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kingaegonblackfyre · 3 years

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Hello! I would like to warn everyone of an experience my roommate and I have just had, in case I can prevent it happening to anyone else. Or, you know, if anyone knows a lawyer who could advise us.

My roommate has a queen size Nectar mattress. Friday night, she spilled some water on the bed and took the cover off to air dry. She unzipped the cover, and a flame retardant sleeve (that we hadn’t known was there to begin with) made of woven fiberglass began shedding small fiberglass particles. They were airborne. The whole room and everything in it is contaminated, and there are few surfaces elsewhere in the apartment that don’t have at least a little. Nowhere on the mattress’ tags or on the Nectar website does it say there is a fiberglass sleeve. In fact, it makes a big deal of how there are five components: top of cover, three layers of foam, bottom of cover. Nothing about the flame retardant sleeve there. The label on the cover doesn’t say you can’t take it off, just that they suggest you don’t. It does not mention fiberglass as a material found in the mattress at all. The website even has a page explaining that you CAN take off the cover and wash it, if you must, just that they suggest you don’t. No real reasons given. No mention of fiberglass.

Our apartment is sparkly with fiberglass. We have had to drop money on a HEPA filter vacuum that could safely remove some of it, and on new non-permeable mattress covers to contain the worst of the source. We have had to garbage-bag up almost everything in her room. No amount of runs through the laundry seems to get it all out of clothes, and we have to thoroughly wipe out the washer and dryer drums every load. All her pillows were ruined, the chair in her room, her clothing, some expensive bras, a nice area rug, and I’m sure there will be trouble on the horizon with our landlord regarding the carpet, even if we do vacuum it as well as we can.

Lilly has been having nosebleeds, before the mattress was unzipped, but the worst one I’ve seen yet was the one that evening. She’s been sleeping on it almost a year, and it could have begun coming through the fabric cover. Nosebleeds are a sign of fiberglass inhalation.

We have contacted the company, and their response was honestly insulting. We were told that we shouldn’t have taken the mattress cover off to begin with, and that it can no longer be covered by the 365 night guarantee, despite us having had it for under the full year. I have just now, after three days trying, finally spoken to someone willing to look into our case, so here’s hoping we’ll get even a fraction of what we are, frankly, owed.

It really feels like there could be some sort of lawsuit here.

In fact, there is one, with a situation nearly identical to ours but with a different company. This was the first hit when I searched our problem online.

https://topclassactions.com/…/zinus-class-action-says…/

Anyway, if you have a Nectar mattress, don’t ever open the easily accessible warning-label-free zipper! If you have had it under a year, and it’s in its original condition, it can still be returned. If you were planning to get one, maybe don’t! A lot of the foam-mattress-in-a box types have the fiberglass, though most of them disclose the presence of the fiberglass rather than hiding it like a dirty secret. Make sure you do a search for mattresses WITHOUT fiberglass as a flame retardant.

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#JESUS CHRIST #boost

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kingaegonblackfyre · 3 years

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“at least you” “if you were x it could have been worse” “an x person would have faced even more y” are anti-empathy statements. they in all honesty are employed to block the feeling of empathy on behalf of the person saying them. if i told you my dog died, and you said “at least you had a dog. a lot of people are just lonely” i would likely not talk to you again or not confide in you at least. empathy fuels conversations.

i have noticed these kind of empathy killing phrases often deployed when talking about women’s struggles and suffering, even said about and TO women sharing personal struggles. it’s so pervasive that a lot of women have just started prefacing their stories of adversity with the fact that it could have been worse for them. and while, yes, on a personal level, it can benefit us to have perspective, on an interpersonal level, its cruel. and like i said, it’s an empathy killer. if you don’t have empathy, you can’t achieve class consciousness because you cannot connect with other people. and if you don’t have class consciousness, you’re not going to get free

#*flashbacks to former friends*#think there was a good year of them going yeah but myyyy life #:

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kingaegonblackfyre · 3 years

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am I the only person who just does not care enough about the Marleyan Eldians

like at all

particularly Gabi

I just cannot find it in me to pity them after they had every opportunity to rebel

and only chose to do so when Marley would have found them obsolete

like I know the show and manga want you to really pity Gabi especially, but it’s rather meta when she herself has weaponized her innocent young girl status to kill others, so I just don’t care

#attack on titan #aot #shingeki no kyojin #snk #tv #tv shows

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kingaegonblackfyre · 3 years

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get to know me meme; 10/10 favourite tv shows: lost (2004 - 2010) “I’ve looked into the eye of this island, and what I saw was beautiful.”

#2021 rewatch #lost #tv #tv shows

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kingaegonblackfyre · 3 years

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A couple more edits of Ahsoka from chapter 13 of the Mandalorian, with her proper adult tattoos and adult montrals!

#the mandalorian #mandalorian #ahsoka tano #ahsoka #tv

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kingaegonblackfyre · 3 years

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I have a lot of feelings, and I went into it wanting to like it

I love Ahsoka Tano. Removing the whole rl situation with RD from consideration, I went into this desperately hoping for the best and wanting to like it because I would love to see a live-action Ahsoka. Problem is, after over a decade of a purely animated character, any live-action version was gonna be a tall order, particularly due to the appearance and combat style. I get it.

The intro scene was alright - a good start. Duel wielding, reverse grip saber, force pushing and pulling. All characteristic of her fighting style, sans a classic Ahsoka kick to the face.

Then as the episode went on it got... weird? It was like it hit wrong notes for me across multiple points, and not necessarily RD’s fault.

Costume/Makeup Dept

As almost everyone is saying, the montrals and lekku are too short. The montrals look like she’s stuck her head out the window of a car.

The paintjob looks like it was painted last minute and then maybe sent through the washing machine and faded (sorry, not sorry).

And the creasing my god I could not look away, it was right next to her face. If it was meant to demonstrate battle scars, it was not done in an obvious enough way to show that.

Instead, as someone else pointed out, it looked like they ran out of CG money and time and just used the stand-in headpiece.

Do not come at me about “well she wouldn’t be able to move or fight in it”. This is DISNEY, and they are damn well gonna use this to springboard a new series and/or movie around Ahsoka, so don’t tell me they don’t have money to CG it in their FORTY MINUTE ADVERTISEMENT.

The face markings were off. The cheek ones didn’t extend back, and the forehead ones were a little too low and off.

There was no pigment to the lips or nails.

The outfit itself was fine, she always favored sleeveless (good!), but I thought the bottom was a little too low and would infringe upon her usual movement fighting style (as compared to her entire history of tactical skirts over leggings).

Choreography

The start was good - Ahsoka, like Maul, has never subscribed to the usual Jedi “lightsaber and ONLY lightsaber” combat style. She uses the force to push, pull, throw things. She kicks, she punches, she tackles. She turns sabers on and off on a whim to suit her needs. And most famously, the reverse grip. The first scene checked most of these boxes, while not perfect it was a pretty fair job.

The jumping over the tree branch and slicing her way out was well done too.

But by the time it got to the fight against the Magistrate, the choreography just... wasn’t there? From a cinematography pov, with the background, it was a pretty shot, but the combat just was not Ahsoka and kinda... weak for knowing over a year out she was gonna be in this.

She faced Grievous (at least twice) and survived, defeated Maul, jacked up Vader to the point that he limped away with 2/3rds of a helmet, and survived Sidious, and somehow she was disarmed by the Magistrate.

And then never recalled her saber from the water. The girl, who was disarmed by Maul and summoned it lit back to her hand through him, didn’t recall it.

I don’t know if there was a Covid concern, time issue, or a costume issue where they wanted or needed RD to do a lot of her own stunts, but clearly CW7 had a duel-wielding stuntwoman ready. to. go. to stunt Ahsoka. (and let’s face it, nobody had a problem with the Maul duel mo-cap so...)

To be perfectly honest, as she has done with Maul and the Inquisitors, she would have just grabbed the beskar spear and yanked it out of the Magistrate’s hands.

Or just knocked her into a wall with the Force

And to be fair, if the problem with the lekku and montrals was “well she couldn’t move or film fights in it” they didn’t really do enough movements for my taste to even justify that argument.

