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dailydcheroes:

Vanessa Hudgens DC Comics superhero comedy gets series order

DC Comics is offiically launching a comedy series on NBC.

The network has given a series order to Powerless, which stars Vanessa Hudgens (Grease Live)
as a “spunky young insurance adjuster specializing in regular-people
coverage against damage caused by the crime-fighting superheroes.”
(Think The Office meets Agents of SHIELD minus Marvel).

More details about the pilot storyline: “It’s
when [Hudgens’ character] stands up to one of these larger-than-life
figures (after an epic battle messes with her commute) that she
accidentally becomes a cult ‘hero’ in her own right … even if it’s just
to her group of lovably quirky co-workers. Now, while she navigates her
normal, everyday life against an explosive backdrop, Emily might just
discover that being a hero doesn’t always require superpowers.”

Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi and Christina Kirk are also in the cast, with Ben Queen as writer and executive producer.

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arturum-expectare:

Doc, what are the top five items food banks LOVE to receive? I’m doing a collection soon and want to ask for specifics.

jumpingjacktrash:

peoplemask:

keyofjetwolf:

docholligay:

docholligay:

MONEY. WE WANT MONEY. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY. WE CAN DO SO MUCH WITH IT. WE HAVE ACCESS TO DEALS YOU COULD NEVER. MONEY

That aside.

 I’m only going to talk about food items but if your food bank takes personal items, a lot of times diapers, feminine hygiene products, etc, are very very welcome. 

1) Canned chicken and beef 

looooooove this stuff. It’s expensive, it lasts forever, it tastes good and it can be used a variety of ways. This stuff is fucking catnip to food banks, it’s so hard for us to provide proteins. 

2) Fancy nut butters

Peanut butter is a standby for food banks as a shelf-stable inexpensive protein, but if we have a family with a kid with a peanut allergy that’s not going to work. Non-peanut butters are expensive and it’s something we hardly ever see donated. (we also like peanut butter, but that’s easier for us to buy ourselves than non-peanut butters)

3) Canned or packaged tuna

You may notice a trend here in shelf-stable proteins. And yeah. That’s basically it, so I’m not going to keep harping on it. But this stuff is a godsend. 

4) Easy breakfast things for kids (Granola bars, instant oatmeal, and the like) 

Whatever Donald Trump tells you, most people who get food from food banks are actually working their asses off and so they have to leave Obama to raise their baby or whatever, and they don’t have a lot of time in the morning. Things like this that kids can make for themselves are expensive. (Another trend you may be noticing–donate shit that costs a lot of money. That helps us more than all the shitty green bean cans in the world) But they are so helpful for busy working families where the parents may not have a set schedule and sometimes little Amanda is making her own breakfast before she runs off to school. Don’t let kids go to school hungry. 

5) Shelf-stable juice

This is one people never think of! But if you show up with a bunch of (preferably reduced sugar stuff) bottles of juice at my door, oh man, you are gonna get so many check mark and okay hand emoticons. This stuff is great for kids, and it doesn’t require refrigeration until it’s opened, so it works great for food drives. 

SPEAKING OF FOOD INSECURITY. 

FOR MY FELLOW EAGLE FUCKERS, THIS SATURDAY, MAY 14th, IS THE STAMP OUT HUNGER FOOD DRIVE

The postal service will come pick up food left by mailboxes and in post offices and deliver it to your local banks. This is a list of stuff we REALLY want and need, please take the time to read it and consider donating YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE

IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW

GOOD THINGS TO DO

Also: Food banks! It’s summer & kids are out of school soon, which means that for a lot of food insecure families, 2 meals a day are not necessarily offered. There are meal programs in some places, but not everywhere. People get hungry year round, not just over “the holidays.”

Money. Tampons. Diapers. The stuff listed above. Consider sending a small $ donation every month to your local food bank. It’s not a huge gesture, but the family down the street with both parents out of work will feel it.

see if your local grocery store has a partnership with a food bank; sometimes they put together package deals based on what the food bank needs. you buy a bag of groceries they picked out, and they deliver it.

devipotato:

as a general rule if you see some “cool trick” on the internet that involves combining chlorine of any form (including bleach or tablets) with anything else, you shouldn’t do it because they are almost definitely trying to seriously hurt or kill people who don’t know any better. things like mixing bleach with other “household cleaning supplies” are especially huge red flags–it sounds harmless, but the chemicals in these things react to create extremely toxic gas, or worse

stuff like that almost universally comes from places like 4chan where it’s fun and cool to misinform people in the most dangerous possible ways, and it’s nothing short of evil that people use something as incredible as the internet to literally kill strangers for no reason

avelera:

“America is now wholly given over to a d[amne]d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public is occupied with their trash.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Another essay on fanfiction I’ve been meaning to tackle for awhile is the similarities I see between fanfiction, and the 19th c. sentimental novel. 

A quick recap: women have been writing novels just as long if not longer then men. When the novel was first created, it was considered a lower former and, as Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses in this article, it was only after considerable effort put in to the novel form by women, elevating its medium, that it suddenly became respectable and those women’s names were, by and large forgotten by time as “lower” once male authors took to it.

The quote above by Hawthorne is a well-known one, where he lamented that his own high-brow works simply couldn’t compete against the trashy novels being published by the women of his era, as in fact, these women were outselling him by 100,000s of copies. It may actually be that, well, no one really enjoyed his work. One of the novels of this era, part of the sentimental movement that Hawthorne was criticizing was a little book you may have heard of called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe which, its problematic aspects aside, is credited by Abraham Lincoln for helping to start the Civil War. This was because it was one of the first accessible books to actually describe the horrors of slavery, and slaves as people, in such a way that people felt an emotional of sentimentality and horror towards slavery enough to stand up en masse and call for it to end. So these “sentimental” trashy novels Hawthorne hated actually had historic ramifications because they were emotional and made people feel things. In fact, the sentimental movement is also credited with helping to bring sympathy to other social causes, like ending the death penalty, child labor, and other social ills, (which I can’t help but notice is somewhat similar to fanfiction and the push for LGBTQ* rights that making beloved characters gay actually helped to push as a cause among young women).

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