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Instagram post by reliable.raven, Apr. 15 2025

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I have a cat who very clearly knows what doorknobs do, he just can’t make them work. He also knows how to CLOSE doors, which has led me to baby proofing them so most doors in my house do not close all the way, as he has locked himself in (and his sisters out of) the room with the litter boxes overnight before. So the fact that he has still observed enough to know what doorknobs do is impressive.

He also decided that tissues are meant to be pulled out of the box after watching me endure COVID, so now boxes of tissues must be kept in the cupboard, as does paper towel. Toilet paper has to go on the roll upside down, or he unspools it, which he again figured out by observation - I don’t know if he thinks he is helping because he knows I use it, or if he hasn’t connected what its use is and just thinks it’s fun.

All three of my cats have also decided that it is much better to be under the bedclothes than on top of them.

Genius

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reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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…..huh.

It’s weird how everyone hating you when you’re nine years old still affects your self esteem when you’re 26 like yeah nobody came to my birthday party but that was like 17 years ago why is it stopping me from going to a gay bar

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I’m finding myself irrationally pissed off by this, so I have to say something about it, even if I’m just screaming into the void. I’m usually able to let these sort of things go, because they ultimately have nothing to do with me, but this is sticking with me for some reason, so here I am.

One of my least favourite things about politics is that, come election time, they all focus on tearing down their opponents. Instead of telling me what they plan to do to make my life better, they focus on telling me what the other guy isn’t going to do. The negativity, the backbiting, the cattiness - I despise it.

And now, it’s come around in the entertainment industry, targeted at Taylor Swift. I know it’s always been there in some capacity, but the volume of it now is insane.

Look, I’m not Taylor Swift’s biggest fan. A few of her songs have stood out to me, but I don’t own any of her albums in full, and I don’t seek out anything about her. So when I have seen, over the last three days, three different attacks on her, her music, her popularity, whatever - I can only imagine how much more is actually out there.

And here’s the thing - these attacks are in the form of 1. another artist essentially calling Swift’s music shallow, with the implication that their own music is for cerebral, intellectual people, 2. an artist complaining that by putting on such large shows, Swift is preventing people from coming to their own show (which is on the same day) and 3. some apparent celebrity or other (ive never heard their name before and can’t recall it now) saying that Swift should step back and let other artists have a chance at an award/number 1 song/what have you. So firstly, all these things clearly smack of jealousy, and I think we can all recognize that.

But the schoolyard pettiness, the participation-trophy entitlement, is what is really bothering me about this.

Taylor Swift should not have to make herself smaller in service of these greedy, jealous, grasping people, or anyone else.

One thing I have observed, mostly from osmosis because again, I don’t seek out information about her, is that Taylor Swift treats her career like that’s what it is. It’s a job. It’s her work. It’s work she’s passionate about, and work she loves, but it’s work. She’s (at least mostly) not in it for the fame and the fortune. She’s in it because she loves music and wants to share it, and she’s gained the fame and fortune because so many people connect with her and her music. That takes passion, and talent, but also dedication, and work.

Taylor Swift will still be making music, and will still be famous decades down the road, because this is her job, and she treats it like one. And it’s a job she is succeeding at, and she is using her privilege to make other peoples lives better without calling attention to it. Almost any other celebrity would have pointed out or announced that they made a donation to a food bank at a stop along their tour. Instead, the only headline about it I saw was from the organization who received the donation.

So I say again: Taylor Swift should not have to make herself smaller to satisfy other people. Other people should instead see her as inspiration, or even a challenge, and step the fuck up instead of trying to tear her down.

I thought we had settled this discussion over a decade ago, when some asshat interrupted her acceptance speech for an award he, personally, thought someone else deserved. Clearly history does repeat.

Maybe that’s why it’s pissing me off so much.

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If you've never seen Secretariat's run at the Belmont Stakes, you owe it to yourself to watch it.

This was a truly amazing horse, and this race was his (triple) crowing achievement.

He won this race by 31 lengths, a little shy of half a mile. The whole race is only a mile and a half. It is the absolute antonym of the term "close race".

I'm amazed none of the jockeys killed themselves getting off of their horse, thinking it had stopped.

