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whilereadingandwalking · 1 year

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Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, edited by Jonathan Strahan, is an excellent anthology examining what life might be like in the recent, climate-disaster-haunted near-future.

It starts off with an interview about utopia, hope, and future with Kim Stanley Robinson, and then dives into 10 stories by authors including Meg Elison, Tade Thompson, Sarah Gailey, and more. My favorite story of all of them was "Legion" by Malka Older, which I've nominated for the Hugo Awards—the execution is superb in this story about how surveillance could be turned to the use of the oppressed to create a community of safety and scare the violent into non-action. I also adored "Down and Out in Exile Park" by Tade Thompson, a story about the possibility of utopia on a floating island of plastics off Lagos; and "Do You Hear the Fungi Sing" by Chen Qiufan, translated by Emily Jin, a queer tale of fungal networks and change.

All around, these stories dive into the utopias and dystopias, the resistance and complicities, that might result from our man-made disasters. The collection has everything—from mermaids to drone delivery to a cannibal Tom Hanks.

Content warnings for violence, ableism

#tomorrow’s parties #jonathan strahan #short stories #sff #sci fi #my book reviews

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lazylittledragon · 3 months

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do any other artists feel like. yeah you're a 'good artist' because you draw things that look nice, but like. TECHNICALLY? you're really not great

i really hate that i can recognise that yes, my art is good, but is it VARIED? is it dynamic?? is my anatomy good? is it full of texture and colour theory? do i know how to do This? can i do That? no, not really. and that's quite painful actually

#ramble #yes this is the artist's perspective bs and yes this is anxiety because it's 1am #and yes i'm forever learning and growing but also #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.#drawing my little guys is fun but i am not good enough for the industry right now and that fucking sucks #i really feel like if i walked into a studio with my portfolio right now they would laugh at me #one of those days where i wish i'd done a more useful degree y'know #i'm going back through the phase where i don't know what i'm going to be anymore and it's scary #some days i really want to give it up and never draw again and do something worthwhile because i Know my life would be easier #and i hate that something i love so much makes me feel so hopeless #signs that i should go to bed ^^^^#i will resume my pity party tomorrow

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kandavers · 5 months

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and I hope you don’t plan on Wasting them on Trivial things…

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outoftoucherlocksholmes · 11 months

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place your bets NOW on who will WIN THE BIGGEST DIVORCE OF THE 21st CENTURY!!!!

#succession #succession hbo #shiv roy #tom wambsgans #tomshiv #siobhan roy #sarah snook #matthew mcfadyen #chiantishire #all the bells say #the munsters #connor's wedding #living+#tailgate party #succession spoilers #started sketching this after tailgate party and i didn't have a chance to actually finish it until now #you know. with nine hours left until the finale drops #okay i have to go to bed now so i can like. experience this event in television history tomorrow

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ruporas · 11 months

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cheers to the future of humanity (and the future of us)

[ID: Digital illustration in color of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun. The illustration takes place during the ship/home arc, specifically chapter 21. At the center, Vash is grabbing Wolfwood by the collar and pulls him into a kiss in the middle of a celebration. The pair is colored in vibrant warm hues while their surroundings are colored in cooler colors like green and teals. Luida, Brad, Meryl, and Milly are shown amongst the crowd, occupied in the celebrations as Vash and Wolfwood share a moment by themselves at the center. END ID]

#vashwood #trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #hospital yuri (explodeds) like any average vw enjoyer i will never get over that arc #specifically the scene where they heard the news of earth ships coming and did that little handshake they somehow conjured or #Had already. and then the entire ship had a party... meryl and milly started drinking immediately from joy and dragged vash and ww to get #wasted too and overall celebrate together. the chapter moves quickly just like how the hope was quickly withered out and died just hours #later when knives destroyed it. BUT IM JUST THINKING ABOUT IN THE MOMENT OF IT ALL bc in the same chapter #ww asks for a chance for tomorrow and then gets news of earth ships coming. in this same arc vash is thinking of all the things he needs to #resolve so his home doesn't get attacked so the people he love doesn't have to die and the humans he wants to protect gets to live.#i feel like deep down they both semi-recognize that it can't be this easy and regardless of earth ships coming- there's still a wait for #them to arrive and they have to hold out. and regardless ww still has a mission to follow through and vash knows knives would find out #but in that mood of celebration the entire ship brought in - they can at least let themselves relax for a moment and indulge #how they basically engaged with no violence for the few days they were on that ship coaxing them into domesticity... i feel like their #thoughts would wander to somewhere soft and all #allowing them to push aside the tiptoeing and tenseness and be sweet for a night #ruporas art

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scoobydoodean · 3 months

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Have you collected Dean’s birthday present?

