assume it’s as long as whatever your average book length is. in total, not just in hours read, so including times where you aren’t actively reading. it takes me months to read even simple books but i keep seeing people implying theyre done in a couple days so i was curious. feel free to rb for sample size (i cant believe i fucked up this post twice in a row)
Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.
Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.
This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.
Holy shit thank you OP. I lived on the east coast and moved to AZ 4 years ago… thought I was done with this stuff. Literally this is the first I heard about it so thank you for getting the word out.
Shit. I have a post I’ve been holding onto about hurricane preparation. One moment, I’ll post it.
This is like. Freakish. Due to the Coriolis Effect pushing northern hemisphere hurricanes west, and the lack of Gulf Stream warm water fuel, hurricanes are exceedingly rare on the west coast of North America.
The only tropical storm with hurricane-force winds believed to have hit Southern California came in October 1858, when a hurricane struck San Diego, according to a 2004 report in the American Meteorological Society.
Never, since scientific records of hurricanes started in 1949, has a storm with hurricane strength winds hit this far north on the west coast of the continent. We’re looking at a once in a century event here. Or at least what used to be once in a century.
Ik who I’m talking to, this is Tumblr. East coast folks, do y'all remember Hurricane Irene, when we were youths? Remember how bad it was? That was a Category 3. Hilary is a Category 4, one below Katrina. On the west coast, where people are way more likely to be unprepared, and infrastructure unlikely to be built to withstand, hurricane strength winds or flooding.
Fuck it, Urbanism hot take night, none of you bitches actually know what gentrification is
Those dilapidated warehouses being demolished and turned into a restaurant or an apartment complex is not gentrification
No, that man with a metrosexual haircut wearing airpods on the bus is not gentrifying your neighborhood, he is a person, not the American socio-economic landscape
They are incredibly cheap to build apartment buildings with the current building codes. They are called 5 over 1’s because they are 5 floors with wooden frames over a concrete base
Shout out to someone finally getting the point of this post
they shouldn’t have made the game with such emphasis on blood/giving blood/the transaction of the blood rewarded by harvest and with a herb bride saying she gives “[her] juices to the earth” if they didn’t want the girlies to rotate the herb brides freebleeding in their mind. not at fault here.
them herb brides are FREEBLEEDING they are BRALESS they have BODY HAIR they are RIPPED AS HELL they are CHUBBY they are LANKY they are TWENTY they are FORTY they are SIXTY-FIVE they BITE PEOPLE they
they’re MIDWIVES (canonically) they’re HERBALISTS they’re SINGERS they’re POETS they’re SONGWRITERS they’re ASTRONOMERS they’re DAUGHTERS they’re SISTERS they’re not mothers because they’re celibate but they are MENTORS and MOTHER FIGURES and MUSICIANS and ORACLES
“i’m not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can’t enjoy it anymore” is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media
“Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they’re 15” this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
To wit:
I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.
In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:
“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.
“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”
Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.
Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕
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