love the way we finish each others' sentences. it's like we're soulmates or the beastie boys

so perhaps, hypothetically, i did something insane, mostly for my own enjoyment, as a follow up to my previous art:

it's not perfect but it could be real! it could be made! and on the off chance anyone actually wanted to do so, there is a pdf file of it here that you can download.

if i've sized it correctly (begging & pleading that this is the case) it should be the right size to fit a pack of standard playing cards, rather than an actual tin of mackerel :) as soon as i have access to a printer again i’m making it a reality

stone and rock are like bouba and kiki

these are stones

these are rocks

a rock or a stone by mary oliver

SATURDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED!

The one you’ve all been waiting for… 🤩

Join us on Saturday 7th as we chat to JARED HARRIS and LIAM GARRIGAN about their memorable performances as Francis Crozier and Thomas Jopson, as well as their time working on The Terror and the enduring legacy of the show.

❄️ Register to attend now!

Have something to ask one of our Terror Camp 2024 keynote speakers? Keep an eye on our socials for the link to a form where you can add your questions ahead of the conference!

how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes

(...and you don't want to join 20 new websites)

First, get an RSS reader*:

You'll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its "feed URL"-- often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓-- and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.

Some feed URLs for social media:

(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere...)

Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don't have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).

*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.

This!

RSS feeds were a great way to keep track of things before the rise of the platforms, and (if we’re smart) they’ll be great again.

I thought it was a fever dream but apparently Operation Mincemeat: The Musical is... real?

Real unhinged theater kid energy in this show, which... as an unhinged theater kid myself, I really appreciate. It's... imagine Blackadder, Hamilton, and WWII UK espionage got whipped together in a blender then served as a panto.

I'm sorry what???

"In a historic move Friday [November 8, 2024], Sacramento State announced its new Native American College, a first of its kind in the California State university system. 

The college, a co-curricular institution housed at Sacramento State, will support Native-based education with a focus on leadership and career building. It will offer a diverse range of programs that integrate "tribal values, traditions and community engagement," according to a press release. 

This marks Sacramento State's second ethnic-based institution. The university launched the the nation's first Black Honors college earlier this year. 

The announcement was made at the California State Capitol by President Luke Wood and Dr. Annette Reed, an enrolled member and citizen of the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, who will be the first dean of the Native American College. 

Reed said students will have access to faculty mentors, advisors, outreach coordinators and more who have the expertise to work closely with Native American students and can support them holistically. 

She hopes this historic initiative will address low enrollment of Native students pursuing higher education across the state and in the country. Native American students face significant barriers to enrolling in higher education, such as financial constraints, feelings of isolation, historical trauma and lack of culturally relevant curriculum. 

"And so I'm hoping this impacts the students where they go through as a cohort. They can create networks, they can be able to have more of a support system going through and beginning together and hopefully graduating at the end together," Reed said.

Reed recalled taking her first class on Native American studies in 1980. She would later on serve as the director of Native American studies at Sacramento State and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies. For her, advocating for Native American education was a natural top priority. 

"People always ask me, 'What is Native American studies?' It is history. It is looking at culture. It's looking at teaching sovereignty, federal Indian law. It's teaching social work, art. It's teaching about Native cultural expression, it can be literature," Reed said. 

The Native American College will introduce two new courses, according to Reed, which will be focused on Native American leadership. 

"It means that maybe some of the ones that start in Fall 2025 will end up here at the Capitol. Maybe they'll end up being the future senators or assembly people or the future of people in business. They might be leading our nation as tribal chairs, they might be going into the medical field," Reed said. "But whatever field they go into, leadership is really key." 

Students who want to be in the Native American College can apply after being accepted into the university's general application process. All students will be required to minor in Native American Studies, with an emphasis on Native American leadership."

-via ABC 10, November 8, 2024

You know what, despite the horrors, at least there's still butches.

cookbook zine called Feeding Trans Women

underrated lotr moment is gandalf’s “let me risk a little more light” so the fellowship can see the ruins of dwarrowdelf.

idk what it is idk how to put it into words but like. such a quick and quiet little moment of, recognizing we’re all in constant mortal peril but while we’re here you should still witness the wonders of the world. while we are here, though it may be on a life-threatening quest, you deserve a little tourist moment. soak it in, the great city that remains long-abandoned and nearly forgotten, the grand pillars that outlived the memories of those who built them. so much of love and life is fleeting in this dark age. but the scraps of it can still be found. the remnants are still here, and even with significant risk they deseve to be beheld.

And Howard Shore went “Do it, Mithrandir, I’ve got your back.” 

#and when you consider that this comes after gimli talked at length about the glory of khazad-dum and the place it holds in their history #and then got there to find it abandoned and shattered and filled with goblins and the bodies of his kin #it's this moment of almost like... affirmation? #no you were not wrong to speak of it this way; yes it is as glorious as you have heard and more #countless dwarves fought and died for this place; it is worth the risk to see what they died for; why they believed it *worth* dying for #gimli is the only dwarf on the quest and in that moment the rest of the fellowship get to see that the creations of his people #are EVERY BIT as spectacular and awe-inspiring as those of elves and men #the movies did gimli wrong in a lot of ways but they NAILED this bit @arafinwes

Excerpt from LIFE (August 4, 1952; Laurence Lowry)

ok they sent manon a jersey so now im sat. im patient. im waiting for a selfie of her in it

oh. sob.

what if you were the rookie goaltender on a floundering team and an older goalie with spectacular eyebrows was there to protect you...

aint no way there's a pens reporter who's like welp the penguins are too depressing to watch it's sapped all the joy out of writing about them HELLO just write a fun story about like. everyone's favorite soup flavor. ez