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[crimsonchai]

Hi, hello, nice to be here :) just call me CC!

Fan of Hollow Knight, Little Nightmares, Rain World, Undertale, Sky: Children of the Light, and a dozen other things!

Currently losing my mind over Silksong

Art tag is -> CC's art

Fic tag is -> CC's fics

[phanerozoicfossilgardener]

White Palace Health and Safety Inspection

Hi everyone today we’re here to talk about how unsafe the White Palace is, and what the Pale King could’ve done better. I mean, he could’ve done a lot of things better, but today we’re focusing on the White Palace.

Quick Background on OSHA: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the USA, more commonly known by its acronym OSHA, enforces safety laws that employers and employees must follow. The employer is responsible for providing training and a safe environment according to regulations, employees are responsible for using tools and personal protective equipment (PPE) as instructed.

Now, on to the relevant regulations. Since the White Palace is presumably a complete castle and not some mess of continuous construction like the Winchester Mystery House –locally known for belonging to a widow who believed ceasing construction would result in her death– I will be applying the General Industry regulations, which, among other things, governs the use of moving machinery.

We all love the White Palace for being pretty and providing us with historical Hallownest lore, but it is also intended as a great platforming challenge, so naturally it has:

•Major trip and fall hazards–holes, thorns

•Moving machinery–buzzsaws, spikes

Holes? Uncovered. Thorns? Do not permit easy clearance. Random vases? Shatter hazard. Get it together, PK. I will say, most of the palace is properly illuminated, so that’s at least something.

So our first topic is the condition of the walking-working surfaces, as in major trip and fall hazards mentioned above. I’m using this checklist from the University of Washington to get into detail, and boy, the more you look, the more you see. Significant problems on the walking-working surfaces in the White Palace:

•pathways are not clearly marked

•holes in the floor are not properly covered

•unused pits are not covered

•aisles and walkways passing near machinery are not arranged so that workers will not be subjected to potential hazards

•insufficient guard rails

•No bridges or grates over conveyors or similar hazards

So we all get stabbed and chopped to bits.

On to our machinery! We have buzzsaws and spikes. What kind of hazards do they pose?

•buzzsaws–rotating and transverse motions, cutting action

•spikes–reciprocating motion, punching action

But as we can see, there are no guards of any sort are present in the White Palace.

This could be solved if there were machinery guards. These built-in guards

•prevent contact between worker and machinery

•are secured to nearby surfaces

•protect from falling objects

•create no new hazards

•create no interference with the existing machinery

•permit lubrication when necessary

In conclusion, the White Palace is a nightmare. PK is going to be fined the whole 165,514 US dollars per violation

Bonus round: PK was also working with Void in the white palace, a known chemical hazard if the light house keeper is any indication. Best guess, Void operates as an inhaled mutagen (causes genetic change). Potentially even a biological hazard similar to mold, depending on your interpretation of what the stuff is. He should’ve been handling it with PPE such as safety glasses, gloves, and a lab coat, and a fume hood for storing the material when not in use wouldn’t have been amiss either.

Sources and Supplementary materials!

and for fun: Smash Bros Owes Millions of Dollars in OSHA Violations – video hosted by Brian David Gilbert on the same topic in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, because you deserve to fight blood sports in safe conditions. Thank you to @anomalouscritter for the recommendation!

Official OSHA Guidelines

OSHA Machine Guarding

OSHA Machine Guardian E-tools

OSHA Penalties

Walking-Working Surfaces Checklist from the University of Washington

This has become a minor fixation, so I’m making this a (slowly updating) series. Next on my list for OSHA inspection: Crystal Peak!

