#soulless city

[ophelia-network]

"Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench." Chief Seattle

Birds of a Feather... by Alexandra Manukyan

#birds of a feather #alexandra manukyan #dark humor #quotes #chief seattle #city #stench #crane #figurative painting #fantasy #ophelia net #art #bird #figure #painting #forest #dark fae #groupthink #cities suck #soulless city #spiritual #funny

[stil-lindigo]

people who adopt punk aesthetics and culture but can't refrain from buying an overpriced starbucks every morning because it's their "comfort drink!!!", how does it feel to be a walking mannequin

#because all you do is wear clothes and fucking pose #cant believe im surprised honestly walking around melbourne #the most insufferable city in the world #hipster until you wipe away that alternative sheen and its all just white aesthetics and soulless gentrification

[portsandstars]

It's a relief that they can't open doors

#admittedly they DO go in the Seaspring building but otherwise they are completely thwarted by doors #surprised there isn't more structural damage in the city #any damage comes from vere crashing into things as he tries to get them #touchstarved #touchstarved meme #the soulless #touchstarved game #sorry if I'm wrong Abt this y'all this is just what I can remember

[soldier-poet-king]

Im...happy?? Even temporarily???

Woke up and laid in bed longer than I should have, but less than I usually do, and while filled with dread, it's LESS dread than usual

Walked to mass at new church, completely bland generic sermon & bland generic music, which is perfect, nobody knows me or is trying to rope me into things or expects things from me, I don't have to pretend I don't absolutely loathe so much of catholic parish culture, I can just, go in, go out, be a nameless face in the pew which is Safe and Uncontroversial. There was even the coolest looking older butch in the pew with me. Docs and leather jacket and all.

Stopped and read on a cafe patio with a coffee and pastry. The sun was out. Nobody was constantly texting me asking where I was. It was me and my iced coffee and silly vampire book.

Checked out the main shopping area, saw all the local grocers and bakeries and small local businesses. I'm not in a suburban box store desert anymore. I may pay slightly more at small businesses but if I want the luxury of this kind of area that's a cost I'm willing (and newly able) to pay. Plus living here means I don't have to own a car and am saving so much on that front that it still works out in my favour financially

Stopped by a little florist, tiny hole on the wall, met the nicest man and his nephew and got tons of plant advice based on my apartment layout and some recommendations for what should be unkillable given my brown thumb. Will absolutely be going back for more plants once I'm fully set up + some for my office

Like. This was unthinkable a year ago. I desperately need to keep my job. So I can keep this. I forgot how good it was to live in an area like this, not endless detached housing sprawl. I can walk everywhere. I lived in an arealike this in uni but my budget was nonexistent (grad school funding woooo). Now that I have a (very small admittedly) degree of financial flexibility??? Im allowed to sit on a patio with a 5$ coffee once a week??? I can pop into little florists and grocers and bakeries if I want?? Nobody is going to judge me for "wasting" money by not buying the absolutely dogshit quality cheapest thing possible??? Or not reporting on my location at all times? I owe no accounting of my every trip out the house?

#the duality of fran #YALL IM. i might weep a bit #anyway #i got an ivy and a zebra pothos at this guys recommendation #he was SO nice and helpful man i could've stayed in his shop all day #WHODVE THOUGHT. COMMUNITIES VS SOULLESS BIG BOX STORES #like putting my money where my mouth is viz community based living and small businesses #also i dont have to online shop constantly #i can GET THINGS NEARBY #if i never have to go to walmart again. God bless #and i can volunteer. theres a food bank nearish by! i can hop on the subway and hit up any number of places to volunteer at #i can donate my knitting! i can be good #my mother is like oh no theres a homeless person #yeah its a city and not a suburb and yhe govt is failing our residents #HENCE WE NEED TO DO SMTHN ABT IT #but i CAN now that im local. not spending 3+hrs a day commuting

[battle-of-alberta]

guess who's back at the tablet

what, me? be biased? in support of an edmonton franchise? why ever would you think that. calgarians go get your cookie beer doughnuts since for some reason they were only available on the yyc menu and none of ours at the time of posting, tsk tsk. (personal dp faves of mine are the bernadette and the vancouver fog - and i brought their fritters to my parents and they loooved them even though they got totally squished by airplane travel)

i went to krispy kreme in the early aughts when i lived in the states- we drove all the way to another city to try them because nowhere near us had good doughnuts. When those are the only doughnuts you have access to and they're hot, they're fine, and watching the big machine pumping them out is great entertainment, but honestly I do not care for them and i WARNED quatsch in toronto that they weren't that good.

but calvin of course LOVES soulless corporations, especially american ones :)

anyway the yyc dp logo is so cute i can't.

