#just to make a few popular ones:

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

#I'm from a seaside town that has become popular with tourists who come for the beach and the mediterranean climate #and the typical whitewashed walls of mediterranean coastal towns #in just a few years the average rent has gone up so much that now the average rent id #*is over 1000€ per month #one thousand! #that's a whole salary! #in the past 2 years they've been building a new neighbourhood. they've destroyed the vinyeards to make a new neighbourhood that will make #the town 1/3 bigger than it is. that's a lot. but all those houses are luxury houses with private swimming pools for rich foreigners (we #already have 2 private British schools high schools and college(in the british sense)/baccalaureate where their kids go and never have to #interact with locals. I teach some of those kids and they're very prejudiced against locals and very bigoted against the catalan language #(which ofc they never bother to learn) #there's a law in catalonia that says that for every certain amount of houses you build you are obligated to build a certain percentage of #affordable housing. so in this new neighborhood they built the bare minumum affordable housing which is still too expensive for us #and since there's so few of them everyone is competing to get them. the city hall and the bank have had to make an official competition for #them but you only classify if the renr would not be more than 1/3rd of your salary which is impossible. my cousins who are in their mid 30s #and have been working a good qualified job for 15 years (and their partners too) are considered too poor to be considered for the #affordable housing #everyone is having to move out to other cities away from their friends and family and current jobs. the only jobs left here soon will be #mostly directed at tourists #and the only way to continue living here if you're a normal person and not rich is if you're an only child who one day might inherit the #parents' house #but we look around at what's happening in nearby cities and we see the next step which will be airbnb taking the houses that are left #in many places (I've posted about thia before) there aren't any flats for rent or sell anymore that isn't an airbnb #I'm still lucky in my town when compared to other places like Barcelona which are already full of the airbnb plague #actualitat #airbnb #tourism #touristic massification #gentrification

[icewindandboringhorror]

I got these shoes from someone recently but thought they were way too plain looking, so I set out on a quest to customize them with some sharpies and charms and miscellaneous ribbon I had in my craft drawers. Mostly sky themed (clouds, rainbows, rain, stars, etc.) because that's my favorite aesthetic, but I had to include some cat imagery as well, of course lol.

#also honestly had NO IDEA that real converse have that star logo on the INSIDE not the outer part??? why the hell would you want it on the #inner portion where nobody can see it?? my entire life I always would have sworn it was on the outer facing portion.. #I think these would be perfect IF they were just slightly taller (top part higher above ankles instead of just weird hard material digging #right into your ankle whenever you walk) and if they were actual good platforms. they're so short. It's good that 'chunky' shoes are gettin #more popular as they've always been my favorite Look ever since I had these shoes with roller skates that pop out of thebottom (not heelys. #but like. before those. it was two whole entire roller skate wheels like a normal pair of roller skates) and the bottoms were so tall and #clunky and it made my feet look giant (because it had.. entire wheels in the bottom pockets lol). so #I've alwatys been into the aesthetic but . still I find a lot of the 'brands jumping on trend' are too short of platforms #OR they're plafrorms with a raised back/heel/wedge which to me is not aesthetically good and also makes them exceptionally uncomfortable to #wear compared to just plain completely flat chunky platform bottoms. ANYWAY.. if these shoes had a 3 or 4 inch platform I think they'd be #cooler. however for what they are it's still fine! and I like them more now that they actually have some sort of anything to them and #aren't just plain white. The weird thing is that the material it's made out of (maybe some sort of leather or something) absorbs sharpie? #the color changes over time. You draw a mark and then leave it for a few days and it either fades into being barely there or has changed #colors. so I had to go back in and redo parts. ALSO the shoe chains are so funny because I did NOT have the right tools for them #I don't have the stuff to make bracelets or open and close the little rings. they're held onto the shoe with just safety pins and the actua #little rung things that hold the charms on half of them are like broken or the metal is just jam smushed together bent and warped hhbjhjhb #I actually like the back a lot where there's the irridecent star thing hot glued on there. it's cool and shiny. and the clouds #are sparkly on the main parts of the shoe though I'm not sure how well it shows up in pictures #ANYWAY... shoegs..... If I were rich this is one of the things I would definitely custom order from craftsman #why would I spend like thousands of dollars on plain ass shoes that are just expensive because they're a Luxury Brand when I could literall #like pay people to create me custom shoes to my exact specifications?? I could have like 5 inch flat platform boots with fur andclouds #and cat shaped holes in the bottom with LEDs in them with pom pom and charms and etc. etc. etc. Like as gaudy and excessively over #decorated as I want lol.. AND they could have skates in the bottom somehow!! ghjgbhjb #this on top of all the custom wizard costumes and period clothing I would order.. Like i LOVE customizing things. I love everything in my l #life being as particualr as possible and cultivating every experience I have to meticulously meet my own specific criteria as much #as is possible. If I had the money to I would never buy something from a store again. EVERYTHING I owned from furniture to clothing #would be either made by me - or mostly - comissioned from craftsmen. custom tiles for my floors. custom bed. custom table. #even like. custom toilet. custom sinks. etc. etc. ouGGH... but yeah.. anyway... shoes..

