A fun bonus fact for you: those No Longer Buyable DVDs?
They're the ONLY surviving NONDAMAGED form of the show. In the late 90s, the masters from which the show is printed were damaged with a red-pink hazy filter.
So. Good luck buying them even if you find them. They're some of the most valuable collector's items in the entire franchise.
Without piracy, there would be NO UNDAMAGED COPIES OF SAILOR MOON AVAILABLE TO ANYONE ANYWHERE, PERIOD.
the fact that any athlete can be subjected to "gender testing" on a whim because osmeone thinks she is too strong, too fast, just simply Too Good to be a woman is so fucking antifeminist, how can these people not see it?
all you need is one opponent crying big fragile tears because you were better than her and suddenly you are subjected to humiliating medical tests, every second of which is splashed onto the news as a scandal, and god forbid you are discovered to be intersex! you can be barred forever from sports for being born a woman The Wrong Way, and tricking everyone into thinking you are a Correct Woman. even if you are also just now discovering it. quick question do you, person reading this, know your chromosomes? are you sure? have you had them tested?
fuck i only now thought that it actually implies that, that it's about women being "too strong", it's not just about shitty hormone debate, this whole olympic scandal is fucking disgusting on multiple levels (including those I haven't mentioned, like about intersex people in reblog above)
Isn't it the case that there is no actual "standard" amount of testosterone a woman is supposed to have?
Like where do you make the cutoff? Higher than "average" testosterone? That means up to half of women can't compete, due to how averages work. 90th percentile? 95th percentile? How could it be fair to a woman to disallow her from competing in sports due to being at the far end of a distribution of values that don't have a completely understood meaning anyway?
Or does there have to be a "medical issue" that can cause elevated testosterone, whatever that means? If having PCOS is sufficient to make a woman too intersex to be in sports, that's, what, 10 percent of women?
Even with less common intersex variations, we don't actually know how common they are, because there is no reason for most people to get tested.
This is very concerning not to mention anti-feminist. Human bodies have variations, including in hormone levels, and there is no accepted "standard" amount of variation. But even if there was a "test" that she could "fail," how could that disqualify her, if it is a test the other athletes never even passed?
It would be unethical to do this, but if we tested the hormones of EVERY Olympic athlete, who knows what we would find?
In fact, if testosterone has the simple performance-enhancing effect that people assume it does, we should expect that EVERY female Olympian has elevated testosterone—they're the best of the best!
Or maybe we would find out that lots of female athletes have "average" testosterone levels. How in the hell did they make it to the Olympics then, since by any measurement, being a cis woman with "high" testosterone is orders of magnitude more common than being an Olympian?
Seriously. Think about it! Either having "male" hormone levels doesn't actually make you inherently better at sports, or every Olympic athlete has "male" hormone levels.
She is being subjected to extra requirements because someone thought "Ew, she is too manly." This is basically the same as messing up a woman's career because somebody thought she is ugly.
On Demand Streaming of Free Shakespeare in the Park productions
"This summer, throughout May and June everyone will have free access to stream The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park productions of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2019), MERRY WIVES (2021), RICHARD III (2022), and the premiere of HAMLET (2023), captured live from The Delacorte Theater in Central Park by THIRTEEN for Great Performances on PBS.
Streaming Schedule:
May 3-June 30: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Click here to learn more!)
May 10-June 30: HAMLET (Click here to learn more!)
May 17-June 30: MERRY WIVES (Click here to learn more!)
May 24-June 30: RICHARD III (Click here to learn more!)"
[ID: 1: Danielle Brooks as Beatrice and Grantham Coleman as Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing.
2: Ato Blankson-Wood as Hamlet.
3: Pascale Armand, Julian Rozzell Jr., David Ryan Smith, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Phillip James Brannon in Merry Wives.
