#i feel like i just dunked myself in gasoline

[taeloke]

Hello how are you doing? Hope your doing well💗💕👋🌹

Whats a thing in the fandom of 4koa/sds that you don't dare say out loud because you don't wanna get harsssad by people that disagree.?

Tristan and Lancelot are not best friend! Because has it already been showen that lanclot does really see tristan that way...or...?

I'm doing great! I woke up to a few asks in my backlog this morning, which was a welcome surprise. I promise I'll get through all of them at some point--I just gotta make sure I keep a comfortable pace with writing for them! I can't stop writing walls for you all lol ^^

Interesting thing about your ask in particular is that challenge in the center of it. I saw it earlier today and at first I didn't want to answer it, but I remembered what I want this blog to be for me. Though I enjoy creating things and sharing ideas with everyone here, my blog is ultimately my page. If I worry about how people will react to my own thoughts, then I'd be sacrificing myself to appease everyone else's opinions...and that's no good. I don't want to surround myself with people who I'll have worry like that with either, so why shouldn't I light this fuse this early? I used this same logic to confess I'm a roleplayer bc I worried people might find that cringe, and imma stick to this logic till the bitter end. I'm happier when I'm honest about myself even if I may get harassed for it.

So...drumroll...

(CW: Most iconic downsides in SDS, we've all seen them)

I believe complaints about animation quality and pedophilic implications/moments in the series are highlighted way too much in the fandom.

I find those complaints exhausting as soon as I think someone might bring it up. Talking about the anime? Someone's gonna bring up bad animation. Talking about any SDS ship? Someone's going to say yikes over Balaine or another yikes-able ship. It can't be stopped no matter how many times I've seen such talks already. I completely get it--really, I do--but it makes me not want to talk about SDS at all sometimes just to avoid seeing those complaint subjects again.

I get worried whenever I feel this way because I'm sure people will assume I'm more of an apologist than I really am if I share my feelings--especially when it comes to the pedophilic complaints. If I say anything like "it's not THAT bad", no matter how I phrase or elaborate on it, someone's gonna read that as me saying "it's not bad at all". It is bad. It is disappointing that it's canonically built up to the point that it has. But none of it is black-or-white, and there's so much in this story outside of its problems that deserves more attention. That's how I feel, anyway. My opinion isn't black-or-white, either, nor are anyone else's thoughts on this same thing.

Honestly, I'm just genuinely curious about why there are so many "yikes" cases in this series. I have almost no interest in judging it morally. Maybe it's like this because the original Arthurian legends are the same way and it's an adaptation thing? Are they the same way at all? I haven't researched this. I probably will soon.

So there's all that...haha... I'm sorry if this makes anyone uncomfortable with me <3

Anyway, I think you're right about Tristan and Lancelot not being besties in canon interaction. However, the catalyst for shipping interest is usually the potential in a pair rather than the canon possibility. Their canon interactions, intimate or not, shed some light on that potential. I don't ship them because I personally don't see enough potential between them, but someone else may see endless possibilities for them. It's all subjective, yknow?

[ventcode]

And that’s why i’m giving up on life.

First I was born when they didn’t even want me

Seriously why give birth if you won’t give a shit about me?

My brother never cared either, maybe he acted so but it’s different now

Underfed, no attention towards me. How come they always treated my brother positively??

Second I was given a phone before I hit my teens

Many called me lucky, I never got their reason as to why.

That’s something damaging don’t you see?

I’ve had the same social for years. They all love me so!

Every post lately gets more concerning, but every follower of mine is blind

Third I was bullied as soon as I started my shitty education

The teachers, the students, nobody cared for me.

Not like that mattered, I taught myself to fight

They never bothered directly me after that, but the rumors that still spread are enough to get me mad.

You all deserve hell.

Fourth my friend group doesn’t give any fucks about me

They invite me to the danger, in which I let yet none are near to save

They never ask about my wellness, don’t act like true friends at all

Is this what it’s like to have fun?

Fifth I started to slowly lose my care

Behind on schoolwork, I always slept in class

I don’t take care of myself, who cares, I started vaping

I started cutting, the pain suits me if i’m such a painful person

I wore noise cancellers to stop everyones shitty voice

Who cares what you’re saying to me, fuck off and leave me alone, I know you don’t care

I don’t care what you think of me either, if im nice or a bitch that’s your opinion

Shut up either way.

I should’ve never transferred here.

Sixth i’m so close to dying anyways

A knife up to my throat for fun, for all my friends to see

This is all the fun, the thrill of the moment

Dunking my head into the pool until im unable to breathe

Overdosing too close to the dying point!

It’s so much fun, I wish it’d work already!!

