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Oct. 18th, 2018
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tiger-in-the-flightdeck:
admirable-mairon:
theotherwesley:
cuteanimals-only:
Rescued Pallas’s cat kitten eye colour changed from blue to yellow just before she was two months old.
I HAVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN A PALLAS CAT IN BABY SIZE
HELP
I thought they just manifested fully formed and full of rage
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tiger-in-the-flightdeck:
admirable-mairon:
theotherwesley:
cuteanimals-only:
Rescued Pallas’s cat kitten eye colour changed from blue to yellow just before she was two months old.
I HAVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN A PALLAS CAT IN BABY SIZE
HELP
I thought they just manifested fully formed and full of rage
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My favorite thing about The Good Place...
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dsudis:
…That I haven’t really seen people talk about (although they may well have and I’ve just missed it). A lot of people talk about the fact that the show is about people struggling to be good, and about the circumstances and relationships involved in that.
But what I really love about The Good Place is how it portrays evil.
The demons may be conventionally attractive people, but they’re not sexy, even if they may perform sexiness. They’re not evil in some interestingly baroque way. They don’t have manpain or hidden motivations; humans have those, and humans can learn to overcome their worst impulses and do better. The true agents of evil are just petty jerks who hurt people and increase the level of misery in the world because they think it’s fun. Team Cockroach’s failings are human and self-defeating and kinda endearing, but the demons are not only assholes pulling wings off flies and laughing about it, they have a really annoying laugh.
I don’t know when I’ve ever seen a portrayal of evil that so completely represented it as bad and undesirable, rather than interestingly forbidden and probably having more fun.
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dsudis:
…That I haven’t really seen people talk about (although they may well have and I’ve just missed it). A lot of people talk about the fact that the show is about people struggling to be good, and about the circumstances and relationships involved in that.
But what I really love about The Good Place is how it portrays evil.
The demons may be conventionally attractive people, but they’re not sexy, even if they may perform sexiness. They’re not evil in some interestingly baroque way. They don’t have manpain or hidden motivations; humans have those, and humans can learn to overcome their worst impulses and do better. The true agents of evil are just petty jerks who hurt people and increase the level of misery in the world because they think it’s fun. Team Cockroach’s failings are human and self-defeating and kinda endearing, but the demons are not only assholes pulling wings off flies and laughing about it, they have a really annoying laugh.
I don’t know when I’ve ever seen a portrayal of evil that so completely represented it as bad and undesirable, rather than interestingly forbidden and probably having more fun.
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prismatic-bell:
fuckyeahasexual:
enoughtohold:
michigander514:
laurdlannister-kingslayer:
caterpillaremoji:
tarynel:
If you ask someone to get tested before yall engage in sexual activities and they give you a rough time… fucking run. They can keep whatever they have to themselves.
this post is SOOOO ugly.
the only thing i’m running away from is ur HIV stigma honestly
good stay away
Wanting to avoid a disease that will ruin all future chances of having a healthy, physical relationship with someone or producing healthy children is stigma?
hi! i know this post is a bit old, but i have good news! people with HIV can absolutely have happy, healthy lives including sexual relationships with HIV-negative people.
people with HIV who are receiving successful treatment can keep their immune systems strong, and reduce the level of the virus in their blood so low it’s undetectable, which means they can’t transmit the virus! also, PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a medicine HIV-negative people can take to protect themselves from HIV, kind of like the birth control pill.
this way, it’s possible for someone with HIV to conceive a child through sex without transmitting HIV to either partner or baby! and we’ve known how to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child through treatment for decades. in many places, like new york, it is now actually rare for babies to be born with HIV.
but all of these good things are harder to achieve when we let stigma and lack of information get in the way of prevention, testing, and treatment.
now you know!
The stigma of STDs must be challenged!
- Fae
Okay, here’s the thing, and I think y’all missed it:
Let me use myself as an example.
I have herpes simplex 2. That’s the one that gives you cold sores, and up to 80% of the global population has it. But, even though it’s not genital herpes, if you go down on somebody during an outbreak, they can get herpes 2 in their junk. And it’s nasty. The usual problem is “just” a cold sore, but during severe outbreaks–which can occur if, for example, you’re on antibiotics during an outbreak–you can develop sores on your lips, inside of your mouth, even in your throat. They break, they bleed, they ooze, it sucks. During my last major outbreak (so far my only major outbreak, thankfully) I ate nothing but lukewarm soup for a week.
So now let’s say I have a new partner, and I’m in what I think might be the starting stages of an outbreak. Because I am an honest person, and feel they have the right to informed consent, I’m going to ask if they get cold sores (if the answer is yes, they’re fine, because you can’t get herpes twice). If the answer is no, I’m going to tell them I have herpes 2, explain what that is, and suggest we cool it with the kissing and/or sexytimes until I’m not virus-shedding. And nobody has given me shit for this, ever. I’ve had a couple of people thank me for my honesty. That’s it.
But now let’s say I’m a total shitstain. I know I’m in an outbreak. And I do not tell my partner, and I go down on her. I have decided, for her, that for the rest of her life she should deal with occasional bouts of weeping sores, raw skin, and thick mucous crusts on/in/around her genitals and possibly on and in her mouth.
I’ve given her a lifelong disease. She had no chance to consent or even say “I am willing to take this risk.” Isn’t that basically a form of rape?
So if you ask someone for an STD test and they refuse, they are hiding something and you should run. If you ask for an STD test and they say okay, or just straight-up say “I can get tested to check my viral load but you should know I have HIV,” that person is a keeper. They will be honest with you about their health and yours. They probably have information on how to reduce your transmission risk even further, and will inform you and use that information. (Which doesn’t take the onus off you to do your own research, by the way, it just means you have a starting point.) And as noted above, if their viral load is undetectable, they can’t transmit! I wouldn’t start having regular condomless sex without guidance from a sexual health expert, but you really have very little to fear.
Don’t be afraid of the STD, or the honest person who has it. Be afraid of the person who refuses to disclose.
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prismatic-bell:
fuckyeahasexual:
enoughtohold:
michigander514:
laurdlannister-kingslayer:
caterpillaremoji:
tarynel:
If you ask someone to get tested before yall engage in sexual activities and they give you a rough time… fucking run. They can keep whatever they have to themselves.
this post is SOOOO ugly.
the only thing i’m running away from is ur HIV stigma honestly
good stay away
Wanting to avoid a disease that will ruin all future chances of having a healthy, physical relationship with someone or producing healthy children is stigma?
hi! i know this post is a bit old, but i have good news! people with HIV can absolutely have happy, healthy lives including sexual relationships with HIV-negative people.
people with HIV who are receiving successful treatment can keep their immune systems strong, and reduce the level of the virus in their blood so low it’s undetectable, which means they can’t transmit the virus! also, PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a medicine HIV-negative people can take to protect themselves from HIV, kind of like the birth control pill.
this way, it’s possible for someone with HIV to conceive a child through sex without transmitting HIV to either partner or baby! and we’ve known how to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child through treatment for decades. in many places, like new york, it is now actually rare for babies to be born with HIV.
but all of these good things are harder to achieve when we let stigma and lack of information get in the way of prevention, testing, and treatment.
now you know!
The stigma of STDs must be challenged!
- Fae
Okay, here’s the thing, and I think y’all missed it:
Let me use myself as an example.
I have herpes simplex 2. That’s the one that gives you cold sores, and up to 80% of the global population has it. But, even though it’s not genital herpes, if you go down on somebody during an outbreak, they can get herpes 2 in their junk. And it’s nasty. The usual problem is “just” a cold sore, but during severe outbreaks–which can occur if, for example, you’re on antibiotics during an outbreak–you can develop sores on your lips, inside of your mouth, even in your throat. They break, they bleed, they ooze, it sucks. During my last major outbreak (so far my only major outbreak, thankfully) I ate nothing but lukewarm soup for a week.
