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I don’t tend to make this post here on this blog but I have a fire/burn tragedy in my history and this year the (nearing anniversary of) heightened difficulty with seeing fire, burns, etc is arriving a little earlier than usual, and what I’ve seen today has been especially hard.

If you would be so kind as to provide trigger or content warning tags in your posts and reblogs I would greatly appreciate it.

I have filtered every variation of fire/fire tw/tw fire tags that I can think of (and same for burns/burning). I’ll probably be okay with a candle but anything more destructive than that is a no.

Thank you for your understanding!

#personal #a like to let me know you’ve seen and will do it is enough

sapropel

Apolitically killing bandits and savages in my video game with no messages

diet-poison

asked the skyrim bandits why they were living in a cave and they explained the war effort has buried the economy so they can't find work and lost their homes. I use my shout to blast them across the cave and find a preeeetty nice sword among their belongings

orthusisintheforest

Hi this reminds me of the skyrim quest I always think about constantly.

It happens during the whole vampire questline. It's not related to vampires. I may misremember details so forgive me for that. But you have to go through old dwemer ruins and you meet the last living snow elf in Skyrim. You know, the snow elves. Who were enslaved by the dwemer and went blind and feral and still live in the ruins long after the dwemer are gone. The falmer is what they're called now. Here's the last one who's in their original form.

And oh hey, to get to where you need to go you have to take a path that's an old snow elf coming of age rite of passage. And he's going to take you through it and you're going to learn about this dead culture, this culture that was killed.

And now you've got what you came for and there's one way out. Now that you've learned what the falmer used to be, where they came from, what was lost because of the dwemer enslaving them, you have to go through a falmer village.

It's a narrow canyon lined with huts. There's no way to avoid it, in order to get through you have to kill them. They attack you because that's what they do to people invading their territory. You're invading their village. You have to kill them or they'll kill you. It's the only way out. You feel terrible.

If you stop to loot one of the huts on your way out you'll find a book full of unreadable text. Take it to the winterhold college and give it to the librarian and he'll tell you that it's a remarkable find because it's evidence that falmer have retained intelligence. They're not just mindless feral monsters. They have this book, they've kept this book even though they can't see. They have a culture. Maybe they still remember what happened to them. Maybe that's why they're so mad.

You just killed so many of them. You're going to have to kill many more.

Anyway.

Video game with no messages.

juuls

On the opposite end of things, I once played World of Warcraft with an elderly lady who refused to complete quests if it required killing animals. I mean, mad respect, but it was also really funny.

#I always feel bad about things like this in video games #I try to employ a don’t attack unless attacked approach #works better for animals than people though #but if I see you going after a fox or rabbit I WILL TAKE YOU DOWN whether you are man or beast!#that’s mostly for Skyrim

valtsv

i've had enough of being so brave about it i want to start screaming

lambertcottage

Fresh flowers, a cup of tea, and an unhurried morning. The little things really are the big things. 🌼🤍

lambertcottage

Paper memories tucked away for another time.

vagisil

the people yearn for nonplastic fabrics

theladyeowyn

You shall live to see these days renewed. And no more despair.

requested by @the-mawp

laufeysons

constantly in a state of feeling like i did something wrong and am about to be yelled at

sour-echinacea

where do people get energy from

stealpeanutbutter

i feel like i do 25% of what an average person does in a day and still it's too much

deactivated-blog

Remember when you had energy to do things? Those were some wild times

wordfather

not my circus not my monkeys but thanks to my mutuals i know some of the lore

rederiswrites

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

alexseanchai

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

rederiswrites

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

pandorasquillandquotes

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

vaspider

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

foxofninetales

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

electronsprotonscroutons

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

magneticdeclination

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

doctornerdington

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

bitchwhoyoukiddin

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

calystarose

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

ariaste

Can't believe no one's mentioned Consider the Fork yet, which is about how environment/resources shape our ways of eating, which shapes both our culture and our concepts of politeness. So interesting, really recommend!