#fireworks accident

[eldritchdemonfox]

Last night there was a massive fireworks explosion incident that has left many people injured. While I witnessed the event, I am unharmed, although shaken. One of the victims was a three year old boy who is in critical condition. I found the family’s gofundme so I’m posting it here

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[theminecraftbee]

for the record, if anyone's wondering how close decked out currently is: there are still some occasional bugs being discovered (certain cards not working as expected), the wardens need some work (i mean, clearly they WORK, but they have a tendency to all go take a hot bath and get stuck at the bottom of level three right now), and the game needs some heavy balancing (level one is way too hard, it's possible that hazard and clank both generate too fast currently more testing is required, it's currently a bit too possible to overload the map, probably amongst other things - there hasn't been that much full testing with wardens in yet).

however. it is fully playable. and we're in the balancing phase for sure. and the amount of progress tango is making between streams is INSANE.

we're close, guys. it's gonna be soon. it's gonna be so soon.

[jewishevelinebaker]

the european mind could never comprehend this (the cunts living two houses down from me have been setting off fireworks day and night for weeks)

[cubetothefifth]

The angry birds witness the horrors of July 4th

[chickensoupleg]

-pokes head in with a prompt- Hi, it me, Brightside!

Billy gets brought back 'wrong', Eddie gets brought back 'wrong', but one thing Vecna underestimated was the homoeroticism of one Steve Harrington. Now all three are on a cross country road trip in a stolen bus or RV to save the world. These are their stories -dun dun-

Your thoughts?

STEVEN NOT AGAIN.

Okay so what I'm imagining is the Upside Down after Vecna's defeat is repairing itself back to what it used to be, and since everything is a hivemind it just repairs everything. That includes whatever was left down there, including Eddie and Billy's body. Billy's body technically isn't physically there, but since he was hive-minded and kept in one piece at one point there is a Billy somewhere down there.

Except of course humans don't naturally exist there so they get revived using non-human materials. My idea is the UD repaired them like they did the Mind Flayer body so they're semi... liquid. Not entirely! But whatever was lost was filled in with evil putty. And the evil putty may or may not be controllable.

To make it cool it looks like tattoos once their bodies (forcefully) accept the goo. I am a sucker for sun scar Billy and bat scar Eddie, so that's what the 'tattoos' look like, which are entirely black. They're not entirely controlled by the Upside Down, but there's a part of it still in them. It freaks Billy out way more than it does Eddie since he's half convinced that he's not in control of himself again, but Eddie manages to calm him down and get everything explained for him.

After a while Vecna (>:() gets a hold of himself and decides to try yet again! Man is as stubborn as a toddler in search of ice cream. Eddie and Billy find out somehow, perhaps through a democreature they managed to befriend to their side and decide 'Yeah no that's not gonna happen again' and figure out a way to portal back into the real world. They're not the greatest at it (all hands on deck), and only manage to open a rift near the closest person they could imagine.

That being of course a Steve Harrington. Steve of course is besides himself because not only is Eddie alive, so is Billy. They're both supposed to be dead! Eddie and Billy find out that after Hawkins was destroyed Steve stayed just long enough to help with reparations until he disappeared with Robin out across the country, back in sunny California because where else would it be. Perhaps Steve wanted a taste of the sea, reminiscing about stories Billy told him by the quarryside and needing to see it for himself out of memoriam for both him and Max.

Except, well. Turns out he's back.

And after a tearful reunion and some relaxing they explain what was going on in the UD and Steve decides (after a lot of griping) that he's going back into the fray.

Lucky for him, he's gotten the RV of his dreams and now his Billy and Eddie back. He finds out about their new abilities a few hours in when a bump in the road knocks over a cup and before it shattered Eddie caught it with a black vine shooting out of his side.

... So there's that.

For a lingering danger over their heads they sure do take a long time getting there. Why stress? The world is their potato. Perhaps the black duo still have a connection that tracks how close Vecna is to coming back again and know there's a lot of time (Steve and Robin get a lot of congratulations for defeating Vecna so hard he's taken this long to collect himself). Steve's learning a lot about his feelings towards the recently revived and also a lot about his body's feelings towards the recently revived.

Robin comes along as well. She has to leave the RV often for the privacy of her best friend. Perhaps even picks up a girlfriend on the way who is oddly very okay with what's going on in the studio. Maybe even two girlfriends, Robin has two hands.

They have a lot of souvenirs as they go along and the RV is just filled with trinkets by the time they return to Hawkins to save the world a fifth time.

[justanotherhh]

i do get waaaay too much into pointing at my in-my-head corkboard like "blitzø did nothing wrong!!! (apart from the crimes and the alienating and the insulting and the-)"

no but specifically that it doesn't make sense to me to talk about "who was right and who was wrong" within the blitzø and stolas dynamic, or the blitzø and fizz dynamic, because what's actually happening is far more interesting to analyse/observe the ongoing development of. quite probably from the sounds of things... blitzø was in the wrong with verosika.... but youknow. he's a mess. he needs to stop sleeping with his employers/his employers need to stop sleeping with him. good on stolas for realising he needs to change that dynamic for there to be any semblance of a chance for this to go well in future

[cloudymistedskies]

HOLY SHIT ITS SMOKING HERE

[azrail-has-a-vendetta]

nothing like sitting on dead, dry grass and watching fireworks set off 15 feet away. This is the American spirit man.

