#House of the Anchor

[jackawful]

I think as much as free housing for everyone is a good goal, we gotta also fight for the right to not live in a house if you don't want to? Like I am aware that for the vast majority of homeless folks rn it's a non-choice or half-choice under the current system but like. Idk like even if the state provides everyone with an apartment or tiny home, even if most people would take that deal in a heartbeat, it's not okay for the state to force someone into housing they don't want. It's not okay for the state to tow someone's camper van even if they give them an apartment in exchange. I should have the right to travel for months on end and camp anywhere suitable that isn't being used. Freedom of movement and freedom to occupy spaces is really important actually.

[accio-victuuri]

happy new year wang yibo, thank you for an amazing year. 🤍

[fidgetspringer]

This is going to interest exactly no one except myself, but still.

We've all seen the chaos that is the Flight Radar right?

That's a lot of planes.

But are you ready for the insanity that is the Ship Radar?

Because it's nuts.

(Red are tankers, green are cargo.)

And if you watch for long enough you'll start to realise some vessels do some weird things. Like this tiny tug boat that has been doing exactly this for going on three days straight.

You good??

[gothicmatter]

THERES NO WAY THEY JUST SERVED ME GOTHIC LOLITA AKUTAGAWA ON A SILVER PLATTER

[rosykims]

thinking about how that solavellan ending actually Works for lavellans who want that hopeful ending but arent as forgiving abt the whole situation as veilguard presented it. and i do think in ashara's case, yes, she goes with him out of love, but more so out of duty. post trespasser she drops the name lavellan in favor of her family name, dhavise, since her place in the clan had already been cast into question and her allegiances with the chantry/solas are cause for doubt as to whether she's even welcome back anymore. but i think by the end of veilguard she's reaffirmed her identity as Lavellan no matter what, and truly does see herself as the Keeper of not just her own clan but of her whole modern people, and with that rekindled purpose she chooses to watch over them all by way of watching over fen'harel. protecting them by protecting him from himself. which ironically is the reason the dalish HAVE keepers in the first place

[allanodyne]

Don't rely on me

by AllanOdyne

[alshamswelnahr]

"She used to say she was the kite and I was the line. she was a creature of the clouds and I was a creature of the earth. And she'd say without me she'd become untethered."

The haunting of hill house episode 8 // Demon Slayer chapter 186 // // The poppy war chapter 20 // rule 4-fish in a birdcage

[dragonagitator]

Fic prompt:

If you follow the idea that when we die, the people who preceded us in death are waiting for us in the afterlife, then imagine Tony Stark dying in Endgame only to discover Phil Coulson waiting on the other side to debrief him:

"Welcome to Level Seven Heaven"

Because you know if souls got to choose the people whose "welcoming committee" they participate in, Phil Coulson would definitely sign up to be there when Tony Stark arrived just to screw with him.

(Yes, PhiLMD was likely still running around in 2023, but I think of him as having his own soul and not human!Coulson's soul being dragged back to life yet again.)

[creaturearts]

Do you ever think of me and my two hands // and wonder why they never soothed your fevers? // and wonder why they never tied your shoes? // and wonder why they never held you gently? // and wonder why they never had the chance to lose you?

- “Never Love an Anchor,” The Crane Wives

This idea has been rattling around in my brain for quite a while now and I will likely redraw it when I have more spoons to do so, but I really wanted to get a feel for the composition and where the words will fit!

Also if Wilson’s profile looks a little rough it’s because I’m used to drawing side profiles in the direction that house is facing, not the direction that Wilson is facing 💀

[voltdragoon]

Love this new age of horror ARGs where someone builds their house in some sort of digital space and it becomes increasingly clear that either 1) the house is fucked up, 2) the user is fucked up, or 3) both the house and the user are fucked up

[detect-thief]

RGBY - Dorm(h)ouse!!!! Looky here, The treehouse for 4 peeps of different aesthetics

Blue- for music

Green- for plants

Red- for books

Yellow- for art

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The partions is partioning, I need more of emmmmm Tsuki gimme. Shushroom not sure if this is the last post of the day. Shushroom be a nightowl.

