haunted noodles

I am astoundingly thankful and blessed to announce that I have signed a contract with Watchful Wizard Publishing to make my dream of 10 years a reality. My YA cozy-fantasy novel, The Luster of Life, is becoming a published book.

Just thought I’d come over on here and officially break the news like I did everywhere else. If you guys want to read an isekai about a little girl getting whisked away to another world to befriend a monstrous showman who lives in a theater, I got you!

Tbh, this book is a culmination of all the things I loved as a kid (and now): creatures, Scary Godmother, Undertale, horror, theatre, folklore, and Studio Ghibli. These were all massive inspiration points for me.

The reason that flight times can be so different is mainly dependent on three things: the specific aircraft, the route, and the wind. I could go on tangents about all of these, but the point is that you can be flying the exact same plane on the exact same route at the exact same airspeed… and still get drastically different travel times due to the wind fucking with your ground speed.

(Ground speed = true air speed + wind component, if you care.)

And if you’re worried about pilots ramping that shit up to the maximum velocity… you would know if we did. Because we would have to point the nose down for the whole flight. The engines are already often operating at their maximum thrust any time you’re departing or ascending— but as my flight instructors have screamed at me since the day I started flying, “pitch for speed, power for altitude”. I’m not even sure you can hit the “never-exceed” velocities in a stable airplane without slamming the stick forward and nosediving that thang.

We also have this handy color coding on the air speed indicator! (And similar coding on the vertical tape versions in those newfangled glass cockpits.)

Lastly, almost every commercial flight is going to have two people up front. Even if the captain does something stupid, the first officer is there to say “hey, don’t do that” and make corrections accordingly. Even if they do agree to do something dumb, someone on the ground is going to tell them to cut it out. Nobody just gets to fuck around up there.

my unruly ass:

im going to stare at it

im going to grin like an idiot

i dont care if you think its bad or not

i love it

YOU DO IT ON ONE OF THESE! OBVIOUSLY!!!

and that brown end? the hard bit? pencil sharpener. or sharpened with a blade. are you following me? now, attach six of those to a harpy.

If Veggie Tales was never a part of your childhood, let this be your introduction to veggie tales. Fans made this version with updated animation and texture and it looks great. This whimsical interpretation of a story from the book of Daniel reinterprets the elements of the Bible story in the following child-friendly ways:

Idol worship = chocolate bunny worship

Nebuchadnezzar = corporate CEO

Captivity in babylon = children enslaved in a factory