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OK WAIT SO IF POC GET STRICTER SENTENCES IN COURT… AND IF WOC ARE MORE AT RISK OF MISCARRIAGE AND GENERAL MALPRACTICE… AND IF SEX EDUCATION IS WORSE IN INNER CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS… AND IF RACIAL HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IS PRACTICED BY 85% OF REAL ESTATE AGENTS… AND IF SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FUNDED VIA PROPERTY TAXES WITHIN EACH DISTRICT… HOLD ON………. WAIT A MINUTE

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wiisagi-maiingan

I have 3000 followers now so here's some tips for you all:

clean your scrapes and cuts; yes, even the small ones

use moisturizer and hair oils and stop overwashing your body

don't mix cleaning chemicals for the love of god, especially if bleach is involved in any way, that shit CAN and WILL put you in the ER or in the ground

invest in a food processor or even a small electric chopper, it's worth it, I promise

"common sense" isn't real and we all have to learn things at some point; some people just learn things a bit later than others and that's okay

regular sleep is important but some people are just wired differently and it's okay if your natural sleep cycle doesn't line up with how society is structured

don't quit any prescription medication cold turkey unless it's discussed in detail with at least one medical professional

stop asking yourself if you can survive without an accessibility aid and start asking if it will improve your quality of living instead

just be kind, to yourself and others

labelleizzy

This is so lovely and kind, thank you

wootwona

stfu stfu literally nobody has an ugly smile or an ugly laugh its just not a thing. your smiles and laughter are the literal manifestations of your joy theyre gorgeous no matter what they look like or how they sound

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speir-s

Bjørg-Elise Tuppen / «Moments With the Moon II»

sunsetpan0rama

if cat don’t want to be held like a baby then why baby sized

jayykesley

my brain, stomping it’s feet: i wanna use one inconsequential negative experience to spiral into an echo-chamber of self hatred!!!

me, stirring my tea with my little plastic knife: no, we don’t do that anymore

allekha

Today, let’s talk about Rudy Galindo.

His victory at the US Championships in 1996 is an underdog story if figure skating ever had one. It’s an iconic performance that could easily be the climax of a movie without changing a thing.

In 1996, Galindo arrived at Nationals without having won it since his days as a novice, or even having stood on the podium since he was a junior. (In singles, that is - he and Kristi Yamaguchi also skated pairs and were double national champions together.) He’d had some success as a junior - bronze, then silver, then gold at junior Worlds, the last the year before he and Yamaguchi also took the title in pairs - but once he and Yamaguchi split for good, he spent years without any big international assignments, with a best of fifth place at Nationals. By this competition, he was 26, old enough for people to start remarking on his age.

That wasn’t the only disadvantage he had working against him, though. First, after years of feeling like the judges were biased against him for being too camp and because of his Mexican heritage, he had come out as gay in a book published just days before. It was a bold move in a judged sport rife with homophobia and with very few active competitors who were out at the time.

Second, while skating demands large amounts of money, Galindo was lacking it. In the run-up to 1996, he was given zero funding or encouragement from USFS. He biked to the rink because he couldn’t afford a car; his sister started coaching him for free and helped to cover some of his expenses.

And lastly, he’d been through enough personal tragedy for a lifetime in only a few years. In 1989, his and Yamaguchi’s coach died of AIDS complications. In 1993, his father passed from a heart attack; in 1994, his brother, who he helped nurse, also died of AIDS; and in 1995, yet another coach of his died from AIDS as well. No wonder he needed to take an eight-month break from training after 1995 Nationals.

But the 1996 championships were in his hometown. And Galindo decided that he wanted to give everyone a performance they wouldn’t forget, not one they would cheer for just because he was the local competitor.

Spectators at practice sessions noted a composed confidence in Galindo, and he carried that through his short program. He was not the fastest skater on the ice, but his performance was enough to land him in third place (apparently to boos from the crowd, who thought he should be higher).

For his free skate, he wore a costume that not even the most conservative judge could object to, and skated to one of the most standard pieces of music in all of figure skating: Swan Lake. Galindo’s Swan Lake was unique, though, in that rather than a swan or a prince, he characterized himself instead as the evil wizard Rothbart.

Though he was last to skate, he betrayed no hint of nerves as he started his program, striking a few dramatic poses before landing a smooth 3A3T that made the commentators exclaim aloud. The bombastic opening section merged into a calmer one, where he showed off his flexibility:

And man, remember dramatically held spread eagles in big circles?

The music went light and playful, and Galindo became light with it, completing each jump and then continuing through his choreography with ease and grace:

In the last minute of the program, you can see him begin to smile to himself as his movements become celebratory.

He even took a moment to wave to someone in the audience :)

He finished his program with the traditional spin, showing off his nice layback position while the audience started to cheer and then didn’t really stop. Those who were there say that people were on their feet for him before he was done skating.

As he came off the ice, he hugged his sister, before he turned his head and shouted upward to convey his love to some of those he had lost. When the technical marks were announced, the crowd didn’t just scream their heads off - they started to chant their opinion for the artistic ones: SIX. SIX. SIX. SIX. SIX.

Two of the judges agreed, and the rest placed him high enough to win over the favorite, Todd Eldredge. And Rudy Galindo, the twenty-six-year-old who had never stood on the senior podium at Nationals or been sent to any major competition as a singles skater, who was bearded and Hispanic and gay, was now the US men’s champion.