Writing

As other reviewers have noted previously, the Mandalorian loves to tease characters or plot lines and basically pool skim them (i.e. Cobb Vanth). It’s hard to cover an entire character/plot in 30-50 mins. I get it. But from the outside, if you were new to this character and hadn’t watched TCW or SWR, these were some of the takeaways you got, almost in order:

“She’s badass, but is she actually good or bad?”

“Can she be trusted with the Child? Maybe Din is right to be pacing.”

“Who is she, and what was she in the scheme of the story?” (this at least piques people’s interest to maybe do some research)

“Oh cool, so she won’t train him after we spent episodes getting here. Cool. Cool.”

“And now she’s gone, so should I give a shit about looking up who she is?”

And my personal favorite I’ve seen a few times: “Any other Jedi could have been substituted here and it wouldn’t have made a difference”

^^^^^^^^^This last one.

That’s a writing problem. That means you fucked up. That means you didn’t do enough in 40 minutes (when you set the timespan) to tell people why she matters or why we the audience should care.

And finally RD. It was mostly ok. I think some of the looks and head tilts nailed it. Ahsoka. But Ashley, even as adult Ahsoka, always spoke a little... musically in tone? Even portraying the older “I’ve been through some shit and I have PTSD” Ahsoka with an older tone, it still had moments of ups and downs in tone. And that can come off a little too cartoony real easily irl, I will admit, but it was just a little too monotone for me a lot. Plus Ahsoka does a lot of arm crossing and hands on hips, and the scene with her watching Din and Grogu really caught my attention that it was missing.

So I feel like there was a lot of good shit that happened (we got a name and backstory, we saw Morai and lothcats, THRAWWWWN, Tython, dual white lightsabers, live-action Ahsoka in the flesh, a Kurosawa feel, good cinematography), but I just... didn’t quite like it, and I can’t even just pin it to one thing.

#the mandalorian #mandalorian #mandalorian spoilers #star wars #ahsoka tano #ahsoka #tv

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kingaegonblackfyre · 4 years

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#I don't remember the last time I hit reblog that fast #:#us politics

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kingaegonblackfyre · 4 years

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Larry, if we make an effort today, we might be able to save August. Jaws (1975) | dir. Steven Spielberg

#:#coronavirus #covid-19 #it's sad when politicians are using the jaws playbook #with all of our lives #and by sad I mean infuriating

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kingaegonblackfyre · 4 years

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Anybody else got like,, rlly random connections to famous ppl?? Like my older brothers were friends w Jennifer Lawrence when they were like 12 and I just found out I’m friends w the cousin of the girl who voiced honey lemon in big hero six like, idk what I’m supposed to do with either of these tid bits I feel like I was supposed to live my life in ignorance of them

#my friend is cousin to the weekend #:

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kingaegonblackfyre · 4 years

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be like ripley, don’t break the quarantine

#quarantine #alien #movies

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kingaegonblackfyre · 4 years

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It’s not even about actual white supremacists. We know what to expect from them. It’s about my fellow “nice white people” tolerating or approving of both behaviors.

#fuck every one of these people #it's also telling that they know they're in the wrong so much #that they brought their assault weapons into the capitol building to feel safe #white right wing right to bear people are a fucking plague #:

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kingaegonblackfyre · 4 years

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ASSASSIN’S CREED: VALHALLA

ODIN IS WITH US!

#ac #assassin's creed #ac valhalla #video games #just fuck me up #:

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kingaegonblackfyre · 4 years

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The Clone Wars 7.10—The Phantom Apprentice

Too late for what, the Republic to fall? It already has, and you just can’t see it! There is no justice, no law, no order, except for the one that will replace it. The time of the Jedi has passed—they cannot defeat Sidious. But together, you and I can.

Every choice you have made … has led you to this moment.

#clone wars #the clone wars #the phantom apprentice #ahsoka tano #darth maul #this episode is all I've thought of for 2 days #tv

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kingaegonblackfyre · 4 years

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Dumb and Dumber popping up in westworld..