#I'm There

[oldguardians]

mad max: fury road says that when stripped down to its basic parts, the world is run by rich old men who control the production of weapons, oil, and water and food resources. these old men willingly hold most of the world in artificial poverty and take luxury as their right. they regard women as their property. they use sincere religious sentiment to further their selfish aims. they killed the world.

furiosa wants to fight back: she wants to escape to the green place, the utopia of childhood. but no matter what she and the wives sacrifice or how far they search, the earth is sour. the old men poisoned the soil with their bombs and their chemicals. there is no homeland outside of the systems these old men have dominated and these women have inhabited, the system furiosa has learned and perpetuated and rejected. their only option is to go back, to kill the old men and take their place in the tower where decisions are made.

can they hold the citadel, the ones who plant seeds instead of bombs? can they deradicalize the religious soldiers and create a more equitable society? can something grow in sour soil after all? we will never know. we leave our change-makers moving up into the seat of power. but as long as they rise, we can hold on to an ambiguous moment of hope.

[dead-in-the-pool]

Since I gave you an enchilada can we commit arson together?

~❤️‍🔥

obviously

[bethanydelleman]

Why is Emma as a character and/or novel as popular as P & P? I can't figure out...

Um, as far as I know it's not. Here is a random sampling of polls from Tumblr about this:

Pride & Prejudice wins every time, the only poll with P&P excluded, Persuasion won and that was a decent sample size.

And Reddit:

Facebook's search feature is actually worse than either of Tumblr or Reddit (shocking!), but I have seen multiple polls and questions and let me tell you, these results hold up for the entire fandom, the order of liking is this:

Pride & Prejudice Persuasion Emma Sense & Sensibility Northanger Abbey/Mansfield Park

So no, it is not as popular as P&P, not by a long shot. Seems to be a solid third.

Also, many people hate Emma, the character. I meet very few people who hate Elizabeth. Emma is definitely not as popular as Elizabeth. I have seen polls of that too but it's harder to search.

I hope that answers your question 🙂

[quakebeats]

you know you're getting old when you get excited about a new bedset as a birthday gift

[wineandthrandy]

It's on! Don't you raise those eyebrows at me like that Thrandaddy.

[valenshawke]

Looks like I gotta check out Blue Eye Samurai next week.

[actualalligator]

Do you ever feel like you're in too many discord servers and all of them have the little white arrow that says "stuff is happening!!!" but actually it's too much and you wish you could just mark everything read all at once instead of having to go into each individual server?

[invinciblerodent]

For the record, I just saw a post about someone complaining how people will hate Lae'zel but love Gale, and I feel like I should say it preemptively- I don't hate Lae'zel, or any other character for that matter. They're all great. Gale just happens to be just embarrassingly my type of character.

It's my curse, in a world full of interesting and novel character concepts I'm doomed to fall for the emotionally tortured, smart-mouthed mage with facial hair over and over again.

[leebrontide]

Ok so my kid had an ear infection, right? As kids often do.

The doctor scraped out a bit of earwax to have a better look inside.

I was sent a bill for $200 PER EAR for this 5 second procedure which I did not give permission for them to do.

That was key- they did not ASK me if they could do this "procedure". And, as I OWN a medical practice (it's me. The medical practice is me, sitting in my house on video calls) I knew to call them when this bill came in to be like "You did not obtain informed consent for this procedure, and it was not en emergency procedure. You had full ability to gain my consent and didn't. I'm not paying."

And the massive hospital who owned the bill said "yuh-huh you do have to pay."

And I said "I own a practice. I know these laws. I do not owe you money for this."

And they conducted an "internal review" and SURPRISE! Decided I totally owed them money and they had never done anything wrong ever.

And so I called my state's Attorney General office, and explained the situation because, as I mentioned, I know the law. The AG got in touch within a couple days to say they were taking the case and would send the massive hospital conglomerate a knock it off, guys letter.

Lo and Behold, today I have a letter where said hospital graciously has agreed to forfeit the payment.

"How not to get screwed over by companies" should be part of civics class.

Know your rights and know who to call when they're infringed on. This whole process cost me $0 and honestly less effort than I would have expected.

May this knowledge find its way to someone else who can use it.

[climbingthefloors]

obsessed with this baby hippo from thailand's khao khew zoo.. she has been so utterly betrayed by the world

[gorjee-art]

a comic about cuddles

[ladyshinga]

Doctors should snark at each other more, be a bit mean. Not for no reason, mind you. But if five doctors blow me off about symptoms and doctor number six FINALLY runs actual tests and gets a diagnosis, I think it should be Doctor Six's right to call up the other five and tell them they're lazy pieces of shit. That should be socially encouraged. Those first five doctors clearly can't listen to patients, but maybe another doctor might finally get to them.

[asoftspotforangels]

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

[bob-artist]

My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!

My hands:

[w1lmuttart]

The lake town