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Assorted nerdiness and fandom loves.

with most doctors it’s like 9-5 monday thru friday, 7:30-6 if you’re lucky, but with radiology it’s always “okay your MRI is scheduled at 12:15 am saturday night” i mean. my schedule is in fact clear at that time so ok. late night party in the giant drum kit machine 🤘

I was a bit out of it for my MRI and sang along with it the whole time. The techs were killing themselves laughing when I got out.

some underappreciated vines i haven’t seen in any vine compilation yet i that found way deep in my vines tag

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i mean it quite seriously when i say that i mourn vine… but i think its existence taught an entire generation of people about drama, cinemetography and comedy

And also don’t trust corporations with anything

  • None of them are gonna be physically violent
  • The Reddit users are going to judge you if you express any religious or “unscientific” sentiment
  • The Catholics run the gamut from “hardcore pro-lifer” to “Nun who invented communism”
  • The Protestants have brought lots of food but are going to proselytize the entire time you eat
  • The crystalists are split 60/40 on whether or not vaccines cause autism, and you don’t know who has the majority until you’ve been there an hour
  • The Anglophiles have good pastries, but 1/3 of them are in Sherlock cosplay
  • The girlbosses are all within 10° to the left of the center of the political spectrum and will try very hard to get you to invest in their MLM
  • The vegans brought food but will turn hostile if you let slip that you’ve used animal products in the last year
  • The reenactors have booze, but your phone is dead and they’re giving a very pro-America history lecture
  • The influencers have a pool, a jacuzzi, and lots of drugs, but they have a combined net worth that teaches seven digits and won’t let you forget it
  • The retirees have great weed but they’re gonna ask you a lot of invasive questions and give you a lot of unsolicited advice.

Now that the post is over 10k and my notes are straight-up unusable…

One thing I wish I’d spelled out more explicitly in the original post because I see this point getting lost on a lot of rebloggers who don’t understand why the healthcare thing was such a big deal is like

The subtext I thought would be understood bc I lived back then but apparently has been lost today is that making sure queer employees and their partners had healthcare in the early 90s meant Disney was paying for a lot of AIDS treatment.

This is one reason fundie Christians were so upset and queer employees were so grateful. It’s one reason why it was such a controversial decision. It was a major talking point amongst my family, who believed back then that AIDS was a punishment from God.

(Some still do, I think. We don’t talk.)

I keep seeing people saying that Disney only chose that option “because of their bottom line” and it’s like??? Were you listening??? Disney has been paying for that decision for literally decades, but they’ve stood by it.

Like… the 90s weren’t like now! It wasn’t profitable to cater to the queer population of the country back then. They weren’t raking in money with this.

It’s in no way a perfect company but I fully believe in criticizing people for the specific things they do wrong and praising them for the specific things they do right. Disney has fucked copyright, monopoly, and labor laws and I’m not about to defend that. But they are well known in FL for being friendly to both queer people and disabled people, and that is unambiguously a good thing.

(Like side note, I could talk about Disney and accessibility for days. I have traveled extensively while disabled and no one does it like Disney.)

I’ve had people reblogging the post like “I straight-up don’t believe Disney is an industry leader in equal protections for queer employees” and it’s like ??? do you think I just pulled this out of my ass? If you want more information, go look it up! You’ll see that this is well-established history. It’s not my fault y'all don’t read! :|

thinking about how peoples blorbos tend to be men on here (makes sense with the trends in fandom of men being prioritised etc etc) SO please reblog and tag your female blorbo(s). this is NOT the post to be like “[male character] becuz he’s a woman to me” i Will come to your house and bite you. anyway i’ll go first mine are susie and julie from dbd and carly jones from house of wax 🖤