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I am not a historian (historian followers, please help!) but I am someone who grew up reading literature from the 1860s, and that experience makes me like ...
...86% sure ...
that they were saying the same things about cholera.
"Well yes it's very sad that children are dying, obviously, but what's the alternative? Re-doing every sewer in every street in every city in the world?? How? Who's going to pay for that? Where will we live while every street is being torn up, pray tell?"
Hell, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem [x] about how the only way to get a city council to fix the sewage problem is if the sewage threatens something important -- not, like, y'know, people dying or whatever, but important stuff, like whether the city council's clothes look good :eyeroll:
So, I mean. I guess the good news is that 150 years from now, people will regard unfiltered public buildings with the same disgust that we regard untreated drinking water. Because clearly society does get there eventually.
It just ...
... takes a while
"Buying HEPA filters and maintaining them is *too hard.* how about you just get sick all the time instead? It's good for you, actually!"
#le sigh#but I am not a historian so I'd be interested to see takes from people with actual research in the area#disease cw#pandemic cw#coronavirus cw#death cw#systemic oppression cw#image#description in alt
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i tried to go through the tags#someone please tell me what books these people are from#i want to read them!#they sound very interesting!#i was a magic treehouse kid#for so long
I can only do some, but
Meg Murray is from A Wrinkle In Time and sequels (I'm not aware of a name for the series), by Madeline L'Engle
Menolly is from the Dragonriders of Pern series, and specifically from the Harper Hall Trilogy, by Anne McCaffrey
Cimorene is from The Enchanted Forest Chronicles series, by Patricia C. Wrede
Matilda Wormwood is from Matilda by Roald Dahl
Sophie Hatter is from Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
Sara Crewe is from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Not on the poll, but I also wanted to be a Herald in Valdemar (Mercedes Lackey), and although tbh I never really wanted to live in Xanth (Piers Anthony), I did want to have a randomly-assigned magical talent that I had to try to make use of in some clever protaganist-y way.
Also a heads-up for any young-uns (a term which here means "too young to have been obsessed with these books in middle school") -- society has improved (a lot!) since most of these were written. I am delighted that y'all have grown up in a world that takes the existence of gay and trans people for granted, but literally the Valdemar series is the only gay rep I ever saw until, like, most of the way through college. Likewise, some of them were written in a time when "men and women are clearly-defined categories with no overlap or ambiguity, and men and women quite simply have different capabilities and nothing can change that" was a statement so obviously true that no one would ever have bothered to say it.
I love these books and I think they have a lot of beauty and value, but just be aware, going in, that they are going to be cisheteronormative and have some Very Weird Ideas on the inevitability of patriarchal gender roles. (On the plus side, that can be very useful for figuring out what the hell grown-ups are talking about, sometimes).
Now someone return the favor for the 00s version [x] 😃
#Sabriel I believe is from Sabriel but I'm not 100% sure so I'm gonna let others more informed provide definitive information#friends please do fill in the rest as apparently I missed half the books I should have been fantasizing about in high school#tumblr polls#intergenerational interaction#reblog#books
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Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"
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Any conspiracy theory about people going missing in National Parks is automatically silly to me. Like "Why are National Parks such a hotbed of disappearances???" because they're full of idiots. You've got thousands of people who've never pissed outdoors in their life wandering around the woods/desert/mountain with zero experience and zero gear and zero understanding that this place can kill them. You don't see as many disappearances in wild areas because people don't go to them unless they have some background knowledge. Whereas you get tour buses full of old folks and suburban families shuttling people into National Parks 365 days a year. If you took the same amount of buffoons and dropped them in the actual wilderness the disappearances would be significantly higher than at the parks. Use your brain.
#The number of times I sucked air through my teeth like I was watching a horror movie#I don’t care if it’s just a quarter-mile. You are not accustomed to this altitude! Bring! Water!!#(if you are accustomed to this altitude then I don’t have to say that because you know what Coloradans carry with them everywhere?? Water!)#You left from the visitor’s center! Refill your water bottle!#ide want to think about how many people’s mummified corpses are somewhere under Sand Dunes National Monument#anyway#reblog#death cw#please pay attention to the signs at the ranger station#please do not go near wild animals
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#Oh gosh. All of the above??#Top 3: Menolly - Sara - Matilda#honorable mention to Cimorene who was too late for me to want that in middle school#Still gonna go with Menolly I think#tumblr polls
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#Reblog#it got better#I love how ready we are to throw hands on Jonny’s behalf#devil went down to Georgia#image#described#literary analysis
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Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?
Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.
What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?
Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!
And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.
This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.
It's working. Keep going.
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WITCHCRAFT!!!!!!!!
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lmaooo
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#I also wanted to be Menolly#fire lizards would be nice and I would def take them but what I really wanted was to be a Harper#still want to be a Harper if we’re being honest#I just don’t get to teach algebra with a guitar#tumblr polls
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Lemmings don’t jump off of cliffs unless they’re being chased. Frogs don’t stay in boiling water unless they’ve been lobotomized first. Crabs don’t pull each other back into the bucket unless they are desperately and randomly grabbing for anything to try to get themselves out, out of fear for their lives.
Actions taken in specific, negative conditions don’t exemplify the nature of all beings.
Before you mock a sheep for staying with the flock, ask what dogs nip at its heels when it strays too far, and what wolves wait just beyond the edge of the pasture.
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she jus out there :(
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#I went to high school with a Galadriel#but you can’t get out of it using her chosen name; she called herself Puck#tumblr polls
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Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!
15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.
Incredible!
#Things to remember when I’m frustrated by the 2-second lag to AWS lol#nasa#that’s incredible#hell of a firmware update
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I was possessed and forced to make this
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