bastard boy king

Pidgeon / They, Them / 27 / Virgo

[hometoursandotherstuff]

 Z from the 1998 animated film Antz.

[tgatbc]

[thingsfromthedirt]

ca. 1980s

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[json-derulo]

oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly

[mctreeleth]

they need to make a menstrual cup with a tap on the end. vampire fratboys should be able to do a keg stand off my vagina.

[mctreeleth]

thanks for the advice tumblr but this post doesn't actually need to be seen i'm just trying to unburden my soul of it like it's some sort of dark passenger i need to exorcise out

[bloodclotbitch]

[psikonauti]

The wild horses of Pindus mountain

[despazito]

#my pet beef bladder

[qixzel]

[iamthemaestro]

found this at an antique shop the other day and was immediately like oh this belongs on tumblr. sniles sneetly. fwowns fwangry.

[paranoidgemsbok]

Stardew valley is problematic because it forces you to have an outside cat in a threatened woodland environment

[bevsi]

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with relating to characters, “they’re literally me” etc but if that’s the only way you engage with stories you’re kinda missing the whole point of Characters being vehicles through which we can see perspectives outside of our own. and also you’re going to get upset when the Character acts in a way that is not Personally Relatable to You

[forestlymph]

[akashicrecord]

dj run that track again before I take my own life

[crescentalice]

girl with ptsd voice: hey, so something really bad is gonna happen, right? you guys are picking up on that too, yeah? The other shoe is about to drop, I just know it.

[the1920sinpictures]

1929 Evening gowns worn by Queen Maud of Norway during various celebrations on the occasion of her son, Crown Prince Olav's marriage that year. Queen Maud kept her figure all her life and all of her extant dresses show her incredible taste. From Fashion of Bygone Days, FB.

[milksockets]

sergio rossi in new shoes: contemporary footwear design - sue huey + rebecca proctor (2007)

[blasesaint]