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Technically true.

He got the job.

He takes his job seriously.

Prof Rad over on youtube dubbed the Wolf Hunter comic (click here)!

Go check it out and give them some support! :) (also the end killed me haha) ₍ᐢ•ﻌ•ᐢ₎

The farmer sheared the sheep, and it was used to make a gift for Wolf Hunter, so…

Wolf Hunter goes to the village markets.

Wolf Hunter and his conga line of sheep.

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Wolf Hunter was looking for them for a while.

Not a werewolf.

The disappearance. 🐑

The worst snowman.

As you know, counting sheeps is perfect for sleep. Sheeps take that job very seriously. But some are still learning. It’s fine, I don’t think Wolf Hunter minds. 🐑🐑🐑

Watch with VERY CUTE AUDIO here!:

this makes me less sad every time I see it no matter how sad the rest of the world is making me

#wolf hunter #god i adore this comic

picsthatmakeyougohmm

hmmm

toast-potent

i don’t need to say it

boingmann

don’t say anything. just reblog this if you’re thinking of exactly that thing when you see this picture

northernfireart

read the whole story> here by @clarionglass :)

#come on dropout. let's go let's fucking go #alternatively: bbc give it to me. please. i can be trusted with this media property #give me enough money to quit my job and Only Write for 2 years and i'll give you something fucking good with internal consistency i prommy

hashtagloveloses

@ BBC you can save doctor who if you get jodie whitaker and michelle gomez back to kiss on the mouth. can we have doctor/master yuri. it will make 10 million dollars

#this is true actually #dw

pitviperofdoom

I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person

BUT

a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."

beatrice-otter

#such a good summation of this actually#because yeah there’s usually things that were always present#but which were easy to overlook or give the benefit of the doubt#that suddenly become relevant after a revelation about the creator#and it’s really not the same thing as the self-defensive “’I never liked it anyway’

tags via chimaerakitten

#yeahhhh #sometimes i read the way neil gaiman wrote women and was like 'hm.'#but the prose was great. and is still great! so i shrugged and continued #but now it's like #'oh. yeah. that tracks.'#the good is still good but the skeeve is far less handwaveable #which taints the whole experience

robotslenderman

Vampires in 2020: *Shitting themselves because phones and CCTV are everywhere*

Vampires in 2025: My Prince, I know my childe slipped up and their Masquerade violation is now on Reddit, but I think you should let this one slide because half the commenters are saying it's staged or AI

#it's a banksy!!!#vtm #d20

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do u ever feel like this

#god. constantly

swordtit

the best thing you can do to a character make them averse to touch and absolutely starved for it

#concord tag #there we go i always have to scroll my blog to remember what my generic larp tag is #this is my character's adopted dad (she adopted him)#'so touch starved he's touch nauseated' is the way i put it in a discord message once #and i still maintain it's one of the best descriptors i've ever used #strackencore #yesss let me add a new tag i will never remember

I love Andy Weir's books but this man is dumb as a bucket of rocks. Dude you have your characters turn to the reader and explain what the social commentary of the book was. You know it's there because you include the sparknotes in the story itself. What the fuck are you talking about.

This is the real actual ending of The Martian.

This is in the last chapter of Artemis.

This man does not know what the words "politics" or "social commentary" mean.

#andy weir i think you are thinking about your idea of certain buzzwords not the actual concepts those buzzwords represent #like. mr sir. you obviously know the themes of your own writing.#there's so much about humanity banding together in the face of adversity #i've never seen someone be such a startling counterexample to the point they're trying to make

#this is really disappointing and honestly baffling to hear from andy weir#st#the martian

Yeah I think he just literally doesn't know what social commentary is. It is simply not possible that he doesn't know what his books are about. They're too clean to be unintentional, and as noted above, he usually tells you there on the page directly near the end. I think he thinks that 'social commentary' means 'pointing at a black character and telling everyone how important racial equality is in a clumsy and badly written way' and absolutely nothing else. I think he just means that he doesn't make a big deal about the diversity of his cast and he's absolutely blind to how any other topic is social or political.

"I no longer speculate on the outcomes of a story because I know that the universe of the book will conspire to ensure that the author's political agenda is validated" is an absolutely wild take, though, from the author of The Martian. Where we knew immediately that the universe would conspire to save Watney and validate the importance of his own inventiveness and the efforts of the people trying to save him. Like yeah that's how stories work. Absolutely nobody would've read The Martian if it was written poorly enough that we thought Watney might die in a random explosion with no buildup or story closure. You're complaining about the thing that you did really well, the thing that made your book good.

cheeseanonioncrisps

Metahuman with super healing powers whose entire job is that once a week they go to a nearby hospital and are put into a medically induced coma for 24 hours while all their organs and blood are harvested, and kept there until they've healed up again.

They get paid a small stipend by the Heroes Council for this, and they live off that.

No crime fighting, no obvious heroics, and they only took a Super Identity because it's technically hero's council policy. Nobody's ever seen them in a cape.

Every so often the Heroes council will release an official report to the public, and there'll be another bunch of news articles wondering how some unknown super calling themselves 'Meat Factory' somehow consistently holds the record for most lives saved across the city.

cheeseanonioncrisps

It is essential to my vision that they are not at all sanctimonious about this.

