Hello, new friends! I assume you are here due to JJ-loving-ism, so allow me to present my we-should-all-love-JJ manifesto in fic form:
and you're miles and miles from your nice warm bed -- When J.J. goes to comfort Shane after the almost-plane-crash, Shane tells him the truth. This fixes some things.
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"Well, this is embarrassing," J.J. said. "For me, I mean. Also for you, because your taste in men is horrible, but mostly for me. I knew you had a crush on him, butâ"
"You what?" Shane was glad he hadn't had any of the coffee. His heart was going to explode even without caffeine. "Oh, god. Does everyoneâ?"
"Hey, no." J.J. bumped him, shoulder to shoulder. "I don't think anybody else noticed. Seriously, I was so proud of myself for like, figuring it out. What a fucking dumbass, huh? Boyfriends, really? Fuck, man, I was all heartbroken for you and everything."
Shane surprised himself laughing. "Heartbroken, really?"
"I thought you had a crush on a straight man! Why do you think I kept trying to set you up?" J.J. laughed too, and then abruptly stopped. "Shit. Is Rozanov going to murder me?"
Now with sequel! we stick together we can see it through (now complete!!)
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"Hey." J.J. held out his hand for a handshake, as if he were meeting Ilya for the first time, and Shane supposed that in a way he was. "Zane says you don't suck."
Shane had not made Ilya promise to be on his best behavior, and he regretted that immediately as he watched Ilya shake J.J.'s hand with an expression of exaggerated confusion.
"Bood is slandering me? Why would he do this?" Ilya turned to Shane. "And you! You are letting your friends believe I don't give excellentâ"
Shane put his hand over Ilya's mouth. "You know that's not what he meant."
Ilya nodded, and when Shane removed his hand, he blinked innocently. "English is so hard," he said. "Like you when Iâ"
"NOPE!"
The front door opened and Hayden poked his head out. "Are you guys gonna come in any time today, or what? Not that I mind if Rozanov stays outside. That is one hundred percent fine with me."
"Ilya was just getting everything inappropriate out of his system before we spend time with the kids," Shane said.
"Oh, is that what we're doing?" J.J. asked, sounding way too amused. "In that case I wanted to know if you guys are aware Rozanov has performance-enhancing jizz?"
So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.
Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?
The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!
This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.
Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:
Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or
Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.
The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.
The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).
Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.
So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.
Serbian here living in Belgrade! This is all true and I've actually seen some of these around the city a few times. They're amazing at what they do and really cool to watch up close because you can see pretty swirling inside them. It's not only functional but aesthetically pretty nice as well!
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13œ years now
the ways shane has influenced pop culture in my head:
1. a canadian team bringing home the cup for the first time in like 20 years would have made sooo much noise, shane hollander basically put canada on the map.
2. obviously he is tumblr's boy of the year. along with superwholock.
3. in the wake of his insane b2b run there's something like linsanity happening within asian diaspora communities. shanesanity if you will. asians in hockey numbers rise up by 120% after the second stanley cup. despite this, just like in NBA, there's barely 4 asians that make it to the NHL after him.
4a. i hate to say this but. drake referenced him in his songs. something about. i learned it from shane holly y'all can never check me. back to back for those that didn't get it. and yes of course the cover is shane's stanley cup photo. you know the one.
4b. and yes when eventually in 2025 drake has his big cancellation at the superbowl, some beat reporter asks what shane thinks of drake v kendrick, and shane ofc thought he'd side with the canadian. he had to make a clarification on twitter. ïżŒ
4c. ilya tweeted like "shane don't have internet sorry about him đ"
5. shane's face is all over montreal like shohei ohtani is all over tokyo.
6. shane gets tapped for a tim horton's commercial once and basically ate their donuts like the mcdonald's CEO and was again cancelled on twitter.
7. post outing hockey shot up into stratospheric popularity a la f1. in fact people know hockey as that one sport with the gay asian and russian. shane hates this with a burning passion. it's the fault of that one tweet that was like "so in football terms this is kinda like if messi and ronaldo are fucking" and had 47M views.
I think it would do people a lot of good, both mentally and societally, if they started thinking of at least some of their actions not as good or bad, or moral or not, or fun or not, but as whether or not theyâre the behavior of someone who lives in a society.
On Friday, I got a notification that I had a package. My apartment has package lockers that FedEx/UPS/USPS/DHL/etc. deliver int and when they register a package to me, I get a code emailed/texted to me that I can use to pop the locker open.
