Humon Responds

The account I use to respond to people

[thehmn]

I’m legit surprised that I haven’t seen more ray cats in fiction.

If you don’t know, one of the first ideas for how to keep people away from nuclear waste 10000 years from now was to create a breed of cat that would change color if it got near radiation and create lore and songs to go with them that would be remembered long after people forgot what nuclear waste was the same way people still have thousand of years old religions that tell us to do stuff but we forgot why. They made a song for them and everything.

One, why haven’t they showed up in more futuristic fiction? Two, why have I never seen a ray cat furry? Three, why did they pick an animal that is THE MOST likely to wander off instead of one we have more control over like horses or dogs?

[agent-gumi-dragon]

If I remember correctly they picked cats because cats have always been a holy animal and always beloved. Like if you went 4000 years back in the past people worshipped cats, in modern times we spend hours watching cat videos because we live them so it stands to reason that in 4000+ years well still love cats

For dogs, cultures don't agree on whether they're loved animals or pests. That's why Americans freaked out when they learned that some cultures in Asia eat dogs

And for horses, I would guess that the worry is that they might not be around anymore since we have automobiles to replace them

[humonresponds]

The holiness of cats only goes for very specific regions of the world. In other regions cats were killed and tortured by the thousands for fun on holidays because they were considered evil. Basically, in the East cats were good and dogs bad while in the West dogs were good and cats bad. To this day cats are considered lower priority than dogs in the west. It’s no coincidence that you don’t have to microchip or tag your cats in most countries while you’ll get a fine for not doing it to your dog. It’s basically so people can get away with mistreating cats without consequences because they’re seen as “wild”.

To be honest, when I heard about ray cats I had the thought it might not be out of love for them but out of indifference. You’re sending your animal into an area because you suspect there might be radiation that will kill you. I’m not sure a cat would look great after years of that treatment. So when I asked why not horses or dogs it was from a logistic standpoint and not because I like horses or dogs better because these plans never included making the animal more resistant to radiation.

[thehmn]

My post about not hitting children got some responses from people who said “I agree and also a lot of children who get hit by their parents have no respect for adults who doesn’t hit them and become extremely unruly”

As it turns out, the same goes for animals.

I adopted this girl, Ellie, a year ago. Her previous owners were devastated that they had to give her up but their situation was less than ideal and they lived in their landlord’s house and he was apparently very rough with Ellie and blamed her for everything his own dogs did.

When Ellie first moved in she responded strongly to us talking sternly to her. Even saying her name in a deep voice made her tug her tail between her legs and hide. But eventually she realized we were never going to hurt her no matter how sternly we talked and now, a year later, we have a very sweet but cheeky dog who loves us very much but has zero respect. She will jump on tables and when we shout “Ellie! No!” she just looks at us like “What?”

Positive reinforcement works pretty well but her early experiences with “discipline” means she clearly doesn’t understand when we are displeased with her. So thanks previous assholes in her life for making this unnecessarily difficult. You’re lucky she’s such a sweet dog who doesn’t let life get her down.

[alex-is-same-as-it-ever-was]

I like that this dog was given a new home

But why the broad statements about kids that were hit

This is like the second post I’ve seen with such broad generalizations of kids that are/were physically abused

My siblings and I were hit, and we were super quiet kids. We were noticeably quiet and “good” that people to this day, who knew us as kids, bring it up

Abuse doesn’t look like one way, kids can be rowdy or quiet?? Or something other?

Please stop with these generalizations. I don’t trust this crowd to not take it to the extremes.

[humonresponds]

In all fairness they didn’t say all children (or even most children) who get hit act like that. I have to agree because I used to work with young children and at the first place I worked we had a boy who was, quite frankly, a menace. My response was to get angry (on the inside) at him and share my frustration with a coworker. She taught me compassion by saying “I worry about him. My parents hit me and I acted like him at his age. We have to keep a close eye on him” and later we indeed found out his parents were violent in ways that didn’t leave marks.

Over the years I learned that you couldn’t always tell when children were being hit but children who acted like him always were. So it’s true some children turn quiet to avoid angering anyone, but a lot of children doesn’t. And most become compassionate adults who can teach people like me what to look out for.

