Keep the lights on. I'm into visuals.

A 19 year old passenger with her baby, who only spoke spanish, missed her connecting flight due to weather and would have been stuck sleeping in the airport but my co flight attendant (who spoke spanish) booked her commuter hotel for her and gave her a free room for the night

Another passenger missed her connecting flight home but since she lived just under an hour from me I gave her a ride from dc to virginia beach

My pilot was contacted by the wife of a pilot he'd flown with (who later killed himself) because she'd found a photo of their crew at dinner, so now he takes group photos of every crew he hangs out with, just in case

Another passenger missed her connecting flight and was crying because her mom was in hospice so 2 other passengers who did not know her offered to rent a car and carpool down to jacksonville together

An actor who I will not name but who I'm a huge fan of was in line at the airport pizza place in front of me and my co flight attendant (also a fan) and we were trying so hard to be cool about it and he could tell and he paid for our food because "You all take such good care of us in the air, we should take care of you on the ground."

The van driver for our new orleans overnight heard me say I was vegetarian but wished I could try authentic gumbo and called his friend who is a chef and then drove us to the restaurant where I was given a creole style vegetarian gumbo he'd improvised

After a terrible night which saw me and my co flight attendant trying for 4 hours to get hotel rooms from our airline, the night clerk at a hotel finally took over the phone call and reprimanded them on our behalf, dictating the exact paperwork she needed sent over and then expedited the process so she could give us rooms

I still have the drawings! And the notebook!

The notebook in question:

The terribly childish drawings in question:

LOOK AT THIS

I DIDN'T EVEN REALISE HE'D WRITTEN MY NAME

Flipping heck 🤣🤣🤣

Oh yeah, this was a Virgin Australia domestic Brisbane to Sydney flight which I'd done with my family multiple times at this point.

Btw I was 8.

Gerome Gardiner, I have cherished this drawing all throughout my childhood, and if you ever see this, thank you for taking the time on a pretty empty flight to draw me something with such beauty that I have carried it throughout my life.

But I feel I should apologise because I have not kept up my drawing skills and neither have I had much time or energy to do so 😅

I paint pictures with words now ✒️📖💻

a study i did because i realized idk how to draw environments at all LMAO

I can't post my students' work, but I can share any submissions you send to me. As of this moment, the Unusual Outdoors Extra Credit assignment is now open! Guidelines are as follows:

Take a picture of yourself outside doing something unusual. This includes creative and novel activities that are appropriate for the public and do not break any laws.*

No photos you've already taken. You must come up with something new.

I will respond to entries in my inbox or submissions. I cannot guarantee responses to anything reblogged from this post.

Be creative. Have fun.

Extra credit will be given in the form of good vibes and bad puns.

(Can’t even imagine being willing to read a fic tagged as AI generated or genAI assisted…Why does Ao3 let that trash stay up again?)

The point of fanfic is the FAN part. FANS have fun with fiction of their fav media. FANS have fun with side characters and crack ships and weird AUs and character dissections. FANS have their own unique theories and headcanons and characterizations.

GenAI isn’t a fan of anything. It doesn’t gasp when their fav villain shows up or wince when their blorbo gets hurt or have an OTP to squeal over. It doesn’t feel; it just steals from people who do.

If you use genAI and simply dont understand how much it harms online and irl communities, please do some research. Do some digging about the water usage and ownership rights.

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

as you cool down, your muscles stiffen, you lose the ability to swim much faster than usual (again, not even always in cold water!), and you drown.

to remain warm until rescue, it's important to stay still and get into the H.E.L.P. position to preserve body heat.

you can't do that treading water. You can only do that with a proper flotation device.

I once went into the water on a nice, sunny day at a popular boating lake surrounded by boaters. It took 45 minutes to be rescued. Could you swim for that long? Could you swim for that long while shivering and stiff?