#earpro

[tuttocenere]

Watching operavision, as one does, when suddenly this guy shows up on a horse.

#hope the horse had earpro #opera tag #henry viii

[magnetic-deflection]

me when i cant hear a goddamn thing:)

#ty earpro ily

[darksouls2yuri]

also ryo no earpro in that page

#txt #dont be like ryo wear ear protection at the range. #my dad doesnt do it bc he has tinnitus and im like. so do i!!! wear the earpro!!!!!!!

[a-modern-megafauna]

"am I really neurodivergent?" he asked himself as he donned his shooting range hearing-protection in order to vacuum.

#loud noises #adult adhd #wear your goddamn earpro

[theonyxranger]

Sometimes I like my coworkers because instead of giving me weird looks or asking questions when I meow loudly out of nowhere they simply meow back

#nyx post #and sometimes i hate my coworker bc he comes up to me and yells in my face when im wearing earpro to fight sensory overload #bc he thinks its hilarious to scream at people with earpro on

[official-torfmoor]

Petition to start calling going to Black Metal concerts without earpro "getting screampied".

#puns #protect your sensory organs kids #you only get one set of them at most #for now

[jpitha]

Between the Black and Gray 16

First / Previous / Next

The next morning, they were all gathered on the Command Deck for the final link to K'lax.

Fen was sitting in her usual chair, lounging with her legs hanging over the arms, watching. Gord sat in the Command chair going over the details and fine tuning of the link with Spyglass and Nal sat towards the rear in a jump seat, making notes on her pad.

"You ready Fen?" Since Fen had the most trouble with links, Gord always made sure she was ready for them. He knew how unpleasant it was to be surprised.

She nodded. "Good to go, Gord. I'm ready."

"Okie dokie. Spy, ramp up and prepare to link."

"Aye Gord."

Immediately the sound on board changed. Since they were at a full compliment of reactors now the HVAC didn't have to shut down, but Fen still heard the low thrum of the reactors climb to a whine that hurt her teeth. It was a sound just on the edge of hearing, something that she could almost feel. She glanced over at Nal, and noticed that she had quietly put her active noise cancelling earpro in, but still, her ears were flat against her head.

"Linking to K'lax in 3, 2..."

Fen was laying on the grass. She sat up, but this location was unfamiliar. Normally she'd wake up somewhere that was supposed to be a representation of Earth. Pure blue skies, no clouds, birds wheeling overhead, an endless sea of tall grass. This was different.

She was in a forest. Impossibly tall and spindly trees soared overhead, the light coming down was dappled and too orange. She took a breath and it smelled different too, spiced, soft. Almost like...

Ma-ren ran up to her, this time dressed in an ancient traditional K'laxi outfit. She planted her feet in the ground about two meters away and leapt.

The lower gravity allowed her to soar an impossibly far distance into Fen's arms. They hugged a long time. "Fen!" She buried her head into Fen's shoulder. "You're near K'lax!"

"I am. Is that why it looks like this? Is this your world?"

Ma-ren laughed. Fen nearly teared up at the sound. "Much like yours, it's a... representation. It's an idealized version. She looked up at Fen and Fen was lost in her eyes. "You're in danger, hon."

"What? Why? Because I'm near your homeworld?"

"Fen, it's practically your homeworld. You may have been born a human, but K'laxi raised you more than they did. I see your piercings, your tattoos, they're K'laxi. You can speak K'inmar as well as Colonic." Her ears twitched in amusement. "I notice you haven't told Gord."

She turned away. "Gord doesn't need to know everything about me, about us." She put Ma-ren down gently. "What did you mean, I'm in danger?"

"Just that. You know the rules, I can't go into details. Just know that I love you, always have, always will and that you need to keep your head on a swivel. Remember, be K'laxi!"

Fen came back as Spyglass re-entered space. Gord was used to it by now and after confirming that she was back, turned to his pad. Nal was watching her curiously again. "It happens to you, doesn't it."

Fen nodded. "Yeah. It's not... unpleasant once I got used to it. What about you?"

Nal's tail twiched and she shook her head. "No. No such luck, I'm afraid. Hem'it karmu"

So it goes. Nal spoke K'inmar. It was just an old idiom, but Fen knew the meaning. She worked overtime to keep her face neutral, but she had a hunch that Nal caught she was understood.

