I'm Rachel Beth Hines,professional animator and animation historian
Favorite Fandoms
All Things Disney
Non/Disney
Doctor Who
Star Wars
Digimon
Boy Meets World
Archie Sonic Comics
Ballet
The affected voters — those whose paperwork was mishandled and whose voter files lacked their SSN and driver’s license — have until FIRDAY, APRIL 18th to contact their local board of elections and attempt to cure their ballot. If you voted in North Carolina last November, you can check whether your vote has been challenged at “The Griffin List” website: link.
I can’t articulate how utterly inhumane it is that we’ve not only normalized, but valorized, sleep deprivation. We treat it like an achievement.
Sleep deprivation increases your riskfor a myriad of serious illnesses like heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, and stroke.
And that’s just to name a few.
Some of the most important cellular work we do all day happens while we’re sleeping. When we don’t get enough quality sleep and rest, our cells literally can’t effectively repair themselves.
It literally damages every system in our bodies.
Capitalism lies.
Getting enough sleep is actually one of the most meaningfully “productive” things we can do.
It literally
damages every system
in our bodies.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
For those of you that may have just finished watching Cory Booker’s record-breaking senate speech and are inspired to “get in good trouble”, you have a great opportunity for it this Saturday!
On April 5th, numerous advocacy groups are banding together into one nation-wide rally that will be held in major cities all over the country - you can easily find a participating location here!
“Scrooge only changed because he saw how nobody mourned him after his death” NO NO NO NO. You don’t get it! The last spirit only worked because of the spirits that came before softening him up! If the spirits had shown him dead and ungrieved only it would not work. As the night goes on amid the visits Scrooge is already visibly changing. He’s different after the first spirit and even more so after the second. And it’s because of how much he’s already changed that the final spirit is able to succeed
The first ghost reminded him that he had been loved once, that there was, in fact, something lovable about him, and that he was once capable of returning that love.
The second ghost showed him the crossroads he was at, people still cared about him. Bob sticks up for him when it’s clear Scrooge doesn’t deserve it, and Fred expresses pity for him for his loneliness. But in those moments he also sees the fruits of his actions, Mrs Cratchit’s pure distain for him and Fred’s party goers jumping at the chance to make fun of him.
He is shown that he could go back to the days of Fezziwig and that he could join Fred’s party and still be welcomed with open arms.
But the last ghost shows him that there is a deadline to fixing his life. If he doesn’t get his act together, he’s going to be despised at worse and dismissed at best.
OP is absolutely right, the last ghost only worked because Scrooge was shown what he could have, what was right within his reach. He wanted that, he was changing, he was ready. The last ghost just sealed the deal by letting him know what was at stake.
If “you’re going to die soon and go to hell for being a shitty, greedy person” would have worked then Marley alone would have been more than enough to change his mind, but the story makes it very clear that simply telling Scrooge he’s an asshole and will be punished for his sins one day was never going to get him to really change.
People when they call someone a shitty person and they don’t immediately throw out their old moral compass and repent: 🤯🤯🤯
