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Miniaturist Penny Thomson makes figures, dioramas and mechanical miniatures using card, paper pulp and wires.
This is an impressive mechanical owl
New year, new deathclaugust, continuing on at twenty three with Gemstone! A very rare process of living mineralization, and one that has few seen specimens as most never make it to hatching due to their organs being petrified. Lucky survivors only have it affect scale growth.
on any given online space dedicated to 'dnd horror stories' / 'dm advice' i can solve 99% of the problems people share in one sentence
- play another game
- talk to each other about your problem like human people instead of crafting elaborate in-game 'gotcha' scenarios
- play with people you like and respect instead of people you think are dumb little worms you need to babysit
- kick out the guy who is Racist
- kick out the guy who is Misogynist
- kick out the guy who is Homophobic
- play another game
- talk to each other about your basic expectations for the game you're playing together to make sure those expecations are shared
- nope, didn't happen, this is a story you made up to demonize trans/gay/autistic people!
- play another game
- kick out the guy who is purposefully knowingly ruining the game for other people
- talk to the guy who is ruining the game for other people through no intent or fault of their own
- kick out the guy who is Sexually Harassing You
- play another goddamn game
- seriously just talk to each other out of character. just one
- the problem here is that clearly none of these people like or respect you as a person
- play games! with people! you like and respect! my final message
letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.
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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.
“Mrs R” was the pseudonym of Phyllis Shafer, a Kansas City local who helped found the Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom in 1966, a full three years before Stonewall. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she and her son Drew operated the Phoenix House, a safe haven for queer people in the city, and a hub of national queer activism. Drew passed away due to AIDS related complications in the 1980s, and his lover, Mickey Ray, spent the rest of his life fighting to keep his memory alive, largely contributing to the creation of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America.
“We tend to view American history as this constant march toward progress, which is total crap,” he says. “You gotta fight for that stuff. And if you don't fight for that, you can fall backward. Like it's not just this linear history."
Good quote from the article which may be relevant right now.
Bring this bad boy back with some delicious context for pride
🎉Mia's kittens turned 9 months old today. They made through their first winter and now they are meeting their first spring.
Boys still live in pairs, but it gets harder and harder to spot them sitting together side by side☝🏻 Snezhinka got her own house, became a serious young lady, and stopped spinning like a frivolous fluffy whirligig around a keeper who brings her food.
In a word, kittens are becoming manuls.
Jane Graverol (Belgian, 1905-1984).
When you’re non-venomous you have to up your game
So I go to the dentist and the appointment I had was not the appointment that I thought I was going to have (normal maintenance vs deep clean) so i warned the dentist "hey heads up I burn through dental anesthetics super quick and also I'd like to use as little as possible because putting the dental anesthetics in my body is the most painful part of the process unless I'm having a root canal or something" and she's like "Hmm. Okay. Is it just the injection site?" and I was like "no, it will feel like burning on the opposite side of my face and in my nose and eyes and stuff." And she was like "Hmm. Do you turn really red when this happens?" And I was like "I don't know, I can't really see myself when it happens." And she was like "are you willing to experiment with this a little?" And I was like "sure, no worries" and she injected me with one anesthetic and it hurt like a motherfucker and she and the assistant both went "OOOH" and she was like "Yeah you got really red right away let's try the other," and it was the same thing and then she was like "okay I think this is the one that will work" and it hurt a little bit but it was fucking NOTHING compared to the comprehensive full stabbing burning facial pain from the others and long story short the dentist was like "You're reacting to the epinephrine in these other anesthetics," which I guess is fairly common for people who have autoimmune disorders.
So I guess this is to say: If you get spreading, burning, stabbing pain when you are being injected with local anesthetics it's not supposed to do that and you should say something.
But the anaesthetic being injected into your gum is still supposed to hurt a lot right? Like, non-burning pain is normal? The big fuckoff needle going into your gum is still supposed to be agony yes?
Yeah, needles going into soft tissue hurts. That's why they'll sometimes offer you a numbing gel first. Or, if you're like me, liquid benadryl to swish around your mouth.
Also just going to add this here because I put it in the tags earlier, but it feels important enough to actually put in the main post: be aware not all dental polishes are gluten-free/wheat free.
I mentioned to my dentist that my mouth felt Weird after cleanings. Like allergic spicy weird, and he couldn't think what it was until he phoned the company that makes the tooth polish he uses.
Turns out all their flavored options have wheat/gluten, but it's hidden under the "natural flavor" on the ingredients. We switched to the unflavored polish, and I haven't had a problem since.
So, y'know, just in case you're having any other 'spicy' symptoms at the dentist and you have wheat and or gluten issues, that could be why.
OP turned off reblogs (and I understand why) but I wanted this on my dash
by-grace-of-god
“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life’s fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. (+)
A crop of just the Kermit Blade Runner 2049 meme I made on stream