Dutch artist, Redmer Hoekstra.
Ooooh, becauseĀ āpathā andĀ ātoadā are written and pronounced the same way in Dutch!
Pad en pad.
Een paddenpaadje.
A road of toads.
I trode on the toad road
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Dutch artist, Redmer Hoekstra.
Ooooh, becauseĀ āpathā andĀ ātoadā are written and pronounced the same way in Dutch!
Pad en pad.
Een paddenpaadje.
A road of toads.
I trode on the toad road
Maleficent (2014) dir. Robert Stromberg
Behind the scenes info about this shot. This is actually Angelinaās child. She was the only child not to be scared of Angelina in her Maleficent costume, so she got the part. So, in reality this kid isnāt acting at all. She just sees her mom playing dress up again and wants a hug and to play with her costume too. And I think that makes this scene 1000% more precious.
I could never be that good of an actress to where I see a cute little kid come up to me (especially if its MY cute little kid) and keep a straight face
I love that she knows itās her mom under all that
The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 1.05Ā | The King of Omashu
Wow those moves look like someone whoās childhood best friend was an airbender
ā¦Shit, youāre right.Ā
That spin he does. That is an airbendery move.Ā
Literally the exact same move Aang pulls when he gets off his glider (cant find a gif but like⦠I promise)
This shows attention to detail was unreal.
Even the fall backwards! That looks like the exact kind of thing a fun loving Airbender kid would do while showing off gliders and airbending proficiency.
the best benders in this show tend to be the ones who adapt elements of other bending techniques. Bumi has some airbender-y movements, Zuko and Iroh use some Air and Water movements, even Katara tends to use some earthbender looking moves when bending ice
Meanwhile Toph just took earthbending and cranked it all the way up to 11.
Everyone else: The spice of variety! The four elements make mine stronger! Ballerina time!
Toph:ā¦.meTalā¦.bendy bendy
take into account that Toph might not be able to take other bending styles into her own. Because those styles (especially fire and air) require you to lift your feet off the ground and for Toph she would lose her way of connecting to the world like heās used too.
Toph took earthbending, made it her bitch, and made it adapt to her needs as a disabled person.
Essential workers @everyone calling them heroes while they work for minimum wage through a pandemic
The Evening Star, Washington DC, October 16, 1918
gonna download the extremely bad 3rd party dnd sex book so I can laugh at it
this book's handling of gay characters is surprisingly progressive in an extremely late 90s sort of way
oh this is going to be good
there's an std chart
vampirism is on the std chart
Apparently, one of the blood tests they ran last week was $492
It wasn't even one of the really expensive genetic tests I still need to have done up at the universry. It was $492 to rule out an autoimmune disorder I already knew I didn't have, but needed to rule out officially for my EDS diagnosis to be considered official by my health insurance so they'd cover the cost of my care. One test, out of the thirty-two that were ran. $492
And people wonder why chronically ill people give up seeking help or why self-diagnosis is so prominent.
My kid and I were in the middle of MCAS diagnostic process, now suspended by shelter-in-place. At the end, the main medical office we traveled to in September will do aĀ āsuper-billā. Our insurance will cover...anywhere from 10%-50% of the costs, they said. It could be up to $10,000 for tests and appointments and the travel when all is said and done, and weāve had to accept help from family.Ā
Thereās no one on the West Coast (the only expert in CA will see patients afterĀ diagnosis).Ā Even with that, we pay out of pocket ourselves for a lot of medical costs on a regular basis.Ā To get someone to say formallyĀ āyes, you both have some form of hypermobility disorderā took a PT specialist who is not covered by my insurance - $200 for each of us.Ā At least they cover the UCSF specialists? The point is that Iām a public school teacher and my husband works at a big hardware store. Our kid has chosen several times to call us or a friend to get to the ER when having anaphylaxis because the ambulance rides arenāt always fully covered. I donāt know yet whether the doc in New York will give us aĀ āworking diagnosisā if we canāt get the testing done here (with a ton of records and multiple family members with the diagnosis already). Without that official diagnosis, weāre proceeding as if we have it anyway, but there will be docs and hospitals that will ignore self-diagnosis. And we want to be safe and alive.
Are you seeing Dr Affrin? Thatās who my EDS doc is recommending I go see in New York, and thereās just no way we can afford it. Weāre doing testing at U of M, but U of M donāt offer treatment, and neither does the Mayo anymore. (Which is where they keep trying to send me)
And yea, Iāve gotten lucky so far with my most recent ER visits when Iāve said āweāre investigating MCASā and they follow procedure for treating MCAS anaphylaxis. But Iāve also got health care providers who are attempting to deny MCAS is even a real medical condition and try to refer me to psyche rather than give me life saving medication BEFORE I go into full blown anaphylactic shock. Itās a nightmare.
