The Blue Room

Python | 29 | he/they | Currently featuring a lot of The Terror (AMC), Sleep Token, and random things I think are whimsical and lovely

[pentanguine]

If I have an account on another website, I’m probably @ bookpython. Feel free to reach out if we’ve ever had an exchange, however brief

[shinonart]

This fawn-like creature is covered in ferns and it blends in the forest with ease.

The Dawn of Pangaea is a board game that takes place in the magical lands of Pangaea. I illustrated a bunch of different creatures that inhabit this world, each of them being a blend of some animal or other life form and aspects of the nature in Pangaea.

The Dawn of Pangaea is now live on Kickstarter! 🌲

Feel free to share this project with others that might enjoy it! The more people see it, the better. I'm not any part of running the campaign so if you have any questions about it please check out the Kickstarter page and direct any questions to the creators of the campaign!

Find me and my art elsewhere!  

[frckldmnstr]

[pentanguine]

However bad rent is where you live, at least you’re not in New York

[parkayquarts]

hbo max blocks screenshots even when I use the snipping tool AND firefox AND ublock which is a fucking first. i will never understand streaming services blocking the ability to take screenshots thats literally free advertising for your show right there. HOW THE HELL IS SOMEBODY GONNA PIRATE YOUR SHOW THROUGH SCREENSHOTS. JACKASS

[parkayquarts]

somewhere out there is a guy who meticulously takes screenshots of every individual frame of his favorite tv shows and then painstakingly etches each one onto a roll of film which he puts into his old timey projector and recreates the footage as a silent film with his own lavishly hand-lettered dialogue cards and original score that he plays on his upright piano and charges audiences one shiny penny a play. at last, big media has finally outsmarted ol' Zachary Zoetrope

[theheroheart]

PSA for everyone who doesn't know, explained simply

this is NOT because of blocking screenshots, it's because of HOW streaming sites use your computer's hardware to optimise performance, which means the thing rendering the video and the thing capturing your screen aren't the SAME thing. so they can't talk together.

you can fix this by going to your browser settings, searching for "hardware acceleration", and turning that off.

[team-thickness12]

This also fixes screen sharing to other screens. It has been GODSEND

[lucarleigho]

type this in the toolbar to find this setting in firefox: about:preferences#searchResults

[pentanguine]

Why is it apparently so hard to make protein bars that taste good

[salmakiis]

so rain down on me

[pentanguine]

Fruit Quest Part 2

Cantaloupe: Fine. Sort of like a slightly fancier watermelon. A lot like an apple or a pear for me, where if someone told me I *had* to eat this I could without gagging, but not really enjoyable. 4/10

Dried mangoes: Surprise contender that my friend brought on our picnic lunch. Very, VERY sweet, so sweet I puckered and thought I might cry. Good mouthfeel though, so surprisingly nice to eat in very, very small bites. 6/10

[doubledecks]

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

[queeranarchism]

(Why does this belong on my decidedly not-fan-fiction-related blog, you ask? Because this quote illustrates very well how assuming that anything where people put sex in it is debasing it, objectifying it, or simply ‘sexualizing’ it, etc. often misses a lot of the real picture of why people do that thing.)

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[killyridols]

unknown title by 潘 英豪 (pan inkhoo), 2024, unknown materials, unknown dimensions

[afterthemovie]

rupture by kate kretz, 2018 (crowdsourced grey hair from people who have experienced profound loss hand embroidered on cotton)

[sashayed]

In Perpetual Spring

Gardens are also good places to sulk. You pass beds of spiky voodoo lilies    and trip over the roots    of a sweet gum tree,    in search of medieval    plants whose leaves,    when they drop off    turn into birds if they fall on land, and colored carp if they    plop into water. Suddenly the archetypal    human desire for peace    with every other species    wells up in you. The lion    and the lamb cuddling up. The snake and the snail, kissing. Even the prick of the thistle,    queen of the weeds, revives    your secret belief in perpetual spring, your faith that for every hurt    there is a leaf to cure it.

Amy Gerstler (b. 1956) Bitter Angel: Poems, 1990

[pentanguine]

I’m on a quest to Try More Fruit this summer, as a lifelong hater of fruit who’d like to change my ways, and unfortunately cranberries are a miss. They smell and taste like feet and I couldn’t even swallow one without gagging

Fruit: 1, Python: 0

[the-forest-library]

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun or air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

My Antonia - Willa Cather

[polkadotmotmot]

Eric Roux-Fontaine - Mysterious Hotel, 2025 - Oil on canvas

[salmon-n-hazel]

Dandelions