"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness!"

Cory Booker during his 20th hour on the floor doing a filibuster - 4/1/2025

Cory Booker spoke for over 24 hours — not only that, but he read letters by and from the American people. That’s more than practically all of the US politicians have done.

There are politicians blocking their constituents from entering public town halls because they’re afraid of criticism. Cory Booker gave his constituents’ voices an elevated platform to be heard all while admitting his party has made many errors.

He’s not perfect. No one is, and honestly we all need to stop expecting any of these people to be perfect when we put them on a pedestal. But Cory Booker spent over 24 hours speaking for the people… and beat the previous record by Strom Thurmond (filibustered to block Civil Rights Act) while he was at it.

Hold your reps accountable. Start wondering why your reps haven’t acted similarly towards the things they said they’d do when your district voted for them .

Start wondering why certain individuals are gaining more by pushing us to associate with made-up labels instead of actually fixing problems all of us care about.

wildcat, flannery o’connor / john 20:1 / how dark the beginning, maggie smith / exodus 20:21 / lipstick / job 35:10

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

"We took in a kitten that was starving, injured, and shot with a pellet gun."

"Oh my god, people are awful!"

"They're not. A person rescued her, other people who are trained in helping animals treated her injuries to make her healthy again, and so so so many people contributed to pay her medical costs, I don't even know how many. That she was hurt by...what, one person? Three? Certainly not many. Is honestly maybe the least important and least meaningful part of her story."

"...Oh."

I am holding a triumph of human kindness in my lap right now and her name is Fancy.

I’ll never forget I once had to break the news to two women that their dog had cancer, and as they cried and hugged and asked me questions I said something about how I was grateful this pup had such a loving family to support her- only for these ladies to inform me one of them wasn’t actually an owner at all, she was just the other woman’s Uber driver…

So this driver tells me she’s literally never met the other lady in her life, but when this passenger started crying in the car with her dog because she was worried, this angel in the form of an Uber driver went off the clock, came inside the building, and waited over an hour in a busy emergency room with a complete stranger just so she would have someone there by her side in a scary situation. This woman even took notes about everything I said so the owner wouldn’t have to try and remember it all later.

I see plenty of stuff at my job that makes me tempted to lose my faith in humanity but all I do is remember that Uber driver and it comes roaring back to me just like that. Humans are so unbelievably good, man.

#weirdly it ended up being a uterine tumor (not super common) and the dog was cured with an OVH#a rare feel good story from the ER 🥹#Uber driver came for the dog’s follow up appointment as well!!!

"the world is a cold and uncaring place" then warm it up. care, dammit

Anna Popplewell as Queen Susan THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN 2008 | dir. Andrew Adamson

One of the (many) things that haunts me about Black Sails is the implication that Thomas could be alive in Savannah, even if Silver killed Flint on Skeleton Island, and I feel like we don't talk about it enough.

In the first scene in 4x10, when Tom Morgan asks if the "prisoner we are looking for here or isn't he," Oglethorpe has a visible reaction. He insists the prisoners' identities must be kept secret for their own protection, but why do that if Thomas was never there?

In most conversations I see about the finale, the consensus seems to be the opening scene actually happened, because it's presented on its own without Silver's narration to filter it. The clock is shown in a different room than it is when Flint is there. There's even the slightest difference in saturation between the first shot of the plantation gate and the later one.

So even if it is true, that doesn't answer the question of Thomas' fate. Is he actually at the plantation? Did he used to be there? Does Oglethorpe just recognize the name from London?

All that to say, I change my mind daily on which version of Flint's ending I choose to believe. But regardless, I think there's the real possibility that Thomas was still alive.

OK I see this was vague posted about so feel the need to add that yes I am aware this was very clear in the show, I just don't see it talked about as much as the "What if Flint got to the plantation and Thomas wasn't there thing." It was late and I was in my feels man, leave me alone lolol.

Doodles

Pride and Prejudice 2005 ☼ dir. Joe Wright

ok so i made a rockstar lestat tour poster

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

watching grand budapest for the first time in like 8 years just bc I need the ralph fiennes juice and I forgot a lot of it