baru’s guide to seducing the beautifully politically advantageous but tragically heterosexually married woman like step 1 undermine her in public by making yourself the guest of honor at her ball. nice. ok step 2 engage her in an intimate dance while insulting her current husband. step 3 give her a trade economics lesson (she literally runs a country). step 4 answer all her questions about lesbian sex with that ex-girlfriend you killed and finally step 5 accidentally get your brainwashed bodyguard pseudo-girlfriend to kill her husband. btw it’s essential that during this process you make sure to initiate as much physical contact as is humanly possible
95% of NFTs are worthless, and most of the most expensive ones are priced between $5-100 where they were once drawing millions US$ apiece
Not a moment too soon, and fully deserved 😎
In conclusion-
I am so shocked. Whoever could have seen this coming? My shockitude is overwhelming and my astonishment unbounded. So shocked. Yup. Mister Shocketty-shocked, that’s me.
Niel Ur so fucking sassy, u should write something with Rick Riordan.
So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.
Stay woke
Is this true?
Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”
You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.
Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST
It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst
Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.
My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:
i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again. queer people need to trust other queer people.
don’t question someone else’s labels. TRUST that they’ve done that already. if they ask you for advice, fine, but DO NOT go in swinging. don’t go up to a straight trans man and ask why he doesn’t identify as a lesbian. don’t talk to non-binary people and tell them that their identity is a sham if they don’t transition. don’t ask bi people when they’re going to pick a side. don’t assume that someone who is ace is just repulsed by their own internalized homophobia.
like just… have respect for your fellow lgbtq+ folks because there are so few of us in an OCEAN of hetero-cisnormativity. we don’t have to chip away at each other until only the Cardinal Few remain. there is no reason that we can’t have space for the people who question, the people who change their minds, the people who dip a toe in and pull back out. i am HERE for those people, just as much as i am HERE for the people who can write a dissertation on their attraction and knew from the moment they were born that they were Hella Gay.
there is nothing simple about self-discovery and frankly, i’m not here on this earth long enough to scrutinize my fellow marginalized peoples. there’s no reason to do that shit. it does not, in fact, hurt queer people to be wholly accepting of any wayward identity. non-dysphoric? demi-gray-ace as hell? don’t care, as long as you’re fighting on my side, because i’m fighting on yours.
Excuse me is this shitty clickbait ad trying to sully the good name of Charles Schulz
Cutting off the letter is also bad form clickbait people, but I’ll get it placed in proper order as it goes
People I like can be divided into two groups: a) those who enjoy and get Charles M. Schulz’s wonderful Peanuts comic strip; b) those fools who don’t. All of human life is in the artist and writer’s 17,897 comic strips.
In 1968 Schulz noticed the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and read a letter from Los Angeles schoolteacher Harriet Glickman. She had a question for Schulz: would he include a black child in the Peanuts gang?
To which Schultz responded with the letter above, in what reads like an incredibly respectful and progressive manner.
He isn’t black and doesn’t want to offend the black community by doing them wrong in his portrayal, that would even work today as a reason.
Mrs. Glickman responded:
Dear Mr. Schulz,
I appreciate your taking the time to answer my letter about Negro children in Peanuts.
You present an interesting dilemma. I would like your permission to use your letter to show some Negro friends. Their responses as parents may prove useful to you in your thinking on this subject.
Sincerely,
Harriet Glickman
True to her word, Mrs Glickman showed the letter to others. Kenneth C. Kelly, one of Mrs. Glickman’s ‘Negro friends’, saw the missive and wrote to the artist:
Dear Mr. Schulz:
With regards to your correspondence with Mrs. Glickman on the subject of including Negro kids in the fabric of Peanuts, I’d like to express an opinion as a Negro father of two young boys. You mention a fear of being patronizing. Though I doubt that any Negro would view your efforts that way, I’d like to suggest that an accusation of being patronizing would be a small price to pay for the positive results that would accrue!
