the crazy thing about doctor who is that it really is the best show ever for 30 seconds at a time. you never know when those 30 seconds will be. sometimes they happen multiple times in a single episode and sometimes you wait years and years and years. and the best part is those 30 seconds are surrounded by the worst show ever, which is also doctor who
there are a lot of people reblogging this again and tagging it with "wow.. this kind of looks like that one cup" again. you guys would not believe what "solo jazz" means
id love to hear about an interesting or strange building near you, if you have any favorites!! :]
Who likes modern architecture as much as I am. And I don't mean modern "modern" I mean something called "Nordic romantic style" or "Nordic Art Nouveau". Dunno why in russian it's called modern, ANYWAY.
This type of style is very prevalent in St. Petersburg and I have like a personal list of different buildings in this style that I like v much. Maybe someday I will write about "Tolstoy House", probably one of the most impressive buildings in the city.
ANYWAY, today we are the more basic bitches.
Lishnevsky and Kuperman's Tenement house
This guy not only exists as a very nice example of Nordic style, but also includes elements of the more old Slavic styles ("Architecture of Kievan Rus'" if using the Wikipedia title) it's more prevalent in small reliefs around the building.
Like this archway.
And this thingies.
This dudes are here too, but i don't think it's the Kievan style :D
You can olso see some stained windows in this building, but it's much less exciting than you think. Wow. It's white and yellow.
Insides are much more claustrophobic so we're not gonna be looking at it to much... But hey, it's includes an elevator! Who needs lamps and new paint job, if u have ELEVATOR.
when you go to a doctors office their favorite thing to do is tell you "okay check out at the front desk" when you're done. and the front desk tells you ummm you can just go! and you're like don't I have a copay? and they're like we don't know, we have to ask your insurance company first. and you're like well my insurance card says the copay is $30, can I just pay it right now while I'm standing in front of you? there's a card reader right there on the desk. and they're like nooo we have to send a representative on horseback during the next waning moon to meet with their claims adjusting associate director of benefits management and client services in the secret glade to negotiate. and you're like oh okay and go home. and you get twelve emails asking you to take a survey about your experience
AND THEN in eight months you start getting phone calls from unknown numbers and when you finally check your voicemail they're like Your Balance Is Past Due We're Going To Kill You (even though by this point you have forgotten that you ever went to the doctor). and so you go to your MyChart account and log in with your username and password and you have to reset your password for security reasons. and you get two emails that say Your Password Has Been Reset. Was This You? and you have to go find your phone and enter your two factor authentication code and then you have to select which location you visited and then you have to click through all the Reminder: Complete Your Health History Profile where they ask if you've had any new surgeries even though you definitely told the nurse about this at your visit and then you have to find the Pay Bills tab and your balance is $179.23 and you're like why is it so expensive I thought the copay was $30? and you download a PDF of the charges and find out that they charged a late fee of $15 a month even though that doesn't add up to $179.23 and you don't even remember being told you had any balance at any point and you could call a representative and ask about it but that would probably take at least half an hour and there's no way it would actually get rid of the charges. so you go pay it anyway and you have to go find a paper check to look up your bank account routing number because they'll charge you an extra 3% if you pay with a credit card and there's a fee of $2.75 for convenience also. and then you get three emails that say We've Received Your Payment! Thank You For Your Payment!
something different - a concept for a Volta do Mar skill portrait
Ok. So,
I'm usually not great at knowing what is and isn't common knowledge, but I feel like I need to explain this one. So here's my entire thought process with evidence.
Transcribing what Charlie is pointing at:
[Image 1: a photo of a clothing tag from Kim Kitsuragi's Aerostatic Jacket - official ZA/UM merch. The tag reads: +1 Hand/Eye Coord. : Airman Kitsuragi. +1 Volta do Mar : A feather on the wind.]
Official merch indicates Kim has his own set of skills unique to Harry's - Volta do Mar.
[Image 2: a screenshot of a wikipedia article on Volta do Mar. The relevant text reads: "Volta do mar, volta do mar largo, or volta do largo [...] is a navigational technique perfected by Portuguese navigators during the Age of Discovery in the late fifteenth century, using the dependable phenomenon of the great permanent wind circle, the North Atlantic Gyre. This was a major step in the history of navigation..."]
Volta do Mar is a navigation technique wherein a traveller strategically enters a current so as to be spit out in a desired direction. At first glance, the technique appears counter-intuitive since travellers have to veer far off-course to reach the "good" currents. More than just going with the flow, the technique requires navigators to be completely at mercy to the flow. A feather on the wind. And Kim does this quite a bit when he (reluctantly) surrenders himself to Harry's unusual Detect-niques.
[Image 3: a screenshot from the Disco Elysium wiki that reads: "Successful navigation of the pale relies not just on technical know-how, but intensive psychic preparation. Some of these tactics have been known for thousands of years, such as Volta do Mar, which resembles the process of writing poetry."]
Volta do Mar is an in-universe technique used to survive the mental toll from navigating the pale. So we know that this universe's version of Volta do Mar is also used in navigation. Mental navigation.
SO. Navigation. Pale. Feather on the wind. Kim Kitsuragi. The Volta do Mar skill has to look like an aerostatic. Like, it has to. And the model aerosratic concept art from the artbook [image 4] kinda looks like a face already so stealing that, thanks.
But how to visually tie that back to navigating the currents...
[Image 5: a screenshot from the Disco Elysium wiki that reads: "Their travel was made possible by the fact that, using a device known as a pale latitude compressor, it's possible to force dimensions on the pale, bouncing radio waves from one end to the other and shortening the path."]
So pale travel is made possible with an aerostatic and some radio waves. This sort of counteracts the "at mercy to the flow" description I used earlier as it gives the navigator more control, but this makes the comparison a better fit for Kim anyway, since he often does step in to set Harry back on course. So lets give the aerostatic creature a hand and have it physically shove the radio waves into a basic representation of the pale. I'm not a writer so heavy-handed metaphor it is 😎 (that wasn't a pun).
I don't necessarily believe Kim's skills present themselves as eldritch gremlins like in Harry's head, but what if.
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