problem + molotov cocktail = different problem

mads, she/her, white, bi, 23. in crime magician hell

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[thesweetiepienovels]

Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Walking for three minutes, is better than nothing. Drinking a glass of water and eating a snack, is better than nothing. Wiping down the counter, is better than nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. You don’t have to achieve grand things if all you’re capable of right now is the smaller things. They are still achievements. Don’t do nothing just because you don’t think you’re capable of doing bigger things, just do something you’re capable of today. 

[limbel]

NEVER HEAL indulge in self sabotage romaniticize self isolation ALWAYS QUIT reject your potential never break the cycle let the curse win

[hotvampireadjacent]

[nerdy-catfish]

[hungwy]

letting family members sit in for dead senators is just monarchy logic im appalled that this has even happened before

[sugoiney-weaver]

Each state gets to decide how their state is represented in Congress

This has been a common method for a long time in some states

The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh

[prizedpesto]

An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually

[northpearl4core]

dude longest intermission EVER

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

ohhh my god I just fact-checked, Nolan actually DID cut the "Nobody" scene from his Odyssey movie. Mfer that is like cutting the Father reveal from Star Wars. Let me speak in a language you understand this is like not dressing Batman up in his suit. "It was not possible to work it in" the TikTok musical with a budget of $4 and a scratched Hamilton CD managed to work it in in SONG form, step up your FUCKING GAME

[dragoninhumanskin]

This genuinely made me want to not watch it

[daysleftofsecondterm]

I thought I had nothing to say but I do.

Even the Arthur retelling of The Odyssey includes the “my name is Nobody” gag. And if an Aardvark can get that right, I expect more of a billion dollar box office flop.

[orangesideirrational]

i’m sorry what

you can play that scene seriously. it is inherently kinda funny but you can so easily play that scene dead serious so if he cut it so it could be a more “serious” film then that’s stupid

“it’s not possible to work it in” so you cut the entire cyclops section? because why have an odyssey movie if your gonna cut big sections of the big long journey

“yeah the Big Long Journey movie was too long so we had to remove some of the journey :(“ shut tf up

and they have to had cut the entire cyclops section because otherwise there is literally no sensible way to have the crew escape. unless their making there only be one cyclops? but still that’s dumb

[sacred-portal]

[drlivistoned]

I hate the cosmetic surgery industry for so many reasons I really do. But the line between cosmetic and medically necessary plastic surgeries is as a cloud, and we cannot sacrifice bodily autonomy for bans so. We need to dismantle white supremacy and the patriarchy in order to effectively tackle the issue. I should be able to get elective top surgery without medicalising my transness you get?

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

I had a breast reduction when I was 16. I was so top heavy that my back had started spasming badly by the time I was 12, if I hadn’t been able to get my reduction, I would’ve been in more extreme pain for much longer. The relief was almost instant. Just one example of medically necessary plastic surgery, in case people aren’t sure what that looks like.

Medically necessary plastic surgery also includes removing excess skin when someone loses a lot of weight: skin folds can become infected. Burn victims’ skin grafts, those are plastic surgery too. The field covers a lot more than people think.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Harold Gillies, now considered to be the father of modern plastic surgery, developed most of his techniques (many of which are still in use today) specifically to reconstruct the faces of men who'd been injured in WW1.

Advances in weaponry meant that, for the first time, men were coming home from war with literally half their faces blown off, on a regular basis. This was not only traumatic— there were cases of men cancelling engagements or being afraid to see their families, because of their disfigurements— but also caused problems with every day tasks like speaking and eating, in which your face plays a pretty key role.

Gillies arranged for a whole ward, and later a hospital, to be dedicated to the treatment of these men, and took steps to ensure that all soldiers who received these kinds of injuries on the battlefield would be sent to him directly. He developed methods for applying skin grafts so that larger portions of the face could be repaired.

He continued his work treating wounded soldiers throughout WW1 and WW2, and when both wars were ended— just in case he hadn't done enough to establish himself as a full on hero— he was then approached by a medical student named Michael Dillon, a trans man, and was able to use the same techniques he'd developed to reconstruct the penises of wounded soldiers to give him a phalloplasty. The first one ever performed on a trans man. He even diagnosed the guy with a condition to explain the frequent operations, so as to avoid outing him.