We have a situation in America in which racial enmity is constantly portrayed. The inclusion of a Negro supernumerary in some of the group scenes in Peanuts would do two important things. Firstly, it would ease my problem of having my kids seeing themselves pictured in the overall American scene. Secondly, it would suggest racial amity in a casual day-to-day sense.
I deliberately suggest a supernumerary role for a Negro character. The inclusion of a Negro in your occasional group scenes would quietly and unobtrusively set the stage for a principal character at a later date, should the basis for such a principal develop.
We have too long used Negro supernumeraries in such unhappy situations as a movie prison scene, while excluding Negro supernumeraries in quiet and normal scenes of people just living, loving, worrying, entering a hotel, the lobby of an office building, a downtown New York City street scene. There are insidious negative effects in these practices of the movie industry, TV industry, magazine publishing, and syndicated cartoons.
Sincerely,
KCK
Schulz sent Mrs. Glickman a personal note:
Franklin was in the gang.
Opening bit till it gets to the letters is mine, most of the rest comes from this article
When Charles Schultz listened to the opinion of a person of color and put Franklin in his comic strip as good representation and somebody still wants to try to cancel him anyway.
Schulz recounted some further negative reactions in an interview with Michael Barrier in 1988. Schulz said, “I finally put Franklin in, and there was one strip where Charlie Brown and Franklin had been playing on the beach, and Franklin said, ‘Well, it’s been nice being with you, come on over to my house some time.’ Again, they didn’t like that.” Schulz also recalled a discussion with Larry Rutman, who at the time ran King Features Syndicate (which distributed Peanuts to newspapers). Schulz said, “I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, “Well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?”
Furthermore, you know how we’ve all been told a thousand times that it doesn’t affect children? Yeah turns out that was wildly inaccurate. It appears that it DOES in fact affect children, but it manifests differently in them than in adults. Swathes of kids from the hardest-hit countries are landing in the ICU with a “mystery illness,” but every single one of them has so far either tested positive for covid (aka: currently has the virus) or they’ve tested negative, BUT, Coronavirus antibodies have been found in their systems (aka: they had asymptomatic COVID, recovered, and have now been struck down by this secondary illness). It’s so far only been found in kids who either currently have the virus or kids who have had it.
UK, Italy, Spain and several other countries were reporting this weeks ago, and reports are just now coming out from the US, but bare this in mind. Not only can kids spread it if social distancing isn’t maintained, but it can in fact make them just as sick as adults.
I don’t know why, but every now and then Pinterest floods my home page with Mothman related posts?
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
I have never looked up mothman or any cryptids on Pinterest.
WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM MOTHMAN?! AND WHY ONLY YOU?!
This weird phenomenon happens every couple of months. Mothman just appears and then disappears.
What do you want from me Mothman?
This post is so funny because this is just how the Mothman legend works, he shows up before disasters and big events and the like, either as a warning or the cause is speculated
im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing
Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain
We’ve made it 5 years folks
I don’t know what you are all confused about. I’d want my kid to love Stevie Nicks more than a brontosaurus too.
For all my fellow Aussies remember, voting yes in the referendum quite literally means that Indigenous Australians will get a proper spot in parliament. If someone tells you to vote no they are racist, there is no reason why Indigenous Australians shouldn’t be allowed in parliament.
Vote Yes!
VOTE YES!!!!!!
also, “the referendum wont do anything” It’s gonna do a hell of a lot more than what we’ve got now I’m telling you right fucking now
if your not Australian please reblog this, reblogging this will help show this to more Australians who will (hopefully!) vote yes. The people who are on the front lines for voting no are incredibly racist.
The referendum is going to be held on the 14th of October. If you are unable to make it that day remember to apply for early voting. This is something incredibly important, please even if you aren’t australian reblog this
For all my fellow Aussies remember, voting yes in the referendum quite literally means that Indigenous Australians will get a proper spot in parliament. If someone tells you to vote no they are racist, there is no reason why Indigenous Australians shouldn’t be allowed in parliament.
Vote Yes!
VOTE YES!!!!!!
also, “the referendum wont do anything” It’s gonna do a hell of a lot more than what we’ve got now I’m telling you right fucking now
if your not Australian please reblog this, reblogging this will help show this to more Australians who will (hopefully!) vote yes. The people who are on the front lines for voting no are incredibly racist.
