op is a dream stan btw ://

belle 《 20 《 she/her 《 urmomsexual

[nnebuchadnezzar]

had a fun encounter with a customer today

[likeinsects]

[afterword]

idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

[wahoo-shem]

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

[nonbinary-witch-sam]

scientist when you don't take the medicine they developed to help your pain

[fandomsandfeminism]

As long as you are taking a SAFE dose of it, then it's *good* for you. Pain is bad for the body. The inflammation from prolonged pain can worsen chronic issues and make it harder to heal.

Ibuprofen is best for pain that has inflammation, while acetaminophen doesn't help with inflammation but is more broadly effective on other types of pain. As long as you are taking the recommended dose, you can even take them TOGETHER, since they have different mechanisms of action.

You do need to be aware of how much and how often you are taking any pain medication. Overdoses can be very painful (even lethal.) And if you are in chronic pain often enough that you need more than the safe dose, then you need to look into other medications to manage that pain.

(Also, if you are specifically taking Acetaminophen/Tylenol for your go-to pain management, getting some NAC and taking that with it reduces the risk of overdose AND may strengthen the effect.)

[bemusedlybespectacled]

One other thing: NSAIDS (ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen being the three big ones) can cause digestive issues with chronic use, including stomach ulcers. That doesn't mean "don't take them," it means "if you're at the point where you're on them all the time, every day, constantly, you should talk to a doctor about either reducing that risk or switching to another medication that doesn't have those side effects."

[dreamupdates]

Dream replied to George.....!

[faeriekit]

If you are making a boy character into a girl character for a gender swap art thing you better put that bulk back on that girl or so help me. You think girls are allergic to muscles? To fat? Do you think big bulky butch women are imaginary or something?? If that boy is as wide as a fridge that girl better be a deep freezer. Cowardice. Rights for women that are built like a tank!

[noble-moon]

this is to the guy in the electronics department at walmart who when I approached and said “game” because it was the only word that would come to me, went “yeah” and walked me straight to tears of the kingdom, no questions asked

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was scrolling a website, when suddenly two giant arms emerged from the sides of my computer and a face appeared on the screen.

It shouted, “I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE,” pulled out a gun and shot the monitor.

[kingstooth]

heres to the other dandelions out there

[kingstooth]

version w text (and alt text)

[popepauljohn]

[ot3]

ace attorney 4

[micahruiz]

Kindness is how you leave your mark on the world.

Inspired by a post from @one-time-i-dreamt

[ash-and-art]

I am BEGGING yall to remember that "gay panic" means "i killed this person because theyre gay so you cant jail me for it" and NOT "UwU too gay to function"

Yall CANNOT reclaim this one please stop trying

[nolanhattrick]

THIS ALSO GOES FOR TRANS PANIC.

THIS ALSO GOES FOR TRANS PANIC

THIS ALSO GOES FOR TRANS PANIC

The Trans Panic Defense Revisited

[disneys-fast-play]

ok then WHAT term do we use for “too gay to function”

[courtofthevampireking]

you can say that you're "too gay to function" if you so choose

[darkladynyara]

And I would like to point out (for those who didn’t click on the helpful wikipedia link in the OP) that this is not a historical thing. The “gay/trans panic defense” is still in use.

[lil-trash]

ok i see a LOT of people in the notes saying they wont trust anyone who uses this phrase or whatever. but can i just add that this isn't very well known information??? i myself literally just learned about this today. five minutes ago. this term is so widespread and commonly used, especially among younger gays. i can guarantee that the majority of people who say this have NO malicious intent, and instead they literally just don't know. so instead, we should try to make this information widespread so that it gets less common. educate the people you see using it casually, just give them a heads up that "hey, this is actually a legal defense used to actively discriminate and harm members of the lgbtq community." they'll probably just be surprised and then stop using it. boom. done.

ok thank you for coming to my ted talk if this is actually a shit take please tell me

[bogleech]

A little girl got 2nd degree burns from a chicken nugget and the mom asked McDonald's to cover the hospital bill, they said no and she had to sue.

So naturally just like the famous hot coffee debacle it's getting passed around like it's a greedy frivolous lawsuit and nobody understands how dangerously, illegally overheated that oil had to be for that to be possible or what a second degree burns actually is

[lifeamongtheamazons]

For my linguistsics degree, I did a project on why I'm seeing more people saying "on accident" instead of "by accident." I looked at almost a million pieces of writing pulled from news sites, blogs, academic articles and television transcripts. I found almost three hundred cases of "on accident" being used. It was a surprisingly even spread across sources. Even more interesting, I organized the hits by date and tracked an upward swing in use as time goes on. This means that the use of "on accident" is increasing over time, and may eventually supplant and drive out the classic usage of "by accident." I like to call this prepositional shift.

Now, looking at my data and looking at the age ranges of the writers or speakers, the majority of them were under the age of thirty. So I interviewed a panel of people, choosing twenty with a spread of about half above thirty, and half below. Those older than thirty years of age felt "strongly" or "very strongly" that "on accident" was wrong in all cases, and that "by accident" was the only correct phrase. However, those younger than thirty were much less rigorous, with more than half feeling "ambivalent" or "less strongly" about which was correct. This demonstrates a generational link in preposition usage.

When presented with options for the definitions of "by" and "on," we also get some interesting data. For by, there are two main definitions according to the Oxford English Dictionary: 1. Identifying the agent performing an action. Or 2. Indicating the means of achieving something. Whereas "on" has many more definitions, the pertinent ones being 1. To indicate the manner of doing something or 2. To indicate active involvement in a condition or status. By the above definitions, either "by accident" or "on accident" is a correct usage of the term. However, native speakers of English could not successfully define either preposition, instead just choosing one, the other, or both as "sounding correct."

The only evidence for a rule-based shift that I could find was a correlation with the paired phrase for the opposite condition "on purpose." While the younger interviewees were ambivalent about the correctness of "on accident," they uniformly rejected the correctness of the suggested phrase "by purpose." So the shift can only be in one direction according the the native ear, towards the preposition "on."

Whether this means that the particular usage of "by" is becoming archaic or the definition of "on" is expanding is a possible subject of further study using a wider range of phrases. But I found the wider acceptance of "on accident" versus "by accident" to be a fascinating look at how prepositions can shift meaning and usage over time.

So now I'm curious, five years from my initial study (and itching to try the Tumblr poll feature):

How do you feel about the use of "on accident"?

It's grammatically wrong, and possibly also cursed. I will die on this hill.

It might be right sometimes. I'd have to hear it.

Meh. Why do we care about this?

It's fine. ON accident, BY accident. Both are okay!

...what is this BY accident thing? You don't do things BY purpose!

Voting ended onMay 17, 2023

[headspace-hotel]

I think both are fine but the final poll option makes a compelling point...

[discodeerdiary]

Boston trans girls searching for a name should know that you get free lifetime admission to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum if your name is Isabella

[pure-egg]

hang on fact checking this

[pure-egg]

ok yeah this is true, you may proceed

[arithmeticanimaniac]

i’m all for this because i’m hoping we can get a usamerican version of this headline:

[photophoros]

The title of this one is “A comic about a discord message my girlfriend wrote to me at 4:32 AM on a Saturday”

[mcmactictac]

my favourite type of fan fictions are like. Slightly canon divergent. Like everything is the same but we fix this one annoying detail you can’t stand and let it butterfly effect the whole story.