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That time Screen Junkies decided to make Steve/Bucky canon since Marvel wouldn't

Requested by @incorrectstevebucky <3

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Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

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what I really love about Lan Wangji’s character development is that his personality doesn’t change, but his acceptance of who he is does. he is calm, he is prude, he is quiet, and he is righteous, those are all things that are deeply part of him, but they are not the only ones.

when he was younger he could not reconcile being calm but having strong feelings, being prude but wanting someone, being quiet but having loud thoughts, and being righteous but loving someone his sect disapproves of. but then as he grows older, and is shaped by the events of his life and grief, he learns to not be rigid anymore, that he can be the collected Hanguang-Jun and also the passionate Lan Zhan.

before, he held himself back and denied anything that felt contradictory, now he accepts all sides and know they are not opposites but just different parts of himself. his calm is a side of himself as much as his feeelings are, they can both exist inside not in opposition but in continuity, and so can his reserve and his desire, his silence and his thoughts, his love for his sect and his love for Wei Ying. he truly learns to be himself and not be torn anymore between the pressure to be a perfect disciple and wanting happiness, he learns both can be done.

the Lan is a part of who he is, but there is not just one way to be a Lan, he does not have to repress anything to be Lan Wangji, quite the opposite. besides, isn’t being a passionate lover part of being a Lan anyways?

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Meet Nick Cho, the Korean dad behind the most wholesome TikTok account there is

follow @nowthisnews for daily news videos & more

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She is rash

She is unrepentant

From the book “The Best of LIFE (magazine)” 1975

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Credit goes to katiekilg on Instagram

Please sign this petition to make Revenge Porn a criminal offence in Ireland

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a new law is about to be passed in Saudi Arabia that will allow the government to execute people for coming out or being openly gay online.

ignoring the fact that this is literally something out of some kind of dystopian novel, in the interests of safety i’ve emptied out my face tag and may temporarily deactivate or password protect this blog.

please reblog this and get the word out, and if you pray, please pray for me and my fellow Saudi LGBTQ+/MOGAI family.

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Just want to say how proud of i am of america right now. Removing a dictator during a dictatorship is near impossible (typically it takes civil war or a death/ power vacuum) but for four years you’ve been fighting back and now you’re fighting a heavily rigged, horribly unfair election and not giving Trump that “landslide victory” dictators typically get. I want you to know that many of us across the world, see those 50/50 looking results and don’t see america as half and half but 30% cultists who were given an easy vote and 70% people who’s vote was very hard to get out (we saw the lines, we saw the fake ballotboxes) and often outright thrown away. We hear that more people voted for Biden than have ever voted for a candidate before. We see your judges fighting to have every vote counted and the diverse new congressfolks you’ve voted in. The narrative of a close race omits that one team had skates on a downhill road and the other had an obstacle couse littered with dirty needles, fences to break through, barbed wire to crawl under and rabid dogs blocking the way.

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Explicit ~ 7K 
The costume contest at Stark’s annual Halloween blowout is really not important to Steve, except that Bucky gets a twinkle in his eye every time it’s brought up.
Add in a face from the past, and well… Steve may or may not have a competitive side.
This is gonna call for a lot of glitter.
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The boy who lived many years

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Who do you think was the first person Steve Rick Rolled?

Steve discovers Roll Rolling one night while working through the list of music recommendations Sam and Natasha had given him.  At first he thinks it’s a random ad popping up in the middle of the music video. Then he reads the comments. Nearly every one involves swearing and the term ‘Rick Roll’d.’ Google, as always, is unbelievably helpful and Steve laughs out loud to himself upon reading the Wiki page.  

Sam is first.

Steve:  Otis Redding is terrific - thanks for the recommendation. Found one you might like. Let me know what you think.

He pastes the link into the text before hitting send. He smirks and waits.

Sam:  Steve Rogers, you Rick Rollin’ sonofabitch! Dammit, man. Who knew Captain America was such a troll?

Steve’s sharp bark of laughter echoes off the walls.  

Steve: On your left

Sam:  You’re an asshole

Sam:  Fifty bucks says you can’t get everyone else

Steve:  I won’t feel bad taking your money, you know?

Sam:  That’s why you’re an asshole.

IDEK you guise.

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Every time I go grocery shopping I inevitably walk down the cereal aisle. Every time I pass by the boxes of Oreo O’s I’m reminded of Burnin For You and I’m compelled to buy the box. Sometimes I resist and sometimes I don’t, lol.

You wanna know something?? Me too

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The longer I'm in quarantine, the more I find myself talking like Miette.

Jail! Jail for every politician for One Thousand Years!!!!

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83.) Wei Ying has a lot of audacity, is that why you notice him a lot?

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I think the thing about Mari Kondo that was so revolutionary to a lot of people was just the idea that cleanliness wasn’t something you owed anybody or something you do for other people or like-

Like I grew up with a Very Clean mother, but while I got quite a few good homemaking skills from her, the primary attitude about cleaning and tidying I got from the way she talked about it was that like - keeping clean is a Moral Good that we are Obligated To in service of some higher power like God or Society. Being tidy is how you show your Inherent Value to people by displaying what a Good Person you are to them, and it’s also about Making Them Comfortable and Staving Off Their Judgment. And it’s purposes are performative or they are in service to absolute utility. If it’s not about avoiding judgment, it’s about optimizing yourself to peak productivity, again in service to some overlording expectations you are required to meet to be Worthy. Organization, Aesthetic, and Discipline are all variables in a large equation that exists to determine how good a grade you can get on some cosmic test that you’re always taking.

And I think lots of people grew up feeling like that. That “chores” or cleaning were about other people or a standard set outside of yourself. Something done to you by someone or something else in service of their interests.

And then Mari Kondo comes along as says the simplest damn thing, “your space exists to make you happy” and it’s fucking RADICAL to thousands of people. I realize the advice in her books can seem like the same advice every decluttering “expert” has been giving since the dawn of time - don’t keep things beyond their usefulness, make sure there’s a dedicated space for everything. But from everyone else that advice felt in service to an overbearing “should” that was disparaging and disempowering and just makes a person feel like a failure.

Meanwhile, the very first step of the “KonMari method” is literally just “Think about what makes you happy.” She explicitly instructs you don’t start tidying without first considering your happiness. And then your own happiness is at the center of every step. There’s no hard law, no strict number. Not “try to get rid of half your things” or “throw away everything you haven’t used in a year”. It’s “go through everything in your life while thinking about your own happiness.” Wild. Unprecedented. My happiness? My joy? It’s not about Right and Wrong or Proper and Improper, it’s actually about being happy?

I think for lot of people raised in a certain Protestant mindset in the West, the idea that being happy was a factor at all in maintaining a space, let alone the main goal, was a complete revelation. Of course it seems absurdly obvious in retrospect, but a whole lot of us weren’t raised to take our own happiness into account, especially when it comes to housekeeping. Oh, my goal is to be happy. My goal is to get joy out of my space. I don’t owe anyone anything, but I owe myself kindness, and I deserve only things that make me happy. Amazing. Never even thought about being happy before. Been told how to optimize efficiency, how to optimize appearance, how to optimize utility, how to optimize storage, and it’s all a drag, and then Mari Kondo comes along like “what about joy?” Damn. That’s way easier and more fun and also has more sustainable results.

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let’s do this 👀