She/her, 40, librarian, writer, reader. EDITOR FOR HIRE. Current obsessions are The Locked Tomb series (Griddlehark) and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Catradora). Also a longtime fan of X-Men First Class and the good ship Cherik, Good Omens, Captive Prince (always tagged), cute animals, Star Wars, Jane Austen, and whatever else I fancy along the way. You can find my fanfic here and here. My askbox is here!
Just a reminder that it is not your vet’s job to report if your pet got into recreational drugs. We aren’t snitches, we have no obligation to report drug use. We do, however, want to save your pet so please be honest with us about what your pet got into. It could literally be life and death for them.
i initially read this as a cat picking up a cocaine habit on the street and not being a narc about it before i realised you meant pets accidentally ingesting their owners drugs
My first thought was “why wouldn’t you tell your vet if your cat has catnip?”
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At the time of reblogging the results are 28.8 vs 71.2. The slight disparity might be because of the people whose birthday was today or yesterday but who answered before then.
Something I’ve had pinging around in my head for a while is that Catra legitmately is not as obsessive over Adora as she could be, even before Promise where she basically cuts most of her ties with Adora. If she were another villian like say, The Joker, she’d be coming with all sorts of evil plans just to hurt Adora directly or be obsessed with her and nothing else. But instead, she just does her job as Force Captain prioritising her career over any personal connections… and Adora only happens to show up by coincidence. She didn’t count on Adora showing up in the Northern Reach, nor the Crimson Waste and not when Adora stole the First One’s ship. The only time after all this that she intentionally lured Adora out… was so she could put a spy in the rebel ranks.
I feel like this shows how effective a villian she truly was and how good at her job she actually was. It’s just well… she did have her breakdowns and all and betrayed a few people which was her downfall in the end.
That’s an important observation, and I think it ties in to a really important theme of the story: That the Horde is a lie.
It’s not the glorious fight against oppressors that Adora thought in the beginning. It’s not the place where hard work and ruthlessness gives you recognition, as Catra hoped. It’s not a place for camaraderie, as Scorpia and Kyle learnt the hard way. It’s not the fun-loving robot-tinkering place that Entrapta hoped. It’s not the path to recognition that Hordak deluded himself into believing.*
The Horde is a lie, even to people like Catra who thought they could come out on top, and it’s everyone’s problem.
*) It IS a place that promotes praying on the vulnerable and desperate for personal gain, so go Shadow Weaver, I guess.
So my Mom is of a generation that tends to get written off as transphobic, right? She’s not just a boomer, she’s at the beginning of the boomers, born in the late forties. One day—it happened to be trans day of visibility—she said to me, “You know, I don’t understand trans people.”
“Mm, sometimes me neither, but I don’t have to understand it to respect their choices,” I say, or something to that effect.
She nods, and then asks why that author person is so upset about the whole thing. So I try to explain TERFs and their beliefs about trans women.
Mom’s instant reaction: “Nope. No predator goes to that kind of work.”
And sometimes I go back to that. Because it’s very simple, isn’t it? You don’t have to try to figure out what a woman or a man is, you don’t have to explain gender, you just have to understand (a) it’s their business so long as they’re not hurting people, and (b) no predator goes to that kind of work.
Functionally, there’s very little difference between watching a movie on poob and watching a movie on basic cable. Yet, for some reason, the advertisements on poob offend me far more
ad breaks on poob always interrupt important scenes or make really jarring cuts.
when it’s on cable, they’ve timed the commercial breaks in a way that generally isn’t as disruptive. someone took the time to “reformat” the movie for tv.
ads on poob always KNOW that they’re on poob and want me to interact with them or click them. the number of QR codes or ads-in-separate-ad-framing/window are infuriating and jarring.
cable commercials are just stupid little skits i can mute to go use the bathroom.
ads on poob are less than 2 minutes–not enough time to do anything, but enough time to piss me off.
cable commercials are 2-5 minutes, which is enough time to go do something/bathroom or snack break, or talk to whoever you’re watching with.
ads on poob are the same 3-4 commercials over and over and over and over again, often cutting to them immediately with no warning, and poob struggles to like, catch up to the fact that it’s having to show a different progress bar, or a different timer.
cable commercials, esp during primetime, generally cycle through like 10-15 minimum, so you can go an ad break or two without seeing the same commercial. and they usually only pop up during quiet moments, at regular intervals, so you can see them coming–and there isn’t a weird lag/loading time.
in both cases i am being accosted by advertisements and treated like a consumer to manipulate and exploit. the volume changes on cable and poob, the brightness level is eye-searing in both cases.
but poob doesn’t respect that i’m here for the MOVIE. cable, thanks to preexisting, decades-old norms around broadcast television, still kind of does. kind of. it’s easier to ignore those commercials than the ones on poob.
basically i think poob follows ad norms established on the internet–pop-ups, invasive flashing bullshit, creating lag, taking up time and attention–and cable follows established cable norms of, “time for a few minutes of ads that are just stupid little skits instead of spam machines, and then back to your otherwise uninterrupted movie.”
I mean i know what you’re saying, but there’s about a dozen free ad-supported streaming services and i respect none of them to use any of their names. Meanwhile, Poob has fully entered the tumblr lexicon as a shorthand for stupidly-named tech products, especially streaming services.
first they made it mandatory to log in everywhere. create an account to download your free template Log in to access resource give us your email nowwwww. Now the humble password is being killed too. open your magic email link! type your 6 digit code that we texted you because we required your email and your phone number! we’re gonna call you and whisper a code sweetly in your ear so you can log in to your account. yes it has a password but you cant use that anymore. okay? poob is gonna call you. now poob is just gonna call you.
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