Jaydude1992

34, he/him. Longtime Legend of Korra and Korrasami fan, longtime guy on the autism spectrum, also a fan of AtlA, LiS and Star Wars (pro Jedi). Credit for my profile images goes to @lakesparkles.

[jaydude1992]

So given a number of unpleasant interactions I've had with certain parts of the AtlA/LoK fandom recently, I've come up with a list of people I'm no longer interested in wasting my time and mental health on. If you're any one of the following and I haven't yet blocked you for whatever reason, do me a favor and DNI:

Azula apologists/stans, i.e. anyone who tries to put the majority of the blame on Ursa and/or Iroh for how Azula turned out, anyone who tries to insist Azula was abused in the mental institution Zuko put her in post-series, anyone who believes the responsibility is on Ursa and Zuko to seek out Azula and earn her forgiveness rather than the other way around, and anyone who threw a hissy fit over Ashes of the Academy not indulging their fantasies of Azula actually being a nice kid of sorts when she was growing up. If you're an Azula fan who doesn't fall into those categories and/or is willing to be respectful/open-minded though, feel free to interact.

AtlA comics haters. Particularly anyone who wants to complain about the Atla characters being "OOC" in the comics, anyone who wants to complain about the comic plotlines "not making sense", and anyone who hates Kiyi and/or feels she should be replaced by Azula as Zuko's nice sister. As with the above bullet point though, if you don't fall into those categories and/or are willing to be respectful/open-minded about interpretations not in line with your own, I'm more willing to interact.

Zutara shippers who are also anti-Kataang. To put it simply and bluntly, I'm likely REALLY not going to want to hear anything you've got to say in regards to the latter.

Anyone who wants to complain about how Katara - who served as Korra's waterbending master, got involved in politics enough to outlaw bloodbending, was invited to teach at Pakku's new waterbending school in the South Pole, and was never meant to be a character of significant focus in LoK anyway - was "reduced to just being a healer" following AtlA. On the other hand, feel free to share your headcanons/ideas about what Katara might've done offscreen between AtlA and LoK if you like.

Anyone who wants to complain about anyone involved with AtlA being "sexist" (for whatever reason) or "ableist" (for depicting Azula as suffering a mental breakdown at the end of the show, not being able to overcome it by the time she first appeared in the comics, and needing to be restrained due to irrational aggression and violence).

Anyone who tries to claim that Aang was a terrible parent and OOC for focusing on Tenzin, the Air Nomads and his Avatar duties. Absentee father is okay though.

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

[theneonmark]

@reasonsforhope I didn't expect to start this pride month with an ugly cry but thank you from the bottom of my nonbinary heart 😭 💜🤍💛🖤

[reasonsforhope]

💜🤍💛🖤

Right back at you from my nonbinary heart

No matter who's reading this--

No matter how comfortable you might or might not feel with the word trans, or nonbinary, or whatever else--

Even if no other person on the planet has ever believed you about your experience of gender

Guess what? I do

💙🩷🤍🩷💙

[lostinpubwe-deactivated20220705]

[aiko-moon]

someone i know made some unkind comments about my best friend

and... well...

bro i don't care if you're ignorant about it, if you're prejudiced or just stupid...

YOU DON'T JUDGE MY BEST FRIEND, OKAY?

so...

take this anti-transphobes bomb blahaj

with "love" 💙

[uss-edsall]

At 1 PM on a Friday I get an email from my boss. I'm busy as hell so I don't check it immediately. Then I get a phone call from my boss, which has almost never happened before. I'm a white collar worker, a historian. There's never a 'historical emergency' requiring a phone call to kick me in the ass and get to work.

The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.

It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.

The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.

This map required:

North and South Vietnam in it

All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated

Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)

Has Laos and Cambodia in it

Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it

So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'

I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.

Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.

The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.

The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc

At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"

My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond

good fucking god, jesus tap dancing goddamn christ, I'm glad I was asked to look at it and then find a real map

[the-murmuration-project]

My fear has never been that AI would replace human intelligence. My fear has been that the people who Know Things and the people who Make The Decisions are almost never the same people.

We’re throwing real intelligence out on the street to starve while worshipping the shambling Frankenstein-ed corpse of knowledge puppeteered by those who see us as disposable assets.

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[sleepyadorart]

Commission - post Reunion Pricefield fluff❤️‍🩹

[porterdavis]

Start spreading the news...

[myrandomstuffpage]

Let’s do this!!

[trixdraws]

Caledon has seen a significant increase in graduate student applicants interested in Photography since the hiring of Professor Caulfield.

Yasmin Fayyad knew what she was doing. 😏 BONUS: The three simps who would often sneak in Max's classes.

