#fundament

[sharptoothofdeath]

Circle of black slabs - They hear us weep.

Once upon fifty-two blue Moons.

Ripping tides, swelling storms.

Whipping winds, terrible falls.

The oceans will recede, rise and destroy.

God-wave, God-wave, God-wave.

The cold surface melded to my Krill talons,

A communion of sorts, unable to pull away.

How long had I stood 'fore the Tungsten?

Wolfram - alien - lustrous and mind-consuming.

Small Krill Aurash, how she believed that death tolled.

God-wave, God-wave, God-wave.

Our Knowledge, teachings of treachery,

A heavy Truth, a Knowledge to beget?

Only our Father-King receptioned it for a moment,

Ah, he Knew! He Knew! He had communed with the Cairns.

In his mind, the Knowledge had been occulted. Aiat, Aiat.

God-wave, God-wave, God-wave.

Named Tungsten, for Krill needed names for elements incomprehensible!

Named Wolfram, for the Krill feared Knowing! How they hid in their Court.

Early-Mourning had commenced for the Heir of the Osmium Court, but no!

She had returned. Aiat, Aiat. (Aia! Aia!) The King stared on-forth.

The Court bristled but Her-His Sisters had not been aware of the pseudo-death sentence the voyage implied.

God-wave, God-wave, God-wave.

#aiat. aiat. #books of sorrow #hive destiny #the hive #krill destiny #osmium court #oryx the taken king #aurash #fundament

[themothface]

HC 19 what

This is the first instance of "Shark Energy" Fundament in the comic. It's a long standing sight gag in Biee's Headcrew stories that Fundament gets shark teeth when she's angry or stern. I started floating the idea of hinting that Fundament has shark powers, and Biee thought it was cute. My first "innovation" was giving her dark, spooky, great-white shark eyes whem she gets mad to go with her teef. Occassionally, you might see other sharky special effects, if you stick with the comic, wait and see! Actually, that's what gave me the idea to give her dark, glossy eyes in general, so that worked out!

Also, first hint that Brain and Anxiety get up to kinky boots together.

#headcrew #webcomic #comic #lgbtqia #sexy boots #shark girl #Fundament #Jae #Our Project #wait

[khaoticdax]

I found where the hive come from

#video games #destiny 2 #d2 #destiny #destiny the game #Starfield #Fundament

[velthurvik]

Das Portal

The portal

Eine kleine Kirche in der Niederlausitz und ihr altes Eingangsportal. Sparsam errichtet, wie die Niederlausitzer eben sind aber zweckmäßig und solide.

Auf den Fundamenten aus Raseneisenstein und eiszeitlichen Findlingen wurde ein Ziegel-Fachwerkbau errichtet.

#niederlausitz #lower lusatia #east germany #kirche #Breitenau #small church #Raseneisenstein #bog iron stone #Fundament #Base #architektur #portal #eingang #Tür #Kirchentür #church door #historisch #historisches #old house #gott #entry #Sockel #Grundmauer #naturstein #door #the doors

[winterknochen]

Und ich sitz auf meinem Sofa in meinem Unterhemd. Du gingst nicht alleine, du gingst mit meinem Fundament.

#Zitat #mine #fatonie #fundament #liebeskummer

[techniktagebuch]

1923, und die nächsten hundert Jahre

Das hintere Törle

Im Garten meiner Tanten gab es zwei running gags, die sich viele Jahrzehnte lang hinzogen: Die Betonschwellen, die sich ebensowenig entfernen ließen wie das Gemälde des froglike little man im Büro des britischen Premierministers bei Harry Potter; und das hintere Törle.

Das hintere Törle führte von der Rückseite des Hausgrundstücks hinaus auf eine kleine Straße und wurde selten benützt. So lange ich denken kann, war es immer schief und ließ sich nicht richtig schließen. Es war immer zugebunden, mit einem Seil, einem Fahrradschloss oder was gerade zur Hand war.

Mindestens zwei Mal wurde das hintere Törle durch ein neues ersetzt, durch einen der diversen handwerklich begabten Männer, die meinen Tanten im Lauf der Jahrzehnte in Haus und Garten zur Hand gingen. Jedes Mal begann es nach wenigen Wochen, schlechter und schlechter zu schließen, und bald war es wieder zugebunden. Ähnlich wie bei Schlankheitskuren war der anfängliche Erfolg jeweils ein großes Gesprächsthema und wurde ausführlich bejubelt, während man über die spätere Rückkehr zum status quo ante diskret hinwegging.

