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the opposite of self care is reading articles about hikers disappearing under mysterious circumstances in the dark but feminism means i don't have to take care of myself if i don't want to
the opposite of self care is reading articles about hikers disappearing under mysterious circumstances in the dark but feminism means i don’t have to take care of myself if i don’t want to
Tbh I think that when an autistic person says something and you interpret it in a way you think is offensive and then the autistic person is like “no I didn’t mean it that way” you should probably just consider the possibility that they actually didn’t mean it that way instead of preparing the pyre
Did You Know: There are usually four different spouse reactions types to houses you can live in; Arrogant, Neutral, Nord, or Orc? The reactions for a player-built house, for example:
Arrogant: “Fine, when we’re not fending off attacks by wolves. Or bears. Or giant spiders. Honestly, what were you thinking, sending us out here?”
Neutral: “Fine, love. I think the fresh air does wonders for all of us, and this house… it’s just perfect.”
Nord: “Fine, fine. Living out here on our own will take some getting used to, but I think it’ll be good for us.”
Orc: “Better than ever. Nothing like living off the land to teach you how to fight, how to survive. We’ll have a little warrior on our hands in no time.”
Once again, Orcs prove to be the superior option.
non-orcs: the house you built for me with your own hands is fine… I guess…
orcs: this place is awesome but it’s gonna be even better once we’ve fucked on every horizontal surface
was gonna make a comp of stuff from the various interesting things from th various muppet style guides but this one hit so hard i had t post it on its own
I love this meme because I think humans 10,000 years ago or 100,000 years ago would also like it
the heat of the fire draws air straight up from the center over the fire. This draws the air in from the sides in a circle around the fire creating an air current, which means air is being blown toward the fire from all sides. When you sit on one side of the fire, it blocks some of the air moving toward the fire from that side. Now there is more air being blown toward the fire from the side opposite you. This pushes the smoke your direction. When you move to the other side, it just makes the same thing happen over there. The smoke actually literally does follow you around no matter where you sit. Because physics.
in other words what you actually need at the fire is other people sitting around the fire with you to balance it out ;~;
yesterday my friend hit me with the brilliant “connected the dots” moment of going like, hey, you know how the hobbits in the shire are doing weirdly well in material culture/leisure/political ease compared to the rest of Middle Earth? They have a museum… they have silver spoons… they have a super chill governing class rarely seen in agricultural societies…
Okay, you know how they have potatoes even though potatoes shouldn’t exist in old world prehistoric europe?
so what if the potatoes are the reason hobbits are doing so well
My friend actually looked up the math and iirc the amount of calories per acre you get from wheat is like… 4 million calories. The calories you get from one acre of potatoes is like 18 million calories. That’s an INSANE increase, that’s more than wheat squared. To a degree, the same thing happened in real life when new world crops were introduced to Europe. If you can put in the same amount of labor to get exponentially more calories for your community, you’re going to have a lot more leisure time and handcrafting time! More time for specialization, less need for every person to be involved in agriculture.
for my part I want to add, the original conceit of LOTR is that Tolkien is translating and localizing a story from an ancient text. So it may not be that they have literally got potatoes like we have now, but that they have some staple crop best understood in comparison to the mighty potato.
