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trying on a metaphor
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@aroundofapplesauce
every so often twitter just rediscovers tumblr
I swear to god one of the funniest things people do on this site is act like tumblr invented the concept of saying silly quirky things online
no??? that’s not what theyre saying
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The most valuable thing I learned doing a Masters degree with depression, anxiety and ADHD was to change my “things I’m bad at” list to “things I can’t do on my own.” Stop thinking of them as things I could do if I tried hard enough, and accept that I can’t accomplish them by effort and willpower alone; they’re genuine neurocognitive deficits, and if I need to do the thing, then just like a blind person reading or a mobility impaired person going up a storey in a building, I need to find a different method.
I’m “bad at” working on long-term projects without an imminent deadline or someone breathing down my neck? Okay, let’s change that: I can’t work on long-term projects without an imminent deadline and someone breathing down my neck. So let’s create an imminent deadline and recruit neck-breathers. Find a sympathetic prof who will agree that 3 weeks before the due date they expect me to show them my preliminary notes and bibliography. Get a friend I trust to block off an hour to sit with me and keep asking, “Are you working on your project?” Write a blog post about my progress. Arrange to trade papers and proofread them with another student.
Accept your limitations and learn to leverage them, instead of buying the neurotypical fairytale that they’ll go away if you just try hard enough.
i said what i said
Toothpaste. It's just frozen toothpaste.
life used to be so fucking simple. you could just be the guy whos really good at making ropes and that would be your entire life
i feel entitled to financial compensation from the heart attacks alone
that's not a cat that's a knock off
@devourer-of-shredded-cheese
Well, fuck me.
I’ve found it.
I’ve found the purest post on this hellsite.
“Like a cute little penguin who’s happy with her successful little hunting.”
=‘DD
If you write post-apoc or fantasy consider: dog mushing.
It’s cheaper/lower maintenance than a horse, especially if your character only runs one dog. One dog is very plausible and practical for pulling a small cart, bike, or scooter-type vehicle for shorter distances.
Also cheaper/lower maintenance than a motorized vehicle that runs on oil or electric. And it’s significantly easier to hack together something that resembles a push scooter or cart than a functional motorized vehicle.
Speed and distance are going to be much better than you’d get walking. On our runs me and my one old out-of-shape dog can get faster than 15 mph and average about 10 mph and can maintain this speed for around three miles. A conditioned dog would be able to maintain that speed even longer. Two or three dogs is going to increase your endurance even more.
Gotta go somewhere far away? FAST? Still well within the realm of plausibility with mushing. During annual extended races like the Iditarod you have dogs running over 90 miles in a single day.
And there’s so much unconventional stuff you could do with it too if you take dogs’ other abilities into account! They still have great sense of smell and tracking abilities, they still can hunt and fight. Maybe dogs don’t exist in your setting, but you have a similar-sized domestic (or wild but possible to tame) creature.
Anyway dog mushing is cool and I think that people should use it more in fiction settings.
…I’m thinking “powered” wheelchairs with dogs. Possibly harnessed in front of/under the seat somehow, not carrying it but making the whole equipage small enough to navigate close quarters. Plus which, dogs can be trained to identify navigational hazard and even bring their human to other humans on their own if there’s a crisis!
If you’re working with a relatively poor character, you only need one big dog for a dog cart, and Europe had an extensive dog carting tradition right up until it became the first target of the nascent Victorian RSPCA (because that was a thing only the poor did with their dogs) and it got completely eradicated in England. It was never completely destroyed farther east in Germany, Switzerland, and even France, though, and dog carting as a tradition is currently being maintained by enthusiasts of some of the lighter working mastiff breeds (St Bernards, the general family of Swiss Mountain Dog breeds, Rottweilers, Leonberger, and so forth). If you have two or three big dogs, you can hitch them like horses in pairs or troika-type hitches. They used to be particularly popular for milk deliveries, and you can feed the dog on the same kind of kitchen scraps you’re producing as garbage anyway in a way you can’t do for, say, equids.
You can also run sledges over the ground pretty effectively even without snow, but even better over rough but not necessarily mountainous ground is a travois, which was very common among some of the Plains First Nations in North America. The structure of the travois helps keep the dog from actually having to bear all of the weight on its back and the dog can still pull rather than carry, but the long pole edges don’t catch in gullies or holes if you don’t have a road the way that wheels do.
