listen, trying to describe Soul Eater to anyone who isn’t very familiar with certain types of tropes and storylines - especially ones commonly found in anime and manga - is a fucking trip.
“he turns into a scythe, but he can also play the piano during battle. like, FROM the scythe. sometimes the scythe turns into a piano. but it’s all him. also, his partner has wings on her soul and they can make the wings come out of the scythe.”
“so there’s a dangerous magic book that the characters go inside and experience the seven deadly sins. no, it’s not dante’s inferno, but it is a reference”
“the sexy lady is their cat/their cat is a sexy lady”
“the grim reaper is a school headmaster in nevada”
All right, story time.
All you need to know is that, A, it’s the first week of freshman year of college–you know, orientation week where no one has anything to do because they’re too worried about the freshman class wandering off and getting eaten by bears or whatever–and B, there are about a dozen people (all in various stages of heat-induced exhaustion on our un-air-conditioned campus) draped over couches and chairs in the informal lounge in the student union.
The dude with the computer wired up to the TV says, “Here, I’ll show you guys the first episode of an anime.”
My ass, having never seen an anime before in literally my entire life, sits there and goes “sure” along with every other semi-functional person in the room.
The first episode of Soul Eater happens on the screen. Over the course of the twenty-two minutes, about half the people in the room have wandered off because they lost the plot, and those of us who are left are all sitting there slightly slack-jawed and baffled. It ends, the dude pauses it and goes “Okay, do you all want to watch another.”
There are a couple beats of dead. Freaking. Silence.
Finally I sit up from where I’d been watching it and go “What the fuck did I just witness.”
The dude smirks and goes “Soul Eater. Do you want to watch another episode?”
Fast forward to the end of the week (about five days) and everyone who made it through the first episode has seen two complete seasons of Soul Eater.
It’s now been three years and I’m pretty well versed in the anime thing at this point. I honestly don’t think I’ve been really STUNNED by an anime since Soul Eater.
Do I necessarily recommend starting with SE? No, no I do not, it’s like saying “Yeah man, gateway drugs are for the weak, hit me up with some of that hallucinogenic mushroom and come back for me next month.”
On the other hand, it’ll make everything else seem downright freaking NORMAL in comparison.
France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars.
please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please
Listen. I love my followers and my mutuals dearly. You know how occasionally I post something like ‘every Jew on this site has a list in their head of who reblogs what and who ignores posts about Jews’? I’m talking about this shit. I have been seeing things on my dash about the situation of Jews in France for over a year, but it’s coming from other Jews 99% of the time. Please stop ignoring this. This is literally history repeating itself and we can’t be the only ones calling it out again.
This is the first I’ve heard of this, and I’m flabbergasted! If you go and read the article it’s even worse; “anti-Jewish violence is seven times higher than in the 1990s, and 40% of racist violence is against Jews, despite them making up just 1% of the population.” I mean, holy crap! I know Tumblr is very US-centric but this definitely needs to be heard about!!
sleepover saturday! so a story about my day is the guy i have a crush on is really nice and validating because i'm a trans demiboy and he makes me feel really cute and handsome!! he's so amazing and nice and i'm !! very happy rn! and my queer platonic partner is being really adorably overprotective and making sure he'll be good for me and i just feel really happy and content. how was your day?? anything interesting happen??? also, another question! are you a spoonie???
OH MY GOD SWEETIE I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU. *wraps in blankets, feeds cookie* WAY TO GO YOU.
Let’s see, for me, today I got to spend three hours with my closest friend from high school, which was awesome because I ended up two years ahead of her in college and like hours and hours away (so even though we’re the same age, I’ll be graduating with my bachelors while she finishes sophomore year), so we NEVER get to see each other. And she is a fucking delight to be around, let me tell you a thing, she bought me a Blizzard and we talked Marvel for an hour of that time.
My best friend-cum-platonic life partner had a good day at work today, which is awesome because yesterday was literal hell on Earth from the sounds of it.
My mom helped me dye my hair to get rid of the streaks I had until recently, and it’s brown with red undertones now (my usual color, give or take), and the dye is VERY red and I almost had a heart attack when I got in the shower to rinse it off and looked down because I did not expect to look like I committed a bloody, bloody murder.
