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@littlelull
That gazebo is so fucked
Are you sure gazebo is the correct word?
Are
you
sure?
idk why you’re confused, that poor gazebo needs help
This has hit my dash three times… that final reblog made it worthy.
I only liked this for the gif
You cannot call for help, you must face the gazebo alone
I was thinking about how we don't actually know how Pyrrha died. Just that by her own telling, she "was killed," and that she was the first cavalier to die outside Cristabel and Alfred's suicide pact.
Before Nona came out, I suspected Gideon the First must have killed her, probably with her consent. That seems unlikely to me now, with everything we've learned about them in Nona.
Also before Nona came out, I came to the conclusion that the lyctors demanded John kill Alecto following a "great attack" on Canaan House and the revelation of what a Resurrection Beast is. Based on Mercymorn's assumption that Alecto was a freak who would attack her on sight, I also highly suspected that Alecto either participated in or perpetrated the attack on Canaan House, thus proving herself beyond a shadow of a doubt to be untamed and dangerous in a way that not even John could talk his way out of.
I just recently noticed a detail in Nona the Ninth that might slot all this together like puzzle pieces:
Pyrrha has seen something very like Nona's tantrums before, and that memory scares her. Enough that she avoids even thinking about it.
I think Alecto may have killed Pyrrha.
But let's say she did. One of the reasons Alecto was locked in the Tomb was because she killed Pyrrha. Why did she do it? Well, because, as Nona would put it, she had a tantrum. Why did she have a tantrum?
When the lyctors first came to John asking about what they called lyctorhood, Alecto didn't understand what they were asking for. She didn't know it would be so close to what John had done to her. I have a feeling she figured it out pretty damn quickly once she saw what Mercy, Cris, Alfred, and Augustine had done. And she completely lost her shit.
Of course Pyrrha would be the one to step in, that's just who she is. And that's why Gideon the First was the third Saint to ascend to lyctorhood.
Wait this would explain so much about the way Alecto is talked about, and the lies built up around both her and the Resurrection Beasts.
When Nona had her tantrum, she first eliminated the trigger using the power of extreme violence, and then moved on to any compounding unpleasant stimuli.
In this case, the trigger is Mercymorn and Augustine, freshly traumatized by their ascension. From their perspective, Alecto would have snapped and tried to beat them to death, on what was already the worst day of their lives, for no fucking reason. Maybe the shock of killing Pyrrha snapped her out of it, maybe John had to show up—oh so sadly too late to do anything for the deceased, of course—and talk her down. Either way, John has a lot of explaining to do.
Now, of course John can't tell them Alecto's enraged fugue was triggered by being violently reminded of the worst thing that had ever happened to her. That has just now become a secret he would kill everyone in this room to protect. So what does he tell them?
Oh, yeah, that was because uhhhhhh ...... you know how she's sort of not human? They're called Resurrection Beasts, and they're all gonna just do that when they see you now. Yeah, there are eight more of them. Yeah, it's because you've become crimes against nature they instinctively seek out and destroy. Sorry.
And then he just kept building on that bit of improv for the next ten thousand years.
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to be honest I think working on a sewing machine strains my eyes as much as being on a computer does. However, I am incentivized to remain alert and focused by keeping my fingers within stabbing distance of a needle making 60 stitches per minutes.
Me: oh boy I can’t wait to have a cool jacket
The hungry and voracious sewing machine: CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CH
@luxlightly I wanna meet your junki deathmetal ultrafuck, they sound capable of sewing me a tool pouch.
It's a Juki TL-2000Qi semi-industrial sewing machine and it can probably sew through solid steel.
It does exactly two things, a forward straight stitch and a backward straight stitch, and you'll be GODDAMN grateful it even lets you do that. You want to do zig zags? Get fucked.
Threading it takes about 10 steps and feels like trying to defuse a bomb. It's got a side fed bobbin case that takes an additional 3 or 4 steps to thread. If it's not sharp or strong enough, it'll snap through a heavy duty needle and without even slowing down, no matter stopping, sending the tip flying through the air at speeds capable of sending a piece of straw through a telephone pole. It's compatible with exactly 0 of any other parts from any other brand machine except sometimes needles and it has a palpable air of bloodlust surrounding it.
But it'll sew through 4 layers of denim like a hot knife through butter.
sewing machine fandom has some terrifying blorbos
Lyctor? I hardly know her!
I painted Jod and his duplicitous sluts in the style of Byzantine art!! I believe we are approaching my annual reread of the series... ✨⚔️💀⚔️✨
Closeups and print link under the cut!
“The idea that someone is still here and furious... or that something has been lurking here forever. Maybe it's that I find the idea comforting... that thousands of years after you're gone... is when you really live. That your echo is louder than your voice.”
A little Cytherea portrait~
Hey you know what sucks is predatory companies that make you enter your email address so that they can harass and advertise to you to access resources you might need to keep track of expenses after a disaster. So, uh, fuck them.
If you need to track the cost of things like hotel stays, pet kenneling, medical care, etc. after a disaster you can use this worksheet.
If you need to create an inventory of your home for an insurance claim (and if you'd like to do this to keep someplace safe before a disaster) you can use this worksheet (two pages, instructions on the first page, worksheet on the second).
And here's a FEMA document with numbers for disaster relief groups and a checklist of documents that you may need to have replaced as well as a description of what to do if you had cash in your home that was destroyed and can possibly be replaced.
Bringing this back because there are a ton of people who are going to need it. A lot of stupid bullshit disaster recovery companies will be reaching out to people whose homes burned down. A lot of people whose homes burned down will be searching for resources that come from websites that require them to give up personal details in order to get worksheets and tools.
