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Trix. Objectifier of Hot Men (and Hot Ladies). Now playing: Game of Thrones, Luther, Parks and Rec, Cougar Town, British Literary Adaptations, and whatever else catches my fancy. WARNING: Obsessions subject to change without notice.

[charlemane]

writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.

[mamalibra]

Here’s to 2023, a year of as many little courageous kindnesses as possible. ♥️

[fluffingfloofs]

To a year of kindness in 2024

[reblogbinge]

Bringing this back for 2025

[the960writers]

the writing process by Chuck Wendig

[titleknown]

Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…

[hopesterling]

This….

This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.

Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.

[withasmoothroundstone]

This explains a lot.  And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce.  Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.  

And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that.  Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid.  Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given.  It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.

[lizardtitties]

I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:

https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2016/01/06/healthcare-in-iceland-vs-the-us-weve-got-it-so-good/

[thebibliosphere]

Yesterday I had to go to the hospital cause I injured my eye, I’m frankly dreading what the bill is going to be, but what made me balk was being told in the pharmacy that my insurance was denied for the antibiotic eye drops and it’d be over $100 out of pocket. So I didn’t get my eyedrops.

I’ve had these same drops before living in the UK. They cost me seven GBP.

It’s the exact same drug, same steroid, same strain of antibiotic. But somehow the US gets away with charging $100 for a generic non brand version of a drug which is easy to create and widely used. It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare. You keep the poor poor by making sure basic necessities remain unattainable and then you make it seem like the norm so no one fights it.

The rest of the world is not like this.

Eat the rich. Resist.

[dyannehs]

When I was travelling in Germany once, I seriously hurt my ankle. In a few hours, it had swollen to twice its size, and I went to a little ER in a tiny town. I spoke no German and only one nurse spoke English. They ran an X-ray and an MRI to determine what had happened (turned out I had bruised my peroneus brevis muscle and pulled the tendon), gave me a ton of very regulated meds for the pain and swelling, including some supports so I could walk…and my poor little 22-year-old ass was sat there, knowing all of this would cost thousands, if not tens of thousands, back in the US. I was shaking.

I’m in the exam room, post diagnosis and with pill bottles in hand, and in walks the one nurse I’ve been able to speak to the entire time. She pats my hand and tells me (and this is verbatim—I will never forget this conversation as long as I live), “I’m so sorry. We had to run those tests, and they are expensive. You don’t have insurance so you will have to cover the full cost.”

I start crying.

She continues, softly, as if telling me someone has died, “It’s going to be three hundred.”

I start sobbing, certain I’ve misheard, certain that I would be absolutely fucked, broke and going into debt in a foreign country. “Thousand?” I clarify.

Her entire demeanor changed, and she looked at me as if I had sprouted four extra heads. “No,” she says, “euros.”

That moment radicalised me.

[nonalectos]

Practical Magic (1998) + Letterboxd Reviews

[dragonpyre]

Fav thing about 9-1-1 are the character quirks

The captain is basically a five star chef. This doesn't affect the plot at all, he just really loves cooking

The senior paramedic loves karaoke. He snagged his hot wife this way

Second paramedic could have been a doctor. She decided not to cuz she loves her bestie too much

The bisexual boy is probably suicidal. This is never addressed

The bisexual's bestie has repressed every emotion ever known to man. This explodes in his face very impressively

[paracozmistari]

And the police officer is actually kinky especially with cuffs involved

[graveyarrdshift]

women's thighs. you agree. reblog.

[lustcannibalism]

need more characters who's character arc is about getting worse

[emziess]

Evan "Buck" Buckley + I got you.

& the one time someone had him

[nondelphic]

the first rule of writing is that there are no rules. the second rule is to save your work every 5 minutes because technology is a fickle god.

[carys-the-ninth]

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

[carco5a]

there is a class of “favorite character” that is completely unrelated to characters you Like the most but rather it’s the character you say What Is Their Fucking Problem about the most. like you might like them or you might not like them but you need to know what their fucking problem is, desperately. this too is a kind of love

[sourdough-seal]

most important part of the writing process actually is when you loop a single song on max volume and stare at the word document and imagine the characters doing things for 14 hours. this is known as getting in the zone

[gothhabiba]

what was your first portable music player?

compact cassette or 8-track

Walkman

portable CD player

early digital audio player such as IXI, Listen Up, or MobilePlayer

early portable MP3 player such as Creative Labs Nomad or RCA Lyra

iPod or iPod copycat (post-2001)

iPhone or other smart phone

other

I've never had a portable music player / I'm bald / etc.

Voting ended onNov 21, 2024

[trixalicious-blog]

Ugh. Core memory unlocked: Pocket Rockers!

These came out when I was about 7 years old. This tiny, hand-sized speaker could only play mini-cassettes that held two songs at most. My friend's sister had one, and she had cassettes with Whitney Houston and Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, and I wanted one sooooooo bad.

And then, when I finally got one closer to age 10, mine came with Mike and the Mechanics' "All I Need is a Miracle." Suddenly, I realized that I didn't want the player itself; I wanted the songs. I wanted to be able to carry music around in my very tiny pockets, but I also wanted to like the music. I know that specific song way more well than a kid who was 5 when it came out should have known it. (Did I mention that these mini-cassettes were not hot new singles? They were, at best, somewhat recent singles that were no longer on the charts. More often, they were even older.)

[nostalgic-shamefest]

He's getting dragged out, kicking and clawing at the closet!

[buckleyflower]

okay this is the best post about the episode lmao i love it here

[dr-santos]

i would like to take this opportunity to thank the hot priest. truly the 911 character of all time. came in in s1 with his katy perry ringtone and helped bobby walking suicide risk nash forgive himself. and then appeared in s8 and did what no man could do in seven seasons. heal eddie diaz. also flirted with him. thank you for your service kind sir

[tangerinesayswhat]

911 usually: firefighters dealing with extreme trauma both on the job and off

also 911 usually: how’s this group of gay people going to defeat the 22 MILLION BEES

[refrigeratorowl]

It's so funny because it somehow gets progressively more and more ridiculous??😭 like, yeah I thought the lightning storm was insane, especially after an earthquake AND a tsunami, but I don't live in a country with lots of natural disasters, so what do I know? But then 911 lonestar (which is just like.....I didn't have much hope but still) comes in with a SOLAR STORM or whatever, and you think regular 911 is still somewhat normal after that, and then they're like BOSS BATTLE: 22 MILLION KILLER BEES EDITION