brookedorothea

29yo, she/her mum, reader, etc

[wilwheaton]

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[canadian-born-soldier]

Ummmm…..

Y’all are literally doing that exact thing, but against the police.

The only difference; society & the law attempt to hold shitty police accountable. There haven’t been any protests or groups of protesters denouncing the violence caused by rioters. Police very commonly voice their concerns with how shitty police make all police look bad. Can’t say the same about the protesters.

Nice try though

[aridara]

Bullshit. It’s the exact opposite.

The vast majority of BLM protests has been completely peaceful. On top of that, BLM takes responsibility for its members, and repairs damages even when they didn’t cause it.

Meanwhile, do you remember the George Floyd case? The first reaction of the police was to claim that Floyd just spontaneously died, and that Chauvin & company just “restrained” him. They did thia for days, despite the fact that there was a video of the event being publicly shared

[brookedorothea]

Also, you can't pretend everyone at a protest is part of a single cohesive unit. They are coming together on an issue, yes, but they are citizens, not professionals. They aren't trained. Anyone can rock up and join a protest.

Police officers are doing their JOB. Not any random person can arrive and decide they're on the police's side and join in. They have professional training and standards and *should* be held accountable in different ways. They're meant to be representing and upholding a single, central set of standards, policies, laws and practices.

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

I love empath discourse on twitter. Encountering that kind of silliness in the wild is so funny

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

Empaths, which are totally real, are problematic because they [spins wheel] attract energy vampires

[saintdollyparton]

The way I absolutely howled with laughter watching this...

[rosyish]

White allies and white leftists and liberals need to read this.

In regards to posts about racism or intersectionality with race involved you MUST listen. Not respond. LISTEN

What I have seen so many white “allies” do is add onto posts (my own included) to put their own thoughts and opinions. In some cases take the words of the original poster and try to “translate” what is being said to other white people.

You are ACTIVELY taking away the voices of poc and speaking over them when you do this. When you tack on your own personal anecdotes or try to to give a definition of what a person or color is saying you are in the simplest of ways insulting their intelligence

[rosyish]

I have multiple posts on this site talking about racism and there is ALWAYS a white person ready to reblog it with their own commentary. You are NOT helping. And you are being micro aggressive

Your job as an ally is to uplift our voices. Not add your own.

Please sit down with yourself and ask yourself why you feel the need to insert yourself into a conversation that does not need your opinion. No matter if you agree or not.

Please save your thoughts and opinions for the tags. This isn’t a blackboard discussion class

[rosyish]

This won’t get as many notes as my other posts and I know this but I still must say it because it’s so very aggravating and honestly very rude

[rogha]

tumblr comedy I haven’t seen in a while and I kind of miss: when someone says like ‘smoothies are great’ and then someone else says ‘juices are great too!’ and the first person says ‘make your own post’ and then the second person says ‘okay’ and then you scroll down and theres a second post.

[ishouldreallygetofftheinternet]

I also love seeing posts where someone says something that clearly sets up a joke and then has very obviously messaged their friend to question it in a reblog so they deliver the punchline with maximum impact. Haven't seen that in a while

[rogha]

make your own post

[ishouldreallygetofftheinternet]

I love seeing posts where someone says something that clearly sets up a joke and then has very obviously messaged their friend to question it in a reblog so they deliver the punchline with maximum impact. Haven't seen that in a while

[ishouldreallygetofftheinternet]

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

Everyone should know the international sign for Help Me. Let’s make this famous!!

[amanda-bakes]

Interesting; I didn’t know this was a thing.

[hopefulmisanthrope]

It’s apparently a thing, but it’s a very new thing, so it may need some help being known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help

[jouster-ari]

[ID: A video depicting various instances of people using a signal for help. A graphic shows a hand with the fingers raised and the thumb against the palm, and then the fingers down over the thumb. The images of the hand are captioned “1: Palm to camera and tuck thumb” and “2: trap thumb.” It is identified as the “Violence At Home Signal for Help.” The next panel of the graphic reads “Use this signal to ask for help on a video call without leaving a digital trace. If you see this sign on a video call, find out how to help below.” No link is provided on the graphic. End ID]

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[caluummhood-deactivated20140506]

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

[jamesjoeboyleeeee-deactivated20]

the first post ever on tumblr

[powerpuffsposts-deactivated2025]

I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK

[kpopdotexe-blog]

WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[adulthoodisokay]

like actually though. i’m in AWE of the notecount.

