#tales of a city

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

My latest essay is about city building games! I cover 6 different games, discussing resource allocation, district usage, and the ways people shape the place they live!

Transcript here.

Games discussed include:

City Planning Department by Kaelan Doyle-Myerscough, Andrew Tran, Alex Dawson, William Wu, Paul Geldart, and Raul Altosaar

The Quiet Year by Avery Alder

Ex Novo by Martin Nerurkar and Konstantinos Dimopoulos

We, the City by Teo Kai Xiang

I Went to Bourbon, Indiana Once by Beth Jackson

Tales of a City by Hessan Yongdi

[sentient-stove]

“Not Metropolis?”

“If I’m going to be dealing with superheroes, I don’t want to also deal with aliens.”

She was still keeping decent pace with him- perks of not actually being a person he guessed- but Gotham was getting on his nerves. Probably on purpose, the city didn’t want him here and She apparently was willing to annoy him to a second death over it.

“And New York?”

“Shit’s fucked.” Danny offered. “I don’t even want to know what’s going on there.”

“Gods. Above the Empire State Building.” She said, and he tripped on cracked sidewalk, barely slowing his run.

“See? You’re my best bet. I’m late for class and your school’s the opposite direction.”

“I don’t go to school.”

“Tell that to your ‘Gotham Academy for the wealthy or whatever the name is’ uniform and your schoolgirl ponytail.”

“I’m a representation of the people.” She shot him a look, eyes again glowing as the spirit tapped into the the energy around her. “Amity Park, go home.”

“Lady Gotham, respectfully. Nah.”

[secretmellowblog]

I love how Les Mis (the original novel) is so fundamentally hopeful about the power of rebellion and activism. So many adaptations/retellings of Les Mis imply its message is kinda shallow and defeatist— something about how rebellion never changes anything/always puts you back right where you began, so it’s wiser to never stand against the government. But that’s not the novel at all.

The original novel, which Hugo wrote as a barely-veiled call to action against the government of Napoleon III, is so convinced of the value of resistance against tyranny. The message is not that resistance is doomed to fail— it is that resistance to an unjust government is imperative, and it will be a moral victory even if the resistance is crushed.

The June rebellion in Les mis May have been repressed, and it may have failed in its goal of overthrowing the monarchy— but later rebellions did eventually succeed. France doesn’t have a monarchy anymore. A democracy is now in place, the way the rebels of 1832 would’ve wanted. There’s an undercurrent of hope throughout Les Mis— it’s not a story about how rebellion/resistance is futile, it’s a story about how it’s necessary, and about how positive social change is not only possible but also inevitable.

[helenofblackthorns]

Alec and Clary hating each other's guts in cob is iconic & funny but what makes it so much funnier is how quickly they get over it. by the epilogue they're both like "I feel so bad about all the mean & completely untrue things I said to you and for being really shitty/shoving you against a wall/nearly causing you to die :( im so sorry. anyway, let's never tell Jace any of this k?" and then proceeded to never acknowledge any of it again. by coa it's like it never happened at all. like it doesn't even get a mention in their inner monologues or anything. the one time it does come up is in tftsa due to Simon's incomplete memories & him being under the impression Alec doesn't like Clary. and when he brings it up to Alec his immediate response is this

like I'm obsessed with their dynamic, nobody's doing it like them

[lowpolyanimals]

Sleeping Cats from Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1

[megairea]

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

[lepetitdragonvert]

Scottish Folk Tales and Legends

Artist : Nika Goltz (1925-2012)

[pascalcampion]

Late night thoughts With a little help from Dickens

[vintage-russia]

Russian opera singer Maria Cherkasskaya as Fevroniya in Rimskiy-Korsakov's opera "The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya",Saint Petersburg (1900s)

[goryhorroor]

day 26 of horror: more underrated/obscure essential horror films

[unicornofthemidwest]

Girls will see narrative foils who hate each other but can never be separated and be like "they should kiss"

[nevertoomanyspiders]

the boy(s), Scarecrow or Страшила as depicted in Alexander Volkov's Magic Land related media.

Fantastic Journey to Oz / Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты (Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers), 2017

Adventures in the Emerald City / Приключения в Изумрудном городе (1999-2000)

1959 illustration by Leonid Vladimirsky.

some of the cutest heckin scarecrow designs in media aaaaaaaa

[disneytva]

The perfect pairings as Lumity and Starco compete for the best couple alongside a TBA couple hosted by Tilly Green

"The Chibi Couple Game" premieres Wednesday at 8PM EST only on Disney Channel.

[tales-of-moonlight-city-blog]

Dusting off this account with a new piece...well, kind of new to the public xD

I drew this a long time ago, started as quick sketches to see how their human versions would look, and I had to draw them out xD Honestly this was very fun and I might sketch more in the future! But for now, enjoy the boys!

[paraheronstairs]

can we please talk about the scene where clary asks jace (controlled by sebastian) to read to her and he picks A TALE OF TWO CITIES BY CHARLES DICKENS

and she describes the golden written title and the dedication that can’t be read BECAUSE IT FADED WITH TIME

you could only see “with hope at last, william herondale”

because i cried in that moment as if the ceilling fell on my bookshelf