Gail the Goldfish

I joined tumblr solely to follow people from corporette. If you don't know what this means, I have no idea how you found this. If you're wondering why Gail the Goldfish, it was the name of CJ's goldfish on The West Wing.

[gailgoldfish]

If you've ever wondered what I'm willing to start a war over at work, the answer is comma rules.

[gailgoldfish]

Logged back on for the first time in like, I dunno, years, since Twitter is going down in flames. Who's still around here?

[gailgoldfish]

Don't go to law school

I finally paid off my law school loans. Let this post be a lesson as to why you shouldn't go to law school unless you can do it cheaply.

It took me 9 years to pay back loans. My original principal was $181,000 (I went to a very expensive law school in a very expensive city). When I started interest rates on Grad Plus and stafford loans ranged between 6.55-8.5. I refinanced most of my loans a few years after graduation when SoFi became a thing to about 4.5%. In total, I have paid $278,379.60.

So I repeat-don't go to law school.

[gailgoldfish]

Reminder:VOTE

That is all.

[gailgoldfish]

There's one good thing Trump did

When I first met my husband almost 15 years ago, he was a registered Republican. Yesterday he told me we needed to go get yard signs for the Democrat running for every race in our district this year. So there's one good thing to come out of this disaster of a presidency. #thankstrump

[gailgoldfish]

I am Internet Old.

Today in "am I really that old?," I logged in to my Amazon account and noticed it has a "Customer since" date.  Turns out I've been an Amazon customer for more of my life than not.  

[gailgoldfish]

I saw the trailer for Red Sparrow before Black Panther. This is just the Black Widow movie we all want and Marvel will never make with the names changed and no one has super powers, right?

[ethereumwinds]

fun fact about the next avengers film being filmed in edinburgh: they’ve blocked off certain areas which is disrupting one specific postal van’s delivery route which is in turn leading to an awkward stand-off at the police station because Marvel Studios might be a billion dollar company but this man really wants to do his job and apparently interfering with the course of the Royal Mail technically counts as treason so they’re at a stalemate

[angryjerkandstrawboy]

this is the best thing i’ve heard all day

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Scotland, everybody.

[ihavealotoffeelings]

Who would win in a fight: a billion dollar superhero film franchise at the top of its game or one (1) Scottish mailman.

[c-bassmeow]

HOLY SHIT

[artielu]

DO THE PRETTY BUG MURDER. If only just for seeing and experiencing Nashville. Nashville is beautiful. I adored it. Pretty bug murder was just an added bonus.

Thanks, my dear. The Northern Lights are a bucket list item for me and I adore fireworks, so pretty bug murder is absolutely something I’m very interested in. I had no idea fireflies were so pretty.

Toddler artielu makes me read a Daniel Tiger (that will mean nothing to people without small kids in their lives) book where he sees fireflies and fireworks at least a couple times a week, so she would be stoked af to see fireflies irl. And mr artielu loves live music and whiskey and bbq so maybe Nashville and pretty bug murder are a legit possibility.

[jadeddiva]

I will never get over the fact you’ve never seen lightning bugs. Or heard cicadas. We used to catch them as kids. How do people not experience this???

But also I’m not sure my toddler has seen them because he’s usually asleep before they come out.

I will take you all over the east coast we will see them at Charleston and Savannah and Nashville and Clingman’s Dome.

[artielu]

I have never ever heard of Clingman’s Dome and nope, never heard a cicada, but ok I’ll follow you anywhere, boo. @alchemistc can come on pretty bug murder road trip and our husbands will stay home and watch our toddlers? Dare to dream.

[gailgoldfish]

You don’t have cicadas, either?! This whole exchange blows my mind. Come east in the summer. Go to Georgia or South Carolina. Stop at a little roadside farm stand and buy a fresh peach (so much better than store bought or peaches from anywhere else). Eat said peach while watching fireflies and listening to cicadas. Lots of people hate summer in the South because it’s so hot, but it’s one of my favorite seasons for all these reasons.

[artielu]

I am fortunate to have access to incredible fruit because I’m in the bay area and our farmers’ markets are insane. I buy stone fruit, especially nectarines, which are my favorite, from Kashiwase https://cuesa.org/seller/kashiwase-farms.

That said, I’m 10000% down to eat a meal of fresh Georgia peaches in a summer evening while watching fireflies from the porch. Aren’t cicadas hella annoying though?

[gailgoldfish]

I mean, the cicadas are loud, but I don't think they're annoying. They're just the sound of summer. And when they molt, they leave creepy shells behind that you can stick on people's clothing, because yes, children do chase each other around with cicada shells. Or at least my brother and I did.

[gailgoldfish]

“90′s-inspired”

“ Dripping in ivory embellishment, this 90’s-inspired silhouette features a sheer, raw-edge hem.”

I’m looking for rehearsal dinner dresses and one contained that description.  JFC, I’m old enough that the decade of my childhood is now old enough to inspire something.

[artielu]

DO THE PRETTY BUG MURDER. If only just for seeing and experiencing Nashville. Nashville is beautiful. I adored it. Pretty bug murder was just an added bonus.

Thanks, my dear. The Northern Lights are a bucket list item for me and I adore fireworks, so pretty bug murder is absolutely something I’m very interested in. I had no idea fireflies were so pretty.