Like, they regularly act like they're getting away with something. They joke about how they get to earn money in their sleep. They show up to their hospital visits in deliberately ridiculous disguises, on the excuse that they need to 'protect their identity'.

Part of their employment contract is that they get served the same post-operation vanilla ice cream that they normally hand out on the childrens' ward. Also a sticker. Their overnight bag is covered in stickers.

shinyhappygoth

Okay, Meat Factory is awesome and hilarious, but if they're being harvested for and regenerating absolutely everything, may I suggest an alternative super name: Theseus.

#mutual! mutual on my dash from someone who is not my mutual!#hell yeah #also the content of this post does slap

What the gold rush means to most people: Prospectors! Dusty mine cars on tracks in the wild west! Gold nuggets!

What the gold rush means to an archaeologist: Hmm, where on this 100-acre plot of land covered in contaminated mine tailings do I think these clowns might have buried barrels full of literal cyanide?

How dare you leave this nugget hiding in the notes!

garden-eel-draws

Why were they burying barrels of cyanide? How and why would you even compile enough cyanide to fill multiple barrels???

My friend let me introduce you to the terrifying process of cyanidation, wherein finely crushed ore containing traces of gold is made into a slurry by adding water, then transferred into vats known as “slime separators,” where potassium cyanide is then added to leach the gold into a liquid. Slaked lime is used to prevent the cyanide from going into full Murder Mode as hydrogen cyanide. The gold is then separated from the cyanide through one of a series of processes that I’m not really qualified to explain, but I think there are a few websites that talk about them if you want to google them.

But the key point here: from what I can tell, cyanide has been the main method of getting gold out of the ground for the last 120 years. (Yes, this process is still used today.) Before this technology came along, instead a thin coating of mercury was spread onto a copper plate, and the ore was allowed to wash over it. The gold stuck to the mercury, creating an amalgam, and then the amalgam was scraped off the plate and the mercury was boiled off (urk) to leave the gold behind.

And when processing mills shut down historically, why bother to dispose of your leftover deadly chemicals properly, when you can just bury them in your local tailings pile, which is already contaminated with mercury and arsenic? The known case of this happening in my local area was revealed through a bloom of “Prussian Blue” (ferro cyanide) on the surface of the tailings. Luckily, this is a fairly stable form of cyanide. Unluckily, geologists are crazier than archaeologists and they went ahead and dug a sample test unit right next to it, even knowing what it was, because science.

When I said to myself, “I’ll be an industrial archaeologist. It’ll be cool,” I did not foresee the terrifying knowledge it would unleash upon me.

garden-eel-draws

I’m from Goldrush Country and I didn’t know this. All the gold-mining-related historical attractions around here are about good old-fashioned panning and pick-axes. Now I’m incredibly glad I’ve never had any urge to go explore the suspiciously colorful hills left in the wake of various mining operations.

Eek! Please don’t play in tailings piles and outflows folks, they are Bad News. “Oh but it’s lovely sand we want to take our ATVs out on it and let our kids build sandcastles” NO. DO NOT.

garden-eel-draws

Reblogging because some desert-dwellers might not know this. Yes, those pretty hills are probably within ATV driving distance of Amargosa, Ocotillo, Buttercup, Superstition or whatever other recreational area you might be camped out at, but rainbow-colored dirt is usually rainbow-colored for toxic reasons!

Absolutely! And bear in mind too, not all tailings are brightly coloured - the ones in my area are just light grey. “Sand in spots where sand isn’t common” is sometimes the only warning sign.

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I’m reviving this post because I’m doing up a Health & Safety protocol for digging near a mining site and folks. I did the math based on some recent soil tests. The tailings near my test site contain enough arsenic that ½ teaspoon of soil (tailings) easily contains a fatal dose of arsenic for an adult. Please stay safe and wash your hands thoroughly before eating/drinking/smoking if you aren’t 100% certain what the dirt is like where you’re digging.

thatdisasterauthor

And this is why we found a whole quart of mercury in my grandparent’s basement! Old timey prospectors would really just do shit.

[Image ID: Tumblr reply from highEmpressOfDirt reading: a different kind of Mine Sweeper /End ID]

Thanks for the image description!

Since I’m seeing a few people tagging or commenting with the assumption that this post is about US history: this is a Canadian blog, based on my experiences in Canada, and this mine waste phenomenon is, unfortunately, a problem in much of the world. Nova Scotia, for example, had three separate “gold rush” phases from the 1860s to the 1930s.

Also, bonus content for those who are startled/fascinated by the arsenic concentrations, here’s a sample page from the Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) report by Mike Parsons et al., showing arsenic concentrations at Mooseland, which isn’t a site I’ve worked on, but is noteworthy because one soil sample was over one-quarter arsenic. The site I worked at with the “tablespoon to kill six people” calculation was less than half of that.

[Image ID: A map showing soil sample locations and numbers along the Tangier River in Nova Scotia near a historic gold mining stamp mill. The highest concentration is 256,000mg/kg, or 25.6% arsenic. To the south, a huge number of abandoned mine shafts are also shown in red.]