#c: usa

[3liza]

incredible to me that in the age of spending minimum $100 for groceries for one person every three weeks where i live, people are still online like "dairy is bad for you because it has a lot of calories". at this point im calculating calories per dollar at the grocery store and youre still stuck in "fat bad" mindset from 1980. you are an absurd person to me. laughable

[ma-re-zo]

Whyyyy do iPad keyboards suck such mad ass I had to rewrite this at least 3 times

Anyways yknow what I think my screen is just dirty . _ .

[elodieunderglass]

I can't resist bothering you with more questions. I'm sorry! I want to put Killie in a basket and carry him around with me like a purse dog. Did Charlie always know that he wasn't going to be a horse pilot forever and that he would find a way out of his family's net, or was he never going to escape if him being kicked out hadn't forced him into it? My heart breaks for him a bit, even though he seems the most well-adjusted person in that family. How old was he when he ended up on his own?

(In reference to Killie the jockey OC, crown prince of a horse-obsessed family, and his identical twin brother Charlie, who was disowned/ escaped the orbit of the Horse Planet)

You are never a bother. Nobody could be anything but grateful to have such insightful, brave, witty and inspiring people to talk about their OCs with! Are you kidding?

That’s such a good and deep question - I don’t think that Charlie knows the answer himself. He certainly was quite a talented apprentice jockey. In terms of his place in the family, his parents and siblings all adored him - he is warm and charming and funny - and thought they understood him. He has that special child-of-rotten-parents survival-mode sensitivity to reading a room, that in Charlie translates into useful skills, like “changing the mood of the room” and “sensing what people want him to say”.

But Charlie has a strong sense of identity, and with it, a hard internal limit on personal sacrifice; there are parts of Charlie you can’t have.

And despite being a fifth-generation jockey of impeccable pedigree, the whole “stoic, fearless, impervious to pain” thing appears to be a state of mind - not a physiology thing, but a mental one, engendered by passion for the sport. Charlie has had passages of his life where he’s carried off the Jockey Constitution (TM), but a problem with armouring yourself with a mental state is that if you are an especially clever little liar yourself, like Charlie, you catch on to the trick.

And the sport is inextricable from the horses in their family. So Charlie stormed out (was thrown out) of both family and sport… but I think he does like horses and he was good at it. And it would’ve been hard, in that family, in that immersive and passionate world, to break out naturally - especially when you are so beautifully built for it. It would again come down to Charlie’s strong sense of self.

I think a lot of his sense of identity and resistance came, early on, from connecting honestly with his bisexuality. He’s clever and sneaky, and likes mind games and code-switching and putting on characters, and when he realised the necessity of masking early on, it felt like a secret identity. He was simply Built Different, and couldn’t change it, so he made a game of tap-dancing on the tightrope.

Then he left to build that secret identity into his real self, on purpose, and he threw himself into The Opposite of Being a Jockey. He was not only the first in their family to go to university, he went into academia. He covered his bills by bartending and busking (take that, Dad). He eats cake. He is valued for his mind and brain. He is NOT COMPETITIVE AT ALL. HE’S COLLABORATIVE, EVEN.

…He was just about eighteen. And perhaps it affected him more deeply than he’d say. But what saved him - what always would save Charlie - was a sense of identity.

[bombshellsandbluebells]

if I had a dollar for every time a criminal Shawn clearly had some attraction to asked him to come with him and join his life of crime I'd only have 2 dollars, but it's still weird that it happened twice

Desperaux this, Desperaux that, but nobody talking about how Tommy Nix wanted Shawn to run away with him

[tvmusiclife]

born to be a girl who watches the Olympics all day, forced to be a girl who works 9 to 5

[rvspecter]

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[kiasbarse]

I KNOW I HAVENT POSTED ABT THE OUTSIDERS IN FORWVERRR BUT I MET C THOMAS HOWELL TODAY AND HE WAS LEGIT THE SWEETEST!!! THIS MIGHT BE MY PEAK

[hananoami]

Love and Deepspace 1st Anniversary billboard in Time Square~ I AM SOOOO HAPPY I WAS ABLE TO SEE THIS LIVE AND IN PERSON!! 💜 Unfortunately, it wasn't cold enough for snow so it rained instead. However, that didn't deter me from going out to witness this masterpiece, hehe. Thankfully this was an all day billboard with frequent play time so I didn't have to wait long. I plan to upload the four clips I have for Rafayel, Sylus, Zayne, and Xavier soon after I do some audio edits. No Caleb feature this time, but definitely next year!

[officialrailscales]

MP5SD, MP7A1, and….MP7 at home

MP7 at home: • RSB® | Carbon Black

- RS

[togetherasap]

things to feel infinitely giddy about in whet:

- use of the terms "orgo" (the only correct abbreviation for organic chemistry btw) and "great british bake-off" (because this is the og title so treat it with respect) and "anoxic events" ('cuz this is how i will forever feel when reading about lukas and scarlett)

- "...oxygen and glucose and... porn?" IYKYK

- the best combo of science aka my job and swimming aka my favorite sport

- "it's just us. you're safe with me." CRYING.

- "i think dr. carlsen is the husband." CACKLING.

and last, but not least, the phrase I want my future partner to use to describe me:

- "shut the fuck up, you brilliant, beautiful genius." (affectionate)

[science70]

"The University Library of the Future" envisioned in an Armstrong C-60 Luminaire Ceiling System ad, 1966.

[eightiesfan]

Grandview USA - Randal Kleiser - 1984

with C. Thomas Howell & Jamie Lee Curtis : great movie !!

[bombshellsandbluebells]

Some people follow youtube trends, I throw a bunch of fanvids of a series that ended 10 years ago and barely anyone still cares about at you.

Shawn Spencer has always been one of my favorite characters because he's so layered and because through the whole show we so rarely see under his mask. In some ways, I think Psych should have explored the negative sides of Shawn's character more - but then again, I think it's BECAUSE we only see hints of it without the show fully committing to it (mostly because it's committed first and foremost to being a light-hearted comedy) that makes him so interesting.

Also the fact that they waited 8 whole seasons to have Shawn get really serious about his flaws rather than just hint at how he feels and drop that he genuinely thinks he made Gus's life worse and he's better off without him kills me every time I rewatch it. Stroke of genius, honestly, and one of the reasons that it's my favorite finale of all time.

also can't believe I'm editing to Taylor Swift, I swore I'd never do it, but the lyrics of this one fit a little too well

[rvspecter]

[rabbitcruiser]

Lt. John C. Frémont became first European to "discover" Lake Tahoe on February 14, 1844.