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daltongraham:

meowsaidmissy:

I am curious as to the ages of adults writing fanfiction*. please let me know which age bracket you are in!

18 - 24

25 - 29

30s

40s

50s

60s

70s +

I don’t write fanfiction but I read it and I’m under 25

I don’t write fanfiction but I read it and I’m over 25

*and are on tumblr, this will not be an indication of age of fanfic writers overall, of course

I broke up the 20s as I, in my experience, feel there is a greater distinction between these age groups

please pick the age you are now, not what you will be

there is no “I want to see answers” option as I don’t want junk data

please reblog!

c'mon fandom olds, chime in

bogleech:

only-tiktoks:

Human hair is being used to clean up oil spills | CNN

San Francisco-based Matter of Trust takes human hair and animal fur and makes it into mats that are used to soak up oil spills.

CNN

Projects – Hair Mats & Oil Spills | Matter Of Trust

matteroftrust.org

This is fascinating and I love the part with the mushrooms and the worms if this really works but my favorite part is that we spent decades like “oh no….oil is soaking into fur and feathers….if only we had something that could soak up all this oil”

only-tiktoks:

were–ralph:

viejospellejos:

Arte 😍

she served like no one else could

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

chillgamesh-the-swing:

queererrant:

sustainability-thoughts:

katakulio:

sustainability-thoughts:

sustainability-thoughts:

Hey everyone! As part of a personal project I’m trying to brainstorm factors that would make communities/locations more resistant to climate change and the damage that it can cause to people’s lives. If anyone has any thoughts I’d love to hear them!

Just to clarify because there were a couple questions about what I meant I’m thinking along the lines of things that make cities safer from the effects of climate change

*puts on mortarboard*

• Create green spaces, especially ones with trees, to mitigate both heat and flooding, and reduce air pollution as well. They could be parks of varying size, swales, nature strips, wall gardens, rooftop gardens, etc. Increasing tree cover is probably the most beneficial though.
• Design urban spaces so that excess water is directed into green spaces, to mitigate flooding and/or make the most of rainwater. Swales, “sunken” gardens, and large green spaces where rivers are likely to overflow are all good ideas.
• Urban farming and urban gardening to mitigate disruption of food supply, as well as provide green spaces. Dig for victory!
• Diversify food sources as much as possible.
  
• Paint rooftops white to mitigate heat. I have also heard of painting road surfaces white.
• Where there must be a hard surface (roads, footpaths, etc.) use a porous surfacing material that allows water to seep through. That could be pavers with small holes or a new type of porous “concrete” (I’ve forgotten what it’s called).
• If you can grow mangroves, plant mangroves to mitigate storm surges, as well as improve biodiversity.
  
• Build large offshore wind farms to reduce storm intensity, as well as provide electricity. Yes, really.
• Build a modular energy supply to mitigate damage from natural disasters. Avoid large areas being reliant on one energy source or distribution network. Ensure backups for important resources like hospitals, communication, and transportation.
• Educate and inform citizens.
• Create and strengthen community networks. Community projects, community hubs, and buy nothing/food sharing groups are good places to start.
• Anticipate what emergencies are likely to occur and what peoples’ needs will be in that situation. Allocate funding, stockpile resources, and make plans accordingly.
• Install early warning systems if necessary, and make sure everyone understands them.
• Relocate people or important resources that are unavoidably in harm’s way.
  
• Enforce vaccinations. The last thing anyone wants to deal with in tough times (never mind an emergency) is a pandemic.
• Always account for supply lines!

These are all super great! Thank you!

These are awesome! Here’s a few more ideas:

• In flood-prone regions, have government buyouts of flooded houses and turn those areas into green spaces
• Change zoning laws where necessary to allow denser population (looking at California) while maintaining green spaces and flood planes
• Ensure that city planning takes into account making evacuation routes
• In drought-prone regions, subsidize homeowners collecting rainwater
• In fire-prone regions, restrict building on the forest margins where fires spread; bury power lines where possible

Oops this is my exact field actually… My city is a wretched hive of developers and property management companies at the moment, and I have lots of opinions about how to make it not one of that

• BUSES BUSES BUSES are the first step in getting us from the existing car-dependent urban sprawl to the user friendly low/no emission public transit network we deserve. They’re many times more efficient than cars (passenger capacity vs emissions) and much faster to implement than any kind of rail or streetcar. I would say test a route map on buses and later convert the most used routes to electric streetcar.
• Speaking of which, no-fare transit now. Public money already pays for it and most transit systems only get a small percentage of their funding from fares.
• Strong communities where people know each other. Makes the streets safer, gives people a network to help each other out when they’re in need, and
• Tool libraries, repair cafés and co-ops for people to trade skills and avoid just throwing out things that still have life in them. Doing stuff through the public library is a wonderful way to start.
• I’ll say it again, localize production! Mostly food, but everything else as much as possible.
• Housing First - and seize homes that are kept empty for long periods by real estate companies and rental managers who just don’t want to fill them below the “luxury” price point.
• Ban “for customers only” restrooms. Just give people a safe place to go, or to get water, take their meds, or whatever else. This and housing first are immediate necessary measures against the housing crisis in most big cities. Related - gyms and pools should be publicly funded and open to everyone.
• Neighborhood-scale electric grids. Again, decentralized production is more resistant to disaster, but not every single house is suitable for rooftop solar, and it doesn’t have to be. A lot of people install a solar rig and end up selling excess power back to the grid.
• A broad switch to sodium batteries over lithium- a “green revolution” that’s built on resource extraction and exploiting colonized countries ain’t shit.
• (Kill capitalist imperialism, but we knew that already.)
• Lower rise apartment developments, capped at like 4 floors. More than that actually starts to have an adverse effect on mental health as well as aforementioned community building.
• Multi use zoning. Dismantle the infinite suburb where you have to drive 20 minutes for gas and groceries. Bring back the corner stores.
• About those bioswales and greenspaces: even where city policies require developers to make space for them, most of the time they throw down some crabgrass sod and call it a day. Require them to design with hardy native and naturalized plants that can thrive
• Single stream recycling, as available as trash is now. And actually DO the recycling, not just ship it overseas. There’s already a plastic recycling system that doesn’t even require you to sort it by type and dissolves instead of melting it (which releases a lot of toxic particulates). There are species of bacteria, fungi and even insects that can break down plastics too. Anything that’s not being recirculated and used should be broken down.
• Also sexy: municipal composting, free compost and mulch, I’ve seen this in such disparate places as San Francisco and my suburban Georgia county. County extension services everywhere offer a ton of resources that are woefully underused.

More and better plant knowledge

Mortality rates for urban trees are super high. This could be fixed with simple education such as: don’t plant trees too close to buildings, don’t pile up mulch around the base of the tree, pick NATIVE species, pick only hardy pioneer species for stressful areas like parking lots, and avoid damaging the trees with weed whackers and lawn mowers. Give trees lots of space of dirt around them so water can soak in and reach their roots.

For smaller green areas, do native flowers and grasses, a good mix of them. And know their qualities and ways so they can be somewhere they are happy

For example relevant to Eastern USA- Purple Coneflower loves harsh, hot environments with poor soil, so put it on the edge of a pavement. There are also tons of flowers that grow specifically in rocks and gravel, so they would love that area bordering the concrete walkway that kills the lawn grass.

Flat-out ban pesticide use in lawns. That stuff hurts our health and our water supply and our ecosystems.

Also WIGGLE THE STREAMS. Straightening out the wiggly streams into straight drainage ditches means they hold less water. Imagine a pipe that is bent and wiggled stretched across an area a certain distance wide. Now imagine a perfectly straight pipe stretching across the same distance. NOW imagine stretching out the wiggled pipe so it’s straight. It’s much longer than the straight pipe now, so you can see how it holds more water.

@solarpunkani

Yeah so a book (I think it was titled Planting in a Post-Wild World but i forget the authors because it’s gone back the library) told me that purple coneflowers actively prefer hard, depleted soil and that lots of organic matter and fertilization will shorten their lifespan.

I thought, wow, that explains it! I rescued a purple coneflower last year and planted it right next to the front sidewalk in a spot that has awful soil and gets baked in the afternoon sun, and this summer it’s been thriving! It’s grown almost as tall as my waist and I’ve never seen a purple coneflower get that tall. It had like 20 blooms on it at once and got so top heavy it started to lean into the sidewalk.

So yeah. They love to be baked in the sun in hard, lifeless dirt right next to concrete, apparently.

prinnamon:

prinnamon:

so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone’s blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it’s just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else’s apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch

reblog if i can wander into your apartment (blog) and make myself lunch (like and reblog as if it’s my dash)

hamletthedane:

that-lieutenant:

hamletthedane:

Hamlet’s Age

Not to bring up an age-old debate that doesn’t even matter, but I have been thinking recently how interesting Hamlet’s age is both in-text and as meta-text.

