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@mistakenvalkyrie
good morning to bisexuals, halloween enthusiasts, she/theys, community college students, people who shoplift at walmart, goths, eldest daughters, gay baristas who get mean when it’s busy, phoebe bridgers stans, vodka drinkers, men with curly hair, people who listen to classical music on public transit, and professional dog walkers
this thread is so worth checking out - it’s actually pretty frightening how perfectly he mimics the language and tone of right wing/conservatives or basically the entire White House right now.
When you perfect satire to the point were it could pass as the original
Not to be problematic, but I think men deserve platonic physical affection. I think everyone deserves platonic physical affection, but in my experience men get it the least, and I think that can really fuck a person up.
thinking about that WoW epidemic
i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.
he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.
a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.
it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.
weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it
The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.
Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.
The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.
They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.
ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.
However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.
Think about that.
The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?
And we can’t time travel.
Checking out his best moves in the mirror.
Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is
Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.
His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.
gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther
#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"
tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc.
wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades
Sorry it’s what to elves
So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth). But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven. To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk. So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.
This is why Legolas can see for such great, almost impossible distances. The Earth does not curve for him.
Legolas said fuck the horizon
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Speaking as someone that spent six or seven years working in the motorsports/automotive industry, this is the most true comic I have ever seen in my entire life.
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#this just shows their personalities so well?? #azula always being cautious and having a backup plan #zuko just charging headfast without a plan #characterisation at its peak
Look at the size of that lamppost
yall, please reblog and share this post because i am seeing more and more people taking road trips instead of flying. which i understand cause it’s cheaper and and safer cause of rona but i want you guys to stay safe.
IF YOU ARE A PERSON OF COLOR AND/OR LGBTQ DRIVING THROUGHT GEORGIA, DO NOT STOP IN CUMMING, GA. DO NOT STOP IN FORSYTH COUNTY, GA PERIOD.
yes it’s a sundown town but don’t even stop there during the day. that place is full of hate and white supremacy. there are numerous stories in the news about this place with black people going missing, beaten, and murdered. this town has been like this since the early 1900s and nothing has changed. please avoid it if you can.
DO NOT STOP IN BYRON, GA
For arizona
DO NOT STOP IN BISBEE (yes it’s pretty and cute looking but the locals are scary racist!)
DO NOT STOP IN CHANDLER
DO NOT STOP IN SCOTTSDALE
Literally there are white power signs all over az and lot of scary shit going
To keep followers safe I’m sharing the state I live in cause I don’t want you to get hurt please
DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR TEXAS!!
In the south purple painted tree lines are also a sign of white militia territory.
me: I hope the pandemic doesn’t last long
the pandemic:
This is something we as radicals don’t talk about much but which has come up a lot in my experience:
You deserve mutual aid. You’re not too privileged for it, you’re not stealing it from people who need it more - you have a right to use community resources just as much as anyone else
I’ve seen food rot, clothes and books be forgotten in storage, because the people volunteering at or supporting these projects don’t think the resources are for them. Then those same volunteers will go out and put money they don’t have into the capitalist system to buy the resources they could’ve gotten for free
You’re thinking like a charity. You’re drawing a line between the people giving resources and the people taking them, which inevitably leads to a feeling of separation and eventually superiority, unconsciously seeing yourself as a savior coming in and helping the less fortunate. That alienates the people you’re helping from you, and results in neither side fully recognizing the other as human and the same as them
There’s a reason we say “solidarity not charity”. There’s a reason mutual aid is called mutual. Because by lifting each other up, we all become stronger. In solidarity and mutual aid, there is no separation between giver and receiver, because everyone involved is benefited by it
But that doesn’t happen if the resources aren’t used! Get out of the capitalist scarcity mindset - give freely and take freely, because by being lifted up you help us all
This is so important. If you’re not practicing the Mutual in Mutual Aid, you’re doing charity. Change your attitude. Take what is offered. Ask for help when it makes things easier, not only once you hit rock bottom. Understand these acts as parts of what makes Mutual aid work.
I’ve done a few FNB tables and every time I did, I ate my fill
Mutual aid is MUTUAL
At Food Not Bombs especially, this is a vital and absolutely central aspect of that model
The volunteers grabbing a plate is the difference between giving food to someone and sharing a meal with them. It presents everyone as equals
That’s one circumstance where I’d argue you’re almost obligated to take some
#which is also why it’s important to offer food to *everyone* who walks by#even if they look well-off#because when they come and share a meal with their unhoused neighbors they feel like equals too#it’s that kind of presentation that makes fnb have so much bigger an impact than just feeding people#and what separates it from food banks and soup kitchens
This is the best thing I’ve seen all year (🔊)
Just when I thought it was over, it gets better and better
Anyway, as we enter cold & flu season in the YEAR of corona, this will come in very handy.
This was created by Vox and if you look at small print, you'll find the sources used to create the table.
Obviously there are exceptions and we're getting conflicting and new information about covid-19 all the time but by mid-august, I believe we certainly had observed enough cases for experts to put this together at least.
my takeaway:
if you’re sneezing and blowing your nose it’s probably not covid
if you lose your sense of smell or taste and it’s not just because your nose is stuffed up it’s probably covid
if you have shortness of breath it’s probably covid or pneumonia, either way you should go to urgent care
this has been reassuring to me all throughout allergy season
