fuck it

trying to be like an optimistic nihilist or something but sometimes I only manage the nihilist part

[mewithanie]

Pocahontas (Disney) impressions

(after not seeing it since I was 10 probably)

Part 1: John & Thomas's Meet-Cute

Listed as a romance - interesting! Yeah I guess it was but. Not exactly a romcom

...I forgot this started in England. cool

lol put the date in for 5th graders everywhere to know when the war crimes started

"or so we have been told by the virginia company" ok this is gonna be a funny watch for adult me. nice

ppl kisssing goodbye "ok bye see you in heaven, off to get killed by the new world"

oooooo Thomas is cuteeeeeee

"Captain John Smith?? he's amazing 😍" ohhhhhh the romance is john smith/thomas, got it

actually thomas. we just saw you kiss your girl goodbye

why does john smith have an american accent.

we know Ratcliffe is evil because he's fat and wearing purple

pug is cute though. tbh the pug deserves the special treatment. love him looking at his lil claws

dreamy shot of John Smith looking out at the ocean while everyone else waves goodbye to their families. Nobody to see him off :( (that's bc his future husband is on the ship already)

Storm scene: thomas and john on a first name basis already? nice ok things are going well

"fear not my love, I will save you AND your cannon"

noooooooooo thomas :( rip

WAIT JOHN WILL SAVE HIM

....10 seconds ago everyone was like "save the ship" and now they're all "help john smith save his boyfriend" like ok but the storm is still there

"that was refreshing!" john baby. no. its ok you don't have to hide it. your love for thomas shines through

awwwwwwww pug <3

thomas "new world's gonna be so cool....I'll get so much gold and kill some innocent people!" john "no my love I will kill the innocent people, you just get your sparklys"

[mewithanie]

Part 2: Nature is Pretty &

"hega hega yahiye hega" definitely does not mean anything for real right. they just invented nonsense words as the first thing we hear the powhatans say. What a great way to say "we killed this whole civilization 400 years ago and have no idea what their point of view would be, so now we are just putting nonsense into their mouths"! good job Disney!

our intro to pocahontas is her dad saying "where is my daughter?" and his buddy being like "oh shes not like other girls"

immediately cut to pocahontas having a death wish or something, diving off a cliff

ok but miko diving 🥹

ok new plan: the romance is gonna be pug and miko

Pocahontas's friend "don't you think we're getting a little old for these games?" yall she's 10. Pocahontas was 10. No she's not too old to dunk you out of a canoe and spit water in your face.

"but dad I can't marry kokoum! I'm not LIKE other girls!"

lol handsome sturdy husband = beaver

ok miko you just willingly jumped off a cliff. now you're scared of a lil waterfall?

oh wait he's loving it. lil happy head shakes at the front of the canoe "yayyyyy white water rafting!"

grandmother willow snarky lady lol

[mewithanie]

Pocahontas (Disney) impressions

(after not seeing it since I was 10 probably)

Part 1: John & Thomas's Meet-Cute

Listed as a romance - interesting! Yeah I guess it was but. Not exactly a romcom

...I forgot this started in England. cool

lol put the date in for 5th graders everywhere to know when the war crimes started

"or so we have been told by the virginia company" ok this is gonna be a funny watch for adult me. nice

ppl kisssing goodbye "ok bye see you in heaven, off to get killed by the new world"

oooooo Thomas is cuteeeeeee

"Captain John Smith?? he's amazing 😍" ohhhhhh the romance is john smith/thomas, got it

actually thomas. we just saw you kiss your girl goodbye

why does john smith have an american accent.

we know Ratcliffe is evil because he's fat and wearing purple

pug is cute though. tbh the pug deserves the special treatment. love him looking at his lil claws

dreamy shot of John Smith looking out at the ocean while everyone else waves goodbye to their families. Nobody to see him off :( (that's bc his future husband is on the ship already)

Storm scene: thomas and john on a first name basis already? nice ok things are going well

"fear not my love, I will save you AND your cannon"

noooooooooo thomas :( rip

WAIT JOHN WILL SAVE HIM

....10 seconds ago everyone was like "save the ship" and now they're all "help john smith save his boyfriend" like ok but the storm is still there

"that was refreshing!" john baby. no. its ok you don't have to hide it. your love for thomas shines through

awwwwwwww pug <3

thomas "new world's gonna be so cool....I'll get so much gold and kill some innocent people!" john "no my love I will kill the innocent people, you just get your sparklys"

[mioxenoblade]

Why did musk blow up as the big new popular kink did yall just wake up one day and realize you love ball sweat

[greasyari]

Thought this was about Elon and got fucking obliterated with the last 2 words

[mewithanie]

I thought this was about elon almost all the way through the reblog

[fresh-bag-of-ham]

real people being partially closeted or ambiguous about their own sexuality while making Gay Art is not queerbaiting

[princeofsparkles]

Real people figuring out they’re queer through the process of making gay art is not queerbaiting either

[lady-writes]

#real people not telling you everything about themselves is allowed

[wenellyb]

[copperbadge]

Dear Sam, there are indeed books where you read one chapter a day! However, they are advent calendars. I had several detective story/murder mystery books where you read one chapter a day until Christmas. And some books were mean, the pages were folded and perforated, so I could not peek into later chapters, had to open them first! There are erotic novels with 25 chapters, too. But I never tried these. Also, there are at least two children's books with 25 chapters that I know about - so a parent and child can read one chapter each day. Unfortuntely I don't know any books with a Halloween countdown, so you might have to write that 31 chapter book yourself.

