我愿永不安息 | I pray to never rest in peace

aure, she/her, asian american || positivity/mental health blog: @you-deserve-to-love-yourself || fma blog: @envythepalmtree [Icon: Hua Cheng with his chin resting on his hand. End ID] [Header: Spirit butterfly resting on Hua Cheng's fingertip. End ID]

[aureshadow]

Hi everyone!!

Thought I'd make a life update post since it's been literally three years (three years!) since I logged off of Tumblr in 2022. I've missed you all.

In case you don't remember me (understandable): I'm Aure (she/her) and I'm Asian-American, neurodivergent (autism/adhd), and some sort of queer. My pfp used to be Mai from Avatar with the bisexual flag as the background, but as of late I'm honestly not too sure and am not using any label at the moment. My sideblogs are @you-deserve-to-love-yourself (positivity/mental health) and @envythepalmtree (Fullmetal Alchemist).

The last time I was on Tumblr was 2022, the summer before I entered college. I got a new computer for college and just never logged on--I felt that I was too addicted to the site and that I wouldn't be as present and in the moment when I started school if I had any kind of social media. I deleted most of my other accounts as well.

Since then I've been doing well!! Actually have a decent group of friends now who love and support me (when I was in high school, I barely had any friends at school). When I was in high school, I wanted to be a psychologist and do mental health research--I've pivoted a little bit to the more STEM of side of things. I'm now majoring in neuroscience on the premed track. I want to be a doctor, specifically a neurologist, and treat disorders like seizures or ME/CFS. I think the healthcare system is messed up in so many ways and many providers within the system feel powerless to do anything about it, but I feel that there can be changes and I want to fix the system.

I really didn't think this was possible because I was not great at biology or chemistry in high school. I definitely started out a little behind my peers (I remember freshman year, sitting in intro genetics class, absolutely PANICKING because I didn't know what a hydrogen bond was) but I caught up!!

While ATLA will always hold a special place in my heart, my main interests fandom-wise are now all danmei novels, particularly MXTX's works (Scum Villain, Mo Dao Zu Shi  魔道祖师, and Heaven Official's Blessing 天官赐福). I also really love Erha and Yuwu (I finished them via very bad machine translations as my Chinese is nowhere near good enough to read novels 😭)

Other than fandom stuff, I am still very fascinated with the brain, enough that I'm majoring in it! I do research in a neuroscience lab and I love it. I'm particularly interested in ME/CFS because it's such an underresearched disorder and patients are very much failed by the medical system. I'm still doing activism, and am trying to do more about disability justice. I'm also an EMT and drive an ambulance. I dance as well--contemporary, ballet, Chinese dance, and kpop. I'm not exactly a pro at any of these but it brings me a lot of joy!

Send me an ask and tell me what you've been up to in the past three years! I've missed you and want to know how you've been.

[writerlyn]

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

[molluskmagus]

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Golding et al. (2023)

[writing-prompt-s]

You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches.

[dycefic]

I think I’d have minded less if I’d committed a truly heinous crime. Something that warranted death. Or even if I was the kind of person who would enjoy flinging a last defiance at my execution.

It was all just a show, anyway. They did it every year. They brought out a selection of criminals, and the Sorcerer who ruled us showed his power by bringing about their deaths by magic. Just to show, every year, what happened to anyone who crossed him.

There was a time, probably, when the people he executed really were rebels or assassins. In latter days he had to take what the dungeons offered. I was dragged up in chains between a pickpocket, sobbing in terror, and a man who’d killed another man in a brawl. There were few criminals of any note, by then. So instead of choosing the wickedest criminals, they chose based on appearance. The man who’d been in the brawl had a face like a clenched fist, and looked like a ruffian. The pickpocket, aging and with hands beginning to tremble, was a different kind of example. As was I.

“There aren’t many pretty ones, this year,” the man who chose me had said, examining me. “But this one will do. Not young, but not old, a woman, well-favoured enough for the gallows… what was her crime?”

The warder shrugged. “She tried to kill one of the sheriffs.”

The man looked down at me and I shrugged. “I hit him with a washing stick, because he tried to extort money from me, and he was a baby about it.” I refused to treat this as anything but pathetic, even after my sentencing. “I didn’t even break any bones.”