So now let’s say I have a new partner, and I’m in what I think might be the starting stages of an outbreak. Because I am an honest person, and feel they have the right to informed consent, I’m going to ask if they get cold sores (if the answer is yes, they’re fine, because you can’t get herpes twice). If the answer is no, I’m going to tell them I have herpes 2, explain what that is, and suggest we cool it with the kissing and/or sexytimes until I’m not virus-shedding. And nobody has given me shit for this, ever. I’ve had a couple of people thank me for my honesty. That’s it.
But now let’s say I’m a total shitstain. I know I’m in an outbreak. And I do not tell my partner, and I go down on her. I have decided, for her, that for the rest of her life she should deal with occasional bouts of weeping sores, raw skin, and thick mucous crusts on/in/around her genitals and possibly on and in her mouth.
I’ve given her a lifelong disease. She had no chance to consent or even say “I am willing to take this risk.” Isn’t that basically a form of rape?
So if you ask someone for an STD test and they refuse, they are hiding something and you should run. If you ask for an STD test and they say okay, or just straight-up say “I can get tested to check my viral load but you should know I have HIV,” that person is a keeper. They will be honest with you about their health and yours. They probably have information on how to reduce your transmission risk even further, and will inform you and use that information. (Which doesn’t take the onus off you to do your own research, by the way, it just means you have a starting point.) And as noted above, if their viral load is undetectable, they can’t transmit! I wouldn’t start having regular condomless sex without guidance from a sexual health expert, but you really have very little to fear.
Don’t be afraid of the STD, or the honest person who has it. Be afraid of the person who refuses to disclose.
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dapurinthos:
zennistrad:
silencingthedrums:
lavvyan:
politicalsci:
This! This is why I start cursing like a sailor the minute someone brings up aaaallll the things we the people can do to stop climate change.
Spoiler: it’s nothing. Oh, sure, you can recycle your trash, but that doesn’t mean much when it all ends up getting burned anyway because our economy doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity to deal with the sheer mass of trash, and no interest in doing so. Like, “sure, our company could switch to environmentally friendly packaging, but that’d mean we’d have to change things and it might cost us a whole cent more per article and that’s just not viable you know, so sorry.”
Or, yes, you can absolutely bike to work instead of driving, but your CO2 emissions are nothing against what big companies blow into the atmosphere every second. Nothing.
Or, yes, you can absolutely grow bee-friendly plants in your yard, but that won’t save them.
By all means, be environmentally conscious! In fact, I strongly encourage you to be! But let’s be real here, our individual footprints on this planet aren’t what’s killing it. Big Industry is.
Same with food/water waste!! It annoys me so much when commercials and gov’t campaigns emphasize individual waste when corporations are doing the OVERWHELMING majority of the wasting.
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
—
Utah Phillips
There is no fight against climate change. Climate change won and all we can do is try to mitigate it.
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dapurinthos:
zennistrad:
silencingthedrums:
lavvyan:
politicalsci:
This! This is why I start cursing like a sailor the minute someone brings up aaaallll the things we the people can do to stop climate change.
Spoiler: it’s nothing. Oh, sure, you can recycle your trash, but that doesn’t mean much when it all ends up getting burned anyway because our economy doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity to deal with the sheer mass of trash, and no interest in doing so. Like, “sure, our company could switch to environmentally friendly packaging, but that’d mean we’d have to change things and it might cost us a whole cent more per article and that’s just not viable you know, so sorry.”
Or, yes, you can absolutely bike to work instead of driving, but your CO2 emissions are nothing against what big companies blow into the atmosphere every second. Nothing.
Or, yes, you can absolutely grow bee-friendly plants in your yard, but that won’t save them.
By all means, be environmentally conscious! In fact, I strongly encourage you to be! But let’s be real here, our individual footprints on this planet aren’t what’s killing it. Big Industry is.
