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clatterbane · 4 months

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Back home for long enough to have changed back into my sweatpants now. And pretty exhausted, but it was more than worth it.

A little more from this evening's big adventure!

I wasn't sure what to expect in terms of how the timeframe might work here for these things, but suspected that if they were saying doors open at 6 and the first band was supposed to go on at 7? This being Sweden, they might actually mean it. So, I thought I might do worse than to aim for around 6:30 getting there, to make sure I could find the accessible bathroom and everything while it was still quieter.

So yeah, after that little detour heading off the wrong way down our own fucking street to get to the bus stop? I actually caught a 6:38 bus there. 🙄 Which is a little too on brand.

But, at least I am consistent!

Where I was supposed to go after getting off the bus (follow the dotted line) vs. where I actually started going--and needed to consult Maps again--after some "it's too dark to read the street signs properly without working glasses" wrong turn:

Yeah, I rolled way the hell off in a strange direction down some side street, and things were really not looking right if I was not aiming for some apartments or a park.

Spotted once I got away from the park and sorta back on track, though. "DEATH TO FALSE PUNX"

I can't quite rely on doing the absolute damn opposite of whatever devil posing as my sense of direction is telling me to do, George Costanza style--but, it really can be tempting at times. The results could hardly be more frustrating.

Somewhat back on track but still having very little idea where the fuck I was going, with the freaking Maps app open in my lap, I did eventually find the right address. And then wasn't much less confused.

Because Maps was indeed pointing me down this random industrial-looking alley. 🤔

This is looking back out toward Norra Grängesbergsgatan, where I had turned in. By that point, I could hear music and figured I was at least getting warm. After trying the closest couple of (unmarked, locked) doors I could find to where the sound seemed to be coming from, thankfully some guy came by to park his bike so I caved and asked him where the club entrance was.

"Just go back around another side of the building and turn by the old red truck and the toxic waste drums! You can't miss it."

Not what Random Guy actually replied, but yeah. He did kindly point me in the right direction. Automatically opting for English, after hearing whatever frazzled attempt at asking for directions came out of my mouth by that point. This would not be the first or last awkwardness of the night, but I survived.

By the time I got to the actual entrance, it was like 7:15 and the first opener hadn't really gotten going yet. Ended up not being terrible timing, after all the fun getting there this evening.

Especially now that I have seen some landmarks to look out for, pretty confident that I could get myself back there without too much trouble, at least. I am on MUCH firmer ground with navigating by landmarks. Though, that did work better back home in a less built-up environment with way more varied terrain. (I say, as I am remembering having to repeatedly, say, go turn around in somebody's cow pasture once the pavement ran out and shit like that. 😒 Still not sure exactly where some of the places I ended up were, pre-GPS access.)

And it did seem worth going back to Plan B. Pretty chill environment, and they do get some good shows. Pretty much everything I've been vaguely interesting in seeing so far here in town. Glad to have finally trekked over there to check it out.

#personal #clatterbane ventures forth #malmö #this is not even a very big city #i need to get out more

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veveisveryuncool · 6 months

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half-remembered landscapes from places you can't quite recall

#slowly revealing my ado backstory through extremely vague lazy comics #did she have parents? people that cared for her? a family? she doesnt know and therefore its never touched upon #hc adeleine cant draw humans very well because. well. shes the only one she can recall.#but sometimes places will seep through her memory from a time even before the Big Winter #green trees and beaches and cities not covered in snow #the inherent existentialism of longing for a family that looks like you even when you cant remember the last time you spoke to another human #kirby series #adeleine kirby #ribbon kirby #veves ultra cool art #i havent made a vague depressing adopost for two seconds?? that needs to change immediately

