#the black box

[fancypantsrecords]

aivi & surasshu - The Black Box | Infloresce Records | 2024 | Black

[teamfortressnames]

[africanamericanreports]

The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison—these writers used words to create a livable world—a "home" —for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. https://amzn.to/43My6NH

[mayhamster]

Ferality continues, I’m deranged

[theblackboxcomic]

Cast photo!

[rollingstonesdata]

Rolling Stones’ Lost Gems: Bill Wyman’s Black Box (1974)

About The Rolling Stones’ The Black Box Lost Compilation *By Marcelo SonaglioniIn February 1974, Bill Wyman began assembling a new Rolling Stones compilation album using the Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Unit. This project, titled The Black Box, aimed to include a collection of unreleased studio tracks from the band’s archives. However, despite the initial work put into the album, the idea was…

[twilightstation]

Based on Luxu's reaction I'm fairly sure whatever is in the box isn't particularly wild, maybe its just a Person of Interest-ass backup of Daybreak Town

[majorshatterandhare]

[ID: Eight photos from a live performance of the Mechanisms. All of the photos are darkly lit, yet clear, except for the last one which is brightly lit with a dark background.

Photo One: A somewhat scrambled Ghost Cube Rubik's cube puzzle sits on a black stage floor, in the lower left quarter of the frame. The plastic of the cube is white while the faces are black. In the upper right corner a black shoe is visible but very out of focus.

Photo Two: A photo of Kofi Young, in costume as Marius von Raum, playing the mandolin and singing in to a microphone on a stand in front of them. They have light brown skin, short dark hair, and a short beard. They wear a white button up shirt underneath a red waistcoat with a red ascot tied around their neck. They have a goggle on their for head above their eye and are snarling into the microphone. They are facing toward the right side of the frame. The background is dark grey.

Photo Three: A photo of Jonny Sims, in costume as Jonny d'Ville. He is sitting with his body facing toward the left side of the frame, but his head is turned toward the right side of the frame. He has light skin and short, shaggy, light brown hair and facial hair. He wears a white shirt under a brown vest. His right ear had a metal hoop in it. He has something around his neck which is black with silver eyelets in it. He has goggles on his forehead and wears vein-y black makeup around his eyes. Behind him there is something large and brown. The hand of Frank on their bass' neck can be seen entering from the left behind Jonny's head. The background is dark grey.

Photo Four: A photo of Frank Voss, in costume as Ashes O'Reilly, playing their five-string bass. Their body is facing the viewer, but their head is facing towards the right side of the frame. They have medium brown skin and black hair, which is mostly down, but in the visible side, two cornrows pull the hair back. They have black eye makeup on that extends in a wide line to their hair line, and in a thin line down their nose. They wear black lipstick and have metal earring in their lobes. They are wearing a black, button up shirt, a red tie, metal dog tags, and white suspenders. The strap of their bass is black. Their left hand is visible on the neck of their bass and their nail are painted red; they have several bracelets on their wrist. The background is dark grey.

Photo Five: A photo of Tim Ledsam, in costume as Gunpowder Tim, singing into a microphone on a stand in front of him. This photo is taken from below Tim. He has light skin and long, curly brown hair and a brown beard. He wears a white collared shirt underneath a light brown coat. He has welding goggles on top of his head. The background is dark grey.

Photo Six: A photo of Jonny's hand holding the mostly solved Ghost cube. His nails are painted alternating black and red. Both of his arms are resting on his legs, which wear black trousers, and his left hand holds his Shure Super 55 microphone. His torso is somewhat visible, but blurring. Behind him is black and red.

Photo Seven: A photo of Kofi's torso, playing the mandolin. Both of their hands are visible, and the right one wears a red sleeve and a fingerless black glove, which has been decorated to have what appears to be bolts attached, parallel to the metacarpal bones of the hand. They are wearing dark trousers and Frank's arm can be seen next to/behind them, in the pocket of their trousers. The background is dark grey.