Auch unser heutiges Grundstück hat ein hinteres Törle. Es führt in den Wald und war seit vielen Jahren zugebunden, weil es nicht mehr zu schließen war. Die Familie unkte schon, das Hintere Törle an sich sei ein allgemeiner Topos in der Welt, und müsse immer zugebunden sein. Es sei einfach niemand bereit, an der Rückseite des Grundstücks den nötigen hohen Aufwand zu betreiben, um ein dauerhaft funktionierendes Gartentor herzustellen.

Vor einigen Wochen habe ich ein neues Hinteres Törle installiert. Von Ehrgeiz getrieben habe ich so tiefe Pfostenfundamente gegraben, dass ich selber erschrocken war, wie viel Beton sie geschluckt haben. Das neue Törle öffnet und schließt leicht und leise, dass es eine Freude ist. Ob damit der Fluch des Hinteren Törle besiegt ist, müssen die nächsten Wochen und Monate zeigen.

(Tilman Otter)

#Garten #Schloss #Fundament #Beton #Tür #Tilman Otter

[despazito]

Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves

#IM intimidated by linux #kudos if they can pick it up god knows we need more computer fundamentals literacy

[bajoop-sheeb]

PLEASE for the love of the universe read anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy written from marginalized perspectives. Y’all (you know who you are) are killing me. To see people praise books about empire written exclusively by white women and then turn around and say you don’t know who Octavia Butler is or that you haven’t read any NK Jemisin just kills me! I’m not saying you HAVE to enjoy specific books but there is such an obvious pattern here

Some of y’all love marginalized stories but you don’t give a fuck about marginalized creators and characters, and it shows. Like damn

#science fiction #fantasy #xenogenesis #earthseed #the broken earth #frankly I think many of the critiques of my own work are valid #but when I see the same criticisms applied to authors who fundamentally changed the genre #I’m like #hold up

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

#9/11 #serious post #not a shitpost #this should be one of the first things kids learn when they learn about the 9/11 attacks #politics #this is just...it's such an essential and brazen fact and i rarely see basic outrage over it #i want outrage. i want fury. i want disgust over the way fundamental facts are disguised and discarded and downplayed #because there are things we should KNOW. basic fact we should ALL KNOW. and they are tucked away in the footnotes. #and no this is NOT to put the blame on other middle eastern countries #we know this was carried out by a specific terrorist organization not a national government #but King George the Second decided (and was encouraged by his cabinet!) to invade a nation! #a nation that was not at all related or responsible!!! #a dictatorship to be sure--but a dictatorship that King George the First had been happy to support #so what changed? why did we go in guns blazing to DEMOLISH a country *we had NO PLANS OF REPAIRING*??? #well. because they wanted a villain didn't they. a nice clean war. clarity of purpose. us the heroes against them the villains #and when you're in that mindframe--truth is irrelevant. you can pick your villain (your victim) by rolling a roulette wheel #truth is irrelevant #worse: to the people in charge #truth is a HINDRANCE #'Alternative facts' existed long before it became a catchphrase #facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. the impulses of a handful of volatile & rich & power-high people--that's History. congratulations

[thestuffedalligator]

So usually when an imaginary friend is a real thing in a story, it’s either a demon or a ghost or some supernatural boogeyman that probably wants to eat the kid they’ve befriended (Mama, a couple of the Paranormal Activity movies), or “imaginary friends” are just treated as a real thing in the setting, and if a child just thinks hard enough they can manifest a friend into existence (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Happy).

And somewhere in the middle is an area where the imaginary friend in question is real and they are supernatural, but they aren’t malevolent, and they aren’t entirely honest about what they are. Like maybe they’re a fairy or a god or some kind of boggle from mythology, but they just got caught by a six year old and they don’t have time to get into it, so they just go “…Yes. I’m your imaginary friend. We haven’t met. How do you do.” And then they stick around because they do love this kid, and if you’re a boggle from mythology in the modern day good food is really hard to come by.

And at some level. That’s what I think Hobbes is.

