Pluvial Threads

[pluvial-threads]

okay, okay, so like.

i don't do the social media things well. i do the talk with the strangers sometimes and the like cute posts but actually posting? not up my alley - as I'm sure my extensive library on here is vital proof of.

but like - i have 34 followers on insta... and 26 are within the last month... and 16 the last week which is just ??? i have not posted anything new in those 7 days, i am simply vibing

[thoodleoo]

i think the wine-dark sea and rosy-fingered dawn should kiss

[pluvial-threads]

Okay, so I said play by play, I was wrong. Oops. I'm back into it, got a full house, which is unfortunate because it means I might have to go to the second generation. Before my last computer died, I had made it to the forties or so with the mother still young adult.

[pluvial-threads]

Computer is getting hot, but it's been like fifteen hours and I've played like five. I'm at four toddlers, a baby, and my sim's pregnant again. A decent start to the challenge

[pluvial-threads]

I know no one reads this so you who accidentally stumble across my blog get my play by play, lucky ducks. I was hoping for *maybe* twins on the first or second try, I got triplets. It's probably some rng I don't have a clue about but I feel accomplished

[pluvial-threads]

Ehh, fuck it. Maybe it's childish but the 100 Baby Challenge from 2014 is the main thing making me feel like a person and not a blob so

[30-minute-memes]

Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!

[wreckitremy]

I’ve queued this to post around the time that alot of babies will be hatching.

Go buy some frozen veggies and feed the babies

[neurospicybirb]

It is baby season right now. A lot of babies are being born right now and people keep bringing them into the sanctuary. Sometimes its best to leave them alone.

[30-minute-memes]

Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!

[wreckitremy]

I’ve queued this to post around the time that alot of babies will be hatching.

Go buy some frozen veggies and feed the babies

[neurospicybirb]

It is baby season right now. A lot of babies are being born right now and people keep bringing them into the sanctuary. Sometimes its best to leave them alone.

[timberlakelove-blog-blog]

[weaver-z]

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

[georgieharrisons]

also according to michael collins when the three of them were discussing what neil armstrong should say when he first stepped on the moon, collins suggested armstrong say “Oh, my God, what is that thing?”  and then scream and cut out his mic.

[wickedwitch-of-the-left]

all you’ve done is convince me that michael collins was one of the funniest men alive tbh

[ziggy-scardust]

Michael Collins is a HILARIOUS SPACE ANGEL and I will shout this from the rooftops every time this post comes up on my dash. He showed up at my school in Boston for an event and the first thing he said was “I just learned what the state bird of Massachusetts is. It’s the upraised middle finger.” He followed up with “Buzz and Neil were bickering like an old married couple the whole time. It was nice to get some peace and quiet while they were on the surface. Forget being the farthest from all humanity, I just wanted to be the farthest from those two.”

Oh and let’s not forget his long and distinguished post-astronaut career in the State Department and as the director of the Smithsonian.

[thebiscuiteternal]

Reblogging again in memory of Collins’ passing today. Godspeed spaceman.

[dracogotgame]

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

[pluvial-threads]

You know that one scene from the first Avengers movie where Cap and Iron Man fight on the helicarrier? Let's talk about that.

The thought I had about this likely isn't intended, which I think means it's good and natural writing that these things happened organically. It revolves around these two lines:

You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play. To lay down on the wire and let the other men crawl over you.

I think I would just cut the wire.

Steve's sarcastic snort after this and his comments about how Tony would try and find away around it really fucking bother me. They boil me blood and make me physically nauseous probably because I see myself more as Tony than Steve.

I don't want to die. I've considered having to take sacrifices in situations like dangerous encounters on school campuses - should someone dangerous get on campus, I'd like to believe that I would sacrifice myself to help someone get away safely. But it still ends up with me dead.

All I want is to be useful and good at something. Good at dying is not something to look up to, I don't think. And sacrificing yourself for someone else isn't always a 100% chance of working, any number of outside factors can come into play.

