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#my city your mountains
peacefulj · 1 year
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My City, Your Mountains
Pairing: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 8,702
Summary:
The truth is, Eddie likes it when black and white become a morally gray area he can use to let the rules go for a while and watch them apply to someone else, a space where he’s allowed to beat someone – only figuratively nowadays – and feel good about the consequences.
Buck knows this, knows him, he teases and jokes like he always does because Eddie let him in once, years ago, and hasn’t tried to kick him out ever since.
or, Buck takes care of Eddie in more ways than one, and Eddie copes.
Ao3 link <3
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bleaksqueak · 2 months
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While i work I've been listening to an LP of the Telltale Walking Dead Games (the ones with clementine, I do not care about the others lmao). Ages ago when I played these I was well aware/amused that part of season 2 takes place in Parker's Crossroads/Parker's Run because I grew up right next to it and the detail stood out to me. But I never caught the line of "We'll head to parker's run. It's just up the road from here" until just right now. So I had a sort of "wait, where the fuck are they supposed to be right now?" (search)
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ARE YOU SHITTING ME LMAO So by process of elimination, since it's the only city with anything even remotely resembling a large home supply store, that would mean they're in my literal hometown. My tiny hometown in the middle of nowhere that's never in anything that barely anyone knows of. How in the fuck lmao
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ohyoufool · 4 months
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party people!
the setting of call of the champions, my latest check please fic, is the salt lake city olympics. which makes me ask...
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Probably a random question but how do you handle eye strain? I find myself staring at screens often and eventually it bites me back in the form of migraines
Hello Anon! (o^ ^o)ノ
I stare at my laptop and screen probably more than 10 hours a day, and that means using my eyes to focus on an extended period of time, which causes eye strain.
I don't really have migraines or any headaches really. In my case my eyes would get blurry real fast and I just gotta stop and do something else.
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My ophthalmologist told me to do this - 3 hours of eye strain (work), 15-20 minutes of rest (stop the eye-straining activity), and then continue again. Just like working out, our eyes have muscles too. It must rest for a while between reps to stay healthy and not overworked.
This might be a downer, but what I do between the reps is chores LMAO. I stay in a hostel, so I must clean my room, hand wash my clothes and hang them, fold the laundry, wipe the table, mop the floor. Heck. Anything. And then back to work again!
Other than that, this is just me and my routine but I like to walk. If I'm not too tired I'll wake up at 6 and start morning walking around the neighborhood for 30 minutes, and at like 8 PM I'd go for a walk again before pulling an all-nighter.
TL;DR : I move around and do chores or go outside for a walk. Do something else.
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Anyway, there you have it! Hope that answers your question ٩(。•́‿•̀。)۶
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heavencasteel420 · 3 months
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I blame Cold Case for making me associate "Leather and Lace" by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley with horrible 1980s teen violence. It's a nice song really!
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oatbugs · 23 days
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she says my heart is yours, from the caspian shores.
#in astana there is haunting symmetry. in the summer there are flowers breathing fresh air and fumes. in the winter ice covers the park#sole-deep so you let the LCD screen advertisements warm your heart. the serpent offers her a gold apple from a brass tree.#she bites the serpent. in london a biochemistry graduate becomes obsessed and beautiful. she designs gene sequencing devices.#she says the rubber components smell like cinnamon.#in tashkent the trees shine under the sun and the sky is vast. by the blue pond and the tall marble spires you see the fractal patterns#on the ceiling in her eyes. she feels like a strobe light firing onto your eyelids. she takes revenge. you can hear the water droplets fall#from into the fountain. she tells you about cre-lox knockout and how you should head into the city cafe and you cant#stop staring into her eyes and you can't listen very well. when she laughs all your hearts almost become an ocean.#in bishkek you suffer death by a thousand sunsets. your world is white and lilac and mountainous. you learn about the joy of#taking without giving. backstage of the opera theatre you kiss him again and again and again until briefly you are the apex.#in tehran the sun is almost as fervent as their full-up lungs (it takes up the span of your window. crisp edges through a particulate storm#they spend an hour making a 10-minute ride to chamran and the wheels are melting. the two girls in the car spend that time wisely.#the air is filled with smog so she breathes her instead. you like how she looks at you like she'll rip you apart.#here they sold the mountaintops. the girls take a brother'a army-issued rifle to the forest with them.#she says she could start a war. she says my heart is yours، from the caspian shores.
