It's Majel

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

From there it's not actually difficult to get the other soldiers onboard with covering up the fact that poor Ping took one for the team and got afflicted by the vagina curse, especially since it would have been all of them if they hadn't gotten the warning ahead of time. So they agree to help him cover it up, because obviously the army's not going to understand.

Mulan: Uh, what boobs? Huh? Where did these come from?

Mushu: *facepalms and thinks quickly* (speaks from the shadows) I AM THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKE! BEWARE MY CURSED WATERS FOR THEY WILL TURN MEN INTO WOMEN!

What were the biggest swords in history actually for? (Hint: they were bigger than this one)

the following events ensued:

1. predictable lively discussion on the preparation of Wienerschnitzel, in which natives and wurstaboos are pro-puff and everybody else is like *confused dog head tilt* why wouldn’t you want the crust to stay ~attached to the thing you put it on? as with other fried foods?

2. thirty “Bad Schnitzel is my band name” jokes

3. thirty “Bad Schnitzel is my stripper name” jokes

4. one “ah yes, Bad Schnitzel! a lovely spa town” joke

5. this absolute masterpiece:

And then we actually spend some time with that.

Buck struggling through rehab. Buck being furious and scared and stubborn and pretending he’s fine (he's completely fine you guys) in ways that are deeply, obviously not fine. The 118 trying to carry on without him. Someone like Bosko coming in as a temporary replacement, and Buck being totally normal and chill about that. Obviously.

And then Buck gets a super cool firefighting prosthetic and we get a whole storyline (let's be real, one episode) about him training to recertify, learning what his body can do now, meeting other amputees and firefighters and athletes with prostheses, and fighting his way back to the 118.

It’s triumphant. It’s emotional. I’m crying. You’re crying. Bobby's in the background looking proud.

And all the while Buck's been living with Eddie and Chris because of course he has. He can't be in the Loft by himself with that kind of injury and Eddie knows how to be a caregiver to someone with mobility issues and beside, he's a paramedic. And he's Eddie.

And Buck bonds with Christopher over disability and mobility and frustration and adaptation, but coming at it from different angles – being born with disability vs. coming to it at a later age. Both of them understanding something about each other that nobody else quite does.

Meanwhile Eddie's fully slipping into husband mode without noticing. He’s managing meds. He’s driving Buck to appointments. He’s making Christopher do his homework at the kitchen table while Buck does PT exercises in the living room. He’s saying things like “our house” and “we need more space” and somehow not hearing himself at all.

And by the end of the season Eddie's fully house hunting for a 3 bedroom accessible house because they need more space and the 118 is side-eying them all so hard they're getting migraines.

If you can correctly identify what type of dog Zorro is, you get a prize*

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

And I want to emphasize this point, this rebuttal of Sauron's divide and conquer tactics: The Fellowship gets weakened. It suffers losses. It becomes scattered across the larger battlefield. But its members remain true to each other, and to their shared mission, even when they find themselves parting ways to accomplish it. At the end of the first film, Aragorn tells Frodo, “I would have gone with you to the end. To the very fires of Mordor.” And where is Aragorn, at the end of the last film?? The gates of Mordor, with the remaining members of the Fellowship (and some new friends, too), exactly where Frodo needs them to be at that moment. No one expects to survive, no one can guarantee victory, and no one but the audience sees the tiny bud on the Tree of Gondor, hope blooming in response to faithfulness even while the sky remains overcast and the city lies in ruins around it.

To repeat my previous tags: #I've said this before and I'll say it again #the devil WANTS you to feel overwhelmed and already defeated and like the small acts of everyday love and faithfulness aren't enough #but in fact each one is chipping another stone out of the foundation of his dark tower #and from your vantage point you may not see the people chipping stones on the other side (but they are there!) #you don't need an extensive understanding of architecture to bring it down #just the willing hands of a hobbit

Chapter 10 12k & Epilogue 4k

Anne of a Green Gables/Buddie au is finished, complete, done!! Didn’t think I’d ever get there but I have and now I present to you another epically long niche AU. Inspired this time by the ever lovely @lonelychicago quite a long time ago now.

It’s sweet and soft with fire family feels, love and hope, a bit of humor, a drop of angst and general pining. Here in AU land everyone lives and happily ever after is the way we roll. Give it a go 😉

Evan Buckley has lived in orphanages almost longer than he can remember. They tried to find a place for him more than once but it never quite worked out, now at almost 15 he’s given up hope of finding a home but then a letter arrived from Prince Edward’s Island saying that Mr & Mrs Robert Nash wanted a boy to come live with them.

Now he’s on his way to a new life in a place called Avonlea and he couldn’t be happier.

The 911 Anne of Green Gables Au you didn’t know you needed.

The white blossoms on the tree on the other side of the train tracks are beautiful. They remind him of the trees that used to be at the bottom of their street before things went wrong and his parents decided to send him and Maddie away.

Buck hasn’t seen his sister in a long long time. He still thinks about her, looks for signs of her in the reflection of his own face. The only friendly face he’s seen for years now.

Cover part by the talented @ronordmann 😊

Reducing the fat content does not inherently increase the healthiness of your food.

Reducing the sugars does not inherently increase the healthiness of your food.

The only way to increase the healthiness of your food is by adding additional nutrients to it.

I saw a video of someone complaining that fucking chicken tikka masala "wasn't healthy" so they made a "healthier version" that was, in fact, LESS HEALTHY. Because they made it with only fat free dairy products, rendering many of the vitamins they would have otherwise gotten from that meal utterly useless, because the body needs fats in order to absorb them properly.

Two tbsp of brown sugar does not render a meal "unhealthy." Full fat dairy products do not render a meal "unhealthy." Calorically dense foods do not render a meal "unhealthy."

If you're really concerned about your health, add more nutrients. Eat extra veggies or extra protein. But you're not actually worried about your health. You're worried about your weight.

You're worried that in the process of eating a homemade meal with lean protein and veggies and a rich, delicious sauce you will consume more energy than you can use today.

You're worried that energy might be stored so that your body can use it when it needs to later.

You're worried that your relationship with gravity might change. You've been taught to worry about that. You've been taught to misconstrue manufacturered body issues as being "health conscious." But you're not doing things to promote health. You're just trying to reduce your energy consumption no matter what.