"were you there with me?"/"i was" ......it's actually crazy that this was a moment of true pure contentment and happiness (spike calling it the best night of his life) aka what cost angel his soul and that still scares the shit out of buffy. like she can admit that the feeling was absolutely shared, just laying next to spike in complete peace, but she's never really had that before. and the last time she did, it cost something great. what's this going to cost her now??
the way willow doesn't usually care about xander's crush on buffy/almost seems to find it charming at times compared the full-blown meltdown she has over him and cordelia. so anyways, and if I said this is because willow is also crushing on buffy—
dawn summers is also a contender for character of all time. she's an eldritch horror stuffed into the body of a teenage girl. she's six months old. she's older than time. she's fourteen. she talks shit to the faces of the forces of darkness. she speaks sumerian. she killed her first kiss with a pencil. her best friend is a punk vampire that simps over her big sister. she writes about the horrors in her diary. she has done necromancy. she's a kleptomaniac. her favorite sandwich is salami with peanut butter. she was willing to sacrifice her life to save the world at fourteen years old. she became her sister's watcher when the original watcher abandoned them. she's extraordinary.
it took me so long to get it, but of course buffy summers goes an extra mile when fighting monsters, of course she does backflips, high jumps and pirouettes. she did cheerleading, she liked ice skating, and now she just doesn`t have neither time nor opportunity to do these things that she enjoyed to do as a normal girl, so of course she would involve in her fighting style all the elements she loves to still feel conected to the girl she was (and she still is that girl). of course she is dancing.
I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work.
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
hey! we thought this might be coming and here it is. and it sucks! mass vaccination is one of our best tools at preventing the spread of COVID. public comment is open until 11:59 PM EDT on the 23rd of May.
you can leave a comment here:
you can leave an anonymous comment, but usually non-anonymous ones do carry more weight.
Do you want your healthcare workers and first responders to be able to get covid vaccines so they don't give you covid when you see them and so they're not themselves sick and needing sick days to recover, leaving healthcare and public services facilities short staffed? I want a fully staffed hospital, fire station, police station, etc.
Do you want public servants like utility workers and agency staff and park rangers to be able to get vaccinated against covid so they're not sick instead of fixing our roads and bridges and sewers and power grid and giving us access to public resources like public benefits and public parks? I want those fully staffed too.
Do you want teachers and childcare workers to be able to get covid vaccines so they don't get such e and need sick days and so they don't get sick from all the kids they see? I want a fully staffed school and fully staffed daycare.
Do you want families with little kids who weren't old enough to get a covid vaccine to access boosters for the older kids and the parents to help keep the little kids safe? I don't want to give my baby cousin covid at his birthday party.
Do you have any immune compromised people in your extended family? Cancer patients? Dialysis patients? Organ transplant recipients? I don't want to kill them.
This is a big fucking problem. Tell the FDA that this will negatively affect you. Public comments, whether under your name or anonymously, must be considered by the FDA. Get your comments in by May 23 at 11:59pm Eastern.
And call your Congressional representatives at
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
Include Docket No. FDA-2025-N-1146 in your comment.
Example comment but most importantly, you do you!!! This is just an idea:
Regarding Docket No. FDA-2025-N-1146, I live in [state] and I oppose the proposed rule restricting covid vaccine access.
The covid vaccine has been proven safe and effective by scientists around the world, including in the United States. I am not elderly or immune compromised, so under this proposed rule, I will not be able to access the covid vaccine.
I want access to the covid vaccine because I [choose as applicable]
Don't want to miss school because I got sick with covid so I want to get the vaccine to help me stay healthy
Don't want to miss work because I got sick with covid [and I can't afford to miss work because I don't have paid sick leave or have limited paid sick leave] so I want to get the vaccine to help me stay healthy
Don't want to get sick with covid because I have childcare/eldercare responsibilities so I want to get the vaccine to help me stay healthy
Don't want to get sick with covid because I/my partner am/is hoping to become pregnant in the next year and covid would damage my/her health during the pregnancy
Have family members who are [choose: elderly /cancer patients /dialysis patients /immune compromised /too young to be vaccinated] and I want to protect them from covid by getting vaccinated myself
Want healthcare workers, essential workers, scientists, and first responders to be able to choose to get vaccinated so they can better protect themselves from covid and from accidentally spreading covid in our community and not transmitting covid when my family needs health care
Want teachers and childcare workers to be able to get vaccinated so that they don't get covid and don't accidentally spread it to children who can't get vaccinated, and so they don't have to miss work because they are sick and instead the schools have to find substitute teachers
Want my health insurance to pay for my vaccination, which is less likely if the FDA changes to the proposed rule, instead of me paying for it out of pocket
[something else that matters to you]
I strongly oppose the proposed rule in Docket No. FDA-2025-N-1146. I should be able to choose the safe and effective covid vaccine for myself so I can protect myself and people I care about.
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See NPR article without paywall
Federal officials unveiled a rigorous regulatory approach to future COVID vaccines that could make it harder for many people under 65 to get
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you don't "hate kids," you hate being forced into a caretaking role.
you don't "hate kids," you hate censorship passed off as family values.
you don't "hate kids," you hate the constrictiveness of the nuclear family.
you don't "hate kids," you're just not used to occupying fully age diverse spaces so you're not used to the noise or the many different kinds of needs.
you don't "hate kids," most public spaces just aren't built for kids, and so the few kids you see are always uncomfortable and distressed.
you don't "hate kids," you hate the intense social rules assigned to kids and anyone who interacts with kids.
You don't "hate kids," you hate how society reproduces its most restrictive elements and how kids are powerless to resist it.
This powerful image captures the face of a wounded Palestinian woman whose hijab is soaked in blood—likely her own or that of a loved one. Her eyes tell a story of unimaginable pain and strength in the face of loss. She stands in a chaotic hospital hallway, surrounded by others in distress. As an oppressed and weak woman from Gaza, I see myself in her. I, too, have suffered greatly—my baby, Qais, was injured in the war, and the hospital refused to treat him because we cannot pay. Please, I beg you to help us. Your donation can provide the medicine and care Qais urgently needs.
Life in Gaza is unbearable for women like me.
1. I wait in line for two hours just to bring food back to our tent - food that is never enough.
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3. We were turned away from the hospital-they said no money, no treatment, even for a child as young as Qais.
I carry this pain in silence, but I cannot bear it alone anymore. The woman in this picture used her hijab to try and save her son's life. I am doing everything I can to save mine. But without help, I fear I will lose him too. Please, Donate anything you can-no matter how small. Even a few dollars could mean a meal, a medicine dose, or a chance for Qais to live. Share this, speak up, and help us survive.
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