@lolacoaster I just got my first dose today in oak park area and they were desperate for people. If that helps dm me, i have to send info/link to sign up over email
After weeks of watching George Floyd die over and over again from multiple angles, the nation now watches Daunte Wright, 20, be shot after being stopped for an expired license tag.
Just devastating.
What is it about ya ish media and killing characters after the big conflict has resolved and things seem to be resolving, instead of during the actual climax
According to the Institute for Race and Public Policy, “healthcare is dispersed throughout the city in ways that mirror the city’s patterns of segregation."
This is healthcare apartheid.
I have complicated feelings about how kazs nicknames (he gets more than one! Theres plenty to go around) dehumanize him, and how he does the same thing to inej by dubbing her the wraith, seeing it as protection. But ALSO jesper is exactly the guy to do this but in a fun way, so
#shadowandbone should give jesper a cool nickname so hes not just on gif sets of him with inej and kaz getting labelled "the sharpshooter" while theyre all "the wraith" and "dirtyhands"
absolutely FLYING thru the popcorn bookclub podcast this week at work and its amazing but i KNEW when they were trying to pick a city less cultured than cleveland that someone would say des moines and they did hahaha. Bonus points for mispronounciation of "des"
@brosandprose I actually thought it moved pretty fast? At least regarding the main romance. The show really doesnt linger to enjoy itself for very long in some of the normal romance genre spots, i actually wish it had
Do i believe the romans would have used a magic rock if they had one? Yes. Ruined their own empire with it? Yes. But was rome Doing Great until they randomly and mysteriously fell, making them a great inclusion on the list of things this magic rock could be responsible for? Nooo
Ignoring all other discourse; what sticks in my brain about WW84 is they did my pet peeve of using a magical object to explain historical events that absolutely happened for a reason in real life
I dont know the other cultures listed well enough to comment but Barbara saying that the Roman Empire had the wishing stone and then fell "with no explanation" really .................. Uh, no