She turned around in the bag as I walked like she was trying to cuddle up. The walk to the coffee shop is really hard for me now, so we have to take a bunch of breaks.
I do let her explore a bit on the way. She really wanted to show me this rock she found and I had to explain that it wouldn’t let her evolve. She wants to keep looking though.
I think I need to accept that I just can’t get coffee anymore without it contributing to a flare up. Thankfully she doesn’t mind supporting me for a while…
I remember this post. Literally it's all just pictures of an eevee doll.
It's someone with a disability Journaling going on a walk with a plushie? None of these pictures even had people in them, except for I think one selfie, and a picture of the eevee in a bag being worn, and thus containing a bit of torso.
Mel Medarda (Arcane) vs. Irene Adler (Sherlock Holmes)
Mel Medarda
Irene Adler
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Mel Medarda:
Reduced to an obstacle to Jayvik. Her character background and nuances are ignored in favor of making her an evil Jezebel who seduced Jayce to turn him against Viktor/the undercity; she’s always getting put in the cuck chair, and even positive depictions of her in fic have her playing Jayvik therapist or yaoi fangirl instead of developing her as a character in her own right. Often excluded from group official art & fan art.
As a character, she has so much interesting canon material to work with that people just ignore. She was raised to inherit a war-loving empire but believed she was discarded as a child for being too soft. She overcame a cold and traumatic childhood to be a champion for peace. There are still traces of this upbringing in her - she’s a strategist who wants the best for the whole, which sometimes means making decisions that come across as ruthless for the individual, but she’s always been just as willing to sacrifice herself for the cause. She’s flawed and has her own blind spots but always tries to operate in good faith. Criminally underutilized in canon and in fan works lol
Because of her interactions with Jay, much of the fandom only saw her as a malignant and hostile obstacle to the Jay/Viktor pairing, using words like 'temptress' and implying a romantic relationship between Jay and Mel is automatically inferior to one between Jay and Viktor. Definitely misogynoir, because the fandom would not have been this hostile to her if she wasn't black.
Mel is a complicated, morally gray character. Initially characterized as a ruthless and cunning politician, but who is torn between being merciful and stopping at nothing to prevent more suffering. Her emotional arc involved getting out of her parent's constricting grasp and living according to her own desires.
Where do I start. Constantly villainized for actions that fully make sense for her character. Ignored in her main relationship in order to ship her boyfriend with a skinny white guy. Sooooo much unchecked fandom misogynoir. The WRITERS don't even know what to do with her, they like never fully nailed down her motivations and just let her Happen. Like. It's YOUR show!! WRITE your characters!!
Smartest woman in the room. Powerful mage. INCREDIBLY tragic figure forced to continue the cycle of conquering and bloodshed. Knows what she wants and how she's going to get it, and sees that plan through. Figures out how to deal with an entire mage cult on her own, outsmarting the leader. I love her. She didn't do half the shit the fandom is mad at her for doing but she would have been fully within her right to do so.
Mel is hated by racist fujoshis for daring to "get in the way" of a non canon gay ship. One of the animators mentioned something about how he pictured the sex scene between Mel and her boyfriend being unimportant compared to Mel's boyfriend's concern for his white bestie. Fujoshis rejoiced, only going to show that they view her as a disposable Black girlfriend character/thats what they want for her. They write fanfiction where she's been killed, too.
Mel is the most interesting character in the show by far. She has a nuanced and complicated relationship with her mother, and its already rare to see this with a mother/daughter relationship let alone between 2 Black women, and its the most heartfelt relationship in the whole show. Mel was abandoned by her mother for being "too soft" and made her own way in the world of politics. She is manipulative, to a degree, but she always means well and its easy to see that she has so much heartfelt emotion in her that she holds back. She stands up for her lame ass boyfriend despite him not deserving her, and she gets cool magic powers in the second season that she uses to save everyone. She is also always dressed impeccably and is inarguably the most beautiful character in the whole show.
Oh, boy. Hoo. There's a lot of fandom misogyny but it is mostly from JayVik fans. I am a fan of the ship myself, but to insinuate that Mel is in the way, and is no good, and that she should leave Jayce alone, or that she manipulated him? Sigh… I am Viktor himself (an IRL/DA. That's not important, I just have to mention incase I get some weird looks). She wasn't in the way at all. You can ship what you wish without constantly finding ways to hate on Mel and insist that she was being a user and a manipulator.