[thehmn]

Futuristic stories about robots are always like “The robots do all the jobs that nobody wants” which is the biggest lie I’ve ever heard. Loads of people want to do manual jobs. I know a guy who gave up his job at the post office to become a garbage collector. The worst job I ever had was at a travel company because I hated sitting on my ass all day. I much prefer being a cleaner. As long as we get a proper salary and aren’t worked to death we’re more than happy to do it.

What the stories should really be about is “The higher-ups don’t want to pay people so they made robots to do it. They started with manual labor and spread the lie that nobody wants those jobs anyway. You think your job is safe just because you work at an office? They’ll find a way to replace you too”

[turboferret]

Actually repetitive office jobs will be the first ones to go.

[humonresponds]

No the first ones to go where workers at the car factories.

[thehmn]

I’m planning on having a jotun character in a future comic and was trying to pull inspiration from mythology.

Something that comes up more often than you’d expect from a 1000 years old collection of stories is different races breeding with jotuns to achieve certain results.

Odin has sex with the jotun woman Jord (which means Earth) specifically to create Thor. Later he force himself on another jotun woman to create a god of hatred and vengeance (which also results in the gods banishing Odin from Valhalla for several years because a man would be punished just for touching a woman’s arm without her consent at the time and Loki later seems to claim Odin spent a lot of those years as a woman, birthing several children himself)

Jotuns also have a reputation for birthing monsters and animals but it mostly seems to happen when they breed with non-jotuns. Loki is half jotun/half Æsir and creates a eight legged horse with another horse, has normal children with his jotun wife, but also creates a giant wolf, a huge snake and a half-dead woman with another jotun woman. Then there’s the jotun king who gives birth to nine normal wolves after sleeping with a werewolf (they were together for years and it’s not made clear if it was a repeat thing where he birthed them one at a time or if he gave birth to a litter of pups all at once)

A jotun woman had three husbands, two jotun men and one Æsir god. She was the embodiment of night and he was the god of twilight and together they created the god of daylight.

Surprisingly a jotun man with a troll woman was considered the most ideal combination. One great warrior was described as beautiful and cleaver like his jotun father but strong and fierce in battle like his troll mother.

Because Loki himself was mixed race you never knew what you’d get from his “adventures” but otherwise it seems like you could expect some relatively predictable outcomes by mixing and matching jotun genes with other races.

[officialtinman]

hello! just wanted to let you know that Æsir is plural! the singular form is Ás :)

[humonresponds]

Actually it’s Áss but I see why people would want to spell it with one s ;)

In my language it’s Ase but I’m not sure if that would help with the ass jokes or just make people pronounce it with an Irish accent…

[theredprism]

Hank proving himself to be a worthy consort to The Unturned by just being himself.

Altair is so scared because it’s not uncommon knowledge among vampires that elder vampires tend to dig so deep into their victims’ necks that they eventually rip their heads off. No reason to tell aspiring vampires about that though…

[friendstastegood]

Such a treat everytime this updates! It's my favourite vampire daddies!

[friendstastegood]

One of the reasons this comic is such a treat is all the details. The marks on Phillip's wrists, the blood smear on Eli's thigh, hair, scars, jewelry, clothing, every time I go back to an old one I find something new and it always tells its own little story.

[humonresponds]

This is so encouraging because I always feel like I forget details. Thank you so much!

[thehmn]

I don’t know if this is how it works in other countries but when you visit a psychiatrist in Denmark because you suspect you have ADHD they give you three tests; one for ADHD, one for depression, and one for anxiety.

This is necessary because the tree conditions are so similar they can be difficult to tell apart.

So if you ever catch yourself thinking “Calm down, it’s just ADHD” either about others or yourself, remember this fact. Because I think we can all agree depression and anxiety aren’t just fun goofy quirks.

[humonresponds]

Regarding your tags, never heard of that from anyone with ADHD. Whoever you talked to probably showed some symptoms and the psychiatrist just wanted to be sure.

[gods-no-longer-tread-here]

Here in America, some doctors use borderline personality disorder as the new "female hysteria". You're trans? No, you just have BPD (I experienced this one myself). You think you're being abused by your partner/parent? That's the BPD talking, you're fine. You've read up on this specific disorder and strongly suspect you have it, and you want to do a screening? Your BPD is making you paranoid.

