#harbor views

[brewscoop]

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[ltwilliammowett]

View of a harbor, by Caspar David Friedrich, 1815

[gemsofgreece]

Greece, Nafpaktos by hi_i_am_drone on Instagram.

[icarrymany]

the mh comics open up such an interesting narrative for our few surviving characters. to them, what happened in the videos was real, but to everyone else its a cool creative web series. when all of that is viewed as fiction, fans have a freedom to speculate about and invade the lives and privacy of real people. and that would be so uncomfortable and terrifying. imagine someone irl having headcanons about YOU. writing fan fiction about you and your real friends. assuming things about you PUBLICLY ! IN MASS!

wouldnt it be so cool to see a character grapple with that in like a self-reflective way? fans asking questions the muse is too afraid to ask themselves. of course, theyre the only person the answer matters to.

[viewsoftyria]

Views of Tyria - Seitung Harbor - Harbor foliage

[dutch-wanderlust]

🇪🇸 2023

[stardustdiiving]

Sometimes you enter the wrong corner of the genshin fandom and people are like “haha how is Liyue the wealthiest nation/how is Sumeru the hub for technology/research when Fontaine has steampunk technology and a bigger center city” and it’s like L + Ratio + there are people living in the sewers in Fontaine + people of Liyue r said to have a notable good standard of living + Sumeru healthcare is free + Fontaine’s tech took notes from what people in Sumeru’s deserts accomplished couldn’t even get on their level + the fontaine research institute literally Blew Up + interrogate why Fontaine’s european inspired architecture and society seem automatically more “developed/advanced” to you + fontaine researchers wish they’d gone to study in Sumeru instead

[bobcronkphotography]

From Bunker to Beauty

Diamond Head, Hawaii

Bob Cronk

[purple-purple-pink-purple]

I think Pope Francis is doing something that the church really needs right now. We're the older brother getting mad about our father not letting us have a lamb to dine with our friends when our starving younger brother shows up. We should welcome him back and feed him, because he knows he's hungry, and then we can show him the food he's really hungry for (ya dig?). But so often we're caught up with the years he spent away, or the fact that he's not really repentant so much as starving, or that we're not getting what we think is our due for following the rules.

But the father ran to meet the prodigal son. He ran. He didn't ask for an apology, he just welcomed his son home and back to life. Francis wants us to run to meet our wayward brothers and sisters, I think. Not that the dogma isn't important, but that we must always begin with great love. And for those of us who never left our Father's loving house, it's easy to get caught up in the rules and forget the relationship needed to be founded first.

[badgerbandits]

Hear me out: people are allowed to engage in media that they hate. People can watch certain media for whatever reason they want, even if it's not for the same reason you do. Sometimes it's fun to make fun of what you watch, sometimes it's great to watch stuff you hate in order to see where they went wrong for writing practice, sometimes its good background noise. Unless it's actively bullying the creator, then people can go apeshit over things that they hate

Also hate it when people say this when others have the slightest bit of criticism for what they watch. Are we not allowed to think critically and analyze media that we view

[eopederson]

Bergen havn fra Fløyen, 2023.

[ethicaltreatmentofcowplants]

The Shipping Views: Interior (Mostly) Revamp

On my gallery: HAYLEY247. Likely with some left out food and dirty counters as I'm currently using it for my NSB Mint Gen.

A shade under 57k

2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom - although the upstairs has a toilet and sink area since Sims will take roughly 10,000 years of their lifespan to go back downstairs

No cc but many, many packs used

bb.moveobjects and bb.showhiddenobjects before placing

Playtested to within an inch of its miserable life

Patio makes for a good entertainment area, only I removed the grill because Knox kept on autonomously cooking food that my (vegetarian) founder couldn't eat

Due to the ladder being the only means of reaching the second floor, this isn't the most child-friendly build ever (toddlers can't use the ladder until they age up to children). If it's for a legacy challenge, I'd recommend doing what I did and adding a little nursery area to the master bedroom for infants and toddlers. Also if unlike my founder, your Sim doesn't have the SQUEAMISH trait, they can always Woo Hoo in the dumpster...

(more interior shots below - being such a long and narrow build in the style of shipping containers, it was hard to get decent ones)

[aheathen-conceivably]

🏗️ Luxury Shipping Views 🏗️

Shipping containers don't come much more luxurious than this! Once two run-down shipping containers, this home has been redesigned with a young sim couple in mind who love gardening, eco-living, and fabrication. Downstairs is a crafting room and a kitchen that looks into the spacious yard, filled with every amenity that a citizen of Evergreen Harbor could possibly want. Upstairs is a spacious bedroom, complete with a space for yoga, and a huge balcony for enjoying the water views.

