#Frac

[fracturedmoonlight]

Super Pottery Set - Texture Completer Set

@clstldrmr83 recently asked for these texture files I was using for the @sunmoon-starfactory Dishware Controller packs, which reminded me that I actually did make them with matching the Super Pottery Set by @fireflowersims in mind and went ahead and did the recolor packs for that set as well. No point in holding onto them when they can be released now, right? Right!

You may notice that Reds, Blues, and Greens are missing from these and that as intentional as those colors already existed in the original pottery set textures, I just made a matching Blue Leaves one and then all the other color variations.

Bonus "Skyrim Glazed White" textures as well. All compressed. Textures base credits to Funktasm at Nexus Mods.

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[philoursmars]

Marseille, il y a trois semaines. Au FRAC Sud (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain), il y avait une expo, "L'Heure de Gloire", elle aussi consacrée au sport :

Bianca Argimòn : "Materazzi" (très drôles, ces personnages de baby-foot contrefaisant la douleur comme nombre de joueurs de foot !

Gérard Deschamps : "Pneumostructures"

Laurent Perbos : "Invert Pyramid #2"

Gethan&Myles : "Icare/Mont Ventoux 80 km/h"

[detournementsmineurs]

"Lycanthrope" peinture sur tissu de Jacques Villéglé (1992) à l'exposition "L'Autre Musée, les Trésors d'une Grande Collection d'Art Contemporain" à la Galerie du Faouëdic - en collaboration avec le Frac Bretagne (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain) - Lorient, Bretagne, mai 2024.

[fleshwizard]

sketches from the art gallery

[alessandro55]

L'uniforme borghese

DeAgostini, Novara 1991, 183 pagine, 14x21,5cm, ISBN 9788840292298

collana Idee di moda, collana a cura di Grazietta Butazzi e Alessandra Mottola Molfino

euro 18,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

…Tutti quei signori si rassomigliavano, le basette abbondanti sfuggivano dai grandi colletti duri, ch’erano sostenuti dalle cravatte bianche con l’orlo di trina ben spiegato. Tutti i panciotti erano di velluto col risvolto a scialle; tutti gli orologi portavano in capo a un lungo nastro qualche sigillo ovale di corniola; e ognuno teneva appoggiate le mani sulle cosce, abbassando con cura la forca dei calzoni, ch’erano di panno lustro e brillavano più del cuoio delle grasse scarpe…(G. Flaubert, La Signora Bovary, 1857).

La moda come sintesi di una mentalità, come rappresentazione di un comportamento è questo il filo conduttore dei dodici volumi della collana Idee della Moda che si propone un’approfondita analisi del fenomeno moda attraverso i mutamenti psicologici, sociologici, estetici. Saggi redatti da storici della moda e del costume individuano di volta in volta i motivi, i temi, i soggetti, i percorsi essenziali che segnano e permettono di leggere l’evoluzione dei ruoli, femminile e maschile, attraverso quelle trasformazioni. Un corredo iconografico selezionato e un pertinente commento didascalico guidano a una ricostruzione per immagini dei temi proposti.

25/06/24

[totoshappylife]

Frac-Connections: Fractional Extension of

Excerpt from PDF: Frac-Connections: Fractional Extension of Hyper-Connections Defa Zhu1,†, Hongzhi Huang1, Jundong Zhou1, Zihao Huang1, Yutao Zeng1, Banggu Wu1, Qiyang Min1,†, Xun Zhou1 1ByteDance Seed †Corresponding authors Abstract Residual connections are central to modern deep learning architectures, enabling the training of very deep networks by mitigating gradient vanishing.…

[francesco-nigri]

Piripicchio

Piripicchio Piripicchio Nè palchi vellutati nè applausi di poltronebasta l’abbraccio al viale che ne fa piazzal’ulivo marinaro retato canta di vita al remodi mani in piedi fila la strada che si fa arte Fila di passato e stocca all’intime paretisnocciola d’amori ne fa pane olio e panericcio di lontananza e via con quel saporedi poco s’ama e resta come sale al mare Elegante la polvere che…

[spyskrapbook]

"FRAC / Contemporary Art Center", Marseille, France [2013] _ Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates _ Photos by: Spyros Kaprinis [26.05.2024].

