#language #I feel like I’m re-reading ‘Colorless Green Ideas’ #pretty sure none of you are from any planet I’ve ever been to #I was never quite in the same patches of spacetime as #Homestar Runner
You want steampunk sf in an universe that runs on Renaissance magic rather than science? Here you have it. I seriously don’t want to talk too much about this lest I spoil people, but this was an immensely enjoyable read.
like i mean obviously i havent slept properly in like two days but seriously how does it evolve without the assistance of former generations dying out. do people use the words “grisbittyng” and “yolo” in the same sentence. are there parts of big cities where its like walking into a different century like are there neighbourhoods in chicago where people literally speak old english and the teachers at the schools use old english and like the people who live two blocks away speak a creole of ge’ez and polish and like. dude i want cultural implications of vampirism that go beyond bloodbanks i want linguistics and politics and medical science and history and religion, i want hypovolemic vampires who speak akkadian in the home and are devout worshippers of inanna and have a home care nurse to help with making sure the picc line theyre getting lactated ringers solution via isnt partially occluded!!! help
i just got my drivers license renewed and can you imagine the dol dealing with ‘what is your birthdate’ ‘august 27 1662′ ‘what’
but everyone else too, all the bureaucracy’s gonna be fucked
‘bloodtype?’ ‘no preference,just fresh’
‘sir are you a senior’ ‘i was born in the fifteenth century, i should hope so’ ‘sir i’ll need to see id’
and like—how do you deal with a population that’s collecting social security while being functionally 15 or 28 or 50 what do you do about them when they don’t die what does it mean to have a group whose physical ability is unchanging, is there a vampire draft, is there a separate database for vampire SSNs because they draw social security for different reasons what is going on with that
how do term limits work, is there a mandatory down period, or are vampires bound to the same term limits as mortals and if so are there protests about this
afa social security goes i would assume in this setting it would be based on physical ability rather than necessarily age for vampires, which is very similar to what it is for humans: you can get benefits if youre 65+ OR if you physically cannot work, id assume for vampires its just the latter or else “yeah ive been on retirement for 400 years” “you’re the size of a seven-year-old” “yeah and”
hypovolemia DOES NOT count if youre a vampire, some people seem to forget that. there’s IV saline as an adtl to blood, bc quite honestly vampires are wimps and “have you ever tried to drink blood that has half a cup of salt in it?? it’s disgusting”
oh dear god IDs the big question is ofc do they show up in photographs bc if not there is a big market for photo-realistic artists in the govt and in most big companies, bc IDs with descriptions are… pretty easy to bypass, especially when you’re immortal. i’ll bet some places have fun with it, like a lot of art students’ university IDs will be ridiculously stylised, possibly like cubist or some shit.
i assume there are systems in place to keep someone from being head of state for 700 years.
murder???? how do you solve a vampire’s murder how do you identify the victim is it like “so i found this pile of ashes, and this person went missing near here recently, i guess this is our person??” does no one even bother to investigate? i feel like vamps wouldnt put up with that
Would vampires have to get special, like, carbon-nitrogen profiles done? Stuff that would stay in the ashes? “We did a molecular ratio test on the ash pile and the profile matches the following individuals quite closely.”
thats FASCINATING ngl, although like i wonder how the community feels abt it, like on one hand if someone gets murdered and theres no way to identify the remains ppl are gonna get pissed, if you mandate fancy tests ppl are gonna get pissed (like how they dont want to be fingerprinted since they “arent a criminal”, u know?), its all a mess
Okay, but guys: POLITICS. I mean okay, let’s be optimistic that effectively immortal people would willingly step down from power after a number of years in office. Given how addictive power can be, it’s questionable, but like I said, optimism, because otherwise everything is basically fucked and there will never ever be social or political change whatsoever with a monarch/president still subscribing to rigid old timey values.
But still. Imagine a UN convention where a representative of one country still has visceral firsthand memories of how that dude across the room once served as a general in the war that tore his country apart. Or a Congress where former slaves and slave owners have to sit next to each other. Or a forward-thinking president trying to pass a law about gender equality when a significant segment of the population were raised in an era where women were considered property. HOW WOULD THAT EVEN WORK???
My guess is that, because they’d have a greater understanding of what constitutes a long-term impact, vampires would be deeply committed environmentalists. Lobbying for more stringent industrial regulations, strengthening the existing laws for clean air and safe drinking water, increasing EPA funding and collaborating with the Department of Agriculture to fight against corporate lobbyists, that sort of thing. They remember what it was like before the Industrial Revolution kicked in, they know what they’re talking about.
