don’t like it when people say you can’t have potatoes in ur fantasy novel without detailed explanation. who gives a fuck
“ohh in europe they didnt have those until” well its not europe is it.
its middle earth its earthsea its some country somebody made up
“have detailed knowledge of your dragon’s anatomy and a foolproof
scientifically sound explanation of how he can fly” he can fly because
he’s a dragon. and because i love him
In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”
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If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.
This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:
If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I’m not hearing about that, so… Tree law!
The Studios: *speak*
Botanists and other Tree Experts:
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He mentions later in the thread that not only do they not trim the trees annually, they’re trimmed at best once every 18 years. Supposed to be every five, and only in dormancy, which even my layman’s ass knows about tree trimming.
And yes, Universal can probably eat the fine. But it’s gonna be a whopper even if the trees survive (which is as mentioned kinda unlikely), California is a triple damage state for tree law, and it may increase dramatically if there were nesting birds in the trees.
All this to be a Captain Planet filler villain to some writers. And yes, it’s currently just the writers officially picketing there; SAG-AFTRA recommended against it for petty bullshit like this and the suddenly necessary sidewalk construction.
I asked my dad— a retired arborist—about TREE LAW and he just kinda blinked and said (i paraphrase because Dad Tangents, amirite?):
“Worst and best case I ever saw was a guy who was caught in the act of cutting down a C&C tree by two Department of Urban Forestry supervisors while they were randomly driving around on a Saturday. Not only did he have to deal with the cops showing up and months of paperwork and bureaucracy, but he also had to pay the fines AND cover the cost of the tree removal + stumping + buying a new tree + planting the new tree + wages for the regular crew plus the extra workers they needed to get the jobs done. That tree ended up costing him upwards of $35K, and that was over 20 years ago.”
So yeah, respect Tree Law or pay out the bootyhole.
Fuck that post going around saying “you can have coffee in your story without justifying it :) you don’t need to explain everything :)” I want, no, I DEMAND a fully researched ethnobotanical paper on every single food item in your work, if you don’t explain to me where did potatoes come from in your fantasy setting or don’t explain how the industry of coffee works over interstellar distances with full detail you are doing things wrong and I personally hate you and I hate your stupid story, fuck you
Why are your stupid little wizards and knights eating potato stew in your dumb European middle ages fantasy world. Where did they get potatoes from. Where is the center of domestication of potatoes, do you have a fantasy Andean civilization? What are the social and economic consequences of having such a calorie rich crop in cold climates. I don’t care about “themes” or “enemies to lovers with found family”, I didn’t ask about that. Where does your idiot space captain gets their shitty coffee from. Is it imported from Earth? Are there coffee growing worlds? Is it an alien species replacement with the same name? What are the social consequences of that? Don’t try to change the subject, I’ll stop pointing the gun when I want, I’m trying to have a conversation here,
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#there are two types of readers just like there are two types of writers
#tolkien brandishing a gun at cs lewis: where the FUCK did the beavers get the marmalade
Btw when someone says “don’t talk to me like that, I don’t know you” the normal thing to do is apologize for the perceived overfamiliarity and correct the behavior. Just in case anyone was wondering
Congrats to Jiang Yanli & Wei Wuxian & Jiang Cheng (The Untamed) for winning Best Siblings in a BL!
This was definitely the most unexpected round in terms of seeding vs actual results!! Not only did we have our first ever exact tie, but none of the top 4 seeds based on submission number made it into the finals! This was a truly a bracket with many twists and turns!!!
Thank you to everyone who participated!!! I had fun and I hope y'all did too!!! Keep an eye out for the next bracket (poll for the next topic will drop shortly after posting this). Congrats again to all our lovely contestants with all types of sibling relationships from messy and complicated to sweet and heartwarming!
this does not necessarily apply to chrome-based browsers but it very well can. ymmv
Click here to get firefox, and once you install it, firefox will ask if you want to import all of your logins, bookmarks and settings from Chrome or whatever else you browsed with.
However, there is also AdNauseam which is built atop uBlock and will silently click on every ad it blocks so you can fuck with advertising companies. Essentially, this poisons whatever information profile they’ve built up on you. AdNauseam was even banned on the Google Web Store in 2017, so you can tell it works and that Google fucking HATES IT.
Eugenia Martínez Vallejo, clothed by Juan Carreño de Miranda
Date: 1680
Reading the context and history of this painting is so sad and proof that fatphobia has existed for at the minimum 400 years despite all of the fatphobes who love to claim that fatphobia is “new” or “doesn’t exist at all.” (Or worse, that fatphobic asshat who said “ob*se” bodies are “the goal” for starving people who are apparently mutually exclusive from fat people.)
A basic explanation of the history behind the two paintings of this child:
Also proof that ableism is indeed so intertwined with fatphobia.
The fact that the two paintings are literally titled “The Monster” and that the king ordered a fat child to take off her clothes in order to be ogled at and mocked…it’s so fucking sad. I’m not sharing the full nude painting, but a close up of her face in the nude painting shows obvious discomfort:
And all of the explanations of the paintings and her life either pretend the paintings are wonderful and not bigoted in the slightest or that what she endured was indeed horrid but because she was an “ugly” “ob*se” child whose “monstrous” form should have been pitied instead of mocked.
I want every single fatphobe who claims “All fat people in the past were rich because rich people had the money to gorge on food. Fat bodies were viewed as the ideal, and fat people faced no hardships uwu” to learn about this girl and start caring about fat people’s oppression.
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