Mayor of Clowntown

“Pierre philosophale” (2013) by Les frères Chapuisat - A stone sculpture humorously juxtaposes a cigarette within a rock’s slit, blending natural form with human artifact.

M*A*S*H ➥ 1.01 - "The Pilot"

me in the spring sun

✨🌟🦊-😎foxes😎-🦊🌟✨

Every day I aspire to be as much of a pain in the ass as Hawkeye Pierce is. Viewers of old admired his outspoken heroism and shameless sexuality. Even more so, I love that he's fucking annoying: a compulsive attention-seeker, a cringey jokester, the relentless noodge. When he loves something, everyone will hear about it ad nauseam. When he hates something, he will throw a temper tantrum until everyone else hates it too. He's the sad clown but a confident one, with the rizz of someone who knows exactly what he's about. imo one of the most self-actualized adults ever to grace television.

I sleep with your old shirts and walk through this house

In your shoes, you know it's strange

It's a strange way of saying that I know I'm supposed to love you

Had a fever dream that Brennan Lee Mulligan had a handful of throwing knives and was trembling and sweating while the camera kept cutting to a teary-eyed Jacob Wysocki begging him not to, and as he pleaded Brennan kept sobbing, "I need the points, everything will be okay, just don't move, just don't move."

Then there was a cutaway, and when it came back Brennan, hands empty and clasped over his mouth, and Sam were just staring horrified at something off camera, there was a silence, and then Sam spoke up: "I didn't say Sam sa-"

And Brennan began howling like a beast being pulled out of reality and that's when I woke up.

Akio Hino (Japanese,contemporary)

Red fox, Hokkaido, 1980s 

Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

I think the sky is trying to say something? 🤔 👀 🏳️‍⚧️

i am so glad you exist, even if you exist so far away from me 

finally finished drawing these suckers after forever, so i'm now able to push my agenda. inspiration under the cut

The evolution of (trans) man.

(Well, this one, anyway.)

The world may be full of uncertainty and danger, but I resolve to continue to find joy in who I am. Be joyful to be kind to yourself and be joyful to spite the bastards who would tear us apart.

its 1am and i am overwhelmed with love for a person who kindly and knowledgeably answered questions on a forum about niche topics. this is not the first time and it absolutely will not be the last

I wanted to figure out how to identify/describe a silver blade vs a steel blade for a fic, and I found a post on silver-collecter.com from 2010, and answers from a man named uncle_vic:

in this same thread, olewheat asked about another silver piece; uncle_vic explained that blades were not made from silver, because it'd be too soft - often carbon steel would be silver plated, and eventually get pitted.

after a volley of questions, several users asked if they could contact uncle_vic directly. vic responded, very kindly:

I am always, always charmed by a clearly veteran hobbyist helping out new people on a forum, and i wanted to see what else uncle_vic posted, what other nuggets about his life i could learn, and it turns out he was a pillar of the community:

He joined in 2006, when the website was only 2 months old, and throughout the next 6 years, he helped many identify their silver pieces, and welcomed them all with: "Hi there and thanks for joining us", and always ended with a "Regards, Uncle Vic"

He helped so often, he'd post on the social thread to let people know he'd be gone without internet access for an extended period of time!

These often didn't get many interactions, but he did so anyway, like a journal made public: one about how a hurricane was reaching him in Baton Rouge; several about his fishing trips, like this one in 2011:

A year later, he wrote a similar vacation post, which became his final topic on the forum, titled: "Gone fishin'".

In May 2012, 3 months later, a newer user asked Vic what type of fishing he liked.

Vic replied: (content warning for cancer)

This was Uncle Vic's last post on the silver-collecter.com forums. Unflinchingly honest, and this time, instead of his usual "Regards", he ended with "Keep the Faith".

According to the obituary posted in the same thread, he passed away the next day, at his camp on the Tickfaw river -- well known for fishing.

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This isn't the first time I've come across kind, dedicated forum users, usually knowledgeable retirees, who suddenly stop posting; it certainly won't be the last. But everytime I fall in love with them, and in turn, with humanity even more, to see what we leave behind.

A retired Cajun lawyer from Baton Rouge found a silver collecting forum from a hobbyist magazine in 2006, and decided to spend the next 6 years, up to his dying day, sharing his life, his love, and his knowledge with strangers.

Thank you, Uncle Vic, for the forum users you helped; thank you for the countless, anonymous users who found your posts through search engines like me.

I'm glad your corner of the internet exists so that, 12 years since you've been gone, I can visit and you can still teach me a whole lot about identifying silver and silver makers.

Blocked parried smooched on cheeck

I dodge gracefully and counterkiss you on the mouth