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I love a lot of things but many of those things are words. dirgewithoutmusic on Ao3, novels on ejadelomax.com, games on ejadelomax.itch.io, ejadelomax on patreon, second star to the left podcast, sortinghatchats
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Dirge Without Music

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost. The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,— They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve. More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world. Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.                             

#poetry.#where my ao3 handle comes from
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[podfic of] the family amidala - kbirb pods (kbirb) - Star Wars - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]
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Original Fic: the family amidala by @ink-splotch (dirgewithoutmusic) on ao3

Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Isabel Organa, Bail Organa

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Major Character Death

Tags: Padmé Amidala Lives. Uncle Obi-Wan Kenobi, Post-Order 66 (Star Wars), Alderaanian Hair Braiding (Star Wars), Destruction of Alderaan (Star Wars), Force-Sensitive Leia Organa, Naboo Royal Handmaidens (Star Wars)

Audio Length: 48 minutes, 11 seconds

Summary: 

Padme lives. She runs. -- Leia is growing in fits and spurts, eating greedily and crying loudly. She stays in a sling on Padme’s chest when they move, Luke held snug in a sling around Obi Wan’s. Luke gets a whole head of thick brown hair while Leia’s is still patchy and bald, but he never matches his sister’s powerful lungs. When Padme had been sitting in her high senatorial apartment on Corsucant, holding Anakin’s sweaty hand, she had never imagined she’d be murmuring desperately soothing noises to her fussy daughter while she shot around a corner at stormtroopers, while R2D2 meddles with a ship’s blast doors behind her. Luke starts teething on a hot jungle planet where they hunker down for three weeks, sleeping in an abandoned old temple and catching the local wildlife for dinner. Leia takes her first steps in the belly of a Corellian freighter they’ve stowed away on. She wobbles between Padme’s outstretched hands and Obi Wan’s knees and boxes of smuggled luxuries. When she falls down, Obi Wan surges forward, heart in his throat, but Leia laughs.

Notes: Literally one of my top podfics I have ever recorded. 10/10, made me sob.

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happy pride ! to the faggots and freaks, the trannies, the boygirls and girlboys and the he/him butches and she/her twinks ! to the gendervague and the genderfucked !! to every trans and nonbinary person at whatever stage they're at !! and to the eggs and the questioning ! to my bisexuals and pansexuals and omnisexuals and polysexuals and the lesbians w/ boyfriends and gays w/ girlfriends !! happy pride to the queers who wear battle jackets and the queers who stealth and every single one of you in between !! happy pride to my aces and aros !! happy pride all you funky sexual deviants and kinksters !! to my elders who faced decades of bigotry and lost many a loved one, and the youngsters learning our history and experiencing it themselves !

I love you all so so much I love us and who we are and I ask you: be kind to each other

#happy pride y’all
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Anonymous asked:

if you'll allow me to resurrect the absolute worst twitter discourse: is landing on asteroids in space to acquire metals from them terra nullius or colonialism? if so, in what sense is it?

txttletale answered:

like with all 'space colonisation' (bad name for it) actually doing it would obviously not be colonialist (no people there innit) -- the way it's depicted in the cultural imaginary, however, definitely draws on the imagery and mythology of colonialism!

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like 'asteroid mining' or 'building cities on mars' is something that doesn't exist. like it hasn't happened. and so when talking about it it has to be framed with the language and ideas developed around things that already exist within our culture. hence why, for example, the genre of 'space western' makes sense--why 'space, the final frontier' parses. the metaphorical language and imagery of colonialism is very often used for space exploration, which is i think the only sensible way to argue that so-and-so is 'colonialist' as opposed to arguing about the pure hypothetical of asteroid mining being somehow ontologically morally suspect

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there is also another sleight of hand, deliberate or otherwise, to discussing let’s say “space mining” in a contextual vacuum. they are uninhabited spheroids of irons and minerals hanging out in the void; this makes it easier to conceptualize their harvest as a neat process. images of automation, the valorized miner, the benefits to be wrought from all those resources, etc. dominate the imagination. but if this were ever to be an economically viable project, you can be sure that capital would squeeze every last drop out of those space rocks — and in doing this it absolutely will use the familiar devices of colonialism. 

if this hypothetical is seriously pursued to its logical conclusion, the realities of resource extraction as they exist now tell us the questions we should be asking: who will be doing the space mining? where will they live, under what conditions? what sort of human displacement can we expect will occur to facilitate the operation of this new industry? what economic pressures will be introduced that drive this displacement? and what i’m gesturing at here is: the question of whether space mining “is colonialist” is undetermined, but in this world under capitalist hegemony we absolutely should be suspicious that conceptions of space mining will absorb it as yet another limb of colonialist power.

