Respect fire guy
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DONT HATE it’s all he’s got
That's what I'm sayin'! I'm mildly autistic and not very good socially. Even if I want to be there it can be difficult. Tending to the fire is a way I get to participate.
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That's just Ignius, Keeper of the Flame.
He's cool like that.
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This is a white thing? I never knew that.
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This is a white thing? I never knew that.
I'm black and I like fire, though aside from a fireplace visiting family once, I haven't had much opportunities to tend an open flame. I did enjoy keeping it going that one time though.
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Always wear gloves!
Legendary fire guys don't use gloves. They have built years and years of scars, burns, and callouses on their hands. To the legends, they don't feel the heat from a burning log.
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There's something really cathartic about placing shit in a firepit and just watching it burn away.
It's also the smell of smoke. The crackling. The heat. How the poking stick feels in your hand. Poke poke
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I too feel very seen right now.
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I'm black and I like fire, though aside from a fireplace visiting family once, I haven't had much opportunities to tend an open flame. I did enjoy keeping it going that one time though.
I grew up in the woods and chopped wood and did all the back-country stuff, but it wasn't until looking back way later in life that I realized that we lived in what was basically rural, racist, white America. The segregation that still exists is unfair in what it denies to children growing up. I feel like if were a black parent I might have serious reservations about taking my family out to most of rural America.
The legacy of homesteading being a "white settler" thing has left indelible marks on many places.
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This is a white thing? I never knew that.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The OP's observation is that there is at least one white guy that fucks with keeping the fire going. There can be as many others as you wish!
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It's all good until you experience a fire where there's two of them.
Oh man.
One = chill small little fire.
Two = big fire, no one's getting cold.
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Of course I know him. He’s me!
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Probably a trans woman? From the name and Fed instance.
from the name??
this is going to mess with me when i make my next account
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I absolutely adore keeping the fire going. I was a white man for decades so i'm not dodging the allegations. I have never been camping where i was not the last person awake and always keeping the fire just right until all the wood was gone.
It's all about the air flow. Too much and everything burns too quickly in a roaring furnace, too little and you have no light and not enough heat. By constantly adjusting the logs you can maintain the proper air flow to keep everything just right. Rotating a log to present fresh wood to an eager flame here. Squeezing two logs a little closer to reduce the oxygen and trim things up there. A proper fire adjusting stick (and a backup) is crucial.
Give me a stack of seasoned wood, a k-bar, a magnesium fire starter and a comfy camp chair and i'm in heaven from the time the sun sets until the wood runs out.
I love when I get back home and even after a shower and laundry, my hair and clothes still smell smokey.
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Pro tip: dip a paper towel in olive oil, stuff it under the main log, and light it up. Olive oil burns slow and hot.
they are talking about making fire without using lighter or matches or a fire starter, just wood on wood friction the way people had to make fire before any of those things existed. An oily rag won't help you with the difficult part; making a small coal to light your tinder.
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I love when I get back home and even after a shower and laundry, my hair and clothes still smell smokey.
fuck yeah that's good shit
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they are talking about making fire without using lighter or matches or a fire starter, just wood on wood friction the way people had to make fire before any of those things existed. An oily rag won't help you with the difficult part; making a small coal to light your tinder.
Right, I missed that.
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Rookie fire guy using a stick.
Pro tip: Get leather work gloves. Take your fire guy skills to the next level.
Even better are some welding gloves. That way you’re protected up to your elbows. I can grab a burning log with mine.
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Hah jokes on you i kept the fire going with an autistic filipinx lesbian butch! Tho i am a straight white male... also i have no idea if filipinx is the correct term, how do you use it in a gender neutral way?
