#And we built a lot of them!

[screambirdscreaming]

Beach sand dynamics are stupidly complicated. In some places, yes, native vegetation holds the sand together and stabilizes the dunes. In other places, invasive vegetation introduced to stabilize the dunes fucks up the cycles of where sand is eroded from and deposited, leading to dunes forming in places people don't want them even as beaches erode nearby. (Also, massive changes to the structure of coastal wetlands.)

Whether waves deposit sand on a beach, or erode it away, has to do with the beach slope, the sand particle size, the angle at which waves approach, the wavelength and amplitude of the waves..... A guest lecturer for my coastal engineering class told us that, when running computer models of erosion and deposition responses to proposed beach projects like this, you're lucky if you end up in the right order of magnitude.

Beaches are very dynamic. It's not uncommon for hundreds of tons of sand to shift on and off a beach over the course of a year, usually scoured off by winter storms and deposited back over the summer. Anything that tries to modify that process - such as to prevent the sand from scouring away past a certain point - runs the risk of massively changing the dynamics in unpredictable ways.

And then, with "beach nourishment" projects like this, there's the question of where the sand comes from - where it was mined, and what the environmental impacts of sand mining there are - as well as the question of where the sand ends up if it all erodes away like this. (Did you know there's a sand mafia? That's more to do with the mining of sand for concrete, though.)

Anyway the bottom line is: don't put your fucking house there.

You think you're "next to" the beach, but you're very much *on* the beach as far as the scope of its natural processes go. And either you're fucking those dynamics up, or they're going to fuck you up. Or both!

absolutely losing my mind that a bunch of nimby assholes spent $500k to build a sandcastle that was promptly wiped away

[slfcare]

the most difficult thing about growing as a person socially, as in getting out of your shell and noticing that you are, is that there will still be times when it doesn’t feel like you’ve grown at all! times when you can’t really connect with anyone around you, times when you fail to enter into an existing conversation, times when you say the wrong thing (or nothing at all when in hindsight you probably should’ve). but that’s also kind of the best thing, because that’s the thing that helps you realize that sometimes, it’s not you or your lack of skills or any shortcoming. sometimes certain environments just aren’t for you and certain people aren’t your people, and that’s okay. that’s human. it’s okay to not feel the progress you have made all the time.

[bitchthefuck1]

I love how the conversation between Harmony and Helena shows the tension that Helena becoming severed creates in the power dynamics, because even as a temporary PR stunt under a different name to clearly delineate them, Helly's existence is still a huge crack in the Eagan mythology. Cobell, Milchick, and Graner could be drinking the kool-aid by the bucketful, but watching a descendant of Kier allow themselves to be severed and then being placed in a position of authority over them would still have a massive subconscious impact on the way they view Helena, and by extension their perception of the Eagan's as a whole. It's a direct threat to their illusion of divinity, and you can really feel how that colors their interactions.

[secondbeatsongs]

going through some old logs, and I need you to understand just how truly unhinged early 2010s RP omegle was.

genuinely you could stay on there for hours with just one person, hashing out complex traumatic backstories, drawn-out love confessions, detailed action scenes...collaboratively describing graphic violence, past abuse, comfort, hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort, any number of sex acts...and then one of you would be like, "oh haha it's 2AM! I have to sleep :(" and the other person would say, "omg saaaame. :( gnight!!!" and then you'd exit the chat and never speak to each other again, and this was. fine.

you could just spend an entire evening shoving your wretched, bleeding soul into a chat log with someone you'd never meet or learn the name of, achieve some form of emotional catharsis, and then go about your day or night like this was an average way to spend your time.

I'm really normal about this, actually

[lavampira]

ffxiv sapphic sunday • new beginnings

[kirby-the-gorb]

[zubazee]

The 7 year depression when Claudia went missing is so interesting to me. The fact that Louis and lestat still stayed together during those years. We always talk about lestat not thinking Louis loves him but I also believe Louis feels that way too! And the 7 years shows that! Like either of them could’ve easily left at that point. Lestat could’ve had enough and peaced out. The same with Louis, he could’ve walked away too or asked him to leave. But they both stayed. Both waited for the other person to leave. Both waited to be told to leave! How much longer would they have stayed like that if Claudia didn’t come back I wonder?

[carlyraejepsans]

I'm gonna need falin to come back and do some wild yuri shit with marcille as soon as possible because laios and marcille's dynamic is written specifically to make me insane

[stupidrant]

Since we’re on the topic of video games, im tired of these fucking remakes. Ive said it before but i’ll say it again each time. These companies dont wanna invest in an actually good remaster or port and would rather waste their time with these remakes bcuz “ooh look how shiny and better the graphics look!!1!1!1” often times it has an empty feeling because everything has to be ultra realism super 6000. Its gotten so bad that now regular gamers are starting to gaslight you into playing or enjoying them. So much has been lost artistically, (like the cool UI designs) that it’s now considered “juvenile” and that i need to “grow up” and “accept it” 😂

[thatneoncrisis]

bitching about the gtn cover is a classic pasttime on this website and as a guy who has butch lover goggles on i Do think gideon should be beefier for my own selfish reasons. however. disregarding any arguments about her nutrition and the generally suboptimal conditions of the ninth and if her god genes would overpower this. we must all remember she is just 18. im not saying this in a judging way i mean literally she is 18 years old and spends a lot of time burning the calories she just put in her body. she has plenty of time to bulk up. we cannot begin to imagine how hypothetically stacked she could be in her late 20s when her metabolism finally slows down, let alone her mid 30s. youve gotta let her cook a little bit longer. hold my hand. imagine a beautiful world with me where she eats a hamburger and also has smile lines

[bmpmp3]

sorry to be a bit of a hater but i do wish youtubers weren't so scared of making their videos just like, "reviews", whys everything gotta be a "video essay" all the time. every day my recommendations are filled with 40 minute videos titled "_____: An Underrated Masterpiece" where the first like five minutes are reading the wikipedia definition of "masterpiece" in a somber voice with dramatic themed text on screen. please just tell me how good or bad you think something is and use the rest of the runtime to explain why. you dont need to put on all these airs

[cent-scratchnsniff]

here together

[buttercupart]

its been like 3 years but i'll never stop being annoyed that they really tried to pull the whole "i came into this world thinking only of myself, it was wrong of me" schtick with marcy in the finale when one episode prior in the flashback she said "you newts took me in when i landed here, fixed me up and cared for me - i promise to do my best to look after this place as well" and we see the results of that promise when we explore newtopia all throughout season 2? what do you mean what do you meaaaann

[fishluring]

making an astronomy/meteoritics iterator oc when i know fuckall or at least just very basic things about those things was maybe a mistake. Looking up stuff for reference/inspo like haha i like your funny words magic man

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

[i3utterflyeffect]

Hey what if Mitsi also swapped with her creator in rs au

(Creator's name is Grace, which we know because her PC is labeled as Grace's PC)

mmmmm. Here's the thing!

we don't really know anything about mitsi's creator, and

i just like having mitsi around she's silly