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I was so disappointed in the chili comic (the entire issue, actually). The Chili feature was incredibly poorly written, and the comic's premise didn't make sense at all. There must have been better ways to incorporate the Copenhagen landmark. It kind of just felt like pandering. I'm also upset I couldn't go to ArtBubble this weekend, so there's that.
Hm, well I think it was pretty swell since he was limited to only 4 pages. Not sure what else he could have done to make it better. As for the writing, I don’t have an English translation, so I have no idea what it actually says! I also don’t know anything about Copenhagen or it’s landmarks, so I wasn’t really thinking about that at all.
It could be poorly written, but the art isn’t lacking and the premise is quite cute, imo
Oh, it’s pretty cute, and I liked the art. Basically, the comic starts with Scrooge taking the train because “I don’t get free food on an airplane”, which is odd because 1) transatlantic flights are some of the only ones left where food is always included and 2) the main Danish railroad company has notoriously and recently removed all food aborad the train -- one cannot even purchase food aboard anymore. The Danish writer would have known this. I am willing to suspend a lot of disbelief because the comics usually take place in a fictional place. But if you place it, concretely, in Copenhagen on November 14/15th 2015, it needs to make sense in that setting. The Danish Donald Duck magazine has had its share of comics set in Copenhagen to up sales, and sometimes they work with fun parodies of local celebrities and so on. I’ve read a fun Italian-made spoof of Twilight, too. There’s room for spoofs and satire. But the writing in that feature was lazy and the jokes not very well executed. Liked the art and the premise. I am also so very happy there’s a Duck fandom. Thanks for an excellent blog.
I think this is accurate
Me before social events
Going bowling
Me: *sticks fingers in bowling ball* Bowling ball: daddy Me: wtf
In Denmark we call you a cod if you’re stupid, and a herring if you’re hot.
I loved this scene so much, because she doesn’t judge her friends when they say they’re not virgins, and she’s not apologetic about the fact that she is. I think there’s a tendency these days to assume that if a girl is a virgin, it’s because she buys into purity culture and is somehow hurting other girls by not having sex, when it’s like, hey, it’s okay if you don’t want to have sex, or if you do want to have sex someday, but you haven’t found someone you want to have sex with yet.
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“Underground”, illustration by Aleksander Labas, 1935.
in denmark, when a citizen turns 18 the state sends them a copy of our constitution and basic law
what, I didn’t get that????? :O
when did that start doing that? i feel overlooked now :’(
Never heard about that before.
Think they made it up tbh
i can’t decide if this pleases me or makes me sad. on one hand, it’s kind of a nice idea - though also kind of creepy, and wow, the bureaucracy needed for it -, but on the other hand, hey, at least i didn’t get overlooked ;)
i didn’t make it up though, my sister got one when she turned 18, as well as most others i’ve talked to… i don’t know why you didn’t get one tho
You have to be a Danish citizen, and they only started doing it in 2005.
http://jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE3358207/Grundloven+p%C3%A5+plads++i+den+unge+reol/
things you will see on a road trip across america
-so much desert that you will get scared
-seriously from california to new mexico is terrifying like it’s eight straight hours of pale red desert and the sky is so large that everything, even your car, even your hands, looks like a tenuously small and fragile diorama placed on an endless pale red table and left there to dissolve.
-a gas station that for some reason has large dinosaurs made out of scrap metal. they are 1000% awesome. sometimes they move. take a million pictures.
-a fruit stand that sells the best fruit you have ever eaten. later you won’t quite remember which fruit. strawberries, maybe? peaches?
-small black birds, subtly different in every state. some have gold eyes and some are a little iridescent and some are black from beak to toes. the sparrows they compete with for crumbs look exactly the same wherever you go.
-a completely empty rest stop. no one eats at the concrete tables. no one plays in the tiny strip of grass or gravel. you will find a small and beautiful stone.
-a hawaii license plate, somewhere around ohio. i still don’t know how they get the cars across the ocean. i don’t know why anyone would leave hawaii for ohio. i don’t know why anyone lives in ohio.
-an incredibly weird duck. you had no idea ducks could look so incredibly weird, and you wish you were still ignorant of how incredibly weird ducks can, apparently, look.
-a small folksy roadside waystation that sells fudge and incredibly tacky statues of eagles and wolves and cowboys. if you like fudge, eat the fudge from here.
