crabussy:
I’m really curious about this!! in aotearoa, every classroom I was in growing up had posters up on how to respond to an earthquake. “drop, cover, hold” was drilled into me from a very young age. I experienced a few growing up, but they were mild because I don’t live in areas where they are more extreme. One of our major cities, christchurch/ōtautahi, gets hit by earthquakes very frequently. if you look at a global seismic hazard map, aotearoa is fully lit up in the colour indicating high hazard chance. wild!!!
for reference, in the UK (similar size country) there are around 20-30 noticeable earthquakes per year. in aotearoa, that number is around 100-250!
the-grollican:
does anyone want to play themes and motifs with me
rioblitzle:
i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven’t had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there’s somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they’re the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they’re possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can’t tell me that.
on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they’re free for all the town to pick whenever they’d like.
someone comes up behind us. It’s the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn’t Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren’t making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don’t do piracy or something ok please
sentimentalslut:
sentimentalslut:
sentimentalslut:
trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy
saw someone say that someone complaining about only having 7k in savings makes them contemplate “doing something bad”
you know that 7k covers like. one hospital visit WITH insurance, right?
“people who make six figures shouldn’t be allowed to complain —“ most people who make six figures are, these days, solidly middle class. where i live, a combined household income of $110k is *lower middle class*.
“people who can afford homes —“ are typically 400-600k in debt for them. also if “can own your own home” is your threshold for the rich you are contemplating eating, i think you are genuinely stupid
“boohoo your investments dropped, stop complaining rich boy” idk how to tell you this but. most of us have a retirement account. you should probably open one
movie-gifs:
TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN (2024)
dir. Hannah Marks
islandoforder:
for the record immediately after being emotionally devastated by legendlark’s dames and dragons ending, i immediately restarted it from the top and it is soooo funny that they apologise for bad sound quality and they don’t apologise for juniper’s original character voice bc i do NOT know what corbin is saying
memorycycle:
rosetower:
memorycycle:
i hope a ceiling fan falls on the empty spot in the bed next to you and it starts understanding your needs
this post always makes me so emo… here’s me next to my ceiling fan that i turned off for the first time in months to draw
stop reblogging this post without the art this is the only version that exists now
ocean-again:
chimaerakitten:
One under-appreciated breed of fic writer are the ones who hyperfocus on logistics to the exclusion of all canon shortcuts, and thus usually strike upon an awesome way to flesh out the worldbuilding or characters.
Like, I’m not necessarily talking realism here since often it’s still pretty far from realistic, but more like, “someone has to be running spies in this fantasy kingdom, and we’ve seen the whole royal court, so which background character is it? How does that change these three major interactions?” Or “real life historical nobility did in fact have some things to do that were like jobs, how does this human disaster cope with running an estate?” Or “there’s no reason for a sci-fi robot detective to know how to whitewater kayak, where’d she learn?” Or “if this guy is serving the emperor directly he has to be way high up in the space empire servant hierarchy, why is he doing this menial task for someone else? What’s his motive? Does he perhaps have the secret space telepathy?”
Anyway I’m always DELIGHTED to find a fic or writer who asks these questions because the fics themselves are universally bangers.
person who knows how logistical things works has picked up the cannon, hefted it thoughtfully, and put a single chalk mark precisely on the problem.
kalgalen:
kalgalen:
it’s funny because my job involves a lot of using a box cutter, so you’d think that’s the thing I’d accidentally hurt myself with the most
but nooo no no no. the box cutter is my colleague, my ally, my friend. you know what is truly bloodthirsty in a print & signage shop? literally Anything Else that’s able to cut but not supposed to. cardboard, sheets of plastic, the humble paper of course, corrugated polypropylene, aluminum composite sheets - i nicked myself on a sheet of magnetic material today?? it bled. kinda profusely.
basically:
- box cutter: a trusty companion, might hurt you if you handle it wrong, but that’s understandable
- stuff you use the box cutter on: they know you as their enemy. they know the rules of this life: kill, or be killed. they know what they have to do.
thank you. the people need to know about the real menace
dirtboy:
Who else just fucking loves the color green
i dont think its pedantic of me to wonder where the Last Of Us people get their bullets from
like when Joel tells Ellie he’s gonna put new strings on her guitar; where did he get those? are they leftover guitar strings scavenged from a factory that’s been defunct for over twenty years? is someone in their survivor town making guitar strings?
is everyone’s winter gear remnants of pre-outbreak manufacturing or is someone managing to restore a semblance of a supply chain? because those parkas don’t look hand-stitched. where would the fabric be coming from?
at one point in season 1 a woman gives Ellie a menstrual cup with very little instruction, and Ellie’s just like ‘oh huh, cool’ and i have to grapple with the fact that this teen girl’s going to have to figure out how to use this silicone device that must be older than she is with only written instruction. surely it’s not used right?? how many fresh unused menstrual cups do these people have stockpiled?? or do they have to sanitize them and pass them on???
