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Something is missing from the debate over educationally suitable literature
By the way, conservatives and right wingers and fascists, they all know this. They know that when their children read these types of books they become interested in the world around them, and question everything--including their parents and other people with right wing views.
The real objection has always been against kids learning the forbidden skill of media literacy.
I do not really ship grocky but if I did I just know that their kinks revolve around control and also that they have so, so much baggage to unpack and that they Will Not do it until someone breaks down in the middle of a scene.
Grace desperately wants somebody to take the burden off his shoulders, to make the choices for him and just get him to a place where he can feel good without his brain eating him alive, and he loves Rocky, has let him closer than anyone he can remember, and has been loved and held and taken care of in return. but if a command is said just a little too harshly, if Rocky presses just a little too hard in the wrong place, his walls are down and there's nothing between him and a rush of fear and pain and the awful feeling that he's going to be betrayed again and this time he gave himself up willingly, he trusted, and now-
Rocky needs control, he's spent so long floating with no handholds and no way to tell if he was going to wake up when he collapsed, lost and scared and completely out of his depth, he relishes how well he knows Grace, how much reliable power he has here, in this place, with someone who is so responsive and loud and alive, who he loves so much. but Grace is fragile, and he's fundamentally unfamilliar, and Rocky is never really sure what's ok and what isn't, what will hurt, what will break, and sometimes Grace makes a new noise or has a new response and Rocky is back in a hundred other rooms in a hundred other memories scrambling to fix something he didn't know could break like that, scrambling to be the responsible one again, knowing he's alone here, knowing he's the one who has to take care of things because otherwise-
Me, fourteen and making OCs: okay she canât be a Mary Sue! I canât make her too cool or everyone will think sheâs unbelievable and hate her :((
Me, thirty-two and making OCs: Every person I think is hot in this video game is into this OC and also she gets to be a Special Princess. Iâll commission a propaganda portrait of her as an imperial saint.
Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found on islands and in coastal regions of South and SE Asia and the Australasian Archipelago
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btw i live on nailpolish reddit nowadays
and everyone is posting their 4th of july manis
except this year its very few american flags and red white and blue and stars.
and a LOT of pond scum inspiration
This is an absolutely FASCINATING cultural snapshot.
the hot & sour soup from the chinese place in our neighborhood has a 100% success rate of improving or all-out ending my migraines. partner, scientist that he is, did some research into why that might be (and also anything else that might help me, since I try not to google my own symptoms due to my unfortunate tendency to WebMD myself into thinking Iâm dying). that ultimately led me to try a daily magnesium tablet starting on saturday. Iâm now 48+ hours headache-free for the first time in literal weeks. donât worry, Iâm keeping a level head about it. I know this isnât a magical cure-all and it very well might just be a coincidence. Iâve got a doctorâs appointment scheduled for wednesday and Iâm not canceling it. but holy shit, itâs incredible to feel like myself again. thank you partner. thank you hot & sour soup. thank you yummy minerals
really taking all my mental strength here NOT to add that disco elysium Magnesium-Based Lifeform screencap
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in case anyone is wondering how we House MDâd our way from âhot & sour soupâ to âmagnesium supplementâ:
- I drink a lot of gatorade in addition to water because I strongly suspect I also have POTS (which is likely related to the migraines) and the sodium & electrolytes help with those symptoms. But it doesnât really seem to do much for my migraines.
- Partner noticed I tend to get migraines, and particularly ones with visual aura, an hour or two after getting back from one of my really hard weekend morning workouts. (I get migraines other times, tooârecently, just about every day in the late afternoonâbut getting really sweaty was a strangely consistent trigger, especially for auras.) I was making sure to rehydrate with plenty of gatorade and water after, so it probably wasnât just dehydration.
- Hot & sour soup is a large quantity of sodium-rich fluids that is easy for me to get down even when Iâm in pain, so it makes sense that that would be good from a POTS standpoint, but crucially, it also supplies magnesium. Not a ton of it, but guess what gatorade doesnât have any of? That led him to an article on the American Migraine Associationâs website about the suspected link between magnesium and migraines, especially ones with aura.
