Here's a little comic from Eaurp's first time on a spaceship in actual space, the ISMT-47 Violet, which brought her from Mellanus to Starfleet Academy on Earth.
About 40% of mellanoid slime worms react to experiencing zero gee for the first time by losing their skeleton and collapsing into a blob as a way to minimize damage from crashing into the ground. You get used to it and eventually it's not a problem anymore. Guz would have dealt with this on a zero-gee trainer airplane if she had stayed in the space program, or experienced it in a training simulation in Earth Orbit or a holosuite at Starfleet Academy, but the Violet's crew like to make sure passengers from backwater worlds get their space legs as soon as possible.
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i wish that drivers licenses were like. at all indicative of driving skill.
do you know what my driver's ed course was? "don't drink and drive, the gas is on the right, use your signal when you turn, and don't drink and drive. here is your learner's permit, if you go a few months without fucking up you will get a full license. please do not drink and drive."
which is insane to me, because as an 18 year old i probably should not have been given clearance to drive a several tonne death machine??
anyways I'm saying this because I've been driving for nearly a decade now, and dear god. there's a lot of people who just should not be on the road. i understand that this is a car-based country and we do not actually fucking have public transportation. but like. if you are operating a several tonne death machine you should ideally know how to do so in a way that does not make other people fear for their lives. If I am sitting and waiting to turn, I should not be in danger of nearly having the front of my car taken off because YOU decided that driving on the right side of the road was for squares, actually.
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I got off the phone a few minutes ago with the police I was leaving the courthouse for a work errand and this car behind me was also leaving and they kept honking because they wanted me to turn but there was so much traffic that I couldn’t turn and they kept pulling up on my bumper and they hopped the sidewalk to try and go around me but they were going to hit my car that way so I had to risk it and pull out into traffic because I thought that was a better chance of not getting hit and they pulled up beside me and stopped and rolled their windows down screaming at me and starting throwing water bottles at my car and I’m still shaking and like that just feels like such an insane thing to do just because you wanted to turn quicker especially right next to a courthouse
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my kid narrates everything he does bc youtube but now my mom has started doing it to and oh my god will i ever know quiet
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Besties I’m stuck in traffic and the guy in the backseat of the car next to me looks like Ewan Mitchell 👁👁 at least his profile is EXACTLY the same, I’m over here like 👁👁 sneaking quick peaks to see if he turns
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