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we NEED to appreciate the lighting thief musical more, as fun as the pjo show can be, the musical is by far the best of the adaptations imo

its genuinely the only one that I think properly portrays the personality and snark that Percy and the rest of the cast have in the book, if you haven't seen or at least heard the musical soundtrack plz get on that

#the show captures the heart of the books #the musical captures the energy of the book #percy jackson #pjo

stephenroot

ICE separated a five year old child from his father and sent him to a detention facility in Texas. His family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours. There is no hell hot enough.

wtfaboutit

My friend took this shot.

stephenroot

Tell your friend thank you for their bravery and for helping to get the word out about Liam.

stephenroot

Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos is just 5 years old and currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and h… sarai Orquiz needs your support for Help Bring 5-

stripedroseandsketchpads

According to Minneapolis Public Schools 4 small children total have been kidnapped by ICE since this round of raids started this week including Liam.

inkskinned

hey if this storm ends up being as bad as it looks, you need to take it seriously, particularly if you're in a southern state and not used to storms like this. i'm not a professional but my new england experience for losing power/etc is:

fill your bathtub with water before the power goes out. in an emergency where the pipes freeze, you'll have semi-clean water. you can use this water for your pets, to wash dishes, flush your toilet, and other small important stuff. if you have no bathtub, fill as large a bin/pot/etc as you can find.

air is the best insulator. if you can tape plastic over your windows and major drafts, it will genuinely help. (they have kits for it, but i've used trash bags and duct tape). blankets/tarps/etc also work. leave space between the covering and the window - the layer of air protects you. shove towels under your doors.

in a true emergency, you can ball up newspapers and shove them into your coats/pants/etc between your base layer and your coat. it won't be comfortable but it does insulate a little better.

have an emergency plan for your pets, particularly animals like reptiles that need constant heat to survive.

the weight of the snow and ice will be an issue. plan accordingly.

black ice is a bitch. if it looks "wet", assume it is frozen. actually just assume everything is frozen for a little while.

if you do not have a generator or other emergency power source, DO NOT bring outside-use heat sources (like propane stoves) inside. you can gas yourself and die.

instead, if you truly have no heat source: focus on insulating a small amount of space in your house - a few rooms - and bring as many bodies and supplies in there as possible. do not break insulation if you can avoid it. you are a ~100-degree object. make your safe space into a blanket fort. you may go stircrazy but it is better than freezing.

if you have a fireplace you never use, check the flue and the chimney before the storm holy shit. i am not kidding about this. do not just start a fire willy nilly. you will burn your house down.

relatedly, if you start a fire and notice smoke is billowing back into the house: stop the fire immediately. your flue is closed or your chimney is backed up. you will burn your house down.

keep the fridge closed as long as possible; it lets the air out. but honestly like, my family has used snow as a fridge a lot. stuff that needs to stay cool will be less of an issue than things that need to get warm. plan accordingly.

most canned things can be eaten cold, but check the label. if you have a little sterno fire, it can go a long way.

if you develop a headache and feel weirdly sleepy, you may be forced to open a window. you might have carbon monoxide poisoning.

every year people die while shoveling snow. it is actually not very safe as a chore tbh. you need to go slow and take lots of breaks. you should also 100% wait until the snow has actually passed, only because when it starts shifting and undoes all your work, it will piss you the hell off.

have drinking water somewhere easily accessible. a lot more of it than you think completely necessary tbh.

fill your gas tank. it will help prevent your lines from freezing.

if you have a battery-powered light that's not very strong, put it under a water jug, it'll throw more light. idk why it works but it works.

just because you know how to drive in the snow doesn't mean other people know how to drive in the snow. better to just not.

your device probably has a "low power mode". probably best to just keep it on asap rather than be taken by surprise tbh. the battery will last longer.

great news to fanfiction writers: it really is better if y'all take one bed and huddle together for warmth. do not strip out of your clothes, though, i have no idea who the hell decided that was the smart thing to do. you want to keep at least a layer of leggings and a tight shirt on. the goal is to find the fine line between "warm" and "sweating" - you want to stay as dry as possible for as long as possible.

