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Rye | She/Her | Mid 20's | I'm just here to reblog stuff I like 🏳️‍⚧️

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled

[plushdablush]

Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely

[somefishycat]

tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !

[bug-yogurt]

You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

[queer-as-city-folk]

reminded me of the mario 64 hurt mp3, I just have

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As a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, Elizabeth Holmes decided to transform diagnostic medicine so she dropped out of college and used her tuition money to start her own company, Theranos. Ten years later, Holmes, pictured here holding a micro-vial, is on the cutting edge of medical technology — her new blood testing method allows hundreds of tests to be run using only a few drops of blood. And, Holmes’ methods are cheaper, faster, more accurate, and less invasive than conventional methods which often require a separate vial of blood for every test. As Holmes told Wired.com earlier this year, “I started this company because I wanted to spend my life changing our health care system. When someone you love gets really sick, most of the time when you find out, it’s too late to be able to do something about it. It’s heartbreaking… We wanted to make actionable health information accessible to people everywhere at the time it matters most. That means two things: being able to detect conditions in time to do something about them and providing access to information that can empower people to improve their lives.”

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[thejunglenook]

Reasons you should adore Elizabeth Holmes:

She is featured as Forbes’ youngest self-made woman billionaire.

Her tests will revolutionize the public health world as we know it; Making diagnostic testing accessible and affordable for more people (and potentially saving Medicare and Medicaid ~$100 billion each over the next decade). (x)

She is a coauthor on 82 US and 189 foreign patent applications. (x)

Her fear of needles served as a motivator for launching Theranos. (x)

[virtualgirladvance]

i love when real time links still work

[willabee]

new creature discovered. how to proceed?

[willabee]

impressive

[willabee]

hmm

[epicsause-official]

transgender super mario land 2 reboot where mario is FtM and wario is ℲtW

[parkayquarts]

"what if someone regrets transitioning" if you are 18 or over in free country usa you can walk into any tattoo parlor and ask for a tattoo that will be on your body forever and ever and ever and they will give it to you with the understanding that if you dont like the result or you regret it later that's your fucking problem and not theirs

[riben-deactivated20230922]

My pet milkfly

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I think im becoming a milkfly

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Im starting to feel just like a milkfly

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[marinella-ela]

[leafstem]

lets lay down with baby

lets lay down with mama

lets lay down with mama

lets lay down with mama

[dogpuppy]

[snapscube]

you gotta have freaks and gross weirdos in your life it’s imperative to understanding the truth of humanity

[angelicguy]

They had Homer's strength, Lisa's wisdom, Bart's speed, Marge's grace and Maggie's potential. Their face was genderless, yellow and beautiful.

[probuccalfat]

pewdiepie was one of the harbingers of the alt right internet apocalypse i hate that skinny white man with all my heart

[you-d-prefer-an-astronaut]

I blame him (at least partially) for the rise in anti-indian racism in the late 2010s to today and people look at me like I'm the friend who's too woke when I say that. But it's true

[probuccalfat]

and you’d be right to blame him. he normalized the rise in anti-indian and anti-desi racism through “jokes.” it took me forever to take pride in my indian heritage bc of the culture he helped set up.

[probuccalfat]

nah, you’re exactly the right amount of woke with this take because you’re on the money. part of what makes racists and xenophobes feel “justified” in their disdain and dehumanization of indians is by sweeping a broad brush over us and saying all scam callers are nefarious indians when scam calling is a global issue and people are often tricked/trafficked into it with no way to leave, some people are even beaten for not earning money in the scams or not wanting to take part. india has one of the largest populations so, statistically, we tend to be very visible in some industries and people will stupidly think we are the only ones doing it or we all do it when realistically other populations do it in the same, or even higher, rates in proportion with their population.

another mechanism for justifying anti-indian feelings is calling us dirty and filthy, blaming the residents for the infrastructural and educational issues instead of state or local governing bodies like panchayats. when you’re seeing a joke about indians being filthy or scammers, it is a display of casual racism you’re seeing.

[sapropel]

Apolitically killing bandits and savages in my video game with no messages

[diet-poison]

asked the skyrim bandits why they were living in a cave and they explained the war effort has buried the economy so they can't find work and lost their homes. I use my shout to blast them across the cave and find a preeeetty nice sword among their belongings

[orthusisintheforest]

Hi this reminds me of the skyrim quest I always think about constantly.