It's part of why borderline personality is considered the "crazy girlfriend disorder" by some dickweeds. And ADHD is still promoted as the Little White Boys Who Won't Sit Still Disorder, so if you're afab and think you're ADHD, you'd better be prepared to advocate for yourself and demand a referral. It's even harder for women of color to be diagnosed and treated properly, because doctors are people and people believe stereotypes.

I wanted to get an ADHD test. Of the two psychiatrists I spoke to, one (a woman) agreed to get me scheduled. The other (a man) diagnosed me on the spot with borderline personality disorder, because I said I was nonbinary, and refused to refer me for testing. America is just that fucked up.

[humonresponds]

Aah I see. I thought they were saying they had heard psychiatrists in Denmark jumped to bipolar disorder. That makes more sense. Thanks for the explanation.

[thehmn]

I don’t know if this is how it works in other countries but when you visit a psychiatrist in Denmark because you suspect you have ADHD they give you three tests; one for ADHD, one for depression, and one for anxiety.

This is necessary because the tree conditions are so similar they can be difficult to tell apart.

So if you ever catch yourself thinking “Calm down, it’s just ADHD” either about others or yourself, remember this fact. Because I think we can all agree depression and anxiety aren’t just fun goofy quirks.

[humonresponds]

Regarding your tags, never heard of that from anyone with ADHD. Whoever you talked to probably showed some symptoms and the psychiatrist just wanted to be sure.

[thehmn]

I’m intersex and I’m very hesitant to make this post because it could very quickly turn into a shitshow if I don’t word my thoughts correctly, but I’ve noticed a small, slowly growing trend and I think it’s important to talk about this before it gets out of hand.

I’ve seen a couple of posts with a lot of likes and reblogs where trans people accuse intersex people of being transphobic when they want hormonal treatment or surgery for themselves to look more female or male. It’s never about forced surgery on intersex children, but specifically about adult intersex people who want treatment for themselves. In these posts people see it as subconscious transphobia because they think this mindset is supporting the gender binary and harms trans and nonbinary people who technically get intersex bodies once they start to transition with hormones and surgeries. In their eyes not only are intersex people who use hormones/surgery to visually get out of the intersex sphere abandoning trans people, they’re also working agains nonbinary people who use intersex people as proof that there are more than two sexes which justify the existence of more than two genders.

The fact that there are a lot of similarities between trans and intersex people should be obvious. Both groups are saddled with bodies that doesn’t necessarily represent their gender and both can experience severe body dysmorphia, but at the end of the day the biggest difference is that the bodies of intersex people change on their own.

If you’re trans, imagine if you were assigned your preferred gender at birth and was perfectly content and happy in your gender experience when you suddenly hit puberty and start developing sex characteristics that goes against your gender and suddenly people around you start telling you you’re not actually the gender you think you are. Basically, imagine the way you felt before you came out/transitioned, except reversed.

I can for the life of me not understand why a trans person who thinks hormones and surgeries are acceptable for trans people can’t extend that mindset to intersex people.

It’s an ongoing debate among intersex people wether we belong in queer spaces and I can see both sides. A lot of intersex people consider themselves cishet people with a birth deformity who aren’t any more queer than people with dwarfism. Other intersex people feel more at home in queer spaces because there’s generally more acceptance of people who fall outside the norm.

But at the same time, in my experience, you get a lot of the same questions in both spaces. Both queer and cishet people often assume intersex means nonbinary, and I’ve been asked more than once how intersex people can call themselves cis or trans when their bodies fall outside the two majority sexes, forgetting that it’s all about what gender you were assigned at birth.

This leads to situations where you’ll meet trans men with functioning penises and trans women with natural breasts. A child might be born with something that looks like a vagina with a big clitoris and be assigned female but once they hit puberty the big clitoris becomes a small penis.

And even if they’re trans and start developing sex characteristics more in line with their true gender they might not be ready for it yet. As a teenager you become a target if you stand out so if you’re a trans girl living as a boy and you suddenly develop breasts that can be horrifying.

