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Doc, what are the top five items food banks LOVE to receive? I'm doing a collection soon and want to ask for specifics.
MONEY. WE WANT MONEY. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY. WE CAN DO SO MUCH WITH IT. WE HAVE ACCESS TO DEALS YOU COULD NEVER. MONEY
That aside.
Ā Iām only going to talk about food items but if your food bank takes personal items, a lot of times diapers, feminine hygiene products, etc, are very very welcome.Ā
1) Canned chicken and beefĀ
looooooove this stuff. Itās expensive, it lasts forever, it tastes good and it can be used a variety of ways. This stuff is fucking catnip to food banks, itās so hard for us to provide proteins.Ā
2) Fancy nut butters
Peanut butter is a standby for food banks as a shelf-stable inexpensive protein, but if we have a family with a kid with a peanut allergy thatās not going to work. Non-peanut butters are expensive and itās something we hardly ever see donated. (we also like peanut butter, but thatās easier for us to buy ourselves than non-peanut butters)
3) Canned or packaged tuna
You may notice a trend here in shelf-stable proteins. And yeah. Thatās basically it, so Iām not going to keep harping on it. But this stuff is a godsend.Ā
4) Easy breakfast things for kids (Granola bars, instant oatmeal, and the like)Ā
Whatever Donald Trump tells you, most people who get food from food banks are actually working their asses off and so they have to leave Obama to raise their baby or whatever, and they donāt have a lot of time in the morning. Things like this that kids can make for themselves are expensive. (Another trend you may be noticingādonate shit that costs a lot of money. That helps us more than all the shitty green bean cans in the world) But they are so helpful for busy working families where the parents may not have a set schedule and sometimes little Amanda is making her own breakfast before she runs off to school. Donāt let kids go to school hungry.Ā
5) Shelf-stable juice
This is one people never think of! But if you show up with a bunch of (preferably reduced sugar stuff) bottles of juice at my door, oh man, you are gonna get so many check mark and okay hand emoticons. This stuff is great for kids, and it doesnāt require refrigeration until itās opened, so it works great for food drives.Ā
But seriously, give money
And itās way better food, too, anything you get prepackaged has A TON of sugar and/or salt in itā¦collecting cans may be more exciting than writing a check, but if the point is to help people, the check is going to get a lot more done
Yoooooo heads up for those of you with kids, I know this time of year schools start holding canned food drives so keep this in mind if youāre able to give.
collecting cans may be more exciting than writing a check, but if the point is to help people, the check is going to get a lot more done .
hint: the point should be to help people.
thereās one ladrien trope/opinion that i see coming back and coming back that just⦠makes less and less sense the more i think about it
and itās the ābroken pedestalā angst trope
because for one, this requires that both chat and marinette have their respective loves on āāpedestalsāā (that is to say, blind and/or unwilling to see their faults and weaknesses), and, while i can see it for marinette, i donāt see it for chat.
at all.
because chat āshe can be so stubborn!ā āwerenāt you a little harsh?ā ādonāt you have an apology to make?ā noir absolutely sees ladybugās faults. he calls her out on them on multiple occasions. he knows sheās hot-headed and stubborn and thoughtless, and his response? is to remind her to be kind, and to take responsibility for her actions, and to apologize.
you canāt do that if you donāt think someone doesnāt have faults and doesnāt make mistakes.
and he didnāt fall for āperfect, invincible, flawless ladybugā, you know. he fell for the terrified little girl who thought she wasnāt enough, who took her scraps of courage and her wit and her sense of responsibility, and made something amazing out of them.
he fell for the girl who went from āiām maā ma-ma-⦠*clunk* ā¦majorly clumsyā to coming up with a plan on the spot to defeat this thing that neither of them really knew how to deal with. he fell for the girl who had her face in her hands, convinced that she couldnāt until hawkmoth showed up and she needed to ā who then blew everyone out of the water, this tiny little person taking on that thing that had just threatened them all. and winning.
i firmly, firmly believe that chat fell for her bravery first. iām sure there were a whole cascade of reasons that came afterwards (because seriously, ladybug), but the world gave marinette a chance (and a reason) to shine, and she shone like a supernova.
tell me you wouldnāt be a little bit dazzled after something like that.
and chat is absolutely, visibly dazzled, but he doesnāt stay so dazzled that he canāt or wonāt take her for what she is, and that? is not a pedestal.
and on marinetteās end, there is something of a pedestal.
itās always āperfect, perfect adrienā that she claims that she loves, and that heās kind seems to be the most she actually knows about his personality for the majority of the show, with the gamer and kung food being the two obvious exceptions.
the gamer is actually pretty pertinent to this rant about why the ābroken pedestalā doesnāt make sense, because here, adrien does expose himself. he lets marinette in a little. he mentions his insecurities to her, and marinette isnāt disillusioned.
granted, that would be a pretty strange thing to get disillusioned over (unless she believed he was invincible somehow, which she doesnāt seem to), but she reacts with awkward warmth and support, not rejection.
and, you know, there are ways i could totally see adrienās pedestal getting broken in a nasty way (because theyāre both jealous people, and adrien, at the very least, has been known to spout white lies when they serve him, and those could both lead to very worrying fights), but in all the theories iāve seenā¦
the most common is that ladybug/marinette will be disillusioned that adrien is basically chat.