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un-pearable · 2 months

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the kyoshi flashback in Avatar Day and the sheer scale of ba sing se in comparison to…. literally everywhere else in the world really has me thinking about the politics that lead to such distinct “nations”. it makes way more sense for a land as vast as the earth kingdom to have once been earth kingdoms with local land disputes between feudal lords - as we see with the conflict kyoshi ended - only for a world-spanning war to have driven first the lords to unite under ba sing se’s banner for protection, and then as the war continued, increasing waves and waves of refugees and oma shu standing as the only remaining hold out due to their unique position (top of a mountain - most other earth kingdom towns we see are in valleys) such would explain how many ruins and ghost towns we see throughout s2 but also the improbability of a land that big to be unified under a single leader for that long

#text✨#just pondering i don’t want to do research about if they’ve actually spoken about this #hm. i think it’d be very interesting if the beifongs are descended from a former lordship. would explain even folks in ba sing se recognizin #the name and crest…..#anyway i think smthn similar happened to the water tribes . i like the idea that the village we see in the south is only one of many but i #really like the idea that the north only has such a big city bc their miscellaneous tribes banded together #and i’m very interested in the political strife that would result in #different clans with different practices all piled on top of each other… the myth of homogeneity is BORING give me cultural diversity bryke #also…. another layer of tragedy in the loss of regional cultures in both the earth kingdom and northern water tribes as their populations #were condensed into urban environments

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cuntwrap--supreme · 2 months

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I've been doing a lot of grocery delivery in the country lately, so I ordered myself a nice bumper sticker so I fit in with everyone else's stuff :)

I've seen a lot of these lately, but they were all of a pride flag I don't recognize. Not sure which gender/sexuality has the red and white stripes with the blue with white stars in the corner, but I guess it's an ok design. The rainbow is the traditional LGBT flag, though, so I feel it symbolizes the collective queer community a little better and will be a little more noticeable/recognizable than niche flags, like this stars and stripes guy.

#queer #pride #rainbow #flag #gay #lgbt #fr tho I've seen so many q-anon and trump stickers that i feel like this'll either be really funny or I'll get my windows smashed in #for some reason the country here isn't just chill people eeking out a living doing what they can #it's all super well off people who immigrated from elsewhere in the us and are incredibly aggressive #I'm from the middle of nowhere. country folk are typically very kind even if they're a little ignorant to shit like being gay or trans.#but this is the kind of people where i got called a dyke twice just walking through kroger #i had the person behind me at mcdonalds yelling about my sticker that says i don't break for kids #anyone i know who has lived in that area for a long time hates all these new people #they've driven up housing prices to be just as much as in the city. they're all republicans who fled California or Illinois...#...and they brought with them their more radical views and hateful big-city attitudes #like yeah. this wasn't a place to be comfortably out as gay beforehand. now it's actively hostile instead of you get weird stares kinda shit

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slavicafire · 8 months

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as much as I hate the shadow cursed lands, act II is just. incredible. awe. the best part of the game, both in the terms of writing, level design, quests and character progression, music, everything. beautiful

#beware the serpent at the gate #bg3 #I say that very much as an absolute 'big city in rpg' lover. cities are my favourite. yet act II > actIII #the thorm family................ hearteyes. great writing even if at moments a bit on the nose with the tropes and cliches

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simandy · 10 months

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My guys. It was an honor to blog with you

#big spider in my window. outside #radius: i dont know. big. the size of the bottom of a small BOTTLE #i will die. very sorry #tw spiders #tw spider #spiders tw #spider tw #spider #spiders #many tags as possible bc i know arachnophobia is a HUGE thing and my brother would die if he ever KNEW this spider exists next to him #ive never seen a spider this huge i didn't even know they could exist in big cities 🥲#never felt this stereotypized in my life. come to brazil #nonsims #non sims

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a-s-levynn · 4 months

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So i had a dream last night which wasn't a nightmare and i even remember most of it! which is super exciting. I barely ever remember dreams that are just simply that so this is a fairly rare occasion for me.

