Random Fandom Shit

I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

May we live in very uninteresting times

may you experience very precedented events

Jesus Christ, this is the single most devastating insult I’ve ever read. You didn’t have to go and murder them like that.

Oh god damn, now THAT was a murder.

The more I talk about recycling with people the more I realise just how many people recycle backwards.

Hey OP what the fuck are you talking about?

What I mean is, when a lot of people plan to recycle, they look at stopping products from ending up in landfill. This is a completely pointless thing to worry about. Some materials do require special handling to dispose of safely (batteries, fragile plastics, etc.), but if your goal is a general ‘how do I repurpose this so it doesn’t end up in landfill?’, that solves absolutely nothing.

We aren’t lacking in landfill space. The shirt in the back of your closet that you never ever wear is exactly as bad for the environment in the back of your closet as it is in landfill; storing it is just delaying the point in time at which it’ll start to break down. If I buy something in a plastic bottle, and then repurpose that plastic bottle into a garden pot or something… that garden pot is still gonna go to landfill eventually. I haven’t saved anything. The plastic was landfill as soon as it was manufactured. That shirt was landfill (unless you choose to burn it, which isn’t environmentally any better) the moment the fabric was produced.

The critical point when it comes to making a difference with recycling isn’t before stuff hits landfill; it’s before the stuff is produced in the first place. “Reduce, reuse, recycle” only works because ‘reuse’ and ‘recycle’ are strategies to feed into ‘reduce’. Recycling glass bottles or aluminium cans is useful only because it reduces the amount of new glass and aluminium being produced (note: most of the plastic bottles you recycle go straight to landfill in other countries). Recycling fabric is useful only if it prevents the purchase of new fabric, and thus on a large scale, the production of new fabric.

For example, let’s say my pants are threadbare beyond repair, and I cut them up for dusters. Important question: do I use dusters? Do I need this many dusters? Is this, in short, an act that is stopping me from buying dusters made from newly manufactured material? If it’s not, then it’s not doing anything at all to help the environment. That same amount of fabric is still going to landfill. (That’s not a reason not to do it, it just doesn’t help the environment at all.)

Another example: I tend to cut up old clothes and pick up fabric that’s going to be thrown out a lot, to make bags and wall hangings and rugs and things. I recycle a LOT of fabric. Is this helping the environment? For some people doing this, it probably is, because they’re making stuff they’d otherwise buy. But for me, it’s doing nothing whatsoever for the environment. If I wasn’t making cushions and wall hangings, I wouldn’t be buying any. I just wouldn’t own any cushions or wall hangings. They’re fun to make, they brighten the place up, but they don’t affect my consumption (and therefore the incentive for cushions and wall hanging to be produced) at all; I’m buying zero of those things either way. Is this recycling? Yes. Does it have any effect whatsoever on helping the environment? No. It’s just delaying the amount of time before that exact same fabric ends becomes rubbish.

Same is true of the aformentioned plastic bottles into garden pots. That plastic is going into landfill whether you recycle it first or not. The question is, did repurposing it stop you from having to buy plastic garden pots? Will the cumulative effect of people doing this lower the amount of plastic garden pots being produced? Will that lower the amount of plastic being produced?

Stopping things from reaching landfill is largely an irrelevant and pointless practice. Recycling is only environmentally useful when it affects the future production of materials. Repurposing materials is often fun and practical regardless (I love repurposing materials), but it’s not automatically environmentally useful just because you’re reusing something.

Sounds inadviseable mid-pandemic

Something I often do is when I have old shirts I’ll sterilize them in a super hot wash, and then cut them up into varying sizes of ribbons that I typically use for medical purposes (tying strips of fabric over the wound instead of using bandages) or with the one knot I do know (a noose) it turns out you can make strips of fabric into fun things like fabric handcuffs or even let you turn pretty much anything into something with a comfy handle to hold and carry it around (useful for heavy boxes or tying groups of stuff together).

Anyway never underestimate the use of fabric! If you can cut it up into manageable pieces and store it for later or already have an idea of what to do with it, you can really substitute it in for lots of different items you’d usually have to buy

If you find yourself blessed with a lot of fabric, it makes a great heavy yarn for rugs and bags. Just cut it into strips and connect them like this.

The key to this is to pay attention to the thickness and texture of the fabrics to keep them fairly uniform, and to not mix knit fabric with weave fabric. (Knit fabric is anything where the treads are woven around each other, like knitting. This fabric tends to have a little stretch and give. Tshirts are made of knit fabric. weave fabric is anything made by running warp threads between weft threads at 90 degrees. These fabrics are tough and flat, with no give or elasticity. Bedsheets are made from weave fabric.)

You can then crochet, knit or weave this fabric to make bulky items. A fun use of old sheets is making toothbrush rugs. There are extremely easy to make, it’s just a series of half hitches until you decide the rug is big enough.

I totally agree with reusing and reducing before recycling. But it is important to remember that there is a difference between recycling and landfill.

Your paper and card that you may be recycling produces 100 times less CO2 than if it was allowed to decompose in landfill. That is a massive a real difference to our planet. If you are still going to use the same amount, remember where you are sending that to at the end of its life

No, it won’t – because it’s still going into landfill. Recycling doesn’t keep anything out of landfill. It means that you get to use it again before putting it in the landfill. It’s still going to decompose. You can recycle and reuse it a hundred times and it will still, in the end, be landfill. The end of its life is always landflll (or burning, or being worn away into smaller pieces which is just landfill but spread around the place, or similar).