OH, and this technically didn’t happen today but I can’t fucking shut up about it: I got to go see X-Men Apocalypse last night with my parents and it was GLORIOUS and my mom was a real champ about the fact that I generally cannot stop myself from bursting out with informative factoids during X-Men movies and therefore sitting next to me is probably a struggle. I’ve been almost pathetically devoted to the X-Men since I was a wee little seven year old and this is definitely my favorite movie yet.
And as for whether or not I’m a spoonie: um, I’m not entirely sure? I don’t think I’m familiar enough with the criteria (are there criteria?). I’m not disabled, nor am I autistic, although I am fairly ADHD with a splash of a few other acronyms in there (*sarcasm* PTSD yay). I’m intensely introverted (my best friend is basically my only friend at college, my friend from high school is the only one I’m really still in touch with), so I at least appreciate the mental image of spoons based on “Okay but if I deal with this person for three hours today I’m going to want to crawl under a rock tomorrow,” but I’m fairly certain the answer is no, I’m not. I could be wrong. It’s way too 1:14 in the morning to do a lot of research though.
OKAY that is everything interesting that has happened to me lately, I get real rambly past about midnight, sorry. I hope your crush works out, sweetie, and I applaud your partner because you seem like you deserve ONLY THE BEST.
When I was 17 my appendix ruptured because I thought I was just having period cramps and didn’t go to the hospital so don’t tell me PMS symptoms are no big deal
this actually happened to me during my math final and i didn’t think anything of it and when i was later admitted to the hospital my math prof was asking me ‘you didn’t have to take the final! why didn’t you tell me it hurt?!?!’ and i told him i’ve had cramps worse.
he gave me 100
This is actually an extremely common occurrence simply because in sex ed they don’t teach you how to tell the difference between menstrual cramps and other more serious pains. The way to tell the difference between cramps and appendicitis is that while menstrual cramps are generalized toward the middle of the stomach below the belly button, pain from a swollen or burst appendix will start in the middle of the stomach and relocate to only the lower right side, even lower than menstrual cramps, and is a very localized pain. It also comes on extremely suddenly and will worsen over time or when you make a sudden movement, like a cough or a sneeze.
Basically, if you’re feeling any sort of pain, even if it’s menstrual cramps, don’t hesitate to tell the school nurse or a parent, or if you’re out of school and home even make a doctor’s appointment. Chances are if your cramps are that bad there’s something they can do to improve that as well.
I am boosting the shit out of that reply, because I am twenty-fucking-five years old and did not know how to tell the two pains apart
Adding another diagnostic tool! This is something we use in the ER called the rebound test. Basically, appendicitis and cramps react differently to certain things. If you’re still not sure if you have cramps or appendicitis, take two fingers and press them into your abdomen where the pain is (try repeating this on the lower right quadrant of the abdomen just to be sure.)
When you press in firmly, it will probably hurt. Here’s the test: LET GO. Does it get better or get worse? Appendicitis will immediately hurt worse when you let go. Cramps will not. Go to the ER if the rebound test makes it worse!
THE REBOUND TEST IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
My husband got sent home from the ER with a rupturing appendix. When he came back and was rushed into surgery, the surgeon was super angry – “Why didn’t anyone do the rebound test?!”
Wait but the rebound test has always, always made my cramps worse
Hey, buddy, don’t panic. Other things can make the rebound test cause pain, and if that’s your ‘normal’ experience of cramps, it probably isn’t indicating anything life-threatening as above. NONETHELESS, you may want to talk to a doctor (if you have that option/are willing to do so/think that they will listen to you) because, A, that sounds like a hellish experience and you might be able to get something to help; B, that might lead to a false negative if something serious DOES happen; and C, that’s slightly unusual for menstrual cramps and it might give you some peace of mind/answers to have a medical opinion on it.
I’ve acquired like twenty followers in a week. And, y’know, I’m glad to see you and all, grab a party hat, etc, etc, but I just…what the hell kind of woodwork are y’all popping out of?
Marvel: ANYONE CAN BE BAD! IT’S UNPREDICTABLE! YOUR HEROES CAN FAIL YOU! PEOPLE MEANT TO PROTECT CAN BE VILLAINS!
