Dr Andrew Skinner

Katsuhiro Otomo, homenagem a Escher

Page from Furari (2011) Taniguchi Jirō de Young Museum, San Francisco, California

Page from Furari (2011)
Taniguchi Jirō
de Young Museum, San Francisco, California

Love me a folklore with a flowchart

Someone on this app described Diablo as 'Catholic Borderlands'. It feels apt enough that I'm pretty confident in working up to the genre-level implication that Catholicism is thus F.

So when Luthen's giving his "I have made my mind a sunless space" monologue, he's mentally picturing Aberdeen?

Super weird to have this randomly show up in both my RG and BSky feeds simultaneously. Congrats on the publication!

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

It is the opening cinematic for Armored Core: For Answer (2008) 🙂

newspaper clipping The Evening World, New York, March 16, 1908 sea serpent chases vessel in kindly style this monster is real amiable sort of freak, just keeping pace has a very wide smile

“Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.” ― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

[Exit Bastard.]

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Not to diminish your pick or anything! 😅

I feel like Homeworld was basically just a game *about* those moments.

The well-known sequel to Muted Hill

A plane from the 1930s that looks like an eagle made of copper wire

A front angle of the plane, its wings wide and horrifying

The plane’s snout

a piece of the plane that looks like a mouth screaming in victory or terror or both

“Did you finish building the plane?”

“Yeah man monstrous and humbling just like you asked”

The only thing I'm any% sure of is that if you get seven of them you get a wish? One therefore assumes they're part of some metaphysical energy economy.

Alternatively, maybe dragon internal combustion means they overheat a bit?

I note as well the be-bollock'ed dragon. I'm not used to Dragonballs outside very specific fictional universes.

Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

Here’s my Evangelion/Nirvana tribute piece! I had a blast tossing in as many Easter eggs as possible. Please take the time to look through if you’re bored #evangelion #nirvana #edwinhuang #reiayanami #asukalangleysoryu #marimakinami

QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers
Hard Mode: No Gundam series, Battletech or Macross allowed.

I feel like someone oughta do a bobblehead of Paul lookin all deer-in-the-headlights. People would pay good money for a little slice of Joshua's POV.

Maybe the real hat was the friends we made along the way.

Screenshot of Sandia National Laboratories Report (SAND92-1382) Appendix F (Team A Report), p. F59: You can get “in” it, but the streets lead nowhere, and they are too narrow to live in, farm in, or even meet in. It is a massive effort to deny use. At certain seasons it is very, very hot inside because of the black masonry’s absorption of the desert’s high sun-heat load. It is an ordered place, but crude in form, forbidding, and uncomfortable. Some blocks can be of granite, or faced with it, and carry inscriptions. Their closeness to other blocks reduces their exposure and increases their durability. Note our use of irregular geometries and the denial of craftsmanship. None of our designs use any of the regular or “ideal” geometric forms, and only crude craftsmanship is sought, except for the precision of engraved messages. Why? The geometry of ideal forms, like squares and cubes, circles and spheres, triangles and pyramids is a fundamental human invention, a seeking of perfection in an imperfect world. Historically, people have used these ideal forms in places that embody their aspirations and ideals. In our designs, there is much irregularity both of forms and in their locations and directions, yet done by people with obvious knowledge of pure geometry. This shows an understanding of the ideal, but at the same time a deliberate shunning of it.. .suggesting we do not value this place, that it is not one that embodies our ideals. The same is true of craft and workmanship. Historically, people use good workmanship to bestow value on things they value. In most of our schemes, the structures that cover or define the Keep’s “cover” are made crudely, or of materials that prohibit workmanship (such as rubble, or earthworks, or a large slab). At the same time, we make an enormous investment of labor in these rude materials. It speaks of a massive investment, but one not tinged with pride or honored with value-through-workmanship.

The Sandia National Labs WIPP report - the one with the famous spike-forests and obelisks - is a kinda remarkable read. Meditations on human failings and the travails of the far future. Scraps of poetry. Things that track like found documents in a post apocalyptic RPG.

That's ideal - we're working with some short attention spans here 😅

Cool, ty! I shall have a look

I'm Gendo critical. whiner or not, he was very rude to his son

How have you found setting up? I love the theme but have a deep phobia of crunchy systems

I'm hungry for more of the universe in whatever form it takes - but yeah, give me a nameless officer at a smalltown FBC field office anyday