Falling In Place @falling--in--place - Tumblr Blog

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

I got real petty over on the Facebook page and IT WAS GLORIOUS.

wintergrey

This is me, going to check out Legendary Books now…

Publisher: We think that the way the fantasy genre treats women is problematic so we’re going to try and do better

A Fool: If you don’t like it why don’t you make your own!

Publisher: That

That is literally what we just said we are doing

GUESS WHO’S BACK, BIGOTED FUCKWADS?

BOY it feels good to be back in this particular saddle!

loopy-lolly-loo-deactivated2023

AHAHAHAHAHA we have a winner for today!

snigepippi

*Snort*

@princessjellyfishie

notyourplayground

if anybody like me a) lol’d and b) wanted to get my hands on that book series, here’s the link

seanchaidh101

This is magically what I’m looking for right now.

tragedybunny

Hi Legendary Books, I’ll take one of everything.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Happy to oblige!

https://underrealm.net/books

maggiemae873

I literally don’t have the space for any more physical books, but I’ve downloaded every Underrealm book on Kindle. I read The Alchemist’s Touch specifically because of this post and I seriously can’t recommend the Underrealm books enough. they are absolutely fantastic.

holycafe

I don’t really read anymore, not like i used to. And of i get a masters this year like i am planning to then that isn’t going to change. But hell yes I’m going to go and buy these books because THIS is exactly the kind of thing that i want to support!

YISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

vigilantsycamore

One day I will have a job and a bank account and I will have money from the job in the bank account and I will use some of the money to purchase these books

Hey did you

did you know

did you know we have a podcast now and you can literally listen to the books for free.

(You probably didn’t. That’s okay because it’s very new).

It’s slower than buying and reading them, but it’s great if you have no book budget but you do have some listening time!

The Nightblade Epic Podcast is an audio presentation of the #1 Amazon bestselling series. Narrated by Garrett Robinson, and hosted by Meghan

siawrites

You could also beg your local library to get them. Just saying.

bioluminescently-unfolding

Asking your library to stock a book for you to read is one of the most helpful things you can possibly do for an author.

sairobee

lilies for the dead, piranesi

midnight-illustrator

I also reblogged this on my main, but to dive into the technical stuff here a little, I love the composition of this piece oh my GOD I want it on my wall.

I love the way the lily and the light in Piranesi’s glasses draw your eye. It creates a very clear line of focus that becomes almost like a connect-the-dots with the lilies in the water. The way Piranesi’s clothes kind of fade into the gray marble of the background really lets the viewer linger on and appreciate the warm lilypads in the foreground. By seeming to only draw the gaze to the plants, the piece is also sneakily framing the watchful eye of the marble Colossus, submerged in the water of the Drowned Hall.

The House watches; the House provides.

I also really like the softness of the uplight on Piranesi’s face. I feel like it can be very easy to go Too Far with an uplight, and make a character unintentionally menacing as a result. But there’s a softness and a simplicity to the render here that allows the contentment to really shine in his face. The expression is just so gentle and true to character.

There’s also such lovely attention to detail in the design of the character, from his glasses to his bare feet and his messenger bag and his hair baubles :’)

Op this rules, I’m gonna be thinking about this for a week MINIMUM.

cozy-brew

There is just something about seeing a bookstore on a rainy day...

Source: Pinterest

chthoniac

That ‘fight god’ worm on a string meme needed a little good omens flair

chthoniac

Name suggestions?? I’m trying out a new art style so I’m going on an art spree 🕴️

midnightssea

The original tweet is the corniest thing I’ve ever fucking seen

ovenroastedtwerkey

A. They're not gonna tip you, periodt. So already the $10mil is looking better.

B. They're not gonna talk to you, so any "business advice" you thought was gonna be worth more than $10mil, that's null and void, aint happening.

C. Here's the real secret of their "success"; they're all bad people. That's literally it. They're willing to lie, steal, cheat, bully, oppress, rape, etc to get what they want, and their appetites are never sated, so they never stop lying, cheating, etc. You don't get that kind of money through hard honest work. If you're willing to be a big enough piece of shit, you could easily be one of these guys.

So yeah, if someone's offering that choice, get it in writing and stay the hell away from these creeps.

red-mercer

But if you're serving them you can poison the food

hintsiren

chittychittyyangyang

Listen, you should never film strangers in public without their consent, but I swear there need to be fines or something for people who do that shit in some spaces. For example: I had to go to the ER last night, and some jerk filmed a woman who just came in and was clearly having an asthma attack. She immediately got to go back, and he was unhappy about that. Believe me, I get that it sucks having to wait when you're in pain, but you don't get to pick who deserves care when. The medical system in the US is a nightmare, and the ER could be the worst moment of someone's life. No one deserves to be recorded because some jack ass believes someone doesn't look like they need care.

