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hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

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Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls (2004)

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@mizjoely I would read this.

FUCK YOU DISNEY

Anyways, y’all better start saving your fave fanfics and fanart under the Disney labels cause it looks like they’re trying to curb fair use/fanworks and I’m sure there’s going to be mass panicked deletions even though it’s probably unnecessary cause AO3′s legal team will fight for us.

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Fandom is such a weird place. Like I watched a tv show and thought “wow, these two nerds have a lot of chemistry and I’d like to dedicate a large chunk of my life to thinking about them” so I went in search of other people who also thought these two nerds had a lot of chemistry and then it turned out that a shit ton of people were talking about these two nerds having a lot of chemistry and now it’s 4 years later and we write each other porn on holidays.

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Sohla has her own show on the Binging with Babish channel!

Read more about it here:

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Hey so JK Rowling went full mask off and is advertising an explicitly terf store now.. Also sure is weird how TERF talking points usually consistently leave trans men out of these conversations and usually always direct their hateful rhetoric toward trans women.

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Folks is there an appetite for....quarantine Sherlolly? Have been rewatching series 3 and quite frankly I’ve got a hankering....

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Okay, I’ve read Joe Biden’s plans.

I’ve just sat down and spent several hours actually reading all the damn plans on his website, the whole thing, so you don’t have to. And here’s the conclusion:

They’re pretty good.

Are they absolutely everything we want immediately? Maybe not. Are they a solid Democratic agenda anyway? Yes they are. Are they better than Trump?

Light years!

His Violence Against Women plan is lengthy, detailed, and pays specific attention to violence against Native, lesbian and bisexual, low-income, disabled, rural, transgender (especially trans women of color) immigrant, domestic abuse victims, and other vulnerable women. He calls for replacing and expanding Obama-era policies and funding for campus sexual assault programs that DeVos trashed, and for providing money for culturally specific services that are sensitive to the diverse backgrounds of survivors. He also notes that sexual assault, while it predominantly affects women and girls, needs to be taken seriously and addressed for people of all gender identities.

His gun safety plan is forceful and lays out several steps for banning assault weapons, taking existing weapons from offenders, closing gun purchase background check and other legal loopholes, addressing the intersection between domestic violence and weapons ownership, and reducing or eliminating weapons and ammunition stockpiling.

His plan for tackling climate change and creating green jobs is also lengthy. He makes the connection between economic, environmental, and racial justice. He pledges to immediately rejoin the Paris Agreement and restore American leadership on the issue in pushing for even stronger climate standards, make climate change a central part of our trade, international, and justice goals, demand a worldwide ban on fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks (!!!) and if the Green New Deal is passed, to sign it, as well as for the U.S. to achieve 100% clean energy and zero percent net emissions by 2050.

His healthcare plan is decent. It offers an immediate public option for all Americans regardless of private, employer, or no coverage, and generous new tax credits to put toward the cost of coverage. It strongly protects abortion rights and federal funding for Planned Parenthood, as well as rescinding the “gag rule” that prevents U.S. federal aid money from being used to provide or even talk about abortions in NGOs abroad. It attacks generic and drug price gouging. It calls for doubling the capital gains tax on the super-wealthy (from 20% to 39.5% paid on capital gains by anyone making over $1 million) to help fund healthcare reform. He also has a separate plan on the opioid crisis in America, and on older Americans and retirement, including the protection and re-funding of Medicare and Social Security.

His immigration plan is lengthy and detailed. He apologizes for and acknowledges the excessive deportation that occured during the Obama-Biden administrations, pledges to do better, and attacks Trump’s current inhumane acitivities on every front. The policy of children in cages, indefinite detention, the metered asylum system, and the Muslim Ban are gone on day one. In this and his LGBTQ plan, he notes the vulnerability of LGBTQ refugees, incuding LGBTQ refugees of color. He proposes streamlining of visa applications and prioritizing the immediate reunification of families. It also specifically states that ICE and CBP agents will be held directly accountable for inhumane treatment.

