In a definitely related fact, I want you all to know that I found that Thor gif by giphy randomizing. I started with Thor, got a boring gif, went to Hot Thor, got a Thor/Loki gif, and then typed in Hottest Thor and got the above gif.
Mosquitos are assholes. All hail the window netting!
Unrelatedly, it's midday and I've yet to get out of bed. I have a todo list as long as my forearm and I'm avoiding all of it in favour of reading absurd SPN porn and finding out wtf this place is.
Haha, me too. Although in my case it was that recs thread on fandom permanon... I ended up revisiting a lot of fanoms of my past and finding fic I'd never read/haven't read in literally a decade.
I missed the giphy party and am afraid to look in that thread now considering my internet falls over and cries if I try to load, like, more than two posts at once on Tumblr. How does this giphy thing work?
Greenland has like a billion mosquitoes and they are the size of B52s and it SUCKS. There are parts of the year in Thule where if you go outside without literal bug nets and safari hats, you can't walk for the clouds of them.
They'll also bite through denim and polyester fleece. Basically, Arctic mosquitoes are the literal worst.
(Interesting, they weren't as much of a problem until the 90s when Denmark and Qanaaq asked the US Air Force to pretty please stop spraying insecticides wholesale over the entire Thule Defense Area...)
I wonder if people on meme know me as "useless facts about northern Greenland nonny."
Interesting. I'm not a climatologist and the only thing I know about the weather is the weather guy's name, but I will say I've seen temperatures as low as -60 F and as high as +60 F, and since there is a definite muddy season between July-Sunset in late August, I don't know how that works out.
About 4 years ago, the Air Force sent a pair of entomologists and the one guy took a bunch of larva back with him all excited about sugar in their sacks or something that kept them from freezing through. I expect, also, that the breeding season has been getting steadily longer in the last decade or so, if you just kind of look at the ice/melt trends on the NSIDC website, so more eggs get laid and then more eggs have a chance of making it back through to next muddy season?
Oops, I think I misread you: did you mean since Iceland doesn't hard freeze in september and then stay that way forever until may/june? Because I read it as like, it never thaws in Greenland which is a common misconception due to the old joke about Iceland/Greenland being opposites, but in fact with the lichen on the rocks and the tundra plants, Greenland is stunningly and beautifully green in daytime.
Bleach nonnie back to say that the spoilers were real and fandom is burning in one last shipping war. For once I can find Bleach-related posts in the Bleach tag on tumblr and the tears are pretty amazing. Between the tumblr shipping Discourse, reddit weeping, and /a/rguments over who got cucked I've been busy all morning.
tbh though I'm getting pretty salty too. A lot of shit's getting flung at Renji and somehow I managed to draw enough indignant hatred from a well of Renji stanning I thought had dried up years ago. (ALSO SALTY ABOUT ISHIDA. SON, YOU DESERVED BETTER.)
I'm actually still boggling that it really happened.
I said this in the other thread, but I literally can't think of any other big shonen manga that so clearly telegraphed its romantic leads and then didn't go with them. I mean, even Naruto, after all the nonsense with Sasuke, ended up right back at SakuSasu and NaruHina!
Yeah I've been trying to think of one since you mentioned it in the other thread and I got nothin.
I mean, not that IchiHime had nothing going for them (they were childhood friends, Orihime was very clear about her love for Ichigo, and the manga leaned more IchiHime in the later arcs imo), but just the way Ichigo and Rukia met seemed like the classic setup for endgame couple so it is pretty surprising. tbh I didn't think Kubo would confirm any ships at all which is why I thought the spoilers were bullshit but lol, shows me. I should never have doubted his trolling abilities.
I once heard of an exchange student from Iceland who wasn't used to our (italian) mosquitoes, so when she was bitten the mosquito bite became so big it covered a good chunk of her forearm in length.
(Sorry for the gross anecdote).
Actually, it's not uncommon for people to end up with unusually severe reactions to mosquito bites when they travel. Something about new species of mosquitoes and your immune system having a meltdown over it.
I only know this because my last tropical vacation got me hard, raised red lumps from bites that looked like bullseyes, and on googling found that it was normal and not a sign that I was dying.
I had the same thing happen to me on my first ever tropical vacation! I'd never had an allergic reaction to mosquito bites before, even though I get bitten all the time at home.
Now I'm allergic to the ones here at home too, though. I have absolutely no understanding of immunology, so I'm assuming the tropical mosquitoes left me vulnerable to temporary demonic possession by their evil northern cousins.