This is fine to reblog. People who film strangers should be shamed if nothing else.

sea-salted-wolverine

I know a lot of EFR instructors (Emergency first response, the people who teach CPR classes) who used to be ambivalent about this and now are firmly in the "fuck you fuck your phone category.

Maybe its demographics, EFR instructors do tend to be older and less online, but there's been a shift from voyeur filming being seen as irritating and tasteless to actively harmful.

I met one lady who had an entire section of her lecture based on how to divide labor in emergency and one of those steps was crowd control. If you are taking charge of an emergency situation, you delegate tasks. Point at one person and tell them to call 911, Point at another person tell them to warn traffic, Point at another person tell them to get the first aid kit if you know where it is. You assign small tasks to individuals instead of asking a crowd that way the task actually happens, and you're not sitting around 20 minutes later wondering why the ambulance is taking so long to show up and it turns out that everyone assumed someone else called.

Now there is another step. Pick a big dude and tell him to stop people from filming. Which is actually the tamest version of what she said, because this lady went on and on about how phones are fragile, light, small, pieces of computer equipment that can be easily punted into oblivion.

And yeah, she's probably the most vocal proponent of property destruction in the face of voyeur filming I've heard lately but she's far from the only person in emergency services who's frustrated with the eternal quest for viral videos of strangers pain.

And to be clear there is a huge difference between the paramedic who doesn't want you filming and the cop who doesn't want you filming.

jadesdumbstuff

leviathan-supersystem

dating and relationships are the ultimate “you cringe you lose” compilation

leviathan-supersystem

sounds like a joke post but unironically one of the first hurdles to forming healthy happy relationships is to learn to suppress the impulse to go “eww lame” about stuff that partners or potential partners are into.

the chances of meeting someone who isn’t into at least a few things you think are really really lame is very slim, and instead of chasing after the dream of meeting somebody who only, exclusively, likes stuff you also like, it’s better to just like. learn to be more chill about people liking stuff you don’t, and hope that they’ll return the favor and be chill about you liking stuff they don’t.

vaspider

So let's talk about this for a minute.

First of all, how do you think Pride events fund themselves and stay free for attendees? O.o Vendor fees aren't all of it - a lot of money comes from sponsors - but like... we paid $1300 to vend at Seattle Pride this year. That's the money that pays the people who work to make Pride happen. That is not free. Pride as an event does not just magically happen. A lot of people work really hard to make Pride happen and to clean up after it.

We're a small trans-owned company and 100% of our employees are trans & queer. We jokingly refer to Pride as "Gay Christmas". The money we make during Pride means we stay open, Pride events get vendor fees, and our employees get paid for the rest of the year. This company does not exist without Pride events. The only reason we survived as a company during COVID is because my wife has a stable, good IT job.

This shit isn't free to do. It does not just magically happen. Performers need to get paid. Tech crew needs to get paid. Equipment needs to be rented for performers. Stages need to be rented. Electrical services need to be paid for so food can happen. Ice and water cost money. Trash pickup costs money.

A lot of people volunteer and donate, but festivals and big community events? They cost money, and the money we pay to be able to vend is part of how Pride events happen. Without that, small queer businesses like @nerdykeppie don't survive and the only people putting their money in to make this happen, AND MONEY NEEDS TO CHANGE HANDS FOR EVENTS TO HAPPEN, are Smirnoff and fucking Wells Fargo.

For fuck's sake. Y'all want small queer businesses, but you really don't want us to actually survive, do you?

cum-villain

I think that commenter is confused about what rainbow capitalism actually is.

Rainbow capitalism is when uncaring corporations blast rainbow things on their products to get queers to buy them, while not actually doing anything to help queer people. Rich cishets getting millions of off a minority group.

Meanwhile, in regards to nerdykeppie? A small business owned by queer people, that makes products for the queer community that the people involved are a part of. Buying their stuff is supporting the queer community, which is a GOOD thing to happen during pride month.

nudityandnerdery

And for fuck's sake, where else are we supposed to find things that help us proclaim who we are if not by buying them from independent queer-run businesses? I mean, I've got a shirt that tells people I'm a genderqueer bisexual Star Trek nerd, and I promise you Target isn't going to sell that- but when I emailed NerdyKeppie about the possibility of getting one of their designs done for that, I literally got an email back an hour later saying "Here you go, it's up on the website to buy it." Shouting down people making a living by giving the community what it wants and needs is just not a helpful way to do anything.

vaspider

Yo for real on Sunday night when I was guarding our stuff during load out so Evie and Emet could go get the van and all, I sat on one of the benches at Seattle Center & watched a flock of seagulls and a murder of crows flutter down and start picking through the drifts of trash left behind for stray French fries and bits of bread and other food. There was so much trash scattered across the ground.

