#so do veterans

[kryte-col]

⚠️TW: Panic attacks and anxiety.

Okay sure the clones are very astute and controlled.

What if you put a man who thrummed with the scream of war in peace? When there is nothing to shoot, tear apart, bare fangs to?

Does the scratching under the skin right at the top of their cranium still them to a swivel? Start and stop the machine of calculated carnage only to see the walls of their home, the buildings of safety and faces of loved ones?

The panic when the enemy coils in the mind. The panic. The panic.

It's a panic.

There is no enemy, oh but the body howls with the urge to do something.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

I saw your post about bugout bags and like ... bracketing the Gestapo Doorknock thing, when did the "correct" response to a natural disaster become to immediately flee and go into refugee mode? The negative fantasy here is heroically saving yourself while your idiot neighbors die, instead of making the kinds of community connections that people actually use to survive and respond to disasters.

I get what you are saying about community connections being the best path to resiliency, but you should very much flee from floods and wildfires when at risk, to name a few. Ideally while making sure your neighbors are also getting out of Dodge, all assuming there has been ample warning for this particular disaster. But sometimes, there are scenarios where you just have to go that very moment.

For all their talk of bugouts bags, I don't think the capital-P Preppers actually want to leave their home bunkers.

The same American Exceptionalism that causes people here to have Lone Wolf apocalypse fantasies also makes them think they can survive a hurricane in a coastal flood zone.

There is an element of humility required to leave one's home possibly permanently. But that's the key difference, here -- the Preppers aren't as interested in survival as they are in ushering in some kind of new World Order.

You see this type pop up every now and then as a hurricane sets its sights on a town -- the people who make it a big point to talk about what they'd do to a looter, should the Big One hit. These are folks who are not interested in becoming a refugee amd are fine with the risk of staying home, if it means they can shoot people from their little castles.

I also saw more mundane selfishness when I did hurricane rideouts for emergency operations in my old Florida city job -- part of our comms was to remind people that we could *not* send anyone out to help them peak-storm. Sometimes, fleeing (aka, saving yourself) is what keeps other people alive -- they don't have to risk their lives saving you because of your stubbornness.

So, I'm a bit skeptical of fleeing being a power fantasy. What's more likely to happen in a lot of natural disasters (especially those with lead times) is you either get renegade fools in clear danger refusing to leave, or uninformed folks not at risk who panic and think they need to evacuate when they should just hunker down. (And then there are the unfortunates who should evacuate and want to, but cannot because the system has failed them in some way.)

That said, for a longterm crisis, community absolutely is key. And even in a short-term crisis that requires an evacuation, one is presumably fleeing *to* some place that will have other refugees, and it's in one's best interests to build community even in these temporary conditions.

[sexhaver]

i just ragequit a youtube video because the guy said "governments around the world spent billions preparing for the Y2K bug, but nothing even happened!" wrong conjunction there buddy, try "so" instead of "but"

[nostalgicish]

he’s literally babygirl

edit: new pfp :)

[akiacia]

late to this, but doodles based on @destreza-draws's cute fangame demo! (ft. my ocs/scenarios that aren't official parts of their game, i just have brainworms LOL)

[anatomical-puppet]

silly redraws tiiiiime :] love these goobers

[characters belong to @abd-illustrates]

[fjordfolk]

puppy fever, might be terminal

[bb-eb-db-bb-eb-b-ab-f-b-ab]

THIS SCENE—

[greenteabelle]

while the sleepy bois inc has a special place in my heart , i love the fact that philza is being associated in more "normal" dynamics now !

in the past , philza has always had to be the father figure , the mentor , the helpful one . partially due to sense of responsibility he feels whenever he interacts with someone who doesn't really know minecraft , he always ends up taking on the caretaker role , of sorts . that's why people look up to him , turn to him when they need advice .

it's rewarding for him , yes , but there always exists a sort of power imbalance between philza and whoever he interacts with (not necessarily in a bad way !)

but now ? philza is allowed to just do whatever the fuck he wants lmao !

like in malewife duo , codebreakers , veterans duo , etc , it's easy to see how relaxed he is whenever he's interacting with them . it's because philza doesn't have to be the responsible one with them and can allow himself to rely on them . in each duo , philza has an unspoken understanding with them that allows seamless teamwork !

before qsmp (and perhaps even origins) , i genuinely never would have imagined a day where philza could be associated in any duo that had even the tiniest sliver of homoerotic elements , yet here we are in 2024 , where our streamer is publicly being flirted with (jokingly) by various men of different nationalities , and is also flirting back ?!?!?!?!

anyway . i hope the content never ends lmao !

[azurajay]

what in the hermitcraft x dsmp fanfic is happening here

[kissingagrumpygiant]

solas and morrigan can be so personal. to me

[here-comes-the-moose]

When I’m writing my Modern AU but then try to figure out and calculate how the life I gave the Batch is financially possible:

[thedoormann]

people who don't vote can suck my fat fucking cock for real

[figs-oliomedley]

“When the name of Time was still new” 🔥🔥🔥

[heckitall]

One | Two | Three

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(asks stranger a desperate heartfelt question)

stranger: (shrug emoji)

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and that's it for Flashbacks and Veterans! ty for sticking around :)

[motherfactorin-pi-face]

I see someone at Game Freak has, in fact, had the Paris Taxi Cab Experience (tm) (FWIW: Yes, I have heard Stories about...the Taxi Cab Protection Racket in Paris and oh lord is it a THING. Admittedly I've mostly heard stories from people who have been from overseas, but...yah, the cabbies in Paris are apparently Infamously Monopolistic and the folks I know who had the Experience subsequently thanked all the small gods that the Paris Metro is a Thing lol)