Library of chaos

The most beautiful onix around...

danny phantom absolutely SWEPT this poll (shoutout @dp-marvel94) so i've dug through my ao3 bookmarks to find yall the goods. fair warning- i haven't read most of these fics in a while, even though i still remember how much i love them, the descriptions might be a bit vague

Something's Wrong With Danny Fenton Vol. I by Ghostly_Cabbage ( @ghostly-cabbage) is a no-one-knows au where danny transfers to casper high as a junior and meets sam and tucker. as they slowly become friends, tuck and sam realize something isn't quite right with this kid. this fic is such a vibe- the mysteriousness of sam and tuck interacting with the ghostly and the slow somber build from danny being alone to having supportive friends absolutely MAKE this fic. volume 1 has a satisfying conclusion but when i say i have author notifications on so that i get an email the second any potential vol 2 drops...

Dying To Know You by Fridurmus ( @fridurwrites with art by @faerynova) is an absolute delight of a fic wherein valerie ends up half ghost too after the events of Reign Storm and deals with it with the help of danny. the writing in this fic is so well done, perfectly capturing the horror of the situation. this fic is nearly entirely from valerie's pov and it is so so good. the art is also fantastic, i'm such a sucker for less-human ghost designs and faerynova's art and fridurmus' descriptions absolutely kill it (pun intended) here!

Undercover Phantom AU by artistfingers ( @artistfingers) is a comic series, a no one knows au where sam and tucker independently befriend both danny phantom and danny fenton. more lighthearted than Something's Wrong With Danny Fenton, and currently incomplete, this collection of comics so wonderfully captures the teenagerness of danny, sam and tucker. the art is so wonderfully adorable.

Dancing Around the Truth by Taliax ( @dannyphandump) is a very cute gray ghost fic ft paulina! Paulina discovers Valerie is the Red Huntress and blackmails her into getting a date with phantom. which is suddenly a much easier (or maybe harder) task once valerie in turn finds out danny is phantom. the reveals in this fic happen in the first third, and the rest of the fic is glorious glorious scenes of these three characters talking out their feelings. obviously i adore the danny/valerie of it all, but the aroacespec!paulina here is ABSOLUTELY DIVINE, such a great insight into the character!

A collection of audios obtained by Diario Red revealed discussions between former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández—who was convicted of drug trafficking in the United States and later pardoned by the Donald Trump administration—and the current president of the Central American nation, Nasry Asfura, along with his vice president, María Antonieta Mejía.

Also I resent the implication that liberals are all broke moochers. When we’re broke, it’s because your monopolist friends drained us dry.

Do this:

I covered Adam Allsuch Boardman’s previous Illustrated Histories (Ghosts, UFOs) last year alongside my Usborne World of the Unknown books (a natural pairing, as Boardman seems at least partially inspired by them). This is his latest: An Illustrated History of Urban Legends (2024).

Now, of course, I wanted the third volume to be all monsters, but urban legends is really a better fit for Boardman’s series, the previous two of which position their paranormal subjects as sort of…external manifestations of the human desire to understand that which is beyond our understanding. That’s very close to the idea, too, which I keep bringing up in these monster-related posts that humans have a keen desire for the world to be more interesting/magical/mysterious than it seems to be. In unguarded moments, we seem to indulge that desire almost unconsciously. And that’s where urban legends emerge from.

A wide range of topics is covered here, from cryptids, to conspiracy theories to weird animal encounters to the sort of horrific rumors like the one about the girl whose hair gets infested with black widow spiders at the salon or the ol’ mouse in a Coke bottle yarn. These things, in isolation, couldn’t seem any more disparate, but together in the tapestry of Boardman’s book, they create this modern mythic landscape. Go read the book and I suspect not only will the stories seem more familiar than you expect, I bet they feel a little more true, too.

And they are, just not in the boring real-world way. They’re telling us something true about our anxieties, about the modern world, about how we fit, or don’t fit. And the conclusions we all draw are probably entirely different, person to person.

