Woah, looks like Emmanuel Macron (new president of France) was serious in his offer to recruit Climate Scientists, Teachers, Businesses, Associations and Students to his country. His government has just launched https://www.makeourplanetgreatagain.fr/
France is offering grants worth up to 1.5 million euros (~$1,679,355 U.S. Dollars) if Climate Scientists move there for research. This is directly in response to Donald Trump announcing his plans to leave the Paris Climate Agreement.
The website is in English, as well so applying won’t be an issue.
This is amazing and the fact that the name is a massive “Fuck you” to Putin’s little orange skinned oompa loompa pet makes it even better 😀
Not to detract from anything but…aren’t all oompa loompas orange skinned?
when I try to hear this in my head my mental voice is incapable of pronouncing it fast enough to fit the timing of the line
“noooo oooone… adjksjfksfjslenry like Gaston!”
and when I try to fit it to one of the longer such lines, my mental voice becomes too confused about conflicting scansion to continue
no one’s droll like gaston no one’s swole like gaston no one fits his assigned gender role like gaston
I’m especially fond of the paaaatriaaarchy
My what a guy that gastooon
Bless you for making it scan
NOW I CAN’T READ IT WITHOUT SINGING IN MY HEAD
No one’s droll like Gaston, No one’s swole like Gaston, No one fits his assigned gender role like Gaston! For there’s no one online half as phony, His tinder’s got dick pics to spare, You can ask any neckbeard or brony They’ll show you (no homo) whose trilby they’d wear! No one drawls like Gaston Or catcalls like Gaston, Or manspreads on the train in a sprawl like Gaston! I’m especially fond of the paaaatriaaarchy! My what a guy that Gastooon!
today i got some columbian food in the back of a haunted mall how was everyone else’s day
ok i will tell the tale
so im taking this spanish class, spanish professor wanted us to go out to eat to practice. im all prepared, i punch in the address and drive 2 the place. turns out this place isnt really a restaurant so much as it is a small habitable zone at the back of a vast, empty mall
there was dead silence and darkness. 90% of the outlets were shut down and blocked off
it was 2 o’clock on a Saturday, but this mall was COMPLETELY barren. an air of powerful curses hung in the air. none of the escalators were working, i had to hike up one like stairs
of course once i got to the restaurant i had a nice time and some p good food and a guy with a saxophone serenaded us with covers of pop hits
my freinds, it was surreal
so my plans got really mixed up today and i decided to revisit the cursed mall while i was in the area! it seems things have gotten even stranger
for the most part, it is still the creepy empty mall it has always been. but this time even less stores were open, even the columbian restaurant was closed.
the food court, which was slightly open before, was utterly barren, and for some reason slightly sped-up mexican sounding music played over the completely empty venue
this was a particularly strange outlet, where instead of the remains of a store, there was a neatly set up classroom in the display window
Listen, jensen signed four underbears with good humor and wrote “rawr!” On them and flashed his rainbow underwear to a fan and if you get precious about him uncomfortable about something you need to reevaluate how you perceive reality
so here’s the thing: n o n e of this was planned. it was amazing, hilarious, ridiculous kismet.
mango’s had his birthday recently, and so i brought his birthday present with me to phxcon. part of the present was a pair of jensen’s underbears (i think the text i sent mango right after jib was, “we’re close enough that it’s not weird if i buy u underwear right????”) bc i thought that was hilarious from jib and mango is a huge jensen fan and dean!boy. so the original joke was just that mango could have the bear underwear. i also got him a second pair in orange, bc orange is his fav colour. this was as far as i thought this would go.
so i get into phoenix thursday night and give mango his present. we didn’t know there were cockles photo ops until friday afternoon when we saw hard tickets for sale. i distinctly remember being bummed that my hometown con had cockles photo ops for sale online but phxcon, the one i was actually going to, did not. but obviously once i saw they were available, like. THERE WAS ONLY ONE CHOICE. so after deciding it was completely financially irresponsible when we have no money, i bought the op.
i can’t remember when it occurred to us that we had both the underbears and a pair of lucky orange underwear for misha in our hotel room. we wanted to do something fun and funny for the op, and cracked ourselves up at the idea. but we were also aware that it could be, you know, kind of sort of maybe intensely uncomfortable to be like (a) i know what underwear u were wearing and (b) here i brought pairs of them for you to further laugh over. i have a T E R R I B L E akdslkjkas embarrassment squick, so we didn’t want to do anything that made us uncomfortable, and we definitely didn’t want to do anything that would make misha or jensen uncomfortable. we wanted them to have fun with us and play around with us.
we were also rooming with one of the volunteer supervisors and we ran our idea passed her to see if she thought it would fly or not. we agreed on judging our plan based on their mood on the day and asking them if they felt comfortable enough to do it was okay, as long as we had a back-up plan ready to go so j+m knew we were serious that they could totally pass if it was weird. CONSENT AND SAFE SPACE. we were hella concerned about this.
