Reblogged trcunning
Reblogged trcunning
Your power has enchanted me, I stand helpless against it.
Willow, 1988. Directed by Ron Howard.
This film inspired me so much, and I was so in love with Madmartigan, so much that he became one of my favourite archetypes for writing. Farewell Val. Thanks for the great characters.
Reblogged pineapplecrushface
reblog and put in the tags the earliest songs you remember actively liking as a child (asking adults to play them for you, learning the lyrics, being excited when they came on the radio etc.)
Proposed Rule Change will Suppress ACA Enrollment and Limit Healthcare for Transgender Americans
I kept thinking I would see a post that I could just reblog, but I haven't and the comment period for this one ends April 11. So here is my attempt to summarize. The Trump Admin is proposing rule changes for the ACA (Marketplace Heath Insurance). They claim it's to address the issue of improper sign ups and fraud, which is a real problem of brokers who have signed people up or changed their healthcare plans without their knowledge. In this proposal they're inflating the probable fraud numbers exponentially through some study done by a conservative thinktank, but I looked it up and through August of last year there were 275K consumer complaints about people experiencing sign ups or changes without their knowledge, so it is happening. But rather than focus on increasing security for the sign up process so brokers can't access customer files without consent or on higher punishments for brokers caught doing this or any other measures that would address the actual fraud issue, they're using it as a smokescreen to undermine the ACA by taking measures that would lower enrollment and also to target their favorite scapegoats: immigrants, transgender folks, and the poor.
Here's the proposed rule change. It's file code CMS-9884-P. (Use the code if you do want to leave a comment.)
My attempt to summarize is under the cut. And here are some other summary links and articles. If anyone within actual healthcare circles or government circles or trans/immigrant advocacy circles has resources or data that can be used to dispute what they're putting forward or comment templates or anything, please share them.
FOCUSED ON THE ANTI-TRANS STUFF: Trump Admin Moves to Prevent ACA Plans From Being Required to Cover Gender-Affirming Care | Them
IMMIGRANTS AND GENERAL ATTACK ON ACA: Trump admin takes aim at Obamacare - POLITICO
DETAILED SUMMARY OF HOW INSURANCE MARKETPLACE WILL BE AFFECTED CMS’s ACA Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule – What it may mean for Health Plans
MORE GENERAL (AKA SHORTER SUMMARIES) Trump Administration’s ACA Rule Could Limit Access to Coverage
Reblogged pennyplainknits
i’ll take two of them, please
Reblogged mojowitchcraft
Today's contributor spotlight features Ari, @arimakes !
They will be recreating The Seamstress, by Eugene de Blaas 🌟
Thrilled to be part of this project!
Reblogged n0-1-important
It’s genuinely amazing that mobile people don’t have access to their archive. That’s how I find like all of my posts. I would be nothing without my archive. And you guys are telling me you just search in a desperate attempt to find something??? You can’t go in and find a gallery of every post you’ve ever made or reblogged all the way back to the start of your account? You can’t filter it by time or tag or type of post????? Jesus Christ man.
youre telling me you guys have just been living without this???
YOU DONT HAVE THIS???
how to access your archive on desktop:
@staff soooo us mobile users are just left high and dry, huh?
it's not on the app but you can get to it from a mobile browser just like on desktop.
Reblogged sorrelchestnut
sometimes when reading classic superhero porn fic scenario "hero is auctioned off to a group of bad guys who are bidding for the right to do evil 😉 things to them 😍" i'm like i love this but man it's so common, who started this trope? what porn fic got this thing going? is it from the livejournal era, perhaps? from the days of print zines? and then i pick up an innocent dc comic to read and like okay nevermind dc was stroking it to that idea before any of us got the chance to invent it
The answer to “where did superhero comics fandom get this weird/fucked up and/or porn fantasy fic trope is always, always “an actual real comic that Marvel or DC actually published.”