Photo Eight: A photo of six octokittens on a circular red table. The octokittens are shaped like a sitting cat, except out the bottom eight tendrils stick out instead of legs. The closest one to the camera is spit own the middle, dark grey and brown on the body, with large yellow button eyes and a small yellow nose. Its tendrils are brown and grey. The next closest octokitten is just behind and to the viewers left of the first one. It is all brown and has one orange/tan eye and one clear yellow eye, which is a bit bigger than the orange one, as well as a small shiny yellow nose. To the left of that one is a grey octokitten with alternating grey and brown tendrils and two red eyes, one of which is larger than the other, and a small orange nose. Behind and between these last two is a black octokitten, with blue eyes and a bright white nose. Much further back is another black kitten, but these one seems to shine green. It has one larger orange eye and a red eye with a small brown nose. The final octokitten seems to be made out of a cotton like material, as opposed to the velveteen of the rest. This one is pattern green and blue botanical on a white background. It is face down on some grey tendrils behind and to the right (outside) of the first. The background of the photo is dark grey.

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The Bifrost Incident Debut

July 2016, The Good Ship in Kilburn

[buggirl-lunesta]

[elitisim]

so, i hit 1k sometime in the beginning of June ✨🥳. Which means my incessant yapping about absolutely nothing on every post I make and multiple months-long unannounced hiatuses didn't scare all of you off yet, so thanks for that y'all.

No, but for real tho, I genuinely want to express my gratitude to each and every one of you for putting up with me and all my BS, so my 1k+ gift exclusively consists of hairs requested by YOU!  Which is totally about giving back to the community that has supported me and NOT just an excuse to dump all the requests that have been sitting here piling up for months.

there are only 7 hairs in the preview image but a bunch of these are from sets, so all-in-all you're getting 17 female hairs!

INFORMATION:

None of this is my original work! All mesh credit goes to @sheabuttyr, @ebonixsims, @daylifesims, @simstrouble!

Set contains 17 hairs for for Teen ➤ Elder Females

due to how the meshes where made the Poloma Passion Twists and Monae Beads don't have root/tip controls so they’re only 2 channels the rest are 4 like normal.

credits, preview pictures, links to originals, poly counts and individual download links for every hair is under the cut.

polycounts are ALL over the place. Lowest hair is +10k, Highest one is +32k. Please reference the list under the cut before downloading!

Files comes in two flavors: Merged and Unmerged

Both types contain the exact same type of stuff (package file and preview images) except version one is one big merged file and the version has individual files.

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Tagging list: @pis3update, @naturalhair-sims3, @xto3conversionsfinds, @kpccfinds

@simstrouble Adeline Braids//22.2k poly// requested by @paigeywaigeyy

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@sheabuttyr: London Locs // 16.2k Poly //requested by @thesirensims

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@daylifesims: Honey Sun Clover Dreadlocks v1// 10.8K Poly //requested by anon

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@daylifesims: Honey Sun Clover Dreadlocks v2// 10.9K Poly // Under hats // fully recolorable// 1 channel// requested by anon

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@ebonixsims: Monae Beadset V1//32.7K Poly! // Under hats // Recolorable beads 4 channels//no tips or root controls due to mesh//requested by anon

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@ebonixsims: Monae Beadset V2//30.5K Poly! // Under hats // Recolorable// 4 channels//no tips or root controls due to mesh//requested by anon

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@daylifesims :Honey Sun Alfalfa Braids v1// 10.1K Poly // Under hats // fully recolorable// 1 channel// requested by anon

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@daylifesims :Honey Sun Alfalfa Braids v2// 10.1K Poly // Under hats // fully recolorable// 1 channel// requested by anon

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@sheabuttyr: Daija Dreads V1 // 28.6k Poly //requested by anon.

