Books, Legos, 'n other stuff

Most of what I post nowadays falls underneath the "other stuff" category...  

[probuccalfat]

i’m having a grand old time in this bitch of a life

[klawphish]

One thing I enjoy in Skyrim that there's not nearly enough of is the idea that ancient Nord culture was not what modern Nords imagine. There's Word walls honoring Redguards and Argonians, Tsun mentioning that ancient Nords actually valued magic, Olaf One-Eye being either a culture hero or a boogeyman depending entirely on who you ask. It's not much, but there is some sense that Nord revanchism is canonically misinformed and self-serving (like real life revisionist histories).

[m--bloop]

"Change your hooves to hands. Change your hooves to feet. You'll see it's fun."

The Wolf House (La casa lobo) dir. Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña, 2018

[catboybiologist]

Scifi is when the hot butch wears a tank top and cargo pants and carries a complex but beat up looking tool that looks vaguely like a welding torch but it's ✨plasma✨ and fantasy is when the hot butch wears armor and a banner and carries an implement of death wrought in steel

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

TT post by @ psychotic.kiddd (they/he/ze).

[ashlgcostumes]

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive

[modwyr]

the problem with liking video games is that the gaming industry is genuinely so evil and needs to be wiped out

[captain-price-returns]

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. It’s perfect.

[weaver-z]

The prevalence of the coyote as a trickster in American myth, the jackal as a trickster in African myth, and the fox as a trickster in Eurasian myth proves that the Funny Dogy is a staple across cultures

[weaver-z]

^ Funny Doggies of Myth and Legend Compilation

[iww-gnv]

Our Union Hall Needs Help!

Friends, followers, and Fellow Workers, the Gainesville IWW's beloved union hall, the Civic Media Center, is in need. The Civic Media Center of Gainesville, Florida, provides countless vital community resources, such as:

The Stetson Kennedy Library, a reading room and leftist library that is home to 15,000 books, journals, newspapers, and magazines.

The Travis Fristoe Zine Library, largest independent zine collection in the southeastern United States.

A meeting space for countless local activism and social justice groups such as the IWW, Food Not Bombs, and Books to Prisoners.

The Gainesville Free Store, which was founded to help local transgender people access affirming clothing and toiletries as well as other important items. The Free Store has seen so much success that they've expanded to serve the entire Gainesville community.

The Gainesville Free Grocery Store, which offers no-questions-asked food to anyone who walks in.

A cool, dry place to rest, with an open bathroom frequently used by our unhoused neighbors.

A venue for local musicians and poets to perform, including during the renowned music festival FEST.

So, so much more. Losing this community hub would be an absolutely devastating blow to our town and our union. We cannot let it die.

Via the Civic Media Center's own social media:

Dear friends, please us survive the Summer Doldrums by renewing your membership or, if you can, making an extra donation in whatever amount you can spare to help us cover rent, bills, and some extra work on our facilities this summer. Here is the direct link to the membership & donation page on our website: https://www.civicmediacenter.org/get-involved If you have Venmo or PayPal you can also just make a contribution using the handle in the graphic below. Thank you for supporting the CMC!

Please, if you can, help us out with a signal boost or a donation -- we love our union hall, and our community needs it!

[beatlesweatles]

[thanook]

i did not notice it was orteil posting jesus christ this makes it a thosand times funnier

[birdsareblooming]

For the love of god stop

[tpwrtrmnky]

When politicians say "we gotta appeal to the working class" you have to keep in mind that in their imaginations, the working-class person is basically a form of ogre-like creature whose existence consists of backbreaking manual labor and seething with Every Single Bigotry.

[tpwrtrmnky]

When he clocks out at The Factory, where he manually builds entire fridges from scratch using only raw materials, he has three interests: Car, The Pub and Sports. He desperately wants to vote for a center-left party but just can't bring himself to do it when they actually do something left-wing.

[sludgebitch]

hi so i didnt wanna make a post like this but i was very suddenly told i need to be out of my house of ~7 years within a stupidly short timeframe with no funds. i don't have any resources to speak of, i don't really have a place to go rn and its all looking quite bad for little old me.

if you've got a few pennies to spare it would be very very helpful.

Pay Holly Roberts using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/hollyx3 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

if you don't have any pennies to spare pls tell your friends about my bandcamp where i make epic secret elite music

hollyhollyholly

you'll never guess what my name is

i have no idea how im gonna pick my life up but i will do anything and everything to scrape it all back together. even a reblog helps. ty and stay safe

[falloutconceptart]

Microsoft laid off Ray Lederer.

He and Adam Adamowicz were the two primary concept artists for Skyrim and Ray did extensive concept work for Fallout 4 and Starfield and did work on Fallout 76 as well.

Ilya Nazarov (primary Fallout 4 concept artist) made a very good decision when he decided to move to a different company a while back.

I wish Ray the literal absolute best and I hope he quickly finds work with an employer who respects him (unlike Microsoft)

[falloutconceptart]

You can hand waive the firing of some middle managers as "increasing efficiency" but there is literally no reason to fire such an unbelievable and tenured artist like Ray Lederer other than Microsoft deciding he was too expensive to keep paying.

An even more insidious interpretation is that the concept work on TES VI is done (we know Ray was working on it as of early last year) and now that the concept art is finished Microsoft has no need of him anymore...

If they even replace his position they'll probably probably just contract a young, talented, and naïve artist who doesn't know their worth and will get grossly under-paid by Microsoft

[unknownbinaries]

I painted this in honor of my hometown & then i got super depressed and plans for making prints fell apart. As a bonus, the original started growing mold because my apartment is a swamp, so I'm putting this up on Inprnt for everyone who enjoyed it while I work on fixing or remaking it:

The Spirit of Philadelphia, an art print by k brown

This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.

it looks slightly different than the original because the flames around the head were a shimmering gold that scanned badly, so i committed stamp tool fraud & repainted them by grabbing from other portions of the piece

[contemptible-scoundrel]

adhd is such a humiliating disease to have ones life ruined by