Elizabeth I of England: illegitimate, false queen and usurper. Mary Stuart was the rightful queen of England and Scotland.
damn y’all got wifi in 1587?
Blocked and reported this seditious libel! And I implore all God fearing true subjects of her majesty to do the same, any lese majeste against our sovereign lady degrades us all and makes us falter in the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ, who as King of Kings has chosen Her Majesty Elizabeth to rule us and free us from the tyranny and heresy of the Anti-Christ in Rome.
Banks such as Chase Bank, Bank of America, and TCF Bank have closed several accounts owned by clients of Middle Eastern descent. The clients, according to McClatchyDC, include Diba Mortazavi (a medical researcher), Saeed Moshfegh (a physics Ph.D student), and a Miami businessman with the pseudonym “Rami Abboud.”
When reflecting on Chase Bank’s closure of her account, Mortazavi remarked that “They just went ahead without any kind of warning. They just closed my account and I found out on my own.” Bank of America, meanwhile, froze Moshfegh’s account without warning and threatened to close Abboud’s account unless questions regarding his citizenship were answered.
Hey everyone! My hours got cut unexpectedly at work and it’s put me in a bind. I didn’t have enough money this payday to pay for all of my bills, plus food and diapers. I have $64 to last me until I get paid next, which will be on the 28th.
And needless to say, I’m not really doing Christmas this year either with my 2 year old because I simply can’t afford it.
It would be such a great relief if anyone would be able to help out so I can pay for food and diapers so I can make it until I get paid next! Even $1 helps 😭😭😭
cash.me/$Chrisyvonne
PayPal.me/greatdiamondmoon7
I also put some pull ups on my baby wishlist if anyone feels more comfortable helping out that way!
mcnamak sent: I saw that you are the "Patron Saint of Shitposts" and I thought you might be pleased to know that there's a catholic holy day called Gaudete Sunday, where the priests wear pink robes.
Phyllis Schlafly, pro-life and conservative hero who helped prevent “abortion rights” from becoming part of the constitution, passed away yesterday.
I searched “Phyllis Schlafly” on tumblr, hoping to find a nice tribute post to reblog since I’m on mobile and felt I couldn’t do her justice on my own.
I was sorely disappointed. The tag is full of “tolerant” liberals celebrating her death, hoping she’s in hell (despite most of them probably not believing hell exists), and calling her disgusting names.
To those liberals: Phyllis was a person. Whatever you might think of her views and what she advocated, she was a human being. Her life mattered. Regardless of what you think of her, her death should be mourned because ALL death should be mourned. If you can’t mourn her, if you can’t even give her a sliver of respect for 24 hours after her death, please be quiet and let us mourn.
We can discuss her views, her accomplishments, and her words, and you are free to disagree with her. But calling her names and telling her to burn in hell is not debate. It’s just ugly. And, not to mention, very intolerant.
Rest in peace, Phyllis. Whatever some may think of you, you left this world better than you found it.
Someone who supports and defends marital rape but who doesn’t support basic rights for women or LGBT people was no hero, and for you to say so is pretty telling.
My condolences to her family, but to her as a person I say bon soir ✌️
‘Her speeches were about the sanctity of the home, about how women should stay at home. … She didn’t do any of this herself, of course. She went around traveling the country, doing speeches. Appearing on TV.
But, when asked why she was’t staying at home herself, she presented this failure of hers as a sacrifice she was making.’
Offred: ‘She’s forced to stay at home now. But it doesn’t sit well with her .How furious she must be now that she has been taken literally at her word.’
As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.
Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.
Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.
If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.
If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.
We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.
Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.
Be good to the bab, so one day the bab can be good to you.
raise your babs well and you won’t get put in a old folks home that smells like pee.
This is an important thing to think about. If we want fandom spaces, we have to help care for them – with content, yes, but they’re going to need money and community support to thrive independently. They’re going to need people willing to be patient when they stumble.
While there’s ultimately no guarantee any community won’t eventually be sold off to a corporation, we can make it a lot less likely to happen by a) giving it a feasible way to support itself and b) not being absolute assholes to the team behind it.
