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frostyemma

I hope John Boyega finds a franchise that deserves him

whitepeopletwitter

prideprejudce

hands down the best twitter story ever

prideprejudce

bonus

mp938368

🤣

stevebucky-deactivated20221119

i cant believe all the sexy music came out when i was like 12 years old and couldnt appreciate it now. whos at the top of the charts now? ed sheeran? shawn mendes and his beard? all the one direction guys but separate this time? where’s mr. taio cruz

bubonickitten

love how sometimes i’m like “oh, i should put this somewhere safe so i don’t lose it and know exactly where to find it later!” and about a month later i’m standing in my ransacked room trying to get into past me’s mindset like some kinda amateur historian on one of those history channel treasure hunting shows trying to get into the mind of a nineteenth century pirate to figure out where they hid some possibly nonexistent apocryphal loot

bubonickitten

having memory problems is like being an archaeologist of your own life and it isn’t nearly as exciting as it sounds

professortennant

How Long is this Fic Really?: A Guide

Word count in the HP Series:

Sorcerer’s Stones: 76,944 Chamber of Secrets: 85,141 Prisoner of Azkaban: 107,253 Goblet of Fire: 190,637 Order of the Phoenix: 257,045 Half-Blood Prince: 168,923 Deathly Hallows: 198,227

Word count in the LOTR Series:

The Hobbit: 95,022 Fellowship of the Ring: 177,227 Two Towers: 143,436 Return of the King: 134,462

orangelemonart

This changed me

the-queen-of-thedas

I’ve read/ am reading fic that are upwards to 150,000 - 200,000. You’re telling me that authors that write for fun are writing a full-length book for the fun of it? They have earned my respect 10 fold.

armellin

A friendly reminder.

chatstronaut

Adding on to this by reminding everyone to leave feedback on fics. Seriously, y’all, fic writers put their heart, soul, blood, sweat, tears, and time into their writing. The least that you could do is let them know you enjoyed their works.

fish-in-the-aqua

my last brain cell LOVES this song

veryfunnymemes

the-real-amazing-karnak-deactiv

#me #fixed it

catchymemes

https://www.instagram.com/unfinstory/

catchymemes

Credit: @Unifins

blairwaldorfings

the-owl-faced-girl

I just want to yell so many good things about Britney Spears. Look at this parenting right here; rather than just twist their arms and tell the ‘smile or no McFlurry on the drive home’ she’s checking if her little boys are comfortable with the cameras and attention and if not, no problem baby boy, you go chill. And I have no problem with her staying to get more pictures, especially not when her other adorable kid wants to. I mean, it’s her job up to a point. And we all know for a fact she probably watched the film with both the little bugs in her lap anyway.

Considering what she dealt with and went through in front of paps….god, I love her.

plotwitch

people can say what they want about her supposed meltdown, but frankly, that entire ‘episode’ always made perfect sense to me. she and i are of an age, and no matter how young or old i was, i always understood perfectly why she did it, and thought it was utter bullshit that a court could order what they did, instead of reprimanding the many, many people that felt so entitled to her that they drove her to extremes just to get 5 seconds of peace.

and now seeing this kind of thing? she has just gotten more awesome.

faedreamer-deactivated20180128

i remember reading how she got herself a tutor so she could help her kids with their homework. not got THEM a tutor, but she got herself one because she wanted to be the one helping them. that’s a+++ parenting right there ok?

papi-chulo-bucky

This makes me so happy :’)

latining

She got a court order because she was, by her own admission, raising her kids like her mother raised her. The judge sent her to therapy and parenting classes to work out all of the horrible stage-mother bullshit she had to live through. I mean, she thought it was normal to give her kids cough syrup and whiskey so they’d sleep, because it’s what her mother gave her to knock her out when she got rowdy.

I think Britney is a great role model for adult abused children and is living proof that you are not trapped in the cycle of abuse.

terror-billie

The purest 90s kid experience is being so happy for Britney Spears in her new life

rosecrystal

its true that crying wont solve things but we dont cry to solve. we cry to release

aphony-cree

Taking the lid off a pot that’s boiling too much wont solve the problem of the heat being too high, but it will release the pressure so you’ll have time to get the heat under control before everything inside the pot explodes

fandomsandfeminism

10 Things America should do if we actually value democracy

Automatic voter registration for all citizens

Allow all citizens of voting age to vote, including felons and people currently incarcerated

Mandatory voting

Mail in voting available for all

Election day becoming several days, including a weekend

Abolish the electoral college and move to the popular vote in presidential elections

Institute ranked voting systems to encourage third parties.

Eliminate gerrymandered districts (moving, perhaps, to a proportional party vote) in state elections

Ban corporations from donating money to politicians

Restrict active campaigning AND political fundraising to only 8 weeks before election day.

jollycollectornut-posts-deactiv

This list is a lot of wishful thinking. Good luck getting any of this passed in this political environment and, thanks to Moscow Mitch, with the courts stacked with right wing judges.

fandomsandfeminism

I lot of other countries do most if not all of these things.