Guys, Iām not trying to harsh on the uninsured/out-of-network hardship, but I took my toddler in for a sick kid visit. He got tested for strep and the flu because he was bad off.Ā
The bill was over $300 with insuranceĀ and Iām still mad.Ā
Oh gosh, Iām so sorry. I had to deal with that a lot when my previous insurer (Blue Cross Blue Shield) refused to cover any of my testing or treatment, so I was paying $800 a month AND getting hit with $$$$$$ ER bills for anaphylaxis which Iām still trying to claim back 3 years on. Like I said in my tags, the US health care system is a human rites travesty designed to impoverish and kill. Itās class warfare eugenics. And this is my experience as a disabled cis white woman, I canāt imagine how much harder it is for others to get treatment or coverage for things.Ā
god bless the producers of worst cooks
People on disability shouldn't get a stimulus check, theirs should be donated to repaying all the money they've mooched off taxpayers.
This is not the first time Iāve gotten a message like this. I always find it curious. Because if you have this attitude you are either invincible, rich, or a fool.
I used to be in this tech nerd community and there was this older fella who slowly revealed himself to be a super right wing asshat. He complained about immigrants mooching, black people mooching, poor people mooching⦠everybody was mooching his taxes. Meanwhile, he was 65 and working hard. Paying his own way. Doing things proper like a good American.Ā
He was no damn moocher, thatās for sure.
Then he got sick.
He could not work anymore.
Lost his medical insurance.
His savings ran out in about 3 months.
And he became a fellow moocher.
He had to sign up for Medicare and disability.
But then he realized that wasnāt enough to live on. Boy, was he mad. ALL CAPS POSTS about how he canāt afford rent. He canāt afford food. He started posting links to his Paypal asking people to donate. He got furious at people because no one would give him money. Called us all bad people for not helping him in his time of need. He had to move to a smaller place. Sell a lot of his tech.
He was so very angry.
āI WORKED HARD.ā
āI DID THINGS THE PROPER WAY.ā
āI DESERVE MORE THAN THOSE MOOCHERS!ā
Even after his experience, he viewed himself as different than other people trapped in the safety net. He deserved more because he had a bootstrap attitude. It didnāt occur to him that a lot of people on welfare or disability probably worked hard too. That he was no more or less deserving than them. It was sad to see his experience didnāt instill any empathy.
Heās a lost cause. But maybe you arenāt. Maybe you should think about how long you could last before youād have to mooch. Are you set for life? If you were in an accident and unable to work ever again, would you be able to live comfortably and manage your expenses? Think about that. And think about the fact that disability pays less than minimum wage. Could you live your life on $750 per month? What changes would you have to make to accomplish that? Use your imagination and really try to put yourself in those shoes.
$1200 is not a windfall for me. It is maybe 4 months of having slightly less financial anxiety. That anxiety is a part of my life. It is inescapable and I have conceded it will always be there. It is the dread of seeing $14 in my bank account towards the end of the month and hoping I didnāt forget about an automatic payment. Itās the fear of looking in my freezer and wondering if two bags of frozen chicken nuggets are enough to last until I get my next payment.Ā
But now I am getting $1200 and for a few months maybe I donāt have to feel some of that anxiety. I can reallocate that anxiety to the world being on fire and worrying about my dad getting sick.
But you want me to send it back?
Whatās even sadder about your attitude is you are focusing on the wrong people. Iām not a moocher. Iām an insignificant financial speck in the grand scheme. Iām probably a percentage of a penny on your tax bill. But then you look at companies like Amazon who used loopholes to pay no taxes. They also got cities to subsidize offices and warehouses. So not only did they not pay taxes, we paid them for the honor of giving people low wage jobs with poor benefits and dubious working conditions.Ā
What about our F-35 fighter jet program? For years they didnāt even work properly and they still havenāt even been used for anything and they will probably rarely be utilized because of drones. But we will spend a trillion dollars on them anyway.Ā
What about oil subsidies? About $20 billion of our tax dollars goes to the fossil fuel industry every year. An industry that has never struggled to turn a profit. Just look at pictures of Dubai and ask yourself why we are giving them subsidies.Ā
We give corporations billions upon billions of dollars even though they are making record profits. And then we find out they were operating so close to the edge that they canāt even last a month without us giving them billions more.Ā
But my $750 per month makes me the moocher.
Sure.
For the time being, if I write something I think is important, Iām going to post it here too. You can blacklist #long post if you donāt want to see it. Or unfollow.Ā
we needed more bastard tophĀ
do you think thereās ever been a point in the avatar cycle where everyone was just waiting for them to pop up in one of the water tribes, but instead they reincarnated into one of those waterbending swamp hicks in the earth kingdom? because I really like the idea of a swamp avatar with a little leaf hat and a southern drawl.
i never really thought about it as a kid but as an adult itās so so funny that the second most politically powerful person on the planet is 14 years old and yet somehow her every order doesnāt lead to complete humiliating failure
fire nation captain: if we try and dock in these conditions thereās a very high chance our boat will be torn to smithereens and weāll die of either drowning, blunt force trauma by being smashed against rocks, or being picked apart by barracuda-squids
azula: