Cupcake (she/her)

Estrogen would've saved Victor Frankenstein pfp by @melspontaneous

[cupcakeshed]

About me

Trans girl, neurodivergent, mad science enthusiast

Also I'm polyamorous, and mostly only made this account so my girlfriend and I could follow each other

Please go easy on me

[xiketic]

Something I haven't seen many people talk about in PHM is the fact that Eridians probably don't have the same attitudes towards time as humans do. Think about it: Erid is an inherently dayless place, having an atmosphere that allows no light and thus no concept of day or night. We don't really think much about how our entire lives are structured around this cycle that Earth life has been experiencing for eons. Erid life has no concept of this at all. Eridian sleep schedules are somewhat irregular and not synced to each other (they can't be, not if someone always stays awake to watch). They don't track birthdays like we do, they can't unless they're paying attention to their solar cycle, which I'd expect is a relatively new thing for their culture. Maybe they base age on their near-perfect memories or how many layers their carapace has or how big they are, or experiences/accomplishments. They may have an idea of an Eridian year, if their planet has seasons or something like that, but I doubt it has a whole lot of importance to them.

I'd image having an alien who relies so heavily on cycles and repeated patterns in order to function normally would be mind-boggling to the Eridians. What do you mean it celebrates the exact day of its birth every so often, just because? Wait we need to program a reliable change in light levels to simulate its planet, which has almost no atmosphere? And we have to schedule any interactions we have with it around this cycle? Wait it tracks its age by the scientific year, not by life experience and physical aging?

Constantly being reminded that this guy Rocky brought home that saved their entire planet is, in fact, a complete alien.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Human-inspired names really take off on Erid after the Hail Mary arrives. Human media, especially audiodrama and music (for obvious reasons) becomes pretty huge, and giving your pebble an Earth name becomes the new way to distinguish yourself from the crowd.

Grace finds out about this after one of his students excitedly informs him that they've got a new batch of baby siblings, named 🎵🎶🎵🎶, 🎶🎶, 🎵🎶🎶 and [pitch prefect rendition of the Star Trek theme].

[leeshajoy]

[natalieironside]

Modular action figure playset for melodramatic goths

Byronicle

[shannontheapostate]

The fandom is still mostly trans girls.

[cupcakeshed]

I would unironically buy a Mary Shelley's Frankenstein playset

[xxtc-96xx]

I’m looking at you two pun freaks

[utdr-heritage-posts]

utdr heritage post! (2018-03-26)

[demilypyro]

I'm way cooler than my dad actually. fuck that guy. I have better hair, I've spent more time working on myself, and I look better in a jacket than he ever did.

[catchymemes]

blue sunset on Mars is a real phenomenon caused by the way Martian dust scatters sunlight.

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

[the-stew-goblin]

I saw that you're doing a free giveaway of Gacha Stew?

BINGO!

You get:

Pork flavored stew made with chicken (Common)

Piss stew (Common)

Microplastics stew (Common)

Stew that makes you projectile vomit instantly (Uncommon)

Plague stew (Uncommon)

A big ol' smooch stew (Rare)

Gold stew (Rare)

Greenish meat stew (Very Rare)

Stew that turns you into an apartment complex (MYTHIC)

Stew flavored with a soul trapped in an iron cage (MYTHIC)

[cupcakeshed]

*recycles all of my Rares and Mythics into Stew Dust* Is this enough for me to craft a Stew that turns you into a cow?

[the-stew-goblin]

You may keep your regular stews friend.

Here is the stew that turns you into a crow 🍲🤏

Live out your crow dreams silly goober. Live them out

[cupcakeshed]

Not what I asked for, but you know what? I'll take it <3

[the-stew-goblin]

Oh I misread...

Well uhhhmm. Want to go on an epic quest to change you back to normal?

[cupcakeshed]

Does the epic quest involve Science?

[the-stew-goblin]

It can absolutely!

[cupcakeshed]

Hell yes

[the-stew-goblin]

I saw that you're doing a free giveaway of Gacha Stew?

BINGO!

You get:

Pork flavored stew made with chicken (Common)

Piss stew (Common)

Microplastics stew (Common)

Stew that makes you projectile vomit instantly (Uncommon)

Plague stew (Uncommon)

A big ol' smooch stew (Rare)

Gold stew (Rare)

Greenish meat stew (Very Rare)

Stew that turns you into an apartment complex (MYTHIC)

Stew flavored with a soul trapped in an iron cage (MYTHIC)

[cupcakeshed]

*recycles all of my Rares and Mythics into Stew Dust* Is this enough for me to craft a Stew that turns you into a cow?

