When men pop up saying “I’ve been falsely accused of rape/sexual assault” all I hear is “I refuse to consider that I did violate boundaries while relying on non-verbal cues for consent, I refuse to believe that I actually hurt someone, and I clearly know better than the person who’s boundaries I crossed.”
I had an ex who said he’d been falsely accused of rape by some girl in high school and at first I believed him because I thought he seemed like a guy who would never do that Fast forward 3 years later and I can totally believe he did actually rape her and he just doesn’t realize what he did was rape. He has a very clear idea on what rape is and so he’d never see pushing someone into sex as rape. I had to say to him multiple times after we were broken up to stop doing things like asking me for a kiss and a hug or asking me out or buying me gifts. He had massive issues with boundaries. So yeah, when you hear a guy say “I was falsely accused” what you should hear is “I have no idea what rape is and think my violation of this person was just a misunderstanding”. You should hear “I don’t understand boundaries and actively violate them”
Even if you don’t have a cat please reblog this for all your followers who may have their own precious little baby.
I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT TUNA OMFG
If I remember rightly it’s the trace elements of mercury in canned tuna that is toxic to them. Their kidneys can’t filter it out like human kidneys can.
ok im gonna break this down a bit because some of these are BLATANTLY untrue and it kills me every time i see this.
alcohol: not very good for humans, either, but alcohol effects pets the same way it effects humans: targeting the brain and the liver. the issue? it takes way less to kill your cat than it does a human. you weigh, on average, at least 100 pounds (or 10x) more than your cat does. 3 teaspoons of liquour could kill your cat. don’t do it. alcohol WILL poison your cat.
chocolate:
theobromine (and to a lesser degree, caffeine) is the issue with this one. humans? we can break this down in our bodies. cats, dogs, birds, ferrets? they can’t. it usually takes a pretty big amount of theobromine to cause a pet to actually die, though. it’s present in cocoa, so the higher % of cocoa in a chocolate, the less needs to be ingested to cause serious, life-threatening effects. baking chocolate has a high concentration of theobromine and 1 square can kill a cat or small dog. white chocolate is a low risk, on the other hand. chocolate CAN poison your cat, especially DARK and BAKING chocolate.
caffeine: same story as alcohol: not that great for humans either, causes similar effects as in humans… just quicker and with less caffeine ingested. elevated heartrate, seizures, etc. can be seen. dogs and cats are more sensitive to the effects than humans are. caffeine WILL poison your cat.
dairy: cats are lactose intolerant and so their bodies cannot properly break it down– much like how we can break down theobromine and cats/dogs can’t. however, it’s not going to poison your cat, just give them diarrhea and other gastrointestinal upset. dairy WILL NOT poison your cat, but will cause gastrointestinal upset and diarrhea, so it is strongly recommended to not give dairy products to your pets.
fat trimmings: fat trimmings are just fat. if you feed fat to your cats, they will become fat and/or it will increase the level of lipids in the blood, leading to diseases and complications like chronic pancreatitis, which can be fatal. fat trimmings WILL NOT poison your cat, but will lead to disease that can be fatal, so it is strongly recommended to not feed fat trimmings to any pets.
raw meat: cats can eat raw meat. cats are obligate carnivores. cats are designed to only eat meat, and raw meat is not of serious risk to them. disease carried in raw meat? not a problem when you are a cat who has evolved over millions of years to eat raw meat. i hate hearing “cats can’t eat raw meat!” from people with outdoor cats. you realise your cats are eating raw lizard and bird, right? raw meat has more nutrients than cooked meat (which we eat veggies & fruits to compensate for– cats can’t digest these) and, obviously, there are some diseases and bacteria that cats aren’t immune to but cats are less likely to eat rotten meat than dogs are, anyway. treat the meat like you treat human meat and it’s totally fine. cats are DESIGNED TO EAT AND DIGEST RAW MEAT! IT’S PERFECTLY FINE TO FEED YOUR CAT RAW MEAT, but make sure that the meat is in-date and properly stored/cared for. rotten or spoiled meat CAN lead to disease and poisoning, but the same goes for 90% of the animal population!
eggs: its ok to feed your cat eggs. im not even sure why this is a question. raw eggs rarely carry salmonella and even humans rarely contract salmonella from infected eggs. your average cat will never contract salmonella from raw eggs, only in an immuno-compromised cat would this ever be an issue. cats can safely eat raw and cooked eggs, as salmonella is pretty much only a concern in an immuno-compromised cat in the first place.
