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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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If you're in Texas and you're trying to stay warm during the power outages, here's some tips from an Illinoisan currently living in Texas. Obviously battery powered heaters or heated blankets can be great, as is a fire in a fireplace. But if those aren't options for you, try:
1. You can use tape around the edges of doors and windows to prevent drafts, or use towels or blankets to stuff around it. We currently have blankets taped up covering our doors and towels taped over most of our windows. Avoid going into rooms with an outside wall or multiple/large windows, they're going to be colder.
2. If you're getting power back every now and then, fill a sock about 2/3 full with rice, lentils, or dry beans, stick it in the microwave for about 30 seconds at a time, checking to see when it's nice and warm. Then put it at your feet under a blanket.
3. If you have a gas stove, boil a pot of water. You can make tea or soup with it, but even just boiling water will help warm and humidify the home a little. Good for avoiding nosebleeds.
4. Set all your faucets to drip. Moving water in the pipes keeps them from freezing, which is good because you don't want them to burst.
5. Got a significant other? Kids? Pets? Cuddle them. Never underestimate how much it helps to have another warm body sharing a blanket with you.
6. Do NOT drink alcohol. Yes, it makes you feel nice and warm. It also causes you to LOSE body heat.
7. Move around! Even just bicycling your legs will get your blood flowing, which will help warm you up. Then you can go right back to bundling up.
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SPIRITED AWAY 千と千尋の神隠し 2001 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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What I would give to live in a Minecraft world
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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I'm watching the Elisa Lam documentary on Netflix and I forgot how disturbing the video was. It scared the hell outta me the first time I saw it.
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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true crime community -- quick, off the top of your head, how many famous killers can you name?
I can name 68. I can tell you their names, their childhoods, their murders, their trials, their deaths.
Now, let me ask you something else: How many of their victims can you name?
I can name 0.
None. I’m wracking my brain, just trying to think of one number. I have been trying for 20 minutes. Nothing.
I can tell you how they died, in every horrific detail. I can’t tell you their names.
I can tell you the names of victims wer don’t know the killers of. The Black Dahlia. Elisa Lam. JonBenet Ramsey. I can tell you their names because we refer to their cases as “The ___ Murder”. If we knew their killers, we wouldn’t know their names.
So, let me ask you something – who were these people who were killed? And why can I tell you everything about the killer’s lives and nothing about the victims. Why do we just say “______ killed _ people”, instead of “(the victim) was killed by _____”. Why do we make them just a number in the body count.
It’s totally okay to be interested in true crime (I have a special interest), but I feel like so often we lose track of the fact these victims were real people. Real people died in horrible, horrible ways, and all too often we just say “Oh, that’s weird!” and “Woah, how wild!” and move on, without thinking about the fact that these people were real. 
So many people in the TCC community romanticize, glorifying, fetishize, and excuse killers. I see aesthetic blogs devoted to Adam Lanza, where people post pastel pictures of Dylann Roof and call him “daddy”. I see people who think that serial killers are made from a lack of love,like they’re children who misbehave and break a plate – not grown-ass men who murder because of misogyny, racism, albeism, and hate. People with no understanding of mental illness saying they’re “psychos” who are in love with real killers and rapists.
Toxic Masculinity causes these crimes, and when you romanticize these killers, you are adding fuel to the fire. 
Remember the victims, not the killers. Learn about their lives. Seek justice for them, and understand why they died, and work to make sure it never happens again.
Dylann Roof is getting what he deserves. His victims are getting justice, and that is what they deserve.
TLDR: Don’t glorify serial killers, respect and remember victims.
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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“i don’t like writing about my day, but i want to keep a journal”:
quotes and copywork. when reading, if you find something you enjoy, just copy it into the notebook. you can copy a whole chapter if you wish, highlighting what caught your attention the most.
definitions. look up on a dictionary and copy it. you could write your own dictionary as well, making up definitions for words.
lists. a classic, write movies to watch, books to read, the playlist of the month or just the groceries you have to buy.
maps. when going somewhere, you could draw the route you took or just a map of the place itself. just look up the place on google maps and copy it. you can draw a little map of all the places you have lived or the schools you have attended as well.