Nah, it's not what they did, it's just old stomping grounds on ranking rappers.
Started off as Eminem isn't "Rap God" because he's was just a good lyricist, not at all the components of rap (no one contested the not a Rap God bit, but the did contest that one had to be good at all the components equally to get the title). And someone brought up TuPac as a better one, and the shit got real when another person suggested Lil' Wayne had the best metaphor in his lyrics in the last 20 years, which really took the discussion from engaged to RL wank storm. (though, it was always on the verge because of Eminem)
Then it fragmented into different topics from there. To the pedestal that over-exposed white rappers get as ~elevating the medium while people ignore the tons of talented underground rappers and dismiss the rappers that aren't perceived as "black enough" in their subject matter (My interjection that Donald Glover is a mastermind of insane metaphor as a rebuttal to Lil Wayne and Drake being entirely too into his feelings).
Then there was the TuPac didn't reach his peak potential, and mentions of Lupe Fiasco having the most skill and Kayne being a fucking genius for having him feature in his songs, which of course brought more people into it, until it become a shouting match of opinions. But in a fun way!
They told me to come in yesterday because it would be in for sure, I waited another day to stay on the safe side and yet! Tomorrow I'll call and check before going in, I don't wanna waste another morning like that.
Yeah that happens with my doctor as well. Just like, "Okay come in on Wednesday to pick up the results," and then, "Oh no, maybe tomorrow" for days. I wonder if it's just part of running a clinic. But yeah good idea to call it in next time. I should remember that too. ;;
I know they're overworked and I kinda feel like an ass for complaining, but this happens all the time. I'm on holiday now, but during the rest of the year I have to get up an hour earlier to go to the clinic and it's just a PITA, you know?
Oh I feel you. I get it too, that it's a lot of work to keep up a clinic, but it doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult to tell patients they'll be notified when they have to pick something up instead of giving dates that may or may not be right. Isn't this 2016? Can't you just email me when you get it??
/unexpectedly has a lot of feelings about this even though I haven't gone to the doctor for a while now
I hope my recip doesn't shake it before I've edited it. It's just a few words over 1k. But the rough draft's done and uploaded, and it's not total crap, so now I can breathe a little easier.
In a definitely related fact, I want you all to know that I found that Thor gif by giphy randomizing. I started with Thor, got a boring gif, went to Hot Thor, got a Thor/Loki gif, and then typed in Hottest Thor and got the above gif.
Well done Giphy!
Mosquitos are assholes. All hail the window netting!
Unrelatedly, it's midday and I've yet to get out of bed. I have a todo list as long as my forearm and I'm avoiding all of it in favour of reading absurd SPN porn and finding out wtf this place is.
Haha, me too. Although in my case it was that recs thread on fandom permanon... I ended up revisiting a lot of fanoms of my past and finding fic I'd never read/haven't read in literally a decade.
Fandom nostalgia is the best kind of nostalgia :D
I started a comm! /mm_library , for discussing original m/m works. Please join and help me get it off the ground.
Yay! I saw your post about that on FFA - glad you decided to go through with it.
Yesss! /joins
I missed the giphy party and am afraid to look in that thread now considering my internet falls over and cries if I try to load, like, more than two posts at once on Tumblr. How does this giphy thing work?
Okay, like that. Well, that was simple. (Also, suddenly I see a use for the bug/feature of being able to like your own posts.)
That gif is awesome :3
Greenland has like a billion mosquitoes and they are the size of B52s and it SUCKS. There are parts of the year in Thule where if you go outside without literal bug nets and safari hats, you can't walk for the clouds of them.
They'll also bite through denim and polyester fleece. Basically, Arctic mosquitoes are the literal worst.
(Interesting, they weren't as much of a problem until the 90s when Denmark and Qanaaq asked the US Air Force to pretty please stop spraying insecticides wholesale over the entire Thule Defense Area...)
I wonder if people on meme know me as "useless facts about northern Greenland nonny."
Apparently you can blame your consistent weather for that. It's thought that Iceland's lack is due to their winter freeze-thaw cycle.
Personally I'm going with direct Act of Thor, though.
Interesting. I'm not a climatologist and the only thing I know about the weather is the weather guy's name, but I will say I've seen temperatures as low as -60 F and as high as +60 F, and since there is a definite muddy season between July-Sunset in late August, I don't know how that works out.
