MCAD Graduate, Illustrator, and proud geek. This is my personal blog full of art inspo, collected references for art, cosplay, and a smattering whatever I'm into at the time.
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tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like
“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”
and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent
“I literally made three- THREE- 18th century corsets last week. You can wait until one of them gets back, or you can go sometime post-1920s, because if I have to sew one more god damn channel I will literally lose my mind.”
“Upper middle class?!?!? You told me upper class! FUCK YEAH THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!!!”
“How about kimoNO.”
“Look me in the eyes. I do not care what you want. This is the 1500s. You absolutely cannot wear trousers.”
“Another court gown?? Here’s a novel idea: go as a peasant for once in your life. Why do you do this to me? You’re fucking sadists that’s why.”
“Don’t mind me, I’ll just be up all night hand painting silk.”
“THE POLICY IS ONE MONTH’S ADVANCE NOTICE ON PRE-1900s WOMEN’S FASHION FOR A REASON, DEBRA.”
OH BOY DO I HAVE THE BOOKS FOR YOU!
“Blackout” “All Clear” and “Doomsday Book” all by Connie Willis. They are absolutely amazing, and you get EXACTLY what is described above in spades. I can’t recommend these books enough, especially Blackout and All Clear.
Once upon a time I worked in this little burger/coffee/ice cream shop and a lady came in one winter and asked if we had a caramel apple drink and we were like ‘well we have cider’ and she was like ‘no I don’t remember what it’s called but this place made a drink that was chai tea, apple cider, and caramel’ and Breezy offered to try and make something for her but she changed her mind and left so Breezy and I were like ‘alright let’s try this’ because we had chai tea, instant cider mix, a shit ton of caramel, instant hot water from the espresso and too much free time.
And let me tell you it was delightful. It tastes like watching the leaves changing color and dancing in the wind. It tastes like picking out pumpkins and gourds and fresh apples at the farm up north. It tastes like witches and freedom.
I make it every year now and this year I walked in the house on the morning of October first with all the ingredients and shouted ‘FALL DRINK’ and my roommates were like ‘????’ so I made them Fall Drink and now every time they get home from work they’re like ‘Fall Drink pls?????’
Anyway I remember literally nothing else about that woman but I’m very grateful to her.
for anyone wondering about proportions/etc here’s op’s answer from the repiles:
@gaslightgallows I feel this would be relevant to your interests.
I don’t like caramel but I can vouch for hot chaider being amazing.
Deareat @simonalkenmayer I feel like this is relevant to your interests.
Also, I do something like this in the crock pot with the overly sweet Growers Pumpkin Apple Cider, chai spices, cloves, a bit of orange juice, and some super dry Pinot Grigio.
Mix, heat, and serve on a nippy night best spent cuddled under blankets with a book.
My friend, you have essentially backward engineered a wonderful winter drink from the Stuart period.
White sack wine, cider, spices (clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, ginger) tea, sugar, and if you want it authentic, a bit of cream or whipped egg. All this is brought together in a low temperature and then stewed for a time. It can also be “pulled”, a process in which one “stirs” the concoction by using a ladle and pouring it repeatedly from high in the air. Makes it foamy and frothy.
Serve warm.
On a cold night, this is a delightful thing. Believe it or not, we also used to make it with a stout beer instead of wine. For a darker richer flavor.
Well now I need to try the Stuart version, too.
I can also give you older versions, if you like. Or you can google “posset”.
Posset! That’s why is it sounded familliar!
I do have a recipie I quite like.
Atlas Obscura featured another similar hot drink today on their food blog. Find it here.
Not sure if instant tea and Tang are my bag, but then I know my nostalgic regional cuisine isn’t for everyone as well.
I need both this drink in my mouth and this book on my shelf.
I’m about to try this at work. We have most of the stuff to do the easy recipe.
