Gee, I thought these people were the ones who were like “If you don’t like it, you can just move to a blue state.”

And now they’re mad the guy is doing just that?

You can’t oppress and discriminate against someone then be mad when they take their highly useful skill elsewhere.

His point is basically that he’s going to go where he’s wanted. Guys like Brett realize, as he’s leaving that he’s actually beneficial to the society he’s leaving. If he wasn’t, Bret would be celebrating. This brain drain they’re fretting about is entirely of their own bigoted doing. If they’d thought about retaining great contributors to society instead of culture wars, there’d be no issue. 

And the guy still is doing his job, by the way. Saving sick kids.

He just wants to do it in a state that doesn’t hate him and his family.

also like. He's not leaving just to make a point, though a powerful point is being made. He's leaving because his home is no longer safe for him. People tend to like their homes, and tend to want to stay there, and much of the time, when people leave, it's because staying has become untenable. You don't think a pediatrician absolutely cares that children in Louisiana won't have access to cardiac care without him? He's a *pediatrician*, I guarantee you this guy cares about children's welfare but his home is no longer safe for him.

All grand political statements and solidarity (all of which is incredibly important ofc) aside, his home cast him out and made him unsafe and now people have the audacity to call him selfish and insinuate that he left because he just didn't feel like living and working there anymore. This isn't a 'go where you're wanted' situation, it's a 'flee for your life' situation and framing it as some kind of political statement rather than a self-defense measure obscures just how dangerous anti-queer laws have become

and also one last point but: even if no queer person was a 'great contributor to society' these laws are still evil, still poison. Laws that cast out human beings and oppress them based on innate traits are inherently fascist and cannot be softened by implying that the problem is the loss of skilled labor as opposed to blatant human rights abuses against everyone

Spelling can be hard

The band, the music, the dance.

puts on sound 📣🎶🎵

Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.

1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.

2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.

3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT.  To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.

4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!

5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.

All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.

i love acquiring new sounds for my vocabulary. ough. oughghghgh. ough,,,,,. weh! wehhhh. lkjghslkdfjghsdjghs. hhhhhhhhh. hrgngnggnhghghghghgh,

i know this is the autism webbed site but it’s not gonna go that big, right?

YOU PEOPLE CAN’T DO THIS TO ME

Rabbis who've studied Judaism all their life: "But again, I am just a human. I can't possibly know everything and this is all my understanding. There is no limit to how much you can learn about Judaism, so there's always more I can learn and more perspectives I can discover."

Goyim on the internet: "Here's what all Jews believe, based on my very thorough research of 'watched Fiddler on the Roof once', and here's why I know more about Judaism than you silly Jews."

my favorite is when you ask something like "can I do X", and the rabbi tells you "I'm sure there are some who would say you can".

this happens when the rabbi doesn't want you to do X, but doesn't know of any particular halacha offhand that forbids it. And he knows that if he says "no", then you're required to follow that ruling. And according to some opinions, the laws of nazirus imply that abstaining from that which is pleasurable and permissible is considered sinful. therefore, if the rabbi tells you not to do X but it turns out you could've, he has just instructed you to sin.

it's just a little quirk of different halachos interacting that I find really neat.

Oppenheimer has a scene of a very beautiful naked woman fucking a very beautiful naked man and there is zero sexual energy displayed on screen. Zero. Said woman stops halfway through it and makes the man (Oppenheimer himself) read a poem in Sanskrit about death, which the audience is supposed to associate with the atomic bomb. There is a second attempt at romance: Oppenheimer flirts while explaining quantum mechanics. Looking into his future wife's eyes under his big eyelashes, he says that matter is mostly empty, negative space; it's the bond between atoms that creates the illusion of matter being solid. What we experience as touch, he says while holding her hand, is the repulsion of this bond that stops one body from going through the other. It was in fact appealing to me, but then by the end of the movie Oppenheimer has visions of carbonized bodies laid before him: his invention destroyed matter in such a brutal way that he steps not onto them but through them. So basically. All scenes about sex are not about sex; they are about death. What is about sex in fact, the climax, if you will, is death: the most erotic scene in the movie, the high point of tension that takes your breath away, is a scene of people watching an atomic bomb explode. And that really says all you need to know about how Nolan's mind operates

ryan gosling this. ryan gosling that. margot robbie made barbie what it is. she OWNED it. put respect on her name

Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

remember death (how could you ever forget?)

