favorite platonic relationships: jake peralta and ray holt
“Over the years, you’ve referred to me. as something of a father figure. Did I? I didn’t realize that. Well, I want you to know if I had a son, and he turned out like you, I’d be very proud of him.”
Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.
Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.
This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.
Flash floods are definitely gonna kill people, so here’s your regularly scheduled PSA:
Desert soil does not absorb a significant amount of water. It reaches maximum saturation very very quickly, and all the rest of the water rushes downhill. Even if you can’t tell that the ground is not perfectly flat, the water can. And it will move. Quickly. No, faster than that. Nope, still faster. If you try to cross moving floodwater, you will get swept downstream and probably die.
This goes for cars, too. I’ve seen entire vehicles getting swept downstream in flash floods because the driver thought they could cross the “puddle” and Found Out.
Stay safe, y’all.
Beyond not wading or driving through it - don't go anywhere near flowing floodwater if you can help it. Flooding will destabilize the ground under your feet, and if you don't want to walk through water you really don't want to fall in. This kills. I know people who were observing floodwaters from a raised embankment, when the embankment collapsed due to saturation and erosion. They fell into the rushing water and both died.
I imagine the soil over on the west coast has some different properties than over here, but it bears mention nonetheless: if you are close enough to clearly see rushing floodwater, and you are standing on dirt/turf/sediment, you are likely in some degree of active danger.
Take care of yourselves.
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Such a fascinating interaction here. We have Ben realizing that Devi needed this moment with Paxton, so he saw it as his cue to leave. But there was no detectable jealousy on his part here, which is a sign of the growth he experienced in season three.
And of course, the way Devi could not stop watching him walk away. Indeed, there was something undeniably alluring about the way he walked away, which had previously been noted by many others.
Preliminary Round 24
The Genius Files by Dan Gutman
Killer Unicorns by Daian Peterfreund
The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon
Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda
Undertow by Michael Buckley
Kiki Strike by Kirsten Miller
Willa by Robert Beatty
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ALTFor what reason do you put off finishing a book?
It is getting bad and you kinda don't want to read it anymore
It is still good but when you finish it you will run out
You don't want to have to find something else to read
You have misplaced it
All of the above
Other (please explain in the tags)
None (I just finish my books like a normal person/show results)
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Come on Tumblr, don’t be fucking cowards
Alternatively - come on nameless intern #102, you have a chance to be the fucking funniest person on staff.
cowards
Time for manual blazing, tumblr can be a coward but they can't stop us.
Achievement Unlocked:
Just because Tumblr won't let you Blaze a post doesn't mean you can light it up yourself!
If you live in the US and you have a phone you need to keep secret for any reason, make sure that it is turned off at this time.
Yes, I'm doing this months in advance, and yes, my blog has very little reach, but I figure better to post about it more than less.
Please reblog and add better tags than mine, I'm bad at tags.
OCTOBER 4, 2023
TURN OFF YOUR OTHER PHONE AND DO NOT TURN IT ON AGAIN UNTIL YOU ARE ALONE AND SAFE BECAUSE THE ALARM WILL COME THROUGH AS SOON AS THAT PHONE IS POWERED ON.
AGAIN I REPEAT:
If this doesn't make sense, then good news it's not for or about you but still reblog it because you never know who may need to know this.
Reblog and add more tags.
