There is a livestream of Hurricane Florence with the camera aimed at a flag that’s progressively getting SHREDDED by the wind (!), and honestly, if that ain’t some pretty good symbolism for how U.S. policy is affecting climate change, idk
The flag is supposed to be taken down in inclement weather.
@unthrifty–loveliness Somehow I think your comment just adds that much more to the metaphor
It’s a bed and breakfast, currently unmanned, 34 miles off the coast, and apparently people not only complained about the flag being left out, they even demanded the owner go back and replace it immediately – while the hurricane was still going on. Quoting one Facebook comment by the owner:
Frying Pan Tower Tom Allemeier hey Tom, It wasn’t a hurricane nor was the storm path known when we were last there a couple weeks back. We will replace it ASAP with honor and respect.
ok so what if Harry and Neville got into like this passive-aggressive lie-off regarding what a truly great man Severus Snape was like they got drunk and Harry was like ‘Snape though’ and Neville was like ‘I know right’ and Harry was like ‘what a… what a fantastic bastard. What a guy.’ and Neville was like ‘we should fuckin’ get him like, like… let’s have a funeral. A huge fucking fuck-off sized funeral with like, lilies, and, a marble coffin, and a big statue, an’ crying women, an’ all that shit’ and Harry got whiskey up his nose laughing so hard and he falls off his stool and just wheezes ‘lillies’
and then during the funeral Neville and Harry like spend the whole time trying to give a better eulogy like they keep getting back up after each other are done to try and have another go at it but then they get schooled by Hermione being like ‘for fuck’s sake boys this is how it’s done’ and she goes up to the podium and just bursts into wild banshee hysterics and throws herself across the glistening marble casket, sobbing ‘oh, it should have been me, would to god that it were me, you stallion of a professor’ and all the reporters tear up a little and then go home to pen really fervid biopics on this bleakly noble and tragically overlooked hero of the revolution
anyway like eighteen years later Harry names his kid after Severus and sends an owl off to Neville like ‘your move, mate’ and Nevill pauses in the middle of polishing the giant marble statue of Snape tenderly cuddling an armfull of adoring woodland creatures that dominates like 2/3 of his office to cuss a lot and pour himself another drink
The only acceptable reason for Harry to name is kid after Snape
Meanwhile in the afterlife, James and Sirius have completely lost it.
Somewhere a rocket scientist brain surgeon physicist with a knack for economics who wears Velcro shoes is having a stress breakdown.
When I was a professional ballroom dance instructor, one of my coworkers was having a tough time teaching a step to her student. As he gets more frustrated she tells him “it’s ok- you’ll get it- this isn’t rocket science.”
There is an awkward pause as her student stares back at her. “No” he agrees, “this isn’t rocket science. That I can do. This is some sadistic step designed specifically to torture rocket scientists.”
And that’s how we found out he worked for NASA.
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Your daily reminder that no, seriously: “difficult” is a matter of context.
isn’t rocket science a form of physics
Buddy if you’re doing rocket science and quantum physics at the same time, then multiple things have gone seriously, seriouslywrong.
now, generally i don’t respond to confessions but like. i have several thoughts about this, and forgive me if i ramble, it’s five am and i haven’t slept yet
see.
aside from the fact that the confessor genuinely doesn’t seem to respect isabela at all, i really don’t think they’re giving her credit where credit is due simply because she is not a palatable trauma survivor. she isn’t like fenris. she’s not. that’s sort of the point. but we’ll get back to that
for me, this ship WORKS. not just because i always saw fenris’s quote unquote baggage around sex being related almost entirely to him being afraid of what the other person was bringing into it, and assumed that he initially got together with isabela because she was the one person he could reasonably be assured would bring nothing into the bedroom besides the want for both of them to have a good time, but because of what isabela herself brings to the table
isabela is all about personal freedom. that is her jam. her reason for living. she bases her entire life around the idea of it, and literally got in trouble over refusing to transport slaves. is it so wrong to think that he respects someone like that, and wanted to be around her, and that the connection built from there?
i dunno, it just bugged me. probably mostly because, as a survivor myself, i GET their relationship. it makes sense to me. fenris and isabela individually make perfect sense -they are both survivors of sexual abuse, among other things, and while they react in opposing ways to that sexual abuse, they are both well within the realm of believability- and they get along perfectly well as friends if you bring them places together, and also
also
they BOTH run away after sex, confessor. they run away for what seems utterly different reasons, but it really really REALLY isn’t. it all comes back to expectations. fenris expects the worst, and defaults to a fear response, while isabela reacts to the idea of a possible relationship with, wait for it, a fear response (remember i mentioned isabela being a trauma survivor that isn’t easy to digest? here it comes. i didn’t forget)
she doesn’t run away from relationships and emotional entanglements because she’s just a jerk, she does it because she is legitimately afraid. the fact that she covers it up with wise-cracking where he is solemn does not diminish her sincerity when she does talk about it, later in the game
so. anyway. the idea that they would have that understanding and respect extend to their sex life and beyond just has me doing the kermit nod. that sure is a healthy relationship built on an intimate understanding of each other’s distinct boundaries and needs in a way that even hawke could have difficulty with in-game, and maybe give BOTH of them a little slack, yeah?
(rubs eyes) Yeah, this is why I resent the constant attempts to woobify Fenris so much. People love to draw him as this little thing, a foot shorter than Hawke and with rabbit ears or whatever; he’s a delicate shy creature that must be protected! FFS. Fenris is a rock. He’s been through hell and not only does he survive it, but he directly confronts all the things that scare him and then, Maker, he rips their heart out. Scared of re-enslavement? Rips the hearts out of several dozen bounty hunters. Scared of his old master? Rips the hearts out of his fave apprentice and him. Scared of the vulnerability and flashbacks that being with Hawke brings up? It’s a figurative ripping, but it happens. Fenris getting with Isabela after that incident with Hawke is the same. Intimacy scared him – so he gets involved with someone who can help him get past this. Rrrrrrip.
And this is why I despise the unacknowledged racism of fandom. Because it’s bad enough that fandom treats all sex-positive women as “sluts,” but when she superficially appears to falls right into the Jezebel stereotype, they don’t even look for the deeper elements of her characterization to see if she’s carrying around a weight of trauma, too, as @writingnodule notes. They figure they’ve got her figured out – and they hate her, because this hypersexual, amoral, predatory brown hussy has hooked up with their delicate woobie, so it can’t possibly be a healthy relationship from either end. If Isabela was white, fans would identify with her, and pick up on the obvious cues that she’s had a rough life and is more complex than she seems. But she’s not white, and fans treat her as a threat. (smh)
Overdressed & Underappreciated 