#projectcanada cities #pc: edmonton #pc: calgary #hapo art #hapo doodles #boab omake #edward murphy #calvin mccall #clip studio paint #one of my big motivations for setting up my bike to carry things #is so that i can pick up doughnuts from DP among other things #ed also loves soulless american corporations though #he just loves being vindicated more #and also he is a pastry snob #but you will still see the hypocrit at tims first thing in the morning

[umiokami]

Halsin's romance scene wont trigger, so I went with the next best thing

#Halsin babe im giving you ALL the signals #but you are too concerned with how fuck awful city society is to get in on this dragussy #but ya know who wasnt? #the “soulless” squid man #and what a wet dream THAT was #smelled like vanilla and garlic as described by the other voice in our heads we dont acknowledge #idk if thats a good smell #but fuck it we ball #bg3 #bg3 emperor #bg3 halsin

[bladesmitten]

also is it not a coincidence that wyll's quest involves finding out that the emperor is actually balduran. and his best friend ansur tried to mercy kill him because he couldn't cure his illithid disease.

and now wyll's lover is turned illithid, a noble sacrifice to save his city, and that may even be the only reason he doesn't kill them right then and there.

so he honours his lover by doing what ansur couldn't do to balduran: let them live, but only how he sees fit. that is his mercy.

#.txt #bg3 spoilers #imagine finding out the hero who founded your home city became an illithid #then reading the letter ansur had with him when he died #is it a surprise that wyll does all this in the end? #in the grand scheme of things he is a duke/monster hunter and you are an illithid #even if he doesnt care about his reputation #he has a duty to the people. and the only good mind flayer is a dead mind flayer #he cant risk people believing some of them can actually be good when the truth is you are the exception to the rule #and you are only a soulless husk. a simulacrum of the person he loved #wyll #this happens with blade of frontiers wyll too. and obviously not with blade of avernus wyll because youre in Hell. what does it matter.

[spock-smokes-weed]

I’m gonna kill myself why do all the cafes in my area look like this

What the fuck ever happened to warm lighting, cozy chairs, a fucking book shelf maybe?????

No more fluorescent white gentrification cafes im fucking begging

#I hate it here #rich millennials im begging you to leave my city and to stop setting up soulless businesses here #go boss babe somewhere else

[victorluvsalice]

The "Valicer In The Dark Meets Baldur's Gate III" Not-Incorrect Quotes/Shitpost Collection

(Don't worry too much about spoilers -- most of this is early-game stuff, with just a couple of things relating to stuff in Act II)

--

Alice: [having just met Lae'zel on the Nautiloid and been informed of the situation with the parasites] And who are you, exactly?

Lae'zel: Who am I? Your only chance of survival.

[later, after the imps have been fought, and everyone's met back up and freed Shadowheart:]

Victor: [introducing himself as they get back on the move] I'm Victor.

Alice: I'm Alice. [pointing to Lae'zel] And this is Only.

Lae'zel: ?

Alice: Well, you've given me nothing else to call you.

--

Shadowheart: [after being informed the trio live in a world without a sun and that's why they're being so weird about the sky being blue] I -- are you Shar's Chosen? Is this some sort of test? Am I not supposed to believe you when you say you like sunlight? I can totally not believe you if that's the case!

Alice: ...I feel like we've missed something.

Smiler: [lying down and sunbathing] Yeah, it's in the sky above us.

--

Withers: What is the worth of a single mortal's life?

Victor: I -- I would say priceless. You can't put a value on life itself.

Alice: I say it's worth whatever you're willing to pay to defend it. Only the owner of said life can set the value.

Smiler: I'm pretty sure the standard rate of assassins in Duskwall is four Coin minimum -- not sure how that translates to your money.

Victor & Alice: [look at Smiler]

Smiler: What? It's a legitimate answer!

--

Withers: I shall be here, in thy camp, for whenever thou has need of my services.

Alice: Oh? What kind of services do you offer?

Withers: A mending of the threads between life and death. Should thou or any of thy compatriots perish, I will cleave soul to body once more.

Victor: Cleave soul to -- wait a minute, isn't that how you get vampires?

Astarion: [rearranging his tent, pauses and gives them a really weird look]

--

Alice: [during one of the meetings with Raphael] You do seem like a very powerful devil.

Raphael: [preening] I consider myself no slouch, yes.

Smiler: [cheerfully] I bet your blood could power an entire city block for a month!

Raphael: [blink blink] ...thank...you?

--

Strange Ox: Ah, you're addressing me. A humble ox. How...quaint.

Smiler: [tilting their head] What are you?

Strange Ox: As I said, a humble ox. I don't know why you're --

Smiler: No, I mean, what's an ox?

Strange Ox: ...

