Posting this here as well
When the spell made everyone forget Peter Parker, that included Tony Stark, huddled shivering at the foot of an apartment building, homeless since he faked his death. He had wanted to reveal himself, even took steps to do so by launching EDITH protocol, but after Mysterio… after the whole college scuffle… he couldn’t bring himself to come face to face with his kid and know that he SHOULD have been able to stop all this.
Once Stephen was involved, Tony was just trying not to be noticed, biding his time until he could finally face his kid again.
But after the spell, all he knew was that he’s in desperate need of help and that he’s looking for someone. He’s looking for someone, and he has no idea who that person even is, but he has enough rough sketches of Spider-Man to know that the web-slinger may have some answers. It’s simple enough to track the vigilante, so Tony knows what he has to do next.
So, after the spell, when a run down and starving version of Tony Stark breaks into Peter Parker’s apartment and asks him for help, he can’t quite understand why the boy starts sobbing.
But Peter would never forget the face of the mentor he thought was dead, no matter how much grime is on it. The mentor who now has no idea who Peter is.
god brussel sprouts are so goated. how the hell did they get known as the nasty vegetable
bring hans over here right now so that i may suck him up sloppy
Peter had a tendency to grab souveneers from Stark Inductries, and that was fine. Tony pretended not to notice when the boy smuggled cool little pieces of tech from the lab, trusting the boy to be responsible with them. Tony also never asked for his sweaters back if Peter borrowed them, and turned a blind eye to the missing blanket in Peter’s tower bedroom or the way food tended to disappear from the pantries.
Tony wasn’t lacking for resources in the slightest, and any move to make sure the boy was warm and fed would be worth the effort, even if that move is letting the boy engage in small amounts of the overt in a safe enviroment.
What Tony didn’t know was that some of those hoodies and pieces of tech didn’t stay with Peter. Some of them made their way to his friends.
After a long year of college applications, MJ starts to wonder exactly why she has so much Stark Industries merch, considering she doesn’t like the man. It seems especially odd that some of it seems to be… very high level. Because, on the tag…that can’t be Tony Starks signature. Right?
Across town, Ned Leeds starts cleaning his room and finds what is unmistakably a functioning web-shooter.
things i never expected to learn through a tedtalk but now am glad to know:
the founder of Sirius XM radio is a sapphic trans woman and is currently trying to preserve her wife’s consciousness in a digital file so her wife can be immortal in the body of a robot.
heres the tedtalk if you dont believe because everyone deserves to know this reality of the amazing world in which we live
Holy shit you neglected to mention that when her daughter got a terminal disease with no cure or treatment possible she literally went to the library got some medical textbooks and taught herself enough biochemistry to actually begin developing a drug that halted the disease good god why have we never heard of this absolute genius
kaylapocalypse
YOU KNOW WHY YOU K N O W W H Y
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Real life tony stark is a gay trans woman
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Her name is Martine Rothblatt. She also founded United Therapeutics, which is a company that works to find cures for “””small””” diseases that don’t necessarily affect a lot of people.
oh, yes–and she’s Jewish.
Here is a picture of Martine and her wife, Bina Aspen:
Getting to know the Bellas!
Am I wrong?
Did I miss someone?
I see it built in front of me and I still don’t understand
The credit links to an Instagram account that shared her video, not her actual Instagram account. The artist is called Julia Stankevych, she’s from Ukraine, and her Instagram is julia.stankevych where she shares videos of her paintings.
I have figured out how to use caffeine dependence to my advantage. It doesn't give me any kind of an energy boost anymore, but it does block out sleep receptors, and I get a headache if I'm not getting my coffee in the morning. So while I have a hard time getting up in the mornings, I know that I'm going to hurt if I don't, so the desire to avoid headaches compels me to get up and make my coffee.
And once I'm up making coffee anyway, I might as well take my meds and have breakfast. And once I've consumed my morning coffee, the meds have usually kicked in and my blood circulation has moved from "lizard coming out of winter hibernation" to normal people levels, and I no longer want to climb back into bed.
"And perhaps it is the greater grief , after all, to be left on earth, when another is gone. Do you think?"
"Perhaps," Achilles admitted.
-Madeline Miller, The song of Achilles
The fact that Achilles was going to experience this exact thing is really breaking me.
Since I am rereading this book again I must really like pain.
The way that we learn about Helen Keller in school is an absolute outrage. We read “The Miracle Worker”- the miracle worker referring to her teacher; she’s not even the title character in her own story. The narrative about disabled people that we are comfortable with follows this format- “overcoming” disability. Disabled people as children. Helen Keller as an adult, though? She was a radical socialist, a fierce disability advocate, and a suffragette. There’s no reason she should not be considered a feminist icon, btw, and the fact that she isn’t is pure ableism- while other white feminists of that time were blatent racists, she was speaking out against Woodrew Wilson because of his vehement racism. She supported woman’s suffrage and birth control. She was an anti-war speaker. She was an initial donor to the NAACP. She spoke out about the causes of blindness- often disease caused by poverty and poor working conditions. She was so brave and outspoken that the FBI had a file on her because of all the trouble she caused.
Yet when we talk about her, it’s either the boring, inspiration porn story of her as a child and her heroic teacher, or as the punchline of ableist, misogynistic jokes. It’s not just offensive, it’s downright disgusting.
the reason the story stops once hellen keller learns to talk is no one wanted to listen to what she had to say
how’s that for a fucking punchline
Another part of the story that is often conveniently omitted is that Anne Sullivan, the “miracle worker” in question, was also a visually impaired woman (and abolitionist) who faced her own struggles finding accessible education. That was why she was able to teach Helen Keller and connect her with resources that would allow her to flourish in academia. When Helen Keller was railing against poverty-induced diseases that caused blindness, she was talking about things like trachoma which was what had caused her friend’s vision loss.
The fact that Sullivan is often portrayed as able-bodied in retellings of their story is indicative of the narrative that is most comfortable for an ableist society: that accessibility and equality are gifts bestowed upon the disabled by able-bodied heroes. Disabled children are never taught that they have the power to lift each other up, and that’s a crying shame.
And all of the erasure and ableism how the story is told has led to a huge number of people who happily and glibly claim that Helen Keller isn’t real, because deaf-blind people can’t accomplish anything like that. 
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Average American Liberal
"is this worker strike going to cause me unrest and discomfort as the labor i take for granted and do not respect is not being performed?"
update:
@ the terrified old couple that had to pass me, holding disembodied mannequin arms, to get in the mall : Sorry
@ THE EXTREMELY EXCITED MILLENIAL WJO RAN UP TO ME AND WENT “ID ASK IF YOU NEED A HAND BUT IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE ENOUGH” : THANK YOU
Peps went into the baby sling (oversized fanny pack i'm wearing across my chest) and I don't think he wants to come back out
POV: your noodle son has settled into the baby sling and you will feel bad prodding him out of there when its time to go back into the enclosure
"no... put flap back on... it bright out there :("
Ouroboros, 2013. — Lauren Marx (American, b.1991)
