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[creekfiend]

a lot of the younger elementary age kids got Stuck at the booth trying on all the different bracelets, some of them for over 15 minutes with no signs of stopping, so I developed a way to help their parents get them Unstuck, which was saying "it's okay if you want to go look at all of the other booths and then come back later!" and the funniest part was how all the parents fell on this concept and immediately were like YES LET'S GO LOOK AT THE OTHER BOOTHS WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK IF YOU WANT TO while making meaningful grateful eye contact with me. yeah I know how to unstick young children from stuff, you're welcome

[lizbethborden]

[autism-swagger]

I think the final couple of episodes of AOS season 3 are incredibly funny if only for the fact that Daisy is soooo fucking anemic and nobody acknowledges it at all.

Look at her. She has been sucked DRY. Somebody get her a cookie and some iron pills stat.

[starleska]

a PSA for anyone who is confused by the panic over the UK heatwaves! ☀️

the UK has an amber warning declared for a heatwave this weekend, where temperatures will reach above 30C (86F). to many, especially Americans, this doesn't seem like a notable temperature, and i've seen many ignorant posts mocking UK residents who are worried about how they and their loved ones will be affected by the temperatures. i'd like to explain why heatwaves in the UK are different than other parts of the world, and why they cause such a panic: 🔥 because we are an island nation, our heat isn't dry: it's horrendously humid. high humidity means that your lungs need to work harder to breathe, and it's much harder for your sweat to evaporate in the air. sweating is how your body regulates its temperature, and you sweat more in humid environments. when sweat doesn't evaporate it remains on the skin, leaving you feeling hot, sticky, and ill. 🔥 our homes and buildings are built to retain heat. because the UK is so cold and rainy for the vast majority of the year, our homes are supposed to trap heat, not let it out. not only are our homes smaller on average, but between double glazing, cavity wall insulation and loft insulation, when heat hits a British home, it causes a greenhouse effect. heat just sits in our homes, and it doesn't dissipate at night, meaning we are unable to sleep. 🔥 we have no air conditioning. i have never been in a home with air-con, and very few public buildings have it (except some shops). because of the aforementioned cold, rainy conditions that affect the UK for the vast majority of the year, air-con has never received a significant roll-out here. this means that we have little to no relief from being inside buildings besides being in the shade, and few homes even have fans. 🔥 our city centres are packed and highly urbanised, which causes heat traps. because our streets and homes are often stacked tightly together, including rows of houses/buildings/etc., heat in densely packed areas has nowhere to go, and will simply sit. trying to walk through a city during a heatwave will leave you sweating and exhausted in minutes. likewise, there are limited spaces to go to cool off during these temperatures: people will literally go to the shops to stand in the fridge/freezer aisles. 🔥 our infrastructure is not built to cope with heat. during heatwaves, our tarmac melts. the rails which hold our trains bend and warp. our grass catches fire. a few years ago, airport runways cracked and lifted in the heat, halting flights. the UK is brought to a standstill during high temperatures because our cities and towns are built for colder, wetter temperatures. add in the 16 hours of daylight we get during the summer, and you have a recipe for disaster. 🔥 the hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK is 40C (104F). this was in England, and in other UK countries, it's even lower: in Wales, it was 37.1C (98.78F); in Scotland, it was 34.8C (94.64F), and in Northern Ireland, it was 31.3C (88.3F). because these are our highest temperatures, many of us are unused to the symptoms which signify heat exhaustion or heat stroke. i need to emphasise: people die during heatwaves. i highly encourage people to read about the 2022 UK heatwaves, which saw the deaths of nearly 3000 people (many of whom were elderly). we could do nothing but hunker down and survive the heat during this time, and it was especially dreadful for anyone who is older, disabled, and/or neurodivergent. so while 30C is not unheard of in the UK, any heatwave poses significant risks, including illness, disruption to transport, wildfires, and even death. thanks for reading, and to everyone from outside the UK who's provided useful advice on keeping cool! i'm sure we'll be alright, but i'm hoping folks won't parrot misinformation about us just 'not being able to cope with the heat' 💔

[mollysunder]

The Medarda arc of s2 struggled to be good, because the plot viciously smothered it. You can argue that Arcane was never about politics but you cannot say the Medardas were never explicitly a family defined by politics. So when the show shifted it's priorities from a drama steeped in political conflict where even though the setting was fantastical the stakes were grounded to a shift where magic is the end all be all threat to humanity, the Medardas are rendered largely irrelevant.

In s2 Mel's agency over her own story is both largely stripped from her and poorly communicated. Arcane has Mel abducted from the plot to be the Black Rose's captive. Even when Mel manages to free herself it's not through the traits the audience understands are her strengths, her cunning and social intelligence, it's through an innate instinct that natural to her and indecipherable to the audience.

Ambessa as a character is more or less a villain of convenience, which would be fine if she wasn't immediately following Silco's act. Once Mel is removed from the story Ambessa is largely disconnected from any emotional tension fuels conflict between the characters and previously drove the plot in s1. She's there to play the worse bad guy for Caitlyn and then give Viktor the man power for the Glorious Evolution.

It's frustrating to see the Medardas used the way they are in s2 because when they're together I can see how it could be good. When they're together Mel forces emotion out of Ambessa. In Act 1, Ambessa proved she could do circles around Piltover's court, which could actually put Mel in a tight spot.

