Grand R Evans

You can make a smoke-grade air purifier at home relatively cheaply, and it's actually better quality than a lot of air purifiers on the market!

Also linked here. (Too much text for me to transcribe but you can get it on their website!)

This is a great activity to do with little ones as well, since they're much more vulnerable to smoke (and it can be like a fun craft activity with them)

reading les mis, about to reach the barricades (NO SPOILERS I BEG) n i just came across this bit, which idk how the translator into english handled it but on god's green earth there is no heterosexual explanation for this.

snapped me out of my cackling (the building of the barricade at the corinthe is peak comedy) bc a) i just KNOW tumblr has been having ? is having ? a field day with this one, b) smells like heartbreak in the making. I CAN FEEL IT

And for whenever someone mistakenly tells you that humans can only hurt nature -

walking fish  Bible, England 13th century.

Because there's earthquake inducing, heartbreaking, beautiful quotes like this: "We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream."

[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]

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