It was weird tho

But it was.. i don't even know what it was so let me ramble about it in the tags a bit

#there was this bioluminescent and also biotoxic creature in a city at night #it was bipedal sort of humanoid shaped but with definitive deep sea features #it had that transparent skin and flesh and body with bioluminescing highlights #which i have no idea how it worked because the entire dream took place in a city enviroment on very much dry land but it's a dream innit #the face was definitely not human more a jumble of fishy features #it was gorgeous btw in a humanoid monster sort of fascinating way #it had this weird feel to it that it's something very old that should not be here now.. some sort of reminiscence of a bygone era #i might try to draw it but i don't know how successful i'd be to be honest #anyway so i was part of a group (don't know what kind exactly) and i never seen any of them i just knew they existed #and there was this innate knowledge that the creature was kind of hunting or more like luring us but we also were hunting it #i don't know if it did something to us before or we just had this unexplainable pull towards it but we definitely were fixated on it #and it was supposed to be a big threat even just by existing and walking around but also would have been bad if it was dead #but i don't know why was it so bad because the “toxicity” of the creature wasn't lethal it just made you stuck in a blissful delirious stat #just by being too close to it and which in most cases would fade when it moved away so the other alternative felt way worse #cuz if it would die something else would have gotten loose which would have been worse than the delirium #it was some sort of unstoppable deadly madness i think.. at least that was what i felt the dream eluded to #and i think we wanted to neutralize it somehow but we had no idea how to avoid disaster that surely would come if it dies #but it would have also revitalize nature on a basically divine scale by giving it's body back to it so there was this dilemma the whole tim #but none of us would have any answers so we just followed this inner draw regardless of the uncertainty #and the entire dream was basically us lureing the creature somewhere but simultaniously it was somehow luring us in as wel #to the same spot #it was a vast moonlit fieald outside of city bounds surrounded with tall dark trees and the sky was littered with stars #and a sharp cliff to one side #so we arrived there and we were standing on opposite sides and look towards each other #but looking into the creatures eyes literally woke me up #there was a noise it made and i know i understood it as words inside the dream but i can't remember what it was after waking just the noise #and that was it #it wasn't long i think tho it felt that way

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softle0 · 1 month

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I think it’s pretty obvious ea is going to announce a fairy’s pack soon… first of all, I HOPEE this is just a game pack like all the occults, cause doing a whole ep for that would be insane. Second of all. Honestly for me, I’m not excited at all about that, I never get to play with occults, is not my gameplay style so for me this is just meh… what I would prefer is worlds with new cultural representation… we’re lacking of worlds based on Latin America countries, European countries, more Asian countries, African countries, I know a lot of ppl will enjoy the fairy’s for sure, but I think I speak for the majority of us that we prefer better cultural appreciation for everyone…

#I’m so done with ppl saying selvadorada is a representation of Mexico because is not. it’s a very fairy representation of Latin America #and not at all #like I get it we have jungles and ofc ppl live in places like that BUT NOT THE MAJORITY OF US #Ik there’s a lot in other countries that have so much potential but im speaking for my country #and here in Mexico we have sooo much #the diversity is insane #we have jungles/desert/the most beautiful beaches #(even a pink one)#big cities / really beautiful towns with lots of history and culture #they can do an insane ep of this and ik ppl will enjoy it cause one thing Mexico have is that is very magical…#even if is not Mexico I would totally prefer another Asian/european and African inspired works #worlds**#and I would totally enjoy those more than some fairies tbh