Here it is, friends! After JIBCon I bought the underwear with no real plans for it except to hear my own amused laughter. Then I remembered I had Jensen’s auto for Phoenix. I didn’t know if I should get them signed or not (I’m no good at judging the appropriateness of this particular idea) so I asked a few friends and they all told me to DO IT.
My friend gifted me her J2 autos which were on row C so I was one of the first people to get Jensen’s auto for this con. I got in line, but also brought a back up item in case the whole thing went south. I was really hoping for the whole thing to just be funny so I was hoping for the best. I had a photo saved on my phone from the con, photographed by the lovely and talented @monicad-photography ready to explain the whole thing to whoever I needed to so that no one thought I was too weird!
The underwear was still in the pack (I didn’t want anyone to think I had worn it, because I hadn’t) so the handler asked if I wanted the pack signed or the underwear, to which I told her the latter. Jensen was paying attention to the person in front of me so he had no idea what was next. He was slid the underwear and was just quiet for a moment. I held my breath and then opened my phone to Monica’s picture and zoomed in on the underwear section and told him some really clever people (not me!) were able to determine what the underwear was by this small swatvh. He was amazed but he still didn’t understand how they could do it off the picture. I explained there were other picture angles and that he made it easy by growling at Misha for the rest of the panel. I did a growl but since I never actually watch the JIBCon video I had no idea how he actually sounded. He growl corrected me (I was laughing hard) and he started laughing himself and meanwhile his handler was just confused so Jensen explained to her that Misha at JIB didn’t believe he had on weird underwear so he flashed him (Jensen then slid back away from the table and mimicked sliding down his pants and flashing for extra dramatic storytelling effect). He was in such a GREAT MOOD remembering the whole thing. The handler looked nervous tho. Jensen said with a smile, “You should see the ones I have on now!” And OMG y’all. He started reaching for his pants again and I thought he was about to flash me whatever new ones he had. The handler then freaked out and stretched an arm over the table telling him. “Oh! No! No!” and I said, “If the man wants to show his underwear then let the man show his underwear.” It was in a playful banter way and Jensen was laughing the whole time! I then said, “Thank you for that, by the way, Mr. Ackles.” He laughed again and then started to sign the underwear while the handler stretched them out. They are stretchy and thin so he had to sign slow. He finished his name and then paused thoughtfully for a second and started writing something below his name. “ROAR!” i just started dying laughing again, took the underwear and thanked him again. ❤
He specializes in being being heterosexual and kicking monster ass.
2. There are three things Dean Winchester absolutely does not do:
Shorts.
Chick flick moments.
And dudes.
3. He’s also always 100% honest with himself.
4. This is Sam. Also known as “the less handsome one.”
He specializes in having stupidly long, girly hair and being really tall.
5. Dean absolutely does not project his personal issues onto Sam.
Like wearing women’s underwear.
Or being attracted to guys.
Or flirting with Cas.
6. He’s a bit of a weirdo.
(But if you touch even one stupidly long hair on his head, I’ll skip rope with your entrails.)
7. And this…is Castiel.
He specializes in being a weird, dorky little guy and having stupidly pretty, stupidly blue eyes with stupidly long lashes, that you just want to heterosexually drown in forever.
Oh yeah, and then there’s the whole “angel” thing.
8. Cas doesn’t really get sarcasm. Or pop culture references (though he’s kinda gotten better at that last part.)
When he’s confused, he tilts his head to the side and scrunches up his eyebrows, and you kinda just want to heterosexually hold him forever and ever.
9. And most importantly, Dean Winchester is NOT attracted to Castiel.
He doesn’t have wet dreams about the sound of his voice.
He doesn’t touch him just a little more than he needs to, and think about it for days on end.
He never thinks about what it would be like to cook for him, and cuddle up on the sofa, and watch chick flicks together.
I mean, yeah, he does occassionally fantasize about what it would be like to run his fingers through his hair, but don’t ALL straight guys do that with their platonic bro-pals?
And yeah, he has occasionally gotten a heterosexual boner while looking at him, but that’s only natural. I mean, just look at the guy.
So yeah, Dean Winchester is not attracted to Cas. Because Dean Winchester is 100% straight.
10. So yeah , that’s Team Free Will: one ex-bloody junky, a high school dropout and my boyf- my huggy bear- and CAS.
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