Seventh im almost done, but in all i’m just tired

I don’t want anyone to become as I did, a cold and useless person

It’s too much for me to live at this point, I’m getting tired of all of you

I’ll never forgive you until the day this all ends

It’s painful everyday, I can’t keep living on like this

I’ve had enough fun, it was never fun in the first place

I grab my scissors and cut my hair short

Eighth and final reason, we all die anyways

I just want mine to end earlier

This life is boring

This reason is the same as the last, I’ll just shove it in your face

And no, you don’t understand what I've been through, you aren’t me

I’ve been through every worst possible thing, the things I’ve encountered

I’ve been used for others joy, clothes are kinda torn

I’ve been spiraling away, nobody cared

Compared to the last, never as good as my brother

Always finding new ways to feel pain and have as much fun as I can before I die

But there’s nothing for me to live for now

And that’s why i’m giving up on life!

I finish writing down all my notes for everyone to read

I head to my favorite spot and

Don’t end up like me, please.

With that I bid farewell drenched in gasoline

[official-misty-sky]

Slow Rider

Okay so, I started out but asking this family member.

"What would you do, If you had the ability of slow falling... Like controlling your speed? "

"..."

"Start a cult. "

"WHY DOES IT ALWAYS END WITH STARTING CULTS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THINGS LIKE THIS??? "

"Because you can start a cult with ANY superpower!!! You need to be in the position of POWER! "

Then we talked about random stuff about how the cult would be formed and how it would operate, How it will indoctrinate people etc etc.

(Random fact: before slow falling we talked about multiple powers, They just didn't end up as interesting as this one... Well the one about dimensional pocketing he basically said he will steal the globe and let people feel despair to then help them, (with much more details that I am too lazy to write it was diabolical and we were laughing all the way.))

After we were done with the cult stuff we moved onto another idea.

"Stunt YouTuber. "

"What? "

"I will be a stunt YouTuber. "

"Why not a stunt actor? "

"Nah, YouTube is the fasted way to get famous. "

"Okay...? What will you upload? "

"Me, Riding a motorcycle, Doing sick tricks and keep slow falling in the air. Then I get off, Dunk gasoline on it and burn it and walk as it explodes behind me. I will also jump off high ways at slow speeds. "

"Where the hell would you get the motorcycle money from? "

"Idk, Just take out a loan with some lie I guess. "

"Like, I am an Upcoming stunt actor who needs money to kick start his career. Pretty sure I will find someone to loan me. "

"Uh huh. And tbh content like that tracks audience."

"It does, then I will just wait till someone realizes that my editing looks so real. And then some footage of me slow falling off a highway or something gets leaked. And everyone is like what the hell?? Is this person crazy?? That's not humanly possible. These leaks are fake. "

" And I will let those rumors build up. And my view count will also build up. and more and more people will try to come see how I am doing all those tricks. "

"Then suddenly I start a live show!! And make everyone who attends it pay a lot like 2000 dollars and just start breaking the laws of physics in front of everyone by slowing my fall speed so much it looks like I am floating and then just spin circles around myself with the motorcycle. "

"People will start theorizing that maybe because I am spinning that I am generating a wing current strong enough to do this. But actual scientists will be like (No?? He has to be going al light speed if that's true!)"

"But then, Wouldn't the Government take you away? "

"Oh that's an easy fix. "

"How? "

"I will start a cult!! "

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF-"

This is a really simplified version I honestly have no motivation to write any of the others right now. So I will just leave then in W I P for a while

[blackpjensen]

5 Exciting Technologies for 2017 and Beyond

Useful products arising from technology are generally the result of one compelling idea providing clues suggesting the next steps forward. Here are five exciting technologies that, I feel, will have a greater impact on our green industry businesses not just in 2017, but into the foreseeable future, as well.

1. Biological plant health solutions.

In mid-March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency registered Zio fungicide for turf and ornamentals. Developed by AgBiome, Zio was developed from the Pseudomonas chlororaphis bacteria. SePRO, which is marketing the product, says it provides preventive and curative activity against a wide range of soil-borne and foliar diseases in both turf and ornamentals.

While biological products for turf or ornamentals have been used in the green industry for decades with varying degrees of success, Zio’s multiple modes of action increase its effectiveness as well as complement other disease control chemistries. Zio, essentially living microbes stabilized in a wettable power formulation, is “commercial-level shelf stable,” SePRO adds.

AgBiome, founded in 2012 by six veteran crop protection specialists, continues to identify and test thousands of microbes via its proprietary Genesis discovery platform. The company, based in Research Park Triangle, North Carolina, has other biological and trait-based products at various stages of development aimed at controlling plant diseases, weeds and pest insects.

Does the release of Zio as a commercial product by SePRO mark the beginning of a new era in the development of biological plant health products? Will other plant health care companies bring similarly innovative biologic or trait-based products to our market? Let’s hope so.

