…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of "coupons" which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!
as a pharmacy technician i can share with you some websites that give you those "coupons" for your meds!
goodrx is the most well known one, but if i'm trying to find the cheapest price for a patient i compare it to scriptcycle, and use whichever is offering the best price. you just type in the medication (PLEASE make sure you're getting the right drug, dosage, and quantity) and your zip code and they will spit out some offers for you
some pharmacies may have their own discount card to compare to as well!
if you are getting a name brand medication, you can also look at the manufacturer's website to see if they offer any evouchers for you to use too
Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:
* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:
Amendment 2 to allow public funds to go to private and charter school education was rejected universally in Kentucky counties when the Assoc
* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:
McBride wins Delaware’s at-large House seat against Republican candidate John Whalen III, a former state police officer
* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:
Democrats Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland both saw victories
* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:
The constitutional amendment faced a tougher-than-expected fight after a right-wing campaign against anti-discrimination protections.
* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:
Stein is the current attorney general and he noted his work winning opioid settlements. But it was controversy over Robinson’s inflammatory
That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.
If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.
* Nevada has amended their constitution to guarantee abortion rights, overturning a state ban:
Get live results and maps from the 2024 Nevada general election.
* Colorado has passed amendment 79, guaranteeing the right to an abortion, with more than a 20 point spread between the Yes and No vote:
This means that now, the right to an abortion is codified into the state constitution and a future state legislature cannot restrict it.
* Maryland Question 1, also focused on reproductive rights and abortion, has passed as well: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/maryland/issue-1
Question 1 on the Maryland ballot offers voters the choice to enshrine reproductive rights in the state’s constitution. View the 2024 ballot
* Likewise, Amendment 3 has passed in Missouri, overturning a near-total ban to add reproductive rights to the state constitution:
Missourians voted to enshrine reproductive health rights into the state’s constitution Tuesday by voting yes on Amendment 3.
* Arizona Proposition 139 to protect abortion rights also passed:
Get live results and maps from the 2024 Arizona general election.
$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think
fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
Since it's Friday the 13th, what has been your general experience and thoughts with those movies? You touched on them a little in your Elm Street reviews but I'm really curious how you see the progression of grounded camp councilor murderer mama to wild man to literal zombie to deadite to cyborg in the future.
What I find especially fascinating about the Friday the 13th series is that a looooot of it is a continuous story. What happened in the previous movie has an impact on what occurs in the next (Jason getting supposedly killed and taken to a morgue? Wakes up in the morgue and heads home. Jason supposedly killed by Tommy? Tommy is traumatized and it affects him so deeply he needs to go back and make sure Jason is dead, accidentally bringing him back). It's only after Jason Takes Manhattan that the continuity is broken from film to film, but it's all perfectly okay.
I overall like the films and at some point we'll probably do a MASSIVE Late Night Double Feature looking at all of them.
If I am remembering what I've heard correctly, the psychic girl from VII, Tina, was actually supposed to be the main character of Jason Takes Manhattan but they did not have the budget to pay the actress what she was worth and thus scrapped the idea and came up with a new character instead...one who also has visions of Jason like Tina did.
Not that you're known for being a shipper or anything but I'm curious: what are your general thoughts on the romantic pairing of Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon? I don't remember if you've addressed them specifically before...outside of Cassandra beating up Dick over one of their breakups.
Not a fan, at least beyond a brief attraction and fling. They just fly in too much of the same circles and whatnot.
