A new constellation has been named in honor of Earth’s favorite star man.
The Belgian radio station Studio Brussel and the public astronomy observatory MIRA have teamed up to register seven stars—appropriately located near Mars—as a unique celestial constellation in memory of singer David Bowie, who passed away on Jan. 10.
Playing connect-the-dots with the seven stars yields the shape of a lightning bolt—an homage to the one that streaks across Bowie’s face on the iconic cover of his 1973 album Aladdin Sane.
I JUST FOUND OUT KANSAS CITY IS NOT LOCATED IN KANSAS STATE
WHAT
THE FUCK
AMERICA EXPLAIN?
well part of it is at least :v
GOOGLE IS TELLING ME IT BELONGS TO MISSOURI
?????
There is also Kansas City, Kansas -the two meet up at the state line – but it’s much smaller than Kansas City, Missouri. Wichita is actually the biggest city in Kansas.
Also, KcK is the worst part of Kansas City. It’s where all the rich white people migrated to because Brownback cut taxes so far down.
So: rich white people, low taxes, and little to no diversity.
The highlights of KcK involve a yarn store, a renfaire, and the best gaming shop I have ever been to.
Uh… Hi. From southeast kc.
Missouri logic oh your from Kansas City, MO friend. Kansas City, KA the devil!!!
That… must be a city services’ nightmare
I mean, a city between states has different laws applying to the same city right? Also who do you pay your taxes? Or who picks up your trash? Idk in a place i used to live there was a town that was being absorbed by another town and i remember they used to have a shitton of problems with postal codes, garbage recollection, water service things, because the municipal gov couldnt agree with what the federal gov wanted, and there were two municipal govs so…
but i digress, IS KANSAS CITY MAN, ISNT IT LOGICAL TO ALL BE IN KANSAS??
WHY WOULD YOU EVEN NAME IT KANSAS CITY AND NOT MAKE IT BE 100% IN KANSAS
Uh, they’re actually 2 completely different cities… the only thing they share is the same name.
That whole area is rife with places named after the Native American peoples who lived in the plains states, like Ioway, Cherokee, Osage, Chillicothe, Shawnee, Wyandotte, Olathe, and Miamis just to name a very few. “Missouri” itself comes from the name of a Native American Tribe. So, the name of the city comes from the Kansa Native American tribe that lived in the area. The Kansas river is also named after them, as the Missouri river is named after the Missouria tribe. The city of Kansas was first settled at the confluence of these two rivers.
(And, FYI, Kansas became a state 40 years after Missouri. :P)
Oh please, Snyder fucking knew the entire time that he was forcing these people to consume poison. The problem is there’s too much public awareness of what lead poisoning does to kids and now that a huge percentage of children in Flint are testing positive for lead exposure, the feds are going to show up and hopefully throw his ass in jail if we’re lucky.
This was intentional, because Snyder doesn’t give a shit about poor black people and thought he could get away with poisoning them.
What’s even more unsettling for me is that the change in water supply was put into effect under MI’s emergency manager’s authority. This was someone appointed by the governor’s office to run the Flint city government. Basically, the governor’s office determined that Flint “wasn’t being run properly” and so took over running the city government, superseded the authority of the city’s elected officials and thereby disenfranchised every voter in that city. Somehow, when the chips are down, the answer to the problems faced by impoverished communities in MI was to get rid of democracy. The emergency manager was never accountable to the citizens of Flint, only to the state government. And this is what makes this kind of disaster possible.
Ok, seriously though, where does this idea that Sam was made to feel ‘important’ in his childhood come from. Please point me to one piece of canon evidence that says that Sam felt this, that Sam was made to feel that he had value or that his wants and thoughts and feelings were valued and important, please just one.
This is a child who thought he was dirty and unclean at a very, very young age – it didn’t just come from no-where, Sam didn’t make this up out of his head and I don’t buy that he ‘sensed’ the demon blood, this was a feeling that came from the environment in which he was raised.