Anyway, even if you don’t buy my existential ramblings, Boardman’s art continues to be sublime. Super clean lines, super straight forward compositions, but he manages to often imbue them with a heavy sense of dread or mystery despite their visual clarity. I think, as I believe I mentioned before, this is because of the sense of stillness or quiet in his work. I think that generally, quiet sets citizens of the modern world on edge.

Guess what's finally back! That's right, free evac cards. I have put them up on my Payhip as a pay-what-you-want product, including free. This will make it much easier for me to manage orders and anyone who wants to make donations to support the creation of these cards. Right now I have about 300 in stock, so lots to go around.

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Evacuations are stressful and frequently sudden. In such situations it is easy to forget things, no matter how much you may have prepared beforehand. These cards are designed to live in your wallet and function as a quick reference guide and list of items to remember during an evacuation based on how much time you have.

I provide these cards for free as often as I can, so if you want to get them for free, you can do that! You get to pick the price, and $0 is a 100% acceptable answer. However, if you do chose to pay even $1, that money will go towards producing more free cards for others, envelopes, and stamps.

To make sure these cards are available to as many people as possible, please try to limit your order to ten cards at a time. If you would like to discuss a larger order for yourself, your business, your non-profit, your emergency department, or anything else, shoot me an email at [email protected] and we can discuss options!

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This pictures were taken by Enrico Scuro during the italian punk festival Bologna Rock in 1979.

Skiantos were considered an art, comedy and performative band and they leave the stage that night famously screaming: "You do not understand a fucking thing: this is avant-garde, you piece-of-shit audience."

What they did was conceptual and protest art, the denial of putting a show against the expectative of it. Punk was born in part as a rejection of the grandiosity of progressive rock: no 20-minute solos, no stages with pyrotechnics, no distance between the band and the listener.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

a. they don’t have the money or pressure inducing mindset that comes with professional theater

b. it shows it was made by passionate human beings who are doing this for fun

The goods are collected and, if need be, stored somewhere for use by the customer-owners

If fees need to be collected (for maintenance/repair/replacement, or fuel, or to pay off loans that were taken out to buy the good) they are managed by the customer-owners democratically. Any excess profit is either used to expand the offered services or donated to other local orgs (e.g. Food Not Bombs, community gardens, etc)

The goods are collected and, if need be, stored somewhere for use by the customer-owners

If fees need to be collected (for maintenance/repair/replacement, or fuel, or to pay off loans that were taken out to buy the good) they are managed by the customer-owners democratically. Any excess profit is either used to expand the offered services or donated to other local orgs (e.g. Food Not Bombs, community gardens, etc)

Because I used to know someone who essentially collected couches, just by getting free ones off of Craigslist.

And I’ve had a giant cal king sized bed for about 20 years, just because I saw someone getting rid of their mattress and box spring on Craigslist back then. (Yes, I’ve bought new ones since then, I just kept the giant size that I loved.)

The free stuff section on there, and Freecycle, basically act like free community stores for a lot of things.

It would have been so much cheaper and all our lives would be so much easier if we didn’t always have to travel to one another since we already help one another out and share things like big or niche tools.

The goods are collected and, if need be, stored somewhere for use by the customer-owners

If fees need to be collected (for maintenance/repair/replacement, or fuel, or to pay off loans that were taken out to buy the good) they are managed by the customer-owners democratically. Any excess profit is either used to expand the offered services or donated to other local orgs (e.g. Food Not Bombs, community gardens, etc)

Libraries have started doing this on a small scale (check your local for a ‘library of things’). This could be easily expended. Give us even half the budget of the police department and imagine what we could do.

Another world is closer than you think

Above is a portion of the Foundation for Intentional Communities’ map of communes, eco-villages, cohousing, etc. around the world. These are communities who are building a life outside of capitalism, based on cooperation, equity, and justice, rather than competition and endless growth. There may be one or more in the city you live in

If you find yourself unable to swallow the idea of going back to “normal,” here’s somewhere to turn. Many of these communities are looking for new members or trying to expand. You can join them

There is another way to live. There is hope