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Lazarus, Home from the War Is OUT!

Lazarus, Home from the War is out today! An ex-pilot with PTSD meets a Jewish neurologist who can't help him. It's about loss, it's about coming home and the family you left behind on both sides, it's about what you value, it's about art, and it's also about neurology. It's a romcom set in the (personal) aftermath of the Vietnam War. It's about liberation, and things we can't be liberated from.

Most sites: books2read.com/u/b5G6vR Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Itch: xanthippe42.itch.io/lazarus-home... All the books: http://ehlupton.com/links

#bookblr #dionysus in wisconsin #tbr

omtai

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

hobohobgoblim

in my day someone just let the dogs out. never did know who.

viralfrog

vampires-and-witches

elidyce

“This is a tapestry I made myself! I just finished it!”

“…. this is…. big.”

“Eighty feet long, ten high, in forty panels! It was originally going to be sixty feet, but then the Thomas Malory Arthuriana got big and I had to put more stuff in.”

“… Malory published in the fifteenth century.”

“Do you have any idea how long it takes one person to embroider eight thousand square feet of tapestry?”

“You’ve had a lot of free time in the last eight hundred years, haven’t you?”

“Not once I took up embroidery as a hobby, no!”

memesnotwelcome

“Want to see my stalagmite cultivation work?”

partywithponies

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

partywithponies

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

partywithponies

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

dizzyghoast

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

It was true.

bro LMFAOOOO

It’s always my favorite character

Universal joy.

Meanwhile this was what various medical professionals in that reddit thread had to say about it.

They do not, in fact, love it.

fittingoutjane

The proof that chiropractic is an utterly failed medical profession is not that adjustments can cause harm, but that the profession has responded by ignoring and denying the harm, rather than studying it.

All medical treatments (other than complete placebos) have some risk of harm, but for real treatments given by real professionals, the harms are tracked, measured and warned about. If the harms are too severe, the treatment is no longer used.

robotslenderman

One of my colleagues was a chiropractor. After a while he began to suspect that a lot of his patients actually just had muscle tears, not spinal issues. He bought an ultrasound machine, learned how to use it and how to read ultrasound, and found that to be the case. Between that and the constant pressure from management to get customers (because lbr, they're not patients, they're customers), he got sick and tired of it and bailed to become a sonographer full time.

And before people pipe up with "but my chiro is good, they have me do exercises and so on!" that's just regular ass physiotherapy. See a physiotherapist. A lot of people who sing the praises of chiros because they saved them from chronic pain would have gotten the same benefits from seeing an actual licensed physio, who can prescribe the same or even better exercises because they have an actual fucking education.

wisteria-wolf

The amount of fucking charts I've seen where a patient went to a chiropractor and now needs a surgery is fucking insane. All I do is medical charts, day in and day out doing medical code. I've gone over hundreds of patients whole year of appointments. Unless the chiropractor is also a physical therapist, that patient is going to get worse and need surgery with very few exceptions. It doesn't matter when they mention seeing a chiropractor, by the end of the year they need surgery for issues that started after *shock and awe* a chiropractor appointment! I've seen patients needing multiple surgeries to be functional after chiropractors. I've seen patients lose their ability to walk because of chiropractors. And all the way up till they need surgery, through the issues piling up and needing more pain meds, the patients insist it's helping because the want so badly for it to be helping. I wish it did

#people take their children to these charlatans #hard to win if you sue them too #and hard to get any money because they don't have any #how much risk is too much risk #I like my vertebral arteries intact thank you

were--ralph

the problem with tumblr spells is all of you lil sluts are casting and not giving it time to charge so you're all casting cantrips and not 9th level death spells. everyone wants to be the one to take them down no one wants to be the one who assists

were--ralph

we're going to try again witha little but minimal casting

IT will happen in August of 2026. like to charge and reblog to cast but cast sparingly

were--ralph

Wait stop. everyone +like now and spread it a little but cast on the same day in August. lets try August 6th or something.

were--ralph

CAST NOW

wakenhurst

guerrillatech

aflo

posting this on twitter will get you put into witness protection

truestoriesaboutme

The magic of childhood is that you were constantly encountering new things. The best way to feel that way again is to fill your life with new experiences.

terminallyonlinecat-deactivated

The magic of childhood is that you were constantly encountering new things. The best way to feel that way again is to fill your life with new experiences.

#just explained this to my 8yo by saying #remember when we saw a car with a wrap like that cup from the 1990s #like with the blue wave #and I went off on a rant about monetizing nostalgia?#this is just that