Crap cuz I'm bored.

During one visit, Ruth noticed the nurses would draw straws, afraid to go into one room, its door sealed by a big red bag. She asked why and the nurses told her the patient had AIDS.

On a repeat visit, and seeing the big red bag on the door, Ruth decided to disregard the warnings and sneaked into the room.

In the bed was a skeletal young man, who told Ruth he wanted to see his mother before he died. She left the room and told the nurses, who said, “Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming!”

Ruth called his mother anyway, who refused to come visit her son, who she described as a “sinner” and already dead to her, and that she wouldn’t even claim his body when he died.

“I went back in his room and when I walked in, he said, “Oh, momma. I knew you’d come”, and then he lifted his hand. And what was I going to do? So I took his hand. I said, “I’m here, honey. I’m here”, Ruth later recounted.

Ruth pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to him

and held his hand until he died 13 hours later.

After finally finding a funeral home that would his body, and paying for the cremation out of her own savings, Ruth buried his ashes on her family’s large plot.

After this first encounter, Ruth cared for other patients. She would take them to appointments, obtain medications, apply for assistance, and even kept supplies of AIDS medications on hand, as some pharmacies would not carry them.

Ruth’s work soon became well known in the city and she received financial assistance from gay bars, “They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here’d come the money. That’s how we’d buy medicine, that’s how we’d pay rent. If it hadn’t been for the drag queens, I don’t know what we would have done”, Ruth said.

Over the next 30 years, Ruth cared for over 1,000 people and buried more than 40 on her family’s plot most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.

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Like in the flashback of Kirishima talking about how he feels he's falling behind everyone, he's literally sitting with two of his best friends (Kaminari and Sero) and neither of them step up to make him feel better. Sero even tells him to stop whining (I don't think he meant it in a mean way but more in a "this isn't like you" way, for the record, I don't think Sero is an absolute asshole lmao)

But then Bakugou turns to him and with just absolute conviction says "you wanna talk about keeping up?" as if it's literally the dumbest thing he's ever heard Kirishima say. It's like it didn't cross Bakugou's mind for a second that Kirishima doesn't have what it takes.

He sits there are reminds Kirishima that he's unbreakable. He sits there and tells him that just being able to keep standing it what makes him strong. He believes wholeheartedly in Kirishima. There's not an ounce of dishonesty in Bakugou's words. He knows Kirishima has what it takes. He know Kirishima can keep up with them all, because Bakugou has seen first hand Kirishima's strength. Has fought alongside it in moments against actual villains. The first real villain fight, they're together. They step up against Kurogiri together. Just the two of them. How could Bakugou ever think Kirishima was weak or not able to keep up?

He even looks angry at Kirishima putting himself down, like again, it's the dumbest thing.

Bakugou even goes as far as basically comparing him to All Might, talking about how All Might didn't go down at the end of Kamino. Bakugou knows Kirishima can keep standing just like All Might does, and if that isn't literally the most complimenting thing Bakugou could have said to him, I don't know what is. And that's what strength is in Bakugou's eyes. In Bakugou's eyes, Kirishima is a pillar of strength, just like All Might.

Another example of him being such a great friend is when they first move into the dorms. The framing of those scenes show that making Kaminari go dumb was nothing do to with the rest of his class. His eyes fell to Kirishima. He saw how sad Kirishima specifically was, and wanted to do something about it.

Now, I see people argue he only did that to give Kirishima the unnecessary money back BUT I disagree. If it was truly only about giving the money back without anyone seeing, he's not dumb, he could have easily just done that when they were in their dorms, complete privacy.

But no, because that's not what it's about. Bakugou just wanted to see Kirishima be himself again. He hated seeing Kirishima look so sad. He could have looked at Iida, or Momo, or Midoriya too, but he doesn't. His eyes are specifically on Kirishima. His entire class was sad, but in that moment all that mattered was Kirishima.

And then in the novels when Kirishima goes into Bakugou's room when they first move into the dorms and Bakugou's like "get out" but actually makes no move to remove him, and instead let's Kirishima stay and help him unpack.

Also in the novels, Bakugou tidying Kirishima's room for him, going as far as trying to fix his wallpaper where posters had pulled it down, like??? That's so cute???

On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, Texas’s new law, S.B. 8, went into effect. This law effectively bans abortion in the state AND asks private citizens to act as bounty hunters to “enforce” the law.

Then, in the dead of the night, the Supreme Court turned its back on 50 years of precedent, rendering Roe v. Wade effectively meaningless in Texas. The Supreme Court allowed Texas’s unconstitutional six week abortion ban to go into effect. Six weeks is before many people know that they’re pregnant.

This is an attack on human rights and Texas law sets a dangerous legal precedent and could clear a path for states to override people’s constitutional rights. If the courts let this bill stand we can expect to see similar bills introduced in states across the country.

Abortion is health care. Yet politicians are consistently attacking access to that care (even during a pandemic).

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But…do you remember how hilariously unimpressed Kirishima was with Bakugou’s attitude?

Because it was a thing.

Sometimes I read in fics that Kirishima THINKS BAKUGOU HAS NO FLAWS and I’m just like

This is a guy who is very aware of Bakugou’s flaws and likes him anyway. Who deliberately goes out of his way to mitigate them and smooth Bakugou’s edges so he can function normally with the rest of the world. It’s why they work so well together.