i am in dire straits. there are five adults (me, my mother and her boyfriend, and my grandparents) in my household, and my mother and her boyfriend are the only 2 people able to find work. my moms bf is currently on sick leave, however – he just had a big op, and had 15% of one lung, and 25% of the other lung removed due to cancer. i dropped out of high school because of severe mental health issues and suicidal tendencies, and despite having a few decent jobs over the years no one is willing to hire me.
between my mother and her bf, we get around 1000 ZAR (south african rand) a week. rent itself is 5500 ZAR a month, gas is 300ish ZAR, and food is around 600 ZAR a week, and while we’ve been managing thus far, with my moms bf being out of work we cant afford gas to get to work, food or rent. i have no idea what else to do. i’ve been homeless before, and i would do anything to keep that from happening again. so please, please, if you could spare anything (our currency is very poor, 5 us dollars is nearly 100 ZAR), i would really appreciate it.
Today in my nerd class my teacher casually mentioned that Jotunheim is an actual place in Norway, and I dropped my pen and stopped breathing briefly. Looked it up: it’s real.
Jotunheimen National Park.
Actual
Fucking
Jotunheim
LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME THAT ISN’T A JOTUN THAT CAUGHT THE SUNRISE AND BIT IT
LOOK ME IN THE EYE
YOU CAN’T
BECAUSE THAT IS A FUCKING JOTUN
No, I am not tearing up because of some rocks in Norway
Yes I am tearing up because of some rocks in Norway
Had to go research this thing, and the answer to what to do if it stings you is scream.
from Wikipedia-
“One researcher described the pain as “…immediate, excruciating, unrelenting pain that simply shuts down one’s ability to do anything, except scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations. In terms of scale, the wasp’s sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt sting pain index, second only to that of the bullet ant, and is described by Schmidt as “blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric”.“
Soooooo…dissociate to escape or?
It’s laying eggs in you.
Let’s back up a second and fully appreciate that description.
The Schmidt sting pain index, a widely used classification system for the bites and stings of ants, bees and wasps, is literally the personal ranking system of a guy named Justin Schmidt, who goes around letting bugs sting him for science. Like, that’s this Thing as a scientist.
In one entry, he describes the sting of the common bee as “almost pleasant, [like] a lover just bit your earlobe a little too hard.”
In another, the sting of the yellowjacket is described as “hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.“
So when the Schmidt sting pain index characterises the sting of the tarantula hawk as “blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric”, well, now you know what your standard for comparison is!
this is fascinating but when do we kinkshame Justin Schmidt