Their final scene on paper sounds like a good idea where the true resolution to Mel and Ambessa's story was that Ambessa saw Mel's own ruthless behavior as she not only betrayed Ambessa to the Black Rose, but used her as BAIT to double cross LeBlanc. Ambessa died proud that her daughter killed her the way she did, and that's so cool and tragic, but the execution was a flop.

One, their final fight is completely unimportant to the actual Glorious Evolution, Mel's grief can't even be a highlight because it's interrupted by Viktor's mind trap. Two, their fight didn't rely on any of Mel's actual strengths, just magic and the poorly explained MacGuffin LeBlanc gave her. How did Mel even know it would do that?

It's like the writers had the bones for a great story for the Medardas, but then they're like the world's worst archeologists and fit those bones together in the worst way possible because they were convinced the bones made a stegasaurus instead of a T-rex or something.

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

Something so important to me is Haymitch sobering up at the end of Katniss and Peeta’s game so he could be the advocate he never had at the end of his. He had Effie of course, and she fought tooth and nail for him but she could never understand what it’s like. He made sure those kids never had a reason to doubt their humanity. While he was put in a cage for the capitol to gawk at, and stuck wondering if he should be chained like a wild animal he made sure Katniss and Peeta wouldn’t feel that way. The Capitol went from treating the tributes like wild animals to treating them like pets. Just because they weren’t being kept in cattle cars or cages anymore doesn’t make what they’re doing any better even though it might seem that way and Haymitch could recognize the damage that might still be done in the aftermath of the games. He prevented them from surgically altering Katniss to make her more easily digestible for the Capitol, and from what we know about the Capitol, they don’t need permission for anything, Haymitch had to be on his guard, keeping track of exactly what they were doing and how they were treating the kids under his protection in order to keep them safe. He was behind the scenes at every interview or public appearance, making sure that everything went well. He knows the Snow in a way they don’t, he knows how vulnerable surviving the game leaves you and he wasn’t willing to leave them unguarded.

[nabi-unveiled]

It's Sunday. Which brings me to the question I ask myself every week - how does someone find their own Scooby-Doo gang?

[lightnersdream]

very funny (extremely frustrating) that people so heavily into making fanart/fanfiction/fanworks in general are so often extremely pro-copyright and IP law. like we engage in copyright infringement on the regular for fun as a hobby for the fuck of it what do you think is going to happen if they lock down on that shit. come on

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

What would it be like if people in your community looked out for you?

What would it look like if people outside your most-texted friends and closest family knew you and were invested in your wellbeing and were willing to make deliberate effort to contribute to it?

What would a healthy supportive community, full of a wide variety of people who aren't all necessarily friends, look like?

What would make your community more like that?

What structures or opportunities already exist that might enable that? Are they sufficient? Why or why not? If you don't know what kinds of organizations etc exist in your community, how could you find out? If they aren't sufficient, what could you do to contribute or create new opportunities for relating with each other?

What barriers interrupt opportunities for healthy connection and support in your community? What would effectively addressing those barriers look like?

What would be the easiest possible first step that one busy person could take to start to make your community more connected? Can you think of anything that you personally could do?

What kinds of skills or ideas would be necessary that you can't provide? How could you find people with those kinds of skills or ideas who are also interested in community care and who might be willing to work together?

You're probably marginalized by at least one form of oppression. Most people are. You're probably busy and tired. Most people are. What would make it possible for you to contribute anyway? What would make it possible for other busy tired people to contribute?

If you want your community to care for you—if you need that, as I'm convinced all people do—you might have to figure out how to care for your community first. If you wanted that, how would you start?

[sometimesanequine]

can you please explain why you hate the horse breeds you talked about in your last post? i'm curious and don't know a lot about horses

so halter horse breeds are a bit like the modern kennel clubs for dogs. they want cartoonish porportions which inevitably end up hurting the horses health in the long term

im real bad at explaining horse faults as i only draw horses and watch the occasional train wreck that is equestrian drama. i dont have the terminology to explain the faults here tbh, but there are worse specimens than this.

if you want something funny though the photoshop people do for halter aqh stud advertisements are pretty cartoony

[mrehkka]

Read from the top-down, not side to side:

Left strip: the pak is rewarding Dib for taking care of its host 😌

Middle: pak is touched to learn that much love is stored in the Dib 🥺 (Dib views the pak as zim-adjacent and he's not wrong)

Right: that scene from the comics where Dib is begging Zim for poop cola. With blank thought bubbles neither want to actually say, for you to fill in your own blank. I just thought it would be funny if Zim was being a lover boy and the pak is like "NO! Keep it SMALL!" But Dib is ALSO being a little lover boy 😌

[hopethishelpsdotcom]

miss hazelnut enjoying her 2-in-1 lounge scratcher, being cute as per usual

[gideonisms]

"you see I am insane" was such a good answer from harrow. I wish I could respond to people in my day to day life this way but I am always trying to sound careless and nonchalant so they don't ask me if I'm all right to which the answer is no, I've been going insane in different ways for the past decade. but thank you for asking

[fisheito]

emotional support wolf meets too-shy-to-live sneetah

[fowlblue]

Thinking about that one reblog earlier and like… I guess I can see the idea of Fowl Senior being this cold and cruel crime lord pre-TAI who never spent real time with Artemis and never made an effort to be a father-

But what I think is more interesting is a Fowl Senior who’s first time meeting Artemis ended up with him weeping over his son because he had no idea how to protect him in such a dangerous world.

[greensaplinggrace]

the darkling says “fine, make me your villain” because he is. what’s not clicking