Fleabag's Fourth Wall Breaks Being A Metaphor For Dissociation, And Her Doing Them Every Scene EXCEPT

The Taste of Tea (茶の味) 2004

Unassuming woman: Nice, dude. That hot dog is ketchup-pilled AND mustard-pilled

Strange man whose son died in an accident he could have prevented: I guess

This is only for the five people out there also obsessed with these two niche games too but Disco Elysium and Pathologic are basically the same game conceit taken it exactly opposite directions. Both games are about being an outsider coming into a small, weird town and trying to solve an increasingly dangerous problem on a time limit of a little over a week, which is mostly accomplished by talking to every weirdo in town until they finally do what you want. Which is a *very* specific premise to have in common! But it’s kinda incredible how swapping one mechanic dramatically changes each of the game’s vibes.

In Disco Elysium, time only progresses when you talk to people, and only if you are hearing new dialogue. With that, and the fact it’s really hard to not progress the story even if you avoid the main plot, you will inevitably be able to complete about everything the game has to offer for a single playthrough before the time limit. You have to go out of your way to be a bad detective to fail. The decision of what to do on any given day is largely dependent on whatever happens to be compelling to the player, and having to run around the far side of town doesn’t risk getting people killed.

Conversely, in Pathologic, an inversion of that aforementioned game mechanic creates a MASSIVELY different play style. Time is always progressing in Pathologic, outside of dialogue and save menus. The game is a routing simulator disguised as a psychological horror. You have two hours to talk to eight people on opposite sides of the map with about five different modifier potentially altering your optimal way of getting through town (are you hungry? do you need more bottles? is the district infected? etc.). There is NO fuck around time, maybe if you’re lucky you can take ten seconds to stare at the Polyhedron, but that’s about it.

It just stuck out to me as a case of how one technically minor change in a gameplay mechanic can entirely alter how you interact with the world. Sure, there’s a lot of other differences between the two, but this one change felt like a condensation of how each chooses to approach their premise.

Björk Lyrics as Tarot Cards

0. The Fool

I don’t know my future

After this weekend

And I don’t want to

I. The Magician

I’m going hunting

I’m the hunter

II. The High Priestess

Fuck logic

Fuck logic

Bravo to instinct

III. The Empress

The pleasure is all mine

Women like us

We strengthen most

Host-like

IV. The Emperor

Stand up

You’ve got to manage

I won’t sympathize

Anymore

V. The Hierophant

Coincidence

Makes sense

Only with you

VI. The Lovers

I never thought I would compromise

Let’s unite, tonight

VII. The Chariot

I have guided my bones

Through some voltage

VIII. Justice

Your sense of justice

Murmurs underneath

How am I going to make it right?

IX. The Hermit

I live by the ocean

And during the night

I dive into it

Down to the bottom

X. Wheel of Fortune

Unthinkable surprises

About to happen

XI. Lust

This is sex without touching

I’m going to explore

I’m only into this to

Enjoy

XII. The Hanged Man

Then the body memory kicks in

I trust the unknown

Unfathomable imagination

Surrender to future

XIII. Death

I just have to

Explode

Explode this body

Off me

XIV. Art

The perfect match, you and me

I adapt, contagious

You open up, say welcome

XV. The Devil

Sue me, sue me, sue me

All you want

XVI. The Tower

My shield is gone

My protection is taken

I am one wound

XVII. The Star

I am fine tuning my soul

To the universal wavelength

No one is a lover alone

XVIII. The Moon

Isn’t it odd?

Isn’t it peculiar?

These statistics of my mind

XIX. The Sun

You can’t say no to hope

Can’t say no to happiness

XX. The Aeon

Loss of faith just ignites survivors

They stare doubt

Straight into the eye

I forgive, the past is bondage

XI. The Universe

Twist your head around

It’s all around you

All is full of love

All around you

It was a lonely and cloudy day, the most common weather in Santiago, This phot was taken in Providencia, near Costanera Center.

15 reasons to build an herb spiral for your garden (By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

(By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

Whether you’re a city mouse or a country mouse — with a high-rise patio or 1000 acres — building an herb spiral near your kitchen allows you to partake in the sustainable permaculture revolution and have fresh organic culinary herbs at your fingertips. An herb spiral is a compact vertical garden built on specific principles allowing for individualized management of wind and water flow to create the ideal garden in a limited amount of space.

The spiral is a natural form that provides an efficient method for managing space, storing and sorting. Using the natural universal design of a spiral, the forces of gravity and water flow are utilized to their fullest allowing for proper drainage downhill. Herbs that thrive on drier soils live at the top, whereas those needing more moisture reside at the bottom where water collects. This form allows for planting of a widely diverse number of plants, and creates natural, sunny and shady areas — a perfect miniature microclimate landscape environment. The herb spiral as a permaculture form that allows you to create your own ecosystem and become self sufficient. The format can be adapted to large gardens if space is available.

Stone or block building materials allow for retention of heat and insulate plants in colder weather or at night, while acting as the backbone for the structure. Collect water at the bottom and have a small fish or frog pond or even a bog and grow edible water plants. An herb spiral can be built even on a concrete foundation and filled with the richest biodynamic, organic earth to support any plants included.

The spiral should always be built to move in the direction of water drainage in whatever hemisphere it’s located in — for example, in the Northern hemisphere, water runs off in a clockwise direction and the opposite is true for the Southern hemisphere. This allows for optimal positioning of the pond at the bottom and reduces evaporation. The spiral can be built as a round or oval shape to take advantage of the movement of summer sunlight.

15 REASONS TO BUILD AN HERB SPIRAL FOR YOUR PERMACULTURE GARDEN

1. Maximize growing space to grow more food. 2. Multiple microclimates available for optimal plant growth.

3. Healthier plants where growing needs are met and companion planting is easy to reduce insect problems and foster beneficial plant relationships for better growth. 4. Aesthetic garden focal point.

5. Maximizes space even in very small areas on top of concrete or in high-rise buildings. 6. Harvesting access is easy and all plants are effortlessly accessible. 7. No bending, everything is at waist height — hooray!

8. Save money by growing your own food. 9. Eat organic, using heirloom seeds and avoid pesticides and genetically engineered seeds. 10. Reduces maintenance, little weeding and easy to turn and mulch.

11. Manage water amounts and use natural forces to perpetuate the growing season. 12. Reduce building costs when you use local available materials. 13. Use drip irrigation or a small sprinkler for easy watering and irrigation.

14. Create a bio-diverse habitat for creatures who come to visit. 15. Build an herb spiral to grow medicinal herbs to avoid Big Pharm drugs.

Sources for this article: http://www.mitra.biz http://themicrogardener.com http://welcometovoluntarysimplicity.wordpress.com http://www.mysquarefootgarden.net/creating-an-herb-spiral/

this, exactly this

Some of y’all think that holding hands and sharing a bed is immediately romantic, and this is why people cannot differentiate between romantic, platonic, and familial forms of love.

if i was an animal and i knew i was being observed and researched i would do something super fucked up. but only once. never again. ruin their lives. keep them guessing.

Japanese posters for David Lynch’s films