fish: see raw meat above. fish, however, is a bit of an exception because of higher levels of mercury & low levels of taurine and differing balances of phosphate and calcium mean that it’s not a sustainable diet for cats and could lead to mercury poisoning or bone disease if it is the only protein given. when given ~1 time a week and with varied proteins there is no issue. again, cats are DESIGNED TO EAT AND DIGEST FISH AND OTHER MEATS! however, previous warnings about storing fish correctly still applies, and proteins should be varied due to fish having different levels of phosphorous, calcium, and taurine and mercury content. a primary diet of fish CAN lead to bone disease or mercury poisoning in extreme cases.
grapes and raisins: admittedly, this one is a bit of a wild card. some pets eat raisins/grapes without an issue, but in others, these can cause renal failure and death rapidly. we still don’t know why. animals with prior kidney issues are more likely to be effected by grape/raisin toxicity, and cats are more likely to have kidney issues due to many cats not getting adequate moisture in their diet. grapes and raisins MAY lead to poisoning in some cats and dogs, especially those with pre-existing kidney conditions.
onions and garlic: yes! all members of the allium genus (shallots, scallions, leeks, etc. are included) contain thiosulphate which, when ingested by cats and dogs, can lead to a serious condition in the blood known as hemolytic anemia. basically: their red blood cells burst. this can be fatal and a small amount of onion/garlic/etc. is needed to cause clinically significant issues. onions, garlic, and other members of the allium genus CAN and WILL poison your pet in even small amounts.
tuna: see fish above. canned tuna tends to be soaked in oil which leads to the same issues as fat trimmings in increasing lipid count in the blood. sashimi quality tuna will also have higher concentration of mercury and shouldn’t be consumed more than occasionally in the cat’s diet. canned tuna in oil is often too fatty and leads to the same issues as eating fat trimmings, however, tuna steak/sashimi/etc. quality tuna is the same as other fish: occasional inclusion in the diet is fine!
xylitol: relatively small quantities of this (an artificial sweetener) will cause a sudden drop in blood sugar in dogs, which can lead to comas, seizures, or death. many times, if they are not rushed to the hospital immediately, they will die, and even then, they may suffer permanent liver damage. however… cats are not adversely affected, and typically aren’t attracted to foods w/xylitol in it in the first place. xylitol is NOT likely to poison your cat, but small amounts can KILL your dog, moreso than chocolate!
Reblogging for the latest edit!
‘raw meat will poison your cat!!’ fun fact: cats lived for millions of years in the wild eating nothing but specialized store-bought cat food. who opened the cans? the world may never know…
good breakdown. I never reblogged this one because of OP’s misinformation, but I will happily reblog this post
It’s fine to want things, but don’t act like you’re a victim because you want high quality stuff without having to pay higher prices for it lol.
it cant just be me who finds it rather jarring and unnerving that a 34 year old man and self-described “libertarian” wrote this post and yet it still gained some kind of traction
what bras aren’t overpriced though like by all means let me know
bras that you entitled “feminists” want: shiny, $50, money that could go to third world kids who need water bra made of papier-mâché and elmer’s school glue: does the job just fine, basically $0.00, checkermate feminists
ok but why do cis dudes always do this lmao… why do cis dudes constantly feel the need to argue with women about how much it costs to be a woman. has it occurred to a single one of them that how the fuck would they know? jfc
I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like “whatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with you” so he just raises him as normal, doesn’t even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the king’s murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.
The king’s son becomes the new king, and is prophesied to defeat evil and bring an age of prosperity. His generals and knights all crack their knuckles but he pretty much ignores them and focuses on strengthening the infrastructure of his kingdom. Forty years later he is old and sick but still hearing his subjects’ grievances, and a general’s like “how will you defeat the prophesied evil now? You’re old and weak.” Another visitor, a teenager fresh out of the kingdom’s public education system, looks at the general like he is an ignoramus. The king eradicated poverty, housed the homeless, taught the ignorant, ended class exploitation by abolishing the nobility and imprisoning the corrupt, and established a highly respected guild of doctors that recently figured out how to cure the plague. There are no brigands because there is enough wealth for everyone to live comfortably; hiding in the woods and taking trinkets from people simply doesn’t make any sense for anyone but the desperate, and the people are not desperate. Evil is a weed, explains the teenager. It grows in cracked roads and crumbling houses and forgotten corners, rooted in indifference and watered by suffering. But the king demands that broken things be mended and suffering people be made well.