She is a goddess of the Arcane. She's made of pure magic and she looks it. She's golden, glowing and gorgeous. She is politically strong, and got away from her mother's bad influence to make a name and a life for herself. She commands the attention of a room and makes sure not only to be powerful but to be nurturing. She's kind, and whilst she might have been raised as a wolf, she knows when a good leader must be soft, too.
Many people have this idea in their head that she was manipulating Jayce & Viktor and just using them for her own selfish gain. She wasn't. I don't think so in the slightest. She was genuinely intrigued by the research Jayce had done and was nurturing that. Sure, a few of her words may have come across as manipulative, but perhaps it's because she is a flawed character. She isn't perfect, and that's okay!
Someone who genuinely wants the best for everyone and is trying so hard to be a good person, hampered by the fact that she doesn't entirely "get" people and didn't exactly grow up in the best environment for that. While she tries to be different from the rest of her family - being a Pacifist and more of a thinker than a fighter - throughout the series it kind of feels like she's "doomed" to become one of them. She literally gets tortured into awakening her powers and becoming a fighter (and playable character in League of Legends) like the rest of the cast, like she was being forced into a role she didn't want. Despite this, she still tries to use her powers mostly defensively. Her relationship with her mother (Ambessa) is also really interesting - her mother loves her despite treating her poorly, but they just have incompatible worldviews and never really come to an understanding. This is only one interpretation of this scene, but I love Ambessa's line after Mel kills her, "you are the wolf." From Ambessa's perspective, it was probably praise and reassurance to her daughter that she still loved her. From Mel's perspective it was probably one of the cruelest things seh could say. I love her sm and there are so many parts of her character that are under-discussed.
Irene Adler:
sigh. adaptations always characterize her as being in love with sherlock or needing him to save her for some reason :/
she literally did nothing wrong. and!!! and she outsmarted sherlock holmes and got away with it!!! making him acknowledge that women can be smart (at least in the original books, if i remember correctly). and then she went off and lived her best life. go girl
The assholes openly admit it. The whole point of college is to enforce the hierarchy. When those who were supposed to be low on the hierarchy started going to college, the assholes get angry and want to make them suffer for challenging the hierarchy.
Yet another reason this is insanely revisionist is that it pretends the whole reason millennials felt so much pressure to go to college wasn't that conservative politicians had spent the eighties and nineties wrecking the shit out of labor unions to the point that by the time millennials turned eighteen, it was suddenly a lot harder to count on being able to work at a working-class job all your life and still have a good living.
College, all of a sudden, went from "something I'd like to do if I can get in" to "a lifeline in an economy where blue collar jobs are going to shit."
The wheel's turned long enough that now college students are being treated the way union workers and union-adjacent workers were treated in the eighties and nineties, so now college grads are the ones that it's fashionable to shit on, and the new fix-all solution is supposed to be "go into the trades!" Which means that by the 2050s at the latest, we'll be coming up with some new lie to blame people in the trades for the fact that now they're in trouble. And we'll have some new job that everyone should have been doing instead.
I really wish I'd had this kind of unrestricted access to unabridged audiobooks when I was in high school. There's so much classic literature that I eventually came to love but that I absolutely hated the first time through because of the context I'd been made to read it in.
#or whatever app your library uses!#both have pros and cons#LibriVox doesn’t have wait times and doesn’t require a library card#but Libby has audiobooks that are still under copyright AND it supports libraries#highly recommend both
Yes! Usually, Libby is my go-to and LibriVox is my fallback. Libby has commercial audiobooks available through an app but with wait times and a limited selection; LibriVox has shit you never even imagined with no limits but it's all volunteer-produced and you gotta put it on your phone by candlelight.
ALSO if you don't wanna deal with YouTube, a lot of librivox recordings are on podcast apps. Genuinely, you search the title of the book as the title of the podcast, you'll find a whole ass librivox recording of it, and if you're the sort to want both you can follow along with a project Gutenberg text. 10/10 for pacing, context clues, etc.
