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[hurryglow]

A new fanart. This is my grafic description of "A Happy Family Agreste". After all the pain, battles and sacrifices, they have their happy ending anyway.

[samssimsarchive]

[oxbowreality]

I’m reading a violent but incredibly well-done webcomic, and every page is just me playing Russian roulette with my triggers, like a fool

[doom-dreaming]

Blue Team Beach House: Overview

So you're a supersoldier in the UNSC and you're being ordered to take mandatory R&R and for the first time in his life, your squad leader doesn't finagle some way to avoid this. But you're sick of being shipped off to places that aren't built for you (because there was that one time you broke a whole couch) but the UNSC hasn't gone out of its way to make a vacation resort for Spartans (because when do they ever go on vacation, right? Ha.) And you're sitting on a lifetime of hazard pay, more money than you know what to do with, but hey...actually, this time you do know what to do with it. You're gonna build a house on the prettiest white sand beach in the galaxy, specifically for you and your Spartan siblings because if the brass is forcing you to take some shore leave, then goddamn it, you're gonna take that literally.

Welcome to the (actual, official) series of Blue Team Beach House posts. If you made it through that whole opening paragraph and still don't know what I'm talking about: I want Blue Team to fucking relax, so I imagined a (beautiful, unrealistic) timeline in which they'd be able to custom-build a vacation home to use when they need a break (and to eventually retire to? Like I said, unrealistic).

The idea is that they'd do their best to tailor it to their own preferences and truly make a place designed by and for Spartans. And then I started thinking about this so hard I had to build the dang thing in Sims. So that's what this is. It's me showing off pics of a fun beach house build and bullshitting about why the architecture and design are (mostly) Spartan-Approved(tm) based on what we know about them from Halo canon. And if you're wondering, yeah, I do things like this for fun more frequently than you'd think.

CONSIDERATION 1: LOCATION

Spartans are always thinking strategy. They can't turn it off. So naturally, if they were making a place where they'd be relaxing - somewhere they'd have their guard down - they'd want it to be naturally, geographically safeguarded, in case there were an attack (hey, you never know). What's better than a narrow strip of land from the front and a reef in the back to discourage access from the water? They wanted to have an anti-aircraft missile system on the roof, but their design team said no. They settled for solar panels instead. (Note that the roof edging the third floor is also made of solar paneling. We know green energy is standard in the 26th century.)

CONSIDERATION 2: FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND EFFICIENT USE OF SPACE

They might have the funds to make this a reality, but that doesn't mean they're going to build superfluous balconies when they can just use the roofs of the floors below for deck space. It keeps things compact without being cramped.

Also, see those pretty wood slat facade pieces on the corners of the first and second floor? Not only are they a nice design touch, but they're also makeshift ladders. Need to get to the roof very quickly from the outside? Climb the fucking walls. Let's be honest, they'd do this for fun.

CONSIDERATION 3: OUTDOOR SOCIAL AREAS

It's canon that John is a little claustrophobic. Yeah, he can fight it off, but he doesn't like spaces that are too small for him. I'd venture a guess that this is common for most Spartans, just by virtue of them being nearly seven feet tall. That said, given the options, I think they'd much rather be outside than inside, even if that inside was built to their standards of comfort. What's better than a nice big porch to hang out on and enjoy the gorgeous tropical weather?

Glass railings keep their view open and unobstructed - great for defense (again, you never know). The furniture is sturdy, either sculpted metal or durable wood (with the exception of some pieces that don't have to support a Spartan's-worth of weight). These themes will show up in other areas of the house, too.

Oh, and the vertical wall planter in the corner? Strawberries. What's better than a self-sustaining food source to cut down on trips into the city for groceries? This is only the tip of the iceberg on edible plants, by the way. Just wait.

Things stay well-lit at night, because even though they can see near-perfectly in the dark, it's easier to relax when you know what you're looking at. And while those palm trees are nice landscaping, they're also great for climbing (and coconuts).

[purplehazinggirl]

It was a bad move @taylorswift and you should have known

I have been a fan of yours since 2011 and everytime I saw a bad thing about you on the media, I tried to avoid discussing about it because I defended you until I couldn’t.

Even my mom calls me out sometimes asking what have you ever done to repay my unmeasured trust and defense and I always ignored her.

You came to my country - Brazil - once, for a pocket show, and after that you just completely forgot that you about us, ignoring the fact you have a (very) solid South American fan base. Go saying that only 300 fans that were picked by you to the secret sessions are good enough to know the little details about your new song (which we have been expecting since you “announced” that you were taking some time off 2 years ago) means that the rest of your fan base is not important enough to you.

Yeah, that was a bad response and you should have known.

[bedtime-onceler-blog]

hEY DAD! hOW YOU DOING TODAY? // gIVES YOU AN APPLE

I feel very... at ease today.

Thanks for the food. I'm not sure if I'll be able to stomach it, but I'll die trying.

[elaboratebeauty]

Quotes about confusion

“When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.”-- Joni Mitchell

“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.”-- Henry Miller

“Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.”-- Michael J. Geib

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!”-- William Shakespeare

“The attempt and not the deed confounds us."-- W.S.

“Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.”-- John Milton