I did that once

Writer, cat lady, podcaster, social justice person

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Listen to it or whatever

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A letter to my 10-year-old self

Hey Meredith. This is you in 17 years. I hope things are treating you well. Especially since I know that, for the most part, they aren't. I know that your classmates are shitty to you and that, unfortunately, there's not much you can do about it. I know that they call you a "pig" and a "fatass," along with every other name they can find in their limited vocabularies. Sadly, this isn't going to change for a couple years. Meredith, I know that you want nothing more than to be thin. You look at Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera in belly-baring clothes and feel like you've been rejected from a club you didn't even know existed. You see your classmates wearing bandana tops and bikinis and feel gut-wrenching jealousy at their confidence and their thin frames. But tonight, May 14th, 2016, you are going to wear a crop top to a party and everyone is going to tell you how good you look. You're going to spend almost 6 hours with a group of people who will not insult your belly or call you names. And you're going to do this as a fat woman with a round, soft stomach. People will still be awful to you for the way you look. But the people closest to you will not. One day, you'll mention in an offhand way that you were bullied as a kid, and these people will be appropriately horrified. One day, you'll be called "fashionable" and complimented on your appearance. But most importantly, one day, you'll show your fat belly to the world and the world will be okay with it. Love, Future Meredith

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do you ever cry because the Arrowverse has several canonically queer characters and two major actors who are openly gay

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get you a man who can do both

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your friend group will gradually get gayer and gayer throughout the years 

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Spot the difference.

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Disney please steal this plot for Frozen 2

Elsa is the queen of Arendelle and is a bitchin’ but also fair queen.  She’s beloved by all her subjects.  She’s also helping to plan Ana and Kristoff’s upcoming wedding, plus keeping an eye on Olaf to keep him out of trouble.

One day, she gets a letter from the king of a faraway kingdom who is at his wit’s end trying to help his out-of-control daughter.  Elsa doesn’t want to help at first, but Ana convinces her to go.  (A duet ensues between the two of them)  So they leave Olaf and Sven (as well as Elsa’s most trusted adviser) in charge of Arendelle and bring Kristoff along to visit this family in crisis.

You know how Arendelle is vaguely Scandanavian?  Well this kingdom is vaguely North African.

Anyhow, the princess, it turns out, produces lightning when she is angry.  She keeps accidentally setting the village on fire.  Elsa takes her under her wing and teaches her how to control her powers.  There is a Rocky-style training montage, and the two women grow closer and closer.  The princess kisses Elsa in the heat of the moment, and Elsa runs away in confusion.  Because that’s what Elsa does.  Elsa becomes fearful of her feelings and beings to lose control of her powers.

Meanwhile, Ana and Kristoff go on a sightseeing tour of the kingdom and find themselves ignoring the reason for their visit in favor of the beautiful sights.  Blah blah they get distracted and aren’t there to help when Elsa accidentally gets injured.  They realize that they’ve been focusing too hard on the details of the wedding and not enough on the importance of family and helping others.

Also meanwhile, Olaf and Sven find the kingdom under threat from within.  One of Arendelle’s elite begins voicing dissent against the Queen, accusing her of abandoning the kingdom. (cue a song about “how can a girl run a country”) He gains support amongst the townspeople and forms a mob threatening to overthrow the monarchy.  (basically a thinly-veiled reference to Donald Trump)

So Elsa is injured, the princess is still out of control, Ana and Kristoff are nowhere to be found, and Arendelle is under attack.  What are they going to do?

Well, Ana and Kristoff decide to elope.  They ask the king to marry them in a private ceremony with just them, Elsa, and the princess.  As they proclaim their love for each other, Elsa looks to the princess and realizes that the same thing that saved her might save the princess.  So she grabs the princess’s hand and they share A Moment.  At that Moment, Elsa is healed and they realize that while anger causes the princess to produce lightning, love gives her the power of healing.

They receive an SOS letter from Olaf telling them to return immediately.  The princess gives a heartfelt goodbye to her father and announces that she must follow the group to Arendelle, but promises to return soon.  They all go to the kingdom and find a mob ready to destroy the entire kingdom.  Ana, Elsa, and Kristoff don’t know what to do, but the princess steps up and gives a “love cures everything” speech.  Then, she shakes hands with the instigator of the mob and uses her powers to soften his heart.

The movie ends with the princess and Elsa sharing a kiss.  The end.

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Me: *is a fat human*

Me: *eats literally anything*

Person smoking a cigarette, eating a doughnut, and tanning without sunscreen: ohmygod those are so bad for you. you really need to take better care of your body.

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cutthroat kitchen aka alton brown’s bdsm culinary extravaganza 

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What even the fuck

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Dino discounts

GUEST: Do you have discount tickets here for the Natural History Museum? CONCIERGE: The tickets we have here are full price, but the museum is a suggested donation. If you go directly to the museum, you can pay whatever you like. GUEST: So there’s no discounts? CONCIERGE: Well there are a few ways to get discounted tickets, but the museum itself is pay-what-you-wish.  GUEST: So you don’t have any discounts? We really don’t want to pay full price. CONCIERGE: We don’t have discounts, we have full price tickets. You can go to the museum and pay 25 cents if you wanted to.  GUEST: Okay, we’ll take those. (she plunks down her credit card) CONCIERGE: No. The tickets here are full price. The museum is donation based. GUEST: You just said I could pay whatever I want. CONCIERGE: That’s if you go to the museum. Here, it’s a fixed price. GUEST: Are you gonna start making sense anytime soon? CONCIERGE: No I’m not I’m crazy GUEST: I have never been wrong my kids probably hate me CONCIERGE: The way I feel right now can’t be healthy in the longterm GUEST: I’m the worst CONCIERGE: Me too GUEST: Okay glad we could have this talk CONCIERGE: Me too GUEST: I love dinosaurs CONCIERGE: Everybody loves dinosaurs DINOSAURS: Climb on my back let’s have an adventure EVERYONE: Okay

(Everyone has an adventure)

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Previously on Arrow

something unrelated to Oliver: happens

Thea: this isn't your fault, Ollie.

Diggle: this is NOT your fault, Oliver.

Felicity: this isn't your fault.

Everyone in Star City: this is not your fault, Oliver Queen and/or Green Arrow.

Oliver: this is my fault.

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I’m very glad that movies like Pacific Rim and Fury Road and The Force Awakens are as colorful as they are, because I am really, really tired of desaturated movies.

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I’m glad <insert movie> has blacks people because if it didn’t meet my arbitrary percentage standard I might just have to call someone a bigot

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………you’re an ugly racist, but this is literally talking about the color palette the films used, not who is acting in them.

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“I like the film aesthetics of this movie” “Wow what is this some kind of SJW bullshit??”

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“I like colours lads” “FUCKING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD”

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This is the most tumblr thing in the world

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Robert Burns: the best-laid plans of mice and men--

straight white man: *busts through the door* NOT ALL MEN

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A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly And is also known as a fuckboi Always taking about his dick And swipes right in everyone So no I don't want your Snapchat No I don't wanna give you mind And no I don't wanna Netflix and Chill No Don't want none of your time

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Animated characters I am inexplicably attracted to

1) Robin Hood from the Disney cartoon 2) Roxanne from A Goofy Movie 3) Prince Eric 4) Flynn Ryder 5) the rabbit from Zootopia 6) Demetri from Anastasia

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