Toddler artielu makes me read a Daniel Tiger (that will mean nothing to people without small kids in their lives) book where he sees fireflies and fireworks at least a couple times a week, so she would be stoked af to see fireflies irl. And mr artielu loves live music and whiskey and bbq so maybe Nashville and pretty bug murder are a legit possibility.

[jadeddiva]

I will never get over the fact you’ve never seen lightning bugs. Or heard cicadas. We used to catch them as kids. How do people not experience this???

But also I’m not sure my toddler has seen them because he’s usually asleep before they come out.

I will take you all over the east coast we will see them at Charleston and Savannah and Nashville and Clingman’s Dome.

[artielu]

I have never ever heard of Clingman’s Dome and nope, never heard a cicada, but ok I’ll follow you anywhere, boo. @alchemistc can come on pretty bug murder road trip and our husbands will stay home and watch our toddlers? Dare to dream.

[gailgoldfish]

You don't have cicadas, either?! This whole exchange blows my mind. Come east in the summer. Go to Georgia or South Carolina. Stop at a little roadside farm stand and buy a fresh peach (so much better than store bought or peaches from anywhere else). Eat said peach while watching fireflies and listening to cicadas. Lots of people hate summer in the South because it's so hot, but it's one of my favorite seasons for all these reasons.

[i124you]

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[mattressmoney]

To all of my california friends who can’t miss fireflies because they haven’t ever seen them.

[eroscestlavie]

^ what? do they not have fireflies in CA??????????

[gallusrostromegalus]

Nope! They don’t really live west of the rockies.  The first time I saw them in Ohio, I thought I was hallucinating.

[bird--queer]

I didn’t realize they weren’t out west. They’re so iconic

[brandeewine]

No…none in the Desert Southwest. The idea of them is enchanting. The only time I’ve ever “seen” them was at the Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland. It’s an effect in the background of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

[gailgoldfish]

Hey Congress, how about instead of offering thoughts and prayers this time, you offer some fucking meaningful gun regulation legislation?

[thelvadams]

Solo Lando: A Star Wars Story (2018)

[petralemaitre]

#even if literally everything about this movie is terrible     #I am glad that someone on set remembered that lando is the best-dressed man in the entire galaxy far far away     #and this person sat down with donald glover and said “listen the entire character concept here is ‘what if you were so charming & beautiful     #& ultimately deeply earnest that no one minded being conned by you?”’     #I appreciate that anonymous soul     #they understand me and I them     #star wars     #solo a star wars story     

Tags from notbecauseofvictories

[gailgoldfish]

Yes, those tags.

[therestofyourstory]

summary

“While I share your contempt for this situation in which we find ourselves, do not mistake it as apathy,” he hissed through gritted teeth, dark eyes burning. “I hardly expect your disposition to sweeten, but I will be damned if I allow my future Empress to behave in a manner that reflects poorly on me and on the First Order!”

“If you allow?” She wrenched her arm out of his viselike grasp, batting his hand away for good measure. “I don’t belong to you. I don’t belong to anyone.”

“That might have been the case back when you were a scavenger on that pitiful scrap heap of a planet, but now?” His sardonic gaze flickered over her silk robes and the jewels woven through her elaborate braids. “Now you are the Chume'da, and the Chume'da belongs to her people. Their fate is entirely in your hands. Should you cross the line, it is they who will suffer for it. Am I making myself clear?”

“I hate you,” she said bitterly.

He sneered at her. “See? Already you are acclimatizing so well to married life.”

chapter one ♕ two ♕ three ♕ four ♕ five ♕ six ♕ seven ♕ eight ♕ nine ♕ ten ♕ eleven ♕ twelve ♕ thirteen ♕ fourteen ♕ fifteen ♕ sixteen ♕ seventeen ♕ eighteen ♕ nineteen ♕ twenty ♕ twenty-one ♕ twenty-two ♕ twenty-three

“There is no more Supreme Leader. Snoke handed that to you on a silver platter because he thinks you won’t turn it to your advantage. The old order is gone. There is only the Emperor.

And the Empress.”

read on ao3

[artielu]

So I have never read a Star Wars novel. There’s a ton of references in this fic that I am not fully appreciating. I feel like a tourist, kind of. And as you may recall, I definitely did not start out shipping them.

But.

This fic is fantastic. FANTASTIC. I am enjoying it immensely.

Consider joining me in this dumpster, my friends. Turns out that it’s delightfully angsty and far more nuanced and complicated that when I was indifferent or anti this ship. I have been completely converted through fic, including this piece of brilliance.

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

for the next Reboot That Makes Men Angry I’d like to submit for your consideration Lupita Nyong'o as Indiana Jones

[my-nameless-bliss]

and she steals artifacts from museums and returns them to their rightful cultures

[this-is-neery]

Oh my god, imagine the Indiana Jones temple-robbing scenes in reverse! She walks through the Scorpion pit, she ducks under the swinging axe, she jumps the spike trap… She pulls the idol from her bag and gently places it back on the altar. Then she walks out without looking back while all around her, the temple settles back down into tranquility.

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

The beginning of the movie would start with a heist to rob the museum which would make it a double adventure heist movie.