#Getting a degree……….. shocking

[tedlebred]

fyodor priest au. Discuss

[houseofwolves-v1]

updated post! western north carolina is very much still recovering from the effects of hurricane helene, we’re almost five months past when the hurricane hit at this point and there’s still roads in my area that only reopened for the first time last week, there’s still roads with mud caked along the sides that somehow still hasn’t washed away yet, there’s still debris stuck in the trees and along the riverbanks, still abandoned cars trapped in mud. and while a lot of areas that weren’t hit quite as hard have been able to mostly return to “normal” the landscape is forever changed, and so many people lost their homes and jobs and livelihoods. we’ve come a long way these past few months, but there’s still a long way to go.

so here are some mutual aid collectives to check out if you want to continue to help aid in our recovery!

•Pansy Collective

•Asheville Survival Program

•Rural Organizing and Resilience (also known as ROAR WNC)

•Holler Harm Reduction

•BeLoved Asheville

and if you want to stay up to date on recovery efforts, government assistance, etc, check out Blue Ridge Public Radio! they have given continued detailed reports on the hurricane and all the effects since then and continue to do so now, and they can offer a much more comprehensive view of the situation than i can

[hey-heigo]

happy pride month

[blackthorn-faerie]

I am a frequent indulger in University AUs, and Aventurine is always depicted as a business student. I love to see it, but to me, he is a high school dropout who somehow managed to work his way into a recruiting position in a mega corporation (the IPC lol) and is frequently at the university for hiring fairs and things

[notbecauseofvictories]

as much as I love history and Chicago history especially, I do sometimes forget how recent everything here is. I was at the Hull House Museum with a friend of mine the other day, and we had a wonderful time listening to the curator talk about the birth of social work, the women who drove it forward, and the ghost stories that haunt their stomping grounds despite no one really dying there.

As we were walking around after the tour, my friend pointed out that Jane Addams' dress (the one on display in that room, black and small and otherwise unremarkable) had an uneven hem. "Oh, good eye!" the curator, who was walking alongside us, exclaimed. "Addams' tuberculosis left her with some spinal curvature, even after corrective surgery. She had most of her dresses altered to ensure the hem would be straight when she wore them---but on a standard dress form, the hem looks uneven."

"I always forget that having a tailor or dressmaker was considered typical back then," I said.

"No, by that point it was much more common to buy a dress from Sears and have it altered," the curator replied cheerfully. "That's what Addams did."

The whole exchange was maybe a few seconds, but it sticks with me even now. The idea that Jane Addams bought a dress from Sears---where I have also bought dresses, where my mother bought dresses---makes me feel insane. And yet, we're only talking about a hundred years ago or so. Is it so unreasonable that I, as a disaffected teen, was drifting through racks of mass-produced garments, just as Jane Addams did a century before? The exact location of the hands making those garments has changed of course; the workers' protections that Addams' contemporaries fought for have resulted in offshoring that work to less-guarded parts of the world. But it gives me a strange sort of fellow feeling to think about it, all these many decades later.

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

when toshiro got on laios ass for being inconsiderate and never thinking about how his actions affect others like he was mean abt it but hes not wrong. Thats a pretty major character flaw and a pattern of behavior for laios — w not choosing jobs that made money for namari who is in a pretty dire financial situation where she cant even get off the island and has to go adventuring in the dungeon to get out of debt, who even explicitly brought this up, eating marcilles familiar immediately even tho she was attached to it, kidnapping shuro into his party and putting him in life threatening situations without like really checking he wanted to be there…?, wanting to see if izutsumi has more than one set of nipples when dehumanization is a HUGE huge issue for her the list goes on and on and on. Like when a friend does this to you its just kinda annoying but when ur the leader u really should be checking if everyones needs r met without them telling u. Like the autism plays a factor for sure, his cultural upbringing plays a factor for sure, but as ppl regardless I think u gotta step up to meet the needs of ppl in the moment or realize u shouldnt be calling the shots. just bc its influenced by factors out of ur control does not make it not a serious character flaw. And its written as such in the story.

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

Having a bit of an anxious doom spiral morning which I decided to cheer up with an new episode of my favorite fun times d&d show Dimension 20 I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE

[rated-rko]

i have a feeling i’ll delete but since it hasn’t left my timeline yet um. people paid obscene amounts of money to be hit in the head professionally have worms for brains?! sorry but like, a fork was found in the kitchen not a chainsaw

[thegreatyin]

How did You find the place in the wiki to plan for the TLC? The bit of the guide about it is a bit vague beyond mechanics

That's because the wiki guide is about the TLC after it's been built! If you want to plan for it, you're gonna need to consult the masterlist of variant text for every possible founding body/site/style/ideology/leader, and decide accordingly from there. If a specific combination stands out to you, don't be afraid to dig around in wiki storylets and sources in order to find what you need for it. Some styles are only possible with certain founding bodies- and unlike most things about the TLC this cannot be changed later without spending fate- so if you're the type to plan ahead, make sure to pick wisely!

At the end of the day it all comes down to a lot of scavenging and handpicking. The TLC is an extremely variable location with hundreds of potential outcomes and effects, so on some level I get why the wiki doesn't maintain a dedicated guide for building and organizing it. Still, if you want a hard and fast list of every possible QLD, you can find it in the TLC Foundations entry here. It's not much, but it helps!

[tanktopdiaz]

Whomst was being mean about cardigans I'm ahdkjwkd anyways I have come to defend you as a born and raised socal girl. My college (in socal) literally told me in the orientation invite to wear light layers bc inside buildings here it's freezing. But outside it's warm. Currently in la in the sun you will burn in 5 minutes but in the shade you're shivering. I experienced this today at lunch. With my cardigan. As my source. In the mornings it can be 56 degrees and by lunch it's 89. Also. It's not that serious to be mean about it 😭

i got no dickin idea dawg lmaoooo. that is craaaaazy to me tbh - im in the south along the mississippi and we're hitting like 66/85 and the humidity is a bioatch. i know la has the waterfront so i just assumed it was the same kind of heat. how bad is humidity in the area? i just googed and it's not that much different than me. my problem pwoisonally is the humidity chokes me and drowns me in sweat and tries to bury me alive. that. in a cardigan. kill me dead

[rabbitindisguise]

my goal as a writer is to get people so caught up in the worldbuilding and the strong characterization that they find themselves saying "they did nothing wrong!" and then "except all the murders. right, I forgot about those"

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

if anyone’s got really good posts about the way Dungeon Meshi handles gastronomy and/or the impact it’s had on people’s irl relationships with food, could you send em my way? please and thank

[ippokampos]

heard from my mom that a guy i've known for years just moved to canada to complete his PhD😶 i-

[pinkfey]

is anyone else kind of bummed that we don’t get to see neve’s trans friends lol

[irisbaggins]

I. I passed my Master's. I. I got. I got a fucking A. I'm still in too much of a shock. I feel like I could cry. Holy shit.

[starbuck]

i offhandedly mentioned having seen a movie from the 2000s to my friend and she was genuinely flabbergasted because she thought i “only watched old movies”