your hair, eyelashes, and nosehairs can freeze. just from personal experience: try not to rub or touch them, it can snap your hair off and then you'll be very sad.

hypothermia is a lot faster and more evil than most people expect. watch for shivering, confusion, and unexplained exhaustion. if someone stops shivering, that is not always a good sign. if you think you/someone you love has hypothermia, warm them up slowly. often this is through rubbing/friction (or a heat source if available) but i just learned it's not safe to rub someone's frostbitten skin. keep them awake and try to feed them something.

same for frostbite: don't just shove your hands into a fire. warm any affected area slowly. fair warning, as the blood recirculates, it will hurt :(

those blue rubber examination gloves under other gloves can help even very-cold hands stay warm.

liquor is not a good idea to drink right now, sorry beloved. but vodka/rubbing alcohol does work as an excellent de-icer if you need something small done quickly (like a lock/door handle). it's just, like, expensive in comparison to other things lol

"i don't eat that much anyway i'll be fine" that's the devil talking. you will not be. you will also probably be burning way more calories than normal. let the soft animal of your body eat a bunch of delicious snacks.

good luck i love you stay warm out there everyone

the-local-bohg-witch

Do not forget the other victims of ICE

as much as we must mourn and stand in solidarity with Renee Nicole Good, please do not forget the other victims of ice raids, who are not white. Silverio Villegas González, a cook from mexico who was dropping his son off at daycare and was murdered Jaime Alanis, a farmer from mexico who fell off a green house at the farm where he worked to send money to his wife and daughter Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who was hit by a car Josué Castro Rivera, a garden from Honduras who was struck by a car And so many others who were killed or are dying in detention centres, prisons ect racial bias is always something we must be aware of, Renee will be focused on because she was a white woman and a US citizen, but do not forget all the other victims of ICE, may they all rest in power

howtoskinarabbit

Normal human people.

When I stay around normal human people for a bit too long I forget. Then they say something 'Imagine being single after 40' 'That's so sad'

And I remember.

#yeahhhhh….yeah.

covid-safer-hotties

Everyone being sick for two months during the winter is not normal. It's never been normal. Mass illness is not normal. Mass illness can be curbed. Clean the air. Wear a mask. Stay home if you can. Do it remote if you can. Take tests when sick. Stay home when sick. Mask up if you can't. It's simple. It's like 5 things. We just have to do them.

#i am so tired of people hacking their lungs out without even an attempt to cover their mouths #ESPECIALLY ON FLIGHTS. WHAT ARE YOU DOING.#being trapped on a 14 hour flight being the only one masked while everyone is coughing to high hell is frustrating #i almost never fall sick anymore even from just imperfectly masking #but before i did it would take me a week to recover from a common cold that i used to be able to fight off overnight #none of this is normal #even if you can’t mask 24/7 start with masking on public transport #or in indoor spaces #that’s what i do and it’s so much more effective than not masking at all #public health #wear a mask

thestargayzingetherian

She-Ra is offically leaving Netflix.

So some months ago, I made a post about She-Ra potentially leaving Netflix and now unfortunately, we have a date confirmed. Febuary 21 of next year, a little over three months from now. I know there are people who are thankfully making backups of the show (like one my friend @catras-breakup-song made, who also informed me about the delisting date just now) but legally, there's gonna be no way to watch SPOP.

To clear things up as to why this is happening for those who don't know, about ten ish years ago Dreamworks made an exclusivity deal with Netflix to distrubte many of their shows, a deal that is now expiring. This time last year, Voltron was delisted from Netflix and now we have She-Ra too and it honestly really hurts. But that is sadly a reality in our current media hellscape.

I won't doompost on this post, because I just want to inform everyone of what is happening. I do not know if She-Ra's ever gonna find a new streaming home (Voltron still hasn't at time of this writing) and thats a big IF considering things currently. I can only be glad that people are taking the steps to preserve this wonderful show.

Anyway, remember to save Febuary 21st as the date and get your last big rewatches of the show done before then if you wanna do so offically. We've got three months, friends, lets make the most of them.