I didnât remember getting a package, but that happens sometimes. I preorder a lot of things and Bookshop doesnât always let you know when theyâve finally shipped something, or a friend surprises me, or whatever. So I put some clothes and shoes on and went over to the leasing office building to get the package.
It was not for me. FedEx is gonna FedEx.
So I picked it up out of the locker and went to the leasing office staff to hand it to them. They were kind of closed for lunch, so I was contemplating what to do if they werenât in. It had the address. I could walk over there and deliver it maybe?
âCause see. A lot of people apparently just shut the locker and are done with it. But if I did that...how would this person know they had a package or where it was? How would anyone get the package back out of the locker, now that the system registered it as retrieved? They donât have the code, and the code is expired anyway.
I could just leave it in the locker. Or take it out of the locker and dump it to the side where it could be pilfered; the exact function the package lockers exist to prevent. Itâs not my package. Not my problem.
But it costs me a tiny bit of inconvenience and time to place it in the hands of and appropriate custodian and save a bunch of other people a lot of inconvenience and time. I live in a society. Society is designed to save everyone across the society as much time and effort as possible cumulatively.
Sure, itâs easier and faster to just shove your shopping cart out of the way and pull out. Not your problem. You donât need the cart anymore. Except now the cart is blocking other peopleâs cars and other parking spots and can ram into cars and people and some poor worker is going to have to go track it down. You have saved yourself a tiny amount of time and inconvenience and in doing so wasted everyone around youâs time and convenience.
Sure, you could put your neighborâs mail from a government agency with an URGENT stamp in your mailbox and mark it âNOT AT THIS ADDRESS.â Or you could. Just. Pop it in their mailbox or slip it under their door (Iâve been having mail problems recently okay. Give the USPS more money).
You donât have to wait an extra 5 seconds to hold the door for someone just behind you. But. Like. Come on, man, really? (Unless you're entering a secured area with restricted access, because that causes a separate cache of problems)
Weighing how much time and effort something is going to cost you compared to how much time and effort it will save everyone else around you cumulatively is...well...pro-social way to think. There are obviously always going to be exceptions and a balance to things, especially if the cost to you is much, much higher proportionally.
We live in a society. We live in many societies.
You can leave your dishes all around your house. But whoever has to do the dishes later (even if itâs you!) is then going to have to remember or know this happened, figure out where they all are, pick them up, deal with any spills/etc. that incurred, and return them to the kitchen and then was them. Was that really worth just putting them in the kitchen earlier? Maybe. But probably not.
âBut what do I get out of that?â Firstly, youâre a tarpit. Secondly, you get all of the time and energy everyone around you has saved you by also being a functioning member of a society.
Societies work because weâre all contributing so the burned is distributed, just the way people can walk over a bed of nails but not an individual nail. We all take up a small part of peopleâs burdens that arenât necessarily ours so we all have better lives.
Consider: how pro-social is your behavior? Sometimes pro-social behavior is a huge undertaking for massive gains elsewhere. But so much of the time it takes an extra 30 seconds, an extra minute.
And what little pro-social tasks can you tally up lately to feel proud and accomplished of yourself? Itâs good for you. Try it out.
Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that
Please donât include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people donât use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
Almost. Years ago my computer suddenly stopped working and lost everything on it. Fortunately a relatively recent backup still existed bc of my family, a recent parts switch, and dumb luck. But last year a friend of mine got hacked and lost close to everything he had done creatively in the last 17-ish years. Art. Novels in progress. Entire conlangs. DnD character Sheets. Music he had made. All gone. He never backed any of it up. Few months later I started this habit (or ritual, almost) of drawing a reminder beast any time I would make a full complete backup. In hopes that seeing these things might remind others and myself. (Another factor here is that I am an animator and some of the stuff on my computer took literal years to make. And the film university I go to urges us to take this stuff seriously, too.)
TOS K/S headcanon for the characterizations of the show (not films), ft. an established relationship formed shortly after the five-year mission:
Spock's second pon farr makes it pretty much impossible to conceal the nature of his relationship with Kirk from Vulcan. I subscribe to "his menarche first pon farr was unusually late, enough that he'd started to hope his human blood had prevented it from ever happening, and his later pon farr schedule might be irregular in other ways," so this could occur right after they get together after the mission, several years afterwards, etc; it doesn't terribly matter for the headcanon's purposes.
