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In 2005, a group of artists in Italy built a giant 200-foot-long plushie rabbit in the countryside, and just left it there. It’s been there ever since. 

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Finished the first floor. Love the random details, like the cat trying to get into the dumpster because there's a fish stored in there.

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Considering Scrubs has a good reputation for medical accuracy...people have been putting light bulbs up their butts for long enough to make this a fun joke 20 years ago...and probably has been happening as long as there have been lightbulbs.

The new guy on our team is married to an OR nurse. He told me that the #1 thing she has to retrieve from butts is light bulbs.

LiGhT bULbS.

I. Cannot.

That can’t be real. I hope that’s not real.

Like. He said this is a monthly occurrence.

It haunts me. In my heart I picture them in a condom. I know there’s not really a condom. Someone putting a light bulb up their ass is not interested in safety. But I picture the condom anyway.

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Spring has begun; life is rekindled...

Itty Bitty Spring Dragon stickers ♡

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Love the amount of attention that went into designing this bathroom.

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One support for the "demote Scott" chain of events would be Mimic from Exiles. His backstory is that he joins the team at a critical point (ie the first 20 issues of X-Men) and his own confidence and powerset lets him take field leadership from a teenage Scott who still has most of his confidence issues.

Scott might still have his tactical skills but you need to want to be the leader and if there's another choice Scott would let them take it at this point in x-men history.

Suddenly have an unrestricted Xavier who wants to lead in the field (for both good and bad reasons) and Scott would naturally step back.

So I don't generally talk about Charles Xavier with regard to his disability, because as a person without physical disability, I don't really think I can examine it with the nuance that it deserves.

That and I'm a bit of a chickenshit. There is an opinion I have with regards to Charles's disability specifically that I think is possibly quite ableist. But it might be worth talking about anyway.

This is the opinion: I think if Charles Xavier wasn't disabled, he might never have recruited Scott Summers.

The others, yes. I think he'd have recruited them. They're all fresh faced, young, middle to upper-middle class (except Warren of course) non-threatening white kids.

They have powers that are either passive (wings/super agility) or very controllable. (Bobby's ice, Jean's telekinesis.) And they're all likable, personable kids with a lot of charm.

They're the perfect model mutant example to get humans used to the idea that mutants can be friendly and approachable and heroic.

And then you have Scott.

Scott has some of the traits that the others have. He's attractive and white. He's also a former street kid, a runaway orphan, whose powers erupt out of control as soon as he loses his glasses. And that happens a LOT. He's anxious, hyper-focused, and militant. The opposite of unthreatening.

To his credit, I do think Xavier has always wanted to help this kid. And there's a lot to say that Xavier sees a lot of himself in Scott and in his issues.

But one thing I've always noticed is that, in each AU I know of where Xavier and Magneto found the X-Men together, Scott is never on that team. He's always with Mr. Sinister.

Admittedly, in the universe where Xavier died early, Scott's there too. The conclusion I've always drawn from this is that without Xavier, Scott either never escapes from Jack Winters at all and is reclaimed by Sinister later, or ends up escaping back TO Sinister with nowhere else to go.

I don't think this is Xavier's fault, just to clarify. It's just that, in universes where he has Magneto right there to use his physical and tactical expertise, Xavier doesn't have to go looking. He doesn't necessarily have to work with Fred Duncan, or investigate Jack Winters, and he and Scott never end up crossing paths.

I tend to think the same would be true if Xavier had never been injured. I don't, I admit, tend to think of Xavier as a fighter. But he does have military service and he has a power that, while not directly destructive, definitely has as much, if not more, combat applicability as say, Hank or Warren's power.

Of course, if you think about it, there's nothing that really keeps 60s era Xavier from using those powers in battle anyway. But a very common theme in those comics is that Charles Xavier has some issues with how he sees himself and his disability. And it's pretty clear that he hasn't really accepted it, nor taken many steps to address it in a long term fashion.

I mean, look at the mansion. It doesn't seem incredibly wheelchair accessible. Look at how the kids behave with him. Of course, some of that is simply because the comics were written in the 60s. But still, you'd think, at some point, Xavier would tell them to knock it the fuck off. They're clueless ignorant kids, but they're not malicious. I think they'd stop if they understood that they were being ableist twits.

We all like to talk about that monologue where he confesses feelings for Jean, but it's also fair to point out that Xavier doesn't feel like he deserves to act on his feelings because of his disability. (One could wish that he knew that it'd be inappropriate to date a student at all, but well, this is a plot point that didn't upgrade well.)

So then we have Scott, who is isolated by his own condition, much like Xavier feels isolated by his. Scott's of course is a much more fantastic take on a disability than Xavier's more realistic one. But there is a common ground. And I think, in some ways, young Xavier treats young Scott as a sort of surrogate for himself. He leads, because Xavier doesn't believe he can. He has the romance with Jean that Xavier doesn't believe he's worthy of. And so on and so forth.

I find myself wondering what that relationship dynamic would look like if Xavier didn't have those issues, or the underlying factor that inspires them.. And then I wonder if, like when Magneto is on the scene, Xavier might not have ever sought Scott out at all.

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Got inspired by Seanan McGuire's October Daye series. Here's my best Blodynbryd. @seananmcguire

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Everyone thinks of Austen as victorian and Stalin as russian but they were actually both georgian... one of many shared traits

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Field Work Fails

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Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.

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Proceeds to feel guilty watching my Dad pick up crap off the floor while giving him a ride to a doctor's appointment.

I’ve never related to anything so strongly in life before as this meme.

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Propaganda:

"A very interesting and entertaining story that was long when i read it a decade ago. It was a real page turner."

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Golden retriever and jorts meetup

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In case anyone wants to know more: a yahoo news story

But the TLDR: "Moser told the local Pennsylvania newspaper the Daily American that the struggling skier was, in fact, the resort’s e-commerce marketing manager, Candace Weaver."

"He also clarified for anyone who might be concerned that the staircase in the video is not normally that slippery.

“Safety is paramount here, so we always keep those steps clean,” he said. “They just added the snow for the clip to make it look like it was icy.”"

no bc this video has me in TEARS it looks like a sketch or a bit or a fucking tiktok but no that woman is legitimately fighting for her life while this bitch records some socmed segment for a ski resort

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❤️  jacob the capitalist is dead, and jacob the philanthropist is here ❤️

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I read a book about the history of glue recently... Couldn't put it down

listen LISTEN for a moment I was so excited about this book on the history of glue. I was poised to run to Libby to see if any of my libraries had it. I've never been more devastated by a pun in my life 😭