#america doesnt have midnight sun

[asatroende]

I’m working hard on the modern edda and while thinking about how some things would have to change because the culture behind certain actions isn’t the same anymore (re: rape as revenge in any form, no matter what the revenge was for; the revenger doing the raping would in modern times be seen as the villain instantly even if that wasn’t what was intended)

The people actions of this is hard in its own right but then I remember what the culture used to be (cattle farmers) and what we are now (not that) and realising that we have absolutely no reason to demonise wolves anymore, meanwhile the mythos hinges on civilisation being okay with and eager to kill wolves to protect cattle

[kabutoraiger]

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Hey if we’re talking podcasts id love to send you a few recs

I dont listen to a lot of Horror so my recs are mostly not that

They are also all audio fiction; i dont think you were looking for nonfiction? But if you are looking for those ive also got a handfull if you want em

Misadventure By Death - a man receives a job to be the caretaker of a historical house and finds it a lot more haunted than he likes (full disclosure: friends of mine created and act in this podcast)

Love and Luck - two men begin to date each other and gain strange subtle powers that they use for the purposes of making the world a better place. This podcast was made with the explicit purpose of being good happily ending queer rep (not that it is finished yet) and its so sweet and good and the eps are short so you can get invested really fast.

Within The Wires - the world has changed as we know it. All countries’ governments were destroyed and replaced with a unified gllbal governing body. Discover this world through (season 1) a series of relaxation tapes in which a woman attempts to break someone she loves out of a mental institute, (season 2) guided museum tours by a woman who had an incredibly complicated relationship with the artist whose work she is describing and (season 3) a beaurocrat’s recorded notes to his secretary. This podcast has a less straightforward format than most of the others on here, but thats what i really adored about it when i first started listening to it. Created by one of the creators of welcome to night vale

The Amelia Project - have you ever wanted to fake your death because of your problems? Well, if you have enough money, the amelia project will give you a spectacular false send off. This podcast documents the cases that the amelia project works on and is very funny

Midnight Radio - every night at midnight the radio plays a show that seems to be lifted straight from the past. Listen to the host talk about how much she adores her small town and the long history she’s had with it. Better than how im describing it i swear

Girl in Space - our protagonist lives alone in a space station. It wasnt always that way. And now, after she presses a strange button that she finds, she’ll have to deal with the people who come to find her.

The Once and Future Nerd - a fantasy series about three teens who find themselves transported to a fantasy universe. Well written and acted, this series subverts common tropes about the fantasy genre and challeneges them. Also: elves with southern accents

Solutions to Problems - set in the distant future, stp is a radio advice show, where people can write about their problems involving work, relationships, time travel, ai, alien customs and so much more. The hosts may or may not ever solve a single problem.

Greater Boston - you know boston? This podcast ia about boston. Like the boston where a section of the subway voted to become its own city, where a magazine about fortune telling is huge, where a man goes on a roller coaster, immediately decides its not for him and nopes out of the situation by dying. Not what happened in real boston? Eh this place is kinda better.

Kalila Stormfire’s Economical Magick Services - a witch is kicked out of her coven and decides to sell her own services. Each episode is the compilation of the notes she made for every case she has taken on and also a bit of an investigation into the person sabotaging Kalila’s efforts.

Alba Salix - Alba Salix is the head healing witch of the kingdom and must deal with unsufferable related royalty as well as two new employees that shes unwillingly taken on. A fantasy comedy thing.

Red Rhino - A timeline keeper attempts to coach a young man through becoming a superhero with his newly acquired powers that he hates. Everything is more ridiculous and suspicious than it seems.

The Beacon - a young woman makes a podcast about the superpowers she has just gained, the horrible monster in the forest and her quest to stop that monster before it hurts more people.

Mt olympus university - pandora has managed to get a full free ride to university and with no other options, she took it. Only she finds herself in a place where everyone else has powers and she doesnt. Join her as she meets the various greek gods in a world that doesnt have the same history with them that ours does. Short sweet and weekly. I also really adore the theme song.