[xenglitch]

made more of these

[kaylmao]

has anyone seen my pet bacteriophage its name is styrofoam and its about [hand touching the floor] this tall

[woodrider]

Bruh this coffee I bought is so good I'm so fuckin alert rn I could probably do a math problem

[woodrider]

I don't know

[lumsel]

Despite it all I can't hate solarpunk. It's caramel-apple sweet-simplistic, a desire for a greater world on one simple axis without grappling with any kind of political reality. You can chip at its ankles but unfortunately it will still be kind of awesome epicsauce at its heart. Sometimes you really do need to just cut past all the hard-nosed realism, get back to the kid looking up at you with those big blubbering eyes saying "what if everyone was nice to eachother?" That kid does not know an ant's arse about the real world or how it works, but they're still 1000 times more correct than all of us trying to explain why it can't be done. You can't lose sight of the stupid, hopeless dream. You can't lose sight of it. Otherwise you turn into a dickhead.

[maci-lena]

1-a-Day Silksong: Day 162

Waawaawaawaa~

Ahem... sorry about that.

Closeup Below

[runerage]

saw this and i'm making my first thought everyone else's problem

[maidthings]

anomalocaris is a maid

[dietspam16]

statements that would make absolutely no sense on any other website

[maidthings]

she has frills and stuff

[brynkiwi]

She has frills and stuff

[microsff]

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world.

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

[nullen-void]

The first time, she says "To me," and the mirror dutifully shows her her reflection. And she is pleased.

The second time, she says "To the King," and she is pleased to see herself once more.

The third time, she says "To the Royal Advisor," and is once more satisfied to see herself.

The fourth time, she says "To the scribe who takes the King's letters." She is shown the man's wife. And she seethes, but quiets herself, for it is only right that a man loves his wife.

The fifth time, she says "To the Court Wizard," and is shown the man's departed mother as he remembers her from his youth, radiant and smiling and warm and larger than life.

The tenth time, she says "To the Stable Master," and is shown the fastest horse in the stable, majestic and free as the wind even in captivity

"To the baker," she is shown the man's daughter, young and adorable and full of joy and laughter.

"To the artist who did my portrait," she is shown a painting of a woman done by the man's teacher, who he still looks up to now that he is well established himself.

"To the Royal Knight," she is surprised but not displeased to see the castle's entire guard force in the middle of doing drills.

The one hundredth time she asks the mirror, and it asks her "to whom?" she once again says, "To me." And she does the same the one hundred and second, and again and again and again.

It is a different person each time, and they are all beautiful.

[greenmossloveisreal1998iloveyou]

you should be addicted to shutting the fuck up

You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid

[whyenn-reader]

[treasuredplanet]

in hindsight sending the number one digit at a time created the funniest half second of either of our lives

[crimsonchai]

A brief, spoiler-free review of The Amazing Digital Circus episode nine (under the cut for people who want to avoid reading anything about it before they watch it)

It was fucking AMAZING. I loved it so much, I cried like three times watching it in the cinema. The visuals (particularly the LIGHTING!!!) are stunning, Glitch and Gooseworx really popped off with this one

I loved all the resolutions to all the emotional plotlines/arcs from the rest of the series, it was pretty damn satisfying, and the way they tried to answer various questions we had throughout the series.

I also really like that we don't 100% know everything; there's still room for theories on several points, but it's not really something that's liable to fuck up anyone's enjoyment of the story. Some things we just don't know, and that's okay! It leaves space for fans to add to the story in AUs, spin-offs, etc.

HUGE congratulations to Gooseworx and the entire TADC team for pulling this off, and getting an indie animated show into cinemas!! You guys were seriously cooking with this!!!!!

[prismsoup]

Drawing for a friend because i kept saying "wormed to meet you" whenever they fell into maggot water

[marinatedsaltea]

Fun fact, currently I am still in Bilewater while he scribbled this <////3

[hyliantomatoes]

wait now i’m curious what’s everyone’s go-to pair of shoes

[crimsonchai]

So I was telling my friend @anomalouscritter about the lore of rain world, and we got up to Watcher and I was telling her about Spinning Top's ending and said the words "void bath room" to her, as in "the room where people take void baths".

She was initially under the impression that I was referring to a bathroom in the void.

All this to say, I now have this absolutely hysterical low-quality image from her that I am keeping forever

(also a version with a rot worm background, because why not)

[halosnothere]

well that can't be good