Steve's seeming derision at Tony wanting to find another way around something is very grating. Essentially, he's declaring, without actually knowing Tony beyond videos what he thinks Tony will do and that Tony only thinks of himself.

He describes a life or death situation in which Tony first thinks of survival like that makes you a villain. He didn't make some odd argument about attempting going around or through the wire, but about cutting it. This would mean getting rid of the obstacle itself, not suggesting a way that might get people injured or killed in another way, but a way where everyone gets away in equally good/ok shape.

If I die, I'm not of use, I'm not on the same level as anyone else. Plain and simple: I'm not of use. I may not think I've got much purpose or use now, but I sure as hell have more now than if I'm dead. The possibility of being more useful in the future would make me want to be around for that future instead of dying when there might be another way around it.

Not to mention that being able to relate to this character and sharing this mindset, the idea that I'm doing something wrong by not being ready to go off sacrificing everything I want for others first and looking for other solutions second seems like it could be super damaging. Considering Cap had only been awake for a few months after making his own sacrifice, I kind of understand his mindset, I guess, but what he said still makes me feel awful.

I don't think anyone knows before hand what they would do in these life or death situations, especially with so many factors, especially when we as normal citizens are not at war.

[feebeeandj]

Not to use this blog as a confessional but I still love Owl City and some of his songs make me cry. Yes I am technically an adult. No I can’t tell if his music is legitimately good. All I know is that when he says “I’ve been longing for/ Daisies to push through the floor/ And I wish plant life would grow all around me/ So I won’t feel dead anymore” I still tear up like I’m fourteen and on the bus home again

[pluvial-threads]

sometimes 'if my heart was a house' makes me cry and sometimes it makes me feel absolute elation, but the line

if my hear was a compass you be north

is permanently engraved in my mind and heart

[pluvial-threads]

so, I'm watching Miraculous right now and I feel so stupid because I only just realized that Zombizou is probably a pun - because why shouldn't it be

[ryuji-ism]

So since Sundown Towns are still a thing, I'd like to remind POCs to look up these towns in your state to avoid at all costs. Especially with increased hate crimes against the Asian community, it's important to stay aware.

[pluvial-threads]

Help and Helpfulness

When my mother would make dinner for me and my siblings, sometimes she would ask us for help.

"Can you do [A]?"

"While I do this, can you please do [B]?"

Small things like that.

Sometimes, ahead of things, she would ask one of us to make dinner on a certain night. Usually something that we had introduced or suggested in the first place. My point is, she would ask us to do it. Or she would ask us if we wanted to help bake or cook or learn to make something.

But sometimes she would complain that we didn't help her in the kitchen. My father would complain that we didn't help her in the kitchen or would, while she was silently making dinner or taking care of dishes, suggest we ask is she needed help.

It was about fifty-fifty if she would accept or not and I got it. We had not lived for as long, so we weren't nearly as efficient in the kitchen and I'm known for being slow at doing things like cooking and eating. Sometimes, my help was helpful and sometimes it slowed her down, but she was frustrated that she had to do it all, I understand this.

My parents just never seemed to understand why, 80% of the time, they had to prompt me to offer help. And I can't explain it to them. I think I've tried, but most of the instances I can think of are marked with anger.

Being offered help enrages me. Few things make my skin crawl with revulsion or my blood boil and my stomach sour so quickly as unsolicited help or unasked for offerings of help. Even things such as doing the dishes with a sibling make me unimaginably angry. And my parents never fucking understood.

I just.

If I do not ask for help, I do not want it. If you offer it, I feel inadequate. And if you take it upon yourself to help me without asking, I will wish injury to your person with little hesitation.

The road to Hell is indeed paved with good intentions, and my personal Hell is a highway of them. And you won't understand. You don't seem to try and understand and explaining it insults you.

So, I sit in this Hell, unable to tell my parents because in those few things that make me feel sick faster than being offered help is insulting people who do not deserve it. They aren't mind readers, either, and they want to make it easier for me. I know this and I repeat it as a mantra as my father sends me ten job applications a day, without my asking for them.

Thank you for your help, I guess.