#new transport ideas

[kimtaegis]

Destination: your heart Estimated Time of Arrival: whenever you need him ➤ for @jung-koook ♡

[metal-harbor]

I am so fond of my headcanon that shadow has no idea how money works

Like he knows he exchanges money for goods, but he has no idea of the value anything holds

G.U.N issued him a bank account that they pay into, but he has absolutely no way of quantifying the amount in there. He was just told that he was not to give the numbers on the card to Rogue.

He once bought a $300 bag of coffee because he liked the packaging. He has a designer jacket that cost thousands and it was only when Amy pointed out that she knew the brand that he realised it must have been expensive. He’s bought VIP tickets for their concert trips more than once by mistake, then got frustrated when they tried to bring him backstage to meet the band (which he accidentally paid to do).

A few of his friends have described him as ‘surprisingly generous’ but truly he just has no idea what things cost

[cosmogyros]

Literally can't pay my rent until I get paid for September, which hasn't happened yet. Today is Friday, and Monday is the last day of the month. I'm so tired of being poor.

[guinevereslancelot]

trying not to worry too much until i see the cornea specialist but just thinking abt not being able to see my kitty's sweet little face anymore is so heartbreaking 😭

[love-fireflysong]

'man I'm so tired from that Metallica concert on Sunday I really should rest to try and recover both physically and mentally' I say as though I'm not practically vibrating in excitement cause I can't wait to build the Ikea wardrobe that was just delivered only this morning fhdjskshs

[curator-on-ao3]

⭐ Director's Cut on the First Impressions ficlets, please!

Bahaha! Thank you for asking about those, @fiadorable! ❤️😂

Okay, so the trio of ficlets that form First Impressions are all … first impressions … in the context of two first officers — Jack Ransom and Una Chin-Riley. I originally posted the first and second ficlets to Tumblr (sort of glorified shitpost fics) and people asked me to put them on AO3, which was really nice. I put all three stories on AO3 a few days before the Lower Decks/Strange New Worlds crossover was announced and I thought, “Whoa. Of all my crackships, is Chansom actually going to go canon?!” So, yep, the joke in the crossover made me happy because how can you have first officer actors married to each other and not make a joke about it? The show did good.

Anyway, for the first ficlet, Jack Ransom falling for an Una Chin-Riley hologram (and Mariner teasing him about pulling a Geordi LaForge/Leah Brahms) was fun, and Jack meeting — and respecting — the actual Una as an aged and wise ambassador, all in the service of Jack’s emotional journey for his own self-confidence, was nice to explore. I see Jack as having a really beautiful and needy heart that he hides to protect himself (per Deanna Troi’s analysis). Letting Jack be vulnerable with Una made my own heart happy.

For the second ficlet, I was amused by the number of Trek characters played by married Trek actors and I wanted to get them all into one place. Hence, the nightclub that in my mind is officially named “Okudas,” but I couldn’t get that in there. Having Kira and Bashir (married actors!) comment on Jack and Una (married actors!) while reflecting on Tilly and Ryn (married actors!) and so, so many more had me smiling. (B’Elanna and Damar! Spock and Admiral Rollman! Jean-Luc Picard and the lounge singer from a dive bar in 21st century Los Angeles!) I like to believe that once Una and Jack figured out why they were at the nightclub (“Okay, so we’re fictional characters played by actors who are married to each other. That’s ummm …” “Not even the strangest thing to ever happen to me.” “Yeah, same.”) that they sort of warily circled each other, then Jack made a joke about testing out the ol’ rod and berries (yeah, a Roddenberry dirty joke — I truly believe Jack would go there) and Jack got nervous when Una seemed annoyed at first by his humor … but then he saw the amusement in her eyes and they both absolutely cracked up laughing.

The third ficlet was the only one of the trio that I wrote directly for AO3 (didn’t begin life as a Tumblr fic shitpost). And I have to say, I have a special place in my heart for it. The way Christopher Pike initially dismisses Jack Ransom as an idiot and, sure, it’s fine if Una has history with this guy from the future because it’s obviously just physical attraction and … what’s that? Jack is actually intelligent? Well, shit. Writing Chris becoming more and more insecure while Jack and Una have no idea that Chris is freaking out … and Chief Kyle just wants everyone out of the transporter room … had me laughing (lovingly) as I wrote and every time I edited.

Thank you so much, @fiadorable, for asking about that trio of firsts for two of my favorite first officers. ❤️

Want more information about a fic I wrote? Send me an ask.

