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[timkarr]

Unsettling Sound The Puget Sound is an unsettled sea that lies above the tectonically active western edge of the North American Plate. This large body of frigid water is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the Olympic Mountains to its west and the Cascades to its east. Glaciers crowded into the Sound during the last ice age, advancing from the north. When they retreated some 13,000 years ago they left behind deep deposits of interglacial sediment. These sand and clay remnants, in turn, were carved by frequent rain, sea and wind erosion to form high, unstable coastal bluffs, which were soon blanketed by dense evergreen overgrowths of cedar, hemlock and fir, and undergrowths of alder, blackberry and fern. As erosion progresses this cover slides from high bluffs in slow cascades that often take decades to complete from hilltop to shore. The process is sped up when the northwest rains are heaviest. Landslides can carry trees and their understory to the beach in an instant. Once arrived on the shore, the upended forest enters the marine ecosystem, where it functions as nutrient, shelter and barrier. In the last centuries, human structures have been added to this tumult. Houses perched on bluffs afford spectacular views and command high prices, but they face the disturbing prospect of being splayed across the beach following a prolonged downpour. Slides in the Northwest earn frequent headlines, and were even the subject of a popular book and film set on the slopes of Queen Anne Hill. Much hilltop construction in the area occurs with little immediate awareness of the role erosion plays in maintaining both the geological and biological integrity of the Sound. A common response to the inevitable is to line the bank with black basaltic stones quarried from ancient lava beds. The proliferation of these bulkheads throughout the Puget Sound has resulted in a phenomenon called “shoreline hardening.” According to some government statistics, approximately 30 percent of the Sound’s shoreline is now armored with stone and concrete reinforcements. This happened along the beach where my family has lived for nearly a century. in the 1970s and 80s, property owners piled stone bulkheads to shore up against sliding —attempting to fix in time something that’s always in flux. The results of our obstinance has been devastating. Within years this beach began to lose much of its value. As a child, I can remember clawing a hundred Native Littlenecks from the sand and clay beneath beach rocks. We let these clams sit for a couple of hours in a bucket of seawater. My grandparents taught us to sprinkle in cornmeal so they could spit out stomach sand as they fed. Once full, they were transferred into a steaming pot where they open latticed shells to offer up their tenderness. Today I’m lucky if I find a single Littleneck after 30 minutes of raking. When I visit the Sound, I think of Sue and Payne, who were privileged to live on this shore and loved what it could yield to any of their grandchildren willing to put some time into it. They left us more than 20 years ago, and a new generation of family has built modern homes on the foundations of those Sue and Payne left behind. In time, ownership may be handed to successive generations, or we might drift away, passing the beachfront to someone with no memory of what it meant to a family that gathered there. And while the Sound may retain much of its scenic beauty, this too is fleeting. The tides will rise and fall revealing stretches of rocks and sand, again and again, and still something will always remain unsettled until it’s gone.

[conditionaljewel]

“Can i kiss you?”

I kiss her again.

Together either way.

[dhampling]

dhampling is back losers

[gaytobymeres]

had a stress dream about an email last night. it literally woke me up!!

[jojo-the-bird]

When does the struggling stop? It seems like everywhere I look everyone's trying to scrap by. I can't hardly remember a time where nobody was trying to make ends meet. Makes me feel I'll never get out of this hell of a hole.

[asheanon]

📖🐌 I've been writing again, but also...

Getting them all dolled up too.~

[amalthiaph]

Your ART is Incredible 🧡💛🧡💛

Thank you so much. I am guessing you read that whole rant under my Rampart art, so here's a little clarification.

I just got pissed off how artists can never get it right. Like I said in the closing, when we draw it close to the show, we would get called out for whitewashing and if we do it with artistic freedom, we got told to change it because [character] doesn't have have [it] in the show. Which makes me ask the question, "what do artists do now?".

One of the reblogs mentioned that there really are some artists that (consciously) portray characters as Caucasian. I agree. I've seen them too. And I'm against them. But what pisses me off is how quick they are to judge.

Like I mentioned, there are so many factors that are at play and so many things to consider before you could say that an aritst did whitewash a character; there's art style, techniques, filters, there's that one artist that complained about screen differences and just plain ass psychology that causes some sort of optical illusion that we can't do anything about bec that's how the brain works. Have they every considered any of that? Have they also considered the settings of their screen?

Look, on my first attempt of drawing Tech, I drew him LIKE in the show, but I immediately realized it was wrong, so I drew a helmet over him and none of you ever saw that helmet-less art bec I didn't post it bec it's wrong. If people told me I whitewashed Tech in THAT drawing then yes, I did. Guilty as fuck. But I learned from that, and I tried to draw it close to Tem but still somehow has the features of the character in the show. It's like combining them all together.

If there's anything that ever pisses me off is people accusing me of something I didn't do. Why? Because it's just wrong. Throwing false accusations is wrong.

I'm not even sure if people validate or evaluate their claims, perhaps they just go straight to someone's inbox and throw their hate. This is just mean, guys. Please.

Just a little something, this is irrelevant but I forgot to put it in the caption: anon thinks that's how I draw caucasian? bruh just look at my icon and use it as reference. THAT's how I draw caucasian. You don't even have to open a Psychology book to study about Contrast Effect, your reference is there on a silver platter.

And for those who 'correct' artists like 'draw [character] like [this]', unless you're commissioning that artist, you have no right to tell them how to draw a character. Fanart can be their own take. If they want to give Echo back his hair, let them. If you want Echo to remain bald, then go make your own art of him. There are lots of drawing apps available, heck, grab a pen and paper, it's easier.

At the end of the day, you do you, and I'll do me.

Still, I appreciate your words. I worked years to develop a style that's unique, and I appreciate those handful of people who like them. I like you too.

[zeebreezin]

trademark in grand geode/sequencer thoughts and also funky language stuff

Oh HELL yeah - if there’s one thing about me you can be sure I’m thinking about funky language stuff & the truly batshit implications of the New Sequence at all hours of the day. Love me /ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə̆ sʌn ðə/ -

[nathanbatemanfucker]

ive been trying for weeks to finish these din and miguel fics

[glitchedgirly]

me with latin and Spanish

What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.

[timkarr]

Hoboken, NJ, 2024. Palisade.

The dictionary defines a palisade as a fence of stakes used especially for defense; as a line of bold cliffs; as a wall. The Palisades of Hudson County, New Jersey, are basalt outcroppings formed 200 million years ago when shifting tectonics pushed molten material up to the surface. Today, these cliffs line the western edge of the lower Hudson River, mirrored in the glass and steel of the skyscrapers rising to the east.   The remnants of the American Dream can be found on the street corners and in the storefronts of the working-class, immigrant communities of Jersey City, Union City and North Bergen that crowd together atop the Palisades and spill into the Meadowlands beyond. It’s a vibrant, dense and complex urban setting that’s forever in flux, aspiring for more. The latest disruption comes via a wealthier wave of migrants fleeing New York City in search of real estate.   My photographs document the places and people living on a wall that often divides and defines them. I don’t hope to explain this world with words; as the late John Berger wrote about photography: “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.�� In Palisade, I’m interested in exploring this relationship — to understand how photographs can describe facts that words fail to explain, and connect the natural to the man-made, the fleeting to the eternal, and the foreign to the familiar. 

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[faaun]

WHEN ON PERIOD:

do not crash out

your feelings are NOT valid

do not send that text

don't kill yourself. lock in

do not act on negative emotions until at least 2 days have elapsed

[chronictranssexuality]

"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping