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Know your roses guys Or you just might fuck up the moment

and you dont want to do that ._. 

salmon is for desire

what am I looking at

I can’t even remember how many times I’ve reblogged this anymore

forget the Internet things that would be incomprehensible 2 years ago phenomenon

where is the appreciation for Internet things that you could show to someone from 3000 BC and be almost sure they’d get a kick out of it

A short list of things that probably would be funny to humans in any time ever:

  • objects shaped like dicks
  • funky dances
  • dancing badly to bangin music
  • dogs being stupid (we’ve had those idiots domesticated for 30,000 years)
  • teenage boys being stupid
  • slapstick
  • that video where the guy is singing/chanting while bouncing on a tree branch and it abruptly breaks under him
  • that video where two guys are trying to get their phone out from behind a fence with sticks and one loses his stick so the other climbs the fence, gets the stick, and ignores the phone
  • literally any video with animals acting like people
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Happy Disability Pride and awareness month! Let's talk about Epilepsy!

Hi there! I got tired of seeing my condition (that impacts my literal every day life) being left out or forgotten about during discussions about disabilities, so I made my own post about it! Let's go!

First Off! What the heck is epilepsy? Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the world, and it's a chronic medical condition. Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes recurring, frequent, triggered, and unprovoked seizures to occur.

The official Epilepsy Foundation describes seizures as follows: "Seizures are sudden surges of abnormal and excessive electrical activity in your brain, and can affect how you appear or act. Where and how the seizure presents itself can have profound effects...Seizures involve sudden, temporary, bursts of electrical activity in the brain that change or disrupt the way messages are sent between brain cells. These electrical bursts can cause involuntary changes in body movement or function, sensation, behavior or awareness." (Source link)

Sounds like a lot of fun right? This is our life. Even with medication, we can be VERY limited to what can be safe for us. Seizure medications are NOT a cure, they only exist (at least as of now) as a tool to help have your seizures less often, or be triggered less intensely. Even on medication, seizures can still happen.

If you have epilepsy as a child like I did, it impacts your entire growing and developing experience. I spent MANY times as a child in and out of hospitals, neurologist and specialist offices, an getting so many EEG tests done. The pain of scrubbing the glue out of your hair for DAYS is horrible.

At a young age my seizures were so frequent and serious, it impacted my brain's ability to retain information. I had to re-learn the names of things at age 8 and 9. I had to re-learn HOW TO READ at age 10. I had to be home schooled because the public school system of my state at the time refused to work with me. I have VERY distinct and vivid memories of crying over my little baby ABC's book that I needed as a 4th and 5th grader. I knew I should've known this by this age. I knew that at one point I already did, and it was TAKEN FROM ME.

As an adult, I'M NOT ALLOWED TO DRIVE A CAR. And I can NEVER go to see a movie in theaters or go to see concerts or live music. There are entire TV shows I don't get to see. I can't go to clubs, arcades, dances, or raves. I miss out on A LOT of fun things. I always do, and I'm WELL AWARE of the fun I'm missing out on. The social, casual, and fun life experiences I'll never get to have. That WE'LL never get to have. And oh yeah! Seizures can KILL SOME OF US. Yep.

And the list goes on, and every person with epilepsy experiences it differently. There are multiple different types of seizures you can have, they're NOT always convulsing on the floor. For example, I have complex-partial-myoclonic-seizures. Meaning my muscles DO twitch when I have seizures, but I'm not always completely unconscious and sometimes I'm even able to stay sitting up. However, I'm still very "off" and can't focus or remember much for a good while after the fact. I can't talk or communicate during one, even with my slight bit of consciousness.

My experiences are not universal, I just wanted to talk about it and bring it up. It helps to talk about it even a little bit. Here's more about different kinds of seizures. Here's more about common seizure triggers. Here's more about CORRECT seizure first aid. And here's more general information/resources.

Please stop leaving us out of disability awareness. Please stop ignoring us or saying we're "not really disabled" or anything else like that. Please. Why does it always feel like the only people who care about epilepsy, are people WITH epilepsy? We're so tired of being ignored by others who don't have our condition.

If you're an epileptic person reading this, I see you. I love you. You're so strong, we all are. I believe in you, I believe in us. We're so much stronger than we get credit for, and it's going to be ok. Your anger and frustration are valid. Your emotions and struggles are real. You're valid, and I see you. Hang in there, we got this.

It is interesting that while it is not as commonly discussed today, epilepsy was a very prominent condition in the past, with many characters in literature having the condition, as well as, most famously, Alexander the Great, who almost died durring his first battle when he had a seizure on a horse crossing a river. Julius Caesar also, rather famously, suffered from epilepsy, and this caused many, including Cleopatra, to see him as a parallel to Alexander, who was a major diety by that time in Ptolemaic Egypt. Perhaps due to Alexander, or much older religious connections, epilepsy has long been associated with greatness, and a connection to the gods. In ancient Greece it was refered to as the Sacred Disease.

Other figures include Abbé Faria in The Count of Monte Cristo, Lenin, Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain's Daughter, and Hercules.

It is also often falsely attributed to many other historical figures, particularly by ancient Greek and Roman historians, such as Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Pythagorus, Hannibal, Napoleon, Newton, Beethoven, Lord Byron, and Tennyson. Likely due to its association with greatness and divine knowledge. Dante even wrote himself into the divine comedy as having epilepsy dispite, most likely, not having the condition in reality.

In your personal opinion what was each Primarch's, not just the Traitors, greatest flaw?

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OK, let’s take it from the top!

I. Lion El’Jonson: Paranoia. His inability to trust people is the reason it took Luther to actually get his crusade against the Great Beasts going, and gives him an independent streak that causes major problems in Imperium Secundus.

II. +[REDACTED]+

III. Fulgrim: Pride, vanity.

IV. Perturabo: There’s anger and paranoia, but bitterness is the core. He appears to deal with things stoically, but underneath he builds up resentment until he snaps - the anger is the release, the paranoia the defence mechanism to lower his expectations of others.

V. Jaghatai Khan: Unpredictable and impetuous, he lives in the present and doesn’t do much in the way of planning ahead.

VI. Leman Russ: Raised a legion of hypocrites in spite of his own surprising self-awareness. In fact he was probably too self-aware, and got swept up in paying the part he believed he was meant to play.

VII. Rogal Dorn: Uncompromising and inflexible, which stems from his idealism. He attempted to fortify the palace effectively with one arm tied behind his back because he wanted to make sure everything could be put back. Incapable of bending, he either stands strong, or breaks, which nearly kicked off a second civil war.

VIII. Night Haunter: A total psychopath utterly convinced his actions were justified. Very much a “two wrongs make a right” kind of guy.

IX. Sanguinius: Dare I say a bad word about Sanguinius? Well, yeah. There’s obviously some anger issues in there somewhere, hence the black rage, but he also has a case of imposter syndrome and a streak of self-pity. He’s terrified of letting other people down and overly concerned with his own flaws.

X. Ferrus Manus: Anger, which his sons are so eager to overcome that they virtually lobotomise themselves.

XI. +[REDACTED]+

XII. Angronius Thal’kr: Anger would be too easy, although it does go beyond the Butcher’s Nails. I think spite may be closer to the mark. He doesn’t believe in anything, he defines himself by what he is against.

XIII. Roboute Guilliman: Views everything as part of the bigger picture. Individuals become part of systems to which they must conform, yet the system is ever-changing as he steals his brothers’ ideas. Struggles with deviations from expected norms. His focus on what was best for the Imperium as a whole after the Heresy contributed to him handling Dorn very poorly.

XIV. Mortarion: Insecurity, which he projects onto others in his loathing of psykers after he was too weak to stop his father, and eventually turns him into everything he hated most.

XV. Magnus Rubricatus: Arrogance, and a surprising impetuousness and naïveté that flow from that. Believing he knows best, he doesn’t think about things as much as he should, meaning he misses things that should be obvious to someone as intelligent as he is. The galaxy’s dumbest smart guy after the Emperor himself.

XVI. Horus Lupercal: Absolutely desperate for attention.

XVII. Lorgar Aurelian: Very naïve and trusting, which results in him putting people on a pedestal thank frankly don’t deserve to be there. He somehow managed to overlook all of Kor Phaeron’s many, many flaws (aka his personality) for several centuries.

XVIII. Vulkan: Relies only on himself. The first thing he does when he finds out about Horus is order a giant weapon stash to be destroyed, trusting no-one else except himself to use them. You have to wonder how much he really thinks about what he does given that he also managed to feel bad about killing an Eldar kid even though he’s totally on board with his Father’s planned genocide of their (and every other xenos) species.

XIX. Corvus Corax: Self-destructive inasmuch as he is prepared to do bad things for the right reasons, but can’t quite get over having done them. He believes he’s doing the right thing even as the doubts fester, and the end result is self-loathing.

XX. Alpharius Omegon: A stealth specialist who feels the need for everyone to know how good at stealth he is.

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Black Person: *Does exactly what policeman tells him to*
Cop: *Murders him*
White People: I totally believe that was justified coz he was in fear for his safety.
KKK, nazis and alt-righters: *Straight up go around saying they want to kill Jewish people, POC, LGBT people and liberals. And do it too*
Antifa: *Punches one of them*
White People: Now hold on just a gosh darned second. Don't fight hate with hate. They're just words. I guess we see who the real violent ones are.

Those were probably just two different white people

Pup interrupts soccer match, gives interview.

The commentator narrating the pup’s moves with the ball is AMAZING and I’m crying

“(…) right, but he decides to kick the ball. He gets close, and who grabs it? The Friend(dog)! Yes! A pup got into the field. He’s tied to it. He puts it under his paws and shows what football was missing in the Gasometro (field’s name). The [team]’s men want to grab him, but they cant! The Friend has his eyes on the ball. He runs to find it again. Yes! He bites! He kneads! He wants it close! He gets lost, he’s so happy! Castro (player) wants to kick his Corner but he can’t. He tells the pup “enough, enough, go over there”… however *commentator laughs*, there’s the pup! When he puts it on the floor, [the dog] goes again for the ball. And of course, as any skilled man, wants it all for himself. A bit of an over-eater, this pup. And he clearly has shown conditions / talent. [The team] found the way to the goal thanks to the Pichicho’s (little dog) essential input…. who, of course, as any protagonist had his place at [the tv show].“

*camera switches to interview where dog barks and mounches on the reporter’s mic (who allows him do it)*

I’ve been watching Argentinean football all my life and I can confirm this is the best to ever happen on a match.