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zinjanthropusboisei · 2 years

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*watches Paddington (2014)*

*puts on my Mr. Brown risk analyst hat*

The opening scenes of Paddington (2014) demonstrate an egregious case of poor earthquake preparedness and response behavior, particularly immersion-breaking coming from a population of sentient bears that evolved in a subduction zone setting. As noted by OSHA, "Most earthquake-related injuries result from collapsing walls, flying glass, and falling objects as a result of the ground shaking, or people trying to move more than a few feet during the shaking." In this essay, I will -

#DROP COVER AND HOLD ON #the children got bored half an hour in so we are just 4 adults in a dark room watching Paddington #risk comm in action #earthquakes

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paperbaacks · 15 days

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(since this was an anthology-series-collection i'm just reviewing them all together)

the improbable meet-cute collection review:

dear god turns out none of these nyt bestselling authors apart from christina lauren knows what a short story is or how to write one!!

1 — the exception to the rule: this was super cute. the only story in here that qualifies as a proper short story honestly. definitely would read again and like i thought this was a sign that i would love the anthology. oh how wrong i was...

2 — worst wingman ever: i should have stopped when i read the word "unalived" but noooooo !!! i had to go and read the rest. there are also weird stereotypes about gay people?? and like this one genuinely has the absolute worst setting as far as romance stories go

3 — rosie and the dreamboat: i should have learned my lesson after reading the hating game but of course fucking not. why does the fmc talk like a baby and why does the mmc talk to her like she's a little girl and he's her dad EUGHHHHH BROTHER EUGHHHHHH her sister is a BITCH btw??? because i would prioritise making sure my sister is safe over setting her up with a hot man. jfc. also PLEASE no man who says "my ma" can ever be a dreamboat fuck off

4 — drop, cover, and hold on: at this point, i was starting to realise that a lot of writers think that short stories are just smaller novels also ngl until like 65% i did not know what the mmc was called. yeah this was... not good the only think i like about this is the setting, fucking love bakeries man

5 — with any luck: ashley poston i knew you wouldn't disappoint me after the last three absolute trainwreck stories. wish it was a little longer tho!!

6 — royal valentine: BORINGGGGG he's a pissy little man child btw like they're both lying about the exact same thing and he's somehow fucking mad at her??? girl???? also the authors WRITES DOWN the mmc's scottish accent so words like "wasnae" and "dinnae" are very common. i wanted to burn my kindle.

in summary; i did this to myself i literally have no excuses

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meeghanreads · 2 months

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February 2024 book haul

Hello friends!! Welcome to the February 2024 book haul!! A post where I talk about all the books that I bought and received in the previous month. Ahh February… the shortest month of the year. Although this year it’s only the shortest by one day because it’s a leap year. Somehow I managed to purchase THREE TIMES the number of books I did in January though, so I more than made up for it being a…

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sheilajsn · 7 months

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The Improbable Meet-Cute

The Improbable Meet-Cute es una colección de seis novellas escritas por seis autores diferentes. La serie es exclusiva de Amazon Prime Reading y Audible. Así que, cualquier persona que tenga una membresía de Amazon Prime, puede leer y/o escuchar los libros gratuitamente. Como ya mencioné todos los libros en esta colección son novellas; el más corto tiene cuarenta páginas y el más largo, ciento…

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#Abby Jimenez #Ashley Poston #Christina Lauren #Drop Cover and Hold On #Jasmine Guillory #Rosie and the Dreamboat #Royal Valentine #Sally Thorne #Sariah Wilson #The Exception to the Rule #The Improbable Meet-Cute #With Any Luck #Worst Wingman Ever

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opikiquu · 2 months

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(disappears for a month and reappears with a slightly obscure hyperfixation) Hey guys