[grey-fuckers-unlimited]

quick q bc I don't know what's appealing content™ for this blog

it would probably be broken up into multiple parts for image limit and "I have given a college level lecture on this topic and have too much to say about it" reasons. One or two for the basics (contrapasto, tangents, line of action, etc) one for conveying emotion, third for conveying character, and then the last one or two would be about designing poses with different body types/level of ability in mind

#like. On one hand keeping it to being Just poses and magic poser specific info is appealing #because it makes everything very neat and clean and too the point #on the other: thats boring and i derive abourlt 40% of my self worth from being helpful #anyways this is on my mind bc im going back through the last few months of posers and putting in the work #to make the more clasic 9 images per pose posts. those just take a bit of time and effort bc Contrary to popular belief #they are not just nine angles of the model in the exact same pose. they are 9 different poses to nine different angles #bc if you dont pose to the camera it looks like crap

[killjoy-prince]

I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THEM!!!!!!!

#prince's talk tag #OK SO!! I preordered this on amiami along with the rin and len version #bur for the last few months theyve been on back order so the release date kept getting pushed back #and i was cool with waiting it wasnt a big deal #but yesterday i was at kino with my friend and talking to them when my eyes saw the side that had the luka pic #and my brain was like 'why does that look familiar' #AND THEN I REMEMBER AND GASPED OUT LOUD #my friend thought i saw someone i had seen in ages and was about to catch up with them but NOPE!!!! #they only had this one and the meiko and miku ones. the rin and len ones werent there #and i just started telling my friend that ive been waiting MONTHS for this and couldnt believe i was seeing it with my own eyes #kino did price them kinda high but i decided to get it bc idk how long theyre gonna be backordered on it #at least now i have one of them. i can wait on the rin and len one #ngl they're bigger than i thought. i was expecting like tiny figures but theyre a bit bigger than a nendo #yo im so convinced that they packaged luka and kaito together bc meiko and kaito are the popular duo and luka and miku are a popular duo #so by separating them they can get people to buy both #(no separating the kagamines tho) #BUT AS A KAILUKA SHIPPER THIS IS PERFECT FOR ME #i almost didnt want to take them out of the box but i wanna display them #i cant believe there exists a box that has them both like wow i really love it #im looking at them on my dresser rn and they make me sooooo happy #man i love them!! great buy on my part #i was gonna put this with my haul post imma make rn but i wanted one with just them bc. look at them!!!

[willczek-art]

Flashlight travels across the old picture frames, drowning in dust and cracks of the bleak landscapes and unsettling portraits.

Ghosthunters AU linocut strikes again! :D

@bratniadusza 's Ollie and my Andy are finally out of the woods, visiting a very pleasant property at totally normal office hours!! Nothing suspicious going in here!!

#my art #oc art #linocut #ghosthunters #horror art #illustration #printmaking #Few digital adjustments were made - most notably Andy's face got shaded so its not just a big white blob #but i havent cleaned it up like all of the other ones! so theres that! #talking with BD gave me an idea for something to try next semester or maybe as an aspect of my diploma... #assuming it doesnt exist already which given how popular this topic is wouldnt surprise me... but maybe i'll make my own spin on it for fun #ghosthunters AU #oc andy cullen #oc oliver howie #friend's oc #haunted howls #or haunted hearts? i want to name this something specific 👀✨ #also my english sucks for anything more sophisticated than tag talk but i tried!! something more atmospheric!!! #if there are mistakes in there plz let me know 👀

[sysig]

Really digging out the old OCs now; Pan-na, Pilok, Azalea, squirrel boys Will and Damien, and Cupid and Venus <3 (Patreon)