I personally experienced a much milder version of this. As a child I was perfectly content with people calling me a girl but I also felt like a different kind of girl. Not in a “not like the other girls” or tomboy way. More like a girl with something else in the mix. It was a very physical feeling because I was naturally stronger and more boyish looking than other girls and I didn’t really feel like I fit in with either boys or girls but at the same time it didn’t bother me when I was grouped in with the girls during school activities. I’d play around with makeup in my room, giving myself a beard and chest hair without wanting to be a man. It just felt like the right mix. Then I hit puberty for real and developed breasts and hips but also a full beard and chest hair. Despite all the times I had done it to myself I was mortified. This wasn’t something I could take off. I stood out wether I wanted to or not. Shaving left me with stubble. People looked. People commented on it. And my breasts didn’t grow super big and a lot of my body fat sat on my stomach like on a man, which meant if I didn’t wear a very flattering bra and feminine clothes I was sometimes mistaken for a chubby guy with manboobs. I was NOT ready for that. I was already struggling to fit in at a new school so this was like a social death sentence, not to mention I wasn’t sure about my own gender yet. It was something I should be allowed to work out on my own in peace when I was ready for it without people constantly asking what I, a child, had in my pants.

So hormones was a gift that allowed me to “transition” when I was ready for it at a later age. I’m off those hormones now and live as a “woman with something extra” like I always knew I was, but the things I had to go through as a child makes me very sympathetic to intersex people who does not feel that way and just want to be a man or woman with nothing extra because that’s their gender and like everyone else they want their gender and gender expression to align.

I don’t think it’s fair to expect people to be a martyr for other people. Most intersex people think trans rights are important but that doesn’t necessarily mean they belong in that debate. I know a lot of trans people who think women’s rights are important but feel no obligation to help the cause by sharing their experience of what it was like living as one gender and then another and how much respect and dignity they gained or lost after they transitioned.

So while I understand the natural instinct of wanting intersex people be part of a lager cause I also think it’s unfair to call intersex people who want to look like their preferred gender transphobic.

I really hope I made myself understood and that this isn’t an angry post. I just saw this “intersex people are transphobic for taking hormones” opinion with little to no understanding of the intersex experience and I’m hoping to shed a bit of light on that ❤️

[humonresponds]

@catididnt no, an intersex man who develops breasts and has them surgically removed or an intersex woman who starts on hormones get rid of facial hair is more like a cis woman getting bigger breasts to feel more feminine. Being trans has more to do with wether you agree with your assigned gender, but all of it is gender confirming care.

[thehmn]

AI generated pretty boys tarot cards. Wait! Don’t cancel me just yet!

I’m strongly against replacing AI art with the hard work of real artists but I do think it’s good for inspiration. The result is always so muddled and disconnected that you can’t copy it directly anyway but it can inspire you to think in a new way. A lot of these are not what I imagined when I wrote the prompts into the generator. For example, I would never have made a Devil card without a devil but it’s common knowledge that it mirrors The Lovers so why not simply have it depict an unhealthy relationship with a power imbalance? And the Death card usually has a sunrise to symbolise that it isn’t the end, better days are coming. Cherry blossoms are a wonderful alternative to that. And why should The Tower depict the moment it all collapses? Why not the aftermath of complete loss and sadness? And the Wheel of Fortune as a gambler is pretty funny.

So to be clear, I think it’s a very bad idea to just use AI art as is, especially because you don’t know who it’s stealing from, but I find it pretty helpful how it takes stuff from a completely random subject and puts it into a new context that gets my imagination going.

[humonresponds]

@xskyll Fair. It’s one of those things I keep forgetting to consider because I don’t feel that way about my own art. I feel zero ownership of fanart because I already stole someone else’s character and I don’t mind seeing my original art in unexpected places so long as people aren’t making money off of it. So admittedly it’s a blind spot for me.

[thehmn]

They showed Hot Fuzz on tv last night and for the first time in 16 years I noticed that Nicolas’ little cottage at the end has a garden overflowing with flowers while the other gardens nearby just have plain old lawns. He didn’t just love peace lilies. I can only imagine what the inside of his house looks like.

It also just occurred to me that the reason why Walker explains Doris’ sex jokes is because he’s the translator of the group.

Also also, it’s funny how some people got offended because the movie depicts cops as the good guys but it’s implied that things aren’t necessarily better now with Nicolas in charge of the village. Joyce calls him a fascist and he’s repeatedly called out for punishing minor criminals too harshly and at the very end he’s seen wearing black gloves like a movie villain, speeding off to take care of some rabble rousers.

So yeah, the people went from being under the thumb of Frank who let people get away with almost anything so long as they didn’t tarnish the image of the village, to Nicolas who will drop kick you for shoplifting a chocolate bar. It’s not hard to imagine a sequel where another young newcomer who comes from a minority group has to take down Nicolas and Danny all these years later.