I heard someone call barbie disappointingly heterosexual and I've never disagreed with anything more strongly in my life

A little post-BOTW comic to soothe my soul

I’ve been watching Danny Phantom and I get it. I get it now.

This show loves to make some offhanded comment, not a hint of consideration or concern in its tone, and just moves on without addressing it like that wasn’t the most creatively horrific concept this side of Nickelodeon. Shit makes up wackass lore on the spot and then disregards it immediately after, asks fascinating questions then looks at you funny when you try to answer them.

I now fully understand how this show has legions of fans dedicated to taking this somewhat mid cartoon and running so far with the implications of the premise they created an entirely different show that’s so much more interesting I’m upset it’s not real.

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

I work at a movie theater.

And personally? To be in the tickets booth, and see young girls, teenagers, adult women, coming in to see Barbie,

the most highlighter pink outfits, some of them coming in with the dolls they’re dressed as, laughing to each other, cheering for each other,

to see the men they’re coming to see it with, dressed in pink, cheering them on, taking their pictures with smiles and cheers in the lobby at the photo op

touches something so deep in me

I can’t say any nuances of the movie that haven’t already been said, but like, fuck man, love is so deep and so kind and to be able to see glimpses of it from behind my little ticket desk makes me a little less nihilistic.

DC x DP fic: Farm Hand

The Kents lived on their family farm for the past three generations. Ma and Pa had two perfectly able sons and a grandson who could help around the farm without trouble.

But with Clark living in the big city, caring for his job, family, and superhero, it was brutal to find time to fly home and help with the harvest. The same could be said about Jon, who struggled to keep up in school, and his training. Kon, who used to live at home, made things easier until the boy moved out with his long-time boyfriend, Tim Drake.

They could never deny him the chance of love, and Tim was a delight- despite his unwillingness to move out of Gotham. Kon had been so bestowed he was fine living in the old Drake Manor with Tim, even if he also wrinkled his nose at the crime city like a true metropolitan.

gritty both capturing the zeitgeist as usual AND educating me on the availability of free flow butter at american cinemas

I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.

I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else’s story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.

Short DPXDC Prompts #845

Tim’s new Psychology teacher in Gotham High, Mrs. Fenton, is somehow the most Gotham gothamite even though she just moved here from a middle of nowhere place in the midwest.

Jazz, glances up from the textbook and sees fear gas leaking into the classroom: …and everyone pull on their gas masks, ‘kay?

The entire class: ???!

Tim: uh ma’am we don’t have gas masks on us at this time

Jazz, gobsmacked: you’re kidding?! Your principal swore this would be ‘the most prepared class’ I’d ever taught! This is NOT prepared, ladies and gentlemen! I expect better of you! Now, I will pull out my own, personal stock of gas masks today, but this cannot be happening again! I am here to teach, not evacuate and stop the entire school day because there was one attack!

The class, crying: what the fuck… what the fuck

Tim: what do you mean “one attack”

Later:

Tim: …and, like, who keeps a personal stock of gas masks in their classroom?!

Jason, a recently certified & hired teacher: me??

As a person who went to schools where the safety drills included: fire, earthquake, tornado, black out, brown out, intruder, loss of power due to snowstorm, gas leak, tsunami, wild animal, and bomb threat this is kinda accurate bc I had to go to a different school after moving out of state and they didn't cover any of this. I was SHOCKED