No evil lives in this kingdom, says the teenager. It starved to death before I was born.
remus would have been so good at finding loopholes for the marauders to slip through like i mean as a prefect he would have had to know all of them to an extent and i can just see sirius hopping onto his bed like “hey moony can we do this thing without technically breaking any rules” and remus would be like well no but you could do this and then guess who doesnt have detention despite the fact that all anyone at the slytherin table has had for dinner the past four days is haggis
Why did Sirius choose the full moon night to return to the castle tho???
if remus wasnt a werewolf, everyone would have thought remus was helping his old friend out into the castle. by choosing to go to the castle on full moons, he was keeping remus safe.. which is rlly quite cute
omg aw that’s cute thanks for the explanation friend I was about to loose my faith in Sirius’ judgement
this is my open appreciation letter to tumblr for not showing whether a message was read or not and saving us from “they read my message and didn’t reply they hate me”. you could’ve fucked this up too but you didn’t and it was cool
Okay, I’m re-posting this because it’s going to get buried in the actual massive thread of reblogs, which is up to 70k.
Here’s what happened. I mentioned that while I was in line to get tickets and popcorn at my local teeny town theater, the guy next to me started explaining who Deadpool was, because he just assumed I wouldn’t know.
I thought it was kind of funny, I didn’t think it was ‘mansplaining’ or the patriarchy or any of that stuff, it was a guy excited to see his favorite hero in a movie and he had no idea that I had written the character and actually have an on-camera shout-out.
I tweeted it because I thought it was kind of cute, I never thought the guy was an ass or a jerk or that he was being a douche, he was just excited. At the very WORST, he just made an assumption. I posted many times that I didn’t think it was sexist, and I didn’t think it was even REMOTELY a big deal, AND I posted a story where I had made a very similar mistake myself with an artist I really respected.
This was NOT a big deal. I thought it was cute and if I’d had some Deadpool comics with me, I would have happily given them to the dude.
Anyway, now it’s up here with this huge thread of tens of thousands of reblogs under a headline about sexism, and I have to say, I just never had that feeling for a moment, nor did this seem even remotely like a serious issue.
Here’s what I wrote on the thread.
“I just want to say, I think people are making a bigger deal of this than they should, to be honest.It’s not that he didn’t recognize me (why would he?) and it’s not that I thought he was ‘sexist.’ It was just a guy excited about Deadpool and he started telling the closest person in line.
I said a bunch of times after posting this tweet that I didn’t think he was being sexist, it just seemed kind of funny. I live in a tiny small town, there’s no reason for him to think someone who wrote Deadpool was in line with him. AND the few times I’ve told a guy who talked about the movie that I used to write the character, they were universally very positive and excited about it. Not one bad experience.
So, while it would be nice if people didn’t just ASSUME that a woman wouldn’t know who Deadpool was, I didn’t ever think it was this big deal, I just thought it was kind of funny that the ONE person he chose to explain Deadpool that day is actually given a shout-out in the movie. That struck me as kind of amusing.
He wasn’t being a dick, he just was excited about Deadpool, and assumed I wouldn’t know who Wade Wilson was. Not a big deal at all. “
Anyway, this was so inoffensive, I actually forgot it happened until something jogged my memory and I thought people might find it amusing. It was such an incredible non-issue! Deadpool fans have ALWAYS been incredibly nice to me, regardless of gender, I have always felt they were some of the kindest and most generous readers out there.
Also, dude, if you’re out there, I promise, I was NOT OFFENDED and I thought it was kind of adorable to see your excitement at your favorite hero getting a movie. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!