It’s a smart movie y’all.

[moodycow210]

I mean frank let them ‘get away’ on the surface - just used his little cult to kill them on the quiet - it was more of making sure there was a lack of a paper trail to follow regarding any disappearances

[humonresponds]

I should have been more clear that it wasn’t my take on the movie but Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg has said Frank only punish people who make the village look bad to outsiders.

If Nicolas hadn’t arrested the underage drinkers, the shoplifter and old man they would have been fine because their actions could have gone by unnoticed by the committee. He’s basically a corrupt cop who doesn’t care about justice while Nicolas is too obsessed with justice and has no concept of giving someone a warning because they’re young or it’s their first offence, and neither of them care if you come from poverty or is differently abled, they will come for you if you break their rules (admittedly he does give Lurch a chance to opt out because Nicolas is a better person than Frank but after that there’s no mercy. He even allows the other officers to shoot at teenagers who are just throwing fruit, which was deliberate by Edgar and Simon who point it out in the commentary track)

So according to Edgar and Simon Nicolas is meant to be bad in a different way for the townspeople which I really quite love because it adds a lot of depth to the characters.

[thehmn]

They showed Hot Fuzz on tv last night and for the first time in 16 years I noticed that Nicolas’ little cottage at the end has a garden overflowing with flowers while the other gardens nearby just have plain old lawns. He didn’t just love peace lilies. I can only imagine what the inside of his house looks like.

It also just occurred to me that the reason why Walker explains Doris’ sex jokes is because he’s the translator of the group.

Also also, it’s funny how some people got offended because the movie depicts cops as the good guys but it’s implied that things aren’t necessarily better now with Nicolas in charge of the village. Joyce calls him a fascist and he’s repeatedly called out for punishing minor criminals too harshly and at the very end he’s seen wearing black gloves like a movie villain, speeding off to take care of some rabble rousers.

So yeah, the people went from being under the thumb of Frank who let people get away with almost anything so long as they didn’t tarnish the image of the village, to Nicolas who will drop kick you for shoplifting a chocolate bar. You can almost see the sequel where another young newcomer who comes from a minority group has to take down Nicolas and Danny all these years later.

It’s a smart movie y’all.

[humonresponds]

@nabexis Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have said he killed the kids, shoplifter and old man because Nicolas arrested them which would make the village look bad. It had nothing to do with making Frank himself look bad according to them, he only cares about the image of the village. Don’t get me wrong, Frank is very bad but Edgar and Simon also said they intended for Nicolas to be bad in a different way on the commentary track.

[thehmn]

Fun story, according to old Norse beliefs my companion animal is a red fox.

The old nordics believed individuals and families had protection spirits called fylgie (literally follower or companion) usually in the form of an animal for individuals and women/goddesses for families. They would protect you and act on your behalf.

If you see your own fylgie it is a death omen but other people who are close to you might be lucky enough to see your fylgie while you are asleep (and people gifted in magic might even see it while you’re awake) which of course means you’re unlikely to know what your fylgie is unless someone else sees it.

So how do I know mine is a red fox? When I was 4 years old my parents rented a cottage with some friends for their summer vacation. One evening they put me to bed and the adults arranged themselves in the living room in such a way that my parents could keep an eye on me while the others had their backs to the bedroom. They just sat around and chitchatted when my parents suddenly noticed a red fox in the bedroom with me! It calmly looked around, sniffed me and walked out of the cottage like it was the most normal thing in the world at which point my parents went “OH MY GOD THERE WAS A FOX IN THE ROOM WITH OUR DAUGHTER!!!!”

For the nervous among you, red foxes aren’t dangerous to humans. They don’t even hurt babies and certainly not a 4 year old. Rabies has been eradicated among red foxes in Northern Europe so they’re just allowed to do their thing so long as they don’t eat people’s chickens/rabbits. You know, just in case you were wondering why my parents didn’t freak the fuck out and yelled at the fox.

But yeah, you can be boring and say it was just a normal fox that found it’s way into my bedroom, but it is pretty cool how perfectly it fits with fylgie beliefs.

So keep that behind your ear, if people tell you they saw an unexpected animal near you while you were asleep you’ll know what your fylgie is.

