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Sibling Showdown Quarter-Finals Bracket D

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia) vs. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny

Voting ended onJun 5, 2023

ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated202

parents who tell their daughters they are ugly are bad parents

ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated202

everyone who is replying to this with some variety of “that’s just how life is”

no

your parents fucked up and should not have treated you that way

they were wrong and you should say it

techmomma

This includes implied ugliness.

you need to lose weight

you’ll attract more boys if

you’re wearing that?

i wouldn’t wear that

this will flatter you more

you should wear more makeup

supmynameisuseless

I’m so fucking sick of diabetes jokes. They’re everywhere, like people somehow think it’s ok to make fun of a disease like that.

“that’s got so much sugar, it’ll give you diabetes!”

first of all THATS NOT HOW ANY TYPE OF DIABETES WORKS.

Second of all, even if it was, and people ‘gave diabetes to themselves’, it’s just not funny! Who gave you the right to make fun of a literal disabled person just because you think they deserve it because they ‘brought this onto themselves’? that’s fucked up! All types of diabetes have a genetic component, and specifically for type 2 diabetes, you don’t know that person’s circumstances. Recent studies are showing links between type 2 diabetes and poverty, as sugary overprocessed food like fast food is cheaper and sometimes more accessible. And once again, there’s still a genetic component.

‘that’ll give you diabetes’ jokes are just not funny. They’re insensitive, and as a type 1 they’re just a constant reminder that I have a disease that is heavily misunderstood and weighs on me every day. I’ve heard like 10 in the past week and just now heard another one and it was the last fucking straw. DON’T MAKE THEM.

supmynameisuseless

This is 100000% ok for non diabetics to reblog I would appreciate that very much

giuliafc

Diabetes killed my mother. It’s a very serious disease and it should be treated like a very serious disease.

Yes, stop the jokes. If you want to joke about sugar, say that it gives you cavities, not a disease that you know nothing about and that, on the long term, can literally KILL YOU.

Hugs op. Hope that the diabetes jokes disappear, i really do <3

filmnoirsbian

This energy

synsick

sems-diarie

white people in ukraine are actively pulling poc (asians, africans, middle easterners) off of escape transportation to make room for more white people. that needs to be recognized as a war crime and i’m so, deeply serious.

wheresthewater

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/open-door-die-africans-report-racism-hostility-trying-flee-ukraine-rcna17953

Thousands of African immigrants joining throngs of Ukrainians trying to flee the country say they face red tape and discrimination.

https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/people-of-color-are-having-a-harder-time-fleeing-ukraine.html

Black and South Asian civilians report being sent to the back of lines, pulled off trains and buses, and stranded at the border.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/african-students-racism-ukraine-invasion

Foreign students trying to reach the Ukrainian border said they were thrown off trains, not allowed on buses, and made to wait hours in the

absolutepowerabsolutley

Things People Who've Read Daniel Handler's Script Drafts Have Told Me About Them

- One draft had the entire TRR section done as a puppet show performed by Olaf, recounting the events in song form.

- In another draft, the VFD the spyglasses were originally pens.

- One of the drafts for the unmade sequel actually opened directly after the ending of the first movie. With the mailman who dropped off their parent's letter tearing off their disguise and being revealed to be a pregnant VFD agent...

- In one version of the sequel, the main plot would've involved VFD getting a coded book to the Baeudelaires. Said book being "The Luckiest Kids in the World - The Pony Party!".

- One draft of the unmade sequel combined books 5 and 6 and had the Baudelaires and Quagmires staying at 667 Dark Avenue when they first meet.

- Another had Dr Orwell in it as the principal villain.

- One of the drafts for the sequel opened with the kids going to Lucky Smells. As they stand at the gates and realize they are going to be working there, Klaus turns to Violet and says "look on the bright side, it can't possibly get any worse ".

