And just like that my feed brightened 🌈💫🌧

and finally some of my favorite

times Jane told Maura she loved her (4/4)

One time, Maura got punched in the face, and Jane threatened a room full of prisoners that she would kill whoever did it again. 

One time, Maura was kidnapped by somebody obsessed with taking away everything Jane loved. Jane was never squeamish about super gruesome murder scenes, but when they went to investigate the scene of the kidnapping, there was this little tiny speck of blood, and she had to look away. 

Kidnapping again: Jane was more distracted, upset and sleep deprived throughout that one than we ever saw her even during Hoyt stuff. When Kent suggested she take a nap because she hadn’t slept in a couple of days, she told him to shove it up his ass, and went to continue working in Maura’s office for comfort. She accidentally dozed off and had a nightmare that Maura was dead.

Last one about the kidnapping: I know this was not in any way intentional on the show’s part, but Jane fulfilled that promise from a couple seasons ago about killing if Maura got hit in the face again.

One time, Jane figured out that Maura’s date was a serial killer just in time to save her from being dismembered. 

Jane’s favorite hobby might be rescuing Maura from being murdered at the last second. No, seriously, look at her face? She loves it.

I loved this time when Jane body-shielded Maura from a gunman. 

But my favorite, of course: the time when seeing Maura’s life threatened was what gave Jane the strength to overcome her fear, overpower two armed men with her hands tied, and kill her serial killer archnemesis.

In conclusion, here’s a poem Maura wrote about Jane and made their coworker read in front of everyone. 

She is fierce and first to defend me in my moment of trouble or need. Her wit and laughter sustain me, and never come my expense. And when we part, there is no sadness, because our bond is always there. She’s not just my friend, she is a gift, both precious and rare.

This is not a poem about Maura loving Jane; this is a poem about Maura feeling loved by Jane.

And that’s the Jane Rizzoli I love. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

x / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4

#this

Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon reuniting for Thelma and Louise 30th anniversary (2021)

“The woman I love was abducted by aliens last night.              And I just found out that she’s gonna propose to me.                      I will do anything if you can find her.”

you better get home, ok?

Jesus

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

Wages in the US have become wildly, fantastically unshackled from the costs of doing business, and they’ve been that way for decades. We’ve been told our entire lives that the world is such a way, and that it’s the Natural Normal result of things working the way they Have to work.

It’s a lie. It’s been a lie the entire time. They just Started Lying one day and didn’t stop until everyone who knew better died, gave up, or got their voice drowned out in all the noise.

You can’t tell me a combo at any fast food restaurant hasn’t doubled in price since the 90’s. Guess how much minimum wage has increased....

1) if food prices go up if wages go up, complain about CEOs not taking the cut, not the workers who need the money to pay their rent

2) smash this idiot idea that it’s only high school kids working minimum wage jobs: who do you think is making you your Starbucks at 12 pm? The highschool kids are all in highschool, idiot. At my retail store where people make minimum wage, we have no staff under 25 years old right now, about half the staff have families, they are all making minimum wage.

3) these people are providing you goods and services that are important and you want. You want a burrito. You want a coffee. Why on earth should the people providing us essential services not make enough money to pay their rent and their bills? Explain to me why this group of people deserves to live in poverty?

4) these jobs are not “unskilled” as in they’re easy to do and any asshole could do them. They are working harder than any prick sitting in an office chair all day.

5) Canada has raised its minimum wage. My province has had a minimum wage of $15 per hour for four years. Burritos do not cost $30 here, no one has gone out of business because they can’t afford to pay their workers anymore. What HAS happened is that I can now afford to live with my kids in my own apparent and not have to share it with my sister and her kids, I can afford to actually buy things, I can afford to cook healthy food and replace my shoes when they fall apart. The extra money I am making goes straight back into the local economy. My health and the health of my kids will be better and we will cost our government less. Don’t be a fucking idiot.

Fuck every single asshole who ever shits on minimum wage workers, ESPECIALLY these days after the pandemic when we all screamed about wanting to go out and get a coffee during lockdown. Fuck every single one of you with a rusty rake.

