#surrounded islands

[nobrashfestivity]

Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida) signed, titled and dated 'Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida) Christo 1983' (lower center) box construction—graphite, fabric, pastel, charcoal, enamel paint, photograph by Wolfgang Volz, fabric sample and wax crayon on paperboard

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83. Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 1983 Christo

#Christo and Jeanne-Claude #Surrounded Islands #land art

[playlovethink]

Christo e Jeanne-Claude

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(Image: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin 1971-95. © Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation)

#Christo #Christo and Jeanne-Claude #Contemporary Art #Public Art #Land Art #Wrapped Reichstag #Pont Neuf Wrapped #Water Projects #Surrounded Islands #Running Fence #Floating Piers

[cosmicwhoreo]

Maybe Grand Reef Cookie shouldn't always try to make the things he finds into some sort of tea or meal....

#it's basically that one time folks had to save a sea turtle from a straw being stuck up it's nose.... Clean up after yourselves #you filthy cretins. #He likes to reuse the things he finds as “decoration” or even “ingredients” for the most random of things #not really understanding the real purpose of these things that appear on the ocean floor. he just thinks they're “neat”... #doesn't help the place is basically surrounded by “trash islands” coasting on the surface of the water #YES THOSE ARE REAL AND ARE HORRIFYING TO KNOW ABOUT #cookie run kingdom #cookie run #crk #fan character #fan cookie #oc #Grand Reef Cookie

[kthulhu42]

your idea about female separatism or superiority is delusional. Women are not inferior but you’re not superior either. put all feminists on an island on their own for a year. See what happens. There was a show actually, the women and men were put on the other sides of an island. All the women had to do was find the men and they quit after one day while the men made spears, houses and had a great time dancing and singing. And don’t just dismiss it saying it’s only a few women blah blah bc you know damn well if it was the other way round you’d be using it as proof women generally are better or superior in some ways.

Lol at the male using reality TV as evidence 🤣 I actually know of several rural farms in my area entirely run by women, who are dealing with cows and goats everyday, looking after an orchard or crops, that's hard work and takes dedication.

Cows are *much* less obnoxious than men though - as evidence, I've never had a cow send me some annoying bullshit (ironically) in my ask box

#Working on a farm/being on an island surrounded by women sounds FANTASTIC #Men think “women” and immediately imagine “incapable tiktok influencers” and it SHOWS #radblr #radical feminism #feminism #female separatism

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

i do think izzy's "the only retirement we get is death" line is so funny because like the thing he's most famous for is being a b list villain in one of the most popular children's books of all time where he gets killed by a preteen. so like yes, the only retirement in store for him is death, but on the other hand, he can never actually die (or never stop dying depending on how you look at it) because he's been immortalized in one of the most well known and most adaptated fictional works of all time

#so like watch out i guess!!! #you can achieve immortality. but watch out!!! #izzy hands #ofmd #our flag means death #treasure island #israel hands #you cannot divorce the character or historical figure of israel hands in any of his iterations from the character israel hands in treasure #island sorry #it's all about treasure island #which isnt to say the other irl pirates havent been immortalized in works of fiction or even the mythology surround pirates and piracy from #the golden era but like thats just not the same as being in mother fucking treasure island

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

thinking about near misses in east blue.

shanks doesn't like conflict. he doesn't want to fight. he knows if buggy sees him a fight will happen. (does he know that buggy is concealing his history with roger? idk) so obviously he avoids him. shanks is great at avoiding people!

but how close do they get first?

do the red-haired pirates, looking for a new base of operations, spot a ship in port with a jolly roger that sends a shiver of recognition down shanks' spine?

do they land on opposite sides of the same island once? wander through the same market? nearly stop at the same stall? is the only thing that saves shanks from getting sworn at for a solid hour the sharp ear that catches on the phrase “captain buggy” and the quick thinking to duck into a random shop while his first mate gives him a deeply concerned look?

#one piece #shuggy #shanks #buggy #shanks surrounded by frilly dresses going 'what? obviously i meant to come in here beck' #beckman just. not even gonna question it today. you do you boss. #shanks: thank GOD you guys call me by that title instead of saying my name. we might actually get off this island alive. #(listen. LISTEN. they sailed the same ocean for at LEAST ten years. and they never ran into each other once? #with shanks' luck? when he ran into rayleigh by chance passing through sabaody of all places?? that's intentional.)

