As An Adult, I Feel More Lost Than I Ever Did As A Child.

Artist: Liberal Jane

https://bsky.app/profile/liberaljane.bsky.social/post/3lg4d36dhtc23

I can't stop rewatching this video. The animation is badass. The story doesn't make that much sense but the sequences are so cool.

Kinda cool and a little ridiculous. AI art is controversial but amusing with the creations. Little details seem to propagate in abundance towards the unrealistic. I like it for crazy concepts than actually finalized art.

Thanks for this because I am spiraling.

this'll be my last post for the night. it looks bleak right now and it feels like the world might end and i do not blame you for feeling that way. i kind of feel like that too to be honest, but numbers are just numbers and land is just land. the results maps you're looking ar are not 100% accurate.

please please please just walk away from this. you'll wake up tomorrow and we'll all probably be crying, for good or bad reasons. i am begging you all to get away from the screen and sleep if you can because if you're starting to spiral then this is not good for you.

i sound like a broken record and i apologize but i repeat it because it's true: no matter how bleak it seems, no matter how badly this may or may not turn out, we can push through this. get some rest. wake up and keep living no matter what. i believe in you.

wake up and keep living. no. matter. what.

goodnight and good luck. sending my warmth out to all of you. <333

(psst have some more cat pics!!! you all really liked the other ones so here's some loafs to ease your mind. i'll see you all tomorrow.)

from The New York Times

How beautifully done to represent some of history. Almost begs the question of “are you ready to sit at the table?” Are you ready to face the past?

It’s Thanksgiving today in the US and so many will be sitting at dinner tables, maybe with people they love, maybe with people they don’t love so much. And we all don’t realize how these moments create our own historical tapestry, and when we come together those individual tapestries for a brief moment interweave.

If your table setting stays ready, you don’t have to get ready. 🍽️🍷

The Dinner Party was created by Judy Chicago between 1974 and 1979. Each wing of the triangular table is 48 feet long. Arranged chronologically along the wings are thirteen place settings; including a unique runner and plate, as well as a chalice, napkin, and utensils. 

Wing One of the table begins in prehistory with the Primordial Goddess setting and continues chronologically with the development of Judaism, to early Greek societies, to the Roman Empire, marking the decline in women’s power, signified by the Hypatia plate. Wing Two represents early Christianity through the Reformation, depicting women who signify early articulations of the fight for equal rights, from Marcella to Anna van Schurman. Wing Three begins with Anne Hutchinson and addresses the American Revolution, Suffragism, and the movement toward women’s increased individual creative expression, symbolized at last by the Georgia O’Keeffe place setting.

You can see The Dinner Party and all of its discoverable details on display on the 4th floor of the Museum.

📷 Judy Chicago (American, born 1939). The Dinner Party, 1974-1979. Ceramic, porcelain, textile; triangular table. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Gift of The Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10. Installation view, Brooklyn Museum.

I remember these!

Losing the centricity of the main community sucks. But there are other groups starting something. I follow the reddit as the next big community and from there people post discords or other sites. I was actually hoping to find some community on Tumblr too.

I think after participating on and off every year since 2008, I'm OK growing out of it. Then getting into my daily word count year round phase to really embrace writing as a hobby.

This month has been a little weird, because in the past it's been the point of time where me and a few others ramp up for NaNoWriMo event planning.

I decided not to be an ML this year - I'm one of the many breakaway regions forging ahead with an independent event for our writers - but several people had been hoping to work with HQ again, and seeing the chatter around that is sad because it looks like NaNo isn't letting it happen.

Last year at this point, everyone who had volunteered to be an ML had been given instructions for this year, and links to order ML kits (usually the annual stickers). We'd get instructions in Aug on how to update digital spaces for the new year, and were encouraged to start scheduling events.

But it's Aug 1st and HQ has never even asked if anyone wants to volunteer this year. It's looking more and more likely that they have canned the entire Municipal Liason program, and if you don't have MLs what's the point of regions? If the community aspect of NaNo is going away, is it just a website now?

What made NaNo awesome was the other writers I'd hang out with on zoom or coffee shops.

I thought i had already grieved my time with NaNo, it had headed down a path I didn't want to follow and I had put so much energy into it. I'm building something new now even! But it's still so, so sad to think that it's just not my participation that has ended, but an entire program. And soon, I suspect, an entire organization.

NaNo is running on fumes, spiraling down and alienating so much of its old user base due to poor management and communication. Will it even run in November, I'm not entirely sure. I don't know if the donations they've received coverage servers fees.

Writers might have to do NaNo, or just write a draft in November, solo and that sounds so sad. I've only ever won because of my community (my region had at least 20 events scheduled in November).

I'd encourage people to reach out to old regions if you can - see if there's a grassroots community it morphed into. Or just any writing community - mine is hybrid now and all our writing events in November will have zoom options.

I hoped maybe the new HQ would build something that would work for someone, but i have a sneaking suspicion that it won't. NaNoWriMo might just become something like NoShaveNovember or Dry January. A thing you do, but no official community.

Feeling real bummed about this, because i volunteered with NaNo for 5 years and wrote for 12.

Some of Syd Mead's concept art for Blade Runner, upscaled to wallpaper res 3840x2160, cropped, denoised, color corrected and otherwise edited for the screen. These are NOT the originals as produced by Mr. Mead, if you are looking for 1:1 unmolested versions of the original art this isn't it.

(I'm not sure Tumblr will host these at the original full-res without downsampling them? See what happens I guess)

I zipped the full-sizes on my Dropbox if you should want them.