Oh, that's nice for Advent, too! Although you lose something, I feel, when you don't get to be spooky about it. On the other hand, why shouldn't you write a spooky advent calendar novel? December is a dark fuckin' time of year and Christmas is sometimes culturally a time for telling ghost stories. Maybe I'll write a Spooky Hallmark Romance and people can argue about whether it's a Halloween book or a Christmas book, like they do Nightmare Before Christmas. Although that would put me on the wrong side in the War On Christmas. Hm.

And there's already a spooky Passover book, it's called Exodus. Tough to compete with Torah.

No I think it will simply have to be a Spooky Halloween Book. Probably not in time for next Halloween given what's already on my plate, but I suppose I could always try to structure it out and then write it across October next year....

[mewithanie]

i mean. a christmas carol is spooky and christmasy, and i think it was published serially? 😛

[iamnotaware]

ok wait, reblog if you’ve cried at least once because of math, doesn’t matter which grade i’m trying to prove something 

[mewithanie]

…does it count if i’ve cried while calculating TPN orders as a pediatric resident?

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[eighthdoctor]

[tweet by Laureen Bazzi @laureenbazzi: idk how to explain this but thursday, october, and 8:00pm are all the same end ID]

[dealanexmachina]

80% of the work week, 83.3333% of the day at 8pm, 83.333% of the year in October.

[racketghost]

It’s so charming to see this on my dash because Thursday, October, and the number 8 are all the same rusty brown-orange color according to my synesthesia.

[mama-green]

happy Thursday October 8th

[teathattast]

[mewithanie]

lesbians are watching

lesbians are having babies too

lesbians are doing well

niceeee

[inkskinned]

fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

[maculategiraffe]

[veliseraptor]

i’m team “not all transformative works are fanfiction, fanfiction is a specific modern phenomenon founded on a specific relationship between reader and text that doesn’t require historical proofs to be a legitimate form” up until people start being snotty and obnoxious about it and then i am there going “hamlet is gesta danorum fanfiction”

[animatedamerican]

oh there’s my team

[captainlordauditor]

fanfiction requires copyright laws and a community who deliberately bends them, unless it’s arthuriana and the 27 super speshul best knights who are all the king’s nephews, or i’m talking to the comicbro who worships frank miller

[cosmictuesdays]

#the line of descent goes directly from star trek zine fandom unless someone is being a jerk about it#and then i bust out the sherlock holmes pastiche community and the unauthorized 18thc novel sequels [x]

[mewithanie]

I took a class in college on literature about king arthur and the holy grail, and. can i say. all that shit is just bible fan fiction

[fvmilivr-deactivated20240222]

big fan of when stuff is the color green

[funny-tik-toks]

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

i love this old man and his cat (ID in alt)

[penny-anna]

Peacemaker: my policy is if you see something, say something

Vigilante: I saw a frog on the sidewalk today :)

Peacemaker: outstanding. this is what I’m talking about people.

[idrils]

i'm blazing these pics of our silly cat peppercorn, please enjoy :)

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

Do you ever like physically feel yourself pass your mental breaking point and then all you can think is “oh these next few days are going to be interesting”

[homunculus-argument]

I wonder if therapists ever listen to you casually explain how you do something in the most inconvenient way fathomable like it's a normal thing, and they ask you why you couldn't just do it the most obvious, sensible way, figuring that this is an opening because you're going to start explaining why you can't do it that way, and you'll get to start unpacking how the reason why you can't do the thing in an easier way is obviously bat shit insane.

And instead of that you just go "oh holy shit, I never thought of that", because not doing it in the most ass-backwards way possible literally never occurred to you before. And the therapist is trying their best to not be obvious about swiftly crossing over some pointers in their notes.

[mewithanie]

yesterday i was talking to my therapist and she was like “so…your mom called you lazy?” and i was like, yeah? everyone’s mom calls them lazy at some point. and she was like “…..no…” and i was like “oh come on you’re 8yo lying on your bed playing video games and your room is a mess and your mom comes to the door bein like “cmon stop being lazy and clean up this place!” like that’s a thing that everyone would say to their kids and she was like “no…” and i was like, not in a malicious way! she just. says it. and my therapist was like “….no not every mom does that” and then she got this look on her face and said “I’m trying to remember if i’ve ever said that to my daughter” and guys her daughter is like 6 months old 😅

[mewithanie]

i understand it was just a fun addition to a post about babies and their gender (or lack therefore) but please don't talk so casually about circumcising infants because it's genuinely body mutilation done without the consent of the person whose genitals are getting mutilated

Hm

So I’ve linked to the last time I answered a comment like this, but today I am very tired. and burnt out and angry and upset at my job conceptually, and the general need for it at all. Last week one of my patients died. She’d had countless nonconsensual procedures in the 6 months before she died, not just because she was a child but also because she was comatose after a traumatic injury, and the sum total of the result was that we couldn’t do anything except give her stuff to make her death a little less uncomfortable.

The vast majority of what pediatricians do is without the consent of the patient. Circumcision is honestly the least of it. But we try very hard to make sure what we do is both WITH the consent of the parent, and also in the best interest of the child. I already talked in the post I linked to about the benefits of circumcision. But at its core it is basically a cultural and cosmetic procedure most of the time. We refer kids to plastic surgeons to remove large birthmarks; we remove extra digits if a child is born with them; we arrange and perform procedures to prevent potentials that may never come to pass - like hernia repairs, orchiopexies, frenulotomies. I don’t think these are bad things. And frankly I don’t think circumcision is a bad thing! It is something that some families want, and others don’t.

So… yeah. Forgive me if I decline to die on the hill of opposition to circumcision, when some of the kids I’m taking care of are literally suffering and dying. I just can’t find it within me to care that much about y’all’s issue with the circumcisions of other people’s babies.

Maybe don’t put any babies on the circumcision list :| hey friend so, I get you. There is a lot of nuance to doing elective procedures like