is-seeing]

The Cathedral of the Madeleine

Lego model

The Leonardo

December 2022

#photography #utah #salt lake city #salt lake city utah #the Leonardo #cathedral of the Madeleine #lego model #city blocks #december 2022

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

i like how mumbo has barely said anything about his base theme this season. he built the mothball and then spent four episodes dicking around. icon

#the new hermits: building masisve impressive cities and such #old man mumbo: places about 45 blocks then spends the rest of his basebuilding time trying to find a llama #hermitblr #hermitcraft #hermitcraft 10 #mumbo jumbo

[soon-palestine]

#atlanta #block cop city #stop the genocide #gaza under attack #ceasefire now #palestine #gaza #free palestine 🇵🇸 #غزة تقاوم

[nando161mando]

#stopcopcity #tort #blockcopcity #tortuguita #portland

@antifainternational @anarchistmemecollective @kropotkindersurprise @radicalgraff @left-reminders

#stop cop city #tort #block cop city #tortuguita #portland #2024 #vigil #january 18 #grant park #pdx #georgia state #all cops are bastards #all cops are bad #ftp #1312 #acab1312 #acab #anti cop #anti police #fuck the police #fuck the cops #policebastards #police state #police #murder #statism #usa news #usa #united states #unitedstateofamerica

[l8tof1]

to me the whole point of f1, and why i got into it, is that the cars are these meticulously engineered machines that - under the right circumstances - are fucking magical to watch. like for example, a wide angle shot of a car absolutely glued to the ground while going through a sleek S chicane?? 😮‍💨🤤

street tracks are just bumpy, with awkward super slow 90-degree corners, vision is obscured too, and it’s such a waste imo to have these incredible cars race in spaces where they don’t reach their full potential.

#the character and history of real race tracks create such a special atmosphere too!! #i want elevation changes and huge grand stands #i want to see more of the track and the cars than whatever view we can have between city buildings #i don’t want drivers tiptoeing around apartment blocks and wine bars like wtf are we doinggggggg #f1

[leroibobo]

really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century

#not to mention that many mosques that /were/ restored but are in 'jewish areas' r heavily guarded & prayer is hardly if ever allowed #to anyone thinking ''you can say the same thing abt jewish sites in mena countries''. you can't have one repaired w/o the other #and ultimately the root of the problem is both the colonization of palestine + antisemitism. advocating for palestine + against #antisemitism are far from mutually exclusive #(and for the love of god please stop using mena jews as a political gotcha i swear to god #and it's not like a regime that forced everyone to integrate into the ''new jewish'' culture is any less genocidal) #as someone who comes from one of the jewish groups who was affected by that to arguably one of the highest degrees & who's also a staunch #antizionist even i know that. politics re: cultural site preservation are stupid but that doesn't make it any less stomach-wrenching #it really is just Luck. al-bahr mosque just so Happens to be in a ''mixed city'' so destroying it'd be a ''bad look'' #the tomb of nahum just so Happens to be in an autonomous kurdish territory so restoring it isnt as big a deal #and then people have the gall to wonder how i could ever ever ever sympathize with those ''savage arabs''. seriously?? #btw im muting notificaions on this post so if you have a problem with me just dm me or block me whatever idc

[chellychuu]

♡

Kofi - prints

#still have art block but hey it’s something finished for once haha 🥹 #ranma 1/2 #ranma ½ #shampoo #ranma shampoo #art #80s anime #90s anime #90s anime art #city pop #retro anime #retro aesthetic #cute #cute art #cute anime #artists on tumblr #anime art #anime artist

[girlboyburger]

street corner sights, sounds, and skies ...

#drawn on my way back from portland #trying to express the feeling i got from standing on a street corner... #smoking a joint while listening to the trees and crows over head. the dogs barking a few blocks down #the way the stars twinkled out there was incredible. not what i was expecting with city light pollution #crisp air of oregon.... aoo #my art #furry #fursona #anthro #furry fandom #oc #oc: cow #bovine #cattle #sketch #doodle #the warm glow from the colorful houses.........screams and cries why am i not there now #weed #drugs

[ostermad-blog]

Dungeon23 13jan23 hex 3,8 - the Zamość Synagogue

As promised, today we get to the (sizeable) Jewish population of Zamość. Sephardi Jews lived in Zamość from the city’s beginning, receiving permission to build a synagogue, mikvah, and cemetery within the city limits (something that, even in the religiously-tolerant Grand Duchy of Lithuania, could not be taken for granted). Jan Zamoyski, the founder of Zamość specially invited folks across the known world to live in the city, and the first Jewish residents were recruited from Venice and the Ottoman Empire. Ashkenazi Jews were not allowed residence in the city, which is a fascinating bit of history. Clearly a lot of politics going on here, and if I were a historian, there’d be plenty to plumb. But I’m not a historian, and our version of Zamość was built half a century after Nowa Polska lost contact with the rest of the world. That doesn’t mean we don’t have Sephardi Jews, however. It turns out that, roundabout when the Corruscation happens and our setting diverges from history, an Ottoman army had invaded the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Thousands of Ottoman soldiers and attendants with no way of going home. And, of course, a notable minority of them would have been Sephardi. These are the Jews who first settled in Zamość. Let’s turn from history to the block. We have the aforementioned synagogue, of course, as well as the mikveh (ritual bath) and a kahal. Jews within the Grand Duchy (and Nowa Polska, therefore) had the right of self-government and autonomous organizing. The kahal was both administrative building and legislative body of the Jewish people, for the Jewish people. All urban Jewish communities had a kahal which functioned as a secular center of Jewish life to complement the synagogue. Furthermore, we also have a few tenements for the wealthier Jews. Zamość also has a small Muslim population - the Grenadan artificers, as well as other remnants of that Ottoman army. As they are not numerous enough to warrant a permanent mosque, the synagogue doubles as a mosque on Friday afternoons and as needed for the other Islamic holy days. Where the rest of the city primarily speaks Polish, Yiddish and Arabic are the lingua franca of the synagogue and its environs. The synagogue block presents many opportunities for Jewish player characters - consulting with the rabbi, finding a minyan, studying Torah with the elders and wealthy (although there is no yeshiva in Zamość), even temporary housing. Muslim player characters have a dedicated place to worship, may seek the imam’s counsel, and get a lead on where the other Muslims in town live. Christian player characters (of all denominations) will find little for them in the synagogue block. Centuries of pogroms do not vanish after a few years of nominal religious tolerance.

