¡El final del camino! Final del carretera Panamericano, Parque nacional Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, 2022.

I was disappointed to find that the fine little pastry shop once located near this sign marking the southern terminus of the Pan American highway has been demolished. No chance for an alfajor and café to celebrate reaching the end of the road.

The distance to Alaska is conjectural. The Panamericana has a major break at the Darien Gap in Panamá, and thus it is impossible to drive from the southern part of that country into Colombia or to drive the entire distance from Arctic Alaska to southern Patagonia. Through travelers must put vehicles on a ferry. Indeed, there is no agreed upon route, or for the most part any signs posted marking the routing, through Canada south of Dawson Creek in BC and in the US outside of Alaska. Once in México there are frequent signs in the countries through which the route passes, and that route is usually called the Panamericana by those using it.

Finally, there is a dispute between Chile and Argentina (yet another dispute between the fractious neighboring countries) about the southern terminus. The Chileans insist the route ends at Fuerte Bulnes south of Punta Arenas and thus no need for a ferry crossing to the island of Tierra del Fuego in order to reach the end of the road on Argentinian RN 3. Both posited termini have an appropriate end of the world feeling comparable to that at Deadhorse in Arctic Alaska.

we are discussing our childhood passions on the dash tonight

i think everyone who's ever had migraines should be financially compensated forever btw

All the best boy hugs for Karlach

sometimes you will spend 30 minutes thinking about a character and you will expect to have something coherent to say by the end of that time but the best you can come up with is "they are sooooooo shaped they are so silly i love my blorbo"

(me on a first date) and what do you think of the inherent intimacy of surgery? have you considered the love someone must have to put their hands under your skin and hold the most grotesque parts of you and put them back together nicely? is anyone really closer to you than that? we all get uh a little enamored on the surgery table don't we haha. wait come back

Y’all, the Archive admins are made up of VOLUNTEERS. And they have been working for 12-13 HOURS STRAIGHT.

I better not hear any complaints when donation period comes around. OR ELSE.

cosplay by @woahchriswoah on Twitter

EDIT: How do we show appreciation to the volunteers? For me reading these deep dives on OTW issues u guys apparently it's been said multiple times that one of their objective statements is to have paid staff for ao3 and there's a surplus of donations they haven't used up or the other community solutions that needs to address. For those more financially literate feel free to analyze, snipe me or add to the discussion etc. linked here by deepa. They’re cool and these yearly analysis they did aint no joke.

But Seriously what can we do for these volunteers? The probable burn out from this entire fiasco would be no joke. @ao3org

I am losing my mind. source: x

More smiling critters

[ID copied from alt text: A digital drawing of Zuko from Avatar: the Last Airbender. He's shown crouched in the cooler from the episode The Boiling Rock, cold air surrounding him on all sides. He's breathing fire that illuminates him in the dark. End ID]

noticed the windows on the cooler when sokka opens it look like they're closed. thought about the concept of being stuck in a small cold dark room for hours on end. personally the claustrophobia would kill me?

Sometimes I forget im allowed to draw him going a lil crazy 😌✨

i love him so much I asked what he'd call a romanced tav and he drops shakespeare on me hello???? and he starts with. tavtastic. i love him?

[Video description: A video of Theo Solomon, voice actor of Wyll Ravengard, speaking to the camera, doing a big gesture anytime he says "Blade of Frontiers". He says: "Hello Tav, my name is Wyll Ravengard, the Blade of Frontiers! And, Tav, I've heard you've taken a— a liking to me whilst playing BG3. Well, I'm not too surprised because... I mean, who else would you romance? You certainly do have good taste. Now, we need to think of a nickname for you, Tav. Hm. Well, there are the generic ones, or a play on words— Tavtastic, for example. But, Tav, I'd rather read you some poetry. Or recite you some poetry, as it were. Shakespeare once said in his most famous sonnet: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. You, Tav, ignite the fire in my heart. Your face shines brighter than the sun in the sky and your eyes glint like diamonds found in the dirt. You, Tav, are special to me, Wyll Ravengard; I would go above and beyond to protect you, over the hills of Faerûn, just to see you smile. Lots of love, Tav, from me, Wyll Ravengard, aka: The Blade of Frontiers! Lots of love."

/ End description.

ID: A meme of Lisa Simpson looking down in a wide-eyed and open-mouthed expression. /End ID] ID by @dreadwolph

so how about that update, huh

this can go here on its own

NEED to inherit 10,000,000 dollars from a mysterious estranged relative i've never met before. like right now

NO ONE TALK TO ME RN