Also my rational behind the horrible in game picture is Tali bad facebook style shooped it and Shepard was just like “tali.. i’ve seen your face, this dosen’t look anything like you.. did you photoshop this” and she’s like UHH
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ohmygod you guys
what if zimmy’s punch was so badass it knocked anthony onto the floor
and all his colleagues would be like “carver dude what the heck”
and anthony would just be like ” D: “
*oops i didnt see that he was wearing short sleeves. just pretend long sleeves dont exist in the ether.
**also oops wrong side of the face?
casually ignores the updates and draws unrelated shit
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Whenever I read anything to do with Africa, it’s always this talk of ‘tribes’: Yoruba tribe, Igbo tribe, Hutu tribe, Zulu tribe, blah blah blah. But then for European groups, it’s the Dutch people, the Serbian people, the Irish people. I feel like we should discuss all European issues like this. Let’s talk about the ‘tribal’ warfare in the Balkans between the Croatian tribe, the Bosnian tribe and the Serbian tribe. Let’s return the imperial gaze in kind.
Except people already do that, and the war in the Balkans is, like many wars in Africa, caused by imperial subjugation?? It’s not “returning the imperial gaze” to do that to Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia, because those are all colonized nations. It’s hilarious and effective to do this with colonial powers like the Dutch but the Balkans are ALREADY marginalized and dehumanized in contemporary discourse. Why do it more?
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OK so k4ll0’s awesome tali model (and maybe a little ‘talizora actual cannibal’ incident) made me wanna draw up some quarians and do the whole design rationale thing too lol. I drew a tali design a long time ago so it’s still based a little on that.
k4ll0 had a really good point in that quarians probably don’t have hair or sweat, being from a very hot desert planet. I did add in some vent type holes or whatever, in some natural fossils of the body, and the little tendril things on top could also help vent heat if they had the right kinna blood vessels in them. I like to think they used to get pretty long (everyone knows head tentacles are hot, even protheans) but since they started suit life they started tying them together and docking them so they never really go any farther than the bottom of their neck.
I do like bald quarian designs but I had always seen them as having some kind of stuff up top, mainly because 1. their suits include hoods, which.. i dunno I thought it might have been for holding hair-type stuff, or just to mimic having it, otherwise why have that at all? and 2. give them more resemblance to the mechanical aspects of the geth like wiring, a long with the hooded-arch appearance. Same reason their ears would effectively be molded into their heads, just creating more arched lines (and reverse-engineering from the fact that their suits don’t look like they have ear room like k4ll0 said). And their skin would be kinna rough on their backs AND they would have big cute eyelashes like camels do because: desert. And uh they have pointyish noses rather than flat noses just because eh I mean you can see in the mask enough to tell they do.
TEETH ok so Rannoch dosen’t have insects right? So they probably don’t have small animals that eat insects or plants that like.. only reproduce through fruits and stuff because there’s no pollenation?? So like.. I guess I picture the planet only having largeish animals, and large tough desert plants. I know in their suits quarians only eat paste or whatever but they’ve only been in suits for like 300 years, not nearly long enough to really evolve anything different as far as bones goes. So on the planet they would have to have evolved teeth for ripping and shredding and chewing really tough plants and animals (there’s no way a species shaped like they are on a DESERT planet ate mostly plants). Plus I think big pointy teeth are rly cute and you can justify basically anything with ‘sexual selection’ HEH
Also my rational behind the horrible in game picture is Tali bad facebook style shooped it and Shepard was just like “tali.. i’ve seen your face, this dosen’t look anything like you.. did you photoshop this” and she’s like UHH
Also my rational behind the horrible in game picture is Tali bad facebook style shooped it and Shepard was just like “tali.. i’ve seen your face, this dosen’t look anything like you.. did you photoshop this” and she’s like UHH
This is one of my FAVORITE stories ever. Nasreddin Hodja is so great.
(A bunch of these were told to me as Herschel stories too but I don’t know what the point of cultural transmission is there—it could really just be that local authors & rabbis read a ton of Nasreddin stories and stuck a different name on them.)
Once Nasreddin was invited to deliver a sermon. When he got on the pulpit, he asked, Do you know what I am going to say? The audience replied “no”, so he announced, I have no desire to speak to people who don’t even know what I will be talking about! and left.
The people felt embarrassed and called him back again the next day. This time, when he asked the same question, the people replied yes. So Nasreddin said, Well, since you already know what I am going to say, I won’t waste any more of your time! and left.
Now the people were really perplexed. They decided to try one more time and once again invited the Mulla to speak the following week. Once again he asked the same question –Do you know what I am going to say? Now the people were prepared and so half of them answered “yes” while the other half replied “no”. So Nasreddin said Let the half who know what I am going to say, tell it to the half who don’t, and left.
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Things I would legitimately read, in list form:
- This.
