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fucking relatable master yupa

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two human au loustats from twitter

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Princess Jaehaera Targaryen and her twin brother, Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen and Prince Aegon Targaryen with his younger brother, Prince Viserys Targaryen, if they had grown up together.

[REPOSTED WITH PERMISSION. ART BY CRAZYTOM]

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Prince Regent Aemond Targaryen and his sidekick, minimond princess Jaehaera Targaryen 🥺

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A sketch of Rhaenyra and Aegon, because they're siblings 💙

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During the 2008 recession, my aunt lost her job. Her, her partner, and my three cousins moved across the country to stay with us while they got back on their feet. My house turned from a family of four to a family of nine overnight, complete with three dogs and five cats between us.

It took a few years for them to get a place of their own, but after a few rentals and apartments, they now own a split level ranch in a town nearby. I’ve lost track of how many coworkers and friends have stayed with them when they were in a tight spot. A mother and son getting out of an abusive relationship, a divorcee trying to stay local for his kids while they work out a custody agreement, you name it. My aunt and uncle knew first hand what that kindness meant, and always find space for someone who needed it, the way my parents had for them.

That same aunt and uncle visited me in [redacted] city last year. They are prolific drinkers, so we spent most of the day bar hopping. As we wandered the city, any time we passed a homeless person, my uncle would pull out a fresh cigarette and ask them if they had a light. Regardless of if they had a lighter on hand or not, he offered them a few bucks in exchange, which he explained to me after was because he felt it would be easier for them to accept in exchange for a service, no matter how small.

I work for a company that produces a lot of fabric waste. Every few weeks, I bring two big black trash bags full of discarded material over to a woman who works down the hall. She distributes them to local churches, quilting clubs, and teachers who can use them for crafts. She’s currently in the process of working with our building to set up a recycling program for the smaller pieces of fabric that are harder to find use for.

One of my best friends gives monthly donations to four or five local organizations. She’s fortunate enough to have a tech job that gives her a good salary, and she knows that a recurring donation is more valuable to a non-profit because they can rely on that money month after month, and can plan ways to stretch that dollar for maximum impact. One of those organizations is a native plant trust, and once she’s out of her apartment complex and in a home with a yard, she has plans to convert it into a haven of local flora.

My partner works for a company that is working to help regulate crypto and hold the current bad actors in the space accountable for their actions. We unfortunately live in a time where technology develops far too fast for bureaucracy to keep up with, but just because people use a technology for ill gain doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad. The blockchain is something that she finds fascinating and powerful, and she is using her degree and her expertise to turn it into a tool for good.

I knew someone who always had a bag of treats in their purse, on the odd chance they came across a stray cat or dog, they had something to offer them.

I follow artists who post about every local election they know of, because they know their platform gives them more reach than the average person, and that they can leverage that platform to encourage people to vote in elections that get less attention, but in many ways have more impact on the direction our country is going to go.

All of this to say, there’s more than one way to do good in the world. Social media leads us to believe that the loudest, the most vocal, the most prolific poster is the most virtuous, but they are only a piece of the puzzle. (And if virtue for virtues sake is your end goal, you’ve already lost, but that’s a different post). Community is built of people leveraging their privileges to help those without them. We need people doing all of those things and more, because no individual can or should do all of it. You would be stretched too thin, your efforts valiant, but less effective in your ambition.

None of this is to encourage inaction. Identify your unique strengths, skills, and privileges, and put them to use. Determine what causes are important to you, and commit to doing what you can to help them. Collective action is how change is made, but don’t forget that we need diversity in actions taken.

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just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog

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don’t you know it’s not good for your hair to wash it every day. you have to use sulfate and paraben free shampoo. you have to wash your hair with conditioner instead. you should stop washing your hair for a month because actually your scalp has the natural ability to maintain itself. greasy hair can make your acne worse so make sure you wash it every day. you have to use this three step regiment on your face EVERY SINGLE night. buy this $70 serum and use it with the 10 other serums you have but don’t combine them. don’t use anything on your face except a gentle cleanser and moisturizer. do NOT use moisturizer on your face you are DESTROYING your skins natural moisture barrier! acne is just for teenagers you’ll grow out of it :) oh no but adult acne is sooooo common. just take birth control and your acne will go away. cut out all sugar and dairy and your acne will go away. actually those studies are fake, get light therapy treatments instead. take accutane and your acne will go away, only a couple of those kids killed themselves! shave your armpits because it looks better. if you shave your armpits you’re not a feminist. actually shaving your armpits is for HYGIENE. wax your legs. wax your bikini line. but waxing any part of your body can give you ugly ingrown hairs and permanently damage your skin and follicles and besides that’s the patriarchy. (but get laser hair removal instead.) don’t have an eating disorder because that’s too much but definitely do intermittent fasting. don’t eat carbs. don’t eat sugar. don’t eat fat. actually your brain uses carbs as its main energy source. actually fat is necessary but only good fat. you have to DRINK MORE WATER!!! drinking 8 glasses of water per day is a myth. burn fat and get toned by doing these exercises. but cellulite is natural and 99% of women have it so you HAVE to embrace it. take diet pills. ummm don’t you know those are meth?? take NATURAL diet supplements for weight loss. take THESE vitamins to cure your depression and clear your skin and make you better at sex and make your vision better and speed up your metabolism and make your digestion better and make you focus better. i know the ONLY right answer but you have to pay me for it. follow my blog! listen to my podcast! subscribe to my email newsletter! buy my snake oil!!

