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plant-folk

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

anancientheart

ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

anancientheart

whenever i post this it works reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet

madeline-kahn

Ocean’s 8 (2018) dir. Gary Ross

wonderswoman

“How do you guys know that she doesn’t know already and she’s just playing along to keep Kara happy?” – Katie McGrath

glumshoe

meanplastic

verberation

Me taking about ac Odyssey to straights: Kassandra’s cool

Me talking about ac odyssey to wlw: big muscle arm woman hngggh thorsty

sapphiresea

lesbian privilege, as told by kate mckinnon.

rowdyholtzy

scream-for-audrey

@dearestfrendz had to reblog with your tags bc they were so good

randomthingsthatilike1

lena: i am a morally grey character that is refusing to choose either side because that is going to benefit me the most but good fucking god if anyone so much as hurts a hair on kara danvers’ head i will burn the world into ash and die before that happens kara sweetie are you ok get behind me why are you so tall i cant fully cover you i love you more than anything else and will protect you and cherish you and take care of you please hide now

captainlordauditor

Dr James Barry, the first doctor to perform a successful C section wherein both mother and child survived, was a huge champion of handwashing at a time when most doctors didn’t wash their hands. For this reason, many of the chilldbirths he delivered resulted in healthier babies and mothers. He was also a gay trans man, who specifically wrote that upon his death he wished for his body to be taken in its nightshirt, wrapped in his sheets as a shroud, and placed into the coffin so that nobody would see his body. His wishes were not respected, and as a result he was outed at his death.

captainlordauditor

i’ve also been informed he had a poodle. He named his poodle Psyche. I’d just like to congratulate him on being an excellent human being, who not only pioneered modern medicine but also had good taste in dogs. that is all.

captainlordauditor

types of responses to this post

i thought this was fake but it’s not

here’s the sawbones episode about him

cis people

asymbina

He was also reportedly quite the ladies’ man, and he’d apparently carried a child to term and gave birth.

nunchler

he’s one of my favorite historical figures and ive read a lot on him including the biography Scanty Particulars by Rachel Holmes. a lot of the details of his life are difficult to figure out, partly cause he was very private and partly cause he had so many rumors surrounding him. here are some of my fave facts about him:

-he was very concerned with protecting poor people, women and people of color, aka all the people most of upper class british society at the time cared the least about. he worked to reform prisons and hospitals in south africa at risk to his own career, and also improved the conditions under which poor enlisted british soldiers and their families lived

-he was kind of a known hothead. he was rumored to have fought at least one duel (probably not true though). florence nightingale hated him even though they had similar ideas about medicine because they had such a clash of personalities in the brief time they worked together

-he was a vegetarian and took a goat with him on sea voyages so he could always have fresh milk

-even though he had an abrasive personality and made a lot of enemies, his patients, especially the women, really loved him because they felt like he knew what he was doing and actually cared about their health

-he died poor because the british army ripped him off >:/

edit i almost forgot the best thing. he didn’t just have one poodle named psyche. he had a bunch. when one died he would get a new poodle and name that one psyche too

the-real-seebs

“i thought your poodle died?”

“psyche!” [poodle comes trotting in]

captainlordauditor

this is the best response

gehayi

Photo of Dr. James Barry in the late 1840s:

You can read more about Dr. Barry here.

lanque-hates-terfs

MY MAN

persephonbee

I wonder what effect his transness had on his position regarding handwashing.

I want to be REAL clear here that I’m not saying “since he was really a woman on some level, he learned about washing his hands so he was a better doctor because he was really a woman.”

When parents raise children that they think are girls, they tend to put a lot more emphasis on cleanliness than they do with children they think are boys, both in terms of teaching about cleaning houses and cooking and stuff and also in terms of bathroom procedures. A lot of cis men don’t even wash their hands after peeing, which is way less common with cis women. I wouldn’t be surprised if elements of that had spilled over into his life as a man and a doctor. After all, if you’re raised by people who are under the impression that you’re going to be doing a lot of cooking and housekeeping and also with the expectation that your body is inherently dirty and must be kept absolutely clean at all times in order to be at all attractive and thus have worth, as is the case with cis women, you might retain the idea that cleanliness is valuable even though they were totally wrong about who they were raising and what you’d spend your life doing.