#but you almost didn't!

[quinnmorgendorffer]

turn and face the strange - a tony wonder playlist

MOVIN’ OUT (ANTHONY’S SONG) (BILLY JOEL)  ///  Is that what you get for your money? It seems such a waste of time. If that's what it's all about, Mama, if that's movin' up, then I'm movin' out I'm movin' out 

FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE (THE CURE)  ///  I don't care if Monday's blue Tuesday's grey and Wednesday, too. Thursday, I don't care about you. It's Friday, I'm in love. Monday, you can fall apart Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart. Oh, Thursday doesn't even start; it's Friday, I'm in love

FEAR AND LOATHING (MARINA)  ///  I've lived a lot of different lives, been different people many times. I live my life in bitterness and fill my heart with emptiness. And now I see, I see it for the first time, there is no crime in being kind. Not everyone is out to screw you over, maybe, oh just maybe they just wanna get to know ya. Now the time is here. Baby, you don't have to live your life in fear. And the sky is clear, is clear of fear. Don't wanna live in fear and loathing I wanna feel like I am floating Instead of constantly exploding In fear and loathing. Don't wanna live in fear and loathing. I wanna feel like I am floating, instead of constantly exploding in fear and loathing. 

MR. MISTOFFELEES (CATS BROADWAY CAST)  ///  Oh! Well I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as magical Mr. Mistoffelees! He is quiet and small, he is black from the ears to the tip of his tail. He can creep through the tiniest crack; he can walk on the narrowest rail. He can pick any card from a pack; he is equally cunning with dice. He is always deceiving you into believing that he's only hunting for mice.

THIS IS ME TRYING (TAYLOR SWIFT) ///  I've been having a hard time adjusting. I had the shiniest wheels, now they're rusting. I didn't know if you'd care if I came back; I have a lot of regrets about that. Pulled the car off the road to the lookout, could've followed my fears all the way down. And maybe I don't quite know what to say, but I'm here in your doorway. I just wanted you to know that this is me trying...

I HATE EVERYTHING BUT YOU (CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND CAST) /// I hate the phrase love conquers all and I hate that it's true, ‘cause I want to not hate things when I'm with you. You love so many things and you have so much fun, it makes me wish my hating days were done!

VIENNA (BILLY JOEL) ///  Slow down you're doing fine. You can't be everything you want to be before your time, although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight. Too bad, but it's the life you lead: you're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need. Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right. You got your passion, you got your pride, but don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

CHANGES (DAVID BOWIE)  ///   Still don't know what I was waiting for and my time was running wild, a million dead-end streets and every time I thought I'd got it made, it seemed the taste was not so sweet. So I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker—I'm much too fast to take that test. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange)…  

TRAPPED IN A BOX (NO DOUBT) ///  Ooh, trapped in a box. Watch the world as it flocks to life's paradox. And we're all trapped in a box. Oh, trapped in a box, I'm not alone I know of others with a box as their home. A light only enters from a crack or a hole. Oh, this is not enough for a human to grow! Trapped in a box…

BUDDY HOLLY (WEEZER)  ///  (Woo-hoo) But you know I'm yours, (Woo-hoo), and I know you're mine. (Woo-hoo) And that's for all time! Ooh-wee-hoo, I look just like Buddy Holly, oh-oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore. I don't care what they say about us anyway; I don't care about that. Don't you ever fear, I'm always near I know that you need help…

RACHBOTTOMOFF (PANSY DIVISION)  ///  He's into classical music and classical tastes, he's got a classical butt and a classical waist. If ancient composers get him off, then just call me Rachbottomoff. Rock, rock, rock, Rachbottomoff, I wanna rock, rock, rock his bottom off.

SOFT TO BE STRONG (MARINA) ///  And I guess I've known it all along: the truth is you have to be soft to be strong. Finally, I feel the fear is gone. I found out love has to be soft to be strong. Soft to be strong. And I made myself believe other people wanted to hurt me. I took my bitterness and made it sweet; I took a broken heart and made it beat…

WE’RE GONNA NEED LOVE (KATE MILLER-HEIDKE)  ///  So it ends up at, so this is it. No flash of lightning, not even one bit. We found each other In the murky water and I don’t need another, and I hope you don’t either. But we’re gonna need love. I got a lot of love. We’re gonna need money, but you know we’re in for some luck. We’re gonna need friends, but if you wanted love, I got a lot of love for you.

WHY SHOULD I WORRY (BILLY JOEL)  ///  Why should I worry? Why should I care? It's just be-bopulation, and I got street savoir faire. The rhythm of the city, but once you get it down, said, then you can own this town. You can wear the crown! Why should I worry? Tell me, why should I care? I said, I may not have a dime, oh, but I got street savoir faire!