Loving the new counterpoint that not only is posting activism, not posting is complicity. Why doesn't everyone with any fame or internet presence immediately release a lengthy but perfectly-worded statement telling us where they stand on every issue? Is it because they're evil??? It must be because they're evil
And then the usual answer is "they don't post online very much". Which is all very suspicious, don't they know everything of importance is done by posts on social media now
Okay I'm going to talk about this for the last time bc currently the stupidest manifestation of this I've ever seen is unfolding, and nothing can top it or explain this phenomenon better
So Amal Clooney was one of the lawyers who advised the ICC to charge Netanyahu with war crimes & issue an arrest warrant. But apparently there was already a backlash over her "not speaking up" which is already dumb, like, as far as I can tell she has no social media, but also she's a lawyer, she can't comment freely on cases, that could literally destroy the case
But she was trending bc people were saying she should be forgiven, for not posting. But also there are people adamant she not be forgiven. Because she should have spoken up sooner. Helping charge Benjamin Netanyahu with crimes against humanity is not good enough, she should have been posting, she needs to be held accountable for her lack of posting while she was, again, serving as a legal advisor on a international humans rights case against Benjamin Netanyahu.
Like when you're at the stage where people ask where a celebrity was, and the answer is "helping arrange an arrest warrant for Netanyahu", and your response is "why was she doing that instead of posting online" I really just have to conclude you think posting online is more important than anything else. Also that your online activism revolves around finding righteous ways to dislike celebrities you have entrenched parasocial relationships with that you rationalize by going "well I obsessively hate them so it's okay". But mostly the Posting Is More Important Than War Crimes Tribunals part
I think it's interesting how the two big holidays we celebrate today have completely exchanged places over their lifetimes.
When it started, Towel Day was very much a memorial. The date - May 25th - has no textual significance whatsoever. Rather, like the feast day of a Saint, it is the anniversary of Douglas Adams' death. The observance with the towels and all is/was a Fandom reference, but the purpose of the holiday was to honor the memory of a Great Man - and how more appropriately than with a bit of silliness? And in the, what is it, 20? more? years since his death, the memorial aspect has been eroded away, until it is now basically a celebration of the work more than the man, fun unalloyed by grief, a way to fly your geek colors. And perhaps that's what he would want in the end.
The Glorious 25th of May is exactly the opposite. It is - or was - purely a Fandom thing. It's a holiday in text, and we celebrate it alongside the characters because, well, Night Watch is a frickin amazing book and deserves to be celebrated. And there's admittedly always been a melancholic aspect, deriving from the text itself, but the date and the celebration were ultimately fictional. What I used to say is that I celebrated both, but I celebrated Towel Day harder because it commemorated something real.
And then Terry Pratchett died.
And this silly fandom thing we were already doing proved a ready made memorial to honor the memory of a Great Man. The fan art now us bursting with lilac covered fedoras. It now celebrates the man in addition to (perhaps even more than) the work.
I always wondered if Pratchett chose May 25th in honor of Adams. And I wonder what this day will look like in another 20 years, when the grief of this death has faded as well.
At the risk of my pride I'm posting this with the hope of some support. Please,please share🙏 #willprobablydeletelateridk?
Long Story, short: my husband of 3 years, Stephen, my 2 year old Ezra, and I have been living in extremely poor circumstances these past 3 years. We've been staying in my childhood home(and source of childhood trauma) that was formerly packed to the brim due to my mother's hoarding issue. It's a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom 700sf house in the country outside a small rural town of Caldwell, Tx. The house is pretty run down as shown in pics below. It is not well insulated, has no central heat, has black mold, water stains and leaks in ceiling, no washing machine or dryer, extremely low water pressure, and no hot water in the bathtub (we take baths by carrying pots of hot water from the kitchen sink to the bathroom which takes some time since we have to wait about 3 minutes for the water to turn back on in between each pot of water). I know these are minor inconveniences but to 2 unemployed individuals with bipolar disorder and as of recently, no vehicle, it has been extremely hard to live here, 45 minutes south of College Station, Tx our closest big city and really the only place with resources for advancement. We have recently been blessed by a friend in Fox River Grove, Illinois who has offered my husband a job and all of us a living situation. However we lack the funds to get there and have started a Go fund me.
https://gofund.me/0f99b7bb
Any help with this will literally mean the world to my family! We just want to get back to living life and being properly functioning members of society again🤕
Breakdown of funds
●Uhaul/towing trailer- $1079
●Gas to get there- $660
●Remaining money ($700+)will be used to get new drivers licenses, for help with our friends groceries, electric bill, and gas money to help our friend get us to the various places we need to go in the first month we are there (getting established at doctors, public housing meetings, etc.)