[billowingangel]

America doesn't like Fireworks

Here's a headcanon/projection I have for America. I also thought I already posted this but I actually dreamt that…totally not a sign of #mentalillness

content warning: mentions of multiple real life deaths, great war and world war two are mentioned, mentions of ptsd/shell shock.

i'm not fully sure those need a warning but just in case I wanted to provide them.

At first America loved fireworks to celebrate the fourth of july. He had loved the display of colors and patronism his citizens showed! He was a freshly indepent nation when the fireworks began in 1777. He thought they were beautiful, amazing, spectacular, and a wonderful sign of what the future would hold.

He also greatly prefered fireworks to the guns and canons set off during the 4th and was happy that after 1812 that phased out.

When Independence Day became an offical holiday in 1870 he cried with joy. That year he watched the firework display with an intense feeling of pride in his heart.

But then it began to change for him. In the years between 1903 and 1909 there were 44 deaths due to fireworks and even more injuries. He began to feel a bit of unease over the citizen's love for fireworks.

Then the Great War happened...So many young men came back from the war shell shocked. Hell, America even had some shell shock for a while. That first year after the war and the fireworks going off, he felt all those men's fears and his own fear.

That was a major turning point for him.

It didn't help that between 1928 and 1942 there were another 56 deaths in factories and stores due to fireworks. And then after World War Two, the sound of fireworks began to make America's heart race.

After a few years America decided he would leave his big house in Washington DC and go to another one of his houses. This house was further away from any firework show the city was doing. He wouldn't feel anxious and would be able to celebrate his independence/birthday in peace and quiet. But by that time it was the 1980s and more people were doing fireworks in the comfort of their backyards. The noise and smoke that filled the street of America's suburban house terrified him. Were they under attack? He had rushed to investigate only to find people with fireworks and firecrackers.

America gave up, it was probably just him upset by this whole mess. Those who had shell shock probably got used to it by now, correct?

But then in the 2000s he began to hear more talk, more talk of veterans struggling with the fireworks. Dogs struggling with the fireworks. Pets, kids, many more people then he assumed were scared of the loud fireworks. And in a way it explained to him why at the turn on the 1900s he began to have a change of heart about fireworks, a feeling of unease and uncomfort. Because despite how much he partied or celebrated on July 4th he still just didn't feel right, that something was wrong.

Then more and more states began to ban the setting off of fireworks for personal use but that wouldn't stop the citizens despite the growing number of people who found discomfort with them. America wouldn't go anywhere in the South around the 4th of July mostly staying in States that had the strictest bans on fireworks. By this time his fear of fireworks had greatly decreased especially since he realized the cause, it wasn't all his feelings but Americans feelings as well.

He even began to host some birthday parties where you could see the city sanctioned firework show. Firework shows were different to him then just the random ones in someone's back yard, those were expected, well controlled, a professional was doing it.

America hopes that one day he'll be able to like fireworks again but that probably wouldn't be until people stopped doing it on their own or when people and animals stopped being upset by it. Both those cases seem unlikely, so America will just grit his teeth and accept the firework tradition.

I even used some sources for this *insert surprise pikachu* History of Fireworks Firework Accidents and Deaths I couldn't find out when it became the norm to do your own fireworks but I assumed at least by the 80s. I also believe states began putting in place bans/laws about personal fireworks in the early 2000s but don't quote me.

[fir3worknl0veletter]

sigma!

[noritama0301]

熱海花火大会 2023/09　

2尺玉 花火暴発

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

idk if it was the weather, the events of the past few months, the fact that I was out searching for a probably terrified cat worrying about worst case scenarios (he's fine), or something else, but I never realized until last night just how loud and bright fireworks are and how much they are literally dangerous explosives. I've never been anywhere near war and I won't claim my perception of it is particularly accurate, but last night really sounded, looked, even smelled like I would imagine it. I always thought "fireworks can trigger war veterans" was just about loud noises I don't know why I didn't have this realization before but what the heck why is this normal why do we as a culture surround ourselves with loud explosions as celebration why do my neighbors light up the sky like this why is this normal this isn't just loud this isn't just bright and colorful it is flashing so blindingly bright the ground would be darker in sunlight and I feel it in my chest harder than a concert where I can't hear my thoughts and the smell of gunpowder and the whistle of anticipation before the bang and the multistage explosions that remind me of gunfire and why is this normal why is this normal I can tolerate this but how are you enjoying this how are you recreationally setting off explosions in your backyard why is this legal why is this normal this is objectively horrifying why is this normal why is the world around you subjected to this every year for your amusement why does anyone have the right to inflict this on others man and beast alike AND WHY IS IT NORMAL AND LEGAL AND EXPECTED AND ENCOURAGED

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pretty pretty ✨

[imwritesometimes]

I hope all the people setting off all the large loud and clearly illegal fireworks now and in the days to come that are scaring my cats and all the critters in my yard fuckin blow their hands off 🙂✌️

[she-turned-me-into-a-newt-jpg]

Learning art again vibes