#commuter transit

[lichen-thr0pe]

#now that’s a commute! #numtot #mossy af #you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like #public transit

[non-un-topo]

All it takes is a wee little nightmare to make you too scared to step foot outside for fear of Bad Things happening, like it’s an omen lol

#also it is p o u r i n g outside and it takes me an hour and fifteen minutes to commute to campus #i'm a good little student but sometimes i just can't be assed #esp with all the crazy stuff that's been happening on public transit and on my campus for that matter #i'm just getting a bad vibe today [insert empath meme here] #warning for me complaining about a graphic nightmare!!!!: #had a few stress dreams(?) last night but one particularly violent one in which a woman got run over by a streetcar-- #--and the paramedics were moving people along but i accidentally got a really good look at her and it fucked me up #she looked like she was just sleeping peacefully but i could only really make out the top half of her body #probably because the bottom half was... yeah. #i think i also had another dream that i was being hunted by a sniper?? and they had called my cell and were threatening me + my folks? #and another one where i had to hide some children from... i don't really know what. some dangerous person who wanted to kill all of us #but the kids wouldn't leave me even though i begged them to. #yeah just a normal collection of dreams for me. literally ugh. #i don't even think i'm stressed in my life rn?? #not any more than normal lol

[aeb-art]

most normal interaction on a subway (another earth bot has invaded my sketchbook)

cat belongs to @8um8le

#2024 #stellar city #sc cataclysm #sc ash #self insert #late evening scribbles once again just for fun #okay so it is so interesting to think about how really tall bots are normal so public transit is probably larger to accomodate #so then lil ol me looks more like a kid than i normally do in the subway car built for giants #anyway i'm thinking about how jarring it must be to only know geo and then see cat lmao #unknowingly meeting your coworker (crush)'s prototype on your evening commute home :x #…wait hang on it would be really funny to confide in cat about having a crush on geo #gives me the most batshit advice that somehow works #i really just keep doodlin ballad's guys huh? i wanna draw the rest of the cast tbh they're all fun

[echo-does-art]

This Capybarista (thanks @duchi-nesten :)) has a job :)

#art drawn in transit #this is becoming a tag now because I keep doing it #I limited myself to just the commute so nothing made it onto the shelves #pretend it has coffee supplies or something :) #capybara #barista #capybarista #coffee #capypril 2023 #job #my art #digital art #daily prompt #stuff I forgot to queue

[icantalk710]

...The subway commute today oh my god 😩

#ore no kao #so neat that the smallest things like a train's brakes being activated can cause massive delays here #whole ass 1hr15m to get to work on a normally 20-25min commute... #[i like that we got to 59th St and added 'sick passenger' to the mix #very first world problem ofc but c'monnn /vent #at least i look cute tho #the fall air had me in a good mood too 🥲] #can we pls get proper transit funding tho thx

[malewifestation]

South Station Amtrak & Commuter rail

12/07/2023

#mbta #amtrak #trains #commuter rail #purple line dare i say #purple line #purple line mbta #commuter rail mbta #train #transit #commuter train #american rail #american train #american transit #boston #south station #boston south station #boston trains #boston transit #public transit #amtrak train #amtrak station

[lakeofsilverpike]

Rewatching the first three episodes. Today I am struck by the scene in 2x01 with Lan and Tomas. I have some angsty thoughts to share:

Lan says, “She wants me to leave.” I want to suggest that perhaps before Moiraine started trying to push Lan away by saying cruel things and ignoring him, she may have actually had a conversation in which she explained that she wants him to leave to protect him. He said no, and after a few more iterations of that conversation, Moiraine acknowledged to herself what she always knew, that asking wouldn’t work. That she would have to be so cruel as to drive Lan away from her.

It just makes my heart break more for her. Moiraine who maybe gave it a go with words, hoping she and Lan could part with their relationship intact, with words of love, and without Lan thinking she hates him. But Lan of course refused to leave and so Moiraine felt she had no choice but to push him away to try to save his life.

Lan tells Tomas that Lan needed the bond to tell him when “[Moiraine’s] tired, she’s hungry, she’s angry, she’s afraid.” It’s interesting to me that Moiraine can obviously still read Lan perfectly. Each jab and insult and attempt to push him away reflects her absolute understanding of him and what he’s feeling.

