Citizens in Puerto Rico laid shoes at the San Juan capitol to represent lost loved ones not counted in the official government death toll. The number is estimated to be 4,645, the official US government number is 64.
Three weeks ago, Medusa’s heating pad caught on fire. It’s a miracle she is alive, as I thought she was gone when I pulled her from her smoke filled box, totally limp.
Her bills are now over $1500. She is burned. Her lungs are swollen and damaged. The smoke was toxic, burning plastic. This is no where near the end for her, and we need help.
If you can contribute anything, even a dollar, I would be endlessly grateful.
You can read about it more on the link, and see photos of her burns and heating pad, along with x-rays.
Hey this has only gotten 2 donors in the span of two weeks…… just because it’s not a fluffy kitten or puppy doesn’t mean this shouldn’t get as much attention as other pet medical bills fundraisers… please share
Pets are pets and we love them. Please boost (and please contribute if you can)
Chris Pine refuses to answer the question “Would you swipe left or right for Anna Kendrick on Tinder?” and instead gives this response
the clip in the link took me from having kind of a standard, pretty-celebrity crush on Chris Pine to being like “holy shit, I think I would genuinely and in a non-horny fashion like this guy if I knew him in person.“ I mean, he takes a super fucking inappropriate question, gives it the complete lack of acknowledgement it deserves, and says something so intelligent and thoughtful instead of whatever weird answer he was expected to give that nobody even remembers what the original terrible question was by the time he’s done talking.
If Chris Pine ever stops being a class act, please nobody tell me, my heart can’t handle it.
Strapped for cash, you begin pulling coins out of a town fountain. Unbeknownst to you, wishes all over town have come undone
the coins…. in fountains…….. are routinely collected to pay for the upkeep of the fountain. is the argument here that only the town council is Magically Authorized to collect the money…? what. how can we misunderstand the concept of a votive offering to this point. why are we inventing problems when there are no problems.
One of the world’s most famous wishing fountains, the Trevi fountain, which partially popularized the whole idea of wishing in fountains, goes to funding meals for the poor, oh my god, what the fuck, do people think the money just. sits there. like their wish-coins are special and have to stay there?? Like you can just throw trash in someone else’s property and everyone has to respect it and leave it there to rot? there’s like, over a million dollars a year gets thrown into the Trevi fountain, if you didn’t remove it, it would be a S O L I D M O U N D O F C O I N
nah mate the “spell” part is the bit where you willingly sacrifice a piece of wealth, it’s an intention thing. It doesn’t have to SIT there forever, corroding in someone else’s fountain, you didn’t sign a contract with a god like “You give me a wish, I give you a coin, and somebody else’s expensive and beautiful fountain gets ruined, for collateral damage I guess, LOL”
and although stealing from the fountain is vaguely offensive, it’s more like it’s the town getting offended because they gotta buy bleach from the town budget to pay for cleaning and maintaining the fountain because of all the filthy greasy money that gets thrown into it, so why be bothered by the idea of your precious penny getting cleaned up at the end of the day, if it was a wish then it’s already SPENT, purchased, done; that’s what money does, it likes to move around and be free, it’s cruel to keep it out of circulation; if money is for anything, it is for spending; what would a god want with money? If not to see it spent again, where it can do good?
IT’S NOT YOUR COIN ANY MORE, YOU SACRIFICED IT WILLINGLY, YOU THREW IT AWAY, THAT’S THE POINT,
the coins pay for the fountain, what kind of mad half-baked theology do the young’uns subscribe to,
WHY ARE YOU MAKING VOTIVE OFFERINGS IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE,
because that’s! just! littering!
the end.
I have two thoughts:
-it isn’t their fault, blame movies like When In Rome
-the idea of there being some kind of ramification for taking a votive offering for selfish personal gain (as opposed to using it for charity, maintaining the offering place, community purposes, etc) seems logical to me, honestly, although it seems odd that it would unravel someone else’s wish instead of backfiring on the thief
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