[muffinlance]

Love that Aaron is totally chill with the giant and dangerous avatar of the seasons but doesn’t trust whales 😂

They are EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS OKAY, what are they hiding under all that water

#and what are those giant spouts they keep doing #Signals? They are obviously signals #and this is an island #Which means #THEY HAVE US SURROUNDED #fox's tongue and kirin's bone

[pabuisle]

yet another cul-de-sac wip 🍂

#piano surrounded by pumpkins isnt original i fear #ib my.animalnch on instagram #acnh #animal crossing #animal crossing new horizons #acnh community #acnh island #new horizons #acnh switch #acnh exterior #acnh autumn #acnh halloween

[worstloki]

Loki surveilling the skyline of New York from the top of Stark Tower and clocking that his favorite paired set of buildings are gone. sad

#everyone wants thor and loki to have visited earth a bunch of times and obviously they wouldn't be too invested in earth politics #but i think the concept of much time passing between visits should be taken advantage of #like what if one of them missed seeing the statue of liberty on their past 3 visits and now that's 'suddenly' a famous historic landmark #Loki like wow I sure hope that restaurant in the Soviet Union is still around! #and Natasha's head whips around so fast like you mean Russia or one of the surrounding countries that used to be part of the USSR #Loki: uhm. well. what's the difference #Natasha: here is a map of the countries does this help #Loki: it does not help but thank you for trying #Thor: what do you mean Rome is gone???? Rome was HUGE????? #Tony: well it's been a few centuries since then Europe is very different now #Thor: (visibly distressed) so the the sweet effeminate men enjoy the streets no more?? #Tony: ...I don't keep track of foreign border laws about that #Thor shows up after 3 years and there's a new president and he's very confused through the entire meeting #brodinsons being so detached from the political scene but being so used to realm politics they come to correct conclusions about things #even though the timeline and how long things stay the same on midgard still messes with them #Loki: at least Egypt is still around #Thor: China also #Brodinsons visiting New Zealand(Aotearoa)/Australia/various British mandate islands before the British formally showed up #returning 2 centuries later and 'the gene pool has altered drastically' 'must've been a war' #well it's either that or since Asgard seems spared of colorism they treat all humans as the same and don't notice. which might be worse #on the colonisation and liberation side of things

[starleska]

if i had a nickel for every time Paul Williams played a character who ends up involved with a harem, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice 😂

#folks in the 70s were obsessed with surrounding this man with tall gorgeous women #whether he's playing a monstrous sleazebag or a chronically shy fantasist they just loved seeing him rizz it up #as i continue my Paul Williams acting role journey i wouldn't be surprised if this trope crops up again 🤭 #paul williams #phantom of the paradise #fantasy island #swan #swan potp #herbert snyder #starleskatalks #naughty tag #suggestive

[weneedatdcharacterwho]

We need a TD character who is perpetually sleepy. When they're not in a challenge, you'll likely find them in their bunk or napping anywhere they want, like on a flat rock where they can rest their head.

On the bright side, they dominate night challenges because they're a night owl.

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#terry if I can astroproject something into your brain it's this: BRING BACK NIGHTTIME EPS #please please please #total drama #total drama island #animationadventures #imagine getting into a group huddle and then noticing Oswald is asleep on a rock #so everyone relocates to the rock and surrounds Oswald while strategizing (everyone gets to hear the plan!) #I asked my dad for a random boy and girl name and his picks were Mary (already have one) and Oswald (works)

[sleepyselkiesiren]

Me every day

#Literally surrounded by sloth plushies #and my name is sleepy #.... #should I have gone with sleepysloth for my tumblr name #naaah #coral island

[dreamingstarfruits]

People with f/os who can fly, imagine your f/o picking you up and flying heigh in the air, they’re holding you as close to them as possible, making absolute sure you don’t fall. Up there no one can hear you and you’re hard to see from the ground, making this moment with your f/o more private for whatever you wanna do or say.

What will you do?

There’s also the view of everything below you. Do you see the lights of a city during night with all the bustling traffic on the roads, showing you just how large and busy a city can be. Maybe you’re out in nature with the trees and mountains stretching as far as the eye can see, reminding you of just how small you really are in this massive world.

What will you see?

#f/o imagines #imagine your f/o #self ship #self shipping #Isle Delfino would probably be very pretty from above #same goes for the other islands surrounding it

[jasper-valentino]

I present...

