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SaffreeLove

@saffreelove

ummm....yeah || Star Wars, Marvel, Harry Potter, Science, Math || Sebastian Stan & Chris Evans own my ass || Masterlist || AO3 || NSFW 18+ || Ask me a Fuck-Marry-Kill/Kiss
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A lot of people have said, “Why don’t you make a demand of the president that he’ll sit down and talk with you if go to the White House?” But I’m not going to be naïve and think that I’m going to sit down with Trump and he’s going to change his mind. There are children locked up at the border who are dying, and that’s not fazing him. So why would I faze him?

Megan Rapinoe by Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times (2019)

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Megan Rapinoe Stuns as the first openly gay woman to pose for Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue
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clevermanka

nearly 3k notes on this and nobody inserted those Jane Lynch gifs?

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munsass

ok but how are you going to leave out the best picture from the whole photoshoot

this is the exact opposite of the male gaze and i’m OBSESSED with it

The Lesbian Gaze™

Daaaaaamn

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saffreelove

Ok, I'm just gonna need some time with these pics. Alone. In my room. For at least an hour.

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Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

I’m literally zendaya reacting like he didn’t have to go that hard and yet..

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kiera-jpg

if this comes up on my dash and i don’t reblog it - just assume im dead

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aquabrie

Awesome

I am obligated to watch this every time it comes on

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saffreelove

This is what I think of everytime I hear this song

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Endgame Observations

From the scene where Tony dies that heartbreaking scene

  • The way Peter claws at Tony’s chest is so desperate, it’s like a child grabbing at his parent’s shirt, trying to comfort himself
  • It’s like trying to hold onto something he knows is floating away from him
  • When I first watched it, it feels like Pepper is just pushing him off to the side
  • But the way she grabs him is actually very gentle, and she immediately ushers him right into Rhodey’s arms, and his hand clasps over Peter’s shoulder
  • Because she knows someone needs to hold onto this kid that’s falling apart
  • But she also knows that, as long as Peter is right here in front of him, begging him to hold on, that Tony is going to keep fighting, even though they both know it’s a losing battle
  • I know people read the “we’re going to be okay” line to refer mostly to Pepper and Morgan, but the “you can rest now” line calls directly back to that scene at the cabin
  • The scene where Tony thinks about scrapping the whole thing and not risking the life he has now, and Pepper asks, “but would you be able to rest?”
  • Would you be able to rest, knowing that people out there are still picking up the pieces, even five years later?
  • Would you be able to rest, knowing that Peter Parker is out there somewhere, knowing that his family misses him, knowing that, at some point in time, his family grew to include you?
  • And the answer, we find out in the next scene with that photo, is no
  • So when she tells him, “you can rest, now”, she’s also saying, “I’ve got them. Both of them. I’ll protect your family.”
  • It’s fitting that Rhodey is the first one to get to Tony, because he’s always been the first one to get to Tony, has been there the longest, from the start
  • And then Peter comes in the middle, because he ushers in this new era in Tony’s life, is a reminder of how much Tony has grown during this eleven-year journey
  • And Pepper is last, because she’s the endgame
  • It’s her, it’s always her
  • She’s the only one that can tell him to let go, because he knows she’ll be there to pick up the pieces, just like she always has
  • He said, once, that he couldn’t sleep until he put a suit of armor around the world
  • But Pepper is right there, his rock, strong as always, vowing to be the suit of armor around his world
  • They’ll be okay, she’ll make sure of it
  • And when he drifts off, he’ll dream of her
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Me: No one is hiring me

Adults: you’re just not trying hard enough

Me: oh yea, sorry about that. Let me apply “harder” this time. I’ll be sure to write my contact info extra “hard” this time. I’ll make sure to touch up my resume and make it hella “hard” this time around too.

preach

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star-anise

Adults:  You just need to hit the pavement, knock on some doors, call the hiring manager!

Every job application ever:  PLEASE NO UNSOLICITED VISITS OR PHONE CALLS.

Fact: Our reception pool forwards the names of people who call unsolicited on to HR, who puts the names on a DO NOT HIRE, CANNOT FOLLOW DIRECTIONS list.

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othercat2

This is what is the most terrifying about re-beginning the job search.

Fact: My brother was a store manager at AT&T for several years, and handled the hiring process. People that would call and call about the job wouldn’t get hired because, “They seemed to be the kind of people that would constantly need attention on the job, or wouldn’t make a good fit in customer service, because they don’t have the patience to wait for us to call them back.”

