Maison Bailesu @bailesu - Tumblr Blog

yayster-deactivated20181019

Perhaps there was a reason we didn’t see Turlough’s drawing in The Five Doctors…!

Someone keep me away from the computer

genuinely one of my favourite details about Bram Stokers Dracula that isn't really transferred to the pop culture is that vampires have irridescent eyes, they appear brown at a glance, however when light is reflected on them they seem to go red!

cadaverkeys

another thing that pop culture latched onto is this idea that you might use a wreath of garlic bulbs to ward off a vampire, however, in the book there is a popular use of garlic blossoms rather than the bulbs. i think these are a lot prettier and way more versatile for stylisation! you could have a garlic flower crown.

cadaverkeys

also like the cowboy part can we please stop omitting the fact that there is a real ass cowboy in Bram Stokers Dracula and hes from real ass Texas and he has a fucking gun and he tries to fucking shoot Dracula

bailesu

And Quincy is part of a three-man harem of the heroine's best friend.

moghedien

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

moghedien

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

geeneelee

Hey here’s some more fun facts about Aldi

thestuporsalesman

New Coyote vs. ACME trailer!!

captain-price-returns

Soldier your mission is to be a seat filler at our 80 year old president's big birthday fight! Strong sexy hunks ONLY! Absolutely NO uggos!

bailesu

This may well the most pathetic moment in the history of the Presidency.

cartoonpolitics

(cartoon Clay Bennett)

tuherrus

happy pride month once again, here’s a redraw of this iconic medieval art

elleskinner-justart

Commission prize for @alevolpe for participating in Same Prompt Party last month :)

We were talking about how Venus and Mars together have such an interesting balance of personal intimacy and professionalism. I am a SUCKER for that, so my brain immediately went to a battle girlfriends space. Being so in sync that they don't even need to communicate, they know the other has their back.

I enjoy how bubbly and flowy and colorful this turned out!

thevaudevilledemon

Okay so I know this one is a stomp, but a Tolkien fan I knew said this was closer than I thought so I just wanna know what y'all think.

Am I right in thinking Suaron stomps or does Ganon have a wincon?

Sauron

Ganondorf

Remaining time: 2 days 18 hours

Again, I am convinced this is a stomp, but if you think otherwise, and are not happy with how the polls are going, you can spread your views via the reblog option.

bailesu

Look, Sauron has:

Had his ass kicked by a big dog

Lost the one time he did hand to hand combat though he did take some people with him

Literally drowned himself, though his spirit survived it

Ganondorf's job is to be the final boss in a Zelda game. And he's tough minded enough Sauron can't play mind games with him.

And you know Sauron didn't do enough quests to be ready for this.

My money is on Ganondorf.

welcome-to-the-petty-parade

i’m astonished that Túrin only just had this thought after everything he’s been through thus far:

bailesu

I'm always surprised any time Turin thinks at all of anything.

romanceyourdemons

in the tradition of outcast (2014), dragon blade (2015), and the great wall (2016), we need a movie set in the 1630s where a disillusioned member of the embroidered uniform guard and a profit-driven jianghu mercenary flee the corrupt and crumbling ming dynasty and somehow end up in the equally corrupt city of cologne, where they become key players in the fight against the sinister forces of cardinal richelieu and eventually secure the peace of westphalia and the end of the thirty years’ war. this is a million dollar idea i’m telling you

romanceyourdemons

i really do love this concept. the protagonist is like i’m sick of dealing with wei zhongxian’s shit, i’m gonna go someplace where people are holy and don’t even know how to act like this (the impression of europe he got from the jesuit missionary he had a tactical lunch with once), and so he travels 5000 miles and as soon as he stops to catch his breath he runs into cardinal fucking richelieu, the european wei zhongxian

#History #Fiction

jackedjacket

It's so weird to me when people are like 'but that will cost the government money!' So what? They're the government, they're supposed to be spending money. What, you want them to take your tax dollars and then do nothing with it? Lock it all up in a big government vault and just look at it? Why are you so scared of giving a third grader lunch or a homeless person a house.

heydocverdant

Oh, 100%! The idea that governments need to avoid debt at all costs is basically an elaborate lie that’s been hoisted onto the working class over the last several decades. Governments aren’t corporations, they’re governments: states cannot go into bankruptcy, and they literally exist to facilitate public works and the like. As Enshittification author Cory Doctorow (@mostlysignssomeportents) put it in his essay “Blue Bonds”:

“Private debt is a drag on the debtor. State debt is generative. It creates the roads, the hospitals, the schools, the educated and healthy populace, needed for the private sector.”

The essay itself is worth a read, but specifically revolves around the Blue Bonds proposal by MoneyOnTheLeft.org: the proposal lays out a plan to overhaul the United States’ public finance programs on a state level, by utilizing pre-existing programs to institute a system by which states can issue bonds backed by the national treasury to finance public works that have had their funding slashed or frozen by congressional Republicans. The plan is designed for the inevitable post-Trump era of the country, and exists in order to push back against conservative austerity budgeting that would rather fund ballrooms and monuments for the rich instead of food and education for the poor.

The plan itself is functional: in simplified terms, it’d involve states willingly taking on debts to fund needed programs in their state, and then having those debts taken on by the Federal Reserve (which has repeated asserted in recent years that it has no limit to the amount of debt it can claim). Similar processes have been used in the past (such as during the 2008 Housing Crisis or during Covid-19), typically for corporate interests, but in this case the plan would be bailing out programs for the needy. As Money On The Left puts it, the main hurdle is political bravery: not only would you need a large amount of progressives in Congress to pull this off, but they’d also have to be brave enough to support programs that would purposefully put their states into debt, which conservatives would eagerly weaponize in order to turn voters against them. Bit of a high bar, admittedly… but so’s getting the government to spend money on social services instead of paying for the president’s personal brute squads, and personally I’d like to start some planning for how the country will look after these dickheads are finally rotting in the ground. One step at a time is a great way to walk, but it’s always important to watch where we’re going first!

bailesu

I have to note that the state constitutions of every single state prohibits this by requiring balanced budgets, so you would have to amend that.

byjove

Someone mentioned how they were having a hard time creating a world for their fantasy fiction geographically because they kept reinventing the island of Britain, which also happened to my good close enemy George R. R. Martin. I would like to suggest North Carolina. I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous but North Carolina has an awesome geographic setup for a fantasy kingdom, I think. Inhospitable barrier islands, constantly shifting shoals in the sound, swamps with alligators, venomous snakes and carnivorous plants, lots of very flat and somewhat sparsely populated farmland, foothills, mines, mountains full of mysterious phenomenon that were originally very difficult to navigate and people still get lost in today. It kind of rocks.

bailesu

Also, the mountains had the only major gold rush in the Eastern US, and every fantasy kingdom needs gold.