1. I need to get this rare book for my studies but you’re that asshole who didn’t bring it back for 3 weeks now and I check the library everyday for you AU
2. I try to shoplift my favourite sweets and tuck too much of them into my jacket but I bump into you and they all fall to the ground so I scream RUN RUN TAKE ALL YOU CAN CARRY and you do and we hide somewhere and share the prey AU
3. You’re sitting with a group of friends directly behind me at the movies but your annoying sarcastic comments on the film crack me up and you notice me laughing AU
4. I accompany my little cousin on halloween to go trick-or-treating but you won’t open the door although I know you’re at home and stinkin’ rich so I plot a revenge plan with all the kids from the neighbourhood AU
5. We are at an art exhibition and we stand in front of a big abstract painting for a long time until you say very calmly: ‘that’s definitely a penis.’ and we both start giggling and everybody’s staring at us AU
6. You’re a street artist and constantly paint on my nice house facade and everytime I have it cleaned again you come back and redo it until I finally catch you and oh heck you’re cute and actually talented AU
7. It’s too hot and too full in the tube and we stand too close together but oh you smell so heavenly and now I can’t get you out of my mind AU
8. You’re my tutor at university and I have a crush on you so I come late on purpose so you’ll notice me AU
9. You boom into my lectures with your annoying riot demo group and I want to make sure you won’t pass that class but you are tough and clever AU
10. You’re the first barista who finally wrote my name correctly so I’ll buy you a coffee and a muffin on your break AU
+Bonus: I’m so drunk and ring your doorbell at 3am because my ex used to live here AU
This is mostly due to my own medical ignorance, but can anyone explain how Max was able to stop Furiosa’s lungs from collapsing by stabbing her a second time?
someone has maybe already answered this in a better way buT
The way I understand it, when your lungs collapse basically the air that should be going into them is going into the chest cavity instead? So the pressure is backwards (the low pressure in the lungs as opposed to the chest cavity keeps the lungs collapsed). Punching another hole lets the excess air in the chest cavity escape and allows the lungs to re-inflate.
At least, I’m p sure that’s right lol
*bursts in uninvited*
Yeah, you’re basically right. So the first stab wound causes a punctured lung, yeah? Which means that every time she takes a breath, instead of inflating the lung like a balloon, the air rushes out of the hole in the lung into the lower pressure area between her lung and her chest wall. Because of the angle at which the knife originally went in, the air can’t escape, and instead each inhale increases the amount of air filling her chest cavity (this is called a pneumothorax; it can also happen with blood, which is called a hemothorax). This means that the lung doesn’t expand as much with each breath, as the pneumothorax takes up space that the lung would usually occupy, and eventually the pressure of the air will collapse the punctured lung completely, at which point the air pocket will actually spill over into the other side and collapse the other lung. The ‘rattle’ you hear in Furiosa’s breathing is a result of breathing with a punctured lung and fighting to inflate her lungs around the blockage of air. What Max does by stabbing her a second time (you’ll notice that he takes a certain amount of care to ensure that the knife goes in at a particular angle) is ensure that there’s a way for this air pocket to escape, letting her damaged lung inflate properly. When he keeps his hand over it as he moves away and arranges cloth over it, it’s an attempt to make it a valve, so that the air will only move out of her chest, not into her chest. This is actually the best treatment for a pneumothorax (although…um, if someone has a pneumothorax, maybe call emergency services rather than going for your knife block, yes?) and some reasonably good science. While we’re on the subject, Max’s method of blood transfusion (straight from one vein to another) was the first way people did it when they were first figuring it out. They had a lot of deaths because they wouldn’t figure out blood types for a while yet (pro-tip: do not transfuse across blood types). Since his blood pressure is higher than Furiosa’s is while she’s literally bleeding out, he’s the de facto donor. Also decent science.
furiosa clocking max across the face with her LEFT ARM FIRST
furiosa not hesitating to pull the trigger (TWICE!!)
“THATS MY JACKET”
“wanna get that thing off your face?” - IMMEDIATE DEAL CLINCHER accompanied by DUN DUN DUNNN musical cue
the moment when max comes back from fixing the dragging fuel pod and he sees nux in the truck and he’s like hEY!! WATCH OUT oh wait you’ve got a knife at his throat already cool cool cool
“bullet farmers! they’re coming from the bullet farm!” “…..REALLY??”