[clownowo]

been replaying the Portal series I think this is where its heading

[bloodwards]

bene gesserit costuming + occult and religious imagery

[dreamerdagn]

my tears of the kingdom experience so far

[captain-krow-drozdov]

Danny Is An Alternate Version Of Ra's Al Ghul And Flash Already Called Dibs On Adopting Him

Danny In All His Sleep Deprived Slightly Scuffed Up From A Fight Glory Is On His Way To Clockworks Tower To Hopefully Get A Nap And Maybe Some Homework Done When A Natural Portal Opens Up In Front Of Him And Proceeds To Unceremoniously Drop Him In The DC Verse Just Outside Of Central City Before Promptly Closing Leaving A Tired Danny Behind In A Run Down Abandoned Parking Lot.

It's Times Like This When Danny Regrets Putting Off Learning How To Make His Own Portals, Cause Now He Is Very Much Stuck For The Foreseeable Future And He Has No Idea Where Or When He Is. Luckily For Him However Central City Isn't Too Far Away, Unlucky For Him However Is That Once In The City He Realizes This Isn't His Dimension. He's Pretty Sure He'd Remember Something Called The Justice League.

So What Do You Do When Supernatural Bullshit Fails You? You Fall Back On Your Mad Scientist Roots And You Make A Portal Gun. So That's Exactly What Danny Plans To Do.

Unfortunately Staying Alive And Building Questionably Safe Portal Technology Requires Money And Supplies, So He Ends Up Wandering From City To City Doing Odd Jobs/Fixing Up Busted Tech For Cash Or Unwanted Electronics For His "Operation: Get Home" Needs. This Obviously Ends In A Few Superhero Encounter Shenanigans.

Though He Always Ends Up Back Near Central City, Both On The Off Chance The Natural Portal Will Open Up Again And Because Out Of All The Superheroes That Apparently Exist In This Universe The Speedsters Are His Favorite (Red Robin Is Solidly His Second Favorite Ever Since The Gotham Vigilante Gave Him A Large Coffee Filled With Enough Caffeine To Kill A Man).

Unbeknownst To Danny However Is That Every Hero/Vigilante He Has Encountered Has Come To At Least One Of The Following Conclusions; 1. Run Away Meta Who Is In Desperate Need Of A Good Meal/Adoption Bait. 2. Possibly Red Robin/Tim Drake Clone 3. A Good Kid But Could Possibly Be A Future Rouge If Left Unsupervised. 4. Did Bats Get A New Kid And Why Is He Here?

All Flash Knows Is That He Saw The Kid First And Therefore Has Dibs. Suck It Bruce.

Fast-forward A Few Months And Danny Gets Hurt During A Rogue Attack While Trying To Help Some Civilians Get To Safety (Old Hero Habits Die Hard (Ha Die Hard) And All That Jazz) And He Nopes Out Once Everyone Is Safe And When The Paramedics Are Busy With Other People Unaware He Left A Blood Sample Behind.

One DNA Test Brought To You By Paranoid Bat Concerns Of A Possible Red Robin Clone Later And They Find Out That Dannys DNA Matches One Ra's Al Ghul.

They Now Think Danny Is An Escaped Ra's Al Ghul Clone.

Memes For The Vibes:

[ginnyluna]

So @helyeahmangocheese has been cooking this valhalla!valgrace AU, and it's made me think of how amazing and how terrifying Leo and Alex's friendship would be

Bonus: their concerned boyfriends who already know that whatever these two are planning is not gonna end well

[inkskinned]

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

[micamone]

hewwo

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[puffywuffy8904]

HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY TO THE GUY OF ALL TIME!!! THE MOST SPECIALEST DUCK EVER!!!!!!!

[dreamyluigi]

some doodles based on this fic by @roscolate ;w; because holy shit this tore me apart, my heart ached then exploded it's so good

[cozylittleartblog]

worst way to start my new year, thanks. i have a lot of things to say about these companies but i'm tired and just keeping it focused to the pin side of things for this one. do not ever buy pins from these companies, literally ALL of them are stolen from small artists like me. if you want to buy enamel pins, check out etsy, and artist's personal websites and shops! (though even Etsy has some bootleg pins that ship straight from china, so tread carefully…)

Every pin I've designed is, thus far, EXCLUSIVE to my etsy. if you find it anywhere else, it's been ripped off! and once these stupid bootlegs pop up, it's basically a never ending game of whack-a-mole trying to get them all taken down...

[novella-november]

Making a much longer post short:

If you are writing a Romance, especially one you want your readers to root for, please make sure you take the time to include lots of little scenes that show that:

your characters actually are *friends* as well as lovers,

they enjoy spending time with each other on a casual basis

they respect as well as love each other

they try to communicate their feelings clearly instead of bottling their ire up til it explodes in violent arguments

neither of your characters are genuinely afraid of the other when they're angry

that they do not threaten each other with bodily harm during arguments, or use physical force

they respect each other's consent, and respect their partner's wants and wishes when it comes to physical affection.

pretty much to sum it up: do your characters actually enjoy being with each other, or is the entire relationship built on lust and dramatic arguments and nothing else?

Because if your relationship is the latter, your readers are more likely to want them to *break up* rather than *stay together*.

[yeoldenews]

I am now determined to find a way to use "ice cream freezer" as an insult again.

(source: The Troy Messenger, July 13, 1882.)

[hotelstares]