[ppeasants]

i feel like i haven't really brought up Willow in my Time Hollow AU that often, and I've been thinking about it more recently. She's such an interesting character to explore.

In my head, she just feels like she slots in really well, as a friend to both Luz and Hunter before they got trapped in Belos' mind, and that carrying over to being a close friend to both of them, once they were free just felt natural. and I guess with how right it felt there wasn't really a need to elaborate on why they might be close.

But thinking about it, that 'natural connection' to both of them, might be exactly why Willow is such an interesting character in this AU.

Compared to everyone else, it feels like nobody really has a good connection to both Luz and Hunter, at least early on.

Amity is obviously extremely close to Luz, but she doesn't have any reason to like Hunter - the only emotion that isn't inherently negative, like anger or mistrust or hatred, is pity. And after they escape, she turns those emotions into care and worry for Luz, and mistrust and fear for Hunter, with how close the two have gotten.

Darius is very close to Hunter, and he cares deeply for him, especially after ASIAS, but he doesn't really know Luz, other than whatever rumours he would've heard around the castle, or from Raine. And that translates to after Hollow Mind, as well. Almost all of his care and worry is directed at Hunter, and his concern for Luz is only up to the point where he isn't an asshole and hopes she's okay, as well as glad that Hunter has someone to turn to.

The other coven heads feel pretty similarly. Eberwolf cares mostly for Hunter, and while Raine is closer to Luz through Eda, they were purposefully keeping themselves isolated from Eda, so they aren't as close to Luz and they want to be, aside from caring about Luz's connection to Eda.

Gus does know Hunter from ASIAS, and is more willing to trust him, but he's not close like Willow is. He probably hears from her about him, and doesn't hate him, but he still can't fully trust him. And Luz is one his his best friends. Compared to that, it's very hard for him to trust Hunter. (at least at first)

Even Eda, who quickly comes to care for Hunter like one of her own, isn't like that at first. Her parental instincts take over pretty fast, but until they do, and until she recognizes it, she's mostly just worried over Luz and King, and their safety with a new houseguest she can't really trust yet.

But Willow is different.

Sure, Luz is also one of her best friends, and she's only known Hunter for a weeks - she knows he's dangerous, and untrustworthy - but she can't help but care for him too. They're been messaging more and more, and they've gotten pretty close. And she knows that she's probably one of Hunter's only friends. And her sense of duty, of captainship, means she can't abandon him.

But that doesn't mean she can abandon Luz. Luz is the person who gave her back her confidence, her joy in magic, and her life. She paved the way for her joint the plant track, to play grudgby, and later flyer derby. But most of all, she was her friend, when no one else but Gus would be.

So when she heard that both of then were trapped in Belos' mind, she was immensely scared for both of them.

Not like the coven heads, who were mostly worried for Hunter. Not like Gus and Eda, who were scared for Luz. Not like Amity, who was wondering if Hunter would've hurt Luz. She was hoping they were both okay.

And that's what brings her even closer to both of them, right away. She cares for both of them, and when she sees how traumatized both of them are, she vows to make sure they're both okay.

And that's where it gets really interesting.

Because the coven heads are making sure that Hunter is okay. And while they're glad he had Luz, they're still concerned with how close the two have gotten. Amity and Gus, in the same way, want to make sure Luz is okay.

Darius especially wants to be there for Hunter, but when he sees how close he is with Luz, he gets especially concerned about what happened, and why they're so close.

Amity, too, wonders how Luz has gotten so close with Hunter. Concerned about what happened in there to get them close. Jealous about how close they are.

But Willow can't bring herself to care about all that. She's just glad they're alive, and now she's focusing on how she can be there for them. And that's why she's able to connect to them so well. She cares for both of them so much, and she just wants to see them be okay.

And that's why it's so interesting.

She gets closer to them than anyone else, faster than anyone else. The coven heads are worried about how close she gets with Hunter. Gus worries about her even getting close with the Golden Guard. Amity is jealous of how much Luz accepts her into their circle with Hunter.

And all those conflicting emotions creates a lot of interesting dynamics between everyone.

All because Willow cares about both of them.

(eventually, as time passes, the coven heads start to care about Luz. Gus finds another best friend in Hunter. Eda adopts yet another kid. even Amity can't deny how close they are)

But for now, it's Willow. All because she's herself.

