"fanfiction isn't meant to be serious work, it's just silly escapism" "fanfiction can't be written like a novel" "fanfiction doesn't need literary qualities-- it's not meant to have them"
knightingale-s
I’m sorry. Your url is amazing. But you’re still a bot.
qserasera
amarguerite
we justifiably give Biden a lot of shit but I think "at least 3" is the funniest possible response to some right wing dipshit asking you how many genders there are
wait it gets better
bagofbirds
gulabijamuns
snazzyscarf
people trying to insist a fandom is tiny when it /only/ has a few thousand works on ao3 meanwhile my current fandom is a sixteen book series and has several hundred fewer works than goncharov, a movie that, and i cannot stress this enough, doesn’t even exist
#measuring the size of fandoms based on their goncharov index#this has been a useless text post you may now resume your normal programming#rote has a goncharov index of 0.63#for perspective ofmd has an index of 26.5#spn’s is 360.8#the cosmere is 2.26 for a fantasy book comparison#i am very normal
The Goncharov Index, everyone.
htbthomas
buginateacup
I spent that whole board meeting SO STRESSED that they were going to humanize Rupert and then to see his entire face fall as he realised what he'd lost just YES
That is how you do it!
That is the Lasso way!
THAT IS TOTAL FOOTBALL!
stealing @sweetrevelation‘s tags here because that is exactly my point!
Rupert has been such a one dimensional Villain the whole time that to see the show bring out his humanity so his downfall is a loss to HIMSELF and not a vindictive spiteful party on the viewers end (okay maybe a little vindictive) is how Ted Lasso as a show operates!
Winning against Rupert was never going to be as satisfying as seeing him recognise what he lost. We would never have complained if they did it the other way but I am so grateful the show decided to play it the way they did!
antique-romantic
chlostars
dailyflicks
#one thing I love about Jeff is that his response to a crisis is to jam out in his car
htbthomas
wilwheaton
we figured out Roman concrete btw. This is the only thing on my mind
Oh? Do tell?
HOKAY. Doing this in layman’s terms because I could not explain the chemistry in detail if I tried. Pls forgive if I’m a little off in the explanation because idk chem lol
So we’ve been trying to figure out why the fuck Roman concrete has held up so long, right? Our concrete lasts maybe like ten years before it looks like it took a wrecking ball to the face. And even then, our roads suck in general. Universally. Potholes. Everywhere.
Roman concrete has lasted two thousand years. Or more. Depends on where you go.
Now a bunch of scientists took chunks of concrete and threw a bunch of waves at it to figure out the composition, and turns out the concrete has lime in it. At first they were like “Huh, that’s weird, why are these imperfections in this super durable long-lasting concrete?”
So anyways they dismissed the lime, and they also figured out that Roman concrete is suuuuuper strong in water. Like it gets stronger in water. Compare that to our shitty ass concrete. Our concrete suffers in water. It’s shit. Our concrete is a middle-schooler’s newspaper bridge project compared to the Bifrost that is Roman concrete.
Now, because chemical composition is fairly easy to figure out, they found volcanic ash. We don’t have volcanic ash in our concrete (as far as I know), so idk I guess they thought that was the differential factor that made Roman concrete so strong. To my understanding, the Romans used hydraulic mortar rather than aerial mortar. Hydraulic mortar could harden with hydration and reactive silicates, whereas aerial mortar needed exposure to the air and was weaker.
Now, remember those imperfections I mentioned earlier? Lime is very, very weak. You ever felt limestone? Yeah. You get it. So it’s not hard to figure out why we thought these were actually imperfections in otherwise amazing, god-like, S-tier concrete. We used to think it was slaked lime, which is just lime paste.
One of the labs involved in the research developed a chemical mapping technique that allowed them to determine the exact makeup and type of lime present in the concrete. They figured out that this particular form of lime might have been quicklime, which is extremely brittle and very reactive. Quicklime forms at extremely high temperatures. We mix our concrete cold. Another common modern L.
In short, the Romans engineered preferential pathways for faults in the concrete to pass through the lime, which would react to hydration and recrystallize as more lime (calcium carbonate) and heal itself.
This is groundbreaking. I’m so amazed. Here’s the MIT publication, and here’s the journal article.
Ah, I see, road fuseboxes.
Basically yeah! Especially if those fuseboxes are filled with quick hardening foam and look like they were left there by accident, except they’re everywhere so they couldn’t possibly be an accident.
Apparently they’re already working on methods of adapting this kind of concrete for modern use. We could potentially fix the US’s crumbling infrastructure and simultaneously upgrade to vastly superior long-lasting materials.
@corrodedcoffindisbanded it’s 8:30am this made me laugh so hard I woke up
cc: @petermorwood
tiktoksthataregood-ishchlostars
whencartoonsruletheworld
Yellowjackets (2021) created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson
Next to Normal (2008) dir. Brian Yorkey
"He's not here. I am here!"
sagechan
majoringinsarcasm
Once again, I hope SAG strikes too
We could lose acting, filmmaking, television as we know it.
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sagechan
kenmagoesblep
ALT
Short-staffing has become a major problem in all sectors. Retail, food service, health care, education, factory production lines, call centers, child care, IT, office support staff, etc. Every corner of our society and economy.
Now we know that even in creative spaces employers are not willing to hire sufficient staff to accomplish necessary tasks, demand workers do more than their fair share of work, for longer hours, without fair compensation or reasonable breaks/time off.
This needs to stop.
