Nova Aegis

as to why people paint fury and tony as antagonistic towards each other. By far Fury shows the most compassion, the most affection, the most concern of anyone else on the Avengers.

tony does act resistant to join the avengers but to me that is very much an act (eg he kind of argues about natasha’s assessment). Fury does say he’s going to keep him as a consultant, but guys… don’t you see what I see? That it’s more to preserve tony’s fragile psyche? He knew he had to recover from nearly dying! All those pills and alcohol! He was giving him TIME and he was giving him a REASON to work towards it. 

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HE has FAITH that Tony can become the man who we saw in Endgame cause im2 tony ain’t it y’all he didn’t have the strength of will YET but Fury saw it

“Are you that man? Are you? Cause if you are… you can solve the riddle of your heart.” THAT’s peotry guys! WHO SAYS THAT??

HE called on Tony (NOT cap, thor, or anyone else) to take the nuke, showing just how much trust and faith he had in his instincts and abilities.

And he knew what it cost!! Tony meant something to him! everyone was cheering but he was NOT what does that TELL YOU

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Tony makes him laugh

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Fury was the ONLY one tony confided in in AOU! BEcause He was the ONly one who ASKED

He EXPLICITLY DIDN’T blame Tony! “I’ve seen you come up with some pretty impressive inventions. War isn’t one of them.”

He worries about Tony! He listens to Tony’s suggestions and ideas!

VERY MOST OF ALL he trusts tony. he gives him that, even at times when it seems to make the least sense but it’s fury’s trust that enables Tony to become the man that can be trusted!

cheese

my dad

my lungs which apparently just dont work properly today

cold weather that doesn’t bring snow or cool black ice but is just Cold for no fucking reason

fanfiction on ao3: the parts that aren’t sharp, clear prose about scorching kinky sex are occupied by tightly plotted suspense and slam-bang action

published erotica: not interested in the 99% of the market that’s heterosexual? that’s fine, we also have tender white middle class lesbians and slutty white middle class gay men!

fanfiction on ao3: one trans partner? both partners trans? genderswaps? how about a loving long-term threesome that does heist capers? we’ve got non-gendered angels, hermaphroditic aliens – some of whom lay eggs, if you’re into that – oh, and have i mentioned the robots –

published erotica: there, i put in a vampire, i’m such a genre rebel

What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.

Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.

1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.

2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.

3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.

I’m tired of this nonsense, y’all.

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

Memorize your route. Your map can and will lie.

Take the safest roads.

Mountain passes shift between our world and another - do not leave your car when you are crossing a mountain pass.

If you see something you believe to be a bear, do not photograph it.

The snow does strange things to our eyes.

Borders shift.

Do not speak to anyone you meet further than a kilometer from the nearest building.

Not everything that appears to be human is.

You may eat at rest stops but leave as soon as possible. If there are no other guests there, leave immediately.

Don’t listen to birdsongs for too long - they will start to tell you things you’d rather not hear.

There are no shortcuts.

Something is looking at you, but it is indifferent to your existence.

The things beneath the soil would rather stay undisturbed. Don’t dig.

Bring a mirror and a clear head.

Leave all religious items at home. They will make a scent trail.

There is a reason we fear wolves, but it isn’t the one you think.

Do not touch scissors on the ground. Ever.

The wind will bite you. Cover up.

The longer you spend in the woods, the stranger the air gets.

Stay calm.

Never approach old houses.

If there is mist on the ground, do not be afraid.

Windmills are further away than they seem.

Don’t look into lakes.

Some farms don’t always exist. Don’t worry if you can’t find it on your return trip.

Don’t drink slow-running river water. If you do, there will invariably be a dead animal upstream.

Bridges are sacred places. Do not disrespect them.

Avoid wetlands.

There are no children out here, only false ones.

humans are fucking terrible and this awful world we live in will fucking kill you but if you are kind, if you are brave and clever and try really hard, you can defy it. you can impose on this bleak and monstrous structure something beautiful. even if it’s temporary. even if it doesn’t heal anything inside you that’s been hurt.  

it just requires that you be kind. viciously. vengefully. you fight back. you plant flowers. give to charity. play games. pet someone’s dog. scream into the dark. paint and write and dance, tell jokes, sing songs, bake cookies. you have been hurt and you don’t have to deny that hurt. you just have to recognize it in other people, and take their hand, and say: no more. enough. fuck this. no more. 

have a cookie.

2. A good quote: There are two kinds of people. Those who think, “I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did.” And those who think, “I suffered; why shouldn’t they?”

3. Two good quotes by Kurt Vonnegut: “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

Hmm I only time I’ve personally seen it is when your touch starved and then do the thing and then afterwards when the want was filled you start belittling yourself for wanting it. That expectation of you’re ace, how dare you. Then triggers repulsion because you start invalidating yourself. See if you are doing that and if so, stop it. You aren’t doing anything wrong.

