#USA! USA!

[exsequar]

One (1) ER visit for a five day migraine comprising of:

One (1) IV drip of saline

Three (3) basic meds infused through the IV (Benadryl, an NSAID, and some other useless crap

One (1) set of bloodwork

Seven (7) hours waiting in a shitty uncomfortable dark waiting room

Five (5) minutes talking to an actual human doctor

Maybe 30% improvement in my pain

Five (5) more days of migraine

What could it cost? $10?

Oh no Lucille.

$878.57

And that's less than 20% of the original bill before my insurance got involved.

What the actual fuck.

[howdoyousleep3]

mama k, I need help sending a message to someone:

for 🍑 the simp and 🍑 the simp only!!

we the people of the U S A (united simps anonymous) NEED to know how Warehouse Daddy™ reacted to your nipple piercings

I’m more invested in this series of (very) fortunate events than any of my own past relationships

I am living for these updates, they’re better than reality tv.

sincerely,

your supporters

This made me laugh out loud! I'm late to responding to asks and I'm pretty sure peach did give us an update, I just haven't posted it yet! 😫 I will right now!

[kushblazer666]

[varyagated]

independence day (1996) liveblog part 1

it’s the 4th of july in America which honestly creates mixed feelings for me. I love America, but it doesn’t so much love me, my nearest and dearest, or people like me. My family always watches one movie on the 4th, which is Independence Day (1996).

immediate thoughts on this movie:

I think this is a genuinely good movie that encapsulates 1990s America 

Will Smith, national treasure and publicly polyamorous/open which means a lot to me as a polyam person 

Jeff Goldblum, national treasure and playing a sad divorced environmentalist nerd 

Bill Pullman (hot)

all kinds of representation of women 

there is a golden retriever (lab?? idk)

aliens 

catchy lines you will repeat until you die

I’ve probably watched it 31 times or more in my life

Women rly used to wear makeup like this. It’s a look?!?! God the soft, brown, muted tones. I was taught if you wear a bold eye you can’t wear a bold lip. The hair is quintessential 1990s blowout too. I bet this woman knew exactly what her makeup color “season” was/is

whatever happened to curtains like that?? they only exist now if they are permanently dusty. Also Bill Pullman: still hot. That scratchy voice!

“What are you waiting for...my social security will expire, you’ll still be sitting there.” Jeff Goldblum’s Dad in this 🤣 also nothing more quintessential American than old people playing chess in the park by the NYC skyline

This movie also has another treasure Harvey Fierstein (great voice, voiced Yao in Mulan)

the other thing this movie rly succeeds at is showing all the different ways Americans live, like LA to trailers in rural CA to Washington DC to NYC

*aggressively hits item to fix it****

truly nothing more American than living in a trailer

another mainstay of American culture: unexamined alcoholism

babes that’s my hometown!

pls explain to my millennial ass how this look came back around (center part)

this chick is so hot and powerful. into it. I forgot she’s Jeff Goldblum’s ex (he’s still wearing her ring three years after they broke up)

alien spaceship darkness falling over LA

this kid is way too cute. The child actors who played in this are all grown up which I don’t know why this surprises me since they are only slightly older than me. The President’s daughter is also Mae Whitman which is an inexplicable mindfuck I never noticed

motifs in this movie: dolphins (the bottle of perfume). also lmao at the dialogue in this scene Will Smith asks “it’s an earthquake?” and Vivica A. Fox says “not even a 4 pointer go back to sleep” A++++

i s2g every disaster movie has the statue of liberty defiled or darkened in some way i love american iconography tbh

Will Smith so young in this Vivica A. Fox so pretty. Also motif continued: dolphin earrings

kiddo fighting aliens

motif: dolphins on left

extremely american images

adore how this First Lady looks, she could not look more “90s First Lady” esque

“Once again the LAPD is asking Los Angelinos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.”

Jasmine’s wedding ring 😭

forgot there’s like an accidental gay “confusion” scene played for laughs but the witnessing guy just smiles puts his hands up and walks away...pretty ok tier for DADT era

tbc!!!

[sometimesboffosometimesnot]

[murphywilling]

I've been back in the states now for more or less four years and if there is one thing I absolutely hate about it (you know, besides the racism and the bigotry and the gun violence and the ignorant narcissism and so on) is the absolutely purposefully unorganized and cruel healthcare insurance system.

[yourtongzhihazel]

[kropotkindersurprise]

February 28, 2024 - American military veterans burn their uniforms calling for a free Palestine, at a vigil for Aaron Bushnell in Portland, Oregon. [source]

[sugas6thtooth]

It's unfathomable, even more so when you realize this isn't the first time Israel has done this. She was a baby. The men were so obviously red crescent medics, and still, Israeli soldiers shot and killed them.

It wasn't a misfired bomb. It was guns. They knew what they were targeting.

Anyone who defends this, for whatever religion you believe in, even if you believe in nothing at all, I can only hope the afterlife brings you your deserved suffering on a platter. You're disgusting, vile creatures, who must've snuck onto the Earth because there is no way in nature that you are human. Die.

نَّا ِلِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

Save the children of Palestine. Protect the medics. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

[aci25]

Oakland, California

[genuinelyshallow]

We will not forget those who supported Palestine. You are in our prayers❤️

[beemovieerotica]

thank god for american public transit !!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[houseofbrat]

Boeing Killed A Guy!

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[varyagated]

cw: my ancestors were colonizers.

One of my other fav things about watching heartstopper is the cultural differences. I don’t understand how my ancestors came from England to the US and yet literally the entire show displays a massive cultural divide/absolute confusion for me. 

Like the phrase “you wanna come round my house” in America just makes no sense and sounds like a setup for murder or casing the joint or smthng. No idea what that means. Don’t get me started on the birthday buttons. What is a monster munch. What is rugby. What is a form group. Everyone in uniform. Wtf to all. you’re speaking the same language but your slang and accent is literally barely understandable to me and my ancestor went away on a ship and colonized some new land and peoples just to fuck off. I wonder what he would think of his queer progeny confused by his homeland’s language. How quickly only hundreds of years can divide us. 

[mysharona1987]

The French really don’t fuck around.