werent you that hairy dude

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Pencil Nebula

The Pencil Nebula in Vela is a remnant of a supernova explosion that occurred about 11.000 years ago. It lies about 800 light years from Earth and spans a distance of about 5 light-years. The shock wave that created the nebula is traveling through space at about 500,000 km/hour, slamming into the interstellar medium and creating the bluish regions, which glow in the light of ionized oxygen, while the surrounding red regions are a cooler ionized hydrogen source.

Mammoth stars seen by Hubble - WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16

Just dim the lights, wrap yourself in a warm, soft blanket.

Listen to the rain pelting the window. The soft hum of constant rain.

Imagine the smell of cold rain hitting hot asphalt, dry earth. Let the calming scent fill your mind.

Listen to the rain.

Breathe.

Everything is blue

his pills , his hands, his jeans

And now i´m covered in the colors

Pulled apart at the seems

And It´s Bluuueee

And It´s Bluuueee

Everything is grey

Happy Halloween, pal!~✧

Now, let’s see…

I’ll be frank with you—heh—the Frankenstein’s Monster hallowthneed that’s displayed is one of a kind!  Luckily, I can say the same for all of the hallowthneeds made from this pattern; each Frankenstein’s Monster hallowthneed is made like…well, Frankenstein’s monster!  Basically, it’s a bunch of hallowthneed parts sewn together to make another unique hallowthneed!  That’s not to say I can’t throw in some dye and add a little extra spookiness to ‘em, though!  Pretty neat, right?

Anyway!

But, no worries!  Like I said, there is a Halloween discount, and it still counts for custom orders.  So, that would bring you toooo…

$16 even!~✧

I figured sweeter colors would suit you better!  Not exactly my area of expertise, but…hey, it’s gotta be creepy to somebody, right?

…  Here, take it before it starts creepin’ me out.

Hello! So I have a lot of medical bills coming up and I’m doing what I can to save up money for them, so I’m selling some of my stuff ; < ; 

Payment is through Paypal

If you’re interested in an item, you can send me an ask, direct message me, or send me an email at [email protected]

If you want to see more photos of an item, shoot me a message and I’d be happy to send more!

All the games are in good condition, but Metroid Echoes and AC Brotherhood have a few scratches on their disk (but still work!)

All the plushies are legit, no bootleg

Harry Potter is in Spanish (Latino)

SIGNAL BOOSTS ARE APPRECIATED, THANK YOU!

Buy several hundred vacant houses. Schedule repairs for said houses with reputable contractors and make sizable down payments in advance. Get everything in writing and hang onto those deeds.

Buy a large open parcel of land that is being auctioned for development. And when I say large, I mean LARGE.

Sink millions into paying off people’s Kickstarters / college loans / medical bills / mortgages, and give generously charity organizations. That alone will carry off a lot of money.

Once you’ve got things down to a reasonable level, say $1m, buy yourself a house, furnishings, appliances, and a dependable car. Pay everything off so that you own it free and clear. Purchase about $200k worth of something easy to liquidate (i.e. gold, gems, bonds, stocks). Put the rest onto prepaid credit cards and wait for Monday to roll around.

NOW THE FUN BEGINS.

You now have commendable credit and a shining public reputation.

Fix up and flip those houses, sell them for fair market value or below to families who need them, or create non-profit homeless shelters. (After all, it’s not like you need to “make” money, this is all running on the proceeds from the property sales.)

Sell the parcel of land to developers, or donate it to public works as a park or open space. Have them name it after you.

Retire to your fully furnished home. Liquidate your extra assets, or leave them to appreciate in value for a later date. Make Christmas epic with those gift cards. Keep the extra money in the bank and keep your day job.

Howard Ashman, who collaborated on the film’s score and had a huge influence on the movie’s story and themes, was a gay man who died of AIDS shortly after work on the film was completed. If you watch the film with that in mind, the message of it becomes clear. Gaston demonstrates that bullies are rewarded and beloved by society as long as they possess a certain set of characteristics, while nice people who don’t are ostracized. The love story between Belle and the Beast is about them finding solace in each other after society rejects them both.

