Sabrina the CatMuse

Health Insurance Physicians

ouch, come on, thats not even satire…

Can we all say thank you to Granada Holmes for showing Holmes and Watson reacting this way to a blackmailer bringing up how he destroyed a gay man’s life?

To offer some further context this episode came out in January 1992, just a couple of months after Freddie Mercury died of AIDS and barely four years after the Tory goverment with the witche Thatcher made Section 28, the banned local authorities, such as schools, from "promoting homosexuality and pretend relationships", essentially barring them from teaching about being gay in any way, shape or form. It was a time where the AIDS epidemic was still happening and where getting that disease was often seen as a righteous punishment for the crime of well, being gay or associating with gay people.

Yes this was happening in the UK/Europe too. The virulent and often violent homophobia of the time was not confined to the US.

And yet, the writers and director of this episode still chose to play it out this way. They could easily have gone for something more neutral if they didn't want to go for an outright condemnation of being gay, but they did this.

Oh and it should also be mentioned in this context that Brett was pretty openly bisexual.

Colonel Dorking's ruined marriage is canonical, but we are not given the reason (you're free to imagine he was e.g. caught with another woman). Granada said 'No, you know what? Full Milverton! Just why does Holmes hate blackmailers so much? Let's find out!'

Absolute adaptation of all time

Seriously… the fact that the adaptation that is so famous for being as faithful as possible to the source material intentionally chose to incorporate a queer storyline is just *chefs kiss*

And the cherry on top is that they made Milverton’s exploitation of a queer man the most clear reason for Holmes’ hatred for him, who he claims to detest more than anyone he’s ever gone up against. That’s including Moriarty! Holmes is obsessed with catching him to a degree that we haven’t seen before in this series, and that obsession is triggered immediately after he learns Dorking’s story.

It’s just so obvious that the story hits personally for Holmes (and it can also be argued, for Watson) and it’s honestly really amazing that they chose to tell this story in the time period they did. Holmes and Watson show nothing but sympathy and understanding for Dorking’s situation, and the fact that they go to such lengths to defend him speaks volumes.

Also, bonus points to Granada for being one of the only Holmes adaptations I’ve seen that very clearly makes it known that Holmes just isn’t into women. Perhaps they weren’t aiming to depict a gay Holmes — but they certainly were aware of the possible implications and they weren’t shying away from them

i’d get so much done if it wasn’t for the overwhelming urge to not do anything

Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

Dad loves you and feeds you. But he is also dumb and feeds you a wonderfully done wagyu steak. You are 3 days old.

Okay, but check out this video from mid-May 2022 of a Kestrel Dad who just kept piling up voles and mice beside his babies when the mom was injured/killed/mia’d by owls…but then watched one of his babies just swallow a lizard and went “OH. I can feed them small food!” and learned to tear it apart!

EDIT: There’s a not-zero percent chance that this could be the same dad???????? The source is the same–Robert E Fuller–but they could be different birds. 

UPDATE: Not only has Mister Kes learned to feed his chicks all on his own…

….the three chicks who were taken out of the nest for intensive care after the mom disappeared were put back in, and he just started feeding them, too.

He’s a single father of six who does not possess the instincts to feed even one of his offspring, but he learned and adopted that behavior without difficulty and is now hunting and providing for six kids all on his own. 

Happy father’s day to the Krestel single dad of 6 Who is doing a wonderful job

The youngest stuck around and has three chicks of his own now.

He's called Jeff and his mate is Jenny.

That baby-Jeff - tried to feed his own chicks the other day. He even started to tear up the food. Jenny, his mate gently shoo'd him away to get more food.

Sadly, the OG Mr Kes went missing and we don't know what happened to him this year ... but he did a wonderful job learning to feed his babies.

labs that are also churches. to me

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)

Patriarchy.

FUCK RON DeSANTIS!!! I AM PISSED TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

be like Marge

happy pride to cecil and carlos specifically

being on Tumblr is like playing a violin in a concert hall for thousands of people and a few of them clap, then honking a kazoo to amuse your 2 friends AND SUDDENLY YOU HAVE 20K NOTES

don't even think about it

Tumblr is known and also spoken of by its user base for its high proportion of lgbt+ users, but I'm curious as to if the lgbt+ user base is actually as large as though or if its just confirmation bias, so...

For fun if you want put how you identify in the tags and the part of tumblr you'd say you're here for

We are not going to let that fuckwad DeSantis gain a foothold in the 2024 election.

You are going to fucking vote for Joe Biden, and you are going to give us a fucking chance to save our country from fascism, and you aren't going to fucking complain about it, because there is literally no other choice.