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nicejewishgirl · 7 months
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going to local ER instead since I’m losing too much blood, way too fast! last week was bad but this is scary and I need to be monitored ASAP!
#I’ll be watching all of your recs when I’m there 🙏#I also have so many updates and posts that I haven’t felt the guts to ever say#I’m sorry I’ve been a bad mutual but I’ve been a bad friend to all the online friends and friends from my university#im lucky I live in a condo community w/ lots of extention of family + help! my coastal city - particularly our part of the city#in a particular building where we all meet up together in the front on weekends#even at my sickest - I’m still pretty involved since we see eachother physically & I love cooking + baking for everyone on a 2x monthly#and we all walk the dogs together every afternoon in our dog walking by the harbor group#even then these old people have me in a group text and drop flowers off for me and me for them#living in a community is so helpful but it open my eyes that I’m not even just sick or even a bad friend but those two factors strained#my online relationships bc the effort was so much behind the scenes w/ my health and even typing something out that it makes messaging or#even blogging but I’d like to change that bc I want to be more overt online#and I explain how that relates to Palestine and findinfing joy + $$$ in this end stage capitalist nightmare#I want to be better but I also want to show people the joys of my city (a literal hidden gem yet is a national park) and so between fusing#ideas of environmentalism - community out reach & even descalation of yt Supremacist mentalities when doing outreach + volunteer#even our coastal environmental causes to such great causes that help indigenous latinx members of our community in particular#their rights and their accomplishments in agriculture & how fruitful this place is#we have the best strawberries + berries since they are indigenous plants but anyways from environmentalism to damn farmers markets#I live in a slice of heaven so why leave to go to LA and NYC when I create such beautiful joy by the ocean every day#we have such incredible water views in our condo along with the stunning plain mountains framing the water and sea of palm trees#every sunset is like Santa Barbara (we close!) w/ pink/purple/orange skies that are so vibrant that they make you take pictures constantly#especially with the herons nested there w/ there babies - so close to#is that we watch them all day long + the other coastal birds#all this Shit is random but I realized that if I put my effort into a few things academically that I haven’t even shared in these tags -#that I can have an incredibly fulfilling life while sick as long it pays for itself and I think I can do it w/ a few different plans I’m#creating but I’m setting up a couple of businesss for passive income - go back to grad schooo but for medical research or political science#IR my old life of international relations and start publishing my research on Palestine and Jewish studies#I just need to publish either medical or political but if I do that - have my east businesses that not only highlight my life#but may help the people and animals of my city#but I feel the change finally coming and maybe it took something like this to wake me up#so many funny typos but this was just a quick way to explain that I need to be more comfortable on video + online w/ you all but on tiktok
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vinylstitch · 5 months
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redoing our pinned lul
Frequent Posters + their tags under the cut!
