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You will never convince me that Lio didn't have a juvenile arrest record that ran onto a third page.

#i mean just look at this guy #lio fotia #promare #am i in another fandom now? eh maybe #this is by no means a condemnation

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Upon reflection, I have to say that my favorite character type is "I Have had a Shitty Day/Week/Life, and Yours is About to get Much Worse."

#just something about righteous anger i dunno

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If you feel like it, reblog with your answer + what country you're from.

I found "rare" was the default unless you specified otherwise where I lived in Japan, while in the United States I can't find a restaurant that will even serve a genuinely rare steak.

EDIT: I forgot to add an "I don't eat steak" option. I'm sorry!

Reference photos (under the read more)

Ignore what the second reference photo says about medium-rare being preferred. You eat what you like.

#us #I don’t eat beef these days

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Announcing the theme for Terry Pratchett Day 2024: START IN THE WRONG PLACE.

You'll hear people say time and time again that you can start anywhere with Terry Pratchett's work, but don't start in the right place*, so let's truly embrace the joy and chaos to be found in the many routes through Discworld and beyond.

We will be making Sunday 28th April, Sir Terry Pratchett's birthday, one brimming with bookish delight, celebrating the many ways we love and travel through his work, and we're inviting you to join us.

Follow along with The Terry Pratchett Estate to stay up to date. We will be sharing more ahead of the weekend on how to get involved.

*A lot of people say the right place is anything but the right place, which in turn, may make it an equally wrong place...

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"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

#nice #trees

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Kuniyoshi Utagawa: The sailor Tokuso and the sea monster

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The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

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So today I got a rather unkind comment on AO3 (one could call it hate), but I believe it to be a bot for several reasons:

Guest account, but username attached

Said username exists but person is unlikely to be reading Tolkien fic (according to their Tumblr and AO3, they are in other fandoms)

Two grammatically correct sentences

Super generic text that could apply to any fic:

"I've seen better fanfiction written by a toddler. Get it together!"

I'm curious, did anyone else get comments like this? Let me know.

And to those who have gotten rude comments and are now worried/upset: Maybe it was just a bot too. Either way: You're awesome for putting your writing out there for others to enjoy and you don't deserve to get rude comments for it. If you want feel free to message me to compare cases and discuss details :)

#sheesh

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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#hate them #if i ever take a nap you know i'm sick

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#some dude at a ford #bit character by nature

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(Untitled Watercolor) by Mary Whyte

#art

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May 2024 be the year that your hard work bears fruit in abundance

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I think kafka’s diaries are the strongest evidence that journaling is not necessarily good for your mental health

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Mystic Aquarium this morning. Holy $$$ but a very cool place.

#b vacates

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Submerged monolithic Lapita statue in the island of Palau located in the western Pacific Ocean. Could be as old as 4500 years.. “The relics of Lapita people can still be found throughout the Palau islands in the form of Ancient Stone Pathways, Symbolic Monoliths, and the Terraced Landscape of Babeldaob.”

#art #interesting

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Drew myself a little board game to mix up my tbr list this year. It's not the most elaborate design, but I just wanted to scribble it down in an hour or so. I took the inspiration from those bookopoly boards, but changed it because my goal is not to collect points for reading but to pick books from my tbr "at random". Now every time I finish a book, I get to roll a dice and find a book in my tbr list that fits the personalized categories. It's been fun so far.

#what a fun idea