Also hoopla limits your borrows per month but if your library has it the trade off to the limit is you don't have wait times like with Libby.
irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers
Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.
An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1.
The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.
Households exposed to COVID-19 now have an oral drug specifically cleared to prevent infection after contact with a sick person. The FDA listed Xocova, the brand name for ensitrelvir, as a 2026 novel drug approval for post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 following contact with an infected individual. The decision fills a gap that has persisted since the pandemic’s early years: until now, no oral antiviral carried an FDA-approved indication for prevention rather than treatment.
As a transsexual woman 👩 who has had multiple experiences ‼️ I have found 🔎 that the biggest block of cheese 🧀 is usually the one ☝️ that has the largest size 📈
@the-last-dillpickle since i'm being enabled. janeway can't date anyone on the crew and neelix catches her arguing this case to chakotay (who is only telling her that she should date someone bc he wants her to he happy. No Other Reason) and reminds her that he's a civilian and would love to take her on a nice romantic dinner. janeway thinks neelix is funny (they have so many scenes together when he gives her advice about things and they joke together... this is canon, neelixhaters) so she agrees maybe partially bc tuvok overhears and starts to tell neelix off that this is ridiculous and the captain would Never so playful janeway turns on and she goes actually neelix i would love that.
but then when she shows up to the holodeck the dinner is honestly really thoughtfully made and he made her a buquet of red roses and some really weird talaxian dating things happen and the dinner explodes. they laugh and then janeway remembers a date with mark and trails off silently and tries to excuse herself but neelix says an unexpectedly profound but stupid anecdote that relates to her current captaining troubles
and then they do a talaxian sex act which is basically cuddling which means starts align and neelix doesn't say anything misogynistic and janeway's self imposed repression doesn't get triggered so basically janeway has a wonderful time and goes back to her quarters before 10 with her roses and a promise to meet next week for holodeck double luge with neelix and holographic nikola tesla or some shit people entertain themselves on voyager year 10.
next morning on the bridge she tells chakotay neelix is a true gentleman and he laughs bc he thinks it's a prank. tuvok knows it isn't so he tells everyone he has a headcache and excuses himself and nobody sees him for two days.
I don't know whether or not this is true, but I'm reblogging this because we live in a world where the third search result when I tried researching the validity of this information was a link to an article about a weight loss product.
The second search result had included the slur "ob*se" in the title of the article.
There are seriously people who tell me fat people aren't oppressed. Meanwhile, trying to find information about how to keep a fat person from drying in a car crash is met with links to products that make dirty money off of how society views my body.
"Seatbelt should be across your hips rather than your stomach for everyone, but i think it's more common for fat people to wear seatbelts over the stomach
Pelvic bones are strong and sturdy, and you're going to be MUCH less likely to injure internal organs and such when you suddenly slam into a nylon belt"
Text and photos by @thejacespace
I wanted to put both of these reblogs in one reblog chain since this is helpful information. Thank you both for giving more information than fatphobic Google did.
This is leaving out the most crucial piece of why that was a normal reality: UNIONS.
Union participation percentage is a measly 10% across all industries for the latest statistics in 2025.
Unions are the ones who could fight against the requirement for everyone and their mother to need a minimum of a bachelor's degree. they could fight for working hours to be properly compensated so that the work week was actually 40 hours or less and everything over was actually paid for.
The reality of the work place and why we work so much more for so much less is because we are not unionized. the reason europeans seem to have it so much better is because of their strong union culture.
there are solutions to these problems and we need to stop obscuring the why.
fjdjshshd this made me realize i forgot to talk about the huge pockets so thank you for the reminder 😭
its a little funny but for me our pockets have become such a normal part of my life that i expect all clothes to have them and whenever i wear clothes from other brands im always surprised and dismayed at how small the pockets are.
a phone is simply not enough. i need my pockets to fit an entire 32oz water bottle*
*on garments with silhouettes and structures that can support that kind of bulk/stress (which unforch the maxi dresses cannot)
one thing i wanna say though is data centers being built in rural areas is environmental racism + classism so when i see ppl bitching about locals bitching about data centers im like oh it’s literally because it’s not your backyard being demolished and your air not being polluted and your waterways not being ran dry and your soundscapes not being raised to unhealthy decibels ….
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