Meanwhile Back on Earth...

Okay... So after a few years on tumblr I've come to realize that the only thing I can guarantee that will be on this blog are pictures of cats. Anything else is subject to the whims of a mad actress obsessed with tv. I'm also obsessed with movies and film and have a side blog for that. So explore away. Doctor Who picture by http://janey-jane.deviantart.com/

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Almost 4 1/2 yrs. on the market, and still no one wants this 2002 house in Ashland, OR. 2bds, 4ba, 11,084sqft, $4.5m down from $8.235k.

Maybe b/c it's practically up in the clouds w/o a thing for miles?

But, look at her. Trees, stone, greenery, and the wood in the floor simulates a river.

It's so unique. I always loved this house.

The living room areas are carpeted with the "river" in the middle.

Trees climb the walls and ceiling.

Mosaics in the Pueblo style fireplace. Look at the little hobbit door and organically shaped windows.

The large kitchen has a tree trunk island and the "river" runs under the dining room.

The modern family room.

Main floor powder room.

Going up to the bedrooms.

Large round primary bedroom has big windows for lots of light, a mural, wood ceiling, and sculpted walls.

The dressing room.

The ensuite has lots of marble.

Have you ever seen a shower like this?

The basement is framed out, but not finished.

There's a lovely conservatory with a pool inside.

The gardens are gorgeous.

There's a lovely gate.

A mini island.

Plus a big guest house.

708 acres. No wonder there's no one around.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2700-N-Valley-View-Rd-Ashland-OR-97520/48323708_zpid/

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[not100bees]

I just saw the world's freshest baby in Panera bread. Like that thing was JUST out of the oven. I've heard of being wet behind the ears but this baby was wet behind the everything. It was still damp.

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[sleepy-giraffe]

Oh no it’s one of my hyperfixations.

So fun fact I am currently in school to learn how to build affordable housing. They don’t teach you how to murder strip malls so I must learn this on my own. Someday the two will fuse and I will be an angel of death for shopping centers. This is my calling.

There have been attempts to turn malls into affordable housing. Sadly retrofitting commercial properties into habitable living spaces is usually more expensive than just making a new building. All that big empty space with uniform climate control is cool and all but it’s not habitable living quarters. you know what it’s GREAT for????

HYPER-LOCAL AGRICULTURE BAYBEEEEEEE

Indoor farming got a bad rep recently because it couldn’t become profitable fast enough to satisfy the capitalists funding it. But these places have loads of height for more space-efficient vertical farms, and while plants won’t need the blasted AC of most shopping malls, they probably do appreciate a steady climate (something that’s getting harder to find outdoors).

“But wait,” you say, “the food court has all those fully outfitted kitchens. It would be a waste not to incorporate that into daily living.”

hello????????? Literal farm-to-table restaurants that grow their vegetables right across the hallway are you KIDDING ME??????????????? (better keep that shit cheap tho no gentrification on my watch)

“But wait wait wait,” you say again, “how can it be *local* farming when there’s no housing nearby? Also this isn’t about food we need fucking housing????”

I hear you, man, I hear you. But you know what is right around a shopping mall? Acres upon acres of the most depressing use of land in history: fucking dog shit crusty ass empty fucking parking lots.

The amount of space these bad boys take up is STAGGERING, and it’s often enough to fit an entire neighborhood. Just check out what this one architect in Maine did to replan the Portland mall (they won an award for it):

*everything on that map that’s in color is currently flat cement*

One mid-sized mall in Maine can fit an entire downtown area WITH GREEN SPACE in its parking lot, and *still have room for parking.*

So yeah, the housing in malls idea is cool thinking. Think bigger. WAY bigger.

Think of all the space strip malls and their parking lots take up. Imagine all that space becoming housing and small businesses and third spaces and NATURE.

These stores are dying fast. The real estate is cheap as fuck. It is extremely doable within the next decade. We just have to fucking do it.

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i have a suggestion

[depsidase]

love this.

[beardedmrbean]

perfection

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sniles so sneetly at you

[comicallyqueer]

above and beyond ally.

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[official-lucifers-child]

so make it

Cunt

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Let’s have technical difficulties with mama

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[aueua]

people with siblings: how do you feel about them?

[anghraine]

TOS poll time! Again!

Suppose you wanted to introduce someone to TOS (the show only) via one(1) episode. You're not just trying to sell them on the show, you're trying to give them a sense of what the overall show is like so they can decide more or less accurately for themselves if it's something they'd broadly enjoy watching more of, perhaps in near its entirety.

If you need specifics on the person to decide, imagine they don't know a whole lot about TOS specifically and have mostly avoided Star Trek as intimidatingly massive, but do like sci-fi in general; this person enjoys interesting, strange sci-fi concepts, but like most people, are primarily engaged by characters and dynamics they can emotionally latch onto. They've seen some but not a lot of that era of TV, so they know what to expect SFX-wise and have a vague but very 2020s impression of the cultural context.

Which of THESE episodes would you choose as their introduction to TOS as a whole?

The Return of the Archons

A Taste of Armageddon

A Piece of the Action

Return to Tomorrow

Where No Man Has Gone Before

The Mark of Gideon

The Empath

The Ultimate Computer

The Man Trap

Charlie X

Whom Gods Destroy

Tomorrow Is Yesterday

Voting ended onMay 21

*There's a rationale for the choices, so I'm not asking about episodes not on this list. I know many people would choose other ones.

[gardengnosticator]

getting teary eyed thinking about gerda gottlieb's paintings of her wife after she transitioned

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[narcissus-thee-squeekual]

thing is, for a lot of these paintings it wasn’t “after” lily elbe’s transition. there was no after to it. the one op posted was painted in 1928. this was 2 years before lily legally changed her name and began undergoing revolutionary gender affirming procedures. unfortunately she died due to complications of an experimental uterine transplant in 1931.

up until that point, during the day lily continued to dress in masculine clothing and even attended galleries showing gottlieb’s paintings of her. which was kind of iconic. she got to stand in a room full of people who were marveling her beauty, not knowing she was right next to them. it must have been such a cute little secret for them as a couple.

here’s gerda and lilly together

not to mention that for most people there is no real “after” to a transition. especially for these trans historical figures who had to balance identity and safety at all times.

i think having a wife paint these portraits must have felt really amazing for lily. to be able to see herself through the eyes of someone who loved her. i’m very much seconding op on the getting teary eyed.

here are some of my favorite gottleib lily paintings

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Safety first!

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