The referendum is going to be held on the 14th of October. If you are unable to make it that day remember to apply for early voting. This is something incredibly important, please even if you aren’t australian reblog this
Oh sunk-cost fallacy, we’re really in it now. We are in fact so really in it that if we quit now then everything we did would have all been for nothing and so we have to keep going in
It’s extremely important that I tell you all that this seal is doing the ‘banana pose,’ something seals do when they are feeling particularly happy and relaxed. This seal, looking directly at the cat, is absolutely overwhelmed with Good Vibes, something we can all related to.
Hot tip for parents both present and future: When your kid tells you something is wrong, listen to them!
Sorry for not posting much lately, I’ve been busy with work and personal stuff, including an upcoming spinal x-ray I’ve been waiting over a decade for and the angriest doctor I’ve ever met in my life
The normal amount of back pain in a child is ZERO.
And if you think it’s because of too many books, ask the fucking school why the kids don’t have time to put them away or get them out.
And send them to a doctor anyway. Spinal misalignment is one of the easiest things to detect. Just fucking do it.
My favorite was just always being told “it’s just growing pains” for everything
OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-
there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀
Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.
What’s the focus?
1. Keep the flexibility in your spine
2. Stretch the muscles in the front
3. Strengthen the muscle in the back
Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen
Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day
The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down
Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there
Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards
If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.
Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up
There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving
Tips:
Do the best you can
If it hurts stop
Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises
NOTE: I can do most of these with the cerebral palsy. In fact, a lot of these little exercises are automatically part of my physical therapy. My problem is I already have hyperlordosis, spine arthritis, and cervicogenic headache. These have helped me at least try to have a posture.
Unexpected adaptations cause Promise Kept’s branches to grow hybrid land-sea anemone. Ecologists theorize Cursola reverted back to its ancient form, after decades of restoration efforts by humans.
i cant stress this though but people have to relearn how to start creating for the joy of creation instead of creating for the sake of skill. art is supposed to be for fun and its up to You to indulge ur appetite for creation as sincerely and candidly as u can
it doesnt matter if ur art is “bad” or “unskilled.” the point of art is not to be good at it. the point is to create because u can and because it feels good
I desperately wish people would start actually reading the AO3’s TOS before confidently making ‘user guides’ to the AO3 that are just blatantly, flatly wrong.
Yes the AO3 has banned content. They do not allow anything that’s illegal under US law - though US law, importantly, does not ban fictional depictions of things - and they do not allow any commercial content. That includes your ko-fi link, or mentions that you do fic commissions. If you do post fic commissions to AO3 and want to mention the commissioner, the fic is a 'request’ from the commissioner. This protects the AO3 and you from copyright law.
No the AO3 is not 'a creative fanfiction archive’. It is a fandom archive. Your meta, insights, and theories are absolutely welcome and encouraged there. AO3 also encourages you to post other types of fanworks, like fan videos, podfics, and art, but unfortunately isn’t able to natively host those like it does text, so fic has kind of become what it’s known for. That absolutely does not mean that other types of fanwork aren’t allowed, or are discouraged by the site culture! Anybody who tells you otherwise is just plain wrong!
oh yeah! important news! Minecraft’s wiki has migrated off of Fandom! their new wiki is minecraft.wiki! it is SO MUCH BETTER and EVERYONE SHOULD USE IT INSTEAD OF THE FANDOM WIKI FOREVER. fuck fandom/wikia and all hail the new wiki! :D
oh shit the wizards are all getting onto an island together? fuck that, my space jellyfish library is too cool to just chill on a random island i gotta be everywhere
how else am i supposed to run my illegal fighting ring for drug animals, or drugimals as i call them
I condone drugimals.
My aunt was killed by one 😞
Do you mean condemn?
What’s the difference?
/srs idr what those mean it just sounded right
You think drugimals should be allowed because ur aunt was killed by one 😔
“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.
The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.
Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)
I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it
just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone
Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll
