A Mistake

| Rei | 26 |NL | He/Him | Come at me.

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fun words :

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charlatan

harlot

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ruffian

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Cute gender neutral things to call your partner

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Dragon 4ge Day: Mark Darrah retires to go beat the shit out of Cullens VA on twitter while production staff spectate and jeer

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I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.

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Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.

Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.

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Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.

So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.

They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.

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Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.

However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.

So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.

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It gets better.

Here’s the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn’t as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.

Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.

And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.

Here is a lovely, well-produced documentary about Eyam and its disease resistance. It’s a little under an hour. Trigger warning for general disease and epidemic-type stuff, but also, maybe it will help you have some hope in these alarmly uncertain times.

[illissos]

not to be controversial but i literally don’t care about fancy career goals all i want for myself is peace like i have no desire to be a lawyer or an esteemed intellectual please just give me a beautiful garden and lots of animals and plenty of paint and i’ll happily work at pets at home or cafe nero 

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[capstellium]

the wikipedia page for queerbaiting is actually sending me right now

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[cosmicibe]

Love love love the casual use of “by allah” as a damage multiplier

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[omegaverse]

bro i thought i was sooooo grown when i was 18 loool

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idk what 18 year old needs to hear this rn but you are a child

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After a lot of rain here in FL these baby frogs appeared. They eerily all faced the same direction.

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[thedreamyperidot]

Why do ppl call soda "soft drink"...have you ever FELT that thing in your mouth? They're spiky!! Not soft!!

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unrestrained autumn fun

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*picks off the parts of gender i dont like and feeds it to my dog*

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PSA don't do this!!! Gender is not naturally occurring in dogs and they lack the ability to digest gender proteins!

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oh fuck i didnt know this!! keep ur fuzzy babies safe!!!

[maverick-ornithography]

Contrary to common belief you can put unwanted or otherwise spoiled gender into your compost pile; it will NOT ‘turn your worms straight’ as was believed in the interregnum. Fortunately soil and gender sciences have advanced such that we can definitively state that worms cannot be made straight no matter how much gender you give them.

That said just as with mixing greens with browns it is advised to feed your composter with a variety of gender if you want the most balanced soil profile, and also let it run for a few more weeks than you might otherwise; while it is true worms can be exposed to and break down gender with no ill effect, it is still a very difficult substance for plants to uptake and needs to be fully diffused through the blend before it can be safely applied to your garden. 

Hope this helps!

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