Me: I should write something
me : … or I could spent 78 hours straight making a miniature library with a working LED chandelier
Pics!
The lights are working now!
everyone look at my friend’s tiny library she’s so talented
(via autumngracy)
I really like how many of the world’s most iconic structures and places are just right next to some of the most mundane stuff imaginable, for example
Stonehenge
Is right next to a busy road
The Pyramids of Giza
Are at the outskirts of Cairo
Niagara Falls
Are part of the town of the same name
And Agrippa’s Pantheon
Is crammed inside downtown Rome
It just so interesting to notice.
I lived in Nîmes for three years, and the mundane feeling I got whenever I would walk from my apartment, by the Roman coloseum in the city which was 2000+ years old, and continue with my life because it was just sort of there still surprises me when I think about it.
This post is just that feeling put into words and pictures.
Making the heroic mundane is what cities do. Living in Lower Manhattan at any time in the past 50 years means you’re (not) looking at the New York Stock Exchange (it’s kinda slantwise on a side street), Federal Hall (on Wall Street snugly flanked by routine office buildings), and both iterations of the World Trade Center (‘heroic" in the architectural sense but my local 24-hour drugstore in the basement) every time you leave your apartment.
New York City spawned those sites and structures, and the OP’s examples existed before the nearby modernity was created, but the affect is the same, I think: we go about our daily business in our well-worn routines, and as we pass the Library of Alexandria for the 943rd time, we flash on just how cool it is to have a secret spot in back of the lighthouse where we can smoke a joint on top of history, undisturbed.
(via cosmictuesdays)
omfg I was watching this sound off but then I was like “wait what if they’re making cute lil animal noises” so I turned the sound on and fucking lost it
sound on. no regrets
[Video description: A cat hangs from the trunk of a tree by its claws while a small dog is walking around on the ground beneath, seemingly looking for the cat. In the backgroud the Pink Panther theme plays. /End description]
(Source: reddit.com, via eldritchjackalope)
Firstly, let me congratulate you on your St. Louis award. In your acceptance speech, you mentioned about being regarded as 'being below the gutter' by others for writing comic books. Have you suffered negative comments/or derision in the past, as I have, for creating comics?
❞When I went to St Louis in 1998 to talk at Washington University the English Dept boycotted the talk and the visit because, I was told, I wrote comics. So yes, lots of negativity and derision, but much more winning awards for comics that comics weren’t allowed to win, being the first person to bring a graphic novel onto the NYT Bestseller list, and getting comics onto course syllabi for the first time. And the overcoming of obstacles would have meant much less if the obstacles hadn’t been there to overcome.
I feel like the English Department did not show themselves to best advantage in this exchange.
Kanroji: (breasts boobily down the stairs)
Tanjiro: I DON’T WANNA BE IN THAT KIND OF SHOW
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You shouldn’t date or become serious friends/partners with someone if you can’t stomach the thought of being stuck in a car or train with them for 16 hours.
Here’s my logic:
- You should be able to work together to solve unexpected problems like fixing a flat tire or getting lost in an unfamiliar station
- You should feel comfortable and safe enough around this person that you can sit in comfortable silence
- You should be able to keep each other interested and deal with each others boredom in a healthy way
- If you’re gonna form a long term partnership with someone you should probably be able to tolerate each other while locked in a small box for a few hours
(via mischif)