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hail-dondus

Finding out Hans Zimmer is a transphobe genuinely had me falling to my knees

cartoonistfreak101

Thank you blastybaku for explaining this!/gen

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If you've ever heard a movie score and thought "holy shit, this is incredible", there's like, a 50% chance it was Hans Zimmer who composed it.

This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.

Anyways, fuck transphobes, which includes Hans Zimmer, apparently.

excessively-english-jd

Anyway shoutout to John Williams, amazing composer and probably the one who made the other 50% of "holy shit amazing" soundtracks (Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Superman, and incidentally the original Harry Potter theme and score) who famously worked closely with the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, Angela Morley. He respected her, and so far as I can see, has never made transphobic remarks.

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stephobrien

For those who want to read more about Dr. James Barry:

Dr. James Barry was an Irish-born physician and surgeon who studied medicine in Edinburgh in the early 1800’s and became most famous for a p

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even more!

compostboy

While it says that James Barry fought hard for sanitary conditions and proper nutrition, hand washing is said to have been recognized by other physicians before his birth and during his lifetime. He did not invent the concept, but he helped spread it and fought hard for hygiene

beanboybee

To add onto that:

I learned that Ignaz Semmelweiß is responsible for the adoption of the practise of handwashing in europe as he did one of the first evidence based studies in medicine, with the result that mothers who were treated with washed hands had a significantly higher chance of survival than those who were'nt

paranoidpaleandroid

so we're doing propaganda eh

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charlesoberonn

The fact that bismuth is used in medicine is wild to me. It's a heavy metal, it's in the same group as arsenic. But we use it to help with stomach aches.

beanboybee

That's the beauty of chemistry. Same reason why you could probably eat cinnabar, and be completely fine despite it being literally mercurysulfide.

How atoms are bound matters hugely on what kind of effect they will have on organisms and the enviornment. Phosphorous is a good example also: Wildly important for your bones and DNA and body's energy source as phosphate (PO3-) but will explosively disintegrate in it's pure, white, form.

charlesoberonn

Oxygen and hydrogen are dangerous and flammable when mixed in gaseous form. And put out fires when bound into water molecules.

beanboybee

You get it!!!

Also fun fact: did you know bismuth is actually radioactive? But we haven't seen much radioactive behaviour from it because the half-life of it is LONGER THAN THE UNIVERSE IS OLD.

I love Bismuth man, such a cool material!!!

charlesoberonn

The fact that bismuth is used in medicine is wild to me. It's a heavy metal, it's in the same group as arsenic. But we use it to help with stomach aches.

beanboybee

That's the beauty of chemistry. Same reason why you could probably eat cinnabar, and be completely fine despite it being literally mercurysulfide.

How atoms are bound matters hugely on what kind of effect they will have on organisms and the enviornment. Phosphorous is a good example also: Wildly important for your bones and DNA and body's energy source as phosphate (PO3-) but will explosively disintegrate in it's pure, white, form.

pangur-and-grim

there's this book written in the 1870's by an abolitionist minister, Moncure D. Conway, and I find it super interesting. it's called 'Demonology and Devil-lore', and it's basically this guy's theories as to how various deities evolved. keep in mind this is all just a single dead dude's opinions, so a big spoonful of salt is required, but he says that older deities (like Old Testament God) rarely have a clear split between good/bad, and can deliver both with the same hand, and that the later splitting of good vs evil (like New Testament God, who's quite a bit nicer) can sometimes be attributed to politics. because if you're attempting to use religion as a form of control, it's better to position your guy as the Good guy. and he goes over how various demons are just the bastardized remnants of gods from conquered/colonized religions that have been swallowed by christianity, and then makes an attempt to exhaustively categorize them by type (this is where the book gets a bit dull. as an aside, this guy would have loved Pokemon.)

anyway, it got me thinking about how religious syncretism would work in a world where gods were REAL, and so that became the subplot of The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo.

it's set in 'fantasy Britain', which is a land that has experienced wave after wave of conquest and colonization. about mid 1500's, so we've had the Bell Beaker people, the Celts, the Romans, all the way to the current spread of Christianity, sorry, I mean The Goddess of the Resurrection. and she has to ability to literally demonize worshippers of other religions (which is why there's so many fun animal-people hybrids around), which makes it mentally easier for the crusaders of the Goddess to mop them up. easier to kill people if you don't see them as people.