#★ my art #art #dandys world #dandy’s world #Is that it What do i even tag..#idk why i called it obscure it has 10mil visits on roblox but i Dont see it anywhere so. Whatever i say what i want #★ arin rambles #Oh boy here we go #so i found this game like. The day before yesterday. So ive known this game for 2 days. Dude #DUDE. DUDE. my friends call this game my baby rattle its so absurd #the way this garbage mascot horror has ensnared me. i feel like a fool #Just hold on let me paint a picture for you. So just listen (<- aka read but just pretend)#So i press this game not knowing what on earth is in store #and me and my bestie choose our basic boring loser starter. And we walk into that elevator. and im walking around just Amazed…#And i look over and theres like A tv on the floor. And theres the most jaw dropping smooth animation on there im like OKAY THIS GAME IS FIRE #and i see the funny rainbow flower #AND RIGHT NEXT TO HIM…. THAT BORING BASIC BLUE HAT..#I SAW HIM. I WAS GOBSMACKED.#We lost the game cuz shrimpo jumped me because i was So distracted i took like 20 screenshots of astro #And thats how it all started #i didnt know his name..#in fact i didnt even know if his cover was purple or blue #but i knew 1 thing for certain..#THIS WAS LOVE!!!!!!!! AND I WANT TO BEAT HIM WITH A ROCK😭😭😭😭😭😭#dandys world oc #dandys world astro

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gummi-ships · 9 months

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Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - Braig / Xigbar

#kingdom hearts dream drop distance #khddd #braig #xigbar #my gif #his pointy shoulders deflated with age #...do you ever wonder about his scarf?#radiant garden took pride in its beauty and ansem the wise was a ruler who was beloved and admired by his people (despite... yknow)#so is it safe to assume that being a guard of this world being tasked with protecting the castle/its ruler/and the townspeople-#would be considered a prestigious occupation?#yet we see braig wearing an old tattered scarf #it's a curious addition to his uniform that looks out of place among other guards #i dont think it was added to his design to help him stand out because cmon it's not like he's competing for relevance with dilan and aeleus #braig fights from afar with his guns it's not like he's some scrappy guy that might have messy clothes from battle #i wouldn't be surprised if this was ephemer's scarf that he somehow came into possession of #and is holding onto it with the possibly of it being used as some kind of medium/waypoint #who's to say he's not still wearing it under his organization coat? just because we can't see it anymore doesn't mean it's gone #riku had an entirely different outfit under his own organization coat so who knows what xigbar has under there #i like to think braig used to be scolded for wearing the scarf because it covers up the uniform's emblem #and wearing old ripped articles of clothing isn't part of the image the guards would presumably have to uphold #but eventually they gave up on making him take it off because he just does whatever he wants #just something i think about from time to time #xigbar has always been so mysterious and cryptic i can't help but keep an extra close eye on him #especially since he's been revealed to be so much more than what he seems. who knows what tricks he has up his sleeve #i don't think it's outside the realm of possibility

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kickedin17 · 3 months

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I'm seeing people point out that the Craving (at least the single version) is about SAI being perceived by a lot of people as a flop album & I think that's probably correct but I also think it probably applies to Lavish, because I truly cannot imagine why else they decided to include it on the album? Like don't get me wrong I love Lavish but narratively it reads as the most 'expendable" song on the tracklist. Yet Tyler allegedly wanted to leave off Navigating (which they gave the lore video to, lmao) and kept Lavish. Which is fair because it's a banger and a nice break from everything else, but it's also just telling to me that they very intentionally did a song about industry bullshit on this album, the most direct they've gotten since Lane Boy.

Like either their label or someone in the industry did something to piss them off that we don't know about, or it's a generalized frustration. I have to imagine it would hurt to be Grammy noms/winners two albums in a row and then be paid dust the minute you do something a little different. Or (purely speculating here) to experience label pressure to have another album cycle like blurryface, when that's virtually impossible to replicate unless you're, like, taylor swift specifically, and when it inevitably doesn't happen they start pulling back on financing/promoting you/helping you get nominations the same way they used to. They're fucking you behind your back and you can't really do much about it because they're the ones with the money and the influence, and you're supposed to trust them to take care of/care about your work. Like tøp has never been a band that values itself on award or critical recognition, it's always been for us, but creatively speaking the whiplash of going right from your most commercially successful album, to your most critically acclaimed album, then to your most criticized - and to a degree you now just assume your time as a critical/commercial darling has passed, which Tyler seems to - would have to hurt. It would have to.