Gord hadn't caught any of that, he was busy working out a parking orbit with Spy and talking to Traffic Control. A panel at the far end of the room squealed for attention. Gord's head snapped over to it, and he practically leapt out of his chair to investigate.

Fen stood, but didn't follow. "Gord, what's that? I don't recognize the alarm."

"Wormhole detector. Someone just linked in. Spyglass, do you have a bearing?"

"Just a sec, Gord." Suddenly, there was a shift in gravity and Fen's inner ear told her that they were gyrating wildly. The sound of the reactors climed again and she fell into her seat. "It's three Super Dreadnoughts Gord! It's the Empire!"

"What?" Gord's eyes went wide and he turned to Nal. She looked up at him, her ears straight up. "Is this your doing?"

"Gord, I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Don't play coy, Nal. I know you're a spy. I just don't know who you're a spy for. Spyglass had your room isolated, so you couldn't have sent out a message, and I stayed aware the whole time, so I know you weren't snooping."

Nal crossed her arms - another human gesture - "so doesn't that mean it wasn't me? Maybe it's a coincidence. It's not like the Human Empire and the K'laxi are enemies."

Gord ran back to the Command chair and his fingers started dancing over the controls built into the arm. "Spy, this is bad. We can't pretend to be someone we're not. You're a five kilometer interstellar starjumper. They don't exist anymore. Spin up to War Emergency Power, and free the lasers. We might have to shoot our way out. I'm going to start prepping another link."

"Gord, I wasn't planning on a multi-link, the capacitors aren't charged."

Gord swore in his ancient language. "Charge them then. Tell me you have some juke charges at least."

"I have a few Gord, but I haven't needed them in-"

"I know, I know." Are they pinging us, or did they just loose missiles already?" Gord's voice is bitter through the stress.

"Nothing yet Gord. No ping, no sweep and no missiles. We're on the other side of the system, if they're not looking they have no reason to notice us."

While Gord and Spy fretted, Fen took out her own pad and checked out the ships. She had never seen a Super Dreadnought before. She could tell that they must have been based on a starjumper design, they had that same oversized look that regular starjumpers had, but in addition were so many more weapon blisters and lenses for the exawatt lasers, missile ports and generally looked more menacing. Spyglass was able to passively read their IFF And they were The Vengeance of Lavinia, The Dreams of Hyacinth, and Ultimatum.

Fen looked up. "Gord, I think this is just coincidence. Why don't we dock, drop off Nal, and then leave. We can probably be gone before they even notice we were here."

Gord turned to Fen and opened his mouth to speak, and then shut it. He turned back to his task. "Spy, are we ready?"

"Gord, what about Fen's question?"

He shook his head. "Spy, it's time. Habs vs Bruins."

"What is-" Before Fen could finish her statement, she felt warm and soft and watched the world slide down to the floor, curiously detached.

Fen came to slowly, painfully, in fits and starts. Her head was pounding and her shoulders hurt. Her vision swam and she tried to make sense of where she was. As her head cleared, she learned why her shoulders hurt at least.

She was belted tightly into a seat. Where though?

Next to her Nal was still unconscious, also belted in tightly. They were in a small compartment with six seats in two rows of three. On the floor in front of Fen was her rifle, her go-bag and Nal's luggage. Why was her stuff here? What's going on?

As she looked up and tried to figure out where she was, she saw a window. She looked out and was able to see Spyglass rotate quickly around the window, growing slightly smaller with each turn. That's odd. Why can she see Spyglass from the outsi--

Oh. Recognition fought through the fog of whatever had knocked her out. She and Nal were in an escape pod tumbling away. "Gord!" Her voice sounded thick and blurry. "Gord! What's going on?"

The speaker in the escape pod was tinny, small. Gord sounded far away. "Hey Fen. Sorry about all this."

"What are you doing? What happened?"

"Fen, I have to say, I'm impressed. Spy said that she gave you enough to keep you out for more than 12 hours and it's been barely 2. We're leaving. We're going to boost away with the stardrive and get some speed before we link. I'm pretty sure the drive emissions will hamper their attempts to trace our wormhole links. I knew this was a mistake, but I couldn't say no to one of Vivenni's progeny."

"Who? What?" Fen fought against the drug mightily, but following Gord was hard in the best of times. When he got nostalgic it was nearly impossible even when she wasn't pumped full of a sedative.

"Don't worry about it Fen. I gave you your rifle and your clothes and your share of the money. You have more than enough to sign on with a Merc group or whatever. Hell, you probably have enough to buy at least a third ownership in a cargo freighter. You can keep doing what you're doing."