The advantage of recycling is that it’s (usually, not always) less impactful to make a thing out of the already processed materials, than to produce it from scratch and have both end up in landfill. That is: if you recycle paper, it’s still going into landfill in the end, still decomposing, still releasing that CO2. But, if you didn’t get recycled cardstock, then the original cardstock is still doing that, plus the new cardstock is also being produced and doing that. So, by recycling, you don’t affect the impact of the original cardstock, but you lessen the impact of your second lot of cardstock by recycling the original materials instead of getting new materials. The original will still end up in landfill eventually, but you haven’t added a second one, because you reused the first one instead. (There is still an environmental cost to refining the materials in recycling, of course; recycled cardstock is worse for the environment than not using cardstock at all. Recycling doesn’t make it “free”, environmentally speaking, but it usually makes it “cheaper”.)

There is no difference between recycling and landfill, in the sense that recycling doesn’t keep the recycled thing out of landfill. The recycling still eventually ends up in landfill. But recycling (depending on what you’re recycling; again, this is all conditional) very often reduces environmental impact by decreasing the collection, refinement and eventual landfill of new resources.

You can, of course, dispose of things more responsibly – cardstock (assuming no synthetic inks or plastics) is better off in a worm farm than landfill, for instance. But that’s an entirely separate issue.

This is true for most things, but not all things. Aluminium, for example, can be recycled basically forever without loss of properties or usefulness, so there’s no reason for it EVER to end up in a landfill.

The same aluminium in your soda can today could be another soda can in 100 years or 1000 years or 10,000 years. Or part of a spaceship. Who knows, maybe the superintelligent corvids that take over after us will still be using that aluminium.

There are vanishingly few materials for which this is true. But please don’t ever send a can to landfill, it doesn’t need to go there!

Santa

this is a lot to unpack at once, conveniently compressed into a single word response

The s*pernatural guy & his wife's house tour is so chaotic

i am shook to my goddamn CORE. THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE

peak LGBT ally is robert pattinson and taylor lautner kissing each other so that kristen stewart didn’t have to be straight live on TV

OKAY BUT LOOK AT HER FACE! LOOK AT HOW HAPPY SHE IS THAT HES NOT MAKING HER GO THROUGH WITH WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT

The movies might have sucked, but the actors have redeeming qualities

every single thing robert pattinson ever does is intentionally genetically engineered to make stephenie meyer’s mormon blood boil hot enough for her to feel the constant neverending pain he experienced having to make and promote her movies for all those years. this is more than lgbt allyship. this is revenge.

SORRY GIRLS

YES >:(

Some days it’s definitely like that.

Well what the fuck now

please help me

I FUCKING HATE MY LIFE PLEASE

Hi guys! I wanted to make a little addition to this timeless post of mine!!!! :)

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!!

I thought it was all different people and not one person on a streak. Op are you okay??

why must reductress hurt me in this way

ok a) lmao me too girl, and

b) once burnout hits you CANNOT work that hard, by your standards, so odds are it actually hit a while ago and you just “powered through” because that’s what you’re used to doing. So now, every day, you’re hitting your limit and thinking “wtf man i used to be able to do this, i used to be competent, clever, diligent” and like yeah. you were. and that burns glucose. welcome to the dumb bitch zone.

and c), lmao, me too girl

fuck b) came for me harder than the first post did god damn

snitches get stitches

The struggles of putting up a real christmas tree early

The look on her face when she realizes

Here’s what they said if you didn’t understand-

Interviewer: What do you think about starting an initiative on campus here at UK, to be more inclusive to women who have penises? So we can put urinals in the womens restroom for them.

Student: Sounds fantastic.

Interviewer: Oh, does it?

Student: Yeah.

Interviewer: What about- Let’s take it one step closer, y'know more- for inclusivity here on campus, but free tampons and pads in the mens restroom for men who have periods?

Student: Sounds great.

Interviewer: Ok- You dont see anything wrong with those statements?

Student: No.

Interviewer: What men do you know with periods?

Student: I generally use- ones like in Willy T* have pads, I use them pretty often.

*(Willy T is the college nickname for their library I’ve heard.)

I attend this school and I can confirm 2 things. Yes, our big library is indeed called Willy T AND the day that this stank bitch came to campus everyone was losing their MINDS and kept walking by in hopes of getting chosen to call her out. Immaculate.

i. am on the floor. wheezing. the moment she realizes that not only is she talking to a trans man,, but that SHE COULDN’T CLOCK HIM,, this is high art and i want it written in Big Wedge sharpie on my wall

okay, idk where the clip was, but there was another bit where she was talking to this frat-boy looking dude:

and I just love that guy’s energy. So much of the trans bathroom talk is invasive and way too personal, and then there’s this guy like “yeah, why the fuck would I need to know? why do you need to know, you weirdo?”

been howling at these for half an hour

The “I have to pee” library one has me in literal tears. Imagine it from the other side. Did they even say who they were? From the librarian’s perspective this person just came in and paid $5 to use the bathroom but then walked out without using the bathroom I am sobbing here that is hysterical

Laughing SO HARD

These made me laugh so hard😂😂

DEANMON IS VERY POSSESSIVE

If gays don’t watch hockey then explain this

Youre right im so sorry