"what came first: the system or love?"

(Sayaka Murata, Earthlings) they/it/any neutral pronouns, 20

[pjharvey]

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

[mmgceramics]

Carved Palmette Mug - Etsy Link

[mmgceramics]

This thing was a beast to paint, but I’m really pleased with how it came out. I got a bit experimental in certain regards (grape vine pattern and the sea, mostly), and I think it paid off!

[mmgceramics]

This is the culprit for the unplanned pattern on this pot’s foot. Ended up being a happy accident, but this bowl has its own issues, namely some drops of glaze on the inside, an inclusion that burned out (and took some underglaze with it), and the exterior of the bowl came out very groggy and brownish. I’ll hang onto this one :)

Also, if anyone wants anything custom made before the holidays, now is a very good time to let me know. Pottery is a slow process, and I make it even slower with all the decoration 😁

[onceiwashere]

i like when one of those daily posts about how watching challenging adult media for grown ups and adults with good reading comprehension and mature critical thinking is good for your critical comprehension and thinking and reading, understanding even, but if you only watch baby shows like steven hotel and barney your brain will wither your reading comprehension critical thinking will suffer and your body will start to smell worse and if you cant handle the dark, challenging, difficult, complex adult media for grown ups that I like then you're probably a bad person who got bad grades in high school etc. basically a lot of self-aggrandizing about watching incrementally better tv and reading incrementally better books than some other people on the watching books and reading tv shows website, we've all seen this, and then you go to OP's blog and the mature difficult challenging thought provoking, dark, provocative media for adults theyre talking about is House MD

[lanfan]

Hey yall I just wanted to come on here and bring some attention to what’s happening at the detention center (really a concentration camp) Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. There is a hunger strike going on right now to protest the abhorrent conditions within the camp (allegations of torture, maggots and other bugs in the food, etc) and protests happening outside the camp. ICE is not allowing any politicians to come in (as is their right) to see the conditions of the camp. I would urge yall to do your own research, but if you want videos of some people who are actually there, here are some tik tok accounts you can go follow: @ bethanyquilter/ @ whoiskingtrivv/ @ Status Coup News/ @ L.A. TACO

And here is a video explaining what’s going on in more detail than I provided.

With everything else going on in the world, it can be hard to keep up with stuff going on at home, but ICE is still out here terrorizing innocent people. We must keep our eyes on them, and keep fighting.

Feel free to add more sources or info to this post, should you have any.

[tsscat]

I found this linktree here that has a master list of ways to help the detainees inside Delaney Hall: https://linktr.ee/SupportOurFamilies

SupportOurFamilies | Linktree

Please support immigrant families by donating to the GoFundMe's below and purchasing supplies via Amazon Wishlist to support detainee visito

I have heard that protestors outside need medical supplies, but I can’t find the best way to provide that if you are not nearby.

[thebleeding-heart]

their needs are changing rapidly, they mostly need Sudecon wipes and gas masks, last I heard, but the only way is to bring them directly there. for the most part they are asking people to join them there and hold the line, if possible. next best thing is to donate and call NJ reps to demand an end to the detention and torture!

[spider-artdump]

[smsomah]

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Cormorant fishing is an old tradition in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish.

[garaks-padded-bra]

Something bad has been happening to me lately. I keep saying “oh a puppy” when i see something i find cute. I was on a walk on the cliffs and I saw a slug and said it because i thought I was alone, but then an old lady on her walk teleported behind me and said “Im afraid not…”

[oldenglishtextposts]

aht efel hæfð gelamp a me niwane. ic cweðe "la hwelp" hwanne ic locie aht leoflic. ic eode on glofe and ic locode snegel and hit cwæð forþam ic gewende þæt ic wæs æne, ac þa eald cwen in hire færelde gelende bæfte me and cwæð "ic ne swa gewenie "

[garaks-padded-bra]

^ time travelling imp transcribing my post onto parchment for the town bulletin of their fave anglo saxon settlement, Rendlæsham, in 732 AD

[ladyofmelk]

The Satyricon (1969) | JOYRIDE

[tomorrowillbeyou]

ethical monogamy has never been practiced

[peliginfields]

thinking I might change my username

hecticgeometric -> peliginfields

[decomposedmaw]

Pixel post dividers for everyone! It's not much, but feel free to use them if you'd like. I don't know the ideal size for these, so let me know if they're too tall. I can make them a bit shorter next time.

[guelwaar]

like in general making care work dependent on sentimentality is a fucking bad idea lol, to some extent you can't really prevent the fact that people interacting with one another will probably feel some type of way about each other but esp when you are taking on a role where people depend on you for basic bodily care tasks, necessary medications, proper performance of potentially dangerous procedures &c it's not actually about YOU or your feelings at all & the more you make it into that type of ego trip looking for self satisfaction because youre soooooo self sacrificing and empathetic and you love your patients sooooooooo much -- the less you actually see & think about & serve those patients. never confuse personal fondness for evidence you are doing right by that person -- completely irrelevant & not at all protective against or mutually exclusive of abuse. people who are disliked or dislikable also need care! you signed up to provide it to them. if you cannot do bear to do that and do it fucking well then find a different job

[toskarin]

What pieces of media are in the cool, thematically trippy version of the Elder Scrolls that you post about sometimes? The actual game sup through Morrowind, presumably, but maybe not the tie-ins, parts of the MMO, I guess, and some fan fiction?

so first and foremost, you can actually get more of it in Morrowind by installing Tamriel Rebuilt, which is a lovingly crafted project that more or less continues development of the game based on the old concept art and lore text that didn't make it into the game, along with contributions by the artists on the team who want to continue that spirit. it's basically a "full mainland expansion" made as a multi decade collaborative WIP. it's lovely!

adjacent to Tamriel Rebuilt are the Project Cyrodiil mods, which focus on recreating the province of Cyrodiil based primarily on how it was described before Oblivion, which means it's also quite a lot of fun. Skyrim: Home of the Nords also falls under the umbrella project here, being Project Tamriel

beyond that, the Imperial Library documents a lot of the ephemera and "unofficial source" lore, which is the part of this that's not always conveyed. there's forum roleplays between the writing team, interviews, lore texts that didn't make it into the games, and unofficial canon written by team members to continue the story of Morrowind outside of the context of the game as a franchise entry

and of course, there's C0DA, the ending

[toskarin]

if you want a specific direction to start poking on the library, I recommend reading whatever catches your interest by Goodall and Kirkbride, both of whom are kind of noteworthy for just how much they liked (and still like) to write things out. arbitrary recommendations follow.

Kirkbride - What My Beloved Taught Me

Goodall - Games and Pastimes of Tamriel

Kirkbride - Shor, Son of Shor

Goodall - Skyrim In the New Era

Kirkbride - The Five Hundred Mighty Companions or Thereabouts of Ysgramor the Returned

Goodall - The Soft Doctrines of Magnus Invisible

Kirkbride - Et'Ada, Eight Aedra, Eat the Dreamer

Goodall - Six Views of the Egg of Time

Kirkbride - Magna-Ge Pantheon

Goodall - The Menagerie

Kirkbride and Peterson - The Xal-Gosleigh Letters

also be sure to check out the concept art!

[ymutate]

A Maya ceramic figure with bird mask. 550–900 CE, now on display at the Museo de Sitio de Palenque 'Alberto Ruz L’Huillier', Mexico

[70sscifiart]

Gianni Maiotti, The Explorer of Worlds, 1980