Australian
i'm a young adult
she/her
i like many things, but to name a few:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
(p.s. i have watched some other star treks but these are my favourite)
Stargate SG1 Stargate Atlantis Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children book series fact: i am learning ancient egyptian hieroglyphs (middle egyptian specifically)
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âspicy pillowâ jokes aside, I think @flowerkroneââs tags deserve a serious reply:
#my old phone looks like this on my shelf lmao #im too scared to touch it to throw it away #idk what trash this even goes into when its at this point
The pillow-shaped object here used to be the phoneâs battery. Itâs not a battery anymore. Now itâs a balloon full of corrosive, pyrophoric chemicals and hydrogen gas and itâs one puncture away from burning your house down. I am 100% serious. You should be scared to touch it.
But you gotta touch it, because you gotta get it out of your house before the pressure builds up to the point where the balloon pops. This isnât going to happen soon â there is no need to panic â but it will happen eventually.
And, indeed, it doesnât go in the ordinary trash. You put this in the ordinary trash and youâre gonna set the garbage truck on fire. Donât do that to the garbage collectors, their job is hard enough already.
The first thing you need to do is get a fireproof container. The most common household item that qualifies as a fireproof container is a cast-iron cookpot with a cast-iron lid â often sold as a âDutch oven.â Any other cooking container thatâs unreactive, has a very high melting point, and has a lid made of the same materials will also work: enameled or stainless steel, Pyrex with glass lid, etc.
However: Do not use a pot with a PTFE-based non-stick coating. If the battery does explode, the fire will probably be hot enough to degrade a PTFE coating, producing toxic smoke. (Not that you should breathe the smoke from the battery fire either, but PTFE breakdown products are worse.) Do not use a pot made of aluminium or copper. The fire might even get hot enough to melt those.
Whatever container you use, you might have to throw away along with the phone, so donât use your good Dutch oven for this. Go to a thrift store and buy a cheap one.
Once you have the fireproof container:
Gently pick up the phone and put it in the fireproof container. If possible, gently tape the phone to the bottom of the container to prevent it from bouncing around. Donât put any padding in there, thatâll just make a fire worse if it does happen. Put the lid on and tape it shut.
Put a label on the container, something like âDEFECTIVE LI-ION BATTERY â FIRE HAZARDâ.
It is now reasonably safe to move the container around. However, if the battery does explode, the container is very likely to leak smoke and get hot, so keep it in a well-ventilated area and away from things that will be damaged by heat. Donât leave it exposed to the weather, either.
You need to find either a hazardous waste disposal site, or an e-waste recycler that will accept defective Li-ion batteries. I canât help with that because I have no idea where you live.
However, your local fire department, if you have one, will probably be happy to help. Call their non-emergency number. Nothing is on fire yet, so this isnât an emergency, but things that can easily start a fire are still within the fire departmentâs responsibilities. Tell them you have a phone with a bulging lithium-ion battery, you put it in a fireproof container, and you want to know how to dispose of it safely.
If the fire department tries to tell you this isnât dangerous or itâs okay to throw it out in the regular trash (with or without fireproof container), hang up on them and write a cranky letter to your local government representatives, then keep looking for a proper disposal site.
When you do find a a hazardous waste disposal site or an e-waste recycler, call them and make sure they will take defective Li-ion batteries, before showing up. Thatâs also a good time to ask if they will let you have the fireproof container back.
Many cities have a household hazardous waste location available to residents and that will usually be listed on the cityâs website along with contact information.
you won't believe the weather we've been getting [remembers to avoid giving away my location] the sky was turned to darkness and the moon to blood, and the stars fell from the heavens.
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I've seen a bunch of "fandom etiquette" posts on my dash today and I'm going to say something that is maybe going to be unpopular but;
The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.
And I am not going to mince words here:
A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.
That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.
"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.
So much of "fandom etiquette" seems to be about insulating creatives from Feeling Bad and hostility to any kind of negative feedback is a pretty big contributor to why bigotry festers in these spaces.
hey so filming people without their consent is weird. you know that right? filming people you don't know and they aren't aware of what you're doing is creepy. posting strangers online is fucking weird. we're too comfortable with doing it now for shits and giggles, chasing some sort of viral hit instead of reckoning with the fact that you posted someone who did not consent to their body and face being publically used.
we're being pushed these Meta Glasses as if mass surveillance of strangers is fun and normal! it's weird!!! there are already reports that people are using these to film women without them knowing and sharing it to communities who get off on this shit. who else knows who people are filming. these glasses with cameras are not obvious and that is dangerous.
I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you
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I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.
It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.
Hanahaki disease is a psychosomatic illness. It's a thing that your body does in response to stress over constantly repressing/concealing your feelings in settings with high background magic. It's like you've been ignoring pain for a long time and suddenly your vision starts going dark, because your affected body is just YANKING on random alerts trying to get you to PAY ATTENTION there is a PROBLEM. Yes the flowers do really exist. So do non-magical psychosomatic symptoms. The flowers aren't special.
