aphanon_meme | part 353 whalers on the moon

part 353 whalers on the moon

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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where you're never sure if you're hearing firecrackers or gunshots

tbqh this has been my experience in the other 11 months also

Depends on where you are

I remember once in college, my roommates and I heard what seemed like fireworks going off at night and we were like what holiday is this? Who's setting off fireworks? (It was nowhere near a holiday when you'd normally hear fireworks).

And then the next day we found out there had been a shooting near the school (our campus was inside the city) because we got a mass email about it reassuring us about it.

We laughed about it at the time, but I'm very glad to be living in a quiet and relatively low-crime suburb now.

No, July just means you're reasonably more sure the answer is firecrackers.

And it's kind of sad how ingrained this reaction is, like I remember hearing firecrackers in late October when I just moved to London and despite knowing full well there isn't that much gun crime here, it was the first thought that crossed my mind. ~~And then I remembered Guy Fawkes Day was a thing.~~

in other words, murderers and assassins should time their hits for evening of july 4th. no need for a silencer.

(i am pretty sure i have seen this happen in a crime show already.)