Nah, you really gotta read the article. They’re gonna force insurance companies to separate from the stupid mandatory specialty pharmacies that they own that they force anyone insured who needs a “specialty medication” to use. I used to be able to get my specialty medication at the regular fucking pharmacy, and so did everyone else before they started up this nonsense. They cost more, and I’ve never had one that didn’t fuck me over every single year when I have to redo my prior authorization. Like I have to get every specialty prescription filled in advance, even if I don’t necessarily need it right now, to have a stockpile of 2-3 months of medication in case they fuck it up again and I lose that buffer. Most people don’t have that buffer. Caremark, Express Scripts, Optum, and there so many more. Call your fucking congressperson and tell them to support this legislation. PLEASE.
Gonna start random discourse now. Living in a two-story house is elitist. Moving to a foreign country is cultural appropriation. And stop saying something is “easy”, you are slutshaming the task
Since we keep getting “live action” CGI remakes of already perfectly adequate animated movies, and because people need to understand that animation is a medium and not a genre, I have prepared this primer about the importance of Visual Language for Conveying Information.
Can you tell what the personalities of these two mice are?
Can you tell now?
Which of these two tigers feels safer to be around?
Which of these three dogs is the funniest one?
If you can answer these questions, then you already have experience with the idea of visual language and stylistic choices being used to impart narrative meaning. If you can understand why these choices were made to impart meaning, then you can understand why animation is a medium for telling stories that has its own inherent value, and is not merely a “placeholder” for the eventual implementation of photorealistic presentation (aka “Live Action” CGI). Animation does not need to be “corrected” or “legitimized” by remaking it into the most representational simulation of observable reality.
Before I went no contact with them, I’d sometimes complain about my parents to my partner (whose parents are great but he knows very well what mine are like) and he’d say “well they’re getting old, and they’re covid deniers and don’t trust doctors…who knows, they might die soon” which I loved, it was so reassuring, I wish more ppl had the balls to bring that kind of energy
Ppl who don’t know my parents: remember, they won’t be around forever 😓
My partner who knows my parents and also has a reference point for what non-evil parenting looks like: remember, they won’t be around forever! 🥳
“a fully grown female is genetically and physically weaker than a 10 year old male. this is always the case. female are always worse than males, no matter what. the worst male can always beat the best female. trust me, I’m a feminist” - terfs.
okkay. i was going to make an actual tutorial thing to help u but i frogot what i was doing so i drew the most pathetic little wet cat beast imaginable. on accident. so sorry
I know murdering all of the CEOs of all the evil corporations won’t solve capitalism, but I don’t think it would hurt either. Maybe we should try killing a few more, just to see what happens
this is very petty but weeks ago I saw a tiktok from a trans man talking about going off T to reconnect with his feminity, and he was saying stuff like “I need to connect to the bountiful, peaceful nature of the motherland before I return to the crazy ass tboy village cos all trans men are fucking cringy as fuck” and he was obviously half joking but I was smelling some terfisms so I commented “hey I support this journey you’re on but I think you can talk about it in a way that doesn’t present femininity as being inherently more natural, spiritual or deeper than masculinity is. and no need to call trans men crazy or cringy” and he replied to my comment “chill🙄”
today by serendipity another one of his vids appeared on my fyp saying “I went off T and now I’m back on T because I realized estrogen makes me act crazy and feel miserable”
and I resisted the urge to comment “oh? you didn’t find anything of worth in the bountiful natural motherland of femininity? 🥺” and I think I deserve accolades
I do think it’s ultimately the potion seller’s right to not sell the knight potions that would explode the knight and that it’s out of hubris that the knight keeps insisting on only the strongest potions but I also think it’s a situation born on clashing egos because the potion seller is clearly proud of how strong he can make his potions and here comes a common bloke insinuating that he can handle the best of what the potion seller is capable of offering, and instead of offering more suitable alternatives from his own stock the potion seller completely shutters down on this initial gaffe out of pride - note how he says “you’d better go to a seller that sells weaker potions” instead of recommending his own weaker potions, suggesting that he is still stuck on the knight’s request as an insult to his abilities as a seller above anything else, and reasserting himself as a high quality seller relative to other sellers. ultimately this unfortunate interaction happens because neither party is willing to cede an inch out of the initial affront to their self image
if were all catpeople there would be trans catboy forums devoted to how to dye over calico markings so you can pass better and another group of trans catboys who insisted that the only way to deal with it is to normalize catboys having calico markings. the discourse would be insane
meanwhile all the far right commentary catboy youtube channels would have videos titled ‘HAS “MALE CALICO” ACCEPTANCE GONE TOO FAR?’ with the thumbnail of some random calico catboy who was shown in 0.001 second of a popular clothing brand’s pride month ad
there would be a whole other discourse over why we should stop talking about calico catboys when no one knows the struggle of transitioning from a girl orange cat (cute) to a male orange cat (stupid)
I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.
I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.
Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.
Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.
Are there any other particularly egregious examples?
This book already exists, sort of! Or at least, it’s a biology textbook but I bought it for writing purposes:
It starts with a chapter about freezing to death, and it is without a doubt the scariest thing I’ve read in years (and I read a lot of horror fiction).
This book can be downloaded for free on Researchgate, posted there by the author himself:
In third grade, I started writing a book called “HOW TO NOT DIE IN THE WOODS” mostly about not petting the wildlife, but apparently I should finish it.
Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old
One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism
reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century
That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.
Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years
I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.
Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.
An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body
Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself
michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN
Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks
michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this
Jesus Christ, that’s the height at which every rollercoaster and dark ride is a decapitation threat
how am I ever supposed to leave tumblr when it takes me on journeys like this
you always fucking try to pull my arms and legs off by tying them to horses and having tge horses all run away in different directions and to be quite honest i’m fucking sick of it
everything gender criticals whine about being taken away from women ever since the transes took over is hard to take seriously because none of this has ever applied to butches
“bathrooms used to be a safe space!” butches have never been allowed that luxury. “people now have to ask if we’re women, as if it wasn’t obvious!” butches have never been allowed that luxury. “now im second guessing every woman i talk to! what if she’s a man?” yeah butches have dealt with that for a while now. “we used to be respected as women, now we’re people who menstruate or whatever dumb shit” do you think butch women have ever been respected as women
this paranoia about having to share a space with anyone they see as “not woman enough” is insane. they’re longing for the good old days when THEY didn’t deal with that, they weren’t just female separatists they were cis white monosexual gender conforming separatists.
all those cats that are going missing in the alps are doing warriors shit. beating the fuck out of each other and pissing all over the place. honestly disgraceful
one thing i adore about fandom is the “[bad parent]’s A+ parenting” tag on ao3. it’s so universal and so sarcastic and it makes me giggle every time i see it
if you’ve ever used the London Underground you might have noticed that it often gets uncomfortably hot. the reason for this is actually that its builders dug too greedily & too deep and as a result the trains are very close to the fires of hell. hope that helps.
hey @catsarehumanstoo, how dare you leave incredible addition this in the notes:
there is no official position within the vatican on aliens but according to this guy, either aliens had no original sin or there’s a martian jesus. so take that as you will.
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