NEON / Archie —he/they/it/zip/beep/bop— tags posts with #neon lights of the city 🚫
JETSETFUTURE —he/she/red/rad/ech/bam/hel/blo/nor/fag— tags posts with #balls deep in a code red mountain dew can 💢
Shady / Darnell —He/They + Make up neos if you’re sexy like that— tags posts with #wake up smell the coffee 🌃
Kitty —he/it/purr/mew/nya/kiss/lo/bow— tags posts with #pspsp here kitty kitty 🎀 ( ⚠️ NSFW POST WARNING ⚠️ — mostly mogai after dark terms, nothing too heavily nsfw )
Tough —he/they/to/tis— tags posts with #tough and tumblr ✖️
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ANNIE! —FIZZ/LEV/BUB/ZHE/SHE/BITE/BUG/RED/X3– tags posts with #TAKE A SWIG OF THIS! 👾
Kandi —she/any except he ( we’ve gotta be friends for that! :3 )— tags posts with #what are we having for dinner? kandi of course! 🍬
Two-Bit —he/sweet/she/shi/de/ser/fizz/hit/ACAB— tags posts with #shoot stars not guns🪙
Tomfoolery —he/it/ix/thon/dei/exp/mat/shey/ki/fag— tags posts with #up to some antics 🧨
Lavender —he/dye/spar/high/blitz/bang + she with trusted ppl— tags posts with #​u hate it when girls have guns dont u? 🎤
Cyclops —he/him— tags posts with #i’ve got my eye on you 🥨
Julian —he/they/fu/kitty— tags posts with #tales from the underground 🎮
Selever —de/bat/ev/it/he/dae/ve/lo— tags posts with #love casanova 🦇
Gold —He/They— tags posts with #A shimmer from the shadows 🌇
DJX —He/She/It/X/Any— tags posts with #brought to you by sick beatz radio 💿
Cyrix —it/he/co/fi/byte— tags posts with #welcome to the next level! 💚
Lewis —he/him— tags posts with #the taxidermy of lew and me 🕯️
Sonia — Sie/She/They/Vai — tags posts with #From the royal court of Princess Zelda 📚
Hazard --he/tox-- tags posts with #<CAUTION> watch your step ⚠
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carolrain · 1 year
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Five Songs
I was tagged by @mostlyinthemorning to list five songs that I listen to a lot or are important to me.
(I know I am a week behind, but what even is time?)
I limited myself to songs that are in my current best playlist and tried not to think *too hard* about it.
— Honesty - Noah Reid
— All of My Memories - Kathleen Edwards (a John Denver cover)
— The Date (Making Mountains out of Molehills) - Barbara Kessler
— Morning Song - Jewel Kilcher
— My Name Can’t Be Mama - The Highwomen
(I’m not tagging anyone because I assume you all did this a week ago.)
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multiverse-of-souls · 2 years
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@bythebonefire​ - 💞 💞 💞 💞 💞 for Sansby (post-game, Deltarune, private eye verse), Grillster, and SaffYarn :B
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"Is it weird to look forward to future when y’ere facin’ a death sentence? maybe, mm’ body hurts, my soul aches and i know i’m gonna die. Think i knew a long time before grillby realized it may be a possibility, i could have opted for hospice care from the beginning, Probably would have if not for grillby.”
Even now he’s sprawled out in a hospital bed, the uncomfortable itch of a specialized needle in his soul each time it beat, the aching boredom that came with being laid out for once not of his own accord. The familiar antiseptic smell.
“but he makes it worth prolonging this even if i know how it’ll end, i dun’ pretend not to, least not to myself. Part of me welcomes it, it’s not easy but i’m used to that, another day. another battle.”
he snickers a little to himself, alone in his room, he’s sure a nurse would be in to check on him soon. He wonders who’d it be, they were all nice but he was the most fond of this pink fish lady, if solely because she liked puns nearly as much as toriel.
“Wonder if he’d let write some puns into my eulogy? hehe, bet i could get a few chuckles.”
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“I wouldn’t think there’s much to say, he’s a fantastic guy, i’d been in his bar plenty of times before we’d really gotten to talking and he’d always been really nice...”
and kinky, very kinky, both of them were of course. But he had never expected grillby to be just as into it as he was, Hell he’d provided most of the more lewd ideas that they had either enacted on or were saving for a later date, just the thought had him flushed blue.
“I don’t know if i would have had ever had the courage to actually ask him out on a date though, So when he did, it might as well have been a dream come true and this thought hasn’t changed! if anything. it’s gotten even more applicable while we’ve been dating.”