“Treason, then,” the man said, nodding. “Attacking the servants of the law. That will look well on the list. Send her.”

I had been debating ever since what to choose. Something quick? Something painless? I considered demanding that I suffer the attack I supposedly made on the sheriff, but then I realized the Sorcerer would only give me what the man had said I was going to do, and that was not a pleasant way to die. I had all but decided on something swift and relatively painless. Beheading with the sharpest of blades sounded good. It would be quick. 

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[heavyweightheart]

A Narrative Review of the Weight-Centered Health Paradigm and Development of the 3C Framework to Build Critical Competency for a Paradigm Shift

This recently published, free-to-access article is one of the best summaries I’ve ever read of the critiques of conventional weight science. From the lack of evidence of an “obesity epidemic” to the “obesity paradox” (higher BMIs can be health protective) to the evidence that weight-based interventions are making people sicker, they’ve concentrated the best work in the field here and cited heavily. It’s also a very hopeful picture for future approaches to weight and health!

If you don’t want to dig thru lots of books on the topic, read this and save it for reference.

[maybeasunflower]

(BMI says two people the same height have the same range of healthy weights. That’s blatantly absurd.)

[hamletthedane]

There’s a lot of excellent examples of the difference between a million and a billion, but here’s my new personal favorite from a conversation I had today:

A million minutes ago was April 2021, the height of the COVID pandemic.

A billion minutes ago was November 121 CE, the height of the Roman Empire.

[maybeasunflower]

A million seconds is about 11 days. Or alternatively, about six weeks of work (five days of 9-5 per week). Or the total time I had in lectures each year of my degree.

A billion seconds is about 30 years. Your life expectancy is less than 3 billion seconds. The oldest person alive is about 4 billion seconds old.

[maybeasunflower]

A million hours ago was just before World War 1 started (1913).

A billion hours ago Homo Erectus was discovering the joys of the Middle East; anatomically modern humans were new on the scene. That's 114,000 years ago.

[maybeasunflower]

A million days ago (~715BC), the 22nd Dynasty of Egypt came to an end, the Zhou Dynasty of China was going strong, Assyria has recently invaded Israel (with Amos and Isaiah saying "I told you so"), and the Zapotec civilization was getting going in Mesoamerica (source).

A billion days ago (2.7m years ago), the Pliocene epoch was still 120,000 years from giving away to today's Pleistocene epoch. North and South America had only recently joined. The Mediterranean wasn't connected to the Atlantic, all but drying out into an arid super-hot wasteland. The genus Homo had yet to make an appearance. Humanity as we know it simply does not exist.

[yea-baiyi]

he xuan is much more of a standard tragic antagonist but i’m kicking my legs up in bed giggling thinking about him tbh. he’s iago plotting to take down the court from the inside with his carefully constructed scheme—but also he’s cady heron getting a pretty pretty makeover by the most popular girl in school. he and hua cheng are “not friends”—but they can do the best friend thing where they make eye contact across the room and one person starts yelling SHUT UP, SHUT THE FUCK UP while the other doubles over laughing. he’s such a formidable villain but he does not have a shred of dignity to speak of because the object of his revenge decided out of nowhere that they were besties, and he xuan went and fell in love with them

[rhiangalaxy]

Shen Yuan doesn't know the effect he is having on Binghe rn 😔(Piece chosen by this week's poll!)

[ID: A Scum Villain Drawing. The first image depicts Xin Mo Sword Spirit! Shen Yuan with his arms floating behind his back as he winks presumably at Luo Binghe with a smile as he says "Don't worry! You're Luo Binghe! You can't lose." SY is dressed in primarily reds and blacks with some gold and silver accents. His robes are open at the shoulders, dip slight far into his chest and have high slits up his legs. He has red eyeshadow under his eyes and has various red markings on his forehead and body. He has long black hair, primarily loose with some tied up into a tiny bun and a couple braids. This hair is tinted red on the ends. The bun is held with a sharp silver hairpin with red gems and ombre effect. He has an etheral red glow to him, implying he is not 100% corporeal.

