i’m planning a trip to europe (yes!! me!!!) and a friend in london texted me last night just to say she’ll follow me ard anywhere :”)... it’s so nice to be surprised that people really do want to just spend time with you, while here i was packaging diff day schedules together for her to choose one she wouldn’t mind doing...
idk friends...just wanted to come by and say.. i’m doing real well
“moving on was always easy for me to do” she sang, you know, like a liar
haunted being like “i can’t move on, i refuse” and all too well being like “i can’t move on, i’ve tried” and hoax being like “i can’t move on, even as you’re twisting the knife in my back i love you” and last kiss being like “i can’t move on, i barely survive” and right where you left me being like “i can’t move on, i’m frozen to the place where you broke up with me” and death by a thousand cuts being like “i can’t move on, i see you everywhere” and breathe being like “i can’t move on, no one knows me like you” and the 1 being like “i can’t move on, i’m drowning in what ifs” and sad beautiful tragic being like “i can’t move on, it was cruel and beautiful and safe and terrifying” and clean being like “i can’t move on ten months later but i’m trying” and my tears ricochet being like “i can’t move on, you literally killed me” and bigger than the whole sky being like “i can’t move on, i’ll be trying to for the rest of my sorry life” and and and
I cannnottt stop thinking about how like. this isn’t really what taylor signed up for. sure, she signed up to be an entertainer and a performer but like. she didn’t sign up for the rest of it. and sure one could say it comes with the territory but also, she started out around the same time portable internet and social media was being developed and taking off. being an entertainer and performer has drastically changed in the last 20 or some odd years due to social media. and it reminds me of the willow mv where she walks onto the stage with her ukulele and once the song is over, turns to walk off stage but finds it’s become essentially a glass cage. many thoughts many thoughts.
Previously, parents were told SIDS could be prevented if they took proper precautions: laying babies on their backs, not letting them overheat and keeping all toys and blankets out of the crib were a few of the most important preventative steps. So, when SIDS still occurred, parents were left with immense guilt, wondering if they could have prevented their baby’s death.
Dr. Carmel Harrington, the lead researcher for the study, was one of these parents. Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago. (...) Harrington explained what she was told about the cause of her child’s death.
"Nobody could tell me. They just said it's a tragedy. But it was a tragedy that didn't sit well with my scientific brain.”
Since then, she’s worked to find the cause of SIDS, both for herself and for the medical community as a whole. She went on to explain why this discovery is so important for parents whose babies suffered from SIDS.
"These families can now live with the knowledge that this was not their fault," she said.
(...) As the cause is now known, researchers can turn their attention to a solution. In the next few years, those in the medical community who have studied SIDS will likely work on a screening test to identify babies who are at risk for SIDS and hopefully prevent it altogether.
honestly if teleporters ever got invented during my lifetime i would be the most annoying analog boomer about it. my grandkids would be like ugh, grandma, why don’t you just take a teleporter trip to come visit us, we all do it all the time and it’s obviously safe and i would be like absolutely not. it kills you and reconstitutes a copy with your exact memories. you are consciously my grandchildren and i do not hold it against you but i know in my heart that you are nothing but copies of copies of copies borne out of irresponsible technology use. i am not touching that devil’s elevator as long as i live. i will take an airplane and you will wait for the several hours it takes for me to come visit you
oh heck I forgot to reblob this this year.
Annual reblog time again.
I scream every time
Like. He is ready for this con to be OVER. He likes this girl but he was in it for the money and he knows that’s the one question he forgot to give her an answer to, because no one knows what he did that night.
The absolute wonder in his face as he realizes the girl he saved has been right in front of him; it’s no longer a con. The money isn’t even in his mind. He’s gone his whole life assuming she’s dead or long gone, that he failed.
But here she is, and in this moment he’s so shocked and awed, and it’s such a beautiful moment.
(Via @catefrankie )
You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless
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Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds - Ada Limón
ok reading further into visual snow and CEVs it’s so strange to me. like I legitimately thought everyone had this ‘screensaver’ in their brain if you close your eyes and this was the baseline human condition 24/7. turns out not everybody sees like..a vague kaleidoscope of shadows and occasional rippling colour changes when they close their eyes even when 10000% sober? i’m learning so much lol
this is one of the closer simulation gifs i found, mine’s less vivid usually, maybe like 30% of this opacity
seems many people are able to experience these at some point in their lives, especially on a hallucinagenic substance. but for others it is a constant experience to some extent. I don’t want to pathologize something that’s technically a “normal” experience but yeah I believe I fall into the latter category
not too much has been written or studied it’s a very new topic so we really have no clue what percentage of the population considers this normal. and it’s very easy to trigger by rubbing your eyes. so yeah most people have these and it’s harmless on its own, just seems to depend how jumpy your neurons are
Please do not pass this by without reading it
Louder for the people in the back: No sympathy, no quarter, and no mercy
[Image Description: a twitter thread by Yonathan Zunger. The tweets are as follows:
People seem to think “Nazi” is meant as a slur or term of abuse. It’s not: it has a straightforward, literal meaning.