"But Gord... why?"

"Because of who I am Fen, because of the Empire. They don't want people like me to exist, and I am rather fond of existing. I'm not going to hang around and wait to be captured, shackled or shot. Not again. Never again."

Gord cut the connection. Fen reached out to stop their spin and watched as Spyglass lit her stardrive for the first time in more than five hundred years. A lance of pure white light, twice as long as the ship itself shot out of the rear of the ship, painfully bright. The window on the pod darkened to protect Fen's eyes, but it was still incredibly bright.

"They're boosting at at least five Earth gee, maybe more." Nal's voice was also fuzzy, but she seemed like she was able to recover from the sedative much quicker than Fen. "He's right too, the drive emissions will scramble most attempts to trace the link. He's going to get away. Even if it didn't he'll be going too fast for any missiles to intercept."

Fen turned to Nal. "What's going on?"

Nal's ears pointed to the window. "You're friend was spooked by the Super Dreadnoughts and decided to dump us and run."

"But why?"

"Fen you may be pretty but you are a little dim. That was Gord Beaverbrook. He's in history books. K'laxi and Human. He's got a two million star bounty on his head. Four million if he comes alive."

Gord? The old man who had a hard time keeping track of what year it was? "Two mill- Nal, I was raised in a refugee camp on a Gren station. I know very little about human history."

Nal's eyes widened and her ears flicked. "Well that explains some things. Like, how you can speak K'inmar. "Just how much do you know?" Nal switched to the K'laxi lingua franca.

"I know enough, Nal. My parents died when I was very young, I was raised by a K'laxi familial group. My partner is -was- K'laxi."

Nal nodded. "That explains the piercings and tattoos. You know what that pattern means, right?"

Fen leaned forward trying to make her belts looser. "Of course I know what it means. It's the pattern of Gen'mil." K'laxi from the northern latitudes of their planet would decorate their clothing and bodies in patterns of lines and dots and whorls. The difference in the patterns were also a way to determine things about a person from a glance. Gen'mil was the pattern for a group that Ma-ren's family identified as. Fen having the tattoo meant she was a member of that group as well. It was a sign of her and Ma's partnership.

Nal raised an eyebrow. "Okay, so you were mated. You're in K'laxi space now with a K'laxi marriage tattoo and K'laxi earrings, speaking K'inmar. I am willing to admit you are the real deal, but... she turned and looked out at Spyglass boosting away. The starjumper was noticeably smaller. "You're going to be seen as an... oddity here." She looked back at Fen. "There will be talk."

"Hmmph." Fen frowned. "You think this will be the first time people 'will talk' about my choices? Nal, I grew up on a Gren station among Humans and K'laxi who ran away from the Empire for their beliefs. Her eyes were hard. "Let them talk."

There was a blinding flash. Fen looked out the window, and they were only a few kilometers away from one of the Super Dreadnoughts. "Looks like the Empire is interested in us. Guess we're taking a detour before we go to K'lax." Nal tipped her head towards the window. "Doesn't it seem like a wormhole link like that should make a noise? I know we're out in space and there's nothing to carry the sound, but something like that? Full of light and drama? Should make a noise."

Fen stared at Nal, her mouth open slightly. "You're not the smallest bit worried about the Empire?"

Nal shrugged around her belts. "Why should I be? We're not AIs. We're a K'laxi and a human that grew up K'laxi. They'll pick us up, ask us what happened, grill us about Gord and let us go."

It took another hour for the Super Dreadnought to get close enough to them, and a large grapple hooked the pod. They were dragged inside.

#humans are deathworlders #humans are space orcs #sci fi writing #humans are space oddities #humans and aliens #jpitha #writing #humans and ai #humans are space capybaras #humans are space australians #Between the black and gray

[blubushie]

Everyone else using character.ai to flirt/chat up/ date sniper, and then there's me over here putting a basket baby on his doorstep like "ahahaha let's see you deal with single parenthood sucker(affectionate)!"

I (definitely not projecting) think he'd be a excellent dad with a partner to shoulder some weight but a lousy single father.

