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I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.
In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!
Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.
Anyway dragonfly for admiration:
Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy
We know better than to put a Sharpie anywhere near a doll.
And if you didn’t before reading this post, you do now.
To be less vague, because that doesn’t really help anyone that DOESN’T know better:
Sharpies are oil based ink. As such the ink can never dry. Oil doesn’t dry, exactly. On many plastics it can’t really set, either, and will remain sticky.
Like dissolves like, so if the oil-based ink gets onto plastics made of similar oils (like vinyl which playline doll heads tend to be made of) it’s not coming off.
Instead it’s doing to soak deep, deep into the vinyl and as it soaks in, it’s going to spread out from the application area in an aura of permanent color. It is now part of the vinyl. The softer the vinyl, the faster Sharpie takes hold and spreads.
If a doll with Sharpie on it touches another doll with the Sharpied area whether that’s the hair, body, or face, there’s a high chance of the ink transferring to the other doll. Or fabrics. Or surfaces.
It soaks in. It spreads. It gets deep, deep into the plastic it’s touched.
Sharpie loves plastic.
Sharpie will be one with the plastic.
You can get Sharpie ink back out of the vinyl, but it takes applying a bleaching agent (10% benzoyl peroxide acne creme is popular), sunlight/warmth, lots and lots of waiting, and possible repetition of those steps, possibly several times. And it might also lift the colors you want to stay, like skin tone (especially fantasy skin tones) and paint.
Putting Sharpie ink on a hard plastic, though? That ink’ll dissolve and wipe off with rubbing alcohol, because it’s not actually permanent, either.
Better to not get it anywhere near a doll to begin with.
BEST FRIENDS WEAR EACH OTHER ON THEIR FEET.
HAH! When I was working on character/prop design on Arthur, the script just said that Buster showed up in his pajamas. But since it struck me that Arthur’s pajama design included bunny slippers… and his best friend was a bunny, it seemed fitting to include Aardvark slippers on Buster’s pajama design.
Apparently the storyboard artist was amused and he featured the slippers in a closeup! I was so proud!
Apparently someone left a lighter in their pocket and all of That is from the gas released when the lighter ruptured
So there's slightly more to it than that, that dryer is a natural gas dryer rather than a purely electric one. So when the lighter went off (the initial small explosion) it damaged the sealed drum enough to get to the gas lines in the heating element of the dryer which then allowed the natural gas and oxygen to mix, hit the fire from the lighter, and result in the second MUCH LARGER blast.
This is one of the many reasons why you always check your pockets, and also why I've never owned a natural gas dryer, even though they're way more energy efficient than an electric one.
Also the choice of music is... Something
Anyway its in a really annoyingly out of the way place but in the wake of this stupid ass layout change "experiment"
This is the contact support form which is also the giving feedback form. I imagine this is more likely to get listened to than replying to staff posts with incoherent rage so I recommend just telling them the layout change is really bad before they get a chance to commit to it:
Please be more eloquent than this example. Also to the users with unchecked anger issues that you think makes you cool: no violently threatening the support team please that will help nothing and probably just be counterintuitive Just say the layout is bad and you don't like it. I believe in my heart that we can perform a #ThisNewLayoutSucksAssSweep