Mike Driver
cherry valley forever
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Different Stories Resonate with Different People
I will always reblog this.
I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.
@signoraviolettavalery I meant to ask last night if youād ever seen this comic before.
This is one of the few things I always reblog when it comes round, because everyone should get to see it.Ā
adult life is truly just thinking āI NEED TO CLEANā while dealing with the 17 other things that have a hard deadline
Just another day in the life of an NPC! : )
How do you read/say "re" (short for "regarding")?
phonetically ā "ree"
as initals ā "are ee"
as long form ā "regarding"
as short form but not phonetically ā "reh"
some other way
1/+ of the above, with no specific reason(s) for which you use when
1/+ of the above, with specific reason(s) for which you use when (aka depends)
I don't encounter it enough to have a specific/preferred way
brain blip, can't remember
results
I always read it as "ree" but I was listening to an audiobook and the narrator said it as "are ee" so I was wondering if I was reading it 'wrong'.
When you were in school, did you have to personally answer to teachers if you didn't have your homework or a certain assignment? As in, they would ask why you didn't have it instead of just accepting that you didn't and moving on?
yes, I had to answer to my teachers about it
no, it was whatever
results (my school didn't have homework, it varied by teacher or grade, etc)
I guess high school specifically. Asking because I often see/hear people talk about excuses they've had for not having their homework, but my memory of high school was that homework was handed in at some point during the period with no questions or discussion about it, and if you had nothing to hand in then you had nothing to hand in, and that was that. I'm curious if I went to a lenient school district or something.
You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.
What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?
64 or lower
65-67
68-69
70-72
73 or higher
No preference
What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?
64 or lower
65-67
68-69
70-72
73 or higher
No preference
still so funny to me that gross has another meaning besides icky and is used seriously all the time. your gross annual income. your disgusting nasty amount of money you earn the whole year. pathetic
In the "Red or Blue" poll, do you think there is something wrong with those who picked Blue*?
1) I am/would be a "Red", I think the "Blue"s should examine their thinking/motives
2) I am/would be a "Red", I think the "Blue" choice is as valid as "Red"
3) I am/would be a "Red", I admire the "Blue"s but would never dare to go "Blue"
4) I am/would be a "Blue"
5) I am/would be a "Blue" and the "Red"s kinda make me angry
*The Red or Blue experiment asks people to imagine the following scenario:
Everyone who votes Red gets to live, guaranteed. Everyone who votes Blue will die UNLESS Blue is the poll winner, in which case everyone lives.
The result usually seems to be that Blue wins.
If you think you are a "Red" voter, do you think the result is concerning and says something about the people who voted Blue that they should interrogate?
Leaving aside that the experiment is technically bullshit because there are no stakes so who knows what the "real" result would be.
In the "Red or Blue" poll, do you think there is something wrong with those who picked Blue*?
I am/would be a "Red", I think the "Blue"s should examine their thinking/motives
I am/would be a "Red", I think the "Blue" choice is as valid as "Red"
I am/would be a "Red", I admire the "Blue"s but would never dare to go "Blue"
I am/would be a "Blue"
I am/would be a "Blue" and the "Red"s kinda make me angry
Results
*The Red or Blue experiment asks people to imagine the following scenario:
Everyone who votes Red gets to live, guaranteed. Everyone who votes Blue will die UNLESS Blue is the poll winner, in which case everyone lives.
The result usually seems to be that Blue wins.
If you think you are a "Red" voter, do you think the result is concerning and says something about the people who voted Blue that they should interrogate?
Leaving aside that the experiment is technically bullshit because there are no stakes so who knows what the "real" result would be.
seeing support for lazy eye in any form is so fucking rare and it bums me out. shoutout to people who have a constant lazy eye. shoutout to people who have an occasional lazy eye. shoutout to people who have both eyes that are lazy. shoutout to people who are somewhere in between, a mix, or have a lazy eye in an entirely new way or in a way that is hard to describe. i love you. you don't look stupid, you don't look unattractive. you are beautiful as you are, and anyone who sees you lesser for this isn't worth your time.
I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens š¤
Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep
Uh oh
Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding
@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."
But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife
@specializationisforinsects
There used to be a lot of activities that took place around a populated area like a village or town, which you would encounter before you reached the town itself. Most of those crafts have either been eliminated in the developed world or now take place out of view on private land, and so modern authors don't think of them when creating fantasy worlds or writing historical fiction. I think that sprinkling those in could both enrich the worlds you're writing in and, potentially, add useful plot devices.
For example, your travelers might know that they're near civilization when they start finding trees in the woods that have been tapped, for pitch or for sap. They might find a forester's trap line and trace it back to his hut to get medical care. Maybe they retrace the passage of a peasant and his pig out hunting for truffles. If they're coming along a coast, maybe your travelers come across the pools where sea water is dried down to salt, or the furnaces where bog iron ore is smelted.
