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A Potato of Many Fandoms

@blade-the-demon-fangirl

She/Her and They/Them---An artist who is struggling with life, yet makes the most out of it anyway. of course, there's going to be some crazy things going on in this place, so buckle up!

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

I feel like they should just print this out and hand it to any reporter dumb enough to ask about recovering bodies

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^ that pairs really well with this quote too

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my favorite part about this mspaint is how succinctly it depicts the Titan. it was just a fucking tube with titanium endcaps.

do you want to see a submersible that's capable of reaching the titanic and has been in operation since 1964? yes this has been in operation for almost 60 years:

look at how this thing was designed with safety in mind:

the part where the crew sits is entirely made out of titanium, and it's a sphere. why? because a sphere has less weak points than a cylinder. it's more or less uniformly strong in all directions

if you look at other deep sea subs that support a crew and you'll notice a pattern. while their superstructure that is not pressurized may vary, the pressurized compartments are spherical. take a look at this pretty comprehensive list of manned deep-sea submersibles and click through to some that are on the list of the deepest dives

I referenced the Alvin first because it was famously used to explore the titanic but the list goes much deeper (remember the titanic is at about 4000m depth)

Here's a cutaway of the Challenger. Notice anything?

the titanium sphere used to house the crew?

now look at the Titan:

its an accident waiting to happen.

the Alvin designed 60 years ago is still diving to the depths beyond the titanic, and has completed around FIVE THOUSAND DIVES because it was designed with safety in mind

the Titan got crushed into a billionaire smoothie maker because the CEO who commissioned it designed it to carry as many paying customers as possible for the lowest cost, and by his own mantra of "safety gets in the way of innovation"

you can't innovate your way around physics! the physics that led to the design of the Alvin in 1964 are the same physics that made gogurt out of you and your passengers mr stockton rush. no amount of free market entrepreneurial spirit is gonna make your tube go super saiyan at 4000m and prevent the mathematical certainty of physics from taking your life

Destroy All Comers

Jason Todd x Reader

Written for my Year of Olympians and part of a bigger challenge being run by @yearofcreation2023​! It features a ton of other awesome creators and runs all year, so go check it out!

Fandom: DC

Prompt: Athena; Wisdom and Warfare

Summary: When Y/N’s regular co-coach, Dick Grayson, is called away during an important period in the 8th grade girls’ basketball season, Jason Todd has to step in and take his place.

Word Count: 3,124

Category: Fluff, Humor

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Jason’s POV

“Why do I have to do it?”

“Because you’re the only one available to take my place! Besides, you might actually have fun doing it once you give it a try.”

I huffed and crossed my arms. Grayson had a mission overseas coming up, and he’d asked me to take his place. Not as Blüdhaven’s vigilante, oh no. As the co-coach for a kid’s basketball league.

It was dead last on the list of things I cared about or wanted to do. But Grayson had recently helped me out with a problem of my own, and he’d made it very clear he wasn’t above calling in that favor.

“C'mon, Jay. It’s only two weeks. Ten practices and one tournament, that’s all you have to get through.”

I sighed heavily through my nose and stared at the ceiling for a few long beats. Then, I dropped my eyes back to Dick, keeping my expression completely unimpressed.

“Fine. But you better not get hurt on this stupid mission, because I’m not covering for you a single second past that tournament.”

I will ALWAYS be protective of Anne Frank and how people speak about her or depict her. She was a child who was murdered, she's not your allegory, life lesson, punchline, or book character.

They had not been seen together in the museum galleries for quite a while. Monet’s “Women with Umbrellas” are once again side by side in the Impressionist gallery.