Women who has spent 30 minutes explaining to the cops that her mini skirt has nothing to do with her sexual consent: Really?
Black Mother whose unarmed child was shot in the back: I had no idea.
Woman taking the bus while wearing a burka who has just extracted herself out of a conversation about how it’s okay now, she can wear whatever she wants to fall into a ‘conversation’ about how all terrorists are immigrants: I’m shocked. Shocked.
Black Man driving a BMW who has just been pulled over for the 4th time in 3 months: To find gambling going on in this establishment.
White dudes: I KNOW! It’s totally made me rethink my world view! *whistles loudly as he walks alone at night and takes the shortcut through the dark alley so he can get home faster to read his new comic*.
I’ve been working my way through Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton (very, very slowly). It’s terribly dry and if you aren’t used to reading historical biographies, I definitely don’t recommend it. But there are a lot of things in the biography that I assumed Lin-Manuel Miranda was exaggerating when he wrote “Hamilton.” Uh……… He wasn’t.
“He talks for six hours
The convention is listless”
Not an exaggeration. Hamilton literally went to the constitutional convention and made a SIX HOUR SPEECH regarding the importance of a true democracy versus a representative republic, why the government should be centralized, and how best to turn the Union into a world power on par with England’s status. Six. Fucking. Hours. Guys were falling asleep and Hamilton just kept fucking talking. He did not give a single fuck; people were going to listen to him.
“Laughing at my sister ‘cause she wants to start a harem”
“I’m just saying, if you really loved me, you would share him”
NOT AN EXAGGERATION. Angelica Schuyler had the hots for Hamilton from day one and made absolutely no secret of that fact. Eliza knew it and teased Angelica mercilessly (but in good humor), and Peggy’s sarcasm was so well-known that she and Hamilton would regularly have verbal sparring matches.
“Martha Washington named her feral tomcat after him”
“That’s true”
Not only is it true, but Hamilton banged almost every woman of society on the eastern seaboard. Women talked about his looks in their knitting circles and probably compared sexy stories. Like, the guy was so charming and attractive, women flocked to him.
“…they join forces to write a series of articles defending the new United States constitution entitle ‘The Federalist Papers.’ The plan was to write a total of 25 essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. In the end, they wrote 85 essays over the span of six months. John Jay got sick after writing five. James Madison wrote 29. Hamilton wrote the other 51!”
Not shitting you. He wrote tens of thousands of pages over his lifetime. TENS OF THOUSANDS. The man really was nonstop.
“Angelica, tell this man John Adams spends the summer with his family”
“Angelica, tell my wife John Adams doesn’t have a real job anyway”
Despite the fact that they had essentially the same beliefs on how best to organize the government, Hamilton despised Adams and thought he was lazy and unwilling to get any real work done. He also saw Adams as short-sighted, cowardly, and gluttonous, and was very vocal about his thoughts that Adams had no clue what he was doing.
“Adams fires Hamilton, privately calls him ‘creole bastard’ in his taunts. Hamilton publishes his response”
“Sit down, John, you FAT MOTHERFUCKER”
Adams didn’t think Hamilton had any place in the US government because Hamilton wasn’t from the mainland. And Adams’ hatred for Hamilton’s birth status was no secret. Oh, and Hamilton DID publish his response:
“But this did not hinder me from making careful observations upon his several communications, and endeavoring to derive from them an accurate idea of his talents and character. This scrutiny enhanced my esteem in the main for his moral qualifications, but lessened my respect for his intellectual endowments. I then adopted an opinion, which all my subsequent experience has confirmed, that he is a man of an imagination sublimated and eccentric; propitious neither to the regular display of sound judgment, nor to steady perseverance in a systematic plan of conduct; and I began to perceive what has been since too manifest, that to this defect are added the unfortunate foibles of a vanity without bounds, and a jealousy capable of discoloring every object.”
TL;DR: Hamilton publicly called Adams a stupid, jealous, self-centered douchebag who had no business attempting to run the country.
So yeah. There are parts of the musical that embellish - of course there are. But for the most part? Hamilton really, truly never stopped working and writing and thinking until the day he died.
Fanon Captain Phasma: PhasMom, remembers the names of all her stormtroopers, a nice and caring person, friends with Kylo Ren and General Hux, only wants the best for you.
