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Into The Spiderverse is proof that live-action superhero movies will never look better than what animation can deliver. Imagine what we could have if animation werenāt so regularly seen as a lower art form than live acting. Honestly, on every aesthetic level Into The Spiderverse was absolutely phenomenal. Art direction, animation, music - all of it.Ā
Okay in my house we have a strange tradition. My mother builds this beautiful Christmas village.
It wraps all around our house through the rooms and under the trees and itās wonderful.
Every year she hides the Christmas Vampire
This started when I was a very small got child and spread to all of my friends, including my best friend from elementary school who I just so happened to grow up and marry. Now that we have grown up and moved nearly 600 miles away we still always go home for a week at Christmas for multiple reasons, including the Christmas Vampire.
Needless to say we still partake and things have gotten heated.
Stay tuned for the epic conclusion and to see my husband and father in Lin-Manuel Mirandaās sooty costume when I find the Christmas Vampire First!
Happy Haunting!
Dad has no fricken clue how to trash talk and I donāt trust him in the slightest.
The saga continues. Mom hasnt finished the village yet and itās starting to get to herā¦.
Hahahaha, I mean I love this on multiple levels.Ā But what really threw it over the top was the momās anxiety over the world-building and city design being right.Ā I feel you vampire-hiding mom, I feel you.
Go watch this movie Immediately
i gave my sister $100 for her bday, but i gave it to her inĀ $1 bills that i folded into origami. so thatās how she pays for delivery food & now the pizza girl thinks sheās a stripper
Youāre really good at origami holy sh
i learned it specifically to make these for this exact situationĀ
Arenāt you the same bitch that gave your sister $100 dollars in nickels?
same bitch
Yeah, neither of these things happened šš¼
listen here my good hoe, i canāt find photos of the 2000 nickels or the 20 stars, but i did not spend weeks planning meticulously inconvenient birthday giftsĀ over a period of years just to get whaled on by internet gremlins. here is some equally compelling evidence for an anecdote i was saving for later:
it weighed 68.6 lbs
This is the 100 Star. Reblog to receive cash in unexpected ways.
since it seems unlikely snape could have known about james' (presumably) stag patronus do you think after years of thinking of his doe patronus as a great symbol of his love for lily he would have found out about harry's patronus and that james had been a stag animagus and just like ... realised JP was coming back from the dead to own his whole life yet again?
Fluid logic.
the best pokemon professor is elm 100% he gets robbed by a 10 year old and his instinct isnt call the cops at first its call another 10 year old
You donāt say.
For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. Thereād been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now sheās an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because sheās understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better.Ā
She was trying to the best for her kids and just didnāt know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasnāt sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.
Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even sayingĀ āIām writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isnāt lost on me.ā and alsoĀ āI am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ādefectionā from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isnāt a popularity contest. Ā Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear. Ā I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.ā
She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there.Ā
You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.
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With these upgrades they never stood a chance
Seeing videos like this makes me realize that we do truly have to integrate ourselves with technology or else we will be burned a fucking live by our on creations.
The new Horizon Zero Dawn game looks great!
one of the first things I ever saw when i joined this site was a video of the noise beeheyem made in the pokemon anime but it was deleted and i could never find the episode ever again until today
Polycystic ovary syndrome, which affects one in five women, seems to be caused by a hormonal imbalance. An IVF drug may fix this, and will be trialled soon
The most common cause of female infertility ā polycystic ovary syndrome ā may be caused by a hormonal imbalance before birth. The finding has led to a cure in mice, and a drug trial is set to begin in women later this year.
Polycystic ovary syndrome affects up to one in five women worldwide, three-quarters of whom struggle to fall pregnant. The condition is typically characterised by high levels of testosterone, ovarian cysts, irregular menstrual cycles, and problems regulating sugar, but the causes have long been a mystery. āItās by far the most common hormonal condition affecting women of reproductive age but it hasnāt received a lot of attention,ā says Robert Norman at the University of Adelaide in Australia.
