#American medicine is a fucking joke
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So... part of why I've been so hard to find lately is because I'm basically a caregiver for my mom who has both Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's. Recently she had a very severe MS flareup which has affected her cognitive functions, among other things.
The usual treatment to get the MS under control is steroids, very high dosages of them. After the initial flare things seemed to stabilize for like a week, one day she’s suddenly bouncing between catatonic and delirious. After spending the better part of a week in the hospital I got her back a couple of days ago. What happened? Until literally the last second, nobody knew, 'til I brought up the steroids again.
Turns out, steroid psychosis is a thing. High or prolonged use can trigger delirium, delusions, cognitive dysfunction and emotional disturbances. How the fuck does nobody mention this in the 30-odd years of seeking medical care for MS?! Thinking back, I don't think this was the first time steroids resulted in her going 'peculiar', but this is only the second severe flareup I've been a caregiver for.
I tend to hide the extended text for 'life' stuff, but this is fucking important. There's a limited awareness of this on the internet and much of it is in the context of fucking jokes.
Edit: Aaaand she’s in the hospital again. Relapse? Stroke? Too soon to say. GOD THIS MONTH HAS SUCKED.
#multiple sclerosis#parkinson's disease#life stuff#steroid psychosis#American medicine is a fucking joke
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(sorry this is from a week ago but) Wait, what's going on right now that's complicated with Amazonian farmers' land rights?
Not farmers, indigenous people
See, recently they put a new law through congress that severely reduces indigenous land to the borders established during the late dictatorship, or immediately post-dictatorship, in 1988. An absolute joke of a border that was dreamed up by some military assholes. People in america may recognize this type of society from the times of westward expansion and think this is a thing of the past because for you guys it is. But here it is a reality. Murder is rampant. The reach of the law is incredibly limited. Government is just too weak and landowners basically run things. THAT'S WHY it's so important to donate directly to the native peoples instead of random NGOs because native people are fucking there and the more power they hold in the land the safer the land will be from agroindustrial expansion.
Well the law was vetoed by the the president and the Supremo Tribunal Federal, aka supreme federal court, labeled it as unconstitutional. Which it is, because our 1988 constitution describes native american land rights in some of its first articles. We thought this would be it for the law
But then the senate (that already overrepresents landowners in rural states) just went along and approved it anyway. I had no idea they could approve something unconstitutional. The progressives and particularly the socialists are fighting this in court. But it happens that for now the legal border is the severely reduced version.
Doesn't mean they'll just give up, because as it happens we don't have any stand your ground laws so even if you own a piece of land, you cannot legally speaking just shoot everyone there. Or attack or threaten them in any way. They'll just have long legal battles individually for the rights to occupy land based on use. Also the Xingu national park, the largest preserved land of the Amazon described as 'larger than Belgium', is being encroached by huge farms that are poisoning their water supply. The border is Visible. I'll try to find video of it but essentially you have a forest and a desert separated by a strict line.
Just last week in the south of Bahia (not the Amazon, let me explain more about the Amazon situation in a bit) Hãhãhãe leadership Nega Muniz Pataxó was shot and killed by an armed militia group that invaded and occupied the Caramuru territory.
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The situation in the Amazon, specifically the yanomami territory in Roraima our northernmost state, aka deep forest, is more dire than average given difficulty of access, sheer size, and government abandonment. It's a place that depends on government aid for medicine. It's land that is being systematically invaded by gold miners, pandemic, toxins from nearby farmlands, wood extraction etc. (wood extration is rampant everywhere tho). Early 2023 saw a massive federal government operation by now president Lula to empty the mines and try to look for where funding comes from. Yanomami land is still being invaded to this day, the struggle is ongoing.
The yanomamis need support right now more than any other. Last year saw a massive heat wave that (well, one, caused a girl named Ana Clara Machado to die during the Taylor Swift concert. This is unrelated but I feel like not enough foreign media covered this, Taylor even lied about it as well.) dried up a lot of rivers, killed a LOT of fresh water animals including an unprecedented amount of pink dolphins. Access that was already hard became damn near impossible without boats. I cannot overstate how many pink dolphins were found dead.
Another technique that landowners use to clear space for farms is to just set things on fire and then occupy the empty land, which they legally can do to land that was naturally burned in a forest fire. It happened that Pantanal, another national park of swampland, was massively devastated by fires last year too
this article is from 2020, the year that the worst fire happened, but in 2023 there was another one. It's been happening yearly now due to a) deliberate action and b) climate change aggravation.
And this is not nearly all. Just off the top of my head. If you speak portuguese I recommend following the APIB or the COIAB on instagram to keep up with the news. The FUNAI is the government branch of indigenous organization, but it's not generally that well liked. Still.
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On a serious note, why do you not like Derision? I mean, I can guess why, but I’m genuinely curious to hear your thoughts (if you want to).
What have they done to my boy?!
I guess we'll start with the whole "trauma" thing since that's how the episode starts - with Marinette going on a date with Adrien at the pool but constantly getting heart palpitations at the very idea of it. And not good lovey-dovey crush ones like Sabine thinks. The Actual Panic Attack kind.
This just feels unnecessary AND too late. Unnecessary because there are plenty of pre-established reasons why Marinette could be hesitant to go all in with Adrien (Being Ladybug, the 354th other times going for Adrien has failed or left her humiliated, Being Ladybug). So I don't know why they invented a trauma for her in the final hour and didn't think it was worth talking about before now?
They really came up with this whole scheme to explain why Marinette does Marinette things, like learning Adrien's schedule, planning out everything before she tries to make a move, needing to know everything about him, as if the show hasn't been mocking her for these exact traits and allowing them to blow up in her face over and over again. But NOW it's due to her TRAUMA. So...retroactively when her friends laughed at her or slapped their foreheads in frustration or the show framed her failures as a joke...we know it's actually from a tragic place and can't laugh anymore.
I mean, I was never laughing, but you get what I mean. They framed it like it was part of the comedy and now they're pulling the rug out from under themselves. How are you supposed to laugh when Adrien brings Marinette constipation medicine, or when her pictures of him are blasted all over Paris Television, or the *ugh* Statue Scene plays out and now you know that this is just adding to her pre-existing trauma? They have shot the show's rewatch value.