ā¦i mean.
itās not like she felt a powerful connection with her partner even early on, and it would be ridiculous to think that she might enjoy his puns, or that she would ever value his input or listen to him (despite swallowing her pride and apologizing to people she hates at least twice (volpina and antibug) at his urging), or, you know, trust him implicitly (certainly not to the point of looking at the most damning of evidence and leaping to the conclusion that heās innocent (copycat and the christmas special)), or ever consider him as a romantic interest in a million years ā in fact, she really doesnāt even want him getting close!
(i just spent the last 2 hours looking for any gifset of ladybug checking chat out (which has happened at least twice, one in stormy weather and one in an episode that i can no longer remember the name of that takes place at the tv station) and came up blank, but rest assured that it has happened.)
like, that marinette/ladybug would be disappointed to find that adrien is chat (or particularly chat-like) just doesnāt have canon backing imo, because ladybug, no matter to what degree sheāll admit it. really likes chat.
like, canonically. now.
at finding her crush is a giant dork who really resembles one of her closest friends, would she be disbelieving? probably! more at ease/less fluster-y around adrien? iād hope so. less likely to take him seriously in everything? quite possibly!
betrayed, uninterested, disillusioned, and/or apathetic?
ā¦letās try that one again.
tl;dr: angst is great, but there are loads of opportunities for it that donāt change the fundamental aspects of these relationships. chat. for better or worse. adores ladybug (really and truly with very few delusions), and while marinette might not know adrien all that well right now, thereās nothing in the show to suggest she would be dissatisfied with whatever she found in him.
A-fucking-men.
Iād just like to point out that the entire premise of the broken pedestal falls completely apart when you realize that for Chat Adrien thereās never really been a pedestal.Ā If you go back to Origins, Ladybug completely falls apart in front of him in Origins II.Ā She is literally just breaks down in front of him, going on and on about how the current situation theyāre in is all her fault.
And Chat doesnāt give a flying fuck.Ā He recognizes that sheās got insecurities, and he just doesnāt care.Ā Youāll note that his big declaration that āheāll love whoever is behind the maskā doesnāt happen until after that moment.
So fucking true ā¤ļø
never a truer word has been spoken.
A Message to my Followers who are going to be impacted by Hurricane Florence.
This hurricane is dangerous.
Please, take it seriously.
It is not just a thunderstorm.
Take it from someone who went through Katrina and saw the damage a hurricane can do when it sits and builds.
It changes entire landscapes.
It kills.
Get gas now. The gas stations will begin to either run out, or put a limit to how much gas you can get. Get it now while you can, because I remember distinctly the way the abandoned cars looked on the highway while we were evacuating.
Once that storm hits, the gas stations will shut down. There will be no gas for a week, at least.
You will be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. Make sure your car is in good working order. The amount of cars left behind on the highway is astounding.
Bring your pets in case of flooding, donāt leave them behind or in a shelter.
Take a picture of every single thing in your house the way it is. Ever dresser. Everything. If it floods, this will help with the insurance.
Power will be out for a week, possibly more. Take anything that will spoil, eat it now/bring it with you/throw it out. You donāt want to come back to a house that is 80°+ inside with spoiled food. It smells disgusting. I know from first hand experience.
Pack as much clothes + whatever else you need as you can. You donāt know what you will be returning to, if anything at all. I hate to say it, but there were so many homes lost in Katrina in mg area to flooding & I didnāt even live in the Soup Bowl.
From what Iāve seen, the outer bands are strengthening. Theyāre red at this point. This hurricane is getting stronger, and itās well built. There are no winds to tear it apart. Itās eye is holding together, and thatās terrifying. A well built storm like this one can ruin lives. Itās not a joke.
Please, please stay safe. Evacuate ASAP if youāre in the direct line.
Donāt wait until it is here. That is how you get killed. Do not evacuate in the middle of it. Donāt wait until last minute.
It is always better to be safe than sorry.
Please stay safe.
Listen to the news. Follow their advice.