[vegan-and-sara]

This comic from Lilo the Autistic Queer (@A_Silent_Queer on Twitter) made me smile today. There is no one way to look trans, and no one way to transition. However you choose to express your authentic self is good and doing what makes you happy regardless of what cis people think is good.

[elierlick]

This is it

[jenroses]

See also autism See also Ehlers Danlos syndrome & Fibromyalgia It’s amazing how much more visible things become when you accept that they exist.

[the-sunshine-cult-deactivated20]

It’s amazing how much more visible things become when you accept that they exist.

[fandomsandfeminism]

One thing about fandom culture is that it sort of trains you to interact with and analyze media in a very specific way. Not a BAD way, just a SPECIFIC way.

And the kind of media that attracts fandoms lends itself well (normally) to those kinds of analysis. Mainly, you're supposed to LIKE and AGREE with the main characters. Themes are built around agreeing with the protagonists and condemning the antagonists, and taking the protagonists at their word.

Which is fine if you're looking at, like, 99% of popular anime and YA fiction and Marvel movies.

But it can completely fall apart with certain kinds of media. If someone who has only ever analyzed media this way is all of a sudden handed Lolita or 1984 or Gatsby, which deal in shitty unreliable narrators; or even books like Beloved or Catcher in the Rye (VERY different books) that have narrators dealing with and reacting to challenging situations- well... that's how you get some hilariously bad literary analysis.

I dont know what my point here is, really, except...like...I find it very funny when people are like "ugh. I hate Gatsby and Catcher because all the characters are shitty" which like....isnt....the point. Lololol you arent supposed to kin Gatsby.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Assisted suicide and euthanasia may sound good or at least worth considering but in practice it discriminates against disabled people. Also, terminal illness does not always mean the person will die soon regardless, besides incorrect assessments people can be considered terminally ill because doctors refused them treatment. If you care about disabled people I impore you to look into disabled persons perspective on the matter. Not Dead Yet is a great place to start.

I think you are absolutely correct that there needs to be frameworks in place to protect people, like the disabled or elderly, from coercion and abuse while still protecting peoples right to bodily autonomy.

It's a super complex issue, and I'm certainly not the expert perspective on how this impacts disabled folks.

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

You have miss understood me, I am 100% against human euthanasia becouse of how it has and does kill disabled people. I don’t think if can by fix, I think it should be illegal. 

However, I brought this up to you as you where discussing it and if you are going to do you so you should educate yourself on the very real dangers for disabled people. You can not have this discuss while not undersanding the impacts disabled folks. 

If you choose to talk about this without knowing why if terrifies disabled people you are doing us a huge disservice.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Fair enough. I dont have the experience or information to add anything to that discussion. I'm more than willing to listen to the perspectives of disabled folks and learn more.

[brookedorothea]

This is a really interesting point well articulated.

There's a story in Kathryn Mannix's book With the End in Mind, which is a wonderful book about facing and understanding the reality of death from a palliative care consultant with many years of experience.

First of all its worth clarifying: palliative care *doesn't* just refer to care of the dying. It is about symptom management and making patients comfortable. Not every patient a palliative care doctor comes into contact with will be terminally ill or going to die soon.

Mannix tells the story of a patient who had come to the UK from a country where euthanasia was proudly available:

'‘They didn’t mean to frighten me. I think they thought it was a comfort. But it was every day, every ward round, they told me that if I want to, I can choose to die …’ Ujjal is explaining why he recently ran away from a hospital in his adopted home town in the Netherlands and returned to live with his mother in England, bringing his toddler and his Dutch wife with him.'

He had a tumor in his abdomen, surgery, another tumour found and more surgery, radiotherapy - many returning cancers and surgeries, stoma bags to collect his waste and lots of discomfort. He eventually was told there was no further surgery which could help, but because of his condition he was going to continually suffer a buildup of pressure in his abdomen which would cause all sorts of horrible side effects.

He also had it explained that if he did not want to live that way, he could choose euthanasia. It was a difficult conversation but he thought the doctor handled it very well. But he had a wife and child who needed him, so he would live as long as he could.

'Every day he heard the doctors discuss progress with his neighbours: one who may need physiotherapy, another who needed an X- ray, someone who was ready to walk on stairs, the person who was well enough to go home. At Ujjal’s bed, the doctors were always so kind . They asked about Tabitha, they asked about his pain, they asked about the ooze. They asked whether he had any worries. And they reminded him that if it got too hard to bear, he could talk to them about euthanasia. Then they moved on.'

She goes on to explore how the unintended consequence of the option, which the doctors were so glad to be able to offer, was to make him feel like his condition was hopeless. So he took his family to stay with his mother in the UK instead where he would not have that option, and received palliative care in a hospice until he died 2 months later. In the Netherlands, he'd been scared to admit to new symptoms for fear of euthanasia being offered instead of symptom management.

I don't pretend to have any answers, but as an example this one really made me think about how massively complex it is in practice to safely and fairly offer people the choice to die without unintended consequences.

[organicmama]

Romeo + Juliet (1996) truly has everything…heavy religious imagery…young leo…90s fashion…a brief drag scene….neon lights…those iconic angel wings

[thequantumqueer]

guns labeled “sword”

[froglesbians]

being better than anything shakespeare ever produced

[regenderate-archive]

i dislike the implication that shakespeare wouldn’t have done the exact same thing if he were alive in the 90′s

[thebibliosphere]

Fun fact, the guns being labelled “sword” is not just them being Extra™. 

Most of the guns being used by the main characters are modified Taurus PT99 pistols, the different types of which are often named after specific types of knives and swords, thus enabling them to not have to change the Shakespearean dialogue, but to also manage that specific visual pun. 

So Shakespeare would have absolutely been 100% all over that shit.

For example, Tybalt’s gun is a modified 9mm “Rapier” (from the Taurus PT99 Series ‘R’) and is actually one of my favorite visual aesthetics of quite probably any weapon in movie history to date. 

While everyone else seems to be using a much more heavier and “powerful” version of pistol, his is sleek and light in frame, making it much easier for him to fight the way that he does. Which is undoubtedly Extra™ in comparison to everyone else, but also intended to mimic the dueling stance of actual rapier swordsmen of the time who relied on speed rather than brute force. They were Gentlemen after all. If you were going to cut someone down you ought to do it with some finesse.

If you look closely at his hand you’ll notice that with the exception of his middle finger on the trigger, he’s actually holding it the way one would a sword hilt. He’s also got the poise of a honed duelist. 

This is someone who has been brought up with a very strong sense of Family Honor, and is expected to fight to defend it, but not as a common foot soldier (who carry “longswords” which are modified shotguns in the film), but as a Gentleman. 

A gentleman who suddenly finds himself having to fight in the streets with people carrying “daggers”.

Like Mercutio’s modified pistol, which while beautiful and (importantly thematic) transparent in its function, is also heavy and cumbersome in comparison to Tybalt’s rapier, which also has a much further range, something he also makes better use of with the addition of a quick release mount for a c-scope, which allows him to either be slow and accurate, or to forgo accuracy for speed during say, a one on one duel vs a street brawl.

Which means even if he can’t make as many quickfire short range movements as Mercutio can, he’s still going to fucking obliterate him with the practiced ease of someone who has been training for duels their entire life.

Not to mention just how fucking ornate this thing is. Look at it. What an extra little sob, I love it. I love the whole movie. It’s an excellent adaptation and I’ll bite my thumb at anyone who says otherwise. 

[systlin]

Just like the Bard intended.

[fandomsandfeminism]

While the news that Ted Cruz decided to take his family on a vacation in Cancun during the worst climate disaster Texas has seen...in a while is not SURPRISING, it does illustrate an important point.

Climate disasters will not affect us all equally. Climate change will hurt the global poor first and worst. While floods and droughts and heat waves and ice storms will ravage the world, the richest and most powerful will still be able to hop on a plane to whatever corner of the planet is still habitable, or go off in their space arc, or hide away on their Mars colony run by Indentured servants.

