#even though it was such a small town

[goldevolution]

and as much as i love it when random happenings turn into important bonds i think its equally as beautiful when u have some random interaction with someone and it deeply impacts u and then u never see or hear of them again. like wow we know nothing abt each other and yet u still managed to be a key memory in my life how cool is that!!!!!!

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[inkskinned]

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

[peninsulaisms]

Somerville <3

[karaspal]

their lives flashing before their eyes as their partners are about to suggest breaking up lmao can gay people ever not be dramatic?

[t00thpasteface]

My sleepy brain has decided that Hawkeye and Mulcahy wear the same kind of cologne, but still smell different when wearing it. Don't know why, but here, have the thought anyway

hawkeye's cologne is mixing with gin and disinfectant, and mulcahy's cologne is mixing with topsoil and sweat 😔

[ouchers]

need the spirit of adam parrish to possess me so I can finish school and get out of my fuckass hometown

[lilliankillthisman]

The joke of this post is that England is roughly the size of Oregon and yet people treat regional differences as enormous. Which is funny!

But the difference in hardness of drinking water between the North and South-East of England is greater than you can get between any region of the continental USA, where the last poster seems to live.

For England, I'm using this water softening company's map of mains water hardness across England and Wales because it's easy to read, but other sources line up with some Northern (and Cornish) towns enjoying as low as 25ppm of calcium carbonate in their drinking water and towns in the South-East topping out at 300-350ppm.

For the US, they measure water hardness in grains per gallon; one grain per gallon is about 17ppm. This water softening company gives 20 grains per gallon as the hardest any city's water gets, or 340ppm, but it seems to bottom out at 3 grains, or 52ppm - above the bottom category in the English map. I'm not completely sure this is only measuring CaCO3, but they do talk about limestone as the source, so it's probably right. That map doesn't include Alaska, where water hardness ranges from 65-140ppm according to most sources but might get down to 56ppm if you trust the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility.

So you can get up to the same hardness as the south-east in some areas, but you can't get down to the soft water levels of the North. The three hour car journey between Swindon and Manchester will change your drinking water experience more than any 7-hour flight across the continental USA.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Archery Science Professor at the Vulcan Institute of Defensive Arts [Patreon | Commissions]

[oceandiagonale]

Actually, Guzman is his spanish name.

OH YEAH some other folks pointed that out too, makes sense since it's an irl Spanish name (probably why I see it around a lot!) 😳

(normally it's a surname, I've only seen it used as a first name once in a blue moon -- but also in the pokemon world it's pretty clear that naming conventions aren't the same lol)

[faunflame]

oh gooba… 💙💙💙

ty for being our shark, stupid community feelings

hard to hear her cry like this after following her for over 4 years now, since October (edit: September* my dumbass) 2020, even the 2 years before that

so many streams, so many dumb jokes, goofy bits that ran outside the community

even as a teammate, ill still be a chumbud too

💙🐟

[oddestishottest]

09/22/20, Mt Hood Valley

[peninsulaisms]

Devil bend reservoir, the Mornington Peninsula

I’m not sure about the true story behind the name, but if yous are keen, I’ll share the local legend my mates and I grew up hearing. The old-timers living around the reservoir always reckoned the name came about because the devil would lead folks astray by calling out their name in one of their mate’s voice. They’d get so lost looking around the forest for their mate that eventually they’d die of starvation or cause of an animal. So, when we were kids and went on scout trips here, we were told never to follow someone who called your name if you couldn’t see them, and always stick to the path. I got lost around here heaps as a kid, and to be honest, I’m surprised I didn’t cark it.

[itsmistyeyedbi]

So, these last few days have been...interesting. And are currently a little unpleasant, to say the least🧍🏾‍♀️

My marks for my English assignment were disappointing and my throat is sore and dry rn. And that of course started after I've been to the store💀

(Some personal stuff in the tags that might be/probably is tmi so you can just skip em if you'd prefer to)

[elisedonut]

Thinking about perclin soulmate au during the war again

But specifically you know those photo series that are like a window just over and over as the world around the window changes like Colin with a whole album of just the sight of the outside world from a specific window in Percy's flat

sometimes there's an actual subject sometimes it's just scenery

he just takes at least one everyday there