Canon Captain Phasma: Straight up burned down a village in the first 5 minutes of the movie, is jacked, wears armor plated with the melted down hull of the ship belonging to the former emperor/dictator that was totally up for genocide all the time, a person she idolizes
Also canonically she does remember the “names” of the soldiers under her command. Whether this is out of respect or just because she has an awesome memory is up for debate. Personally I see it as both idk.
I did not know the source of her chrome plating. Holy badass, Batman! Was that Palpatine’s ship? How did she get ahold of it? AMAZING backstory holy shit. :D
*whistles lowly* *pulls out magnifying glass* are we talkin subtext, implied, heavily implied, borderline, practically canon, not disproved by canon, creator-acknowledged, or actually canon
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I absolutely love ships where one character is usually serious and distant, but when they talk to that one person, their voice turns soft and gentle and is suddenly filled with fondness that they don’t show to anyone else.
I just saw X-Men: Apocalypse and I am on fucking CLOUD NINE, I am so giddy, it is so wonderful. My devoted geeky ass is so thrilled with that movie, I want to see it again IMMEDIATELY. Guys, the X-Men are everything to me, I love them so much.
This would be an EXCELLENT moment to send me prompts and/or come talk to me about the X-Men (or anything else!) because I am fucking bubbling with goodwill and delight and I want to share the love.
Sometimes I feel like unhinging my jaw & screaming at the entrenched establishment “HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT WE ARE ALL BROKE?” Because 9 times out of 10, when a “millennial” does something weird, untraditional, or otherwise confusing to previous generations, the core reason is because we’re broke, thus the old ways are not accessible to us, so we’re using new stopgaps and alternatives. An “obsession” with phones/social media? It’s a cheap way to socially connect when many of us are pressed for time due to work or can’t afford to go out. A fixation on food? It’s the last comfort splurge we can feasibly afford, when vacations and the like are not an optipn. A resistance to large life milestone acquisitions? Can’t afford houses, cars, raising children. Weird craft/homebrew/DIY hobbies? Trying to save money, or spin some profit in whatever way can be managed. Widespread cynicism, anxiety and depression? We literally have to take up group fundraising collections for things like emergency expenses, rent and medical care. We’re broke and it’s slowly driving us bananas.
No, it’s really annoying, because no one seems to separate or know the differences between allergies, intolerances and oral allergy syndrome. Allergies can be life threatening, and thinking that you can deal with them by yourself is just ridiculous.
yall really engaging in discourse with discourse generator
Are you guys literally saying that if you eat something you’re allergic to and some part of you swells, whether it be hands, feet, or throat, you can’t call it an allergy until you’ve seen a doctor about it? Sorry, no, that’s bullshit.
A person mildly allergic to peanuts swallows one for the first time and is unable to breathe properly for a while. From this they deduce that they have an allergy, and make sure to avoid peanuts because /they use their brain/.
No, fuck you. I’m aware that there are some stupid people out there who misuse self diagnosis, but honestly it’s a fucking brilliant tool to those with a sensible brain.
I don’t need to be /tested/ for food allergies/intolerances, because I have experienced them by living. Citrus fruit gives me stomach migraines, do I need a doctor to confirm that? no, because I myself am feeling the effects, and I know the symptoms and signs of stomach migraines, having had them since I was a baby.
You know your body better than anyone, never let anyone tell you that just because you can’t get yourself to a doctor, for reasons of money or distance, that what you’re feeling doesn’t exist.
Be sensible with self diagnosis, and it can get you far.
Also allergy testing give a lot of false negatives and false positives so even doctors recommend self diagnosis for what the food may be by trial.
^This. Especially with histamine intolerances and mast cell disorders which many allergist are not familiar with, let alone know the first thing about proper testing protocols for diagnosis. With those conditions a lot of the time you’ll only test positive for say one or two things but still have true symptoms even to the point of anaphylaxis. So yes, learn the signs, avoid your triggers (reactions are never predictable in severity), carry rescue meds, and make sure you list them in your medical info (it can help guide doctors for example if you react to bananas, avacado, kiwi (there’s a few more) there’s a chance you may react to latex).