-a lizard doing pushups. if you are particularly fortunate: many lizards doing pushups.
-approximately one gajillion starbucks shops. don’t bother counting them. it will make you angry.
-a storm somewhere around oklahoma, if you’re lucky. the clouds tower up in fantastic fluffy castles miles and miles into the air and are painted pink and gold and purple and the sky turns a dozen impossible shades of blue and when the rain comes down over your car it sounds like the world is ending.
-weird burrs will stick to your legs. you’ll flick them out of the car eighty or eight hundred miles from where their parent plant was grown, and not be sure whether you should wish the little hitchikers well or not.
-a dog wearing sunglasses with his head hanging out of a car window. this will be the high point of the trip.
-the world’s most depressing restaurant. you will know it when you wind up there and have to eat the terrible food, and listen to the terrible music, and look at all the listless waiters and want to tell them get in my car, for god’s sake get in, i’ll take you out of whatever crapsack little town this is that you can’t get out of on your own. but you won’t say that because it’s rude. maybe they have family here. maybe they even like it here.
-a painting of a sailboat in a motel located at least a hundred miles from any significant body of water.
-several genuinely hilarious postcards. buy them.
-a cat that will not let you pet it. this will be the low point of the trip.
-corn. so much corn you will get scared. who the fuck is going to eat all this corn?
-a small stream in some small woods and the light will come down perfectly and the water will be beautiful and the grass will be beautiful and there will be flowers maybe or the leaves of the trees are starting to turn gold and there are birds chirping and it will be so perfect you will want to stand there and stay forever and live in this little magical painting off the side of the highway and be some kind of highway druid. but instead, you’ll get bored after a while, and get back in the car.
if anyone ever wonders why i love america so much despite its many political and cultural flaws, this is why. this post explains it perfectly.
Yes but this barely even covers the east cost bc you will experience great things such as -a highway that is so desolate, all you can see are trees. You will have to pee, but the next exit won’t be for another 20 miles so have fun -bridge after bridge after bridge. Who even builds a road over all these rivers and streams and stuff? -so many deer. They just want to cross the road, but instead they will just stare at you and will be content to do for another half an hour -restaurant after restaurant painted with little lobsters wearing chefs hats, apparently cooking other lobsters -more trees. Trees everywhere. -what state are we in? It doesn’t matter, you’re in New England, you will be in a new one soon -you will learn to hate the beach because for some reason, people really like the ocean and have to get there, so you will be stuck in traffic for hours and hours just because it’s a nice beach day. It doesn’t matter how far you are from the coast. If you are in a state that touches the ocean, you will experience the beach traffic -A road that probably hasn’t been paved since it was made, so you make a humming noise just to hear your voice shake with the bumps - so many trees. All you can see are trees. Trees everywhere.
How Becoming A Bride Taught Me To Hate The Wedding Industrial Complex
I remember sitting at a lunch a year or two ago with my sister, mom, aunt and grandmother. My sister had been in a relationship for several years and was getting the standard henpecking, “Where is the diamond?” from our grandmother. Luckily for my sister, the conversation quickly turned to the expense of wedding planning. My mom voiced that she and my dad had always planned to give my sister and me each a chunk of money to spend on a wedding or to do what we choose. My aunt, who has children who are 10 or so years older than my sister and me, agreed that she and her husband had done the same: they had offered to either pay for their children’s wedding or to give them an equal amount of money. She then rolled her eyes and said, “But they wanted a wedding,” and my mother rolled her eyes in agreeance.
Flash-forward a year or so, and now my sister and I are both engaged. And, despite her eye-rolling performance at that lunch, and from witnessing her passionately planning my sister’s wedding for over a year now, I am convinced that my mother would hand me her broken heart along with my head if I said I wasn’t having a wedding. Immediately after my engagement, my mother was sending me emails with Wedding To-Do Lists and Pinterest boards… and I don’t even have Pinterest. My fiancé and I seriously considered going to the courthouse in order to avoid the stress and cost of a wedding. Ultimately, though, we decided that we love celebrating with our friends and family when they get married, and we’d love for them to celebrate our marriage with us. So, we are wedding planning.
As my mom had said at that lunch, she and my dad were incredibly generous to give both my sister and me money to put towards a wedding. If we want to spend more than that amount on the wedding, that’s on us; if we spend less, we are able to keep the remaining money. I continue to be floored by this extraordinary gesture and do not for a second take for granted how fortunate I am to receive such a gift.
