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5 Flights Up

I saw this movie at home, privately probably within a year after it came out. I loved it instantly for all three stories that it told. The first story, about the older couple (played by Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton) showed an accurate couple that I enjoyed. As a couple, they were overall happy and healthy and dealing with walking up a few flights as you get older in New York is a pretty realistic problem that people often don’t think about. Also, they individually and not just as a couple were likeable people. Second, is the issue with their dog (Dorothy) who they will need to pay $10,000 for a surgery for her that *may* work. Ugh, is that not something that happens all the time, especially at that cost. A famous story of my youth is when we paid close to two hundred dollars (at a major discount) to go to an emergency clinic for my hamster/guinea pig where the veterinarian didn’t even notice one eye was reed and close to 3x the size of the other.

While both of these stories were accurate, the one that really blew this out of the water for my family was the third, albeit random, story about the truck driver and its accuracy in our world. It starts just with a truck abandoned (in grid-lock traffic at first) on a bridge. They discover that it was driven by someone who is not a white guy and reports come out before anything actually happens that they think there is a bomb (even thou rush hour has passed and there has been no explosion) and his name and face are all over the news, followed I believe by his home being investigated by the police (who the fuck signed that warrant).

As this story progress I watch, with complete real-world experience, my guess is that he might have just ran out of gas and gone to get some—because they were stuck on a bridge for hours. But then why didn’t he come back…I don’t know, maybe because within a short time he was plastered all over the news as a terrorist (white upbringing v. non-white upbringing) he’s petrified now with no ACTUAL reason or understanding he’s been labelled a terrorist and NYCs #1 to look out for. In the end, I don’t think we get the story of what actually happened from reports, but come to know that he wasn’t a terrorist—typical.

Now all of these things are random, but they are also realistic to happen in a random weekend, look at the news today, so much happens before 6am let alone over a weekend and that’s what this is, just a snapshot of their lives over a few days. Maybe more dramatic than their average weekend, but not completely out of bounds and in contrast to stories that cover years or longer events, that are also good, a story that just covers a couple of days and isn’t focused on the “big events” of getting married, or losing someone— I really loved it.

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Theme 65 by Britishrobert — Static Preview / Code

*below the title, don’t forget to change “back to blog”, put the url of your blog and please don’t remove the credits*

I recommend that image be size size 160 x 160

No links, but the name can be used as such if you want to add a page to the character or something

You can add or delete one or as many as you want, they have a number, it’s easy to edit, any questions contact me

Like or reblog If you’re using. Don’t remove the credit.

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PREVIEW ( please note, in the preview the ask box isn’t active! ) || DOWNLOAD

Features - —

500px posts only

all in one accordion style theme includes - ask & ask info page, about & navigation page

up to ten additional links on navigation page

additional/main title - link to homepage

sidebar background (set to cover - will resize to fit screen, use an HD image if possible!)

easily editable font size & theme colours

Any glitches, or questions, hit up my ASK. Thanks :3

Theme made for the – #NoJSChallenge brought to you by themehive , annasthms , baechys , and magnusthemes

DON’T REMOVE CREDIT, a like or reblog would be appreciated! *please make sure to view all available options in the basic editor!

CREDITS:  css accordion slider

additional info below cut…

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New Beginnings [ Theme 116 ]

PREVIEW || DOWNLOAD

Features - —

simple container style theme

post sizes - 400px or 500px

5 additional sidebar links

editable font size & all blog colours

container image set to ‘cover’ - will resize

DON’T REMOVE CREDIT, a like or reblog would be appreciated! *please make sure to view all available options in the theme editor & preview on your live blog

CREDITS:   tooltips original code and jquery by - MALIHU  / fonts by GOOGLE FONTS & icons by LINEARICONS & FONTAWESOME.

page three: tansy — a responsive tabbed works in progress/fanfic page as requested by an anon a few months ago.

preview / code: pastebin, github

features:

unlimited number of tabs: you can add as many works as you want.

each tab has a 400px x 600px cover image. whatever image you add will resize to fit the dimensions.

space for details, summary, tropes, links, characters, important relationships, and a quote.

css variables for easier customization.

credits:

tabs adapted from this stackoverflow thread

feather icons by Cole Bemis

tippy.js tooltips by atomiks

character icons in preview by herbologies

notes on customization are included in the code, but basic html knowledge will go a long way towards helping you customize this.

Fic Recs Page 01

features

title and home/ask/archive links

4 filters + genre filters + a favorites filter. if you know code, it’s pretty easy to add as many filters as you want and change any of the filters i have set.

10 built in fic recs but you can add as many as you want by following the instructions in the code

typical theme rules apply: like/reblog if you use, don’t steal, you can edit in any way as long as you don’t use it as a base, ect. if you have any questions, ask me and i’ll try and answer. as this is a page theme, you’ll need some knowledge of html/css to edit it but i’ve done my best to explain everything inside the code. lmk if there’s anything wrong in the code!

preview ✘ code ✘

blogroll iii | preview - code (raw), alternate

a minimalistic blogroll page that features

unlimited custom links on a fixed footer

changeable number of rows and columns - directions in the code

custom colours for background, border, scrollbar and more

blogs will appear automatically so there is no need to add the blogs. if there are any issues or glitches, don’t be afraid to send me an ask here!

reblog/like if using and please do not repost or steal!

tags ii | preview - code (raw), alternate

a minimalistic and versatile tabbed tags page that features

header with title, image (default is blog icon), description and four custom links 

unlimited number of tabs and unlimited number of tags for each tab - will scroll automatically 

tags box that can be the same height as the number of tabs or fixed - instructions to change them are in the code

2 or 3 columns of tags. 3 is the default. instructions on changing them are in the code.

custom colours for background, border, scrollbar and more

tabs tutorial by phoenixthemes.

everything needs to be edited in the code, therefore basic coding knowledge is required. if there are any issues or glitches, don’t be afraid to send me an ask here! 

reblog/like if using and please do not repost or steal!

wip page 06 - a wikipedia inspired wip page

preview / code

features: synopsis, characters, and however many additional sections you want. sidebar with featured image, details section, and links. hopefully it’s pretty easy to navigate, but definitely feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions! and pls don’t remove the credit (:

(this page is responsive, so in the tumblr preview it will have the sidebar down below the main section, but it should look correct on the page itself.)

theme 192       static preview  code: get the code / alternative

   + there are 4 links, probably only one word or one line will work       + icons are 64x64, you can use any other in this format, they will resize to fit there without stretching      + also you can use the icons or not, if not, the sidebar will resize to the left      + you can choose if you want to use opacity and configure that in the appearance      + description length is the one showing in the preview, the scrollbar will activate if you use a text bigger than that, also it will adjust the size if you don’t want to use the icons       + title is only one line      + colors, body font and font size are customized in the appearance    + you have the option to use it or not borders      + you can use a background inside the container     + posts are 400px or 500px     + there’s a black and white posts option      + there’s an option to use normal captions or unnest captions

anything else you need you can send me an ask or message

peppermint : preview / download

a bookshelf page - finally! this page can be used to showcase book or fic recs and has space for the name, author, a description, a link to the book’s goodreads (or a link to the fic) and a star rating; there are instructions in the code for basic customisation as well as editing books and filters.