About 4 years ago, the Air Force sent a pair of entomologists and the one guy took a bunch of larva back with him all excited about sugar in their sacks or something that kept them from freezing through. I expect, also, that the breeding season has been getting steadily longer in the last decade or so, if you just kind of look at the ice/melt trends on the NSIDC website, so more eggs get laid and then more eggs have a chance of making it back through to next muddy season?
Oops, I think I misread you: did you mean since Iceland doesn't hard freeze in september and then stay that way forever until may/june? Because I read it as like, it never thaws in Greenland which is a common misconception due to the old joke about Iceland/Greenland being opposites, but in fact with the lichen on the rocks and the tundra plants, Greenland is stunningly and beautifully green in daytime.
I meant the first! I was reading this article about it.
I'd actually love to go to Greenland--I have a deep love for glacial icesheets and Greenland is one of the two places in the world that still has one.
I will admit that I have never thought much about what the parts of Greenland that aren't covered in ice look like...
Do you have any good pictures?
http://imgur.com/a/y1vOC
Some of the most beautiful ones I took, and also a really blurry one of a mama polar bear and babies.
Oh gorgeous. That is some pretty, pretty landscape.
It is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful places I have ever set foot.
Wow those pics are gorgeous!
Follow-up doctor's appointment in a couple hours. Here's hoping everything is thumbs-up.
Good luck, nonnie. ♥
Thank you, nonnie! Everything looks good and biopsied lump was benign. WHEW.
Yay! So glad to hear that, nonnie!
Fingers crossed!
Thanks, nonnie! Everything is good and benign!
That's so awesome, I'm really glad!
ETA: That's... Not what I had in mind /o\
I just choked on my lemonade oh my god.
(But also I'm glad that everything is okay!)
Is that...a shark attacking a dolphin that they're trying to return to the ocean? Because if so, that is the most ironic thing I've seen all week.
Looks like it! I wonder what the source is. I hope it's a movie, because it's freaky seeing shark jump that fucking high >_>
Bleach nonnie back to say that the spoilers were real and fandom is burning in one last shipping war. For once I can find Bleach-related posts in the Bleach tag on tumblr and the tears are pretty amazing. Between the tumblr shipping
Discourse, reddit weeping, and /a/rguments over who got cucked I've been busy all morning.tbh though I'm getting pretty salty too. A lot of shit's getting flung at Renji and somehow I managed to draw enough indignant hatred from a well of Renji stanning I thought had dried up years ago. (ALSO SALTY ABOUT ISHIDA. SON, YOU DESERVED BETTER.)
Also some links since I promised them and also I need someone to take some of this salt before my blood vessels pop:
tumblr:
reddit:
/a/ (obvi read at your own risk):
Nonnie you're a star! /dives right in
SUCH a gentlenonnie!
Oh my god the reddit thread. A mod participating in all the wank, everybody gloating about their ships... This is hilarious.
Thank you for the links, nonny!
I'm actually still boggling that it really happened.
I said this in the other thread, but I literally can't think of any other big shonen manga that so clearly telegraphed its romantic leads and then didn't go with them. I mean, even Naruto, after all the nonsense with Sasuke, ended up right back at SakuSasu and NaruHina!
Yeah I've been trying to think of one since you mentioned it in the other thread and I got nothin.
I mean, not that IchiHime had nothing going for them (they were childhood friends, Orihime was very clear about her love for Ichigo, and the manga leaned more IchiHime in the later arcs imo), but just the way Ichigo and Rukia met seemed like the classic setup for endgame couple so it is pretty surprising. tbh I didn't think Kubo would confirm any ships at all which is why I thought the spoilers were bullshit but lol, shows me. I should never have doubted his trolling abilities.
Yeah like the twelve-year-old in me is appalled but this is probably the first original plot decision Bleach has ever made.
LUCK DUCKS.
I AM SO JEALOUS
OH GOD, a friend is watching Supernatural for the first time. And they are infecting their friends with it.
Have I not suffered enough. ;~;
Tell them to run, run while can ;A;
I once heard of an exchange student from Iceland who wasn't used to our (italian) mosquitoes, so when she was bitten the mosquito bite became so big it covered a good chunk of her forearm in length. (Sorry for the gross anecdote).
Poor her, that sounds terrible and really itchy! Maybe she was allergic? But yeah, our mosquitoes can be a real pain...
Actually, it's not uncommon for people to end up with unusually severe reactions to mosquito bites when they travel. Something about new species of mosquitoes and your immune system having a meltdown over it.
