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i HaTE myseLf SO MUch. i CliCkeD An UNdEScRiptiVElY NAmED scRIpt FilE tHAt i MAde In 2011 WitHoUT tHiNkING Of THe PotENtIaL ConSequeNceS aND GUeSS WHaT it DoES? guEsS WhaT iT fuCkInG does. I BEt YoU Can’t GUesS

Amusing hypothetical:

You are given a magical coupon which, when redeemed, allows for you to have a photo taken while you hold an animal. Any real animal.

The animal will not harmed. At the conclusion of the photo session, if it was already alive, it will be returned to its place. If it is an extinct species, it is either returned to its own time, or a modern habitat suited to it if such an environment is deemed to exist.

What’re ya grasping

Nanuqsaurus

Bold.

#i am also going to chose a dino but I’m specifically picking the Spinosaurus

You do understand you’ll be holding the animal

I’m aware.

argentinosaurus

There’s really a very interesting trend here, I’m noticing

i'm going to cuddle it

Lwk, either the therizinosaurs or the ground/giant sloth. Idk, I just think it would be cool.

Giant leaftail gecko would be my pick.

micropacycephalosaurus just for the name and the possibilities. Because unlike the rest of you it’s not holding me, I am holding it.

I would pick a passenger pigeon. There's a small chance that by doing that, I could bring the species back, and I would at minimum get a photo with a bird that I've heard tale of my entire life.

(booming voice)

🗣📢 GOD SPEAKING. TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS. YES YOU HAVE THEM. YES THEY LOVE YOU. TALK TO THEM. SIFFRIN PLEASE. ALSO YOU NEVER CALL ANYMORE I HOPE YOU REMEMBERED TO EAT YOUR VEGGIES

Many of you here

These kinds of responses are my FAVORITE. Some examples to answers to this question I have heard:

1.

“Okay, and who’s the president?”

“Obama, no wait, shit *vehemently* fuck, I hate him… what’s his name…”

“It’s okay, you know who he is.”

2.

“Who’s the president?”

“*drunkenly angry and confused* ..uhhhhhhh…Orange… damn it what’s the fuck’s name….

“Yup, good enough.”

3.

“And who’s the president,”

“Not fuckin’ Obama!”

“I feel ya.”

4.

“Who’s the president- wait, nevermind you’re from Korea you said, right? So who’s-“

“Everybody knows that Trump-bitch.”

“Oh, well, alright then.”

5. (My personal favorite)

“Who’s the president?”

“Ew.”

“Good enough.”

My roommate is a neurologist and has to do this check all the time. Her all-time favorite so far has been “ay dios mio” during which the woman was vigorously crossing herself.

lol me too , lady

One time I got “that orange fuck” from a very cute little old lady with urosepsis

I have - quite unintentionally - contributed to this phenomenon.

I was waking up from surgery in the post-op observation room, where they kept people before sending them off to the ICU. The nurse was talking to me as I was semi-awake, telling me that as soon as it was ready, I would be sent to room 2008.

I did not hear the word “room”.

I started trying to sit up and get out of bed (entirely unsuccessfully), shouting (mumbling forcefully), “He’s not president yet! I have to warn everyone!”

That’s awesome. Thank you for trying to warn us

i’ve been looking for this post for ages and it finally crossed my dash again

(( *smiles* the post is back))

Paramedics had to stop asking “who’s the prime minister?” in Australia because it changed so often that not knowing the answer wasn’t really all that indicative of anything.

One paramedic reported receiving the answer “I haven’t watched the news today”.

Meanwhile in Germany, the joke goes that a teenager is waking up in a hospital bed, the nurse asks them who the chancellor is and they say, “hang on are you telling me that can change?”

These kinds of responses are my FAVORITE. Some examples to answers to this question I have heard:

1.

“Okay, and who’s the president?”

“Obama, no wait, shit *vehemently* fuck, I hate him… what’s his name…”

“It’s okay, you know who he is.”

2.

“Who’s the president?”

“*drunkenly angry and confused* ..uhhhhhhh…Orange… damn it what’s the fuck’s name….

“Yup, good enough.”

3.

“And who’s the president,”

“Not fuckin’ Obama!”

“I feel ya.”

4.

“Who’s the president- wait, nevermind you’re from Korea you said, right? So who’s-“

“Everybody knows that Trump-bitch.”

“Oh, well, alright then.”

5. (My personal favorite)

“Who’s the president?”

“Ew.”

“Good enough.”

