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morgan, 27, she/her/hers, feminist, introvert.

[astrowithkaro]

❥ 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐏𝐭.𝟏

Jan 1 - March 17

A series of each birthday and the significance to each one according to astrology. Comment or ask me about your specific day and I’ll write one for you! PS: I PRIORITIZE ASKS <3

January 1 - Language Of Birthdays - Capricorn

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January 17 - Language Of Birthdays - Capricorn January 18 - Language Of Birthdays - Capricorn January 19 - Language Of Birthdays - Capricorn January 20 - Language Of Birthdays - Capricorn/Aquarius

January 21 - Language Of Birthdays - Aquarius January 22 - Language Of Birthdays - Aquarius January 23 - Language Of Birthdays - Aquarius

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[shanastoryteller]

when I was very young my mother told me “they’re going to try and teach you that we came from monkeys but that’s not true and you shouldn’t listen to them because we were made from god” and she was my mom and I was like 7, so I pretty much just went “okay, noted, anyway”

anyway like 2 years later evolution comes up in class and one of my classmates goes “is this the we evolved from monkeys thing?”

and I’m on Red Alert. this is what my mom told me about!

the teacher replies, “well, we share a common ancestor, but we didn’t evolve directly from apes. if you go back way before apes or people existed, you’ll find a different third thing we both came from. we know this because of things like fossils”

and I was like whoo! dodged a bullet there, good thing my 4th grade science class isn’t trying to teach us we came from monkeys and instead figured stuff out using fossils and taught us that instead :)

Instructions Unclear, Ended Up Believing In Evolution Anyway

[ef-1]

The dismantling of Roe v Wade will go down in history as one of the most damning indictments of american politics and a public health decision, no matter how short or long lived, that will shape the pain and suffering of generations to come.

[ohhsheknows]

Ten & Rose + waist grabbing

[hazeldomain]

Poll: if your mom remarries when you’re 26 years old is that guy still your stepdad or is he just your mom’s husband.

[hazeldomain]

The poll winner seems to be “depends on whether you like him” which is super valid.

Mine watches fox news so “mom’s husband” it is!

[brainsforbabyjesus]

My family has a great way of distinguishing between a new spouse you like and new spouse you disdain!

Your mom/aunt/grandma/etc remarries and they are actually a cool person, you use their first name. So if you were to introduce them they would be: Aunt Jane and Bob.

If your mom/aunt/grandma/etc remarries and they are a fuckwad you introduce them as: this is Aunt Jane and her second husband. The implication being that they are very replaceable and that we’re all just waiting for her to wise up to the situation and serve you divorce papers, she did it once, she can do it again.

[hazeldomain]

MAGNIFICENT

[readysetyeet]

Alright, but what if my mom on her third marriage found a decent man, but my mother herself is shitty

[devilboyblues]

"my stepdad's wife"

[helepikolik]

@sapphic-sargent your tags omg

You are doing God’s work

[vlli-moved-blog]

[bogleech]

funnier and more horrifying every single year

[bemusedlybespectacled]

hey folks, I’m gonna introduce you to two very important fandom terms and they are watsonian and doylist 

they come (obviously) from the sherlock holmes fandom, and they are two different ways of explaining something in a story. say I’m a fan and I notice that, in the original books, watson’s war wound is sometimes in his leg and sometimes in his shoulder. the watsonian explanation is how watson (that is, a person within the story) might explain it; the doylist explanation is how sir arthur conan doyle (a person in real life) would have explained it. 

sherlock explains the migrating war wound by making the shoulder wound real and the limp psychosomatic. the guy ritchie films explain it by having the leg wound sustained in battle before the events of the film and the shoulder wound happen onscreen. the doylist explanation, of course, is that acd forgot where the wound was.

this is very important when we’re discussing stuff like headcanons and word-of-god. I see this when people offer watsonian explanations for something, and then a doylist will say something like “it’s just because the author wrote it that way,” and I see it when a person is criticizing bad writing/storytelling (for example, the fact that quiet in metal gear solid v is running around the whole game in a bikini and ripped tights) and someone comes back with “but there’s an in-story reason why that happens!” (that reason being she breathes through her skin).

there’s nothing wrong with either explanation, and really I think you need both to understand and analyze a text. a person coming up with a watsonian explanation has likely not forgotten that the author had real-life reasons for writing something that way, and a person with a doylist interpretation is likely not ignoring the in-universe justification for that thing. 

but it’s very difficult (and imo often useless, though there are exceptions) to try to argue one kind of explanation with the other kind. wetblanketing someone’s headcanon with “or it could just be bad writing” is obnoxious; dismissing someone’s criticism with “but have you considered this in-universe explanation” is ignoring the point of the criticism. understanding where someone is coming from is important when making an argument; acting like your argument is better because you’re being doylist when they’re being watsonian or vice versa is not.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

it’s been 5 million years but this thing still gets notes with like “can someone explain this to me in a shorter, easier way” so here it is:

watsonian: the enchantress cursed the eleven-year-old prince from beauty and the beast and all of his servants because fairies don’t understand why humans would think that’s insane and unfair. I am using in-universe evidence to explain why the character might think or act a certain way, as if belle and the prince and the enchantress are real people.

doylist: the writers didn’t realize that the prince would have been eleven when he was cursed until it was too late to change it, and the servants are also cursed because talking furniture is funny and allows for unique character design. I am explaining this plot point based on an outside knowledge of how writing works and how writers think.