- So our hypothesis is that on the workout days, I was losing more magnesium than usual, drinking a ton of fluids and electrolytes to recover, but not doing anything to replenish the magnesium. And I can see a pattern on weekdays too, where I forget to eat breakfast, maybe donât do so great at eating a balanced lunch because my ADHD meds nerf my appetite, and then by 3 or 4 oâclock, after a day of drinking only water and gatorade, the headache starts (and sometimes abates after dinner, depending on what I eat.)
- So far, taking a daily 500mg magnesium tablet with lunch + switching from gatorade to gatorlyte (which does supply magnesium) seems to have helped massively with the headaches, but also with my energy levels and mood? (That could also just be the effect of consistently not having a headache for the first time in weeks, though.)
Iâm not a doctor, donât do anything I say without talking to a medical professional first, etc. However, I did just get back from my first appointment with a new doctor, and she told me magnesium (and vitamin B2) is normally her first recommendation anyway since it has fewer side effects and risks than migraine preventive medications. So since the supplement route seems to be working for me so far, she wants me to start with that and reevaluate in a month or so.
In other words, per doctorâs orders,
One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.
Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.
There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!
the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."
bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.
I ran into a truly wild cultural misunderstanding with my father some years ago, when I had to explain to him what âhookup cultureâ actually was, and that the thing he assumed it was was actually what we call âcruising cultureâ. His response was âhow is that different from dating?â and when I explained how it was different, he said, and please note that this a direct quote: âThatâs ridiculous! You canât expect a woman to stop fooling around with other guys for anything less than a marriage proposal. I mean, sheâs not a prostitute, you canât buy her.â Now obviously thereâs like⌠a lot to unpack there, but I think itâs pretty darn illustrative of a substantive cultural shift around the assumption of monogamy!
Also, following this, I asked my mom what her thoughts were on the matter, and she said that while she âwouldnât put it in those termsâ she broadly agreed, and thought that anyone expecting any sort of exclusivity when a marriage proposal wasnât at least on the very immanent horizon was ânuts, honestly.â I hesitantly asked if she was including relationships with premarital sexual activity in that, and her response was âOf course. I mean, gosh, you know your Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week before she finally settled down.â
And this was when I learned, to my shock, that the oft-repeated story of how âAunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the weekâ didnât just mean âAunt Terri had a full dance cardâ but rather meant that Aunt Terri had a period of her life where she literally dated exactly seven guys at once, all of whom she was sleeping with (or, my mom was quick to disclaim, âwell, fooling around with, I donât know how far she actually went with any of them, but they were definitely all fooling around behind closed doorsâ), on a literal weekly rotation. Like, they had a schedule. A schedule that all seven of the guys knew.
America has gotten a lot more conservative about dating, actually.
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I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up
Kotoha: i found out yesterday while talking with Granny Sato that she consistently carries four knives on her at all times. itâs as natural as carrying around her phone and wallet for her. she says if anyone ever attacks her and takes her first knife, theyâre in for a surprise. if they take her second knife? another surprise. her third knife? buddy, youâre in for a treat: another knife
Brennan has a message for you America đŤľ
âĄď¸ Go to Dropout to watch new Game Changer now
Brennan, Vic, and Aabria plead their case to a jury of their peers.
Actually when I say âfuck all billionairesâ I particularly mean Taylor âhaving my wedding in the middle of the busiest city in the world on the busiest weekend in the world in the part of the city the majority of commuters need to get through because fuck working peopleâ Swift
fuck you if you like this dumb nepo baby white supremacist.
Fanfiction is cool because you get to learn what other people's parents taught them the hymen is like
I know that I had somewhat unusually comprehensive sex ed but it still surprises me every time I'm reminded that some people genuinely think that losing your virginity is a capri sun kind of situation.
LUCI my favorite genshin artist. How do we feel abt lohen I think you'd be good at drawing that freaked out mf
GREAT GOOD GREAT
Love that guy
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the people wanted lohen so i give you lohen please be nice i put so much work into this don't let it flop đđđđ
@yurunivo
everybody: youâve got to advocate for yourself in medical settings!
medical professionals when a patient advocates for themselves in a medical setting (x100 if that patient is a part of any minority): damn. youâre a hypochondriac crazy bitch who has every mental illness and is seeking every narcotic in existence. thatâs the only reason youâd be disappointed in the care youâre receiving here. in retaliation, we will be even less helpful and less sympathetic. our jobs are hard. people are dying. we donât have time to deal with anyone who is slightly inconvenient for us.
