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Nyagua Ruea by Marek Micanek for Vogue Czechoslovakia September 2022

70′s/80′s Local Television New Year’s Station IDs/Bumpers 1. KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 1972 2. KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 1975 3. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1981 4. WABC-TV, New York City, New York, 1982 5. WABC-TV, New York City, New York, 1983 6. WMAR-TV, Baltimore, Maryland, 1984 7. WGHP-TV, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1985 8. KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986 9. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1988 10. KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 1989

harry’s never played in the snow before

parent severus au

Put me back in the water right now or ill die

Right now or ill die

Squirm for me

Unh

I really like the idea of Severitus.

getting there

(original image under cut)

she took my scarab in the divorce

Severitus sketches

I've had these in my drafts for forever

I wanna phase out this art style of mine

But harry is so fricken adorable here

The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

the romance of hand-plotting. this guy looked at the numbers and drew each of those dots manually, and the image emerged. we can only imagine how he felt

“if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you”

the snape living space

changing faces

Severus, you have to look at this paper dragon

Harry: Now I also have 3D glitter stickers, but I received them only yesterday in exchange for a very large sticker. Well, you remember that sticker! With a dog. And I also exchanged for gel stickers: I exchanged my 5 glitter stickers for one gel sticker, I miraculously succeeded in this transaction... But now I don't like this sticker... Do you think I can get my stickers back?

them in 1980 (albus thought he was a demon and sev was in the market for a father figure)

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.

anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

Tools

Non-Games

thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.

Reblogging the update too

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

I SPY Spooky Night, Photos by Walter Wick