Please, Please Pray For The Caribbean.

Many injured people are in need of blood after the horrific Las Vegas mass shooting. Here are some services that are currently taking in blood donations. 200+ people are injured so they’re gonna need a lot. Spread this around so Nevada citizens can know where to go if they wanna donate blood!

Reblog if you are NOT a Donald Trump supporter.

My family ranted to me last night about how they think Donald Trump is the only responsible person trying to run for president and they think “everyone supports him”.

I want to prove them wrong.

Someone help me convince my sister that we should see Justice League in theaters.

She wants to wait until it comes out on Blu Ray, but I want to go see it. Reblog and explain why we should see it, please!

OMG I can't wait. I am so excited that Once Upon a Time got renewed for Season 4. One of My Favorite Show on TV!!!!!!!! :)

Congratulations on Once Upon a Time being picked up for a season four!

Read the latest chapter and really liked it. Will there be a sneak peak for the next chapter soon to tie all of us readers over until the full chapter is posted?

Sasha Hardy had been visiting Joe Carroll in prison for years, determined to get the information she needed from him. But now, she’d been drawn into the investigation and the search for Joe’s followers

It had been Joe’s plan all along, all part of his game.

And Sasha had just become one of the main players. Mike x OC ***SEASON ONE WITH ADDED CHARACTER***

@piratesbooty63fan replied to your post: If you see me on here posting, and liking…

Back away from tumblr you are too close to tumblr! GET BACK TO PACKING!!!! LOL :D

It sounds like “An Age Cannot Sate Love” by DancingDoula on Fanfiction

There’s a time travel fan fic where somehow Emma gets sucked through Henry’s book and ends up in the past with lieutenant jones and captain jones. She gets in trouble because she steals from them and she asks them to help her get back. She erases Killian’s memories until she gets back to him in the present and gives them back to to him. Do you know which fic this is because I can’t find it anywhere. Thanks.

i searched in my time travel fic library and couldn’t find this one

anyone knows this fic?

I so know that one! It called “An Unusual Story” by Cynthia03 on fan fiction (icapturedkindness on tumblr)

Okay I was wonder if you can help me?😩. So I lost a fic where Killian is Emma’s boss and I believe when they first met was on a coffee place. It was M rated and that’s all I remember. Please if you can think of any fic that matches this summary can you tell me?.

hmmm, sorry, i can’t place it

anyone knows this?

This just made my day! Welcome back Bex! 

Finally, the moment you were hoping would come (as a certain song goes) — Rebecca Mader is returning to ABC’s Once Upon a Time.

TVLine has learned exclusively that the onetime series regular is set to reprise her role as Regina’s sister Zelena aka the Wicked Witch in multiple Season 7 episodes. No further details were available at this time.

“I am beyond thrilled to be returning to make magic with my beloved Once Upon a Time family,” Mader, who made her debut on the fantasy series midway through Season 3, tells TVLine. “I’m excited for this next chapter.”

Busting out the Oz empress’ motto-turned-musical episode solo title, she adds/reminds: “Wicked always wins!”

Along with Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Jared Gilmore and Emilie de Ravin, Mader was among the half-dozen actors not returning for the Season 7 “reset” as series regulars, while Lana Parrilla, Robert Carlyle and Colin O’Donoghue stayed on as the Evil Queen, Rumplestiltskin and Captain Hook. (As previously reported, Gilmore, Morrison and de Ravin will make one-off encores in Episodes 1, 2 and 4 of the coming season, which premieres Friday, Oct. 6 at 8/7c.)

New to the mix for the Season 7, meanwhile, are Andrew J. West and Alison Fernandez (playing grown Henry and his daughter Lucy), Gabrielle Anwar (as Lady Tremaine), Dania Ramirez (Cinderella) and Mekia Cox (Tiana), while Adelaide Kane and Rose Reynolds Reynolds will recur as Drizella and Alice.

On May 28th, my sister, Edna, turned 31.

 Her mental age is about three years old. She loves Winnie the Pooh, Beauty & the Beast, and Sesame Street. Even though the below picture is unconvincing. 

Edna and “Cookie.” I think she was trying to play it cool. 

My name is Jeanie. I’m Edna’s younger sister. I’m also her guardian and caregiver. 

That’s me on the left. (Hey, you never know. After a year of writing a blog about online dating - Jeanie Does the Internet - I’ve come to learn that there are A LOT of fools on the internet.) 

ANYWAY, I’m not “doing the internet” anymore. I’m taking care of Edna full-time, after completing my MFA in Writing for Screen & Television at USC.

May 16, 2014. I wanted a picture. Edna wanted breakfast.

In case you’re wondering where our parents are, they’re dead. Our mom died of breast cancer when she was just 33. 

Us with mom before she died. (Obviously.)

As for our dad, he peaced-out around the time my mom got sick. His loss - we’re awesome. 

