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Et Tu Brute???

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I HAD ENOUGH TIME TO MAKE TWO FOR GAVIN AND VICTOR, ILL TRY AND MAKE KIRO AND LUCIEN’S SOON~

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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - 50th Anniversary Premiered on September 13, 1969

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Yard Sale time!!! If you're in the Lapeer (Michigan) area, stop on by today and tomorrow. We have lots of wonderful items. Even things from @raielynncreations!! ❤️❤️ (at Charbridge Arbor Co-Op) https://www.instagram.com/p/By-zeMQlbc1/?igshid=1kx6xgxfkmnrf

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"Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed, & rearranged to relocate us to the place we're meant to be"❤️ - A lot has changed, for me, in the past 3 months. I had to quit my job because of Lupus & Fibromyalgia. I just couldn't do it anymore. I was constantly exhausted, my body was shutting down and not allowing me to do what I knew how. My chest was hurting every day, I had constant brain fog & dizziness, and there were days that I practically passed out at work. And at the end of February, I found myself, for the first time in 20 years, without a job. I didn't know what to do. Then, my doctor said that I can't work. Another blow. But, you know, as the days go by I am learning to accept the change that has come my way. It's not anything that I would have chosen, believe me, I'd love to be working. But I have to accept that my body is just not allowing me to do what I used to be able to. So, now this is a new chapter, and I'm ready to face it. Let's do this!! ❤️😁 (Oh yeah, I also did my hair- was supposed to be a rose gold color, but well... It just turned blondish. And that's okay. Not everything happens the way we would like. But just the way it's meant to be. 😊) . . . #positivevibes #positivequotes #positivewords #positivevibesonly #selfie #aselfyaday #change #movingforward #lupussucks #lupus #Fibromyalgia #notgonnaletitgetmedown #newchapter #letsdothis https://www.instagram.com/p/ByJjCZ-FZzw/?igshid=1ihna6ti3y9xp

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"To escape and sit quietly on the beach- that's my idea of paradise.". ❤️🏖️🌊 . . #beach #water #nature #positivevibes #sunandsand #therapy #love #myhappyplace https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx77d3lFef-/?igshid=1wcg29kpioh0p

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Meet Hobo, and her two precious wee ones, whom I affectionately call Clara & Oswald. Clara is the all black (female) and Oswald is the black & white (male). Hobo is a young cat who was dropped off around my Aunt's house in Tawas MI. My aunt took her in when she became pregnant, and is looking for some loving people to be their furever family. They are all so loving and precious. (I wish I could keep them, but I have 4 fur babies of my own. Lol). If interested, let me know!! . . . #cats #catsofinstagram #positivevibes #furbabies #inneedofahome #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #hobo #clara #oswald #doctorwho #tuxedocat #blackcat #love https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx6Bj88FQxw/?igshid=iy0gcmlwnvds

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And that’s fine by me.

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I have Fibromyalgia AND Lupus, so I am always in pain. My "pain level" is usually a 3, and like airagorncharda said, it just goes up from there depending on the day/moment in the day. - Doctors need you to be honest with them, otherwise they can't really help you. I know it's easier to say you're not in as much pain as you are, but for the sake of your health... Don't downplay it. Be honest!

My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

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Hello Darlings

I often seem to see people who are plotting out novels, and doing long projects to get to know their characters intimately, but like… how do you do that?

I genuinely don’t understand.

For me, writing is like watching a movie I’ve never seen. I watch it all happen, try to write it down, and hope for the best. I don’t know what’s going to happen next any more than my readers do.

My answer to “What happens next???” Is always “I don’t know. These assholes don’t tell ME anything.”

I’ve had characters lie and didn’t find out they were lying for chapters later. I’ve had characters die and come back, or just die period. I’ve had characters who randomly produce a skill I never knew they had (looking at you Zandithas) because “what? I could always do this. You just didn’t need to know until now.”

I love my characters. Each and every one of them.

But they’re assholes.

And they don’t tell me anything.

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I’m sick of this.

Marvel Studios just released three new Captain Marvel posters and…

Specifically in this one, people are saying “can she change her facial expression” “can she smile”… well… i’m here to make a fucking point, cause this is getting ridiculous.

Let’s start.

With Iron Man

Do you guys see RDJ smiling? No.

But even better.. do you see Gwyneth Paltrow smiling… NO!. Did anybody say something? NO!

But yeah, people will say, she is a side character, not that importan… BITCH PLEASE. But let’s continue with:

Thor Ragnarok

Is Thor smiling? NO… not even Cate Blanchett is smiling… not even Tessa Thompson for Christ Sakes… and no one complained.

I’m not done:

Infinity War

Do I even need to say it?

NO ONE IS SMILING IN THIS POSTER.. I DON’T SEE ANY SIGNS OF TEETH… well… maybe Thanos.. but the HEROES are not smiling

SO? Why is Brie any different? She doesn’t need to smile, or change her facial expressions. Stop criticizing an actress for a POSTER or a simple trailer… she may be emotionless in the trailers, sure… but it surely has a reason. Let’s just watch a movie and experience the bad ass that Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel will be.

Thank you… i’m done.

