I like to think back to this whenever I’m scared to start a new hobby
This is also the reason as to why I save and document as much of my art and writing as I can; you can look at your progress over time :)
Yep. Screw up, first. Liberally and repeatedly; and get used to the response.
Because even more of the same will come along when you succeed. 😏
Jesus fucking Christ. Do not trust any of these fucking ancestry companies with your data.
You had me at not crushing my boobs.
i would probably just end up like
and that can’t be healthy
official boob post
Do we just have no standards whatsoever about what things are worthwhile to talk about
Remember when Nat Geo was a prestigious publication?
Oh. I see.
I stopped reading it the day I learned Disney owned it, and this is the end result
This is another "hot coffee" lawsuit, meaning, "customer got life-threatening injuries from lack of safety mechanisms, and the company has convinced the press that it's actually Karen Bitching About Breaking A Fingernail."
Whenever you see these: Remember that even sleazeball ambulance-chaser lawyers are not going to take on mega-corporations like McDonald's or Disney if they don't think they have a real case.
It is, in fact, a crime and a violation of lawyer ethics code - like, the kind that can get them sanctioned or disbarred if it's bad enough - to take on cases that they know are bogus; it's considered a waste of the court's time, which is a waste of public resources. They are literally not allowed to present a case to the court that they know damn well is not a valid claim for damages.
If you drop a coffee cup on your foot, and it is bruised and sore for a week... no lawyer is going to help you sue McDonald's for having slippery coffee cups.
But that's the kind of thing they are trying to claim happened here, tried to claim happened in the Liebeck coffee case. (...Don't google for the images unless you have a strong stomach.)
a friend of mine was modeling for a speed haircutting demonstration at a convention, and a celebrity stylist slashed the back of her neck with the shears. she says he would not let her leave the stage to seek medical attention until the haircut was finished, and tried to hide the injury. there was a suspicion that he was high at the time, but I never heard whether they confirmed that or not. she had to go to the hospital and was left with a large, very visible scar from the incident (and, you know, she made her living on her appearance). I saw the wound, stitched up, not long after the incident; it was bad
the headlines when she understandably sued?
"Model Sues Over Bad Haircut"
some of the most vile comments I've seen were on those articles, which universally painted her as a spoiled bimbo out to get this poor innocent stylist. fuck headlines like this, and the people who write them
People are like, "Oh, if you're not a pervert, why do you write BOOKS FOR TEENAGERS? That's GROOMING."
But like if you think that's weird wait until you hear about TEACHERS, who FORCE CHILDREN INTO ROOMS and then SPEND ALL DAY WITH THEM?
And if you think that's weird, wait until you hear about PARENTS, who CREATE children and then KEEP THEM IN THEIR HOMES, sometimes IN THEIR BEDS? Suspicious.
tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies
I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main.
In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. They're the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires.
I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. Middle-aged dorks. Elderly nerds. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.
And it kills me that so many people don't know that sort of community even exists. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more.
Over the past decade, there's been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. There's this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that.
Yeah, that attitude sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. It sucks and we are all worse for it.
Don't fear age. Don't put an age limit on having fun. Give yourself a damn future.
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