And when this is then paired with so he still values himself (because someone who says “I’m the least of you” really sounds like someone who thinks they have value!) and “he takes care of himself” – like, does he? Because I’m fairly certain Sam really, really doesn’t….
Just….I’m sorry, but stuff like this makes me want to vomit…
It’s complicated and messy, I think. There’s a sense in which you could say that Sam and Dean were both made to feel important in their childhood, but in opposite and in both cases destructive ways. Dean had a job – looking after his brother – he was also a participant in the family secrets and the family mission. That is, in a warped way, a kind of importance. But not only was he given a completely inappropriate level of responsibility for a young child, he was also instrumentalized. He came to feel that he was his job, that he was “Daddy’s blunt instrument” in ways that feed into both his later self-identification as a depersonalized killer and the ways his relationship with Sam get twisted by defining Sam as his job rather than an equal and autonomous person. (ETA: and what happened with Lisa and Ben shows that this isn’t just a problem that obtains in his relationship with Sam; he extends the internalized model to familial relationships formed in adulthood.)
As for Sam, I think, again in a warped way, being the object of ‘protection’ (at this point in SPN I can’t seem to type that word without scare quotes) is a kind of importance in the family structure, but more destructive than constructive for self-worth. Sacrifice is an apt later illustration of that pattern: trying to affirm someone’s worth with “I do all these things of which you are the object” at once positions them at the center of something and denies their intrinsic value. And the sense of unclean otherness, whether it came from some perception of demon blood or from John’s suspicions about Sam’s place in the supernatural drama surrounding the family (I don’t think it makes a huge difference which it is, and it can be both; SPN is fantasy, its metaphors are literalized) also stages Sam as a central figure, but being the dangerous one or the freak (the one who in canon time becomes the one who by John’s rules might have to be put down) isn’t exactly an affirming importance.
I do think that Dean’s mediating position in the family structure was real, and that it did involve an element of being a buffer between Sam and John. The thing about that structure, though, is that Dean was also a conductor and mediator of the abusive structures of the family. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT SOMETHING FOR WHICH DEAN SHOULD BE BLAMED; HE WAS A CHILD, IT WAS ABUSE OF HIM AS WELL AS OF SAM. But when he was thrust into the position of caretaker, while it did mean that Sam had someone giving him care, it also meant that the care Sam was getting was both only that which a child could provide and only that which a child whose primary model of parenting was John Winchester could provide. It’s an uncomfortable truth that child!Dean’s caretaking often echoes John’s. John abandons his kids; Dean leaves Sam alone (in the Something Wicked flashback, in the AVSC flashback, in the pattern of dropping him off at Plucky’s). Dean was a participant in gaslighting Sam about the truth of his life. (Again, not something for which Dean, a child, is ethically accountable, but it’s still a part of Sam’s formative experience.) Kid!Dean gets angry and physical with kid!Sam when Sam mentions Mary in the AVSC flashback. And there’s a lot of evidence (Bugs, for example) that Dean backed up rather than challenging John’s behavior to Sam. The ways in which Dean has become more and more John-like in many ways in his dealings with Sam in canon time are deeply rooted in their childhood patterns.
I would say that Sam developed some impulses of healthy self-care, though he also has rifts of catastrophic lack of self-worth and self-destruction. Being positioned as the outsider from whom secrets were kept within the family undermined him in a lot of ways (and it’s significant that his story both within and beyond the family often echoes the motif of having his sense of reality radically compromised), but it did also give him a kind of perspective and an impulse to question and investigate that stood him in good stead in striking out from the family pattern in healthy ways, though undertows within and without are always pulling him back. But I wouldn’t say that makes him lucky. People can get certain strengths from traumatic experience (Dean as well as Sam; Dean would never have survived purgatory without that ability to form small, cohesive us-against-the-world bondings that is very much related to the John Winchester model of family), but trauma is still a fundamentally destructive thing.
Yes! I agree, wholeheartedly. And long ago I agreed in many, many, many words. 😛
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