Real-Life Rattata Trainer

Gay, behavioral neuroscience and behavioral pharmacology grad student, and animal lover.

[intensional]

[pocket-lilacs]

I go through this exact monologue at least every 48 hours.

Help.

[heytheresugar]

[grayghost89]

[heyhosers]

vines y’all have been sleeping on aka vines i haven’t seen in comps but still make me happy

[darkestelemental616]

I’VE NEVER SEEN THAT ASL ONE BEFORE DOES ANYONE HAVE A LINK TO THAT BY ITSELF?

[biglawbear]

[wha-et-deactivated20210209]

I was a Mormon missionary and this is TEA. I wish I could go back and show this to my poor naive 18yo self

[wellthatsjustgreat]

[wilwheaton]

Fuck Trump.

[fuck-customers]

The next person who tries to correct me when I say “Happy Holidays” is going to be told Happy Hanukkah instead. Very tired of hearing, “No, it’s MERRY CHRISTMAS.” I’m pretty sure Judaism was around a lot longer than your Buckstar’s boycotting butt, Karen.

[batzendrick-deactivated20230703]

My boss once shared a great story about that. This happened when he was in a layover in North Carolina back when the “War on Christmas” bullshit was first becoming prominent. He had gone to get a pack of cigarettes, and after he paid for it:

“Merry Christmas.” “Happy holidays.” “No. I said Merry Christmas.” “Do you know what Hanukkah is about?” “No, what?” “Some people tried to make us worship their ways, so we rose up and killed them. Happy Hanukkah.”

[nothingelsemakessense]

I celebrate Christmas, but generally avoid holiday themed greetings when working as a cashier unless the customer mentions their holiday specifically. 

The other day, two older ladies were buying briskets and told me they was for their Hanukkah celebration that night, so I responded something like “Well Happy Hanukkah! It’s the third night, right?” 

I shit you not these two old ladies were so tickled that someone at a store wished them a happy Hanukkah. One of them literally told me I was “the first one to do that”. 

To those who think there’s a war on Christmas, please get the fuck over yourself and remember that not everyone experiences the world the way you do.

[pointedahead]

I was working at Michaels this time last year and I was raised jewish but don’t practice anything anymore. I really enjoy getting into the spirit though and just like to have fun with the energy of the holiday season. The store gave us all santa hats to wear during our shifts if we wanted to so I did. 

I always made a point of saying Happy Holidays, and if customers want to respond with “Merry Christmas” that’s totally fine, I don’t really care. If you try to correct me that’s when I’ll push back. 

I had this unpleasant conversation with a customer, who had up to this point been very nice, after I finished ringing up her items:

Me:”Thanks for shopping at Michaels, and happy holidays!”  Her: “Um no…” Me: “I’m sorry?” (My response when I’m not sure what somebody has just said or don’t know what they mean”  Her: “It’s not happy holidays. It’s Merry Christmas.” (At this point there’s been a long line all day and she’s holding it up as part of her righteous justice act) Me: “I’m sorry but I prefer to say Happy Holidays since we have customers of all backgrounds and religions at this store.” Her: “Well this is a christian country and you’re wearing a santa hat, so you have to say merry christmas.”  Me: Taking off the santa hat “I was raised jewish. I’ll say merry christmas to you if you say happy hannukah to me.”

She huffed and got a little red while I called for the next customer to come to my register. She stormed out after I started ringing them up and ignoring her. 

[lame-and-corny-blog]

[aliofbabylon-deactivated2023020]

[incognitomoustache]

[jonrkennex-deactivated20140422]

merry christmas to everyone who didn’t get presents today because their family couldn’t afford it and merry christmas to everyone who couldn’t make it home for the holidays and merry christmas to everyone spending it alone i want you all to know that i hope you all have a great great end of the year and i love you all and even if your holidays weren’t how you pictured them i hope you still have a good rest of the holidays and year

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

deadpool is honestly more wholesome than any of the mcu movies

[madmaxthepaledragons-blog]

Explain

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

ok so

Doesn’t straightwash queer characters! this was a big one. (marvel movies have a huge problem with straightwashing*)

Deadpool is canonically pansexual, and the movies reflect this! Reynolds doesn’t shy away at all from Deadpool’s sexual interest in men.   

(head injuries bring out deadpool’s romantic sexy feelings it seems. in the first movie, knife to the head = romantic montage with vanessa. in the sequel, fencepost to the head = deadpool sensually trying to go down on Colossus.) 

(semi-related, both movies have some cute references to deadpool enjoying being on the receiving end in the bedroom.)

(yeah, it’s canon, Deadpool enjoys being pegged)

Oh hey, a healthy romantic relationship based on mutual respect and love! and with a fully developed female character with personal agency! A love interest who doesn’t just function as a plot device. 

POLAR OPPOSITE OF TOXIC MASCULINITY. This really shines through in their marketing

(yes that pillows says “FEMINIST”) 

(yes that is deadpool in heels dancing to celine dion)

Diverse casting! Characters who are poc just because poc exist! 

Hey look, a cute lesbian couple treated with respect and one of them’s asian!

 Holy crap i don’t say this enough but i love Domino. What a badass. Sexy-but-not-sexualized black female action hero who is probably the coolest person in the movie. 

Deadpool 2 took a run-of-the-mill white character design and made her interesting! 

Her trademark eye patch is now vitiligo! She has awesome natural hair. And look, body hair exists! On a person who is a woman! Which shouldn’t be unusual, but here we are. Also, she’s fun

Portrayed by the talented Zazie Beetz. Did I mention how much i love this character?

Oh look, another much improved character design!

We’ve got your humdrum blondie cleft-chin stereotype replaced with a heavyset maori teen actor (Julian Dennison, who incidentally was in Taika Waititi’s indie movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople).

Overall themes: The movies have a lot of dirty humor and innuendo. But the overall takeaway is actually pretty sentimental. The Deadpool 2 themes in particular gets to me: 

Not repeating the mistakes of the previous generation. “Kids give us a chance of being better than we used to be.” 

The loss and recovery of family. Accepting friendship in the midst of tragedy. See also: Cable’s story arc. 

Letting go of loss and bitterness to try to save a child who’s been abandoned by the world. 

I’m honestly so excited about the choices the director & producers have been making for this franchise. They’re setting the narrative standard for modern superhero films. Can’t wait to see what the next movie has in store. 

*see more on straightwashing in the mcu below

Keep reading

[fuckheads-revenge]

So wait, why is “straightwashing” bad but blackwashing Domino good?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

maybe…if we think really…really hard about it…we could come up with a reason why those two things…are not the same…

[hurleyquinnzel]

BLACKWASHING

[gahdamnpunk]

Christian Soriano is bae

[wingedrivers-deactivated2019081]

AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE HE GOT THAT FROM

I remember the season Christian was in. And he had a problem (because he was fresh out of fashion school) with understanding how to dress bigger women. And Tim Gunn, who has always been a proponent of needing to design fashion for more natural sizes, helped him to get out of that mind set by planting the seed. That growth we see is from this amazing fashion teacher! 

[aaa-girl]

[gaymalcontent-deactivated202407]

i have great personal news:

✨✨✨IM FREE BITCH, REBAGEL FOR GREAT LUCK ✨✨✨

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[barbieofcolour-deactivated20211]

she just lets them wear whatever tf they want :’)

[1dietcokeinacan]

@theocseason4 Miss Fox Did That!

[bvlgaria]