[craft2eu]

Multiple Art Days: Romainville (F) Nachlese von Franziska Neubert

Bei für Anfang September ungewöhnlich heißen 35 °  fanden zum 8. Mal die Multiple Art Days (MAD) 2023 in Romainville nahe Paris statt, unweit des hippen Canal de l’Ourcq. Organisiert wurden diese von dem Kuratorenteam um Sylvie Boulanger, Nicholas Vargelis und Michael Woolworth in Zusammenarbeit mit der Fondation Fiminco. Canal de l’ourcq | Foto: Franziska Neubert Diese arbeitet mit einem…

[laumond]

EVOLUTION: It gives me great pleasure to unveil the brand new LAUMOND.COM virtual showcase now online.

A big thank you to Paul Convert for his outstanding technological skills in web development. Remarkable work!

[philoursmars]

Marseille, il y a trois semaines. Au FRAC Zud (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain), il y avait une expo, "L'Heure de Gloire", elle aussi consacrée au sport :

Jean Bedez : "Citius- Altius- Fortius"

Jeremy John Kaplan : "Altea in Blue" (cyanotype de filet de tennis)

Berdaguer & Pejus : "Smith, Norman, Carlos, Mexico 68"

Sarah Morris : "Big Ben" (projet d'affiche pour les JO de Londres 2012)

Taro Izumi : "Tickled in a dream… maybe (The Destination of Breath)" (sorte d'appareillage pour reproduire la posture de certains sportifs à des moments-clés)

[detournementsmineurs]

“Peinture 165 X 130 cm" de Pierre Soulages (1983) à l'exposition “L'Autre Musée, les Trésors d'une Grande Collection d'Art Contemporain” à la Galerie du Faouëdic - en collaboration avec le Frac Bretagne (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain) - Lorient, Bretagne, mai 2024.

[fracturedmoonlight]

Updated 12-31-23

@niamh-sims asked about getting a completer set of sorts to the original size of my dome roof deco. She's a wonderful simming friend and beta tester for me, so I'm happy to grant a wish!

So now everyone gets the original size, now named Large, with updated description to indicate better how big of an octagon it fits, along with three more sizes Medium (3 Tiles Wide), Small (2 Tiles Wide) and X-Small (1 Tile Wide). The new sizes are of course repoed to the original Large. Like the original, you may need to use move objects cheats to get a refined position on top of your walls.

I've updated the original archive including some filenames for easier identification of the meshes themselves. Everything is compressorized, and NH enabled.

Download - SFS

Deco Dome Roof

Honestly, I made this for me and a specific build…because I discovered that the dome shaped roof that the game provides you…DOES NOT HAVE A PROPER INSIDE. Which ruined all my plans. So I made one. Shingles on the outside, and a “mural” dome on the inside. Does anyone else have a use for it? No idea, but sharing it anyway. Move Objects needed for exact placement in some cases.

Download - SFS

[distort-opia]

"Bruce's potential mommy kink"

I'm really curious about this. If there's no problem, would you explain more?

Sure! Though to be clear, I'm not arguing that Bruce definitely has a mommy kink or anything; but rather that, if he did have one, it's more likely for it to be a mother-related thing rather than a father-related one.

This was a thought that emerged from a conversation with @fractualized, actually. We were talking about how it's funny that there's way more fics with the tag "Daddy Kink" on Ao3 for Bruce, but nowhere near as many "Mommy Kink" ones... and then it turned from irony to "Waaait a minute." Because thinking about it led us both to go back and forth on how Bruce in many ways idealized Thomas and craved his approval, which at first glance would make one go "Well yeah, and that's probably why a daddy kink is more in character for him." However, precisely because of the high pedestal Bruce placed Thomas on, I don't see him ever projecting this aspect on another man; there's the fact Bruce rather wants to emulate his father (think the last part of 1985 by Bo Burnham). This is part of why personally, I see Bruce as focused on service, when it comes to sexual dynamics: providing for the other person. (If he cares about them, that is. But the essay on my reading of Bruce as demisexual will have to wait another day.)

The other part is... well, the fact Bruce is a mommy's boy. His father issues are about craving approval, but his mother issues are about craving comfort. Praise. Love.

Poison Ivy #25

Batman (2016) #45

Batman/Superman (2019) #18

Batman (2016) #18

Justice League (2018) #52

[looks into the camera] And these aren't even all the examples I could give, but you get the point. A need for approval from his father combined with a need for praise and emotional comfort from his mother combines to produce... a person who thinks "I can only get love if I'm good enough, and if I'm good enough I won't be abandoned." It's not terribly hard to imagine how that would translate into Bruce just wanting to give the person he's with the thing they want, becoming focused on service (a lot of the time to his own detriment). And then it's not difficult to imagine how it'd make him feel all sorts of ways to be told by the right person that he's done well.

But guess who Martha is in an alternate world??

