every single time i think to myself "I wanna quilt my own quilts! And this is just a throw size so it'll work fine on a regular sewing machine" and then two lines in my ribs and shoulders are screaming at me from trying to maneuver 25 square feet of fabric and backing through dozens of little microadjustments and I'm screaming at the quilt because I have invariably already fucked it up
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Watching Alone really drives home the low success rates of a single human hunter and makes you appreciate the value of food that can't run away.
It's also a really good example of how hunter gatherer subsistence works.
If you leave 10 humans in the environment with limited resources and no contact or rescue party, 9 of them will be dead in 90 days.all of them will be dead in a little over 100 days.
Even with 2 people, starvation tends to set in after a couple months.
And yeah, people from hunter gatherer cultures they'd probably be better at this than a bunch of Americans who do it as a side hustle, but there's only so much one person can do in one day. It's almost never enough.
It's too much for one human to collect enough berries to have vitamin c through the winter. It's too much for one human to hunt and process enough big game regularly to feed themselves. it's too much for one human to build an insulated home and then monitor their heat source to keep that home from catching fire.
It's too much to make and use sharp tools without injuring yourself, and it's too much to try and do all the work hurt if you do. It's too much to go out and find more food when your inability to find safe food made you sick.
On the other hand, if you put 10 people out in the environment together with limited resources and occasional contact with other small groups, you'd have a community that could last indefinitely.
For all that we glorify stories of the lone individual against the environment, it very much isn't how we evolved to survive.
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"okay but what ACTUALLY happened in that minor characters backstory" "what did that character SPECIFICALLY do to become like this" "how does the plot device ACTUALLY work" oh my god i don't care! i don't care about your cinemasinsing about every little detail! does knowing this technical detail improve the audience's emotional understanding of the story? no? then i don't want to fucking see it in canon!
anything you come up with in fanworks is going to be more fun for you than what the author can do in canon! any attempts by the author to explain something technical in the story takes away time and investment from the main plot! so if the technical explanation doesn't inform the main plot then it's just useless trivia for completionism's sake! this shit should be written about in fanworks! or spinoffs! or idk the writers can tweet about it or smth! i don't need it in the actual main story!
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Picrew and Uquiz game ✨
Hey @dracculaura, keeping it real for this one 😄. I appreciate that they give you three seperate chances to put multiple lines under your eyes.
Tagging @callsign-striker, @feudaldoodle and @redfurrycat,, + every single person I've spoken to in Discord for the last week as well as anyone else who'd like to do it! Join in and say I tagged you, it's an open invite.
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people who moan about Hayley not being a part of the Mikaelson family because she’s “just the baby mamma” drive me crazy. I’m sorry but I thought we were past reducing women to their reproductive organs?? even if we ignore the entire main plot line about family and Hayley’s plot line about finding the family she wanted in multiple different ways that she had never expected, they literally accept her into the family?? and yeah ALL OF THE MIKAELSONS ARE PART OF THE FAMILY BUT ARE ALSO STANDING ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN AT THE REST OF THEM. THEY ALL FEEL LIKE THAT. THEY ARE ALL MIKAELSONS. YES. EVEN HAYLEY. EVEN MARCEL.
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my method for keeping minecraft survival fun and interesting (as some1 who has been playing for like 12 years as i have) is to find some overly complicated project to work on that would be a resource-intensive pain in the ass to make from scratch while trying to survive. and then build it
additionally extra fun if you start the game and build your base in a harsh/difficult to access location, and the project is something like a bridge, staircase, path etc. that’ll make navigating/resource gathering go more smoothly, but the amount of effort youre putting into it is unnecessary and youre doing it just for the love of the cubes
i built my base in the mountains on top of a long steep cliff so i made a spiral staircase all the way up out of stone brick and glass (had to scale the cliffs up and down to gather sand for the glass). all so i can boat over to nearby islands and lure pigs up the cliffside more easily. and it doesnt even look that good but i dont care i listened to Bela Lugosi’s Dead like 5 times when i was building it and had a great time
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