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Reblogged grimweathers
a lot of stories treat romance like it makes the relationship between two characters self explanatory and to be honest it doesn’t
This is one of my biggest beefs with the romance genre. When done well romance novels (and movies) are the fucking best. But so many writers rely on the expectations of the genre to sell the relationship. The characters fall in love because it's a romance novel (or a romcom). And that's not enough. Even if we know they're going to end up together, you still have to put in the work! You have to show me why they like each other. What they're finding in each other that's interesting and special. How they challenge or change each other. You have to show me why their damage makes them simultaneously the best and the worst thing for each other. You have to show me how they work though it when things get hard. You have to show me why they trust each other. How they take care of each other. That they really know each other. You have to show me why it's going to last.
#I mean it happens in all kinds of stories that include a romantic plotline#but I do think it's especially egregious how much it happens within the romance genre because the relationship IS the story#if you have a bad romance subplot in an action movie at least maybe the rest of the movie is cool#but if you don't actually sell the relationship when the entire story is the relationship there's nowhere to hide#anyway see also using familiar tropes as a substitute for character and relationship development#just because readers have an affection for certain narratives doesn't mean we don't still have to do the work#romance#writing
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The heart must always beat and that is obvious, but it also needs to be beaten a little, so it learns to value the right people.
Jonas r Cezar
@theabigailthorn & @postoctobrist, please do one of these at the next live show?
Reblogged fitofpique
santa clarita diet is so fucking criminally underrated. not only is plot a Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant killing nazis rapists and misogynists so drew Barrymore can eat them, plot b is about their daughter becoming an ecoterrorist. like. you can't beat this
Reblogged whatithacasmean
Astarion doesn’t have the best hair in camp anymore…
Wacky crossover, my beloved, presenting: Steve the Paladin
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well yes buck good job
hi @flieslikeamoron here you go
Actually visible! What a concept!
Reblogged mojowitchcraft
Eddie has never sold to Steve Harrington.
He has never nor will he ever sell to Steve Harrington. Sure, he sold to Steve friends who probably give him the drugs but that’s rich boy money.
And sure, Steve has never actually tried to buy from him but it’s the principle of the matter. Which is what makes this so interesting because, “Harrington?”
“Hey.”
Steve has been MIA from school for the past week and Billy has been telling everybody that he beat him to death, and well. It certainly looks like he gave it a good effort. So really.
What’s Eddie supposed to do here? Uphold his morals?
“Can I…help you?” Eddie asks, opening the screen door for him.
Steve hobbled insides and immediately asks, “You sell stuff, right? Whatever anybody wants, you got it?”
“That’s what they say. Got something in mind?”
“Sleep.”
“What?”
“I need - I just need sleep,” Steve says, words fast and a little desperate. “I can’t sleep at my house, man. I can’t. It’s - god, it’s been four days and my head is killing me. I - I feel like I’m going to die. I need sleep.”
Eddie just stares at him, blinking slowly because it doesn’t actually sound like Steve is asking for drugs. It sounds like he’s scared to have his guard down at home so, “Yeah, okay. Um, take the couch.”
Steve is asleep almost as soon as he sits down and when he wakes up a couple hours later, he gives Eddie ten bucks and leaves.
Eddie kinda thinks it’s going to be a one-off situation but a couple weeks later, Steve is back. He only ever sleeps for a couple hours, pays Eddie, and goes.
The only changes are that he eventually graduates from sleeping on the couch to in Eddie’s bed (so Eddie doesn’t have to explain Steve to Wayne again) and Eddie shows Steve where the spar key so he can come in when Eddie is at band practice.
Dont get Eddie wrong, this situation is weird but there are worse ways to make money.
It is what it is until it isn’t. Until it’s… “What the fuck is this?”
Eddie knew Steve was here because he religiously leaves his shoes neatly by the front door but - “A girl? He brought a girl.”
Because, yeah. That’s a blonde sailor girl next to Steve in his bed. They’re both open mouth drooling on his pillows, smell like fire, and look like hell. The only reason he doesn’t kick them out because he knows Starcourt caught on fire last night.
He does pull the blanket off them and goes to sleep in the living room.
He wakes an hour later to the feeling of someone watching him and when he opens his eyes, he’s met with - “Robin Buckley, nice to meet you, Eddie Munson.”
This feels like a trap.
“Uh, yeah. Same.”
She gives him a smile like she has secrets and then holds up a stack of Polaroids, “Does Steve know you take pictures of him while he’s sleeping?”