Ria. XXVI. A nice young lady.
But really, a snarky fandom elder and, unfortunately, lawyer. INTJ. All about art, literature, fashion, comics, and fandom hell. Diana Prince shaped my childhood, and Steve Rogers is aspirational in adulthood. Skills include writing, procrastinating, and sometimes cosplaying. I appreciate long fics with good characterization. I am very tired.
methinks….people underestimate how makeup is an actual real psychological trauma and im not being hyperbolic. being incapable of seeing your bare face in the mirror w/o being shook to your core and spiralling into a chain of negative emotions that ruins the rest of ur day? viscerally fearing being observed w/o makeup so much it informs how and when and IF you dare to move in public spaces? how many women fear intimate relationships bc they cant stomach the thought of someone seeing them w/o makeup? being so alienated from your own body that either exposing it or being exposed to it renders u depressed disturbed and disgusted sounds like textbook trauma responses to me
this post shot me in the stomach with a sawed off shotgun.
the curiously tender connection between serbian/croatian/bosnian ‘volim te’ (i love you), polish ‘wolę ciebie’ (i prefer you) and proto-slavic ‘velě̀ti’ (to want, to choose). i love you and thus i want you, i choose you, i prefer you above all else.
so today I drove past a traffic sign that said ‘hey teens buckling up is totes yeet yo’
i wish i was joking but after we screamed a bit my brother attempted to get a picture as proof, failed, and ended up with this masterpiece that pretty much sums up the whole experience
You mean this sign?
Missed opportunity for “Seatbelt safety; stay seated, not yeeted”
She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughter’s lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonald’s coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.
Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughter’s lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.
Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burns–which cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layer–within 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didn’t stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonald’s coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonalds’ justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the “frivolous” lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.
Classy.
Never, ever take a corporation’s side over aprivate citizen when lawsuits are involved.
She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this woman’s life were a miserable hell because McDonald’s was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.
Not just that–the last few years of her life were miserable because McDonald’s was too cheap to throw away old coffee.
