#EMS safety

[jetskikid14]

Slow Down And Move Over For Emergency Vehicles!

The big topic and issue with people stopping or slowing down and moving over for emergency vehicles. Another big issue is people stopping for school buses with their lights on while unloading or loading students. I know I wrote about this before, but it will always be a huge issue. It’s seeming like everyone is such in a rush today that they cannot slow down or move over for emergency vehicles.…

[maitatu]

okay now that the committee hearing about KOSA is started, i need all of you to do something.

i need all of you to call them like you're being put on voicemail and your grandma's dying.

you will make sure these fuckers phones buzz so much they fall off the table. they will get ANNOYED with you. MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS.

the number is 813-492-2379, and you will just give them a piece of your mind. make the ringtone your favorite song to make you feel better. if it makes you feel cooler, imagine you're going off to battle or something.

while calling, you can use a script, or simply say that you are calling about KOSA and the earn it act and restrict act, and say YOU DO NOT SUPPORT THEM!

for more info go to:

stopkosa.com

badinternetbills.com

MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE TO FUCKING THINK ON IT!

[luck-of-the-drawings]

POOR GABRIEL MONTEZ! YOU NEVER SAW THIS COMING DID YOU? ALL YOU WANTED WAS POWER. SECURITY. SAFETY. & THATS EXACTLY WHAT YOU GOT! JUST IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR BODY. LETS JUST HOPE NO ONE FUCKS THIS UP. LETS JUST HOPE YOU WONT HAVE TO CLEAN UP THE MESS.

[nyxi-pixie]

if your ship has never said anything unbelievably suggestive to each other that the mainstream audience somehow can ignore like it didnt happen or sound like that then are they even your ship?

[cheerycherrycandy-resurrected]

Screw it, I'm starting a fanfiction cooking series.

Yeah so this got slightly out of hand. I recently re-(re-re-re)read @midnight-moth's masterpiece that is Kilonova and I was probably hungry while at chapter 28/29, because chickpeas have been on my mind ever since (it's been weeks y'all). So may I present my most unhinged and obsessive fandom thing yet: RainDrop's chickpea flatbreads.

There was some kind of sandwich wrapped in flat bread that only had vegetables and chickpeas in it and a sauce that tasted like garlic and basil.

Also can I just say the chapter description "Rain likes Chickpeas. Dewdrop is sweaty." is a hilariously accurate description of this whole stage of their relationship. So adorably enamored by everything the other does. As Moth's Dew says: Death, he was I am in fact dead now.

A N Y W A Y, while I may not have a 1000-years-old-but-also-childishly-naïve water ghoul to trill at me (cute; death.) and demand individual chickpea feeding, I can see why Rain liked this. Maybe if I'm bored I'll type up a recipe (I am Not A Good Cook, this was not difficult lol).

This was fun, and made me not eat oven pizza yet again, please feel free to share other fandom foods with me to feed (literally) my hyperfixation!

[thresholdbb]

The Doctor telling Tom his 1969 Camero has “medieval safety constraints” like they aren’t thrown out of their seats on the bridge every five minutes

[dxppercxdxver]

if i am asking spotify for ‘torture’ i am ASKING for THE TORTURE TANGO. Stop Showing Me T*ylor Sw*ft Album

[metamelonisle]

i actually know about kirby outside the context of smash bros or memes this makes me better than literally everyone i know irl and i am not joking

[justmypartner]

how do you feel about this week’s episode?

Not sure if you meant this week as in this past week or this week as in the upcoming so I’ll answer both.

11x03: I have no real thoughts about the obvious. Congrats to Burzek and their fans. I personally lost any interest I had in them seasons ago, so my reaction wasn’t anything special. It isn’t love, it isn’t hate, it’s just indifference🤷🏻‍♀️ my real comments on the episode stem from the storyline. What is up with making these episodes SO centric that they are literally plucking the characters out of intelligence to give them any kind of storyline? When was the last time they came across a case because Intelligence was assigned to it, not because someone on the team was involved through some sort of extracurricular activity? It just seems so odd to me. And isolating these characters so much is doing nothing but worsening the connection (or lack thereof) between the characters as a team. Not to mention the effect and strain that’s had on the fandom too. I’m also bothered by how they only seem to give each character centric storylines with similar/recurring themes. Go back these past few seasons and see if you can identify the types of cases they give each character. There’s a clear pattern going for each person, which is probably why new episodes often feel like ones we’ve already seen before.

11x04: I have minimal thoughts. Interesting choice to give Torres a big episode after having him MIA for 3 episodes straight (or more? Was he even in the s10 finale?). The promo made it seem like maybe this could be a normal case with more team time but honestly that feels more like a hopeful thought.