Anyway, no matter when it happens, my headcanon is that the revelation that Spock spontaneously formed a deep psychic bond with his human best friend, and the re-contextualization of evidence that already existed (T'Pau remembering Spock only introducing Kirk to her, and not his other friend until prompted, and implying he's considering suicide after the kal-i-fee: ...ah), isn't that surprising to the Vulcans. It's like, oh, the half-human among us who has chosen to align himself with human groups at every opportunity where a choice could be madeâeven within Starfleetâformed an irregular bond without a ceremony, to a human? Once again, we have discovered a fork in the kitchen.
Admittedly, nobody was expecting he'd go so far as bonding with a human male, but that's why the proper bonding process at an early age to an appropriate partner is important. But [grimly] what is done, is done, and there is no logic in attempting to alter what is already past and cannot be affected. Besides, a disruptive rebel choosing to rebel yet again hardly disrupts expectation.
Spock's legendary status notwithstanding, I definitely suspect that Spock Secretly Bonded With a Human (Man) coming out (as it were) only confirms the idea that Spock, however Vulcan his abilities, is as fundamentally human-aligned and scandalous and as much a loose-cannon renegade as always expected. The James Dean of Vulcan strikes again, etc.
Anyway. My more specific headcanon is that ... well, this is not the sole reason Kirk learns Vulcan. He's a humanities guy, he loves languages and he's good with them, and he adores Spock and will do anything within the bounds of his ethics that he can to support whatever Spock's relationship with his culture needs to look like for him to be happy. (Spock may not call it happiness, but they both know the truth.)
And, okay, Kirk is not someone who uses "babe"/"baby" or similar types of breezy endearments with any real sincerity; he just finds them hilarious (most conspicuously in "A Piece of the Action" and "The Mantrap"). Even an unironic "sweetheart" is iffy unless it's important to the other person, I think. In his handful of spontaneous, unambiguously heartfelt romances, he turns the other person's name into an endearment just by how he says it and the look in his eyes and how he touches their hands, not through the extra step of an endearment/pet name he would find unserious.
On the other hand, if it was significant to Spock for Kirk to use deeply serious, heavily weighted Vulcan endearments (aka logical terms to describe the role one person occupies in another's life with greater clarity)? That would be different, not silly or trivializing at all, but precise and meaningful. And besides, Kirk himself is profoundly rootless apart from the Enterprise in TOS (I think this is actually really important to how the show handles him, in ways the films and thus the accumulation of quote unquote lore forgot), but Spockâwhatever other Vulcans may thinkâis deeply grounded in Vulcan culture and identity.
Also, I imagine it would make sense in Kirk's mind for him to accommodate Vulcan norms in their relationship a bit more than Spock should accommodate human ones for Kirk, given that Spock is already being 24/7 pressured to assimilate into human norms while living in an otherwise all-human environment that's going to dominate their lives together. And there's substantial overlap between what Spock values as a Vulcan, and what he admires and recognizes beneath the surface in Kirk.
(Kirk talks bleakly about the nightmare of metaphysical separation from one's beloved preventing "the total union of two people" that is how he defines romantic love, he is visibly the most comfortable with mind-melds in "Spectre of the Gun" of the three who have to mind-meld with Spock, and his mind is so welcoming that Spock can easily enter it while Kirk sleeps and Spock no longer needs any words or usual procedure to quickly meld with him by "Turnabout Intruder." They regularly communicate pretty specific information or emotions with exchanged glances and no words, and Kirk evidently finds this stabilizing and comforting, even in early episodes like "Miri" and "Dagger of the Mind.")
But there's another thing. So many Vulcans assuming that of course Spock's scandalous bonding to a human in Starfleet is what was always in some way expected of him, an innate draw to the human rather than Vulcan path due to his mixed blood, would I suspect make it deeply satisfying in the "bitchy scheming queen bee" side of Kirk's brain to strictly adhere to Vulcan marriage norms whenever they're on Vulcan or in a Vulcan social context. He exclusively addresses Spock by name or in Vulcan (usually a very proper adun with all the emotional affect of Lt. James Kirk teaching his notorious think-or-sink philosophy course). Adding "model spouse to a Vulcan male" to his stable of variously gendered, controlled personas he can project as needed is absolutely a good time as far as Jim Kirk is concerned.
Outwardly, it might seem like Kirk makes all the accommodations and concessions within the personal relationship, the very thing Bones was so often concerned about in their friendship, long before he knew what was really going on between themâand he still worries about that, sometimes. It's not actually true, though.