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the sopranos (1999–2007) / house of the dragon (2022–) / the last days of judas iscariot, stephen adly guirigis / interview with the vampire (2022–) / succession (2018–)

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the sopranos (1999) / interview with the vampire (2022)

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Ahhh I love this!! I hadn’t put it in the perspective of Claudia taking a lover being a way for her to reclaim autonomy over her body. I also love how you phrased that Madeline is a dubious woman, and thus already in a moral position where it wouldn’t be completely out of left field for her to have a relationship with Claudia.

I think it makes people uncomfortable because of the nature of Claudia’s body, but if we only see it from that angle how we any better than the coven or Louis, who hear Claudia’s frustrations but ultimately write her off as a spoiled child? Even though, as you said, she’s a 50-60 year old woman who is well beyond childhood. I think the show aging Claudia up makes that distinction much clearer than in the books where she’s stuck in the body of a 5 year old.

Okay question for my IWTV girlies…how are we feeling about the Madeline storyline? I understand a big change in Claudia being aged up means what she looks for in a “companion” is someone to be a sexual/romantic partner with, but idk, it still creeps me out?? Like in S1 when she describes her body and trying to have sex with other people, both Louis and Lestat look disgusted at the notion, which we as an audience should also feel as we remember Claudia is a CHILD. She even asks - who would want me, besides creeps who like little girls?

I’m sure Claudia will reveal herself as a vampire and her real age before having ~relations~ with Madeline, but it still makes me dislike Madeline, which I also think is intentional. Like, girl shacked up with Nazis, def not supposed to be a good person here. And neither is Claudia, but it still is giving me pause. In the books if I recall Madeline is more of a mother figure to her, which wouldn’t align with the story in the show, but what about a sister? Again, I know Claudia has always been seeking that connection and Delainey is more than old enough to be doing intimate scenes, but it just…leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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Interview with the Vampire | 2x04 “I Want You More Than Anything in the World”

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Okay question for my IWTV girlies…how are we feeling about the Madeline storyline? I understand a big change in Claudia being aged up means what she looks for in a “companion” is someone to be a sexual/romantic partner with, but idk, it still creeps me out?? Like in S1 when she describes her body and trying to have sex with other people, both Louis and Lestat look disgusted at the notion, which we as an audience should also feel as we remember Claudia is a CHILD. She even asks - who would want me, besides creeps who like little girls?

I’m sure Claudia will reveal herself as a vampire and her real age before having ~relations~ with Madeline, but it still makes me dislike Madeline, which I also think is intentional. Like, girl shacked up with Nazis, def not supposed to be a good person here. And neither is Claudia, but it still is giving me pause. In the books if I recall Madeline is more of a mother figure to her, which wouldn’t align with the story in the show, but what about a sister? Again, I know Claudia has always been seeking that connection and Delainey is more than old enough to be doing intimate scenes, but it just…leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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ITS THE LAST STAND BABY!!!!!!!!

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if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?

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My perfect mashed potatoes

The secret is in the water; literally, it’s IN the water.

See, when you boil potatoes, a lot of special starches and sugars and stuff leeches out into the water. When you drain the water before mashing them, you throw away a lot of good stuff, which is a big part of what makes mashed potatoes “dry” and bland, even when you add large amounts of cream and butter and things.

So don’t throw out any water.

Here’s how you do that:

First, cut your potatoes into smaller cubes than you probably do. (I’ve left the skins on for flavor and also, that’s where a lot of a potato’s nutrients are, like protien and iron and vitamins B and C, just to name a few)

The reason for cutting them smaller (besides avoiding giant peices of skin) is so that there is less space in the pot between each peice for water to fill, so you use less water to cook them. That’s important because you won’t be draining any water, so you can’t afford to have too much water! For the same reason, just barely cover them with water when they go on the stove.

But! Before you do that, put the pot on the stove with some butter, garlic, and seasonings; let the butter start to sizxle just a little then put most of a single layer of potatoes in the pan and let the brown and sear. Turn them, brown them on all sides, get ‘em fairly dark (I forgot to get a pic here because I was worried I’d burn the butter).

Ready? now throw the rest of the potatoes in right on top, and add your water, give them a stir. This way, you’re boiling in some of that lovely fried potato/french fry flavor.

Okay, so, as they cook, you may need to add a little water, not too much! ideally the very highest piece of potato will be poking just above the surface. Now, when your potatoes are really really soft, mash them directly into the water. Just pull them off the stove, leave all the water in, and start mashing. Trust me. At first you’ll think there’s too much water. If you get them mashed and they ARE a little too liquidy, just put ‘em back on the stove. You’ll have to stir often or constantly, but they will steam off additional water without losing any good stuff.

Now add some salt, and taste. Right?! And you haven’t even put in any cream or cheese or anything yet.

Speaking of which, you can use like, a third of the amount of butter or cream or anything, and they will still taste better than usual. So they taste better AND they are higher in nutrients AND lower in fats and salts! That’s a lot of win — enjoy your potatoes!

Fuck Columbus! Indigenous Rights! And happy Thanksgiving!

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years