[dailydwgifs]

I will hold Clara’s hand, but that’s it.

[michaelsheen]

Watch Masters of Sex: The Complete Series

LINKS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, SORRY.

I have uploaded the complete series of Masters of Sex on Vimeo, for everyone’s viewing pleasure (and as a big fuck you to Showtime) since it’s no longer available on streaming platforms. All episodes are linked individually below the “Read More” and please enjoy – it was a show that certainly ended prematurely. I’ve also included a couple other links as a sort of viewing guide.

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[bigfatscience]

Fat and thin people with kidney failure experience similar benefits to health and longevity when they receive a live donor kidney transplant. 

Yet fat patients are routinely denied kidney transplants until they lose weight, a delay that can increase the risk of serious complications like graft loss by as much as 68%. 

[bigfatscience]

“It’s not fat phobia! Fat people have higher rates of complications from surgery!! Doctors are just being prudent!”

People with diabetes and hepatitis C are not routinely denied kidney transplants, even though their conditions dramatically increase the risk of complication and death.

Also, when they are on dialysis, fat people have a survival advantage over thin people. Does this mean we should deny thin people dialysis until they can gain weight? Wouldn’t that be prudent?

“If you give a fat person a kidney, you’re throwing away an organ that could save someone’s life!” 

Providing kidney transplants to fat people saves lives. Fat people who receive a kidney transplant experience a 48 - 66% reduction in the risk of death in the year following the transplant, compared to fat people who do not receive a transplant.

“Fat people have higher rates of complications sweaty, that’s why they are denied transplants <3″

Fat people have an approximately 20% to 40% greater risk of death in the eight years following a kidney transplant compared to thin people (although we cannot know if that increased risk was caused by a delay in treatment, weight regain post transplantation among patients required to lose weight, or another confounding factor). But that risk is far outweighed by the survival benefits of transplantation, leading researchers to conclude that “obesity should not be a contraindication for transplantation.”   

[bigfatscience]

But honestly, this entire conversation is despicable. Inhuman. Soulless. People are actually conducting research to determine whether fat people should be offered life-saving medical care. Our world hates fat people so much, that this question seems reasonable to ask.

[blackwoolncrown]

Finally someeone put this to words.

It doesn’t matter if you have kids or not- it’s quite possible that your thoughts on childrearing are valid bc you remember being a child and tbh the ppl who act all put upon and pissy about ppl who don’t have kids saying anything about childrearing strike me as odd bc they act like they literally do not identify w children nor do they remember being one.

[pomme-poire-peche]

Before I had the degree to rely on, I used to pointedly begin my statements about childrearing with, “As a former child…”

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I feel like your opinions on parenting are kind of like your opinions on cooking. Like, you don’t need to be a professional chef to know if a food tastes good. Being a professional chef might give you more context (you know how stressful restaurant kitchens are and how much prep work goes into every night and whatever), but it’s not going to change if the food is good or bad.

[liberalsarecool]

Covid is not over

[glumshoe]

I’ll never understand why anthropomorphic animal cartoons like Robin Hood and Zootopia will go to the trouble of creating character designs that are meant to be understood as “attractive” or even “sexy” to the human audience but explicitly avoid showing interspecies romances between anthropomorphic animals. Why is THAT weird but, like, trying to make rabbits recognizably sexy-coded to humans isn’t?

[glumshoe]

Sometimes, sure, but why was Maid Marian a fox in Robin Hood? There wasn’t anything particularly “foxlike” about her personality, and it would make more sense for her to be a lion. They made her a fox only because Robin was a fox and making her something else would be “weird”, but I don’t think the wolf cop or the chicken maid or the lion prince were actually meant to represent race.

[countesspetofi]

The best inter species couple is Kermit and Miss Piggy as the Cratchits in A Muppet Christmas Carol, because all their sons are frogs and all their daughters are pigs, as God clearly intended.

[glumshoe]

there are only two genders: frog and pig

[forestdwellingrat]

I’ve pointed out to my friends that the fact that Kermit and Miss Piggy’s kids are like that means either

1) they reproduce asexually and the children are clones of each parent OR

2) Kermit and Miss Piggy are members of the same sexually dimorphic species, hence the split between their male and female children

yes I have spent too long running about potential muppet biology

[glumshoe]

oh god

[sailor-lady]

Third option, when they want kids they get some fabric and make one, and hope a Hand inhabits it

[glumshoe]

Do you think there’s a ritual for inviting An Inhabiting Hand to possess the empty husk of your muppet baby?

[jenivi]

[aflowerthatbloomsinadversity]

Just wanted to show u guys that in Muppets Most Wanted, Piggy fantasizes about her and Kermit having babies and this is what they look like

So do with that what you will

[fremedon]

Recall that in The Great Muppet Caper, Kermit and Fozzie are brothers. And this was their dad (right):

[capitalism-and-analytics]

Thank you for specifying, which one of the two individuals in the picture was the dad haha

[la-pou-belle]

I, for one, think Shrek handled interspecies coupling the best. By this I am of course talking about the Dronkeys.

