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[huariqueje]

Pools - Ann Goldberg , 2017.

Canadian , b. 1970s

Oil on canvas , 36 x 48 in.

[boxheadpaint]

[blogboestbelle]

Spring Fever😻

Adams Morgan, Washington D.C. 2024

[chirasul]

abandoned lot tumblr

🚗 studentDriver08 Follow

hey just gonna be goin back and forth for a while. hope nobody minds lol gotta get some practice in

🌱 x_randomplantmuncher_x Follow

goddamn have you guys seen whats just growin out of the cracks here?? if nobody else wants em i call dibs

💏 teenagecouple_in_fordtaurus Follow

fuck OFF everyone we're gonna make out for like 40 minutes. and then vape

🥤 abandonedRedcup Follow

rustle clatter clatter rustle clatter rustle

🛢 Asphalt_Professor Follow

Really excellent workmanship. See the way they've steadily graded the surface to reduce pothole formation? Shame it goes both unmaintained and unused. Fuck this wasteful society

💊 xXx-drugDealr-xXx Follow

anyone wanna meet under the old sodium vapor light and stand really close to me and then leave after 20 seconds

🐜 ant_colony Follow

yall mind if we just crawl around for a while

🏃‍♂️ shortcutjogging87 Follow

this will easily shave 43 seconds off my morning run, giving me a little more time to enjoy a bowl of oatmeal before work

🍄 colonyMushroom_02 Follow

bustin through!

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bustin through!

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bustin through!

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bustin through!

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bustin through!

🚛 illegalDumper48 Follow

just parking here for a while. nobody look at me alright haha i get nervous if you look at me. im not doing anything im just parked here. be cool alright

🎪 yearly_farmersMarket Follow

ANY fucking minute now.

[wrishwrosh]

re: tags on labor in historical fiction post, would be very interested to hear what the four examples you mentioned are!!

ok u know what that tag WAS bait, thank you for taking it. technically speaking these aren't works dealing strictly with labor in historical fiction, they are my four treasured examples of BUREAUCRAT FICTION (so not NOT about labor in history?) i was gonna try to make this post pithy and short but then i remembered how extremely passionate i am about this microgenre i made up. so sorry.

bureaucrat fiction is not limited by genre or format but criteria for inclusion are as follows: long and detour-filled story about functionary on the outside of society finding unexpected success within a ponderously large and powerful System/exploring themes of class and physicality and work and autonomy and what it means to hold power over others beneath the heartless crushing wheels of empire/sad little man does paperwork. also typically long as hell. should include at least one scene where the protagonist is unironically applauded-perhaps for the first time in their life-for filling out a form really good. without further ado:

soldier's heart by alex51324. the bureaucracy: british army medical corps during wwi. the bureacrat: mean gay footman/new ramc recruit thomas barrow. YEAH it's a downton abbey fic YEAH it's a masterpiece. i've talked about it before at length, my love has not faded. the crowning moment of bureaucracy is a long interlude where thomas optimizes the hospital laundry (this actually happens twice or maybe three times)

hands of the emperor by victoria goddard. the bureaucracy: crumbling fantasy empire some time after magical apocalypse. the bureacrat: passionate late-career clerk from the hinterlands cliopher mdang. i reread this book every winter bc it is as a warm bath for my SAD-addled brain and every time i neglect all my responsibilities to read all nine billion pages in three days. it puts abt 93% of the worldbuilding momentum into elaborating all of the ministries and secretaries and audits necessary to run a global government and like 7% into the magic and stuff. there are also several charming companion novellas and an equally long sequel that dives more into the central relationship between cliopher and the emperor which i highly recommend if you like gentle old man yaoi and/or magic, but there's more bureaucracy in HOTE.

the cromwell trilogy by hilary mantel. the bureaucracy: court of henry viii. the bureaucrat: thomas cromwell, the real guy. curveball! it's critically acclaimed booker prize winning rpf novel wolf hall! mantel is really interested in particular ways of gaining and maintaining power in delicate and labyrinthine systems like the tudor court, specifically in strongmen who use both physical intimidation and metaphysical manipulation to succeed. under these conditions i do think my best friend long-dead historical personage thomas cromwell counts as Bureaucrat Fiction (as do danton and robespierre in a place of greater safety. bonus rec.)

going postal by terry pratchett. the bureaucracy: fantasy postal service of ankh-morpork. the bureaucrat: conman, scammer, and little freak moist von lipwig. this is definitely shorter and lighter than the other three entries on the list, sort of a screwball take on the bureaucrat. but the mail is such a classic bureaucracy thing? who doesn't love thinking about the mail? also contains a key genre element which is a fraught sexual tension with the person immediately above the protagonist in their hierarchy, who is also their god-king and boyfriend-dad. you can't tell me vetinari isn't torturing moist psychologically AND sexually.

anyway sorry about all this. if you've read any of these come talk to me about them. bureaucrat fiction recs welcomed with the openest possible arms.

[songofsaraneth]

every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one

[songofsaraneth]

while i actually made this post back in May, since New Year’s is approaching here’s some of my fave suggestions from the tags if you’re looking for inspiration!

other favorites from the notes I didn’t get screenshots of at the time:

learn the names/species of local plants, bugs, and birds where you live (iNaturalist or Merlin the bird app help with this)

learn the rules to 10 new card games

steal the colored paint cards from hardware store paint aisles and use them to make art

try out every different apple variety you can find and rank them

similarly LOTS of people in the notes doing soup quests, and a few cheese quests also

similarly lots of people reading/watching certain amounts of media over the year, and tracking/rating it

track the number of cats/dogs/etc you see over the year

there’s plenty more in there too :)

[monroe-marilyn]

Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Amadeus (1984) dir. Miloš Forman

[ymutate]

Shari Blaukopf, Montreal

Naples in winter. watercolour

[soracities]

anyone else have a word they absolutely cannot spell as in no matter how many times you read or write this particular random word your brain just absoltuely will NOT play ball for me its "genius" and "parallel"

[ryebreadgf]

[meltingpotofinterests]

[blackpyrefly]

william the conqueror: i shall take england for normandy and become its king

william the concurrer: i agree

[yugimoto]

I accidentally stumbled upon this elderly gay man’s website last night, it’s been active since the 90s and has pages talking about his personal life as a gay cowboy it’s super interesting! he has webcams running on it that refresh every minute or so and pages about his experiences with HIV and cancer - he also has a massive archive of gay magazine scans (18+) from the 70s up to the 90s! 

[physiqueandfantasy]

!!!!!!

[archbudzar]

prints available here

[halfelven]

car conversations so good bc of removal of eye contact expectation. let us all learn from this

[leroleroart]

In honor of Disco Elysium's demo anniversary release, here is a recopilation of all the cameos of the videogame that made it into the netflix show Bojack Horseman´s final season! Hope you enjoy!

[maremote]

ib: crepuscularqueens

[obstlich]

what are you as a man doing with julio down by the schoolyard