#they are in 5th grade these ones...

[herefortheships]

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[a-s-fischer]

Since it's almost Easter, I want to tell everyone the story of the cafeteria lunch lady at my school who I sort of on purpose, sort of accidentally convinced I was possessed.

So once upon a time, before J. K. Rowling was radicalized, back when the books were first becoming popular, a bunch of Christians got it into their heads that J.K. Rowling was in league with Satan and the books had real spells, and the books would trick the children who had read them into becoming satanists and witches, and selling their souls to the devil to work magic, and they would all become possessed by demons, and die and go to hell. It was all very much the same thing they were saying about Dungeons and Dragons in the eighties. For the most part, this was a Protestant Evangelical phenomenon, but the occasional Catholic bought into it too, and one of those Catholics who bought into this was my school's lunch lady.

She saw me one day at lunch reading a book from the incredibly popular Harry Potter series, and told me in that solemn way that adults sometimes do when talking to a young person they think is going wrong, that I needed to stop reading that book, because otherwise I would open myself up to demons and wind up possessed.

Now I have severe ADHD, and one of the ways this manifests is that I get songs stuck in my head at the drop of a hat, and they stay there for weeks on end and are very, very annoying and distracting. And my mother loves musicals, so we listened to them around the house all the time. And at the time the musical we were listening to was a not-at-all controversial little number by the name of Jesus Christ Superstar. This musical is a pretty standard retelling of the passion, which is to say the last days of Jesus's life from just before his entrance into Jerusalem until his crucifixion, and it was also written by two Christians, but in spite of this, the same kinds of groups who decided Harry Potter was a tool to get children to sell their souls to the devil, decided Jesus Christ Superstar was blasphemous.

But anyway because this is a passion story, Caiaphus, the high priest, is one of the main villains, and he gets an absolute banger of a song, which at that very moment I had stuck in my head, and I had been doing my very best not to sing all day, because it is not appropriate for school. This song is called "Jesus Must Die".

So here we are, and the lunch lady has just told me that I needed to stop reading a book or I would be possessed. So I turned to her and looked her straight in the eye and started singing at the top of my lungs: "FOOLS, YOU HAVE NO PERCEPTION, THE STAKES WE ARE GAMBLING ARE FIGHTENINGLY HIGH! WE MUST CRUSH HIM COMPLETELY, SO LIKE JOHN BEFORE HIM, THIS JESUS MUST DIE!"

She screamed, crossed herself, and never spoke to me again.

[number-1-harumi-hater]

i was so amused by this fucking pic of webber going absolutely fucking FERAL i love this kid 😭😭😭😭

[nohh-r]

[littlefankingdom]

As much as it is funny to imagine Bruce with a father's capacity to forget half your friends, I think he actually has a file on any classmate his kids have ever mentioned to him.

He is an over-prepared and paranoid man who had two of his friends (Thomas Elliot and Harvey Dent) turned into rogue, with one of them really obsessed with him, he is not risking his kids' safety.

And also, when he got Dick, he was brand-new at this "being a parent" thing, so he did things in his own way, like it's a mission. Children need to feel listen to, even if their problems are so small in the grand scheme of things. That means he needed to make sure he listened to Dick's ramblings about school and remembered informations to show he listened. To be sure he remembered anything Dick told him, because he couldn't forgive himself if he did, he made files about each of the people he brought up, and reports about Dick's day at school and the gossips. And, as he grew up, it's the same with Dick's colleagues and friends, always keeping up report of anything his son tells. And, of course, he does the same for all of his kids in the end.

Anyway, there's like a fourth of the batcomputer's files that are just civilians his kids have met and reports about normal days at school.

[rockpaperscissuhs]

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH + BAND OF BROTHERS:

ANTONIO C. "TONY" GARCIA

Born October 15th, 1924, in Inez, Texas

Died August 18th, 2005 (age 80), in Burlingame, California

Tony Garcia was born in Texas but he grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming. His parents were from Mexico and had immigrated separately into the States. Tony and his siblings grew up speaking English and Spanish. He decided to drop out of high school in order to enlist, and even borrowed a friend's prescription medicine to cover up a heart murmur for his Army physical. He was accepted for training in 1943, and he served as a Technician 5th Grade with Easy Company from Holland all the way through the end of the war. After the war, Tony returned to Cheyenne where he finished high school, then he moved to San Francisco, working and attending college. Later, he met his wife, Nancy, and started a family. They were married nearly 60 years, and had four children together. When he wasn’t working at the department store warehouse which he managed for three decades, he enjoyed spending time with his family, traveling, dancing, and reading. He was described as a kind, generous, and gentle man, with a “playful sense of humor that belied his quiet demeanor.” The Band of Brothers series bible describes him as “very gung-ho and game” and a “family man and extremely compassionate.” He kept in touch with several of his friends from Easy, and he participated in many Easy Company reunions and events in the U.S. and in Europe. His family has said that he was very reluctant to talk about his combat experiences, but he did like to talk about the people he met, and the families who helped him. Appears in Episodes 3-5 and 7-10, portrayed by actor Douglas Spain

Sources below

SF Gate Obituary for Antonio Garcia

[secretrobotbird]

shuffling my tangled & shucked playlist and forgetting about the shucked because it's played like 10 tangled songs in a row and suddenly i'm jumpscared by a 6 minute long song literally just about how much these people love eating corn

[transusopp]

ive really been wanting to reanimate a canon scene as the middle school au kids forever. just ignore the fact they don't sound like squeaky ass preteens i almost considered pitching it up nightcore style as a joke but i ultimately decided against it (also idk shit about tabletop rpgs. please don't hurt me)

[ace-trainer-cc]

Brokw; people wishing for emmet/emma/volo to show up in pkmn ZA

Woke: people wishing for flygon to get a mega evolution in pkmn ZA

Bespoke: Me wishing for the roller skates to come back in pkmn ZA

[tarvyunderscore]

Going back to my roots :)

[customizablefriend]

My true self still loves Tommyinnit I am still an inniter at heart I have not changed

[daily-property-police]

Not sure if you've done this before but Jimmy and Martyn having a picnic with stuffed animals :3 /nf

Day 407- I don’t know enough about fnaf to make a good pic out of it, I hope you don’t mind I combined it with another one. (And misremembered picnic as tea party)

[buz2ard]

oc refs for my two daughters. they’re both insane and viscerally unlikable. self harm scars pictured below cut

[orions-shiny-belt]

I feel like too many people forget that SJ genuinely wished for 12 year old Binghe to explode and die horribly

[notar1ana]

This was my Brokeback Mountain

[fairmerthefarmer]

Anyone else remember/play cluefinders?