Do not forget this. Those in power have so much less to lose by doing nothing about climate change. They can afford to let us burn and freeze and drown if it saves them some pennies along the way.

[deaddolin]

[adamtheredbeard]

So they're gonna undercut pharmacies until they corner the market and then jack prices back up, but higher than before and reep all that profit. Right?

[oxbowreality]

Not only will it give Amazon a new market to lord over, but more data on its customers. Knowing what illnesses a person has will help them sell other items by advertising things that will seem tantalizing. Bipolar makes you impulse buy? Amazon will know that. Depression makes you crave sweets? Amazon can sell that. Bezos doesn't care how predatory this business practice is because he's a monster and all of humanity is his prey.

[zevveli]

I work retail pharmacy. My specific job title is Inventory Technician, which means that my job in addition to the regular duties of a technician (inputting prescriptions, filling prescriptions, navigating insurance issues, ringing out patients for their prescriptions, ensuring paperwork is filed, ensuring confidentiality laws are adhered to, etc.) I’m also in charge of ordering medicine, as well as ensuring that expired medicines are disposed of and recalled medications are pulled from our shelves and waiting bins.

Now, the reason why Amazon is able to undercut the prices of Pharmacies is because basically, they are going directly from the manufacturer to the patient, which allows them to bypass the standard issues that we at retail have to deal with with insurance (basically in the US when your insurance pays for your drugs they pay a certain amount to the manufacturer, a certain amount to the vendor, a certain amount to the Pharmacy, and then the rest is usually your copay.) Since they are the vendor and pharmacy, they can just go directly from price of purchase from manufacturer to patient. But there’s another issue I see here. Amazon is probably sourcing their drugs from a cheap market. And let me tell you something, I have had to deal with a lot of Class I and Class II drug recalls this past year that my pharmacy was unaffected by because we didn’t use the “cheap” suppliers.

Amazon WILL cut corners to maximize their profits on this, they WILL use the lowest bid supplier for their drugs and there WILL be class I recalls on their medication, and at that point the users will have to what? Mail it back to Amazon and have them send a replacement?

I also know how much of an issue prescriptions can be when a Doctor sends in ambiguous scripts, but Amazon isn’t going to care about clear instructions. Hell, I doubt they’re really going to actually have someone go through and type up the clear instructions, it will probably just take the escript data and type it up exactly as it came in and send it to billing and filling. So be prepared to get a shipment from Amazon containing a single insulin pen that’s supposed to last a month because the doctor put a dispense quantity of 1 box, but the escript said 1 pckge and the computer interpreted a package to be a single pen.

Now technically PHI law states that Amazon is legally not allowed to use your health profile to market items to you. Practically that doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. I already have had one person tell me that they abandoned setting up an Amazon profile because they were worried about the personal questions being asked.

However one of the biggest concerns is that they’ll offer a system “for conveniences’ sake” where if your credit card is attached to your Amazon profile that they’ll just automatically fill, bill, and send your medications to you. And that this system will bypass all insurance and DUR issues. Doctor sent a $300 rx for eyedrops? Yup, that comes to you no chance to say “can we call my doctor for a cheaper alternative?” You have a peanut allergy and they sent in a prescription for Progesterone? Sure, here you go. Patient is on Suboxone and the doctor sent in an RX for Norco? Have at it buddy!

And when something inevitably happens, they’ll just shrug and go “oh well, we’re not liable because reasons!”

[emptydragonseverywhere]

The $300 eyedrop situation is real. There are multiple very good and common eyedrops out there that sometimes copay for $10 but sometimes end up costing $600. And sometimes we don't know which one it will be until the patient shows up at the pharmacy. I always, ALWAYS tell my patients not to pay more than a certain amount of those drops and have the pharmacy call me if it ends up being more. Amazon will not do that. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, as the above comment says. Also, not only will Amazon be able to undercut prices because of cutting out middlemen and using inexpensive sources, but they can literally afford to sell at a loss. A lot of large corporations do this to destroy their competition and then, once they're the only option left, they jack up the prices again. But Amazon can afford to lose money on prescription drug sales for a few years while it corners the market. Bezos is the richest man in the world. A few million in losses over a few years to secure the American pharmaceutical market is completely worth it to him. And the profit he'll make down the road will pay him back for those losses and then some. Private pharmacies will never be able to compete, and even other large pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS won't be able to keep up unless they find a way to stay a step ahead of Bezos. Amazon needs to be broken up. It is monopolizing our entire market, every corner of it. And healthcare needs to be public so everyone gets drugs for the same price regardless of where you're getting them from.