Meanwhile I’ve always been taught to do exactly those things because it “shows that you care and take initiative”

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katy-l-wood

Here’s how I got my new job:

  • Made a profile on Indeed.
  • Crammed that fucker with every damn skill and job I have ever had. That time I ran roller-coasters for a month? On there. “Property Managing” my mother’s rental for six months because she was too lazy to drive over? On there. ALSO. If you are skilled in, say, Photoshop, don’t JUST put Photoshop as a skill. Also put Adobe Suite, Adobe Photoshop, etc. Put every possible term for your skill under the skills. Google skill lists and start slapping them in there if you have even a tiny bit of skill in them.
  • Downloaded the Indeed app on my phone.
  • Set up a saved search to show me all full-time jobs paying $15 or more per hour in my area, and set it to only show jobs with instant apply. I did not narrow it down by field or anything else. Just full-time, my area, $15/hr.
  • Wrote up a three sentenceish generic cover letter that was basically “I am good at customer service, client management, and handling the variety of tasks this job will involve. I will be available on X date and would love to speak to you about this position at your company.” But slightly more professionally put.
  • Just fucking clicked apply on everything. Anything that sounded like something I’d be willing and probably able to do. Like, I wasn’t applying to mechanic jobs or anything. But front-desk at a mechanic shop? Sure. Towing dispatcher? Sure. Print shop coordinator for some fancy real estate agency? Sure.
  • The beauty of Indeed’s mobile/quick apply is that once you’ve set up your profile on there clicking apply is literally all you have to do for about 75% of the quick apply jobs. Some will have a couple additional questions like how long you’ve done certain things, or when you’re available to start. Some have random fun questions like your favorite superhero (usually startups). You click that button and off your resume goes.
  • I spent about an hour every day doing this, submitted several hundred applications in the process, and heard back from…maybe 20. Got an interview at 4 or 5. Got hired at an insurance company that pays RIDICULOUSLY WELL. Took about a month.
  • Do I want to sell in insurance? Not particularly. But this job will support me, my art, my ability to buy a house, and PROVIDE RESIDUAL INCOME ONCE I RETIRE. Which. If I play my cards right I could do in as little as ten years.

Your mileage may vary with this technique, but given the way job hunting is set up now carpet bombing an application site like Indeed is always worth a shot. I will note that when I came across a job I thought sounded extra interesting and more in line with the fields I wanted to be in I’d save the application instead of applying, then take the time that night to put together a better full application.

Good luck. Job hunting is terrible.

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saffreelove

I hate job hunting, and my time is coming this fall.

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I'd very much like to punch a feminist.

I’d never, ever hurt a lady but I’d be happy to punch a feminist. It’d bring me great joy.

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olisaurusrex

I’m 6’2 and weigh 180lbs

ready when you are

Or if you’d like to have some more options….

I’m 6’4” 228 pounds and have 9 years of combined martial arts training and 3 years of being a Line Backer in football. Just in case you are looking for variety.

what about a lady and a feminist. warning, combatives certified soldier.

im tiny, i’m like 5′4 and 130 lbs but u can fight me too

Reblogging for the last one cuz that’s adorable

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likeits1995

SO PROUD

The Fantastic 4 we deserve

OMG IVE ONLY SEEN THIS POST IN SCREEN SHOTS

We will all protect the small one.

I stan

it got better!!

plot-twist: the small one could actually kick everyone’s ass

If one day I see this on my dash and DON’T reblog it assume I’m dead.

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brendaonao3
Anonymous asked:

For a lot of people Steve's journey in the Cap movies, even in AOU, has been about accepting the past and moving on in the present. It was so powerful to me when Peggy said in TWS that the world has changed and none of us can go back. It meant that actually, you CAN move on from loss and start afresh. Now that has been completely undone by the last minutes of Endgame. Don't even get me started on the movie's fatphobia though.

Anonymous said:

wait so that’s actually what happened??? Steve didn’t change anything and lived his whole life with racism, homophobia, 911, JFK being assassinated, Tony’s parents being killed, HYDRA infiltrating Shield and torturing Bucky? And he couldn’t/didn’t do anything? fuck that’s depressing. how is that a happy ending for him???

