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[arc-hus]

Floating Hotel, Huzhou, China - MORE Architecture

[mensministry]

Floating Hotel, Anji County, Huzhou, Zhejiang province, China,

Courtesy: More Architecture,

Photographer: Kris Provoost

[keferon]

THE NEW CHAPTER OF MISTAKES ON MISTAKES UNTIL IS OUT AND YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS~~~~~~

Spoilers for ch 74 below >:)

Head in hands. And then they all happened to be self sacrificial idiots.

Infinitely delighted by the fact that Optimus automatically decided to catch whoever was falling and only look who that was afterwards. 100/10. Peak Optimus writing.

[mer-se]

Isabella stewart gardner museum

(yesterday was a perfect day. 🖤)

[tracing-rivers]

[medi-bee]

Ancient Urban

(high quality stills below the cut)

[classy-thief]

🌻 here's my entry for the second week of the @tmntfashioncompetition ! the theme this time was traditional clothing and I immediately knew I wanted to do something relating to my korean culture haha

I'm going against the lovely @tizeline for this one!!

this was supposed to take place in the Joseon Dynasty, but when researching the type of hanbok people wore back then it was kinda hard finding accurate information 😭 so I just went with what I thought would suit them :]

some fun facts about this drawing under the cut! ^^

I hc that donnie would infiltrate the schools to become an astounding scholar, so when he comes home he teaches his brothers what he learned ^^ he's wearing a dopo (도포), which was what confucian scholars wore back then!

mikey's wearing a child's hanbok (한복), which are more colorful than adult ones. so technically speaking, leo and donnie should be wearing one too, but I felt that leo would want to copy don haha. plus, they all still see mikey as the baby of the group 😁

raph's wearing a gat (갓), and this is kinda where it was hard to find accurate info.. it's known that when someone wears a gat with their hair in a topknot, it signifies marriage, but other sources said that it also signifies when a child has transitioned into adulthood. either way, it represents pride, dignity, and status, so I figured I might as well add it.

and since this takes place in the Joseon period, I thought it'd be nice to have raph copying a page of the Hunmninjeongeum (혼민정음), which was a document introducing the invention of the early korean language ^^

and last but not least, the table is inspired by the one my grandparents own :]

[atomicradiogirl]

victor lundy’s WWII sketches

[mythosaursarecool]

Can’t do just epic shots all the time when the galaxy is vast and beautiful

Spot the tiny Grogu on the rock lol

[marzipanandminutiae]

I was talking to a very nice older lady near Davis Square in Somerville the other day (I adore Somerville. if I could have a house there without winning the lottery, I immediately would). I'd noticed her vintage sewing machine being carried inside and she'd noticed my outfit and we chatted for a bit

I mentioned that I'd seen her house- a lovely old Victorian, natch -many times in passing, and how most of the ones around here had been gutted at some point. she sighed and said, "well, that's going to happen to this one, too"

"oh is someone renovating it?" I asked, alarmed

"no," she said, "when I die. whoever buys it will probably gut it"

"well, people my age who would save it can't afford it," I replied.

she nodded sadly. "it's so true, and what can you do?"

and we just stood there. someone with a house to save but whose heirs would probably care more about the money than the preservation, and someone who wanted to save it but had been thoroughly priced out of doing so

admiring a house whose death sentence had already been written

[gabelew]

I wanted to draw teen Sidon and Bazz hanging out in Sidon's room, so it was a good moment to finally plan out said room study (that is just a part of his quarters).

It's actually Dorephan’s old quarters, repurposed after he outgrew them. He's responsible for like, half of the clutter, the rest is all Sidon.

[chimeride]

[pocketseizure]

Mineru's Library concept art

[moonwoodhollow]

boom and it's done. I really needed to refrain myself from adding more details, I'm a maximalist design lover at heart. It's also surprisingly spacious. 2 bedrooms + a possible 3rd one for each house, not bad!

[serpentface]

Sketch of a typical Wardi house (small), located adjacent to farmland on the Briya river floodplain.

Most houses are made with mudbrick and with a smooth outer coating, sometimes plastered or otherwise decorated (this one has fairly minimal decorative painting). The climate is dry overall and mudbrick is the most economical and resistant building material available (though it does require more maintenance than in outright arid climates due to regular and sometimes very heavy winter rains), with the use of wood generally being reserved for maintaining the structural integrity of the roof and portals. These houses are fairly effective at insulation, and a well-constructed home will not have dramatic temperature gradients between hot days and cool nights.

Some homes lack doors altogether and use fabric or straw drapes; actual doors are hung by pintles and made with wood and/or woven reeds. Domestic chimneys have not been invented anywhere in general, and smoke in a small house like this will be removed (not the most efficiently) through small tubes in the walls and via the door/windows. Cooking hearths in these smaller houses are usually placed in the center of the building, which goes a little ways to allowing smoke to disperse.

Flat mudbrick roofs are in use in some places, though pointed thatched roofs like these are more common in all but the driest areas due to better shedding rainfall/occasional snow accumulation. Thatching is made with straw or papyrus, location depending, and can become very thick as a byproduct of routine maintenance on old houses.

Misc bits:

-bell windchimes on each side of the house (wards off ghosts and makes a pretty sound).

-little clay guardian lion over the doorway (most houses will have one on each side, though those not overseeing entrances may be hidden in the thatching or buried to fully embed their protective qualities).

-dung fuel being dried on one of the walls.

-koli plant right outside (easy low maintenance fruit and vegetables)

[strawberryteabunny]

my suitcase for a week in Rome 🏛