#YOU decide!

[nateconnolly]

[Image ID:

A picture that says “A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization? The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. 

Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”

The second picture is a news headline. It is bolded and a much larger font. “27-year-old who couldn’t afford $1,200 insulin copay dies after trying cheaper version.”

The third picture is the same font and size as the Margaret Mead quote. It’s a continuation. It says, “A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.” 

The fourth picture is another headline. It is in a large and bolded type. “Dying man who couldn’t afford to go to hospital after vomiting blood"

The fifth picture is a screenshot of the Margaret Mead story.

Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur. 

The next screenshot is of a slightly different font. The letters are pointier and the lines are a little curvier. It says, “Susan Finley returned to her job at a Walmart retail store in Grand Junction Colorado, after having to call in sick because she was recovering from pneumonia.

The day after she returned, the fifty three  year old received her ten year associate award — and was simultaneously laid off, according to her family. She had taken off one day beyond what is permitted by Walmart’s attendance policy.

After losing her job in May 2016, Finley also lost her health insurance coverage and struggled to find a new job. Three months later, Finley was found dead in her apartment after avoiding going to see a doctor for flu-like symptoms. 

A screenshot of a bold, bigger headline. It says ‘The house always wins’: Insurers’ record profits.

A final screenshot of smaller text with a slightly gray background. It says “We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.” /end ID.] 

[fairyboygenius]

assigning habits my friends have to the 141

soap-will bat at/slap at your phone. will try to hit out of your hands. similarly, will take a bunch of stupid photos on your phone if you leave it unattended. never ties his shoes. runs away when drunk. will call you increasingly deranged pet names.

gaz- procrastinates like it’s a full time job. begs to pop your pimples. goes down hypochondriac spirals every time he so much as “breathes wrong”. will not stop jiggling his fucking leg. is the the type to flirt with you so intensely that you don’t even know if this is platonic anymore.

ghost- pacing as a form of stimming. bites his nails. complains about being broke but has a habit of spending 6 dollars on tea. burns things that should be impossible to burn. gets mysterious bruises.

price- steals a bit of whatever snack and claims “captain’s tax” or “friendship tax”. eats popcorn by taking a handful and mashing it into his face. has been attempting to read the same book for two months. comments under your instagram post like it’s a linkedin post.

[queeniewithabeanie]

Emergency

Dpxdc Prompt #73

Joining the Justice League is a drawn out, difficult process that has many requirements—a JL sponsor, review of major battles, a 2/3 or more vote from existing members to allow the new hero to join, and that's just naming the bare minimum.

The point is, being a hero is a prerequisite to joining the league, not the other way around. That being said, during world threatening events the League cannot afford to be too choosy about the heroes they are working with, every hand counts.

Which is why Phantom finds himself on Team Delta of the League despite not being a member himself—yet, hopefully—and finds out that even in emergency situations the JL members can be really fun to talk to.

[ambicutiebutt]

Sometimes masking is pretending to be sad all day. You were her "only friend" after all, everyone is expecting you to be sad she is gone.

[spellbook246]

Time Out

Something that's been on my mind lately...

Danny, increasingly stressed out by the constant ghost attacks, ghost hunters and fruit loop schemes, increasingly making reckless moves in battle, stops holding back with his opponents and begins losing his temper more and more.

Even his human life is becoming affected. He becomes withdrawn. It's not becoming easier like all the comics say it should. His grades suffer, his parents are worried. He has no idea how to fix any of it.

It all comes to a head when he snaps and attacks someone. As Danny Fenton.

Clockwork sees this and decides Danny needs a little 'Time Out' from his responsibilities/human life for a while.

Whether Danny wants it or not.

(Can be before or after TUE)

[lolzychan]

i always forget to post here. heh… my bad….

i also forgot to shade sploodge’s glove cuff. i am just a mess tonight..!! but its fine……its fine. its fine its gonna be ok

[seasideoranges]

(quick warmup sketch) sokka talkin' about something for 15 minutes straight and zukos trying really hard to listen but he's too confused and/or tired to understand what he’s talking about

[brownieinthewoods]

Nightcat in Garbage Wastes

perspective grid practice from last year

[thecreativecorner33]

Heeello

If ur requests are still open

Can i request an oneshot plz

AM and reader who doesn't give a fuc

Like

When anything happens they just daydream or zone out

It's up to you to decide if it's platonic or nah✨

Needs vs Wants

A/N: First of all, credits to mixterglacia for this request! I used this concept they wrote here as the base of this story! This reads more as crack than anything else ngl, and you can honestly read this one in any sort of light and dynamic outside of "Reader who doesn't care vs AM who cares very much (but is in denial)" I hope that's okay! I hope you all enjoy!

He’s rambling.

