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@laurabwrites
FYI About this Blog
Me: LauraBWrites (they/them), on ao3 and bluesky under the same username. What do I post: mostly Star Wars reblogs, sometimes politics, sometimes writing resources, occasionally I talk about my writing — both the fanfiction and the original work. I'm trying to up the portion of talking I do, not just reblogging. Cooking stuff goes on the sideblog: @culinary-vagabond
Honestly? The concept of bby Jango just going "you know what? Fuck you!" *holds up Toddler Of Dire Prophecy to speak some sort of Cursed Future into existence(presumably)* is just? So? On brand for him?
Toddler Obi-Wan having a GREAT time! Meeting so many new people! Uppies! Yaaaaay! Meanwhile JANGO is loving this sweet new "actually, fuck off and die maybe?" Final trump card he now possesses. VERY 10 year old of him.
Jaster is probably like "pls. Son. Pls give back the tiny adorable cursed baby. You can't keep him." "But I wanna! We bonded! He does tricks!" "Sweetie, he's not a strill."
*twitchy, feral Jedi Temple Guard LOOMING in the background here to retrieve their STOLEN BABY CHILD* 👁👁🔪
i’m not procrastinating. i’m allowing the story to ferment. like kimchi. or a crime scene
I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference
and tbh it’s also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY”
Dude, fortify is bangin’. That makes things like you’re some kind of RPG character. Fortify is way better than “man up.”
Happy 10th anniversary to Fortify
cable belt chain; my newest piece of robot “gear”! i made it using only found or thrifted materials, and i think it came out great :]
Coming into a fandom late
Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck
Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie
Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war.
Accuracy at its best
Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…
all of this shit…lol
When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF
When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead
This gets better every time I see it.
@fuboos-mess
Being in a dead fandom…
Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one
The accuracy hurts.
Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.
When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.
Being in a fandom meant for kids.
This just gets better..
@mi-kleos
When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you
Fandom hell in general
Yes.
This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.
Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on
THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!
Trying to recruit people to your fandom
Annnnnnndddd it’s back
Being in a fandom which has so many antis
I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.
Being in a fandom that actually works together
Why is this so true? All of it.
being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs
I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.
Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions
When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)
Being in a fandom you never meant to join
I love this. and it’s gotten better
After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….
All of these are me. Lol
Being in a fandom on Tumblr
And it reached its epic conclusion
I CHOKED ON FUNDIP
HISTORY HAS BEEN ENGRAVED INTO THIS POST
the word “sabotage” is p much short for “fucking shit up with a wooden shoe”
what
fucking shit up with a wooden shoe
oh my god
well wooden shoe look at that
I’M FUCKING CRYING AT THAT PUN BE MY FRIEND PLEASE
ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs
WIP Game
RULES: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs (or as many as you like). People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it.
Thanks for the tag @hawthornsword!
WIPs are a funny term for me, especially since I recently finished a fic and it's currently posting. I guess I mentally don't count anything without some words on the page somewhere but most aren't in active consideration, just there to get as much of the idea out as I could and I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. Other things tend to be in more active thoughts or actual work. But anyway, I'll list everything I have something on the page for, even if it's less than 500 words (I'm guessing on length here).
Original
A Quiet Revolution A Murder for Hire
Star Wars
End the War / Maul Chosen One Swap Falling through Time "True Love" Kiss
The Witcher
Timeline, what timeline? - AWAU inspired fix many things!
being a jack of all trades is dope as fuck honestly. it's like I'm doing crop rotation inside my own brain
Lots of writing advice on tumblr. It's been years since I've written fiction in a serious way, but I did write a couple of (bad) novels in my early 20's, a bunch of short stories, and also a few hundred thousand words of LARP writing, and I do have a bacherlor's of science in creative writing (lol).
From what I can tell, there are only three universally applicable pieces of writing advice:
Read a lot (mandatory)
Show your writing to people (mandatory)
Have something wrong with you in a way that is impossible to articulate except by writing a novel (optional)
DON’T become even a casual nerd about historical fashion because you’ll start looking at pseudo-medieval fantasy and going “that jacket and those breeches are 200 years apart and reflect extremely different social movements” and “oh no they were NOT making shirts like that prior to industrialization” and “a fly front? in MY ~1500s???”
the buddy-cop team up i've always wanted, but will never have
Evening Dress
1911-1913
The MET
it's easy to mock the concept of batman's secret identity and think it's ridiculous that nobody would realize that he's bruce wayne but if some lady suddenly showed up late at night dressed in full military grade kevlar and started fighting crime in los angeles i wouldn't look at that and think "ah it's kylie jenner"
Same logic applies to Clark Kent tbh
I wouldn’t see Superman, the crazy powerful alien, zooming past me and go “i think he’s secretly an award winning journalist”
"it's a bird, it's a plane, it's...anderson cooper?!"
Me: *sees masked man fighting both crime and police corruption*
Me: I have no idea who that is, but it is NOT a billionaire.
People don’t even recognise tony hawk without the skateboard what do you expect
People don’t even recognize Tony Hawk WITH a skateboard, bless them.