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“It’s an odd experience to think about finally doin’ somethin’ for myself, used to helpin’ other people, To helpin’ paps. S’all good to, Makes me happy but pursuin’ this relationship makes me happy to and i like bein’ able to spoil him, Doesn’ make a dent in my life and frankly there’s nothing quite as nice as seeing how his flames light up when he realizes he’s gonna get spoiled again.”
There’s a pause of consideration before he adds.
“Huh...wonder if that basically makes me a sugar daddy.”
..you know what, he was okay with that to, grillby really was worth it.
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He fiddled with his hands, singular eye light shifting to the side, hoping for any kind of distraction though it was hard to ignore the rushing of his soul in his chest, quick and so clearly full of love that made it impossible to ignore the bright purple flush that had coated his cheekbones and after a moment, he sighed and he allowed himself to speak, comforted only in knowing that not a single person could understand wingdings and that to anyone else. it’d be gibberish
✋︎ ✌︎💣︎ 👍︎☜︎☼︎❄︎✌︎✋︎☠︎☹︎✡︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ ☼︎⚐︎💣︎✌︎☠︎❄︎✋︎👍︎ ❄︎☟︎✌︎❄︎ 💧︎✌︎☠︎💧︎ 🕈︎✌︎💧︎📪︎ ☟︎☜︎ 🕈︎✌︎💧︎ ☞︎✌︎☼︎ 👌︎☜︎❄︎❄︎☜︎☼︎ 🕈︎✋︎❄︎☟︎ 🏱︎☜︎⚐︎🏱︎☹︎☜︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎☠︎ ✋︎🕯︎☹︎☹︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎ 👌︎☜︎ 👌︎🕆︎❄︎ ✌︎☹︎☹︎ ✋︎ 👍︎✌︎☠︎ 👎︎⚐︎ ✋︎💧︎ ❄︎☼︎✡︎📪︎ ☠︎⚐︎🕈︎ ❄︎☟︎✌︎❄︎ ☟︎☜︎🕯︎💧︎ ☝︎⚐︎☠︎☜︎📬︎ ✋︎ ☟︎✌︎✞︎☜︎ ❄︎⚐︎📪︎ ☞︎⚐︎☼︎ ☝︎☼︎✋︎☹︎☹︎👌︎✡︎🕯︎💧︎ 💧︎✌︎😐︎☜︎
(I AM CERTAINLY NOT THE ROMANTIC THAT SANS WAS, HE WAS FAR BETTER WITH PEOPLE THEN I'LL EVER BE BUT ALL I CAN DO IS TRY, NOW THAT HE'S GONE. I HAVE TO, FOR GRILLBY'S SAKE)
his eye light wandered to a picture on his desk of all three of them, sans the ever jubilant of the three grinning wide holding an absolutely massive bottle of ketchup in both hands, grillby stoic but clearly amused and himself. Fond if slightly rolling his eye light at his best friends love of such a condiment.