Could it be because boys and not girls? Maybe. But I feel like gender would have to come into your thoughts. So if you were like no one I like is around, but this boy will do. And then after your like boys are gross, why always boys. That to me would be a hint that you actually want to be physical close to girls.

Sources: it worked for me. 

AKA: There’s more biologically interesting stuff than just two hearts and the ability to regenerate [all facts taken from here]

Gallifreyans don’t sleep as much as humans do- they really only need an hour.

If one is severely injured, they’ll go into a sort of healing coma and appear to be dead with a temperature that could reach below freezing point. Their hearts beats would only be around 10bpm.

Their normal body temperature is also significantly lower than humans at only 60°F or 16°C.

Any mental manipulation powers (hypnosis, mind reading, ect) requires physical contact, though with some difficulty they can also communicate telepathically over a greater distance.

Gallifreyan blood has special platelets that allow for better recovery from an injury that doesn’t require regeneration.

In addition to being able to survive with just one heart, Time Lords can also gain conscious control over the beating of their hearts allowing them fake death by stopping them if they so wished.

They don’t have lungs.

No, seriously they’ve got a system of pulmonary tubes instead which means they float in water like a freaking boat.

But they do have 26 ribs (probably- some bits of canon say 24).

There’s also a respiratory bypass systems which means they can survive being choked/ poison gas/drowning/ect.

Sadly helium gas doesn’t make their voices squeaky.

Some sources say that Gallifreyans are born/loomed with only one heart in their first body and get their second only after regeneration. Those born naturally before the Pythia’s curse thing had two right from the start, though (this is a whole ‘nother bit of canon that I still have to fully understand myself).

They have two livers, too.

Ok this next bit is one of my favorites pay attention:

Time Lords and Ladies can get drunk/are susceptible to the effects of alcohol.

However, they can easily shrug the effects off because of their metabolism.

BUT

BUT IF THERE IS GINGER IN IT THEY CAN’T.

SERIOUSLY WHY ARE THERE NOT MORE FICS ABOUT THE DOCTOR GOING “OOPS DARN THERE’S GINGER IN THIS AND NOW I’M SUPER DRUNK AND MAKING EVEN WORSE DECISIONS THAN NORMAL. WHEEEEE CATCH ME ROSE/RIVAH/WHOEVER YOU SHIP HIM WITH!”

Don’t give them anesthetic though if they might die because that could make them not regenerate and that wouldn’t be good. Plus it doesn’t really work that well. 

DON’T GIVE THEM ASPIRIN EITHER THAT KILLS THE TIME LORD.

But the antidote is chocolate so.

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

It would be a dumpster fire on wheels careening down the highway blasting shitty music with weeks worth of gross fast food in the back seat lolol

It could be fun

A “let’s do a Bro’s road trip like we used to because were all in our mid thirties and never see each other anymore”

There could be the “three bros chilling in a hot tub five feet apart because they’re not gay” trope until Sam stands up and Clint and Bucky start screeching because he’s wearing a Rather Revealing Speedo and what starts as teasing turns into an uncomfortable “damn uh did you know Sam is apparently hung like a Clydesdale? Neigh, son, neigh.”

And the “oh no there’s only one bed” except they’re boys and bros so the entire night is spent crowded into the bed purposefully kicking each other and pouring water in Bucky when he snores and then everyone screaming because now the only bed is wet and their dumb asses have to sleep on the floor.

Clint changing the radio station every forty three seconds until Bucky ducktapes mittens he found at a questionable gas station to Clint’s hands

Sam falling asleep in the back seat and Bucky and Clint waking him up by screaming like they are going to be in a crash and Sam is so mad he doesn’t talk to them for the rest of the trip.

Eating fast food like “ask them if I can get a Big Mac.” “Clint it’s four fucking am you’re gonna have an egg McMuffin like a normal person.” “The hell I am, I need a Big Mac.” “NO ONE EVER NEEDS A BIG MAC EVER”

Trying to hit on girls and thinking it’s going well until one of the hot girls says “it’s so nice to hang out with you three, it’s nice to feel safe with big guys, since you’re all gay we don’t have to worry about you hitting on us/coming on to us/ checking us out!” And the guys all look at each other like “are we…. are we gay?”

Bucky has to change a tire when someone (Clint) tries to go off-roading and strips off his shirt for fan fiction reason and Sam and Clint are both like ?????? WINTER MUSCLES FOR THE FUCKING WIN.

Stopping by a strip club because you know, that’s what Super Straight men do, and it’s amateur night so Clint gets up and dances and boy howdy do they learn some interesting things about how Clint paid for college.

Getting in a bar fight and barely escaping with their lives and cackling wildly about it as they race away from the scene

Ending up in Vegas because why not and one of them hits it lucky in poker so they get a super nice suite for the night and end up on the balcony overlooking The Strip and looking up at the stars and realizing that even though it’s been a good ten years since they’ve even all got a beer together, somethings never change.