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Anonymous asked:

I saw a comment on your blog that says 'the way you eat does not cause diabetes'...are you able to expand on that or provide a source I could read? I've been told by doctors that my pre-diabetes was due to weight gain because I get more hungry on my anti psychotics and I'd like to fact check what they've told me! Thank you so much!

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You Can’t Sweets Your Way Into Diabetes
There are a lot more factors at play in diabetes — more complicated than “I had a cupcake at lunch.”
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Pre-diabetes was rejected as a diagnosis by the World Health Organization (although it is used by the US and UK) - the correct term for the condition is impaired glucose tolerance. Approximately 2% of people with "pre-diabetes" go on to develop diabetes per year. You heard that right - TWO PERCENT. Most diabetics actually skip the pre-diabetic phase.

There are currently no treatments for pre-diabetes besides intentional weight loss. (Hmm, that's convenient, right?) There has yet to be evidence that losing weight prevents progression from pre-diabetes to T2DM beyond a year. Interestingly, drug companies are trying to persuade the medical world to start treating patients earlier and earlier. They are using the term “pre-diabetes” to sell their drugs (including Wegovy, a weight-loss drug). Surgeons are using it to sell weight loss surgery. Everyone’s a winner, right? Not patients. Especially fat patients.

Check out these articles:

Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn’t be

The war on ‘prediabetes' could be a boon for pharma—but is it good medicine?

Also - I love what Dr. Asher Larmie @fatdoctorUK has to say about T2DM and insulin resistance, so here's one of their threads I pulled from Twitter:

1️⃣ You can't prevent insulin resistance. It's coded in your DNA. It may be impacted by your environment. Studies have shown it has nothing to do with your BMI.

2️⃣ The term "pre-diabetes" is a PR stunt. The correct term is impaired glucose tolerance (or impaired fasting glucose) which is sometimes referred to as intermittent hyperglycemia. It does not predict T2DM. It is best ignored and tested for every 3-5yrs.

3️⃣ there is no evidence that losing weight prevents diabetes. That's because you can't reverse insulin resistance. You can possibly postpone it by 2yrs? Furthermore there is evidence that those who are fat at the time of diagnosis fair much better than those who are thin.

4️⃣ Weight loss does not reverse diabetes in the VAST majority of people. Those that do reverse it are usually thinner with recent onset T2DM and a low A1c. Only a tiny minority can sustain that over 2yrs. Weight loss does not improve A1c levels beyond 2 yrs either.

5️⃣ Weight loss in T2DM does not improve macrovascular or microvascular health outcomes beyond 2 years. In fact, weight loss in diabetics is associated with increased mortality and morbidity (although it is not clear why). Weight cycling is known to impacts A1c levels.

6️⃣ Weight GAIN does NOT increase the risk of cardiovascular OR all causes mortality in diabetics. In fact, one might even go so far as to say that it's better to be fat and diabetic than to be thin and diabetic.

Dr. Larmie cites 18 peer reviewed journal articles (most from the last decade) that are included in their webinar on the subject, linked below.

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Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes
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#hey folks did you know the joke so sweet you gave me diabetes#makes this type one diabetic want to shred curtains#also it’s ableist and fat phobic both so pls expunge from your vocab#thanks y’all
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Listen. Make pasta and rice in the microwave. Use pre-made spice mixes. Buy frozen and canned foods because you know you’ll forget about the fresh ones. Shove some carrot sticks and lunch meat into your mouth and call it dinner. Roast some veggies with spices. Put cheese on your broccoli. Put an egg in your ramen. Eat a spoonful of hummus. Drink a bunch of cans of sparkling water. Put peanut butter in your instant noodles. Make taco filling ahead of time and eat it with salsa and potatoes. Put butter on your tortillas. Dip flatbread in spinach dip. Microwave some tv dinners. Stick your hot pockets in the oven. Eat an oatmeal cookie for breakfast. Do you hear me? Get some vitamins.