Dillon later wrote a book about trans-ness, which inspired Roberta Cowell, who became the first British transwoman to get a vaginoplasty, also performed by Gillies.

In both cases, the techniques he developed were still being used in similar operations decades later. Gillies himself stated that he wanted no publicity for performing these operations, saying that "If it gives real happiness, that is the most that any surgeon or medicine can give.”

[juicetrump2]

Chick-fil-A mounts PR campaign to push back against its anti-LGBTQ+ reputation - LGBTQ Nation

The chicken chain was told to "cluck off" the last time it tried to move into the UK. This time, it hired bigger guns.

[tehjleck]

me: "have they tried not being fucking ignorant religious bigots?"

article: “I suspect that a bit of the steam has gone out of the LGBT thing,” Backman told the right-wing outlet, staying ahead of the issue. “There may be the odd protester, but if they have got armies of PR people laser-focused on that then I suspect it may be OK.”

me: no surprises there... fuck them

sandwich recipe

[warriorsmurf]

We go through a lot of pickles here and this recipe is a good way to use leftover brine.

[jfk-blown-away-blog]

The thing that pisses me off the most though is the fact I know so many LGBTQ+ individuals that still go there, and they are surprised when I actually don't. It's literally like that tweet.

[something-wilder]

Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Now You See Me (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bosco LeRoy/Charlie Vanderberg, J. Daniel Atlas & Bosco LeRoy, J. Daniel Atlas & Lula May & Merritt McKinney & Henley Reeves & Jack Wilder, Bosco LeRoy/June Rouclere/Charlie Vanderberg (mentioned), J. Daniel Atlas & Charlie Vanderberg Characters: Bosco LeRoy, Charlie Vanderberg, J. Daniel Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Lula May, Henley Reeves, Jack Wilder, Dylan Rhodes, Alma Dray Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Role Reversal, Role Reversal, in which the ponies are 'the furies' and the horsemen are the newbies, Age Swap, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Post-Break Up, Exes, POV Bosco LeRoy, Bosco LeRoy Needs a Hug, J. Daniel Atlas Needs A Hug, Unreliable Narrator, in that bosco thinks that charlie is using the horsemen and the horsemen are too naive, spoiler alert. he finds out he's wrong, The Horsemen as Family (Now You See Me), Movie: Now You See Me (2013), Heist, Con Artists, the infamous interrogation scene Series: Part 3 of the tower reversed (furies au) Summary:

He thought about calling Charlie, for a second, and yelling at him that this clandestine secret-organization bullshit was beneath him and that he should've gotten the message when he went almost a decade without speaking to him—but Charlie's proud, prouder than him, and that pride would never have allowed him to reach out and beg Bosco to come back. Which meant that this was the Eye, and the Eye could be ignored, sure, but they had a way of making you wonder what was next and what would happen if you decided not to join them. They're good at that. He still should've thrown the card away.

Instead Bosco broke his contract, insisted he needed to take a leave of absence, ignored his agent, and packed up and headed to Vegas.

...

Bosco tries to get five stubborn magicians to listen to him. It doesn't go to plan.

But he thinks he might be ready to make a new one.

(Or: The Horsemen-Ponies roleswap, now with actual movie plot!)

[mothercains]

ZENDAYA at the new york premiere of 'the odyssey'

[taahko]

i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes

[taahko]

protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later

[mapswithoutwyoming]

And sometimes "narrative fulfillment" doesn't mean "the character overcomes their flaws" or even "the antihero is punished for their flaws"! sometimes it means the narrative says "wow was that fucked up or what? anyway i'm rod sterling"

[queenburd]

this is the stupidest goddamn thing i've had to lay my eyes on today.

[nibeul]

if u think poc talking about fandom racism is ruining ur fun and putting a strain on the community, I wish u a very shut the fuck up

[anteaten-deactivated20220228]

[spider-artdump]