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montereybayaquarium

The Pacific Ocean is wider than the Moon. Anyway how’s your day going?

noxfauna

dip moon like cookie

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch

bookpillows

all articles about tumblr’s “decline” boil down to 2 things: you can’t get famous on here and you can’t make money on here. And they don’t get that that’s why we like it here.

transarsonist

Au contraire! You can absolutely get famous here

It is however, explicitly a bad thing.

hardytoms

Favorite film shots:

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) dir. Alfonso Cuarón

honeybee-bzz

Girls don’t want boys girls want illustrations of the Brides of Dracula in which they aren’t just three identical, buxom (likely naked) women with different hair colours

fanofspooky

Classic title cards

horrorandhalloween

Pet Halloween costumes: Dogs

probably-a-velociraptor

I’ve decided, since the bbc Dracula is dead to me, that in a perfect casting world, Jonathan Harker should be played by John Mulaney beCAUSE CAN YOU IMAGINE?!

Him in general

Jonathan, talking about Mina:

Showing up in Transylvania

While using a crucifix to repel Dracula

When he meets the Brides

When Dracula throws his mirror out the window

dragonrebelrose

So...Death and the Maiden anyone?

Recently I’ve fallen in love with The Phantom of the Opera (any version I can watch/listen/read) and it got me thinking about how many movies/tv shows/books/songs have the Death and the Maiden theme/trope in it. (Death and the Maiden is very similar to the Beauty and the Beast trope so there will be a few like that in this list.)

If there are any that I might have missed or ones that fit this category please add them! Add the name and a picture or a gif! Everything is appreciated!

Let’s start with what I can currently think of off the top of my head:

The Phantom of the Opera

The Force Awakens

The Last Jedi

Beauty and the Beast

The Hades and Persephone Myth

Strange Magic

Trollhunters (this is a double whammy)

The Ancient Magus Bride

The Shape of Water

Every Other Universal Movie Monster You Can Think Of:

Dracula

Frankenstein

The Mummy

And that’s about all that I can think of for the moment. Now just as a reminder these aren’t a 1 for 1 comparison of the Death and the Maiden trope, but rather that most of these films/shows only have certain elements to them and fit the category in one way or another.

Again if I’ve missed some major ones or there are some that really fit this theme/trope please add them with the name and picture or gif. Thanks!

rowshark

by Jonathan Burton

richard-is-bored

UNIVERSAL MONSTERS TITLE CARDS

obiwanskenobi

Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?

marauders4evr

Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

(Watch how many people don’t get this.)

marauders4evr

#raises hand #i dont understand #please explain?

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

And yes, this system literally kills people.

locuas642

Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.

before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.

Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.

rootbeergoddess

That’s so utterly depressing.

sushinfood

disgusting

beeskeepony

I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.

raenboow

oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b

luvtonique

My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.

Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.

And here’s the funnest part of the story!

One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.

The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.

He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.

Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?

sodomymcscurvylegs

Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.

xfirecorex

There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!