And that's not... like... an indictment of queers in specific (though, truly, clean up after yourself) but that's just what happens when there are thousands of people in one place. People drop things and don't realize it, drop a piece of paper or food and then go "ew, it's gross now, I don't want to pick it up" or just don't give a fuck.

Someone has to clean that up. That costs money, because the someones cleaning that up deserve to be paid.

We're planning on going to a smallish Pride event in September in coastal WA. We'll pay $30 in vendor fees but we'll probably also drop a couple hundred bucks on sponsorship, bc that's us giving back to the community that supports us.

Y'all have GOT to learn how to separate "rainbow capitalism" from "intracommunity support." If your money isn't going back into the community, it's going out of the community.

Glad this is being talked about. Our local trans pride org did not get city council funding this year. They will go ahead and run events, but they're having to fund-raise and clearly there'll be significant limits to what they can do.

I think people don't always realise how tenuous the public funding and even corporate sponsorship for these things can be, especially in a climate of redoubled transphobia. We've already seen some big brands climb down or be ambivalent in promoting their own Pride collections this year.

Also, re: artists and makers and service providers: there is a ton of disability, neurodivergence and mental ill health across our community. It's not cheap being disabled, and yet contrary to the media stereotypes of well-heeled gay people, most community members I personally know are just getting by.

I know a lot of queer and trans folks who have jobs making stuff not just for the love of it, but because they can't rely on stable employment from organisations (and not just the obviously capitalistic ones - it's also the universities, and the health sector, for example) that may turn their logos rainbow in June, but maintain ableist hiring, disciplinary and firing policies year-round. I am seeing this dichotomy at work very painfully in the lives of loved ones at the moment.

Supporting disabled queer and trans artists and makers to pay their bills isn't rainbow capitalism, it's praxis, AND you get cool things to wear to Pride, which from what I've seen online this year, are often a lot more interesting from a design point of view, and more representative of intersectional identities, than the big brands' Pride gear.

They're also often where you will find subtle Pride stuff if safety is a big consideration (I think that's true for a lot of us) and you want to be visible only to the right people. That's not a thing I've seen in the chain store Pride collections...

loremipsumtext

This bit, but also - even if you're not immediately part of a community, it's worth exploring ways to make money go into it.

what a luxury it is to find someone as weird as you.

megapope-deactivated20220531

what the fuuuuuck

rs-jm

this is a short horror story

iwishicouldtellmystudents

Please make sure to reblog this with the explanation you guys:

The toddler doesn’t know Alexa is a name; as far as they’re concerned it’s a word that makes things happen. If the kid was saying “please play baby shark” it would mean literally the same thing to them because they don’t really understand language yet.

The toddler is mimicking adult behavior because they have seen adults say things that start with “Alexa” and have learned that starting a request with “Alexa” makes it more likely to be fulfilled. This kid has learned something about how their world works purely through observation! This isn’t a bad thing! It’s just been misapplied and it’s up to the parents to correct their speech as they grow enough to understand the difference.

flipocrite

That is absolutely an accurate assessment about what is technically happening from a language development perspective

That the child is holding his mother’s face and speaking into her eyes the magic command that makes things happen does not make this any less of a horror story

franzkavkas

I think kafka’s diaries are the strongest evidence that journaling is not necessarily good for your mental health

a-suffusion-of-yellow-deactivat

it's because he didn't use washi tape

goodatyugioh

surely this is a good idea that doesn't have the capacity to end real fuckin badly

dragoninthedesert

Bridges aren’t supposed to have weight restrictions on them. That is, they don’t come with weight restrictions on them when they’re new. So a bridge with a weight restriction on it is a sign that something has gone wrong and the bridge does not meet current standards.

The maximum weight that a vehicle is allowed to carry on the Interstate System per federal law is 80,000 pounds gross vehicle weight (with a max of 20,000 pounds per axle). That’s 40 tons. That limit applies to every inch of pavement, not just the bridges. Since this is a known cap, a new Interstate bridge will be designed to accommodate an 80,000 lb GVW load on it. You could say the bridge’s weight limit is 80,000 lb/40 tons but that doesn’t really have much meaning, because a load higher than that would be illegal to transport on public roads anyway, and the road leading up to the bridge has the same weight restriction. (In practice, the bridge doubtlessly will be designed to have a little bit of let to it just in case some idiot tries to squeak by a few hundred extra pounds.)

Now, note that that law applies to the Interstate System only, because the federal government only has a governing interest in the Interstate System (and other roads that together make up something called the National Highway System) because they partially fund it. Most long-distance roads are owned and funded by the states. The states could theoretically set lower standard weight limits and/or design bridges with lower weight limits...but in practice they don’t.

One, because all of that 80,000 lb GVW traffic on the Interstate system has to go somewhere when it exits the system.

