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the fascinating thing about being abused is that years later youre gonna be there sitting around going "okay so what now". cause like theres no instruction manual is there
youre gonna be buying groceries and then youre gonna remember you went through all that for literally no good reason and youre gonna go Oh Okay and put paper towels in your bag or whatever
*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* itâs like a legal form of texting while driving
"what if you regret it" what if I don't?
I understand your point, however this maybe wasn't the best post to cross my dash while I'm fighting the temptation to text my ex.
this is about transitioning DO NOT TEXT YOUR EX ITS NOT WORTH IT DONT DO IT
are you guys hearing about this dude working to developing a vaccine for cats that he's hoping would like. theoretically double their lifespans?
turns out i wasn't making that up, his name is Dr. Toru Miyazaki! he also wrote a book called "The Day Cats Live To Be Thirty", so cats are kind of his thing.
apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.
As they age, almost all cats develop kidney disease, from which they eventually die. Just as in humans, kidney disease i
Dr. Toru Miyazakiâs AIM injection for cat kidney disease enters trials in 2025, aiming for a 2027 release. Greycoat Research supports the sc
whoa wait i actually read the articles and it's so much cooler than just that!!
dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!
although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!
on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.
furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.
annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D
man just think, not only could our kitties start living longer, healthier lives, but just maybe dialysis will become as rare and obsolete as the iron lung is for people. what a badass Dr. Toru is!
"But I don't want to turn people into dinosaurs. I wanna cure kittie kidneys!"
Update: So they have done clinical trials and have submitted it for approval as of april 2026. They are expecting it to be available late 2026/early 2027
The AIM protein drug for feline chronic kidney disease has been submitted for approval in Japan (April 2026). We break down clinical trial d
As for the study itself, the 360 day follow up on stage 3 kidney failure kitties showed that the control had a survival rate of about 20%, while the test group had a survival rate of 80%
New 2026 study: AIM protein boosts cat kidney disease survival from 20% to 80%. Discover how this scientific breakthrough is changing the fu
Our cat Scout is in the early stages of kidney disease. This might be available in time to save her!
Am I only halfway through Artificial Condition? Yes. Am I already looking at TMBD fics on ao3 and hoping I don't see any spoilers for the rest of the series? Also yes.
wishing all outdoor workers, delivery drivers, people who have to walk to work, bus riders, etc a very Don't die in this heat
WRITING PROMPTS - Intruder
An intruder doesn't hurt anyone in the slumbering family, and, instead, steals each and every stuffed animal.
"I know I broke your window, but it's not what it looks like!"
The beloved family dog kills an intruder.
"Get! Out! Of! My! House!"
When an old woman runs out of money, she breaks into her grandson's house.
"If you break down my door, I will, in fact, stab your ankles."
An innocent intruder is shot.
"There's... someone inside!"
june is over... goodbye pride month, hello disability pride month!!
let's all be disabled this month... together đ€
if you're not disabled yet: no need to worry! i can help. come closer.
âThat One Hairstyle? RETIRE IT!â Black Hair is an Art (pt.1)
(This is part one of two lessons, with this one focusing on how our hair itself! The next lesson will encompass how to incorporate its existence into your writing. It'd be a massively long post otherwise.)
So! Black hair. Black hair is a CENTRAL, ESSENTIAL part of our culture and identity. Writing and drawing it means understanding the vulnerability and trust that comes with access to it, and yes, it is racist to suggest that âitâs just hairâ when our hair serves such an important role in our history and art. I already wrote a mini-lesson and ask on the topic, but being aware of what our hair looks like, and what means to us, will help you to understand why we care that you put in the effort to get it right.
Hair Textures
We are not a genetic monolith! However, for the sake of this series, we are focusing on 3C-4C, because 1) it's most likely to be seen in life and 2) least likely to be seen in popular art! When you are creating your characters, consider the style and care for THESE textures. I will get more into this next lesson.
Let's get into SOME of the hairstyles!
Afros (36 Afro Hairstyles)
âSo, whatâs the phenomenon behind the Afro? Well, itâs our hair in its most natural form, but thatâs only part of the phenomenon. Itâs a way to fight the status quo without saying a word.â
-Ebony Magazine, The History of the Afro
When nonBlack society hears âafroâ, they think completely picked out, Black power imagery, political statement. And it was, and is! But in actuality, afros are just the natural hair growing out of a Black person's head. The same way your hair grows out of your head. Our texture. Even my hair is not allowed to be âhairâ, it has to âassignâ my Blackness; my distance from whiteness. Imagine, the hair growing out of your head being automatically associated with how you should be perceived. Just by existing, it is making a statement in a Eurocentric society.
Braids (31 Braid Styles)
There are SO MANY TYPES of braids and ways to wear them. If you can imagine a design, I bet there's a Black braider that can do it!
CORNROWS ARE NOT AUTOMATICALLY BRAIDS! Internalize this! They may be used in the same style, but they are NOT INTERCHANGEABLE TERMS!