I never thought Marinette needed a "reason" act the way she was because those were always just kinda The Things Teenage Girls Do when they have a crush. I've admitted in the past to learning my crush's class schedule just to orchestrate running into each other in the hallways more often, and if their crush had public interviews and magazine pictures, I'm pretty sure most kids would also cut out their pictures to keep and would read and remember the interviews. I never really saw her behavior as that weird for a girl her age with a crush and recognize some cartoon exaggeration.
...Stealing his phone was a little weird, though, I'll give them that though Alya is the one who suggested it first...
SO, we enter a long flashback to One Year Ago (with Marinette now on her third Almost-Akumatization, good lord) and learn what life was like for Marinette pre-Origins, and oh boy. It's hell. She's making up illnesses to avoid school, avoiding all contact with anyone in the courtyard, having cockroaches put in her locker, having the Principal catch her "late" for class (after she had to clean herself up from a water prank), gets yelled at by the teacher for being late, sits in paint, mocked in class and then yelled at again by the teacher for pointing out the person mocking her probably planted it, and gets Saturday detention. All in one day. And when anyone tries to talk to her or even glares at the person responsible, they get threatened too.
The main reason this is hell is because Marinette is being let down by every single adult in her life. Sabine just laughs and tells Marinette that she only has a few weeks left with Chloe and it's not like she'll be in the same class as her next year.🙃 Well, why don't you make SURE she doesn't?! Maybe this is just an American vs French school thing, but where I come from, it's totally within your rights to request that your child not be put in the same class as someone else, they could at least put in a throw away line about her parents TRYING to move her, but Chloe's not allowing it JUST to keep Marinette close to her. And maybe take this a little more seriously, Sabine- your daughter is faking illness to avoid One. Girl. That should be concerning, not "lol my daughter is so silly for trying to get out of class."
Damocles finds Marinette and yells at her for being "constantly late" and praising the "anonymous notes" (signed by Chloe -_-) for always alerting him when she's behind, and then later gives her Saturday detention for...someone clearly planting paint on her desk chair? He sees a victim of bullying and punishes her for it. At the end of the episode he even suspends Socqueline for something that happened outside of school, yet in "Jubilation" she's pumping him up as The Best Principal?! Does this show thinks we're stupid or something?!
Mendeleiev also yells at Marinette for being late. She allows Chloe to make fun of Marinette for looking depressed when she comes in and allows Chloe to mock Marinette for sitting in paint, but when Marinette doesn't even stand up for herself but just accuses Chloe of putting the paint there, THEN Mendeleiev has something to say, and it's to Marinette? For "groundlessly" accusing the only person in the room laughing at Marinette, the one who was just making fun of her, the one who kept her eyes on Marinette so she could watch her sit in the paint?
Marinette tells Socqueline that all the adults are scared of Chloe, but that's not what I saw. Sure, at the end of the episode Damocles is afraid when Chloe pulls a "Lady Wifi" to force him to punish Socqueline for smashing Sabrina's phone, but the sequence of events played out more like the adults participating in the bullying. It wasn't like Damocles was sympathetic to Marinette and then Chloe cleared her throat, so he straightened up nervously and started berating Marinette. It wasn't like Marinette accused Chloe and then Chloe glared at Mendeleiev, forcing her to finally intervene. All the adults see what's going on and are either completely oblivious or don't care.
Also, Chloe totally unprompted says this:
GET A LIFE, what is your PROBLEM?! Like, why have a flashback episode and not have it explain what Chloe's fixation on Marinette even is?! It doesn't have to be big or anything! Like, have Marinette trip and spill something on Chloe in art class! Just do something!
And like, I totally get that irl bullies just choose their targets for no real reason and this is just another example of that, but to this level?! Just...get a hobby!
And then there's the big thing they did in this stupid episode. The unforgivable. The reprehensible.
This fucking guy.
It's been so long since we've seen Bully Kim that I was pretty sure he was left behind entirely on the draft floor. Sure, Kim is still capable of being insensitive or not thinking long-term, but he was a good kid. He roots for his friends and wants everyone to have a good time.
Hell, I could even buy that Kim was dumb enough to believe Chloe when she claims what he did was a funny practical joke that they'd all laugh about later...until Socqueline came up and yelled at him that he should be ashamed of himself.
And Ondine yelled at him in the present that he should be ashamed of himself.
And it's a year later and he should have realized by now that he should be ashamed of himself.
Kim is dumb, that's just a fact, but the way he doubles down and is so sure of himself that NO it's everyone ELSE who has a problem because they can't take a JOKE? Like...why?! Why did they co-sign on this character assassination?!
Just make him become akumatized because he's A S H A M E D of what he did now that he's finally sitting down and thinking about it a year later! He can keep the same look and motif, just have Monarch stroke the part of him that doesn't want him to be the jerk, the old Kim! It's totally normal, especially for a kid, to want to believe that they're not the bad guy even with all the evidence pointing to it, so I could even see the akuma being exactly the same.
But naur, it's KIM who talks like a right-wing podcast douche bag, complaining that you can't just speak your mind these days and everyone needs to get a sense of humor, they just don't GET it man, this is just how he IS brah, take it or leave it! His akuma's even named "Dark Humor", like edgy losers on reddit who make racist/sexist jokes and then get mad when he's downvoted and boo'd out of a forum. God, we just CAN'T TAKE A JOKE I guess.
I'm glad this is resolved by Ladybug gluing a toilet to his head.
I just...I feel like this could've worked in Season 1, or Season 2. Like...put it before Dark Cupid or before Syren or something. That way, Kim being a total douche is the starting point of his character arc, not the Season 5 Post-Hero Run point, ugh.
It'd also make this stupid line make more sense:
I'm sorry, the girl who got you akumatized after she humiliated you in nearly the same way you humiliated Marinette? I guess that was "just a prank bro" too, right?
Establish Marinette's problems with romance early, so she can overcome them or at least give them the proper context. It'd at least make the show look better if they hadn't made fun of her for 4 Seasons only to drop this bombshell on us at the end. You know...the thing that they just did.
This episode just isn't fun. I hated "Illusion" because all you get to see is the bad guys winning and outsmarting the heroes, but "Derision" is a marathon of seeing the absolute misery Marinette was put through, just to jump forward to the present to destroy a character that I really liked.
