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cherry valley forever
ojovivo
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
we're not kids anymore.
AnasAbdin
Cosmic Funnies
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
KIROKAZE
almost home
Origami Around
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dirt enthusiast
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Janaina Medeiros
styofa doing anything
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Kaledo Art
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Bookbinding: King Falls AM Fic Collection
I want to post some of my earlier bookbinds. This was my third bind, and, while the binding itself came out great, the text formatting had its issues.
This is a collection of the following fics:
And You Play Along by helloearthlings
If You're Drowning (Swim Down) by ryvves
Things Stay The Same by Teyla
Color By Number by Cassidae
KE HUY QUAN Empire Magazine (January 2025)
Genius at work here
Not gonna lie I fully expected the reveal to be that this hot dog was being delivered to A Creature
Unrestrained summer fun 😁
this must be such a delicate experience for a creature that can dive two stories deep and has been seen cliff diving into the ocean
Such a quiet and gentle experience for a megafauna cryptid that can headbutt a speeding truck and walk away It’s like seeing Godzilla in a kiddie pool
During a summer heat wave in Alaska growing up (yes it’s a thing), my dad had several sprinklers and a tractor sprinkler going in the yard. From the woods behind the house suddenly came two young babies and a very large mother.
They came directly towards the tractor sprinkler and sat right down.
My dad verrrrry slowly pulled the hose of the other sprinklers, and repositioned them in the backyard so they would spray grass under the shade of several trees.
Lo and behold, the mother moose got up, walked over to the water now pooling beside these trees, and plomped down. The two babies followed after and just fell over in the cool water.
Aro Books For Pride
Something I've noticed through the years, is that straight and queer people alike often have a tendency to forget about a specific queer identity: aromanticism.
Sometimes it's misunderstood, sometimes it's confused with asexuality, and sometimes it's ignored and/or erased.
This pride month, 23 authors have come together to gather their works and offer them at a discounted price to celebrate aromantic representation from all over the spectrum.
Whether it's to read them during pride month or the rest of the year, by buying this bundle you can get yourself tons of books while also supporting indie authors directly during a time when every little bit of support and community counts more than anything.
Get 23 books for $15, or get all 36 books for $20.
NOTE: this is a bundle that also incudes 18+ content intended for an adult audience.
If this is your first time hearing of the term aromanticism, or if you've heard about it before but are confused about what exactly it is and/or how it differs from asexuality, here's lots of cool resources (and also, my own beginner guide I made some time ago).
fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them
artistic rendition
All capital letters should have a leveled-up form
So far I’ve got
ladder letters: A, E, F, H, T
humpback B’s and P’s get as many bumps as you think they need
circle O’s, you just keep spiraling in til you feel like you’ve made your point
tree letters branch into smaller versions of themselves ad nauseum: X, Y
spider Q’s, so many legs
Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!
New alphabet dropped!
oh my god, it’s beautiful
(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )
well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)
But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it!
recursive
So i may have done a thing in an insomnia fueled jaunt into insanity.
find an .otf of the font here
This is how new alphabets get invented.
@vague-magnus-archives
@avatar-of-the-blank it’s your official font
THIS IS MY DEFAULT FONT FOR MY PC ACTUALLY.
I’m so tempted to start genuinely writing with this
Polynesians did also rely on a form of a physical map called a stick chart, illustrating the specific wave and swell patterns surrounding different island chains. These were particularly helpful during cloudy conditions when the sun and stars were less useful. To navigate the Marshall Islands, the Marshallese represented ocean swell patterns using parts of coconut fronds and shells as islands. Like a subway map, they don’t so much represent distances as they do relationships. The complex and decorative stick charts were often only understood by the person who made them. They were memorised before a voyage by the pilot who would lie on the floor of a canoe to get a sense of swell movement and often lead a squadron of 15 or more boats.
sometimes I am just amazed at how my ancestors managed to navigate the entire Pacific Ocean with these. knowledge that was nearly lost and is being re-learned.
AH! I'd heard of these, but this is the first time I've come across pictures.
Heard this stupid dad joke that killed me: Which Chinese word takes the longest to write? "Friend" (朋友) because it takes two months just to write half of it
Which character is faster, hot (热) or cold (冷)? Obviously hot, which has 4 legs to cold's 1
Why do Chinese vampires hate spicy food? They only drink 不辣的
Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]
i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge
This is one of the most powerful images I have ever seen, and I will reblog it every single time because every single time it brings tears to my eyes.
