the edge of possibilities

old school fan (not zine or mailing list old, just LJ old). multifandom. she/her. terfs stay out.

[caddyxjellyby]

can we please stop acting like working and middle class people have nothing in common. can we please stop acting like rural suburban and urban people have nothing in common.

[st-just]

question for the Americans in the room; is this a real thing or just another case of '90% of op/ed writers live in the Bay Area or very specific neighborhoods in NYC/LA'?

[evilscientist3]

You know something about Humpty Dumpty I feel we don't question enough is the fact that they had all the king's horses trying to put him back together as well as the men. Is it that surprising that the horses couldn't put him back together? Horses are very much not known for their manual dexterity. They have hooves. How are they supposed to support a positive outcome in this situation

[cannibalcaprine2]

they turned the horses to glue

[detailspecialist]

no, mel isn’t just simply crashing out over her sister having sex and a boyfriend. being a caregiver/sister and doctor isn’t just something she does, it’s all she has to define herself. it’s the structure holding her together, it’s the only context she knows how to exist in. and basically both of those collapse simultaneously in the span of three hours. it’s bigger than her and becca no longer operating in the same version of their relationship, it’s bigger than her loneliness, it’s bigger than the stress of the lawsuit. it’s her identity slipping away from her which obviously feels incredibly destabilizing bc she doesn’t have anything else to fall back on.

she is being irrational and overbearing yes, but she isn’t overreacting. obviously she’s gonna wobble when the ground shifts beneath her feet.

[detailspecialist]

tdeardz let’s be mutuals

[saywhat-politics]

[onethirdofimpossible]

Okay, I was just going to reblog this without commentary, but I can't keep this to myself. I'm a PhD student in environmental science and this is my fucking highway.

The first published study about climate change (that I am aware of-- feel free to point out if there's an older one) is an 1896 paper by Svante Arrhenius. He pointed out the link between the greenhouse effect and changes in atmospheric CO2.

Plate tectonics, which the geoscience community now recognizes as near indisputable, was a fringe theory until about the 1960s.

Just in case anyone thought that climate change was a "recent fad" in research.

[caddyxjellyby]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: MASH (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce & Charles Emerson Winchester III, B. J. Hunnicutt & Sherman Potter Characters: B. J. Hunnicutt, Sherman Potter, Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, Charles Emerson Winchester III Summary:

BJ gets an upsetting letter from home and rebuffs Hawkeye’s attempt at comfort, so Hawkeye takes an interest in Charles’ reading material.

[depsidase]

[caddyxjellyby]

the struggle with genderbending MASH is that if you want everyone to be in Korea, then it has to be either a historical AU with a matriarchy, or shifting the focus so that the nurses are the main characters and the doctors are the supporting characters. but then they still have to be nurses and volunteers, or an AU where nurses get drafted.

[caddyxjellyby]

Hawkeye and Winchester are the ones whom I absolutely can't accept as nurses. Maybe Trapper.

F!Klinger I could maybe see as a civilian nurse but obviously she would never volunteer

[caddyxjellyby]

there are several different ways Comrades in Arms could go in this scenario, including Hawkeye getting stranded with Nurse Burns

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags a song you like except for *that one part*.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

i've always believed the fixation on 'mean girls' specifically is because it's a violation of gender roles first and foremost--a 'mean boy' in high school is a regular high schooler. the internet isn't ready for this take yet though so be careful

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott (1875)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Remaining time: 1 day 17 hours

[lillbitdramatic]

ryan and fabian from tough guy by rachel reid!

bonus haircut and beard trimmed ryan LOL

[caddyxjellyby]

Some time after 1995, I saw on American TV a short animated video. Not any longer than 2 minutes. It starts with books on a library table. One opens up and it's an underwater scene with fish swimming around. It closes and then the next book is a jungle. And then that book closes and a space book opens up. I don't know if it was a commercial or part of a show but it didn't have any recognizable characters in it. I thought it would be easy to find, but there are a lot of library-related segments from kid shows so it wasn't.

[caddyxjellyby]

I don't think it was a modern jungle or forest, I think it had dinosaurs. Specifically a stegosaurus?

[caddyxjellyby]

the inability to find this would make me think I dreamed it if it weren't for the fact that I can see it so clearly in my mind's eye

[anthonycrowley]

every time i search where a movie is streaming and it’s not on like one of the big streamers i whisper to myself ‘poob has it for you’

[anthonycrowley]

one of the most poobified movies i’ve ever seen

[sprinkledsalt]

I know I’m not saying anything new here but I do think we need to more frequently call out how stupid the “‘they’ secretly have the cure for cancer and other sicknesses but are hiding it because they make more money off sick people” shit is. This is idiotic and people need to feel bad for saying it out loud. It’s such a slap in the face to researchers working their asses off every day to develop new treatments (my aunt has multiple myeloma and is currently part of another clinical trial at the Mayo Clinic, and trust me, the people there actually want her to get better!). But it’s also idiotic because a) it’s just not how things work b) “they” would just charge a shit ton of money for the cure, then, as people would be willing to sell their damn homes to have their cancer cured and c) people in power still die of these things. John McCain was a respected US senator who died of brain cancer, Beau Biden was the sitting vice president’s son when he also died of brain cancer, Joe Biden himself is a former president who is currently battling prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones. If “they” (who? Who’s “they”?) in power actually have the cure for cancer, then wouldn’t the damn American president have access to it, at the very least?

Like so many conspiracy theories, it’s a combination of smug cynicism and the refusal to grapple with how bleak reality can be. False flag conspiracy theorists don’t want to accept that a man could really massacre a classroom full of children with a gun, and these people don’t want to accept that terrible things could happen to our bodies and medical science genuinely is not there yet for us to stop it. I’m tired of people casually saying this shit when it has consequences, especially with public health. A lunatic is running HHS right now due to people embracing conspiratorial thinking with health and healthcare. Just shut up when you don’t know what you’re talking about, man

[woman-respecter]

everyone sexualize unglamorous white collar jobs NOW

[petersolarz]

Chicago from Northwestern © Peter Solarz