It happens during the whole vampire questline. It's not related to vampires. I may misremember details so forgive me for that. But you have to go through old dwemer ruins and you meet the last living snow elf in Skyrim. You know, the snow elves. Who were enslaved by the dwemer and went blind and feral and still live in the ruins long after the dwemer are gone. The falmer is what they're called now. Here's the last one who's in their original form.

And oh hey, to get to where you need to go you have to take a path that's an old snow elf coming of age rite of passage. And he's going to take you through it and you're going to learn about this dead culture, this culture that was killed.

And now you've got what you came for and there's one way out. Now that you've learned what the falmer used to be, where they came from, what was lost because of the dwemer enslaving them, you have to go through a falmer village.

It's a narrow canyon lined with huts. There's no way to avoid it, in order to get through you have to kill them. They attack you because that's what they do to people invading their territory. You're invading their village. You have to kill them or they'll kill you. It's the only way out. You feel terrible.

If you stop to loot one of the huts on your way out you'll find a book full of unreadable text. Take it to the winterhold college and give it to the librarian and he'll tell you that it's a remarkable find because it's evidence that falmer have retained intelligence. They're not just mindless feral monsters. They have this book, they've kept this book even though they can't see. They have a culture. Maybe they still remember what happened to them. Maybe that's why they're so mad.

You just killed so many of them. You're going to have to kill many more.

Anyway.

Video game with no messages.

[paramar]

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964)

Silver Jews - New Orleans (1994)

wdhmbt’s tumblr post (undated)

[mesopelagos]

there are at least three houses in new orleans

[solarsyrup]

[dizzyghoast]

saw someone say that the odyssey having no greek actors is like doing an adaptation of journey to the west with only white guys from the us east coast and i dont really care if that comparison makes sense or not not because now just imagining that

[dizzyghoast]

ey sun wukong its me tripitaka badabing. we gotta do the oregon freakin trail

[aokozaki]

Buddy, you think youse escaped the buddha's palm? F'ogget about it!

[mumblingsage]

As a baby writer I was raised with a horror of exposition, which I often approach in a spirit of "Does the reader need to be told this in so many words?" But as I've grown to realize how unreliable telepathy is, I've been trying to ask myself more often, "Is there a reason to withhold this information from the reader?" So I'm trying to do better at giving basic situating information early on.

Also, for a cheat code: if you cook your characters right, you can get them to tell the reader all about themselves by how they project on other people.

[mumblingsage]

This may also be a show vs tell thing, in that a writer too dedicated to showing can leave the reader utterly baffled about why they're being shown these details.

"I took out flour from the bottom cupboard, a mixing bowl from the top cupboard, and eggs from the fridge" gives us something to picture, but it'd be more effective to say "I started baking the birthday cake, hoping it'd be ready before my sister showed up for her party." Even if the latter is 'telling,' it gives the reader more useful context.

This reminds me of the advice for writing image descriptions: giving the number and color of stripes in someone's shirt is nowhere near as helpful as conveying what they're doing, including a sense of how/why they're doing it (are they celebrating? are they angry? etc.)

[mumblingsage]

@ursa-major-7 Exactly! That's why it's the stronger option. Curiosity engages readers. Stakes (is this birthday cake going to be ready in time?) make a story matter. A goal - get this cake ready - gives the reader something to root for (or against, if they prefer). The first sentence, while it 'shows' more, doesn't give the reader enough to work with. Trying to get engaged in a story that starts with listing various kitchen locations is like trying to climb a smooth wall. You can be curious what they're baking and why, but that's rather vague.

(To digress slightly, I think that particular flavor of literal showing probably comes from writing as if the writer is a camera rather than a writer. A movie might start by showing a character frantically opening cupboard doors and the fridge, and rely on various other details - the actor's facial expressions, soundtrack - to engage the reader. And hopefully convey the sister's birthday party through a banner in the next room rather than clunky "It's my sister's birthday today, as you know..." dialogue. But as a writer, I can use my words instead, and it's often smoother to do that. And of course, one could hybridize the approaches over the course of the scene - "I grabbed the eggs from the fridge, looked at the clock, and swallowed a scream. If I had any chance of getting this cake ready in time for the party, I'd better get a move on. Standing on tiptoes to pull the mixing bowl from the cupboard, I wondered why I'd agreed to host my sister's birthday at noon when I rarely got out of bed before eleven.")