southern girl without the pearls

libertarian // tired // psalm 51:10

[theriu]

"Demoncrat" and "Magat" are the exact same level of immature middle-school name-calling. This is the kind of tactic people pull out to dehumanize and stereotype an entire group so you can justify ignoring everything they say instead of actually talking out why you disagree on an issue. Can we please discuss the highly complex spectrum of politics like adults or not at all. Please. I'm so tired.

[chaotic-theatrical-weaver]

@o-lei-o-lai-o-lord Thank you for your service:

[emdroid]

Tiananmen 1989

[catholicapothecary]

[delgrosso]

A platitude?

[delgrosso]

PERRY THE PLATITUDE!?

[imnotnoura-deactivated20190728]

tumblr is like a group therapy with no therapist.

[loreleywrites]

im always saying this

[rohirric-hunter]

I was not allowed to watch cartoons as a kid and so as an adult I am going back and watching a lot of what was big when I was a kid, and most of the shows are like. Okay. I see why a kid would enjoy this, and I see why an adult who watched it as a kid would still enjoy it, but entering into it for the first time as an adult, there's nothing here for me. (Very occasionally we get one where I don't understand why anyone enjoys it.) However, Phineas and Ferb is kind of in a category all its own.

Most kids' media makes it for adults and kids both by having the bulk of the content be aimed at kids, with the occasional adult joke where the punchline is sex or mortgage interest rates to amuse the adults that the writers assume are being forced to watch this at gunpoint. Other schools of thought exist, such as what Studio Ghibli does where adults and children are more or less invited to enjoy the same content on the same level.

Phineas and Ferb has an element where the same joke or heartfelt moment would presumably affect a child and an adult, and in the same way, more or less, but being an adult adds an additional facet to it that is born of your own experience -- and your experience as a child is as relevant as your experience as an adult. I think it's a subcategory of something that some very good stories do which is meet the viewer/reader/player halfway, if that makes sense? Uh... laughing with you rather than inviting you to laugh at something it constructed itself? IDK it's very hard to articulate. Calvin & Hobbes and The Hobbit have similar qualities, if that helps

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Please pray for my sister, BIL, and family today. It’s been a year since my niece died

[baygeethefirst]

Medal of Honor recipient Bruce Crandall, whose heroism was chronicled in ‘We Were Soldiers Once,’ dies at 93

Ret. Col. Bruce Crandall received the Medal of Honor for repeatedly flying his helicopter into intense enemy fire to evacuate dozens of woun

[the-davest-of-uncles]

Hero.

[vsingers]

since when did snapple start dabbling in elemental elixirs

[a-book-of-creatures]

I love how they went for the four classical elements but realized they can’t call a sweet flavored beverage Water

[slackadaisical]

long ago, the four beverages lived in harmony...

[sawbuckplus]

[quonunc]

I'm not particularly Spiritual, but I am very Catholic

[quonunc]

I'm not particularly Trad, but I am very Catholic

[pcos-and-endo-awareness]

If you haven’t heard, today PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome has been renamed to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. This change reflects that this is not a reproductive “problem” but a whole body disease.

[leahstuff]

For reference, from the WHO website:

(Text: PCOS affects an estimated 10-13% of reproductive-aged women. It is estimated that up to 70% of women with PCOS worldwide do not know they have this condition.)

[laziestgirlintown]

The Lancet link about shift to PMOS. Spread this to everyone who works in health care now. People with uteruses and ovaries are in agony - yes, the whole body suffers a crisis every fkn month - and health care should help

[lanametlinum]

Bro doesn’t know that the love of the Sacred Heart washes over him

[damnhotpocket]

Gema.piano on instagram

Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭

[communeist]

THEY ARE

[crematedequally]

when i was 8 i had a very intimidating russian woman as a music teacher- she was both my opera instructor and piano teacher. about a month into piano, she sat me down and said to my mother and i "this child- very beautiful voice, good for singing. i will not allow this child to continue piano. god did not want this child to play an instrument. he told me this in dreams. that is all."

my mom had it written down on a slip so we could remember the exact words because it was so funny. i HATED playing piano and i was definitely not good at it (i did end up having a good 5 years of opera training and ended up being a pretty accomplished choir singer though) and the idea of god sending my incredibly severe and serious russian piano teacher a dream begging her to stop teaching me piano was probably the funniest way it could have gone.

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

Is it healthy for goalies to spend so much time puffed up to make themselves look bigger to scare away opponents trying to encroach on their territory?

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

Thank you for your wisdom. There's still so much i don't know about hockey

[hisuizorua]

they call it amtrak because the trains am on the trak