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you have to remember that Charlie Capen was brought onboard with GISH to rebrand it and try and make it less Misha-centric. Misha wanted to stop doing Gish five or six years ago. It was too big and he wanted out of the responsibility of it. He even announced it would be ending. But then so many people complained and begged him not to end it, he was convinced to keep it going with a new person in charge (to see if it could be done without him. This was Misha, AGAIN, trying to please everybody.)

The social cheat I’ve learned for this is to say:

Mishappreciation

Transfems read this thread

update: we are married

update: we knocked up

Update: he’s 1 year old today

Update: he’s 2 today

this isn’t the usual thing I’d share on my stupid nerd blog, but this is SO important. I was nearly crushed in a crowd like this once. It was terrifying because you have NO control over the panicking mass of humans around you. you are just at the mercy of all this chaotic force. this is a real thing that can happen very suddenly! it did happen in the news recently! My situation was, the olympics was happening in my city, I was on my way home from school, and a crowd of people suddenly flooded into the street around me. in seconds it went from, busy-city-street-crowded, to, wtf I can’t even move crowded. I was so pressed against the backpack of the man in front of me, my feet lifted off the ground a moment. People were climbing lamp posts, signs, bus shelters, trees, everything to get up out of it. it was like the street became an ocean of people, and all the people’s survival instincts were making them dumber. everyone was yelling. no one knew how to solve it. police, fire fighters and medics saved us by breaking the locks on the inside of the mall we were trapped next to. a huge group flooded into the building, releasing a bit of the pressure on the people outside. I was in that group that got in.

Sharing to my own stupid nerd blog for the same reason, this is SO IMPORTANT. Human crushes are one of the most unexpected ways to die. People go out to a show or a sports game, and make it there, but they never come back. Other strategies include staying away from large obstacles (like fences) that you could get crushed against, and doing your best to stay above the crowd. Try to climb onto something if you can.