Yes, with our currently political climate, many of these would be difficult to enact, because these would make it easier for us to oust shitheads like Mitch.

So we vote as best we can in our current system, and get people in place who will fight for further reforms.

jadziasmovingcastle

Hello, can anyone explain number 7 please? (Institute ranked voting systems to encourage third parties)

fandomsandfeminism

You get a ballot with a bunch of candidates on it. You rank them 1st, 2nd, 3rd choice. Then all votes are counted up. If no single candidate gets a majority, you take the ballots for the candidate with the FEWEST votes and move their vote to their SECOND choice. Repeat until a majority is achieved.

Example. 5 ballots.

1-Wonder woman, batman

2- Wonder woman, superman

3- Batman, flash

4- Batman, superman

5- Flash, wonder woman

First count- WW has 2, Batman has 2, Flash has 1. No majority.

Take the ballot for the last place (ballot 5) move it from Flash to their second choice- Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman now had a majority and wins.

This is a benefit because it essentially stops the problem of 3rd Party votes being a “throw away” and splitting votes between candidates, allowing the opposition to win.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting

hrefnatheravenqueen

Src: https://twitter.com/onyxaminedlife/status/1208462483926720514?s=21

“So Maya Forstater, the woman JK Rowling is supporting, wrote a manifesto. I won't link to it, but it gives a more detailed version of how s

donald-trump-official

Democrats: alright we finally did it, Trumps been impeached. Time for a trial in the-

Republicans: lol yeah about that trial. It’s not gonna be fair or anything, we’ve already made up our minds and there’s gonna be like, 0 witnesses

Democrats: oh? Ok then. If that’s the case then I guess we’ll just hold on to these *pockets articles of impeachment*

Republicans:

m-eowdy

Can someone explain what this means?

donald-trump-official

Our president has been charged with misconduct through the only proccess that is outlined in our constitution (impeachment). The next step in the process is that the president goes on trial. Republicans in the senate, where the trial will take place, have already said they have made up their minds and will vote based on bias. They have stated that it will be a quick trial with no witnesses and a guaranteed vote on acquittal. The democrats, who control the charges, have said that they will not release the charges to the senate until fair rules have been established. Republicans seem shocked by this turn of events

13lizardsinatrenchcoat

In case you’re wondering why this would make the republicans upset, the need this to go to trial or Trump will be on record as having been impeached and not acquitted.

siderealsandman

The 2020 election is also coming up and a number of these senators are coming up for re-election.

FLIP

THE

FUCKING

SENATE

sl-walker

FLIP THE FUCKING SENATE

aeliad

FUCKING VOTE.

Here’s how you verify you’re registered to vote: https://www.rockthevote.org/voting-information/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Here’s how you register if you’re not: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/

Here’s how you find your fucking polling place: https://yourfuckingpollingplace.com/

If you have time, register for an absentee ballot in your state. That way you don’t even have to go to a polling place, you just have to fill it out and mail it in on time.

Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z outnumber Boomers. More of us are Liberals who care about each other and social safety nets. More of us give a fuck about the future because we have to live in it.

Flip the Senate. Fucking Vote. It’s so goddamn important.

2020 is crucial.

toastysalt1

ok so what I have to articulate RIGHT NOW before I see Cats and have my whole life fucking changed is that anyone who says “well they look just as creepy as they did in the stage show” is a liar and is avoiding some hard truths which I will detail below:

The cats in the STAGE MUSICAL Cats are very obviously not meant to look like real life cats. I would argue that some of them don’t even look like people-dressed-up-as-cats. They’re, like, an abstraction. A stylized 80s version of the sexy cat costume. You are meant to recognize them as human dancers wearing very pretty feline makeup and human clothes. The cat part is mostly portrayed through their movements and body language (it’s a ballet, it’s jazz, it’s interpretive dance—literally whatever, but you can tell they’re being cats)

There is no attempt to make their outfits look like extensions of their bodies, and I think this is what’s throwing people off. They don’t have fur all over them, they have patterned bodysuits. They don’t have paws, they have legs warmers. They don’t have tails coming out of their asses, they have cute belts with “tails” on them. Hell, they hardly have EARS, their very human haircuts are stylized to have TUFTS which kind of look like EARS. They don’t move, they don’t twitch, it doesn’t look like they have flesh and blood ears rotating on top of their craniums, it’s all diagetic.

Basically: the stage cats look like people dressed as cats, while the movie looks like cats dressed as humans. I get very strong skinwalker vibes from looking at it because there’s no attempt at makeup or costuming. There’s nothing there. These motherfuckers really went and tried to make them look like the Cat Homunculi that God Forgot when they were supposed to be stylized jazzercise dancers!!!!