A child

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #my art #my art stuff #cookie run oc #i spent a little too much time on his eyes #but I think he turned out adoreable #I named him Opalite cookie #He's a oracle for the sliver tribe which is another island surrounding the Lea kingdom #The sliver tribe consists of the same Faeries from the Faerie kingdom but were seperated from the rest of the other population #ignore my ranting about the Sliver tribe Im still working on other things with my other ocs but this is all I have to show for now #my artwork #crk

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

Here are more of my notes and personal thoughts on the Commando App because I find it very intriguing and I am insane

(Note: In 2x09 and 3x18 there's a slight font error and the period between "2.1" in the "APP v2.1 BETA" in the corner missing. It doesn't appear until 4x10 when the numbers are spaced out and slightly resized)

So, we see throughout the show in the bottom right corner on the Commando App's engagement screen that Chase's Commando App is the 2.1 Beta version. Kate on the other hand has the 3.1 Beta version of it

Something worth noting is that Chase is the original owner of the Commando App, and up until Kate was introduced, he was the only one to have it and after 4x10 he is back to being the only one to have it

So, why does Chase have the 2.1 Beta version and not the 2.0 Beta version? Even more so, why isn't he even the Beta 0.1-1.9 version of the Commando App if he's the first person to have it installed on his chip?

And on top of that, if what we see of the Commando App in the show is the Beta version, then what was the Alpha version and when did it exist?

The Alpha version had to have come before the Beta version, that's the whole point of the Beta version existing since it's the second phase of an app after Alpha

Hypothetically, the Alpha version was what was originally on Chase's chip before it was implanted into him, or right after it was implanted into him

What I mean by that is when Douglas made their chips he obviously had the Commando App in mind to give to Chase because of his main bionic ability not being an offensive or defensive power and with Chase being physically smaller, but since this was new and experimental technology he had to make the Alpha version first to put onto the chip

I could imagine four potential (and completely hypothetical) things out of this idea:

The Alpha version only existed before the chip was inserted into Chase. Douglas created the app and programmed it into the chip and then did some tests and fixed some bugs on the app before turning it over into the Beta phase and then inserting the chip into Chase

The Alpha version existed on the chip as it was inserted into Chase, and then since the chip was essentially "live" and activated inside of Chase Douglas then observed possible faults and glitches in the program where he fixed it and then progressed it into the Beta phase, left at the 2.1 version, where he probably would have continued to update it further before Chase was taken by Donald

Once Donald took the bionic sibs, he had been updating the Commando App as he was still navigating their bionics and their apps. I don't see this as very likely though considering if he says the Commando App is glitchy then he would have done something to the app to try to get rid of the bugs in the programming

The Alpha version was supposed to go on Adam or Bree's chip, or even all three siblings, but Douglas ultimately decided to give it to Chase considering his size and main bionic ability. This is where the Alpha version turned into the Beta version as it was given to Chase

Circling back to Chase's Commando App being the 2.1 Beta version, the number could also simply mean that Douglas just started off numbering the Beta version at 2.1 since Chase is the original. Why not at least 2.0? Who knows! He also could have just skipped over the Alpha version and started off naming it right at the Beta 2.1 version

We see that Kate's Commando App is 3.1, not 2.2 or even 3.0. Considering the Beta numbering of Kate's Commando App compared to Chase's leads me to believe that there was a 1.1 Beta version at some point or even that the 1.1 could have been the Alpha version

Whether or not the Beta version 1.1 existed is just something to think about, and if it did then I think it's safe to assume that is was on Chase's chip at some point before potentially being upgraded to the 2.1 version

I think if we got to see Bree's Commando App activation screen in 4x10 then it could have potentially given us more information on the numbering system for the app. Bree's Commando App was temporary though, so I wonder if her Beta version would have been 3.2 or if it would have been 4.1 or even just 3.1 like Kate's

Ultimately just comparing the numbering of Chase's and Kate's apps means that the Commando App doesn't seemingly take "baby steps" in being upgraded, like having a Beta 2.1.1 version and whatnot. Maybe even the numbering is based off of the activation trigger for each Commando App. Spike activates when Chase is nervous, scared, or angry (a reminder that he's a form of Chase's fight-or-flight instinct but without the flight) and Spikette activates when Kate sees someone (or even just Chase for some reason?) getting hurt and becomes a rampaging momma bear

We could also throw away most of these ideas for Kate's Commando App and the relation to Chase's considering Krane gave her the app so he could have numbered it 3.1 instead of 2.2 but this is getting ridiculously hypothetical so I'm going to just dive away from this thought

Basically what I'm trying to get at is that Kate's 3.1 version most likely isn't an upgraded version of the Commando App, it's just numbered 3.1 because it's just another version of the app installed into a different person

Lastly, it's a great detail that the Commando App is programmed as a Beta app considering the nature of the app itself. Not only that, but it is quite literally new and experimental technology as it's an app on a chip inserted into bionic human beings!