[kestrelsparverius]

[adrnired]

In season 3 of BoJack Horseman, we learn Diane (middle) has been impregnated by Mr. Peanutbutter (left). The fetuses are confirmed to be puppies.

[autisticexpression]

This is the worst addition to this post

[araku-validrava]

I am reminded of Treasure Planet.

In which Captain Amelia (left), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic cat, had hybrid babies with Doctor Doppler (middle), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic dog, whom also gave birth to the babies

[wizardlizardinhislair]

I always thought that in muppet movies like muppet Christmas Carol the characters are played by the muppets (so kermit is acting and playing the role of Bob rather than being him) so the kids in that film would just be other acting muppets right?

Or is that just something my brain made up?

[ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosauru]

[kingscrown666]

Last time I saw this post (YESTERDAY) it stopped at the second Eggman

[the-haiku-bot]

Last time I saw this

post (YESTERDAY) it stopped at

the second Eggman

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[astronomical-bagel]

anyone in this thread smoke weed

[susiron]

In Leo the Lion (2005) a lion and elephant have the most cursed hybrid children and I think yall should see them

(also Matt Mercer voices the villain, Maximus Elefante and I think that’s very important)

[spaceinvaydr]

[cats2019forthenintendoswitch]

By this point you know what we're talking about, egghead

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

let’s say that being hot as a form of empowerment for all women could even be a thing. let’s say it’s possible to look hot for yourself and not for men. where did your idea of hotness come from? why is it important to you to look hot? who decides what’s hot? why must you change something about yourself or cover something about yourself to get hot? what makes you not hot at your most unmanicured state? why? how did you know what to do to get hot? do the people around you view hotness in the same way?

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

ALSO people can accept theoretically that beauty standards are inherently racist and anti-semitic yet cannot then apply that to the idea that placing value in your looks is not going to be empowering for all women? you got a nose job “for you.” okay. so why? what about YOUR nose needed to be fixed? and where did that idea come from?

[kaity--did]

Weaponized incompetence my ass just weaponize it back. Once my dad tries to pull the “but I don’t know how to clean the counters as well as you” on my mom and she said “ok honey I’ll show you” and she made him stand in the kitchen and watch her clean the counters. Then she pulled out a bottle of chocolate syrup and proceeded to spray the entire kitchen in chocolate, hand him the sponge and said “okay now it’s your turn”

[ohbeesneeze]

[breelandwalker]

Weaponized Pettiness is an appropriate reaction to Weaponized Incompetence.

[calvinandhobbescomic]

[marithlizard]

It’s weird to think this comic predates the rise of Internet spam, though otherwise it reads like it could’ve been drawn yesterday.

[impormable]

I’ve been thinking about the phrase “verbing weirds language” for nearly 30 years

[mamoru]

PRO TIP doctors lie all the time. one of the biggest lies doctors tell is, "the blood results came back normal, so you cannot possibly have anything wrong."

wow! the blood test? the blood test? the one single blood test? the one singular blood test which diagnoses all conditions? how fortunate humanity is to live in an era where every single condition has a blood biomarker, can be diagnosed through a tube or two of blood, and no other tests exist.

the reality is, there are thousands and thousands of blood tests out there. and there are an endless number of conditions which cannot currently be diagnosed through blood. that is why we have MRIs, echocardiograms, tilt tables, colonoscopies, nerve conduction studies, stress tests, urinalysis, biopsies, patch tests, ultrasounds, x rays, gastric emptying studies, physical exams, stethoscopes, electrocardiograms, angiograms, spinal taps, and so many more. some conditions are diagnosed through quizzes!

even among conditions that can be found in blood, there are so many blood tests out there that one person can not have them done in one day. and many blood tests have completely different requirements. some require being upright, some require laying down, some require blood samples from two different parts of the body, some require fasting, some require being dehydrated, some require consuming something specific, some require multiple blood draws over time, some require being drawn into tubes kept at specific temperatures.

and even if all of the requirements are met for a specific blood test, blood tests are not 100% accurate. they often have a high false negative, where blood results suggest you do not have a condition when you actually do. there are so many blood tests that can only indicate if you do have a condition, but not if you do not have a condition. and there are blood tests that suggest something is going on, but not necessarily what. there are also blood tests that suggest you may have a condition you do not have at all. why?

diagnostics are subjective. diagnostic criterias are decided by humans who make mistakes all the time. test results are usually interpreted by humans. diagnostic criterias are constantly being updated, new biomarkers are always being found, and not every condition with a blood biomarker has an accurate or readily available test.

if a single blood test could diagnose everything, medical school would be a hell of a lot shorter.

medicine is subjective and evolving. if your doctor tells you that you are definitely perfectly healthy because "the blood test" said there is absolutely nothing wrong, they are lying. any doctor that tries to convince you that every possible condition would show up on the one blood test they ordered is lying. it is a lie.