01. high hopes panic! at the disco ✩ 02. sledgehammer rihanna ✩ 03. the moment (novell) nicky romero ✩ 04. elevate (ft. denzel curry, ybn cordae, swavay, and trevor rich) dj khalil ✩ 05. champion (remix) fall out boy and rm ✩ 06. belong (axwell & years remode edit) axwell, shapov, years ✩ 07. this time axwell /\ ingrosso ✩ 08. unstoppable the score ✩ 09. hard times paramore ✩ 10. heading up high armin van buuren and kensington ✩ 11. dream bigger axwell /\ ingrosso ✩ 12. we got the world (original mix) icona pop ✩ 13. bang my head (ft. sia and fetty wap) david guetta✩ 14. angels vicetone and kat nestel ✩ 15. 1982 superhuman✩ 16. break through the silence martin garrix and matisse & sadko✩ 17. bird with a broken wing owl city✩ 18. on my way axwell /\ ingrosso✩ 19. sea of voices porter robinson✩ 20. feel it still portugal. the man ✩ 21. my blood ellie goulding ✩ 22. one girl revolution superchick ✩ 23. dreams and disasters owl city ✩ 24. how big, how blue, how beautiful florence + the machine ✩ 25. just like fire p!nk ✩ 26. dementia owl city and mark hoppus ✩ 27. 10 (ft. starxs) built by titan ✩ 28. shooting star owl city ✩ 29. stars (hold on) youngblood hawke ✩ 30. harder better faster stronger daft punk
Does anyone know where I can find some nice POC photography?
Im trying to make a character inspiration board but most of the photography is of pale skinned and skinny people.
@cutabello that’s a great hashtag but they are mainly selfies and im looking for things like this:
Im trying to find POC photography where there are in the world and being magical, or being with family, or going on adventures or anything other than it just being a selfie or talking about racism. Yes racsim should be addressed but I’d love to see more POC in surrealistic or domestic photography where there isn’t an explanation for them being there they just are. Like this:
When I was in high school, I was the part-time henchperson of a Mad Scientist.
I’m not exaggerating about “Mad Scientist”. “Riley” (Name changed for his family’s privacy) was a former Medical Doctor, as well as an artist, microbiologist, pilot (as in, designed and flew his own experimental aircraft), magician, computer programmer and musical composer, and had an outbuilding attached to his house where he kept things like his hand-made 3D printer, electron microscope and drone-dirigible assembly devices.
Riley had ALS and was eventually wheelchair-bound, so by 2006 I was being called in on the odd school night or weekend to go out around FoCo and the surrounding mountains. “I need a younger set of legs and someone with no fear of heights” He’d say. Being that I was a very boring child that had no interest in sex or drugs and always called when I was going to be late, and that Riley was a trusted family friend, My parents trusted me to go out at like 9PM and come home at 2AM on a Tuesday.
…To do things like scale locked fire escapes and climb around on rooftops that we DEFINITELY did not have permission to be on to do things like install speakers and bluetooth broadcasting devices at strategic points around Old Town so that if you download the right app onto your phone (I’ve got it backed up somewhere, I’ll post it when I find it) , you can walk around town and be exposed to the ghostly, extremely shady side of FoCo history for his 2007 Halloween project.
We did get caught by the cops but I was 17, short and white as goddamn mayonnaise so when the cops asked me what I was doing “It’s for a community art project!” actually worked.
My favorite Mad Science Project was in 2009, Gallus rostromegalus.
I was home from college for summer, and Riley had been messing around with Rotational Physics and had managed to make Giant (24’ x 18’) extremely realistic Chicken eggs, weighted and everything so that if you picked one up, it would feel like there was a heavy yolk wobbling around inside. They’re amusing all on their own, but after leaving them in the slash pile from spring cleaning, Riley realized they had POTENTIAL.