Otherverse - aliens have invaded the world but humans arent giving up with a fight. (full disclosure: friends of mine created and act in this podcast)

Jim Robbie and The Wanderers - a group of travellers make their way across a post apocalyptic america where giant bees roam the lands and chicago is mostly underwater and ghost trains run through the deserts and cults worship the sun. A lot more cheerful than it sounds. (Full disclosure: i work on this one. Its kinda on hiatus, but theres a pretty big backlog if this is up your alley)

Most of these podcasts should be pretty easy to find but if you need help with links or want more recs, feel free to ask! Podcasts are a big part of my life.

this is an incredibly helpful list thank youu! 💕 some of these sound exactly like my kind of thing

[wizardlyghost]

13. the financial year doesnt even follow the calendar year it goes from mid-calendar-year to mid-calendar-year, so if a "year" is mentioned in the vague vicinity of anything business/tax related you have to check which kind of year is meant

14. the solstices and equinoxes, which mark the middle points of their respective seasons, are only roughly 1/6 of the way through their respective seasons by the calendar (or apparently at the start of the season in america but as an australian idk if thats accurate). this is because of bullshit. the mid season points fall in the middle of the season when reckoning seasons by the length of days/nights, where the solstices have the greatest variation and the equinoxes are most equally split between light and dark. the points fall 1/6 of the way in when reckoning by the weather, which seems like itd be wildly variable depending on so many environmental factors but idk im not a meteorologist. the points fall at the start of the month when reckoning by the zodiac, which also means the season starts partway through a month and doesnt even line up with the calendar at all. also some countries have six seasons or sometimes only two.

15. hours... werent always the same length. an hour was considered 1/12th of the day/night, so in summer they were longer and in winter they were shorter. im pretty sure this is because base 12 is great for eyeballing measurements, so you could estimate the time by dividing the sky east-west into quarters and checking which line the sun was closest to, and then estimating if it was closer to the start middle or end of that quarter (if this is wrong i will happily be corrected). whether the day started at midnight dawn or dusk varied by time period and region, but the roman model of starting at midnight is what we use now.

You know, as this semi-arbitrary demarcation of time draws slowly to an end, I remain absolutely amused by the sheer number of idiosyncratic features of our time system.

1. It's pretty much universally agreed that the year 1 A.D. is a ballpark guess as to when Christ allegedly lived.

2. The 12 hour (AM/PM) clock is a relic from a culture that worked in base 60 and didn't have a mathermatical concept of zero.

3. This implies that at some point, someone looked at the clock and said "Yeah, this is archaic. So instead of counting from 1 to 60, we'll count from 0 to 59."

4. And yet no attempt was made to adjust the fact that the hour after 11PM is 12AM, with 12 functioning as a zero.

5. September and October are the ninth and tenth month, even though the names actually mean seven and eight.

6. Everyone knows about Leap Years every four years. Most people don't know that years that end with "00" don't have leap years unless they're evenly divisible by 400. This includes a lot of programmers, but fortunately, the ONE time this has mattered in the digital age coincided with a massive update of how software tracked years, so it got patched with the Y2K fix.

7. There also exist leap seconds. There will be one on June 30, 2022. These aren't to account for problems calculating the solar year, but for keeping UTC in line with International Atomic Time. Most people don't know about these at all. It causes drama.

8. A whole bunch of academics decided that the AD/BC system of tracking years was bad because Christians are bad, but they didn't want to actually change anything, so they just slapped a new label on the old system and called it progress, conveniently ignoring that referring to the "Common Era" implies that the default is to use a Calendar whose every detail was defined by the Catholic Church, and anyone who doesn't is "uncommon."

9. There's probably a reason for it, but as it stands now, the year-- which measures one orbit around the sun-- starts at a point in that orbit that has no particular significance.

10. The odds of any of this every getting fixed are so vanishingly remote that we will almost certainly be still be using this calendar 2022 years from now.

