Your life is never dull in your dreams

[jareckiworld]

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky -  Zonder Titel (Schets voo rhet Rosa Luxemburg Monument) 1921.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

2023 blue "Atlantis" earthship is on the market in Tres Piedras, NM. 2bds, 2ba, 2,000sqft, $850k.

It has the garden along the side, as earthships do. I like that it's blue. Whoever took these photos didn't do it justice.

According to the floor plan, that hole is a cooling tube, but this one is the only one that has a door and is labeled "light."

There it is closed.

The rounded kitchen is nice.

This is a fairly small earthship. You can't really call this a bedroom. It's basically a sleeping nook with curtains for some privacy.

This one is a bedroom.

This is one of the baths.

The covered patio provides shade in the desert.

This swing looks like fun.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9-Shell-Ln-Tres-Piedras-NM-87577/2053544128_zpid/?

[lucydary]

Fan art of Alice Kuonji, from Mahōtsukai no Yoru ^^

[arnaerr]

''...one who welcomed a decisive end in combat over a slow decline'' 2hrs speedpaint ✦ prints ✦ patreon

[miga-yao]

“Pay tribute to the distant soul”

[salartmander]

Survive their gauntlet 🐸

My piece for Silksong bosses Stamp Rally I participated in at Spring edition of Warszawskie Targi Fantastyki!

[wolfheadghost]

Late night watercolor practice to end the day

[txttletale]

yknow i really like tom bombadil and a big part of that is how much he fits into LotR's framing narrative... like, it seems so obvious to me that tom bombadil is an important folkloric figure in a culture that the in-kayfabe "original narrative" passed through to become the version "translated" by tolkein, and in that light everything about him and his dissonance and his status as this strange disconnected interlude make such perfect sense, right? that at some point someone in a culture that expected tom bombadil to be in every epic story wrote or told this tale and felt obliged to include him, and by the arbitrary ravages of history that's the version that's survived to this day... to me it does so much for LotR really feeling like an ancient epic embedded in a specific cultural context and history...

[intermittentaphasia]

confused

[cetaceous]

TNA-400 Transmitting Antenna Soviet Space Telemetry Tracking Station NPI-10, Shkolnoe, Ukraine the antenna, built in 1960, was the first one capable of sending signals to spacecraft orbiting Venus and Mars. image credit: Jan Smith Photography Blog

[annexia]

Water reclamation plant influent screens

Chicago, 1923

Photo: Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

[worldsandemanations]

renato_nicolodi

[dateamonster]

started reading harrow the ninth. its so funny how the only thing i knew about this particular book going in was the perspective shift, mostly from people joking like oh second person perspective its her homestuck fanfic past jumping out lol which. whatever. but honestly even though it was a little jarring at first im reallyyy liking it as (per my interpretation as someone only a few chapters in) a way of conveying how bad harrow is dissociating, to the point where she is like a secondhand observer to her own story. it feels like this is reinforced by the introduction of the letters to herself and the ways she textually like compartmentalizes herself so that shes only ever experiencing/perceiving/remembering as much as she can tolerate at the moment. she is schizautistic for an amazing reason :)

[dateamonster]

not to get ahead of myself (im totally getting ahead of myself) but im rly interested in the aspect of harrows character and history thats like. children as property and specifically as an investment of the family, exacerbated by its relationship to nationalist and conservative christian interests, and how the greater that "investment" is the more traumatic the upbringing the more incentivized the child is to view the symptoms of their traumatization as unforgivable flaws the more compelled they are to let the wound fester the more their identity must fracture to accommodate the contradiction between the perceived self and however many internal selves it takes to reinforce it.......u get it.

[creekfiend]

I feel like I'm being stupid but I would like to ask for a clarification; in your tags on the selkie song post about do you love me, are you saying that Golde is dodging the question and/or giving an ambiguous answer?

well she does dodge the question for the first part of the song. and then:

this is not ambiguous: this her Golde saying that she doesn't have the freedom to know what "love" is or feels like beyond what she has with Tevye.

I know a lot of people find this song sweet or romantic and like that's... fine. It's not NOT sweet. But also: It's Tevye expressing The Selkie Anxiety about whether it's possible for his wife to actually love him given the social dynamic between them, and it's basically Golde saying: I don't have any other experience to compare it to.

Like ... it's. in my mind a strong indictment of the arranged heterosexual marriage in societies where that is the only access to material stability women have: it prevents a true and totally voluntary and uncoerced union between two people. Which is a tragedy, I think? Like it's a kind of horror! and I think that's why a lot of stuff like selkies/crane wife/etc exists because this leads to a sort of cultural anxiety about this disconnect: this woman is supposed to be your most intimate human connection, she sleeps in your bed and makes you meals and bears your children and breaks her back doing chores, and can you ever TRULY know that she's doing any of it out of love? Can you truly know that she wouldn't leave, if she had a better alternative? You kind of can't know! like the point is that it's an unanswerable question. And none of this makes Tevye A Bad Guy or their marriage Evil. it's like... baked into how their society works. I think it is understandable for some men to be really wigged out by this even if they're not able to quite out words to it or articulate what about the intimacy between husband and wife feels incomplete. But like, for men in this type of situation: there's a part of your wife you can't access because it is not safe for her for you to be able to access it. no matter what kind of man you are. because the consequences of your reacting poorly are too high stakes and she hasn't got any other options. and I think that lack of access is a stressful thing to navigate for men who can perceive it.

[creekfiend]

"If that's not love, what is?" <- "if love is a different thing than living with someone, fighting with someone, starving with someone, sharing your bed with someone, cooking all their meals & bearing their children, I wouldn't know, because I have not had the opportunity to find out"

Tevye and Golde's marriage is arguably the best outcome of the arranged marriage scenarios available to poor Jews in the shtetl, and it's still... this. right? which is not irrelevant to the themes of the overall story: all three of Tevye's daughters rejecting this same tradition, one by one, for various reasons.

[hypokeimena]

the original tags are on this post & read:

[witchofanguish]

I need to read Neo Akihabara Meipouchou because I read through the author's notes a few months ago with no intention of reading the story (and I was curious what the story's deal was) and came across this:

The first reason is that most of the LGBTQ+ characters are lesbians, I am a gay man, and I did no research, nor did I consult any lesbians, on the issues that young women face when coming to terms with their sexuality. Instead, I used the lesbian characters as vessels to convey my own experiences. I tried writing stories about gay men, but found myself mirroring too much of my life experiences in the stories. They ended up being too personal, and I felt uncomfortable publishing them. Because of this, I tried to limit the depiction of issues surrounding homosexuality to what I believe to the common experiences of gay men and women, which left room only for surface-level explorations of issues like prejudice and coming out.

I keep thinking about how he puts it, it's fascinating.

[merlizetdi]

Day 7 - Bellhart

[theartsofrust]