Anti-piracy ad from 2004
It's even funnier when you find out that they had to stop using this ad because they were using music they didn't have the rights to
apparently the font was pirated too. inadvertently, like it was an illegal knockoff of a licensed font and they didn't realize it, but still rules. house of cards
this ad was how i found out piracy was a thing you could do. lifechanging, really
This ad: YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR
Teen me, every time: YoU wOuLdN't DoWnLoAd A cAr
Teen me: ...
Teen me: Actually, that sounds fuckin' rad, I would totally download a car if it was possible.
Happy Pride Month
A couple of years ago, we (that is: Ladylark and me, hello, @kayanem) had a conversation inspired by a twitter thread, now deleted, and came up with words to describe a concept that we’d both noticed but not properly put into words before. That is, the idea of ‘concretes’. We’ve found ourselves explaining it a few times recently in conversation with others, because it’s ever such a useful concept, and now we’ve seen some of those people start telling others about it. This is great! Please carry on, so we can use it the way we do between ourselves as a quick shorthand, and not have to explain it every time.
So, for posterity, here is what it means:
The original inspiration thread spoke about different adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. When performing any given play, you might want to keep it fairly close to the original - though since there are limited stage directions, there’s always going to be some interpretation. Or instead, you might take more liberties, choosing scenes to keep or drop, merging or shifting characters. There are many different interpretations and changes you can make, and these can go in all sorts of directions. But you can't change everything all at once - there’s a limit you hit when it's no longer really the same play. All adaptations fall on a spectrum from closely faithful to loosely based; compare the BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice to Bride & Prejudice, to the Lizzie Bennett Diaries, to Pride & Prejudice & Zombies… They’re all adapted from the same source material, but how recognisable they are as ‘Pride & Prejudice’ is variable.
In any adaptation or transformative work (including fanfic) there are aspects that remain fixed, to make it a recognisable part of the continuum with the original. In fanfic, people often concentrate on retaining either the setting, or the characters. In the case of characters, there are certain aspects at the heart of what makes a character 'them', that have to be retained to make them recognisable across fic, whether AU or canon.
It’s generally the case that the author will choose some of these specific aspects of the character that persist across interpretations. These are the ‘concretes’, the essential structural essence, that make a character recognisable as that same person. Any character is made up of a whole range of these, and which ones people choose to focus on can vary. Further, these concretes can come from canon or fanon, and so also give you an insight into the community that has shaped that person's understanding and writing. So for example, an author writing Star Trek fic might consider ‘being half human half vulcan’ to be a fundamental concrete of the character of Spock. Or being driven by logic and controlling his emotions. Or being part of the starship crew. Or being in love with Kirk. Or all of these, or none of them, but other aspects that retain him as a recognisable character. Concretes are rarely physical traits, although depending on the character and how that character feels about their physical form, it could be!
Concretes are often character traits which are ‘non-negotiable’ to the author in representing who they are writing about. But sometimes an author might choose to intentionally discard a concrete and highlight that, to see what it does to other aspects of the character. That can become a balancing act; if you remove a part of the structural concrete, the rest has to be strong, otherwise it just turns into original fiction.
Looking at what character concretes an author chooses to retain in their fic is fascinating, for what it tells you about the writer, and their mental construction of the character, as much as storycraft. So, for example, in fic of Our Flag Means Death, is a concrete of Stede that he leaves his wife? Or that he likes flamboyant clothes? Is a concrete of Ed that he fancies a fine fabric? Or that he has an injured knee? Or that he is Maori? The choice to include or not include any of these is not right or wrong, but an insight into how the author mentally constructs and fills the box of character traits that makes up ‘Stede’ and ‘Ed’. If none of these are in that box, what else is there that connects this version of Ed or Stede with that we see on screen, or that might be in the reader’s mental box?
This highlights a final important point - that the other side of concretes is from the reader’s point of view. Readers sometimes complain that a fic is ‘out of character’. What they might actually mean is that the concretes that the author has considered fundamental to the character are not the same as those in the reader’s construction of what is vital to that character. Or it could mean that an author really has removed too many concretes, and the essential structure of the character has been too fundamentally changed. Everyone’s concretes, and everyone’s tolerance for them being shifted, are going to be different.
Concretes are just a really, really useful way to refer to the character’s essential defining components, and which of these elements it is possible or desirable to retain, change or remove across adaptation and transformation.
crafting a plane launcher with chopsticks by 小小折纸手工
i downloaded this god damn episode just so everyone could watch this fukkin clip
The feedback bit is inspired.
Keegan Michael Key’s quick thinking to get involved was GENIUS.
Most deserving mic drop I’ve ever seen, and he didn’t even have one.
brilliant
it's like he comes with closed captioning
