Death, be not proud

Christian • Linguistics major • Musician • Incurable nerd (more academic than fandom) • I speak Latin with lots of enthusiasm and less skill • I mostly lurk and reblog but someday yall will start seeing my thoughts on your dash

[legitimately]

JOY HAS A HABIT OF RETURNING. BTW

[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

[magpie-trove]

The only antidote to fear is responsibility: the refusal to believe that there is nothing we can do, the decision never to take refuge in blaming others, making them the scapegoats for our frustrations and fears. It is easy to complain: to say it is someone else’s fault. Courage is born the moment we decide not to complain but instead to make a personal protest against the evils of the world by doing good, however slight. An ethic of responsibility yields individuals of astonishing resilience – people able to survive any setback and face any future without fear.

—Jonathan Sacks

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[moonshinemagpie]

researching the history of education in japan and learning that, pre–Meiji Restoration, peasants/commoners formed their own schools to become educated because it was the best way of fighting tax fraud.

That is, when an official told you, a rice farmer, that you owed more taxes than you really did, it was very useful if you were good enough at math to know he was lying (and could prove it) and if you were good enough at writing to write a letter to your government defending your case.

all of which is to say it's crazy that mega-corporations are now pushing education to be "what if you paid us whatever we tell you to for the rest of your life and never do math or write anything ever again"

[memories-of-ancients]

Gilded silver and rock crystal vessel, crafted in Nuremberg, Germany, circa 1580

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[beemovieerotica]

someone on reddit shared texts of her and her husband's exclusive english dialect and it's beautiful

[beemovieerotica]

a linguist is analyzing it

[belleofthe-brawl]

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

Chaz & Sir Quacksalot

[wheretheeternalare]

Why do people still say “this doesn’t fit my blog theme but I had to reblog anyway”? It’s almost 2018. Who gives a fuck. Who even has a coherent blog anymore

[pamisleyphd]

Reblog if you’ve never had a coherent blog and got no intention of starting that shit now

[argumate]

on the one hand Ursula Le Guin writing stories about sailing while casually admitting she couldn't say which end of a boat was which, on the other hand Werner Herzog saying if you want to make good films then go and do literally anything else first so you find something to say.

[evilsoup]

i think the key is that le guin hadn't substituted adventure books about sailing for any kind of real life experience....it's not that you have to have done x specific thing, but you do need to be basing your imagination off real interactions with other people rather than exclusively playing with genre cliches...imo. like the key things that le guin captures in the sailing bits of the earthsea books are like being totally isolated and being stuck in a cramped space with another person iirc

[argumate]

that's a great point! much like the way nobody has experienced literal time travel, but anyone can experience feelings of isolation or regret or premonitions of the future and evoke those in a fictional setting.

[honourculture]

[spectrometrie]

when i was a kid my parents bought me an inflatable doll of the Scream by Edvard Munch (??) that was significantly taller than i was at the time and i used to slow-dance with it and pretend it was my boyfriend. It had its hands attached to its head obviously so it felt like he was always a bit horrified to be forced to dance with me

[spectrometrie]

i didn't need no imaginary friends i had Screaming Joe right here !

[omgeddon-deactivated20260424]

I love this website I love it when people tell us what's wrong with them

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot

[tuxankhamun]

Ma'am, we're sorry to have to tell you this, but your husband had an accident at the Pianos, Anvils, and Comically Large Panes of Glass Incorporated factory...

[sunb1eeder]

he was hit by a car in the parking lot

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Grammar is the aqueduct that carries the water of thought to your reader. If improperly maintained, the thought will grow muddied or fail to flow as strongly as it should. Your reader may then end up with an incomplete or poor picture of the world you are trying to create.

The water, its holder, and the one who drinks are all worthy of good work. Finding the blueprints--the rules of grammar, language, and structure--will let you discover what you can do with them.

Be patient. Breathe. Pray. Learn.

May God give you grace and the ability to bring beauty and refreshment to those who seek new streams, and remember that He reveals himself through Scripture and the beauty around us as the source of all good.

(Don't feel as though perfection is expected, dearies. But good work will at some point be hard work. Stick to it. Clay may become art in the end.)

[maidthings]

"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox

[fake-lancelot]