i 100% believe that Ilya DOES NOT tolerate saying āim gonna kmsā or ākysā and at boston he used to fine people for it, him and the team eventually got in the habit of saying HILARIOUS alternatives, like at some point someone does something to wrong cliff and cliff yells āI HOPE YOU GET TRADED TO MONTREALā and it just spirals, it moves with him to ottawa and its so funny, the first time coach weibe hears Luca go āi just ran out of tape- im gonna melt all the ice on the rinkā just sounding so so frustrated and serious, he LOSES it
Shaneās started doing it, he didnt even used to be like āim gonna kill myselfā that often, maybe only as a joke to hayden, but he starts saying shit like that and hayden and jj pick it up and its just the funniest idea to me of Cliff and Hayden chirping each other and at some point hayden says āi hope you leave your house keys in your locker and dont realize til you get homeā and cliff goes āwell i hope your blinker light goes outā and it just happens to be a game where hayden is micād up and the fans go crazy for it
what really gets me about these posts is that madison hu would GENUINELY be a great fit for mai. she could perfectly nail her dry, snarky personality, and even has the perfect voice for it. yet everyone with this viewpoint only ever brings her up to tear down thalia tran. they only praise madison because they can't tolerate a mai who isn't built like a stick. they take their displeasure out on thalia herself rather than the people who handle casting. they don't even bother to learn either actress's name. the comments of this very post prove this.
it is FINE to not be a fan of a certain casting, but if the reason is solely because of looks, you need to examine why. and for the love of god, STOP making fat jokes, especially where the subject of said jokes can see.
another phenomenal fucking point!! most of these jokers never gave a rat's ass about mai as a character until she doesn't completely line up with their mental image, until she got casted as someone they don't see as attractive. it's the snow white bullshit all ober again
We were doing an activity where the kids got to make a playbill for a musical about themselves and all the other kids were like ācharacter list: mommy, daddy, me, my brother, my best friendā āscenes: I get a puppy, first day of school, my baby sister is bornā
But one little girl was like āoh, itās a musical about ME you sayā and the character list was all the other girls in the class cast as her body parts, and a story about how her body works.
āKaylee is nice so she will be the heart. Lily is my kidneys. Sapphire is the lungs.ā
She surreptitiously showed me that the girl who kept taking the crayons she was using was cast specifically as āleft buttcheekā and I had to pretend like that wasnāt the funniest thing Iād ever seen.
having feelings that contradict your morals is soooo fucking annnoooooyyyiiingggggg. can the emotions and logic department get on the same page im tired of having to like strangle myself into being a tolerable person
So I was scrolling and saw this image in an article about the European heat wave,
And was like, uh, are you missing something there, buddy? Like all that red in northern Africa? Because that's a lot of red.
And I was going to give them the benefit of doubt, since I don't know much about the climate in Northern Africa, aside from Morroco and Egypt, which seem like really hot places, so you know, maybe it's normal there?
But nope, that's not the case:
Africa is struggling with heat waves and many countries on the continent lack the resources rich economies have to deal with rising temperat
Some selections from the article:
"The region has been experiencing some of the most intense heat waves in recent years, but in many cases theyāve been under-reported due to misconceptions about Africansā ability to withstand them.
āAfrica is seen as a sunny and hot continent,ā said Amadou Thierno Gaye, a research scientist and professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. āPeople think we are used to heat, but we are having high temperatures for a longer duration. Nobody is used to this.ā
"The Sahel, for instance, has been heating at a faster pace than the global average despite being hot already. Burkina Faso and Mali, both in West Africaās Sahel, are among countries that are set to become almost uninhabitable by 2080, if the world continues on its current trajectory, a UK university study found. Its people are especially vulnerable due to shrinking resources, such as water, and poor amenities, and a dearth of trees and parks means there are few options for places to cool off."
Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113Ā°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116Ā°-118Ā° (47Ā°-48Ā° C) for a week straight.
This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:
what really gets me about these posts is that madison hu would GENUINELY be a great fit for mai. she could perfectly nail her dry, snarky personality, and even has the perfect voice for it. yet everyone with this viewpoint only ever brings her up to tear down thalia tran. they only praise madison because they can't tolerate a mai who isn't built like a stick. they take their displeasure out on thalia herself rather than the people who handle casting. they don't even bother to learn either actress's name. the comments of this very post prove this.
it is FINE to not be a fan of a certain casting, but if the reason is solely because of looks, you need to examine why. and for the love of god, STOP making fat jokes, especially where the subject of said jokes can see.
i hate when apps know that iām screenshotting something. when i screenshot something, thatās me acting outside your realm of understanding, app. i am beyond what you consider the observable universe. youāre not supposed to perceive me. we donāt know when god screenshots the earth. we donāt know when heās like, āokay iām just gonna take a pic in case i ever want to add dinosaurs back to something later and donāt remember how.ā and if we did, we wouldnāt act all smug about it like, āhey, you wanna share that post? you could just click here to share it.ā no, man. you didnāt catch me. i screenshotted this for my own reasons. whatās next? i canāt take a photo of my computer screen with my phone out of laziness without being shamed by the printer i donāt own?
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Just reread the Renegades trilogy and my obsession is back.
You're telling me Nova told Adrian her superpower was that she could stay awake and that her trauma kept her from sleeping and he went and made her noise-cancelling earphones and recreated something from her imagination just so she could have one night of sleep with good dreams? And then Nova thinks the real reason she was able to sleep was that she slept in Adrian's arms? And I'm supposed to just function after that? He did the literal impossible with his magic and she was still sure that the real magic was just love.
once you recognise the ubiquitous and inevitable fandom life cycle it becomes much easier to free yourself from it and just keep enjoying things in a more healthy way while still thinking critically about them
