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The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

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Speaking the bottle’s language

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THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) Dir. Victor Fleming

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Wildfire Preparedness Day 2024

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May 4th is not just Star Wars day, it's also Wildfire Preparedness day! So what better time to finally share my new preparedness poster?

One thing I hear a lot when discussing wildfire preparedness is that people want to protect their most treasured items, so they have them pre-packed to make them easy to grab in the event of an emergency. I've always found this kind of sad. Understandable! But sad. You shouldn't have to hide away the things you love.

Which is where the concept of a preparedness shelf comes in. The idea here is to keep all your evacuation based stuff AND your "save first" items in one spot where they can be displayed instead of hidden away, but still easily grabbed and evacuated.

This has several advantages. For one, you don't have to hide away the things you love but they will still be easy to access in one central spot. For two, if you are not home at the time of evacuation and someone else is (maybe a partner, or your neighbor, or an older child) and they call you and ask what you want them to grab, you do not have to direct them all over your house, just to one central location.

As always, use your best judgement about the hazards in your area and what works for you.

If you are in the U.S.A. and experiencing disaster related anxiety, call the Disaster Distress Hotline at 1-800-985-5990 for support and resources.

If you would like a print of this poster, you can get the high quality digital file on my website for $3, and discounted rates are available if you would like to purchase the right to make more prints! You can get files of the evacuation prep poster the same way!

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What does the dead dove tag mean?

Wonderful question!

“Dead Dove” comes from this scene in Arrested Development wherein the character Michel Bluth opens a brown paper bag that reads: DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT. He looks inside and sees what is in fact, a dead dove. The then says: “Well, I don’t know what I expected.”

In fandom, the tag has come to mean: “pay extra attention to the tags!” And/or “this fic is what it says on the tin!”.

So if, for example, a fic includes the tags: Body Horror, Gore, and Violence along with the Dead Dove: Do Not Eat tag, the author is saying “Hey I’m not joking about these tags! Read at your own discretion!”

The tag acts as an honest intensifier to whatever tags are already in the work, as the author using it wants to give a double warning for their content, that it may be triggering and that the reader should proceed with caution.

One fic tagged with Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, also includes the tags: Seriously, this fic deals with some serious and disturbing content matter, mind the tags

Thanks for asking and happy reading!

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Winter sunset.

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things that you should be careful with:

--uv resin. That includes gel nails and all nail accoutrements. No you shouldn't gaze into the uv lamp either. I mean it, nail glue will fuck you up. Yes it is now less likely to cause cancer in nail techs due to formulation regulations no it is not zero risk.

--epoxy resin. You need a respirator. Ask me about the bloody and blistering rash I had to treat for months if you think gloves are optional.

--most adhesives in fact there's a reason you can huff shoe glue and get high and that reason is "it gives you brain, throat, and lung damage and you need to do this project outside". Krazy glue is an eye skin and lung irritant. I don't know why you people don't read the packaging.

--solvents. Paint thinner. Alcohol.

--paint. Im not sure why you're playing with oil paint in a windowless room. You don't need to paint your bedroom with the windows closed. If it's raining you can wait.

--wood stain. Ask me about the rocking chair incident.

--cleanign supplies. You shouldn't be mixing them. I know what you saw on the internet. Those people are morons. Are you a fucking moron. You will get turbo cancer. And more importantly bronchitis. Glass cleaner on the glass, lysol your fucking countertops, and pour toilet cleaner or pine sol in your toilet. No. Not both. No you don't need to dump all of them in your sink. Leave the door open while you clean.

--if you have unbaked polymer clay you need to paint it after you bake it. After. Not before. It's weird that I have to specify this.

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I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

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