so when i was 7 or 8 i’d “write letters to hermione granger” and set them out on the piano in the living room every night with my stuffed toy owl and every morning i’d have a letter from hermione back, sitting at the foot of my bed, and hermione and i corresponded like that for months and i’d just like to thank my mom for writing out a “letter from hermione” for me every single night
That is the cutest thing I’ve ever read oh my god
so when i was about the same age i got really into both ciphers and james madison (idk don’t ask) so i just randomly started writing these letters like i was james madison writing to my own spy ring, using all kinds of ciphers. constantly writing that WE MUST SWITCH CIPHERS THE BRITISH ARE ON TO US. and it wasn’t every night because the ciphers kept getting more complex, but it was about one every week for six months and my mother always responded. and she always found the letters, because i took to hiding them in increasingly more obscure locations because spies, obviously.
i didn’t realize how much work this was until i snuck down late one night for a cookie. and saw my mother bent over my giant book of ciphers and muttering to the dog “is this another code or can she not spell?” (i could not and still can not spell) and i was a bit angry at first but i kept watching and she KEPT AT IT. checking everything in that book against my letter and i never felt so loved. my mom with a full time job sitting up to figure out my silly letters said just because i enjoyed the game.
i got her this bio of james madison a few years ago for xmas with a simple number substitution cipher on the inside saying “In thanks for your dedicated years of service, your daughter and occasional President.” She still has it pride of place on her desk next to the obligatory kid pics
so yeah cute mom story for the day.
These are some of the best secret mom stories I’ve ever read, omg.
If you look up symptoms of ASD specific to girls one of them is frequently “masculine behavior/dress” or whatever and people love to blame that on autism being an “extreme male brain” but it’s really very easily explained when you consider what femininity is: a set of implicit social rules forced on women. Like, of course autistic girls and women aren’t going to be as successful at performing femininity “correctly.” It doesn’t have to do with the fictitious male brain. It has to do with femininity being inaccessible to people who have difficulty navigating complex and arbitrary social conventions.
“star wars will get an openly gay character” it’s me. i’m gonna break onto set and hold daisy ridley’s hand
I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’
and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?
So in this Norwegian town, which is one of the Northernmost inhabited places in the world, the sun doesn’t actually set at all from late April to late August and doesn’t ever properly rise from late October till mid February. Whaaaat.
● Going through tumblr addictions together.
“Are they still in there? ” Peter asked mildly surprised by the fact you and Edmund hadn’t set foot out his bedroom since you both discovered tumblr- and this was three weeks ago.
●Never having a full fridge.
“ED, DID YOU EAT ALL THE FOOD AGAIN” You shouted from the kitchen. “NO, WHY’D YOU SAY THAT? ” Edmund tried to sound innocent but, it had been the two of you in the house for weeks.
●Teasing him because of his title, everytime he does something something bad.
“Aren’t you supposed to be Edmund the Just, not Edmund the ‘go and lie to Susan about who ruined her makeup,’ You teased him.
“Oh shut up!”
●Arguments in morse code.
No one in the room knew what was going on, but what from what they could see Y/N seemed to be furiously taping on the table. They wrent talking but they were obviously in a heated conversation, what was going on?
●Always getting caught in the worst moments, snogging, cuddling, intense conversations. It always irritates Ed because he never feels he has enough alone time with you.
“Hey Ed- oh sorry!”
“FOR ASLANS SAKE CAN I GET A LITTLE PRIVACY.”
●Trying to out do each other in horseback riding or sparing.
“Take that Ed I won!” You shouted jumping up and down in excitement, very few could beat Edmund in sparing but now you were on of the few.
Omg so cuuuuuute 😂😍
That “Immigrants don’t steal your jobs, they get jobs while you’re sitting around thinking you’re too good for them!” thing annoys me.
Because that’s - not what’s really going on?
What it actually is is “Immigrants are victims of a system set up to take advantage of them, in which employers and businesses use the fact that immigrants are more often than not in difficult, dangerous positions to strong-arm them into working long hours in often unhygienic or dangerous jobs for less than minimum wage.