[jaydude1992]

Max Caulfield: Sapphic Magnet.

[draxofoy]

you need to tell that anti to * herself like actually fuck with her life like she is doing to others she's not gonna stop if someone doesn't terrorize her back or file charges against her

the thing is, they're never going to stop 😭 it's just the atla fandom cycle at this point, they're reincarnating lol

[avatarfandompolice]

In case any of you were wondering if the anti-Kataang death threats were left back in 2015

[nelsonakis]

They've got AO3 on Paralives

[wishingforatypewriter]

And I'm gonna go ahead and say the quiet part out loud. The reason some of y'all are okay with how Tenzin treated Lin is because you don't believe child free women are deserving of long-term committed partnership. Somewhere in your conscious or subconscious mind, you think that adult men in relationships with adult women are owed children and if a woman doesn't give a man a child—especially if that's the case because she doesn't fucking want to—the relationship was inherently unserious and she deserves to be left. The triangulation of Lin and Pema with respect to Tenzin was a misogynistic narrative choice on the part of the show's creators and you can like whatever ship or character you want and still acknowledge that.

[avatarfandompolice]

Does LOK or ATLA ever do anything to shame women for being childless? The narrative never does anything to make Lin seem like a failure for not having children. She’s only portrayed as flawed because of her emotional constipation in the wake of the breakup, which she’s never invalidated for, but also is shown to be in a much better place once she gets past it. I think you’re projecting an opinion from seeing a few bad fan takes onto the writers here.

[jaydude1992]

What I don't get is the implication that Tenzin mistreated Lin by... breaking up with her.

[technofeudalism]

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.”  Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet). 

Link to the Guide at Project Gutenberg can be found here

A Wikisource entry can be found here.

Mirrors can be found here, here, here, here and here.

[breelandwalker]

Gosh it would be a shame if this got even MORE visibility.

Whoops my cursor slipped.

[jaydude1992]

Dammit, so did my thumb!

[beifong-brainrot]

Too many people debating whether Ursa's decision to have her memories wiped was a 'moral' or 'good mother to Zuko and Azula' decision. Too few people considering the fact that erasing almost all your memories is not something you do on a whim and what this implies about the extent of the abuse and horrors Ursa suffered at the hands of Ozai and the royal family.

[avatarfandompolice]

The amount that the fandom claims to be pro women then takes every possible chance to shit talk Ursa is crazy. She was a woman clearly in an abusive relationship against her will. I picked up on that as a child before any of the comics explained it. Yet I see people out here romanticizing Ozai x Ursa and saying she’s responsible for all the bad things in that family. Like just say you hate women. We get it.

[rockshitty]

Nothing reminds me what a goddamn miracle modern medicine is more so than hearing stories about people who contracted the black plague in the 21st century and were prescribed antibiotics for it.

Like yeah man you got the disease that wiped out half of Europe, like, a couple separate times within written history, and we have no clue how many times before that. To cure it you have to take 14 pills and drink lots of juice. You’re gonna feel kind of crummy for a while. It’s vitally important you take all 14 pills.

[sapphoandvanzetti]

the thing that blows my mind is blood transfusions. for literally all of human history up until about 100 years ago if you lost enough blood that was it, you were dead, and then people just figured out how to take blood from other people and successfully give it to you and now you can come in to the hospital with a blood pressure of ohfuck/nope, the same color as the linens and they just pop a tube in your arm and casually give you some stuff that another person donated on their lunch break, and you live long enough for the doctors to find and treat your gastric bleed. Insanely cool.

[findingfeather]

Honestly even more, just . . . IV fluids.

The fact that we can put fluids into people via IV saves more lives than I can actually communicate. There are so, so many more ways to die when we can't do that. You can go from literally at death's door from an illness you have no other cure for, to Basically Fine, You'll Feel Icky A Bit Longer But You're Otherwise Fine and Your Own Immune System Will Work Now, from sterile saline into a vein.

Or even fucking subcutaneous, under your skin. It still gets into your system faster and bypasses any fuckery going on in your gi-tract.

But you want the other end?

I recently got the answer to a crapload of symptoms of mine and it turned out to be Crohn's. Ileal crohn's.

For most of human history there was literally nothing to do about this but hope and pray that your immune system didn't decide to rip ulcers and lesions in your digestive tract to the point where you bled out, or the point where parts of it died and killed you with sepsis, or enough to build up stricture bands of scar tissue sufficiently to cause impactions or any other really gnarly and unpleasant ways you can die because for some reason your body decides the walls of your digestive tract are the enemy and need to be dismantled cell by cell. (Including a fuckload of cancers caused by the constant damage to the cell wall.)