Braids are considered a protective style; that is, a hairstyle designed to let our hair 'rest' and grow without having to manipulate it. If you have a Black character that's constantly on the go and/or doesn't have time to focus on their hair, and you want an accurate, more true-to-life experience for them, braids can be a crucial part of character design.
Locs
(Yes, while that link has plenty of examples, it was also self-indulgent. Locs are gorgeous, Black men with locs are gorgeous!)
"Locs vs Dreads": As someone in the loc community, thereâs been a push to refer to the style as âlocsâ, rather than âdreadlocksâ. Some people with the style will not care, but others take it very seriously, so itâs something to keep in mind. Thereâs a societal stigma behind having locs, that theyâre âdirtyâ or âunkemptâ or âlazyâ and that is NOT true. Locs are beautiful, and they take far more effort than people seem to want to believe lmao.
Locs, though there is currently a positive revival, are still highly discriminated against. Kids have been expelled from school and even have had their hair forcibly cut off to be allowed to participate in sports. Many places won't hire you if they think your hair is 'unprofessional' or 'dirty', especially if you're a Black woman. To consider yet another example of the hair that grows out of my head 'dirty' is extremely racist.
LOCS ARE NOT BRAIDS!!!!
Locs are also a protective style, albeit a much more permanent one, and one that comes with a long history and culture behind it. Many Black people consider the biblical story of Samson to be a man with locs, and that our locs hold power within them. That not just anyone should be allowed to touch your locs. So, if you're interested in mythology and powers, that might be an intriguing way to go, that would be possible if you had a Black character with locs!
In Professional Media
The lack of awareness and concern about our hair isn't just a fan or amateur creator experience. It is ubiquitous in the professional media world. Black actors, actresses, and models have discussed having to do their own hair when working, because no one would properly care for it on set if it wasn't familiarly white. Itâs admittedly grown better- however! After decades of not having options other than âstereotypical afroâ, âbox cutâ, and âwhite people hairâ, it is LONG PAST TIME to stop settling for the bare minimum in Black character design. We can tell when "one of us" (with some sense, at least) wasn't in the room to make decisions in popular media.
If you were curious about the lesson title, here's a current example of what I'm talking about in video games. Tell me if you see a pattern:
This style? The Killmonger? We seent it!!!! It has become the âhairstyle to show I understand the exaggerated swagger of a young Black teenâ option, the "I know the Black people!" go-to, and frankly, we are all tired of it. Okay it was cute on Ekko. The Black Delegation DEMANDS the professional video game industry pick something else! We have SO MANY DIFFERENT HAIRSTYLES!
I'll give you an example on the other end (not trying at all; refer to Lesson 1) from one of my favorite games, Hades:
This is my blorbo. My favoritest guy. Iâll fight for Patroclus being Black til the day I die. While I begrudgingly settled in my excitement, I can tell you no one Black with any voting power was in the room at Supergiant when they approved this design. Why? His texture! Locs were such an easy option if they wanted long hair! Locs existed BEFORE Ancient Greece! The man did not have a flat iron while fighting in a war! A good Black designer would have considered that!
To give him a more accurate design, some artists (myself included) lean into giving him locs (one of my favorites is @karshmallow 's Pat; a phenomenal example in caring about your Black characters). Itâs something Black fans find themselves doing- redesigning Black characters. That's not something we should have to do at all, especially in media we pay for!
But if you REALLY want your Black character to have straight hair, that leads into the last style of this lesson:
Straight Hair
We do have straight hair. But itâs not straight because it grew out that way! It will still look and be thicker! It might be a wig or a sew-in (human or synthetic), it might be flat-ironed (while relaxed? While natural?) It takes effort to get and maintain straight hair.
'I think it looks better good this way!'
If you catch yourself thinking this, this is a racist statement. Whether youâre aware of it our not, there is a bias towards Eurocentric/white features in our society, and that includes in our media. When you think âI only drew [this Eurocentric hair texture and style] because I think it looks good on them!â I want you to PAUSE and think about the WHY. WHY do you think that this Black personâs natural features are unattractive in comparison to the white hair texture you gave them? And how hurt might a Black peer of yours would feel hearing that you find their natural features not worth drawing because theyâre ânot attractiveâ. It requires approaching your own internal biases, recognizing them, and then working to unlearn them. And that means practice! Using references to draw our hair and styles, and growing used to using OUR features on US!
Doing it in Art
Me personally, I think if you think drawing thinner hair textures is easy, thicker hair textures should be a BREEZE. I was curious, so I challenged myself and-
(it took me about thirteen minutes total to do ol boy's hair and it's still not right. I'm sick fr y'all don't even know đ€ą)
@ackee has a really good art lesson on the how-tos of drawing Black hairstyles. I highly recommend checking it out, as well as following and supporting a fellow Black artist (who is far better than I!)
Hair Brushes
Finally, an option you can use for painting is downloading Black hair brushes! Vegalia has an amazing array of brushes with different types of curls, locs, and braids at her Etsy store! You can also follow her on social media to see how she applies them, and support yet another amazing Black creative!