My roommate is a neurologist and has to do this check all the time. Her all-time favorite so far has been “ay dios mio” during which the woman was vigorously crossing herself.

lol me too , lady

One time I got “that orange fuck” from a very cute little old lady with urosepsis

I have - quite unintentionally - contributed to this phenomenon.

I was waking up from surgery in the post-op observation room, where they kept people before sending them off to the ICU. The nurse was talking to me as I was semi-awake, telling me that as soon as it was ready, I would be sent to room 2008.

I did not hear the word “room”.

I started trying to sit up and get out of bed (entirely unsuccessfully), shouting (mumbling forcefully), “He’s not president yet! I have to warn everyone!”

That’s awesome. Thank you for trying to warn us

i’ve been looking for this post for ages and it finally crossed my dash again

(( *smiles* the post is back))

Paramedics had to stop asking “who’s the prime minister?” in Australia because it changed so often that not knowing the answer wasn’t really all that indicative of anything.

One paramedic reported receiving the answer “I haven’t watched the news today”.

Meanwhile in Germany, the joke goes that a teenager is waking up in a hospital bed, the nurse asks them who the chancellor is and they say, “hang on are you telling me that can change?”

Having completed my personal work related to my main character who currently belongs to the YouTube channel dreamer Dreiden as the channel's official mascot.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

happy 10 years of spiders georg everyone

“average meme lasts 5 years” factoid actually just statistical error. average meme lasts 30 days or less. Spiders Georg, which started on this day 10 years ago, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

AND HAPPY 13TH BIRTHDAY

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period.  And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!

Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono.  It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back.  Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.

Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.

More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.

This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy.  There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look.  Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress.  Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again.  But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on.  The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it.  The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.

And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:

Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco:

BRACKET 6: FINALS

Hey, my followers; you should vote Alice~

It's a pretty name, and this supposedly intimidating dragon over here is rather flustered by the idea of it, as you can see by all the defensive rants she's gone on over it~

Let's make her squirm a bit more before the fun's over, yeah?

I have opinions about urbanism and all of you will be subjected to them, whether you want to be or not.

Brutalism is good and should have never been abandoned. It's cheap, makes cities into canvases for graffiti, provides easy opportunities for services to be within walking distance or transit distance of literally anyone's home, and in general looks good.

Commie blocks are some of the best designed city blocks ever built, and more places should have copied them.

Trams should be everywhere, with trains acting as intercity transport and trams acting as intracity transport, with other auxiliary methods being available.

Cars should not be banned from every part of a city, but should be heavily regulated to ensure that they do not overtake the city's main purpose, which is to provide a comfortable and welcoming space for all of its citizens and visitors.

I am not saying this just to be contrary but because I like learning about how other people view the world. It starts of maybe negative but I am not saying my perspective is more correct then yours and it's definitely from personal bias on my end.

Aesthetics differ from person to person but I personally find brutalism depressing and alienating when I exist in it. The lack of colour and fine details in the architecture feels sterile and oppressive to me. Like a person trying to intimidate me. This is not objective fact just how I have felt in those spaces and that is probably because most brutalist architecture I have encountered have been tied to the American government and bureaucracy

I prefer Art Nouveau with lots of little details and colour and flowing lines because it feels like I can breathe more. Probably because most Art Nouveau architecture I have encountered has been places of rest and art and theatre

But that's just how I feel personally

I would love to genuinely know why, to you, brutalism looks good. What feels it invokes outside of practicality. What appeals to you about it

I can see some of it here with being a canvas for graffiti but I would love to hear more and see it through your eyes

This is a wonderful addition and I am fully willing to elaborate here-

So, brutalism. It's very easy to get it wrong, and there are applications of it that absolutely feel dead.

However, the same can be said of any architectural style: when done wrong, it feels wrong.

To us, brutalism feels like the ultimate expression of humanity's ability to create towering structures -- to build things that appear alien, yet serve a function for everyday people.

It doesn't need to be colorless, and doesn't need to lack fine detail -- I am horrible at remembering names, but there are developments in England and in the former soviet bloc which were built with this in mind, and which don't just appear as monoliths of sterile concrete.

The US did brutalism the worst, because they were focused on the cost above anything else, as usual.

The issue is that when people talk about brutalism, the points they tend to bring up are how Practical it is, and all other concerns get thrown out the window. Aesthetics are a human need, and ignoring that doesn't... work.

The Netherlands also did it well, although they fucked up when it came to maintenance -- just outside of the city center of Amsterdam, there was a beautifully designed neighborhood of 7 story brutalist skyscrapers built in the late 60s. They were intended to be cheap yet high quality housing, with integrated community centers, parks, and shops -- they failed at integrating this, and failed to properly connect it to the rest of the city via transit, which meant it ended up becoming a slum. However, when it was first constructed? They did it right. Rings of buildings with parks at their center, pathways tunneling under the structures of the buildings themselves allowing you to walk in and out easily, community spaces and the promise of integration into the wider network with ease.

