weekend links

[kradeelav]

• going absolutely feral over https://davidrudnick.org/ (and particularly his "inspo tumblr"). the latter is some of the sickest collection of designs i've seen in a long time and very closely captures my taste. i also really love his links page and wish more designers would capture the spirit of the old web even in their dayjob pages.
• I may have mentioned it once here but never actually saw the whole documentary of "White Right: Meeting the Enemy" by Deeyah Khan (cw neo-nazis and everything that comes with it).
  
  • one hell of a documentary, and pretty incredible reading it side by side with this article where it confirms that after she did that documentary, three of the highest neo-nazi leaders she interviewed defected and renounced their views. (do we know for sure? no, but it was public, which does mean they have skin in the game).
• "existing the vampire castle" is apparently an essay on the cancellation topic that was widely read in leftist circles circa 2013 (i almost want to say proto-breadtube circles lmao). i've never heard this before so YMMV. not always on point, but the fact i had to do a double take to make sure it wasn't written last year and not almost a literal decade ago was pretty telling.
• on a lighter note, this is the only good brave little toaster sequel song and will always, always give me devastating Feelings about computers, (not to mention the whole trope of old haunted things being abandoned? ah, chef kiss, nails me every time)
  
  • the comments section on this song uploaded in 2006 are pretty damn entertaining as an ongoing time capsule too
• in reviving my mediafire account (i trust it a lot more than gdrive in the 'no hoarding all my data' sense) i found a crapton of downloadables stashed for years, such as ...
  
  • i think these are some classic Loomis artbooks?
  • some newer gun + military sketchup files i recently converted to be compatible with sketchup 7 (aka 2013-era)
  • all of (FE) Path of Radiance's backgrounds, as well as Radiant Dawn's
    
    • man speaking about those two games i had the coolest dream the other night about the remaster looking like dragon age inquisition-level of graphics (without the weird oil slick shiny effect) where you could move around the characters "slightly" more freely, and you'd even see character climb over rocks and jump off ledges n shit ... i cannot wait until the tech gets there to record dreams, i love my video game dreams : P  ANYWAY -
  • FE4
  • FE12 lol, even if it's a pretty worthless game
• "A History of Leather At Pride" is a rly cool lived, and researched article about two topics that are frequently talked in a separate lense but never together. one of those rare articles that could be turned into a book rather than the reverse.
• have i mentioned archive.org and their related projects (that i still want to poke around is so cool) [ dreamily sighs ]

speaking of filesharing, when i get kubuntu working by end of year i think my next move is to get off the google ecosystem... gmail's going to be the toughie since i'm not a fan of fastmail (based in australia with some srsly sketchy privacy laws, even if i like the fact they've been around for a while) or protonmail (i don't do mobile apps, seems a bit clunky...). ehh will cross that bridge when it gets there! that'll be pretty impressive, considering my OS, social media, website, all major programs, and emails will be de-Microsoft-and-FAANG-ified. : o  better late than never!