[thehmn]

Some people seem a little disappointed that you can’t see your own fylgie unless you’re about to die because we’re so used to thinking of “spirit animals” as these very personal things just for us but don’t you see how amazing a fylgie would be for story telling and the relationships between characters?

Like, seeing another person’s fylgie is very intimate so the first time seeing it is a huge milestone in the relationship, and a fylgie only wants the best for their human so how they react to people around them tells a lot. Imagine seeing your friend’s fylgie and it attacks you? Your friend probably doesn’t hate you but their fylgie apparently knows something about you and how do you explain the wounds it left in the morning? Because they aren’t just spirits, they become very physical once their human is sleeping. Or what if it snuggles up to the villain? Or it might try to hide important things or bring you something because your wellbeing is important to their human. And imagine being able to tell a friend or even enemy what their fylgie is and watch their reaction.

And it can of course be used as a subtle death omen if the person is alone and sees a random animal appear and disappear in a place where it shouldn’t be possible. Either they have no idea what it means or they’ve been told what animal their fylgie is and it becomes a bittersweet moment where the person finally meets their lifelong protector but also knows it’s because they’re nearing the end. Or maybe they’re old it’s a purely sweet moment.

Just saying, a fylgie opens the doors to some unique situations specifically because they can’t be seen by their human.

[vileillusionistcure]

I wonder if mine was a butterfly

When I was a kid, like a preteen or younger, I vividly remember having a white butterfly (probably the common white cabbage butterfly) on my finger and went trying to show my mother. I was very proud of having it on my finger, showing it to her until my little brother tried snatching it before it flew off. I was very upset about it.

However years and years later, like nearly in my 30s I was talking to my mother abou this memory. She told me I was showing her nothing on my finger and my brother grab at the supposed nothingness and we literally fought over nothing (or that I can literally cry over nothing). So I'm curious if that moment is something like this or something else 🤔

[humonresponds]

It would be something else because if it was your fylgie you would be dead. It might have been your mother’s fylgie if she was the only person who couldn’t see it, and if you and your brother could see it while she was awake that would make you magically gifted.

[thehmn]

Fun story, according to old Norse beliefs my companion animal is a red fox.

The old nordics believed individuals and families had protection spirits called fylgie (literally follower or companion) usually in the form of an animal for individuals and women/goddesses for families. They would protect you and act on your behalf.

If you see your own fylgie it is a death omen but other people who are close to you might be lucky enough to see your fylgie while you are asleep (and people gifted in magic might even see it while you’re awake) which of course means you’re unlikely to know what your fylgie is unless someone else sees it.

So how do I know mine is a red fox? When I was 4 years old my parents rented a cottage with some friends for their summer vacation. One evening they put me to bed and the adults arranged themselves in the living room in such a way that my parents could keep an eye on me while the others had their backs to the bedroom. They just sat around and chitchatted when my parents suddenly noticed a red fox in the bedroom with me! It calmly looked around, sniffed me and walked out of the cottage like it was the most normal thing in the world at which point my parents went “OH MY GOD THERE WAS A FOX IN THE ROOM WITH OUR DAUGHTER!!!!”

For the nervous among you, red foxes aren’t dangerous to humans. They don’t even hurt babies and certainly not a 4 year old. Rabies has been eradicated among red foxes in Northern Europe so they’re just allowed to do their thing so long as they don’t eat people’s chickens/rabbits. You know, just in case you were wondering why my parents didn’t freak the fuck out and yelled at the fox.

But yeah, you can be boring and say it was just a normal fox that found it’s way into my bedroom, but it is pretty cool how perfectly it fits with fylgie beliefs.

So keep that behind your ear, if people tell you they saw an unexpected animal near you while you were asleep you’ll know what your fylgie is.

[humonresponds]

@popgal120 Unfortunately not because then you’d be dead. Only other people can see your fylgie. Maybe it was someone else’s fylgie paying you a visit while they were asleep ;)

[thehmn]

Just want to say thanks to the people who suggested I make a flowerpot heater.

They’re obviously not as effective at heating up a room as a radiator but it takes the edge of the cold off and there’s a noticeable difference in the room it’s in and the rest of the house so now I’m planning on making a couple more. And yes, I’m looking into those things to put on your windows to preserve heart.

I used the method of bolting two never-before-used flowerpots together and placed the contraption on top of a ceramic thingy with holes that I bought at a thrift shop.

