I saw that ad and immediately thought of you, Torch.

Whelp. Now I’m really gonna have to watch this movie. You could say I’m a ham for alternate dimensions.

I prefer the reclaiming that one person in our Handmaids Tale Dragoncon Costuming group does: she has one of those inflatable T-Rex costumes, and made herself Ofrex. Nothing is funnier than the waving, wobbling, white-bonneted head of an inflatable T Rex bopping along as she runs along the side of our somber group…

Yeah, tho the company is owned by Talbots now, so my mom just shifted over thataway. So now my jeans are Talbots jeans, cause my mom will never stop shopping, and she loves taking me with and buying me things. I do miss how pretty the Coldwater Creek stores were, and they always knew my mom. She has had to return tops…

Ooooo I was NOT fashionable for many years. So this is the mid-90's, haven of all things burgundy and hunter green. And I LOVED burgundy and hunter green. I also was a big fantasy and sci-fi nerd. This is relevant.

Usually they mean state coastal lines, in a hurricane situation. The evacuation is taking place more inland, I think, outside of the mandatory evacuation route. But I may be wrong. SC does things weird. I’m in NC, and our governer is not playing around.

Came for this, was glad to not be disappointed.

Senior year of high school, 1998. and I’m working at a restaurant. I had to go in for an early morning meeting right before working a double on a Saturday, so I was already a bit miffed. I was heading back home for a couple of hours before shift started, and was crossing the main intersection. The light turned green,…

I live and work in Raleigh, NC, and for a year or so we had a lady who would come into our store whom we knew as the “ma’am” lady. She HATED when people would call her ma’am, which must have meant that everywhere she went she was screaming at everyone, cause this is the South, and it’s ingrained into most everybody to…

What confuses me is why ECU didn’t just make their virtual campus ALL pirate ship. Just a huge pirate ship full of classrooms. Too many prims maybe?

Didn’t he sell the Wagoneer cause he plans to devote his time to the Golden Eagle?

There already is a cheaper generic version of the epi-pen. It is the auto-epinephrine injector and it costs 100 bucks no insurance, and with my insurance it cost me 7 bucks. Epi Pen was $100 WITH insurance. Fuck Epi-Pen. Fuck Mylan in the ass. They lobbied so the pharmacy cannot just substitute the generic like most…

Rats can totally be litter-box trained and are smarter than most dogs. The catch is, they are so small that they can’t do many helpful tasks. They are good for emotional support and could probably be trained in seizure detection, but they can’t do much else. Now, outside of personal support, rats are used to detect…

Also, you get addiction treatment in jail.

Speaking out of turn? Really. The children whose lives are being vastly affected by gun violence are speaking out of turn when they actively speak against the gun violence that’s killing them? I bet you think that the kids protesting the vietnam war were also speaking out of turn.

I assume it’s the same rule my father applies to buying used appliances, “You are inheriting someone else’s problems.” 

I almost forgot about that. The road to space is filled with crap like that. It’s a wonder more people haven’t died, tbh.

But splotches of what? Organic, inorganic, regardless the chemistry involved in fascinating! Venus is an incredibly fascinating, if sometimes somewhat depressing, world. And the parallels to earth are notable. Earth could have been Venus, if one thing goes horribly wrong or a lot of things go a little less horribly…

It wasn’t even a training simulator. It WAS Apollo 1. They were doing a systems check of the spacecraft on the landing pad, strapped in. They were having a lot of electrical gremlins and radio issues, so they had been strapped in for over 5 hours at that point. What really got them was 1. the speed of the fire (most…

Quality kinja right there.