Lan tells Tomas that he is almost as stubborn as Moiraine. It’s like Lan knows he’s going to give in already, can feel that he’s let Moiraine wear him down. I’ve struggled with fully grasping why Lan is having trouble reading Moiraine here. I understand fully that he is hurt by her actions. I even understand why he might leave. But understanding why she was acting as she was - that seems to obvious. Lan, should be able to understand easily, should know that of course Moiraine does not believe he is beneath her or that he failed her. Just knowing Moiraine for twenty years, he should know. Looking at her face, her ridiculously expressive and open face as she speaks of meeting him. Lan should know her feelings for him and why she is acting as she is. There should be no doubt.

I think I’ve settled on a reading of Lan that he would normally be able to read Moiraine perfectly well without the bond, but he is so consumed by his own feelings of failure and guilt that he is unable to focus on Moiraine and her feelings and motivations fully. He feels he failed Moiraine. He gave in to his wish for a night of pleasure and that choice allowed Moiraine a chance to mask the bond when he would think that normal. Lan cannot get through to Moiraine. He cannot get her to talk to him. He cannot help ease her pain. He cannot give her back what she lost. And he takes this as his failure and focuses on himself and how he’s failed.

When Verin and Tomas at dinner encourage Lan to just sit with Moiraine and support her, this is what they are seeing. Lan’s guilt, while focused on Moiraine and his desire to help her, actually obscures him to what she is actually feeling and what she needs. He focuses on himself, what he’s done wrong, how he’s fails her, what Moiraine’s actions mean about him. And he struggles to see what her actions mean about her, her deep love for him, her willingness to sacrifice his love and support if it means Lan will live. Moiraine is simultaneously trying to cope with a tremendous loss and trying to push away Lan to save him. And I don’t think he fully sees this or understands it.

Sitting with Moiraine in silence may not have gotten Moiraine to be less determined to push Lan away as she believes it’s the only way to save his life. It may not have made her talk to Lan. But Lan sitting there and thinking about Moiraine, being open to seeing Moiraine, really seeing her as Lan has for twenty years, may have allowed him to understand Moiraine’s motivations. But I think he was too focused on what Moiraine’s pain and loss meant about Lan and who he is and his perceived failures. And ultimately that is what keeps him from understanding Moiraine in this moment and why she is doing what she is.

This is not a Lan blaming post. He’s doing his best. And Moiraine does know him incredibly well and can read him perfectly and so she hurts him with perfect precision. But man does she need a hug. Because Adeleas is right when she says Lan is taking things too personally. He blames himself for Moiraine being hurt because the loss of the bond impacts him and his feelings about his role in life, he is unable to truly see Moiraine. A woman who is coping with a life altering loss and also trying to save Lan and in doing so denying herself any support. Someone go hug Moiraine!

#wot meta #wot season 2 spoilers #moiraine sedai #lan mandragoran #this meta brought to you by a long commute on a semi functional public transit system #if anything I wrote doesn’t make sense #please accept my apologies #and allow me to blame the chaos of working in the American healthcare system #anyway someone go hug moiraine #Siuan! that means you! #then sit the two brooding idiots down and yell at them together #and make them hug

[civ5crab]

Bombardier Bilevel is a Canadian Bi Icon.

#trains #trainsit #bi #bisexual #bi selfie #go #go transit #government of Ontario transit #public transit #regional rail #pride month #lgbt pride #bi pride #Canada #Ontario #Toronto #196 #commuter rail