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Y'ALL THIS IS HUGE
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Just going to point out that as much as this excerpt here describes it as affectingĀ āfertilityā and oh woe, they canāt get pregnant as easyā¦uh, itās also something that can make them fucking miserable and POTENTIALLY KILL THEM Hereās the thing: ovaries normally do produce cysts. Theyāre supposed to! To an extent. They produce like, a tiny number, maybe one, each menstrual cycle, because the egg that is ready to be hypothetically fertilized, is PUSHED OUT to the fallopian tube, by an actual cyst. This is the normal process, in the ā4 out of 5ā³ women who donāt have PCOS. In PCOS, though, my understanding is that the cyst production does not happen in this nice, orderly fashion, only happening approximately every few weeks; instead, it goes haywire and happens all over the place and WAY too much (henceĀ āpolycysticā).Ā Left unchecked, this can cause the organ to become damaged, it can cause it to swell and even press on other things in the abdomen and put OTHER parts of the body at risk, can cause all sorts of awful things. IIRC ( @tekka-wekka I think you know more about this than I do, by all means please correct me if Iām wrong about any of it?) it tends to cause a lot of pain or heavy bleeding during many peopleās menstrual cycles and, as noted, causes them to be more irregular - so itās basically a disability, one that can be LIFE-THREATENING. And guess what the main treatment for PCOS is, to keep the cysts in line and regulate the menstrual cycle properly? Hormone-regulating pills. You know, the ones normally labeledĀ ābirth controlā.Ā This was what Sandra Fluke was testifying about a few years back, during health care debates, by the way. She had a friend who had EXACTLY this condition, and the fact that Georgetownās student health coverage would NOT cover herĀ ābirth controlā medication meant that she went without it for three monthsā¦and her ovaries, filled with cysts, enlarged so much that she required EMERGENCY SURGERY (to remove them entirely, IIRC).Ā Which is why Sandra Fluke was FIRMLY arguing for increased access toĀ ābirth controlā medications; because leaving aside questions of autonomy, itās an actual literal life-or-death health necessity for many people! Such as those with PCOS in specific! But I digress. My point is: this is a condition that goes beyond āfertilityā issues; it requires a LOT of people to go on pretty much (IIRC) permanent hormonal regulation to carefully regulate their menstrual cycles in order to NOT DIE. Because, left untreated, it can, in fact, literally pose that risk. (And depending on the specific hormonal birth control in question - this may have the trade off of things like a higher stroke risk, so thatāsā¦thatās a thing, too, oops) So uh. This? This is REALLY good news. But not JUST for folks with PCOS who want to have biological children; itās literally just good news in general, because this could be LIFE-SAVING research?? I just wanted to point that out because, like, I donāt think a lot of people are aware of PCOS and how it can potentially KILL YOU,Ā and thereās a lot of misconceptions about ovarian/uterine health in general, and likeā¦ and I think some folks might scroll past this thinking itās mostly about āfertilityā? When itās actually a condition that impacts WAY more than that, and chances are very very good you actually know someone with this condition, whether you realize it or not.
Reblogging for the additional info. Most of the folks I know with this donāt give a shit about fertility. They just want to stop needing S5+ painkillers to function at least 25% of the time.
The thing about this is, if IVF drugs were an effective treatment for PCOS, there wouldnāt be so many women with PCOS who go through multiple rounds of IVF.Ā
ITāS NOT CAUSED BY BEING FAT.
If thereās one thing I want people to take away from this article, itās that PCOS IS NOT CAUSED BY BEING FAT.
(Or at the very least, not caused by the person who has it being fat. DFK how maternal weight is involved, but since PCOS is hereditary, more likely PCOS also isnāt caused by your mom being fat.)