I've definitely always preferred Starfire in this regard over Barbara but I've pretty much accepted that pairing can't happen anymore, at least in the main universe, as long as Nightwing has his own solo title (and he SHOULD have one). When he was only appearing in the Titans books it wasn't an issue but it's a lot harder to tell street level stories like he and Batman are known for when Dick has a superpowered alien girlfriend/wife that needs to be accounted for too.
if there’s one self-care skill I really wish fans would develop – especially fans of continuing media, where you get into a thing before it’s finished – it’s the ability to say “this is no longer the story I wanted it to be” and walk away
(and I am not exempting myself from this! there are definitely periods in my past media engagement which would have been less negative for my mental health if I’d been able to do this, rather than banging my head in increasing frustration as the story veered further and further away from what I had always thought its arc was supposed to be.)
you gotta marie kondo this shit. if the story no longer sparks joy for you, then let it go. and you can grieve for that! that loss of potential, that happiness you might once have had with it. you can be frustrated and sad and bitch about it in your group chat. but you have to let it go.
because the alternative is trying to force the creator to change course to comply with your vision and historically? the success rate of that is very, very low, and far more statistically likely to result in the destruction of the thing entirely. which might sound tempting and satisfying in those moments of frustration but in the end, honestly, is not going to make you any happier. (and is definitely going to make other people unhappier.)
what will make you happier is finding some other story that is more like what you wanted. because it’s a vast vast world out there, and people are creating stories and media faster than ever. yes, even queer media, yes, even PoC driven/led media. no one person will ever be able to consume them all. find something out there that brings you joy, that is the story you wanted. and the rest? let go.
Don't get me, I understand wanting to see a series through to the end after you've already invested so much time and emotion into it, and there's certainly something to be said for trying to keep an open mind or hoping that the story will get better. But at some point you have to acknowledge it's called the Sunk Cost fallacy for a reason. At some point cutting your losses is your best move.
There are many franchises I could use as an example but My Hero Academia is what comes most immediately to mind for me. Not everyone is enjoying the direction the series is going, and you know what? That's okay. You're perfectly entitled to have that opinion and not enjoy something. But when it seems like every week I'm seeing people read the latest chapter just to complain about it like they have with so many prior ones, that's not healthy. If you know you don't like something and you have no faith it'll get better, stop forcing yourself through it. Hate-watching and hate-reading is a bad mindset to put yourself through, and it's hard to say if that's better or worse than continuing to push yourself through the series when you're not getting anything out of it, be it enjoyment or hate.
I don't think my time is worth much but it's still better spent engaging positively with something I like. I liked Bleach but at some point I just wasn't enjoying the series anymore and eventually just dropped it because I wasn't getting anything out of it. That'll probably be how it'll be soon for me with Spider-Man, at least in the main Marvel comics now that Nick Spencer's run is done. What I still enjoy about the character keeps being diluted by editorial mandates and teasing without delivery and I'm just feeling kind of done. I was incredibly bummed out by The Rise of Skywalker because I really like Force Awakens and The Last Jedi and it kind of ruined that whole story for me. But I at least still had Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Mandalorian that I still genuinely enjoyed and so I pushed myself to move on.
In some cases you don't even have to fully drop a series. Even just taking a break from it and coming back later can be great for your health. Maybe it will indeed recover and get better later but pulling yourself out of that negative space and checking up on it every once in a while is way better that continuously stewing in it.
So... Garth is all alive and well, Donna is unjokerized, Roy is no longer dead, Dick has his memories back, and Wally is no longer a murderer. ...How long do you think DC will let the Titans last this time?
he’s a powerful super hero who half the world looks up to for guarding and guidance.
this man has a son/protégé who he specifically made to be his successor.
he purposefully arranges it so the boy inherits his powers.
he trains him hard to take his place, and through action and words makes it clear that this is how the boy can earn his recognition.
but it turns out that the powers don’t work the same for the protégé as the man. they end up hurting, even disfiguring the boy every time he uses them.
what starts out as the boy trying to prove himself…
turns into the boy spiralling into physical and psychological self-destruction.
the man tries to keep the protégé from continuing down this path
but he has lit these feelings inside his protégé a long time ago.
and it’s too late to the say the words the boy needed to hear all this time ago.
now the question is, can someone help the boy snap out of this self-destructive death spiral?