It would then Smash Cut to the aftermath of TMM with police cars, reporters and so on, swarming the place. The Baudelaires, still looking dishevelled and bruised from their ordeal, would then be yanked into Mr Poe's car and dumped off at Prufrock for "causing a fuss".

zagreus

your crimes are known. the frog council sits in judgement.

joyfullyyouniquefangirl-deactiv

I opened Tumblr and almost screamed

zagreus

the guilt has hold of you. confess

whencartoonsruletheworld

the Luisa/Isabela merch thing is so funny to me but for reasons not everyone seems to understand. Like, it’s not that people don’t want Isabela merch, it’s that Disney marketed her in (accidentally?) the worst possible way

In case you don’t know, Disney Execs overstocked on Isabela merch as they expected her to be the breakout star of the film, except it’s not selling as well as they hoped. What is selling is Luisa merch– a lot of Luisa merch, actually, they keep selling out! (After this and the Namaari stuff I hope the execs get it through their skulls that buff women are good.) There’s a ton of funny memes about this but a few of the ones I’m seeing are kinda coming off as sexist– “we want the masculine girl and not the feminine one” vibes, ignoring the fact that Luisa is actually pretty feminine in characterization– as well as the fact that people are looking for merch of other feminine characters, such as Dolores and Pepa.

Cause the thing is, it’s not that people don’t want merch of Isabela, it’s that Disney overstocked on the wrong Isabela merch.

We find out in the movie that Isabela doesn’t like being reduced to the pretty one, the flowery one, the perfect one. With how quickly she stains her dress during her song, she doesn’t seem to like the color much either. Isabela is happy when making weird plants– cacti and sundew and “strangling figs,” giant trees and colorful, asymmetrical leaves. This is shown both overtly with her song and implicitly– before her revelation, she’s in a purpleish-pink, while the rest of her side of the family is blue. The more redder shade is likely to imitate Abuela Alma, who is color-coded in red. But after Isabela’s revelation, she first dresses in a splatter-paint dress that seems mainly black, and at the end of the film she excitedly changes into a dark blue dress, now matching her sisters and parents. This visually shows her change, and how she’s shed the image of someone she’s not in order to become herself.

It’s not unusual for Disney not to market spoilery outfits when the movie first drops. If you think back to 2019-2020, those Snow Queen Elsa and Queen Anna outfits didn’t drop for several months. So I’m not saying that the fact she’s in pink in the merch is complete proof that the execs didn’t get the message. The proof, though, is that all of her merch completely relies on the pink and the flowers.

Here’s some stuff I’ve seen everywhere in the last couple months (apparently not selling):

ID: Three images of Isabela merch. The first is a “Isabela Garden Room Playset,” which is colored in nothing but bright pinks and purples, with lots of petals. The next image is a pink t-shirt showing a silhouette of Isabela, with purple flowers overlaid and a cursive spelling of her name underneath her. The shirt is titled “Beautiful Isabela.” The next image is of a white-tshirt of Isabela smiling and holding a purple flower as more flowers surround her, with the text “Magical and Fantastical.” End ID.

See, that’s the thing, it’s not that Isabela is feminine– again, Aurora and Rapunzel are decked out in pink and purple and they still make Disney big bucks. It’s that Isabela, in-canon, does not like being viewed as the beautiful flower princess.

So here’s the thing with people who’ve seen the movie and want to get merch. Kids who like Isabela aren’t going to want her in the flowery appearance because that was when she wasn’t happy– or, if they’re not really old enough to process character stuff, they’ll think of it as “when she was mean.” Adult collectors aren’t going to want her flowery appearance because that was when she was unhappy and constrained, so they’re going to wait for the merch to drop of her in the black or blue dress.

Disney Execs, however, were fully convinced that she was going to sell because she was the pretty pink flower princess. So that’s what’s in all her merch, and that’s why it’s not selling, because that’s not who Isabela is. And then at the same time, they thought nobody would want Luisa merch bc ew girl with muscles… except she’s one of the most popular characters bc she’s a good character. The cousins they aren’t marketing are super popular as well because, oh yeah, this is a good movie with good characters and we like them for that reason and not just because of their appearance.

