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[browniescloud]

moving!

i’ve been doing some thinking and i’ve decided to move accounts both because i’m sick of this username and because this blog is too crowded

my new url is midnight-chase.tumblr.com

[browniescloud]

moving!

i’ve been doing some thinking and i’ve decided to move accounts both because i’m sick of this username and because this blog is too crowded

my new url is midnight-chase.tumblr.com

[browniescloud]

moving!

i’ve been doing some thinking and i’ve decided to move accounts both because i’m sick of this username and because this blog is too crowded

my new url is midnight-chase.tumblr.com

[browniescloud]

moving!

i’ve been doing some thinking and i’ve decided to move accounts both because i’m sick of this username and because this blog is too crowded

my new url is midnight-chase.tumblr.com

[browniescloud]

moving!

i’ve been doing some thinking and i’ve decided to move accounts both because i’m sick of this username and because this blog is too crowded

my new url is midnight-chase.tumblr.com

[yekkes]

Serious post I would like people to spread!

This is Naomi Schwartz, she is a 14-year-old girl from Palm Beach Florida who is battling a rare form of cancer which requires a bone marrow transplant. She is mixed race, her mother is a brown Puerto Rican woman and her father is Ashkenazi Jewish, and as a result, currently has no matches in her family or in bone marrow databases. Naomi’s family ran a drive to try to find a match for her, but that’s no guarantee she will find one. I thought I would use my platform here to encourage people or people you know, especially with a similar background to Naomi, to register on bethematch.org.

Royal Palm Beach teen battling rare disease in need of bone marrow donor

A very important bone marrow donor drive-thru event is being held Saturday for a local teen. Earlier this year, 14-year-old Naomi Schwartz w

Be The Match is a global leader in bone marrow transplantation and connects patients with their donor match for a life-saving marrow or bloo

[bbgood]

I don’t usually add onto posts but I would like to say that I recently had a bone marrow transplant due to cancer as well. I learned a lot about bone marrow transplants due to this and it’s something that was totally off my radar until I was in it.  The Bone Marrow donor pool is extremely white. On average a white person has a 77% chance of finding a match in the pool, it drops significantly for people of different ethnicities. My specific “white european” genetics made my chance personally 93% and because my sister wasn’t a match mine came from the registry and they were a “perfect” match, this literally saved my life. I hope dearly that Naomi can find a donor, I also hope that you consider sending a away for a kit if you can and especially if you can help widen the donor pool. It’s super easy, and it means life or death for those of us handed a very difficult kind of cancer or other rare diseases. 

This is from the be the match site giving the average stats for people by ethnicity: 

[yekkes]

Relevant to Naomi, It said in the article that people with a mixed ethnic background have a 15% chance of finding a donor match, also!

[andthosearesmalleragents]

How You Can Help - Strength to Give | Blood Stem Cell Donation

All it takes is a quick and easy sample of your DNA through a swab test. Through 5 simple steps, you can join Australia's Donor Registry and

Many bone marrow donor registries also look internationally. In Australia you can sign up at Strength To Give.

[dopaminerjic]

[ID: 1: a photo of naomi. she is a smiling light-skinned girl with curly black hair.

2: an infographic with the header, “Likelihood of finding a Matched Adult Donor on the Be The Match Registry®️ by Patient Ethnicity*”. the note at the bottom reads, “*Patients are most likely to match an adult donor of their own ethnic background.” the infographic shows the following statistics:

African American or Black - 23%

Asian or Pacific Islander - 41%

Hispanic or Latino - 46%

[Native American] or Alaska Native - 57%

White - 77%]

[yekkes]

I’ve been keeping up with what’s going on w/ Naomi and haven’t seen any update since her family held the potential bone marrow donors event on the 5th. But I’ll let you all know when I do. Aside from a direct link to bethematch.org there’s also a text link that can help you get started by texting Hope4naomi at 61474

[carmensandiego-dreams-collection]

[carmensandiego-dreams-collection]

[gahdamnpunk]

🗣️🗣️ Louder for the people in the back!!!

[gayassdbz]

[molly-ren]

hey what's up with the "!" in fandoms? i.e. "fat!" just curious thaxxx <3

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.

[molly-ren]

woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time

Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?

[stevita]

I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.

The world may never know…

[molly-ren]

Maybe it’s something mathematical?

[michaelblume]

I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.

[hosekisama]

It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.

(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)

[nentuaby]

“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.

So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.

[raincityruckus]

100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.

[sassafrassarah]

Absolutely from the bang paths–saw people using them in early online fandom back in 1993 for referring to things.

[total-ass]

people that hate courtney are right

[heatherra]

[kazzmcsass]

Please don't be mad..... I actually have two Alenoah fic ideas.

[kare-korokke-deactivated2021061]

Ya want some mint?

[nyctoheart]

i think gen z ppl need to stop trying to moderate social media– which is impossible to moderate– and just go on forums already. “this is for mlm, wlw dni” bruh i’m telling you, if you discover mlm forums you’ll go bananas. everyone there will be mlm, i promise. this is genuinely friendly advice. stop wasting your time trying to control your twitter and tik tok, it won’t work because it’s designed to not be controlled.

[libertineangel]

I’ve said it before but the loss of forums in place of homogenized mass social media is a huge blow to the development of communities, and trying to implement forum rules, logic & expectations on social media is doomed to failure and just results in unnecessary hostility and argument.

[moringmark]

[blogging-not-my-forte]

I Don't think I Ever Posted this? So! Look at this Thing I did!

All the Colors are pulled from a Screenshot where the Quote was said!