✋︎ 🕈︎⚐︎☠︎👎︎☜︎☼︎ ✋︎☞︎ ☟︎☜︎ 😐︎☠︎☜︎🕈︎ ☟︎⚐︎🕈︎ 💣︎🕆︎👍︎☟︎ ✋︎ ☹︎⚐︎✞︎☜︎👎︎ ☟︎✋︎💣︎📪︎ ✋︎ ☠︎☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎ ❄︎⚐︎☹︎👎︎ ☟︎✋︎💣︎📬︎📬︎📬︎✌︎❄︎ ☹︎☜︎✌︎💧︎❄︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ ✋︎☠︎ ❄︎☟︎✋︎💧︎ ☹︎✋︎☞︎☜︎ ✋︎ 👎︎✋︎👎︎☠︎🕯︎❄︎📪︎ 💣︎✌︎✡︎👌︎☜︎ ✋︎ 👎︎✋︎👎︎ ✋︎☠︎ ✌︎ 🏱︎✌︎💧︎❄︎ ☼︎☜︎💧︎☜︎❄︎📪︎ 👌︎✡︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ ❄︎✋︎💣︎☜︎ ✋︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☠︎ ❄︎☟︎⚐︎🕆︎☝︎☟︎❄︎ ⚐︎☞︎ 🕈︎⚐︎☼︎😐︎✋︎☠︎☝︎ 🕆︎🏱︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ 👍︎⚐︎🕆︎☼︎✌︎☝︎☜︎📬︎ ☟︎☜︎ 🕈︎✌︎💧︎ ✌︎☹︎☼︎☜︎✌︎👎︎✡︎ 👎︎✌︎❄︎✋︎☠︎☝︎ ☝︎☼︎✋︎☹︎☹︎👌︎✡︎📪︎ ✋︎ ❄︎☟︎✋︎☠︎😐︎ ☟︎☜︎ 😐︎☠︎☜︎🕈︎ ❄︎☟︎⚐︎🕆︎☝︎☟︎📪︎ ☟︎☜︎ 💣︎✌︎👎︎☜︎ 💧︎🕆︎☼︎☜︎ ❄︎⚐︎ ☞︎✋︎☠︎👎︎ 🕈︎✌︎✡︎💧︎ ❄︎⚐︎ ✋︎☠︎👍︎☹︎🕆︎👎︎☜︎ 💣︎☜︎📬︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☠︎ ✋︎☠︎ 🕈︎✌︎✡︎💧︎ ✋︎ 👍︎☜︎☼︎❄︎✌︎✋︎☠︎☹︎✡︎ 👎︎✋︎👎︎☠︎🕯︎❄︎ ☜︎✠︎🏱︎☜︎👍︎❄︎📬︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ ✋︎☠︎ ✌︎ 💣︎✋︎☹︎☹︎✋︎⚐︎☠︎ ✡︎☜︎✌︎☼︎💧︎ ✌︎☠︎👎︎ 🕈︎⚐︎🕆︎☹︎👎︎☠︎🕯︎❄︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎ 😐︎☠︎⚐︎🕈︎ ✋︎❄︎✍︎ ✋︎ ☞︎☜︎☹︎☹︎ ☞︎⚐︎☼︎ ☝︎☼︎✋︎☹︎☹︎👌︎✡︎ ❄︎⚐︎📪︎ ✋︎🕯︎💣︎ 💧︎❄︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ 👍︎☜︎☼︎❄︎✌︎✋︎☠︎ 🕈︎☟︎☜︎❄︎☟︎☜︎☼︎ ☟︎☜︎ 🏱︎☹︎✌︎☠︎☠︎☜︎👎︎ ✋︎❄︎ ❄︎☟︎✋︎💧︎ 🕈︎✌︎✡︎ ⚐︎☼︎ ✋︎❄︎ 🕈︎✌︎💧︎ ☺︎🕆︎💧︎❄︎ ✌︎ ☟︎✌︎🏱︎🏱︎✡︎ ✌︎👍︎👍︎✋︎👎︎☜︎☠︎❄︎ 👌︎🕆︎❄︎ ✋︎❄︎🕯︎💧︎ 👌︎☜︎☜︎☠︎ ☠︎✋︎👍︎☜︎📪︎ 🕈︎☜︎ ✌︎☼︎☜︎ 💧︎❄︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ ☼︎✌︎❄︎☟︎☜︎☼︎ ✌︎🕈︎😐︎🕈︎✌︎☼︎👎︎ ✌︎❄︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ 👌︎☜︎💧︎❄︎ ⚐︎☞︎ ❄︎✋︎💣︎☜︎💧︎📬︎ ✋︎❄︎ ☟︎✌︎👎︎ ✌︎☹︎🕈︎✌︎✡︎💧︎ 👌︎☜︎☜︎☠︎ 💧︎✌︎☠︎💧︎ ❄︎⚐︎ 👌︎☼︎☜︎✌︎😐︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ ✋︎👍︎☜︎ ✌︎☠︎👎︎ ✋︎ ☞︎✋︎☠︎👎︎ ☟︎☜︎ 💧︎❄︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ ✋︎💧︎📪︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎✡︎ ☟︎⚐︎☹︎✋︎👎︎✌︎✡︎📪︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎✡︎ ☹︎☜︎❄︎❄︎☜︎☼︎📪︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎✡︎ 💣︎☜︎💣︎⚐︎☼︎✡︎ ❄︎⚐︎☹︎👎︎📬︎ ☟︎✌︎🏱︎🏱︎✡︎ ⚐︎☼︎ 💧︎✌︎👎︎
