Randomness from Hawaiianpurplewolf

Call me Wolfie. She/her. You think you know what to expect. You don't. I don't even know. Fandom stuff - a lot of that - writing stuff, facts, weird stories, reblogs of various stuff... I have no clue

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i love you purple i love you lavender i love you lilac i love you wisteria i love you violet i love you mauve i love you periwinkle i love you amethyst i love you

[dogpuppy]

[defectivegembrain]

Prev et al. (2025)

[blue--deer]

*slides this across the table* you're going to want to read this

[elodieunderglass]

There are Experiences behind this sign

[nsevens]

Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I have decided not to endorse your park.

Favorite Non-Animated Movies — JURASSIC PARK (1993)

[largishcat]

you may have noticed that my blog is disorganized and thematically incoherent and my tag game is weaker by the day. this is commentary on the chaos of modern existence

[itsmisstutu]

The 8hr work day / 40hr work week is an infringement on our right to be human on earth

[solarsyrup]

the unimaginable power of saying "huh, guess that's not for me" and moving on with your life

[omgthatdress]

NO you absolutely WANT your PLASTIC SURGERY procedures to be done by a PLASTIC SURGEON.

As in someone who is specifically trained in it and does it every day.

Someone who is not specifically trained in pleasing cosmetic results and not actively practicing pleasing cosmetic results is how you get horrifying cosmetic results

I cannot tell you how many episodes of Botched I've seen where someone with a mangled nose job says some shit like "My dentist did 2 for 1 rhinoplasty...."

[bitsybaby]

Feels like an important clarification from prev

[kyraneko]

I have had a rant brewing for awhile now and this seems like as good a place as any for it:

The "plastic" in "plastic surgeon" did not get here to mean "cheap and fake."

Plastic, the word, predates plastic, the material. The material was named for its noteworthy quality.

"Plastic" means "shapeable." Workable, moldable, malleable, et cetera.

When the first reconstructive surgeries were being pioneered in the 19th century, working absolute miracles like restoring whole faces to girls and women who'd caught fire tending to their kitchen stoves, among a multitude of other devastating conditions, it was this miraculous reshaping that gave the surgery its name: plastic surgery, the shaping surgery.

Time passes, and plastic, the material, is developed, and goes from fantastic modern wonder material to byword for cheap imitation; plastic, the surgery, expands from reconstruction to aesthetic finicking, Barbie is introduced with her unrealistically-proportioned plastic body, and the phrase "plastic surgery" goes from indicating "the reshaping surgery (what a marvelous thing)" to "the fake face/fake tits/fake nose surgery (how vulgar and deceitful)."

Same phrase. Entirely different connotation.

Just sayin'.

You want the reshaping. Go for the plastic.

[elamarth-calmagol]

People seem to think of plastic surgery as for cosmetic purposes only. Kids getting plastic surgery is considered a sign of the fall of society. I got three plastic surgeries before I was 10. I was born with a facial birthmark that actually caused malnutrition as a baby (couldn't latch on) and a speech delay (couldn't put my lips together to form sounds). I was also treated as a pariah by fellow toddlers who were scared of me, which I think caused the social anxiety disorder I have today. My mom literally searched the country for the right surgeon. We had to take a week to go up to Boston Children's Hospital each time. The surgeon is famous in medical circles for the things he did for kids like me. Plastic surgeons are heroes.

[luna-azzurra]

Something nobody prepares you for is that the better you get at writing the harder it becomes. beginners write freely because they don't know enough to know what's wrong. then you learn. and suddenly you can see every single flaw in real time as you're making it and you have to write anyway while your own brain is in the corner going "that's a weak verb. that transition is lazy. you've used that word three times." getting good at this is mostly just getting better at ignoring yourself.

[shallowseeker]

i do think a lot about dean cupping cas’s cheek to keep him off the cold, unforgiving floor

[shallowseeker]

via @lazarrusrising

[worrynoodle]

Literally how can anyone deny Dean's love for Castiel?

[girldraki]

kind of harmonically beautiful

[funky-insanitear]

[integrityflower]

there has to be a balance because "who even cares about canon" can water down amazing stories and characters and be disrespectful to its source media but on the other hand "i need to make absolutely everything as accurate and in-character as i can" is stressful for no reason and no fun. There can be a balance between analyzing and honoring the art you enjoy while still having fun and playing toys you can do it i believe in you

[joy-haver]

So many things would be better if doctors could just say “yeah that is a real problem but there isn’t much we can do to treat it so our only real recommendations are other things that raise your general health level to compensate”

instead they just say “thats normal” or “oh theres nothing wrong with you”. Because in their mind “it wont kill you and i cant fix it” means its not worth mentioning.

Affirm the problem doc, it wont kill you. Knowing that something just isnt the kind of thing doctors treat will save your patients so much time, money, and stress, all of which will improve their health.

[vergess]

I was going to link to that essay about how med school beats this out of doctors, complete with clinically diagnosable PTSD in 20-40% of doctors depending on field.

But then I went to collect the link on duckduckgo since I don't have my bookmarks at work, and oh god, there's actually thousands of these essays, and even studies now.

So uh. I'll synthesize a bit here:

Doctors need to stop doing this, yes. But for that to happen, med school has to stop punishing this with public humiliations, residency has to stop punishing this with extra shifts, and employers have to stop firing doctors who admit this for "malpractice liability."

The individual doctors sending their patients home ignorant and afraid are the last leg in a long chain, basically.

EDIT:

Here's some further reading by request. Enjoy!

Study: Doctors have PTSD at rates second only to war zone survivors and soldiers.

Study: Medical training traumatizes more than half of doctors.

Essay: The way medical schools are set up today causes excessive trauma and filters out marginalized doctors thereby.

Essay saying the same as above from over 30 years ago demonstrating how long we've known about this issue: The well known phenomenon of "med school cynicism" is literally just PTSD wearing a silly hat.

[depsidase]

[guiltfactory]

you can lead a lamb away from slaughter but you can't make it stop feeling like a sacrifice

[samirasystole]

rip chidi anagonye you would have had a category five meltdown about AI, data centers, flock cameras, and ID checks for social media apps