After World War Two, there was a campaign to argue that Nazism had no real ideology, that it was just some group of people, to delegitimize it.
That had some value, but its downside was that people forgot that Nazism *does* have an ideology, and it never went away.
Nazism conceives of the world as a struggle between races.
That’s not “race” in the twentieth century United States “black/white” sense; Jews, Slavs, Britons and so on are all “races”, too.
And Nazis believe that races have certain characteristics, which are passed on through the blood; and that they are bound to some land.
There are a few other articles of Nazi belief: for example, that acting (“the will”) is better than thinking (a sign of weaker races).
And that the strength of a race is most strongly exemplified through the untrammeled Will of its leaders.
(If you’re thinking, “Wait, you just made an ideology around obeying people who don’t think?” you may have spotted one of the problems.)
The “National Socialism” is a very real thing, too. It’s socialism *for members of the nation.* And they decide who’s in and who’s out.
Government subsidies for “good, decent people?” Sure. Just don’t give it to those parasites.
So here’s the important thing: These ideas make up Nazism. You don’t need to wear a swastika to believe in them.
And here’s the other important thing: if you’re in the United States, you may have grown up hearing “Nazis are the bad guys” without learning *why.*
Or you may have learned about concentration camps, but not about what happened in the ten years leading up to them.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they didn’t build camps. They passed laws restricting jobs for “non-German races” (nations).
They argued that money spent on the disabled was simply a drain on society, and we should move them to hospitals.
They held angry public rallies which often included violence. Their leaders and militias flaunted the law, because they knew it didn’t apply.
They saw who they could kill and get away with, and gradually, over time, expanded that.
They encouraged “voluntary self-deportation” of unwanted Jews, by barring them from holding jobs.
When no county wanted a few million refugees, it was their proof that nobody wanted the Jews.
So camps were started up as administrative holding centers, where they could be put to good use - that is, as slave labor.
The disabled, moved to remote hospitals, were out of sight and out of mind: so that’s where they did their first experiments of mass murder.
I could go on about this for hours, but the point is: this was a story of an ideology which did exactly what it said on the label.
Not by showing up one night and starting to kill people, but slowly, gradually, building up public normalization of what they did.
When I refer to Nazis in the United States, I am not using this as some kind of generic slur against people I disagree with.
Nazis are people who subscribe to the ideology of Nazism, plain and simple, whatever organizations they do or don’t affiliate with.
Nazism is an ideology fundamentally inimical to everyone who isn’t a Nazi. It is a known and proven threat to life.
“Punching Nazis” is a way to signal to them that their ideology is not welcome in the public sphere, to keep them quiet and afraid.
If Nazis are extremely few in number, and very reluctant to speak, then their public speech becomes an opportunity for the public to rally against them, to reiterate its refusal to allow this. This is where the old ACLU “speech for Nazis” argument came from.
If they are somewhat bigger in number, they become a part of public discourse - thus legitimating questions like “well, *are* [X] people?”
To legitimize these questions is to require every such group to continuously prove their humanity, and their right to even argue back.
This is not a real counterspeech remedy. Normalizing the question of “Is [X] human?” places the burden on them to continuously prove it.
This why Nazi speech is a public danger when they are in anything but the smallest numbers.
What are their numbers? cf this Reuters/Ipsos poll from a few weeks ago: [descriptor’s note: there’s a link there that is partially obscured, I couldn’t track down the twitter thread or the link itself, because four years have passed. end descriptor’s note]
14% of people (N=5360) were neutral to positive on Nazis *when referred to by that name.* Support for their ideas was much higher.
Punching Nazis is a minor control mecanism: it silences the danger without amplifying its speech. But it doesn’t solve anything.
Historically, there has been exactly one solution for Nazis. It did not come cheap.
Never forget what Nazism is - and that when it appears, it needs to be stopped immediately and vigorously.
“Nazi” is not a slur, and it should not be used for anyone who does not advocate those ideas. But it should be used for those who do.
And for those: no peace, no sympathy, no quarter, and no mercy.
/end ID]
your twenties are Also about discovering that you’re not a bad person in all the ways you believed you were but you’re a bad person in completely new and exciting ways
Kudos to fanfiction writers for writing about all the trauma and emotional and mental turmoil that the original content creators dont acknowledge when putting characters through hell
This has evolved to one of fanfiction’s major assets in my eyes. To every author that cares enough about the characters in their stories to examine trauma, but also the slow, tedious processes of healing and recovery: your stories mean so much to me and other persons with mental health problems. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