(I WONDER IF HE KNEW HOW MUCH I LOVED HIM, I NEVER TOLD HIM...AT LEAST NOT IN THIS LIFE I DIDN'T, MAYBE I DID IN A PAST RESET, BY THE TIME I EVEN THOUGHT OF WORKING UP THE COURAGE. HE WAS ALREADY DATING GRILLBY, I THINK HE KNEW THOUGH, HE MADE SURE TO FIND WAYS TO INCLUDE ME. EVEN IN WAYS I CERTAINLY DIDN'T EXPECT. NOT IN A MILLION YEARS AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT? I FELL FOR GRILLBY TO, I'M STILL NOT CERTAIN WHETHER HE PLANNED IT THIS WAY OR IT WAS JUST A HAPPY ACCIDENT BUT IT'S BEEN NICE, WE ARE STILL RATHER AWKWARD AT THE BEST OF TIMES. IT HAD ALWAYS BEEN SANS TO BREAK THE ICE AND I FIND HE STILL IS, EVERY HOLIDAY, EVERY LETTER, EVERY MEMORY TOLD. HAPPY OR SAD)
he rests his head on his desk now, arms folded under him and manages a quiet laugh.
✋︎ ✌︎💣︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ ⚐︎☠︎☜︎ ❄︎⚐︎ 👎︎✋︎💧︎☼︎☜︎💧︎🏱︎☜︎👍︎❄︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ 👎︎☜︎✌︎👎︎📪︎ 👌︎🕆︎❄︎ 💧︎✌︎☠︎💧︎📪︎ 💣︎✡︎ 👎︎☜︎✌︎☼︎☜︎💧︎❄︎ ☞︎☼︎✋︎☜︎☠︎👎︎📬︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎☼︎ ✌︎ 👌︎✌︎💧︎❄︎✌︎☼︎👎︎📪︎ ✋︎ ☟︎⚐︎🏱︎☜︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎ 😐︎☠︎⚐︎🕈︎ ❄︎☟︎✌︎❄︎
(I AM NOT ONE TO DISRESPECT THE DEAD, BUT SANS, MY DEAREST FRIEND. YOUR A BASTARD, I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT)
it was even rarer he cursed, but he’s certain he could hear sanses laugh if he’d heard him say that. 
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"maybe it’s just me trying to be short and sweet but...he’s the only one i’ve felt safe enough to have sex with, he was my first and i don’t know if i’ve ever told him that.”
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altfire-archive · 2 years
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no offense to lake ilinalta but why is the road SO CLOSE to its southern shore. if/when it floods u literally wouldn't be able to use a huge length of road. wtf
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crabussy · 2 years
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homesick!!!! yeowch!