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it’s already in my blog description, but here’s the link to find the Gdrive for download/archival!

ritshoe

Kudos to fanfiction writers for writing about all the trauma and emotional and mental turmoil that the original content creators dont acknowledge when putting characters through hell

saltoftheao3

This has evolved to one of fanfiction’s major assets in my eyes. To every author that cares enough about the characters in their stories to examine trauma, but also the slow, tedious processes of healing and recovery: your stories mean so much to me and other persons with mental health problems. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

liveandletcry23

Society: We don’t talk about how anger is Often just masking grief

A 17 year old with a blorbo and a laptop: Don’t mind if I do tho

finsettoland

burying my head my hands -- PJOTV SEASON 2 I WAS *EXCITED* FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!

BUT WHY IS PERCY TIED UP??

The siren scene is SO important to Annabeth's character, and her being tied up makes SENSE!!

She KNOWS what could happen if the sirens' song gets to her, so she asks Percy to tie her up, so she can't jump overboard. She gets to hear the sirens music like she wants, but she also is protected by being tied up, and she trusts Percy enough not to give in and un-tie her. It subtly shows how much she trusts him, and it also just makes sense!

Genuinely HOW could they POSSIBLY explain PERCY being tied up instead?

Because if PERCY is tied up, he can't stop Annabeth from jumping overboard to follow the sirens!

Unless they're gonna give the siren scene to PERCY and have HIM jump (which like - yeah sure that's INTERESTING, but that takes away A LOT away from Annabeth's characterization and depth), I really can't understand why ANNABETH, knowing the dangers of the sirens, would tie PERCY up so he can't get to her while she hears the sirens.

Because NOW, NOTHING is stopping her from jumping overboard! The suspense is GONE!

literally what do we gain from making a change like this??

SOM is usually considered the weakest book in the original series, and I am admittedly intrigued about some of the additions/changes they've made. But I can not wrap my head around this. It's just stupid. Just objectively, plainly stupid.

Because why would Annabeth, knowing the dangers of the sirens, not take any precautions when it comes to listening to their music?

And why would PERCY, whose fatal flaw is LOYALTY, ALLOW himself to be tied up so he can't EXERT his loyalty, and keep Annabeth from jumping???

helpallthenamesaretaken

HI I JUST WOKE UP

******WHAT*****

#ok i fully understand why this is upsetting #i could be WAYYYY off base here and totally overthinking it but #have we considered the implications of a white boy tying up a black girl on a ship…..#ofc it’s equally possible that this is yet another one of the many changes etc etc #but i feel like for the bad optics alone i’m willing to give this a pass #just my opinion #pjotv season 2

dranktwocoffees

sibling bonding(?)

kingofkaumidy2

#roy kent keeley jones and jamie tartt #no follow up questions #ted lasso

junglejim4322

Trying to explain even one ounce of class/caste/ethnic/religious dynamics in South Asia to somebody completely removed from it is so humbling like sometimes I forget how cartoonishly insane all of it is. The racism factory that churns out new types of racisms

junglejim4322

There really is no equivalent to the amount of social hierarchies in South Asia and how intricate they are which makes sense for a variety of reasons but do you know how sad it is to try and explain new types of oppression to people. To introduce people to social hierarchies they couldn’t have even dreamt up. The racism factory that produces new racisms

junglejim4322

The notes on this 50 note post already shows how right I am. People don’t ask my caste because they can tell based off of the most basic level shit related to my life within the first few minutes of meeting me. the only people who ask my caste are white people who have no idea the gravity of what they’re saying

missgowgow

op feel free to tell me to shut up because I know I do not have a full grasp of this issue like I should BUT

I’m a child of indian immigrants in the west and I thought I understood casteism because we definitely brought that shit over with us to the new country, but I don’t think I really understood it until my dad was talking about his childhood.