Would a kid even like this episode?
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AITA for making my mom’s boyfriend feel bad on purpose?
disclaimer: my parents have an open marriage
so i (20m, northern cheyenne) don’t have a problem with the modern celebration of thanksgiving.
really. i don’t.
the whole “pilgrims and indians” schtick is gross, but i find that generally, outside of elementary schools, nobody thinks about that part very much. people mostly just want to see their families and eat weird food. and i fucks w that.
the problem comes in with my mom’s boyfriend.
my mom (52f) is white, but she’s been married to my dad (53m) who is also northern cheyenne for 26 years. she’s the DEI coordinator for our county’s public school system and she’s one of my favorite most trusted shire people ever. so i never really have to censor myself around her. i can make jokes and complain and vent and etc etc etc. she’ll always listen.
her BOYFRIEND though.
i really do like my mom’s boyfriend (41m). he’s super cool, recommends good books, teaches me about plumbing, all sorts of other Manly Step Dad Shit (/hj).
but he is decidedly extremely caucasian. like so white.
he’s not /racist/ but he’s that in-between that a lot of white people are where they’re never mean, but you gotta watch what you say around them bc they bruise like a two week old apple.
there have been a few instances where i have in fact bruised his sensitive white man apple skin.
1) i was listening to a podcast with my mom about people indigenous to Hawai’i protecting Mauna Kea. we were listening to it out loud in our living room, and her boyfriend came in and listened for a few minutes before asking me to turn it off because it was “depressing”. fair enough. i figured he was having a rough day and i turned it off. (side note, it was All My Relations, “For the Love of the Mauna”.)
2) we were driving somewhere and trading off command of the AUX. i put on a song by Nahko and Medicine for the People, specifically their parody of “My Country Tis of Thee”. he again said he didn’t like it, it was depressing, and could I please turn it off. i did.
3) this is where i’m the asshole. we’re planning for thanksgiving, and i mentioned wanting to do a anticolonial thanksgiving. we’d watch some stuff about the wampanoag tribe (first contact tribe at plymouth rock), i’d make frybread and fried squash blossoms (along w my mom who would make the thanksgiving basics) we’d have a grand old time. her boyfriend asks why we can’t just enjoy thanksgiving without making it too political.
i’m like. that’s not political? it’s cultural?
and he says that to him it feels self flagellating and it would make him feel bad.
and i said honestly? the idea of thanksgiving’s history makes Me feel bad. and not to complain dude, but as an american indian, it’s always about you, and never, ever about me. so truly, i don’t care if you feel bad. we’re not doing a fucking colonized thanksgiving in this house. so if you’re just here for that sham bullshit, go and stay gone.
my mom says she agrees with me that an attempt at a decolonized thanksgiving is a good idea and a good compromise for our mixed family, but that i was way too harsh on her boyfriend and should’ve tried explaining in a kinder way first, since he’s really not educated on this stuff. i see where she’s coming from; i worry i might’ve scared him off of ever learning about cultural decolonization. ik it’s not my responsibility to make him care, but that doesn’t change the fact that plenty of white people are subconsciously looking for a reason not to care about natives, and by being a dick i might’ve just handed him that reason. so not only was i an asshole to him, but an asshole to my community at large by disservicing our reputation.
idk. i think i ruined thanksgiving :/
What are these acronyms?
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OK, I lived through the AIDS crisis. I was a young person questioning my sexuality at arguably the worst possible time in American history. I discovered the word "bisexual" (hooray I have a label) only to read a few days later in mainstream news about how "bisexuals were responsible for spreading AIDS to the hetero community" which was a take that was tolerated on national news shows at the time. The only sex education I had in my entire public education was a film we were forced to watch about how you could get AIDS from french kissing (you can't) and heavy petting (which we didn't know what it was because it was outdated old people code for oral lol)...
The entire LGBTQIA plus community was not attacked as a monolith, the focus of hate came on gay men, because they were the most obviously effected and also the most visible and prominent in the community. The rest of the community did their best to embrace and protect them. (For example lesbian groups that were on the front lines of caring for people who were sick when no one else would...).
And there were people like myself who identified as allies but were in a place where they didn't feel safe to come out themselves. I did not come out at that time because even though I was in accepting local community at University and working at a feminist journal I knew I would lose friends and family and possibly future work opportunities. Being Bi it was easier to blend in for me and I took advantage of that. Part of the reason I hesitated so long about coming out was I felt a lot of guilt that I didn't come out in the 90s during the AIDS crisis. I felt like a coward who wasn't worthy to stand with such brave people.
It took me a long time to let go of that self-hate to the point where I could come out. A big part of it was acknowledging how fucked up the climate for LGBTQIA folks in the 80s and 90s. We had two family friends (which is how I knew I would probably be rejected by a lot of my family) who died of AIDS. Yes, these were brilliant, creative men who worked in theater. One of them was the props coordinator for Late Night with David Letterman (responsible for building Dave's velcro suit etc.). I also have a peer who died of AIDS in the early 2000s, long after the disease had supposedly been "not a death sentence" who also happened to be an actor.
Despite their lack of political involvement, they were be seen as radical just because they lived openly as gay men in a society that hated them and wanted them dead, and only tolerated them if they were the "fun gays" who weren't actually threatening the status quo...
Being in theater or the arts was a survival tactic for a lot of people ya know because it was a more accepting environment and because it wasn't considered important like politics, medicine, science etc. (Miss me with the gays can't do math jokes. A gay man invented the fucking computer).
The gay men I knew in long-term monogamous relationships survived the worst of the crisis and they automatically became "respectability queers" for having not died and wanting jobs with health insurance etc. Because one dude follows his dream of working in theater and the other quits theater and goes to work at the phone company and buys a house with his partner, one is fun and the other boring? One is a creative genius creating culture and the other is a consumer of cultural pap? Wow. Great take.
FUCK. I'm just getting so angry thinking about this. You want to know why it took me till I was FIFTY fucking years old to come out: AIDS. That's it. ONE Fucking word.
Sorry I have no idea WHY I fucking started this other than I saw a shitty post that said, our culture became boring because all the fun gays died and left only the boring gays who only care about marriage or whatever.