Lot Size: 30x20 (The Shipping Views) Lot Value: 53,406 House Size: 1 Bed, 1 Bath Type: Residential CC-free

Available to download on my gallery ID: aheathenbuilds

[askdacast]

For all its flaws, I genuinely think there are few works out there quite like Touhou, which isn’t just a fantasy work but is a work about the meaning of fantasy, and folklore, and how people and societies derive meaning from the mythical and fantastical

Only other obvious example would be Discworld, which I still need to read someday

[orchideae]

When I approach Yelan (or anyone else I've written), I don't just look directly at her character, but I also look at her surroundings. Both the ones that she knows by some semblance of necessity, but also those that she chooses. Like here, I talked about the Chasm, and what being 'okay' with existing down there needs to mean for a character, because it's not normal. Someone's surroundings, room, or home say a lot bout who they are and what their mindset, or specifically, their perspective is of the world. And sometimes, I think it says more about people than even the characters realize.

This brings me to the topic of the city of Fontaine. Now, I personally think it's rather obvious that a lot of the nation takes from historical France, and so when looking at it, I think it really adds to remember its monarchy, the view that the 'common folk' had of it, and its inevitable demise to non-existence today in terms of importance as a result. So my first question is, who constructed or decided on its layout? Was it Furina, Neuvillette, Egeria? Whoever it was, there's a lot that can be said about their view of the world and their placement in it when you look at locations of buildings. Look at where Palais Mermonia, its governing body, is located within the city; it sits at a rather astounding elevation in comparison to, well, everything and everyone else in the city. This frequently represents the concept of 'distance' between groups in one way or another, and seeing the consistency in other nations, this is something that is rather intriguing to me, especially keeping Fontaine's characters in mind (and considering this is the nation of 'justice'). Mondstadt has everything almost entirely uniform, with arguably the church on the highest level (but it isn't greatly elevated in comparison to all else), but it's joined with the plaza and statue which are a common gathering site for all people in the city. Liyue had the gods and adepti visibly living among the humans back in the days of the Guili Assembly for reasons of 'integration' (my apologies to numerous from our dear Guizhong!) The fact that numerous adepti now live far outside of the harbor is a different matter entirely, and the one who seems to function within a semblance of separation of sorts is Ningguang with the Jade Chamber (but I'm not one to speak on behalf of her character as I don't bear the knowledge). Inazuma also has the Tenshukaku at a higher elevation in comparison to the rest of Inazuma City. Sumeru is interesting, but ultimately Nahida was kept at the very peak of the city, far out of reach of humanity— but that's exactly the common denominator that has my interest, the distance between the 'governing body' and humanity for one reason or another.

But Fontaine really takes separation to a different level in my opinion (and again, think of this when you think of the person having designed the whole city), not only because of the above which I'll elaborate more on in a moment, but also its separation from the outside world. Now, this is interesting to think about if you keep in mind that it was perhaps done in eventual protection of the city's inhabitants in terms of the prophecy (which means that this would have been constructed anywhere during or after Egeria's reign), but then why is only Palais Mermonia far above the water's reach? If the walls surrounding the city were ever breached during said prophecy, all its inhabitants are pretty much immediately caught in the flood and would drown, which tells me nothing positive of the city's 'architect' or whoever signed off on the designs. But if not done for the prophecy, then why? Stand in the middle of the Court of Fontaine and really look around you, the only sights you really have of the outside world are the sky, and it's obstructed by a fair bit of the waterways and gardens that hang overhead, which you can only properly enjoy when you take the ages long elevator to the upper level where the palace is located (which, credit due, seems freely accessible to everyone in present-time). But if you don't venture up, how much of the outside world do you get to see? It feels very secluded, very much under lock and key. On some level (and this is one of the many reasons why I think that the Meropide is so excessively important in Fontaine and it's likely why we spent so much time there; it's all to show the ever, ever important contrast and nuance between this 'autonomous nation within Fontaine' and, well, 'Fontaine'), it almost feels like a prison, regardless of how pretty it may look or come across (and despite not 'lacking rights'). And considering how people in the Meropide speak of not always wanting to return back to the 'overworld' following their sentence, I think that there's definitely quite a bit of truth in that. But again, stand there and look around for yourself.

Now to return to the original topic, but keeping the last one in mind as well, look at one other thing that I'm unsure how many have really kept an eye on: the massive effect Palais Mermonia's level has on the rest of the area (inside and outside of its walls). Have you ever walked through the city of Fontaine at any given time of day or night, north to south, east to west, clockwise or counter-clockwise circling through it; have you ever seen how it overshadows an immense part of the streets below it either entirely on its own (which to me signifies a very domineering presence), or together with those outer walls that surround the city? I know how I've spoken thoroughly with people before about how much I enjoy Fontaine and how dark it is in its storytelling, but despite how gorgeous this region with its water- and landscapes are; its city bears quite a heavy weight to me. I don't know who designed it, or ordered it to be constructed in this way, but nothing about the city itself truly, rationally, shows a healthy perspective versus its citizens.

Me: /continues on to ramble in tags because I'm me and I'm a nuisance with always more to say than I know how to coherently put into these posts.

[heidiamalia]

Finally made it home from the Maine adventure!

Found the book and antiques barn out in Bucksport and spent like 2 and a half hours there instead of just driving straight through.

I'm so so glad I decided to take tomorrow off.

For your viewing pleasure - last evening on Cadillac Mountain, and today's sunrise in the same place.