#imaginary friends #calvin and hobbes #hobbes lives in some kind of level of existence calvin isn’t aware of #but fundamentally calvin doesn’t seem to care #to calvin hobbes is a particularly well spoken and occasionally insufferable friend who happens to be shaped like a tiger #and who he loves to the very bottom of his soul #all of which is true and so hobbes isn’t in a rush to correct him #10k #20k #30k

[sharptoothofdeath]

#fundament #aiat. #destiny 2 #hive destiny #krill destiny #books of sorrow

[gutachter]

Lkw donnert in Vorgarten

Moosinning: „…Eine Schneise der Verwüstung geschlagen hat ein Lkw aus dem Landkreis Mühldorf bei einem kapitalen Unfall am Montagnachmittag in Moosinning. Ersten Informationen zufolge hatte der Fahrer kurz vor 15 Uhr aus noch ungeklärter Ursache die Kontrolle über sein Fahrzeug verloren und war auf die Gegenfahrbahn geraten. Zunächst mähte er einen Gartenzaun um und stieß dann mit einem VW Bus…

View On WordPress

#Beschädigung #Dach #Doppelgarage #Fundament #Gartenzaun #LKW #Moosinning #Sachschaden #Vorgarten

[bibelverse-app]

Thema heute: "Auf festem Grund bauen" - Jesus vergleicht einen Menschen, der seine Worte hört und danach handelt, mit einem klugen Mann, der sein Haus auf Fels baut. Gottes Wort ist der feste Grund für unser Leben.

#FesterGrund #GottesWort #Fundament #Weisheit #Gehorsam #Bibelverse #Beständigkeit #Sicherheit

[cookinguptales]

So I’ve been enjoying the Disney vs. DeSantis memes as much as anyone, but like. I do feel like a lot of people who had normal childhoods are missing some context to all this.

I was raised in the Bible Belt in a fairly fundie environment. My parents were reasonably cool about some things, compared to the rest of my family, but they certainly had their issues. But they did let me watch Disney movies, which turned out to be a point of major contention between them and my other relatives.

See, I think some people think this weird fight between Disney and fundies is new. It is very not new. I know that Disney’s attempts at inclusion in their media have been the source of a lot of mockery, but what a lot of people don’t understand is that as far as actual company policy goes, Disney has actually been an industry leader for queer rights. They’ve had policies assuring equal healthcare and partner benefits for queer employees since the early 90s.

I’m not sure how many people reading this right now remember the early 90s, but that was very much not industry standard. It was a big deal when Disney announced that non-married queer partners would be getting the same benefits as the married heterosexual ones.

Like — it went further than just saying that any unmarried partners would be eligible for spousal benefits. It straight-up said that non-same-sex partners would still need to be married to receive spousal benefits, but because same-sex partners couldn’t do that, proof that they lived together as an established couple would be enough.

In other words, it put long-term same-sex partners on a higher level than opposite-sex partners who just weren’t married yet. It put them on the exact same level as heterosexual married partners.

They weren’t the first company ever to do this, but they were super early. And they were certainly the first mainstream “family-friendly” company to do it.

Conservatives lost their damn minds.

Protests, boycotts, sermons, the whole nine yards. I can’t tell you how many books about the evils of Disney my grandmother tried to get my parents to read when I was a kid.

When we later moved to Florida, I realized just how many queer people work at Disney — because historically speaking, it’s been a company that has guaranteed them safety, non-discrimination, and equal rights. That’s when I became aware of their unofficial “Gay Days” and how Christians would show up from all over the country to protest them every year. Apparently my grandmother had been upset about these days for years, but my parents had just kind of ignored her.

Out of curiosity, I ended up reading one of the books my grandmother kept leaving at our house. And friends — it’s amazing how similar that (terrible, poorly written) rhetoric was to what people are saying these days. Disney hires gay pedophiles who want to abuse your children. Disney is trying to normalize Satanism in our beautiful, Christian America. 

Just tons of conspiracy theories in there that ranged from “a few bad things happened that weren’t actually Disney’s fault, but they did happen” to “Pocahontas is an evil movie, not because it distorts history and misrepresents indigenous life, but because it might teach children respect for nature. Which, as we all know, would cause them all to become Wiccans who believe in climate change.”

Like — please, take it from someone who knows. This weird fight between fundies and Disney is not new. This is not Disney’s first (gay) rodeo. These people have always believed that Disney is full of evil gays who are trying to groom and sexually abuse children.

The main difference now is that these beliefs are becoming mainstream. It’s not just conservative pastors who are talking about this. It’s not just church groups showing up to boycott Gay Day. Disney is starting to (reluctantly) say the quiet part out loud, and so are the Republicans. Disney is publicly supporting queer rights and announcing company-supported queer events and the Republican Party is publicly calling them pedophiles and enacting politically driven revenge.

This is important, because while this fight has always been important in the history of queer rights, it is now being magnified. The precedent that a fight like this could set is staggering. For better or for worse, we live in a corporation-driven country. I don’t like it any more than you do, and I’m not about to defend most of Disney’s business practices. But we do live in a nation where rights are largely tied to corporate approval, and the fact that we might be entering an age where even the most powerful corporations in the country are being banned from speaking out in favor of rights for marginalized people… that’s genuinely scary.