#dungeon23 #city23 #gelgelim #nowa polska #zamość blocks #city blocks #blocks #ttrpg #ttrpg design #indie ttrpg

[tomatoart]

doodles from last year..r these guys stupid?

#resident evil 4 #leon kennedy #luis serra #re4 #resident evil 4 remake #ashley graham #queue are lovley #no new art sorry I will not lie this art block is driving me soooo … 🚶‍♂️ #making me mad depressed will I overcome this or will I level a city we shall see ☝️

[notbecauseofvictories]

I know my experience is not universal, but I biked 5+ miles to do my errands today and I genuinely think we'd be much happier as a human collective if we increased residential density and switched to largely alternative modes of transportation.

#I don't know /how/ you'd do it exactly but this is my vision: #all cars are kept outside a certain perimeter. you can own a car and rent your outside-the-city parking spot; #or you can just reserve/rent a communally owned car when you need one #trucks and deliveries can cross the perimeter on a job but after the work is finished they must be returned to the exterior #inside the city perimeter you can: walk or run; bike or scooter or skateboard #or you can take public transit! there are many more buses and they can move much more freely in a car-less environment #there is also the option of cabs but - and this is key - the cabbies are unionized and the service is public #like the trains and buses. #there is no privately-controlled transit in the city. it belongs to everyone. #and because the lines of parked cars disappear from the streets; they are much better utilized #more kids play in the street. more block parties. more street fairs. #take back the space!!! #anyway this is my vision. #celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge

[gracie-rosee]

Sometimes I feel like I’m part of the few people in this fandom who is obsessed with these books in a normal way.

I love Rhys and Nesta. I love Azriel and Lucien and Mor and Elain. I love Cassian and Amren and Varian. I love Gwyn. I love Emerie. I love Jurian. I love Vassa! I love everyone.

I ship Elain and Azriel, and I believe they’re going to get the next book. I love Elriel but I also really love what Elucien could be and I read Elucien fic and I make art for them!! I’ve read Gwynriel fics because my amazing writer friends wrote them, and they are incredible.

I love some characters a lot more than others for sure, but I’ve never dedicated my entire blog to being anti-anything.

I hope this reaches the right audience. I want to make more friends who like and ship different things than me because I love seeing why people enjoy them so much. If something makes you happy, hell yeah I wanna know why!

This isn’t a joke. I want to be friends with people who have different likes than me. But every time I go and follow someone who likes a different ship than me, their blog is full of negativity towards everything and everyone else. :(

I want to fill my feed with nothing but positivity. If this is calls to you, hi. Let’s be friends!

#Sarah j Maas #maasverse #throne of glass #acotar #crescent city #idk if I should tags ships because I want to reach the right people on ALL sides. but I also want to *reach* all sides. #but I’m also making this post in hopes that I get blocked. yes. I want to get blocked by people who don’t like this post. thank you

[blackwomenrule]

#jt #city girls jt #black girl moodboard #black girl aesthetic #black women #black girl luxury #blackgirlmagic #blacktumblr #soft life #black girl magic #black girl hair #melanin #soft moodboard #black love #blackout #black girls travel #braids #summer #block party #black girl #luxury lifestyle #rich black women #educated black women #black women in luxury #natural black women #harper's bazaar #black blonde #nicki minaj #pink friday girls #pink friday tour

[buglaur]

#hellooooo it's been a long week for sure #got my exam results. did a lot better than i thought i'd do!!! #also had an interview for a place in a community college which i got #but i hopefully got into uni (i'll find out 2pm tmrw) so i mightn't need it!!! #i'm so scared man i'm used to class sizes of like.. 8 😭 #and now i've gotta get 4 buses a day to the city and back instead of a 20 min stroll up the road 😔 #did a pub crawl saturday to celebrate. had a lot of fun #been having fun with bg3 too!! i'm still on act 1 #my ear is blocked again 😔 it's €60 to get it drained ughhh i'll just suffer on #getting my first tattoo soon though 🥳 #enough about me lol i need to make a personal sideblog one of these days #i'll def have a lot less time to be active with sims stuff if i'm starting uni so i'll be sure to make one ^^ #ANYWAYS here's ms macmahon #/roxana #i swear to god i'm going to catch up with all the new kmik posts when i wake up tomorrow #if i don't assume me dead #ts4