…The seller backed out on me.

Dammit, Sam!

In which Sam and Cas plan a surprise 45th birthday and face some setbacks

#i’ve been meaning to do this for a while #first birthday post for the day hehehehe and goodnight more festivities tomorrow #a ficlet and a birthday present list #my fan works #birthday party for dean 2024 #fan works #dean with scoobies

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loverofpiggies · 9 months

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hi im new here and....happy birthday cq!!

Omg thank you!!! I think it's gonna be a fun one!

#thats right tomorrow is my bday!#cqchat #july 30th!!!#im in tampa at a con and afterward #me and my gf are gonna go to the beach together!!#best bday #I'll celebrate with family till i return <3 #i had a big party last year so this year im keeping things lowkey #thrifting with the family for me!

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nopanamaman · 5 months

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I'm reposting the following from Twitter, but it holds equally true for all the feedback I've received on here in tags, messages, and reblogs. The responses to my video post and checking the #pafl tag have both been extremely rewarding and brought a huge smile to my face:)

Anyways,

Thank you all so much for the amazing support on 100 epitaphs!

I'm extremely grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts on the video in comments or messages, and I wish I could respond to each and every one.

Your kind words make all the work worth it and are the best motivation for me to try and make each episode better than the last.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

#i'll reblog fanarts and answer asks tomorrow!#plus i'll post some assets for your textless viewing pleasure #but genuinely i've been feeling absolutely elated. thank you so much #blog #hnng #100 epitaphs #parties are for losers #sanya #scraps

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goldensunset · 2 months

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joining the war on autism on the side of the autism etc etc

#i’m never drawing again i swear (lie) (i enjoy suffering)#n harmonia #natural harmonia gropius #zekrom #pokémon #pokemon #pokemon black and white #pokémon black and white #pkmn bw #pokemon bw #my art #bw #AAHHHHGHGGGHGH blorbo. i’m very tired but like #i have to commemorate every game i play!#i would say i am this guy’s biggest fan but i’m like 13 (14?) years late to this party i know i’m not #i haven’t even put scratched the surface of blorboposting yet i’ve seen some wild and good stuff out there i gotta step up my game #hope this looks ok i was kinda rushing to get it done while it’s still february lol #(i have a self imposed rule that i have to draw at least one thing a month)#zekrom can be wildly too small to scale. as a treat. i needed it to fit in the frame LOL #i’m quite proud of this i think. we’ll see how tomorrow’s me feels!#usually i regret posting something immediately after finishing it esp when late at night but as i said i’m rushing lol #one of the first pokémon i’ve ever drawn and it’s a Complicated Legendary. goody #but like look at my boy n right #[edit: fixed a few minor issues]

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willowser · 7 months

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katsuki manages to take halloween off for the first four years of your daughter's life but he has to miss out on her fifth and he won't show it but he's devastated 🥺

#he's like 'she'll see me everywhere all night and i ain't gonna see her 'til tomorrow' 🥺#he doesnt want her to look at people in dynamight costumes !!! and think that's him !!!!! he's pissed !!!!#and he's so worried about her getting snatched up like SO WORRIED ABOUT IT #and he doesn't want someone to scare her #you're like babe. we're going to a small little party at the park a block away from our house so she can get some candy. we'll be okay.#he could be across town and she could sneeze and he'd come RUNNING #aww he's so sad he'd rather she not got but he can't say that skgbdjakqk #cw children #✿ thoughts: bakugou #✿ theme: dad bakugou #✿ theme: domestic bakugou

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pigeon-princess · 30 days

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Being from Lonely Light and also having constant dragon dreams means that Gwyn has a lot of interesting things to say. Oswick and Toby are not always keen to hear about them. You start saying things like "My Nan turned into a whale when she died" and "I saw a stranger trying to communicate with me via a glass candle" and people start getting weird about it. Let the Targaryen speak, I say!

Characters are: 🐗Oswick "Redtusk" Crakehall by @oneirotect, our ASOIAF GM ☀️Tobiah "Toby" Martell by Nico 🦑Gwyndon "Gwyn" Pyke by me