The second image depicts Chibi! Luo Binghe/Bingge gripping onto Xin Mo with both hands as he presumably looks up at SY with a heart eyes, flushed and somewhat flat expression. He is covered in various amounts of blood. His hair is loose and now contains some red accents. He is wearing very messy and torn Qing Jing robes. End ID]

[nibbelraz]

Post practice spar flirting chat

[danmei-described]

[ID copied from alt: Digital drawing of Jiang Cheng and Liu Qingge talking after a practice fight they had. They're both sweating and panting with healthy exertion. Jiang Cheng has a smile smile on his face as he speaks with speech bubbles next to him that has images of a sword and zidian clashing with a thumbs up. Liu Qingge also has a small smile as he has a speech bubble with Jiang Chengs zidian sparks and a tiny Qingge with bright eyes saying "COOL" Both are lightly blushing at each other. End ID]

[Plain text: "flirting" is written in small text and strikethrough. End ID]

[offshoreoilrig]

Does anyone have recommendations on good social norms for beginners? I'm looking to start conforming more but I'm not sure which norms will provide the most social currency. Thanks

[rovermcfly]

I think a lot of people are forgetting that on tumblr fandom used to be practiced very differently. now everyone fucks off to their discords or tumblr groups to discuss everything with a select few, making tags be nearly only used for posting some finished fanworks or not at all

a decade ago people didn't have tumblr groups. people didn't even have dms. if you wanted to talk to anyone about anything you had to make a post, or send an ask (which more often than not would get published and thereby become a post in the end too)

so next time you think "I have a fandom thought but I have to find a small group of hyperspecifically like-minded people to share it with in private" remember all the freaks you could be missing out on meeting by keeping the tags dead. use tags, make friends. fuck discord.

[theduchessofboredom]

You can't hide gold like this in the tags! That really is the perfect way to put it! ⬇️

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #its not about saying you arent allowed to have dms. its about saying if you want a thriving fandom... you Need to be participating in it #and private chats do not count as participation #thats like saying having an indoor garden will save the ecosystem #like?? ok and how do the pollinators get in there?? the ecosystem you're helping is your garden. not the world outside. /End ID]

[mooseonahunt]

“Oh but she’s toxic!” Idgaf pass me the damn hazmat suit I need her

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[himejoshikomaeda]

what the fuck. theres not even a fucking joke here. its just the fucking alphabet. i was expecting some kind of fucking meme like “gun” or “john cena” or something like that but no its just the fucking alphabet. here. on tumblr.com. 26 users just fucking banded together to write the alphabet. what the fuck, man.

[batter-sempai]

I think the update broke them, and almost everyone else.

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I guess I’ll do 136… but did anyone else notice we’re missing 51?

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also why are so many people deactivated

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[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

[battlships]

Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.

[wommy-mami]

“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok 

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that: 

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56 

- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:

“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380

- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441

- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:

“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71

- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source

- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:

“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here 

- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:

“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source

- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:

“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145

So to recap: 

A lot of American generals were against using the bomb as they felt it served an empty purpose.

Those who agreed with its usage completely disagreed with dropping them on cities.

Truman went ahead and had them detonated in two highly populated civilian cities anyway. Two cities that had remained mostly untouched by regular bombings throughout the war precisely bc of their lack of value to the Japanese war effort.  

Draw your own conclusions. 

[paniniwitharugula]

I hope y'all know that this is common knowledge to everyone of every other country

[official-graveyard-posts]

Official graveyard post

[prideknights]

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

[mamoru]

🇺🇸recall of various types of canned tuna due to fucking botulism <- CAN KILL YOU 🇺🇸

this involves some pretty big name tunas. if you eat canned tuna in the united states, you are going to want to check this list. botulism is one of the biggest deals in food poisoning. THESE CANS CAN FUCKING KILL YOU

Tri-Union Seafoods Issues Recall of Select Genova®, Van Camp’s®, H-E-B and Trader Joe’s® Tuna Cans Due to Clostridium Botulinum Risk

Tri-Union Seafoods has made the decision to voluntarily recall select lots of canned tuna products sold under the Genova®, Van Camp’s®, H-E-

