See you, space cowboy

Also known as Tospringe(1) in other corners of the internet. Art, fandom, and personal stuff. Mid twenties.

[demoncity]

RESIDENT EVIL 2 REMAKE (2019) dev. Capcom

[nadielle]

[huariqueje]

Patio - Carmen Montero , 2024.

Spanish , b. 1970 -

Mixed media on wood , 122 x 100 cm. 48.03 x 39.37  in.

[arthistoryvault]

Clouds by Frederic Edwin Church

[nemfrog]

“Moon’s shadow on the earth, as seen from the moon.” A study of the sky. 1896. 

[blessphemy]

if you read about any biology you can quickly lose touch with what is astonishing and miraculous vs what is mundane, from animals that steal chloroplasts to become photosynthetic, to cloning technology being old hat, to trees that didn’t biodegrade for tens of millions of years, to naturally occurring lateral gene transfer between vastly different species, to the creation of gametes from adult cells, to the ability of some cancers to induce blood vessel growth, to desert shrimp that lie dormant for years, to the sensitivity of human touch receptors, to the fact that human hardware has a latent ability to see UV but their corneas block those wavelengths, to birds that echolocate and live in caves, to human skin being covered in enzymes that destroy RNA, to individual trees becoming genetic tapestries branch by branch, to life forms that gain energy from the electron potential of metals in their environments, to plants that recognize their siblings and adjust their behavior accordingly when growing next to them, to metamorphosis

which is to say. All of it is miraculous. and all of it is mundane. biology is Chaos vs. Order locking horns forever

[dearparentheses]

Paul Evans

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

Winter in jiuzhaigou九寨沟, sichuan province of china by 巧克力重度依赖

[sunbathe]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKLfD97BMYp/

[adz]

an Iraqi gamer's beautiful review of Disco Elysium

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[Image ID: Reddit post on r/ DiscoElysium from u/beaMoon2016 tagged "Discussion" and titled: Never thought I'd read a story that so effectively captures why life in a broken system is worth living

Body text reads: I grew up in Iraq. When people hear this in the US, where I now live, they usually say: "Wow...that must have been hard."

I mean? I guess? I've been a couple hundred meters from ISIS bombings. The government is spectacularly dysfunctional. You never know when the electricity might be on. Most summer days are 50 C. The tap water is salty.

And I also love the wonky little generators people wire everywhere. I love the weird shark statue with Saddam torn off the top. I love the guys fishing in the river despite the fact that it's greenish black. I love how excited everyone gets about the government building one tiny new overpass. I also love the random overpass sitting in the dessert connected to zero roads. I love hearing our friends giggle as my dad ribs him for driving a Toyota Hilux, a favorite of terrorists transporting weapons. I love the stray cats that carefully pick their way over the barbed wire on our walls. I love the people that run towards a bombing instead of away because they want to help the survivors. I love the guy who fixed my glasses with a wrong-sized screw because he lived through sanctions and doesn't need dumb things like correctly-sized screws.

But it's almost impossible to explain this to most Americans. They picture a normal Iraqi life and think it would be their worst nightmare. So I'm used to just not sharing that part of my life, or ever seeing it in media.

So this game totally caught me off guard. We're in a setting in between apocalypses, starring an alcoholic fuckup from a corrupt occupier-aligned police force, who at best might keep a couple people from dying in a gang war. It's pretty bleak. It's also incredibly fucking joyful.

Just the prose alone is so sincere. You can't write stuff this goofy, flowery, beautiful, dumb, and moving ironically. The writers clearly love words far out of proportion to how much they might be able to actually change fundamentally broken systems.

And all the characters, the worldbuilding details, the interruptions from Shivers and Esprit de Corps, hell, all the bits and pieces of your brain. There's so much attention and thus so much love everywhere in this game for humans and what humans do. Doesn't matter if they might all get shot, blown up, or wiped clean by pale in a couple years. Doesn't matter if they brought it all on themselves. Right here, in this moment, they are human, and so they matter.

I feel like this game gets why my life in Iraq was worth living. Even if a lot of my fellow Americans think the world sure would be nicer and simpler if Iraqis just didn't exist.

I thought I had signed up for a fun 20-30 hour diversion, not the feeling of being loved?! /End ID]

[hagofbolding]

I’ve reprinted this Smaug risograph a few times now and I’m really digging the HOT fluorescent orange on brown paper in this batch 🤌 These have been restocked and are up in my shop!

[weepingwidar]

Liu Xiaodong (Chinese, 1963) - Winter is Gone (2017)

[urgetocreate]

Oil on canvas

[huariqueje]

Wish - Mia Bergeron , 2025.

American, b. 1979   -    

Oil on panel , 11 x 14 in.

[f0restgreen]

The smell of the sun warming damp pine needles

[ledwinged]

[minecraft]

the Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains are just like “fuck it, we don’t have to put anything here, it’s not part of the main map we’ll finish it later”.

[minecraft]

unfinished zone vibes

[sailor-arashi]

It is one of the driest places on Earth and has not seen rain for nearly 2 million years

So the name is very very literal.  Wow.

[half-gamer]

Antarctica is my favorite continent to learn about because it’s almost like another planet. Parts of it get cold enough sometimes that it could freeze carbon dioxide right out of the air into dry ice. Mount Erebus is one of only five volcanos with active lava lakes on the planet but the rest of the mountain is covered in snow & ice. There are subglacial lakes hidden under kilometers of ice which remain liquid below the freezing point of water simply because of pressure, and there’s probably stuff living down there. We know surprisingly little about large swaths of the continent (which is bigger than the continental US and twice the size of Australia) simply because it’s so harsh and remote.

[feldfrog]

I used to be monotheistic. Until the great worm that I worship got cut in half