Speaking of which, his LGBTQ plan is comprehensive. It pays attention to multiple intersectional issues, down to the high rates of incarceration among trans people of color. (He also notes the rates of violence against trans women of color particularly.) He calls for a complete ban on conversion therapy and the discrimination against HIV-status individuals, as well as removing the ban on blood donation from gay and bisexual men. He will remove the transgender military ban immediately. He calls for funding for mental health and suicide prevention among LGBTQ populations.

His plan to empower workers calls for raising the federal minimum wage to $15, as well as indexing this to median hourly wages to ensure that working-class and middle-class wages grow closer to parity, and implementing strong legal protections for unions. He expresses support for striking workers and to empower the National Labor Relations Board in workplace advocacy. Farmworkers, domestic workers, gig economy workers, and other non-traditional labor groups are included in this. He will restore all Obama-Biden policies related to workplace safety and regulation.

His plan to restore American dignity and leadership in the world calls for immediately investing in election security and reform, restoration of the Voting Rights Act, immediately restoring White House press briefings and other Trump refusals of information, tackling criminal justice reform and systematic racial discrimination, calling for campaign finance reform, and basically blowing up all the stupid things the Trump administration does on a daily basis. It also calls for an end to all ongoing wars in the Middle East, restoring the Iran nuclear deal, and new arms control treaties with Russia, among general repairing of international alliances.

His plans for K-12 education and post-high school education call for greatly expanded funding across all levels of 2-year, 4-year, and other educational options. There will be no student loan payments for anyone making under $25,000 a year; everyone else will pay a capped amount and be completely forgiven after a certain period. Public servants qualify for up to $50,000 in loan forgiveness. This is not total loan forgiveness for everyone, which is obviously important for me and many of us, but it’s acceptable to start with. Additionally, his wife is a teacher and has a proven track record of calling for education investment and supporting public school funding.

His plan for housing addresses the needs of formerly incarcerated, LGBTQ, veteran, low-income, sexual assault survivor, black and Hispanic, and other vulnerable populations at risk of losing housing. It calls for a tax on companies and corporations with in excess of $50 billion in assets to fund comprehensive new housing initiatives, including $100 billion in accessible and low-income housing development. It includes extensive investment in public transportation and a high-speed rail system. This ties into his plan to repair infrastructure and invest in new technologies across the country.

His plan for criminal justice reform calls for the end of mass incarceration, the decriminalization of marijuana, the automatic expunging of all cannabis convictions, and an end on jail sentences for drug use. It highlights systematic institutional racism and the impact on black and brown people particularly. It calls for an end on all profiteering and private prisons. It focuses on reintegrating offenders into society and funding the needs of people released from prison. It proposes to “expand and use the power of the U.S. Justice Department to address systemic misconduct in police departments and prosecutors’ offices.” It broadens funding for social services and other programs for people who are otherwise placed into the prison pipeline.

There are more plans, which you can find here. These are the ones I read top to bottom. I am not by any means a Joe Biden fangirl; he was not my first choice, my second choice, or really anywhere on my list. However, having carefully read through his policy documents, I can say that:

He has at the least a good team of advisors who are keenly aware of the political climate, and is willing to both restore Obama-era standards and to improve on them where necessary. Obviously, all politicians’ promises are politicians’ promises, but this is a solid Democratic platform with obvious awareness of the progressive wing of the party.

If progressive legislation is passed in the House and Senate, he will sign it, including the Green New Deal.

He represents a clear and definite improvement over Donald Trump.

Is he everything we want? No. Are his policies better than I was expecting? Yes. I advise you to read through them for yourself. It has made me at least feel better about the likelihood of voting for him.

I realize it’s an unsexy position, especially on tumblr, to advocate for an old centrist white man. I’m not thrilled about having to do it. However, speaking as someone who was very resistant to Biden and still doesn’t agree with all of his previous legislative track record, that’s my consensus. He is a candidate who broadly aligns with values that I care about. His policies represent a concrete end to the damage of the Trump administration and gets us on the right track again.

Joe Biden, if he is the Democratic nominee, will receive my vote on November 3, 2020. I urge you to consider what I’ve laid out above and join me.

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Sherlolly Fanfiction Week 2020

Get excited Sherlollians because Fanfiction Week is next month! All fics are welcome (smut, fluff, crack, angsty, AU, ect.), especially those amazing fics that need a little more love!  Remember, please post a link to the original work and if the writer is on tumblr, it would be cool to tag them as well.

