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That last panel looks so peaceful. Sure they’re tired, but they’re genuinely enjoying themselves. Props to the artist for being able to convey such an interesting expression.
in junior year of highschool my art teacher would let our ceramics class play music of our choice off of her desktop. we usually used spotify or youtube but she did have one album downloaded on her computer. it was a halloween sound effects/ambience collection. i dont remember why she had it. there was a track on there called “burning screams” which was exactly what it sounds like. just a cacophony of screams alongside crackling fire. she only let us play it on very special occasions, and we would cheer and jump with joy every time. it was like a pizza party to us
please imagine 6 teenagers with giant sad puppy eyes looking at a dear sweet 50 something year old art teacher and asking “may we please hear burning screams”
i dont know where burning screams came from. ive looked. its lost media to me. burning screams is my white whale
Track 3 “Burning Screams” on “Scary Sounds of Halloween”
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Here’s burning screams from this cd.
This is a review about one of my favorite short story anthologies and I want to disagree but they’re not wrong. But also, sometimes I need those stories that do show how fucked up we can be, and how we simply need to deal with that as well. I suppose there’s just a time when optimism feels like bullshit and there must be a counterbalance.
Anyway it’s a great anthology, I’d gift it to anyone 17 and up. And don’t take my word for it, here’s another review:
The New York Times had an article about “Chonkosaurus”, a very large snapping turtle spotted in the Chicago River. According to a wildlife biologist they quote, she’s female and probably full of eggs, one reason she looks so…chonky. The wildlife biologist estimated her weight at 40 pounds (18kg) and her age at 50 years based on photos and video.
The article went on to say that the Chicago River had essentially been an open sewer before the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1973. Now it’s a nice place to go kayaking on a sunny weekend!
But they never quite connected the dots. Ms. Chonkosaurus hatched about 50 years ago–in other words, she was born at the same time as the Clean Water Act passed. She’s lived through the entirety of the river recovery. When the eggs she’s carrying hatch, they will be born into a profoundly different–better!–world than she was.
I’m a little older than Chonkosaurus and the Clean Water Act. When I was a child the idea of swimming or kayaking in a metropolitan river would have been…well. Jokes about up shit creek without a paddle because the paddle dissolved in the toxic sludge? I remember seeing the oily sheen on the Ohio River in Cincinnati. It was just what a city river looked like.
Now…May 2023…there are warning on television about swimming in the Willamette River in Portland during the current heat emergency. Because the water is too cold! Jump into the water and the cold shock can paralyze you long enough to drown. But it’s clean (clean snow melt fresh off the Cascade mountains, brrr).
