🐗(sent with slam effect) 🐗(sent with gentle effect)

Un endroit pour afficher ce que j'aime et m'en enthousiasmer sans déranger ma famille.

[danielhowell]

hi dan! I saw your show in montreal, it was incredible! I loved it :) I also love that rachmaninov piece you played in one of your insta stories about theatre pianos. what inspired you to learn it? (have you seen the movie Shine?)

i am obsessed with songs in the key of c#minor and this is the most existentially horrifying of them all so i’ve always wanted to learn it - i have not seen shine but i just watched the trailer and now i will thank you!!

[diphowell]

intensely excited

[dpdailyupdate]

DanAndPhil on Instagram/TikTok!

26 July 2026

[1five1two]

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Dress

Girolamo Giuseffi

c.1912

Indianapolis Museum of Art

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, c.400-300 BCE: this figure was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This plush bird was sealed in the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia. It's remarkably well-preserved, thanks to the unique conditions in which it was buried; the permafrost ice lense formation that runs beneath the site served as an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter, which helped to produce a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows, aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk, and it's attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Sources & More Info:

The Hermitage Museum: Swan

University of Washington: Artifacts from Southern Siberia/Pazyryk

CRAFTARCH: Natural Felt as a Sculptural Textile

Felting and Fiber Studio: The Pazyryk Tomb and the History of Felt

[catchymemes]

[musingsofaraven]

Unless you speak whatever the language in this is (maybe Russian? It sounds at least related to Russian), you won’t understand exactly what they’re saying

You will however, understand exactly what they’re saying from the context of the video

And you will get to hear this person’s wonderful laughter

Sound definitely needs to be on

[i-llbedammned]

Sounds like German to me, but this is hilariously bad planning.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

It’s definitly not german, but god i need to know who planned this bathroom

[erebus0dora]

it is 100% Russian, and i am wheezing in the same language now

[lowestechelonabomination]

going to attempt a rough translation because this is so funny to me

it’s not going to be very literal because trying to translate every mumbled phrase and conversational word will be Very Annoying

“So here’s your–here’s our hotel room. The door to the bathroom is clear, so you enter the bathroom, and everything’s normal, you look at yourself, and everyone who’s in the hallway can see you. And over here’s the shower, it’s relatively private. You enter the shower, and like wash yourself– *breaks down laughing* Well okay okay, you decide to wash your hands, or sit down on the toilet and– *another fit of laughter* Fine, fine, it’s actually all okay because you grab this and you…uh, and you’re like ‘I want some privacy’”, and you close–you close the curtain, and then you close this curtain– *laughs* And you close that curtain too, and now you want to sit on the toilet and you’re like ‘Okay everything’s closed, you can’t see in", and so you sit down on the toilet– *intense laughter*“

[entities-of-posts]

The Beholding

[dpdailyupdate]

Phil on his instagram!

21 July 2026

[reunitedinterlude]

the 20th anniversary youtube jacket <3

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Are you tired of run-of-the-mill boring architecture? If you're looking for something shapely and different, here it is. 1976 geometric home in Marietta, GA has 4bds, 3ba, 2,594sqft, $799k. (Zillow's est.: $780,500)

As soon as you enter, you see an angular fireplace.

Look at the living room. Angular windows, holes in the ceiing and floor for the stairs.

And, look at this tilted wall.

The kitchen cabinets are normal, but there's a triangular window.

The dining room wall comes to an angle like a "V" to accommodate a long counter.

This is fascinating.

The spiral stairs lead directly to the primary bedroom.

There are lots of angles and sliders to a terrace.

The ensuite has a wet bath with the tub in the shower.

Bedroom #2 has a pitched wall and low windows.

The 4th bd. is in the basement.

There's a shower room down here, too.

A terrace with stairs to a large deck.

The deck is the same shape as the house. 0.27 acre lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2965-Pond-View-Ct-Marietta-GA-30062/14252697_zpid/?

[pangur-and-grim]

I won't publish the ask (they asked me not to), but I thought I'd still answer it publicly!

no, royalties are not a significant source of income for most authors. if you wrote something like Project Hail Mary, then absolutely, the royalties would be substantial! but that's like winning the lottery. Ryan Gosling is not starring in the movie adaption of most books.

when you sell a book to a publisher, you get what's called 'an advance against royalties'. it's usually split into multiple parts, so you might get one third for the initial sale, one third for the final revised manuscript, and one third on the publishing date.

an advance against royalties is the publisher saying "we believe you will eventually make X amount in royalties, so here it is ahead of time." and then you don't actually see any money from royalties until the advance is paid off. most books do not make enough in royalties to pay off the advance (I have two children's books and one fiction book, and have yet to see royalties for any of them).

advances are still great, but you need to make them stretch! for instance, last year my net income was about 30k Canadian (21k USD), which is fantastic when you consider that I mostly made it through writing. but I'm definitely not a millionaire. I can live off my writing (not trying to undersell that!) but I'll probably remain in a low income bracket for the foreseeable future.

this isn't meant to discourage anyone from seeking out writing as a career! however, there is a reason that many authors have alternate jobs with writing on the side. or, you know, rich spouses.