I only know this because my last tropical vacation got me hard, raised red lumps from bites that looked like bullseyes, and on googling found that it was normal and not a sign that I was dying.
I didn't know that but it makes sense now that I think about it.
Fun additional fact! The UK has 28 species of mosquito.
And they're all evil - nonnie who lives right on a river and by a bunch of lakes and is currently nursing a bunch of nasty bites.
I had the same thing happen to me on my first ever tropical vacation! I'd never had an allergic reaction to mosquito bites before, even though I get bitten all the time at home.
Now I'm allergic to the ones here at home too, though. I have absolutely no understanding of immunology, so I'm assuming the tropical mosquitoes left me vulnerable to temporary demonic possession by their evil northern cousins.
Sounds legit.
I miss Thor's helmet :(
Well, now I have to move to Iceland.
Anyone else thinking about signing up to rec stuff on /fandom_dealer? I'm kind of considering it. I miss when resources like crack_van were a thing.
I definitely want to write something but I don't know what I'm best suited to do a primer for yet...
Man, I'm enjoying this RL rapper wank.
Details? Who's doing what this time? :D
Nah, it's not what they did, it's just old stomping grounds on ranking rappers.
Started off as Eminem isn't "Rap God" because he's was just a good lyricist, not at all the components of rap (no one contested the not a Rap God bit, but the did contest that one had to be good at all the components equally to get the title). And someone brought up TuPac as a better one, and the shit got real when another person suggested Lil' Wayne had the best metaphor in his lyrics in the last 20 years, which really took the discussion from engaged to RL wank storm. (though, it was always on the verge because of Eminem)
Then it fragmented into different topics from there. To the pedestal that over-exposed white rappers get as ~elevating the medium while people ignore the tons of talented underground rappers and dismiss the rappers that aren't perceived as "black enough" in their subject matter (My interjection that Donald Glover is a mastermind of insane metaphor as a rebuttal to Lil Wayne and Drake being entirely too into his feelings).
Then there was the TuPac didn't reach his peak potential, and mentions of Lupe Fiasco having the most skill and Kayne being a fucking genius for having him feature in his songs, which of course brought more people into it, until it become a shouting match of opinions. But in a fun way!
Daddy Kink wank was not a thing I was expecting meme to go for, I tell you what.
Don't you know, we can wank about anything!
Apparently I didn't. I still kinda shocked that think/thing is a wanky topic as well.
That's a pinnacle of wank.
The think/thing wank was one of my faves, although the latest linguistic wank has been interesting too, Y'ALL
Think/thing wank makes me twitch, the meme wanks aren't so bad as the versions I've seen on some linguistics forums.
This morning I went to the doctor to grab the result of my ECG but it wasn't there yet, so I'll have to go in again tomorrow. /grumble grumble
Aw I hate when that happens, man. :/ You'd think they'd just call you when things are actually in but no.
They told me to come in yesterday because it would be in for sure, I waited another day to stay on the safe side and yet! Tomorrow I'll call and check before going in, I don't wanna waste another morning like that.
Yeah that happens with my doctor as well. Just like, "Okay come in on Wednesday to pick up the results," and then, "Oh no, maybe tomorrow" for days. I wonder if it's just part of running a clinic. But yeah good idea to call it in next time. I should remember that too. ;;
I know they're overworked and I kinda feel like an ass for complaining, but this happens all the time. I'm on holiday now, but during the rest of the year I have to get up an hour earlier to go to the clinic and it's just a PITA, you know?
Oh I feel you. I get it too, that it's a lot of work to keep up a clinic, but it doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult to tell patients they'll be notified when they have to pick something up instead of giving dates that may or may not be right. Isn't this 2016? Can't you just email me when you get it??
/unexpectedly has a lot of feelings about this even though I haven't gone to the doctor for a while now
Ahg, I'm up past midnight... >.<
Keep it up nonny, you're halfway to sunrise!
All I want to write right now is my Iddy Iddy Bang Bang fic. But I need to finish my Rare Pairs fic. Dammit.
Fifty more words and I can throw this thing on AO3 and work on something else for a little bit before editing. It's like pulling teeth, ughhhhhh...
You're almost there nonnie! 50 words are nothing, you can do it! ヾ(❁´◡`❁)ノ
Done! Thanks, nonnie!
I hope my recip doesn't shake it before I've edited it. It's just a few words over 1k. But the rough draft's done and uploaded, and it's not total crap, so now I can breathe a little easier.
You did great! : )