im so bad at maintaining online friendships!! im sorry to everyone i’ve had a lovely chat with but havent followed up with!! im a very isolating person and i still consider you my friend i promise !!!

in light of Recent Events, a reminder that you can buy a sticker from me and 100% of the proceeds go to helping trans folks relocate to Colorado

the kind of gay representation i want from marvel is simple. i want to hear a grindr noise from bucky’s phone while he and sam are staking a place out and sam is like come ON dude

@icoulddthisallday

Close enough welcome back Chekov's gun.

I also like the idea of showing something as a problem before it’s shown as a strength. Almost every character trait has two sides, and by showing the “bad” side first, it sets things up to not only make sense, but to also be very satisfying.

i wish everyone following me made enough money to not feel like they were being boiled alive and had the time and energy to clean their room at their own leisure

idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.

dear everyone on tumblr who needs to host images elsewhere (e.g. to embed on ao3 etc), please give squidge a go!! it's free, it's nonprofit and it's geared towards fandom so nsfw images won't get deleted!! and please stop using imgur if you can because they blocked the uk rather than acquiesce to the fucking internet safety laws, which I can't really hold against em but it does mean all imgur pictures just show up as big purple boxes now

Woooo I just restarted watching S1 again and I REMEMBERED TO LOOK THIS UP IN TIME. Go team!

god that adhd struggle where you are so motivated to do something but there is just like. A Blockage In Your Body that stops the motivation from turning into anything. so you just like. vibrate. sitting there like yeah, man, i totally want to do that right now. (doesn’t)

I’m reforging this for the second time in five minutes because I needed to add that part of this is also about what your health insurance provider is required to do. They’re required to tell you what your out of pocket cost will be. If you contact them and they say actually they don’t know but your copay is X%, you can ask them to call the provider and get the codes they plan to use to bill for your services. If the provider is in network they’ll have negotiated rates in place so the insurer will know exactly how much you can be charged for that service and then they have to tell you. No surprise huge medical bills even if you are insured.

Adding onto this. If you have a surgical procedure that involves anesthesia, the No Surprises Act also accounts here. Most anesthesia companies/providers are OON (out of network) with most, if not all insurances. If your service is performed in an in-network facility, they are REQUIRED to bill as in-network due to this law.

This alongside demanding an itemized bill for any and all hospital stays, surgeries, and procedures, including the outpatient ones.

Yeah that's why I absolutely hate it when people try to make a "progressive" retelling of Fiddler and have Fyedka be a woman and Chava a lesbian. It completely misses the point of the plot to paint Tevye as merely a bigot rather than an anxious father who objects to his daughter marrying a man who is *part of the oppressor class*. As a non-Jewish Russian, Fyedka is in a position of immense power over Chava and there is a long and bloody history of non-Jewish men taking Jewish women to do as they please (and in Fiddler itself it's heavily implied that another one of his daughters is assaulted by a pogrom, considering that's what historically would happen). Tevye is not a narrow-minded old man set in his ways, he's a father with very real fears about his daughter's life.