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As powerful as it is to know that Jack was willing to let the world go to the 456 if only Ianto would be spared, as a bubble moment in and of itself, it’s so much more powerful knowing Jack’s characterization. Because he is always making hard calls and making sacrifices for the good of the world, but Ianto is where he draws the line.

Jack let Jasmine go with the fairies for the good of the world. This is made more palatable because she wanted to go, but it’s still a sacrifice that makes Jasmine’s mother lash out at him and causes Gwen, Tosh, and Owen to give him the cold shoulder. I think it’s debatable whether or not he would have let the fairies have her even if she hadn’t wanted to go - maybe the issue would have dragged on a bit longer, but barring any other solutions presenting themselves (and the episode makes it clear this is unlikely), I think he would have given her up.

He sacrificed the original 456 victims as well. He knew that he was handing a bunch of scared little kids to an alien, and he didn’t know what was going to happen to them; they could have been dinner for all he knew. This was also not his call to make, but he went along with it because it was made clear that it was 12 kids or the world. He follows orders and doesn’t even try to find another solution.

He sacrifices Steven, his own grandson, to stop the 456, because it’s down to the wire and this is the only solution available. They don’t have time to come up with anything else. And what else is he going to do? Go hunt down a less conveniently available child and devastate someone else’s family just to keep his own intact? Most people would have; we see all the politicians specifically discuss that none of their families will lose children to the 456.

Yet Jack is willing to walk away from the path he’s set himself on of protecting the world, and would let terrible, horrific things happen in the world and to other people, if only it would save Ianto’s life. And knowing that in the context of Jack’s previously established characterization just makes it that much more devastating and really speaks to how much he loves and needs Ianto, and also to the effect the loss of Ianto has on him, despite their relationship never really being discussed in the text very much or taking centre stage at all.

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It is an awful way to begin, but I actually really like this headcanon for them. Going only off the show, as I haven’t listened to the audios, Ianto seems to be prepared for the possibility of distracting Jack by flirting, and he may even be resigned to the possibility of sleeping with him to keep him distracted from what Ianto is planning. His attraction to Jack took him by surprise, given he later admits he’s never felt that way for a man before.

If they did have a physical relationship before Lisa’s death, it ended afterward, as Jack very obviously felt that betrayal, not only for the danger that it put the team in, but because it was proof that Ianto didn’t actually want him as Jack had thought he did. And Ianto was grieving terribly. But I think Ianto’s proposition of Jack in episode 8 then reignites it - Jack was clearly startled by the suggestion, but equally clearly they have done it before, and Ianto bringing it up means that he does, in fact, want Jack, that it wasn’t just about distracting him from Lisa - or at least it moved away from that over time.

It also makes the scene in Countrycide so much worse, because it’s plausible that Ianto didn’t really register it when Jack kisses him back to consciousness, but if they had a physical relationship prior to that? Oof.

The mere moments between these two gifs absolutely ruins me.

I know that word of God has said that Jack and Ianto didn't sleep together while Lisa was alive. I know it and I respect it. Because the alternative is, frankly, awful. It's an awful way to begin a relationship, and an awful thing to do to yourself and to someone else. So I understand why they chose to not go down that route.

This moment, however, tells me something different.

Because the first gif is Ianto feeling relief. He got the job because he impressed Jack. His life is shit and the next however long will be hard but this is the beginning of the end. Everything will be okay as long as he can get through these next few months.

The second gif is Ianto realizing that the reason he got the job is because Jack wants him. This is Jack setting a precedent. You come to work for me because I like how you look and I like how you felt on me. Everything will be okay, he still knows. But he'll have to do something awful to make that happen.

So I respect the writers intention, I live in that little sliver of grey area. The area where maybe Jack was surprised to be kissed in the SUV not for the first time, but for the first time of Ianto's own choice. Because it's so deliciously devastating.

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How does Aziraphale know “miracles don’t work like that” but Crowley, Michael, Uriel, and Saraquel don’t? Who did he try to make fall in love before???

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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nbc hannibal / postcolonial love poem, “asterion’s lament,” natalie diaz

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Baby Leia is vicious and I love her.

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He wants some bread… 🥖🥐 Twitter I Instagram