“They could use cloth diapers!” you say. That would be true if they 1) had convenient and reliable washing facilities and 2) could find a daycare that allows them. Again, not even mentioning the initial investment to purchase the recommended minimum 18 diapers at $10/diaper (minimum, more likely $15-$20 each.)
OK, the diaper thing has hit my emotions very hard as a new mom. Not only can they not use daycare facilities, poorer mothers are so desperate to ration diapers their babies end up with health problems.
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of white straight dudes mock the need for “safe spaces” but flip their
goddamn shit when minorities say stuff like “hey maybe we can be
included in stuff like scifi/fantasy stuff”, saying stuff like “I PLAY
GAMES/READ COMICS/BOOKS/WATCH MOVIES TO GET AWAY FROM ALL THIS PC
CULTURE BULLSHIT, SO INCLUDING WOMEN OR LGBT OR POC IS JUST PUSHING AN
AGENDA AND IT’S NOT FAIR TO US”…
… So who exactly is demanding that the entire world be THEIR “safe space” again?
come to think of it, why wouldn’t someone with superman’s powers use them for physical comedy? like. buster keaton style. or dick van dyke. he is invulnerable and can fly, those are the perfect circumstances for a pratfall. half the time only he is aware that he is joking and he just looks like a clumsy asshole but he knows in his heart that the timing on that gag was perf. add this to my list of stupid fucking headcanons.
clark sits down too aggressively in a desk chair, rolls backward across basically the whole office before the chair tips backward and he rolls out of it and into a vending machine in the break room that drops candy on his head because he whacked it. lois is laughing so hard she can’t breathe but the joke is on her, he did that on purpose. he planned that gag for days. she is laughing with him, not at him. who is the real winner here. score one for kent.
at least once he has nearly given lois an aneurysm because his glasses broke and he decided the best way to deal with this was to go full mr magoo. constantly barely avoiding catastrophe. lois keeps having to try to rescue him so he has to plan things so she won’t get hurt. nonetheless he enjoys the change of pace. the next day at work he listens to her regale the office with tales of how clark nearly fucking died like fifty goddamn times when she was walking him home. he feels like he did a good deed giving her a fun story to tell at parties. after lois finds out he is superman there is hell to pay.
The Han - Finn relationship in the Force Awakens is so underrated in my opinion.
I mean, from the beginning Han knows this kid is lying. He may not know about the ex-Stormtrooper thing, but he knows he’s not Resistance.
And Han just doesn’t care. He finds him amusing, he looks out for the kid, he never judges him for wanting to flee from the First Order. Then there’s all of their interaction on the Starkiller planet. It’s just so fun to watch.
People love saying that Han instadopted Rey, but he picked up two kids that day.
Tbh, Han was probably just relieved when Finn had some sense, UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE HE EVER MET.
i forget where it was sourced - a DVD extra or one of the tie-ins or whatever - but according to SOMETHING … han knew the whole time. finn got a (nick)name and a mission and a new set of threads, but was still wearing his own boots. his black, sure, regulation stormtrooper armor boots. the kind that wouldn’t be immediately recognized by your average man on the sand, maybe - but this is han, here.
he knew.
Don’t forget, Han was in the Imperial Starfleet. Briefly, but he did graduate from the academy. He’d know this stuff.
Both Han and Maz Kanata were able to size Finn up, though I think both of them might have underestimated him just a touch at first. After all, you didn’t need to be a thousand years old to be able to tell how much he wanted to run. They saw a kid who was definitely harmless, good-hearted, and useful for certain things, but probably not so great in a fight – a coward, essentially, but a benign one.
I think Maz was the first to see the metal in him, when he told her she didn’t know anything about his life or his experience with the order and if she was gonna try to guilt trip him she could just fucking shove it. That’s when she realized that, even though he was too scared to face the danger, he wasn’t a coward – that the fear came from someplace deep and real, deeper than the fear of death or pain.
Han, on the other hand, had to see him fight before he figured it out, I think. Look at him in the third picture, grasping Finn’s arm, supporting him for just a few more seconds than are strictly necessary. That’s genuine concern in his face, and you don’t feel genuine concern for someone without at least a modicum of respect. The use of “Big Deal” was derisive, but it’s not anymore. Now it’s just what Han calls him, because Han doesn’t know how to use anyone’s fucking name properly.
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I got to wear my completed formal!Phasma gown this past weekend. I even won a judges award for it and got some really amazing compliments on it! The dress is metallic spandex and nude spandex (for the “backless” effect without expoing more than I’m comfortable with), the cape/wrap is low-stretch pleather and trimmed in red pleather with a bought patch Gorilla Glue’d on (that stuff is AMAZING!). The handbag I got on sale at a store then added the patch I made all sparkly because reasons. The shoes killed my feet but idgaf, I felt awesome wearing this ^_^ Now I need to find a couple people to be formal!Hux and formal!Kylo with me somewhere…
So I accidentally learned today about this thing where lots of people ship Carmen Sandiego and Waldo from Where’s Waldo?
And on the one hand I love it, because it’s silly and hilarious and you can learn about it and giggle and move on OR you can think about it for a long time and get really into it and that’s a great thing about the Internet
But it really grinds my gears that all the fanart visions of the couple I could immediately see on google showed this really conventionally gendered arrangement where Waldo is like leading/supporting Carmen or rescuing her?
And it’s like exCUSE ME I get that they’d be a cute couple because they’re both hard to find, and because why not, but like she’s an ex-detective criminal mastermind unbound by time and space and he’s a tourist who can’t find his map they are hard to find for VERY DIFFERENT REASONS and you cannot convince me that fucking adorable bespectacled soft butch brings-a-walking-stick-to-the-beach dazed and confused WALDO would be in the driver’s seat of that operation I mean GOD
Fun story my history teacher told us: his grandfather during the industrial revolution walked past a flyer which said “looking for smart strong boys” so he went into the factory, said “i’m strong and smart”, and he had that job from age 13 to 78
and this is why they expect the younger generation to simply “get a job” ahh it’s so much clearer now
Here’s another fun story: My boss decided to slap my work phone number on all the ads we post looking for newspaper carriers. So I receive a bunch of calls from people looking for jobs. Working only part time, I’m not usually there when they call, so they have to leave a message and I take their info to pass on to my boss. Sometimes it can be weeks before my boss calls any of these applicants back, if at all. How the callers respond to not getting a callback varies. Most don’t do anything, but some call again. If the person sounds young, they may leave another message clarifying their qualifications and reaffirming their interest. If the person is old, and I can always hear it in their voice, they respond by getting mad, threatening to cancel their newspaper subscription, and occasionally swearing. The older generation is used to getting a callback, and an immediate one, so they throw a tantrum when they don’t get what they want.
have u ever met someone so terrible that it makes u a better person like u learn from mistakes that you haven’t even made purely from observing them, thank you for being so obnoxiously terrible, please don’t ever interact with me again