Also, a friend of mine had the brilliant idea of wrapping an emergency blanket around my short hair chihuahua’s sleeping crate. It’s working like a charm. With a hot water bottle she’s warm and comfy in her crate and even moves to the back when I let her out in the morning, not wanting to leave her cosy den.

Yeah, it’s a lot of preparation for winter but I absolutely refuse to do anything that could force my government to work with Putin. I don’t have money to send to Ukraine so I’ll do my best not to support Mad Man Putin’s side.

[snigepippi]

Seems like they've made sure Funen will not need to buy gas

[humonresponds]

I’ll be very happy if I don’t have to worry about supporting Putin but unfortunately this doesn’t make heating cheap, just cheaper than gas, so I’ll keep preparing.

[thehmn]

Just want to say thanks to the people who suggested I make a flowerpot heater.

They’re obviously not as effective at heating up a room as a radiator but it takes the edge of the cold off and there’s a noticeable difference in the room it’s in and the rest of the house so now I’m planning on making a couple more. And yes, I’m looking into those things to put on your windows to preserve heart.

I used the method of bolting two never-before-used flowerpots together and placed the contraption on top of a ceramic thingy with holes that I bought at a thrift shop.

Also, a friend of mine had the brilliant idea of wrapping an emergency blanket around my short hair chihuahua’s sleeping crate. It’s working like a charm. With a hot water bottle she’s warm and comfy in her crate and even moves to the back when I let her out in the morning, not wanting to leave her cosy den.

Yeah, it’s a lot of preparation for winter but I absolutely refuse to do anything that could force my government to work with Putin. I don’t have money to send to Ukraine so I’ll do my best not to support Mad Man Putin’s side.

[motsimages]

I'm reblogging this because this person is doing it as a political stance but other people may not have a choice this winter (including me).

Personally, I bought a couple of thermal curtains to cover a massive window we have and they do an amazing work. I'll see if I can turn the table we have into a mesa camilla by the sheer power of putting a big blanket over it and a heater underneath.

[humonresponds]

I’m not just doing it as a political stance. In an earlier post I explained that the cost of heating has sky rocketed in my country. My mom didn’t think much of it until she got a bill of 12000 dkk (1.586,68 usd) for only three months. Alternative heating will be MUCH cheaper and instead of supporting Putin’s war efforts I can spend my money on food and healthcare for myself and my pets. So it’s both a financial and moral choice for me.

[thehmn]

Just want to say thanks to the people who suggested I make a flowerpot heater.

They’re obviously not as effective at heating up a room as a radiator but it takes the edge of the cold off and there’s a noticeable difference in the room it’s in and the rest of the house so now I’m planning on making a couple more. And yes, I’m looking into those things to put on your windows to preserve heart.

I used the method of bolting two never-before-used flowerpots together and placed the contraption on top of a ceramic thingy with holes that I bought at a thrift shop.

Also, a friend of mine had the brilliant idea of wrapping an emergency blanket around my short hair chihuahua’s sleeping crate. It’s working like a charm. With a hot water bottle she’s warm and comfy in her crate and even moves to the back when I let her out in the morning, not wanting to leave her cosy den.

Yeah, it’s a lot of preparation for winter but I absolutely refuse to do anything that could force my government to work with Putin. I don’t have money to send to Ukraine so I’ll do my best not to support Mad Man Putin’s side.

[humonresponds]

@helshades Are you seriously arguing that because other people are amoral I should be too? My dog is fine, I made sure of that, so worry about your own situation and what your own morals allow you to do.

[thehmn]

When your hearing is bad it’s sometimes scary to say “What?” because some people interpret it as “I don’t understand what that means” instead of “I couldn’t hear you” and suddenly you’re being given a lecture on something but you have no idea what because you didn’t catch the first thing they said and if it’s a person you don’t feel comfortable/safe interrupting you’re now stuck listening to something for 5 minutes that would otherwise have taken 2 seconds.

[humonresponds]

@alphagodith Depends on the language I suppose. It would sound extremely weird to say that in Danish. Besides, if you say you didn’t hear them there’s a 50/50 chance of them yelling at you instead of saying it in a clearer voice and if you then tell them to not be so loud and just speak more clearly there’s 80% they’ll get offended. I assume from a mix of feeling embarrassed for raising their voice and the implication that they’re slurring their words.