#Serious shock

[codexnuminous]

As an Australian, this is a word that I also use, and I, too, am shocked to learn that it is not universal.

JUST LEARNED THAT SQUIZ. IS KIWI SLANG AND NOT A WORD IN THE AVERAGE PERSONS LEXICON

[blueskittlesart]

no one on this site knows what the word butch means

[notsocooljess]

sometimes i am stunned when i remember that not only are katniss and peeta the youngest people going into the quarter quell but also that they are still literally KIDS. they are children facing 22 adults with not only years of friendship between them but years of mentorship to learn the best strategies of the games.

katniss is a 17yo girl who was malnourished most of her life that only had months to try to prepare to catch up to her competitors. peeta is a 17yo boy who is likely still going through puberty! facing fully grown adults.

sure some of the victors are in their early 20s like finnick or johanna, but the maturity difference between early 20s and 17 is huge.

they are kids forced to play in an adults’ game.

[notbecauseofvictories]

as much as I love history and Chicago history especially, I do sometimes forget how recent everything here is. I was at the Hull House Museum with a friend of mine the other day, and we had a wonderful time listening to the curator talk about the birth of social work, the women who drove it forward, and the ghost stories that haunt their stomping grounds despite no one really dying there.

As we were walking around after the tour, my friend pointed out that Jane Addams' dress (the one on display in that room, black and small and otherwise unremarkable) had an uneven hem. "Oh, good eye!" the curator, who was walking alongside us, exclaimed. "Addams' tuberculosis left her with some spinal curvature, even after corrective surgery. She had most of her dresses altered to ensure the hem would be straight when she wore them---but on a standard dress form, the hem looks uneven."

"I always forget that having a tailor or dressmaker was considered typical back then," I said.

"No, by that point it was much more common to buy a dress from Sears and have it altered," the curator replied cheerfully. "That's what Addams did."

The whole exchange was maybe a few seconds, but it sticks with me even now. The idea that Jane Addams bought a dress from Sears---where I have also bought dresses, where my mother bought dresses---makes me feel insane. And yet, we're only talking about a hundred years ago or so. Is it so unreasonable that I, as a disaffected teen, was drifting through racks of mass-produced garments, just as Jane Addams did a century before? The exact location of the hands making those garments has changed of course; the workers' protections that Addams' contemporaries fought for have resulted in offshoring that work to less-guarded parts of the world. But it gives me a strange sort of fellow feeling to think about it, all these many decades later.

[jacquelying]

the gang goes to mcdonalds

[worstloki]

"Thor cared about Jotunheim!" "Thor cared about Coulson!"

Nah sorry I think he cared that it was Loki acting so abnormal both times. Not about the people just yet. Still growing. Sorry.

[edgarallanpoestan]

the nature of crimeboys is that one of them will write serious lore on ao3 and the other will write yaoi on wattpad. and i can try to guess which is which, but i will never be sure until i see for myself

[narklos]

Drink and be merry!

[jerreeeeeee]

lup and taako are not incredulous about each other’s taste in men their type is literally the same and they know it (dorks with a strange relationship to death)

[post-it-notes7]

For some reason I imagine that dameta pushing mir dragato in the water has the same effect as throwing a toaster in a bathtub…

He was thinking about it

[allthegothihopgirls]

i think it would have been funny if tim, after discovering his bisexuality and thinking that was the 'unique feature' he brought to his iteration of robin, mentioned this to the rest of batfam, only to find out they've all been some degree of queer this whole time.

[tyrannodokuro]

i don't even know if this meme is relevant, but when has that stopped the internet before

[ozmatippetarius]

100% Sousuke was expecting a kiss in this scene, you can't convince me otherwise.

[ladyluscinia]

And fuck people are already starting to be insufferable about "sometimes people die in tv shows, god, these whiny children" and like. I love a good character death beat? I enjoyed Black Sails way more than OFMD and my favorite character in the cast of doomed characters was the most blatantly signaled dead man walking of them all?

And when he died I was distraught but also TWICE as motivated to finish the show because Vane's death was thee mic drop moment of his arc?

I can handle people killing my favorite character, lol, but maybe the romcom with hijinks and muppet logic just really sucked at delivering a satisfying death beat because they aren't actually an intense, emotional pirate drama and the episode just kinda sucked all around???

[puhpandas]

this is Gregory and Tony on the missing poster for sure

[moltenhair]

"Wait a minute! Aren't you gonna tell me how you did it? That's not fair!"

The Riddler gets arrested, Batman: The Animated Series Ep. "Riddler's Reform"