Absolutely horrid that a 10hr sleep does not cure you of all that ails you
it doesn't even cure me of being tired
It should work like in RPGs. I want to be able to go to bed exhausted, poisoned, and missing half of my blood and wake up at 100% fully recovered
I’m literally on shift as a nurse at the hospital (but also on my 15 min break #responsibleblogger) rotating a post in my head I’ve been thinking about for a while entitled “Okay But Like IS Marta From Knives Out A Good Nurse??” And i really do hope that post finds its way out of me and onto the page, but christ the mental draft of it is so long. Maybe I can just get away with posting the conclusion: no she’s not, and yes she is, and also it’s complicated in ways that have almost no real life parallels. Surely no supporting evidence necessary.
Because while there is overlap between the definition of Good Nurse vs Good Person, nursing has a professional code of conduct. There’s patient autonomy and safety, there’s duty of care, there’s equitable and impartial treatment, etc. So the question is: by the yardstick of our profession is she upholding the standard of care?
By the professional standards of nursing, when she gives the medication without checking the label, she fails at doing a universal safety check that can have catastrophic consequences. Let’s ignore the fact that the meds were maliciously switched (we’ll get to that, it’s a real fuckin wrench in everything). The fact is that she should have verified that she had the right medication rather than go by routine. Med error is so so easy in part because passing meds can become so routine. Especially in home health. You lose the fear of fucking up, you don’t check something bc you’ve done it a hundred times before, oops something goes wrong.
Additionally, she fails to assess her patient. Harlan is not showing any signs of morphine overdose. (I also want to be clear as I’m saying all this: if I thought I had given someone 100x their morphine dose and then lost the narcan, my asshole would have fallen out so hard you would have heard a clunk when it hit the floor. I like to think I wouldn’t let the dramatic old man rope me into an elaborate coverup, but like. He was very convincing. Anyway—)
Most importantly, she does not admit her error. Every single person in healthcare will make a mistake. If you are lucky, it doesn’t cause any harm. If you aren’t lucky, you think about what you did for the rest of your life. Sometimes you’re lucky and you still think of what you did for the rest of your life. What’s important is not keeping mistakes secret. It doesn’t help the patient harmed by the mistake to pretend there isn’t a problem or that you don’t know what the problem is. And on a larger scale, it doesn’t let the system know what happened, how the mistake happened, and what we can do to stop it. Marta doesn’t tell anyone what happened, largely in part bc Harlan is fucking wild and so hyped to die dramatically, but still for the point of nursing argument: she conceals her mistake.
And that causes about every problem in the film. Because if she’d been like “Harlan, this is insane, I am calling an ambulance” the med switch up would have been caught because he would have been fine. So much of the situation was out of Marta’s control—literally, malicious interference with the medication and hiding the reversal agent, like what’s she supposed to do about that—but after the error happened, she engaged in a cover up.
And the moment in which Marta is a by the books Good Nurse is when she performs CPR and calls 911 to save someone she believes is blackmailing her and is the only person who knows Harlan’s death is her fault. She is providing care to someone in need regardless of her personal situation. She is owning up to what she did to prevent further harm. In a world in which Harlan was dying from a med error, she provides the family closure regarding his traumatic suicide. Being a Good Nurse means owning up to your mistakes, even if it is too late to save the patient, because we can’t find ways to address problems we don’t know exist.
But like to get back to the murder of it all, her failure to check the medication DID prevent a catastrophic med error. Like yeah she fuckin t gave the right med! She did know it by touch! And on one hand, that’s kinda bullshit, but on the other hand, I know what dilaudid feels like when I draw it up. I know what Ativan looks like in a syringe. And to be clear I would not give anything on a purely vibes based premise, but with experience you do get a nursing sense that’s difficult to articulate. It’s knowing someone has a fever from the doorway of their room, or that someone has a GI bleed from the faint smell of their poop, or that someone is in the early stages of sepsis from a glance at their respirations, or that someone’s getting delirious from just a passing comment they make. Intuition is not a consistent safety system, and also it is an invaluable asset. Sometimes you just know something isn’t right. That cannot be the entire basis of your practice. But it helps!
Marta knew the med was right because she’d drawn it up a hundred times before. That’s horrible safety practices, but also she was right. If she’d done the med check correctly by verifying the label on the vial, then she would have killed Harlan. So in this sense, ignoring protocol and going by pure intuition resulted in the correct decision in the context of unknown but extraordinary circumstances (Chris Evans). So like. Not sure exactly what the takeaway there is. I think mainly just murder is wrong.
And also just generally speaking—stepping back from the murder of it all once again—Harlan clearly liked her. Marta and Harlan had good therapeutic rapport, by which I mean they enjoyed each other’s company which was probably Harlan’s chief need. Like medications, treatments, those are all good, but so is talking to patients like they’re people and making them feel comfortable. I mean, she did that so good she got millions of dollars and a mansion. Girl knocked it out of the park.
So is she a Good Nurse? I’d say overall yeah. While at times throughout the movie, she is more concerned with being a Good Daughter or a Person Who Isn’t In Jail, the overall impression is a compassionate person who is normally competent at her job, tries to save others despite her personal situation, and takes responsibility for her mistakes. I think that’s why she rings true as a character who is a nurse, even if you could quibble with the exact medical details.
But like. To be clear. 1) Holy shit you should read the labels on your drugs. And 2) do not let a man with a knife throne take charge of your emergency response.
