Not Quite Lost, Not Quite Found

She/her. Here you may find a shifting mix of fandoms (currently lots of Murderbot, Dead Boy Detectives, and The Magnus Archives, but Doctor Who is always in the mix), plus cats and other animals, general silliness, and occasional activism. Librarian. Treehugger. Generation: elder Millennial. I try to tag thoroughly, but if there's something else you need tagged let me know and I'll see what I can do.

[baltharino]

Star Trek: The Original Series 1x03 - Where No Man Has Gone Before

[insomniac-arrest]

[cirrus-grey]

Archives fans: Poor Gerry! We just want him to be happy!

Jonny and Alex writing Protocol and curling down a finger on the monkey's paw:

[cirrus-grey]

Speaking as someone who 100% believes that Gertrude was telling the truth about this backstory in Archives, this is a hilarious degree of escalation across dimensions

[ichorknight]

driving my chevy to the levee today

[ichorknight]

what the fuck

[without-ado]

Total Solar Eclipse l Sigma Sreedharan l Burgos, Spain

[grimark]

did you see they made jane prentiss from the magnus archives real

this is the correct way to feel about having a wasp's nest in your house.

[grimark]

oh fuck you were not kidding

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

my actual vampire hot take is that if you're going to be a 'vegetarian' vampire (a vampire that only drinks the blood of animals) you MUST have hunter education. i'm so sick of people being like oh well predator animals are mean and scary because they kill cute 'harmless' animals like NO they're crucial for the environment and if you're going to hunt animals for blood you still need to stick to regular people hunting guidelines and only hunt things that are in season and abide by your areas bag limits

[moral-autism]

vampire that did a detailed study about whether vampires can get prion diseases and concluded they can't and preferentially hunts animals with chronic wasting disease. and then incinerates the corpses.

[aksemmi]

vampire who is a woke predation abolitionist and so exclusively hunts predators, leaving primarily herbivorous and scavenging animals alone

[yaldabaothadeez]

"For miles around the foul creature's lair is nothing but barren wastes"

"because of The Curse?"

"Because of the deer and rabbits, fucking thing ate all the wolves"

[hazyconstellationss]

Payneland / Painland Day 7 : Free Day

Two boys distracted by each other in their element amidst cases

genuinely been AGES since ive drawn on a daily basis, this little dbda event was so fun to take part in <3

[durnesque-esque]

A reminder to my self and all of you: you can, and should make customer complaints on behalf of staff.

Like last week, I had to mail a package and my local USPS was absolutely SWEALTERING. And the staff only had a few fans, some of which they were using faced towards customers, to try and keep us cool.

While doing my transaction, I was chatting with the worker about how crazy this was and how I hoped she had her own fan too, because I could only see the customer-benefit ones. She said yes, but I also asked if there was anyone I could complain to on her behalf and she immediately said yes again and to please do it! She wrote a more direct customer service number on my receipt which I was able to call Friday.

To be clear, I was kind and polite; I stressed how good the workers at this office were and how efficient always: "It's my local post office," but also how unbearable the heat was and how I couldn't imagine MY poor local staff having to suffer in that heat all day. I don't know yet if it will have an immediate effect for the workers, I hope it will though.

It's a move I haven't pulled much recently, but it was a good reminder for me that I can. I can put on my best assertive-Karen-for-good voice and bitch at companies and corporations to take care of their staff because why would I keep going to them if they don't? I know Post office is a little different, but all the more reason for me to take a vested interest as I pay for them with my taxes! Use my money to get those hard-working folks some goddamn aircon!

[true-me-snafu]

As someone who works in a warehouse without air conditioning or any kind of air filtration... DO THIS SHIT!! Higher ups will regularly ignore the concerns voiced by employees but will care a lot more about the complaints of customers. Also, a lot of things that employees complain amongst themselves about never make it all the way up the food chain because people don't have the balls to raise the issues to the people in charge. If its 103 outside and a feels like of 113 and you are thinking "how can they work in this heat?" Say something to the people who make decisions about these things! Complain to the higher ups that you are concerned someone is going to get a heat injury (don't blame the workers, and don't say they are moving too slowly or anything like that, make it about the specific safety hazard putting the employees at risk). I recently had to raise a concern about the terrible air quality from the Canada fires because no one else was saying it to the highest levels of the company but we were all trying to survive. When conditions are problematic saying something as a consumer goes way further than saying something as an employee or manager.

See a hazard, speak up for the employees having to deal with the hazard who have no control. Your words as a customer can be used to help or hurt employees, speak up for your friends.

[awritersbro]

if you see a Jabberwocky in an American National Park i cannot stress this enough you HAVE to report them to the nearest Park ranger. I know, I know, they fill human hearts with terror and whimsy in equal measure, but they are an aggressively invasive species in the Americas. Jackalopes are at risk of becoming extinct because during shedding season they have no natural defences against jaws that bite and claws that catch.

You don't have to worry about them killing it, they're actually endangered in England due to Victorian Era overhunting, so the British government's provided the National Park service with Vorpal Tranquilizer Darts so they can safely transport them to their native British Countryside where they can feast on borogroves and jubjub birds to their hearts' content.

[edgar-allan-possum]

Jabberwocks are starting to really intrude on the territory of the Snallygaster and crowd them out. Please report when you see them and help preserve our American monsters!

[tlaquetzqui]

Biologists prefer the term “fearsome critters”, just FYI. They resemble monsters but only due to convergent evolution.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[thelawfulchaotic]

This is different even across America; as someone who's lived in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and some of the mid-atlantic states in the past, Texas has summer and not-summer and Los Angeles has more flavors than seasons. My understanding of Seattle is that it has one season, and that is Wet.

Been a while since I lived in Chicago, but I recall Chicago's seasons as being Hot, Breezy Cold, Freezing Dark, and Overwhelming Relief.

[darkladynyara]

Seattle and the rest of the Puget Sound region actually has two seasons- Wet and Dry. It's just that the Wet part is longer and also iconic. (The rainy season is officially October through April but really more mid-September to mid-May)

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

For most of the coastal PNW:

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[thatworldinverted]

This is mostly accurate for Seattle, but they forgot to add Spider Season.

[strange-wanderings]

It's "Seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English" day!

[allthebooksandcrannies]

One of the things that stands out to me about Mina's August 11th journal entry after reading Dracula a few times, is that it really is one of the few times someone sees a vampire draining someone and doesn't freeze or have to wait things out from a safe point.

Mina doesn't know that she's running towards a vampire, but she does know that something is standing over her vulnerable friend. She doesn't get caught in a trance, she doesn't freeze or try to scare him off from the safety and distance of the church grounds.

She sees someone or something hurting her friend and her instinctual reaction is to run towards the danger to save her. And, for now, it works.

I just adore her

[dduane]

[crystalpalacesasaki]

"We're here to stay" for @tumblerislovetumblerislife

[idontwanttoboldlygo]

I guess I make textposts now