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woke up to a text from my host mom

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yeah, i went to a french school until high school. we always cut out fish on april fool’s day & taped them to everyone’s backs

it wasn’t until i was like…12 that i found out it wasn’t an american tradition

no cruel jokes or pranks this April 1st we should instead celebrate the better April 1 holiday

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shauna shipman

fake idgafer. i saw tht haunted look in ur eyes

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“you can’t just say perchance” has become a part of my vernacular

how is it mario day and no one posted the essay

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i love them sm. they’re so underrated

tetracilla

(path to nowhere)

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bitches will see a child and ask is anyone going to adopt that

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finally finished chapter 14 by resorting to story mode! spoilers under the cut

i’m super excited to see where the outland meddling plot line takes us. i NEED more of jelena, i was so disappointed to see she doesn’t have an interrogation (although that does make sense considering she’s gone).

i was kind of confused as to who the red person was, although i assume the “elegant male voice” & entourage are the underground. he mentioned moore, and called chief?? his sister. i’m pretty sure the girl in the animation at the end of ch. 13 also referred to chief as her sister.

the blonde woman at the end was gorgeous. i can’t wait to find out who she is.

finally, if anyone has any tips for actually clearing the story (i’m stuck at sdn1-5 and n2-4) i’d be very grateful!

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YELLOWJACKETS 101. Pilot ➙ 305. Did Tai Do That?

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shifting gears away from 9-1-1 and onto oscars discourse:

above is a list of every Best Actress winner over 40 from the past 25 years, and the age they turned the year that they won. Of those 25 ceremonies, 11 of them awarded a ‘mature’ actress

in the past 15 years, of the 15 actresses who won, only 5 winners were under the age of 40

while it’s true that this notion of hollywood hating in older women is definitely true and a real issue, the notion that it is perpetuated by the oscars is… honestly a but laughable

the reaction to demi moore’s loss has been very strange to me… the people upset the most are arguing that Mikey Madison (25)’s win somehow “proves The Substance right” are missing the fact that in the past two decades, there has been a majority of mature actresses taking home the good trophy; yet all i keep seeing tossed around is that “the oscars are ageist” “they only award younger actresses” “mikey madison didn’t deserve it because she’s too young”

i need yall to hold my hand when i tell you this- the whole point of The Substance was that talent doesn’t have an age, and that a balance of both older and younger is the only way to get what you want, but that that balance is unachievable due to the way society pits women of different ages against each other

if anything- the only thing proving the substance right are the people who are pissed at mikey’s win; you are watering her performance down to her age and her looks (ignoring the phenomenal performance she gave in anora), and creating this fake drama between her and demi moore, simply because demi didn’t win

now don’t get me wrong- i was pretty much firmly in the camp of demi or fernanda being my personal too choices, but even though i may be disappointed that neither of them won, i won’t discount mikey madison’s undeniable talent that she showcased in anora by giving into the societal pressure of having to “pick a side” in a fake conflict between two women of different ages. i can be happy for mikey’s win while simultaneously being disappointed that fernanda or demi didn’t take it, and the same goes for both if them! why are we putting words in this poor woman’s mouth when she has seemed nothing but genuinely happy for mikey (bc, you know, she’s actually a good person who understands it wasn’t personal after she quite literally swept the rest of the season)

at the end of the day, there has been a clear uptick in the amount of mature women winning the Best Actress oscar, not to mention the amount of mature women nominated which is its own separate uptick. the oscars are not ageist because your fav who happens to be over 40 didn’t win, and acting like they are only makes you look foolish, and actually brings attention away from the actual negative actions committed by the academy with this year’s ceremony.

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directly in ao3. if i can’t finish it within the allotted time, it was never meant to be

Got called a weirdo irl for the way I write my fics sooo

I am the “writes in document tabs” if anyone’s wondering

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authors!!

quick question...

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what the fuck was that! i’m going to cling onto the belief that this is will end up as clever writing eventually

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MARI LAST NAME REVEAL! finally, she’s not mari yellowjackets anymore

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Daily affirmations:

I'm too sexy for this cave

I'm too sexy for this rope

I'm too sexy for these rocks

I'm too sexy to be murdered

I'm a hostage

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melissa hat i have fallen for you. your sad puppy eyes. your general pathetic energy. yes, I also saw shauna shipman in various states of distress and found it hot. i get it, melissa hat.

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There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)