It's referred to as a glitchy app and it even appears glitchy, which is what a Beta version is of an app/program. The Beta version is meant as like a semi-testing version of the app, a step up from the Alpha version, and has more work to be done before the app/program gets more finalized. It's going to have bugs, it's going to be glitchy, it's going to have plenty of issues but it's also operational and better than the Alpha version. So having the Commando App listed as "Beta" is a perfect and neat detail!

I actually don't think that there's anything wrong with the Commando App at all, or at least not Spike. I think contrary to what the characters say about it, it's not glitchy, at least not Spike. Sure there's maybe just one or two parts I could see as a "glitch" but I also could see it as normal operation. The bionic disruptor enhancing his bionic aggression instead of deactivating the Commando App is super interesting

It certainly doesn't help that Spike's behavior and personality is inconsistent so it's hard to judge this, or the fact that he only appears four times in the entirety of the show. On the other hand I think Spikette is different though and that she might have a few glitches, especially if we consider Krane gave it to her so it might be unstable but honestly who knows. This "glitch" talk is something for me to discuss at another time though.....

This is what we see out of the Commando App. The owner of the program cannot control the engagement or disengagement of the app, nor can they control themselves when the app is engaged. It's also described as a dangerous app due to this, especially since the owner loses control and their rampaging alter ego takes over.

And maybe this was how the Commando App was always meant to be, a defense mechanism that shuts out its owner in order to protect them, or at least that's Spike's purpose and not Spikette's. This would make sense since it's essentially their fight-or-flight system and meant to protect the owner of the app, they're not meant to be the ones in control of their own fight-or-flight system. They're supposed to take their enemy off guard by seemingly fighting a weaker appearing opponent that suddenly turns into a highly aggressive brute that will tear them apart

Or like Chase was wanting to find out in 4x10, maybe the Commando App could become controllable. Could this have been a potential future software update further into the Beta version or even into a more finalized version of the app? Was it obtainable at the versions Chase and Kate had? Was the Commando App meant to be controllable in the first place? Who knows!

So really all of this is just hypothetical. Was there an Alpha version of the Commando App? I think we can assume so, and further more it either existed before it was inserted into Chase or right when it was inserted into Chase before being upgraded. Maybe there wasn't an Alpha version and it started off as the 2.1 Beta version in Chase, but I still believe there was a 1.1 version somewhere, whether it was an Alpha or Beta. Maybe the Commando App was never meant to be finalized and was always meant to stay as a Beta version

Maybe the Alpha version of the Commando App were the friends we made along the way

No matter what, it's a great concept that I wish was utilized more in the show. I also wish we were given more general information about it. It had more potential, especially Spike (*cough cough* S4 Spike was disappointing though *cough cough*) to be developed further. I wish we heard more about Chase's thoughts on having the Commando App and practically being deemed weak at birth to have this monstrous alter ego inserted into him that he didn't ask for

Ultimately, I just think it's neat!

#I could probably add more but I'm really tired and my brain is fried trying to think about this because of the seemingly endless- #hypotheticals and potential loops surrounding the Commando App. It's still really fun to think about though #anyone is welcome to share their thoughts! Also forgive me for any spelling or grammar mistakes I finished this at 5:40 am #and this folks is also why 80% of my current fanfic writing has to do with Spike #disney lab rats #lab rats #lab rats bionic island #chase davenport #spike davenport #lab rats spike

[wiseatom]

modern byler goes on animal crossing dates btw. if you even care 🙄

#first of all mike wheeler is a nintendo fanboy and i will not be hearing any constructive criticism surrounding this #second of all he has over 1000 hours in new horizons and his island is decorated like a little city #when he invites will over for ‘dates’ he sets up a little area with all of the heart shaped items and little presents #he also funds will’s entire island bc he has millions of bells #(will’s island is v natural + foresty vibes n he likes the deer villagers) #anyway . thinking So Much about this #also mike loves breath of the wild and will loves watching mike play breath of the wild #mike takes an entire week off work for the teads of the kingdom release (this is me projecting) #ok i’m done bye