#I miss singing as a whole school every morning in assembly#we'd do the new zealand national anthem (which fucks its a fantastic song) and then classics like Tōia mai te waka nei and others#and the entire school (in all 3 schools I went to. its a kiwi thing not just a 1 school thing) would fucking belt the words with joy#and if you felt too awkward to sing?? youd just mouth the words that day and no one would care or notice!!!#it was wonderful the schools there had such a strong sense of community#but ofc I don't just miss school thats like. not even top 5 on things I miss#the main ones being the PLACES#camping in napier and taupo and whananaki....#weekends at the beach house in whangamata#those road trips where we'd pass field after field after field of sheep and cows (belted galloways beloved)#and drive through crazy little towns like TIRAU.... search up tirau please oh my god that entire town was made of corrugated iron#I remember skiing trips in ohakune on mt ruapehu..#god I fucking miss skiing the highest mountain here is 164 fucking metres. mt ruapehu is quite literally 20 times that#and its not even in the tallest 10#this entire fucking country is flat and sweaty and homophobic and government restricted and full of shit that can kill you#protests are illegal here. pride parades? nah. you step outside and insantly you're drenched in sweat and your hair sticks to your face#maybe im being too harsh there are some good things ofc like the public transport and cost of eating out but.#I never liked the city#I need to go home#6 months of waiting for a small holiday is too long and not enough#vent#robin shut up challenge#if you read this far thank you#this fucking sucks. I love new zealand I need to be home I need to#its a part of me its like I'm walking around without blood in my veins it feels Wrong
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mcmansionhell · 3 months
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we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven
Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.
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Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.
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The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.
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It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.
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And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Or so you think. Everything the interior design tries to hide, namely how unceasingly peculiar the house is, it is not entirely able to because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.
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Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.
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A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.
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Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.
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At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.
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And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.
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inertia-writes · 17 days
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dehradun days
you meet them for the first time,
knowing it's probably the last.
might as well make the most of this time,
since life comes at you fast.
you find the strangest of signals
in the no-network zones.
cross-tent communication with folks,
just rambling about the unknown.
there's the warmth of shared laughter,
that carries you through freezing nights,
and you look up at the flickering stars,
to finally see things in a different light.
and at 11,000 ft above sea level
you finally reach the peak,
just to realise the joy was in the journey,
and the friends you made that week.
you'll visit caves & splendid cafes,
and remember the city in mere parts,
but years later, you'll still tell everyone,
how dehradun captured your heart.
#inertia-writes#poets on tumblr#desi poetry#dehradun poetry#poems on india#poems on life#desiblr#being desi#dehradun#i went on a trek w the lowest of expectations and it was one of the best experiences of my life#it's so refreshing to meet people from different cities and of different ages and backgrounds#jan and feb were pretty meh but things have been looking upwards from march (thank you god - i acknowledge your existence)#thought of writing a happy poem for a change of tone (and also maybe because i am genuinely happy :) )#this isn't one of my best poems i feel - it's a bit unrefined - but who cares it is one of my happy ones sooooo#there are times when absolutely nothing significant happens and there are days when years happen#i didn't go in the mountains for solitude - i felt that here already haha. i went for a change.#but i gained so many memories w people and so many positive perspectives that i needed in general. also nayata premier league <3#i think i believe in destiny now. i was destined to meet those people and have a good time and come back to reality w a spring in my step#and maybe the mountains were calling. can't stay away from snow too long - i was born during snowy days anyway#came back home and am still in some weird positive trance - good for me#also my lucky streak is still going on - kaavish released a new song#historic moment in time (thank you god 2x)#poems on friendship#found family#poems on found family#all the may '23 - feb '24 melancholy has been washed out of my system. i am now set for the next tragedy of my life lol#dekhte hai kab tak khush rehti hu mein - kuch bhayankar honewala hai aisa lag raha hai#i do not remember the last time i was happy for a month straight - am i living in a virtual simulation?#whoever is controlling my life rn - i would like to continue to stay in this simulation - thanks v much
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golden-honey-bea · 1 month
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I should go on a hike again didn't like the walking on my feet but I like yelling into the day at the top
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muirneach · 1 month
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hate the annoying travel influencers on instagram trying to say anything about salvation mountain like ‘ohhh its so unkempt and creepy and isolated’ u would never understand….
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