#50mph

[vim-flam]

we're fortunately not in one of the danger regions but holy hell the wind

[triangle-dog]

[ID: Nova, an agouti dog, is being buffeted by the wind at the top of a hill. The audio is the sound of wind hitting the microphone]

You know it's fucken wimdy out when it's managing to tousle even Nova's short dense coat.

[cryptidmagician]

YAYYYYY JOHNNY GOT BUFFED IM THRRIIIVVIIINNGGGGGGGGG

[zuzsenpai]

it fucken WIMDY

[which-qsmp-egg-would]

Which egg would catch bees to pet them?

[galwednesday]

This week's deep dive rec is 50 MPH: the Making of a Movie Megahit, a podcast that goes extremely in depth on the making of tremendously fun summer action movie Speed (1994):

There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes fifty miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below fifty, it blows up. What do you do? Welcome to 50 MPH, a behind-the-scenes podcast that charts the development, production and legacy of director Jan de Bont’s Oscar-winning 1994 summer blockbuster Speed, starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper and Jeff Daniels. Featuring more than 100 new interviews with actors, executives, filmmakers, film scholars and film fans, this one-of-a-kind exploration painstakingly unravels the making of an action movie classic — one mile at a time.

I'm always interested in how creative works get made, and host Kris Tapley takes the listener through every aspect of how this movie came together. If you haven't seen Speed, consider that the first part of this rec (it stars Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves being extremely charismatic at each other during intense situations and at one point a city bus flies off a highway ramp in defiance of all laws of physics, what more could you ask for).

[sometimesanequine]

5.27.2024

[arathejedi394]

hi i just want to remind you that my cat, first called Nugget the Destroyer of Worlds, who escaped from a window I accidentally left open when I went to a wedding April 2024 (left April 19 came back the 21st) and vanished off the face of the earth for 11 whole ass months

reappeared from the fucking dead

i now call her my little Lazarus, Nugget the Destroyer of Worlds and Breaker of Hearts

April 22nd 2024

just after midnight having flown across the country that morning, i unlocked my apartment coming home from my cousin's wedding exhausted and overwhelmed bc I have severe airport/plane anxiety (no joke I'm on serious meds and I still had to take a xanax borrowed from my mother so I wouldn't vomit in the car on the way to the airport the morning of the 21st). i walked in and at first my older senior cat Bob ran right up to me bc he's a whore and wants constant attention (which he deserves to be clear up until umm 2021 he was a surly outdoor cat at a shelter up north that hated everyone until I showed up) he was very upset that I hadn't been there the past two or three days to pet him every five minutes or sit next to him while he napped on the arm of my chair. nugget didn't come to greet me, but I thought she was just mad at me for being gone more than a few hours; she did that in the past. i just thought she was hiding, and I was so tired that I didn't want to get down to look under the bed after I looked in all the easy places, so I went to sleep, bc it was like 1 or 2 in the morning, without worrying about where nugget was. i figured i'd pass out and wake up with her and bob on the bed with me in the morning like usual. so I just...

went to sleep.

except she wasn't hiding. she wasn't there at all.

then the next morning i started looking for her. i couldn't find her. i searched my tiny shoebox apartment (it's not even 500sq ft I think) for like half an hour and she was nowhere. i started panicking almost immediately. then I saw that the screen on the window I had forgotten to close before I left, bc I had literally forgotten my cousin's wedding was coming up until the night before I was supposed to leave, was torn. i searched the apartment yet again and she wasn't there. so I called my mom and burst into terrified sobs to tell her that my little nugget was missing.

she tried her best to calm me down. but my nugget was missing, it wasn't very effective. my weekend with family, who I don't get to see very often bc they live so far away, was ruined bc my own carelessness resulted in the disappearance of my nugget. i still consider myself at fault. i left the window open. i let the screen get damaged and didn't call building maintenance about it. (although to be fair I called them to fix it right after bc I still had bob and then kept calling them about it and they still haven't fixed it.) I blame myself that nugget got out.

again, that was April 21st of 2024.