#Also: what the fuck is wrong with CATS and ghostbusters???#both are great#both have their value#if you want to bitch about marvel or shitty broadway musicals then do it#please don't throw all the old gays under the bus for being boring while you do it#also there was that post yesterday about Anthony Perkins and I did not realize he died of AIDS#I don't know how I missed it...oh it happened in 1992 when I wasn't living at home and didn't have a tv...#sometimes the sex positive bubble of tumblr will prefer the LOLZ lifetime achievment of fucking take#over the he was conflicted because all of society hated him for being gay and many many shitty people rejoiced I'm sure when he died take#as they did when other prominent gay men died of AIDS#PS: those are the same people trying to pass legislation attacking trans people#the same fucking people
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god knows there's a lot of antisemitic microaggressions from "friends" that i'm willing to let slide. genuinely my standards aren't that high. which is obvious based on the people i was friends with pre-oct 7th lol. but like i do have limits and those limits have been crossed by
expressing a desire to join hamas/the houthis
expressing open support for hamas and oct 7th
referring to oct 7th as "legitimate resistance/oppressed rising up/revolution/freedom fighting"
denying oct 7th happened at all
insisting shani louk is alive (she is not, while her family had hope at first they have since found pieces of her she could not have survived losing)
joking about october 7th
joking about the holocaust
saying jews didn't "learn their lesson" from the holocaust
denying the holocaust
denying other jewish genocides
mocking the hostages and their families
wishing death on the hostages
using "zio"
saying israelis need to go back to brooklyn/florida/poland/etc
saying jews were and have always been well-treated in MENA regions
openly fetishizing and lying about mizrahi/sephardic jews
saying antisemitism doesn't exist/is over
saying ashkenazism don't face antisemitism
saying judaism is a dominant world religion
saying zionists/AIPAC/israel are controlling companies/the government/biden/trump/US military/US police/hollywood
mocking hebrew and jewish culture
mocking jewish holidays
treating jewish holidays as inherently evil
saying that israeli government crimes are being done in "our [jews'] names" and we bear the guilt for it
saying "happy [jewish holiday/memorial day] now stop doing genocide!!!"
saying diaspora jews are okay but not israeli ones
saying all israelis need to die/deserve to die/are settlers who therefore deserve to die
saying jews have no culture/stole all culture from muslims/arabs/christians
open insane blood libel conspiracies about (for example) israelis kidnapping blonde palestinian children or digging up graves for organ/skin theft
referring to israeli "blood money"
spreading and endorsing neo-nazis
spreading and endorsing holocaust deniers and other bigots ie norman finkelstein
spreading and endorsing avowed tankies, NK/russia supporters, and deniers of the ukrainian/uyghur/armenian/syrian/etc genocides
spreading rhetoric from other hate groups ie neturei karta
sharing cartoons of octopi, big-nosed evil men, netanyahu and co eating babies, etc
spreading conspiracy theories about spotify or tumblr or what the fuck ever being controlled by """zionist""" CEOs (and even explicitly stating they're jewish when they often aren't)
belittling ANY anti-antisemitism movement as anti-palestinian
using terms like "zionist rats/pigs/filth"
"all zionists should die/kill themselves/aren't human/should be gassed"
"the zionist entity/zionist state"
"hitler loved israel/was a zionist"
"[x] is worse than the holocaust"/"the holocaust is the only genocide that's taken seriously bc it's a genocide of white people"/"get over the holocaust"
being creepy and ogling about the token good jews that meet your insane standards
weighing in on deeply personal intracommunity jewish discussions in horrible ways
telling Good Jews that you’re so sorry about how isolated they’re being by the majority of jews, which are Bad Jews
saying not to donate to palestinian aid groups bc it could make israel money bc israel controls all the aid groups apparently bc they're just so greedy and want so much money
did i mention je-isra-zionists really love money
movements against "zionism in medicine" and other witch hunts against "zionist" (jewish) people in professions
participating in mass harassment movements and callouts against random jews online asking people to stop being antisemitic
openly calling for violence against jews and/or israelis
claims of dual loyalty against diaspora jews
support the american south bc they're victims of their government too (true) but kill all the israelis bc they definitely support every action taken by their government (hm)
jokes and memes. the fucking memes. you're monsters
"but lace, this is hyperbole, surely nobody is actually saying these things " -- these are all literally, exactly, personally things my "friends" and mutuals have said and reblogged/retweeted since october 7th. if you're reading this now there is a 99% chance you are one of them.
and yes i fucking hate the israeli government. what is happening in palestine is evil. i'm a nonzionist jew.
but i know that's not enough. unless you're a token in "jewish" voice for """peace""" willing to say "kill every single israeli and the holocaust wasn't a big deal and 10/7 didn't happen and antisemitism isn't real and i have never been afraid as a jew in my life" you're one of Them. Being pro palestine or even antizionist isn't enough, you have to want your whole family dead and you can't say a fucking word about the way you're treated by your lovely leftist "allies". oh and you better post about it! constantly! 24/7!!!! or you're secretly a zionist who loves dead palestinian babies! probably personally killing them yourself! you filthy ki- er, zionist rat!
so, yeah, if you think i'm one of Them, that's fine. feel free to block me, i'd much prefer if you did. and let me be clear that jews are not exempt from this either. it's reprehensible regardless
i am not your fucking good jew. If you have ever thought of me as one, fuck you. You are not my good goy, either. Fuck your bugs bunny "i wish all my jewish mutuals a happy rosh hashanah." Fuck your "pictures of African Jews worshipping" tokenism and "jews fighting god" memes. Fuck your nazi punches and your Anne Frank headcanons. Fuck all your disgusting pats on the back and keep my fucking name out of your mouth. If you can't stop reblogging blood libel then I don't want to see another goddamn WORD of it.
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BACK WITH MORE MEDIC ANGST. perhaps scout goes to the infirmary for his daily Annoy Medic Time but instead of being satisfyingly irritated like he usually is, medic is having a really bad horrible day and just. starts crying? and scout freaks out because hes never seen medic cry before, never thought he was capable of crying, especially over something so seemingly small
OHHHH i love making grown men cry
It was an exceptionally shitty day today. Medic awoke to a sick Archimedes sitting on the floor of the medbay. With a baby bottle, he carefully fed the poor bird his medicine. Now, its a nerve racking waiting game to see if it was effective. All Medic can do is isolate Archimedes in a separate cage while he rests.
