#ideal living space

[fictionadventurer]

North and South space opera retelling. Margaret grew up idealizing her lush, pastoral home planet and moves to a space station of some kind. Maybe an industrial complex related to asteroid mining. Lots of culture clash between her and this city full of people who have grown up on space stations and spaceships and have almost never set foot on a planet. She gets involved with workers' rights. Her brother is a fugitive who risks coming to the space station to see their dying mother. There is drama and philosophy and science and societal critiques and a happy ending.

[flame2ashes]

rip in peace, Jane Shepard

[whetstonefires]

Weirdly efficacious to give wwx that phobia of dogs for childhood trauma reasons, because there's a level on which he absolutely has the personality of a domestic dog that has never learned to do as it's told and doesn't mean to start now.

[theygender]

I switched to buying the happy egg brand recently bc I know chickens are the most abused farm animal and I figured paying a couple extra bucks for some of them to have at least a marginally better life was a fair trade off, and I've been really happy with it. Today when I went to boil some eggs for breakfast I found that the two eggs I picked out were different sizes and for some reason that was so charming to me. Like... It makes it feel more real. These are real eggs that come from real chickens who have a somewhat decent quality of life. Hens naturally lay eggs of different sizes, and I feel like it's probably a good sign that an "imperfection" like that was allowed to exist rather than the company being set up in a way where hens are just made to keep pumping out eggs until they can replace all the natural variation with "perfect" ones

[icewindandboringhorror]

While I don't know much about it, I would probably bet there are tons of issues with the cruise industry that would make me not actually appreciate it broadly speaking - HOWEVER, I do really love a lot of the interior design of some cruise ships.. How it's almost like a miniature city crammed into one area. Multiple sections with all different aesthetic designs, a variety of shops, restaurants, activity centers, community seating areas, communal use spaces (like gyms, laundry, pools, cafeteria/buffet (which I always love anywhere)), etc. etc. but then also everyone has a little nice clean comfortable looking space of their own to retreat back to if they'd like to be alone. Maybe it's something akin to the idea of 'walkable cities', where everything you could ever want to do is kind of right there just a short walk away? I also especially love how so much stuff is stacked on top of other stuff, a layered cluster of spaces, bright open atriums, and when they're set up with little walkways down the center between a bunch of rooms so it's almost like a mini city street with apartments lining it, etc.. They often seem like they'd be SUCH a cool place to live permanently, IF only something identical was just built on solid land instead lol

[mariatesstruther]

i was today years old when i found out some of y’all dont like ellie’s studio-shed situation. confused

[august--and-everything-after]

I can't believe I'm gonna have to move back into my parents' house. I'm starting to resent that house and that town.

[rayveewrites]

Concept: A Pokemon game with Legends-style gameplay set entirely in Ultra Space.

[jakeperalta]

so in like the best news of my life ever: I might be buying a house with my boyfriend this year!!?!??

[cowdragons]

5 am time 2 post my sloppy doodles of my beloved weirdgirl from bg3

[rohirric-hunter]

I bought a drawing tablet with a screen but it turns out I kind of hate drawing tablets with screens. Fortunately I've discovered that by buying an HDMI switch and leaving it set to the other source the screen will not work and I can use it like a tablet without a screen. This doesn't work if I just don't plug the HDMI input in for some reason.

[snow-system-wol]

He finds the "insist" a little situationally inappropriate perhaps.

Oh... S'ria does not like that. He'd much rather not go if the gamble is that the servants take the blame for their and Ameliance's actions, gods, he hates rich people sometimes.

I suppose he hasn't really talked about it with Alisaie (or really anyone, barely even with G'raha for a while), but -- S'ria is just not comfortable here. It puts him on edge, the sheet grandeur of the place and all of the servants, yet no one else seems to thing anything of it. I mean, them chanting a welcome home to Ameliance in unison and her smiling back as if it wasn't weird as hells.

He doesn't think that all people wealthy enough for this sort of household are inherently as bad as the worst of them or anything, he just doesn't like it here.

(He's not sure how all this works, with two people running the household. It's not uncommon for servants to be sworn to secrecy, but told to keep secrets from the head of the house? That seems like it could put them in a difficult position.)

As uncomfortable as S'ria is, this is still a kind and reassuring thing to hear.

(Is that really on them, though?)

[cantankerouscatfish]

bro wtf, this is late May weathers. get outta here.

[sunburnacoustic]

Our sound is very English, but our live show is American.

— Matt Bellamy, on playing Woodstock 99, Billboard, August 1999

[violasmirabiles]

the parents are going up north for a couple of days thank FUCKING god its not enough but i havent been able to be insane in peace since FUCKING october and its . not to sound dramatic but Not Good For My Mental Health which i obviously cant let them know partly cos its not All their fault but also because im (irrationally!!!!!! irrationally) afraid theyll kick me out the second i say anything even remotely negative even jokingly. anyway my grand plan while theyre gone is to lie on couch and stare at ceiling (but, importantly, in the living room and not in my bedroom) and . well translating all the dollars trilogy event fics into finnish probably. insert that celibacy gif but edited so it says unemployed.