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The small town where I’ve been working since August apparently is having their prom Friday.
At work tonight I happened to think of a fun faux headline where every word starts with P:
Pandemic Prom “Problematic”, Proclaims Pundit
Anniversaries(?)
Recently I saw an email that this blog was 10 years old. That got me thinking that I should write something here again, but, um, that was like a week or more ago. Oops.
The only other major anniversary that comes to mind is my 30th birthday last Saturday, which was nice. I should have probably requested the day off work, but work wasn’t too bad and before work I got to talk to my 91-year-old grandfather on the phone, a video call with my brother and his 7-month-old son, and I had homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast and home-grilled chicken cordon bleu, salad, and potatoes for lunch. Mom also made a cheesecake, and I took a few pieces to work, but nobody wanted any. That’s what I get for trying to be nice, I guess.
I have today off, at least, though I can’t particularly think of anything I want to accomplish. I had three consecutive days off last week for the first time in months, or at least that’s what it seemed like. Also last week, I learned that my store manager is leaving, apparently the company is going to be making various changes (which is why the store manager is leaving and all the other managers at my store sound like they’re planning to leave), and I got my second Pfizer vaccine. Other than my arm being a little sore that day, I don’t think I noticed any side effects. (Or should I say pany pside peffects, like the funny tweet I saw the other day?)
I might write more of an update another time.
i learned that the world record for the loudest thing ever shouted belongs to an Irish female teacher who shouted the word “quiet” at 121 decibels, the equivalent of a jet engine (x)
DISGUSTANG
oh my god?
Okay please read this whole article because there is important information in ther, including;
1. She never yells at her students- her record breaking 121 decibel shout happened during an event she’d been invited to. She was defending her title after setting the previous shouting record during a competition at a church camp, where she got to 119.4 decibels
2. The only reason she entered the first competition was because her twin sister had entered and was about to win with a shout of 119.1 decibels.
3. They took her to an expert to try to understand how she shouted so very loud and his conclusion was that her supernatural volume was fueled entirely by her need to beat her sister.
That’s just how siblings are.
Places where reality is a bit altered:
• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet
playgrounds at night
rest stops on highways
deep in the mountains
early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed
trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic
schools during breaks
those little beaches right next to ferry docks
bowling alleys
unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips
your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep
laundromats at midnight
what the fuck
galeries in art museums that are empty except for you
the lighting section of home depot
stairwells
•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues
I just got the weirdest feeling I swear
OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!
A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.
The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease.
Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd.
I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.
When I tell you I snorted!
legolas:
gimli:
aragorn:
gandalf:
BLEASE
Eomer:
Boromir:
Elrond:
This post is like getting pelted with marshmallows shot out of a tennis ball launcher
running away to live in an "abandoned" building in a remote and not easily accessible location where the weather is perpetually miserable that is rumored to be haunted by vengeful ghosts and condemned due to its lack of structural integrity as a result of severe decay where i slowly go insane from isolation and fear and start seeing terrifying eldritch abominations lurking in the mist is looking like a more appealing option with each passing day
Concept: it’s a phone case but it looks exactly like a 1960s star trek tricorder and since it’s too big for a pocket you have to carry it around with a strap over your shoulder (like they do in star trek).
Here’s a shitty artist’s rendering:
Imagine just being like “hold on I’ve got to take this”
I did try to design this using the communicator as a idea but 3D printing something like this might be workable.
Mark the electrician has been here for five minutes and he’s already said “well that’s…weird” twice from the other room and frankly I’m afraid to ask.
It’s not good when skilled tradesman are standing in the middle of your room pinching the bridge if their nose, is it?
Mark just referred to the wiring in our bedroom as “creative” and “interesting”.
This is fine.
And now he’s taking apart the ceiling. I’m not worried, are any of you worried? I’m not, haha, it’s not like this house was previously owned by someone who would do something stupid like try to wire their house themselves…or store tins of varnish under the furnace behind a secret alcove…
Ha ha…
Ha.
Hm.
Fuck.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S NO NEUTRAL WIRES??!?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S GROUNDED INTO THE SCREWS HOLDING UP THE CEILING LIGHT???!?!!
This post crosses my dashboard every so often and every time, I’m reminded of when I discovered that my whole house was grounded to a gas line.
Good times.
IT WAS WHAT?
A new beginning?
I had been wondering when I last posted or logged into Tumblr, but according to the most recent post I had reblogged, apparently my last Tumblr post was made on March 9, 2019. Here’s the post if you’re curious.
I don’t know off the top of my head what all has changed in my life since then- probably not all that much, honestly. It’s been a consistent frustration of my life in the last few months that it’s been a while since I’ve had any major life changes. Nearly 2 years since the end of my first relationship, nearly 1 year since I finally finished my bachelor’s degree, and so on.
Of course, as I’ve been told, the only obstacle to improvement is in the mirror, but it seems like it’d be so much easier if happiness (whether a better job, another girlfriend, or just pure, distilled pleasure) would find me, and not in a “the government has assigned you a new job, comrade citizen!” sense, but more in the sense of “hey, we really want you to work for us and will pay you generously for a job you enjoy, let’s talk!”
In other news, I’ve been playing Pathfinder with some coworkers, and after 2-3 years of not playing any tabletop RPGs, that’s been fun. It’s also been my first attempt at playing a wizard, and so far my human wizard has been mainly specializing in dealing damage.
The same group has been talking about playing Starfinder next, and if I run that, as we’ve been discussing, it would also be my first attempt at running a tabletop RPG since early 2017, if I remember correctly.
I don’t know if I’ll return to Tumblr more frequently or not, but it’s been kind of weird to be back.
kirb does the SLORP, patriarchy is diminished forever
A creature designed to be “cute”, created by a god that does not fully understand what “cute” looks like to humans.
…….it worked……excellent job…….thank you for spider……
why you should build a treehouse in minecraft
they’re cool
they keep the monsters out
you can build them on jungle trees out of pretty jungle wood
they look fucking epic
good view
they’re cool
This seems like some pro-elf life bullshit
Allow me, your local dwarf advocate, a moment of your time to consider Caves
Dig'n'done
Lots of stone
Cold, damp, and cool lookin
Torches REALLY pop deep down
Like the Earth is giving your home a hug
It’s called Minecraft not Treecraft
Thanks for attending my TED talk (Totally Epic Dwarf)
Ok, BUT cliff houses are where it’s at.
Scenic view
Also out of reach of mobs
Can create a waterfall to go to and from
Can glide from the top to feel like a badass
Allows for surveying surroundings to find waypoints and check for safety
Acts as a beacon without using a beacon
Perfect view of clouds
Just don’t fall.
You’re all forgetting the true ultimate in minecraft architecture, the humble Dirt House, whose benefits include
•Dirt
•Grass sometimes
•Use dirt to block up the door and keep shit out
And here we have in order:
Elf
Dwarf
Human
Halfling
hahaha i love all of these
is it scurvy? is it lead? is it tuberculosis? is it the crippling loneliness? who knows we’re all dying
millennial burnout or doomed victorian arctic expedition
We took the drunk train home.
They were all absolutely infatuated with him and whispering about how much they wanted to pet him and then shushing each other saying “no that’s rude you can’t! just leave him alone!” so I told them they can pet him if they want and they were absolutely overwhelmed with happiness, while simultaneously being very concerned for his well-being, continually asking if I was very sure that it was okay and that I should please please tell them if I need them to leave him alone.
Basically, it was a great ending to a VERY long day. Sometimes people are really great.
the composition here is honestly close enough to a medieval painting, and just fuckin beautiful in 2138908 ways, that i think we can go ahead and hang this in a museum, thanks
