Thoth of North

An university student trying to understand anthropology and related fields. Sociocultural anthropology educated, but interested also in linguistics.

[nobrashfestivity]

Seiichi Niikuni (新国誠), Visual Word Poems, 1969-1973

 was one of the foremost pioneers of the international avant-garde concrete poetry movement, creating works of calligraphic, visual and aural poetry. He is recognized as one of the most important poets of recent times in Japanese and German textbooks.

[thingsfromthedirt]

Rolling Homes: Handmade Houses on Wheels by Jane Lidz (1979)

[slopforhogs]

Juvenile collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu/Pecari tajacu) bottle feeding

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[rongzhi]

Work hard, play hard

English added by me :)

[redlipstickresurrected]

Archetipical aka Lorenzo Spatocco (Italian, based Rome, Italy) - Lo Specchio Celeste (The Celestial Mirror), 2020, Digital Collage

[depsidase]

[weepingwidar]

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Tsartlip/Syilx First Nations/Canadian, 1957) - Killer Whale Has A Vision and Comes to Talk to Me about Proximological Encroachments of Civilizations in the Oceans (2010)

[mybeingthere]

Miao Jiang 姜淼

Chinese, b. 1981

Born in Jilin, China, Jiang Miao specialises in contemporary Woodblock Printmaking. She graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a bachelor's and master's degree in Printmaking. Now she is teaching at Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Miao Jiang 姜淼 - Art & Prints for Sale | Artsy

Explore Miao Jiang 姜淼’s biography, achievements, artworks, auction results, and shows on Artsy. Chinese artist Jiang Miao is a diverse artis

[toyastales]

Mosaic from the floor of Otto Wagner's former residence, Vienna, Austria

[hardcore-like-eezo]

So somehow I missed that there was an official Mass Effect cocktail book a couple years ago, because when I hear about ME cocktails, I still think of (about to hella date myself here) the SaveGame ME squadmate cocktails from 2012 (looks like their website's been inactive since 2020).

Fortunately, I saved a copy of the original post (and have tried them all), so for both posterity and some free drink recipes, here they are, starting with Kaidan (the rest under the cut):

1 1/4 oz Bourbon (we recommend Maker’s Mark)

1/2 oz Spiced Rum (we recommend Captain Morgan’s)

1/4 oz Triple Sec

Optional:  Ginger beer to fill

1 oz Vodka (we recommend 42 Below)

1/2 oz Chambord

1/2 oz lemon juice

Lemonade to fill

1/2 oz Scotch Whiskey

3/4 oz Blue Curacao

1/4 oz lime juice

Champagne or Lemonade to fill

And add Blueberries for that extra Liara-ness

10ml Jagermeister

10ml Blue curacao

10ml Mountain Dew

1 oz Parfait Amour

3/4 oz Mandarin Liqueur

1/2 oz Vodka

Lemonade to fill

Dust the shot glass with curry powder then add:

10 ml Bourbon

10 ml Spiced rum (we recommend Captain Morgan's)

10 ml Ginger ale

And finish with a healthy splash of ground pepper on top.

1 oz Bailey's Irish Cream

3/4 oz Kahlua

1/2 oz Sake

Hot or Iced Coffee to fill

1/2 oz Sambuca

1/2 oz Blue Curacao

1/3 oz Strawberry liqueur

Fill with Red Bull

Coat the shot glass with Habanero Tabasco Sauce then layer:

8 ml Vodka

8 ml Whiskey (we recommend Jack Daniels, of course)

8 ml Bourbon

6 ml Red Bull to fill

1/2 oz Strawberry Liqueur

1/2 oz Mango Liqueur

1/3 oz Melon Liqueur

1/3 oz Vodka

Pineapple Juice to fill

Coat the glass with chocolate sauce in a spiral pattern, then add:

1 oz Bailey's Irish Creme

1/2 oz Malibu Coconut Rum

1/2 oz Butterscotch Schnapps

Fill with Iced Chocolate

Then add crushed cookies, chocolate sauce and sprinkles on top

1 oz Tequila (the older the better)

1/2 oz Hpnotiq

1/3 oz Parfait Amour

Fill with Pineapple Juice

1/2 oz Glenlivet Scotch Whiskey

1/2 oz Vodka (try Devil's Springs if you are game, but be warned that it is VERY potent)

3/4 oz Coconut Rum

1/2 oz Melon Liqueur

1/2 oz Blue Curacao

Pinapple Juice to fill

Drizzle honey down the side of the martini glass, sprinkle brown sugar around the side, then add:

1 oz spiced rum

3/4 oz butterscotch schnapps

dash of angostura bitters

Milk to fill

1 oz Mango liqueur

3/4 oz Mandarin liqueur

Fill with Strawberry and Lime Cider (we recommend Rekordelig)

1 oz Champagne

1/2 oz Coconut Rum

1/3 oz Blue Curacao

Dash of Lime Juice

Lemonade to fill

1 oz Cherry Brandy

3/4 oz Scotch

1/3 oz Lemon Juice

Coke to fill (we used Coke Zero, because Javik puts up with zero bull)

1 oz Havana Club Dark Rum

1/2 oz Chambord

1/3 oz Raspberry cordial syrup

Dash of lime (or alternatively a lime wedge if you prefer)

Fill with cranberry juice

1 1/2 oz Hpnotiq

1 oz White Wine

1/2 oz Champagne

Splash of Blue Curacao to colour

Fill with Lemonade

[novelistparty]

Baby Globe, Wikipedia’s 25th birthday mascot

[untitled92455]

[pagewoman]

Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

[cassieoh]

Medieval garden vase, ready for the kiln!

