ruckus and hullabaloo

ruck·us - noun \ˈrə-kəs\ row, disturbance. hul·la·ba·loo - noun \ˈhə-lə-bə-ˌlü\ din, uproar.

[vedurnan-archive]

[landsccape]

[ruckusandhullabaloo]

insert my grabby little racoon-like paws reaching for my wallet

[astraldemise]

https://twitter.com/Kbearart/status/1433601390429892621

wizard

thats plectronoceras its the first 100% definite cephalopod in the fossil record, wizard friend :)

[astraldemise]

this website is a hivemind but gotdamn it sure is a squizard

[catadromously]

pondering the orb (wiwaxia) ...

[spacefinch]

SQUIZARD

[lilou-the-world-builder]

[sweetpuppea]

don't tell these people what happened to London in 1666

[westformiles]

Jokes aside, when straw is tightly compacted and covered in plaster/stucco as it is in building applications, it's approximately as flammable as a big phone book that's been tied shut with wire, dipped in concrete and allowed to cure.

Source: have watched a fire that would have destroyed a wood-frame structure in half an hour do only minor superficial damage to a straw bale building in the same time. (The fire crew were gobsmacked.)

[middlingmay]

There's an increasing trend to look back at traditional building types (like earth) and apply their principles to modern construction. Issue is, a lot of modern construction materials are incompatible with traditional materials and can cause deterioration. Traditional buildings, generally speaking, were designed holistically. The whole building worked together from foundations to roof. If one element breaks down, or is replaced with something that doesn't work with the rest of the building (for eg a modern cement render instead of a lime render in a lot of cases; poor ventilation features, minimal water shedding detailing common in modern buildings), it affects the whole of the rest of the building.

But some people may take that to mean the trad materials or approaches don't work. They do; they were designed to last centuries. It's why roofed castles and cottages still stand centuries later (my own house in 124 years old). The Arnol Blackhouse, although it underwent significant conservation, is about 150 years old. it's made using thatch, timber cruck frame (cuppils) and stane walls. And they're babies, architecturally speaking.

Historically, people designed and constructed buildings that worked with the environments they lived in (costal winds and salt spray; inland flooding; etc). Blows my mind how dismissive some poeple can be of historic construction; when I doubt a lot of the new builds being constructed are going to be there several centuries later...

[speranza-manor]

Just gonna copypaste what I said before to this thread:

Unironically yes they should. Straw is an incredible building material, I looked into it back when I first discovered the concept of sustainable buildings and it is seriously incredible how good it is. The UK also produces it as a by-product, so if they start using it to build housing that is basically eliminating that product just being trashed!

Building with strawbale-and-mud (and remember, "mud" is a category that includes cement, concrete, clay, and plaster) is called cob building, and if its properly compacted and sealed against moisture, and maintained properly, it's a really great passive energy saving material that is VERY fire-resistant, quake-resistant, and you end up with walls that are thick and covered in plaster like in old cottages, and that means HUGE WINDOWSEATS! And very low HVAC bills and a quiet house bc of how thick the walls are! Straw is also very much sustainable for that part of the world, it's a traditional building material and has many benefits! You want a hobbity cottagecore house? Look into cob building!

Honestly, building a house this way works better than modern timber-and-drywall, whether in a place like California's deserts or in a place like England's temperate oceanic or in Africa's wide variety of climates, and I'm glad to see cob being re-introduced to modern building!

[rathayibacter]

cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings

[rathayibacter]

grug: grug must paint every hair on buffalo in realistic detail

thog: grug can chill out, audience know what buffalo look like. just do one line like thog

[rathayibacter]

thog: cave painting world no longer look for photorealism. expression of form and movement is new frontier

grug: but then how will grug demonstrate high level of skill? grug have art degree

thog: any caveman represent buffalo as it is. grug must represent what it means to grug

grug: hm. this will challenge grug. but grug enjoy rising to occasion

[mikkeneko]

[orcbara]

being inside a slime or some kind of ooze is actually really enriching for adventurers and lets them explore new avenues of self expression so if you want to make an adventurer really happy you can throw them into one of us

[orcbara]

one of them.

[emiyahishere]

ⓘ This user is a malicious entity made of slime.

[fruitviking]

Take what you need and pass it on ❤️

Pizza

Cat cuddles

Large caffeinated drink

Nap

Bubble bath

Six new plushies

Walk in the woods

Howl at the moon

Vegetables

Freshly laundered blanket

TO GET THAT FUCKING THING DONE

I don't need anything right now/I just want to pass this on/See results

Voting ended onNov 20, 2024

[cungadero]

i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf

[thrice-the-nobling]

prev's tags are too good not to save

[fuzzyghost]

[aspiring-wildfire]

literally haven’t been able to stop thinking about this

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

I cannot begin to tell you how disorienting this is.

[dailyflicks]

BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (1999) dir. Jamie Babbit

[sosuperawesome]

guans_art on Instagram / Etsy

[taskmastersource]

Oh, Victoria…

[daintyus]

[valtsv]

[apocahipster]

me and my friend jessie are physically incapable of having a normal fucking conversation so things happen where we accidently end up rping a dude bro trying to hit on me, an ordinary woman who is not a snake

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[whitepeopletwitter]

[official-lucifers-child]

gen z: *blurry stock photo of lemons with the caption “lemn”*

[valiant-stars]

Here have this

[official-lucifers-child]

yup.

[dechart]

[loudestcrowdever]

I laughed so hard at this