My husband (Ao3) is away at war (under a DDoS attack) and I can't send him correspondence (refresh the page) or else I'll be putting him in danger (contributing to the DDoS attack)

is he … you know … open to interpretation?

nobody on this webbed site can read

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.

I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

Do not give to the Salvation Army.

Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army

My turn.

I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.

I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.

I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.

They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.

Then I found out.

Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.

Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.

The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.

Unsettling update

Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!

Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?

Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.

They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.

And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:

And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that

So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad

The “Fuck Salvation Army” posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder: Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.

Do not support them in any way, shape, or form.

‘Tis the season to say FUCK the Salvation Army.

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

y- you were putting it in cold water?????

Radish. Answer the question radish.

yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

[ID: Tags reading “u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ?????” /End ID]

why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it

Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove

Its takes less than a minute

Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun

How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove

Like seven minutes

Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…

Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted

Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic

Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief

(Enter RADISHN’T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS'N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.)

RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell

Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act

Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?

MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!

FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.

RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?

Without the guide of others I assumed

That heat was merely added for the sake

Of expediting this solution’s brewing!

Half a decade I have spent, or more,

Not questioning this worldview I had made.

In fact, I am myself a bit surprised

That you might think that I, your dearest friend,

Might have a patience of sufficient stock

To wait until a pot of water boils.

FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?

The microwave will beep when it is done!

CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!

Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!

FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know

That I have not the patience, like our Root,

To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?

CATS'N: It takes less than a minute!

FROG: On what plate?

Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?

CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task

Of boiling but a single cup alone?

FROG: In minutes?

CATS'N: Yes!

FROG: I counted seven, once.

CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!

If on a middle heat you place the cup

You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.

Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate

Or even less, if you should have a pot.

FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?

You place upon the iron stove a mug?

A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?

How do these flames, though medium in height,

Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?

Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched

With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!

(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)

KING: Ev'ry single person in this group must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.

reblog if you think straight aces/aros are valid members of the lgbtq+ community

like if you don’t

it feels so weird seeing my mutuals in popular posts. like how did you get there. you've breached containment

get back into your little fandom corner right now mister

someone put me back into my little fandom corner please

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals

Hey it’s ace week and you’re local ace has something to say! I’ve been out as ace for 3 years now and it’s still a big part of my identity that I’m proud of so here’s a lil something for those who need it!

Saw this and HAD to repost! I love it so much!!

Just looked up when ace week starts this year and I’m going to be in Disney World that whole week!! It’s going to be the BEST week EVER!!!!

Ace week starts October 24th this year!

PSA: dont use l33t speak in AO3 tags

[image ID: an AO3 tag that reads ‘implied suicidal thoughts’ but with exclamation marks in place of the letters i]

if you do this, congrats, you’ve totally defeated the purpose of the tagging system!

AO3 is not tiktok. it is not run by a mega-corporation that sanitizes content for advertisability and shadowbans or deletes content. it’s an ARCHIVE. 

by doing this, it means people won’t be able to exclude or include your tags. and if they use a text-to-speech reader, you’ve made it ten times harder to understand. 

this goes for tumblr too!! if you put “su!c!de tw” anybody who has “suicide tw” blacklisted will still see your post. it’s not a warning if the words aren’t able to be read or recognized by the systems.

no hate if you’ve been doing this! just fix your tags and don’t do it in the future.

This is my favorite celebrity headline of today

John Mulaney voice: It was even weirder, though, when I went out for the night with some money, black out, and wake up with more money, because that means that I earned money. That means that I traded goods and/or services. Which is scary.

Why is Marvel like this?

Anthony Mackie:

Brie Larson:

So I’m not the only person who finds this really creepy right?

No, no you are not

…so it was that bad

Well, that sure explains a lot!

Back in the old days, Kenneth Branagh actually involved Tom in the process of creating Loki. He asked Tom for all the aspects that he’d wish to explore. Tom kept a scrapbook where he wrote down all his ideas. The actors of Thor met to discuss the dynamics between the characters. That’s when Tom and Rene Russo came up with the backstory of Frigga being the one who taught Loki magic, and decided that they would share a tic. After filming Thor, Tom met Joss Whedon and they spent a whole afternoon discussing Loki, and what happened to him after his suicide attempt.

And now, actors have no idea what’s going on when they’re filming and reciting their lines. It’s no wonder the films feel so soulless. It looks like Marvel completely missed the fact that Loki became so popular because the guy who played him always knew what the character was feeling and how he would be moving.

Friendly reminder that Joss Whedon sent Tom Hiddleston the entire Avengers script and Tom read the entire thing and loved it so much that he sent a gushing email back to Joss, thanking him for writing Loki as such an emotionally complex, layered character. 