With the goal of having a decent chunk of money left over after the wedding, my fiancé and I set out a rough budget for our wedding. From the beginning we knew that we would be eliminating aspects that are unimportant to us in order to try to keep the cost down wherever possible. We just want to celebrate with people we love, and plan to throw a fun, rather casual party to do so.
We first decided on things that we definitely wanted: a venue that could house the ceremony and reception, a dinner that is informal and tasty, an open bar for our guests, and a band for entertainment. While we know there are much cheaper (or even free) ways to go about Save the Dates, we are suckers for a good Save The Date magnet and are planning to do those in addition to invitations. We have set budgets for each of these items but gave ourselves a contingency to go over in certain areas should we feel it’s necessary, or should something unexpected pop up, once we get further along in planning.
We then easily cut out several items: flowers, a gown (for me), and suit (for him). Flowers can be incredibly expensive and are just plain unimportant to both of us, so it was an easy cut to make. My fiancé just purchased a suit to be a groomsman in a friend’s wedding, and so has a nice and nearly brand new suit to wear at our wedding. I am not a gown kind of girl and, despite how hard my mom is trying, I cannot comfortably go into my wedding day wearing a Cinderella dress that cost me two months’ rent. I have a hard budget I refuse to go over, and am confident I will find a suitable dress that I like, no matter how many $1,000 ball gowns my mother texts me pictures of.
While we are providing alcohol, we have decided to keep the bar to beer and wine to save almost half of what a suitable full bar would cost. We chose a venue that provides tables and chairs, and is beautiful on its own so will require less “dressing up” on our dollar. While we had our hearts set on a band, we found out that my fiancé has an old friend who is now a wedding DJ who costs literally 1/10th of what the band would cost. All of these are significant savings that are going to help us come in under budget, but don’t make us feel like we are cheating ourselves or our guests.
We initially had no interest in getting engagement pictures taken, but after a quick glance on Craigslist we found a local art student who was offering photo shoots FOR FREE! So we figured, “Why not?” She did an awesome job and provided us with photos that we look forward to putting on our Save the Dates and possibly using in Thank You cards. In addition, I am fortunate to have a good friend who is a talented designer that offered to do our invitations as her wedding gift to us, which is further adding to our savings in this area of our budget.
Finally, we are putting on the rehearsal dinner ourselves as a thank you for friends and family for traveling and helping us with our wedding. We decided to do a casual dinner at a local brewery, where it cost next to nothing to rent the space and where we can bring in our own food instead of using an in-house (read: expensive) caterer. We plan to feed and provide alcohol for immediate family and bridal party for a third of what it would cost to just rent a room elsewhere.
While I wouldn’t say that we are being “unconventional” or “nontraditional,” we get a fair amount of judgmental responses when we describe our wedding to those who have already thrown an elaborate or formal event. Even my mom, who knows my style and outlook, has had trouble accepting items I have eliminated and my strict adherence to our budget. Initially when I told her we would not be doing flowers, she took the news well and quickly moved on to the next item to be discussed. The next morning, however, I had an e-mail waiting from her (more to do lists!) which included hiring a florist, “Because the girls will need bouquets to carry and the boys will still need boutonnieres.”
That statement pretty accurately illustrates my view of the Wedding Industrial Complex now that I am ankle deep in it. If you let it, The Wedding Industrial Complex will really make you think that you need those things: the flowers, the diamonds, the themes, the tux, the ball gown. The boys do not need flowers pinned to their lapel for this to be a wedding; the girls do not need to carry bouquets for us to say “I do.” The only things that you need at your wedding are the things that you want. But if you, like me, decide to eliminate some or all of these things it opens you up to a world of judgement and quick, hurtful comments. Despite how hard I try to continuously brush these off and move on, they do begin to sting.
But then I ask: what is so different? There’s a bride and a groom, we’re going to have a (very short) ceremony, then provide dinner, drinks and dancing. No, we’re not having a theme or wedding colors. No, there’s not going to be butlered hors d’oeuvres or a ~themed cocktail, no two-foot tall floral centerpieces that will be trashed the next day. But there is going to be a wedding and, at the end of it, we’re going to be married. And that’s the only detail that matters to me.
(That, and coming in under budget, too.)
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