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@sheabuttyr: Daija Dreads V2 // 30.8k Poly! //requested by anon

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@sheabuttyr: Paloma Passion Twist V1// 25k Poly//requested by @paigeywaigeyy

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@sheabuttyr:Paloma Passion Twist V2// 25k Poly//requested by @paigeywaigeyy

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@sheabuttyr:Paloma Passion Twist V3// 25k Poly//requested by @paigeywaigeyy

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@sheabuttyr:Paloma Passion Twist V4// 25k Poly//requested by @paigeywaigeyy

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@sheabuttyr:Paloma Passion Twist V5// 25kPoly //requested by @paigeywaigeyy

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@sheabuttyr:Paloma Passion Twist V6// 25kPoly //requested by @paigeywaigeyy

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@sheabuttyr:Paloma Passion Twist V7// 25kPoly //requested by @paigeywaigeyy

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@sheabuttyr:Paloma Passion Twist V8/ /25kPoly //requested by @paigeywaigeyy

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[jackie-mae]

Is your pure vanilla blind? I love your art!

Indeed he is! The kind that's not pure black but just absurdly blurry. He also takes every opportunity to make jokes about it. Which to his friends who've lived and known him for so long, can get a bit old.

[borednblk]

why have the black women of tumblr come to the conclusion that ghetto black women don’t deserve love or representation?

like what’s wrong with a character liking rap music, or liking to have her nails, lashes and hair done?

it’s like yall don’t realize that you’re being anti-black and elitist asf. like yall complain and complain about how writers on here never “write characters like you” and honestly if you feel that way then write it yourself?

ghetto black women never get good representation in media because of people LIKE YOU. like god forbid someone writes characters like the people in their everyday life or like them because they ALSO thought “i don’t get good representation either” like what the fuck is wrong with yall.

i love every single ghetto, loud, “stereotypical” (which makes no fucking sense) black woman that loves to have long nails, to wear wigs and braids, loves have their lashes done and ones built like megan thee stallion and speak aave.

i love every single shy, quiet, nerdy black woman that loves wearing her natural hair no rocking her natural face and the ones skinny, thick, fat, short, tall, and whatever tf else.

like there is some actual representation you SHOULD be fighting for like more PLUS SIZE reader rep that isn’t the stereotypical “i hate my body” ass shit , more DARK SKIN reader rep that doesn’t have anything to do with the reader hating her skin tone or going through colorism, and some TALL reader rep but bitch you’re pissy because they made the reader like to wear wigs …like bitch are you DUMB???

bashing black woman writers on here because YOU don’t feel represented is fucking stupid. they take times out of THEIR days to write on this app and they DON’T get paid for this! so for the love for all things that are holy, if i hear another one of yall say some this shit imma beat your ass.

[kyri45]

Are these gonna be their wedding attires?

I mean- they could. Although traditionally they would be more towards a red/white palette for good luck and prosperity.

[majorshatterandhare]

A couple people asked in the notes “they used a rubik’s cube?!” It was a ghost cube.

[ID: A somewhat scrambled Ghost Cube Rubik's cube puzzle sits on a black stage floor, in the lower left quarter of the frame. The plastic of the cube is white while the faces are black. The faces are not squares. In the upper right corner a black shoe is visible but very out of focus. End ID]

[ID: A photo of Jonny's hand holding the mostly solved Ghost cube. His nails are painted alternating black and red. Both of his arms are resting on his legs, which wear black trousers, and his left hand holds his Shure Super 55 microphone. His torso is somewhat visible, but blurring. Behind him is black and red. End ID]

(Photos are from this post from wickedacephotos)

the Rubik's cube they used for TBI performances wasn't a prop, that's actually what the Black Box looked like

the reason it was corrupted was because lyf didn't solve it correctly

-mod fen

[pepsicolakillkill]

something that really struck me

[theblackboxcomic]

ANNOUNCEMENT

This blog has been empty for the past few months and I’m proud to say that this will be the case no longer. Unfortunately, as I have lost the files for every chapter from 1-5, I will have to start from scratch and rewrite those chapters as I update this comic. Chapter 6 is almost complete as it stands, so hopefully they should all be dropped within a reasonable time frame.