max i s2g
furiosa and nux’s angry spitting match pls
the fact that furiosa’s arm is painted on the side of her rig oh my god i don’t even know what to say about this
“I need you here”
max’s face when she says that tbh
something that has me thinking and practically glowing with happiness is that we don’t really see the inside of the rig when furiosa is bargaining with the motorcycle gang, so as things are slowly going to shit and she’s considering yelling out to max he must be feeling it too because the rig immediately starts moving when she screams
so he’s got to have climbed out of the hold by then, waiting crouched by the seat so he’s invisible but still ready to input the sequence because she trusted him and he has a job to do
and i love that they don’t show it to us i love that the rig just starts moving
i dont know why im so weak about this ANYWAY
the fucking look between them when she gets back in the rig and he just wordlessly hands her a gun
HANDS HER A GUN
like he hasn’t just met her, like they didn’t just try to kill each other, like he hasn’t just spent 10 minutes looking for all the wepons stashed away in the truck (also just the fact that furiosa has like 20 guns within arms reach all the time always makes me so happy)
so literally two minutes after she takes a huge leap of faith and teaches him the sequence to the rig he immediately shows that not only is he worthy of that trust but he’s able to pay it back in kind oh boy
honestly furiosa treats him like a human being and he remembers he is one im really upset about this what the fuck
max reloading a rifle one handed for furiosa while driving god god god
MAX SMILING AT SPLENDID MAX WORRYING ABOUT EVERYONE’S SAFETY OH MY GOD
when they dig the truck out of the mud the first time and it drives away, max and furiosa stare at each other for a second before going wait who the fuck is driving????
(sike it’s nux)
perfect
“DONT BREATHE”
PERFECT
the way that moment isn’t played for humor is just a++ sure he rolls his eyes a little but only because he can feel her behind him all jittery and itching to take the shot and he’s just like fine you’re better at this anyway just take the damn gun and stop hovering and eventually FINE you can use me as a mount too FINE GOD how did i even sign up for this
the way the squad uses mothers milk:
1. to cool down engines
2. to wash blood off faces GOD BLESS
MAX BRINGING NUX A BOOT?? IM INCONSOLABLE
furiosa throwing herself on cheedo to shield her from bullets !!!!!
max and the fucking tree true love honestly
NUX NOT KNOWING WHAT A TREE IS i laughed and cried at the same time
nux still calling max “blood bag” but not in a derogatory way anymore and max responding?? why is this cute and terrible at the same time???
max jerking awake from a nightmare ready to fucking hit someone in the face and furiosa not even getting startled, just “shh, get some rest” LIKE WHERE DO YOU GUYS GET OFF BEING THIS FUCKING GENTLE WITH EACH OTHER ????? YOU JUST MET!!! HOW DARE ???
so when max chases them down across the salt flats and floats the idea of turning back and furiosa goes ok but then what???
i love love love that max doesn’t answer because he has no idea but the whole squad chips in instead of him like “oh nux will take us” “there is water and green we can grow food” “just like the old days yaaaay” “KABOOM”
his silence is just so perfect in that scene like max just throws the idea out there and everyone else makes a plan out of it and he just ends up going “yES AWESOME!! ALL VERY GOOD IDEAS!!! HOW ABOUT THAT?? SHOULD WE DO THAT?? WHAT DO YOU SAY???”
im so happy
“something like redemption”
“together”
THE HAND CLASP
THE HA ND CLASP!!!!!!!
im a husk of a person let me die
max relieving nux from engine spitting duty and petting his head before telling him to go inside!!!
max and furiosa CONSTANTLY SAVING EACH OTHER like you won’t realize how frequently this happens until you start keeping count but it’s literally like 10 times each ???
“THAT’S MY CAAAR” oh honey
the little running jump side tackle thing max does to knock a guy off the truck uwu
furiosa’s knife throw honestly
furiosa screaming bloody murder when she thinks she dropped max
NUX SAVING MAX??? when the fuck did they become a family????
cheedo tricking rictus to save furiosa what a perfect move in light of her previous scenes
max and furiosa’s fight scenes towards the end spliced together oh my god the the parallels are beautiful to watch
furiosa’s beautiful legendary screaming headbutt
“REMEMBER ME?” yes i will remember this until i die and probably after
toast spitting on immortan’s body GOD YES
rictus’ steve holt-esque RICTUUUUUS yell while ripping a fucking engine apart with his bare hands are you kidding me
and just how fucking gentle max is with furiosa in the end his soft little ‘hey hey hey’s like please please please
so quiet and soft even though he’s fidgeting and freaking the fuck out and mumbling under his breath he is gentle not just with furiosa but with the girls as well
saying please and thank you when they help him out, cupping furiosa’s head, touching her face, constantly talking to her, reassuring her, APOLOGIZING???? TWICE???
once when he’s re-inflating her lungs and the second time when he’s putting the needle in her arm im hugely upset about this
“IM SO SORRY”
HONESTLY DON’T
“take me home, take me home”
ohhhhh my god
ohHHHHH MY GOD
and max’s 0 fucking hesitation to give her his blood the second she passes out. honestly he doesn’t even take a second to think about it. even though he’s been in fucking chains because of his blood, been called “blood bag” the whole movie, been treated like livestock, he doesn’t even hesitate. his choice is already made the second the idea occurs to him. im just really sad because it speaks volumes to how liberally humans are capable of giving when they are allowed a choice and this fucks me up big time im really not fine
“Max. My name is max. That’s my name”
nodding to himself like he’s finally convinced
“what’s your name?” “does it matter?”