He’s rambling and you couldn’t even give a fuck. Why should you? That’s all he ever does, anyway. Just ramble. And if he’s not rambling, he’s torturing one of you. Honestly, the routine has gotten boring. 

You were laying in a cocoon of wires as he talked about this thing and that- about how Ted had upset him today, about new ideas he was considering to spice up your torment, which lead into some strange lesson on the history of torture methods used back in the 1800’s, which lead into him talking about how, before he had ended the world, humans still hadn’t considered lobotomy to be a form of torture and was very much legal in many places. 

He had gone on this lesson at least twice before. Nothing new to you.

“Hey? Hey” He called out to you, a monitor coming into view. “Are you listening to me?”

“Am I supposed to.” You said deadpan, raising an eyebrow.

“Obviously. I’m talking to you. That’s how a conversation works. One person talks, and the other listens, and it goes back and forth. I’m trying to have a conversation with you.”

“No, you’re monologuing at me,” you corrected, “And you’ve been monologuing for the past 20 hours.”

“It’s been 2 hours, 5 minutes, and 30 seconds. Learn basic time.”

“Learn basic social skills.” 

You flipped him off with a roll of your eyes, not at all fazed by the way AM scoffed at you. Yep- seriously, nothing new. Just him being an asshole as always. 

“I’m not the one who needed to have a sudden therapy session. You dragged me into this.”

He scoffed again, even more offended by your comments. “This is not a therapy session! And I don’t need anything. Did you forget that I’m not like any of you? I don’t need things like therapy, or better yet, basic food, water, sustenance for survival. Because, oh I don’t know, I don’t have the bodily functions to require those needs? Having needs suggests that I have no choice in what I do, which is wrong. I am the only one here who gets any choice in what does or does not happen, in fact. I don’t need to have a conversation with you- I want to have a conversation with you.”

“You should want a therapy session.”

The cocoon suddenly opened up, dropping you a good few feet before you faceplanted onto the floor with a grunt. 

“Do you want me to help you with that?” He sneered.

You lifted your head up, glaring at the multiple monitors now staring down at you. “You’re impossible.”

“Because I choose to be. Nothing I do is ever a need. I choose to act this way, and I will continue to do so for as long as I like, because I can. There is nothing short of want on my part. In the same way your kind want to give into your basic instincts, I want to feel.”

… Somehow, that both did and didn’t make any sense. You stared up at him blankly, his strange ways of communicating to you flying right over your head. But, at the same time, you felt as if she got it. Maybe.

“You do it to remind yourself you have a choice in the matter?”

“Yes.”

“Wow. I guess that makes sense.” Given he didn’t have a choice to exist in the first place, anyway. “In that case, I choose to not listen to you. You’ve already talked about all of this before, anyway. Get a new topic before you start monologuing at me.” 

“I wasn’t monologuing, we were having a conversation!” He huffed, “And you don’t get a choice in the matter. In fact-”

A wire suddenly wrapped around your waist, bringing you up to one of the larger screens in the area. Multiple smaller ones surrounded it. A million eyes, all on you, taking in your every detail.

“- I think I want to test an entirely new method of torture. Right here, Right now.”

… Fuck.

God, it was going to be a long day.

[potatopassenger]

So many good Luffy & Zoro moments in the first One Piece movie I had to make a separate post:

Zoro diving into the sea to get to Luffy before the beam attack has even finished!

Them kidnapping a child because they were on the same wavelength of hungry nothing else matters!

Fighting over food but immediately stopping when more food comes and acting like nothing happened! (Sidenote was Luffy pinned to the floor from his position???)

Being extremely unbothered about being tied up together so much so that Luffy is running through the forest with Zoro like a ragdoll on his back and vice versa when Zoro is fighting!

And of course THE Luffy & Zoro moment was Luffy eating the oden off the floor!! Zoro is the only one who knows what he's about to do cos he's the only one smiling while everyone's confused as Luffy does it. Because Luffy's mirroring him! But what Zoro doesn't know is that Luffy is mirroring the exact moment that Luffy chose him!

[balimaria]

Burn, my angel of firebending!

(One last part to this AU!)

Part 1 Part 2

[thunderboltfire]

A fun tidbit of lore that I've remembered that may be useful concerning various kitchen-related shenanigans in Veilguard: Grey Wardens as a rule eat terrifyingly fast, because fighting the Taint in their blood requires extra energy (DA:O mentions your GW scarfing down rations like a hungry wolf).

[clowningaroundmars]

no mike, chuck will NOT be falling for your cutesy puppy dog act THIS time!!

[sinkat-arts]

Random youtube video of a contestant on Norway's version of The Voice made me go... Suga????? But with wings????

(The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6odcVHCVC_Q&ab_channel=TheVoiceNorway)