Like… I’ll just ask you this. Where do you think we’d be now, in 2023, if Disney had been prevented from promising its employees equal benefits in 1994? That was almost thirty years ago, and look how far things have come. When I looked up news articles for this post from that era, even then journalists, activists, and fundie church leaders were all talking about how a company of Disney’s prominence throwing their weight behind this movement could lead to the normalization of equal protections in this country.

The idea of it scared and thrilled people in equal parts even then. It still scares and thrills them now.

I keep seeing people say “I need them both to lose!” and I get it, I do. Disney has for sure done a lot of shit over the years. But I am begging you as a queer exvangelical to understand that no. You need Disney to win. You need Disney to wipe the fucking floor with these people.

Right now, this isn’t just a fight between a giant corporation and Ron DeSantis. This is a fight about the right of corporations to support marginalized groups. It’s a fight that ensures that companies like Disney still can offer benefits that a discriminatory government does not provide. It ensures that businesses much smaller than Disney can support activism.

Hell, it ensures that you can support activism.

The fight between weird Christian conspiracy theorists and Disney is not new, because the fight to prevent any tiny victory for marginalized groups is not new. The fight against the normalization of othered groups is not new.

That’s what they’re most afraid of. That each incremental victory will start to make marginalized groups feel safer, that each incremental victory will start to turn the tide of public opinion, that each incremental victory will eventually lead to sweeping law reform.

They’re afraid that they won’t be able to legally discriminate against us anymore.

So guys! Please. This fight, while hilarious, is also so fucking important. I am begging you to understand how old this fight is. These people always play the long game. They did it with Roe and they’re doing it with Disney.

We have! To keep! Pushing back!

#disney #ron desantis #gay rights #lgbt #queer #lgbt history #queer history #homophobia #florida #us politics #religious fundamentalism #christianity #long post #god that should cover all the pertinent tags and content warnings phew

[coffeenonsense]

"astarion is a traumatized abuse victim who deserves kindness" and "astarion is a mean rat bastard man who would rip out your throat for a corn chip if he felt like it" are two statements that can and should coexist

#the duality of vampire #i love our vampling as much as the next person #but fundamentally he's a bitchy self serving little gremlin and that facet of his character should be explored more #it's fun when he cries AND when he's evil okay i can have both #astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

[inkjette]

So at my workplace, we fund a Food Is Free shelf. It's the basics: take what you need, give what you can - our town has a high level of poverty, there's a cost of living crisis, be the good you want to see in the world etc etc.

Today we had a guy knock on the door and ask if we had a plastic bag he could use to carry a few things - I said sure, got him a plastic bag, and he started packing up his 2 rolls of toilet paper, his 3 or 4 foodstuff items. He said he'd been to a funeral out of town (1500 kms away) and spent his paycheck on fuel - he was only broke till Friday, he said.

And I said, well I'm glad we could help, it's why we have the shelf. We want the community to use it.

And he said:

But people ABUSE it! I've seen people take heaps of stuff from it - and they don't even have kids or anything. And it's fair enough, some people are struggling until the next paycheck, but other people just ABUSE it. You need a sign that says TAKE ONE ITEM ONLY or something. I've taken something from here maybe twice, but I've seen people coming round every week! I've even put stuff on the shelf! Yeah, you need CAMERAS or something. People abuse it.

So here is a man who is actively utilising a public resource that we created to support our local community...And yet he is so brainwashed by capitalism into thinking that people don't deserve basic needs - if they're not working hard, or maybe they're struggling but they don't have it As Bad as others, or they're using a FREE RESOURCE more often than HE thinks is acceptable. He thinks that we should use security cameras to crack down on people "STEALING" from the Food is FREE shelf. Like he's more worthy, like he's a better person, because he doesn't need as much help as others might.

Sometimes, when something is free, people might abuse it. But isn't it better to offer the support to people who need it? To offer an opportunity for people to get back on their feet (even if they're only broke till Friday)? To provide help, no questions asked and no conditions needed?

So what if people abuse it - isn't it worth it if helps someone?

#capitalism can die in a hole #people are fundamentally good and all they need to do is the basic resources they need to survive #still cannot get over the fact that we need CAMERAS to stop people from *checks notes* using a food pantry for its intended purpose? #anticapitalism #solarpunk #mutual aid #community aid #community networks #food is free #food pantries