--

Smiler: [standing behind a table lined with eight samples of the same Potion Of Glorious Vaulting, with Victor, Alice, and the companions all gathered around the front of it] Thank you all for coming to this blind taste test, where we will be disproving the idiotic notion that you only need one specific ingredient per potion to create something that does what you want it to. In front of you are eight individual Potions of Glorious Vaulting, each made with a different type of Ashes -- I would like you each to drink one, test the effects, then rate it based on how strong the effects were, how long they lasted, and how tasty it was.

Wyll: You care about the taste?

Smiler: Of course! If we're going to be making potions, the least we could do is make them pleasant to consume! We're working toward maximum happiness here! Now everybody pick one and let's get jumping!

--

Gale: [realizing the trio isn't with them as they move through the mind flayer colony under Moonrise] Hold -- where's Victor, Alice, and Smiler?

Karlach: I think I saw them looking at a cage in the last room.

Lae'zel: Chk -- they should know by now that we cannot pause and look at every little thing that --

Smiler: [rejoining the group carrying a certain intellect devourer, beaming, as Victor and Alice come up behind them] Hey everyone!

Lae'zel: [stares at the brain] ...

Astarion: Why are you carrying an intellect --

Lae'zel: THAT. THING. SURVIVED?!

Us: Hello Angry Friend!

Lae'zel: I'M NOT YOUR FRIEND

--

Aylin: [after everyone's agreed to meet up with her and Isobel again later at the camp] Now -- you will leave us. We must take succour in one another's bodies and words.

Isobel: Aylin. We'll see you later.

Victor: [hiding a smile] Of course.

Alice: [biting back a chuckle] Later.

Smiler: [big beaming grin and a double thumbs up] Enjoy the hot lesbian sex!

Victor: Smiler!

Aylin: I intend to.

Isobel: AYLIN.

#valicer in the dark au #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #(very minor ones nothing for Act III but I guess there's a little bit for Act II here) #not incorrect quotes #had probably more fun with these than I should have #Lae'zel cracks and tells Alice her name when she tells 'Only' and Shadowheart not to fight before they reach the helm #Alice of courses persists in calling her 'Only' when she's annoyed with her #and Smiler is like 'VINDICATED' when Withers admits that resurrecting people is a matter of coin #'see I told you he might want the economics answer!' #also yes ghosts possessing soulless bodies is how you get vampires in Duskwall #not to mention most of them suck life straight out of other people #a blood-drinker like Astarion is unusual there #as for the 'blood could power a city block' #most of the electroplasmic power that helps light up Duskwall comes from leviathan blood #and leviathans are a large form of devil #so it really was meant as a compliment XD #and yes I looked at how alchemy worked in the game #and Smiler was immediately like 'what do you mean ANY SALT' #they take their craft seriously damn it XD #and also you should be allowed to hug Us #put that in the next patch Larian #queued

[ghostoffuturespast]

Stand back.

#cyberpunk 2077 #npcs #environmental shots #virtual photography #video game photography #night city streets #trauma team #stare into the soulless eyes of corporate death #fuck insurance

[katyspersonal]

Saw another one of those posts compiling stupid commentaries of some men complaining about a videogame character looking realistic but also not all too conventionally attractive.. What always sticks out the most is stuff like "if I wanted realism - I'd go outside".

I just really can't comprehend what's in the mind of people who thinks that real women (and sometimes not only women) are ugly, repulsive, and something to "get away into a save haven from once in a while". I remember I once heard a similar criticism towards how I draw humans, too - that "uwu art is supposed to be a challenge to world's imperfections and ugliness, it should be a guiding light and dream of ideal to comfort us sick humans, and you defeat the purpose by bringing all the real world's flaws with you in your art uwu". *smh*

Like, I genuinely can't understand how these loosers even live if normal human faces and bodies are something to dread for them. I know I am constantly raving about how this wretched world is a factory of suffering and no person with basic sanity is glad to have been born at the first place, but even I am surprised when of all things to resent about the world some choose just faces of other idiots living in it??

#/vent #i hate this attitude so much #there are things to resent! #cruelty dirt lack of colors economical collapse soulless cities trashed nature #ruined buildings and works of art that people won't fix because they're lazy #but like of all things you wanna escape it is some normal shit like- #-someone's skin condition or extra weight or 'strange' face structure or cleft lip #etc etc etc #???? #I'd think everyone with an IQ above 80 understands that the only *truly* ugly things are manmade #in this blog we love 'ugly' characters and art styles

[kebriones]

Reading that post you made about that book hurt. He would not fucking do that

Yeah. This entire book is so bad, and he is so out of character I am just skipping pages at this point to see if there's anything else crazy enough for me to mention.

