Little Lost Dragon

Hi, I'm Meri. I live in California and I love Star Trek, Wales (yes, the country), aviation, geology, and cats. This blog is only updated sporadically because I work for a major airline and they basically own my ass.

[willgrahamscock]

[captainjonnitkessler]

I see the pendulum is firmly in the "only idiot losers go into the trades, have fun being crippled at age 40". But not to worry, in another two months it'll be back to "nice student debt idiot, has your job been taken by AI yet?"

And so balance will be kept and everyone will be wrong forever

[captainjonnitkessler]

"The trades are backbreaking, thankless work that will CRIPPLE you for LIFE" not really anymore if you wear your PPE and do team lifts

"Yeah, tradespeople are raking in 6 figures and living the high life while you all drown in student debt!" Actually a lot of us also have student debt and while the trades can pay very well, you're unlikely to take home 6 figures without working an incredible amount of overtime. Union benefits are good though

"That's right, only the TOUGHEST and MANLIEST of men could possibly handle these jobs!" My apprentice is a fat 5'3 woman and she's doing the same job as you, calm down Rambo

"Yeah, literally anyone can do this stuff, that's why in the post capitalist utopian commune we'll all just take turns" it's still difficult and dangerous manual labor that takes intense training and skill to do properly

"Yeah we have to ACTUALLY work for our paycheck, not like those whiny white collar nerds who just sit at a desk all day" well I managed to slack off enough to write all this, didn't I

[yesfuzzydragons]

I like to look at it as the difference between physically draining and mentally draining. I have the opportunity to do both at my job. Most days I'm doing the physical back breaking stuff, (I'm a girl, btw, and I work with other girls who could pick me up and throw me), but some days I do the desk job that some of my coworkers won't touch with a ten foot pole because it can get stressful.

You're worn out at the end of the day doing either, but it's different.

Union protects both positions though. So yeah...something to be said for the trades.

[headspace-hotel]

BTW also when I was reading about autism genes i somehow got onto this database of genetic conditions which is how I found out that there is a condition where you are born without fingerprints

[headspace-hotel]

there is also a condition where you are allergic to cold temperatures

[headspace-hotel]

yall the range of human variation is absolutely wild, a lot of these genetic conditions are harmful or fatal (which is why we know about them) but there have to be like a billion random genetic variations that are largely innocuous that we Don't have diagnostic criteria for, I guess that would just be the full range of all human genetic possibilities, we are all just mutations ultimately.

But also like. Everybody is experiencing a completely novel iteration of being human. We act like it's the same and bodies are the same and there's a Standard way to be a human but there's Not we are all just awkwardly duct taped together basically.

So just think, there's this poor woman somewhere who's like "My feet go numb whenever I engage in vigorous exercise, what's up with that?" and she probably has an asshole doctor who is like No They Don't.

But actually she just has Feet Go Numb When You Exercise Condition. Which no one knows about yet. Because she's the only person that has it.

[yesfuzzydragons]

I have this weird thing where all of my orifices and internal structures are child sized. I reached my full height at age 11 (which is when I hit puberty) and just....stopped. Everything stopped growing. Immediately. I'm a normal-sized adult, but was giant for 11. I go to a dentist that has a full pediatric section because they have to get the kid equipment to work on me. Doctors have to use child-sized needles to draw blood, and surgeons have expressed horror that everything inside me is tiny.

I work at an airport and have to use child sized earplugs because the normal ones are too big for my little ear holes.

Apparently this isn't a known condition, or just not considered serious enough to name, though it seriously frustrates medical professionals who have to deal with normal outside me and tiny inside me.

I'm also a certified penguin. I can be chilling in a t-shirt while everyone else is bundled up like it's snowing. I joke that I have an internal nuclear reactor. If I do get chilly, all I do is get up and walk across the room. Boom! Hot and toasty again.

I blame Neanderthal DNA. I think I might be an evolutionary throwback.

[prokopetz]

Spurious Latin plurals are great fun if you're a specific flavour of nerd, but improperly constructed verb tenses are a game anyone can play. The past tense of "screenshot" is "screenshat".

[bugdotpng]

very much a fan of this post so i felt compelled to make my own. print it out and give it to your coworkers or hang it in your cubicle and go "don't make me tap the sign"

[johnnyblaze64-deactivated202306]

Me leaving work on Friday

[helcathelcat]

It's Slide on The Roof Friday

[boeing-company]

love me a good cessna 172 but can they not fly directly over my house when im trying to sleep

[yesfuzzydragons]

One morning I was startled awake by a very loud engine revving and was very confused because it was obviously not a truck or motorcycle, but sounded familiar. It took me about a full minute to realize that someone had full-throttled their Cessna practically on my roof.

I immediately got on flight radar to see what idiot was buzzing my house. We live a few blocks from a busy, un-towered airport and pilots routinely “play” in the pattern but usually not so close to our house.

I was complaining about it to a pilot friend later, and he started laughing and admitted it was probably him, practicing for his CFI rating. He got swatted.

I told him if he crashes in the pool it’s his own damn fault, and I’ll only fish him out after I stop laughing.

[iapislazuli]

to me those enormous fuckoff huge pickup trucks with the halogen brights are like animals that have been so severely inbred for an extreme appearance that they’re constantly in pain. Like to me this is mutilation via selective breeding

[mousegirlheart]

im hunting americans

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

The last thing you ordered online is now your weapon during an apocalypse, are you doomed?

yes

no

*sobs*

it's great!

results

Voting ended onJun 12, 2025

[emziess]

Maiden Voyage of the Starship Enterprise Star Trek (2009)

[inbabylontheywept]

cats are like medieval royalty in the way that they both demand great Etiquette and Respect. while also shitting in buckets. very unusual combination. really works for them.

[syn4k]

i will defend every nonamerican who doesnt know shit about the geography of the country because they hear about us too much anyways. you are not only allowed but encouraged to get everything wrong.

[curiositypolling]

what year is the main car you drive? (doesnt have to be yours, can be a parents/partners etc)

dont drive/dont have access to a car

1998 or before

1999-2001

2002-2004

2005-2007

2008-2010

2011-2013

2014-2016

2017-2019

2020-2022

2023-2025

nuance…?/see results

Voting ended onJun 8, 2025

[helcathelcat]

can you imagine being like a resident in southern California in the 80s and occasionally seeing the Black Leather Jacket In The Summer Tall Man and the mysterious black car

[yesfuzzydragons]

I was in the vicinity, but I was Very Small, so unaware of KITT flying over my head if he ever did.

I would have very much been the child that walked up and patted and talked to KITT.

[helcathelcat]

sir get your ass off that door

[helcathelcat]

almost spat out my drink LMAO

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

they should make a saluting emoji that looks tired. exhausted even. one that got to the airport at 3:30 AM perhaps. dare I say a saluting emoji that's about to stuck in an overnight layover in dallas. hypothetically!