Notice how the Beast reacts when the whole town comes for him. He’s not angry, he’s sad. He’s tired. And he almost gives up because he has nothing to live for. But then he sees that Belle has come back for him, and suddenly he does. In the original fairy tale, the Beast asks Belle to marry him every night, and the spell is broken when she accepts. In the Disney movie, he waits for her to love him, because he cannot love himself. That’s how badly being ostracized from society and told that you’re a monster all your life can fuck with your head and make you stop seeing yourself as human.

It’s literally textbook abuse, textbook stockholm syndrome, and it’s great if you can find positive messages in that movie but please don’t hand-wave the abuse that Belle endures or the fact that her happy ending is literally her reward for loving her abuser and choosing to stay - and her reward is no longer being terrified and imprisoned.

Please don’t ignore the damaging messages in that film just because you want to talk about one of the better ones - how many young children have seen, will see Belle terrified of a controlling person with an explosive temper and zero self-control, and then see that if you just love someone like that enough they’ll turn into a kind and gentle prince?

This story might have been great if the Beast hadn’t been written as abusive. Or if he had been and Belle had succeeded in leaving. Or if her staying with him was read as tragic. But as it stands, we’re supposed to think it’s romantic that this young woman fell in love with a cruel and terrifying person who imprisoned and controlled her.

I’m sorry but you’re wrong.

Belle did not fall in love with her abuser.

I will not deny that Beast was abusive in the beginning. He was downright beastly. And Belle hated him. And feared him. And was disgusted by him.

But here’s the thing:

Beast CHANGED.

He was a cold-harded bastard who, over the process of weeks/months, slowly changed! 

And it’s only then that Belle starts to care about him. 

Leading to them slowly developing a friendship and eventually “something more”.

Leading to one of the most beautiful Disney moments:

But even then, when her father is shown in the woods, Beast tells her to go and Belle goes!

She only comes back, not because “it’s just too scary out there without her abuser whose violence protects her” (that’s just ludicrous!) but because she genuinely cares about the man that the Beast became. (And she despised the monster that Gaston had become.)

I have gotten so sick and tired of people diminishing Belle’s personal power and the importance of her story by saying she only stayed with the Beast because of “Stockholm syndrome.”

This movie starts with Gaston and the Beast having basically the same entitled attitude towards the world: they feel they’re OWED whatever they want because they’re somehow superior. Belle is the catalyst and the lynchpin, and the difference in the characters of the two men becomes blatantly obvious in how they react to not getting what they want from Belle.

Gaston sulks and pouts and tries to force her to marry him, to the point that he convinces the entire village to help him plan a shotgun wedding with an unwilling bride, institutionalize her father, and even storm a castle to murder an unknown “monster,” still with the idea that with no Beast, Belle will be “his.” The most telling thing is that despite how much Gaston claims to want Belle, the moment she publicly rejects him (”He’s no monster, Gaston! YOU are!”), he immediately dismisses her as crazy and locks her in a cellar while he goes off to kill the person she actually cares about.

Beast sulks and pouts…and then makes significant changes to his behavior and his manners, both to show Belle that he cares for her and that he CAN be a better man. He changes both FOR Belle and BECAUSE of her. He pays attention to what she says, what she doesn’t like, and what makes her happy. And she’s not afraid to tell him, in no uncertain terms, exactly what he’s doing wrong.

“If you’d hold still, it wouldn’t hurt as much!” “Well, if you hadn’t run away, this wouldn’t have happened!” “If you hadn’t FRIGHTENED ME, I wouldn’t have run away!” “…..Well, YOU shouldn’t have been in the west wing!” “Well, you should learn to control your temper!”

This is not the behavior of a woman too afraid of the Beast to leave and too cowed by abuse to stand up for herself. The Beast literally shouts in her face, and she barely flinches. This is a woman in full control of her life and completely able to make her own choices. If the Beast hadn’t changed, if he’d acted like Gaston instead of demonstrating radical self-improvement, if she thought for one second that her life was truly in danger, she would have left and never come back.

She’s spent the better part of her adult life standing up to and actively shutting down an overbearing and physically intimidating man who shows immediately and repeatedly that he has no respect for her wishes or her personal space. She is not going to back down just because someone growls and blusters at her, no matter how big his teeth are.

Belle is a force to be reckoned with.

And the message here is not, “If you love someone enough, you can fix them.”