I know this was a long one, but you made it! Just keep going. Remember, it's the thought that counts, but the action that delivers!
reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and itâs the only thing i care about right now
[ID: The first eight images are all of Reddit posts. First is a Reddit post in r/foodbutforbabies that's captioned "Is this too much food to send to daycare?" with a photo of a fun-sized Kitkat and a bite-sized corner of toast on a plate.
The second post is in r/popculturechat, captioned "Ariana spotted at Ethan Slater's gig" with a photo of a sketch of a face. The face has a square jawline and large eyebrows, lips, and nose, and does not resemble Ariana Grande.
The third post is in r/tarantulas, captioned "Someone worked up a big thirst making a burrow this weekend!" with a photo of a white lady smiling in an office chair. She has long, loosely curled brown hair and is wearing a long-sleeved orange dress and knee high boots.
The fourth post is in r/MakeupAddiction, captioned "where can I find eyeshadows that are like these colours?" with a photo of an off-white shag carpet that has a dark brown smudgy stain.
The fifth post is in r/ftm, captioned "7 weeks post op" with a photo of a weevil.
The sixth post is in r/CleaningTips, captioned "Woke up and found these. Any clue what they are? Middle of the living room. No pellets in sight." with a photo of a yellow and black moth in a fancy gold frame. The edges of several other identical frames are visible, presumably all containing the same picture of the moth.
The seventh post is in r/Sephora, captioned "Help me choose a blush!!" with a photo of a buff, bearded white man posing in a gym. He's wearing a black, sleeveless top and short-shorts.
The eighth post is in r/foodbutforbabies, captioned "Dinner for my 2.5 year old" with a photo of a dense patch of mushrooms growing beside a stump. The mushrooms are light brown and have flat tops.
The final image is a tumblr tag that says "This is just how people post here" End ID]
I know we make jokes about the proverbial asexual pervert who has written hundreds of thousands of words of smut on ao3, but also shoutout to the aces who arenât perverts. to the aces who skip the sex scenes and wince at sex jokes and awkwardly leave the conversation when your friends start talking about sex. your boundaries arenât childish and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
Why the fuck would you go big when u can go home
tumblring for these 6 people always in my notifications
How do I explain to you people that interracial relationships are okay
Not every white person dating a POC is fetishizing. White people can be respectful and responsible when it comes to culture and relationships and not everyone has bad intentions.
Asian people can date Black people without you saying shit like âyour kids will be so prettyâ theyâre not dating for pretty kids. Theyâre dating bc they like each other.
Someone can dress their partner in clothing from their culture if they want. Someone can take their partner to cultural events if they want.
People in relationships can share cultures, experiences and love without it being toxic or skin deep.
Their partner isnât culturally appropriating. Their partner is being shown the ultimate form of love, bc their partner trusts them and loves them enough to share their history and heritage.
Yeah, dating someone from your culture is nice bc you automatically have similar experiences. But youâre not limited to dating people with the same experiences. Loving someone is sharing and growing and being together.
Interracial relationships arenât always toxic, and some of yâall need to stop projecting onto other people.
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Calling ineterracial relationships toxic or fetishizing just seem like anti race mixing or racism with extra steps
This reminded me of this
ID: a screenshot of Brian David Gilbertâs Instagram. It shows a post where he, a white man, is wearing a blue and silver Hanbok. His girlfriend Karen, who is Korean, stands in the background in a pink, gold, and white Hanbok. The caption reads, âKaren really wanted to rent Hanboks, but I was worried Iâd look like a disrespectful tourist, so she promised to be in every photo to prove it was her idea.â
The second image is a close up on Karen, showing that she is pointing at him and giving a thumbs up.
End IDs.
You know what? Happy Disability Month to those who were disabled by accident. Cars, skis, ice, sand, rocks, horses, just plain bad luck. Broken bones and backs that never heal. Shoulders that can't lift or move right. Wrists that don't turn. Hands that can't grasp. Brains that don't work right anymore. Legs that don't move anymore and eyes that won't recover.
The shame, the blame, the frustration, the wishful thinking that tears you apart. The beauty of small victories and simple kindness. The community you build. Reshaping a life with no warning. Mourning for the person you once were. Joyfully embracing the person you now are. Happy Disability Month to you too (even if you aren't ready to use that word yet)
Hey writers. I hate to break it to you, but sometimes the thing holding you back from writing isn't some profound piece of advice you have yet to hear. Sometimes the thing holding you back is you. Give yourself freedom to rest when you need it, but if you want to be a writer, you have to write. That means getting rid of the distractions, letting yourself get a little bored, and doing the actual writing.
There is a certain level of discipline required. I'm not saying the goal yourself 500 words a day, but I'm saying that if you want to write, you have to write, and you have to make an effort to write. You may have to carve out time to write and then be disciplined about using that time for writing.
the beautiful part of aromantic spectrum headcanons is that no one can stop you, they can try with weaksauce arguments like "at the end they get together" even though such a notion crumbles in the wake of demiromanticism, but at the end of the day they cant stop you and theyll just have to die mad about it