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AND THEN THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END!!!!

ok every time this post comes by i resist geeking out on it but NO LONGER so these women are probably the same woman and that woman is monet’s wife camille doncieux. he painted her a LOT. but fun fact: monet had this asshole friend named ernest hochede, and ernest racked up some debts, and like an asshole he basically just fled the country, leaving his wife alice and their six kiddos behind. monet immediately got alice and kids to move in with him, camille, and their two kids. at this point, monet, alice, and camille became my favorite probably historic poly threesome. they lived together, taking care of the kids. they were so poor that alice and camille took turns wearing the nice dress so they could go out with monet. when camille got uterine cancer and began dying, alice helped monet cope and took care of things while he painted camille over and over. when camille died, alice is the reason monet was able to survive. when ernest finally died, monet and alice married, and remained married until alice died. at that point, blanche, the oldest daughter, took care of monet until he died. anyway, the point is, the umbrella ladies are probably the same ladies, but as far as i’m concerned, there WAS a historically queer poly family in that household and they were wonderful.

There is a girl i am paired up with in chemical science. She has the face of a cat (whether it’s a soft tabby or a ferocious tiger depends on the day) and the tail of a buzzard. She’s very sweet. We have an odd friendship–though i don’t know if it’s safe to call it that. I gave her a Soul Cake i made once, when we met. In return, she left me a dead bird–a raven–on my bed. (Which was helpful, since i needed more bird skulls for the necklace i was making for my roommate) she never told me her name, and i never told her mine.

Yesterday, i was talking to her and the topic of names came up. I had grown to enjoy her company and felt i could trust her. But not entirely. I’m not THAT stupid. I told her my safe name–aeriss. She stopped in her tracks and looked me dead in the eyes, a look of fear on her feline face. I didn’t know she COULD be fearful. But she didn’t look scared for herself…she looked scared for ME.

When the whole party is down but your bard is up

jack had absolutely no right to go this hard

um excuse me Jack not only may but must go this hard

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I love the moment where the band is like “oh, yeah, let’s pick this up!”

Everything he does is joy

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Always reblog…

Oh fuck yes this post came back round!

Is no one going to mention how his brows move has he plays that? Great! He’s so into it!

deserved

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It was bad enough that the boy is literally just stabbing the book with a dagger and dissociating.

I picked this comic up by coincidence a few months ago and I am delighted to inform anyone curious that she wrote him in a torrid love affair with his bodyguard and completely undermined his terrifying reputation and made him a folk hero instead. He was Not Thrilled.

sometimes I randomly think about the time a girl posted in this girls only Facebook group I’m in telling everyone how she broke up with her boyfriend and he lied saying that he lost the spare key she gave him, only to then break into her apartment when she wasn’t home and steal the cat they’d adopted while they were together, but then he denied having done this and she didn’t really have proof that he took the cat since he wouldn’t let her come into his place and look for it. And then another girl saw this post and knew her ex-boyfriend, and she was like “girl. I used to hook up with your mans back in xxxx and I still have his number. If you want, I’ll hit him up and get him to invite me back to his place and see if your cat’s there.” And the OP was like “bet.”

So this woman hit up homie dog, asked him out for drinks, went home with him, slept with him, and then woke up in the middle of the night and TOOK THE CAT. Like she had only said that she would confirm if the cat was there but then she took it upon herself to steal this woman’s cat back. Like she full on Trojan horsed this man and then hit up homegirl like “I got the goods. Where you wanna meet.” And then the two of them posted a photo of them together with the cat to the group.

And I just think women supporting women is so beautiful.

Reminders as The Owl House ends

1. Don’t beg Dana Terrace for more episodes and a fourth season. The ending of The Owl House was out of Dana’s control and she should not be blamed for this decision. Unfortunately, many Star vs the Forces of Evil fans still beg for creator, Daron Nefcy, to make a fifth season, which is annoying for the creator, and will give false hope. 

2. Support Dana through her future endeavours. After The Owl House, Dana will likely move onto other projects and shows, similarly to many other creators. 

3. Be thankful for The Owl House. Dana and the crew put their blood, sweat and tears to create this amazing show. The ending may have been rushed or unsatisfying, but three seasons is still a lot compared to other cartoons.

4. The Owl House may return in other mediums. Likely, Disney may publish comics or chapter books to continue the story and lore. For Gravity Falls, Star vs the Forces of Evil, and Amphibia, there are tie-in books to expand the lore and continue the story of these shows. 

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The Interweb Oracle foretold such a question would come. The Internet Oracle is never wrong in its predictions.

I hope this clears things up for you, mystery person on the internets.