sometimes it's not even enemies to lovers. sometimes you get handed the leash of a snarling, barking dog against your will and realize with dawning horror that you are now responsible for teaching it not to bite
#and it looooooves you
(tags by @quarra)
An email came out in the hours approaching April Fools
A video was attached to the email, which can be viewed here:
The video is on Kilbyβs channel and not the long dead Nanowrimo channel. The video is full ofβ¦
Kilby logic, but there is some relevant information contained within.
Despite everything that the organisation has been through, the closure of a 25 year old nonprofit is still a tragedy, and my heart goes out to everyone thatβs grieving from this. Nano has hurt a lot of people, but it meant a lot to so many, and I will be sorry to see that go.
Even if I donβt agree with many things in the recent video, I can agree with the sentiment of one slide.
I will update you all if and when relevant information comes out. Despite everything, I now doubt that this will be my last post.
me giving affection: oh man i really hope im not like overstepping my boundaries here. what if i make them uncomfortable? do they feel obligated to say thank you? am i going too far and scaring them? what if iβm annoying?
me receiving affection: AAAAAAAAA!!!!! AAAAAAA!A!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAA
They are both terrible at this but somehow work it out
In this hell of a season
Give me more of a reason
To be with you
and to be clear NaNoWriMo closing is genuinely really sad. I've just already done my grieving for it. I wish it hadn't happened this way, but NaNo's fall was determined as soon as Kilby took over.
A lot of MLs did take off and make their own groups though. If any participants are reading this who want to continue NaNo participation, check out the reddit!! Lots of people did it from there and many former volunteers for the org are there and if you ask "is anyone from my region still doing nano" I bet you'll get some replies, or find someone doing it in discord.
Keep writing! NaNoWriMo was us, it wasn't HQ.
All this
april fools you look cute everyday keep it upΒ
Alright letβs get this over with
Every year the notes on this post make me so happy
>:o)
calm down guys, it's only the 8th
Buffy the Vampire Slayer β 4.01: The Freshman
Just wanted to share some shockingly good news in these difficult times. The full article is really worth reading. [Find it here]
Itβs that time of the year again
*2069 slutty slutty years
It's so, SO important to share success stories like this. I know an actual JPL engineer who doesn't believe in climate change because, "you never hear about acid rain anymore."
He thinks climate change can be lumped in with acid rain and the ozone layer of "things that were overblown and not really important because no one talks about it anymore."
It didn't even occur to him that we actively fixed the problem. Here's the EPA page on acid rainfall.
From the page:
It's also important to talk about success stories tonfuel hope that we can overcome current and future conservation and environmental issues.
Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."
This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find
Some people get existential dread from this
Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating
@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally
And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history
Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)
This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.
And our history may date back even further, as some suspect we may actually have people with oral histories dating back 100,000 years, before humans migrated out of Africa!
The reason we suspect this is because of myths from all around the world regarding the constellation of the Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades. Despite numerous myths depicting them as seven sisters, the naked eye can only see six stars in that constellation, and in fact several of those myths include something about one of the sisters being lost to explain this mismatch.
Well it turns out that the Pleiades actually has seven stars bright enough to see with the naked eye, it's just that two of them, Pleione and Atlas, are too close together to be distinguished by the naked eye. But that wasn't always the case! 100,000 years ago, these two stars were farther away from each other to the point where observers could tell them apart. This suggests that the tale of the Seven Sisters might be one of the oldest stories told in humanity, coming from the oral culture of humans before we even left Africa!
The cultural legacy of humanity is a product of a much longer span of time than we imagine, and many, many more civilizations and peoples than we know
