#Long Trips

[elemental-queen-writes]

I drove with my father (he drove, I was the passenger) from Melbourne to near Brisbane for Christmas. It took a day and a half. The car had some issues on the way, and at one point, my father decided to see if he could get a Captiva airborne.

It was nice to see the scenery. We saw willy-willy's, and stopped at Parkes Observatory (The Dish Parkes). I took photos along the way. We could see areas hit by the bushfires, and areas where nature was recovering from ones previous. Wide open plains, red dirt, cattles grazing, mountains and bush.

We even got lost and ended up in an outback town with some stunning scenery, and the cutest little finches.

Would I sit in a train for 15 hours? You betcha. There's something calming about watching the scenery zip by you, and seeing things you normally wouldn't see.

I'd set my tablet up with my bluetooth keyboard and type away when the sun began to set, ideas and stories swirling inside my head as I scramble to put them to page so they won't be lost.

Of course, as long as my agoraphobia lets me.

“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

[monstermonger]

i love when i look into a window and find a cat there... | minizine ♡

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

hes not taking the divorce well

[skysgroove]

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[techdriveplay]

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[whataduck]

whatever, go my slugcat

[thisdudedoesntexist]

Danny doesn't know he's the Ghost King, or that he's scaring the shit out of other people.

So, Danny and Jazz moved to Gotham for a new start in their life and un-life ( ignore that he and Jazz are rather young to be moving across the country, ignore that his parents died saving them from the GIW ). They've got an "ok" apartment, and a job at this cute little flower shop run by an eccentric "possibly former supervillains" lesbian couple.

He's even making friends with the ghosts. Like Richard and Mary Grayson (trapeze incident) who are teaching him to fight like a human, if Danny didn't know better he'd think they were stalking those vigilantes. or Dr. Hamish (killer clown?) who's helping Jazz with her studies.

Apparently some time before they met Danny they were just shades who couldn't even manifest, weird. There's also the weirdly active shades telling him where all the good spots to watch the city are and how to find the cheapest prices at stores.

Nobody knows what's wrong with this creepy kid. Every time some mugger even looks in the scrawny boy's direction their loved ones show up and yell at them until the kid's down the street.

Batman tried to investigate the potential meta until he saw his parents waving in a nearby window. Danny's neighbor swares his grandma is haunting him and Danny for some reason, and any time the Joker goes within a city block of ivy and Harley's flower shop/home he becomes blind and deaf by the sheer number of his "volunteers" telling him to die.

[niftysaurus]

sukuna begrudgingly buys you something you like

[anbaisai]

well maybe you should help her out, jamil 😤

[ganondoodle]

haha whoops-

[frogthatatetheclover]

I love when the problem at hand doesn't require the skills of everyone on the team, so even though it's a dire situation they just have to entertain themselves. Like, in 5x1 Sam and Jacob are working to repair the spaceship:

And Jack and Daniel are just:

One of them brought that ball on a mission to space....

[that-fox-thing]

Hey! Look at this conveniently small hat I found! Perfect for my conveniently small cat!!

[basiatlu]

“In the Fog” comic for one of my @harringrovesummerbingo fills (square C1 to be exact for the mods).

[aashiqeddiediaz]

you know what boils my blood.

over the last 2 weeks, i've seen countless patients walk into my urgent care center, symptomatic for so many things, refusing to get tested for covid and flu, citing that they don't want to knowingly bring it to their holiday tables. i had a patient tell me, verbatim, "i don't want to test for covid, because i don't want to be the asshole who brings it on a plane."

i understand that - i understand that holidays are times where people look forward to meeting loved ones that they might only see once a year, or where they get a break from the hectic back and forth of their lives.

but here's the thing - whether they get tested or not, they will bring whatever they have to their holiday tables. it's pure recklessness to know that you're sick, and walk into someone else's house spreading the disease.

today, january 2, i saw 91 patients, many of them who have tested positive for covid and flu. many of these patients are the same ones who didn't want testing 3 days ago, until their events were over, and now, they will have to reach out to everyone they know to let them know that they were positive because they were showing symptoms well before their event.

the next week or two? we're going to see many, many more, all people with symptoms that started around christmas. these are the only two viruses we test for rapidly in our office, but they are potent and can be fatal in many people.

so here's why i wrote this post, and maybe it's a little late, but - if you care about your loved ones, please get tested if you know you're sick. it doesn't have to be at a clinic if you don't want it to, because the over-the-counter tests work just fine too (if you test within 5-7 days of symptom onset). just...please don't try to run from the knowledge that you might have covid, because immunocompromised people, elderly people, people with co-morbidities like asthma, pregnancy, diabetes, etc...many of them may not recover. and they may not be sitting at your holiday table in the future because of it.

[bobauthorman]

Love it when we see a group react and each person does it differently

[nipuni]

14 and not 14 😌