After that, Scout began his obnoxious ritual as usual. He banged on the swinging doors before barging in with his shouting. What he was bragging or whining or whatever about was lost to Medic. It was just noise. He shooed the man away, trying to focus on the stack of paperwork at his desk.
The Administrator was forcing a strict budget this month. He should have known it would happen. His erratic spending from those whale organs was biting him in the ass. Medic sighs, scratching out another calculation. Not enough money for syringes.
“Yo, doc! Yo! Hey! Doc, hey!” Scout enters the medbay once again. He looks around, eyes landing on the hunched over doctor. He saunters towards the man, both hands loudly smacking on the table as if it was a drum. Scout laughs, grabbing papers to look at them.
“What’s this? Math? That’s dumb. Come watch me work out. I’m doing weights today. Gotta stay ripped.” The American punctuates his statement by flexing his noodle arms. He grunts as if there was any muscle to display.
“No, Scout. I’m busy.” Medic shakes his head, muttering. He takes back the papers to continue working. No, not enough money towards IV needles. Maybe he can cut back on gloves? No, they’ll rip during battles.
“Aw, doc! Don’t be like that! C’mon, let’s go! Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go.” Scout continues repeating himself while shaking Medic’s shoulders. The younger loudly groans, trying to will Medic away from his work.
The German stands, flat hands slammed against his table. Scout steps back with a laugh. Now he did it! Medic lowers his head, shoulders shaking as his glasses begin to slide. A sob emits from his quivering lips. Tears stream down his face. Its too much. Everything is just too fucking much.
“Woah, dude, you good? Uh, this is weird.” Scout slowly inches away from Medic. He thought Germans weren’t able to cry! They can’t make jokes, so how would they know how to cry too? Its just…weird seeing Medic be anything other than angry and giggly.
“Just…please go. I need to be alone.” Medic wipes his face and lets out a shaky sigh. God, he’s so exhausted. He steps away, leaving the mess of paperwork on his desk. Archimedes needs to be checked on.
Poor bbygurl -H
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Positives about Poor Things:
The costuming is gorgeous
The black and white segment was really cool, I like how it reminded me of Begotten in terms of being bizarre as fuck
I love Godwin constantly casually dropping the most wild childhood trauma out of nowhere.
The sets and colors were beautiful and rhe musical scoring was incredible.
I love Alfie’s fate because it’s befitting for him considering how he treated Victoria once then planned on treating Bella a million times worse.
I love seeing Mark Ruffalo’s character going slowly insane it was dramatic and incredible.
Negatives about Poor Things:
Unpopular opinion on Tumblr but yes the sex was fucking excessive. I didn’t need a good chunk of the movie to be devoted to Emma Stone’s tits and her orgasm face. If you cut most the sex scenes it would take nothing from the story.
Also knowing it is a movie adapted from a book adds something to look at and it is incredibly interesting with the book Bella’s time as a sex worker in the Victorian era gave her a chance to see the suffering of women and to learn about sexually transmitted diseases and decide she wants to go on to learn medicine to help women who can’t afford doctors while in the movie being a sex worker in one of the worst eras to exist as a woman was just mostly for funsies and as a way to pay for medical school. There was never a fucking downside to being a female sex worker in this movie, it’s dressed up glossier than the music video for Mr. Brightside. Bella doesn’t even mention STDs until a different character ask if she’s been tested and she says she will get tested.
That’s it.
Something that killed countless young girls and women in those types of jobs is thrown out as a one off joke and nothing more.
Which is….Gross.
Also the film only shows the suffering of humanity once. From a distance in a pretentious way that literally looks like a painting.
We see a glossy beautiful restaurant and down below are naked suffering bodies in the “slums”. We know nothing about this. Just Bella screams and cries upon seeing people suffer and says she wants to be a doctor to save said people. Which makes no real sense.
Also why did we get this form of human suffering? Why from a distance in a random pit in the middle of the ocean? Why not explain what the fuck is happening instead of fixing on the dramatically screaming white woman? The fact the movie dares to again just focus on how the wealthy white woman feels about people suffering is insane as fuck. All the better by Emma Stone winning an Oscar over the first Native American nominee and awkwardly apologizing for winning.
Which for me a lot of the issues with Poor Things comes down to it focusing solely on beauty and sex and constantly scaring itself away from darker subjects or more depressing ones.
The movie is fun but it would have been better if it didn’t occasionally pretend to actually have any sort of meaning.
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I’m a loyal fan, been subscribed to the channel since 2013. I’ve gotten so attached to SMG4 and its cast of characters that ideas have started to form in my head. No joke, I even managed to come up with an idea for a whole arc at work today. And if it didn’t mean so much to me I never would have gone as far as to share it, because SOMEONE out there has to hear it. I ended up further developing the idea of this arc in my head, and it resulted in me conceiving an entire story stemming from Mario eating a Deep Fried Twinkie.
A strange traveler crashes into Mario’s yard, with the plumber believing it to have been a prize from his can of Spaghetti-O’s.
At a closer inspection, however, he would soon come to realize this prize is no mere plastic trinket.
The events that follow take Mario on an epic quest, one that provides a treasure greater than Spaghetti. With the help of his new pals Dizzy the Egg and Indian-American alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra, Mario crosses a multitude of realms between dimensional rifts to find the legendary Berserker Badge.
With the plumber seemingly gone from the world of SMG4, how will our colorful cast of characters deal with this unexpected change?
Refusing to accept the worst-case scenario, Meggy and our oh-so lovable Glitchy boi set out to find a lead to their friend’s whereabouts and bring him back home where he belongs.
Because in spite of his antics, there are people who truly care about that idiot.
Part 1:
Act I:
Mario Fucking Dies After Eating a Deep Fried Twinkie.mp4
Diagonal Mario
Act II:
Mario Finds A Prize In His Cereal Box
The Four Bibbles of Deepak Chopra
Act III:
If Mario Was In…Treasure Island Dizzy
Mario In Another Dimension
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Part 2:
Act IV:
M.I.A.