Anonymous said:Bucky may have known about Steve’s decision but on board with it? I mean Christ he looked depressed when they hugged  

Anonymous said: i’m trying so hard to like Steve’s ending and see it as in character but … i mean the whole point of AOU is that he realises that he’s home, that he’s not the man who went into the ice 75 years ago. now suddenly he is and can’t just pick back up where he left off? The whole point of TWS and CW is saying farewell to the past and forging new connections. Now he just gives them up? 

Anonymous said: I’m sorry but besties and soulmates in all the ways that count??? If I had a best friend who chose to travel 70 years into the past/another universe to live out his ENTIRE LIFE without me I would not consider them my best friend, let alone my soulmate. When Steve shows up at the end he hasn’t seen Bucky in over 70 years. So much for being with him until the end of the line. And I don’t even support Stucky as a ship.

Anonymous said:Reunited with his friends at the end??? How ready are you to not see your friends for 80 years??? He’ll be dead soon anyway. The movie killed Stucky and SteveSam about as dead as a ship can be killed.

Okay, I’m answering all of these at once, because I’m only going to say this once - consider this post my definitive reply to every ask like this. :)

(NOTE, and I can’t believe I actually have to say this, but all opinions expressed below are my own and just that - MY opinions. You don’t have to agree with them.)

1) Since everyone right now is so into cherry-picking Peggy’s speech to Steve in TWS, and Steve’s speech to Tony in AOU, let’s start there:

Peggy LITERALLY SAYS sometimes the best we can do is START OVER. So, what does Steve do at the end of Endgame? He STARTS OVER!!!

And his response to Tony is because he can’t have what he really wants with Peggy - for the war to be over, to go HOME

Look, I have nothing but respect for all of the people who looked at Peggy’s speech in TWS and Steve’s speech in AOU and used it as a blueprint to move on from their trauma or grief.  I get it, I truly do.

But those speeches don’t mean you just get over that loss and start afresh, it means this is my new normal now, it means, I know you grieve, but you have to make do with what you’ve got.

But as someone who has lost someone intensely important in a very unexpected manner, I can tell you right now, that I would give the moon, the stars, the heavens, and everything else, for five more minutes with that person. And if you offered me a way to do it where it wouldn’t hurt anyone else? I’d take it in a heartbeat, and it’s been almost 8 years since that person died.  And that doesn’t mean I haven’t done my best to move on, it doesn’t mean I don’t love the person I am right now and the strides I’ve made and the friends I’ve made and the relationships I have now. And I am willing to be you I’m not the only person who’s lost someone who would leap at that chance, either. 

So yes, Steve’s decision was perfectly in character, as his grief over his lost chance with Peggy literally permeated every inch of his character in every film he was in - he got a chance to make things right with Bucky, to save him.  He never got that chance with Peggy.

2) We’re gonna have to disagree about Bucky looking depressed, because to me he looked happy for Steve.  It’s clear he knew and approved - just look at the smile on his face when he sees Steve sitting on the bench

3) I am not explaining Alternate Timelines again, but just because Steve can’t stop Every Tragedy Ever from happening in the main timeline doesn’t mean he can’t or won’t work to make his alternate timeline as awesome of a place as possible. Steve wouldn’t be Steve if he didn’t have a cause (and that’s more than half the reason Peggy fell in love with him), so yes, he’d be thrilled to kick ass and make that timeline a better place.  All he told Sam was ‘he had a LIFE’, not he retired and hid out and did nothing for 80 years.

4) If you’re the type of friend who would begrudge your BFF finally getting the chance of a life they missed - even if it means leaving you - then you’re not much of a friend, and probably need to re-evaluate your priorities.

 "To the end of the line" means, I love you, I support you, I’m WITH you and support you in whatever choice you make that makes you happy - not ‘you don’t get to leave me ever and if you do, you’re not a friend’.  Especially considering Bucky essentially ‘leaves’ Steve first to stay in Wakanda with his farm and his goats. And Steve was nothing except supportive of this, because THAT is what friends do, THAT is what to the end of the line means. Allowing your friends the dignity of their choices, and supporting them

At the end of Endgame, Bucky’s back, he’s healthy, he’s in such a better place mentally, and he’s got people (including STEVE) around him…

which brings me to

5) I’m sorry, but suggesting that because Steve is old now means he’ll be dead soon and can’t offer Sam and Bucky his love and support and friendship is some of the most ageist bullshit I have ever heard in my life.  Steve has the super-soldier serum still running through his veins, so I’m betting he’s still got a VERY long life ahead of him bossing Sam and Bucky (and everyone else) around like the sassy troll he’s always been.

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