These are free documents you can download to keep track of disaster recovery expenses or make a list for insurance claims.
I know people are exhausted and frightened and not thinking about stuff but start a folder in your email for receipts for things you're paying for right now so that you can fill out these forms later.
Don't enter your info on a random website or you're going to start getting calls from scammy companies.
And here's a story from the LA Times with advice for people who lost homes or businesses during the fire; one of the primary pieces of advice is DON'T RUSH. Take your time to make decisions and look over any paperwork that anyone wants you to sign.
If you need to send people a link to these documents that isn't a tumblr post they're collected here on my website with links to archive.org instead of gdocs.
I updated the page with specific links to resources for these fire, all of which are included below; again, if you want to send someone a link but you don't want to send them a tumblr post, here's a direct link to my site, which I will be updating with resources as I find them.
Mutual Aid LA Masterlist of Resources
Community-made resource list on cryptpad
Resources compiled by/for Assembly District 41 - (specific relief for district 41, but includes resources that could help anyone)
LAist news roundup and cheat sheet
Cal Fire website - includes regularly updated evacuation maps
LADWP Power Outage Map
SCE Power Outage Map
Glendale Water and Power Outage Map
Since there have now been two mistaken emergency evacuation alerts sent out, you can go to the LA County Emergency site to check current evacuations; it doesn't load a map, but it will show a list of evacuation zones for each fire that you can expand, with a link to a map so that you can identify your zone.
So let's say you're in Temple City near Las Tunas and Baldwin and you got an evacuation alert; you know that you're closest to the Eaton fire so you scroll down to the evacuations and go to the Eaton evacuation:
That's the list of active evacuation zones and warnings; the blue link at the top is the map where you can check your area.
Las Tunas and Baldwin is not an evacuation zone; even if you got the alert you do not have an evacuation warning to worry about.
My page continues to update and I'm continuing to add to this post.
The California Department of Insurance is holding free workshops on filing claims for this disaster; the workshops are on January 18th and 19th in Santa Monica, and January 25th and January 26th in Pasadena. Click the link if you want to call and reserve a spot at one of the workshops.
This is what having auditory processing issues is like.
HI LET’S SHARE NICOLE’S WORDS ON THE SUBJECT!
It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it.
Interesting, innit? https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266
Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.
In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.
"Um the lockdowns didnt work" no moron they didnt happen
"Masks didnt work" you didnt wear one
Asking Americans specifically: reblog and put in the tags how do you make tea.
musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction
Like to charge, reblog to cast
I feel like we need to talk more about how fucking boring depression can be. I pick up a book and can’t read more than a few sentences, a chapter if I’m lucky, before I can’t focus. I knit two rows of something and then can’t continue. I scroll through all the different options of shows I haven’t watched without clicking on any of them. I hop from app to app looking for content that will spark literally any single emotion. It’s not even 10am and I already feel like I’m just waiting until it’s time to go back to bed.
I hate it I hate it I hate it
And thats a good description of a typical day of depression
if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?
They ship of theseus’d my girl
Can’t have shit in Detroit
this actually perfectly demonstrates the transitive property of memes: you can replace a meme piece by piece until it only structurally resembles the original, and it is, in fact, the same meme.
call that the meme of theseus thesis
tumblrites can have a little intertextuality as a treat
my naym is ship and when i’m broke the broken part from me they toke
replace the part had been the plan but in the morn hand door car man
*me shoving transitive properties into my purse* sorry, I have to go
We owe the reddit refugees an apology for making them see posts like this
no we don’t this shit is enrichment in their new enclosure
*slaps roof of Tumblr* This baby can fit so many rare vintages, you just have to go deep enough, there are some great memes in the cellar, come see
It has been way over a decade since this happened, so some details are a little blurry, but I still have to tell this story here too:
So, my dad's colleague was on a trip with their friends, who were a couple. Now, the wife of this couple was a huge U2 fan, and the highlight of this trip was going to a U2 concert. Later that night, after the concert, they went to a restaurant, and who do they see there at another table? Bono. The wife wants so badly to go and ask for an autograph, but in a typical Finnish fashion, she doesn't want to be a bother because surely Bono just wants to enjoy his night and not be surrounded by fans all the time, so she doesn't go.
Then, she notices that someone from Bono's table gets up and goes to the men's restroom, so she also gets up and goes to wait outside the men's room, until the guy comes out. She then stops him and goes excuse me, I saw that you were at the same table as Bono, would it be in any way possible that you could ask for an autograph from him for me? (because apparently it is much less mortifying to bother someone else you don't know than to bother the guy directly, I guess).
The man apparently kinda stands there for a moment, just looking at her, before he asks, sounding just a tad bit confused, if he heard her right. You want me to go and ask Bono for an autograph for you?
Yes, she says. She's being very polite about it. If you would be so kind. That would be great.
The man says yes, sure, I'll see what I can do about it.
They then part ways and go back to their own tables and continue the night, and some time later, they notice that Bono and the rest of the people who had been at that table have left.
Oh well, the wife thinks. No can do, maybe he just forgot or something or just didn't want to do it. It's okay.
They finish up their meal and ask for the bill. The waiter tells them that their meal has already been paid for, and then tells that they were left with two notes.
The waiter gives them the notes. They are both autographs. One of them says Bono.
And the other says Bruce Springsteen.
earlier today i found a cool stick on the ground, picked it up, and then found a cool rock on the ground next to it, and picked that up too, and the second i did the words "on that birdgirl grindset" appeared in my head, unbidden and unwelcome
every locked tomb character is one of the characters of all time but ortus nigenad really is The Character Of All Time my guy brought a fanfiction to the gun fight AND WON