I weirdly love that there are crotchety fandom elders around who say shit like “in my day, (insert fandom term) meant this specifically, but now you kids just use it to mean any old thing.”
It seriously gives fandom such a sense of heritage and family, like yes grandma, tell me more about how you had to write fic uphill both ways in the snow when you were my age.
its funny how black panther was advertised as team iron man in the promos when t’challa was highkey only there to kick buckys ass he at most knew like two people by name on the entire team
There should be an app that helps you keep track of all your tv shows like you can have a little schedule for each week and when stuff comes back from hiatus you get a notification and yeah that’d be great because I have no idea when any of the shows I watch are on
trans people taking testosterone need to drink orange juice cause testosterone weakens your immune system!! trans people taking estrogen need to drink milk cause estrogen causes calcium to be absorbed less
If you’re lactose intolerant you can eat nuts and if you’re allergic to oranges, most other fruits have vitamin c. If fruits aren’t an option, there’s also vitamin c supplements.
Good info. Pass it on.
If you’re taking estrogen make sure to also eat foods with vitamin D because your body needs that to process the calcium. Oily fish, fortified milk/yogurt/cereals, and eggs are a good source.
The only good thing to emerge from this Hydra!Cap trash is the acknowledgement of american comic’s rich Jewish history.
Jewish people did to comics the same thing black people did to American music.
They rolled up in here, looked around like “is this the best y'all could do?” Then sat down with their pens like “Don’t worry, we got u fam” and *muffled rap music in the background*
So yeah.
This is horrible, but you know what Jack Kirby WOULD be proud of? Two generations after WWII, Millions of children crying out at antisemitism, educating themselves about antisemitism and not letting this go unchallenged even though we have so much less systemic power than the people creating the media that needs to be challenged.
Because Kirby might be dead and Cap might be Hydra, but we don’t care, we’re still punching ol’ Hitler in the jaw.
And we’re still following that kid from Brooklyn who just wouldn’t quit.
This would be especially terrible for rural people. I don’t live in Alabama, but I do live in a rural area with no public transportation, period.
Unless someone can drive you somewhere in a car, when you’re in a very rural area, you can’t go anywhere at all. Even the closest gas station is over 10 miles away from my house. It’s an additional 10 miles to a grocery store or doctor’s office. And some of the specialists I see for my health are over 200 miles away, which is like a 400 mile round trip.
Cars are very important in many cities, particularly for people who live in neighborhoods without good public transportation and for disabled people for whom public transportation may not be accessible.
But there’s no way to really survive for most in rural areas unless someone in the household or a consistently available community member has a car to take you places.
please note this also intersects with ableism as many of us are not able to reliably take public transport.
isn’t… like… everything in America based around having a car?
Yup.
your choice will be between being able to buy the food and being able to get to where its available
so either way, you don’t get to have food
Arthur Orr submitted this bill, so if you want to drag him to hell for it, here you go:
DISTRICT 3 ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 305 Decatur, AL 35602 Phone:(256) 260-2147
MONTGOMERY ADDRESS:
Suite 730 Alabama State House 11 South Union Street Montgomery, AL 36130-4600 Phone: (334) 242-7891
FIELD OFFICES:
Decatur 2128 6th Avenue SE – Ste 504 Decatur, AL 35601
Huntsville Madison County Legislative Delegation 726 Madison Street Huntsville, AL 35801 (256) 539-5441
Athens Limestone County Legislative Delegation 110 College Street, Suite E4 Athens, AL 35611 (256) 262-9038
OK. Some people want to make the boycott larger. That’s not going to work. Here is why.
When a large company like Marvel or Disney sees a drop in revenue they’re going to want to know where and why. If you are indiscriminate in where you boycott they’ll see a drop of revenue across the board and not know what it is you are boycotting or why. If they specifically see a drop in revenue based on something very specific they’ll get the message.
My opinion here is to just boycott the Captain America book or anything Nick Spencer writes. Make the missing revenue obvious. If you subscribe to a digital service that sends you the comic cancel that service. They’ll ask you why you are cancelling. Tell them that you are cancelling because of what Nick Spencer and Tom Brevoort did to Captain America and his legacy.
My point here is that you can’t send a message if you are non-specific.