…and besides, would you want to eat something sick and diseased?
can there be a thing called self insert day where everybody just draws themselves hanging out with their fave fictional characters and we all have a collective party so nobody feels self-conscious about posting self insert fanart online
omg this is gaining rapid notes and everybody seems so pumped for this. Can I pick a day and we actually do this?? um. um. How about June 27&28? Self insert weekend!!! that gives ppl three weeks to prepare!! (tag things as #self insert weekend if you actually do it cuz I wanna see your guys’ drawings hehe)
What she means: How do the owls in Harry Potter work? Can they read the addresses on the envelopes or do you have verbally communicate the name of the recipient for them to understand? Does this mean that Voldemort could have found Harry Potter years earlier by just sending him a letter at the right time and following it? Are owls more powerful magical trackers than Voldemort?
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#Harry Potter #yes this #never got that far in that particular train of thought before #but still #I’m reminded of watching the Twilight movie #and that scene where Edward is listing off what the other people in the restaurant are thinking #and it’s like #’sex sex sex money sex cat’ #and I’m like #’what none of them are contemplating the psychological coping mechanisms of Piper’s Children?’ #’that’s what *I’d* be thinking about’
POINT: Medical dictation is the worst idea. It’s like somebody said “You know this thing that needs to be written down? How about we make it literally impossible to get it into the records by writing it down directly, and force you to do it in the form of a phone call to another person, who then writes it down for you? Why? Because f@#k people who don’t like phones, that’s why. Also, we’ll spend the next few decades telling you that you’re doing your phone calls wrong and you need to speak more clearly.”
COUNTER-POINT: In order to encourage clear and effective dictations, and apparently without any irony or self-awareness, my hospital has something called the Best Dictator Award. The doctor who does the best dictations each month gets a little plaque that says “BEST DICTATOR”. I have never in my life wanted anything as much as I want a “BEST DICTATOR” plaque for my office, and I will keep doing dictations with a smile on my face until I get one.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
*squee* My custom accent for Canyon is ordered and paid for! I DID PEOPLE INTERACTION THINGS. :D
I think my next “big” FR project is gonna be saving up all the treasure for my remaining expansions to Ancient Lair by Thundercrack. (The first-place dom discount isn’t huge, it’s only 5%, but that’s still gonna save me 143,750 treasure overall. ^_^ ‘Sides, I like the idea of celebrating Thundercrack by moving to the Tempest Spire.) Little under 2.75 million – I can farm that in a week or ten days if I push, I’m tired of pushing, so I’m gonna take it slow. Hardest part’ll be not spending it all on dragon hats. XD
God, I wish RL had something like that where you work hard and get a slow but steady guaranteed income. I would be so rich, y’all. ;S I got no problem with grinding, it’s the part where I can’t reliably grind enough RL money to feed myself the calories I expend while grinding that discourages me.
God, I wish RL had something like that where you work hard and get a slow but steady guaranteed income. I would be so rich, y’all. ;S I got no problem with grinding, it’s the part where I can’t reliably grind enough RL money to feed myself the calories I expend while grinding that discourages me.
Well, there’s Swagbucks. Nowhere near enough to live off of, and you have to take their “Special Offers” section with tons of salt (last I checked they don’t vet their third-party offer suppliers nearly well enough and pretty much all of the non-survey non-video ones look an awful lot like virusbait), but a reasonably diligent Canadian can get USD$25 a month in Paypal, which is $25 they wouldn’t have had otherwise. I hear it’s more if you’re American (they get earning options that other countries don’t), and much more if you either have more data in your Internet plan than you normally use or spend a lot of time in places with free Wi-Fi (so you can run their ad videos without spending more in overage fees than you get in payment). (My family routinely maxes out our Internet plan as it is, and I only spend maybe 10 – 30 minutes a week in public hotspots, so I’ve never been able to do those properly.)
(I used to be a reasonably diligent Canadian, but I haven’t really been on since November, after I paid for nearly half of this laptop ($130) using the Paypal balance I got from them. Maybe I should go back.)
(If you do give it a shot (and seriously, despite the Special Offers the rest of the place is really not very shady), let me know *before* you sign up and I’ll give you a referral link. It’s not under this name.)
This rocking chair is named “Cradle” was designed for creating a safe, comfortable, and relaxing space in which the user can dissipate the overstimulation of their senses. The design was heavily directed by a synthesis of research into Autism and children with Rhythmic Movement Disorder (RMD) as well as safety, sustainability, function, and aesthetics. We had a strong focus creating a solution for sufferers of RMD but the chair is not exclusively for them and will bring relaxation, comfort, and calmness to anyone who uses it.
Brinens and Things 