Reblogging for rottenbrainstuff’s excellent response.

People are so quick to want to belittle fast food workers. What did they ever do to deserve that? I have always been respectful to anyone who takes my order or delivers my food. That's just being a decent human being. And do I believe that they should be making a living wage Hell yes. Everyone should be. Stop acting like you're better than anyone else.

Belittling helps justify paying them less. It’s a double attack, wherein the workers are expected to subsidize their own financial oppression by at the expense of their dignity.

Most attacks run on it because we’re not all stupid enough to think, as the one twitter post up there does, that it takes two hours of labor to make every individual burrito.

Australia has a tiered wage system based on age which usually defines working experience. In the event it doesn’t, companies have the ability to pay at adult rates. Adult minimum wage in the hospitality industry is about to hit $21.50, before penalty rates are applied for nights/weekends.

And our burritos are still $12.

Oh, also, f- anyone who says hospitality isn’t “skilled employment” - if listening to people belittle you 8 hours a day but turning up to serve them and making their lives just that little bit happier isn’t a skill, humanity is doomed.

garlic has never wronged me… been a friend through it all

la baleine

It’s the mug With the crack in the handle “No” I say I want to keep it.

Marked inside By the thousand unfinished teas, she drank On lazy mornings

The glass jar Filled with five year old flour  A frozen promise of a cake Rows of spice Tiny relics of loud nights Warm, alive Once full of colour And a girl Dodging between chair legs Chubby fingers Reaching for olives

We move slowly Through cupboards, drawers, shelving With each choice A fading moment… The teapot I had forgotten to see, Still holding the last cup I made…

…for her.

Each falls away Like the closing of a door Like goodbye… ..All over again ‘Til I reach  For the mug, with the crack In the handle And I find… …Warm nights                      ….Bright smiles                                               …Lazy mornings “Not this one” I whisper

I want to keep it.

“you can’t tell someone’s sexuality from their appearance” there was a girl on the bus with electric blue hair in an undercut, 6 piercings in one ear, rainbow converse, and a ‘punch a fascist’ pin on her backpack it’s physically impossible for that person to be straight

 #don’t judge a book by it’s cover but sometimes the cover does in fact tell you a lot about a book

the idea is more for straight people because they literally don’t know how to read coding properly….but coding is actually intended to communicate to other LGBT+ people, so

^this. Queer people almost always spot even the subtlest things. Like small circle earrings that are the colors. The chain to your necklace isn’t just pretty/cute/fashion, it’s specific colors in a formation. Pins on purses or backpacks. Fashion and aesthetic you can’t put your finger on as to how or why you can understand the message, but you can all the same, and then you meet eyes, and there’s a small smile and nod as you recognize one of your own. There’s something safe and reassuring in that moment.

the universal lgbt code of “i like your (item with a pride flag on it)” as a way of saying “hey, i support you”

Or, “I see your rainbow. I am also rainbow.”

also see film and tv: Good lord can we spot the tiny signifiers that someone’s on the spectrum, where straight people go ‘I did not see that coming’ when there’s a kiss and we’re going ‘but… but.. it was so OBVIOUS.’

and this is why it’s so irksome when a very straight person smugly declares that they have great ‘gaydar’, because 1) they don’t and 2) the signalling isn’t FOR them. 

Once a few months into uni I was walking down the street with a flannel and boots looking like a bit of a mess and I caught the eye of a pretty girl with a floral button down shirt tucked into her jeans, and she glanced at my flannel and then Smiled at me and I smiled back. THAT’s gaydar

Reblog and put in the tags the worst physical pain you’ve ever felt.

Tactoon-cat Cartoons

With each I was like “Surely the cat doesn’t actually look like that in the image. surely this is an exaggeration.” but then I scrolled and yes, the cats are liquid

we seriously need to bring back the concept of “despite its flaws i still enjoy it” instead of ‘cancelling’ every fuckin thing in sight 

#we need to trust that just because someone loves a thing it doesn’t mean they don’t know it’s flawed

We also need to stop insisting that everyone enjoying flawed things must put 25 cents in the Problematic Jar and recite all its failings from memory.

Tears are words the heart can’t express