imagine being the woman at the end of 50 first dates and you wake up heavily pregnant with no memory of how you got there and all you have there is a dvd that tells you you’re married now and have been for the last five years. literally a horror movie premise
Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.
If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.
A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.
There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.
There is no plan.
Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.
Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.
We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.
This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.
We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.
People are dying.
People are dying.
People are dying and there is no plan.
More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.
My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.
Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.
But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.
She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.
So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.
I was reading the Myths, legends, and Lore about Mermaids by Skye Alexander and inside the Reptilian Water Deities section it described Hindu and Buddhist myths about divinities called Nagas and Naginis. I immediately recognized that this is what Rowling had decided to name Voldemort’s serpent companion. Nagas and Naginis are human headed snakes who lived in underwater kingdoms. They were able to choose to appear as humans, serpents, or a combination as both. We all know that Nagini had taken form of a human in the Deathly Hallows and I am just legitimately in awe in how J K thought about the craziest tiny details in her books. I love her so much.
hands up if you feel cheated that voldy’s death in the movies was all dramatic and violent while tom riddle dying in the book was deliberately understated to show that, despite it all, he was just a man