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take “notes” as you watch movies / documentaries. write down phrases that caught your attention or doodle.
illustrations and clippings. if you see an image or piece of art that you liked, put it in your journal. if it’s from a book or from a magazine I would recommend scanning it, tho’. it will serve as a record of what kind of art you enjoy through the years.
newspaper clippings from the day.
tickets and pamphlets. from movies, museums, transportation.
postcards
records. you could record for a month what the temperature was when you woke up and when you went to sleep. if you do that for a year, it gives you a better notion of the passing of seasons. you could record rainfall and other seasonal changes as well. you could choose something (an animal, a plant, an item or object) and write down every time you see it.
rubbings of leaves, coins, landmarks.
count. there’s a scene in the movie Coraline (2009) where Coraline’s dad tells her to go count the windows. you could do the same type of counting game if you are bored and write down.
mindmaps/sketchnotes + timelines of books, movies, music albums.
collages
pressed leafs and flowers
your collections. if you collect anything you could write down an inventory or maybe try to draw the items.
recipes. write down recipes and give it a score every time you try it. you could do the same for drinks you try out.
stickers
comic strips. you can find a bunch of it online, glue your favorites in your notebook.
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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I forgot my sister recently bought to kill a mockingbird so I guess I'll reread that
I finished all my books! Time to buy more and then not read them and then binge read and then get sad when I finish them.
Any YA books I should read???
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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birds: what a beautiful morning
birds: but you know what this needs
birds: yelling
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I finished all my books! Time to buy more and then not read them and then binge read and then get sad when I finish them.
Any YA books I should read???
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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You know that trope where someone’s injured and lying on the floor unable to move and their friend/lover/family member is standing over them battered and bloodied like, you will not touch them. You’ll have to go through me?
That. That is a good™️ trope.
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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Reblog if you read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in school
I’m trying to prove a point to my friend who has never read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and thinks I’m insane for assuming most people have.
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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Everyone who reblogs this will get a positive message in their ask box
There’s too much negativity going around on here lately
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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if you support donald trump unfollow me. full stop. hopefully no trump supporters are dumb enough to think they’re welcome here, but seriously. gtfo my page. block me while you’re at it.
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if you support donald trump unfollow me. full stop. hopefully no trump supporters are dumb enough to think they’re welcome here, but seriously. gtfo my page. block me while you’re at it.
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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The Mummy dir. Stephen Sommers (1999)
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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BERTRAM
people who would have defend the capitol better than the police
k-pop stans
taylor swift stans
literally any of the hargreeves siblings
carrie wilson
luke patterson, alex mercer and reggie peters
one direction stans
people who’s favorite show is grey’s anatomy, the office or outer banks
that dog named pudgy on tiktok that always goes “OWA OWA”
anybody who can get more than 4 stars on rasputin on just dance
anybody who’s favorite youtuber is jenna marbles
nicki minaj stans
john mulaney
short people
kevin mcallister
spotify and/or apple music users
literally anybody on stan twitter
anybody who wanted an explicit version of potential breakup song
scorpios
sam puckett
andre’s grandma
gays who can’t drive
paul blart the mall cop
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classy-kpoppie · 3 years
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Yes please
AU where the world centers around non-romantic relationships, and romance/marriage is treated casually in comparison to everything else
there are platonic dating sites (not just social media, sites specifically designed to fill out profiles and find people to try hanging out with and see if you’d be good friends)
matching medals are given to co-workers who work especially well together (as a pair or even a group)
“ooOOoooOOOh someone has a squiiiiiish”
adoption is celebrated with a huge ceremony involving anyone who is now related to each other by the adoption
kids who already have parents can still be adopted; it’s not unusual to have a birth mom, a birth dad, two adoptive dads, three bio uncles/aunts, and seventeen cousins of varying closeness
adoption isn’t limited to parents; you can become someone’s legal sibling with the same process (but there’s probably a different name for it)
“w-would you be… my best friend (pulls out half of best-friend necklace in a fancy box)” “(LOUD GASP)”
one-on-one mentorships are a super big deal, and mentors sometimes put on their own graduation ceremonies for their pupil when they feel they’ve mastered whatever it is they were being mentored in
teachers are highly valued and respected because they’re like mentors but they form that super-close bond with every single student
and then just
“john and i are getting married on sunday” “oh really? neat!” “yeah we’re both aiming to be bio-parents and we get along so we figured why not :)”
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