EL SEGUNDO, CA, February 7, 2025 – Tri-Union Seafoods has made the decision to voluntarily recall select lots of canned tuna products sold under the Genova®, Van Camp’s®, H-E-B and Trader Joe’s brand names. This voluntary recall is out of an abundance of caution following the notification from our supplier that the “easy open” pull tab can lid on limited products encountered a manufacturing defect that may compromise the integrity of the product seal (especially over time), causing it to leak, or worse, be contaminated with clostridium botulinum, a potentially fatal form of food poisoning. Consumers are warned not to use the product even if it does not look or smell spoiled. Consumers feeling unwell should seek immediate medical attention. No illnesses associated with the recalled products have been reported and the recall is being conducted to ensure consumer safety. The impacted products were distributed to retail stores as follows: H-E-B label - Texas Trader Joe’s label – Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin Genova 7 oz. - Costco in Florida and Georgia Genova 5 oz. - Harris Teeter, Publix, H-E-B, Kroger, Safeway, Walmart, and independent retailers in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas Van Camp’s label – Walmart and independent retailers in Pennsylvania, Florida and New Jersey

some emphasis mine. this is not a comprehensive list of retailers. these cans were sold in more stores than what is listed, and there is no complete list of affected stores. long story short the pull tab has a defect that makes these cans the perfect environment to give you botulism. and botulism is REALLY REALLY FUCKING bad. it is one of the deadliest forms of food poisoning and commonly grows in dented or damaged cans. unfortunately, the recall announcement does not currently include images.

tumblr does not let me make tables, so I cannot easily format all the necessary information in a way that I am confident will be easy to read and understand. so here is the list of names, and check the FDA link for the specifics of what can codes and best by dates are affected.

Genova Solid White Tuna in Olive Oil 5.0 oz

Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Olive Oil 5.0 oz

Genova Yellowfin Tuna in 0live Oil 5.0 oz 4 Pack

Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Olive 0il 7.0 oz 6 Pack

Genova Yellowfin Tuna in in Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Sea Salt 5.0 oz

Van Camp's Solid Light Tuna in Oil 5.0 oz

Van Camp's Solid Light Tuna in 0il 5 oz 4 Pack

Trader Joe's Solid Light Yellowfin Tuna in Olive Oil

Trader Joe's Solid White Tuna in Olive Oil

Trader Joe's Solid White Tuna in Water

Trader Joe's Solid White Water Low Sodium

Trader Joe's Solid White Water No Salt Added

H-E-B Solid White Tuna in Water 5.0 oz 4 Pack

if you recognize these types of tuna or buy tuna from those stores, stop reading here and click the FDA link at the top for more information. not all cans in these lines are being recalled, but the affected cans have best by dates into 2028.

from the wikipedia entry about botulism:

The disease begins with weakness, blurred vision, feeling tired, and trouble speaking. This may then be followed by weakness of the arms, chest muscles, and legs. Vomiting, swelling of the abdomen, and diarrhea may also occur. The disease does not usually affect consciousness or cause a fever.

...and these vague symptoms, which may not even all appear in someone with botulism, eventually lead to muscle weakness and paralysis to the point someone is unable to call for help, and might eventually stop being able to breathe. while fully conscious.

from the foodsafetynews article on this recall:

In foodborne botulism, symptoms generally begin 18 to 36 hours after eating contaminated food. However, symptoms can begin as soon as 6 hours after or up to 10 days later.

according to the wikipedia article, 5%-10% of people who get botulism will die with timely medical intervention. without medical intervention, botulism kills 50% of the people it sickens. this is emergency room ASAP level stuff.

please send the FDA link to anyone you know who eats canned tuna in the US. although no illnesses have been attributed to this defect yet, it may only be a matter of time as the seals on these cans degrade. please do not become the first.

[mamoru]

these cans are no longer on the shelf at stores, but they are likely still in pantries. many of them say on the package that they are still good until 2028.

these cans are not good. they were never good. and the longer it takes to throw every one of them out, the more the person who eventually eats it risks botulism.

and as a reminder, if you think you have botulism, go to the emergency room and do not wait for an appointment. once botulism symptoms start kicking in, you might not survive long enough to see your doctor.

[transmascmarypoppins]

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[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

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[poluccokunwhynot]

I feel that the fact that it only shows 2 notes adds more funny bone to this post lmao