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9:01 Deep Breath // 10:01 The Pilot
Human: the day i run a marathon is the day i die.
Alien: *makes note to keep human away from marathons*
Weeks later
Human: Just got back from a marathon!
Alien: *SCREECH*
*takes finger out of nose
lookin at you
- Communication doesn’t work on bullies. Telling a bully they’re making you feel bad is the wrong way to go. They want to make you feel bad. That’s the point.
- being kind to a bully doesn’t always mean they’ll stop. Sometimes it means they’ll just use your kindness to manipulate you while still continuing to bully you.
- not every bully has a sympathetically tragic home life. Sometimes people are just mean. Sometimes people just get off on hurting others.
- on that note, a tough home life is a reason, not an excuse. You don’t have to put up with bullying because somebody’s life sucks, just like you don’t have to let someone mug you because they’re broke.
- in order to forgive someone, they have to apologize first. If your bully has not apologized to you, you do not owe them anything.
- getting bullied as a kid can still mess you up in adult life. Maybe kids grow out of being bullies, but the marks they left often don’t go away.
- there are ways to get people to stop bullying you, but they almost all involve being mean back.
- as long as parents keep raising shitty bullying kids, there will be bullies. No amount of assemblies and hand-drawn posters will fix the problem. It’s the parents’ fault.
so there’s this awesome post here that suggests a live action kim possible movie with zendaya, tom holland, and jacob batalon like so…
and i was like daaaamn but then it go me thinking about everyon else especially our good ol favourite lesbian shego… which i concluded should be portrayed by kehlani and then her and zendaya can be super gay together
now if we have shego we’ll need drakken too so I’m thinking michael mando who plays vic the dick on orphan black and if you’ve never seen orphan black then clearly you’re not a lesbian and I can’t help you with that
now for kim’s parents dr. james t. possible and dr. ann possible i was thinking gay icon john mulaney and gugu mbatha-raw who plays bisexual kelly in san junipero and yes her parents are like 35 but you’re just going to have to deal with it
letitia wright as monique
bonnie will be lesbian jesus hayley kiyoko and her crew will be the other cheerleaders
and lastly rufus will be played by gina linetti’s shirt
There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.
Hi I really enjoy your collection of unseen stories. I just finished reading them today. Could you make one where Bill and Donna meet and start gossiping comparing their Doctors.
“Does he still do that thing?” Donna broke off to gesticulate grandly with her arms in a passable imitation of their favourite Time Lord. “You know, the big grand explanation thing? Like he’s the smartest person in the room, and no one else could possibly hope to comprehend the gravitas of what he’s saying?”
Bill snorted into her mug of tea, before setting it down and grinning. “God, yes. And I mean, don’t get me wrong… he probably is the smartest person in the room. But like… he doesn’t need to act like humans are morons, you know? We aren’t all stupid. We aren’t all total idiots.”
“Most humans,” Donna mused, picking up her biscuit and biting into it with aplomb. “Are idiots. We are clearly the exceptions, however, and it is our solemn duty to smack sense into that idiotic Time Lord whenever he starts generalising.”
“Oh, definitely,” Bill chuckled. “Now, tell me more about this long coat…”