[girderednerve]

reading/listening to a book again, this time it's 'blood runs coal'

yes that's the book that they are supposedly going to adapt to star cillian murphy. it's about the murder of jock yablonski & his family. if you are unfamiliar, jock yablonski ran as a reform candidate in the UMWA in 1969, and was murdered along with his wife & daughter as the result of a conspiracy by the UMWA president, tony boyle. yablonski ran on a platform of union democracy & transparency, improved workplace safety (especially regarding black lung), increased pension benefits, & a more adversarial relationship with coal operators. the UMWA at this point was deeply, aggressively corrupt & its leadership often employed violence. in the early twentieth century, under the charismatic & tyrannical leadership of john l. lewis, UMWA was one of the most active & successful labor unions in the country, & it was one of the first to integrate. by the middle of the century, it had settled into a collaborative relationship with mine owners. blood runs coal opens with, of course, a detailed & horrifying description of the 1968 farmington mine disaster, in which 78 miners died on the job in a horrific underground explosion. boyle showed up to say it was unavoidable & to commend the company's safety record; need it be said, the disaster was not unavoidable & the company did not, in fact, have a commendable safety record, &, moreover, he made the speech to widows with 78 members of his union in pieces or suffocated to death on the job. farmington kicked off a huge pivot in labor organizing in appalachia, & was one of the catalysts of the black lung insurgency. which matters deeply, on its own & in connection with jock yablonski's legacy—arnold miller, the reform candidate who took the presidency in 1972 after the corrupt election jock yablonski lost & was murdered for, was one of the leaders of the black lung movement & a black lung sufferer himself.

anyway so far it's a pretty good book! i don't really care for true crime as a rule (ghoulish) & i am taking this book more as microhistory; it's still a little interested in crime details for me, &, surprise, i don't think it spends enough time talking about black lung. i'm only halfway through though & so far it has focused fairly tightly on its major characters (tony boyle, jock yablonski, yablonski's murderers), & i suspect the back half will spend more time on the broader labor context. this is not the order i would have gone in, but then i don't care about selling books to true crime enjoyers i care about black lung & labor history, & the broader context of labor organizing has not really been present in this book. i have been thinking a lot about what an active, engaged union can do & to some degree what it can't, which is interesting.

interested in your thoughts if you have read this book, or please feel free to recommend me a labor history book!!

#i can't read anything but fanfiction & essays with my eyes but i have been 'reading' a lot on my commute. so that's nice i guess #continualy upset about how recent this history is - how present. thinking also about the ongoing impoverishment of coal communities #no one should work in coal! we desperately need to leave that stuff in the ground! the industry is smaller & the workforce deunionized #so it's very unsafe & there is STILL no pathway to transitioning to more sustainable industry so people who live there can like. live #the next biggest industry in west virginia is fucking logging lmao. it's awful

[h0rnyh0rr0rs]

Eyeless Jack headcanon that came to mind on the bus:

When he’s bored he fidgets with the loose skin of his eyelids, since they’re too thin to retain their shape around the empty sockets. So it’s a fun, flimsy fidget toy that (hopefully) never gets lost! 💕💕

#creepypasta headcanon #eyeless jack x reader #I bet they itch oof #commute thoughts #enjoy the mental image :) #public transit activities #awful things

[woman-respecter]

apartment hunting in this city sucks

#i don't even know what neighborhood is good #and i wanna live somewhere close to public transit that would make my work commute not to bad #AND walkable #looking at slu but idk if thats best #girl help #i make enough that stuff isn't *prohibitively* expensive but its still pretty bad

[aryburn-trains]

A GO commuter train arrives at Toronto Union Station. These locos were sold to Amtrak in 1990. February 21, 1984

#commuter train #go transit #1984 #toronto #trains #passenger train #history #ontario

[waitineedaname]

btw if anyone is going to be at fanexpo in vancouver tomorrow. come say hi :]

#im excited!!! it's my first con!!!!! #im gonna miss the morning stuff bc ferry + public transit commute but hopefully there will still be plenty of stuff to do in the afternoon

[darrinjoakley]

Boylston Station

#boston massachusetts #commuter train #trains #transit #doors #underground #commute #commuter

[haystarlight]

What if we're bus drivers, and we stopped in the middle of the street and opened the windows to say hi to each other, and now everyone inside both buses is late, and we're both boys 😳😳😳😳😳🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌

#public transit #public transportation #public transport #bus #commute #gay #we're both girls meme

[spockvarietyhour]

Train’s here.

#The Commuter #The Commuter (2018) #public transit at its finest #train #locomotive #we're mostly here! #GIF #my gifs #thecommuteredit #Danny watches The Commuter