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so a very long time ago, my dad worked with an arson investigator

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

my dad has told me the parable of the fire extinguisher a hundred times, and i think about it a lot. i think about what it says about people and crises. i think about what it says about the grounding power of having a purpose. and i think about the importance of letting someone help me through something, even if that help is just going to be another casserole to throw into the freezer, because useless or not, that fire extinguisher might be the only thing holding them together

derinthescarletpescatarian

Every bit of emergency response training I've ever done has a part that's like "check the bystanders, and if anyone looks like they're about to lose it, give them something to monitor. Tell them to keep an eye out for the ambulance or to make sure everyone else is staying clear of the hazard or something."

kidzbopdeathgrips

having a dope as fuck time aboard the edmund fitzgerald rn. as long as the winds of november don't come early i'm set

kidzbopdeathgrips

Fuck.

chaotixcx

Put me in the breaker box closet bro and I’m getting everyone in there pregnant

Go my powertools!!!!

snepital

The breaker box closet

butdragonstho

How could Dorian hate these guys??

thysilus

me frm 2016 lookin @ me frm 2022

thysilus

wh…what?

thysilus

BRO??????????????

thysilus

u seein this shit, bedroom demon?

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

kosmogrl

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

kosmogrl

hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t

evorycromnom

the RUuuUuless of his LOVE!

this is how a board game pins a d20 down btw

h4mmiee

eddie n volt charms... keychains...

i wanna make more, feel free to submit some de character requests thru my inbox !! pls note i will probably be very slow

feldfrog

“This is what they took from you” and it’s a blonde family cooking barbecue in the suburbs? Brother you are racist and fascist over hot dogs? You know you can still do that. Also if you befriend other ethnicities, they will bring cool other food to the potluck. Stupid ass