finish phobia

starting is easy, it's the finishing that's difficult

[anxietyproblem]

[girlnumbersix]

ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were

[finishphobic]

so I just started watching Veronica Mars (and I mean literally, as I just finished s1 and have started s2) and the only time the last episode of s1 made me exclaim in fury--

--was when her mother walked out with the money order from the Kane’s.

Like it wasn’t BAD ENOUGH that she PISSED AWAY VERONICA’S COLLEGE FUND she had to go and make ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY SURE that Veronica would have absolutely NO ADVANTAGE when it came time to pick college like you SELFISH FUCKING COW--

[finishphobic]

a thing that happens when you leave a social media platform for 2+ years?

you come back and everyone’s display names and icons are different

MULTIVERSE HELP ME WHO ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE

[stelmarias]

[marrymejasonsegel]

Audrey says “fuck your gender roles”

[there-was-a-girl]

This movie is super underrated.

[sailinginthetea]

Audrey is so underrated. How can you not love her?

[intersectionalfeminism]

I have a love-hate relationship with this movie. On one hand it’s got awesome PoC characters who defy racial and gender stereotypes. It also discusses colonialism and how people tend to destroy indigenous cultures to obtain land and resources (which is why the crew ultimately decided a to pretend they never found Atlantis because they don’t want anyone else to try and destroy the culture). But on the other hand, the whole plot is that Atlantis needs a white, cishet man to save it from extinction and for some reason he understand their culture and language better than they do.

[sun-spiral-deactivated20210109]

hEY FUCK YOU OKAY MILO WAS THE ANTITHESIS OF WHITE SAVIOR HE WAS A NERDY USELESS LITTLE SHIT WHO WAS COWARDLY UNTIL OTHERS FORCED HIM TO ACT HIS ONLY STRENGTHS WERE HIS MIND AND HIS ETHICS HE WAS THE PERFECT DUDE FOR THE JOB AND THE REASON HE KNEW BETTER WAS BECAUSE HE RIGOROUSLY STUDIED TEXTS THAT HAD BEEN LOST OR DESTROYED IN ATLANTIS BECAUSE KIDA’S FATHER INTENTIONALLY LET HIS KINGDOM LAPSE INTO DECAY AND OBSCURITY DO NOT PULL THAT WHITE SAVIOUR BULLSHIT BECAUSE MILO WAS A DAMN GOOD DUDE

[waltdisneyconfessionsrage]

I’ve been trying to tell people this for years. Also, what differentiates Milo’s experience from the white savior complex is his expectation and his attitude. When looking for Atlantis, the last thing Milo expects to find are people. He says the most they thought that they would find are carvings and pottery. And he would have been happy with just that.

And even when he finds the Atlanteans, he treats the culture and people with the utmost respect (peek the scene where the crew has their audience with the king). He never tries to interfere in the people’s way of life nor change them. He’s merely an observer fascinated with the culture/people and just wants to know more about them.

In most movies, the white savior comes into the situation with an attitude of superiority and only through his interactions with the native people (and a lot of times a beautiful native woman) is he humbled and then eventually brought in as an honorary member of the people. Milo never asks for thanks or wants to make a name for himself. He does what he does because he loves it and it’s a way to keep his grandfather’s legacy alive.

Yeah. Milo was a damn good dude.

[vanyel-or-just-van]

And another thing about Milo that’s made evidenced by this scene in particular? He’s got respect for women. He doesn’t ask why it’s a GIRL mechanic on the expedition, only why it’s a TEENAGER. Doesn’t question Kida’s leadership and knowledge when he meets her. (I can’t think of more examples off the top of my head but I’m sure they’re there).

Milo is a wonderful Disney protagonist, and this movie deserves the underground love it receives.

[b99thingsv2]

When gay marriage was legalized, we weren’t sure if or when it was going to be struck down so speed was of the essence.

[gondor-reveal-party]

when people say that Brooklyn 99 doesn’t make jokes about Holt being gay… it does. it just doesn’t make homophobic jokes, it makes jokes like this that are actually funny.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[yabookjunkies]

Harry Potter and the Secret History

[claires-redfields]

Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia

[thwiparkers-deactivated20201110]

Harry Potter and the Maze Runner

Now that’s a crossover I’d like to see

[topnotch-anon-deactivated201804]

Harry Potter and The Vaults of Dreamers

[i-got-personality]

Harry Potter and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Um. Okay.

[captainlordauditor]

harry potter and the shores of refuge: a hundred years of jewish emmigration?

[kiran-wears-science-blues]

Harry Potter and the Hero of Ages

[darkwingdukat]

Harry Potter and the Buried Giant

[animatedamerican]

Harry Potter and a Confederacy of Dunces

… astonishingly plausible really

[hhertzof]

Harry Potter and Cherry Ames: Mystery of Rogue’s Cave I’d read it!

[alchemyalice]

Harry Potter and the Sharp Objects

[kd-heart]

Harry Potter and the Necropolis

[spank-the-villain]

Harry Potter and the Cancer as a Turning Point

[gryphonrhi]

Harry Potter and The Northern Girl

[kickair8p]

Harry Potter and Contemporary Wicker Basketry

[madmaudlingoes]

Harry Potter and the Pagan’s Progress, or, The Invention of Pilgrimage.

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Harry Potter and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[labyrinthphanlivingafacade]

Harry Potter and the Tarkin

[tittytania]

Harry Potter and the Left Hand of Darkness

[ad-jak]

Harry Potter and the Lost Gods

[classicalmonoblogue]

pretty sure “Harry Potter and the Reverse of the Medal” is the unofficial subtitle for AO3

[planetniles]

Harry Potter and Stormbringer Poor Harry.

