Aimee

I know a few people have been looking for podcasts to binge that aren’t 50-200 episode long plot driven things, so here’s some fiction podcasts that you could binge in a day

Heartwarming

‘Startripper!!’ - 13 episodes including the bonus. Just good for a shot of seratonin

‘Kaleidotrope’ - 10 episode. The queer college radio romcom you’ve always needed

Dark Humour

Time Bombs - 3 episodes. From the makers of W359, the podcast written and produced in a week about bomb disposal on New Year’s Eve

‘Death By Dying’ - 5 episodes. Obituary’s from the small town of Crestfall, Idaho

‘Wooden Overcoats’ - 26 episodes. The island of Piffling Vale used to have one funeral home. Now there’s two. Rudyard Funn doesn’t like this.

Plot Driven

‘The Strange Case of the Starship Iris’ - 10 episode. Space pirate adventure against a dictator government

‘Kane and Feels’ - 6 episodes and two mini-episodes. Paranormal detective agency

‘Limetown’ - 12 episodes. Ten years ago the 300 men, women and children disappeared from a small town. What happened to them?

???

Directive - 6 episodes. It’s like two hours. Just sit down and listen. Trust me.

like...lots of small assignments instead of a handful of huge ones. lots of “participation” credit based on reading/watching things outside class. Flexible/lenient deadlines, “do it in your own time” assignments, assignments graded on “effort” rather than performance.

like, my ideal class is the “two or three exams, a couple papers, maybe some participation and/or extra credit and that’s it” format that everyone seems to hate because big deadlines are easy to conceptualize in my mind, sure, I can remember that, it stays in my head and I just gotta study/prepare for it. Whereas if my performance in the class depends on dozens of tiny assignments, canvas will become a wasteland of “late” and “missing” unless I am constantly vigilant

likewise, if I’m being graded on completion instead of performance, it’s a lot harder because I need the spicy adrenaline rush.

1980′s Lookbook

All sims: Skin / Eyes / Lashes / Makeup / Nails

Violet: Hair / Hairline / Outfit / Scrunchie / Shoes

Lilah: Hair / Earrings / Jacket / Pants 

Judy: Hair / Earrings / Necklace / Dress / Stockings / Shoes

Ainsley: Bow / Hair / Sweater / Jeans / Shoes

Maritza: Hair / Jacket / Skirt / Tights / Gloves / Boots / Tattoos

Caroline: Hair / Glasses / Shirt / Skirt / Scrunchie / Socks / Shoes

Meagan: Hair / Dress / Shoes

Constance: Hair / Jacket / Shirt / Pants

Mods used: Clouds / Timeless / Poses (1)

So much love for all the creators: @madmonodls , @gerbitshi , @kijiko-sims , @crypticsim , @annamsblue , @miikocc , @pandorasimbox , @simlaughlove, @cooper322, @setsuki, @joliebean, @gridoff, @mapella, @tunayegit, @simstrouble, @leeleesims1, @alexaarr, @paper-lioness, @tekri, @at-mach, @storylegacysims, @bustedpixels, @annamsblue, @marvell-world, @syaovu, @leeleesims1, @anessasims, @altersims, @theslyd, @missrubybird, @redearcat, @the-crypt-o-club, @trillyke, @impishims, @deathpoke1qa, @ice-creamforbreakfast, @maushasi-ms, @clumsyalienn, @dallasgirl79, @mortimergth, @bluemoonsims, @kchansims, @ridgeport, @ikindalikecows

b) at least my mum lowkey fancies mine so i got an actually chance here

c) he’s married with kids our age

Dorian Gray: what is your biggest regret in life?

Black coffee: if you could be with anyone right now, who would it be?

Athens: if you could go anywhere right now, where would you go?

Neil Perry: if you could revive one character (in a book, movie, TV show, etc), who would it be?

Midnight: what is your favorite time of day?

Blazer: what is your favorite piece of clothing?

Academia: what is your favorite aesthetic (besides academia)?

Allen Ginsberg: who is your favorite poet?

Howl: what is your favorite poem?

Oscar Wilde: who is your favorite author?

Shakespeare: what is your favorite book?

Museum: have you ever been out of the country? To where?

Phantom: do you like musicals? What is your favorite?

Sunrise: have you ever pulled an all-nighter? Why?

Notes: bookstore or library?

Studying: handwritten or typed notes?

Steam: coffee or tea?

University: STEM or the arts?

Ribbons: hair up or down?

Aesthetic: what is your favorite type of academia?

Candle: if you could pick any time period to live in (for the aesthetic), what would it be?

Rose: what is your favorite flower?

Books: where can you most often be found?

Letters: do you have a pen pal? Or do you write letters often?

It wasn’t just that they didn’t want to smell the infected and dead, they thought it was crucial to protecting themselves. They had no way of knowing about what actually caused the plague, and so one of the other theories was that the smell of the infected all by itself was evil and could transmit the plague. So not only would they fill their masks with aromatic herbs and flowers, they would also burn fires in public areas, so that the smell of the smoke would “clear the air”. This all related to the miasma theory of contagion, which was one of the major theories out there until the 19th century. And it makes sense, in a way. Plague victims smelled awful, and there’s a general correlation between horrible septic smells and getting horribly sick if you’re around what causes them for too long.

You can see now that we’ve got two different theories as to what caused the plague that were worked into the design. That’s because the whole thing was an attempt by the doctors to cover as many bases as they could think of, and we’re still not done.

The glass eyepieces. They were either darkened or red, not something you generally want to have to contend with when examining patients. But the plague might be spread by eye contact via the evil eye, so best to ward that off too.

The illustration shows a doctor holding a stick. This was an examination tool, that helped the doctors keep some distance between themselves and the infected. They already had gloves on, but the extra level of separation was apparently deemed necessary. You could even take a pulse with it. Or keep people the fuck away from you, which was apparently a documented use.

Finally, the robe. It’s not just to look fancy, the cloth was waxed, as were all of the rest of their clothes. What’s one of the properties of wax? Water-based fluids aren’t absorbed by it. This was the closest you could get to a sterile, fully protecting garment back then. Because at least one person along the line was smart enough to think “Gee, I’d really rather not have the stuff coming out of those weeping sores anywhere on my person”.

So between all of these there’s a real sense that a lot of real thought was put into making sure the doctors were protected, even if they couldn’t exactly be sure from what. They worked with what information they had. And frankly, it’s a great design given what was available! You limit exposure to aspirated liquids, limit exposure to contaminated liquids already present, you limit contact with the infected. [Removed a non-fact from here. See note at the bottom!]

Beyond that, there were contracts the doctors would sign before they even got near a patient. They were to be under quarantine themselves, they wouldn’t treat patients without a custodian monitoring them and helping when something had to be physically contacted, and they would not treat non-plague patients for the duration. There was an actual system in place by the time the plague doctors really became a thing to make sure they didn’t infect anyone either.

These guys were the product of the scientific process at work, and the scientific process made a bitchin’ proto-hazmat suit. And containment protocols!

-Would it remember him? he wondered.

-Would it remember him, he wondered.

Queer SFF books by POC authors. 

JARED CAMPBELL BADGE 8740 OFFICE OF ACCOUNTABILITY (206)684-8797

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/outrage-video-police-mace-child-seattle-protest