outer planet

[photoarchive]

Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Khumalo street where accident happened. South Africa, Johannesburg, Thokoza, 2023

[toskarin]

[darkcomedies]

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

[darkcomedies]

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

[cyberglittter]

kayja brown by cameron reed

[dioptre-hertz]

A War Symphony, by Chen Li, is one of the most beautiful and elegant poems I’ve ever read. It plays with words in a way that simply isn’t possible in any other language I know of. The first character that appears in the poem is 兵 (bīng). It means soldier. Then come the characters 乒 (pīng) and 乓 (pāng), onomatopoeia for “bang”, as in the noise. Notice that these characters resemble 兵 (bīng), but missing a “right leg” and “left leg”, respectively. The last character to appear in the poem is 丘 (qiū). It means “mound” or “grave”. Notice that it resembles 兵 (bīng), but missing both “legs”. It’s also worth noting that 乒乓球 (pīngpāngqiú) means “table tennis”. To hear Chen Li read the poem, visit the link.

[tgirlmaomao]

[at a party] so... you fuck wind turbines?

yeah, or i used to at least, its been a while. god i need to touch her again...

[ downs a concerning amount of fireball ]

have you ever thought about how crazy love is? you should feel my hands theyre suuuper soft, yeah like that... ive been thinking about monet a lot recently, him and cezanne are so often misrepresented can you hold me? yeah like that... i dont care for gaugin... i think malevich achieved something that he didnt understand he really couldnt understand... no its normal i cry all the time no reason yeah a little tighter is all... they keep making art wrong and im not good enough to fix it... im just not good enough...

[dropdome]

Greenfield, Iowa Tornado captured by Reed Timmer, May 2024

[tgirlmaomao]

my god. once you see a thing like this you will never forget the tragedy... Vestas V110-2.0 and V120-2.2 were very kind to me when i needed so it hurts even more and that such a thing is on the website too. and you things adding on... no good. you see her in a big scary storm and saying this is good for her? that she will be making great amounts of electricity? not even close.

wind turbines has her limits. if things grow too fast she will stop spinning to keep herself safe. you want her to keep spinning and spinning until death? yes, i see... i always knew how you feel about her. once she is no longer serving you have no interest.

not only are you evil evil cruel but you are so wrong too. wind turbines she can only make so much power in one moment. even if there is so much energy in the air she cannot take all of it no matter how hard she is trying. this is because of her generator. why does she not make it not like that? you are so stupid. more generator is more expensive and not all of hers can afford that. she gets the size generator she needs to do her best and her best is more than good enough. say something else in front of me...

remember also that wind turbines is not living alone. she lives with many girls just like her all around and is very happy this way. so if the day is windy for her her sisters have a windy day too and they are all making the most electricity. too much electricity because they are so good. she sends the electricity far away or maybe batteries but these things have limits.

it is clear some of you will never learn but i say all this no matter what. there is no reason for her to toil and struggle and die for you. she does not need to be hurting herself for success. she does not need success at all. we will love her no matter what. please...

[teratocrat]

catgirls are debating philosophy, statecraft and the sciences at the cat cafe. one woman climbs, unsteadily, onto a cat tree and begins reciting her new composition, in a poetic style that has recently come into vogue. the other catgirls appaud politely when she has concluded.

[thunderstruck9]

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944), Lila, July 1928. Gouache, watercolour and pen and India ink on paper, 49.9 x 32.4 cm.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Alvin is a raging narcissist and Simon and Theo are held back from their musical potential because of misplaced fraternal loyalty. It is no secret in the industry that Theo's vocals and Simon's lyricism carry the group but Alvin's attention-seeking behavior was exploited by their agent

[onelonelystory]

this is a DEEPLY unfair interpretation of their musical identity that valorizes public scrutiny teebeeache. There’s an urge towards overcorrection amongst critical voices that can identify the undervaluation of Theo and Simon as contributors and subsequently develop a narrative of antagonism between them and their frontman and to some extent that’s understandable, given how big his little shadow is. but the group has always been structured around performance and spectacle in a way that greatly benefits from the strong identity and stage presence granted by such a large personality

[parkchanwoohoo]

It only took 2 seconds on your blog for me to know I could dismiss everything you said. For those who don't know, red icons are a dogwhistle for crypto-Alvinists who, as we saw from the AatC Midwest Fan discord, sought to sow mistrust in the fandom by insisting on "nuance" while secretly attempting to downplay Alvin's public scandals and shit-talking Simon and Theo.

