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I was driving up to a friend’s for the weekend on Friday and nearly broke down in tears because I saw a billboard on the side of a southern highway. It had the same yellow background with red text that those awful, ubiquitous “Jesus Saves!” billboards have. I nearly missed it.

It said:

“Rejoice! God loves trans kids!”

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I have a photo of it! From a tweet I saw about this lovely sign the other day.

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Happy 30th Birthday Andrew VanWyngarden!!! (February 1, 1983)

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Voting ended onFeb 2, 2023

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Just as the edibles kicked in, I randomly discovered this incredible time capsule in the bad part of town.

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Departing

vatcher

pixel art can be so surreal because the really good stuff can sometimes just look like a really low res photo

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Parappa the Rapper Bandai Vintage Stickers Sheets Scanned by me

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𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐘𝐒

(October 2022)

photos by Zackery Michael

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stinkylittlegnome

My favorite Tolkien illustrations by Cor Blok in no particular order:

Bilbo and Gollum. Bilbo is the moon for some reason which is cool i guess

Smeagol and Deagol. I love the seaweed in the background, great attention to detail

Frodo serving Robin Hood-realness at his and Bilbo’s birthday party. Literally iconic

Isildur taking the ring from Sauron. Its great but I would like to see more of Sauron than just his hand, because I think he has the potential to look really cool

Pippin jumping into the bath at Crickhollow… no comment

Bilbo gives the Mithril coat to Frodo. Great poses, very stiff and awkward. I like it.

The fellowship. This one is a classic.

Gandalf and the balrog. Amazing

Boromir trying to take the ring from Frodo. I love the way he reaches for his sword, it looks very natural

Merry and Pippin and Treebeard. I like his legs and the fact that it looks like he’s wearing shorts.

stinkylittlegnome

The battle of Helms Deep. This one is just great for a lot of reasons. I like how the orcs in the background are just happy and sad smileys. Gimli is throwing a rock at them. I don’t know who the guy with a red hat is in the background, but I love him.

Gandalf, Theoden, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli finding Merry and Pippin in Isengard ft fucked up Shadowfax. Look at them smiling!

Sam, Frodo and Gollum. Frodo got rid of his Robin Hood hat which is a shame, but Gollum with a beak makes up for it.

Eowyn protecting Theoden from the Witch King. The fellbeast is a crow or perhaps a raven. Merry is hanging on the side, stabbing Witch King in the leg and he looks amazing

Mt Doom. Frodo looks very chill about getting his finger bit off, and Sam is just kind of floating there. I love everything about Gollum

el-smacko

Took me until seeing this… this… THIS to realize the ring had to be literally severed from both Sauron and Frodo. The doom of the world was averted by a heroic king in a legendary battle… and then again by a superlatively diminutive little dude.

Like, I never realized why I loved the phrase “as above, so below,” before now, and it is precisely because it expresses this really narratively satisfying asymmetrical symmetry. The actors could not be more different but the action, the act, even the acting, is the same.

As Above—Sauron and Isildur: So Below—Frodo and Gollum, literally regardless of your linguistic background you can HEAR the contrast in the mightiness and humility.

There’s also something to be said in that the nobler, higher, mightier, superior, more elegant Sauron/Isildur, the ring falls into a humble stream and perpetuates the conflict, but in the humble Frodo/Gollum, the ring falls into the huge fuckoff higher and mightier volcano and ends the conflict. Water and fire, hero and hobbit. Asymmetrical symmetries.

This Balrog also fucks so hard.

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Giambattista Valli | Spring/Summer 2023

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saltminerising

If every website that updated it’s UI rolled it back after users complained that it was ugly and a downgrade, the internet would look the same as it did in 1999.

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homunculus-argument

Pitbulls are so funny because someone really walked in like "hello, I would like the most dense fucking dog you can possibly manufacture. I'm talking 2x the amount of dog you can condense in the space of one dog. A neutron star of a dog. Compress that motherfucker. Make it stupid also."