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Your daily dose of kitty cuteness, starting with Miss Shadow, then Zoey, Co and finally Mr. Leo. 😍❤️🐱🐱🐱🐱 . . . #cats #catsofinstagram #positivevibes #furbabies #littleboyleo #love #shadowmonkey #cobear #zobug #ilovemybabies #calicocat #tortiecat #tortiesofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Br5k0GVBdez/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bgf7ahjthnht

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Peaceful Zoey Purrs. 😻🌙😴 . Goodnight Loves. 💤😴🌙 . Sleep well & God bless. Xoxo❤️💤 . . #cats #catsofinstagram #positivevibes #mamasbabygirl #furbabies #calico #zobug #ilovemybabies #kittycuddles #goodnight #love #allthepurrs https://www.instagram.com/p/Brb3RC0BGpD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dqhp1rtrfnzo

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THERE WAS AN IDEA…

…TO BRING TOGETHER A GROUP OF REMARKABLE PEOPLE…

…TO SEE IF WE COULD BECOME SOMETHING MORE…

…SO WHEN THEY NEEDED US…

…WE COULD FIGHT THE BATTLES THAT THEY NEVER COULD.

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Me: PLEASE, I am BEGGING you, focus on this ONE SINGLE THING so I can get this done!

My Thoughts:

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Benedict Cumberbatch is the Grinch

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 So after the many many posts mourning the passing of Stan Lee earlier today I’ve started seeing an inevitable wave of backlash about how he actually wasn’t a good person and we shouldn’t be mourning them. And these posts are par for the course when a celebrity dies because no one is all good or all bad, and that’s fine. And Stan Lee was human, he was a person with a complicated life and a complicated legacy, and I’m not here to whitewash any of that. However, I’d like to refute a couple of the points I’ve seen people making. 

The first is that Stan Lee sexually harassed nurses who were taking care of him. This story came from the Daily Mail, which is not a credible news source. The original story does not name any of the nurses who supposedly came forward with the story, or their employer, and the legitimacy of this story is pretty shaky. I’m not saying it categorically isn’t true, but I am saying that we should take stories from the newspaper that ran a headline about the discovery of the “gay gene” with a grain of salt.

The second is that Stan Lee was told that Andrew Garfield wanted to play Peter Parker as bisexual, and as retaliation forced Sony to only depict Peter Parker as straight and white. This isn’t quite true. There is a contract from 2011 that lists mandatory character traits for Spider-Man, and in that list is included that Spider-Man is “not a homosexual (unless Marvel has portrayed that alter ego as a homosexual).” Whether Stan Lee himself personally was involved in writing up this contract is pretty doubtful seeing as his role in the company was fairly limited by that point (and that’s not to mention the fact that in his later years he was being abused and manipulated by the people closest to him), but he did mention it in an interview with Newsarama. What he specifically said was, “I wouldn’t mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian or anything else, that he stay that way, but we originally made him white. I don’t see any reason to change that (…) I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly, But again, I don’t see any reason to change the sexual proclivities of a character once they’ve already been established. I have no problem with creating new, homosexual superheroes (…) It has nothing to do with being anti-gay, or anti-black, or anti-Latino, or anything like that,” he said. “Latino characters should stay Latino. The Black Panther should certainly not be Swiss. I just see no reason to change that which has already been established when it’s so easy to add new characters. I say create new characters the way you want to. Hell, I’ll do it myself.” 

And while your mileage may vary on how much you agree with him there, it’s a far cry from him cruelly declaring Peter Parker having a boyfriend would be an affront before God and man and an insult to his authorial intent or whatever. Also, I think the original post that started this story was about Andrew Garfield saying something while doing press for Amazing Spiderman 2 and Stan Lee writing the contract as a result, but the contract is from 2011 and the first Amazing Spiderman came out in 2012, so the timeline doesn’t work. I could be misremembering the post though. There’s also this implied narrative that Andrew Garfield got axed for saying his Peter Parker was bi, but uh, no. No, they cancelled the franchise because Amazing Spiderman 2 bombed at the box office. 

Now, to wrap it up, was Stan Lee a good and perfect man? No. His legacy is very much a mixed bag, especially when it comes to his relationship with his long-time co-creator Jack Kirby (although that’s a whole other suitcase to unpack some other time). I would like to point out, however, that the posts praising him aren’t all just blindly hero-worshipping him and being willfully ignorant. When someone you admire dies it’s natural to forget about the bad parts of them for a bit and get a little misty eyed, and not everyone’s gonna be totally objective about this man that they never met but who represents something important to them. I think that speaks more to the way we interact with celebrity as a culture than it does about the way Marvel fans see Stan Lee frankly.  And hey, we gain nothing by pretending that Stan Lee wasn’t an important figure in comic book history, one who co-created the first black character in mainstream comics just two years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, who fought the Comic Code Authority censors to use comics to tackle heavy subject matter, who helped bring legitimacy to the art form and humanity to its characters. So as long as I’ve got you here I’m gonna leave you with his thoughts on racism in 1968, words that feel just as relevant today:

“Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed supervillains, they can’t be halted with a punch in the snoot or a zap from a ray gun. The only way to destroy them, is to expose them — to reveal from the insidious evil they really are.”

May his memory be a blessing.