Warning: minor chemistry/pedantry ahead.

Will anyone capture the Baba Yaga aesthetic?

Dunno if anyone else on here is aware, but like at the same time as Maria Sharapova published this travesty, Svetlana Khorkina published a bio that’s even whinier and me-me-mee. Is this... a thing or just coincidence? Is that how Russian female sports stars have to comport for some reason or do they just have the same…

I’ve seen her play a few times and I also thought she seemed smaller in real life! Still absolutely mesmerizing though.

Queen Serena, yes. I love how the NYT points out, after all Sharapova’s scary descriptorss, that Sharapova is actually five inches taller than Serena. Also, Serena was surprisingly smaller than expected when I met her in person. She’s muscular, but not as broad or thick as I thought she’d be from the televison. Other…

From the Times’ description of it, Sharapova does not come off well at all in her autobiography. What a petty brat.

Pretty fun to read Sharapova going on about how big and strong Serena is in person considering Sharapova has 5 inches on Serena.

So not only does Tamblyn’s description of the encounter ring true, she follows/juxtaposes it with this;

I love Serena Williams so much. I love that she is just doing her thing totally unbothered while Shriekadopa tries to steal the headlines with something that happened over a decade ago. I hope Serena keeps putting out baby pics and training videos whenever Maria opens her yap.

Had this been a little white child and Black teens, you’d see them tried as adults.  

1) “The boy’s uncle, Lyrik Martin, who also posted photos of his injuries on social media, wrote in a post that he wasn’t sure the attack was racially motivated”

My grandfather, who is in his 80s, decided he didn’t need to evacuate. It’s a huge problem trying to convince elderly folks to leave because they are even more likely than younger people to trust their own experience. He said that he made it through Andrew, so he’ll probably be fine. He lives on the ground floor and…

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from a lifetime of being the working poor, it’s that people who have never been there can never understand, really, what that is like. They love to hand out countless situationally inappropriate/completely useless suggestions, though! Must be nice.

They’re poor. Do you understand poor? Do you understand having $0 in your bank account?

“The government will not be supplying bootstraps for you to pull yourself up on, you people are responsible for finding your own.”

I live in Tennessee so some people who can evacuate are heading into this area. I saw a local hotel offering a special rate for evacuees. It was still $100 a night at the fucking Holiday Inn that will surely have a lot of unsold rooms at any rate. Like how TF can people afford that? Some of my friends who wanted to…

Yes, and do so quickly. They attract others.

“BATON ROUGE, LA—As punishing wind and rain from the former Hurricane Harvey made landfall, government officials urged Louisiana residents Wednesday to evacuate dangerous lower income brackets. “Given the extent of the potential destruction, we urge anyone in the path of the storm to make their way to higher median…

I am always pissed off when people are all “Why didn’t they just leave?” Well, let me tell you as someone who could have been in that position. Where are you going to go? You don’t have a car...you rely on public transportation...whoops..that’s stopped running. Maybe you have relatives that can come get you, but…