her ultimate goal in all this is to swallow up all the gods she can and incorporate them into herself, because that's just what every god wants as part of their life cycle. and she's had great success, so far!

tl;dr The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo might be an isekai yaoi monsterfucking book, but I couldn't have done it without minister Moncure Daniel Conway and his autism-fuelled theory book.

horsefigureoftheday

Sucks how many people were taught that "horses put their ears back when they're mad" but then never taught the difference between "angry backwards ears," "mildly annoyed backwards ears," "pain backwards ears," "concentrated backwards ears," "sleepy backwards ears" and "just happens to be listening to something behind it."

"Horses put their ears back when they're mad" idk man i think it depends

horsefigureoftheday

These are all completely different expressions in completely different scenarios, and only two of them are decidedly negative.

horsefigureoftheday

Actually, I wanna talk about the third horse, the one putting its ears back in pain. Over the last 15 years veterinarians and animal scientists have worked out pain scales for most domestic animals by taking photos of the during routine procedures.

We know vaccines painful, and by comparing horses at rest with horses getting vaccinated, we've been able to determine how they express pain visually. By looking at horses with disorders like colic, broken bones, wounds, and so on, we can determine their facial expressions during more severe pain.

At zookeeper school we were drilled through the pain faces of the most common lab animals and livestock. Nowadays I believe this has become a routine lesson in all animal related fields, but the general public still doesn't know that this is a thing that exists.

Here are all the pain face/grimace scales I've been able to find. Please study them if you interact with any of these animals on a regular basis:

unpeeled-human

stop telling me what not to draw. i do not care

bravelycowering

i had a vision

darlingofdots

been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

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Tags via @deadpanwalking, editor and ass-kicker extraordinaire

gingisnap

Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say

copperbadge

I was innocently buying a soda and a Kit Kat bar from a snack shop recently when the cashier said, "Oh, a Kit Kat! That's what I named my cat!" and then launched into An Monologue.

Nobody was behind me in line, which seemed to be a good reason for her to treat me to a five minute retelling of the identification, rescue, and argument over initial custody of Kit Kat, who was so small they thought when they first heard him crying for help that he was a bird and not a kitten in a tree, and is now fifteen pounds of "pure, sculpted lardass".

And I didn't mind, precisely, I wasn't bored or anything, but around the time she was bringing me up to speed on Kit Kat's current status it occurred to me that this woman is a cashier in a store that primarily sells candy bars and beverages. People must buy Kit Kat bars from her multiple times a day. Does she do this every time there's nobody in line behind the purchaser? Did I just have that I Own Several Cats And Will Enjoy Your Cat Stories look about me? Was it the first time it occurred to her that she sold the brand of candy bar she named her cat after? Was she new to the job of selling Kit Kat bars?

The idea that every time she sees a Kit Kat bar she is gripped by the urge, Manchurian Candidate style, to retell the story of Kit Kat the Cat, elevates her from a friendly cashier to a deep enigma. Truly there is no knowing the mind of another.

copperbadge

IT GETS FUNNIER

I was in the same snack shop, which I'm in, like, once a month, recently. I only recognized her because I spent five minutes listening to this monologue in sincere wonder. But I did recognize her, so as I was buying a soda and a Milky Way bar (this time) I said, without thinking about how this would come across, "Hey, how's Kit Kat?"

She looked genuinely horrified and said, "What...how?"

"Oh fuck!" I blurted. "Sorry! You told me about him last time!"

This is still quite cryptic as responses go but she gave me a frankly frantic look of sudden recognition and said, "He's fine! You bought a Kit Kat! I was unmedicated!"

I did not inform her she is small town famous on Tumblr and instead just said, "Glad you're both doing well!" and we parted as confused and mortified friends.

Gosh she's fun. I hope she's there next time. I want to reenact the Spiderman Pointing meme with her.

consumerofshorthomies

I made the cake today

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thepioden

I'm developing a curiosity and interest in fiber arts, someone please stop me before it's too late

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Girl help the fibercrafters who live in my phone are calling out to me like the sirens of legend, entreating me to dash myself upon the rocks of Having A Yarn Stash

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