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Also, I’m listening to “Anchor” right now, the one Pitchfork says was anti-AA, and in case you’re wondering, the pivotal lyrics are “No one, no one, no one, no one, no one will know, no one will tell if you carry it well, no one will care if you throw the bottles in your neighbor’s garden twice a week” and “drain yourself on Wednesday—prepare your liver for the weekend”. BUT NICE TRY!
And it’s pretty awesome.
It’s almost always a mistake for an artists to respond to a review, but Andy Falkous admits as much in the beginning of this response, and Ian Cohen is actually not a good album reviewer, so I’m going to reblog this even though I only skimmed it.
Oh, this is really good. Too many lines that I want to quote, but I’ll go with this one: “It must indeed be tough to attempt to write from the perspective of the anti-corporate outsider when you are, apart from the mastering engineer (Sean, who did a really good job) probably the first person involved in the whole process of making and releasing the album to get paid because of its existence.”
Okay, and I also love that he calls a reference to John Stossel “the kind of peculiarly North American reference that pervades the reviews which sit about websites of this type, acting as smug and impenetrable signifiers of absolutely nothing at all.”
Specifically re. the “corporate slick production” argument: this is an argument that people have been using to denigrate music (and individual musical taste) since literally before there was a recording industry, in the early days of Tin Pan Alley, which made money by selling sheet music for home use and live performance.
When it came from early folklorists, the argument had legs: song collectors like John Lomax (father of Alan) were in the business of collecting (and copyrighting) the music of poor people before those poor people stopped playing it in favor of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway songs that came to them by shipped-in sheet music, and eventually phonographs. Still, those early folklorists had some pretty serious Issues about projecting their own cultural expectations and desires on the people they recorded, and many of them went into doing the work with specific agendas — Marybeth Hamilton’s In Search of the Blues is a good book to read for more about that.
Point is, though: the “corporate slick production” argument is old, it’s fucking lazy, and good reviewers don’t use it because it is a vast and ancient cliché. There is no part of the music industry that corporations do not touch. None. Anyone who wants to make a living playing music, or writing about music, is going to have to reconcile themselves to the fact that their livelihood depends at least in part on corporations. So it’s a vast cliché, and good writers don’t use clichés — but good writers also are not hypocrites (or if they are, they admit it promptly).
I’m expecting lollard to correct me on this, but when doing research for my mother’s book, one of the things that seemed to be pretty interesting about the Faceless Corporate Void Of Tin Pan Alley was that it was one of the only ways women performers and songwriters could get paid for their damn work, as part of a team, so it posed a pretty serious threat. [Insert W. C. Handy rant here]. Women were of course performing all over the place, but were generally sidelined, unpaid, etc, etc, etc, you know the drill. And then: Mamie Smith! Alberta Hunter! Mary Lou Williams is a little post this period, but she was one of the best pianists and composers in the country all through the thirties, and saw not a single dime from it because her husband took all the cash and a significant chunk of the prestige. Until she divorced him and became a Major Corporate Recording Artists, she was too busy working every waking hour to support them both to create her genius compositions which were, of course, the exact opposite of slick and corporate.
On another note, this response is awesome.
In fine repose you sat, and introduced ‘I suppose the problem is that most touring funk bands had to get sober’. Well, I see you that and raise you ‘I suppose the problem is that Ian Cohen is effectively reviewing an album from ten years ago by a band that no longer exists. His burning nostalgia for a lost teenage love has been replaced by an uncontrollable hatred for her and her new, happy life even though she went to college (Masters in Ancient History, specialising in the early to mid Roman Republic) and grew into those tits like you wouldn’t believe. In fact, he hates her so hard (yet helplessly) that he once applied for a Visa card in her name, badly, in order to somehow affect her credit rating and thus deny her the home she had dreamed about for so many years’.
Ottoman Pottery Water Bottle (Surahi), Circa 1530
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Singer Liane La Havas for W Magazine/June 2012.
Photo: Emma Summerton
…Dude! How have I not heard her music before! This is exactly my jam!
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Wow, in case you guys were wondering, this gingerbread apple upside-down cake looks and tastes fucking amazing hot out of the oven. It’s going into work tomorrow so we’ll find out if it’s as good day-old. It’s extremely messy and pretty time-consuming, but it’s forgiving—I was NOT precise with the proportions and I ended up with a good couple teaspoons of both dry and wet ingredients at the end left over, not to mention several, uh, let’s be honest here, mouthfuls of batter.
(The little brother is actively mad at me because I told him he couldn’t have any since it’s a gift for my office, gave him a small sample so he’d be like “oh this isn’t my cup of tea, I guess it’s okay,” and then laughed at him when he said THIS WAS DELICIOUS, FUCK YOU! He’s referring to me as “basically worse than GLaDOS right now.”)
(This is not a photo of my actual cake, this is courtesy of Smitten Kitchen, like the recipe.)
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