#star trek #you know #you're right #kirk would get an absolute kick out of designing his new persona #and then implementing it perfectly (via @elljayvee)
Thank you! I think so, yes. I feel like... well, K/S + Vulcans sometimes gets much more caught up in Kirk-as-the-human over Kirk-as-Jim-Kirk-the-specific-individual, but both Kirk and Spock actively enjoy disrupting expectations in ways that make assholes uncomfortable and also think each other is the most perfect wonderful smart adorable noble person in existence who deserves every good thing. So I think both the trollish and supportive, affirming parts of Kirk's motives are going to get a day in the sun :D
#and let's not lie spock would find the reactions of other vulcans very funny
Yeah, I think this is a significant contributor to Kirk's maximally correct Vulcan spouse being an ongoing thing. They have quite similar strains of bitchiness but also Spock genuinely cares what Vulcan thinks of him, but also he's well beyond being ashamed of his feelings for Kirkâso I do think Kirk's readiness to accommodate and welcome what's Vulcan as well as human about him is deeply meaningful, and also the look on various childhood nemeses faces are not in accordance with the precepts of Surak, how embarrassing for them.
#jim has made t'pau's jaw muscle twitch twice
In fairness, Kirk is a massive T'Pau fanboy and within an hour of meeting him she was lying to Starfleet for him (and personally, I think she 100% knew he wasn't dead and quite possibly that he'd defied Starfleet orders in the first place to get Spock to Vulcan, hence the lying to Starfleet to protect him). So I imagine Kirk and T'Pau might well have more of a mutual admiration society in the context of all this than he does with Sarek and Amanda; he likes Amanda, but they're very different. I feel like she's internalized more actually harmful perspectives in Vulcan culture from her isolation and active attempts to assimilate than Kirk is likely to share, but also retains some of the Terran-typical patronizing perspectives on Vulcan culture at the same time, both of which powerfully affect Spock. Meanwhile T'Pau observes and is silently congratulating herself on her good judgment (in accordance with the classic Vulcan belief that smugness is not an emotion :D).
(I think Kirk pretty evidently thinks Sarek is a dick towards both Amanda and Spock, but the healing of the Spock-Sarek relationship is important to Spock so fine he will be the most unexpectedly courteous son-in-law EVER. Also he learns several Vulcan games structured intellectual pursuits specifically so Spock will have the joy of seeing him crush Sarek.)
I wanted to share some more of these, specifically trans women of color. The images I'm posting are from a project called To Survive On This Shore and it's an interview project. I am only posting a handful so it's so worth checking out!
This is Linda, 60
Alexis, 64
Helena, 63
Kendrah, 72 (!!)
Tasha, 65
It was deeply healing to me to discover this project. The site has selected photos and attached interviews and it's definitely worth your time. I didn't include any because the focus of this post imo is transfems but there are a lot of beautiful interviews with transmasc people too if you're interested! But that'll have to be another post đ
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like theyâre gone. itâs the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.
According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowningâDr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guardâs On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:
âExcept in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
Drowning peopleâs mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning peopleâs mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the waterâs surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response peopleâs bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.â
This doesnât mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isnât in real troubleâthey are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesnât last longâbut unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:
Head low in the water, mouth at water level
Head tilted back with mouth open
Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
Eyes closed
Hair over forehead or eyes
Not using legsâvertical
Hyperventilating or gasping
Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
Trying to roll over on the back
Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder
So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OKâdonât be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they donât look like theyâre drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, âAre you all right?â If they can answer at allâthey probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parentsâchildren playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
Can I just say thank you to OP for putting such a detailed description on this?
Iâve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves Iâve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the personâs head is going in and out of the water but it isnât long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someoneâs face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are theyâre drowning. That look of âoh shitâ is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you canât tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. Iâve done âsavesâ where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but thatâs preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.
Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but theyâre acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.
However . If the victim is a stranger, I canât recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape âattacks,â because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and wonât want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Donât die trying to save someone else.
Please guys, read and memorize this post. Not all places have lifeguards. Being able to recognize drowning is such an important skill to have and you can save someoneâs life.
In a water park once, I was suddenly grabbed by a child and he dragged me under the water without warning. I was going to get angry with him when I resurfaced because I thought he was being an ass, until I looked at him go back in and out hyperventilating the entire time. I grabbed him under his arms and began trying to drag him out while screaming for the lifeguard.
When the lifeguard got us both out, a woman came running down and accused me of harming him and said he had been completely fine in the water. That there was no reason to drag him out of there. The lifeguard had to explain to her that her son had been drowning, to which her response was to say that she didnât hear him call for help.
