Ash's Space

Things you will likely find here: The Blacklist, books, Once Upon a Time, Criminal Minds, The Good Wife, Covert Affairs, Rizzoli and Isles, How I Met Your Mother, and a bunch of really pretty shit.

[trueplainhearts]

literacy + reading comprehension + critical thinking comeback 2k26 let's make it happen

[sophsun1]

#my mood for the christmas season

Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996-2003)

[josie-and-the-pussycats-2001]

Reeve Carney (with Eva Noblezada) leaving the Hadestown stage for the final time [x]

[the-day-is]

Today is: Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

Aka 174 years since Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine

[greelin]

warm baked goods are insane. something so beautiful and almost maddening about absolutely tearing into them when they’re fresh. feeling warm all over after. I really do get vampires for real

[greelin]

people still regularly jumping on this post like “ummmm…” “what was that last part???” “not where i expected this to go AT ALL” what’s not clicking. Something is wrong with YOU. not me.

[doggiewoggiez]

when you accidentally call your teacher 'mom' during sex

[doggiewoggiez]

the notes are teaching me new things about the president of france

[memeuplift]

[thememedaddy]

[rimonoroni2]

i think we should be talking about the semi-recent advancements in cystic fibrosis treatment like all the time every day. there hasn’t been a drug like this since AZT medications for HIV infection it is truly fucking miraculous and very important

[rimonoroni2]

basically: cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which makes the mucous a person generates extra sticky. it used to kill people in infancy, then with advancements in medical tech it killed people in young childhood, and until very recently cystic fibrosis patients could expect to live until about thirty years old with consistent painful lung infections and complications.

in 2019 the FDA approved a drug called trikafta (which is really three drugs in one) for cystic fibrosis treatment. what it essentially does is patch up the malfunctioning proteins that cause the extra sticky mucus. trikafta is effective on about 90% of cystic fibrosis patients.

people who had spent their entire lives in and out of hospitals, on and off of ventilators, suffering from pneumonia and sometimes treated through painful procedures like intubation took this drug, got out of bed, coughed up an entire lifetimes worth of mucus out of their lungs over the course of a few hours, breathed clearly for perhaps the first time in their lives, and now go on to live well into their seventies.

like isn’t that insane. isn’t that amazing. doesn’t that give you hope for the future of medical advancements and treatment. fuck. i think about it all the time……

[kittydesade]

There’s a WHAT.

For WHAT.

[sweetdreamspootypie]

It's been amazing!

My ward is the respiratory ward - CF is one of the things we specialize in.

Since this med came out we haven't had a SINGLE CF admission to the ward

There used to always be a CF patient spending a couple of months with us at a time

There's a man who is 23 years old who I was sure would not survive his next admission (aim saturations 85% is end stage lung disease)

There's a set of the local frequent flyers that we all know so well

Except

No we don't

On the CF specialist ward (with reasonable staff turnover)

Half the staff have probably never even seen a CF patient

They are going to live

[anartificialsatellite]

For the people asking "well how do we know people are living that long if it's so new????" Here's a page from the CF foundation about life expectancy.

Additionally, it should be noted that metrics like life expectancy are in no way a guarantee of... Anything. There are significant outlier CF patients who are at an advanced age now despite the odds due to a variety of different factors, having lived the majority of their lives before the development of modulators.

But the fact remains that the odds are better now than they have ever ever been before, by leaps and bounds. It isn't cured, and many patients still need significant treatment in addition to Trikafta, but it is so much better than anyone could have dreamed of twenty years ago, and that is a triumph.

[theconcealedweapon]

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[katiagrim]

Sometimes I love the internet, actually. Incomprehensibly huge place but also so small. Saw a video on Instagram where Crayola was announcing they’re coming out with a box with some limited edition previously retired colors, including Dandelion. This video had hundreds of comments and almost all of them where “omg where’s the dandelion crayon girl she’s going to be so happy” and it was such an unimportant thing, but it was just cute

[katiagrim]

The tags on this post are also full of people happy for the dandelion crayon girl 🥹

[mintymuses]

Update!! Dandelion crayon girl got her promo box!!

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

[charlesoberonn]

[abortionlover]

@noonesgaylikegatson your post has not left my mind since you made it. I see it everywhere.

[say-duhnelle]

You know, there are a lot of people who say that all the Calormen/Tash business in the Chronicles of Narnia was just C.S. Lewis straight up calling Muslims devil-worshippers. But when I was reading it as a kid, especially the "Tashlan" bits in The Last Battle, I genuinely thought it was meant as a call-out for folks like this

[venusislesbian]

Already seeing people on tiktok saying “I still hate trump but he ate with this one” like … babes … you just got propagandized … that’s literally exactly what he created this situation in the hopes you would say …

[kira-serialfaggot]

[depsidase]