The best analogy I can come up with for this is: imagine if, in Frozen, we also didn’t know Elsa had ice powers and anxiety until the coronation. After the movie drops, Disney only sells Elsa in her coronation dress, overstocks on that, and ignores every other character. Yeah that’s what they’re doin rn

tl;dr Disney Execs are dumb as shit just start marketing Isabela as the deranged cactus sister and you’ll start seeing an upswing in sales probably

vfdbaudelairefile13

This is brilliantly said.

monfufu

hi im bitter about people not commenting on fics. im sad seeing all these authors get so discouraged because no one comments. it takes like 5 seconds! just do it!! dont know what to type? me neither! heres some handy pre-written comments for you! “I dont know what to comment! That was great! thank you for your hard work!” “That was lovely! I really enjoyed this chapter/fic.” “How dare you?” “AAAAAAAAAAAAA” “Extra kudos because one is not enough!” if you read a fic and dont know what to say, leave the tab open, come back later! see if theres a line you really liked! tell them if it reminded you of something dumb! tell them if your roommate saw you crying while reading it and now your roommate is reading it!!! SHARE WHATEVER. BE INCLUSIVE! everyone wants to hear SOMETHING. silence kills passion. show authors you care! show artists you care!!!!

dangerbabegang

What to do if you suddenly find yourself homeless

FOOD

Find your nearest food bank or mission, for food

grocery stores with free samples, bakeries + stores with day-old bread

different fast food outlets have cheaper food and will generally let you hang out for a while.

some dollar stores carry food like cans of beans or fruit

SHELTER

Sleeping at beaches during the day is a good way to avoid suspicion and harassment

sleep with your bag strapped to you, so someone can’t steal it

Some churches offer short term residence

Find your nearest homeless shelter

Look for places that are open to the public

A large dumpster near a wall can often be moved so that flipping up the lids creates an angled shelter to stay dry

HYGIENE

A membership to the YMCA is usually only 10$, which has a shower, and sometimes laundry machines and lockers.

Public libraries have bathrooms you can use

Dollar stores carry low-end soaps and deodorant etc.

Wet wipes are all purpose and a life saver

Local beaches, go for a quick swim

Some truck stops have showers you can pay for

Staying clean is the best way to prevent disease, and potentially get a job to get back on your feet

Pack 7 pairs of socks/undies, 2 outfits, and one hooded rain jacket

OTHER

first aid kit

sunscreen

a travel alarm clock or watch

mylar emergency blanket

a backpack is a must

downgrade your cellphone to a pay as you go with top-up cards

sleeping bag

travel kit of toothbrush, hair brush/comb, mirror

swiss army knife

can opener

spork-of-humanity

Reblog to literally save a life

hipsandheartbreak

if there is a Dollar Tree near you, they have entire food aisles

Planet Fitness also has $10 memberships. you can shower and they have free food days! pizza night 1st monday every month, bagel tuesday the 2nd tuesday every month.

himynameisrollin-deactivated201

Save a life reblog

kukachoosays

i am so glad that i renblogged this however so long ago. i saw this post and shared it with others in mind, but now i am the one who really needs this. id like to think of this as good karma i guess

comrade-jiang

also a good list if anyone ever needs to run away from home for whatever reason.

rwby-rose

writing multi-chapter fics be like

midnight-octopus-deactivated202

character: it’s like I said-

me, scrolling through to seven chapters ago, muttering under my breath: yeah, what DID you say

funnytwittertweets

aureliaborealis

this is how antivaxxers argue lmao

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

“On July 31, 1968, a young, black man was reading the newspaper when he saw something that he had never seen before. With tears in his eyes, he started running and screaming throughout the house, calling for his mom. He would show his mom, and, she would gasp, seeing something she thought she would never see in her lifetime. Throughout the nation, there were similar reactions.

What they saw was Franklin Armstrong’s first appearance on the iconic comic strip “Peanuts.” Franklin would be 50 years old this year.

Franklin was “born” after a school teacher, Harriet Glickman, had written a letter to creator Charles M. Schulz after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death outside his Memphis hotel room.

Glickman, who had kids of her own and having worked with kids, was especially aware of the power of comics among the young. “And my feeling at the time was that I realized that black kids and white kids never saw themselves [depicted] together in the classroom,” she would say.