[capricornstellium]

92 questions

rules: you must answer these 92 statements and tag anyone you want!

i was tagged by clair 💕 thank you honey i love tag games !!!

i'm tagging @yugyeomie-oppa  @yugysangel @markincolour  @cyjsgirl @yummyuggie   (im sorry im so boring lol)

THE LAST: 1. drink: coke 2. phone call: my mom!! 3. text message: my friends 4. song you listened to: jj project - icarus 5. time you cried: uhhhh.. cant remember? probably last week? 6. dated someone twice: never 7. kissed someone and regretted it: never (this bitch doesnt kiss anyone..) 8. been cheated on: never 9. lost someone special: a few years ago 10. been depressed: like..right now  11. gotten drunk and thrown up: never

LIST 3 FAVOURITE COLOURS: 12-14. UHHHHHHH this is so hard 😭😭😭😭😭 ok maybe.. mustard yellow, gray and light pink 

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU: 15. made new friends: yes!! a bunch of 'em!!! 16. fallen out of love: nooo 17. laughed until you cried: yes  18. found out someone was talking about you: lol yeah 19. met someone who changed you: definitely  20. found out who your friends are: yeah  21. kissed someone on your Facebook list: lmao.. again.. this bitch doesnt kiss anyone 

GENERAL: 22. how many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: like.. 80% maybe?? i have a lot of internet friends ive never met  23. do you have any pets: yes!! two cats  24. do you want to change your name: i did when i was young but not anymore  25. what did you do for your last birthday: went to a restaurant and had nachos 😍😍😍😍😍 26. what time did you wake up: 5:45am  27. what were you doing at midnight last night: sleeping  28. name something you can’t wait for: traveling 😞😞😞😞 29. when was the last time you saw your mom: like 45 minutes ago? 30. what is one thing you wish you could change in your life: being less anxious and afrid of doing things 31. what are you listening to right now: pristin - wee woo  32. have you ever talked to a person named tom: yes i had a crush on an english guy named tom when i was 12 😂😂😂😂 33. something that is getting on your nerves: lots of things lmao 34. most visited website: uhh.. website has to be tumblr but app is def twitter 35. moles: a few (i have a mole under my eye that kinda looks like yugyeoms mole and im 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭  emo) 36. marks: i do have some yeah!  38. hair colour: very dark blond, in the sun it looks more blond but it normally just looks brown  39. long or short hair: short 40. do you have a crush on someone: no 😭 😭 😭  41. what do you like about yourself: idk.. my.. eyes? 42. piercings: no 43. blood type: b 44. nickname: bea 45. relationship status: single but yknow.. yugyeom.. 46. zodiac: sagittarius 47. pronouns: she/her 48. favourite tv show: idk.. it used to be shameless before they fucked up so.. breaking bad? rick and morty maybe 49. tattoos: dont have any but would love to get one someday!! 50. right or left handed: right 51. surgery: never had it !! im kinda scared of surgeries tbh  52. hair dyed in different color: no!! 53. sport: lmao.. i like soccer and lots of other stuff like (voleyball, ice skating..) .. cant play any sports tho 55. vacation: so many places.. south korea, germany, croatia, argentina (all of latin america tho), turkey, poland, italy, china, thailand.. i just wanna travell 😭 😭 😭 😭   56. pair of trainers: i dont own any im not gonna lie.

MORE GENERAL 57. eating: i just had pasta!!! 58. drinking: water or coke 59. i’m about to: do absolutely nothing 61. waiting for: my trip to sao paulo  62. want: to travel 😭 😭 😭  63. get married: maybe?? idk. 64. career: something related to graphic design 65. hugs or kisses: BOTH !!! im such a softie 😭 😭 😭  66. lips or eyes: eyes 67. shorter or taller: taller 68. older or younger: ?? uhhh dont know?? i like people my age  70. nice arms or nice stomach: uhhhhhh dont know 71. sensitive or loud: sensitive  72. hook up or relationship: bish i just want someone to love me  73. troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant 

HAVE YOU EVER: 74. kissed a stranger: nahhh 75. drank hard liquor: no  76. lost glasses/contact lenses: yes!! 77. turned someone down: yeah 78. sex on the first date: no  79. broken someone’s heart: not that i know of? 80. had your heart broken: yes 81. been arrested: no 82. cried when someone died: yes 83. fallen for a friend: lol.. yeah

DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 84. yourself: no. i dont trust her 85. miracles: no  86. love at first sight: attraction at first sight yeah?? love? no.. 87. santa claus: no 88. kiss on the first date: yes.. i just.. want to kiss people  89. angels: kind people? yes got7 exists

OTHER: 90. current best friend’s name: i have too many best friends  91. eye colour: hazel/dark green? dont know 92. favourite movie: maybe the social network?? idk