#five-star experience

[vecationist]

Unveiling the Top Luxurious Hotels in Las Vegas for a Lavish Stay

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[clonehub]

@ my disabled followers (or anyone who happens upon this), I've mentioned once or twice on here the idea of a marooned company of clone troopers whose ship crashed on an isolated planet. They've been there for close to a year and are managing a series of disabilities among the soldiers with whatever they have on hand (not a lot) and whatever they can build or forage themselves. The disabilities include:

Partial or total blindness

Partial or total deafness

Limb differences (missing one or both arms or one or both legs)

Paralysis from the waist down

Paralysis from the neck down

Brain damage resulting in problems with speaking (but not comprehension or motor skills)

Brain damage resulting in problems with speech, comprehension, and motor skills

Facial damage (I forget the specific term for this one)

Chronic pain

There are various high-needs (?) clones who require round-the-clock care. Everyone helps where they can, especially with interacting with the fully paralyzed clones so that they still feel part of the community. The clones with more severe TBIs have minders/brothers who stay with them at all times. The planet they crash on is semi-tropical and has a similar climate scape and landscape to Aotearoa. Lots of rivers, which they use for water. They hunt and they've identified plants that are safe to eat, but more importantly they need supplies and things to care for their brothers. What I have so far are:

bed pans, adult diapers, and the like

Razors for shaving

pain killers

anti-bacterial soaps, disinfectants, etc

soap in general

mobility aids

medicine in general

foods that are choking hazard-free (or at least low-risk)

I have two questions:

What other injuries/disabilities do you think would result from a ship crash?

What things would the disabled troopers listed above need in order to survive and be as comfortable as reasonably possible, given their environment?

[respectthepetty]

This is the face of two men who were starving, got one taste of a five-star experience, and said "this is the only meal I'm eating for the rest of my life"

The meals

[phantom-and-fable]

Happy 501st day 💙🤍

[the-woman-upstairs]

Seeing Longlegs tonight and if I’m not puking blood by the end of it, I’m asking for my money back.

[heavenlyhelsing]

finished the raven cycle & now there's a hole in my chest.

[ilovedthestars]

I wasn't kidding when I said I spent an hour just trying to sketch out the pose for this drawing! Sometimes you just gotta go through like 8 sketch layers to figure out what you're doing.

I also ended up looking at two references--this one from The Pose Archive, which I traced the legs from after struggling for a while to get proportions that looked right, and a photo of myself that I asked my roommate to take so I could figure out what to do with the arms. The process got significantly faster when I remembered I could use references and started working with them.

I think it's good to show some of the behind-the-scenes of your artwork every now and then, both because process is cool and because it removes some of the sheen of "whoa, i could never make that." I know I get discouraged at times by artists who "make it look easy," when really I can't see all the time and hard work that went into making something. I don't want to create that feeling for anyone else!

So, here's a glimpse into how much I struggled to get the pose right, and below is the timelapse where you can see how much I fiddled with the colors until I had something I was happy with. It was probably at least two hours of "i am spending way too much time on this" and "why does this still not look right" before I got to a point where I started thinking, "wow, this looks good." But I got there eventually, and I'm really happy I stuck it out!

[milfcutlawquane]

Oh don't mind them, just two kids having a bonding moment with their buir who just got turned into a togruta

[braintapes]

dreamt last night that i'd been staying at The Hotel and i spotted a really cool bit of architecture, a big dome in the interior that if you looked at it from a certain angle you could see like. a cosmic eye. and i was SO excited i started trying to take a bunch of pictures with my phone cause i thought that was so awesome and then the Hotel Herself got mad at me because i wasn't 'doing what [i] was assigned to be doing' and so she sent down a horde of bees/wasps that descended from the dome and i felt every minute bit of movement for every microsecond as they made their hive out of my body from the inside out

[wekillitwithfire]

okay but I genuinely, wholeheartedly LOVE Teen Beach Movie

[magpiesbones]

worst thing about being disabled is that now I am fully and completely aware of exactly how much I am worth to everyone I know. And it is not a lot!!

[jrueships]

HIS PRECIOUS POPCORN CRADLE LIKE IT'S HIS NEWBORN INFANT 😭

[respectthepetty]

How it started

How it went

How it's going

Bonus +

Prapai eating his favorite food

[allyouzombies]

I just read a goodreads book review that made me angrier than any inconsequential thing has made me in a WHILE. I loved the book, and I'm not a good critic of novels (or anything); I'm decent at analysis to be fair, but I like a read or I don't (on a spectrum of course).

But good goddamn, this review reeked with pretension and was written like the most unbearable food or music critic's diatribes. Adult character is lost in life, makes stupid choices out of grief/running away from issues/thinking distance from community will help/doesn't act logically as a character in a horror plot? Childish and not very bright! A large bustling family coming together for a major cultural and spiritual threat and asking the same damn questions over and over again, repeating the same arguments, etc.? Tiresome and muddled! Bro is your family (bio or chosen) totally chill? Have you never at least seen (in media or in others' lives) annoying family members beating dead horses for days on end out of concern and love and lack of knowing how else to help???

Dude I dunno, it just felt like legitimate criticisms one might have if they dislike a book or parts of its structure, but then those criticisms were a molehill buried beneath a mountain of hating some super fuckin' flawed characters making wild and awful choices in a time of grief and isolation. Screaming!!!!

[dreamy-loser]

incredible books (five star in my opinion) that reminded me of all the intense feelings fiction can evoke in a person.. deep intrigue, paralysing fear, painful longing and a intense love for what is magical and surreal

[i-love-tubbs-the-cat]

being poor and reading reviews for places is so interesting