Maybe they see a column of smoke and follow it to the house-sized kilns of a potter's yard where men work making bricks or roof tiles. From miles away they could smell the unmistakeable odor of pine sap being rendered down into pitch, and follow that to a village. Or they hear the flute playing of a shepherd boy whiling away the hours in the high pasture.
They could find the clearing where the charcoal burners recently broke down an earth kiln, and follow the hoof prints and drag marks of their horse and sledge as they hauled the charcoal back to civilization. Or follow the sound of metal on stone to a quarry or gravel pit. Maybe they know they're nearly to town when they come across a clay bank with signs of recent clay gathering.
Of course around every town and city there will be farms, more densely packed the closer you are. But don't just think of fields of grains or vegetables. Think of managed woodlands, like maybe trees coppiced-- cut and then regrown--to customize the shape or size of the branches. Cows being grazed in a communal green. Waiting as a huge flock of ducks is driven across the road. Orchards in bloom.
If they're approaching by road, there will be things best done out of town. The threshing floor where grain is beaten with flails or run through crushing wheels to separate the grain from its casing, and then winnowed, using the wind to carry away the chaff. Laundresses working in the river, their linens bleaching on the grass at the drying yard. The stench of the tanners, barred from town for stinking so badly. The rushing wheel-race and great creaking wheel of the flour mill.
If it's a larger town, there might be a livestock market outside the gates, with goats milling in woven willow pens or chickens in wooden cages. Or a line of horses for the wealthier buyer or your desperate travelers. There might be a red light district, escaping the regulations of the city proper, or plain old slums. More industrial yards, like the yards where fabric is dyed (these might also smell quite bad, like rotting plant material, or urine).
There are so many things that preindustrial people did and would find familiar that we just don't know about now. So much of life was lived out in the open for anyone to see. Make your world busy and loud and colorful!
This is a big reason that I have always loved the Brother Cadfael novels, set in the mid 1100s. Written by Ellis Peters, each book has such a vivid sense of the place and the time period. Many different settings around Shrewsbury are described, along with the people and their various jobs.
I love that kind of world building and would add that many resources were tightly regulated that we don't consider nowadays. Examples are the right to herd your pigs in an oak forest belonging to a specific monastery (saw an example where an altar piece had a carved pig to make sure the claim was known and advertised) or down to which farmers had the right to tree leaves in the fall (shortage of other animal bedding in certain Swiss valleys). The idea of a wilderness in a medieval setting is not what we think.
Great points! Thank you.
Forever recommending A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry as an introductory resource for this! The author is a historian of the ancient mediterranean and he has a lengthy two-part blog post on "lonely cities": how fictional cities tend to look in pseudomedieval fantasy versus how real cities actually worked, specifically how they reshaped the land use for many miles around. Part I, part II, or available read aloud on YouTube here.
Do you have an animal other people associate you with?
Yes
No, but there is a non-animal thing that I'm associated with
No, I don't have anything like this
I'm not sure
Do you ever feel like curling up into a ball and sleeping forever?
* yes, always
* often
* sometimes
* every once in a while
* once or twice
* never
* op are you okay?
Do you ever feel like curling up into a ball and sleeping forever?
yes, always
often
sometimes
every once in a while
once or twice
never
op are you okay?
how life feels when there's a sicko on the same disgusting freak wavelength as you
One of the benefits of watching psych (2006) is that in most shows with a weird protagonist you find yourself asking why are you like this but in psych you don't do that because you just saw. You just saw 10 minutes ago at the start of the episode when Henry was putting him in a trunk
do you prefer sleeping with blackout curtains?
yeah, i need them to sleep
yeah, i donāt need them to sleep
most of the time
only in certain situations (e.g. bright city lights)
rarely
no, i prefer no blackout curtains
no, i canāt sleep with them
nuance/results
both my roommate and i have sleep issues, but they need the room to be as dark as possible while i canāt wake up without light, our sleep schedules are pretty different though so i usually end up getting ready in the dark. personally i hate blackout curtains so much because im a hippie and i love rising with the sun /lh so my sleeping has been really screwed up lately :(
do you prefer sleeping with blackout curtains?
yeah, i need them to sleep
yeah, i donāt need them to sleep
most of the time
only in certain situations (e.g. bright city lights)
rarely
no, i prefer no blackout curtains
no, i canāt sleep with them
nuance/results
both my roommate and i have sleep issues, but they need the room to be as dark as possible while i canāt wake up without light, our sleep schedules are pretty different though so i usually end up getting ready in the dark. personally i hate blackout curtains so much because im a hippie and i love rising with the sun /lh so my sleeping has been really screwed up lately :(
