Hi everybody,
So I’ve been on-and-off Tumblr a lot recently, but for the last two weeks it’s been because of a family emergency. Rosa, my little sister (well, okay, she’s 23, but she’s little to me), had a serious fall while she was rock climbing with a friend in Moab. She fractured some ribs, got a concussion, and injured her spine really badly — she’s paralyzed from the waist down. I’ve been out in Colorado, first with Rosa at the hospital in Grand Junction to which she got coptered from Moab, and then to get her settled in for longer-term rehab in Denver.
My family and Rosa’s friends are running a fundraising campaign to pay for Rosa’s medical expenses (two months of inpatient spinal rehab alone is looking like it’ll cost us at least $40,000, and that’s even with insurance paying for 80% of the first month. Just the ambulance transport from Grand Junction to Denver cost $4,000); for my mom, my stepdad and me to take turns visiting Rosa at Craig Hospital in Denver this summer as all of us live 2,000 miles away on the East Coast; and to give Rosa some support post-rehab — accessible housing, continued occupational and physical therapy, the whole shebang.
Rosa is one of the most active, athletic, stubborn, badass people I know. She hikes, races, mountain bikes, skis, snowboards, rock climbs, and works as a guide for several different wilderness programs. Sometimes she does all of this at 10,000 feet above sea level. She’s got a ridiculous puppy named Hank that she’s training as a therapy dog. She’s in school for nursing. All of that stuff is what motivates Rosa and gives her joy, and all of it is still completely possible for her (she’s already got her eye on the Paralympics, not kidding), but she’ll need a lot of support to get there.
My family just started a fundraising website here. Any amount you could donate would be a huge help, and if you can’t donate money — believe you me, I understand being broke as a joke — I’d be so grateful if you’d give this post a reblog. Rosa and her girlfriend are reaching out to their network of people who also dig living at high altitudes; my stepdad’s got his academic peeps; my mom’s got her fellow social workers and therapists. I have you guys. <3
Thank you so much,
Z
Just saw The Internship. It is definitely a two-white-dudes comedy movie but I think it was better than most of its ilk with regard to various -ist jokes. They’re there, but they are mostly used to illustrate how the antagonist is a jerk. (The audience is still expected to laugh, and my audience did.) I enjoyed it but don’t know if I’ll pay to see it again.
Potential MINOR SPOILERS for the rest of this post.
Dylan O’Brien has a big role & is around for almost the entire movie. There are two bits where I was especially attracted to him. First, there’s a part where he stands next to Vince Vaughn and I was hit with UNEXPECTED SIZE KINK in a major way and am now sort of wishing Hoechlin actually was taller than him. Then there is a part where someone sticks their finger in his mouth in a sexy way and he absolutely melts. DOB + mouth + sexy noises = winning always.
Georgia Tech is all over the movie. The computer science building stands in for Google HQ & a pizzeria my brother is unimpressed with is a major plot point. I spent almost as much time location-spotting as I did watching Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. (If DOB was in the scene I was obvy watching him.)
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Note how the most important facet of this story is not how she swam out and physically saved two people from drowning in a riptide at the risk of her own life, but that during the course of heroic physical activity in an outfit not designed for it, a tit slipped out.
Really? A nipple? A nipple made an appearance when she was dragging her son and a woman twice her size out of strong currents?
WELL HOLY SHIT, STOP THE MOTHER FUCKING PRESS
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bonus: Evgeni Malkin as every clumsy puppy ever.
Look how wee skinny his legs are!
I KNOOWWW. And then in the last pic with his long gangly arms and then GIANT GORILLA HANDS. Just like puppy paws.
Geno is the best I will accept no substitute.
SKINNIEST LEGS
His thighs… they look so…. touchable……..
…….
Shit. UGH CONCENTRATE ON HOW UGLY THAT SHIRT IS FIG NOT THE SHORTIE SHORTS AND HIS IRRATIONALLY SMOOTH THIGHS.
… It is entirely possible that I have both more hair and more muscle on my legs than Geno. I’m not sure how I feel about this.
For some reason the fact that he’s wearing socks is amusing me, though. Also, the more I look at his legs, the more I ponder someone writing a drag queen Geno AU. He’d probably look pretty good in stockings and high heels.
UGH DON’T EVEN. Can you imagine what a pair of ankle strap platforms would do for his calves? We won’t even talk about the booty. That’s just asking for trouble.
In the lady parts.
Because it’d be… sexy… you know what I’ll just stop.
I feel like someone needs to write this where Geno dresses in drag as Nealer’s ‘date’ for something on a dare. Heels and sheer stockings (because garter belt) and a nice dress. Maybe something that showed off his shoulders while downplaying the lack of cleavage.
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW (sorry I’m more into curling but I’m not even that into anything sports-related unless there are horses in it) BUT I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT THAT RANDOM DOG PICTURE IN THERE LOOKS ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE MY ACTUAL DOG. THE END.
Off*Beat (the sadly canceled ex-tokyopop GN) by my old friend Jen Lee Quick (creator of Witch’s Quarry!) has a Kickstarter! They’re going to reprint the first 2 graphic novels, as well as serialize the 3rd in their monthly magazine Sparkler! Excited for Jen to bring this one home. Consider it BACKED!! :D
Oh yeah, and check out those quotes by Faith Eran Hicks, Svetlana Chmakova, HamletMachine and myself! Lots of love for this series- excited to help make it happen!
Y’all, I own the first two volumes of this awesome comic and you should definitely consider backing the Kickstarter.
Teen Wolf really needs a fic where Derek gets super into DIY culture and has a popular Etsy store. And I don’t want him doing leatherwork either, I want, like, Derek Hale: Embroiderer Extraordinaire.
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These cards, collected by Langston Hughes and held with his papers in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, advertised “rent parties” to be held in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s.
Hosts of these gatherings opened up their apartments for a night, charging a fee to guests in return for live music, dancing, and socializing. Food was extra, and the accumulated cash went to help the hosts pay their rent. Sandra L. West points out that black tenants in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s faced discriminatory rental rates. That, along with the generally lower salaries for black workers, created a situation in which many people were short of rent money. These parties were originally meant to bridge that gap.
Langston Hughes’ collection of rent party cards : Slate.com
Photo: Courtesy the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
These sound like a good time and remind me of the rent party on “Good Times.” — tanya b.
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