[the-stew-goblin]

You may keep your regular stews friend.

Here is the stew that turns you into a crow 🍲🤏

Live out your crow dreams silly goober. Live them out

[cupcakeshed]

Not what I asked for, but you know what? I'll take it <3

[the-stew-goblin]

Oh I misread...

Well uhhhmm. Want to go on an epic quest to change you back to normal?

[cupcakeshed]

Does the epic quest involve Science?

[the-stew-goblin]

I saw that you're doing a free giveaway of Gacha Stew?

BINGO!

You get:

Pork flavored stew made with chicken (Common)

Piss stew (Common)

Microplastics stew (Common)

Stew that makes you projectile vomit instantly (Uncommon)

Plague stew (Uncommon)

A big ol' smooch stew (Rare)

Gold stew (Rare)

Greenish meat stew (Very Rare)

Stew that turns you into an apartment complex (MYTHIC)

Stew flavored with a soul trapped in an iron cage (MYTHIC)

[cupcakeshed]

*recycles all of my Rares and Mythics into Stew Dust* Is this enough for me to craft a Stew that turns you into a cow?

[the-stew-goblin]

You may keep your regular stews friend.

Here is the stew that turns you into a crow 🍲🤏

Live out your crow dreams silly goober. Live them out

[cupcakeshed]

Not what I asked for, but you know what? I'll take it <3

[the-stew-goblin]

I saw that you're doing a free giveaway of Gacha Stew?

BINGO!

You get:

Pork flavored stew made with chicken (Common)

Piss stew (Common)

Microplastics stew (Common)

Stew that makes you projectile vomit instantly (Uncommon)

Plague stew (Uncommon)

A big ol' smooch stew (Rare)

Gold stew (Rare)

Greenish meat stew (Very Rare)

Stew that turns you into an apartment complex (MYTHIC)

Stew flavored with a soul trapped in an iron cage (MYTHIC)

[cupcakeshed]

*recycles all of my Rares and Mythics into Stew Dust* Is this enough for me to craft a Stew that turns you into a cow?

[j5daigada]

science

commission for raymk249

[hattiestgal]

Everyone say thank you women with deep low pitched voices

[cupcakeshed]

You're welcome

[queeranarchism]

Let me settle the 'is it fetishism and is it bad?' debate once and for all:

Being attracted to any kind of body is normal. Fat bodies. Trans bodies. Disabled bodies. All normal. Being extra attracted to a specific kind of body is normal too. Totally normal to have a type.

Not unlearning the societal stigma attached to those kinds of bodies, the people who inhabit those bodies, and the people who fuck them, to the point where you do any of the following:

Only want to date/fuck the person in secret.

Reduce the person to the feature that you desire and ignore the rest of who they are as a person.

Expect the person to be a walking porn fantasy instead of a real person with their own sexual preferences and boundaries.

Would no longer love the person if the stigmatized aspect of their body changed.

Consider yourself superior to the person, think the person should be 'grateful' that you love their body, etc.

See the person as a temporary adventure while planning to eventually settle down with someone whose body isn't stigmatized.

Is bad and harmful and you shouldn't be dating anyone until you've worked on your shit, because this makes you a very terrible partner. This doesn't mean you are a bad person with bad-fetishist-desires who can only desire people badly, it means you need to unlearn societal stigma so you can be a better partner to the people you desire.

Thank you for coming to me ted talk.

[sadwettennaintherain]

Wait. oh my god, this actually might be something

[wickedsick]

[puffy-sphere]

@demilypyro

[demilypyro]

TOBY FOX PUT MAD MEW MEW IN DELTARUNE CHAPTER 5 AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[byjove]

whenever I see archeological remains of a human who suffered from a terrible disease that couldn’t be treated in their lifetime but could be fixed now, this wave of sorrow and mourning washes over me. a woman in the 14th century who spent her 35 years of life bent at the waist because of congenital scoliosis. a man from the 18th century who died because of a non cancerous mass on his jaw that made eating progressively more difficult. remains of a woman from the Neolithic who died in childbirth having evidence of peri-mortem trepanation on her skull.

and yet she survived to 35. and yet the physicians in his time tried to strengthen his jaw. and yet someone 4,000 years ago tried to save someone they loved from dying of preeclampsia/increased cranial pressure. we tried. we tried and we tried and we tried. we failed and we learned but we tried. that’s what makes humans so beautiful.

