It’s Just Me

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[galetops]

this is a foundational text to me i can’t believe it hasn’t even cracked 4k retweets

[lovingrot]

viciously and fatally attacked by an unknown animal at Claire’s

[wherehipposdrome]

that was no animal, that was Claire herself

[regbian-moved-to-lezbianz]

the claire witch project

[candyredterezii]

[guerrillatech]

[godshideouscreation]

[rated-a-for-awesome]

every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i'm filled with the urge to go "hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now", and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu

[programmerhumour]

Once upon a time…

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

[thebeanestbad]

[personification-of-anxiety]

I really wish the overused sentence “You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” was less relevant but here we are

[triassictriserratops]

[messrsage]

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[burr-ell]

[somevariationofgay]

My origins...

[macgyvermedical]

In the 1700s, blood transfusion was used to treat psychosis. Oddly, sometimes it worked.

So a question for my followers: Give your best guess as to why this could have worked without looking it up.

I will answer tomorrow.

[macgyvermedical]

Answer: A particularly common form of psychosis occurred in the final stage of infection with syphilis. Syphilis is an uncommon bacteria in that is is extremely sensitive to temperature- so sensitive that a high fever greatly reduced or even eliminated infection with the bacteria. In fact, once quinine became available to treat malaria, which caused repeated high fevers, intentional infection with malaria was used to cure syphilis, which would then be treated with quinine. But in the 1700s, they (Europeans, at least) didn't have quinine yet.

So how did a blood transfusion treat syphilis? Well, in the 1700s, blood transfusions were not done with human blood- they were done with animal blood, usually lamb or calf blood. Since biblically calf or lamb blood was pure and contributed to the sweet nature of the animals, it was thought that if given to someone who was experiencing paranoia and hallucinations, the psychotic symptoms would decrease. This was not the case.

The amounts were usually small enough that the person didn't die. But it did cause frequent transfusion reactions. These reactions frequently caused high fevers, which treated the syphilis and helped decrease the symptoms caused by it.

[headspace-hotel]

Made so many errors they accidentally added up into something sort of right

[kingofdoma]

you gotta rack up WAY more wrongs before it becomes a right, bro, like FAT STACKS of wrongs

[missybunno-deactivated20260510]

She's ghostin you but shes goblin me

[lestatbf]

[dick starved voice] i just need to get in a car crash

[aro-pervert]

[violence starved voice] maybe I just need some dick

[ruinedchildhood]

[kiwi-kuns-art-tumb]

Capitalism. Specifically, companies can't market to children, and it's easier to resell a metal shoebox than a building with any level of identity.

[ruinedchildhood]

[lacefuneral]

the word empathy is WIDELY misused, even in mental health spaces. 

empathy:

is responding to a person’s emotions by experiencing the same emotion as them (i.e. feeling sad when something sad happens to that person, or happy when something happy happens to that person.)

is an automatic response that cannot be controlled

cannot be learned

sympathy:

is recognizing that another person is in pain, even if you do not experience that pain, and offering comfort to that person

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

compassion:

is showcasing care and support via words and actions

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

if you need an example of a person with no empathy who practices sympathy and compassion, look no further than data from star trek: the next generation. he doesn’t have emotions at all, but he’s still kind to people and wants to help them.

stop telling people that they’re evil because they don’t experience empathy. stop equating empathy with morality. stop equating empathy with caring. stop saying that cruel people “lack empathy.” stop throwing neurodivergent and mentally ill people under the bus. 

[kosmogrl]

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolor [insta]

[hug-your-face]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH

[sagareads]

If you haven't heard of Julia Donaldson, she's primarily a picture book author, who we can thank for extremely popular Halloween classic Room on the Broom as well as the Gruffalo.

Let this be a testament to the power of picture books.

[itneedsmoargayz]

I'm living for these jokes.

Also I need "GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH" on a T-shirt.

[macklesufficient]

rb to give it up for laura hall and linda taylor

[tetrapod7]

[jewishvitya-movingblogs]

One of the rare times where a comment section is delightful the moment I open it