uncomfortably cold and paranoid

Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away

That is the grin of a man who knew the flute was going to cause awful miasma

Even without words, we communicate through our eyes.

And some highlights from the notes:

The biggest misconception in public schools is that literary analysis is about proving you can be right or wrong about a book you read

Literary analysis isn’t about the book

It’s not even about being right

It’s about performing an investigation and presenting your case to the jury

It doesn’t matter if your defendant killed that guy or not. If you can convince the jury he didn’t, you’ve won

And the incredible life skill of spinning bulletproof bullshit out your ass with a handful of facts and a prayer is soooooooo much more valuable than anyone’s ever gonna tell you

If the average tweenager knew that good media analysis meant you could force your English teacher to admit that fuckin- (rolls dice) What’s Eating Gilber Grape is a metaphor for (rolls dice again) Why the crack cocaine epidemic is good actually- we would have far better literacy and critical thinking skills as a nation. And I stand by that

You could develop the magical psychic and illusory power to force the middle aged bitchfuck who makes you raise your hand and beg for permission to take a shit accept the premise that Cocomelon is a subversive and scathing artistic commentary on the pitfalls of modern democracy. Chat GPT essay engines are stealing this from you

There is a volcano outside my hometown, looking very rumbly and explody, (very scientific geomorphologic terms there) and people are all upset and nervy about it.

So what I'm wondering is if my blase attitude is a result of too much geo knowledge or like, overly chill nihilism. Because I read an article about common questions and concerns and the whole thing came off as vaguely funny to me. It was just increasingly breathless far fetched excuses for panic, like, 'is this eruption gonna be as bad as it mt st Helen's?' And the answer is no, that's a different mountain with different composition and different magma structures and also the only other volcano you've ever heard of. It's not gonna be like Vesuvius and Pompeii either. And it's not gonna be like a Hawaiian volcano. Or Yellowstone. Those are different. It will be very similar to the volcanos on either side of it, which have both gone off several times in recent memory. This isn't a new thing.

The mountain will either go off or not and there is nothing you can do about it. It will impact air quality and not much else. It's its real bad it might shut down the airport. (Which is actually pretty bad, it's the 2nd largest cargo hub in the states) There's nothing you can do about that either.

Sometimes you gotta weather the storm and fussing over drizzle just gets annoying.

It's interesting looking at the ash modeling day-to-day, and it says a lot about the likely eruption when the impacts are measured in "disruptive ashfall" and "perceptible ashfall."  (Oooh, it's a disaster!  If you look at the shiny hood of your car you'll see... the faint haze of ash dusted over it!). Some days it's projected to make no landfall on the east side of the inlet, depending on the wind, the duration of the eruption, and what altitude it reaches.

We've got our family relic coffee can of the '92 Spurr eruption.  Yeah, an eighth of an inch landed on Anchorage and shut down the airport for 20 hours.  Yeah, it's bad for drains and you can scratch the hell out of your windshield and other surfaces if you don't clean things up right.  But we're not looking at Kodiak, who still get ash re-suspension warnings for Katmai-Novarupta (1912) and no one's built on Spurr the way they did for St Helens or Vesuvius. Lahars and pyroclastic flows just... don't go that far from the vents.

#volcano#Spurr#disaster preparedness#Alaska!#what would be really inconvenient is multiple eruptions across the year#so just as you've un-gritted things there's a new layer of grit#grit that is slightly grittier than the normal glacial silt#good reason to start emergency preparedness if someone hasn't already. (@afamiliarroomba)

The last eruption that I remember having measurable ash impact in Anchorage was Redoubt in 2009, and that canceled a marathon and shut down the airport.

And that makes sense because y'know breathing ash while doing strenuous exercise is not a great idea, but getting volcanic glass in a jet engine is actually worse. But as far as I can tell the major impact, it tends to have on people is stress on the municiple water system. Because everyone then has to wash everything, because the sky decided to rain dirt.

But in terms of extreme weather events that doesn't make the top three for the year, let alone a lifetime. Shit is on fire regularly. Occasionally we get so much snow that buildings collapse. Or the municipality decides to fuck over the snowplow contractors just in time for a big dump and absolutely everything grinds to a halt and then you have to convince your workaholic mother that taking a snowmachine to work is a stupid idea.

In terms of the amount of anxiety associated with the event to the actual impact of said event, this is getting a little ridiculous. When FourPeaks went off and everybody panicked, that was mostly because we didn't know the mountain was a volcano until it started venting AND it's right in front of the airports incoming flight path. Reading the usgs report on that one is hilarious with hindsight because the whole thing is absolute worst case scenario world ending sky falling panic attack rationalizing, and then the addendum a few months later after everyone calmed down and had some more information concludes that 'yeah, its technically a volcano but only barely and it might burp again in 5000 years.'

Except, Spur is one of the best monitored volcanoes in the state, so it's not like this is a surprise.

3. Paw

twisting and bitturning

Catburglar Art Print by Repecca

'Zeus Becoming a Swan' by Michael Bergt

"Three Black Cats" by Carl Kahler, (1856 - 1906)

Commedia dell'arte, featuring Brambles as Harlequin and Pidgey as Pierrot.

Close up:

繁・ソヴァ (SOWA)

Hi! I have a small restock live on my shop this evening. I hope to make more soon...

Thank you for looking, it always means a lot to me. ^_^

- Shigeru

Found a super simple sketch from a few years back and decided to touch it up and chip away at a new character whenever I had some free time!

Homer is friend :)

Taur stretch

Mariken Dragon (commission for @marikedrawinge ❤️)