The Discovery
Multicolored Flying Flinger Porygons
Act V:
Where’s Chopra?
The Three Paisanos
Mario and the Vira Anomaly
Act VI:
Meggy & Glitchy
Finding Mario
The Wikipedia Definition of Caffeine
Way of the Berserker
War Of The Fat Italians 20XX: Berserker Only Run
This isn’t intended to be dark or depressing like the previous arcs. There aren’t any real high-stake plots; it’s all about the memorable moments of Mario’s journey and the friends he makes along the way. The SMG4 gang wants to find Mario because they genuinely miss him, and not because he’s the Avatar. The whole story is meant to capture the absurd, chaotic spirit of classic SMG4 while also sprinkling in some found family in between. Meggy and SMG4 serve a major role in this story, acting as the big brother and sister figures of Mario respectively. Tari and Saiko also have their own dynamic between one another and actively contribute to helping with finding Mario.
I haven’t shared this anywhere else besides my Tumblr, which in itself is a relatively quiet and peaceful place for me to reside on the internet. I don’t really do well with social media outlets that have lots of other people because I am generally afraid to put myself out there. So I’m hoping to at the very least share this bit of fan creativity in a more direct manner.
OH COW THAT'S A LOT
the idea is very nice!!!! i like it!! funni lil arc ^^
#submission#smg4 characters#smg4#supermarioglitchy4#smg4 au#i spent hours on this#// had to remove some of the tags. srry.#& dw i feel u. having a lot of eyes on u is terrifying as fuck
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Reasons why everyone should stop supporting jk Rowling and the hp books whether you are a TERF or not: (this list is in no particular order)
She racially justified slavery within the universe and said that they shouldn't be released from said slavery because they are simply happier as slaves (every character who tries to free them is mocked for it)
The goblins play into Jewish stereotypes. Greedy bankers with large noses. And then they start stealing children to drink their blood in the latest video game which is quite literally blood libel
The constant insistence that the safest place for a child is with blood relatives, no matter how abusive they are
Half the hogwarts staff literally abuse the children and its always played off as a joke unless it's Snape or Umbridge
Assigning 11 year olds to their personality traits forever, including "brave main character" "nerd" "evil future nazi" and "other"
Children labelled as slytherin are open ground for bullying. Not once does anyone think "maybe we can stop the nazi indoctrination now"
There are only a few types of girls: Not Like Other Girls TM, mother, evil bitch, and strange but quite. Rarely are any of these characters given any more in depth analysis beyond this trait
Owls are in invasive species where Hogwarts is but it's the coolest pet to have
All of the canoncially fat people are Evil (Umbridge, Pettigrew, Pansy to name a few)
The Weasleys are Irish stereotypes. Literally sound like weasels and have a shit ton of kids that they can barely afford to feed
All of the wizards think of muggles and squibs as inferior and that belief is racially justified. Even characters like Mr Weasley who supposedly love muggles thinks they are cute in the way you find a strange animal cute
Muggle and Mudblood are thrown around by the fandom as an insult as of the same wasn't done by the literal NAZIs in the original text
Severus Snape is both a child abuser and literal nazi, but we are supposed to forgive him because he had a crush on Harry's mom and did One nice thing foe Harry
Hagrid keeps bringing in dangerous invasive species to his home on school property. Every single time this is laughed off as an "oh you"
Voldemorts crime is never his superiority complex over muggles and mudbloods, but the fact that he wants to eliminate all of them. Again, it is textually justified to have this superiority complex
Harry literally owns a fucking slave which is justified by the slave preferring the more abusive owners and, if he had his way, going to the literal nazis to rat the main trio out
Her AIDS metaphor is so botched it's fucking disgusting. Remus was raped at a young age and now has to take medicine so he isn't a threat for raping more children. AIDS is seen as something that makes you inherently dangerous and society is justified for shunning those with the disease
Harry literally named his "favorite" child after two of his biggest fucking abusers becuase they helped him a little and that is supposed to overrule all of the abuse
Cho Chang and Kingsley Shacklebolt are the names of two real characters which are totally not racist names at all (/sarcasm)
Cho is considered to be hysterical and an idiot for grieving her boyfriend who was murdered on a public stage and how could she not love Harry
Native Americans are portrayed as idiots who must be helped to realize their full potential by colonizer boarding schools
Snape calling Harry's mom a literal slur is seen as misguided flirting and not absolutely fucking disgusting
Hermione kept a whole ass human being in a fucking jar because she was a gossip journalist
#harry potter#jk rowling#fuck jkr#long post#i definitely missed some this so feel free to add#fuck hp#racism#xenophobia#homophobia#abuse mention#child abuse mention#harry potter tw
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i saw peter pan goes wrong and it was one of the best nights of my life and here is everything that is different from the bbc recording/some stuff i want to remember/make note of
the preshow bits were so fun. i couldn’t see it all bc i was in the mezzanine but:
jonathan was going around chatting with people. chris came up and took him backstage, but he kept popping back out to talk
at one point both trevor and jonathan were climbing over the front rows. unclear why
trevor was drinking a beer
you could see max and dennis and sandra poking their heads around from the stage. max kept waving
robert was onstage trying to get the lights to work. they were doing something with a cable—they had the audience involved in feeding the cable back through the audience. again, couldn’t really see due to being in the mezzanine
one of the backstage people (actor, not for real) (im pretty sure she played annie in one of the broadway runs of the play that goes wrong!) was going around asking people if they had found a hammer. she made me check under my seat :) eventually she found it and lifted it up onstage to show everyone. everyone cheered for her :) then she pretended like she was going to throw it into the audience. good bit queen
at one point neil patrick harris was visible on the stage behind jonathan and jonathan seemed to think the cheers and applause were for him. good bit. in general i think the show is perfectly cast but greg tannahill is really a revelation. so perfectly charming yet smug
ok preshow bit over.
chris was even more sopping wet and pathetic than in the bbc version. he slipped on a puddle of “medicine.” he stabbed himself in the leg with scissors. he strangled himself with his own tie. he drank hand sanitizer
he was forced to drink hand sanitizer when he was [AGE AMBIGUOUS]
(cecco was supposed to hand hook a spyglass, rum, and a pistol. he handed him a rolled-up map, a bottle of hand sanitizer, and a program of “six” that nph tore into the shape of a gun—a “six-shooter.”)
