saw this on twitter and wanted to save it here
Here’s a link to the Stress First Aid instructors manual (2018) from the U.S. Forest Service Department of Agriculture, directed at Wildland Firefighters. It explains the original diagnostic tool cited under the adapted graphic above (Watson et al. (2013)), which was based off a model developed by the Navy / USMC for identifying and mitigating combat stress / potential PTSD. The link below provides an overview of the stress continuum model (ie: basis for the adapted graphic above) but also basic tenets of the stress first aid model and how to employ them:
https://www.frames.gov/documents/nafri/Stress_First_Aid_Instructors_Manual_90_Minute_Oct_2018.pdf
FRUIT FLY GROUPCHAT:
[🪰] fly 1: Hey everybody should we all show up spontaneously in this guy's house
[🪰] fly 2: yes
[🪰] fly 3: yes
[🪰] fly 4: yes
[🪰] fly 5: yes
[🪰] fly 6: yes
[🪰] fly 7: yes
[🪰] FLY 8 and 234 MORE are typing...
Does anyone else ever think about how traditional fiction is categorised by plot/setting (romance, crime, thriller, fantasy) but fanfiction is categorised by the emotions it’s meant to give you (hurt/comfort, fluff, angst, smut)?
Never thought of it this way, but that’s fascinatingly true.
Man, there is something about seeing a character in media who you glom onto because they're charismatic and pull a string in you but you're not sure why and then realizing they're a child of abusive/narcissistic parents.
Chaotic, self-destructive, loyal beyond reason or self-preservation. Treated like an adult by most who meet them, but desperately wants to be seen for their inner child that needs support and love. Filling their legs with bubblegum and whiskey to lull the anxiety of the specters of expected perfection and performance that haunt them continuously.
Anyways, this is a Lou Wilson Pinocchio appreciation post.
why must people critique actual play shows like they would a completed narrative. its like eating two bites of a meal and then critiquing the chef for their portion sizes
And wasn't that like 1/4 of the point of the conversation that Ylfa and The Goose had?? The ending is what gives stories meaning; and it's actually better to accept confusion and be actively questioning with a reasoned, empathetic and measured perspective on the world(s) than be singular and convicted?
And because TTRPGs are *collaborative* the story isn't finished yet. Just because there's battle maps and expected BBEGs, doesn't mean that the nuances and important moments are set.
The story is still being written: instead of being upset we can't see the ending we should be grateful we get to experience the journey at the same time as the storytellers.
Every single shitty roll Lou Wilson has ever had was interest paid in advance to the dice gods for that fucking clutch nat 20.
it's that "spring break! i believe in you" time of year again, so depending on where you live happy fabian-glow-up week
“When I say chair, You see a chair. When I say the concomittance of societal somnambulance with the unavowed smugness of totalitarianism, You see nothing.”
W.S. Burroughs
I just saw Henry Kissinger so ya know, different strokes I guess.
wizardhubris
You are not our children. You are a bad first draft.
Thinking about this again
we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme
lloerwyn
Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:
The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.
Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…
…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.
If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.
In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->
Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.
TECHNICOLOUR THOTPANTS
I’d like to add these recreations by bathoree on instagram, and the blog post on making one of them!
We live in the shadow of a grander age…
uhhhOooHghggg….
Seriously tho. Something about the increased tempo of the verses leading up to this maximalist crescendo gives this song a journey it lacked before. The line "rule of thumb makes me worry so" somehow has so much more weight than it did before.
There are moments in music when someone covers a song and it becomes *theirs*:
Jimi covering Bob's "All Along the Watchtower"
Johnny covering Trent's "Hurt"
This is that moment, coming again.
Sorry Gwen, this is hers now.
This is.... Absurdly cute. What the fuck.
It's worth noting that the reason the beaver wants the water to be deeper in the first place is that the Beaver is using the deep water as a pantry:
All summer and fall, beavers gather up branches with the leaves they actually eat, and store it in the deep end of the Pond, where the cold water and limited oxygen keep the leaves fresh all winter, so when it's negative 20 outside, a beaver can take a dip out of it's lodge, grab some refrigerated leaves in the (relatively) warmer water and go back to it's cozy little nap hole while everything else is out there suffering and eating bark or the like.
So it's less "there's a leak in my house" and more "OH SHIT THE FRIDGE!!"
when I joked about needing the night yorb to make an appearance on critical role after the introduction of the nightmare king I was NOT expecting it to be vax
Imagine if you will:
Team "Wizard Paramour" of Ayda and Essek
Team "Special Chosen" of Kristin and Caduceus
Team "Chaos Tief" of Fig and Jester (and Kingsley can come as their pet I guess)
Team "Himbo Barbarian" of Gorgug and Yasha
Team "Trauma Wizard" of Adnaine and Caleb
Team "Toxic Masculinity is Dead, I dance now" of Fabian and Fjord
Team "actually too young for this shit, but acting like we're too old for it" Riz and Beau
And poor Veth, deep in the energy of a daycare worker way over the safe ratio of children to adults.
The increasingly red CR logo is giving the same vibes as the frame slowly cracking each episode of Calamity