IT MATTERS FRIENDS IT FINALLY MATTERS
THAT FINAL LOOK OF MUTUAL THANKS AND SOFT SMILES
WHEN WILL THIS MOVIE LET ME LIVE
NEVER IT WILL NEVER LET ME LIVE
My favorite part was when The Dag turns around to look at Furiosa after she was stabbed and the music gets all heavy, the other cars pull in front of them, it seems like everything that can go wrong did go wrong and for like a fraction of a second you just think like, “this movie has averted cliches and tropes left and right, what if they really lose?” And then Nux. He fixes the engine and they pull back ahead. I’m sorry but that is just the fucking best.
Had to reblogging again for that^^^ cuz I got the same exact feeling when I first watched it. In fact I still get twinges of “uh oh. What if this time around they-” That is a sure sign of fucking awesome writing. FOR REAL.
This is the kind of thing that young people have been asking for, forever. If enough young people come out and vote, Saskatchewan could make this happen. If this happens there it could spread across this country. We need to support parties that are acting in our best interests.
The Saskatchewan election is on April 4th, 2016. It is an election between the Centre-Right, conservative, Sask Party and the Centre-Left, progressive, NDP Saskatchewan party.
I’d appreciate it if everyone could share this; Canadian or not.
Saskatchewan’s population is only 1.1 million people. The wider this is spread the better chance it’ll reach Saskatchewan voters in time for the election. Because of its small population, individual votes will matter a lot more, particularly in rural ridings. Canadian elections elect members of legislature individually in a set region (called ridings) so your vote counts for more than it would in an election for a single leader candidate. A party just needs more MLA’s elected than the other party to govern.
The NDP has a good platform so far, but this promise in particular has the potential to have the greatest impact for young Canadians. I’d also encourage those who live in Saskatchewan to volunteer with the NDP and try to convince family and friends to support them too. The sask party has strong support in the province, but the youth could help close that gap.
If policies like this are implemented across Canada it may even put international pressure on the USA or other countries to make university more affordable or free.
As somebody not from Saskatchewan, I think I speak for most of the rest of Canada when I say that Brad Wall sounds like a real douche canoe and I hope y'all can get rid of him.
yo “useless” implies incompetence and that’s letting GCPD off easy, they’re not incompetent buffoons who suck too hard to do their job properly, they’re corrupt stooges who intentionally, on purpose, allow the powerful and the mafia to exploit the working class until they’re desperate enough to become henchmen or petty thieves like the guy who killed the Waynes. Aside from the mafia and costumed villains, the Gotham City Police (bar Jim Gordon) are some of Batman’s most hated enemies.
^^^^^^^^
There’s an enormous difference between ‘well-meaning but incompetent’ and ‘corrupt asshole’
“Bisexuals always end up picking a side” Yaa all those fake bisexuals meeting the love of their life and staying together forever and getting married and being happy with only one person those assholes
Florence + the Machine has three moods: float etheral and untouchable through a misty forest, twirl in a magnificent waltz of joy through the stars of the universe, or sMASH SHIT GET HIT HERE’S THE HURRICANE SUCKAS
au where the trojan war is a party menelaus throws to win back his girlfriend who left him for some douchebag and he ropes all his friends into helping him and wacky shenanigans happen and a running gag is that odysseus doesn’t even want to be there he’s got shit to do and at the end he gets stuck in traffic on the way home
on the way home odysseus gets into a very minor fender bender that’s more like a fender bumper with some shit driver who is almost DEFINITELY high. and it’s all this guy’s fault but he won’t stop screaming about how he’s gonna fucking sue and odysseus just wants to go the fuck home and the guy goes “I’M FILING THE POLICE REPORT WHO ARE YOU” and odysseus is just so done that he says “nobody” and drives the fuck off and this completely tripping guy ends up screaming to the police at the side of the road at like three in the morning “NOBODY CRASHED INTO MY CAR!!!!!”
