Daily OpusEverything I write is freely rebloggable. Just keep the source and tell people about my books :D [Until I decide otherwise, my pronouns are Ze/Hir/Hirself. As in "Ze went to the shops to get hir medication hirself". Thank you for the respect.]
Yep. It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime. One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility.
Despite being in a fantasy humor novel the “boots theory” is legitimately the actual reason poor people stay poor. Just apply it to literally everything else; food supply, car maintenance, clothes, teeth, toiletries, everything.
the water warriors fighting for access to clean water for all
the teenagers imprisoned for fighting back against oppressive regimes
those fighting for access to education for all
for the future of the planet
for gender equality
for safety and protection from gun violence
for governmental representation and engagement for youths
for the rights of immigrants
for syria and the rights of refugees
for literacy and the representation of WOC in books
for trans and queer rights
for protection of girls against forced marriage and child slavery
i hope that one day we live in a world where children are allowed to just be children, where they dont have to fight tooth and nail for their rights and their futures, but i could not be prouder of this generation
(from top to bottom: Autumn Peltier, Amariyanna “Mari” Copeny, Ahed Tamimi, Malala, Greta Thunberg, Melati and Isabel Wijsen, Artemisa Xakriabá, Ridhima Pandey, Jamie Margolin, Rowan Blanchard, Jaclyn Corin and Emma Gonzalez, Shamma bint Suhail Faris Mazrui, Sophie Cruz, Bana al-Abed, Marley Dias, Jazz Jennings, Sonita Alizadeh, Payal Jangid)
human: you see i want the particles in my food to vibrate at just the right frequency
Human: *is eating ice cream*
alien: wait you forgot to make that one vibrate!
human: well, you see, not with this food
This one is already vibrating at he desired frequency, but if it starts to vibrate at a higher frequency I lock it back in the cold box.
Human: *just reheated pizza in the oven*
Other human: *is eating a slice of the same pizza, but cold*
Alien: *exasperated sputtering*
Human: shots! shots! shots!
Alien: this liquid has negligible nutritional value and, furthermore, contains some molecules that I believe are poisonous to your species.
Human: …look, sometimes we just like to gather in social groups and disorient ourselves
Human: *grabs a packet of ramen*
Alien: Based on my research of your species, you shouldn’t be able to consume that without suffering heavy detriment to your human body.
Human: …look man, I’m in college. I can barely afford this house with roommates. Let me appreciate this 50 cent block of sodium ridden noodles.
Alien 1: The human consumed this harmful “ramen” because it is affordable. I saw many others consuming unhealthy but affordable foodstuffs from a place called McDonalds. Based on this, I think we can reasonably assume that all foodstuffs that are unhealthy are also affordable, and that humans will slowly die off because of their economic system.
Alien 2: I visited a different land mass. There were several humans called “sushi chefs” preparing raw fish foodstuffs. The most expensive was made from the carcass of a poisonous blowfish. It was very popular among the wealthy humans.
Alien 3: The land I visited had no nearby places to engage in commerce to trade precooked food. I interviewed a family that trapped and killed animals for dinner. They ate venomous rattlesnakes.
Alien 1: *throws clipboard in the air and storms off*
[Human casually munches peppers]
Alien: According to my scans, that organic matter contains highly corrosive chemicals. Are you sure you should be consuming it?
[Human chokes]
Alien: Human! Are you injured? Do you require assistance??
Human: Ahahaha no no I’m fine, it’s just *snicker* these are just jalapenos!
Alien: ……….request clarification?
Human: I usually go for habaneros, man. Hell, I have a buddy who took two bites of a ghost pepper on a dare.
[Alien consults space Google]
Human: ………Hey man, you okay?
I’m dying the alcohol one happened in Star Trek the original series
so i was watching the the phantom of the opera movie yesterday and as much as “this could have been avoided if the villain wasn’t evil” is a cold ass take i just saw the scene where teenage!madame giry rescues kid!phantom and thought to myself “why didn’t he fall in love with her?”
think about it. who does it make more sense for an abused person to fall in love with? the person who saved him, the first person to have pity on him despite having seen his face, the person who probably cared for him during those first few years when he was still figuring out that he was inexplicably good at everything? or a random ass child who thinks he’s the ghost of her dead father? leaving aside that madame giry is probably only a few years older than him whereas christine was eleven when he was in his twenties or thirties, that whole scene where he has a change of heart because christine was ~the first person to show him kindness~ completely forgets about all that madame giry did for him. she saw him at the circus! she felt sympathy for him even after she saw his face! she saved his fucking life ok don’t tell me that’s not kindness!
and think about how differently the story could have gone if he’d fallen in love with her! he carves out a place for himself in the opera house while she’s rising to prominence in the ballet. he figures out he’s damn good at music and teaches her to sing. madame giry (or whatever her original name was) becomes the star of the opera house. the phantom still does his spooky stuff, but as a publicity stunt pre-arranged with the manager. no one is in danger, and nobody dies. then, when madame giry gets too old or gets pregnant with meg or whatever, she becomes the ballet teacher. the phantom dotes on meg (because she’s his daughter whether he sired her or not) and eventually christine when they become friends. he gives music lessons to all the little ballerinas in training through the walls. he and madame giry become the Mom and Dad of the opera house.
the only time the phantom does anything spooky unplanned is when he realizes one of the male stage hands has been harassing the girls, and that shit does not fly in the phantom’s opera house. the opera populaire gets a reputation: the phantom’s girls are Protected. meg and maybe christine are the only ones who know that the phantom is a real dude, the rest of them just think the opera house is haunted by a benevolent ghost. all the while madame giry is spending her nights down in the basement hanging out with her boyfriend, the two of them making music and writing operas and planning the future of the opera house. all their little pupils go on to become stars of other, lesser opera houses, and christine and meg stay at the opera populaire and switch off being the star so they can have breaks between shows. then raoul shows up and the phantom is soooo not on board with him getting with christine when he ships his two adorable daughters, until madame giry bonks him on the head and says the raoul is the patron and obvious the solution is for the three of them to all be in a relationship together. they all live happily ever after, the end.
