Frmly. Written-in-Sparkly-Gel-Pens

Jessie - 29 - Bi Ace- She/her

[unadulteratedhideouttrash]

[sophsun1]

Holes (2003) dir. Andrew Davis

[n1-adora-fan]

Buffy being terrible at lying and making up cover stories will never not be awesome to me. Like right the gym had asbestos, you’re in a band, the minister is preforming a c section

[vulpes-aestatis]

Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell

[thecactifindahome]

[maluskrow]

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[beejwatch]

[cinematicnomad]

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (1999) dir. michael patrick jann

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

[yearofdoodles]

Do you ever think about how mythical and godlike Murderbot must be to the other rogue secunits in Platform Decay? More importantly do you think they all have a crush on it??? *murderbot shoots me with a sniper rifle killing me instantly*

[yearofdoodles]

Shout out to @ekho-ekho-ekho for writing a whole ass fic in my tags, this has destroyed me 😭💖

[beejwatch]

god forbid women have hobbies

[beejwatch]

#ally

[byjove]

The funniest part of A New Hope is that Luke Skywalker is a 19 year old who has not locked in yet and plays with toys and sleeps in his childhood bedroom at his aunt and uncle’s house and Leia Organa is a 19 year old with a mission to save the galaxy from fascism. Luke has never left his hometown, Leia just watched her planet be blown up. He’s peeved his uncle is asking him to do his chores, she’s imprisoned for resisting the government. You relate to them both but they’re on complete opposite sides of the 19 year old life stage spectrum.

[slinky-cat]

Also Luke is clearly very lonely after his crush and best friend, Biggs, went away to college

[byjove]

Yes! Some people have misinterpreted this as me insinuating Luke is a wimp but he’s just in a very transitional life phase that is focused on growing and maturing. His friends are growing up and moving on, he’s anxious to join them but isn’t quite ready. He has ambition and goals but he just isn’t in a place where he is able to pursue those goals, he is immature and that isn’t a bad thing. 19 year olds SHOULD be able to ponder their place in the world and which direction they want their life to take. Leia has been in the public eye her entire life, she is a princess, she has been primed for greatness and she has been shouldered with so much responsibility. Luke is just his aunt and uncle’s nephew, they love him and don’t want him to leave, he’s trying to decide what to do.

[byjove]

He’s like a Midwest farm boy who is dreaming of the big city and she is like an old money New England heiress who has been told since birth she will follow her father’s career path into politics and has been sent to the most competitive schools and enrolled in the most rigorous extracurriculars.

[solar-spiral]

[themirokai]

@yeah-thats-probably-it this could not just be a tag

[emily-e-draws]

yeah. yeah

[bracketsandunderscores]

I wonder what reminds the 4077th of their friends when they arrive home. Does the smell of fudge or the sound of whispering remind Margaret of her nurses - or do dirty socks and soapy water remind her of BJ and Hawkeye? Does Mulcahy think about his friends whenever he sees a poker game being played? Does Charles ever look at magazines and hope to God they aren't Hawkeye's nudist issues? Does Potter ever think about Radar or Klinger when he has to sign a document? Does BJ ever walk into a bar and search everywhere for his best friend, only to remember he's back in Crabapple Cove? Does Hawkeye ever say a little too much and look for BJ to back him up, just to be confronted with the fact they'll likely never meet again?

Do they ever walk into cafeterias and feel an immediate sense of dread when it comes to grabbing their food, even when they know it tastes perfectly fine? Have they ever called holidays R&R instinctively even when they know they aren't back in Korea? Do the colours army green and blood red make their stomachs turn? Do items crashing down onto floors make them hide under tables? Do they ever forget to check the mail because they assume someone will take it straight to them?

Do they ever see helicopters or Jeeps and feel the need to run? Have they ever talked a little too much in the operating room (if they ever return to surgery) or wondered why it's so silent, because for years it was all they could do to keep their minds away from just what they were doing? Do they ever look around and just wonder where the hell everyone is?

