When will my life begin?

Private and Selective

[lostblondeprincess]

Not me staring at this page on and off for the past two weeks with a raging desire to return to RPing but no idea how to jump back in because it’s been 6 years.

[hazardsoflove]

reblog with your sign and your godly parent

[iv-fischer]

cancer, Aphrodite 😇✨

[fitzefitcher]

Aquarius, Apollo

I’m some kind of Star twink and my dad is, too, incredible

[alksdjaslkfdalsk]

libra, athena

[devcon03]

Gemini, Artemis

[skiptomy]

Virgo, Apollo

[panimauser]

Aquarius, Athena

[niuniente]

Aries (with Rising Capricorn & Moon Cancer), Hades

[lostblondeprincess]

Cancer, Hades

[quilavastudy]

I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’

and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?

[peccatopotpourri]

“So no one has to be turned away” she says hahaha go to a universal health care country and get a necessary operation in less than a few years and come back and talk shit.

Look at the cure rates compared to mortality rates in universal health care countries and compare them to ours, then talk shit.

Tear your ACL in a universal health care country and see what the people say if you should go to their hospitals or go to an American hospital, then talk shit.

[fluffmugger]

2010. I’d been feeling a bit ill. Work was going nuts, so I figured it was stress.  Pretty good call considering a week later work fired their entire IT department (of which I was part).    

But then I got sicker.  And it turned out I had cancer.

Burkitt’s lymphoma, stage 4a. It had spread into my brain and spinal column. 90% cure rate, but I needed nine months of chemo - and not the outpatient chemo, nope, talking multiple week stays per round of the magrath protocol.  Drugs were about 10k an IV bag.  I was unemployed.  And there were complications.

Thankfully I live in a country with universal healthcare.   And it didn’t cost me a goddamn cent to save my life.  I’m now officially past the five year mark to move me from “remission” to “Cured”.

I’ve lived in a universal healthcare country my entire life. And I’ve seen the US system in action.  Your system is fucked. Straight up fucked. You’ve got fucking Dickensian shit going on there, people dying on streets from preventable causes or ending up broke for breaking a hip.   Your health insurance companies have you by the balls and people like you are begging them to squeeze harder.  What the actual fuck is wrong with you? 

“But but but TAXESSSSSSSSS”

yeah no shit. That story above? Happened when I was 32.  I’d spent 14 years of my life paying those fucking taxes that funded the system that saved my life.    And guess what?   Now I’m cured, I’m…Back..at work..And have been for several years…earning waaaay more money and paying back into the system. This shit doesn’t exist in a vacuum, dickhead.  You’re not feeding some imaginary pack of leeches, you’re paying forward on your own damned healthcare so you don’t have to argue with an insurance company while trying to heal. 

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

i also don’t get why americans can’t wrap their heads around the fact that universal healthcare is actually cheaper

like yeah your taxes might go up (hell, take a chunk out of the military budget, they might not even change) but you won’t have to pay ridiculous health insurance premiums. it’s a net saving, dumbasses. 

[casanova-lives]

Also I care about people that aren’t me

[birdsnestbegone]

Also I care about people that aren’t me

[greaseonmymouth]

the only people I have ever known who voluntarily went to an American hospital instead of a Scandinavian one (Scandinavian hospitals being all universal healthcare), was my big brother’s family who have a son with a heart condition. They’re Icelandic. Iceland, with a population of about 300.000 people, does not have a specialised children’s hospital so the surgery they needed for their child just wasn’t available in the country - not uncommon, so what the Icelandic health care system does in those cases is pay for the surgery to take place abroad in a hospital with doctors who can perform the surgery. So they decided to go to America (Iceland paid) to some hotshot children’s hospital to get surgery for their baby, and they had to wait 4 months for this vital and urgent surgery even though it was paid for up front. In your so-called amazing American hospital. For comparison, the same kind of surgery here in Denmark is actually urgent, so the child has to wait 2 days tops to get the damn surgery.

So miss me with that “waiting time of a couple of years” bullshit. That’s not a thing.

[impuretale]

“But you’ll have to wait” – we still have to wait if we’re not rich. At least I won’t be bankrupt by the end of it. 

[prideofyunmeng]

[chooseyourmusehasmoved]

[boynsfw-blog]

what a time to be alive

[hannibal-and-dory]

I’m so confused and laughing so hard like

What?!??!!!

[hannibal-and-dory]

I’m actually laughing so fucking hard right now.

Read the article and it would seem the upset is because (minor spoilers) Bruce Wayne adopts Dick Grayson and then Dick finds out that the Batcave is beneath Wayne Manor and comments “Wow! Batman lives in Bruce Wayne’s basement!” (Or something to that affect) and then later when Batman asks Dick to come with him in the batmobile Dick is worried about leaving without “asking his Dad, Bruce Wayne” so Batman tells him that Bruce Wayne and Batman have joint custody of him so it’s ok. And Dick Grayson, an orphan who until recently didn’t have one dad, is overjoyed to find out that he now has two!