[trilliath]

oh dear god i've gone so deep into a ship again that I'm now having feelings around the emotional significance and symbolism of different clothing colors and anyway Green is for heart-on-his-sleeve Carlos being incredibly vulnerable but still brave enough to follow his (fragile, battered) heart (usually towards TK). Maroon is for when he's secure and confident in his love, sometimes to the point of being mischievous little brat. Grey is for focus and intensity and protectiveness. Brown is for when he's feeling threatened or uncomfortable. Blue is for happiness (light blue is flirty-happy). This is a completely reasonable thing to be spending my evening thinking about.

[eternasci]

Anatomy of Writing

This is just an analysis on my writing style, my weaknesses, strengths, and other tidbits I've noticed over the ten years of my tumblr writing journey. I always strive to improve, which means acknowledging my banes and boons, as well as spots where I feel style has taken precedence over rules. I welcome others to do the same.

This is also littered with links (whether to my old blogs, or my current writing advice blog), so feel free to be nosy. I welcome input of any kind!

Epithets. My earliest (tumblr) writing can be found on my first roleplay blog, pintsizedpyro. By no means did I write the way I did now. On first glance, I utilized simplistic epithets heavily (e.g., "the girl", "the Korean", etc). I've strayed from this as a result of advice given (and also, a general dislike for how it cut into my writing). To this day, I believe I still typically avoid them if there is no deeper meaning. Whether this makes parsing my posts difficult is unknown to me; I have no issues when re-reading, though that's an obvious bias. I love ones with meaning; ones that typically coincide with a character's facets (e.g. using a title to demand authority rather than a simple first name, or calling a character, whose personality can be likened to a dog, a "hound"... you know who you are). Repetition. Similarly, I found repetition within my earliest attempts. It couldn't be helped, but I did notice and often attempted to revise statements in which I would experience overlapping of words even then (epithets being a big one; particularly, when paragraphs would condense and I'd see similar phrases stacked on top of each other, I wanted to kill someone). This is an inevitability at times; the dictionary has many words, but switching them around for the sake of prettying up a post can cause confusion. At the most, I would rewrite entire sentences to at least break up the distance between repeating offenders. This still happens today, but I am swift when it comes to recognizing and rewriting it out.

Length. We've all been there. Receiving a long post and wanting to return fire. I have long found this useless, something to be ironed out of me. Unless I have substance to fill the page, I have to simply be complacent with how much I can give back. We've all gotten carried away and had much to say, but as we always politely mention: there is really no need to match. Due to the "method" behind my writing, I can string lengthy, prose-laden sentences together, but I do not expect the Mona Lisa in turn. That's just a stylistic choice. Similarly, I can get a lot out of a little, and won't press myself to add more if I believe the point has crossed over. I think we would all prefer to have something to work with over a bunch of pretty fluff.

Writing Structure. The beast that typically intimidates others from interacting with me. This post inspired the way I create my sentences. I think, in some ways, I've taken it beyond suggestion given (I like my replies to sound lyrical, perhaps due to the way the post describes their "improved" sentence). I don't think I've fully embodied this just yet. I feel as though my sentences still end up particularly long with no abrupt, shorter statements to allow for breathing. It's something I'm conscious of and actively trying to work on. I'm not particularly upset with the way my current writing manifests itself, though, especially when comparing one of the older threads I was proud of on pintsizedpyro to one of my most "memorable" ones on burstbombbitch.

The writing is objectively different. In the time (four years) between these posts, I believe I had adopted a more descriptive method of writing. I know when writing the latter post I was primarily aiming for beauty and scene setting, but body language had evolved to become one of my most prominent focuses. Due to my muse's anatomy at the time (the lack thereof), I felt as though I could emphasize and exaggerate body language, pushing it to its limits. I am also aware I wrote in this way to "match" with the person I was writing with, as their writing entranced me and was something I aspired to become. I have found a middle ground, being the style I now write in. I do feel as though my background/scene setting could use more work, but I know it is not impossible for me to do, having evidence of doing so previously. That, and other wonderful writers really help me with their love of elaborating on plots!

I've also been told that my writing is "difficult to read," but not in a particularly bad light. I think the critique is spot on, but I do need the ability to make it "easy" on the fly for others as well. That being said, I find myself omitting things that I believe should be derived from context, which makes a good segue into this next segment...

Word Choice and Character Voice. This is something I feel I could work on. I have three "main" muses at this time: sinsolucion, lovlorne, and eternasci. I want to believe they all have different "writing styles" when I piece their threads together, that others will read the narrative (not just the dialogue!) with the same "vibe" the character themselves give off. Much of my struggle comes from how lovlorne and eternasci both can be on the "fancier" side of things. I struggle to differentiate the two, which isn't inherently bad (someone can simply like a character archetype, which I most definitely adore both), but I do wonder how successful I am when it comes to isolating what makes these characters them.