Flashpoint Beyond #4

And guess what mad lad, upon finding out his mother is the Joker in an alternate universe, has another giant Joker card made with her likeness to hang next to his regular one? Yes you got it!

DC: The New Golden Age

But I got so long already. That conversation with Frac actually started from her wondering why there's no mommy kink Batjokes fics, considering that Joker is Bruce's literal mother in another world. Alas, I'll put the rest under the cut.

It doesn't help that way before Azzarello made Batman's biggest enemy into his mother figure, probably causing Freud to vibrate in his grave, Morrison was going with their whole chest "Batman is uncomfortable with women because he's got mother issues connected to abandonment", in Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth. And sadly it didn't make the final cut, but Morrison also wanted Joker dressed like Madonna.

Do you understand now why I had to write that one fic?

It's not just that Bruce might crave praise and validation for his efforts, to feel like he's good enough. He also has a pattern of seeking out emotionally unavailable women, and relationships that might be doomed from the start. It's for many reasons, including his avoidant tendencies, but also it's about getting the love from the right people. From people he has to chase, to work hard to attain their standards; people who are able to beat him and thus who's respect or praise means something. In a way, the more "dark" or emotionally unavailable the individual, the more a thing in Bruce goes "If I got their love it would really mean I'm good enough." In a sad way, this is the core of what makes many people go "Oh this person is such an asshole, but what if they were nice only to me?"

And Joker is the potential epitome of that. He's the ultimate darkness in Bruce's life and the ultimate... unavailable person, for a thousand different reasons. He proclaims love, but it's not a comforting kind; Bruce sees it as a weapon Joker wields against him, and not something real. So to me, it makes sense that Joker offering (motherly) comfort, praise, love-- safety-- would get to Bruce viscerally in a way he might not even be able to understand.

[lithium-wakes]

Fractalization, or frac - when a mech system past a certain threshold of complexity spontaneously generates nanites that alter the function of the mech's parts, typically refining their operation, energy efficiency and synergy, but damaging the components' ability to be repaired, replaced, or recycled into other systems.

Also known as twist.

The first, natural occurence of the technological and cultural phenomena later termed 'mutagens.' Before the principles of nanotech manufacturing were well-understood, artificial intelligence in neural-link systems - such as used in galeform combat mechs, leviathan subsystems, and specific aurai and fighter classes - were given control of large quantities of meta-chemical 'soups,' raw materials for adjusting its internal fuel efficiency and neural port conductivity. Over time, mecha systems learned how to manipulate these chemicals into more complex forms, and use them to refine component function - frequently constructing capillary fuel lines, ultrafine auxiliary circuits, and fiber-optic nerve strands. Hence, fractalization: iterating systems into subsystems, pulling system performance toward its theoretical, asymptotic limits.

Prolonged exposure to a high-frac system can cause mech pilots themselves to sustain microscopic change as well as the silicon and metal around them - the restructuring of bodily tissues around neural uplink connection ports. If a pilot moves from one high-frac rig to another with incompatible twist, they can sustain damage ranging from chronic tissue irritation and itching, to deep tissue inflammation and infection. In extreme cases, disconnection from a pilot's first long-term mech can lead to immune system weaknesses and organ failure as their bodily systems have over time become dependent on the mech intelligence's management and continued metachemical interference.

[muxas-world2]

It’s noisy in the garage—mechanics coming and going, tools clinking. He’s relaxing in his seat when he feels a tiny hand tap his leg.

“Pecooo… Oh, you’re not Pecco,” says a little girl, her big, wet eyes already starting to look teary. He definitely doesn’t want problems with that side of the garage, so he quickly tries to console her.

“Shhh, hey, princesa! Don’t worry, it’s fine,” he says gently. They play for a little while, her giggles easing the tension, until she looks up at him and asks, “What’s your name?”

“It’s Marc, nena. What’s yours?” he asks, twirling one of her curls.

“GUILIETTA! Where are you?”

Marc doesn’t even need to look to know who the voice belongs to. And honestly, he should’ve known sooner. The kid’s curls and eyes are a perfect copy of the man now standing in front of him..

“Here you are. I’m sorry, she’s…” The man’s voice trails off as his eyes land on Marc.

“What are you doing here?” he finally asks, tension rising, but before Marc can answer, the little girl pipes up.

“Dad, this is my friend Marc!”

He looks at Marc, his expression unreadable. Then, without another word, he sighs, turns to his daughter, and mutters a quiet “thank you” to Marc.

….“I’m taking the kid.”

“But Dad, I want to play!” she protests.

“Say bye. Come on,” he says firmly.

He leads her away, leaving Marc to watch them go…watching those same blue eyes while waving godbay…