a couple people in the front row came in late and chris stopped what he was doing to stare at them disapprovingly for a full ten seconds
later, when we booed him, chris called out the people in the front row, saying “don���t boo me, latecomers!”
instead of “pantomime”, the running joke was “family show”, and we just booed captain hook instead of “oh no it isn’t”/ “oh yes it is.” we did do “he’s behind you” though. and somebody did “do you need a hand.” i kind of do wish americans had the cultural context of pantomimes so we could do more of a call and response. also i think chris bean saying “oh yes it is” with increasing frustration is very funny. YES IT IS. OF COURSE IT IS. anyway it was still really fun to boo him
robert was the one who said it was a family show. “look how many children there are in the audience! child. child. ugly child”
chris bean, later, during the poison scene: “don’t boo me! robert was right, you are an ugly child!”
there was a whole undersea scene in the lagoon involving black lights and fluorescent fish and mermaids and such! typical goes wrong jokes (mermaid loses its head, jellyfish legs get tangled, fish fuse together to look like a dick and balls)
speaking of mermaids: max and dennis came out in mermaid costumes involving roller blades. matthew cavendish appears to be a pretty talented roller blader
i liked matthew cavendish’s performance as max! different then dave hearn but not in a bad way! there were no “snap snaps” but i actually prefer that, because it feels like a dave hearn thing. this guy was doing his own max, who was a little less of a ham and more a guy who is just having a silly time. i think dave’s max is a little smarter than matthew’s. dave’s max knows he’s fucking with chris—matthew’s max does not. i like them both.
when jonathan fell, a giant banner of “jack and the bean” (starring robert) also fell down, and chris yelled “intermission”
later, during the stage revolve bit, we see a banner of “rapunzel” featuring sandra’s ill-timed haircut
robert did the mr. bumble bit. hilarious bit of robert lore.
nph said something like “i fear that thing and the ways it may hurt me” re: the chair. he also climbed into it through the hole in the back. good chair bits. him being knocked unconscious during the final scene was just excellent. man fucking flew through the air
during annie’s electrocution, he “stalled” by (poorly) playing “being alive” on the recorder
during the poison scene chris had a little girl in the second row open the poison bottle and then said “you poisoned peter pan.” then annie pointed at the little girl later when jonathan asked who would do such a thing
robert’s “audition tapes” were played throughout during the sound cue errors. my favorite was his “uptight englishman” audition tape, which was basically “eughhhh im chris bean and i get to be the director AND the captain and i have thin reptilian hands” (at which point lucy reached out to feel his hands). also they played a bunch as we walked out. apparently robert has over 1000 audition tapes
during chris’ pan pipe “take one” recording, he called out something like “mother, have you seen my pan pipes instruction manual?” i just like the chris bean parents lore. raymond bean—racist?
trevor getting hit by the plank and hanging lifelessly was even funnier in person
when the boat was rocking back and forth chris got fucking LAUNCHED
when they made lucy “walk the plank”, she got absolutely hurled out of her wheelchair and trevor ran out to catch her. national hero. she clung to him like a koala. it was really cute. the audience cheered for him #trevorsweep
on the pirate ship, after “dennis you’re wearing the wrong costume”, dennis delivered an entire fight between a married couple. carl and jerry i think their names were? but i heard “she” at one point so maybe it was a “gerri” situation. one of them walked out. some lines i can remember (im probably misquoting, but this is the gist) “i’ve wasted years of my life with these people” “if you walk out, you’re not just walking out from this company, but from this marriage” “our marriage is a sham! you know it, i know it, even the kids know it” (to dennis) “hey little buddy. how you doing? i’ll be taking over. let’s take it from: aye, captain hook”
the final revolve bit was INCREDIBLE. i didn’t know where to look. when the stage started spinning faster and more out of control! sandra getting hit by the door twice! robert on fire again! the pirate pile-up!
by the time the stage stopped spinning, chris bean was just despondently lying on the top bunk. absolutely fantastic.
i feel really sad that this is probably the only time i will ever see the original mischief cast in…anything, since i don’t live in europe. i also feel really lucky that i got to see the original mischief cast!!! it was amazing! i was smiling the entire time! i kept having moments of “oh god this is really happening”
i tried to get my program signed but i was too far back in the crowd. Sad! but i did see chris leask, henry shields, greg tannahill, and matthew cavendish.
overheard at the stage door: a child asking his mother, “which is the guy whose pants fell down?” chris leask and greg tannahill were out. both of them had a pants incident. brilliant show 10/10 now THIS is theatre
harry kershaw as francis. you are my white whale. you know what they say you know what they say…put your trousers in the cabinet </3
i got this t shirt. i will treasure it forever and always.
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Please I NEED to know more about that tree
The TREE!!! Ok but it’s a VERY long story before the tree even comes up and then some other weird stuff happened that week too. Like, it’s tangled up in some drama my little sister started. See, where I was living at the time was a Native American community that was surrounded by woods and a long, creepy unlit road was the only way in or out of the place. I lived on a dead end street in this place which is creepy af by itself.
Idk how to really tell the story without telling ALL of it but the absolute shortest version is that I was woken up one morning to the sounds of a crew of people chopping down this skinny tree across the street. No idea why they were cutting it down, but I joked that it was because my bf put a wild tarantula on it a few days prior.
Cut to a week later and a bunch of drama and bs with my sister is going on. My bf was staying the night and when we (us and my siblings) were chilling, we started hearing weird ass noises. Like there were people trying to get in the house. But there was no one outside. We would have heard them even if they walked up to the house because of all the fallen leaves. Or saw them because of the bright street lights.
Anyway, when we were looking out the windows (slyly so whoever might be outside wouldn’t see us looking and duck out of sight), we noticed that someone ran behind the tree across the street. My sister was going to go out there and yell at who she thought might be trying to scare her. (Because of the drama going on) But my bf stopped her. Because like I said, that tree was cut down last week. So how was it there tonight for someone to run and hide behind it?