Tell me this, if the group "benefits" from the strong identity, why is it Alvin has to contractually bar Theo and Simon from pursuing solo careers? Why did he veto the proposed name change to "The Chipmunks" in 2013? Hell, if this is all about the group, as you claim, why is it that Alvin features on 67% of all AatC merch while only making up 31% of overall merch sales (and, as if the stats following his disgusting behavior during the 2022 Oscars is to be believed, dropping lower and lower to even 26%)? Admit it, Dave Seville's excuse that Alvin's presence adds any kind of shine to the group is a transparent lie to conceal the fact that Alvin's disastrous public life makes for cheap sales boosts.

[onelonelystory]

It always comes down to the personal attacks with the separatists! as if red isn’t at the core of not only the debut album’s visual identity but also thematically relevant throughout the whole project… but once someone has a favorite they start thinking everyone else must also be projecting signatures and solo-fan lockdowns onto their Chipmate accounts.

anyway solos love to bring up A’s “behavioral issues” as if he didn’t spend half of last year absent from promotions trying to smooth over T’s violent confrontation with the paps. (which, because I’m an actual Chipmate, I would never turn into some theo hate train. this is what I’m saying, the scrutiny and narrativization of their project has created the justification to infringe on their personal lives in a way that keeps getting cyclically encouraged by people who are in it for the sport and moral victories, not the actual music or the art. I think we can all agree that the real villain is the exploitation of their passion for the craft that roped them into a lifetime commitment to careers they were not prepared for and they literally cannot escape 😕)

[sappho-official]

op is literally a thimon truther so I don’t think we should bother listening to what they say anyways :/

[parkchanwoohoo]

That is not even fucking true? I shared ONE Theo/OC fic in the Theo Chipmates Discord and the author happened to have also written Thimon WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE. I made this very clear (with receipts!) in the Google doc. This is yet another example of a transparent smear campaign against Alvin-critical fans. A patently hypocritical act, BTW, given that you guys are literally constantly shipping Alvincest

[parkchanwoohoo]

Oh my god you guys

[retroactivebakeries]

knight slays dragon. dragon kidnaps princess. princess tyrannizes maid. maid sweeps, among other things, dirt. dirt dams water. water fills sinkdog. sinkdog splashes water on catgirl. catgirl eats mousegirl. mousegirl eats cookiegirl. cookiegirl crumbles all over bedgirl. bedgirl would be sooo nice to just stay in and go back to sleep even though the daygirl has dawned. daygirl ends knight.

[retroactivebakeries]

[the-nyanguard-party]

I was asked once by a stranger why we should kill everything. My response, which I hope you will find a convincing argument, was to kill this stranger.

MANIFESTO OF THE KILL EVERYTHING MOVEMENT

We believe in killing all humans regardless of what they have done.

We believe in killing all animals.

We believe in killing all plants.

We believe in killing inanimate objects.

We believe in killing abstract concepts.

We believe in killing language and meaning.

We believe in killing God.

We believe in killing all angels and devils.

We believe in killing all fairies and elves and duendes and goblins.

We believe in killing the Platonic Forms.

We believe in killing the spirits of the dead.

We believe in killing the cycle of reincarnation.

We believe in killing the laws of physics.

We believe in killing numbers.

We believe in killing space and time.

We believe in killing death itself.

We believe in killing belief.

We believe in killing lists and manifestos.

We publish this manifesto as a call to action. We begin and end by killing that which is easiest for us to kill. We begin and end by killing the Kill Everything Movement. It's over. It never existed in the first place and never will. It is what they would have wanted.

[sapper-in-the-wire]

TWO BILLION COMBATANTS

[manywingedmoth]

learning about military strategy

[regicidal-defenestration]

Whilst entirely useless as a Wikipedia article, this version of the one on If on a winter's night a traveler remains one of the funniest things I've read

[louchan]

Ikuhara's Episode Commentary: 32: "The Romance of the Dancing Girls"

As a child, I tried to run away from home several times. Usually it was for trivial reasons, like my parents throwing away a manga I loved or a plastic model. I wanted a place to belong. And I believed that place was “somewhere else.”

Everyone needs to hear someone say, “Nobody else will do. It has to be you,” sometime in their lives, even if it only happens once. Just once is enough. As long as you can feel sure those words were sincere, you can live through anything, no matter how painful.

She’s seeking those words, too.

[seldow]

For a single moment in time The next thought in their head was not their own but that of the other man. Nothing like this ever happened to any one they knew. It never happened to either man ever again.

[garadinervi]

Kiyoshi Awazu, Exhibition Poster, Kizashi, (lithograph), 1975 [MoMA, New York, NY; Gift of Ivan Chermayeff]