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First ever recorded snowball fight (1897)

Happy Holidays And Merry Christmas To All!

Yeah Mr. Darcy’s proposal was a complete turd and a half but you gotta understand. You got your life together. A good career, stable income, retirement plan, all that shit together. And you meet this girl. And she’s everything. Clever, outspoken, funny, calls you on your bullshit. Grade A cutie, right? And she doesn’t go out of her way to spend time with you but she’s nice, and sometimes you catch her looking your way in a way that makes you think you might have a shot.

But her family. Holy shit.

First off, it’s p much ALL women, and mostly UNMARRIED women, which at this time means of something happens to her dad then you’re financially responsible for like. Four grown ass adults, potentially forever

Because mom in law is DEFINITELY gonna need someone to take care of her when dad in law kicks it, and they have like. NO money. So already you’re accepting that if all goes well, you’re gonna be one random old bag’s retirement home. That’s expensive and exhausting, yeah? Imagine asking someone on a first date knowing that if they say yes and things go good her high-strung chihuahua mother is gonna move in with you. IMAGINE.

And girly’s other sisters. Well, one is a sweetheart, yeah, and she’s getting engaged so she probably won’t be an issue, but that still leaves two more, and those ones are INSUFFERABLE. Never went to school, dumb as rocks, spend cash like it’s toilet paper

And while one of ‘em’s young still and might grow out of it the OTHER one is actively torpedo’ing her entire family’s reputation by wandering off with random dudes and chasing ass. She’s never gonna work, she can’t build connections, she’s a fucking sinkhole, and she’s being led on by the same goddamn con man ass leeching tit who’s been bleeding you dry while telling anyone who’ll listen that your family is full of ratty thieving bastards.

And if he dumps her after a week- WHICH YOU KNOW HIS BITCH ASS IS GONNA- you’ve got a SECOND UNMARRIABLE GROWN ASS ADULT TO PROVIDE FOR. And you KNOW she’s gonna be a tantrum-throwing little shit about it, and it’s not like you can lock her in the basement or something, you’re gonna have to bring her fucking. Everywhere. And give her an allowance and shit while she contributes zero, because again, she NEVER GOT EDUCATED AND HAS NO MARKETABLE SKILLS. She’s not even good to TALK to. FUCK

And you’re looking at this girl’s father like “please for the love of fuck get your spawn under control, marry them off, get them working on their résumé, learning to sew or be nursemaids or manage staff or SOMETHING, yall got no money and one foot in the grave” and that old man just laughs like “haha yeah, what can you do. lol”

So you’re looking to the mom and finally it’s making sense how she got that twitch in her eye and as MUCH as she is you’re starting to realize she’s the SMART one, desperately throwing her armloads of girls at random men like they’re a bunch of fucking lifeboats bobbing around a sinking ship, like yes Jesus Christ sweetly that life boat IS old and ugly and kind of boring but for FUCKS SAKE PICK ONE

And you look back at this girl who is ALSO REFUSING THE LIFE BOATS BY THE WAY and god damn it she’s still the most radiant thing you’ve ever seen so fine, fuck it, Christ alive, you’ll do it. You’ll shoot your shot. She’s everything you’ve ever wanted in anybody abut it’s not even just about that anymore, it’s about being her best fucking shot at a future, and even if she doesn’t like you all that much she’s still gonna say yes and that might break your heart a bit knowing it’s about the money but who knows, maybe it will at least be civil, or companionable, and even if she doesn’t LOVE you at least you’ll know she’s well and cared for

And so you’ll do it. You’ll take on the neurotic stress mess mother in law, the absent father, the broke ass wingnut no brain no money no future airhead sisters, the bad mannered relatives and the embarrassing behaviour and the impending future of sharing your entire shit with a clown parade of freeloaders, you’ll risk it all and accept the absolute certainty of financial ruin and emotional exhaustion for the rest of your whole ass life and you’ll make your own family deal with it too, you’ll do it, you’ll fucking DO IT, you stupid lovesick motherfucker

And so you go to this chick like “look. Your whole family’s a shitshow. You’ve got fucking nothing and you’re gonna die on the street. But for some reason- and I don’t get it either- I’ve fallen in love with you, and I wish I didn’t, but I did, so I’m telling you that whether you like me or not, I’ll give you everything. I’ll give you everything even if it’s the dumbest shit I ever done. Fuck my stupid Baka ass, I’ll marry you.”

And she looks at you- having heard or considered absolutely none of your months-long internal debate and monologue- and goes “The fuck did you just say about my family, you son of a bitch?”

And the shock of that is enough to jolt you back into a reality where you are able to actually hear and process what just came out of your damn mouth And yeah

Yeah, I think I kinda get it

Just an extremely Normal thing to say

Reminder they want to increase the budget for ICE from 3.5 to 45 billion dollars.

Reminder the majority of that will be for building new detention centers.

Reminder ICE are *currently* detaining tourists who can pay for a plane ticket home and people with visa issues that were already resolved, because they have to make quota so Trump can brag about the numbers going up.

Reminder most of these people were already in the immigration system - that's why they were easy to detain.

Reminder this is all at taxpayer expense.

Reminder these are people.

I'm sure someone's done this already but:

Reblog if you are bisexual, pansexual, or asexual, if you support bisexuals, pansexuals, and asexuals, or

There’s no third, funny option, just the first two because it’s good to just support people because they deserve support.

obsessed with this letterboxd review for CHALLENGERS (2024) by rocky/WAYSTIAR

Ok now I'm really pissed off. I don't know if you are aware but the Netflix Engagement Report just came out a couple of days ago, indicating what people watched on Netflix over a six month period (from Jan to June 2023). Turns out that Shadow & Bone S2 managed to get 192.900.000 hours viewed (which is A LOT by Netflix standards in case you were wondering) in these 6 months which is only slightly less of series like Vikings: Valhalla S2 and XO, Kitty S1 that were both renewed, and made more hours of visualisation than series like Sweet Tooth S2 or Emily in Paris S3 that also got both renewed.

Not to mention the enormous uproar that there has been since Netflix announced the cancellation of Shadow & Bone on every single social media platform in addition to the incredible engagement that the series had while streaming. So don't come at me with the pathetic excuse "there weren't enough views", because clearly there were, so there had to be some other reason that the platform does not want to disclose.

This is the link, if you are interested.

currently im into criminal case, a really old fb game (lmao) 🙏 im grateful that i am able to enjoy life and games

but yeah. entertainment is technically a right at this point (when you think about it) and palestinians are deprived of it, like other rights isnotreal snatched away

i'd like to talk about my friend @save-mohamed-family! i've been following his campaign for a while now, and he has made significant progress ever since thanks to everyone's help. His wife is almost done on the chemo! do u know how awesome it is to beat cancer?? ive discussed it b4 in a prev post (that suspiciously did not make any rounds like my other art did. side eyes tumblr.)

but yeah! he needs 6000 USD for his wife's last chemo. and we all have 1 week to help my friend pay!

this is the amt rn. mohammed needs $18,890 to pay for his wife's chemo. additionally, i was talking with him earlier, his son Abduhlraman is still suffering from facial burns. And Mohammed himself is suffering from chronic allergies! and they all preach that health should be free. bc seriously imagine paying 80 US dollars (yes Mohammed told me he pays that much) for your allergy meds

please help mohammed and his family, they need us more than ever

also. he is vetted. #192 on the verified fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi. so yeah go help him <3 even a share goes a very long way!

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