We will not let another election be a close call. Are you listening?

Vote for Biden. Vote for whatever Democrat is most popular in your local elections. Our system sucks, but this is what we're working with. Just fucking vote.

"But he's --"

It doesn't matter. It does. not. matter.

Not every battle is about progress. Sometimes it's just holding the line until we get reinforcements. And they are coming. The Gen Z vote was monumental in stopping the red wave, and there are increasing numbers as more and more come of age.

Hold the line.

I want to push back on the battle “not being about progress.” Because /Biden has accomplished a lot, actually, especially given a Republican-controlled House. One could argue that he hasn’t gone far enough, but that’s not the same as having accomplished nothing. So here’s some things Biden has done:

1) Raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

2) Highest appointment of federal judges since Reagan. Reagan started a trend of Republicans packing federal courts with uber-conservative judges, and blocking Democrat appointments, which is how we ended up with our current Supreme Court. Biden is doing his absolute best to turn the scales back the other direction by appointing as many liberal and left-wing judges as he can, as fast as he can.

3) $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure package that will pour federal money into things like public transit, high-speed internet in places that don’t have it (which are overwhelmingly poor, and cut off from the rest of the world), and a whole lot of other basic things that make life easier for ordinary people.

4) Halted Federal executions. This doesn’t affect state-level convictions, but it does affect federal-level executions; those are completely off the table for as long as he (or any other) Democrat is President. (13 people were executed under Trump)

5) Rejoining the Paris Climate Accords and pushing for other environmental care legislation,

6) Pushed through the “Inflation Reduction Act” (named that to get Republicans to be willing to allow it through). It’s actually the largest climate bill in U.S. history and allows Medicare to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs for the first time. It includes 369 billion for a climate initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote lean energy technologies. $300 billion in new revenue through a corporate tax increase. $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service to hire new agents, modernize its technology, audit the wealthy and more. A $2,000 annual cap for out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for those insured by Medicare.

6) Overturned Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

7) Re-authorized the Violence Against Women Act

8) Pardoned marijuana

9) Forgave student loan debt (this one the Republicans in congress managed to partially stymie, but that’s not Biden’s fault--it’s the Republicans).

10) Managed to get a modest gun-safety bill through the gauntlet of Republican opposition. (The first one anyone’s managed to get passed in decades.) It’s far from perfect, or enough, but it did expand background checks on gun purchases and made it easier to prosecute illegal gun trafficking. And the reason it was as weak as it was, is because the Republicans have a majority in the House and they blocked anything stronger, it’s the Republicans’ fault. Not Biden’s. If we want sensible nationwide gun control, we have GOT to get the House a Democrat majority.

11) Passed a long-stalled Post Office reform bill.

There’s a lot there! And the things that he promised but didn’t manage to achieve, he put them before Congress and the Republicans in the House stopped them. If Democrats controlled the House as well as the Senate, most of them would have passed and now be the law of the land! The problem is not Biden.

Biden may not be very exciting, and he may not be as far left as we want. But he’s still got a lot done in the last three years.

stepping in as a Poor on Social Security to say that Joe Biden has done more for me than any other POTUS in my lifetime.  Since he stepped into office I have seen:

-broadband internet help ($30/month toward my comcast bill, and even if I go delinquent, they are required to keep my internet connected albeit with a slower connection.  the point is: my internet cannot be cut off) -multiple SNAP increases -direct stimulus -MAJOR improvements to Medicare.  I have a $0 copay for EVERYTHING now through my Medicare Advantage plan.  Including prescription medicine!! I pay nothing!  Ambulance, hospital stay? Again, I pay nothing.  Including vision and dental and hearing aids if I needed them. -my Medicare OTC card used to just give me a little to buy medicine.  Now I get $205/month and I can use it for OTC medicines, groceries, and utility bills!  This is literally more money in my pocket every month. -speaking of that, Biden has given us two historically large COLA raises for Social Security.  Last year’s was the biggest raise in 4 decades.  This year promises to be very good, too.

this doesn’t even count in the multiple kinds of student debt relief or the pandemic-era child tax credit, because they didn’t affect me personally, but I know both of those moves were life-changing for people i know.  Not to mention a long overdue infrastructure bill.  And the fact that he has accomplished all this with the weakest possible senate “majority” really speaks volumes.  

Yeah, he’s old.  No, he’s not a socialist.  But he’s good at his job and he is making things happen for vulnerable people.  Not to mention that he is SO much better at foreign policy than any POTUS I can remember.  Remember how we were at war for decades?  We’re not anymore.  Yeah, Joe did that.