[pangur-and-grim]

this isn't me making a fuss about pirating (I've pirated way too many shows to run my mouth on that lmao), but there IS actually a financial incentive to having people buy your books!

buying books shows the publisher that they can make money off you, which means they're more likely to give you advances for future books. and advances are what authors live off (if they don't have a side job). that's why I always push pre-orders so hard! you have to be a racehorse worth betting on, or else they send you to the glue factory....

if I can offer one alternative to pirating: asking your library to stock the book also helps authors, and doesn't cost anything. the only downside is the patience required.

[pangur-and-grim]

OOPS yes, @stjohnstarling makes a good point! everything I'm saying is from the perspective of traditional publishing, but it's a very different game if you're a self-published author

[gollancz]

I will also add that this is why pre-orders can make a HUGE difference to authors - because if there's enough hype, publishers can pull more levers to build that momentum and reach more readers to help authors earn out their advance faster.

[gudgercollege]

Trad publishing contracts person here to co-sign everything in this post. If you want to support an author you really like but are broke as hell, then you can buy their book when it's discounted, buy it used, borrow it from a friend, or use the library. The first step as an author is to get your book read, not to get it bought. The important thing for you as a reader is to spread the word about how good the book is so the publisher knows the audience is there even if sales aren't spectacular. Piracy of books, especially books from small/indie publishers, means the publisher will print fewer copies of their next book, and sometimes if it's an ongoing series the next books in the series will be canceled, either to be replaced by a book with a different premise or they'll cancel the contract for the next books entirely. The "hack" where you buy the ebook or audiobook and then return it for a credit also takes money directly out of the author's pocket since those payment/royalty systems are set up differently than if you were to buy a book from a bookstore and return it. In that situation the bookstore absorbs that loss, but returning the ebook means the money gets clawed back from the author's advance or royalties and they'll have to earn that back.

Pre-orders and Amazon/Goodreads reviews are used as a gauge by publishers to predict how many copies they are likely to sell and therefore how many copies they want to print. They want to sell most of what they print rather than print too many and end up with a bunch of copies no one wants that they'll have to pay to store or sell at a huge discount or recycle, which is what happens to unsold books. Most publishers have a limited amount of money and manpower to dedicate to any particular book, so if there's a book building up a lot of buzz, that'll give them reason to put their resources towards promoting that book to get a better return on their investment. If the publisher can't make money off a book or author they'll dump them.

Generally, every aspect of the publishing and book industries, including writers, agents, publishing employees, librarians, and booksellers are overworked and underpaid. Unless you're Stephen King or already famous, you don't make money off of books. We do it for sheer love of the game.

Use your library! Publishers have a whole department dedicated to selling their books to libraries and the author gets part of those sales. Increasing circulation of library resources means the libraries can make a better case to get more money from the government to buy more books that you want to read and they're a place to hang out for free. Libraries are the best gift humanity gave itself, use yours as often as possible.

[queenusagiblog]

my new art for the Soft Launch album 💙🤍💜

all nerdy rant below

dnp and team reached out to me with a new concept for dnpb album. Their prompt was essentially “podcast set, but cosy”.

They sent me a couple of ideas that solidified a clear image in my mind. Their pitches were “lounging on an inflatable sofa” “including the lava lamp” “retro imac w/ album title” and most importantly, “Richard balls”

Now, if you noticed, I drew the “plastic pendant light” thingy hanging from the top, but I removed it at the final render. Simply, it didn’t mesh with the rest of the background, so I removed it.

reference pic for unused pendant lamp and rocket⤴️

So the elements I added to their ideas were using the pod set as flooring; they wanted to chill among clouds, so I made the lava blobs float like clouds. Now I know the rocket and lava goo look a bit phallic, but what do you expect from a dnp project?

Binary gay stars orbiting each other or whatever in the background: that's what dnp’s souls do when the world ends.

Coloring: I wanted to convey a well air conditioned room, and blue is a lazy relaxed color.

Posing: relaxed, chill, comfortable. Cute with an attitude.

reference pic for Richard balls, Phil looking stoked af ⤴️

outfit reference ofc and mainly used for color picking⤴️

many good references for the sofa, I relied on the SketchUp model the most⤴️

reference for gay love vibes⤴️

[calvinahobbes]

New Dan and Phil Beats album!!!! 😱

[teathattast]

[patterns-pets]

When cats put their whole body into making a sound. Only to be squeak.

[lake-erie]

this year’s prom theme is… *opens envelope* Great Lakes Invasive Species And What Boaters Can Do To Stop Them

[football-in-tuxedos]

And the subject of tonight’s ecology panel is *turns on powerpoint* Enchantment Under the Sea

[blignick]

[yume-fanfare]

i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book

[paperjoshi]

what the fuck is a time knife

[bramblepatch]

[strawberrylovely]

[undeadentropy]

Time knife is a form of time knife