okay but why is there a Christmas section in early October
is this like Costco where they keep the Christmas-tree aisle up year-round?
Nope, Walmart and Lowe’s have both just put up their Christmas sections already this year. I guess Time broke enough that Halloween has stopped holding the line. :-(
Hang on to your hats, folks, we’re going straight from March to December with *maybe* a short pit stop in August.
(A while back I called this year “strangled in its cradle” [link], and it occurred to me later that it was a particularly evocative/fitting metaphor under the circumstances. 2020: the year deprived of its breath.)
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Okay look. Stephanie Meyer contributed four (4) cool things to the contemporary fantasy genre, which I shall now list here in the hopes of getting it out of my system. In descending order of importance:
1. Writing a story about a girl who wants something. Plot driven by a woman’s (non-vilified) desire. Truly dreadful execution but still a good idea, sort of a literary incarnation of the “he a little confused but he got the spirit” meme.
2. The fact that when Bella becomes a vampire she can still breathe but “there’s no relief tied to the action” which I remember verbatim because it fucking slapped. The idea of human physical sensations being partially defined by our mortality and the sensations still exist after you become undead but your experience of them is fundamentally different because you no longer need any of it? Extremely cool. The closest Meyer came to taking an interesting stance on vampires being dead.
3. Werewolves are immortal but they can literally stop whenever they want. That shit’s hilarious. Curse of immortality who.
4. The fact that vampires don’t sleep or get tired so their communally-raised baby doesn’t have a crib because she is always in someone’s arms. That was extremely cute and there’s a different, better book contained somewhere in that specific concept.
5. Depression being represented by like 6 blank chapters titled with months.
…wait, did you guys never lie awake at night as kids wondering what breathing would feel like if you didn’t *need* to do it
practicing holding your breath, partly to expand the *total* length of time you can hold it but also to try to expand the time length of the initial segment, of neither breathing nor feeling the lack
(though all too aware that feeling it for a few seconds at a time is probably a very different experience from feeling it indefinitely, from *knowing* that you can feel it indefinitely)
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(I remember I started at a total length of around thirty seconds and managed to work my way up to about sixty, maybe sixty-five. I haven’t practised in ages, but just now I tried it and was able to do sixty seconds on the first try, and might have been able to squeeze a few more seconds out of it. Is it like riding a bike? Does puberty do something to increase your lung capacity relative to your oxygen consumption?)
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I’m beginning to wonder if Team TARDIS’s complete lack of concern for air breathability is a deliberate running gag.
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#Nardole you just spent six weeks in the hospital for failure to bring a spacesuit #you of all people should not feel safe taking your helmet off as soon as you see the local atmosphere can support an open fire #you know what else has atmosphere that can support fire? a fucking *biohazard lab* #Doctor Who #reactionblogging #oh look an update #Empress of Mars #dw spoilers
(I might be missing something here, but I’m pretty sure this isat the very least mostly correct:)
Every problem Team TARDIS is currently facing can be traced back, directly or indirectly (sometimes both), to failure to bring their own spacesuits. To assuming that clean, breathable air would be available when they had zero reason to think that (in the case of Chasm Forge) or less than zero reason to think that (in the case of an apocalyptically-fatal-biohazard lab with a known internal breach).
I think they’re teaching a very valuable lesson here: remember, kids, protective gear is not a joke, wear your fucking hazard suits, just fucking do it already.
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#this post brought to you by #a person who wears surgical masks while on airplanes and when going outside during high-pollen times #(works too) #(only partially in the case of the airplane) #(but buying myself a few days’ delay by contracting the passenger’s cold indirectly through my family was very valuable) #(I needed those few days and was very glad to get them) #hazard gear: fuck yeah #oh look an original post #reactionblogging #Doctor Who #everyone in this episode was incredibly stupid but we can learn from their mistakes #(there were other things wrong with this episode too) #(including lessons they tried to teach that you absolutely *should not* learn) #((like ”consent is only consent if you’re doing it for stupid shortsighted reasons”)) #(but I’m focusing on this problem right now) #negativity tw #illness tw #tag rambles
notactuallycute this concerns me for some reason, is this okay?
Hello, shorter-url. Your concern is very much understandable! Many people are taught that a shark cannot swim when still, which is partially true.
Sharks mainly breathe via two methods– buccal pumping, in which the shark actively draws water in through its mouth to pass over its gills, and ram ventilation, in which the shark must constantly move to force water over their gills. Buccal pumping is more prevalent in ancient sharks, and while some sharks adapted for bottom-feeding still use it, many modern sharks – like the great white shark – have lost that ability altogether and instead can only breathe via ram ventilation. These are called obligate ram ventilators and they have to keep moving in order to breathe.
This particular shark is an adult S. fasciatum, a Zebra or Leopard Shark, depending on the region. Fortunately, they aren’t obligate ram ventilators and, in fact, have very strong buccal muscles. You can even see them working in the first two gifs. When it starts moving to swim away, the diver lets it go, and there’s no harm for either party.
All the best, Fatanyeros
Also, in my work with nurse sharks (same branch as S. fasciatum) I found them to actually enjoy scritches and petting. They would actively seek them out on their own terms.
My life is infinitely better for knowing some sharks like scritches.
You know the answer to the question “what happens in space if you aren’t wearing a spacesuit” is going to be “very bad things”, but just what those bad things are is the interesting part.
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