[lyricwritesprose]

My mom sometimes talks about a child in her neighborhood who was born with hydrocephaly and died of it. His parents strove to keep him alive for years, but he ultimately passed after a long decline. No treatment available. No hope at all, and the parents knew it from his birth.

Several decades later my sister had an MRI, as a long shot, to try to figure out why she was sick and deteriorating with a number of symptoms that were close to being written off as anxiety. She was sent straight to the hospital for adult onset hydrocephaly. Two days later she had brain surgery to put a shunt down her neck into her stomach and drain the fluid out. (No, you cannot usually get brain surgery that fast. Yes, it was that urgent.) Recovery was long and squiggly but it happened.

I think of that boy every once in a while. The one who died. I have no doubt that treatments developed for people like him, and tested on people like him, saved my sister's life.

He never knew he made the world better. His condition was severe, he never knew much of anything, I don't think. I think if I ever track down a God or something like one, that'll be somewhere on my List of Wishes. To make sure people like him know that they helped.

[mutedtempest]

I think about this a lot.

I've been type 1 diabetic since I was about one and a half, and was incredibly sick. If my mother hadn't also been type 1 and recognized the signs I likely would have died.

I was born in 1982. Insulin was first given to a patient in 1922, and he survived. Before that, type 1 meant death, often very slow and agonizing. Before insulin, doctors advised a super strict "keto" diet to prolong life, and it could work for awhile - up to a year, I believe. But it was a miserable existence as the body was literally eating itself as the blood turned acidic until the patient eventually died.

60 years. Only 60 years before my birth did that procedure work for the first time. That's absolutely nothing given the span of human history and I think a lot about the people who died from it throughout time.

But yes, people tried. Healers and doctors of all sorts tried all manner of things to allow these (mostly!) kids to live. The fact that it was accomplished at all is nothing short of a miracle. The fact that I've been alive 42 years is fucking insane considering my body doesn't produce a hormone necessary for survival. If you think that doesn't blow me away on a regular basis you have another think coming. It's nothing short of a miracle.

Every medical advancement is. The amount of work that goes into it and the vast amount of luck necessary to get it right even when all the research and information is sound is just astonishing.

Thank you, humanity. Thank you ingenuity and determination to save lives and make them better. Thank you to every medical practitioner and medical researcher in existence now and through all of time. Thank you to all the people who died so I could live.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

Diabetes is one of these illnesses that really throws medical history into perspective. It's so common, everyone knows someone who has it, people live pretty normal lives with it. And yet, a hundred years ago, it was an instant death sentence. And then we were able to treat people with insulin and yet - it was extremely disabling. The insulin was extracted from animal pancreas had severe side effects, even with how similar the hormones are, there is always an averse reaction to proteins from foreign species, especially during long-term treatment. Injections had to be given every few hours, at-home-tests were only available from the 70s onwards. Insulin pumps entered the market in the 80s. Genetically produced insulin - humanized insulin - was first available in the US in 1982, in many countries only around the year 2000.

In 1930, having diabetes type I would basically mean being hospital bound, being woken every few hours for regular injections.

In 1965, you'd be able to live at home and get by with a very strict diet and a few timed injections. You'd struggle with chronical side effects. Having children wasn't done - passing on your genes would be immoral, and it might not even be legal for you to marry.

In the year 2000, you'd have a device clipped to your belt that would measure your blood sugar and distribute insulin, you only need to change the needle a few times a day. You might even be allowed to join in P.E. class

In 2025, you stick on two patches that do the same thing. They're synchronized through your phone.

That wasn't fate. It's not natural development that made diabetes a common chronic illness. It was hundreds of people who cared. It was the people who created the keto diet. It was the people who came up with tests. The ones who went through different species, trying to figure out the closest analogon to human insulin. It was the people who fought in court to get genetically produced insulin approved for medical use. It was people who looked at a rare, incurable disease and said "but what if it wasn't?"

[metalsonicmustdie]

.smth about extremely repressed and suicidal trans girl having the “evil” version of herself tell her that she looks good in a dress. and then she tells that reflection that she wants her dead. Yeah