Reviews: If you are interested in reviewing a fic, some ideas could include attention to details, character dynamics, dramatic moments, transitions, title originality - whatever you want to talk about!

Recommendations: Feel free to recommend as many fics as you want a day – maybe you just choose one fic to recommend or maybe you create a small list for each theme – this is totally up to you! 

Artists / Editors / GIF Makers: If you want to make your review or recommendation for each day a new piece of art based on fics that fit either of the themes for that day, that would be amazing!

Please use the tag sherlollyficweek2020 when you post – can’t wait to see what you lovelies review and recommend!

Again, a BIG THANKS TO @writingwife-83​​ for helping me find old posts last year when I was working on this! Thank you, thank you, thank you to @thisisartbylexie​​ for the themes for the recommendation days! And a huge shout out to @rooneykmara​​ who has hosted Sherlolly Fanfiction week in the past!

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Warstan, 1-3. Sherlolly, 5-9

You know I hadn’t actually planned on doing this post as an ask game,  more as a comment, but why not?  ‘Cept I’m switching it up.  And not doing all of them, at least not right now, because I have an appointment to get my hair did.

1. Who would be clutching on to the other person whispering, “Don’t die,” while the other is covered in blood?

She should have just taken thirty seconds to fetch a knife, but it was that cheap amazon.com packing tape so she pulled at the box instead and got it all wrong.

“Ow, damn,” Mary muttered, as a thin line of red droplets welled up across her palm.  How had she managed to do this on cardboard?

At the breakfast table, John bolted to his feet and screamed, “NOOOOOOO!” before scrambling over to Mary’s chair and enveloping her in an embrace.

“Please, please, my darling,” he whispered, gently stroking her hair, “Don’t leave me.  Don’t go.”

Rosie set down her spoon in disgust.

“You two are so humiliating,” she said, tossing her hair and flouncing over to the door to pick up the car keys, “I’ll be over at Will’s.”

She slammed the door behind her.  Mary looked up at John with an arched eyebrow, and asked, “Care to fetch me a band-aid?”

“Of course.”

7. Who watches their partner get tortured and is helpless to do anything about it?

How long had he been here?  Hours?  Days? Months?

How long had he been in the dark?  How long had they been doing this to him?

They had stopped, finally.  But he knew it was only a temporary respite.  He’d be back here, in the chair, in the dark, and it would happen.  The man would be back.

But it wasn’t happening yet.  And so Sherlock took this moment to retreat into his mind palace, where he could find, as always… Molly.

The agony was too intense, and she was nebulous, changing her clothes from a lab coat to a floating white gown to very little at all.  In all her guises, the tears stood in her eyes.

“Oh, Sherlock,” Molly whispered, “My poor heart.  You have to be brave, for me.  For us.  And I’ll be with you all the-”

From his left, his mother whacked him on the bicep with a rolled up playbill, and hissed, “William.  They’re starting again, wake up!”

Sherlock rubbed his arm and glanced over to real Molly, wearing a smart green cocktail frock and rolling her eyes at him.  But then she smiled a soft little smirk, kissed his cheek, and murmured, “We’re halfway through,” before taking his hand and twining their fingers together.’

The stage lights came up.  The man returned.  

“How does a bastard, orphan, immigrant, decorated war vet, unite the colonies through more debt, fight the other founding fathers till he has to forfeit, have it all lose it all, you ready for more yet?”

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Companion Pieces: The Pathologist and her Detective

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send me song recs and i'll respond with:

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

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He’s not bitter, he tells himself.

He’s not disappointed.

He’s happy for her, really he is. No one deserves happiness as much as Molly Hooper does.

She’s suffered, at his hands and the hands of others. She’s lived through being used by men who discarded her without a second thought when her usefulness was at an end - lived through it, survived it, and come out all the stronger for it.

He admires her for that, although he winces as an inner voice sneeringly reminds him that he’s one of those people.

And he is, there’s no getting around that fact. He used her, lied to her about his feelings, pretended and faked and made her feel special only to discard her.

So the fact that she’s currently walking down the aisle on the arms of Gavin (Graham?) Lestrade, acting in loco parentis, a wide, beaming smile on her face as she glides toward her soon-to-be-husband– That’s all on him. For letting her go. For not realizing a good thing when he had it.

