#alaska is typing...

[weekdaygladers]

tagged by the lovely @an-ivy-covered-summer 🩷!!

last song: espresso by sabrina carpenter

favorite color: lilac/black

last book: the bungalow mystery from the nancy drew series

last movie: sonic 3 (i think?), or a twisters rewatch

last tv show: alexa & katie season 4

sweet/spicy/savory: sweet all the way

last thing i googled: 2000s ken doll

current obsession: smosh games videos. cannot get enough!!

looking forward to: my birthday party next week!!

no pressure tags: @mt07131 @inside--her--fantasy @ithk @wineonmytshirt

[morlock-holmes]

I'm so tired of hearing about how the different US states are really "50 countries in a trenchcoat" because I'm sorry... Have you been to the states?

You're really going to sit there and tell me that Washington, California and Oregon are as distinct from each other as the UK, France and Germany?

Really?

With a straight face and everything?

The states are more like, I dunno, different denominations of protestantism, or different Shonen Jump battle series, or different versions of Star Trek.

Like, if someone earnestly talked about how The Original Series and Voyager are actually really different that person would be correct, but if another person said, "Come on man what are you talking about it's all fucking Star Trek" that person would also be correct.

[dailymothanon]

Valdez… I still have cities in my head 💔 oh well, I based them off of dall sheep mostly, and I kinda sorta based their design off of a mix of Texas and Alaska for reasons and things. A lot of associations and stuff 😼 I like this critter thing

Sorry Valdez 💔 up here most people say Val-deez instead. They think eh it’s not a big deal but Austin thinks he should try hacking boundaries and asserting them! Austin known them only for a day and immediately needs to be their friend but no pressure ofc (he’d be devastated for a month if Valdez declined friendship)

[kylejsugarman]

hey I lurk for your Breaking Bad content. please give me all of your Jesse in Alaska/recovery headcanons. I need it like I need air.

jesse in alaska.......where do i even begin 😔 im going to avoid lingering too much on my alaska oc's and that little world (tldr for newcomers: jesse gets to haines, starts working at a repair/custom shop called carvings owned by sheila, and befriends and falls in love with the local vet demi who is raising her niece baby) just because there are Plenty of those posts and i want to focus more on jesse himself

this is one ive talked about before, but its just so precious to me, and thats jesse getting into cooking. at first, him learning how to do it is out of pure necessity. the canned food that ed left him only lasts for a few weeks and the prepackaged stuff at the store is all queasily redolent of the "treats" (<- meager sustenance) that were dropped into his cage, so he picks up a box of dry pasta and looks at the recipe for chicken penne printed on the box. it has all the steps, the ingredients. he was always good at following a recipe. jesse dutifully buys the stuff and what begins as him robotically following the text later on in his small, dim kitchen starts to feel. Good. there's no harsh fumes or chemical burns. he doesnt have to measure the garlic down to a hundredth of a gram. he has a recipe to follow—something to guide him—but nothing awful is going to happen if he experiments a little. if he deviates. and he isn't making poison. he's making something Good. for so, so long, jesse only Destroyed and when he did create, it was poison. now he gets to do what he wants. he gets to make good. that chicken penne is the first thing he eats in weeks that actually has flavor—or maybe he's letting himself Taste again. jesse starts cooking more and more, using those supermarket recipes and eventually recipes that he prints off from the public library computers, and even once it becomes a part of his daily routine, he never loses that weird excitement for it. there's the satisfaction of successfully executing a task even with his memory issues and adhd, but also the excitement of realizing over and over that he can do what he wants.

jesse thinks he's "done" with drugs when he gets to alaska purely because he hasn't been able to use and doesnt have immediate access to anything stronger than alcohol or tobacco, but he quickly realizes that he does not have any other kind of coping mechanism ready to deploy or way to sufficiently distract himself once he's physically and mentally well enough to Be Aware. alcohol doesnt seem to "work" fast enough. he thinks over and over about hiring a sex worker or finding a bar somewhere so he can have sex with and fall asleep next to a warm, living body. he drives for hours and sometimes hits the brakes hard on the icy road when theres no one else out there, letting himself skid uncontrollably and hoping he crashes. he wants to start a fight with a stranger. he wants to hug a stranger. and he does end up using drugs again, several times. i mean he's a severely traumatized addict arriving in a new location with zero support. it's not a failure, it's not irreversible backsliding: it's just the reality of what being in this terrifying, vulnerable situation would be like for jesse. for a long time, he sees these relapses as signs of weakness and that Certain People were right about him being a pathetic junkie with no will or value, but as he starts meeting people and finding new ways to be happy and getting the right treatment for his various issues and sometimes even sitting in NA church basement meetings because he just needs to be Understood, jesse comes around to the idea that addiction is not a moral failing and sees his life as worthy enough to safely and healthily preserve.

