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I've said it before and I'll say it again. We need a "This is absolutely NOT mature content" feedback button on posts. You can report a post as missing a community label. We should also be able to report posts as having a comminity label when they dont fucking need one.

peach-paradox

having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.

kropotkindersurprise

On April 8 we celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher, and remember all the lives she destroyed.

nicolethered

Happy Margaret Thatcher Death Day to all who celebrate!

corroded-coffin

wheezing, shout out to this queen

asteroidtroglodyte

Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: it’s just so beautiful

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn’t realize, I can’t, it’s so much, I, I… are the chips good, at least?

Medieval peasant, trying to make me feel better: they’re… magical, strange traveler

evilscientist3

the thing about fruit flies is that in the abstract, they live peaceful and irreproachable lives nibbling on overripe fruit and its attending microbes, but practically speaking they awaken some sort of primordial rage within me. Get off my bananas you little fucks

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

well maybe you should blearily wake up at 5:08 in the pre-dawn light and find the sleeping soft tiny mammal body of your cat just inches from your head like a miracle too beautiful for speech, and you should rustle one hand out from your blankets to rub fingertip circles across the warm eggshell dome of her little velvet-wrapped skull and on the bristly patches just where the cups of her ears begin, and as she inclines her head into your fingers and purrs without ever opening her little eyes you should feel a love so tender that you understand how that love could have reached out from the fireside into the inky spangled nights long gone to reach her, and then you'll feel better

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

i am at a complete loss as to how to adequately express to you how much this cat throws up yeah

freesiadotcom

having 40 minutes to leave the house is terrible because 40 minutes is basically 30 minutes and 30 minutes is basically 20 minutes and 20 minutes is basically fifteen seconds. but 50 minutes? 50 minutes is an hour, and an hour? ooobh thats plany off time

kcrlfs

robby’s suicidal ideation is so much scarier this season than last. last season we were inside his head. this season we’re experiencing him like the people around him are—temperamental & selfish & basically given up. he’s pushed the audience away as much as he has anyone else.

i feel like the visual storytelling is really supporting that in a few ways; we're not accompanying robby into private, quiet moments anymore, we don't see his flashbacks and the way they affect how he treats the people around him in their aftermath, we're not seeing him try to stay calm & collected for other people's behalf.

and as robby's behavior likely becomes more erratic and angrier as the day goes on, as he pushes the people that love him further and further away... it's going to be interesting to see if the show frames that kind of breakdown. because it's just as much of a mental health crisis, but it's a significantly less easy one for the audience to sympathize with when the show is keeping us at arm's length.

i think that that's an immensely interesting storytelling decision and i am really, really excited (and terrified) to see how it unfolds.

mioritic

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)

"Woman in bed", sketchbook page, 1872

Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum

saskamagina

A Hockey Love Story: Laura Stacey and Marie-Philip Poulin navigate marriage and career

mosshopper

Borzoi studies heavily referenced from photographs. It was really fun to play with some multi-stroked brushes (and some paper textures).

ticklefighthockey

what you must remember about pro men’s hockey players is that they’ve all deeply deeply deeply internalized the idea that if you say anything to the media that shows even a tiny bit of personality or reveals even a flicker of a controversial opinion you will be beaten to death with hammers. and the thing is they’re right. that IS what will happen

marcelshorjian

anatomy of a humiliation

snoopyetc

There were no nice men in Montreal?

penny-anna

the current twitter discourse du jour is cervical smear tests for some reason and here is my take: there absolutely is a widespread assumption that if you have a vagina and are over a certain age you'll be habituated to vaginal penetration and this is self-evidently heteronormative and sexist and im honestly amazed that more people don't seem to register it fdkjghfdjk

penny-anna

it's not just an issue w smear tests. was investigated for PCOS not too long ago and when i was referred for an ultrasound absolutely nobody thought to mention that it would be a transvaginal ultrasound. if i hadn't happened to do my own research i would literally have found out on the day of the appointment?? i remain baffled by this

penny-anna

anyway a lot of people on twitter responding to 'actually smear tests are painful for some people' with 'oh well I suppose if you have some kind of medical condition it might be painful' and it's well the thing is people with medical conditions exist in real life

penny-anna

oh the other one is 'well the nurse will be super nice and will make sure you're comfortable and will switch to a smaller speculum if necessary' and i'm like you must know that isn't true. like c'mon. even if all your cervical smear experiences have been positive you must be conscious of the fact that some medical practitioners are assholes about stuff like this. a more helpful statement might be 'your nurse should make sure you're comfortable and if they don't then you don't have to put up with it'.

ineffectualdemon

The fact that when I was 16 and desperately wanted to go on birth control to regulate my incredibly heavy and painful periods I was required first to go through a cervical exam is fucked up. I was then subjected to it yearly after that. Also the first doctor (who was a woman) berated me for wanting birth control, said I shouldn't have it until I'm sexually active, and wanted to force me to watch her do the exam on me when I did not want to watch. And even though we switched doctors to a doctor who was kind I still had to go through this extremely invasive exam

Then I moved to the UK and found out they don't even start doing cervical exams until you are in your twenties because it's literally useless to do it to a teenager! And they are every few of years instead of every year!

I do recommend getting them, especially if you are sexually active, because they can catch major health issues but! They shouldn't be required for teenagers or to access birth control! They shouldn't be required at all really

pasdechienne

Seconding the thing about trans-vaginal ultrasounds. I went to the gyno as an adult of many years complaining that I’d never been able to have penetrative sex because it was so painful, and they sent me to get an ultrasound. I show up and the ultrasound tech holds up a giant wand and is confused why I’m there if the doctor already knew I’d have trouble with the test. Crazy how it never even occurred to her!

Then there’s the time in college when my gyno told me to “try having a glass of wine to relax” like who gave you a degree and let you work with patients??

notahorseindisguise

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal