story featuring a city where it’s cloudy and rains almost all the time but instead of being stereotypically gloomy and grim, it’s lively and colorful and people party hard indoors and decorate the streets with colorful strings of lights. umbrellas are major fashion accessories and nobody is caught dead without one. festivals are all held indoors except for rain parades. everyone has massive gardens. its awesome.

Ooh. This place would be the king of hydroelectric.

Streets and Walkways raised above the ground, with copious drainage, so they don’t form puddles.

Copious water storage both aboveground and subterranean, starting with massive watertowers that fill when the rain is heavy and are used as low-tech batteries to spin turbines through pure gravity when the rain is light.

Public utilities like street lights being built with water-catchers draining into generators, the lights shining more brightly the heavier the rainfall is.

Every shoe made in the city is designed to have an insane amount of traction, so climbers and naturalists come from around the world to get the best grip. Hell, there’s probably gloves too.

The space under the streets and footpaths funnels into a collection system for a massive system of cisterns under the city, topped with a truly impressive quantity of water turbines for generating power, the flow dropping from one to the next to get as much energy as possible out of each stream before reaching the bottom.

Buildings are built to direct rainwater off in specific directions, and community spaces are sheltered by covers that do the same, so there are breathtaking waterfalls everywhere in the city, many with gardens or power generators or both built in, allowing for falls that take forms you just don’t get from nature, all draining into the generator below the city.

The collection of cisterns has outlets that lead to multiple natural water features like lakes and rivers, and civil engineers carefully control the outflow of the city’s cistern system into each, to ensure they don’t get too much or too little of the stream. If something goes wrong with one outlet, there are many others that can carry the excess between them until the issue is resolved.

ACT UP, 1990

thinking sooo intently about this Gerard Donelan comic on this beautiful wednesday afternoon

@autumnyte 😂

(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)

Help me out here, fellow elders!

@mugwomps @dianeduane @petermorwood come improve these statistics!

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

Arashiyama bamboo forest in the snow, Kyoto.

badass hair stylist who only cuts hair with dual pistols

RICK ASTLEY OFFICIAL COVER OF PINK PONY CLUB BY CHAPPEL ROAN???

Steven Arnold was a queer artist living in San Francisco, whose photography, films, and installations explored queer history, myth, and desire, in the 70´s, 80´s, and early 90´s until his tragically young death.

Some people have sleep paralysis demons.

I have an insomnia demon that wanted me to add little Teyri and teenaged fledgling (pre-nug attack) Teyri -not quite Rook yet to this

Viago loves his little brother but sometimessssss

In Rook’s memory:

Reblogging myself bc I’m tired and punch drunk and you know down the line somehow it comes out that Rooks facial scars are the result of a fucking nug attack

quick doodles!

if the corpse is too stubborn and not in the mood for dialogue

never break spaghetti in half.

I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.

Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.

He only took occasional sips of water.

The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.

Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.

Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.

Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."

also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond's record is absolutely *chef's kiss*

for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist

We're not just talking about the man's identity or other parts of his career, either. Thurmond's record filibuster itself was a last ditch attempt to block the Civil Rights Act. Booker just consigned one of the most dramatic, desperate acts of white supremacy ever performed to its final grave of historical irrelevance.

ok so. I've been thinking. what if leia's "thing" is that she's imperceptible in the force. like, she's so innately powerful at shielding, she's just not there. Anakin didn't know padme was having twins because he literally couldn't sense leia's presence. yoda and obi-wan were fine with bail taking leia because they couldn't perceive her thoughts, even as an infant. neither reva nor vader could penetrate her mind. she spent years in the senate alongside palpatine and he had no idea she was force sensitive. the only person who can see leia for who she really is is the one who has been there from the beginning — luke.

luke: hey i am getting intensely powerful and somewhat intimidating vibes from leia, like the vibes of a dominant and ancient power buried beneath the surface 

 the gang: looks like SOMEONES never talked to a strong woman before

That is a DAMN FUCKING GOOD headcanon.

holy shit lmao