She would write, “Since the death of Martin Luther King, ‘I’ve been asking myself what I can do to help change those conditions in our society which led to the assassination and which contribute to the vast sea of misunderstanding, hate, fear and violence.‘”

Glickman asked Schulz if he could consider adding a black character to his popular comic strip, which she hoped would bring the country together and show people of color that they are not excluded from American society.

She had written to others as well, but the others feared it was too soon, that it may be costly to their careers, that the syndicate would drop them if they dared do something like that.

Charles Schulz did not have to respond to her letter, he could have just completely ignored it, and everyone would have forgotten about it. But, Schulz did take the time to respond, saying he was intrigued with the idea, but wasn’t sure whether it would be right, coming from him, he didn’t want to make matters worse, he felt that it may sound condescending to people of color.

Glickman did not give up, and continued communicating with Schulz, with Schulz surprisingly responding each time. She would even have black friends write to Schulz and explain to him what it would mean to them and gave him some suggestions on how to introduce such a character without offending anyone. This conversation would continue until one day, Schulz would tell Glickman to check her newspaper on July 31, 1968.

On that date, the cartoon, as created by Schulz, shows Charlie Brown meeting a new character, named Franklin. Other than his color, Franklin was just an ordinary kid who befriends and helps Charlie Brown. Franklin also mentions that his father was “over at Vietnam.” At the end of the series, which lasted three strips, Charlie invites Franklin to spend the night one day so they can continue their friendship.

There was no big announcement, there was no big deal, it was just a natural conversation between two kids, whose obvious differences did not matter to them. And, the fact that Franklin’s father was fighting for this country was also a very strong statement by Schulz.

Although Schulz never made a big deal over the inclusion of Franklin, there were many fans, especially in the South, who were very upset by it and that made national news. One Southern editor even said, “I don’t mind you having a black character, but please don’t show them in school together.”

It would eventually lead to a conversation between Schulz and the president of the comic’s distribution company, who was concerned about the introduction of Franklin and how it might affect Schulz’ popularity. Many newspapers during that time had threatened to cut the strip.

Schulz’ response: “I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin – he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, “Well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?”

Eventually, Franklin became a regular character in the comic strips, and, despite complaints, Franklin would be shown sitting in front of Peppermint Patty at school and playing center field on her baseball team.

More recently, Franklin is brought up on social media around Thanksgiving time, when the animated 1973 special “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” appears. Some people have blamed Schulz for showing Franklin sitting alone on the Thanksgiving table, while the other characters sit across him. But, Schulz did not have the same control over the animated cartoon on a television network that he did on his own comic strip in the newspapers.

But, he did have control over his own comic strip, and, he courageously decided to make a statement because of one brave school teacher who decided to ask a simple question.

Glickman would explain later that her parents were “concerned about others, and the values that they instilled in us about caring for and appreciating everyone of all colors and backgrounds — this is what we knew when we were growing up, that you cared about other people … And so, during the years, we were very aware of the issues of racism and civil rights in this country [when] black people had to sit at the back of the bus, black people couldn’t sit in the same seats in the restaurants that you could sit … Every day I would see, or read, about black children trying to get into school and seeing crowds of white people standing around spitting at them or yelling at them … and the beatings and the dogs and the hosings and the courage of so many people in that time.”

Because of Glickman, because of Schulz, people around the world were introduced to a little boy named Franklin.” (Source: The Jon S. Randal Peace Page, Facebook)

llliiillliiilll

Honestly Charles Schultz doesn’t get enough appreciation. He made one of the most iconic comics and franchises in the world that has been positively influencing children’s childhoods for decades, and he used it’s influence to show that kids of all races should be loved and included the same. He did what hardly (if) any other white comic artists in his time did, at the request of Harriet Glickman who was “just” a schoolteacher, and he was careful to do it the right way by listening to black people.

Franklin’s addition to the strips wasn’t made to be a big deal; he was treated like any other kid, but that’s what made it such a big deal.

Even though he knew doing the right thing-treating all children the equally-could really ruin him, he went through with it. When he started to feel the repercussions, he didn’t give a damn. Because of him (and very much Harriet Glickman), black children had a character to read about that was just like them, and included as much as a white child.

I just really love Peanuts and wish more people were as competent as the strip’s maker. We need more Charles Schultz-es in the world.