The soviet bloc also did it well, creating the ethos of Commie Blocks, which were boilerplate copy-pasted apartment blocks that typically had 5 stories, and which were required to have a part, general store, and a couple other utilities within 500 feet of the bottom floor, and were required to have a mass transit stop within 1500 feet, as well as some requirements relating to hospitals and the like. This copy-paste approach led to a certain uncanniness, but also ensured that no person who lived in one was isolated from necessary services. The one thing they could've done better would've been to get local artists to paint on the outsides of the buildings -- that's one thing that I think every development lacks, but should have.

These buildings shouldn't be left grey. They should be surrounded by green, then painted on by the community who inhabits them -- without those factors, they feel sterile and dead.

So what I'm getting at is you see them as a blank canvas that a community, if properly supported by infrastructure, can then fill with their own light and colour as they see fit

It is not a living space until the people come together and make it alive

Ok yeah. I can see the appeal when depicted that way. In fact that sort of ethos can be applied to how spaceships in sci-fi can be designed

Like the enterprise in star trek is full of standard rooms that are copy pasted. They lack individuality and life as a floor plan or a dead ship. Neutrals and metal and sterile. But the enterprise doesn't feel sterile because the people in it make it a home. They paint and hold poetry meetings and create and make their standard quarters unique and theirs

I can see how that kind of approach when applied to brutalist living spaces makes it not a dull prison but place where community comes together to allow their unique perspectives and creativity and warmth to create something beautiful

I don't think I would ever personally want to live in a brutalist building still but I also wouldn't want to live in a city as I find them too overwhelming and stressful

But I can see how they can be more then the experiences I got in America and that their beauty comes from the people who live in it

Yeah, exactly! It's not everyone's thing, and I don't think it should be anywhere near universal -- but it should certainly be considered, in a lot of cases. It has both merits as a practical solution, and potential to become something beautiful if done right.

Efficiency does matter in a lot of cases, and brutalism has it in spades, even if it's harder to make it feel alive than other forms of architecture.

In the end, the ethos around it should be "don't just build it and leave it alone, put the work in and make it actually livable, and a community will form".

And also, do not build an entire city out of it, dear god. The city of 1.2 million proposed by one of the original brutalist architects made of entirely copy-pasted 6 story buildings is a fucking nightmare. Do not.

Thank you! This was enlightening and fun 😊

And yeah everything has it's place and brutalism if supported by infrastructure definitely has it's place

Anyway genuinely thank you for explaining. I like learning to see things from a different perspective

til more of the history of an area in my country, thank you for this.

When i read 'The Netherlands also did it well, although they fucked up when it came to maintenance -- just outside of the city center of Amsterdam, there was a beautifully designed neighborhood of 7 story brutalist skyscrapers built in the late 60s.' I thought surely that would not be the Bijlmer but it probably is.

This area being 'fucked up' is to me at least not known for its communities planning but lacking transportation, but for something else:

'On 4 October 1992, Israeli El Al Flight 1862 lost two engines shortly after take-off from Schiphol at 6 PM. The 338-ton Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed into two 11-storey council flats (Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg). 43 people were killed, 39 of them on the ground. This accident is known as the Bijlmerramp (Dutch for "Bijlmer disaster").'

now I'm gonna read up on if the disaster funds led to livability and transportation improvements, that would be nice

Oh I got some of the details wrong, whoops- yeah I was referring to the Bijlmer, didn't double-check the heights of the buildings, but yeah. The reason it became a slum was due to the lack of transit to and from city center, as well as the fact the government hoisted massive numbers of immigrants/refugees there a decade or two after construction without providing any actual support afterwards.

All in all, it was a monumental failure of the Dutch government.

If I walk into a Subway and ask them to make me a grilled cheese, do you think they’d do it?

Try phrasing it like “American cheese on six-inch Italian bread, toasted”

Good news:

Every time I think this post has died, someone brings it back and I am forced to relive possibly the worst sandwich I’ve ever eaten

I will never forget the flight I took to Paris in college and the tiny adorable child in the seat in front of me with his nose pressed against the window looking at the lights and squealing "OOOOOOH, C'EST MAGNIFIQUE!!!"

REAL!!!!

REAL!!!!!

my friend and i had to leave an ice cream shop once because a small child who sounded exactly like JFK ordered some rum raisin and we couldn’t fucking handle it

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I do! @modusoperand1