#Doodles #Original #The Original Onslaught has begun >:) *stock maniacal laughter* #Lots of old faces! Lots of unfamiliar faces haha #You might actually recognize the last two individual boys as Blind Willie and Big Boy - those two I've Actually posted over here lol #The rest not so! Goshdang! I actually don't think I post Azalea much of anywhere lol like Maybe once on DA? Possibly? Heck #Same with Pan-na now that I think of it actually she's a Tomodachi Life-specific character haha #I had a few that despite not being fandom-tied I just can't get rid of to make room <3 They're residents! I'd miss them! #I really spoiled Pan-na - lots of cute clothes and a pretty room - so she gets special treatment in doodles too haha #Pilok was made while I was really into making original species on DA - anyone else here fill out the long development sheet? Fun stuff haha #I wish I'd finished a few more memes that got popular on DA back then ♪ Like the OC Remix! Very fun I made a rough of one years ago #Looking at Pilok now she kinda reminds me of the aliens from the DBZ special where Bardock gets sent to the past lol #Azalea was another random design that got a few doodles 'cause I thought she was edgy and cool haha #A more animalistic take on a stomachmouth - I don't think she can talk even she's just shaped like a humanoid maybe to blend in? Dunno #Oh looking back at my notes she was only supposed to have three fingers lol oh well #I don't think I ever drew her with her stomach open either but I'm pretty? sure I always imagined it being teeth-lined haha #Chomp #Squirrel boys! If you remember a few years ago I tried to draw Will again and was like ''>:?your face'' lol - I think I got it better now! #Still not 100% but better! He has very Shaped features haha #Big Boy turned out silly haha very one-large-anime-eyed - he deserves it lol #His hair falling over itself looked cool in my early doodles :0 Careful lines! Not so careful now lol #And Buzz is just missing haha #And finally Cupid and Venus <3 <3 I don't remember now but those two and their third girlfriend Spider might've been my first polycule? :0 #These two were a couple before inviting her in tho haha - there's a whole big backstory of how they met and all that #Venus was one of the main characters in Other Side of the Gun and then split off into her own side story with Cupid- It's a whole Thing #They're very sweet tho <3 I love them ♥ #Kinda seasonal for Cupid haha I didn't plan that! Her favourite holiday is Valentine's Day of course

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 27

"Long Time Gone" by The Chicks

#song of the day #I'm still thinking about the Country Songs About Country Songs #this is actually a cover too though I never hear the original around anywhere #(it's by Darrell Scott who is also the originator for 'You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive' #turns out he's got a bunch of songs that got picked up and made somewhat more popular in the hands of other folks. an interesting legacy) #the best lines of this song to sing are also the bits About Country Music--well the whole song's about chasing the love of it #but this bit is bemoaning the kids these days you know. country music isn't what it used to be. why back in my day etc etc #it's so so so much fun to sing too because you get to exaggerate your 'I think's until they rhyme with 'Hank'. excellent work #'we listen to the radio to hear what's cookin / but the music ain't got no soul #now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard / they got money but they don't have Cash #they got Junior but they don't have Hank / I think I think I think / the rest is a long time gone' #it's fascinating to me to think about these songs in (saying 'historical' here is giving me psychic damage but) historical context #because the Darrell Scott original for Long Time Gone came out in 2000 and The Chicks released their version in 2002 #so they were talking about the trend towards American jingoism in country music of the time #versus like Waylon Jennings in 1975 'Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way' #(I typed that and /then/ went back and looked up the release date and I'm so proud I got it right) #already bemoaning the state of country music in the 70s versus good old classic country like Hank Williams Senior sang #(Hank Jr covered Waylon's song in 1981. like yes it's a tribute to his father but also Hank Jr was a big push towards outlaw country #and has a few pretty famous songs himself about not singing like his daddy did. it just seems a strange choice to me) #and then Eric Church put out 'Lotta Boot Left to Fill' in 2009 calling out the shallowness of the country music scene of the time #(talking some only-thinly-veiled shit about a few of his peers in the process) #and then he released 'Stick That In Your Country Song' in 2021 and that /definitely/ put some backs up #that one's a less directed but more direct call-out if that makes any sense #no lines that are direct references to other artists' songs but stronger sentiments overall #not just general 'y'all are getting shallow prioritizing good times and high sales over genuine heart and integrity of craft' #but some straight up 'you have forgotten the face of your father' shit towards country artists and fans alike. the whole industry #a very good righteous-anger song

