Lookf at these buges…
I think everyone needs to see them
"This is my weird son. He can't climb for shit, but he is handsome and strong."
Contrary to popular assumption, being evil doesn't necessarily make a person hot. Choosing to do the right thing even when it's the harder option and you're so tempted to do the wrong (and easy) thing, on the other hand.....
songbird. birdie. my darling. your tags are IMMACULATE. yesssssss.
#you know how anne shirley (in her youth) says she doesn't like WICKED boys she likes boys who COULD be wicked but choose not to#this is kind of adjacent to that#hot evil characters SEEM hot because they demonstrate 1) relentless drive 2) dedication/devotion to their cause 3) some sort of passionate#feeling towards a certain goal or person 4) a level of unhinged abnormal to your average#person when that cause is threatened 5) they have good fashion taste. most of the time#but THINK about those things separate from evil and how they translate to a person who is bent on doing GOOD!#and you get killian jones#also. not to be that person. but also. that's hot#songbird watches ouat
If you’re going to get a cat, you must understand two things:
1. As far as a cat is concerned, the highest form of entertainment is annoying another cat on purpose.
2. If you have a good rapport with your cat, you count as another cat.
You can divert much of this behaviour by getting two cats, so that they can annoy each other, but tradeoff is that sometimes they’ll decide to team up on you instead.
People keep giving me a hard time about this post like “well, obviously your cats aren’t getting enough enrichment, you must be neglectful”, and what you need to understand is that cats generally know what they want, and she doesn’t want to play with the toy mouse. She doesn’t want to chase the thing on a string. She doesn’t want to come outside and help me rake leaves. (Read: constantly get underfoot while I try not to bonk her with a rake.) What she wants is to repeatedly bite her sister’s tail until her sister gets fed up and puts her in a headlock.
Fantastic idea
what’s important to note and missing from the “headline” tweet is that they simultaneously constructed additional good public transit to the public transit already in the city (bus rapid transit, train stations). Just removing highway alone isn’t going to make traffic better, the bigger part of the story is that they improved public transportation. And the current mayor wants to do more - cyclist lanes and reinstate a tram system
This is horrible advice and will get someone killed.
why? genuinely asking
I know I just said that we shouldn't categorize people in history, but when it comes to the presidential podcast, I do find myself sorting presidents into "good" and "garbage" piles based on how they treated their wife.
Good
- Ulysses S. Grant gets top marks here. I'm not crazy about his wife, but he was, and they're cute together. She was sunny and upbeat enough to boost him through a lot of years of struggle, and he was devoted to both her and the children.
- Theodore Roosevelt was a loving husband to both his wives and a ridiculously devoted father to all his children.
- James Garfield starts out in the garbage pile because he married her without love and had an affair, but the way they both overcame that to fall deeply in love is a pretty beautiful redemption.
- Woodrow Wilson seems to have had a pretty good relationship with his wife. I know less about them so this is a tentative classification, but she was willing to basically help run the country after his stroke, so it suggests there was something good there.
Garbage
- Warren Harding reigns in the garbage can. Multiple unrepentant affairs with long-term mistresses.
- FDR was already on pretty shaky ground in my mind, but once I learned he had an affair with Eleanor's secretary, and then Eleanor stayed with him through polio, and then at his death he was with this same secretary while Eleanor was away, he lost a lot of points.
Middle Ground
- Lincoln and his wife had a pretty rocky relationship, but from what I can tell they tried to make it work and were planning on taking steps to improve things before his death.
- Chester Arthur's wife hated that he was constantly away on political business, which gives him a lot of bad husband points, but also she did want that high-class, high-status lifestyle, and from what I can tell he did love her and had a lot of regrets after she died.
one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".
Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people
What’s that quote? There are only two kinds of stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.
day eleven: parallels/anti-parallels
“Brandon. Yes. Brandon would know what to do. He always did. It was all meant for Brandon. You, Winterfell, everything. He was born to be a King’s Hand and a father to queens...” - Catelyn II - AGOT
But she had not forgotten his words, either. The heir to Winterfell, she would think as she lay abed at night. It’s your claim they mean to wed . Sansa had grown up with three brothers. She never thought to have a claim, but with Bran and Rickon dead . . . It doesn’t matter, there’s still Robb, he’s a man grown now, and soon he’ll wed and have a son. - Sansa II - ASOS
I never asked to play. The game was too dangerous. One slip and I am dead. - Sansa I - AFFC
I never asked for this cup to pass to me.” - Catelyn II -AGOT
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