[feyariel]

Harry Potter and Oriental Adventures.

That sounds even worse than I had imagined it would.

[we-are-knight]

Harry Potter and the Fell Sword.

[caretaker-of-souls-deactivated2]

harry potter and the phantom of the opera

[jormundgandr]

Harry Potter and the empty toilet roll…

[a-very-optimistic-realist]

Harry Potter and I loved, I lost, I made spaghetti.

Harry are you okay

[lostsometime]

Harry Potter and the War of the Worlds

[catgirlcaliphate]

Harry Potter and the Gardener’s Bird Book

[ruffboi-mags]

Harry Potter and the Player’s Handbook

[finishphobic]

Harry Potter and the Horrorstor

[littlebluecaboose]

people who go through college without drinking coffee to survive are impossibly stalwart and should never be challenged

but the people who DO drink coffee to survive college are filled with unstoppable power before their coffee, but only if every task they are completing is towards the goal of getting coffee

what im saying is: if a non-coffee-drinker stood in front of a coffee-drinker’s coffee maker, who would win?

[gostaks]

unstoppable force vs an immovable object

[archi-pelago]

playing with ocs is either

or 

[meangirlnurse]

@whimsicalsocks

[tsarcasm-deactivated20180922]

not to harp on this point but the care with which a girl you’ve known for maybe three weeks will ask you “what’s wrong?” if you look even mildly distressed is more emotional labor than you’d receive from any man over the course of six lunar cycles

if my dad sees me crying, he pretends he’s getting a call so that we don’t have to have an awkward conversation, but a drunk girl who stumbled across me in a public bathroom would literally become my emotional triage nurse

[andhumanslovedstories]

So I came home from work today and there was a kindle addressed to me that I did not remember ordering. I spent the afternoon trying to figure out how I accidentally purchased a kindle from Amazon, and when I came back from hanging out with Catherine, I told my parents, guys, you will not believe what I accidentally ordered for myself. 

“Huh,” said Dad very casually. “Did you get charged for it?” 

I spent the next five minutes checking my bank account and came back into the living room to announce, “No, I didn’t. Do you think it’s a mistake? But it has my name on it! what does this mean”

It was around the time that I started to sound panicked that Dad confessed to buying it for me (“I didn’t realize the mystery of it would be so terrifying”). Which was very, very sweet and slightly unfortunate because yesterday I purchased a replacement kindle for myself. 

So anyway, we now have a family kindle 

[andhumanslovedstories]

Me and Mom were talking about the kindle this morning, and she told me about how a few weeks ago, she got into her car only to discover that it had been mysteriously cleaned.

“But who would do this?” she said to my father who said he was sure he had no idea. “A student? A stranger? Someone who broke into my car to steal it but felt bad about how dirty it was? WHO??”

Eventually Dad was like, “Honey. It was clearly me.”

Poor Dad just wants to be a man who expresses his love through silent actions, but his family consists of panicked, suspicious women who apparently are very sure that strangers will ominously do nice things for us

[politicalprof]

If they can read, anyway …

Ht: AR

[hcandersen]

5th richest person on the entire fucking planet wants you to give him more money

he’s a little out of pocket right now after suing a bunch of people in Hawaii to force them to sell their land on the cheap so he can have his 700-acre $100,000,000 playground to himself

[hcandersen]

God, the fucking AUDACITY

It’s easy to forget how disgustingly, perversely rich this man is. He could live in the most absurd, decadent luxury, never lifting a finger, until he turned 1000 years old without spending even a tenth, a twentieth, of the money he has now. He could buy a Tesla and drive it into the ocean, every day, for the next 100 years, without spending even a twentieth of his money.

Even 1 billion dollars is so much money that the human brain has troubles fully comprehending it, so much more money than any one, ten, twenty human beings would ever need in the span of a lifetime, even assuming a lifestyle more comfortable than that enjoyed by basically any other human throughout all of history. He has over 63.

And he wants you to donate to him?? TO HIM??? He could improve the lives of untold hundreds of millions of people if he just decided to give away some of his absurd riches. He could give away 95% of his money without it impacting the quality of his life in any measurable way. And he wants people to just give him more of it?

bring back the fucking guillotine, eat the rich

[blackmodel]

Fuck him wtf

[wilwheaton]

Fuck this. Fuck Zuckerberg. Fuck Citizen’s United. Fuck money in politics. But, seriously, fuck Zuckerberg. He doesn’t need money from anyone, and he shouldn’t even be considered as a viable presidential candidate.

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

“Fighting hate with love only really works if you’re Sailor Moon and you can turn it into laser beams”

[smitethestate]

That’s it. That’s all that needs to be said on the subject.

[mediamattersforamerica]

This is spot-on. 

[gardnerhill]

Seth Meyers has been brilliant for months - the kind of humor that springs straight from righteous anger. So have Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee and John Oliver.

In a time of lies, only the jesters are telling the truth.

[myfrogcroaked]

We Finally Know How Naked Mole Rats Survive Without Oxygen, and It's Really Freaking Weird

Naked mole rats ( Heterocephalus glaber ) have never been the most conventional mammal - the scrotum-looking creatures are resistant to cancer , can survive almost 20 minutes without oxygen, and can barely feel pain .

Instead of sticking to a glucose-based system, which is dependent on oxygen, when a naked mole rat is deprived of oxygen, it switches its metabolism so that its brain cells start burning fructose for energy instead of glucose.  

Fructose can be turned into energy anaerobically - which means it doesn’t require the presence of oxygen to be broken down into cellular energy.

Until now, this anaerobic pathway was thought only to be used by plants.