So we went around getting permission from a few businesses and the art museum, and I spent a few nights making plausible enormous chicken feathers in Riley’s lab out of grass, acrylic glaze and some other odds and ends laying around, and filling up the back of my mom’s van with as much of the backyard slash pile as fit in there, then drove out in the middle of the night to set up giant nests for the eggs, strewn with feathers and surrounded by Traffic cones and orange construction mesh and signs from the entirely fictitious “Department Of Fish And Wildfowl, Specious Relocation Division”
(an incomplete nest on the steps of Fort Collins Museum of Art)
(signage, responsibly warning people to stay away in case of giant chickens)
Riley even made QR codes that linked back to an obviously false Wiki- if you scrolled to the bottom, the page was covered in feathers and after five minutes it would start to make chicken noises.
People. Went. INSANE.
Crowds turned up to take selfies with the nests and Riley tracked down literally dozens of tagged photos captioned “IS THIS REAL????”.
Someone wrote a very worried and not terribly facetious-sounding letter to the editor concerned that Giant Chickens were roaming around FoCo, something that big could hurt someone! There was an entirely-serious-sounding counter-letter that we Humans have clearly invaded this majestic creature’s natural habitat, where are they SUPPOSED to make their nests, huh?
Multiple people called the police to report having seen the elusive Gallus rostromegalus up in the hills or skulking around downtown. Reports claimed it was anywhere form five to twelve feet tall, with dramatic plumage and an eerie, yodeling sort of call.
A few nights after installing each nest, we went back, collected the eggs, and left broken ‘eggshells’ and extra down feather around each of the nests. One of the nests was put up at the local Garden Center and I remember one of the assistant managers coming outside just after we finished the ‘hatching’ and shrieking “OH GOD I THOUGHT THOSE WERE FAKE THEY’LL GET TO THE TOMATOES SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!” That woman would later become my manager when I worked there for a summer, though she never made the connection between me and The Chickens.
Riley passed away in 2015 after a good and well-lived life, and was kind enough to leave me The Eggs in his will.
It was a truly splendid bit of ruckus, and I miss him terribly, and I very much treasure the memories. And the Eggs, which I am absolutely going to inflict on some unsuspecting neighbors at some point, in his honor.
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i. and so it goes - billy joel so i would choose to be with you / that’s if the choice were mine to make / and you can have this heart to break
ii. girl in the war - josh ritter you got to rock yourself a little harder / pretend the dove from above is a dragon and your feet are on fire / but I got a girl in the war paul the only thing I know to do / is turn up the music and pray that she makes it through
iii. turning page - sleeping at lasti surrender who i’ve been for who you are / for nothing makes me stronger than your fragile heart / if i had only felt how it feels to be yours / well I would have known / what i’ve been living for all along / what i’ve been living for
iv. blackout - muse don’t kid yourself / and don’t fool yourself / this love’s too good to last / and i’m too old to dream
v. c’est la mort - the civil wars let’s walk down the road that has no end / steal away where only angels tread / heaven or hell or somewhere in between / cross your heart to take me when you leave / please don’t go / don’t go without me /
vi. letters from the sky - civil twilightone of these days letters are gonna fall / from the sky telling us all to go free / but until that day i’ll find a way / to let everybody know that you’re coming back / you’re coming back for me / ‘cause even though you left me here / i have nothing left to fear
vii. please speak well of me - the weepies i’ve been away a year and a day / you recognize love after the fact / you did what you did and that was that / don’t say words that you don’t mean / when i’m gone, please speak well of me.
viii. cnothing without you - vienna teng i cannot stand the sight of this familiar place / it’s the quiet night that breaks me / like a dozen papercuts that only i can trace / all my books are lying useless now / all my maps will only show me how to lose my way.
ix. through the barricades - spandau ballet and now I know what they’re saying / as our sun begins to fade / and we made our love on a wasteland / and through the barricades.
x. frozen ocean - shiny toy guns ten thousand miles apart a frozen ocean joins our hearts / i can’t wait to meet you when / the frozen waves meet ocean floors/ you’ll be standing on the shore / i can’t wait to meet you then.
bonus: losing your memory (original version) - ryan starr call all our friends / tell them i’m not coming back / cause this is the end / pretend that you want it / don’t react / the damage is done / the police are coming too slow now / i would have died / i would have loved you all my life.
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