This does of course open up the trope to options for non-romantic concealed feelings. Which I think is great. There is something viscerally satisfying about the person who seems so outwardly chipper coughing and hacking and spitting up Depression Flowers so now everyone has to know they're hurting. Isn't there?
seriously considering making a wight oc for my story about the detritivore peculiars. i feel like it would be a good idea to better contextualise a scene i wrote very early on (why are there chemical spills at random on the street? lewis never revealed it because i didn't know yet ahah). cause like... the wights are probably cautious about the detritivore peculiars because by and large, they're thriving there. all the other peculiars have either been ensnared by the ambro, or are resigned to their fate in Devil's Acre as a punishment for their crimes. there's not much morale, and that makes it easy to control and coerce people. so having people that actually kinda like the environment? wow, we have to do something about that or they could pose a threat in future. this wight oc would probably have been ordered to keep an eye on the group and is responsible for the chemical spills to keep the detritivores away from key areas.
however, that poses another question, this time regarding the ymbrynes. i distinctly remember a scene in one of the books (probably AMOD or later) where Miss P (possibly another ymbryne?) explains that the situation with the American loops is discouraged so that a peculiar would meet other peculiars who are different from them and as such don't develop a form of prejudice. however, i've written it in such a way that implies they're kinda resigned to it all. like yeah it's a shitty place to live but it works out and their wards don't end up malnourished so... they're willing to make an exception.
anyway this was more a stream of consciousness than anything else ahah, i'd love to know people's thoughts on anything i've mentioned!
hey everyone! you remember how I said I had peculiar OCs and that I'd work on them when I wasn't so busy? i've had some time, and what I'm going to do is give you an overview of their (shared) peculiarity and the context in which they all live in this post. i'll reblog with the individuals i've fleshed out so far!
Content warning; discussions of cannibalism, decomposition and rot, corpses, ambro addiction
â they are all detritivore peculiars: "edge case" of fungi-specific seedsprouts
â have retractable hyphae (called "soil-fingers" and "soil-toes" in Ditch parlance) in one or two limbs (usually the arms, never one of each) that at their longest are 2m long and branch out from 4-7 main stalks that emerge from the palms and wrists/ankles
â these are exactly like those of fungi (can be used to eat and break down dead/decaying material
â they can still absolutely eat normal food, but there are some nutrients they can only get from stuff that's rotting, so using the hyphae is necessary.
â hyphae range in colour from white to brown to black
â detritivore peculiars can communicate with each other using the hyphae, sharing physical sensation and emotions + simple thoughts
â said peculiars can also acutely smell decay; instead of being disgusted or even nauseous, decay smells pleasant to them so they seek it out
â becomes harder to keep the hyphae hidden the stronger the decay-smell is
â most detritivore peculiars hang around Devil's Acre voluntarily due to the horrible conditions leading to a lot of decay
â detritivore peculiars will begin to be able to smell the corpse of a dead thing around 6 hours after death
â most prefer corpses that are at the initial stages of decomposition, more specifically the 'bloat' stage.
â the vast majority of other peculiars think they're pretty gross
â usually the case that a ymbryne will take a detritivore in temporarily before arranging for transport to Devil's Acre; their stay in a normal loop can range from a week to just over a month.
â this creates⊠problems. due to the nature of normal loops it's notoriously difficult to get food to putrefy so it necessitates regulated time in the future
â these conditions create a lot of shame, more so than many other peculiarities cause so upon arrival in Devil's Acre it is difficult for these newcomers to feel comfortable
â like. ridiculously difficult. every newcomer is just⊠so repressed. angst bonanza.
â in Devil's Acre, they hang around Periwinkle street due to the rotting vegetables, as well as Fever Ditch to get at the dead animals (more for water than food in this case)
â they have very few qualms about what they eat. Eating dead cats and dogs is fine, tree leaves are also fine, it doesn't have to be stuff that's normally edible. can it rot? it can be eaten.
â don't actually tend to eat much using their mouths, if at all. Everything available tastes much better the other wayâŠ
â are less affected by the flesh eating bacteria found in the main waterway (Fever Ditch) due to fungi and bacteria often having a symbiotic relationship. 3 weeks to be eaten instead of one. for this reason they are sometimes recruited to go fish stuff out of the Ditch but have to clean themselves well afterward.
â meat is more pungent than plants
â easier to break down meat but can break down plant matter like leaves and stalks or gourds (wood is too hard)
â have an odd relationship with the rest of the peculiar inhabitants of Devil's Acre. Since most other peculiars are hardened criminals or ambro addicts the detritivores are weirdly innocentâŠ
â that being said⊠they will eat human corpses sometimes.