vampire:
honestly it's not my fault like by now you should have expected something like that and known to... not grab anything i'm drinking then try to drink it
their friend:
i wasn't. paying attention. warm. it was warm. in a mug. like coffee. who puts blood in a mug? warm blood? just drinks it? from a mug? like someone would do with coffee?
vampire:
...
vampire:
i mean.. who drinks blood that's cold-
their friend:
i could have DRANK that
vampire, sighing, wearily sipping from their mug:
but you didn't, your day can only get better from here, and now you have a story to tell at parties
So I’ve seen a lot of very articulate shouting about lack of LGBT+ presence in media lately (there’s a show with a ship called Clexa and…that’s not a show I watch but I feel for the fans) and I have a question. I’ve been toying with the idea of a novel that’s basically “In which a bisexual technopath and her walking taser girlfriend go out and take down a corrupt government together” and I was curious if that was something people would be interested in?
*curtsies* Mighty duke, I've been taught at school that the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet is actually a sonnet, but you recently assured that this is incorrect. Could you please explain why? I'm starting to doubt everything my teacher says
*Curtsies* First things first: There is no such thing as ‘the balcony scene.’ Calling it ‘the balcony scene’ is a misnomer because there’s no actual balcony involved. ‘Balcony’ wasn’t even really used as a word until about the 1610s; Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1590s. Romeo says “What light through yonder window breaks?” She’s at a window. Not on a fuckin’ balcony. That’s people conflating what we have of the text and what we *think* we know of early modern theatre architecture and creating a balcony where no balcony exists in the world of the play. So that’s the first problem. Second problem: Romeo and Juliet do speak a sonnet together but it’s in the scene at the Capulets’ ball when they first meet, not in the incorrectly-termed ‘balcony’ scene. (It’s Act I, Scene 5 and it starts with If I profane with my unworthiest hand if you’re looking for it.) Yes, there is a sonnet. No, there is no balcony. And there definitely isn’t a sonnet on a balcony at any point.
Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.
Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.
Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.
Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.
Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.
Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.
Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.
Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.
Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.
the funniest and best thing i’ve learned while doing research for this shakespeare project is that in the late 19th century, there was this group called the american acclimatization society and their thing was bringing european plants and animals to the u.s. so one member was this guy named eugene schieffelin and he was like obsessed with shakespeare, so he went, “hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we tracked down EVERY SPECIES OF BIRD SHAKESPEARE EVER MENTIONED and brought them ALL to America” so he rounded up like a hundred European starlings and released them in central park, and now there are upwards of 200 million starlings in North America and they cause around $1 billion worth of damage to crops every year, all because shakespeare mentioned them exactly ONCE in Henry IV part 1
And then like twenty years later, because New Yorkers apparently HADN’T LEARNED ANYTHING FROM THIS MISTAKE…
Some people decided that Stanley Park in Vancouver just wasn’t a fun enough park without some cool squirrel like those grey squirrels hanging around in Central Park, and SHIPPED US A BUNCH OF SQUIRRELS AS A PRESENT.
Which the people of Vancouver responded with ‘wow, great idea, thanks!’ and then released the squirrels.
The Eastern Grey Squirrel is now one of the most pervasive invasive species in BC, and has totally decimated the population of native red squirrels, both by out-competing them for food resources and EATING THEIR BABIES.
I wear glasses. Can I manage without glasses? Well, yes, probably. I could squint a lot, constantly move up close to anything I want to see, take the bus or a taxi if I want to go anywhere. I could just accept that I’ll never be able to see eagles flying in the sky or whales jumping out of the ocean.
But why? Why try so hard to manage life when I could just put on a pair of glasses? No one would ever suggest a near-sighted person should just work harder. No one would say ‘Maybe that’s just your normal’ to someone that needs glasses. They would say ‘Let’s go to the eye doctor and get you a prescription so you’re able to see again.’
You shouldn’t have to try so hard.
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My doctor (paraphrased), when I expressed doubts about going back on an anti-depressant. (via
This is such a good analogy because nobody thinks about it like this. If you wear glasses, you literally need constant use of a medical aid to experience the world like most people do. If it were anything besides glasses, that would be considered a disability. But needing glasses is an extremely common, visible, and accepted form of disability to the point that we don’t even consider it one, we just accept that some people need glasses and that’s perfectly normal and there’s nothing wrong with needing to rely on them.
That is how all disabilities and illnesses should be seen, and how we should look at treatment for them. You have a problem, and you need help dealing with it, and there’s nothing wrong with either of those things. That’s perfectly normal and that’s okay.
