Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky

Queer 🏳️‍🌈 AU 🇦🇺 NZ 🇳🇿 Feminist. Nerd. Lifetime member of the BioWare Broody Boys Fan Club. Aspiring kitchen witch. Roc. Pan/enby. They/them.

[userfinalgirls]

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia Organa

STAR WARS (1977) dir. George Lucas

[elena-gilbert]

VAN HELSING (2004) dir. Stephen Sommers

[reynard61]

Let's ambush mama! 😼

[dvandom]

"Why do Pallas cats always look grumpy?"

"Pallas kittens."

[waywardmartian]

The sheer roundness of this kitten must be admired.

[drmelking]

I’m not going to defend Robby’s behavior towards Samira because it was wrong and cruel and deeply, deeply unprofessional. But I also find the reactions to it incredibly ironic. The Pitt is at its core about extreme burnout in the healthcare field, particularly amongst emergency medicine personnel, and how that ripples out and affects absolutely everyone around them—their colleagues, their relationships, the entire community. Over and over again, the Pitt asks of its audience: even in the face of extreme and sometimes unforgivable behavior, can you find the same empathy that is constantly and endlessly demanded of our healthcare providers? And for so many it seems like the answer to that question is a definitive, categorical no. Which funnily enough, is exactly the point the show is trying to make.

[aragarna]

funnily enough, I've reached that point in E.R. where Mark Greene loses his mojo too (after he was assaulted in the bathroom).

And of course there's the fall of Andrea Fanti in that flashback episode of DOC S3.

And to me, there's nothing more heartbreaking than seeing a truly kind and empathic person - in all cases here, doctors, who've made it their *jobs* in life to help others - breaking and losing that spark.

If you ever meet someone like this in RL, someone who you know is usually kind but for some reason is failing at it today, cut them some slack. Even better, try in turn to reach out. They're going through some sh*t.

[thermywho]

As someone who worked in hospitals, including emergency departments, for years, I think it can be very hard for people outside that world to grasp what it actually does to you. You are dealing, over and over, with people having the worst day of their lives. But you are not allowed to have the worst day of your life in response, because you have to come back and do it all again tomorrow, and the day after that, and the night after that, for another 12 hours or more, with no real end in sight.

At a certain point, some degree of emotional shutdown is not cruelty so much as survival. Burnout is recognised by exhaustion and cynicism or psychological distancing from work, and trauma-related stress can involve feeling detached or emotionally numb. In other words, losing easy access to empathy is not some bizarre moral failure. It is often a sign that a person has been carrying too much, for too long.

I’ve seen people say that The Pitt is unrealistic because it piles everything healthcare can throw at someone into one day. But sometimes that is what the job is. There were shifts where I saw so many awful things that I learned very quickly not to describe them casually to people outside healthcare, because you would see the horror on their faces immediately. And the truly brutal part is that those were not once-in-a-career nightmare days. I can think of dozens of them. Then you go home, sleep if you can, and come back to do it again.

So yes, when a usually kind and empathetic person starts failing to access that part of themselves, sometimes what you are seeing is not who they “really are” at last. Sometimes you are watching someone run out of skin. And I think The Pitt understands that better than a lot of viewers do.

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start

[distinguishedbaloney]

[eilooxara]

Non cooking spray stick

[eilooxara]

Non spray stick cooking

[that-house]

Non cooking stick spray

[winchysteria]

the only true ally

[hayaomiyazaki]

If she's more interested in playing football right now than chasing boys, well, quite frankly, I'm over the moon about that.

@pscentral event 28: throwback Bend It Like Beckham — 2002 dir. Gurinder Chadha

[byjove]

The funniest part of A New Hope is that Luke Skywalker is a 19 year old who has not locked in yet and plays with toys and sleeps in his childhood bedroom at his aunt and uncle’s house and Leia Organa is a 19 year old with a mission to save the galaxy from fascism. Luke has never left his hometown, Leia just watched her planet be blown up. He’s peeved his uncle is asking him to do his chores, she’s imprisoned for resisting the government. You relate to them both but they’re on complete opposite sides of the 19 year old life stage spectrum.

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[teaboot]

advice that has literally saved and improved my life

[sioltach]

I looove when food is in a bowl. Frequently plates are being brought out and I'm thinking this could've been a bowl meal but nobody gets it

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[melis-writes]

KEVIN AND MARY ANN LOMAX | THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE (1997) dir. Taylor Hackford.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

[teaboot]

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

still think it’s incredible they made a movie musical about pt barnum where the point is like love and accept yourself no matter who you are or what you look like <3 when pt barnum irl was like exploitation georg who lives in a circus and and dehumanizes 10,000 people daily. not sure how they came up with that one

[zaprowsdower27]

"Telling a fabricated story that audiences want to hear rather than anything faithful to actual facts about relevant history" is the most authentic experience a PT Barnum movie could possibly have been, though

[nick-nellson]

Matilda (1996) dir. Danny DeVito