Honestly tho he probably just knew he cooked with the proctologist line and needed everyone else to know too

#twenty one pilots #clancy #tyler joseph #josh dun #i will admit sai is not my favorite album i do find it flawed However it also has some of their greatest work #and it's their most visually cohesive and creative album #i think honestly for me it just came out at the wrong time because i was very lukewarm when it dropped #but i was also in a very weird awful place & as soon as i got out of that i really started to appreciate SAI #and i appreciate it a lot as an artistic risk because i think they knew it ran the risk of being taken poorly #especially by casuals or non fans because i think SAI is fundamentally for the clique and no one else #(clancy is too but in a different way)#idk it's such a weird wonderful messy little album and i hope they know a lot of people appreciate it for what it is #also transgender dragon album cover my beloved wooo hoooooooo 🐉🏳️‍🌈#also also if you genuinely hold hate in your heart for bounce man in the year 2024 i think you are a miserable person in some core way #and im sorry for you. a little man committed a crime have some fucking whimsy

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imthursdaysyme · 1 year

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Sleepover shenanigans

#drawing #steve harrington #stranger things #robin buckley #stobin #they were in her room arguing like old married couple #listen steve just doesn’t understand how she can’t do it bc he thinks she can do anything #he said what tf do you mean you don’t have abs and rob was like bestie I don’t work out they aren’t strong I’m a limo noodle #and he was like well girl get on that I don’t want you to die bc you didn’t keep your body healthy istg your worse than Henderson #and she was like HEY I do plenty of things such as ride my bike and he said ok then why are your thighs the size of my forearm #and he keeps yelling at her to use her core and she’s screaming at him that she’s trying #and he’s holding her leg #but we’ll rob flails and her heel whacked him in the eye so he feel back #hit the wall thought he was dead #dropped rob to the ground and shes cursing like an d man that had to get up from his chair #and she’s like why’d you drop me and he doesn’t respond so she looks over #and my man is out for the count with another black eye #she thinks she killed him and worries that after years of demogorgons and Russians the thing that kills Steve Harrington is #Robs sharp ass heel #she pushes him under the bed and covers him with blankets and then goes to sleep #except he wakes up at like 2am and she screams worse than when she saw a ud creature for the 1st time and whacks him back down and BAM #he is out again and now Robin is freaking out more bc omg she killed her platonic soulmate and he came back to life only for her to kill him #AGAIN #she wonders if she can be tried for double manslaughter on one man but how would they know? then rob realized she can’t testify bc #she’ll tell everything if she gets up on the stand and she won’t just be sentenced for life she’ll be sentence for TWO lives #but then she’s like omg I deserve two life sentences to honor Steve even though he wouldn’t be in jail she just assumes he goes with her #even her own prison sentence for his murder #the next time Steve wakes up he inches out and flips on her to tame her flailing limbs and she starts crying saying #I killed you twice but my love for you is so strong it brought you back a third time and steve is like you knocked me out shithead you didnt #murder me Jesus Christ and she’s like how do you k ow and he’s like omg how do I know

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painfullyslowdeliberation · 9 months

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Some low quality jtwig doodles for your souls while I continue to struggle writing dialogue

#once the next chapters out im gonna drop the character sheet. ive been holding onto it for a while now lol #also it feels wrong to not mention that joel is covered in blood. like just. drenched really. hes getting it on ethos shirt #jtwig #just to watch it glow #my art #joel smallishbeans #tangotek #ethoslab #boat boys

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bookwyrminspiration · 1 month

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squinting at a course i'm in rn just like. do I already know everything you're going to cover?

#shitpost #quil's unholy underworld #of course I won't know EVERYTHING everything #but i'm just like. it IS an intro level course. and. not to brag. i think I have some experience with language already #i have an associates in modern languages #and this is an intro to modern languages #but I think? what they'll cover here is different than what I focused on in my degree?#but also looking at some of the topics i'm like. i know some of this already. eh whatever #the smart thing to do would be to drop it because I am at 18 credit hours and i'm kinda just doing this one because #it’s not part of any of my degrees #but i don't feel like being smart I feel like whadda hell why not stick around #i don't feel like dropping it that's too much work #<- it's literally so simple #i'm holding out hope it is in fact different than what I studied even if it is an entry level course

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meeghanreads · 7 months

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WWW Wednesday — 14 February 2024

Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 14 February 2024!! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words, where you answer the three following questions: What did you recently finish? What are you currently reading? And, what do you think you’ll read next? Let’s see what I have been reading… (All images will link to Goodreads if you click on them.…