Hey, unpopular opinion, apparently. But people don’t just “have pain for no reason” doctors say this all the time (especially to women and chronically ill people) and the truth is, Thats literally not possible. Even if your pains are psychosomatic (a word I hesitate to even use because of the way its used so often) there is a reason you are having those pains whether its mental illness, abuse, etc. If your doctor consistently tells you that “well some people just have pain for no reason” get a new doctor. That’s a doctor who is not going to give a shit what your actual symptoms or experiences are.
I just wanna add to clarify the psychosomatic thing.
That word DOES NOT MEAN you’re making it up. It doesn’t mean you’re imagining the symptom. What it means is that the symptom ISN’T DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ANY OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT.
I fought to get a PCOS diagnosis for 2 and a half years. For the ENTIRE time I was fighting, I was dealing with 3 cysts that were not going away by themselves and eventually required surgery to remove. At one point close to the end of the battle, I suddenly went blind. I was visiting my parents and was standing on the veranda looking out over the tree we had planted in memory of my dog and suddenly I got one of the shooting pains that I was quite frankly used to at that point and my vision started to go dark. It was like the sun was setting while being completely hidden behind storm clouds but it was 2pm in the middle of Summer on a clear day. Within about 30 seconds I couldn’t see ANYTHING. I was 27 years old and I was screaming for my mother.
My mum raced me to her doctor (he was a 15 minute drive away as opposed to 45 minutes to the nearest hospital) and he quickly worked out that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and what had happened was totally unrelated to them. Then he said it was psychosomatic and I freaked out, yelling that I was NOT making this up and I definitely wasn’t imagining it. Very quickly he calmed me down and said he believed me and I had misunderstood. He explained that whatever was going on with my abdominal pains (he suggested PCOS which I hadn’t even heard of at that point) had been ignored for so long that my body was starting to do things other than the normal pain response to try to draw my attention to the problem. My sight going was my body basically jumping around in front of me going “HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME HELLLOOOOOOO??????”
He gave me some prescription strength painkillers and my sight started to come back as soon as they started to kick in. About 45 minutes after it started I could see well enough to walk around without help and within a day and a half I was back to normal. On top of that I finally had a scan booked to figure out what the hell was causing all the pain.
Psychosomatic symptoms are NOT imagined or fabricated or happening for “no reason”. Experiencing them DOES NOT make you a liar. It makes you someone who has been battling with something serious for so long that your own body has started to get impatient with you.
I completely agree. Thank you for sharing this.
Psychosomatic symptoms are literally your body flipping random alarm switches just to get any alarm blaring because you’ve been ignoring the regular ones
So, I don’t usually post this late (It’s 3:30 where I am), but I was just thinking about something and now I can’t sleep because oh my god
As some know, I am rewriting the T0G series. It’s still in development, not even the first draft is written, but I was thinking about the scene in E0S where Alien and Darr0w meet and how in my fic that HAS to be a pivotal, emotional scene when I realized
Alien thinks she killed her own parents.
It’s canon that as a child she didn’t have control of her powers. It’s canon that she burnt almost burnt down a library. Having a history of previous incidents, it’s not out of the question to imagine that a young child woke up to the smell of smoke and ash and thought that it was, once again, their fault. So what does a scared kid who knows their parents are going to be mad do? She hides, and while the rest of her family and friends die, she stays safe.
Ar0bynn would be all too please to let her think that she’s the cause of her parent’s death. How much easier is it to kill strangers when you’ve already killed the people who loved you? And by the time that Alien starts thinking critically, the memories are blurry. Maybe she panicked, maybe something happened that let to her making a bad situation already worse, and the only people who could confirm either for or against are dead, scattered, or might just hate her. This also explains why she never contacted the rebels or went back to Terrasen. How are you supposed to face the people who are suffering because of your actions?
She’s been carrying that weight and guilt her whole life, and it shifts her character so much more.
what she means: why is Dorian Gray never played by people with blond hair? why is Dorian always depicted as all pale and dark? oscar literally describes his hair as gold like two seconds after we meet him. directors apparently feel like they have to make Dorian look dark dangerous and brooding, but he’s not supposed to look dark and dangerous and brooding. That’s the whole point. No one ever suspects him because he looks like an innocent little cherub with golden curls and rosy cheeks. His physical appearance is described with terms that Western literary tradition, during the nineteenth century in particular, associated with goodness and godliness, and this is intentionally juxtaposed with the blackness of his soul. If you intentionally play him as someone who looks like a Byronic hero, much of the symbolism of his character is lost, right?