People are offended because Batman is in a gay relationship with himself I’m dying

[chemical-dalek]

LeGoBaTman

[itsallavengers]

I wonder if Thor’s Allspeak extends to animals

[itsallavengers]

Bee: *is present*

Thor, turning to Tony: He says this stupid damn city needs more flowers and pollen-bearing plants because you’re making him have to work a 16-hour shift every day just to feed his wife and kids

Tony: What the fuck Thor we’ve talked about this

[itsallavengers]

Dog: *Bark bark bark*

Thor, sternly: No, Captain America’s pants are not fit for consumption

Steve, with no idea that Thor can speak dog: ???!?!????!!!??

[itsallavengers]

Fly: *hums*

Thor, leaping from his chair: Oh what the FUCK did you say about my hair?? Oh you want to fuckign go do you?? Is that what you fucking want??? Well Step the FUCK UP then you stupid ass buzzy BITCH *summons lightning*

[itsallavengers]

DUM-E: *Beep boops*

Thor, patting Tony on the back: well done my friend

Tony: For what?

Thor: Your robot is telling me all about how well his dad oiled up his joints this morning and keeps saying ‘I love him’ on repeat. He has been doing this for an hour.

Tony, immediately tearing up: oh my fucking god Thor

[eyeballs-for-sale]

Equally funny: the idea that Allspeak doesn’t extend to animals and Thor is just making all this up to fuck with everyone

[narramin]

what a fucking power move

[pomrania]

[Image description: photo of some text (source not given) about Caesar’s last words. Transcription follows.]

Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek: “Kai su, teknon” (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin “Et tu Brute?”). It literally means “You too, child,” but what Caesar may have intended by the words isn’t clear. Tempest cites “an important article” by James Russell (1980) “that has often been overlooked”. Russell points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggests that Caesar’s putative last words were not “the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son” but more along the lines of “See you in hell, punk.”

[End description.]

[mukuharakazui]

veggietales is genuinely so fucking funny and it’s even funnier because as soon as i forget that it’s a christian show a carrot starts reciting a bible verse

[chuckle-voodooz-deactivated2020]

Did Trump seriously shut down the US government because he’s not getting his way with the damn wall shit

[chuckle-voodooz-deactivated2020]

OH I SEE

[lgs-stuff]

Learning about fascism today in history.

And yeah… It seems what Trump is aiming for all right. He hasn’t resorted to killing people to keep his power, so at least he’s not criminally inclined. But he just doesn’t have any gosh damn compassion or empathy for any individual in America. He’s got the whole “Everyone is willing to sacrifice themselves for what I think is right” mentality going on and that leads him to make awful conclusions. And he really does act like he wants to become an all powerful dictator.

[kayforpay]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[kayforpay]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[unclebeanbag]

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

[wombat-annihilator-deactivated2]

[charlesoberonn]

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

[fallen-gravity]

Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed

[naryrising]

This is the book you want: The Timetables of History - going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.)  Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.

[mantis-lizbian]

looking at Wikipedia’s pages for years, decades, or centuries can also be fun for this reason

[lunamoonfire]

So I got this for Christmas from my soon to be in-laws, and O my god is this book fascinating!

[comics-r-4-gurlz]

THIS IS THE BEST BONUS STORY MARVEL HAS EVER PUBLISHED!!!

[littlemissonewhoisall]

It’s funny b/c Spider-Man making no quips is usually code for “someone fucked up and Spidey’s on the warpath”. That’s probably why the fourth guy just said “uh-oh”.

[arrghigiveup]

Chinese Kids Are Getting Their Parents, Their Parents’ Parents, And Their Parents’ Parents’ Parents Involved In A Meme

There’s a new meme in China, and it’s very wholesome. The challenge, called “four generations,” includes four generations of family members making an appearance, from youngest to oldest. A son would call his dad, who then calls his dad, who then calls his dad. And a daughter would call her mom, who calls her mom, who calls her mom. The results are super cute.

The videos are being shared on video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, under the challenge name, “Four generations under one roof.”

[source] [vid source]

This is legit the cutest and most wholesome meme omg

[snajey-deactivated20221229]

[bendyworksatstarbucks]

*sips tea* Let this spread all over Tumblr.

[edcitizen]

I fully and wholeheartedly endorse this. MAKE. IT. PRIVATE. It’s not that hard.

[hitnoises-deactivated20190502]

being into critical role is wild because I don’t have the attention span to watch movies most days but sometimes I randomly remember I’ve watched a bunch of people describe a battle for several hours

[kitty]

AAAAAAAA PLAY WITH SOUND AGAIN OMG MY HEART

[rpsentencestarters]

Send me “Can you die from a broken heart?” to see how my muse responds.

[killer-killjoy]

tfw your entire wrist rotates

[ruebird]

i’ll admit that the animation is pretty sus but

nah son

[silverheartlugia2000]

……DAMN!

[elisamaza]

[nuka-rockit]

[ryandevon]

ARE WE FUCKING SERIOUS

[socialistexan]

Yes, this is real.

Not to sound fucking alarmist, but uhhhhhh if Trump forcing immigrants to wear yellow insignias wasn’t enough of an alarm bells for you, maybe this is.

[fandomaddictwutflagged]

Where’s that gif of Ian McClellan as Magneto showing his tattoo from the concentration camps and saying, “no needle shall touch my skin again”?