[gracieparkerr]

sometimes I love going on irondad tiktok bc they’ll “discover” things for the first time that irondad fans already analyzed on 2018 tumblr and twitter

[canadian-wolf-bird]

I love you, I love you, good job, I love you. art by @ananasbiscvit

[canadian-wolf-bird]

I love you, I love you, good job, I love you. art by @ananasbiscvit

[neurodivergentaf]

it's so wild when your parent changes when you become an adult. my dad is very cordial and non confrontational - he regularly helps me with adult stuff like changing the oil or providing insurance tips. he's always smiling when i call him on video and providing jokes when i complain about college

when i was a kid, i would have to tiptoe around his anger issues often, sometimes running quietly past his work table until he got his own place completely separate from our family, locked away for days. every so often he would start screaming in the car and trying to hit me or my brother for talking too loud while my mom attempted to calm him down as he swerved on the road. and now he, smiling, helps me with car insurance.

like oh, this is just who you are when you have power over someone, and this is who you are when you dont have power over someone. no wonder you can have a normal life, friends, work while scaring the shit out of your kids and wife. i see it now. i see why no one would have believed me. that, i think, is one of the core fears of trauma - seeing the outside of it from the perspective of other adults that brushed you aside, and understanding. of course, that understanding gives the opposite of solace; it just gives you more grief with nowhere for it to go

[peter-is-a-bean]

I never see anyone explore Kirks possible guilt he may have for not saving Vulcan in time. Him and Sulu had JUST stopped the beam, but it reached the core and Nero was able to destroy Vulcan.

Do you think he ever told Spock he was sorry? Do you think he carries that guilt with him every time he talks to Spock? Do you think it haunts him, just as much as it haunts Spock?

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 4 days 10 hours

[elamarth-calmagol]

Confused by the numbering choices here

[janmisali]

that's the order numbers go in.

[dragon-fly-art]

My old art of Peril for the song "Fire Again" from Valorant

[demoniika]

peril wof doodle i love you peril wof

[phanthymn]

Peril, but i went ham on the scales for whatever reason

[gothamcity-batwatch]

Words cannot explain how much him immediately going to hold her hand means to me

[lewadny]

You & a baddie you pulled by being autistic

[areyouleadingorami]

someone commented on my edit that stratt would have seen 40 eridani return to its full brightness and she would know that grace had saved erid.

it takes 16 years for light from 40 eridani to reach earth plus the ~26 years it took for the hail mary to reach tau ceti and the beetles to return, that’s 42 years gone by.

i believe stratt was described as being in her mid to late forties which means that by the time light from 40 eridani reached earth, she would likely be around 90 years old.

my new head cannon is that she held on just long enough to see whether grace made it.

[its-timego]

It's ok, it's just that when Grace first meets Eva she picks up the Earth beanbag from his desk & then when she leaves him the astrophage dots she tosses it back to him & then he carries it through interstellar space to ultimately give it to Rocky. And then at the same time Rocky gives Grace his waving-xenonite-Grace-figurine when they first meet, which Grace keeps with him the entire time, to ultimately send it back to Eva.

[kragehund-est]

"fiction doesn't affect reality. anyway..."

"...i consume this sort of media to better cope with my trauma" ok so it affects the reality of your mental state

"...just because it turns me on, that doesn't mean i'd actually DO those things except for roleplay" ok so it affects the reality of your sexuality

"...i just find this stuff thought-provoking" ok so it affects the reality of your understanding of the world

"...we have our own community, and it's harmless!" ok so it affects the reality of your interactions with others

"...it helps me explore my identity" ok so it affects the reality of your self-awareness

"... but-" OK SO IT REFLECTS THE REALITY OF YOUR POSTING AND TALKING AND THINKING

whether or not the influence is positive or negative, i'm not going to debate that right now. i'm not arguing that consuming XYZ makes you do XYZ, it's more complex than that. my main point is that this is the stupidest, most easily disproven, thought-terminating quip i regularly read on here.

[brightlotusmoon]

This is one of the best points I have seen about the subject since I learned about it nearly a decade ago.

I did used to say fiction doesn't effect reality until I really thought about it and realized how incredibly reductive and incomplete that was. There's definitely nuance in everything, including this. It's not as simple as we think. Ship and let ship, absolutely, but don't fall into the thinking that there is absolutely no effect, because of course there are effects.

[peter-is-a-bean]

Thissss.

[barlukovart]

so’lek’s back. end of conversation

[revizyonist]

med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times

[revizyonist]

"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you

[ancelineonline]

I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.

[bowditch]

i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!

[arctic-turtle-cassiopeia]

Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills

[segamascott]