March 4th, this year, 2025, just a few days ago, I laid down for a nap around 3 o'clock or so in the afternoon. I've been sleeping like shit for the past month since getting the flu; like I lay down in the early evening exhausted and wake up between 11 and 2am unable to fall asleep again. 5:34 PM, my phone rings. it's my dad. i answer and I'm like "GO AWAY." he says he has reading glasses for me, that apparently I asked my mother for. "I didn't ask for reading glasses???? i don't feel good leave me alone" "okay but you're going to want to see this." and in the back of my mind, a little voice says "what if it's nugget?" that I immediately squash, not even a whole heartbeat later, bc I had given up hope on her coming home months ago.

he gets to my apartment and lets himself in (my parents have spare keys for emergencies; much more likely than you'd think I have shitty health on top of some serious mental illnesses that frequently are dangerous to the person with them) and I'm still staggering out of bed 75% asleep.

"HANG ON!" i shouted "I'M NOT WEARING PANTS!" dad waits. i get pants on. incidentally a pair of gym shorts from the bible camp I went to from age 7 to 18. i go out to the shoebox living room and my dad has a piece of paper standing by the front door, no reading glasses in sight. I'm like "wtf is your problem" and my dad hands me the paper

i saw it was a rabies vaccine and literally my first thought was "did they invent a rabies vaccine for humans? did my dad just insist I get out of bed to tell me he's a guinea pig for a new vaccine?"

but no, it was for a cat. so my second thought was "YOU ASSHOLES YOU GOT ANOTHER CAT WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TELLING ME FOR WEEKS I CAN'T GET ANOTHER ONE TO KEEP BOB COMPANY"

and then i kept reading. the certificate said it was for a female cat, tuxedo, young. i was so confused. in the very middle of the certificate was the box for the cat's name. i read NUGGET and I looked up at my dad in shock. I literally dropped the paper, bursting into tears:

"YOU FOUND NUGGET?!"

i don't think i can emphasize this enough. SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD, LONG BEFORE NOW.

and she's not even that hurt. she's just got the annoying kind of worms, that's it. she was feral for 11 months and the worst that she came out of it with was the annoying mild kind of worms. she should have like lyme disease and leukemia let alone being alive at all, and all she has is the annoying kind of worms.

yeah. she's my little Lazarus.

[jrueships]

the little jrue is Traumatized by the Horrors of working fast food

[linogram]

"why dont americans do [thing thats easily explainable why we dont do it bc of infrastructure of the us]?"

[ysabelmystic]

I’m freaking out I bought a new car. With my own money. This feels so fucking weird like I’m panicking because Expensive but also I just did adult things and now I have a car that’s not technically owned by my parents and it’s feels kinda good

Also it’s a Subaru. Had to lean into the stereotype

[sexynetra]

Contemplating throwing myself off the tallest roof I can find because I couldn’t finish rawnsyf today due to power outages so enjoy this adorable photo of Marcia and the chapter will be up tomorrow assuming I don’t throw myself on the blade first.

[scummy-writes]

i said i'd come back to talk about gil, but my mind is rotating between how badly i want to squimsh him, having him have a rebound au with constance, thinking about him n constance, and dying a bit

maybe ill look for an ask meme in a bit. idk ask memes that are like "send me your hcs/kink ideas/qs you have abt my hcs for this chara" so like...shrug!!!! sorry. just know i am frothing at the mouth.

[ineedmoredragons]

The Manager: So hey, looks like you survived the storm, wanna come in and work today?

:/

[skinks]

just call me the speed demon

[xomoosexo]

you can drive really fucking fast on the highway at night in my country. people go crazy with good cars here. you're even less likely to be stopped by the cops

there is nothing I despise more than going really really fast. why is this desirable to people