(He’s often cited as ‘the oldest in 70 years’; however, this number seems to be closer to 60, going back to Roger Turner, and he was only a few months older than Tickner was in 1980. Still an impressive accomplishment!)

His exhibition was a tribute to those he and so many others had lost to the AIDS crisis, the theme made loud and clear by his simple costume consisting only a black suit with a large red AIDS awareness ribbon around his neck.

At his first and only senior Worlds in men’s singles, he won the bronze medal. Following this successful season, he considered making a run for the Olympics, but instead retired to the pro and show circuit, always receiving a very warm welcome from the audience. I highly recommend his pro program to Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which yeah, is pretty gay and always makes me tear up at this moment:

Despite his struggles with depression and addiction, and an HIV diagnosis in 2000, nowadays he seems to be doing well. He works as a choreographer and has become a coach, and he often posts proud videos of his students.

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I feel like it’s doing Galindo a disservice, when mentioning his Over The Rainbow program, to not mention that in the 1990s and 2000s this was a song commonly sung or played at queer funerals and candlelight vigils, especially those who died of AIDS. The history of the song being claimed by queer men goes all the way back to the debut of Oz in the 1930s, and it wouldn’t surprise me a bit to find out Gilbert Baker’s idea for the Pride flag came from the history of the “friends of Dorothy.”

This isn’t just Galindo taking a song about rainbows and skating to it. It is a song fraught with queer history and emotional weight.

alexseanchai

I found them on YouTube:

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suzhou gardens in summer by 火之星2100

reginaldqueribundus

I feel like nobody talks about this but remember Jay’s “job interview” in the original Men in Black movie? Sure, they play it for comedy, he’s a smartass cop surrounded by all these elite military graduates. But he was also literally the only one in the room smart enough to bring the table over so he had something to write on. And he offers it to the other guys too!

And in the shooting test, on the surface it just seems like a goofy joke when he shoots the little girl cutout in the head, but look at the way he responded to the situation.

The test starts immediately without any warning, we can see that everyone is caught off guard. The other candidates immediately open fire on what they perceive to be threats, but Jay takes a second to assess the situation. He sees he isn’t in any immediate danger, and in a handful of seconds he’s able to scope out several minor details about the targets and hit one with a near-perfect headshot. Jay showed he was an innovative, quick thinker with situational awareness, attention to detail and high-level marksmanship skills, and they never say it outright but I think that’s probably why Zed picked him. (Zed never actually says anything negative about Jay’s performance, just that he has a problem with authority.)

This is highly underrated writing but, then again, this is also the movie where Tommy Lee Jones says “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew Earth was the centre of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat and 15 minutes ago, you knew humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”

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Something I want to add on after watching this scene myself again, because there’s even a few other things you notice. Even before the test, everyone here is in their military best, they’ve all been told that they’re here because they’re the best of the best, but Jay is the only one to also go “so what are we actually doing here? why gather all of us?” This one dude raises his hand, stands to attention, lists his credentials, and says it’s because the recruiters are looking for ‘the best of the best of the best!’ Jay laughs, he points out that this person has no idea why he’s here, he just knows he’s been picked because he’s the best and asked no further questions! Then he slowly gets awkward when no one else laughs because that’s just how the super strict military is like…except for Zed. It’s really hard to notice, but each time Jay does this stuff, Zed cracks just a tiny bit, a half smile, because Jay gets it. Hell Zed even seems aware that everyone but Jay is the type that has been taught to mindlessly follow orders with the way he talks about the others ‘military training’. He looks over at K at times who has this look that if you didn’t know better would have been just incredulous amusement, but he honestly probably is just loving the way Jay calls out the way everyone’s acting. And the one thing that stood out too in the shooting scene that the pictures don’t easily show is that there’s screams, growls, and roars from the aliens playing, there’s a strobe light effect happening making it even harder to take all the details in. The cutouts come out over time too, so each time one does, he constantly takes a few seconds to access the situation again, eyes constantly looking around to spot anything new. Only after he does all of that does he lock eyes with the little girl cut out, he doesn’t look away, he focuses for a few seconds, and then calmly raises his gun and takes a single shot. Despite all his joking around, he takes the situation calmly and seriously, and uses exactly as much time and force that he needs to to handle it. And I think, the one thing that stands out the most in all of it, it his reaction when Zed comes in after and yells at him “Jay, what the hell was that?!” Jay’s response? “I hesitated, sir.” Jay is a cop, how many times do you think he was put in a situation where anyone else on his force would have shot first without assessing the situation, just like everyone else in that room? How many times would he have to say that he ‘hesitated’ to hide the fact he was trying to avoid shooting first, ask questions later? That’s the type of person they need in the MIB, and that’s why Jay did so well.

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justlookatthosesausages

I refuse to believe this did not happen in canon

sunsetagain

black lamb

chrishallbeck

Cube Head recap.

adurot

So That’s how he got that head. I’d missed the origin.

cheeseanonioncrisps

Fantastic!

nothorses

Wait, I might be dumb for asking this, but aren’t feminine men called dandies?

in like the late 18th to early 19th century Britian, “dandy” referred to men who paid a lot of attention to personal appearances. later on it referred to a handful of kinda playfully GNC artist guys, but I don’t think it’s ever been a universal term for all feminine men

also while I was double-checking my info i found this

which is just *chef’s kiss*

nothorses

hail the motherfucking king

valarhalla

Ok so there’s these tidal islands in Northern Germany that are connected by little tiny trains that you have to drive yourself, which is already delightfully ghibli-esque.