[writingsbychlo]

cross-taggers make me want to commit a murder

#“but I’m just making sure my fic gets full exposure” no #no what you’re doing is putting a less popular character/ship into a more frequented one to get more views #and you’re clogging up a niche tag stream with something else in hopes it’ll get you a few more notes #instead it’s JUST ANNOYING #THERES A WHOLE FANDOM TAG??? #/THEN/ NICHE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER TAGS #IF I WANTED THAT CHARACTER I WOULD HAVE SEARCHED FOR IT #BUT I DIDNT DID I??? #BUT NOW I GOTTA SCROLL THROUGH ALL THESE FICS THAT I WASNT SEARCHING FOR JUST TO FIND THE ONES I WAS??? #STAY IN YOUR GODDAMN LANE

[poisonouspastels]

#i figured this would be better suited for a separate post continuing from here #I've had people get angry at me for giving Steve a proper strongman build - thus making him fat and muscular in the process #ive gotten people mad at me for making him his direct colorpicked skin tone. got told I made him ''the wrong color'' for it #got called slurs #got told i need to just ''take a joke'' when im getting right fully angry at people telling me im wrong for making his AU design that way #been quite literally told our art looks ''ugly as hell'' when people ran out of bigoted arguments #its all just getting really hard and really tiring to keep doing what i love when everyone is vocal about hating it #and very few people are vocal about liking it #i do art for me dont get me wrong. and people have been supportive. #but i cant help but wonder if anyone would have even cared about the mega ref at all if it hadn't been surrounded by people full of hate #its just hard to stay motivated and put my all into something that's gotten so much backlash for stupid reasons you know #i've been putting so much love into my work surrounding this AU lately. my writing and my art. for over the past year now #i try not to ask anything in return other than for people to just pay attention to it at all. give it a reblog #but the one time we have something out of it become popular its because people are stupid and bigoted #i dont care about numbers this isnt about that. i just care about returning the passion i put into the world. #if anyone wants to send anything my way feel free. i could use it #sorry for venting

[theborzoiarebackintown]

Oh why did you decide not to breed with Margo? :O she is so stunning. Always a joy seeing your borzoi gang on my dash :3

(hope this is not too intrusive)

Not too intrusive! I’ve not made a public big deal about it but am more than willing to discuss if asked.

A lot of bloat has popped up in direct relatives over the last year or two, a lot of half siblings (with the same common parent), a littermate, and an aunt on one side and an uncle on the other side of her pedigree.

We don’t know a lot about the genetics of bloat, and it would be impossible to just not breed any dogs related to dogs that have bloated, but I am not comfortable having the foundation of my entire breeding program have as much bloat around her as there is.

Another very significant aspect is I’ve fallen out with her breeder over how the bloating has been handled and disclosed (amongst many other things I won’t go into), and Margo is a co-own and if I did breed her this person would have their name on all the puppies as breeder, something else I am massively not comfortable with at this point.

#asks #text post #it makes me sad #margo is a really lovely dog #this was not a decision made lightly #with how small our gene pool is we have to be careful about soft culling dogs #especially considering she’s one of the few pedigrees in this area that doesn’t have a few very popular studs in her pedigree #one or two bloats maybe #but with as many as I know about…. no #and I’ll never know the full amount honestly #it is not her breeder’s fault these bloats happened #it is unfortunately something that just happens sometimes #however #how the issue is handled and discussed is absolutely on her breeder #I would not be comfortable saying more than what I have here #about the situation with anyone not in the community #just btw fyi etc

[britneyshakespeare]

throughout the series of drake and josh it pretty consistently implies that josh nichols is a christian (josh peck is jewish) and in the finale of the series helen (played by yvette nicole brown, not jewish[?]) is portrayed as a practicing jew