And that's why it's so interesting.

Because almost everything else changes. But Willow stays the same.

[possibly-in-wonderland]

Anyway, we're making a sigil to burn into the back of our neck via scarification one day. We're hiding things in it too.

[deadpresidents]

In 1919, his work in Europe done, [Herbert] Hoover returned permanently to the United States. He had lived abroad for twenty years and was something of a stranger in his own land, yet he was so revered that he was courted as a potential Presidential candidate by both political parties. It has often been written that Hoover had been away so long that he didn't know whether he was a Republican or a Democrat. That is not actually true. He had joined the Republican Party in 1909. But it is true that he wasn't terrifically political and had never voted in a Presidential election. In March 1921, he joined Warren G. Harding's Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce. After Harding died suddenly in 1923, he continued in the same post under Calvin Coolidge.

Hoover was a diligent and industrious presence in both administrations, but he was dazzlingly short on endearing qualities. His manner was cold, vain, prickly, and snappish. He never thanked subordinates or inquired about their health or happiness. He had no visible capacity for friendliness or warmth. He did not even like shaking hands. Although Coolidge's sense of humor was that of a slightly backward schoolboy -- one of his favorite japes was to ring all the White House servant bells at once, then hide behind the drapes to savor the confusion that followed -- he did at least have one. Hoover had none. One of his closest associates remarked that in thirty years he had never heard Hoover laugh out loud.

Coolidge kept an exceedingly light hand on the tiller of state. He presided over an administration that was, in the words of one observer, "dedicated to inactivity."...By 1927, Coolidge worked no more than about four and a half hours a day -- "a far lighter schedule than most other Presidents, indeed most other people, have followed," as the political scientist Robert E. Gilbert once observed -- and napped much of the rest of the time. "No other President in my time," recalled the White House usher, "ever slept so much." When not napping, he often sat with his feet in an open desk drawer (a lifelong habit) and counted cars passing on Pennsylvania Avenue.

All this left Herbert Hoover in an ideal position to exert himself outside his areas of formal responsibility, and nothing pleased Herbert Hoover more than conquering new administrative territories. He took a hand in everything -- labor disputes, the regulation of radio, the fixing of airline routes, the supervision of foreign loans, the relief of traffic congestion, the distribution of water rights along major rivers, the price of rubber, the implementation of child hygiene regulations, and much else that often seemed only tangentially related to matters of domestic commerce. He became known to his colleagues as the Secretary of Commerce and Undersecretary of Everything Else...

Coolidge didn't like most people, but he seemed especially not to like Hoover. "That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!" Coolidge once barked when the subject of Hoover came up. In April 1927, Coolidge puzzled the world by issuing a statement proclaiming that Hoover would never be appointed Secretary of State...Why Coolidge issued the statement at all, and why with such finality, was a matter that puzzled every political commentator in the country. As Hoover had indicated no desire for the role, and the incumbent, Frank B. Kellogg, no inclination to leave it, they were as bewildered as everyone else.

With withering disdain Coolidge referred to his tireless Commerce Secretary as Wonder Boy, but though he sneered, he was glad to have someone to do so much of his work for him....(W)hen the Mississippi flooded as it never had before, it was to Herbert Hoover that President Coolidge turned. One week after making his enigmatic promise not to promote Hoover to the role of Secretary of State, Coolidge appointed him to head the relief efforts to deal with the emergency. Apart from that one act, Coolidge did nothing. He declined to visit the flooded areas. He declined to make any federal funds available or to call a special session of Congress. He declined to make a national radio broadcast appealing for private donations. He declined to provide the humorist Will Rogers with a message of hope and goodwill that Rogers could read out as part of a national broadcast. He declined to supply twelve signed photographs to be auctioned off for the relief of flood victims.

-- The weird relationship between the equally weird Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, via One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), courtesy Anchor Books (2014).

[smbhax]

From a "Peter Pupp" story by Bob Kane in Jumbo Comics #1, September 1938.

Info from Grand Comics Database

[ectonurites]

SUPER DARK TIMES (2017) DIR KEVIN PHILLIPS