Two, because a group called the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO, who are best known for picking the road numbers) maintains a catalog of standard components for making bridges that meet Interstate System requirements. Engineers are expensive on a per-hour basis, so if you can direct your engineer to use standard components and make a standard bridge, that’s a lot cheaper than having them design a bridge from scratch to go over the creek in Nowheresville. As a result, most new bridges meet Interstate standards and have an 80,000 lb GVW rating even if they aren’t on the Interstate system. (This is also why all new bridges kind of look the same, but we’re not worried about how boring the bridges are for the sake of this post.)

So a bridge only has an explicit weight limit if it has been damaged in some way (through failure to properly maintain it usually) or because it predates the application of Interstate System standards and the standard AASHTO bridges.

Older bridges often have other problems in addition to the weight limits: many older designs are what we call “fracture critical”, which means that if one component of the bridge fails the whole thing collapses. Modern bridge designs have redundancy designed into them so that if one beam fails the other beams will carry the load until the damaged beam can be replaced. Older bridges also often don’t meet other standards, like height (16 ft clearance) and width (12 ft per lane plus 14 ft for shoulders) requirements.

Biden isn’t advocating eliminating weight limits and letting it be a laissez-faire free-for-all where trucks can just go wherever they want. He’s advocating for replacing bridges that carry weight limits with new ones that don’t have them.

goodatyugioh

wow i got absolutely schooled thank you for all this this is really informative. i have learned so much

fandomsandfeminism

This is a great explanation of what the fuck Biden was talking about in his tweet. because I will freely admit that I also went ".......wtf?????" when I read it. So thank you.

tikkunolamorgtfo

Today I learned about civil engineering.

There are little romance subplots all around me irl and I don't have the time to turn any of them into novels

Today I went to my favorite Italian restaurant and was seated at the table nearest the kitchen. We noticed a change to the menu. The list of pastas had been replaced by just "pasta of the day." We asked what the pasta of the day was. The waiter told us it was a mystery. So we ordered it, and when it came it was pasta with eggs and bacon, and I was so surprised and delighted by this unexpected whimsy that I started to clap. And then I noticed the chef watching me from the doorway and smiling. He had clearly come out wanting to see what people's reactions would be.

I'm not saying I love the chef or that the chef loves me. I am saying that is a seed with which to grow a romance that I don't have time to write.

Romance seedling of the day:

Tonight I went to a party and a woman asked me my name.

"Anna," I said.

"This confirms my theory," she said loudly, to the entire room. People stopped to listen. "ALL Anna's are drop dead gorgeous!"

I felt v flattered. I asked for her name.

She flashed me a grin. "Anna."

Irl, do I love her and does she love me? No. But this is the seed of another romance book I don't have the time to write.

I was miserable. At a parade! All of my friends were drunk and misbehaving and smelled of rancid tequila. I felt alone and about a million years old. The sun was glaring daggers into my eyeballs.

And then! At this parade! A very large beautiful man I didn't know! Saw me squinting! Said, "I'm can block the sun for you" and stepped in front of me. My sun-blindness cleared into a vision of his gentle smile.

He was a mathematics professor! Very sober, soft-spoken, kind. Did not insult my drunk friends but also stood carefully apart from them. The perfect balance.

Do I love him? No. But he's a romantic hero in a book somewhere in the multiverse.

#these are very good example of what just looking and watching can add to your writing#i do this - not always for romance purposes but i just PAY ATTENTION to the people around me#because ordinary people are interesting and everyone has their own story#and they can inspire you in ways you'd never come up with yourself

Yes! This was a post about getting into the writing mindset.

I wasn't trying to share special memories or make a statement about the goodness of humanity (totally fine if that's what you got from this!). But this is a tool any writer could add to their toolbox: finding tidbits from life not merely through neutral observation but by observing the world through the lens of your own writing philosophy.

I write romance books. The romance genre at its best gives every kind of person the opportunity to be the hero of their own story. For me, observing the world through my writing philosophy means acknowledging the heroism intrinsic in us all. Thinking: What if this person were the romantic hero? Why would someone fall in love with them? For folks writing different kinds of stories, the approach may differ, but it'll still be creatively generative.

I’m a red-blooded corn-fed AMERICAN MAN and if I wanna get my tits chopped off that’s my god-given right as a tax payer.

Why should the government tell me what my gender is? Back in my day we earned our own genders uphill in a blizzard both ways.

Well I think this post has started reaching people that don’t get the joke. It was nice knowing you all.

akiwuff

No but this is hilarious and reminds me of a galaxy-brained shirt I saw the other day

Walk into the nearest Hobby Lobby wearing this and watch people begin to disintegrate

I want that to become my 4th of July shirt. I want to wear that shirt to the family barbecue so bad.