2. Precision-guided landscape equipment.

When I was a youngster, Mr. Nichols, the stern but fair owner of the large vegetable farm I worked on, told me as I climbed from the metal seat of his 1950-ish Allis Chalmers tractor, “Kid, some folks can plow a straight line and some folks can’t.” I got the point.

Thanks to today’s precision-guided farm tractors, straight lines don’t have to be a problem, even for an inexperienced operator. That day seems to be at hand for landscape equipment, too. I’m referring to programmed autonomous steering that Kubota Tractor Corporation, through an alliance with Indianapolis-based Smart Path Systems, is bringing to the market this spring.

Kubota is offering autonomous steering on its mowers, tractors and utility vehicles, a technology to help even experienced operators mow, sweep, spray or plow snow with greater precision. The system relies on dual GPS antennas for sub-inch accuracy, an android tablet interface and live satellite map feeds accessed through a web portal management system. Contractors can assign, track and manage their operators and equipment fleet from one easy-to-use website, says Todd Stucke, Kubota senior vice president, marketing, product support and strategic projects.

Operators have the option of taking predetermined paths created in the web portal management system or record their own path. This allows an operator to replay the exact same route at any time in the future — for plowing snow and sweeping walking trails, spraying along fencerows or cracks and repeated mowing by less-experienced operators.

3. What’s the deal with robotic mowers?

The golf course is the place where robotic mowers are beginning to have their biggest impact. Cub Cadet’s RG3 robotic reel mower for golf course greens was introduced several years ago. Also, John Deere, working with the National Robotics Engineering Center in Pittsburgh, has developed a prototype of a robotic mower that can mow a golf course autonomously, safely and precisely, while sensing and avoiding small obstacles (like golf balls) reliably.

These developments suggest that the development of robotic mowers for large, relatively open industrial and commercial properties may not be that far off.

Read more: The Rise of Robotic Lawn Mowers

But, is a robotic mower for commercial and residential properties available or even near commercial development?

Well, yes and no.

Yes, Husqvarna offers a robotic mowing solution, its Automower, now in its 20th year of development. Husqvarna says its Automower, with 1 million units in use globally, has many practical commercial applications, residential and commercial lawns included.

The Automower system consists of three main parts – the mower, the charging station and boundary wires that are installed around a property (including flower beds, etc.) several inches below the ground. The mower itself is available in several different sizes.

Equipped with anti-theft and safety sensors, the Automower can be programmed to operate any time, even in the rain or at night because it is so quiet. Because it can mow continuously (stopping only to return to its charging station), it cuts just a fraction of the turfgrass at a time, resulting in healthy, attractive lawns, says Husqvarna.

But, no, a robotic solution that landscape contractors embrace that resembles or replaces the zero-turn mowers found on just about every contractor’s trailer doesn’t seem likely anytime soon.

Read more: 7 Small Robotic Mowers for Lawns

4. Battery power updates.

Cruising through the garden shop of my local superstore, I was tempted to open my wallet for what appeared to be an incredible bargain. I saw several corded, electric trimmers and edgers offered at 70 percent off their original price.

Then I reconsidered.

Were the savings enough to justify the hassle of schlepping a long extension cord from my porch or patio every time I used one? Probably not, I decided.

Even at full price, the battery-powered products seemed the better choice.

That’s what’s happening in the consumer market: homeowners are selling their corded electric products at yard sales and replacing them with battery-powered products.

The choice for professional users is different — battery-powered versus gasoline-powered handhelds. While commercial users still overwhelmingly prefer and use gasoline-powered handhelds, battery power is becoming increasingly popular. Advancements in product and battery development (including power) are narrowing the productivity gap to gasoline units. Quieter and with fewer maintenance requirements than comparable gasoline units, battery-powered options will increase as contractors become more familiar with charging them from their service vehicles or trailers.

Read more: Why Sebert Landscape Embraces Battery Power

Image Courtesy Of STIHL

5. Is there a drone in your future?

Green industry companies are using drones for marketing purposes and are expected to begin using them for aerial views of worksites, especially related to construction or plant health care in nursery operations, too.

While hobbyists, like myself, comprise the huge majority of small drone enthusiasts, the number of commercial users (including green industry professionals) is starting to take off, thanks to the Federal Aviation Administration simplifying the rules for business use in August 2016.

Earning the Remote Pilot Certification today is much simpler than it was prior to this past August. Now the most challenging hurdle to earning the certification is passing a multichoice test at one of many FAA testing facilities. Passing the test is not a slam-dunk and requires a fair bit of study first, but it’s doable, say folks that have taken it.

If you don’t want to go that route, you can use one of the many drone services companies springing up all over the country.

The FAA this past March estimated the commercial drone fleet will grow tenfold to about 442,000 aircraft by 2021, with the number of pilots of drones expected to increase from 20,000 in 2016 to a range of 10 to 20 times as many by 2021.

Read more: How Drones Could Transform the Landscape Industry

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