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Fic Summary: As a gay Mormon, Kurt Hummel has decided to go the rest of his life without falling in love. But toward the end of his two years as a missionary in Germany, Elder Anderson moves into his apartment—and Kurt’s best-laid plans fall apart.

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sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog:

One of the weird things about 21st century life is that in every majority-christian nation, the system is set up so that people with the most resources receive the most care and support. So, like, if you go to a hospital and you have a lot of money, you get treated first.

But in the Christian sacred texts, God is extremely clear about how social orders should be set up, which is that the last should be first to care and support. So the poor and marginalized should have access to the best care and support, and whatever resources are left after the poor are well-supported should be used in service of those who aren’t poor.

I think it is weird that God is so unambiguous about this, and people are so unambiguously into God and God’s will for us, and yet we don’t do much to amend these systems.

(We ARE better at providing care for the poor than we used to be, which is why there is so much less poverty today than there was 30 or 50 years ago. But it’s utterly obvious that we do NOT have a system that offers preferential care and support for the poor. Instead we offer preferential care to the rich–which feels so natural and inevitable to us that I often can’t see past the confines of this injustice. But it isn’t natural or inevitable. There was a time when monarchy felt inevitable, after all.)

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@honeysucklepink Blaine thinks Imagine Dragons is pretty cool, but since he doesn’t have a crush on the lead singer, he’s not quite into them as much as he is into Neon Trees.

He also likes The Killers but wishes they had a more peaceable name.

Our surviving cat doesn’t want to get off my lap and all I have near me is my telephone, so anyone want to send me an ask?

ralfmaximus:

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alwaysbewoke:

Reagan was truly a sack of shit

Wow….

A Short History of Everyone Who Confirmed Reagan’s October Surprise Before the New York Times

A lot of people beyond Ben Barnes have said that Reagan’s 1980 election campaign conspired to keep American hostages in Iran.

The Intercept

Carter was famously absent during his 1980 campaign because he’d locked himself in the White House, determined to get the hostages released. He worked every diplomatic channel, made hundreds of phone calls, wrote letters.

Even Reagan blasted him for not being more visible. In pre-internet days voters only got to see their presidential candidates on brief TV appearances or in newspaper articles. Carter was simply too distracted to do any of that. Meanwhile Reagan was everywhere.

She’s not kidding: the hostages were released 20 minutes after Reagan took the presidential oath.

Then all 52 were flown to a NATO base in Germany where they were greeted by former President Carter. He’d flown over to Germany in anticipation, where he met them at their airplane, shook their hands, and welcomed them home.

BY NAME. He’d memorized all 52 names & faces.

Carter is, was, and always will be a fuckin legend.

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adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction:

I’ve seen a couple of comments from someone around paying Tumblr for stuff that I want to address. I’m not going to mention the person who made these comments because I’m not trying to pick a fight, but I think they’re worth talking about. The comments in question are: “you think user money is anything compared to advertisers” and in a pinned post they tell people to not give money to Tumblr.

The thing is, user money can definitely be something compared to advertisers. There are multiple ways that an online company (in general, not just Tumblr) can make money, but let’s break them down into three categories:

A. From the users - selling merchandise, subscriptions, premium packages, asking for donations, etc.

B. From advertisers - selling views and space on the platform to companies that use it to try and sell stuff to the users

C. From data - selling information about the user base to other companies that might use it in a whole bunch of dodgy and malicious ways, or just try to find better ways to sell stuff to us

All three of these are viable ways for a company to make money, and many companies use some combination of the above. What matters is what the company sees as their PRIMARY method of making money, because that is what drives their corporate decisions.

If none of the methods are making money, the company will shut down, and I don’t want Tumblr to shut down - I like this hellsite. If option B is what makes them the most money, then they will make business decisions that make the platform look better to advertisers and this is likely to drive everything in a more algorithm-centric direction and give users fewer options to curate their own experience. If option C is what makes them the most money, then they will focus on features that enable privacy invasion and data harvesting. If option A is what makes them the most money, then they have to think about how to keep the users spending that money. Now, option A doesn’t always lead to good outcomes - in mobile/online games it can end up as loot box gambling add-ins and pay-to-win options, but thankfully Tumblr isn’t the sort of site where loot box mechanics would make a lot of sense. Which makes it more likely they’ll go the other option: delivering the features that users want to keep them coming back and paying for subscriptions. 

I would much rather Tumblr goes for option A than options B or C because it means that Tumblr is more likely to put the user base first when making decisions instead of advertisers. We just need to show them that it’s a viable option.

Tumblr is trying what online games have done for years - crabs and checkmarks are the equivalent of horse armour DLCs and cosmetics. They’re trying to make the business work through microtransactions. If enough people spend a small amount, it can add up to a large amount of money. The point of crab day is to send a message to Tumblr that option A is viable so that they make the choice to focus on that. If everyone goes, “No, don’t spend money on Tumblr, you’re nothing compared to advertisers,” then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and Tumblr will have to go with options B or C if they want to keep making money.

I’m not giving Tumblr money out of naivety or because I think they’re somehow deserving - I’m giving them my money because I would much rather they make money directly from me and give them an incentive to provide features I like, than by making the site worse so that they can exploit me.

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quinnmorgendorffer:

cardassiangoodreads:

Glee fandom in the early 10s was magical because it was popular and had active subfandoms and juggernaut-level ships among all 3 of the shipping categories — slash, femslash and het — as well as a ton of non-shipping-focused fans, and every single one of those corners was full of the most insane, gas-leak discourse and drama. We had shipping morality fights before that became a thing in every fandom, we had people overly fixated on the actor’s’ personal lives and harassing their irl romantic partners, we had TJLC-level conspiracy theories. The works. It was the dark origin story for so many longtime fandom villains on this site like birdlawyer. It’s so much fun to reminisce about it with someone who was in a different corner of the fandom you were in (like I do with @quinnmorgendorffer who was primarily in the M/M corner while I was in the F/F one) and you can compare notes and learn about new levels of fandom insanity that you could never have imagined, and share your own war stories if you have ‘em. It truly was a formative experience. If any of my followers are also former Gleeks feel free to reblog this with your own wild tales of this terrible show that ate so many brains

I truly think Glee fandom changed fandom a LOT. It was one of the first shows where actors could interact with fans easily via social media, which also led to people in fandoms having easier communication and, therefore, more drama. Glee fandom was the first to start using anti tags to help separate discourse, too - though we’d usually use “lol [character or ship]”.

Also, I’m sure it happens in every fandom, but I have never seen so much discourse over topping vs bottoming in any fandom than I did being a Kurt shipper…

wowbright:

Littermate of our kitty who died on my birthday not doing well. Not sure how long she is going to last. :(

She is gone.