lightning round!! jesse decides once he arrives to grow his hair and facial hair out some to look less like his old mugshot, but also because as soon as the cold winter air touches his shaved head, he basically reverts to spongebob and patrick duct-taping fur off of sandy to survive in her dome during winter. he stops to stare in awe at eagles and whales and moose even after years and years of living in alaska. his sense of smell is nearly totally destroyed from cooking without protection, but he still always buys lemon scented soap and cleaning stuff because lemon was his aunt ginny's favorite scent. he reads up on a lot of first-aid on the public library computers, sometimes out of a sense of frantic compulsion or guilt, sometimes out of legitimate curiosity. when he drives home from doctors appointments or NA meetings, he plays the music in his car so loud that his seat shakes. the people of haines know that mr driscoll can be a little cagey and will flinch at the sound of his own laugh, but they also know that he brakes for animals and carves beautiful gadrooning and buys ten of whatever the kids are selling to raise money for the band or their scout troop. and they like him quite a bit :)

[alaskas-space-project]

muting my computer while the British anthem plays. colonisers stole our fucking team.

[every-sanji]

[skyburger]

this is my rendition of master kazuhira benedict mcdonnell miller's assassination circa february 2005 hope you like it

[just-a-guy-with-a-blog]

Yeehaw

[queenretcon]

In the dcu version of drag race, someone has definitely won snatch game playing booster gold

[weekdaygladers]

SPLIT FICTION GAMEPLAY PART 2 EVERYONE CHEERED

[daily-table21]

Video: Table News: Unions, Republicans, and Sarah Palin

Status: Public

Link: Table News: Unions, Republicans, and Sarah Palin - YouTube

Date Posted: April 12th 2022

[dailymothanon]

Yesss… YESSS. Idaho, this is my girlfriend’s design of him Ü!! I thought it was too good, I have to use this one. He’s based on his state animal, the Idaho Giant Salamander… hence the birthmarks! Or well 🤔 I believe she called them birthmarks. It wasn’t really clear. So that’s what I’ll call them!

He reminds me of sad beige babies. Not just the design btw. Just Idaho in general, everything about Idaho. Smells like it, tastes like it, feels like it, looks like it, sounds like it.

I can’t lie tho— with how much pure wilderness Alaska has, which has about 54% of the entire nation’s wilderness, he’s GOTTA have some not-normal-people-or-personification characteristics. Like reflective eyes for example. Most animals have them; humans are not one of them, they’re so animals can see in the dark better, and since Alaska has polar nights?? It’s a win I’d say

LOOK AT THAT BRO there is no way he is acting that normal that easily. This is why animals are fond of him tho I can confirm this

[morshmallow]

in my job i sometimes use ai to create deep learning models to automatically detect objects in aerial photographs. essentially this is training a computer to do a satellite captcha where it wants so find sidewalks. this kind of ai is what is actually helpful bc there are terabytes upon terabytes of aerial photography and all kinds of 3d elevation data that would be near impossible for us to analyze on our own. ai in this case is doing a job that you couldnt feasibly hire staff to do

[aviatrix-ash]

Learned today that aerial volcano cave diving is totally a thing we do with the helicopters I maintain and

Oh. Yah. I think I would try that. Fug. I need to try that now that I know it's a thing.

When/how idk but I wanna >w<

In addition to the telephone line maintenance we do with the helos in the winter. Where apparently I'll be riding on the outside of the heli strapped on a diy platform on the landing skids to work the lines.. gonna be living xgames mode irl. Im down >:3

[bloomfish]

definitely the thing I miss most about living in the US is the random wildlife I would see even around my own neighbourhood. Last time I was there I saw a coyote a few streets from my dad's house which was amazing. But I would regularly see bald eagles, great blue herons, hummingbirds, seals, salmon, obv raccoons (this doesnt seem that crazy now but when I moved there raccoons were an exotic animal to me bc i'd seen it in pocahontas. it was like seeing jasmine's tiger in ur garden). more rarely I've seen sea lions, a porpoise, and once everyone in the neighbourhood gathered to see a snowy owl that was in a tree, that was a Big Moment

[yatiso]

a few years ago i realized i have this weird calling to writing but ignored it and its really come back full force in the past few months and especially lately like i know i have to start writing ive had this calling my whole life truly and have had such little faith in myself or my experiences...