Leave while you still can, before the highways get clogged up. Go as far in-land as you can. Leave the state entirely if you have to.
We did. And we still felt the effects of Katrina.
Please, stay safe.
Donāt know jack shit about sports but Serena Williams has literally never done anything wrong in her entire life
I cleaned Willās familyās kitchen because they have fucking mice and a fly problem and the second his mom got home the counter suddenly has a dirty pan, open chips, an open cheese jar, a cheesy lid, a dirty spatula, a big ass plastic bag with arsenic blocks in it, a torn chocolate cake mix packet, and a sauce covered tupperware lid strewn about š
And somehow??? Somehow there is an entire plate just sitting on the floor
How š does š she š live š like š this
The mice in this house are going to form an alliance and rise up against us and i am powerless but to watch it happen. I may strike a deal with them when the time comes, become prince of the mice, king of the rodents, and i will rest upon a royal throne made of the fallen food that this family refuses to clean up off of the ground
I am attempting to establish spiritual communication with their people
He
THE ORACLE IS HARD AT WORK
NO!!!!!!!!!!!
You sick fucks wanted me to Ask Later so here you go
The Wise Ones shat all over the last paper so i had to make a new one, and weāve caught and released about 5 mice since yesterday, so I donāt know how fast theyāll be to answer, but we will see if they grant me their Prophecies
Thus Begins, The Final Consultation
HHNNGG THEY TOOK A PIECE AND CARRIED IT BACK WITH THEM
TWO
YAHTZEE,
B A B E Y ! !
About alya figuring ninoās identity in .5 seconds : when marinette and adrien transform, they really do kind of turn into different people. They act different then their normal personalities. Nino, on the other hand, really didnāt ; and with his very noticable speech pattern especially i think it would of been even more weird if Alya didnt figure it out. Like come on, shes dating that boy lmao
no earth spoilers please, iām only up to the cambrian explosion
iām really loving these new dinosaur characters, i hope they stick around awhile
oh fuck off
straight people will never understand how therapeutic it is to hear the words āher girlfriendā or āhis boyfriendā or how I ascend to heaven when I hear āher wifeā and āhis husbandā
Father Illustrates The Friendship Between His Tiny Baby And Giant Dog And The Comics Are Adorabl
Wtf is that? A storm elemental?
Ball lightning fuck me all the way up
Excuse me what the fuck is this
you literally captured whats calledĀ āball lightningā which is the rarest form of lighting
its so rare that we dont even know how it forms other than by heat, static electricity, and humidity
storm elemental it is
look guys this is how nature-based deities and spirits come about this is ridiculous
Are you aware that the first-ever video footage of ball lightning outside a laboratory was taken in 2014 and there are only like 3 or 4 videos like this in existence and this might be the most close-up one
thereās a lot of evidence that the iliad and the odyssey were actually composed by a variety of poets through an oral tradition rather than just by one poet, so what if the homeric texts are actually just a very long game of D&D
homer, the dm: okay achilles, agamemnon has just taken away your war prize, what do you want to do achillesā player: i roll to have a diplomatic conversation with agamemnon achillesā player: *rolls a 1* homer: you throw the staff of speaking at agamemnonās face and storm off to sulk with your boyfriend
Homer, the DM: Your beautiful Patroclus is dead. What do you do? Achillesā player:Ā I fight everyone. Homer, the DM: You canāt fight everyone.Ā How would you evenā Achillesā player:Ā *rolls a 20* I fight everyone. Homer, the DM: *sighs* Fine. You cut a path through the Trojan army, enemy dead strewn in your wake. Achillesā player:Ā How many? Homer, the DM:Ā ā¦lots. Enough to clog the frigginā river with bodies. Achillesā player: I fight the river. Homer, the DM: You. can. not. fight. the. river. Achillesā player: *reaches for dice*
i just saw a fb post where a man was arguing with a woman about the best way to make macarons and he kept insisting that she was wrong, and then eventually he was likeĀ āIāve never personally made macarons, but if you think about it what Iām saying makes sense, iām simply stating the obvious. iām sure there are plenty of youtube tutorials that would show you the same thing.ā and the woman replied by linking him to her instagram business page and she makes fuckin macaron towers for parties for a living and iāve been laughing about it for a solid 5 minutes.
Hundreds of Roman imperial gold coins were found today (7/9/2018) during an excavation in Como, Italy.Ā
People be hiding money in the decorative shit on the highest shelf for time immemorial.
it costs $0.00 to stop shipping siblings romantically
disclaimer: this includes step-siblings, adoptive siblings, foster siblings, and non-siblings raised in a sibling environment! it truly is free, kids!