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Update:

The medical insurance company finally got back to my family. They’ve sent a modest check that doesn’t even cover a 1/4 of the bills my parents have to pay. Apparently, this is only an initial amount while they continue looking into the claim. They didn’t give any designated time for when this will be done. We don’t even know if we’re getting more than this, which is frightening to say the least. 

I’ve gotten some pretty terrible anonymous asks recently, which is why anonymous is now off. I don’t know why people think it’s easy asking for money. It’s not. I honestly would rather help my family by working, but I still haven’t found a job, and it’s been months. I honestly hate doing this even though I realize that my family needs help, and this is all I can really do. 

So, if you can help my family out, please do so by clicking the link above or visiting my page for the button at the very bottom that reads “Donate.” There, you’ll also find a link right below the button that gives some background info about my dad’s cancer.

If you can’t donate, please reblog and signal boost. Thanks. 

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angrybanette:

grim-dark:

your ~social justice~ pass has been hereby revoked.

omg are we still thinking that moffat is capable of writing queer chars and holmes and watson aren’t straighty mc straight straight?

some people cannot fucking do critical media analysis to save their…

Wait…Where does it say that Lucy Liu’s Joan Watson is queer? That is not the vibe the getting from the trailers.

Also, I’m not sure about the BBC’s John and Sherlock, but Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes and Watson are definitely not Straight McStraight Straight. Queer readings of canon are possible, even inevitable, since neither character follows a hetero-normative life script in an era when there was far more social pressure to do so.

I badly want to see a modern adaption of Sherlock Holmes that takes into account the implications of their relationship. I want it before Joan Watson’s character starts sending out baby shower invitations (don’t say it isn’t going to happen, look at Temperance Brennan and Dr. Dana Sculley).

I’d like a Queer Holmes and Watson in something more like 221B Baker Towers, but I’d also like BBC Sherlock to grow up and stop it with the fanservice and get to the real heart of this matter. I don’t put my hope in Moffat but I do put it in Mark Gatiss. Anyone want to dispute his credentials to write queer characters?

One more thing, because I’ve been one quietly steaming Queer Holmesian for awhile. I like Lucy Liu. She’s fierce and beautiful and awesome. I’d love her as Holmes. But she still doesn’t feel like a Watson to me. The trailers haven’t helped. It’s like seeing Mark Hamill in Harrison Ford’s costume.

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Diane Tran has a lot on her plate for a 17-year-old. After Diane’s parents moved away, Diane stayed behind and started working two jobs to provide for her family — all while taking college-level classes at her high school. But when Diane recently missed school due to exhaustion, she was charged with a crime and sentenced to pay a $100 fine and spend a night in jail. 

Diane’s classmate, Devin, told reporters that between a full-time job, a part-time job, and making the honor roll, it’s no wonder Diane was tired. “She stays up until 7 in the morning doing her homework,” Devin says. 

Judge Lanny Moriarty didn’t have to sentence Diane to a night in jail, but he wanted to make an example of her.”If you let one of them run loose, what are you going to do with the rest of them?” Judge Moriarty told reporters. “A little stay in the jail for one night is not a death sentence.”