Then there's sinsolucion, who I believe would have none of the elegance the former two share. On rereading posts, I think I've managed to nail keeping him "simple," although actions like body language may still invoke my type of "lyrical" writing. This is a post that kind of has me like... "wait, maybe this was written with too much influence from my other blogs?" Objectively, nothing is wrong... but it does feel too fancy for a dude who just... isn't. Funnier still, this character is a writer, but he would absolutely never write the way I do. It creates some dissonance that makes for a challenge, but I do love him for it. It can be drowned out when reading other replies from Lucien or Xiuying, though. It also helps that, unlike these two, Soren doesn't typically undergo the same thought process or even have the same weak points in their characterization, leaving him to fill in voids they don't allow me to write.

It's difficult to divide your "style" for a different "person," but Soren gives me a good challenge, and helps me grow all the same. Also, he's a breath of fresh air when it comes to his very different interactions. Honestly, after going over these, that aforementioned post definitely felt a little fancy for Soren. I might rewrite it just to see what I could've done differently, knowing the sentence that particularly stood out to me as being more "Lucien" vibes (e.g. "mutters he beneath breath, smirk unbending, nigh threatening to wax crescent").

Just all in the fun of dissecting one's own style.

Steps to Writing a Reply. For Lucien and Xiuying, the first sentence is key. Both of their writing styles are particularly lyrical. I utilize a lot of alliteration and rhyme to get that feeling of song, though it can bleed into Soren's replies as well, evident by the post that has become the previous topic. Typically, when I get that first sentence going, the rest all flow along behind it. I usually knock a reply out all in one go, though I will save a draft and return later to reread it and analyze if I've come up with anything better in the midst of that break. It feels fitting to "set the scene" for these two overly dramatic assholes with a leading sentence, bolded and in bigger text to capture someone's primary attention, both of which crave to be in the spotlight literally and figuratively.

I think just about any post is an example of me framing the first sentence, but a good chunk of my favorites come from Lucien, especially when they're on the particularly silly or dramatic side. Xiuying has her moments, but most of them were in her development a few years ago. Her style has become more "pointed" and jarring to align with her new design, though anything that comes before her third phase of development falls back to the eloquence Lucien has now.

things to come back and add to this: my weakness of scene setting/bgs dialogue

This isn't really something to "tag" per say, since it's not reeeally a prompt or meme, but I'd love to see some elaboration on writing styles I'm super curious about (and as we all say, for the love of all that is holy, you DONT need to match)! I've sent out asks already, but if you haven't gotten one, steal this!

so suffer: @bloodxhound, @kagoshou, @fatedprincess @lionfanged, @goldenfists, @vtriol, @passionoathed, @shdwtouch, @stillresolved, @mielmoto, @amorbloom, @wishedby !

[isame-allen]

Yo yo it’s punk finch in the frickin house❗️❗️❗️

[emkini]

I think about 80% of inherent only child trauma comes from your mother trying to do everything for you. Not smoothing the sheets out perfectly when you make your bed? She's here to make sure you know. Didn't rinse the dishes to perfection? She'll come in behind you and redo all your work. Chose a goofy outfit? She'll drag you all the way back to your room and pick something else for you. Taking a little too long to finish a chore? She'll jump in and do it herself. And then she bemoans that you have no motivation to do anything

[dabbles-in-drabbles]

Hello! Due to another chapter I'm gonna post, I managed to scrounge for an old screenshot and an old doodle I did in class last year!

This is Rathe! My Durge Storm Cleric of Selune She is currently in the process of romancing Shadowheart uwu

[softbutchthatlovesyou]

@transmascpetewentz HEY GUESS WHOS IN MY INBOX LMAOOOOO

[hollyhomburg]

Where do you shop for your clothes? Are there any particular brands you look out for?

OH SO- this is kinda gonna be a frustrating answer.

i shop almost exclusively at this re-sale/second chance/excess store that puts together the unsold clothing from places like free-people and anthropology and the indy brands that they carry. It's INCREDIBLY local to my stretch of the woods- it's called retail 101 in naugatuck connecticut. i got a 350$ dress new with tags for 30$ and that was the most expensive clothing item listed in the store. it's definitely worthwhile to make the drive. it's about an hour for me, at least two if you're in nyc.

shopping there helps me feel better about getting clothes- because they're generally a lot bit better quality than like h and m or primark (which is what i can reasonably afford). it's also not directly supporting like- all those big businesses and keeps unsold clothes out of the landfill ect. It's helped me get some very very nice clothing for very cheap. it's a very overstimulating experience because it's basically just a football field sized warehouse filled with clothing.

i greatly recommend it if you're overly small or overly large because their greatest selection is in the Xs and Xl range like- I think i saw a size 14 jeans that were originally 400$ on sale for 14$ so- if you're more middle sized it definitely requires some hunting.

but tbh i also hit up the target clearance section for most of my jeans because they have really reasonable sales. i got my favorite pair of ripped jeans there for 6.50$. Target just for some reason happens to fit me pretty reliably- which is honestly rare because i have a 28 inch waist but a 40 inch booty.