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Bella Baxter & Duncan Wedderburn's shifting power dynamic in 'Poor Things' (2024) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
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I often think about that post that was a fake dating profile for a cat that was all about chickens, like wanting someone with posable thumbs for opening chickens.
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wrote over 2300 words today :)
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Magicians In Cars Getting Rides
@lgbtqcreators creator bingo: Media from North America | Adaptations
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can one of the contrapoints people tell me if she actually came out as a g*yl*r or if the g*yl*rs don’t understand jokes
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The best piece of advice I ever got was not meant as advice, but as an edict. If I was going to threaten people as a joke, it had to be so far out of proportion with what happened that it would be obvious I was joking. This changed how I expressed frustration with others. It then changed how I expressed frustration with myself.
Not “I’m going to hit you” but “I am going to buy a tuna sub from the gas station and hide it under the seat of your car”
Not “I’m going to kill myself” but “I am going to walk into the desert and let the scarabs take me”
The other side then happened. When I mess something up, instead of saying it’s bad and perpetuating negative thoughts, swing hard the other way.
Not “this art is terrible” but “this shall be framed and mounted on the wall in my museum exhibition as testament to the suffering I had to overcome”
Have been doing this since high school. It was my drama teacher who asked me to please stop scaring the actors. The other half of the edict was that I had to say it in a polite tone, and end it with either please or thank you.
Life changing. 10/10 Mr Muëller. Highly reccomend.
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REBECCA FERGUSON in DUNE (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve
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i feel his cunty spirit enter me whenever i bite on a cherry tomato and it bursts in my mouth. i won't ever apologise
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Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted his people's parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this style and that; now preferred the heroic and pompous; next the plain and simple; now the vales of Tempe; then the fields of Kent or Cornwall; and could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. 
virginia woolf, orlando
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ok epilogue fic has seven & a half scenes left, two of which are designed to be pretty short, all of which feel very clear in my head…. i gotta start prioritizing working on it because having it hanging over my head unfinished is starting to make me feel Truly Insane. there is rly no reason it can’t be done by the end of the month! i know i have said that every month for like the past four months but i really mean it this time!!!!
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i think that the time between caesar’s assassination and octavian naming himself princeps is objectively the funniest period of roman history. just nonstop drama.
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five more weeks of peace (not knowing what a taylor swift song called “fresh out the slammer” sounds like)
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how did you learn to write well?
well first you have to be a very sad child
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40 minutes of lunges was Not The Worst... most of the back half was either with one dumbbell or bodyweight with some fun-ish or at least psychologically distracting balancing components. now i get my reward (looking forward to a chest and triceps day that's almost entirely down low on the mat 🥰🥰🥰)
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As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.
Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.
The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.
With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.
Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”
Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”
Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...
To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.
During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.
On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.
As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”
LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.
So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.
-via Wired, February 19, 2024
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ok last post before i stop procastinating on 40 Straight Minutes Of Lunge Supersets Fuck My Life. i found a podccast the shtick of which is/was (they have completed their task) that a guy who hasn't watched gundam wing and has watched very little anime watches the show and explains his reactions to his two friends, both of whom have seen the show, one of whom is arguing that it is Rad and the other of whom is arguing that it is Bad (but also likes the show and is very excited whenever he gets to talk about how tallgeese is). this was exciting to discover bc i was about to start on a 50-workout program which means if i keep it as my exercise pod it will take me basically through the whole program \o/ but also while i think they are missing some of the emotional undercurrents that while articulated through melodrama and artifice are to me quite clear i love to live in the future and listen to a podcast where three afaik straight dudes earnestly dock points for how much the show's pathological ride-or-die type sexism bothers them and make jokes about how the gundam pilots are gay for each other but not in a way that's like "lol gay" just in a way where like the gundam pilots are obviously all gay for each other (which they are) and it's fun to laugh about it. also they were VERY hard on my girl relena to start which made me nervous although was more forgivable given that they're watching the dub and her actress is..... A Lot, but they basically fully turned around on her the second she pulled a gun on une and have been team relena ever since, which is an acceptable trajectory to take to land at the correct outcome
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