“And the organisations that do that are often either the same as or in bed with the organisations that push the ‘Immigrants steal your jobs / immigrants want to push their values on the entire country / immigrants don’t deserve benefits’ narrative, because it allows them to not only socially isolate immigrants and make them more susceptible to being taken advantage of, but also to do things like refuse immigrants benefits that would allow them to viably consider not working for less than minimum wage in sub-par conditions, and to frame any attempt by immigrants to politically organise themselves and push for fair treatment as them being dangerously subversive.
“While the ‘immigrants steal your jobs’ thing is bullshit, it’s calculated bullshit pushed by politicians and businesses at a working class population in conjunction with an equally calculated strategy of enacting laws that endanger that population’s livelihoods and labour rights, at a time when the shenanigans of politicians and businesses have caused an employment crisis and a recession, because it’s easy to turn people who are terrified into bigots, and it’s politically advantageous to do so.”
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I mean, I realise that that’s less pithy.
But it also doesn’t glorify the horrible conditions and sub-par wages that immigrants are subjected to, so there’s that.
my favorite story in the star wars eu is that the red droid that luke and uncle owen almost got instead of r2 was actually a force sensitive droid that foresaw the entirety of the original trilogy’s events in a dream and, knowing that luke acquiring r2 would eventually lead to the fall of the empire, purposely blew its motivator to set this exact sequence of events in motion
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Just some initial thoughts.
I’ve avoided thinking about it yesterday, but check in before bed, and immediately regret it. There’s enough that’s ominous in the first set of results that the immortal words of Aliens’ Frost come to mind: “I’ve got a bad feeling about this drop.” I go to sleep before it starts to become clear.
I wake up to a text from a political journalist friend of mine: “Oh god”
I find myself in desperate need of a suicide pact breakfast. On the way to bacon, I find myself people watching. I live in Lewisham. We’re firmly remain. But still, 1 in 3 people. I look at people with suspicion, trying to guess the who and the why. C notes that’s of the people who votes, so it’s more like 1 in 4 if you include the people who didn’t vote. This is slightly comforting, but only slightly.
Still - Highest pro brexit place in the country was the West Midlands. That’s where I’m from. The gap between where I came from and where I am now is suddenly very clear. I’m aware even if Remain won, the results and the map of the results speaks to a country that’s divided by enormous, violent pressure. As others have noted, the results are a rejection of every single part of the political mainstream.
In the co-op, Karma Police plays and i manage a grim smile.
Immediate economic drop. God knows how much of it will stick, or how bad it will go, but the “I told you so” is going to be distinctly unsatisfying. “I told you Rome was highly flammable, Nero” you say as the flames lick around you.
The demographics of the votes are obviously getting a lot of comment. 60+ hugely pro leave, 30 and under hugely pro stay. There’s the “you have fucked our future and are going to die before you see what happens” argument, which I find it hard not to have sympathy for. But, average age is longer than you think now, and I suspect this will hit hard enough and fast enough for people to see exactly what they voted for. Currency collapse like this hits those on fixed incomes like pensions and savings in a particularly hard way. Don’t worry: they’ll suffer like the rest of us. If we burn, we’ll all burn together.
Cameron has clearly cemented his position as one of the worst Prime-Ministers in history. At least Chamberlain never fucked a pig. If this were a board game, I’d be congratulating Johnson (And I think we should all stop playing into his brand by calling him “Boris”) for a game well played, but sadly it’s real life, so it’s fucking reprehensible opportunism. And the “without a bullet” from Farage in the wake of Jo Cox is as unforgivable thing as he’s ever said, which has stiff competition.
This is the worst sort of political decision - both unethical and unwise, and I fear for both this divided country and Europe as a whole.
When I’m 26, I’ll have gained a week from leap years. Does that mean my birthday would actually be January 13? Should we set back our birthdays one day every four years? For accuracy’s sake? If humans could live for a very long time, someone who was 2555-2558 (depending on when they were born in regards to a leap year) they would actually be one year older because of all the leap days they earned. Would we acknowledge this, or discount it?