Same with food/water waste!! It annoys me so much when commercials and gov’t campaigns emphasize individual waste when corporations are doing the OVERWHELMING majority of the wasting.
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
—
Utah Phillips
There is no fight against climate change. Climate change won and all we can do is try to mitigate it.
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Yaaay I finally got Bruce framed! After letting him sit in cellophane through 2 flat moves… #BruceWayne #GentlemenBats #NickDemakes @boutiqueduvampyre @gentlemenbat
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Yaaay I finally got Bruce framed! After letting him sit in cellophane through 2 flat moves… #BruceWayne #GentlemenBats #NickDemakes @boutiqueduvampyre @gentlemenbat
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ghost-of-bambi:
When you realise that Snape probably got into learning Legilimency because he wanted to read Lily’s thoughts.
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ghost-of-bambi:
When you realise that Snape probably got into learning Legilimency because he wanted to read Lily’s thoughts.
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headcanonsandmore:
moonfootblupin:
alrightevans:
so i know that the point in prisoner of azkaban is that harry isn’t really seeing the grim its just sirius but honestly that doesnt change the facts like 1. sirius’s animagus form just happens to look exactly like the grim 2. the first time harry sees him he nearly gets merked by a triple decker bus 3. the second time harry sees him he falls 50 ft from the air 4. sirius’s friends and family are all dead by the end of the series.
not sayin my man is accidentally an omen of death but he kinda is, which tbh totally works for his brand
Alright, but HERES THE BEST PART: in folklore, a grim is the spirit of the first person to be buried in a graveyard. It stays on earth and helps guide spirits to the other side where they can rest. Why is it a dog you ask? Great question. Because not a lot of people were willing to let their loved ones become the grim, thus it became tradition for a graveyard to be started with a dog that would loyally send people to their afterlife. You know, KINDA LIKE SIRIUS DID WHEN HARRY WAS KILLED BY VOLDEMORT. It also connects well to Sirius’ own death connecting him to the veil THE SAME WAY AN ACTUAL GRIM WOULD BE. Like, the concept of Sirius as a grim not only fits, but actually seems pretty well thought out.
In fact, I might even go so far as to say that Sirius’ animagus wasn’t a dog, his animal form was a GRIM THE WHOLE TIME. After all, it’s the people who loved him who died suggesting that he was gently guiding those he cared for towards a more peaceful afterlife without even realizing it.
Well, I didn’t need my heart today…
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headcanonsandmore:
moonfootblupin:
alrightevans:
so i know that the point in prisoner of azkaban is that harry isn’t really seeing the grim its just sirius but honestly that doesnt change the facts like 1. sirius’s animagus form just happens to look exactly like the grim 2. the first time harry sees him he nearly gets merked by a triple decker bus 3. the second time harry sees him he falls 50 ft from the air 4. sirius’s friends and family are all dead by the end of the series.
not sayin my man is accidentally an omen of death but he kinda is, which tbh totally works for his brand
Alright, but HERES THE BEST PART: in folklore, a grim is the spirit of the first person to be buried in a graveyard. It stays on earth and helps guide spirits to the other side where they can rest. Why is it a dog you ask? Great question. Because not a lot of people were willing to let their loved ones become the grim, thus it became tradition for a graveyard to be started with a dog that would loyally send people to their afterlife. You know, KINDA LIKE SIRIUS DID WHEN HARRY WAS KILLED BY VOLDEMORT. It also connects well to Sirius’ own death connecting him to the veil THE SAME WAY AN ACTUAL GRIM WOULD BE. Like, the concept of Sirius as a grim not only fits, but actually seems pretty well thought out.
In fact, I might even go so far as to say that Sirius’ animagus wasn’t a dog, his animal form was a GRIM THE WHOLE TIME. After all, it’s the people who loved him who died suggesting that he was gently guiding those he cared for towards a more peaceful afterlife without even realizing it.
Well, I didn’t need my heart today…
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