Even as recently as when most of the younger people reading this were small children, mostly all you could do about it was take corticosteroids when you were in a flare. And that was better than Nothing. But at the same time, corticosteroids have a potential laundry list of side effects and you want to take them as little as possible and for as brief a period as possible. And there wasn't a lot else.

I am on a medication with the proprietary name "Skyrizi" and the generic name risankizumab. It's made from taking antibodies from a non-human source and then modifying their protein sequences to be more similar to human antibodies, after which they modify them further in order to make it so that the literal only thing they do is go into my body and bind to something called "tumour necrosis factor" so that this will stop flagging my own goddamn digestive system walls for destruction by the rest of the immune system.

Please feel free to read that paragraph over again.

Modern medicine isn't perfect; there are many things we're just as helpless against as we were in the Days of Eld, and there are many ways its practitioners fail us. But also we can make a thing that goes into my body and says "hey stop self destructing you MORON!" and I have a much better chance than at any other time of not dying young of bowel cancer or bowl impaction! This is fucking insane.

[transcyberism]

Vitamins and micronutrients.

There used to be a common, horrific illness that sailors would get, which was mysteriously cured by limes. People know about this one, it's scurvy. But there are other horrible ways to be sick from vitamin deficiency that weren't considered curable at all, and people had no idea what caused them.

Rickets is a disease caused by vitamin D deficiency where your bones get bendy and grow in the wrong shape (it is most apparent in children). It causes permanent deformity and very easy fractures, along with debilitating pain and persistent dental issues. Historically, it was known that milk, and later, cod liver oil, would improve or prevent it, but the reason was not understood until the vitamin was discovered.

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a complication of alcoholism that leads to psychosis, dementia, and death if left untreated. Severe alcoholics used to just go completely mad before dying, basically. It ultimately results in permanent memory loss (retrograde amnesia), as well as the inability to form new memories (anterograde amnesia). It is caused by the fact that alcohol prevents the absorption of vitamin B1 (thiamine). It is treatable and preventable by giving the patient thiamine shots - if caught early, before permanent brain damage has occurred, it is fully reversible, although the underlying substance abuse issue still needs to be addressed to prevent recurrence.

Pernicious anemia is caused by vitamin B12 deficiency (in turn ultimately caused by an autoimmune issue causing poor absorption). It causes blood cells to be the wrong size and too few in number, resulting in dizziness and fatigue. It also causes neurological symptoms like tingling in the extremities, poor coordination, confusion, and, in late stages, dementia. There was no cure for pernicious anemia in the past. People would simply become anemic and die from it. That's why it's called "pernicious" - that's an old-fashioned way to say "insidious and deadly," named for its slow onset and then-incurable course. Now it is curable with vitamin tablets or periodic injections.

Cretinism, or, less stigmatizingly, congenital hypothyroidism due to iodine deficiency, is a developmental disorder caused by the inability of the thyroid gland to function properly without sufficient iodine. it causes short stature, intellectual disability, infertility, hair loss, and a large lump in the neck known as a goiter (i.e. a hypertrophic thyroid gland). It was historically associated with poor inland populations living far from the ocean (due to the protective effect of consuming seafood, which is naturally high in iodine). We now simply put iodine in table salt, and this disorder is virtually unheard of in regions where this is the case.

Neural tube defects are a leading cause of birth defects, infant mortality, and stillbirth. The most common nonlethal forms of neural tube defects include spina bifida, hydranencephaly, and encephalocele. These defects are caused by a failure of the embryonic structure that becomes the spinal canal to close properly during development, leading the central nervous system to have a distorted shape that may impair cerebrospinal fluid drainage and put pressure on the brain. In severe cases, e.g. anencephaly, the brain/spine essentially develop outside of the body, which is not compatible with life (anencephalic and iniencephalic babies typically die within hours or days; fetuses with more severe forms are usually stillborn if they are not terminated). The risk of these defects is drastically reduced by taking supplemental folic acid (vitamin B9).

Vitamin K is perhaps the most amazing one on this list. Newborns often have very low vitamin K levels due to the fact that it does not cross the placental barrier easily and is not found in high levels in breast milk. It is only produced by gut bacteria, which babies do not have when they are born, and it takes time for them to acquire the right flora from their environment. Deficiency impairs blood clotting, and in infants, can lead to brain bleeds and sudden, unexplained death. Tiny babies would simply die of brain hemorrhaging for no good reason at all. But if they're given a quick shot of vitamin K at birth, that doesn't happen.

We have cured or prevented so many diseases just with vitamins/minerals.