The connection between weight and PCOS is that because fat tissue has a role in hormone production, being fat can exacerbate symptoms somewhat. However, PCOS also causes weight gain, so telling people with PCOS to lose weight is useless advice. It just so happens that people with less fatty tissue who have PCOS, have slightly more manageable symptoms.
And peopel took this to mean that fat causes PCOS, because people hate anyone who weighs more than like 90lbs.
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I saw the best thing on twitter today and no one else is freaking? Ok Can I just pretend this is canon?? Because YES to this headcanon.
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Hereās the thing about the air nomads.
I introduced a friend to ATLA a few nights ago, and they had only known two things about the entire show: the cabbage meme, and that Aang apparently wants to ride every large and dangerous animal he can possibly find. We got through the first five or so episodes, and my friend noted that Aang is exactly what a 12-year-old would be like if given godlike powers, and that this is literally just what he could do with airbending. He canāt even wield any of the other elements, and heās one of the most powerful people on the planet, because heās an airbender.
And that got me thinking.
This snippet from Bitter Work is one of the few pieces of concrete information we get about the airbenders, at least in ATLA. Iroh is explaining to Zuko how all four of the elements connect to the world and to each other.
Fire is the element of power, of desire and will, of ambition and the ability to see it through. Power is crucial to the world; without it, thereās no drive, no momentum, no push. But fire can easily grow out of control and become dangerous; it can become unpredictable, unless it is nurtured and watched and structured.
Earth is the element of substance, persistence, and enduring. Earth is strong, consistent, and blunt. It can construct things with a sense of permanence; a house, a town, a walled city. But earth is also stubborn; itās liable to get stuck, dig in, and stay put even when itās best to move on.
Water is the element of change, of adaptation, of movement. Water is incredibly powerful both as a liquid and a solid; it will flow and redirect. But it also will change, even when you donāt want it to; ice will melt, liquid will evaporate. A life dedicated to change necessarily involves constant movement, never putting down roots, never letting yourself become too comfortable.
We see only a few flashbacks to Aangās life in the temples, and we get a sense of who he was and what kind of upbringing he had.
This is a preteen with the power to fucking fly. Heās got no fear of falling, and a much reduced fear of death. Thereās a reason why the sages avoid telling the new avatar their status until they turn sixteen; could you imagine a firebender, at twelve years old, learning that they were going to be the most powerful person in the whole world? Depending on that child, that could go so badly.
But the thing about Aang, and the thing about the Air Nomads, is that they were part of the world too. They contributed to the balance, and then they were all but wiped out by Sozin. What was lost, there? Was it freedom? Yes, but I think thereās something else too, and itās just yet another piece of the utter brilliance of the worldbuilding of ATLA.
To recap: we have power to push us forward; we have stability to keep us strong; we have change to keep us moving.
And then we have this guy.
The air nomads brought fun to the world. They brought a very literal sense of lightheartedness.
Sozin saw this as a weakness. I think a lot of the world did, in ATLA. Why do the Air Nomads bother, right? Theyāre just up there in their temples, playing games, baking pies in order to throw them as a gag. As Iroh said above, they had pretty great senses of humour, and they didnāt take themselves too seriously.
But thatās a huge part of having a world of balance and peace.
Itās not just about power, or might, or the ability to adapt. You can have all of those, but you also need fun. You need the ability to be vulnerable, to have no ambitions beyond just having a good day. You need to be able to embrace silliness, to nurture play, to have that space where a very specific kind of emotional growth can occur. Fun makes a hard life a little easier. Fun makes your own mortality a little less frightening to grasp. Fun is the spaces in between, that canāt be measured by money or military might. Fun is what nurtures imagination, allows you to see a situation in a whole new light, to find new solutions to problems previously considered impossible.
Fun is what makes a stranger into a friend, rather than an enemy.
Fun helps you see past your differences.
Fun is what fuels curiosity and openmindedness.
Fun is the first thing to die in a war.
OP went and ended hard with the last line.
