Badschnoodles

They’re supposed to be working on a typical coming-of-age story but after living with the Addams for just a week the project is becoming a horror-Gothic-romance

Fester and Pugsley find out one of the college students is trying to get into chemistry and woo boy, there has never been a faster study of how to counter various acidic chemical reactions due to “water” balloons in campus history. 

Morticia and Grammy are keeping the horticulturalists on their toes with their Black Tulip/Rose hybrids, which can flick their barbs a foot away from their stem system. But it’s fine, one of the kids has managed to breed Aloe with the anti venom. 

Lurch makes sandwiches for everyone who’s too much of a coward for Grammy’s cooking. Any music major will find him looming over them, utterly stone faced as they practise until they finish, when he’ll smile, and slowly applaud. 

And the spookiest thing of all

Wednesday and Thing will find your thesis. They will critique it in every way imaginable. 

There is no escape. 

Riz Ahmed as the winter soldier

Honey I got you.

Nicole Beharie - Black Widow

Terry Crews - Happy Hogan

Harry Shum Jr - Loki

Daveed Diggs - Thor

Malcolm Goodwin - Agent Coulson

DEV PATEL AS TONY STARK???

Look.

We never like to rank crushes, OK?

And yet, here we are.

Kinda, sort of, maybe ranking. 

A little.

That’s right, we finally decided to talk about the Hollywood Chrises: Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth, and Chris Messina. You know we already covered (*snort*) Chris Evans thoroughly in our first season finale back in January (LISTEN HERE, ahem). [FYI: These are the only Chrises we acknowledge, and we will not be moved. Thank you for understanding.]

Pine? Pine is fine. Dassit. Well, okay, he’s a little bit more than just fine. We talked a little about his blue eyes and his kinda sardonic face, and his general gentle haughtiness(?) onscreen, and also his acne past. Like, we love a Hollywood makeover, you know? We also talked a little about his role as Jim Kirk, aka space’s busiest bachelor, as well as Bim’s favorite role of Pine’s, as a Strong Bearded Black Father in A Wrinkle In Time… Look, he’ll do in a pinch, okay? Like, he also cries about Important Black Films, and some days, that’s all you need from your crush. 🤷🏾‍♀️

We moved on to Hemsworth, he of the abs and the biceps and the BAWDY. Again, he’s an unexpected crush, because, neither of us is really into muscles per se, AND YET. The thing of it is, Hemsworth’s muscles aren’t the real draw, you know? It’s the softness apparent behind the hard, bulging, utterly improbable… cutness. He appears to have a sense of humor, he’s clearly in love with his wife and his babies, he’s evolved beyond the obvious jock stereotype, and did we mention he’s FUNNY? Bless. A person can do a lot worse than Lean In to a funny dude… Did you know: laughter is the cause of apparel-removal in as many as 87% of sexy times. 😂💦

Finally, we ascended Mount Chris Messina, a criminally overlooked Chris in the pantheon of Chrises, and the Chris that most delivers shivers to our spine, because he is a DYNAMO of a Thirst Object and we just have a lot of feelings, OK? FFS, LOOK.

Biiiitch.

Let us school you on why you have to stop overlooking that spark plug of a man. 1. Have you seen 28 Hotel Rooms? (It’s on Hulu.) 2. His mouth is a sin we want to commit over and over. 3. The motherfucker can dance. 4. Did you see him kiss Mindy Kaling in The Mindy Project? Boy..! 

That hand placement, though! 💦

Shoutout to his hair, his mouth, his slim hips, and his furry chest 😛. The thing about Messina is that people forget how good he is at his job – he is an EXCELLENT actor (see him in Ira and Abby, Away We Go, Argo, The Giant Mechanical Man, Julie and Julia, Sharp Objects, AND SO ON) and he’s so unfussy about it that it lulls you into a false sense of ‘oh, everything is fine” but it is NOT FINE. He’s a dynamo. The competence kink is real, y’all. 💦

Additionally, Fanfic Wars is back! Did you miss the drabbles? We sure did. Things were a mix of real silly and mildly angsty this week, so prepare accordingly. You can listen to the whole episode RIGHT HERE (more links to listen are down below).

SOME STUFF TO WATCH, IF YOU LIKE!

Chris Messina doesn’t mind not being a “Hollywood Chris.” BUT YOU ARE, BAE! 😍

Here is Thor/Hemsworth learning about how denim doesn’t really ‘give’:

Chris Pine “once dated a girl who was a huge fan of argan oil and coconut oil” 👀

Chris Messina says he “runs hot.” WE BET HE DOES.

Here’s the cast of The Mindy Project talking about Mindy and Danny’s first kiss.

This is how Nichole, a thirst scholar, appreciates a well-placed bracelet

We’re on Twitter at @bimadew and @tnwhiskeywoman; the show is on Twitter at @thirstaidkit. Send us your Thirst Sommelier requests at 765-884-4778 aka 7658-THIRST (international listeners: send us a short recorded message via email, please) and your (short!) drabbles at [email protected]. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, please, because WE LOVE IT.

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Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #310 - “Finale” (2018)

I despise doing posts where I ask for help, but here we are.

About two years ago I started a new creator owned project.  It began as a spin-off of Princeless, but the reality is this - Raven The Pirate Princess is its own thing altogether.  I knew this from the first issue and if you’ve been reading, so have you.