Short Story, long: In Dec.2018 I married my husband, and just a month after being married, we found out we would be having a child (my husband had done dialysis for a rare kidney disease when he was 19 and was told he couldnt have children so this was definitely a suprise🙆♀️). I was struck with intense morning sickness and the flu at the same time and I idiotically left my job. Around this time we had also been paying our roommates rent since he was having a hard time and in the middle of the night,after being asked to step it up, he left and we were evicted and forced to move into my childhood home in a small rural town of 4,000 people called Caldwell, Tx, 45 minutes from College Station, Tx home of Texas A&M College and where we held jobs and our doctors were located. It was vacant since my mother had moved in with her boyfriend in another town but the house wasnt empty. It was full of antiques and random crap from garage sales that my mom had gathered over the years due to her untreated hoarding disorder.
this was the house when he was halfway finished cleaning....
Because of extremely debilitating morning sickness as well as my own untreated depression/anxiety I was unable to help my husband with any cleaning and after alot of stress and being yelled at by my mother he basically made the house livable all by himself. He continued taking care of me and working while also battling his own, at the time unmedicated, Bipolar disorder. Due to his mental illness and my inability to function properly/help around the house due to physical/mental health, his job history fluctuated and times were extremely hard. Eventually in my 6th month of pregnancy I was able to get a job and secure an apartment above my office while my husband drove for Uber. Finally after what felt like forever living in a house that had caused me soo much trauma as a child and trouble in my relationship due to fighting with my mom about improving conditions of the property, we were out of it! However after I had my son, Ezra, I started suffering from post partum depression and lost my job and the apartment and we moved back into the Caldwell house. Out in the country, away from public transportation, 45 minutes away from any sustainable jobs and medical care (My son has frequent ear infections like once ever month or 2 and thanks to medicaid will be getting tubes may 27).
Since then my husband and I have both been hospitalized in psychiatric wards 2 times each due to our clashing mental disorders and lack of resources. Being a young person trying to figure things out in your 20s gets alot harder when you have to be there for your mentally ill partner as well as a new baby and your own brain is trying to kill you too. Eventually I was also diagnosed with Bipolar 2 and we were both connected with low income mental health resources through MHMR and finally got on some medication that helped stabilize us. However through the help of our counselors we have determined that the thing that was affecting us most adversely was our environment and in November 2021 we took steps to getting into public housing. After 3 years,7+ jobs, and 3 cars breaking down and living in sub optimal conditions we finally had hope. Then our truck was broken into and rendered undrivable in March 2022
and we missed 2 of our public housing meeting due to our rides being late and after finagling with the housing authority I'm still waiting for my application to be taken out of the system so I can reapply and wait another 4 months to get into housing. We have food stamps thank god but have had to rely on rides from family and friends to take us to plasma donation centers in college station to get enough money to take care of our other needs. No one has ever said anything to us but I know our family and friends are being worn thin by helping us soo much. Before we were evicted in 2018 my husband and I were functioning members of society, he was a phlebotomist and I was a massage therapist, but slowly over these past few years we have been worn down to shells of people, like zombies, just surviving and repeating the same things everyday. Our quality of life has been extremely low. Thoughts of suicide, isolation from friends and family, extremely low functioning living habits, basically just barely being able to take care of our child and not ourselves has been our life recently. Suddenly a childhood friend of my husband from around Chicago, IL has just been made aware of our situation, is well off in his living situation and has offered us hope. He just bought his second house, manages a restaurant, and owns his own shitake mushroom business where he grows and sells to local restaurants. He has offered my husband a job helping him with the mushrooms and access to his guest room, we just have to make it up there. We need a uhaul and trailer to tow our truck which we will be selling, gas to get up there and some money for groceries/helping with electric bill ect. Until my husband can get paid for his job. We will also be applying for housing in Chicago and I'm very hopeful about this because I've researched it and there are 3x as many resources for low income and mentally ill individuals in Illinois as compared to Texas. We are going to be donating plasma and trying to gather up as much as we can as quickly as possible but any monetary aid from friends, family and others will be greatly appreciated! We just want to start ACTUALLY LIVING AGAIN😪
💝Love and hugs in advance!💝
-abbie
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