we were talking about his childhood in the first place because he’s having some issues with his brothers right now (he’s the youngest kid and his brothers can’t accept that he’s a grown man that makes his own decisions (he’s 60)) and he was talking about how they used to be so close and their childhood was so good and blessed but then he was like ‘but maybe it was always rotten, maybe there was always this seed of judgement in us’

he was talking about how they, an upper mid caste family in a tiny farming village, would hire low caste workers to help out during the harvest. as part of their wages, they would get meals from the family. but because they were low caste, they weren’t allowed to use the same plates and cutlery as my family. it was thought that them using the dishes would permanently contaminate them. they weren’t even allowed to keep their own ‘contaminated’ plates in the house. instead, they would take their meals on banana leaf plates. and I was like ‘ok that’s fucked up but banana leaf plates are commonly used by all castes’

then my dad explained ‘if we were to give them sambar, they would dig a small hole in the ground and line it with leaves, and we would ladle the sambar into that. if they wanted water, we would ladle handfuls of it into their hands and they would drink it all and silently ask for the next ladle. this was part of my daily chores as a child, to feed grown men in such a degrading way. something about it felt wrong to me, but I was a child who couldn’t understand why.’

I was already shocked at that but then he continued ‘once, there were no banana leaves, so I went to give him the plate I was holding. the man wouldn’t even take it from me, knowing how the rest of my family would react. when he accidentally brushed against it, I was surprised and dropped the plate. he then picked up the plate and built a small fire from the branches nearby and threw the plate in. these were steel plates, so they could survive that. he then used a different leaf to pick up the plate once it had cooled enough to give it back to me. not once had I even spoken or asked him to do this, but he knew that the plate needed to be purified before it entered our house. I think I was eight years old.’

I think this was coming up for him because he was already realizing that his family weren’t always good people based on their interactions with him and this made him see their actions through a new light. my dad left the village and eventually the country fairly young so I think he hadn’t interrogated his fond childhood memories like that. honestly, it made me think less of my family.

I’ve heard some people compare castes to different sects of christianity and I don’t think that’s a good comparison. that’s bias based on thinking you’re the best. casteism is having a hierarchy and knowing exactly where you stand in that hierarchy and knowing that you can’t change that no matter what. that you are dirty and that you were born dirty and that you will never be clean.

being mid caste means we get shit from brahmins, so I thought I understood. I’d read about dalits, so I thought I understood. but that was the day I really started to understand.

bakurapika

#no id never tell you to shut up this is a really good addition and some surprisingly (horrifyingly) common experiences#laid out very plainly. I appreciate you taking the time to write it#and im in the west too lmao#casteism

redstonedust

love when dysfunctional bands start putting out songs like "i wish i could escape to another planet" or "i am stuck in a miserable sitaution with people i hate" or "heres a song about a controlling asshole that definitely isnt a direct dig at our lead singer"

redstonedust

introducing 'band that is probably doing great in their interpersonal relationships' and their new single: "the drummer fucked my girlfriend and im going to kill him"

#the second half of the post is converse high by bts #iykyk

doodlemancy

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

gimmethebeachboys

remember that short story they made you read in school called The Lottery where the whole town gets together and just stones a motherfucker at random what the fuck was up with that

odin-n-out

feynites

Actually, I know what was up with that!

When The Lottery (by Shirley Jackson) was first published, tons of people wrote into the newspaper that published it to demand to know what the hell it was meant to be about

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story’s readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

So basically the story is written in such a way that the uncritical nature of the townspeople is highlighted, when it comes to their own traditions. Every year the town commits outright violent murder, but because it’s ‘normal’ to them, they don’t think of it in those terms. The reader, who isn’t part of the town’s cultural assumptions, sees the horrific nature of their actions. But the characters in the story don’t.

In essence, it’s a story about normalization (before that phrase was coined). The point is to make you think about what cruelties might be passing uncriticized in your own culture, just because they seem ‘normal’ to you. Maybe your town doesn’t stone someone to death once a year, but there are other ways for communities to kill people, or let them suffer. And some of those are just as needless and just as rooted in unquestioned assumptions about how the world works, or how society needs to operate. The people in The Lottery were hesitant to give up their tradition because they believed it guaranteed them a good harvest. Revealing, in that hesitance, that the possibility of a bad outcome was more frightening to them than an atrocity they’d normalized.