I found a botanical manuscript and was possessed

Im going to be listing a few pieces from this series for sale on kofi soon, so give me a follow there if you want to be notified!

[cassieoh]

Good news! It came out amazing!!

Video turnaround and more angles here!

[cassieoh]

Just left a miniature version at the studio for firing!

I also underglazed a bowl I threw ❤️❤️❤️

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

“she should be at the club” well i should be in the green house party paintings by salman toor

[xiaohongshu-for-you]

[overlordraax]

#beat it played on traditional chinese instruments #and saxophones

I was gonna like, describe the video but prevs tags already did that. Yeah, that's the video. It's definitely fun.

[the-cassquatch]

Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

[dj-of-the-coven]

Long collection of resources under the cut.

You're right that the internet is smaller than it used to be, but there's still some cool stuff left in the corners. I'd recommend checking checking out Neocities if you haven't--it's an independent web hosting platform like Geocities of the old web, and there are hundreds of interesting and active pages discoverable both through their search function and through web buttons (links attached to small pictures with the title of a website) within the websites themselves. Here are three examples of web buttons you may find in link pages:

Most Neocities websites have link pages or button collections with anywhere from tens to hundreds of these. Don't be afraid to explore!

If you're looking for something more like a search engine, I can point you towards Marginalia. It's not a particularly smart engine, but it's perfectly usable if you've ever been taught to use search engines back when they were mostly run through keywords instead of full sentence comprehension. There's also an "about" and "tips" section on the front page with more information. The algorithm of Marginalia can be filtered by the user to allow, disallow, or require JavaScript depending on your needs, plus there are filters designed specifically to prioritize web 1.0 sites or mostly text-based ones. It is possible to search for modern websites with it, but it can return websites from just about any decade (since the invention of the web, obviously) so long as they contain the information you're looking for. For example, here are some random interesting sites I've found using Marginalia:

Native Languages of the Americas: Native American Cultures

BASIC HTML COMPETENCY IS THE NEW PUNK FOLK EXPLOSION!

Earthbound Text Labs by Bill Eager

The possibilities for discovery are truly endless.

Now you might want to know about directories. These make browsing for websites easier, but require you to read through and judge which ones to visit, as there aren't algorithms ranking the sites besides the whim of whoever coded the directory. Some of them have themes, others don't. Here are two that I've used:

Yesterlinks Directory

Ichigo Directory

Directories can be harder to come by just by surfing the net, but they aren't impossible to find. Many personal websites have their own directories of interesting sites hidden within them.

Webrings are similar to directories, but are actually more community-based. You have to register your website to be a part of a webring, usually by sending an email to whoever runs it and meeting some kind of entry criteria. For example, my personal website used to be a part of a webring called Sweet Dreams, which was for websites that heavily utilize color palettes and images of cute things, particularly sweets. Webrings will give you access to a widget upon entry that allow visitors and other members to browse between the registered websites in a massive ring, ergo, where the term gets its name. Webrings can have any theme or criteria for entry. If you can make a website about it, you can find a webring for it.

Now, you might be wondering about social media alternatives. I can't offer much, but I can nudge you towards the idea of forums. Here's one I found that could really use some traffic. I also browse a bit on MelonLand forum, which is actually closed right now--it's currently closed on Mondays--but on any other day of the week, you can find a fun community there dedicated to web revival. You can find it through MelonLand's main page. I'd also recommend checking out SpaceHey, which is a MySpace clone that's customizable and easy to use.

I hope this is of some help to you. The internet may feel less magical than it used to be, but that doesn't mean that the spark has completely died out. These types of indie websites need more attention if we ever hope to reverse the damage done to the internet by centralization and corporate interest. People are trying to make the web a cooler place to be, but we're going to have to do the work of finding and interacting with these projects in order to get them off the ground someday.

[xerxestexastoast]

ALSO you should consider browsing Virtual Pet List and seeing if there are any pet sites you might be interested in playing. There is a whole genre of browser games right under your nose

[biothreads]

Another one that I just found recently is this, which is a whole collection of blogs, organized by topic!

ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

A collection of 1,966 blogs about every topic

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Look guys the real internet IS STILL THERE I'm going to cry

[cloudyeveniing]

Getting off of twitter and onto neocities has really healed me and I am so glad to see it is healing other people too ;u; let's retreat into the self-made digital woods and away from corporate bs pls, I am so tired