In a toxic relationship with the Cascadia Subduction Zone. 🌋🌊 Emergency management professional in WA State with a focus on tsunamis. Polytheist pagan witch. Agender, asexual, queer AF. She/they. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Views are my own. https://onlyfragments.com
I, uh... I gotta admit, even Ray Bradbury might not have come up with something like this.
Dan of the YearFor me at least, the two things I don't want a giant robot centaur with horns to do are hold a chainsaw and stare menacingly at me through a door.
I've gone past "it's unhealthy to constantly worry about disappointing other people" and am now flirting with "maybe other people should be worried about disappointing ME."
Disaster Girl Meme: PirómanoAlt: Little girl smiling at the camera while a house burns behind her.static.klipy.comI entered college with the intention of double majoring in English and Education. Took one geoscience class my freshman year (Geology of the National Parks iirc) and the rest is history. Rocks are fucking cool. 🌋🤷❤️
Prof Chris JacksonSomeone recently made a quip that, “if you’ve seen one rock, you’ve seen them all”. It was a joke, I guess, aimed in my direction and geologists more generally. Although I think the rock-centric way geology sometimes sells itself is foolish…this person couldn’t be more wrong…[1/2]
Having just come off of a two week activation in the state EOC for wildfire season, can I just say WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?? I guess we're really just saying the worst racism with our whole chests these days, huh.
Alexandra (Alex) DugganNEW — A WA House candidate claimed the Colville Tribes have an “incentive” to have more wildfires because they get reimbursed by FEMA. The tribes have called his claims “complete nonsense.” More: www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
I got to speak with @geekwire.com about Recompose and human composting!
geekwireThe greenest goodbye: Human composting and the science of becoming soil https://www.geekwire.com/2026/the-greenest-goodbye-human-composting-and-the-science-of-becoming-soil/
Is 12,000 words a little or a lot. Probably average, right?
Elyssa Tappero | Waves and WitcheryI don't know how long a submitted book chapter typically is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask (because I still have more to say).
And traumatize me it did. 😌 But it has a special place in my heart for this reason. I just... won't ever wear my hair that long again.
Sara THE MURDERIEST UNICORNJust got home from watching The Ring at the theater with my sister, and goddamn that movie has not lost one bit of its bite. I first showed it to her when she was little, specifically to traumatize her, as is the sacred duty of an older sibling.
Do not adopt from Tacoma Humane. Do not surrender an animal to them. Do not take a stray or feral animal to them. Do not volunteer for them. Do not give them your money. They need to be shut down. They are grossly negligent and getting animals killed on a massive scale.
ex-Lethality JaneLocal gossip was the attacking dogs had been recently adopted out by the Tacoma Humane Society, which also has this recent attack at an adoption event, where a bully mix up for adoption attacked and killed a passing toy poodle.
Just learned Sam Neil died. He was my very first crush ever, as Dr. Grant, when I was just a wee babe. What a fantastic actor.
Sam Neill in Jurassic Park: Life Found A WayAlt: Sam Neill as Dr Grant in Jurassic Park saying Life Found A Waystatic.klipy.comCat fiction is a WILD genre. I love it. Need recs? Here's my handy top 10 cat fiction books for you! onlyfragments.com/2018/03/23/2...
#2087Top 10 Fiction Books with Feline Main Characters If you haven’t noticed, I’m kind of a cat person. Next to queer literature, cat literature is probably the genre I read most. When it co…onlyfragments.comCian 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (he/him)Warriors is so dark & violent, I wasn't expecting that. Murder, betrayal, abandonment of kits, 🙀😿 And the intra- and inter-clan dynamics are complex and touch on racism, religion, adoption, blended families, etc!
People like this seem to have never dipped a toe into animal fiction, a genre almost exclusively assumed to be for children. I had to stop reading the Warriors series AS AN ADULT because it got too fucking dark and sad for me. And how about Watership Down? Tailchaser's Song? The Wild Road?
Max GladstoneAs far as "books for kids" go I do sometimes wonder if the existence of a YA shelf robs young folks of the joys of early unsupervised exposure to the ranting of depraved communists and libertarian sex-weirdos in the SFF section, an important inoculation when it doesn't destroy 3-10 years of yr life
If you're interested in reading the brief speech on emergency management and queerness I gave at Tacoma Pride, I just posted it to my blog for posterity: onlyfragments.com/2026/07/12/2...
#2791[ I had the honor of speaking briefly at Tacoma Pride this year, so I figured I’d share my speech here! ] My name is Elyssa Tappero. I am many things – queer, ace, agender. Neurodiverge…onlyfragments.comA lot of emergency managers happen to be Leos. I'm just sayin. 🤷
SorrowscopesLeo: You seem very comfortable being a recurring character wherever there’s a calamity taking place.