Is You Okay?

Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. Psalm 116:7 ISFJ

[lustcannibalism]

ok I endured it. now what!!!!!!!!!

[depsidase]

[mysharona1987]

[ghost-mantis]

There’s actually a few things here that majorly dropped childhood mortality. In no particular order these include…

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

More recently it’s been widespread access to mosquito nets and medication to poorer and rural areas

[elierlick]

Now THIS is art. 😍

[lady-sanctum]

“When I first saw the original painting, I began to do some research on that little boy. I could find everything I wanted about every other detail in the painting, but there was nothing about him. No history. And so I wanted to find a way to imagine a life for this young man that the historical painting had never made space for in the composition: his desires, dreams, family, thoughts, hopes. Those things were never subjects that the original artist wanted the viewer to contemplate. In order to reframe the discussion, I decided to physically take action to quiet [and crumple] the side of the painting that we’ve been talking about for a very long time and turn up the volume on this kid’s story. And that’s the reason why I started that painting.” Via Artnet News 2019/03/27

[aretasreads]

Wunmi Mosaku is a first-time Oscar nominee🤍

What a beautiful performance✨

[saucefunk]

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT

[polliantics]

Posting on 1/13/2026

[campmiasmas]

There's something about being with these boys. I don't know, it reminded me that the only guarantee you have as a human being is that you are going to die. And if you're lucky, you get to choose how to spend those last moments. And you're right, Pete, this moment matters. Every moment matters. Especially at the end.

[femaledaily]

— Okay, movie lady. What's your favorite old movie? — I'm gonna be unoriginal and say Casablanca.

OH, HI! (2025) dir. Sophie Brooks

[femaledaily]

— Okay, movie lady. What's your favorite old movie? — I'm gonna be unoriginal and say Casablanca.

OH, HI! (2025) dir. Sophie Brooks

[gethimback]

LORDE What Was That (2025) | Oceanic Feeling (2022) | Perfect Places (2017)

[televisionenjoyer]

[artpopislife]

i gave lorde a friendship bracelet at the ultrasound tour. 15-year-old me, if you're seeing this, we made it

[loveuimsorry]

[prydon]

you know when you listen to one song by an artist and it's so amazing so you're like "i should check out the rest of their stuff" but then you do and none of it sounds the same or is anywhere near as good? anyway i experienced the opposite of that with RKS. listened to one song by them in 2018 and fell in love with it and just ASSUMED that the rest wouldn't be as good and so didn't listen to them. only to listen through their entire discography a couple years later and be like. oh. oh i was a fool. i was an idiot. this is just the calibre that they're working at 100% of the time

[shamebats]

[bloodytales]

Teach boys about periods

My mother also talked about periods to my brothers.

When I first got mine I had terrible cramps. Crippling cramps. I once was camping with my family and a few of my big brother’s friends when my period came. My cramps were so bad that my mom gave me a full pain killer ( I was 13 and before that she only gave me pills cut in half).

I literally laid down on my parents’ air mattress and cried in pain for an hour before the pill kicked in.

My brothers friend came in to the big tent and I was just curled up and sobbing. Now, I was quite the tomboy and was known to rough house with my brothers and their friends and made sure I wasnt seen as just “a little girl.” So my brother’s friend was confused to see me openly weeping in the fetal position (seriously, these were the worst cramps I have had in my life. My vision went white). He asked what was wrong with me.

My big brother stood up immediately and suggested a nice long hike. During this hike I am sure he had a pretty awkward conversation with his friend explaining menstrual cramps, because when they got back the pain pill had (mostly) kicked in and I was sitting up at a table when my brother’s friend sheepishly asked me if I was feeling better. I said I was better, and he said good.

When we made s'mores that night my brother and his friend kept me well supplied with chocolate.

Making sure sons know as much about periods and menstruation as daughters makes them better brothers, better sons better fathers, and better men. A man that understands a period will not lightly accuse a woman of “being on her period” if the woman is in an argument.

Raise better sons Teach them about normal bodily functions.

[virtuous-thing]

HIT REBLOG PLEASE

[randomslasher]

this reminds me of that post about that dude who carries tampons with him at the gym because “half the world menstruates” and “you will build a whole guest room in case your friends want to stay the night but you won’t carry tampons in case they start their periods unexpectedly” or something and honestly they both give me life. <3

[myathesleepyoctopus]

My periods are crazy unpredictable and sometimes they get really bad. One time in college i was sitting with my project team in our lab space and i went up to my friend to ask her for a pad. It was one if those crazy bad ones and i’d gone through my supply, and the student store had closed by now so i was kind of desperate. But i quietly asked her and she said she didnt have one. One of my teammates, a cis dude, was like “what did you need?” And of course i was like “dont worry about it man its cool haha”

And then he like, looked me in the eyes and was like “no, really, what did you need?” And at this point i assumed he must have at least partially heard me, so i said it again, kind of breaking eye contact and saying it under my breath just bc thats what ive been socialized to do around dudes, and when i turn back to look at him he had just pulled one out of his backpack and handed it to me, like it was no big deal, because really it wasnt.

Dude saved my life that day.