so uh. Ursula Vernon is an acclaimed and accomplished writer (also known as T Kingfisher) of multiple genres, including fantasy and horror - lots of horror. she also wrote and illustrated the award-winning webcomic Digger. I knew this screenshot couldn’t be showing us her whole opinion, so I pulled up the actual tweet, and I was right! she goes on to explain that many in her crowd loved it, including her husband, but that it wasn’t for her. even more relevant than her original thread, though, is this response she had to someone who was asking in (apparently) good faith why she found the lack of humour frustrating:
like. yeah. not every movie requires a comedy element. of course not! but I think this post is ripping unfairly on entirely the wrong person. Vernon was clear in her original thread that being humourless did not make it a Bad Movie, and has been exceptionally straightforward about why that lack of humour felt detrimental to the film in her experience.
The problem with Dune, in translating from book to movie, is the book can zip chapter by chapter from micro to macro, which allows for variable tension, and the book can be consumed in a pattern that reflects the reader’s tolerance. But in a movie, zipping between galactic view, house view, planet view and seitch view would be problematic. Plus the viewer can’t easily break it into chapters. There’s build and build but no denouement - nothing but crescendo and stop. Comparatively, LOTR was able to more easily break because the books were designed that way.
Sure, call it a lack of tension breakers, but the fact is it is an issue with rhythm. It’s EDM that never hits the bridge, it’s a chorus that never stops. She’s absolutely correct, though I suppose people love to blame the need for something other than three hours of slogging pain on Marvel/Disney/whomever. But Jesus Bambi was the first movie that broke me. Even with a flirty skunk.
...Just to add that I know Ursula well enough to trust her judgment far, FAR above that of anyone who’d have the nerve to consider her some kind of brainwashed Disney drone.
It always seems to come down to the issue of balance and that's going to differ from work to work. In terms of superhero movies, two notable examples I can name are The Dark Knight and Guardians of the Galaxy, both of which are really good and have both tension and comedy but very different ratios of the two, largely because they're trying to be two very different kind of superhero movies.
I name these two specifically because I think they're the two movies that've had the most movies (at least superhero movies) trying to mimic them in order to get the same success, which many of those mimics not understanding why the original had the ratio it did, or even remembering that it had one at all.
The Dark Knight was a gritty crime thriller but it still had plenty of moments throughout where Bruce and Alfred are shooting the sh*t with each other, or characters are just eating together with no immediate sense of danger just so the audience can get to know them better, or even Joker getting a genuinely laugh every now and then to give the audience a small break from the horrors of his other actions. The movie still can be taken seriously throughout but the moments of levity are placed in the right moments so that they don't destroy any tension that's being built up and instead let the audience rest a little and not get exhausted from constant seriousness.
Guardians of the Galaxy was a space-faring action-comedy but it still had plenty of moments throughout where we'd see things that are important to the characters and have them genuinely emote without any jokes in the middle of it so that we feel the weight of what the events mean to them, if nothing else. The characters are allowed to bond and care about each other. Enough tension is built up between the jokes that we are able to care about what they're going through.
But a lot of the movies that try to imitate The Dark Knight's tone go way too far in the seriousness, where every little thing is important, and the end result is that the audience just gets exhausted. It feels non-stop and we're rarely able to feel a connection to the characters because all we're seeing is the entire world crashing down on them constantly. We know the stakes but we barely know who THEY are. A lot of movies that try to imitate Guardians of the Galaxy go way too far in the comedy, to the point that we don't feel any tension, or worse it keeps breaking the tension and then continuing on like it's supposed to still be there, and thus we feel no weight to anything the characters are going through. If the movie and characters don't seem to care about what's happen, why should the audience?
There's always something I find strangely endearing about those rare scenes where the hero and villain just...talk. Nothing else. No interruptions, no more punches thrown, they just simply talk to each other. There's just something unique about it, the way that only enemies can talk to each other, especially archenemies.
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