god i hate this weather

[tsuki_no_bara]

i spent some quality time today procrastinating, so it was kind of business as usual around here. and i started thinking about my nanonovel, which was productive but not in a professional kind of way

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[bleodswean]

You and LINKS!!! I don't know how you do it! You're like a big finger on the pulse! And fun meme. Do you share pix of yourself? I would love to see this new cut!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i find them here and there. :D and when i find cool shit, i have to share. i don't generally take pics of myself, but i'll see if i can get a good one on a good hair day.

[halfshellvenus]

Well, now I want to see pictures of your cute hair! Because! I'm glad someone noticed it on Zoom, though. :)

because it's unornamented and dismissive of the actual people who actually have to live and work in it.
That is an excellent explanation--and I love the thoughtfulness of that last part. Our daughter loved her time at UC San Diego, and loved the physical aspects of the campus (forest, hills, etc). But it was built during the Brutalist movement, so it's all ugly, blocky concrete buildings. Which makes the look and feel of the campus itself ugly. Depressing!

And now I see that Brutalism is explicitly called out in that article. As it should be. Whatever those buildings are that are featured, how are they not an actual inner-city prison? /o\

Oh, and there's something in there that looks like the Jawa Sandcrawler from the first Star Wars movie! \o?

I'm going to forward that link to, like, everyone I know. :O

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'll see if i can get a good pic on a good hair day.

brutalism is just awful. it's cold and soulless (and sometimes deeply, deeply weird and not necessarily in a good way) and all that poured concrete does not age well. i don't know why anyone would design a college campus that way - it's so depressing it can't be good for students' mental health and academic excellence. that's why they called out boston's city hall, as well they should have. it's such an ugly building, especially compared to the state house, which is stately and colonial and has a giant gold dome. city hall plaza is also a design miss - it's this windswept concrete and brick space with no planters, no shade, nothing. good place for a christmas market, but that's because there's nothing else there.

>>Oh, and there's something in there that looks like the Jawa Sandcrawler from the first Star Wars movie! \o? <<

i knew it looked like something! my brain just couldn't make the star wars connection.

[simondonoghue]

So I went and registered, but still couldn't vote for your panel . . . thees makes me sad, because . . . OLD GUARD. Anyway, will try again later.

[tsuki_no_bara]

you should be able to fill out the form! it's a google form. and there are two - count 'em! - suggested panels for the old guard, altho it will probably only make an appearance on mine if someone else reads the graphic novels. (i don't like the art enough.)

[simondonoghue]

I have voted! And can't wait. And yuh, not a fan of the Old Guard art because I imprinted upon the far more attractive actors who play the characters, but still . . . I was impressed by how generally faithful to the text the movie was. Although why did they incorporate the twist about Andi?

[tsuki_no_bara]

my guess is they made andy mortal for better dramatic effect. i mean, it really increases the stakes for every future mission.

[ellison]

I would also like to see your hair. Awesome that someone noticed! One time the pizza guy noticed my haircut, and I realized we'd been ordering from them an awful lot, hahaha!

YAY for the survey, that's fun that you did that!

Ooh, the Japanese company that helps people vanish! I'm going to read more about that, that's pretty much what I want my next novel to have in it, and that's exciting that something like that actually exists. I mean, weird and kind of scary/odd to think about, but kind of amazing. Fascinating, at any rate.

The curbside drag queen performances seem AWESOME!!

Very cool links :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

if the pizza guy comments on your hair, either it looks really good, it looks radically different, or you order pizza from that place waaaay too much. hee, tho. i actually think it's really cute that he did that.

>> I'm going to read more about that, that's pretty much what I want my next novel to have in it<<

how cool! it's such a weird thing, a private company that will help you vanish. but what a neat thing to put in fiction.

aren't the drag performers cool? i would totally order out from there if i could get a drag queen to deliver it, with bonus performance. i'm not at all surprised the idea took off.