#i dont have a problem w either of those things necessarily i just find it interesting #if i had to guess. drake and josh was a mainstream that didnt wanna touch on religion generally #but josh was kind of a dork and usually when josh's religious beliefs are implied it is in dorkish ways #such as praying and thanking the lord after he has his first kiss. #but since dan schneider is jewish perhaps he wanted to make helen have a jewish wedding in the finale? #not that there needs to be a reason. but u do notice occasional jewish-related jokes in d&j but none of them are what you could call #offensive. in good faith that is. 'eric is a pacifist' 'i thought he was jewish?' like come on #text post #i have been rewatching drake and josh recently and i have had so many thoughts #im almost done. i just have left that stupid dance episode that they premiered last for the stupid reason #of a special dance-themed premiere night in fall 2007. they premiered the third episode of icarly and a new zoey 101 on the same night #which i think is so stupid. they should've aired really big shrimp last. it messed w my understanding of the series at the time lol #i remember not really knowing that the show was ENDING. like i knew icarly was starting & miranda was doing that #i thought really big shrimp was like just another special like go hollywood. #and then like two days later they premiered the helicopter episode for some reason #and i was like why is drake not famous in this. he just had a number 1 song in a superbowl commercial #and then a month later the dance one. which. if anything is satisfying about that as a final episode it's just that #that unnamed girl from the blues brothers episode who is obsessed w drake shows up again and congratulates them #and the very final line of the series is 'who is she?' because. because really who IS she? #that's a funny enough throwback to wrap things up with i suppose #drake and josh wasn't a highly serialized show so i can see how they could air those after the intended finale and act like it didn't matte #but i have to tell you it did fuck with my brain a bit at the time. lol. i still think of those episodes as having 'happened' after #and on paramount plus those episodes are still placed after really big shrimp. the injustice #but thats kinda messy. what a weird way to end such an influential and popular sitcom #season 4 had a few lowpoints while still also having some VERY solid episodes. #idk. ill have to continue my series review another time im getting way too longwinded here #helen dubois is jewish

[spinetacks]

_(:3 」∠)_

#when you make an account specifically to be autistic about something and then think no..too much autism..a silly amount. embarrassing #my poor priv twt tl have to hear about a wrestler 50 times a day because I just default to there bc it’s so hidden fhjdh #I would be on here with some random info or a gif every five minutes if I was cringe and free #or just posting about how pretty his eyelashes are ✨ #but ironically I worry about looking weird. while posting about the weird guy. so ah well ;-; #I have to stop staying up all night and listening to 4am feelings. the least valid feelings of all !! #I just love having feelings and learning and sharing and providing! #and I find darby so interesting and totally worthwhile a lot of research and pattern matching #but the less popular something is online the weirder it feels if you’re always going on about it..y’know. like it isn’t weird if everyone is #I’ve always leant towards niches in fandoms and experienced negativity for it so many times #everyone I’ve met here has been so lovely ;-;!! I wouldn’t even be rambling about it if I didn’t have lovely mutuals #I’ve been in my main fandom for over a decade and it’s been so horrible for the past few years just because [gestures to social media] #it’s been so nice to enjoy writing again and to be real hyped about stuff without all that negativity #but if there’s one thing I’ll do it’s bring my own negativity to the party just in case no one else did #ANYWHO..sleepie time I think #me post

[feanorianethicsdepartment]

watched the first episode of the show with the parents, and got talking about the Deep Tolkien Lore™ with mum afterwards. was telling her about my favourite faction in the silmarillion, galadriel’s evil mafia cousins, and mentioned that i didn’t think they were likely to show up on account of them all being dead by this point, ‘except for that one guy on the beach,’ to which my mum replied ‘what, sipping piña coladas and taking it easy?’ and on further thought we don’t really know that’s not what he’s doing, do we

#amazopocalypse #rings of power #maglor #as for the show itself? #... eh it's fine #seen worse. doesn't seem to want to do anything too interesting with the material but i've seen worse #every time they dangled a nugget of the deeper lore in front of me like a member berry i just got more annoyed than anything else #almost none of the first age elf drama is being represented at all #which >:( #way to show the casual audience that tolkien's elves are just as boring as the popular narrative would have it #also please stop actively leaning into valinor-as-an-aryan-wonderland/uncritical-acceptance-of-the-old-man's-colonialist-tendencies #having a few black elves here and there doesn't really help with the undertones #also if you can't use the real names of 'galadriel's brother' and 'the high king' just make some new ones up ffs #he didn't get eaten by werewolves i already don't think it's finrod #... did like the stone age protohobbits though #not sure why they're calling em harfoots but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[welcometogrouchland]

Had a class on transmedia and unfortunately I am now thinking about them again (my ocs...the enterprise of evil)

#ramblings of a lunatic #god i had good ideas and even the scripts re-reading them r still good and funny #they just needed streamlining and focus... #also i needed to shit or get off the pot in terms of medium #honestly? i think they'd work really well as comics/graphic novels (or webcomics but those aren't as popular today) #with like a website or something with some supplementary things to cover stuff like character backstories that don't fit/bloat the plot #oughh my meow meows. i miss them #it makes me sad that i never had a centralized notebook or word doc for all their lore bc so much has been lost to the sands of time- #-in just a few short years #not to mention my last ipad w/ 4-5 yrs of drawings (including the earliest enterprise ones) being nuked #at least i got an 81 on that assignment 😭