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♡ ADULT || certified felicie kinnie & luca's #1 cheerleader || disabled + severe memory issues, please be patient with me! ♡

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winnie / fef. | '04. | love / they. | aroace | 🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️

i reblog + write things. please use tonetags!

selfshipper with a vast multitude of fixations.

no dni. i block freely to protect my peace

straw.page. x fan accounts. x trans games

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OCTAVIO'S TEAR YOU APART WTFFF QAHT

The VOCALS ??!?????? Oh my god

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Not to be horny on main but I have been looping this song for the past few hours and I need to write gross fanfic for Tavi oufhgh

[sushizushi6]

I had so much fun with this

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OCTAVIO'S TEAR YOU APART WTFFF QAHT

The VOCALS ??!?????? Oh my god

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It's probably really fucked up that when Axel told us Altare wasn't dead, my first thought was "oh thank God he's alright after all" lol

Like yeah I don't think he is but that's just my 2 cents as someone who's been through this shit before (njsj ex ID fan)

Like I am happy he's alive. It's just that there was a part of me that was heavily considering the possibility of him not being alive and I was making myself sick with worry these past few days. the fact that the bare minimum was confirmed shouldn't make me this happy because he's still probably not in a good place mentally so like what's wrong with me

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I’m just doing whatever now

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day 63

[beemovieerotica]

the cognitive dissonance from people who want the products of modern medicine but get weird about animal research. like im sorry but this is necessary for the survival of the society we currently live in. and the scientists who work on these things are not evil cackling psychopaths. anyone you talk to in animal research has incredibly complex feelings about their work and incredibly complex relationships to the animals in their care. there are regulations and oversight and penalties in place to make the work as humane as possible and scientists are overwhelmingly the ones enforcing and advocating for better care.

[beemovieerotica]

@velvetdemon I'm doing a full reply because I want to give this question the time and space it deserves, and I really do appreciate your curiosity about this.

The short answer: It is deeply unethical. There are nowhere near enough willing patients in the world to be able to do this, and it would be criminal to put them through this.

The long answer: The one side of the equation you're focusing on is: how much of a drug is too much, to the point where it will cause negative side effects or even death? And this is crucial to know. But it's not just a matter of finding out the lethal dosage of a heart cholesterol medication, you need to know that it can actually lower the cholesterol of any living thing. There is no way to know this without giving it first to...a living thing.

But beyond this, I need to emphasize: The goal of a drug trial is to effectively cure people who are already suffering from disease, who are living on limited time.

Drug trials don't just happen on any member of the public, they need to happen specifically on people affected by the disease you're trying to treat. There is at any time a very limited and very marginalized population of the world affected by early onset, familial Parkinson's disease. Because you cannot ethically induce disease in a human being, you are working with, speaking with, and helping patients and their families who are hopeful and desperate for a cure.

If you were to jump straight to human trials from petri dishes, not knowing absolutely anything about how the drug functions in a living, breathing animal body, it would look like this:

We didn't know that minute quantities of the drug interact lethally with x, y, z medication that people are commonly also taking. X number of patients have died as a result.

We didn't know that the drug is fatal to people with [common variant] in their genetics. X more patients have died.

We didn't know the drug exacerbates x, y, z chronic illnesses. X number of people have acquired permanent, lifelong disabilities.

We didn't know the best way to deliver the drug, so we tried multiple ways: the people who received it intravenously are now suffering from a painful, costly, and debilitating condition that did not happen with the ingested form.

I could go on, and on, and on.

The vast majority of these problems can be nearly or almost entirely averted by testing other animals first.

These are all people who possibly could have waited for the normal progression from animal testing to human testing and thus received better outcomes. Some people will pass away in the time it takes to get to that point, and that's heartbreaking, and we all wish science could be faster.

But the cost of expediting science could mean a life of profoundly greater suffering or an even shorter life than the one where no intervention happens at all. And at that point, you have completely exhausted your trust, your goodwill, and your patients' hope, after you've failed to do anything or even worsened the lives of people who are already deeply suffering.