[nerdstreak]

now question is who am i shipping with heavy now,,,, do i go back to heavandal split with scout, or perhaps make a new oc or sona? decisions......

[toribookworm22]

Guys, my classes just opened up their syllabi and schedules and now I have one week to do the work I'd been hoping to have three weeks to do and aaaaaah!

It's fine. I'm fine.

She was in fact not fine. She must find a way to get 25lbs of clay back from the art supply store. She must watch one current reality TV show. And she must come up with 5 MARKETABLE (ew gross ugh 😬) script ideas. In seven days.

[agayconcept]

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[deus-ex-mona]

fresh out of hoots to give

[kaoharu]

hmhmm actually ykw rant in tags kinda

[she-toadmask]

I am not one to be negative about Pokemon but Scarlet/Violet is the second worst main game on Switch (BDSP is the worst mostly for being a disappointment)

Legends has better shiny hunting

Sword/Shield had better raids

I didn't play Let's Go as much as the others but it is polished and an enjoyable experience

All three run better than SV and have fewer glitches

[malpractice-morale]

you know green thumbs? And how people who are shit with plants have black thumbs? I am that but for cars….

[quietpagan]

Oh boy

(It's not that interesting, it's just a personal rant).

(BUT - )

Before I had a car, when I was living in a larger city, the bus or walking was the only way I could do errands and I was fortunate enough to live in a city that at least had a functioning bus system, unlike the town I'm living in now. Driving in a busy city is not only difficult but exhausting, even more tiring than regular driving, and taking the bus really didn't push me back that far in terms of time. It was really nice not to have to drive places, and even if I'd had a car I would have chosen to take the bus, not only to save on personal fuel costs but because even the added inconvenience of getting to the bus stops and taking a longer time to do an errand weigh much less than how much I fucking loathe driving and paying for car costs.

I live in a much smaller town now, with no good public transport system; it's either you have a car or you bike it or you don't leave home.

Because of traffic I can get to the grocery store on a bike in less time than it takes to drive there, and it costs me absolutely nothing. I really, really wish that our town had a public transit system because there are so many communities within our town that are largely cut off from necessities because of how remote they are, and there are a huge number of people who cannot afford cars or can't drive because of license issues or disabilities, and therefore have harder times holding down jobs or taking care of themselves if they don't have a friend or family member who can drive for them.

When cities are designed with only car culture in mind, it limits what people can do within that area and who can do it. Cars are considered more convenient on the whole simply because we've designed our cities to be unfriendly toward any other form of transport, which is stupid because those forms of transport take up significantly less space and waste less energy. If you assume that a bus will hold ~50 people, then one bus can eliminate around eleven cars from the road, if those cars are each carrying four people. That equals less traffic, which equals less gas, less idling, and less carbon emissions. It's been proven for a while that buses and trains are more energy-efficient and environmentally healthy on the whole than cars.

AND it's cheaper! Not only are you having to pay insurance and taxes personally for a car, but you have to buy gas as well. My car costs about ~$30 to fill up, at the current gas prices. If I drive to work and errands then I have to fill up about once a week. That's $120 a month, and $1500 a year. Let's say that insurance, which is required by law, is around $700 per year. The majority of people in the USA have their own vehicle. That's a lot of money per person per year. That's not even counting repair costs, monthly car payments, etc.

A 30-day bus pass can cost anywhere from $40-$100, which is still cheaper than buying gas, and it doesn't have a limit of how many times you can ride during that thirty days. Also, most public transits will have discounts for students, low-income folks, disabled or elderly people, and even free fare for certain passengers at certain times.

Reliable public transit is people-friendly, environmentally-friendly, and economy-friendly. I'm not saying that cars aren't convenient for some things, because they are, but we've done this to ourselves in making our cities and towns so unwelcome toward any other form of transit, to the point where we no longer see or understand how daily life could be improved for so many people if we had popularized reliable transport systems that were not so reliant on individual consumption.

The anti-car culture on this website is so fucking annoying. Like, sorry I want to be able to get around without having to spend two hours taking three buses. Sorry I want to be able to go grocery shopping in the winter without having to lug heavy bags home through the snow on a fucking bike

[larvae-pietatis]

MANAGED TO GET A USED COPY OF QOTD TODAY LIFE IS CRUMBLING GENTLY IN THE BACKGROUND BUT WE STAY WINNING