Just compare that level of artistic integrity and caring about the characters and the plot to the most recent shit show of the actors not even knowing what fucking movie they’re filming. 

Funny thing - if your actor doesn’t know what movie they’re filming or the role they have in the plot, then their agent can’t properly negotiate for the pay they deserve for their work.

This is a rampant issue with voice acting too.

^^^^^^

So yes, this is definitely all about money, thinly veiled as being a way to “limit spoilers” but they’re fucking themselves big time.

Haven’t we all noticed since Phase One ended that the quality of Marvel films has gone down in general? Not production value, not names and talent associated, but the actual quality? They started churning these movies out like popcorn and that’s exactly what they became: empty and forgettable by the time you leave the theater.

What’s the thing we’ve been bitching about for two years now? How TOTALLY FUCKED Steve Rogers was in Endgame. Then you hear that Chris Evans didn’t know who he was talking to in his scenes half the time, didn’t have more than 11 pages of a redacted fucking script and had no idea how the movie was even supposed to end and we WONDER why it felt like he didn’t even know he was supposed to be playing the same guy?

Fucking shit. This is directing 101 you money-grubbing fucks. Let your actors know what story they’re telling.

Loki’s rabid fan base is ENTIRELY a result of the actor playing him getting to pour so much passion into the role and know the long game so he knew how he wanted to play certain moments.

Think about how Alan Rickman was the only one who, for 90% of the time they were filming Potter, was the ONLY ONE who knew what Snape’s ending was going to be. And how he said that informed every decision he made as an actor and every scene he ever shot with Dan Radcliffe who was, precisely as he was supposed to be, confused and terrified by how much Snape resented Harry.

You can’t just tie your actors shoelaces together and expect them to keep tap dancing.

For Tony’s funeral, most of the actors thought they were filming a wedding.

This sort of crap is why so many of the scenes felt off, why they fall so flat. Because the actors can’t put the same amount of passion into their characters if they don’t know what the characters are meant to be doing or feeling.

Here’s an example:

Chris Evans gets a script, everything but his own lines redacted. One leaps out at him: “Well, that didn’t work out, did it?”

Who is he talking to? What is the context? How should this line be delivered?

Is he talking to Black Widow or Scott or Hawkeye, someone he trusts and can joke with? Should his tone be lightly teasing, as if sharing a humorous anecdote? Ironic, because something just backfired but it’s ok, they can try again? Self-deprecating, for a comedic scene?

Is he arguing with Tony, yet another conflict between two people who have always rubbed each other the wrong way? Should his tone be tense, or spoken through gritted teeth? Angry or snappish, because Tony still isn’t listening? Resigned or sympathetic, because they are communicating and attempting to mend bridges?

Scripts depend on context and character dynamics. You can’t just read the lines and expect to get it right.

Oh! Okay so you guys also thought that the later phases dropped down in quality?

Disney has 0 respect for actors and other creatives these days and treats them terribly. And the result is a sharp decline in quality of their product. They’re no longer making entertainment. They’re making soulless garbage. And I for one am not buying. We the customers need to band together and demand better. 

I’m really sad to learn it’s not just voice actors. I knew it was shit with voice actors because I’ve heard stories from Japan where the industry is way more respectful and then you compare that to what goes on over here and realized how messed up it is.

Part of it is to avoid leaks but if that’s the case, just have them sign a non-disclosure agreement and then sue them if they break it like?

It’s so stupid.

I find it really interesting which movies get this treatment and which dont. Like….Shang-Chi didn’t have this problem. Neither did Ragnarok or Ant-man 2. So what is it? What makes the difference? I GENUINELY believe its how much the director bends to the studio pressure and whether they understand how important their actors are. The Russos USED TO and then they got too big to push back against Feige because *gasp* what if they lose their contract? It’s gonna be a big wait-and-see game if Taika Watiti can fight back against Marvel. I personally suspect he will because he strikes me as a “I will take my oscar nomionations and go home” kind of director but thats me living in hope. I could be wrong.

this is entrapment

two equally delightful paths here:

1) a very simple and genuine “i like your shoelaces”, which tells me that you are either a lesbian or a very cool ally

2) “i like your shoelaces” followed by the pronounced grimace of one recalling their past sins, which tells me that you were a 2012 tumblr user. i now hold the power in this conversation and you are at my mercy.

if you know about 2012 tumblr how do you hold any power in any conversation

well, stucky fanfic url, the trick is to not let them know that you are also cringe

this is the most poignant burn ive seen all year

everyone lost

#tumblr is an ecosystem you kill one trophic level and everyone starts dying

(via @binguscore)

losers gonna pick on losers forever ^-^

Tumblr has the best PvP of any social media