#it's such a bad book like #i've read other books where the setting is ancient athens and at least #they manage to paint a believable and lively picture of the city #this book is so dry and so soulless #it doesn't feel like it's set in the period it's set in #some characters are interesting and charming but it feels like an accident #and alcibiades is so not himself I cannot stand it he doesn't have a shred of charm on him #the lack of socrates is a glaring unforgivable hole #the romance with aspasia KEEPS GOING for like 13 chapters it's actually ridiculous #and it's all full of stuff like they're writting letters to each other and swear to never see each other again and look at each other longi #like you have no idea the psychic damage I have sustained #I have given up for today I think #I might actually skip to the end #oh also one last very annoying thing #aspasia is the only woman so far. im almost halfway through and she's the only female character

[lystring]

found out yesterday that a friend of a friend who ive never really liked for various reasons but mostly because she thinks she's the only one who knows what good music is (which is like mostly classic rock and like "unknown" swedish bands and hates on hiphop and rap a lot as "objectively"bad" music) and looks down on and puts down people quite vocally and regularly like really condescendingly because of this is a huge taylor swift fan 💀

#like im surprised because its sooo not what she usually totes as gods gift to music but also lmao #NOT surprised #seeing how she grew up in a super affluent part of the city #like taylors music was like made for the type of girl she is even if she's 'super alternative' #apparently when my friend was like ummm what?? like super confused why she would like her music #she was like 'oooh but shes like this self made woman in the music biz her lyrics are soo good' #💀💀💀💀 neither true objectively but ok lol #tell me again how im boring because i like 'soulless popmusic' and how 'bad' hiphop and rap is again #personal #sorry lmaooo i just find it soo funny honestly #i dont even care that much about her i can usually ignore her but shes also become like a real shitty friend to my bff #ANYWAY

[pianohouseblue]

#Cigarette stars #smoke #sulking #city girl/prisoner/soulless creature

[soldier-poet-king]

My dad and uncle keep looking at properties in rural Ontario and striaght up I would rather fuckin die. When I said I hated the suburbs this si NOT what I mean. I want walkable small cities. Lots of local arts and restaurants. Tons of green spaces. Community gardens. Culture and libraries and things to do. I've BEEN to the town they keep looking at and there isn't even a public library. It's entirely white people and majority super conservative. I can't get any good food there. No where to shop. My university had SIGNIFICANTLY more students than the entire population of the area. What the fuck what the fuck

I know I will not be moving and this is probably just them talking shit but like. Stop shoving it in my face esp when I'm visibly uncomfortable and asked them to stop forcing me to discuss it. I want walkable small cities where I can grow some vegetables and go to local productions. Not....that. I'm already beyond isolated and you want me to go to a place like that??? It may be good for some ppl, not for me. I can barely last a week in my dad's town without wanting to kill someone.

This is so stupid but I walked in the door after work already worn out and upset despite getting off early on Friday for summer hrs and they were like. Surprise. Do this. We're serious. I'm too tired for this

It's so stupid to be upset about bc even if it does happen and my mother is convinced it won't be before I get permanent work and can leave but I am so tired this is the last straw. I am going to make a drink even tho it is not yet 4pm.

#as much as i hate the intense urban sprawl and soulessness of toronto #its WAY better than town of 19000 Hicksville with nothing to do #AND NO LIBRARY WHAT THE FUCK #i am made for places of at least 100000 #my old collegetown. the dream city. perfect. walkable. good food. good art scene #i could go bigger too if it has character. #North American cities are soulless urban sprawl with no life #but i still prefer that #to being isolated and having to drive an hour or more to get anywhere #I HATE DRIVING and also gas is expensive AND id rather walk #just like. evironmentally #this is such a stupis thing to be upset about but i am too tired this is the kast straw #i think i just. do not vibe with small town canada #it is so different than smaller towns in the Mediterranean where at least the climate is suited to me #and trains are good to get around #this is just. hours and hours from civilization with nothing to so #do #schitts creek but in the not fun way. or Letterkenny. absolutely not my jam #theres a difference between a catholic social worker commune farm and like #WASP-ville ontario where you cant get good indian food and you have to drive an hour to the hospital

[jakeabel]

i cant live in the suburbs anymore i NEED to be in my hometown sitting in the abandoned blockbuster parking lot at 11pm with my best friend eating culvers concrete mixers in their car and having the deepest conversation of our lives while we watch the empty field in front of us next to the highway where people like to stop on roadtrips to walk their dogs

#rural towns are dead as hell but at least they don’t pretend they aren’t soulless like the endless fucking blocks of chain stores that- #nobody wants to go to because even though you’re right outside one of the biggest cities in north america there’s nothing to do and you #don’t even get the dignity of driving in a cornfield about it #txt