Here we are being awesome at the beach. Pushing a wheelchair in the sand? Not so awesome. 

In case you’re wondering “What’s wrong?” with my sister - as a stranger once asked me on the street  -  NOTHING. Yes, Edna has a rare form of epilepsy - Lennox-Gastaut syndrome - but I don’t know if that’s anymore “wrong” than people who don’t have manners. 

Basically, Edna was born “normal,” and started having seizures as a baby. They eventually got so bad that they cut off the oxygen to her brain, causing her to be mentally disabled. Or impaired. Or intellectually disabled. Or whatever you want to call it - except “retarded,” because in 2010, President Obama signed Rosa’s Law into effect, replacing that word with “intellectually impaired.” 

Which is cool and all, but services for the disabled and the people who care for them are SEVERELY LACKING. Also, there’s a bunch of people working in taxpayer-funded positions who are supposed to help families like us, but don’t. (Big surprise, I know.) They just fill out paperwork (whenever they feel like it) with asinine statements like this: 

YUP. I transport my sister down the stairs in her wheelchair, because that is not only safe, but TOTALLY PRACTICAL. Why doesn’t everyone in a wheelchair just take the stairs, for God’s sake? Stop being so lazy, PEOPLE WITHOUT WORKING LEGS! 

But, as it says above, Edna’s legs do work. Whether or not she wants them to, is another story. 

Edna refusing to go inside. 

These are the stairs that I have to carry her up - by myself - on a daily basis. That is, until one of my legs break and both of us are just sitting at the bottom of the stairs, helpless. 

For six months, I have begged - BEGGED - the State of California to help my sister, which they are required by law - The Lanterman Act specifically - to do so. But they’ve told me “these things take time” and that I “need to amend my expectations.” (That was said to me when I refused to place Edna at AN ALL-MALE CARE FACILITY. Because yes, that was an “option” that was offered to me.) 

Prior to Edna moving in with me in my one-bedroom apartment, she was living with her amazing caregiver, Gaby, back in Tucson, where we went to high school and I did my undergrad. Edna’s reppin’ the Wildcats below. 

But back in November, Gaby also died from breast cancer. (FUCK YOU, BREAST CANCER!) This picture was taken a month before she died. She never even told me she was sick because she didn’t want me to worry. 

By the way, we were raised by our grandma. Edna and her were very close.

She’s dead, too. Surprise.

She died when I was 20 and Edna was 21. That’s when I became Edna’s legal guardian and Gaby stepped into the picture to help me out with Edna. 

So, six months ago, after Gaby died, I moved Edna to California, where I tried to get the folks over at The Frank D. Lanterman Regional Center to help me. I’ve told them I’m worried about our safety - that one of us could get hurt on the stairs -  I’ve told them I can’t afford to pay the private babysitters $15/hour because the ones social services sent me who make $9/hour were unreliable (they didn’t show up on time or at all so I could get to school and work), untrustworthy (one of them let Edna go to the bathroom in the kitchen and then took her into the bathroom because “that what I thought I was supposed to do.”) 

But the people over at the FLRC don’t return my calls, they don’t file the paperwork on time - and the first caseworker that was assigned to us actually LAUGHED AT my sister when he came to our home to evaluate her. When I reported him to his supervisor, she told me, “That’s just [insert name of said jackass].” 

He was one of the two caseworkers that contributed to the report I mentioned above, which also included this: 

So let me get this straight - I have to feed, bathe, dress and help Edna in the bathroom and you can’t deduce whether or not she is able to vote? What in the fuck?!

Now I realize I seem angry. And you can bet your balls I am. I’m also sad. Sad for those who don’t have family to stick up from them and who waste away God knows where, monitored by no one. Or monitored by people who physically and sexually assault them. 

I’m also sad for the caregivers who are SO EXHAUSTED - trying to take care of their loved ones - while also trying to take care of themselves and battling a system that is supposed to help, but does nothing of the sort. And I know a lot of people give up. They let their dreams, their marriages, their friendships slide. All while trying not to resent the very person you’re doing it all for.

Edna wanted to sit next to me the other day while I was writing. Clearly, she’s not impressed. 

Here’s the thing: I REFUSE TO GIVE UP. I’M NOT GIVING UP ON HER OR MYSELF. I’m going to pursue my dreams while taking care of her, AND while ensuring that the people paid to do their jobs ACTUALLY do them.

That’s where you come in. I need you to help me get my story out there. Because I know I’m not alone in this. I want to connect with families who are in similar situations and also show people who have no idea what it’s like to care for someone with a disability (or even a loved one who is sick) that it can be rewarding. Super fucking hard. Exhausting. Painful. Isolating. But, rewarding. 

I’m going to get help for my sister - and others. My hope is that by sharing our story, I can bring awareness to the lack of services and help for the disabled. 

Thank you, 

Jeanie 

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Twitter: @EisforEdna