â this grants them access to Cannibal Lane without fear of being eaten themselves
â they have lots of houses around Devilâs Acre but their biggest and least dilapidated is one in the middle of Cannibal Lane, from where they mostly live and work. Vacated for the benefit of newcomers for a couple days.
âthey are on mostly friendly terms with the Ditch pirates. Toxic smog-breathing and the ability to eat rotting food don't make either group popular amongst the bulk of peculiar society. However, the Ditch pirates' violence leaves the two groups at odds on occasion. Detritivores are able to get lifts on the piratesâ boats in exchange for cleaning the boats.
â the introduction of the wights has complicated things. The detritivores have taken to hiding more often. Some have fallen victim to the wights and the ambro, but most are still alive. (around 14 with 2 ambro addicts and 4 dead)
â the ambro addicts are in a pretty bad way⊠not only are their faces scarred to high heaven, forcing them to wear masks etc, but the effect of the ambro on peculiarities means that these two people are back to being slightly starved (they take ambro to fight in the ring but it doesn't last long enough to properly eat afterwards); without ambro, the hyphae are extremely difficult to extend and retract and are less effective at their purpose overall.
â relating to them fighting in the ring, the ambro addict detritivores will use them like a garrotte and strangle their opponents, or use their strength to rip eyes out/blind with enzyme. pretty effective, as such they haven't died yet but live a tortured existence.
â speaking of the shame and repression! unlike the majority of peculiars (especially outside the US), they REALLY don't like the ymbrynes. associated with bullying by âpolite societyâ, therefore as something to be cast off and avoided. to the extent that they will purposely mispronounce the word.
â the Acre is unclean, but the detritivores don't go around dirty; they clean themselves using their hyphae. this is a HUGE learning curve for newcomers and it can often take days to muster up the courage to do it.
â not all of them do this, but akin to butterflies and other insects, they can taste whatever the hyphae are touching, so they'll touch something with their hyphae like we would do with our hands in curiosity (they also touch things with their hands but thatâs beside the point)
Rana Mew, 14, 1970s England, not loop-bound. Managed to have a decent childhood all things considered. Her mother, who she lived with, was a good parent but was understandably freaked out when her daughter (aged 12 at the time) started exhibiting signs of her peculiarity (including feeling tired and hungry all the time), and a tendency to hang around garbage... fortunately, some people eventually came around and arranged for Rana to be taken to a loop run by Miss Guillemot, where she lived a simultaneously interesting and deeply unpleasant two weeks before they were able to arrange transport to Devil's Acre. Is currently in the process of acclimating to the aforementioned.
Lewis Burndred: 144 (biologically 60), 1820s England, loop-bound. Unofficial mentor to majority of the other detritivores, who are all biologically younger than he is. Manifested his peculiarity at 15, hid it from everyone except his best friend (normal) Richard, who covered for him when he went to raid rubbish heaps. Unfortunately, he went through a horrid period in his 40s when Richard passed unexpectedly from tuberculosis, and then he got caught in the process of eating soon after. He was locked up, beaten and forced to wear thick leather gloves all the time (causing him to become malnourished), until a lucky mistake allowed him to escape. Wandered for another decade before meeting other peculiars, who took him into an adult loop and from there was able to get to Devil's Acre. Found the other detritivore peculiars and quickly found himself at home. One of his friends became one of the two at the mercy of ambro addiction in 1938. Still goes to visit on occasion, always walks away disappointed and hurt. Though it took a while to get used to, he considers himself the adoptive grandfather to Tom. Wears a battered bowler hat and has an aged green leather bag.
Tom Miller: 70 (biologically 10), 1900s Scotland, loop-bound. Manifested his peculiarity at ten, ran away from home out of fear that he'd be killed. His older sister followed him, tried to convince him to stay, even promised to protect him to the best of her ability, but he wouldn't have a bar of it, saying goodbye and taking to the streets, where by sheer, wild luck he found himself in the vicinity of a loop and catching a glimpse of a ward using their peculiarity. Even more fortunately, he was quickly able to gain passage to Devil's Acre. After meeting another detritivore and being introduced to the others, he struck up a grandson-grandfather relationship with Lewis, calling him "Pa".
I want to work on the two ambro-addicted detritivore peculiars next, but i'm pretty tired so i'll do that a little later!
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âhow do i get people interested in my ocsâ TAG THEM. BY NAME. HAVE AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER TAG I CAN LOOK THROUGH. PLEADE. SOURCE TAG AND THEN INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER TAG. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE CLICKED THROUGH THREE DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF â#OCâ ON SOMEONES BLOG TO GET THE FULL EXTENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL CHARACTER ART I REALLY WANT TO SEE. TOO MANY. THREE HUNDRED POSTS HIDDEN BECAUSE I WAS GOING THROUGH THE âORIGINAL CHARACTERâ TAG AND NOT THE âOCSâ TAG ON THEIR BLOG. YOU MUST DO THIS FOR ME.
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