For being a complete and utter arsehole.

“Good bye, Molly Hooper,” he whispers to himself, from his shadowy corner at the back of the small chapel. She’s being kissed on the cheek by DI Lestrade, handing off her bouquet to that Meena woman she used to prattle on about when he was half-listening, and clasping hands with him.

The one who doesn’t deserve her.

Then again, he thinks with a pang of regret, no one alive could really deserve her.

No one dead, either, that inner voice sneers, sounding very much like his favorite nemesis.

“Neither of us deserved you, but he won fair and square,” he murmurs as he moves unobtrusively toward the door and leaves the happy couple and their friends to complete the ceremony without the Spectre at the Feast that he represents.

Once outside, he adjusts his expression from wistful to blandly amused and gestures for a cab. It stops for him immediately - he has what many have referred to as an uncanny way with them - and he climbs inside.

Gives one last look at the chapel exterior, pictures Molly and her new groom - lucky barstard - walking outside, hand in hand, being showered with rice or birdseed or whatever is fashionable these days. Kissing each other, surrounded by adoring friends and family.

All the things he could have had, if he’d only realized what he had…

No. “No regrets,” he says aloud, and the cabbie gives him a quizzical look.

“Nothing,” he says, waving a hand at the man.

“Where to, then?” he asks with a shrug.

“221B Baker Street,” he says, leaning back and stretching his arms along the back of the seat. “Have to drop off a gift for the bride and groom.”

With those words, Jim Moriarty smiles, tucking away his feelings for the woman he vastly underestimated into a corner of his dark little heart, and considers the next step in the long game he’s playing.

Eurus will be so pleased to see him again - and she’s sure to have some very creative ideas now that she’s come out of her catatonic state. 

After all, she’s the one who gave him the idea for the perfect wedding gift for the newlyweds.

He smiles again, a dark, anticipatory smile, and the cab speeds away.

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Can I ask where are you from? If you do not mind me asking...

otherwise known as the united states of america

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Just wanted to draw this expression! (I thought I didn’t care about the royal wedding but it was so Disney that it melted my cold dead heart)

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I’ve made the mock apple pie! It’s disturbing how much it tastes like apple pie... makes me question a lot of apple pies....  

Twilight Zone Cookbook part 9

Let’s see what else this book has to offer:

Ah yes, garlic chops, so called because the pork chops are touched briefly with a garlic clove, and there is one additional single garlic clove in the gravy.

What in the hell is this. Is this some sort of traditional dish from some area that tastes better than it sounds? Anyone know?

I think I also found this recipe when I was doing research for my retro cooking week. With how many 50s magazine recipes she’s included, I’m legit surprised that there isn’t a recipe for a salad jello somewhere in here.

Here we go, some boiled and drained hamburger!

12 potatoes. 12 POTATOES. How many people are these meals meant to feed???

This recipe I feel really captures the spirit of the food in this book: open a bunch of cans, put it in a pan, congratulations you cooked. This recipe is nice because it’s the second “crunchy chicken casserole” in the book and has mainly the same ingredients of chicken, canned soups, cheese and potato chips on top. Bluh.

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Well at least there’s soy sauce, and no canned stir fry vegetables in it I guess

There’s nothing wrong with this one but I just want to point out that in the ingredients she defines a “pork cutlet” as “boneless lean pork that has been cubed” which is... absolutely not what a cutlet is. The recipe seems to be for actual cutlets though so...? Just another mystery from this cursed book.

Well. I’m not going to judge because I’ve made food with unusual added ingredients and they tasted good. Does anyone want to weigh in on what this would be like? Because I’m having a hard time imagining it.

According to @darnedchild this book is actually still in print and that is just so incredibly weird to me, this collection of 50s magazine recipes and “Oriental” cooking and condensed soup casseroles... it would be different if I found this book at a second hand store or something and it used to be someone’s old 4H cookbook with weird little farm wife recipes, but it’s not... it’s being published and sold in the year 2020.

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Aristocats play Lizzo. Sound on!

Created by Brenden Cary 

(Thanks to @caliblair for letting me know who made this!)