[manslaughter]

hi, i’m an animal research professional. making sure laboratory animals stay alive, healthy, and enriched has been my full-time job for several years now.

animal research is not the mad scientist wild west that PETA wants you to think it is. there are extremely strict federal laws in place to protect the well being of these animals. animal welfare organizations like AAALAC ensure that lab animals are treated with dignity & respect and are given enough specialized care & enrichment to be happy and content in captivity, just like AZA accreditation with zoos.

not a single animal from a zebrafish to a mouse to a dog to a macaque goes unaccounted for. if an animal gets moved to a new cage, paired for breeding, has a procedure performed on it, gives birth, gets sick or injured, dies, etc. it is legally required that this information is recorded and kept on file for the US federal government to access. failing to record & retain this information is very much punishable by US federal law.

let me tell you - if you abuse or kill an animal, even a mouse - you are almost certainly getting both fired & blacklisted from the industry. if you abuse or kill a more ‘advanced’ animal, such as a dog or monkey, you will likely face criminal charges. killing a monkey is as serious and disastrous as a nuclear meltdown. you are expected to reasonably explain every illness, injury, or death of an animal under your care. you must record all of this information. animals that are clearly suffering with low QOL are required to be euthanized according to AVMA guidelines.

research animals are highly expensive. yes, even the "lesser" animals like mice. the cheapest mice will run you a few hundred $ per individual, with some of the most expensive mice i've cared for being $25,000 per individual. in research we have the "three Rs" - reduction (reduce amount of necessary animals to a minimum), refinement (refine processes to ensure research is accurate and animals feel no pain or distress), and replacement (replace animals with non-living research models as they become available). i can assure you no proper research team is wasting animals (*do not* say "b-b-but elon musk--" his research team is actively being investigated for animal abuse by the government).

research methods that do not require live animals are currently being looked into & efforts spearheaded by - you guessed it - the animal research industry itself (notice how the animal rights people are strangely silent & unhelpful when it comes to this?) but current technology is rudimentary and does not compare to live animal models.

some research animal fun facts (US edition):

all species of animals are only allowed to have one single major surgery performed on them in their entire lifetime.

institutions with nonhuman primates must have a behavior program in place (run by knowledgeable primate specialists) to ensure that they are happy and receiving enough daily enrichment and social interaction.

institutions with dogs are required to have physical exercise programs in place. this means every individual dog gets a substantial amount of leashed AND free-roaming exercise daily, including playgroups with other dogs.

a majority of nonhuman primates get to retire to sanctuaries like peaceable primate sanctuary, and almost all dogs get retired and adopted out by organizations like homes for animal heroes. some institutions will also adopt out unneeded young rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, etc.

some strains of mice glow neon green (or orange or blue) under UV light. this is not harmful to them and is commonly seen in cancer research.

so yes, you can rest knowing that laboratory animals are treated with the utmost respect by their caretakers. and you can stop this awful, ignorant talk of human experimentation that will only end in the abuse of nonwhite people, LGBT people, disabled people, indigenous people, and so many others. please just take a look at this wikipedia page if you think “ethical” human experimentation can exist.

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day 61

[quiltofstars]

The Deer Lick Group: NGC 7331 (the "deer") and its "fleas" // SteveDSWM

This is not a true galaxy group of physically associated galaxies. The "fleas" are on average 7.5 times further away than the "deer."

[i-am-a-fish]

because I'm alive and I don't know what else to do, I'm gonna love everyone as much as I possibly can

[indigonite]

ay happy to share the full piece I did for the @striderszine

lets all give a hell yeah for davepeta

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Oh god I'm turning 22 this month

Oh god oh fuck

Ohnno

Why can time not slow down I do not want to Change

[foxglovegames]

What’s each character’s opinion on cross dressing? I think Circe would look super good in a suit and Iridis in a pretty dress would be a sight to see!

Abraxas: Though I can imagine a scenario where he might be convinced, I think it’s unlikely. He doesn’t have an opinion on others doing it either. Abraxas is good at minding his own business.

Circe: She’s a very girly girl, almost always wearing skirts or dresses, so it wouldn’t be a regular thing for her. But she’d try it for sure! She thinks crossdressing is cool.

Dante: Absolutely not. His opinion is that others can have fun doing that, but he will stay away from it.

Edgar: He’d never try it. He’d find it too embarrassing, and he’s honestly just too old-fashioned. However, he would not be unsupportive of others doing it even if he doesn’t ”get” it. He tries to be open-minded about these things, though he doesn’t always succeed.

Iridis: He doesn't really put gender restrictions on clothes, so he's certainly worn more "feminine" outfits before. There's no actual intent to crossdress though. He doesn't see a need for the term at all, people can dress and be whoever they like.

Nocturne: She probably wears masculine clothes a lot, so she wouldn’t think much of it or see it as ”dressing up as a guy”. As for how others dress, she couldn’t care less.

Raoul: Agrees with Dante.

Zeno: Hasn't actively done that yet but would, if he was in the mood and someone suggested it. Would join a crossdressing party for sure.

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Phone broke

gonna be dead for abit

sorry tumblr D:

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Hello little gay people in my phone

Wireless charging is a miracle

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Phone broke

gonna be dead for abit

sorry tumblr D:

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