To summarize a whole lot of discussion, we basically only have the following clues as to Hamlet’s age:

• Hamlet and Horatio are both college students at Wittenberg. In Early Modern/Late Renaissance Europe, noble boys typically began their university education at 14 and usually completed at their Bachelor’s degree by 18 or 19. However, they may have been studying for their Master’s degrees, which was typically awarded by age 25 at the latest. For reference, contemporary Kit Marlowe was a pretty late bloomer who received a bachelor’s degree at 20 and a master’s degree at 23.
• Hamlet is AGGRESSIVELY described as a “youth” by many different characters - I believe more than any other male shakespeare character (other than 16yo Romeo). While usage could vary, Shakespeare tended to use “youth” to mean a man in his late teens/very early 20s (actually, he mostly uses it to describe beardless ‘men’ who are actually crossdressing women - likely literally played by young men in their late teens)
• King Hamlet is old enough to be grey-haired, but Queen Gertrude is young enough to have additional children (or so Hamlet strongly implies)
• Hamlet talks about plucking out the hairs of his beard, so he is old enough to at least theoretically have a beard
• In the folio version, the gravedigger says he became a gravedigger the day of Hamlet’s birth, and that he’s be “sixteene here, man and boy, thirty years.” However, it’s unclear if “sixteene” means “sixteen” or “sexton” (ie has he worked here for 16 years but is 30 years old, or has he been sexton there for thirty years?)
• Hamlet knew Yorick as a young child, and the gravedigger says Yorick was buried 23 years ago. However, the first quarto version version of Hamlet says “dozen years” instead of “three and twenty.” This suggests the line changed over time. (Or that the bad quarto sucks - I really need to make that post about it, huh…)
• Yorick is a skull, and according to the gravedigger’s expertise, he has thus been dead for at least 7-8 years - implying Hamlet is at least ~15yo if he remembers Yorick from his childhood
• One important thing sometimes overlooked - Claudius takes the throne at King Hamlet’s death, not Prince Hamlet. That is mostly a commentary on English and French monarchist politics at the time, but it is strange within the internal text. A thirty year old Hamlet presumably would have become the new monarch, not the married-in uncle (unless Gertrude is the vehicle through which the crown passes a la Mary I/Phillip II - certainly food for thought)

Honestly, Hamlet is SO aggressively described as being very young that I’m fairly confident the in-text intention is to have him be around 18-23yo. Placing his age at 30yo simply does not make much sense in the context of his descriptors, his narrative role, and his status as a university student.

However, it doesn’t really matter what the “right” answer is, because the confusion itself is what makes the gravedigger scene so interesting and metatextual. We can basically assume one of the following, given the folio text:

• Hamlet really is meant to be 30yo, and that was supposed to surprise or imply something to the contemporary audience that is now lost to us
• Older actors were playing Hamlet by the time the folio was written down, and the gravedigger’s description was an in-text justification of the seeming disconnect between age of actor and description of “youth”
• Older actors were playing Hamlet by the time the folio was set down, and the gravedigger’s description was an in-text JOKE making fun of the fact that a 30-something year old is playing a high-school aged boy. This makes sense, as the gravedigger is a clown and Hamlet is a play that constantly pokes fun at its own tropes and breaks the fourth wall for its audience
• The gravedigger cannot count or remember how old he is, and that’s the joke (this is the most common modern interpretation whenever the line isn’t otherwise played straight). If the clown was, for example, particularly old, those lines would be very funny

Any way you look at it, I believe something is echoing there. It seems like this is one of the many moments in Hamlet where you catch a glimpse of some contemporary in-joke about theater and theater culture* that we can only try to parse out from limited context 430 years later. And honestly, that’s so interesting and cool.

*(My other favorite example of this is when Hamlet asks Polonius about what it was like to play Julius Caesar in an exchange that pokes fun of Polonius’ actor a little. This is clearly an inside-joke directed at Globe regulars - the actor who played Polonius must have also played Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play, and been very well reviewed. Hamlet’s joke about Brutus also implies the actor who played Brutus is one of the main cast in Hamlet - possibly even the prince himself, depending on how the line is read).

All of this! And also RE: the matter of Claudius taking the throne:

In Act I Scene 2 King Claudius starts right of the bat with his speech to the courtiers:

[…] Therefore, our sometimes sister, now our queen,

Th‘ imperial jointress of this warlike state,

Have we […]

Taken to wife […]

In the german translation (by A.W.v.Schlegel) for example this is simply translated to „Erbin dieses kriegerischen Staates“ = „Heiress to this warlike state“, which is why I always wondered about this confusion. I know looked it up and found in a The Guardian article titled „Why didn‘t Hamlet become king“ (just the first thing i clicked on, really) concerning those lines: „[…] this means that she possessed a legal jointure: an invention of the Tudor legal system that allowed a man to leave his estate to his widow rather than his children. The line suggests, therefore, that there was some legal contract through which Gertrude would inherit the country after King Hamlet‘s death.“

So yes, the crown does come with marrying Gertrude, though I agree that this would be kind of a weird legal action if Hamlet was already in his thirties.

Anyways what I really wanted to get at however is that even if this wasn‘t the case (hell, even if Claudius hadn‘t been coveting his brothers wife all along), it would have been a logical move to marry Gertrude. This minimizes the chances for civil war, especially if Hamlet is still young, because otherwise Gertrude would have been able to press her claims to the throne either as regent for Hamlet or as heiress herself.

🤯 thank you for adding, this is super interesting???