[heavensghost]

Words by Mary Oliver engraved in rock

[n0nsum]

'Buffy renaissance', digital study

[moghedien]

POP EMERGENCY EVERYONE IS ON FUCKING NOTICE HIGH ALERT HIGH ALERT

[thebreakfastgenie]

I have more than one person in the notes of my post saying they did not in fact know that the ACA stopped insurance companies from being able to deny coverage for a pre-existing condition in case you were wondering where we're at. People don't know the ACA and Obamacare are the same thing, they don't know it's why they have healthcare, they don't even know what it does. How do you even deal with that?

[tzikeh]

ETA:

walking into the sea

[take-liberties]

"they used it to give you healthcare" ok lol let me stop you right there. They made a bunch of compromises they didn't have to in pursuit of "reaching across the aisle."

We could've had the public option! The individual mandate was some libertarian shit that the Dems agreed to and then suddenly the Republicans had a problem with it! They dragged the debate rightward and Dems let it get dragged and then passed some milquetoast incrementalist shit that still allowed private insurance companies to run rampant the way they are now. Sure there are good things in there but don't give the Dems too much credit when WE COULD HAVE HAD THE PUBLIC OPTION.

[thebreakfastgenie]

We could have had the public option if Massachusetts hadn’t blown it the special election after Ted Kennedy died but they elected a Republican. They didn’t have the votes in the senate for a public option after that. Feel free to piss on Joe Lieberman’s grave about it. They did not make compromises in the name of reaching across the aisle during the ACA negotiations. That’s why they needed 60 votes in the senate. They made compromises to get support from the more conservative members of their own party. Those people are basically gone now, many replaced with Republicans. Democrats got slaughtered in the 2010 midterms over the ACA. I have healthcare because of it. If you have a preexisting condition or you’re on your parents’ insurance in your 20s you do too.

[thebreakfastgenie]

#i think everyone who's mad the dems “didn't do enough” with the aca#should be forced to watch the ER episode where a kid almost dies of diabetes after his dad begs carter to delay diagnosis#in order to avoid the kid having a pre-existing condition insurance won't cover when his new plan kicks in in a few months#and then they should have to very sincerely thank the dems for making sure that shit can't happen anymore#like yes the state of US healthcare is still horribly dystopian#but we no longer have that one problem and it was a very big victory at the time#and lots of people think we should go back to insurance companies being allowed to fully deny coverage for pre-existing conditions#so perhaps we should all be a little more grateful that's no longer a thing#most especially those too young to remember it being a thing#bc like i remember my parents worrying about what would happen to my brother's insurance#if my mom changed jobs after his food allergies were diagnosed#i remember them worrying how we'd afford his epi-pens out of pocket#and i remember that ceasing to be a concern with the aca#so like if you personally don't remember pre-aca health insurance at all you don't get to blame democrats for not doing enough#when some of y'all aren't even doing the bare minimum and actually *voting* @rinielelrandir

Seriously I think that episode of ER should be required viewing!! One of the other characters points out how dangerous it is for Carter to agree to delay diagnosis but the alternative is the family being unable to afford treatment because the insurance company wouldn't cover it.

Sometimes I think the pre-ACA reality that allowed insurance companies to do this was so absurdly cruel that within a few years people just forgot. Every post about the ACA and pre-existing conditions inevitably attracts two kinds of comments: "that never actually happened!" and "this literally happened to me." Like yeah it is hard to believe that was allowed but it was! There will be people voting in 2028 who weren't born when the ACA was passed. It's our job to make sure they know this history; we shouldn't be having to explain it to people who were adults in 2010.

I'm glad your brother was able to get his epi-pens and that the ACA eased that stress for your family! When my congenital heart defect was diagnosed when I was 2 part of the conversation was the doctor telling my dad he couldn't jobs or I would lose coverage. Like... imagine trying to process your child's newly diagnosed heart condition and then also at the same time having to process that you have to keep your current job for the next 20 years if you want your child's medical care to be covered. My dad was a public school teacher (with a union!) which had its ups and downs, but at least it was stable during the 2008 recession. That's such an evil situation, I get angry thinking about it. I got my CHD repaired two weeks before the ACA was signed into law so even though I was in middle school I was following it with interest.