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daily-hanamura · 9 months

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#persona 4 golden #p4g #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #i think a lot about the depth of yosuke's loneliness - away from th distractions of the city and losing even the superficial r/s that he ha #of course he would hate inaba #the moment he arrived in the town he was treated as an enemy for reasons he couldn't control #junes did destroy local businesses and the townspeople's fear of big chain capitalism is justified #BUT their treatment of him was not. i wanna say that the people in inaba were awful but actually theyre just... people.#they couldnt fight Junes or engender systemic change so they take it out on him instead and ostracize him with names and tacks in his shoes #and to add to that all of his already existing self doubt and identity issues #and the problems of growing up as a teenage boy in the early 2010s figuring out his place in society #i think yosuke is very similar to kanji in that both of them have that same struggle of their self being misaligned with social expectation #so they play up this exaggerated caricature or image based on who they think they are supposed to be #in kanji's case it's an image that lets him control his rejection - he looks like a scary gang member so ofc no one wants to be near him #in yosuke's case he goes in the opposite direction of desperately wanting to fit the mould or image of a typical teenage boy #except there isnt such a thing as an “average” teenage boy so hes just such a mess sometimes #but masking so that hes accepted by others as just a teenage boy and not the prince of junes or anything? yeah.#haha my heart #he's good with his queue

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opens-up-4-nobody · 10 months

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#hello to anyone who happens to b interested in the saga of my life... also maybe the irl person i gave my url to... hopefully my blog #didnt freak her out too much lol. anyway so its been a busy week? 2 weeks? month? year? life? its been a lot. my parents helped me move #across the country from the desert to somewhere that's beautiful and green. my dad is so jealous of me lol its so so so pretty and theres s #so much to do. will i do any of it? that remains to be seen but im gonna try to be better about that sort of thing. try to get some help #with the thoughts in my head that keep me from doing and enjoying most things. its weird like im decorating my new room which i love. the #location and living situation seem ideal and i really hope i can stay here all 5 years of my program but i was picking a lot of bright #colors and now it feel uncomfortable. like if i wear things that r too bright or my room is too bright without dark contrast it feel weird #like if im wearing it it kinda makes me feel sick. idk what thats abt. anyway. ill try to heal my brain and im just so happy to b out of the #southwest. i was so so so excited when we were leaving thr city and even more so when we left the state. i cant believe im here. in December #it felt like a million years away and i really truely could not fathom how i was gonna survive that long. my thoughts were so distorted. but #i did and here i am. and in like a month i should b starting my phd program and my parents were telling me how excited ppl r for me and #jealous of where im living and im glad. im glad they're excited. i think i am too but its under a layer of: if i get excited it wont happen #im not allowed to b excited or it wont happen. which is irrational but ya kno. anyway so that's yeah. im so happy to have a fresh start and #the town seems super cool. a liberal blip in a sea of... not that so theyre very visibly pride forward haha and i think itll b way easier #for me to get around without driving. and im gonna try to make friends. i need someone to tell me where to get tattoos haha. so yea im happy #but exhausted and i dont wanna go back to work and so so greatful to my parents for being wonderful ppl idk how bc both of them had fucked #up childhoods. like my mum will say the saddest shit and im like bro this is y i don't wanna talk to my grandma fuck her and my dads parents #r so fucked. like my nana is the reason im so fucking control freaked out but i kno i have issues and she has no insight and thinks shes #better than everyone. anyway hopefully i can get back to drawing a posting more now. ive been drawing it its been in a sketch book #like an actual sketch book for sketching big ideas thst r gonna take fucking forever to draw 😭#so that's all. just uprooted my whole life. thats all. but in a good way :-]#unrelated

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altruistic-meme · 3 months

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every day i get 2 steps closer to uprooting my life and moving across the country without warning.

#sometimes i think this might be the only thing that would fix me #other times i remember that as isolated as i feel here at least there are my sisters here #and that running away to a new state risks even higher isolation and lonliness even alongside #the idea of a fresh start and a new beginning #and that life isn't a tv comedy where I'll run away to some big city several states away and suddenly and quickly #discover a large friend group who love me for me and who i can genuinely feel safe and comfortable with #in a way i haven't felt since i was very young :)#but a boy can dream can't they #shh ac

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perilegs · 13 days

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being homesick and changing as a person so much the place you grew up in isn't your home anymore is such a core part of ati and upon further inspection i think i was projecting a little