16, 17!

How did you spend New Year’s Eve 1999/2000? At this point I’m not positive but I think that was the first New Year where we got to stay up until midnight because, you know, Y2K was a big deal. I don’t think we watched the ball drop on TV, though, because none of us thought that sounded very interesting. I’d have to dig out photo albums to be sure and I don’t even know where they are, but I think Kelsey and I also made some kind of “Happy Y2K” banner, and we might have gone out to see fireworks. If we did go for fireworks, though, we would’ve been heavily bundled up, because this was right in the middle of my five years in Barrow (now Utqiagvik) so it was probably like… -20F wind chill? Also this wasn’t so much the actual night but I remember we stocked up on nonperishable food in preparation for Y2K.

What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear? ummm. I know I have things in my closet that are 10+ years old, or at least I did recently until I went through and purged everything that didn’t fit anymore. Most of the clothes I wear regularly are a lot newer than that because if something’s more than a few years old, it almost definitely doesn’t fit anymore or it’s falling apart. I’d have to actually go up and look at my closet, which…I don’t want to do because I just spent the last few hours shampooing the carpet and I don’t ever want to move again.

oh, hang on, I know at least one–I have a neoprene half-face mask that used to belong to my dad, and I’m pretty sure he got it when we lived in Barrow, so that makes it at least 15 years old. I end up using that every winter, and I’m sure it makes me look like a murderer but it also makes a big difference when it’s cold.

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me: okay! now that the election’s over there’s a ton of stuff I need to do and I’m going to get a great start on it over the three-day weekend! I’m gonna be productive AND play games and it’s gonna be great!
me: first though I’m gonna sleep and I’m so tired I’m gonna sleep so good
my body: actually you’re gonna wake up kind of early and waste like two more hours in bed thinking you’ll sleep more, but you won’t because of neck pain that won’t respond to three very different pillows
my brain: and when you finally do get up at 11 a.m., you’re gonna fuck around on your phone for at least another hour before eating or showering
my body: which means developing a dehydration headache, as usual
my brain: also once you’re finally ready to do stuff, you’re going to have a huge decision crisis about what to focus on and what to do first…as usual
my computer: fuck you. I’m six and a half years old. I don’t have to do anything you say
me: this is completely unexpected

seidrade:

foundlingmother:

I seriously hope that Disney knows straight, white, cisgender males are not their audience for the Loki show. Women, queer people, mentally ill people, etc. are the audience who respond to and identify with Loki. They’re not going to please all of us, but if they don’t appeal to us, the show will fail. It will. The audience they usually appeal to hates Loki.

The fact that they’re launching with Loki gives me hope that they do in fact understand their target demographic.

Like, they know who’s lining up at the cons to see Tom and to see Loki at Disneyland. They know about Hall H. They know who’s buying ALL the merch. They know that Tom’s fan base will hype the fuck out of the announcement. If nothing else, huge companies with lots of money on the line tend to spend a ton on market research— which in my experience will generally confirm who is already buying their product, and thus encourage them to continue catering to that already-established audience.

I’m not saying they’ll get it perfect or that they will fully understand what so many people love about Loki— but I’ll eat my shirt if they don’t know who they’re marketing to by now. This is also why I hope Tom has a creator/co-producer credit… because he knows firsthand exactly what people love about Loki.

Tbh, the fact that Tom so recently brought up Loki’s sexuality and spoke on it at some length without being asked— and what’s more, took complete ownership of that statement (instead of saying essentially “sure, he’s whatever you want him to be” as he has in the past) all while speaking to an audience that he knew was primed and thirsty for tv show news, and where he completely understood the impact of that statement…

I also noted that Tom seemed more comfortable and confident speaking on Loki’s sexuality/gender than he has in the past, which leads me to believe he’s been thinking about that aspect of Loki with more purpose. I imagine he’s aready well into the process of revisiting Loki’s character with the series in mind…

Like, I’m not gonna get too excited, because it could have just been happenstance— but it strikes me as odd to draw so much attention to it during a panel if he didn’t think there was a chance it’d become relevant to his version of the character. Tom knows how to tease, but I think he also tends to try and comfort his audience without giving too much away (Loki thrives on chaos, everything is fine, etc) and I’m hoping that’s one of those cases of his subtle foreshadowing.

We shall see… but I’m crossing my fingers.

jemfinchknowswhatyoudidinthedark:

My town is gone.

If you’ve been watching the noise and paying attention to California, you’ve heard about the Camp Fire.

In a matter of hours, the fire jumped to 20,000 acres. This morning it reached 70,000. My town of Paradise, where I’ve lived my entire life, was consumed entirely. Very little containment has been reached and the situation is absolute hell.

My house was one of the first to go.

My mom and my sisters and I barely got out, in separate cars, and we got separated for 10 hours. My mom and little sister were stuck in Paradise with all my pets in the flames until my stepdad was able to get gas to them so they could get out. My cat was lost, and I personally was only able to grab an extremely small amount of my own belongings because I was helping my mom to grab important documents and photos and to get the pets situated.

We are now homeless, with no clue where to go from here, and desperately in need of help to get food, clothes, supplies, anything. My mom has been disabled for 3 years and we survive on a single income from my stepdad, who is a firefighter. His friends have been hurt trying to fight this. We have a dog with us, and two guinea pigs, and a bearded dragon.

My mom set up a fundraiser, even though we are not at all the type to ask for so much help.

Click here to support Firefighter Fam Lost Home Paradise organized by Marissa Nypl

☝️ That’s the last image of our house that I took this morning. It is now ashes and rubble.

If you can donate, it would mean the world to us, to help us get back on our feet. If you can’t, please share. Anything helps no matter how small.