Dogs can also be used for packing, although you can only pack about 25% of the dog’s body weight sustainably and you need a pretty big dog to carry as much as twenty five pounds of gear.
As a bonus, you can also use larger goats for pretty much all the same things you can use a dog for with respect to draft, and both goat carts and draft goats are not uncommon historically. Goats are probably more efficient in the country since they will browse while they move; dogs are probably more efficient in a city since they can eat a wide variety of refuse and scraps.
I’m here for goats in science fiction! Let’s have some goats in space! Goats are kind of the ideal animal to bring along for conloizing a marginally habitable planet. Their cast iron stomachs mean they can eat almost anything, and they’ll thrive in conditions where other livestock animals will starve. Besides the above mention of using them as cart animals, they can be used to produce meat, leather, fiber, milk and despite being obnoxious bastards, can even be decent companion animals.
Also they’re pretty handy when it comes to teraforming a hostile plant environment.
You know, then you put it that way, goats make for quite a mascot for humanity! Versatile, stubborn, and expert troublemakers.
Alya: I love Marinette but sometimes she’s impossible to keep up with, she’s always so busy
Tom: what you have to understand is that my daughter only has two modes: “sleep” and “go”
Alya: she has a sleep mode? How do you put her in sleep mode?
Tom, watching his daughter chug her 18th espresso of the day: I have no idea
Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.
#chekhov’s firing squad
Ngl this is kinda hilarious
Makes sense. I mean, a passenger of a cruise line isn't called a sailor, right? Astronaut literally means "star sailor."
One of the conditions for someone to get their astronaut wings from the FAA is that they travel 50 miles (80 km) above Earth, and both Bezos and Branson have met it. But the FAA is now saying that would-be astronauts must also have “demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety,” and neither meets this requirement. The change went into effect on July 20, the very day when Bezos made the inaugural 11-minute flight on the reusable rocket New Shepard.
Fuckin hilarious
Guess now he's just a regular old ass, again.
quarantine is really getting to us huh
Cursed thought:
What if blob ghosts can't fully possess someone, at least not the normal way most ghosts do, so instead they sorta drive em around, like Remy from ratatouille?
Ok I know u said cursed thoughts and that it had the potential to be cursed
but also i cant help but think the blob ghost controlling ppl like remy sounds super cute ??? maybe not even actually possess just.. flop on people's head n nudge em to where they wanna go??
they tryin their best uwu
Official Loki concept art by Wesley Burt
and then they proceeded to be the worst at their jobs for the next 20 years
No no, you don’t get it. Jesse and James are the absolute best there is at their jobs, but they have no idea what their jobs are.
They think that they’re thieves, agents of an elite criminal group led by Giovanni, stealing rare pokemon and advanced technology and such. And there might have been a time this actually was their jobs. In the first season or two, they frequently get angry phone calls about how they’ve fucked everything up, or get their expense account cut off because they have literally never turned a profit on their criminal enterprises and constantly procure and then lose/destroy expensive and elaborate devices.
But then the world came within a hair’s breadth of being destroyed, several times, and Jesse, James, and their weird cat rescued everybody. As terrible as they’ve always been at criminal endeavors of any kind, when the apocalypse approaches and they’re forced to step up, they’re really fucking good at saving the day.
And Giovanni is over here like… if the planet is destroyed, or time/space becomes unrecognizable, or civilization collapses, there’s no way for me to run a profitable criminal enterprise anymore. I need this planet, because it’s where I keep all my stuff. And I don’t pretend to understand the why of it, but these couple of bumbling nutcases that I should have fired years ago seem to be an important component of that? Somehow? So you gotta stop thinking about them in terms of acquisitions and start considering them… loss prevention. As in, even if you waste a million dollars a month on giant cat-faced robots and a vast array of fancy ball gowns and they never turn a profit, they are preventing all of your assets from going away at the same time because of something you can’t do anything about.
And that’s the great secret behind Team Rocket. These guys aren’t thieves, they’re professional superheroes (sponsored by organized crime). Of course, nobody ever bothered to tell them that.
“To protect the world from devastation…”
Plus, as is frequently pointed out: Jesse and James are good at every other job EXCEPT Team Rocket. They’re actually smart businesspeople and run successful food and merchandise stands and are great salespeople. Hell, even in Team Rocket situations where they’re not chasing after Pikachu they’ve done better. It’s just their Achilles Heel is one damn OP rodent.
Fantasy binder.