We looked out the window at the tree and I mentioned that it was taller then the tree that was there. The original tree was about half the height of the nearby houses (all empty and locked up) but whatever this tree was it was about a third taller. Like it was trying to be a tree. And we stared out that window for about 30 minutes, nothing peeked out from it. So idk what happened to whoever/whatever ran behind it. The next morning we all looked outside and there was no tree there. Just the little stump left from when they cut it down. We went over there and none of the nearby leaves were disturbed. It was creepy af. Even checked the houses and they weren’t broken into. If they were then the alarms would have went off.
On random nights that ‘tree’ would be back. Idk what was going on but it and a bunch of other weird stuff stopped after I cleansed the house with sage. I’m Native American and I got the sage from my bfs cousin who’s grandfather was a medicine man. He said we were being ‘smoked out’ by other natives because of the fucking DRAMA going on with my sister and her then boyfriend. ‘Smoked out’ is what the local natives call it around here when they ‘use magic’ on you. Kinda like being cursed, I guess.
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Awe locked ha
I’ll need so much surgery.
Americans are killing Americans. Medicine here is a joke. They want their wives dead from breast cancer because Andy rotten fatso cheese fucker hates beauty
Fat fucks should be avoided. Ha.
Haha.
Ha
Come on Berlin. We’re leaving these morons.
Leslie was one of the dumbest women in the end, I’d ever met. So inauthentic but ready to fight me for a dream. An idea
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You know I am wondering if this anxiety or Anxiety tm
It could also me a mix of something else
Like idk I could have depression but idk
If I do it could be seasonal cuz while I am always anxious (which leads to some moodiness) Winter and fall months suck sometimes
Specifically October and January to sometimes march
This time October didn't hit hard, December didn't suck and was pretty good and then suddenly march hits with a truck
I have been anxious, down in the dumps , like I left the house and shit but my brain was worried about everything which made me want to cry
Like my body is now throwing up and I didn't use to do that when anxious
The thing is (having done no research ) I think I honestly would say it is a mix
I get down and then anxious then down or I get Anxious and then I get down then anxious
I also still do stuff I like but it is all anti social stuff like drawing and reading aka no people interaction
I am happy it is just things suddenly hit and then I dwell and I have trouble getting out of it
Like my phone is a band aid I know it for a fact that it has been my crutch
I use it to try and ignore everything which causes me to get Anxious even more
I am that stupid snake eating it's own tail
Oh and btw I have a check up and it is for physicals and stuff as I haven't gone in years and I bet that they will ask shit about how I am feeling and then I am gonna feel anxious bad all over again.
Though that is kinda why I wanna go
That I I haven gone since I was a teen
So I need a adult doctor now... and I am taking my mom cuz anxious
Oh and it is so far out but it could have been worse
(Not actually all that far out but to me who has been very anxious it feels too far out)
As in according to my mom. Next year
Not joking wtf is going on in american health fields
I am everything all at once
Like I understand 4-6 months as busy and maybe up to 8 months but a whole year??
Oh and my family says I am going through a growing up crisis 🙃
Which yes that is a huge part of it but like I have always been super anxious to the point I felt sick
I just used to be able to mostly power through
Which mostly is that sometimes I needed music e to distract me or it means it is the first day of school and if I didn't go my nerves would never stop ♡
Or first day of work or back to work after awhile etc
Also some part of me is like I need therapy, but then I'm afraid I'll have to take medicine. Any kind of medicine as I just suck at pills and liguid qnd just abiut anything.
(I was good at taking antibiotics for an infection)
Then there's also the fact that I bring now the person so I won't be comfortable I would be anxious
Which yes get out of your bubble
Dude I threw up because I was anxious
To do what?
To paint fucking pottery
Oml me ugh
I am stopping here
This is a mess and idk if it actually helps or if it helps me dwell ♡
#vent#... I sometimes wonder if I have ADHD also as my older (half) brother has it#like cant ADHD also cause some of these things#thiugh my mom and said bro are also very anxious lately just better at handling than me#also my dad but it is a much later in life thing#as in late 50s early 60s
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honestly, i really am pretty confident that prehistoric humans would be, like, a pretty sick hang. probably start smacking rocks, just kinda lay around, service each other orally, eat something
im definitely gonna fuck around and break the timeline while i teach them about how to make jam, and that requires jars, so glass, idk, i dont know what life would be like there beyond contact fucking and sucking
i could be their doctor, dont eat grass, okay, im gonna go worship that guys cock, once i get back everyone gets trepanned, im the doctor i think i know what im doing
i wish i could trust one of them to do me, so im training an assistant, they noted that some of our food beetles burn the skin, which is, honestly more impressive than anything i ever did, so im gonna give him more responsibility and worship his cock more, but if he tries to start putting mud on yall or removing blood, im gonna have to double check
gotta get my dick whet while i worship this monster
thank god all those people we paid fucking taxes to study diseases did their fucking job in 2024 and didnt just fucking beat their dick all day trying to crack "deadly viruses"
like fucking why dont you care about the future of medicine? selfish, self-obsessed, and fucking short sighted is what im gonna forever associate with every doctor not working on this
go fucking scream at your gp that he's not bettering society and he should focus on smelly, bursting with aroma and allure, the only real goal we have after the moon landing and 9/11, get us into that cavepussy
and i need the job done right, its not just the pussy, its her. i wanna get to know her, i bet she gets madly animalistic on some cock, sure, but on like a good steak? i bet she eats it beautifully and with violence in her mandibles. I bet if i tried to tease her as a joke, shed beat me down to show that she is stronger than me, because she doesnt know that i was teasing her because i was like trying to be bottom
hot though, nobody gets my jokes and its kind of been taking a toll on my mental health
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i figured it out, they love when i act really weak and afraid, they think its hilarious because im so soft and apparently just giving everyone head is, well they have some old fashioned ideas about power dynamics, i kinda love being everyone's bitch but also these women, theyll just go from cock to cock dragging goo like a snail, everyone in one night. jesus
i really miss having an ice cold water in the summer, tea is on a different landmass and is largely, well it would be kind of a chore to harvest
lots of tubers, around here, kinda trying to slowly steer the seasoning choice towards finding some
honestly, the genitalia are kind of amazing tasting, like i always knew it would be when i lived in the future with ice and cayenne and pepper and american cheese, kinda the same honestly....
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