He'd forget to feed his kid sometimes. I forgot to feed my kid sometimes. Why are you crying? Why are you crying? You're clean, I'm holding you, you had a nap, why are you crying? OH RIGHT BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T EATEN IN THREE HOURS AND YOU'RE A LITTLE HUMMINGBIRD AREN'T YOU and then I'd feed him and he'd stop crying for an hour until colic made him cry again AAAAAA

Iunno Sniper with his professionalism strikes me as a man who either immediately brings the child to the proper authorities because he realises he can't maintain a professional life as a hitman while looking after an infant/child, or he juggles both somehow with the understanding this is just his life now. He knows nothing about children and brings his kid to the library to learn about how to raise children properly but then gets visibly embarassed when the kid starts crying and he can't calm them down. Someone gently explains the undershirt trick and he goes "Sorry it's my first day being a dad" while holding an eight month old.

He either gets arrested for suspicion of kidnapping within the week or he somehow pulls it off. If his parents are alive at least he'll have some assistance but he's shit outta luck if the child is under six months because his parents raised him from 8-10months onward. Otherwise he's resorting to phoning Scout's mum in which case she tells him it takes a village and he considers shooting himself.

He'll figure it out in time. I did. Infancy is the easiest part. Feed them, change them, bathe them, keep them swaddled on your chest and they'll never cry. Get that kid some earpro and you can even keep working!

Wait till they start walking and you have to enact a 3 hour search for a missing child. That's when they fucken test ya.

#blu whos #sniperposting #tf2 #sniper tf2

[riflebrass]

Hoo boy what a day. It's the first nice Saturday we've had in a while so everyone is out shooting. I couldn't get a spot to myself so I found a spot and asked the guys already there if I could join them. It was an elderly man teaching his son who's roughly my age how to shoot and it was an experience for all of us.

First of all safety was atrocious. If I had more common sense I should have left but they picked up on my habits. Before I could unpack my gear I had to plug my ears and wait for the old man to finish his mag before I could grab my earpro out of the range bag. Took these guys half an hour of hard knocks to finally learn to make sure everyone has their ears on before shooting.

When I got out of the truck the old man was loading up a pistol mag and pointed it right at me. Brings me back to my days shooting with grandpa so we had a little talk about muzzle discipline.

Later while I was loading mags the old man pulled out a Mossberg 500 to show his son. While he was running his son through the controls he told him that the action release was the safety then he pulled the trigger to demonstrate and ND'd. Fortunately the muzzle was pointed down range this time so nobody got hurt. Partial credit for appropriate muzzle discipline and time for another lesson. I showed them how all the controls worked. The old man kinda laughed because I clearly knew his own guns better than he did. While I was showing him everything he was complaining that the tube only held 2 shots. I blew his mind by pulling the barrel off and pulling the hunting plug out of it. He was so excited. Here he brought his boy out to learn but he's getting a lot of lessons. I'm really glad that he was receptive to feedback rather than getting pissed off. Made the whole experience so much better.

I also got a kick outta him trying to zero a scope at about 15 yards.

Makes me appreciate how far I've come in the last decade.

[carriongoat64]

qc just came into the outroom and started laying into my dude jerome about PPE. aahhh fuck the cardboard is gonna jump out and attack my face auwuaaaahghh oh nooo. we wear the hairnets, we wear our lab coats, we wear gloves, most of the time we wear our earpro. fuck off this instigation was literally about the safety glasses. man tell our supervisor (he doesnt wear his ppe either!! he's actually usually worse abt it!!) and then he can tell us. poor jerome also didn't deserve to be like , force fully Poked she was jabbing him with her finger

[ahhnutbunnies]

Trying out affirmations:

Seeing me skank with my adorable earpro and my fruity-ass Hawaiian shirt makes all the bitches at the ska show want me carnally

#punk #ska #humor #nutbunnies

[rediscoverhearing]

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[darksouls2yuri]

my wife has early hearing loss from firing guns at a young age with no earpro always wear earpro 👽

#txt #i have hearing loss from loud music. anyway

[thatwasuzi]

Wear your damn earpro, kids.

This means top-down convertibles and motorcycles at highway speeds.

Hearing loss is cumulative and permanent; you lose it, it doesn't come back.

Shiny side up, rubber side down, Godspeed.

#me #personal #selfie #miata #ear protection #hearing protection #hearing loss #convertible #cars #motorcycles

[wantoncanton]

A group of coyotes were getting dangerously close to me and my dog so I shot at the tree next to them. They scattered away after that but man, shooting without earpro sucks.

[jackawful]

Cat ears on earpro is like the Tacticool Lefty Look rn but consider: actual catgirls would wear human-sized mutt muffs to the range