I attack first. I draw my blade and take a swing. You look rather confused. This confusion is justified as we are 40 ft apart in the middle of a showdown.
Sorry, boss, but we can’t get this thing running til tomorrow. Tony was the only one who had the timings memorized and he just got isekai’d. Yeah he’s on like a quest or somethin right now. Took my fucking alen wrenches with him, too.
Switch to another screen that’s just a very confused dad in a hard hat w/ the title “I was a MILLWRIGHT until I fell in a PORTAL and now I’m a KNIGHT and three princesses are in love with me??!?!”
Ok, but I love the idea that the crew back home all KNOW he got isekai’d. Like, he can still call the folks on his crew back home through like, his accidentally purloined wrenches and he calls them for advice while trying to cope with demons or whatever. Like his buddy Kelly gives him advice on how to let the princesses down gently. John has a bunch of kids and gives him diplomacy advice because he’s so used to intervening in his kids bickering. Leo is trying to pretend none of this is happening, till they’re all gathered around biting their nails when they get just an audio feed while he’s fighting a dragon.
Eventually the Ultimate Evil is contained in a really well made cabinet that Tony can be proud of.
Give me Tony the isekai’d millworker with backup crew and magical wrenches I want this now.
This is a writing prompt now. I surrender it unto the collective.
showed this post to my wife and that’s how I found out there is an actualfacts honest to god anime with this basic premise out this season called “Handyman Saitou In Another World.”
I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.
In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!
Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.
Everything is something’s habitat. You might as well not go outside for fear of stepping on some larval beetle.
This is hugely missing the point. The idea is to enjoy what’s left of our natural spaces while having as little an impact as possible. It’s not difficult to avoid intentionally destroying habitat. I recommend looking into the Leave No Trace principle which is very important for conservation. Cynicism doesn’t help anything.
A few rock stacks here and there wouldn’t have much of an impact alone. But in parks that see thousands or even millions of visitors each year, when you have people like you saying, “sure, literal scientists and park rangers are telling me not to do this, but surely that doesn’t apply to ME,” the effect is huge. Please attempt to see the bigger picture. You are not so special that YOU get to ignore the rules and continue intentionally destroying habitat even after you’ve been told it’s harmful.
i saw a really cool butterfly expert man on PBS and was so in awe of him and his butterfly knowledge i tracked down the episode online to see how to spell his name and found his twitter and followed him, only for the next day to awaken to him having read not only my webcomic, but also my livetweets saying how i wanted to marry the butterfly man. he said he was flattered. anyway the moral of the story is please don’t underestimate how far down your twitter a bored entomologist will scroll, and also the internet was a mistake.
my brother started calling our cat “doobie brother” which he then lengthened to “dubious brother” and has since morphed into “brother dubious” like he’s some sort of fucked up little monk