Sure, the first few issues of Raven: Pirate Princess had that heroic lady feminist banter for which Princeless has become known both among its fans and detractors.  I mean, Raven had this scene:

and issue 1 had this scene:

But perhaps much more importantly, the first issue of Raven had this:

but that wasn’t where that ended.  This is a book about a community of diverse queer women actively claiming their place in the world and taking what’s theirs.  It’s about Raven, who is desperately in love with her childhood best friend Ximena

It’s about Ximena, a girl who was held captive for years by a pirate king who pretended to be her liberator.  Who fell in love with the pirate’s daughter, only to be left behind by that father when she outlived her value.

About Sunshine, the thief that chose the wrong target and ended up falling in love with a woman already hopelessly in love with somebody else.

It’s about Katie, the bisexual second in command who’s motivated by honor…and occasionally beating the snot out of a dude or two

Oh and in case I forgot to mention, Katie is also incredibly muscular:

And Jayla, the asexual science genius who’s tired of being treated like a little sister

and Cid, the deaf engineer who quietly keeps the ship running

and of course, these two:

The socially awkward poet and the angry sword fighter who couldn’t stand her who have somehow become these two:

But here’s the thing: this comic is failing.  It has a very dedicated and exuberant but at this point SMALL fanbase.  Today I had a hard conversation with Action Lab about the reality of the numbers on this book versus what it costs to produce this book and, suffice it to say, Action Lab isn’t ready to cancel the book, but they aren’t ready to greenlight year 3 either.  After Year 2 #13, Raven is set to go on the shelf until numbers can support continuing it.

This is where I need your help

If you care about this book full of queer pirate ladies and you want it to continue, we need to find a way to spread the word about it.  We don’t need to sell single issues (it would be nice) but ultimately we need the trades sales that back up the continuation of this big YA Pirate/Revenge/Adventure/Romance thing.

Digital copies can be bought instantly right on Comixology: https://www.comixology.com/Princeless-Raven-The-Pirate-Princess/comics-series/46971

You can buy the physical volumes on amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B01BF7U91Q

In fact, if you’ve already purchased volumes 1-4, volume 5 is available for preorder there right now! 

Maybe you’ve bought all the issues already.  Thank you!  If you still want to support Raven, you can review the books on Amazon or other retailers, you can share, reblog or retweet this post.  You can tell a friend about the book! 

OMG Some Black Girl Magic here!!!!! This is AMAZING! 

“You want to talk history, be prepared to be schooled.” (via)

“If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?”

“Are the other skittles human lives?”

“What?”

“Like. Is there a good chance. A really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably their life if I ate a skittle?”

“Well sure. But the point-”

“I would eat the skittles.”

“Ok-well the point is-”

“I would GORGE myself on skittles. I would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear but made the world a better place by eating skittles.

Because your REAL question…the one you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist little candy metaphor is, IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN…

Swet Shop Boys

Vaginal Thrush

Menorrhagia

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Fibroids

Add in fibromylgia, which affects 8x as many women as men, as well as lupus (and almost any other autoimmune condition), systemic exertion intolerance disorder (SEID), iron deficiency anæmia (all of which affect more women than men), and you have well over 25% of childbearing-age women globally living with chronic pain and tiredness.

Chronic pain is overwhelmingly experienced by women, and women are less likely to be taken seriously or given treatment by medical professionals. I went through two years of diagnostics to finally find out I had occipital neuralgia; I felt doubted when I described my pain at every step of the way, but was lucky to have a partner who was persistent in helping me get treatment.

This is why if you get pregnant your doctor will take you off basically any and all medication you’re taking (including mental health medication, can’t imagine any implications/dire consequences there), not because they know it will have an adverse affect on the foetus but because they have no idea. How wonderfully kind of them to prioritise the health and life of an unborn foetus over that of a living person, let’s just hope they don’t become ill whilst pregnant. How charmingly logical it is that they wouldn’t even bother to test drugs in people with a uterus because it’s all too difficult and gosh, darn what an ethical conundrum we’ve been faced with, let’s just not! Which is so in the spirit of capital S, Science!  

Take menstrual cramps, for example. Everybody knows that cramps are a normal part of menstruation, and that virtually all people who menstruate experience them throughout their lives, right?

Except that’s not right at all.

Yes, it’s true that about two-thirds of individuals who menstruate begin to experience menstrual pain during adolescence, but it’s basically a side effect of puberty, and normally subsides by your late teens. Only about 20-40% of menstruating adults experience menstrual pain on a regular basis - and according to some estimates, as much as 80% of that figure is due to undiagnosed endometriosis or some other underlying medical condition.

Yeah, roll those numbers around in your head: if you’re an adult who experiences menstrual cramps, it’s overwhelmingly likely that your pain is a symptom of some potentially serious medical condition.

Alexandre-Auguste Robineau 

Afro-French Fencing Master Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Transgender Woman Chevalier d'Éon duel at at Carlton House on 9 April 1787 in the presence of the Prince of Wales, sundry gentlemen and fencing aficionados.

Joseph Bologne was the son of French planter Georges Bologne and an enslaved woman named Nanon. He was was a champion fencer, virtuoso violinist, and conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris. You can read more about him here.

any mention of third eyes

any mention of chakras

people wearing bindis when they shouldn’t be 

fucking “om” or “aum” tattoos or appliques on things like yoga pants. do you know how fucking disrespectful it is to put a symbol that is so important to my religion and culture on the ass of some white chick’s yoga pants

people wearing maang tikka when they shouldn’t be

anklets with bells on them are very important to the dance culture of south asia and it’s disrespectful to wear them outside of a traditional dance setting