[itspileofgoodthings]

I know that Peter’s Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy technically has flaws but also….it doesn’t. It’s perfect.

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

‘Are these magic cloaks?’ asked Pippin, looking at them. with wonder.

‘I do not know what you mean by that,’ answered the leader of the Elves. ‘They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are Elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”

- Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8: Farewell to Lorien

This is how I think of Jackson’s movies. Yes, there are serious flaws - Gandalf’s de-powering, Gimli as comic relief, and Faramir, namely - but come on.

Remember when the guys making their chain mail invented a new method for quickly producing large amounts of it by hand? Remember Miranda Otto walking down the street, practicing sword positions? The guys who forged all of the swords - for leads and for extras? The men and women riders who volunteered to be riders of Rohan? The costume designers who designed the inside of Theoden’s armor (which no one would ever see) so beautifully that Bernard Hill said he felt like a king? The friendships between the cast, and their size doubles, and the stuntmen?

When they made that movie, they put all that they loved into all that they made.

[septembersung]

#just hundreds of people who went ‘sure let me try this’ #and they made something breathtaking #and then they made it 12 more times in different sizes ( @byjoveimbeinghumble​ )

[phoxxent]

Wait tell me more about that chainmail thing

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

“Kaynemaile has worked tirelessly to perfect the material science behind beautiful architectural mesh, collaborating with architects and designers on projects that embolden urban environments with positive buildings. The company’s patented polycarbonate mesh, inspired by 2,000-year-old medieval chainmail, was initially created for the armor and weapons seen in the The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy and is now used on major architectural projects around the world.

“The film’s art director and Kaynemaile’s founder Kayne Horsham worked with his team to construct each garment from plastic plumbing tubes, coating them in pure silver. Once filming wrapped, Horsham dedicated himself to creating a change to the liquid state assembly process to mass produce the polycarbonate chainmail for architectural applications — products that were light, but strong enough to protect the interior or exterior of a building. Now an industry-leading manufacturer, Kaynemaile produces mesh for everything from small interior screens to large scale exterior façades. Their mesh is easy to install and can be custom created for specialized applications.”

https://architizer.com/blog/practice/materials/kaynemaile-mesh-facade-systems/

How “Lord of the Rings” Chainmail Was Transformed Into an Innovative Architectural Mesh - Architizer Journal

Kaynemaile's patented mesh façade systems are incredibly lightweight and easy to install while bringing a bold look to any scale building.

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

YOU GUYS

[ohifonlyx33]

they took forced perspective and scaled sets to a new level by adding moving set pieces to create the illusion that the hobbits and dwarves were much smaller than everyone else even when the camera moved.

every scene you see in the 11+ hours of glory that is the LOTR masterpiece is most like ridiculously elaborate or expensive–from model towers to the all-new motion capture technology used for gollum to the costumes and sets to the aerial on location shots of mother-fracking new zealand and the big impressive battle scenes and horse charges.

but then the story and the screenplay too–there is just SO much lore that is there in the background lurking if you want to look for it, yet it still remains simplified for the average viewer. Crazy impressive feat.

And the acting is heartfelt and real and makes you love the characters.

ALSO DON’T GET ME STARTED ON FREAKING HOWARD SHORE AND HIS 100+ HEARTSHATTERINGLY BEAUTIFUL LIETMOTIFS AND BRILLIANT SUBTLE VARIATIONS IN THE FLIPPING 13 HOUR SOUNDTRACK. AND ENYA SINGING IN REAL ELVISH.

[thenatsdorf]

[mirablake]

The longer you watch it the more kittens appear