Hey um what. What goddamn business did Omashu have having a King?? Like I never really questioned it since it came from such an early Book One still-world-building episode but. Omashu is a city, for starters, and it’s a city in the Earth Kingdom. Which. You know. HAS a king. 

You know I bet, honestly, Omashu doesn’t have a king. And NEVER had a king. Omashu had a succession of Governors or some shit and on the day that Bumi took the mantle he said “Fuck this ‘Governor Bumi’ stuff that’s lame. Call me King.” and when his advisors said they can’t legally do that Bumi passed a law changing his title from Governor to King, stuck a crown on his head, and called it macaroni.

And the citizens of Omashu were probably just like “alright” cuz like. Bumi strikes me as the kind of Local Town Eccentric who has a working personal relationship with pretty much everyone so all 100,000 people of Omashu heard this decree of Kingship and went “yeah that tracks” and got on with their day.

Outside of Omashu though? Good god. That’s gotta be a fucking look. At this point 112-year-old Bumi has been ‘King’ for a lifetime longer than the actual Earth King. What a look. How much sleep do you think Long Feng loses about this??? How many assassination attempts do you think he tried to carry out, only to have the Dai Lee come crawling home with the imprint of Bumi’s face smashed into their armor and some rock candy stuffed into their socks?

Ba Sing Se adores its appearance of order and structure and hierarchy and I cannot even begin to imagine their Daily Hell of dealing with Omashu’s centenarian feast-loving candy-munching batshit unhinged and utterly unkillable pseudo-King. 

The Fire Nation taking over Omashu was probably the happiest goddamn day of Long Feng’s life.   

The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

Stay woke

Is this true?

Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”

You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.

Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST

Some links…

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/

http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/for-the-cure/

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132728/susan_g_komen_foundation_has

(reblogged in honor of my mother, who died of breast cancer, 11/13/97)

Reblog every time I see it. Roughly once a month.

Also please never forget the pink fracking drill bit

that’s right fracking you know, a process using chemicals known to cause cancer that leech into the water supply

http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/baker-hughes-fights-breast-cancer-pink-fracking-drill-bits/

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pink-drill-bits-bring-complaints-komen-tie-fracking-n223166

It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst

Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.

My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Cancer Research Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

63 four star rated cancer charities on charity navigator

Signal boosting this

Reblogging from myself because it’s October now

me: you know what fuck this!!! I’m tired of bella and edward content/discourse!!!! they’re boring!!!!!!!

also me: but if they had just named their daughter meadow her name would have been not only unconventional but CUTE and RELEVANT to their relationship and NOT named after characters who bella didnt seem particularly CLOSE to by the time she got PREGNANT

Why don’t some people realize that the best way to care for some creatures is to humanely euthanize??

Case in point:

This just crossed my facebook feed. This poor kestrel was electrocuted and is under the care of a center in Hungary (I believe). Both its feet and one wing had to be amputated. How is this a life? The poor creature can’t perch, can’t hold its own food. It can’t be a bird.

Amputations alone aren’t bad, but trying to keep an animal alive when it can’t preform basic behaviors is cruel. Why can’t people understand this?

Just because it can't perform basic functions doesn't mean it can't be happy. Should we be putting down humans with those limits? Should any human who cannot perform basic functions be put down?

Do you work with animals? If you did, you’d know we don’t use words like “happy.” Don’t distract from the point by putting anthropomorphizing words in my mouth.

Since I’m fucking tired of people comparing injured animals to disabled people let’s use the basic framework/analysis for an animals care/welfare—the five freedoms

Here’s the five freedoms as written out by the Farm Animal Welfare Counsel:

So what we can do for this bird is feed it and give it water. That’s it.

This animal cannot understand where its limbs have gone, cannot feel comfortable and at ease in any environment missing three crucial limbs, is bound to be in pain and injure itself from trying to act like a normal kestrel, cannot do most basic behaviors, and cannot be saved from its own distress

A bird cannot have explained to them why they don’t have their legs and wing. A bird lives in the here and now and their here and now will always be “I cannot act in all the ways I need. I am scared. I am alone. I am vulnerable.”

So no. We’re not about to compare a fucking animal to disabled people and it speaks volumes of ignorance to animals and their welfare, and to profound dehumanization and disrespect of disabled people that you would even think to do so.

the scripts for cruella, riverdale and the powerpuff girls reboot have done an Excellent job at raising my self confidence as a writer; I rest assured in the knowledge that I Literally can't do worse

Reblog if you are a fic writer who welcomes moodboards, playlists, remixes, art and any other type of gift based on your stories.

Nothing on earth would make me happier

I just wanna know what people would come up with

You know what they did to me for being a hero? They put my ass in jail for 30 years.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)  Episode 5: “Truth”  

ANNE HATHAWAY as MIA THERMOPOLIS in THE PRINCESS DIARIES (2001)

         Top 15 MTV Scream Relationships (as voted by my followers):                10. Brooke & Stavo // “I wanna be where you are.”

I love them

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Just rewatched S1&2. I love Stavo and Brooke so much

This show was the funniest fucking thing

Cho: *tells Harry the next Hogsmeade visit in on valentines day*

Harry: hmm?? I wonder?? why she’s telling me this?????

I can’t stop laughing

Geralt and Jaskier     “Quick, Geralt. Do your… your witchering!”

“not all men.” you’re right. ron stoppable, king of respecting women and their bodies, would never.