In joy thou hast lived...

RightHandofFenHarel on AO3    Current Fandoms: Dragon Age, Star Wars, Tolkien This is simply an amalgamation of all of the randomness that brings joy to my life. I'm a classically trained musician, amateur photographer, and science enthusiast.

[wildspaceyokel]

Thranto in acrylic.

[righthandoffenharel]

This is still an all-time favorite of mine and hangs in my dining room to this day.

[unforth]

Y'all have got to stop virulently hating men. Like, I'm sorry, I fucking hate the patriarchy too, but the patriarchy isn't just men and saying it is just exculpates complicit women. I am the mother of a young boy, and I look at this precious, empathetic 8 year old boy I'm raising and I don't know where online is safe for him. Places like this will say he's evil just for his gender, and other places will say "we'll be your friend if you hate with us," and still others will radicalize him in other ways. Where is he supposed to go? Why are we saying the radicalization is the fault of the kids just trying to find a place to hang?

Like this is seriously getting urgent. You have got to fucking stop conflating the patriarchy and men. 53% percent of white women voted for Trump. Men aren't the problem. White supremacy and Christian patriarchal structures are two examples of patriarchy-reinforcing structures that aren't solely couched in maleness. Men aren't the problem, and pretending they are drives more men into more welcoming extremist spaces and also ignores all the parts of this that are forwarded by people who aren't men.

What I see happening all over is scared, depressed, lonely people looking for someone they're allowed to hate automatically, unquestioningly - someone they're allowed to place all the blame on. Fascism says people of color, non-Christian people, queer people, etc., are the ones they're allowed to hate.

And way too many of yall answer that no, it's leftist to hate men instead. You are doing *the exact same thing they are.*

Fucking knock it off.

The answer is we're not supposed to hate anyone automatically based on their immutable personal characteristics. Hate the specific people who've hurt you. Hate the self-reinforcing systems that let them get away with hurting you. Hate the strangers who prop up those systems. Hate the fascists. Hell knows I hate Donald Trump, but it's not because he's a man, it's because he's a piece of shit.

Hate the pieces of shit, not the gender.

But don't hate men just because they're men. That's unhelpful, stupid, insane, and entirely counterproductive. Fucking. Stop.

[creature-wizard]

Fascism thrives on ignorance and anti-intellectualism. Here are some ways you can combat it:

There is an ongoing literacy crisis. Teach kids how to read phonetically (other methods produce poor literacy) and introduce them to fun books, both fiction and educational non-fiction.

Teach kids about critical thinking and the scientific method.

You can also introduce kids to edutainment like Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, The Magic Schoolbus, Bill Nye The Science Guy, Beakman's World, etc.

Help kids develop media literacy skills by asking them literary analysis questions about the media they engage with. Even very young children can begin learning literary analysis if the questions are phrased in words they can understand.

Learn and help other people learn information literacy, ie, how to locate and evaluate information.

Learn the red flags of pseudoscience, and educate other people about them.

Educate people and share media on real science and real history, because fascist narratives are full of pseudoscience and pseudohistory. (Miniminuteman, Gutsick Gibbon and Bart D. Ehrman's YouTube channel are great, by the way!)

Make learning a joyful experience, and show people the beauty and wonder of what's real. Being a discouraging killjoy will spoil your efforts.

[obsolescencia]

[eurodynamic]

Michael Bryan meeting Dorian Pavus while playing Dragon Age: Inquisition for the first time (via YouTube)

[righthandoffenharel]

@uboat53 it you

[liaragaming]

This thread is golden.

[fenharel-babe]

“I am the joke now” is SOO me since I literally talked to a friend about DAI before I played (I didn’t plan on playing it but I did) AND I KNEW WHO HE WAS YET I FELL INTO THIS HELL😭😭.

[righthandoffenharel]

That checklist straight down the line. I'd love to say that I knew what I was getting into, but in reality I knew just enough to know that I would need to be a female elf to have him, so I restarted my play through just after finishing the prologue. I have great taste in video game men, so when the twist happened, I was both shocked and like, well, yeah, that checks out. Here we go again, let's go tear down worlds and build them anew.

[loki-is-my-kink-awakening]

Forever thinking about how Sigyn-coded Mobius is

How he would risk everything for Loki, especially if it kept them safe

How he did and would stand by Loki through everything

How he would be the person to hold a bowl to catch poison from dripping onto Loki

How he treated Loki with compassion and gave them space to grow and heal (and didn't take no shit either)

How his two boys were taken from him and yet upon learning that, his thoughts remained with Loki

[righthandoffenharel]

YES! THIS! THANK YOU! This is all I've been thinking about for months. I've wanted to commission art of this but haven't been able to come up with the words to articulate it. Now, I can at least point at this post and flail dramatically. Thank you, seriously. Mobius is 1000% Sigyn coded, and I love both of them almost as much as they love Loki.

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

Have You Ever Met Someone with a Fandom Name IRL?

No, as far as I know I've never met anyone named after a fictional character

Parents named them after a character, but the name itself is normal (ie John)

Named themself after a character, but the name itself is normal (ie Rose)

Parents; changed the name a little for deniability (Cass instead of Castiel)

Named Self; changed the name a little for deniability (Star for Starscream)

I suspect they are but I'm not certain (white person named Usagi)

Yes, I know someone whose parents named them [Daenerys or similar]

Yes, I know someone who named themself [Sherlock or similar]

Yes, I know someone named [Alucard]; unsure who named them

I named myself after a fictional character

I named my child after a fictional character

I know multiple people with fandom names irl

Voting ended onApr 28, 2024

[superhell]

what sort of nerd were you

band kid (gay)

theater kid (gay)

orchestra kid (gay)

choir kid (. gay?)

debate kid (why on gods green earth)

school sports team (?????????????????)

trivia team (ok nerd)

i did none of these things (what the fuck did you do in school)

Voting ended onNov 25, 2023

instrument or sport if applicable in tags. if you wish

[ltwilliammowett]

A Star Wars sea shanty … or should I say, space shanty about Grand Admiral Thrawn.

from Twin Suns Entertainment

[ysabelmystic]

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

[bethany-sensei]

Flash floods are definitely gonna kill people, so here’s your regularly scheduled PSA:

Desert soil does not absorb a significant amount of water. It reaches maximum saturation very very quickly, and all the rest of the water rushes downhill. Even if you can’t tell that the ground is not perfectly flat, the water can. And it will move. Quickly. No, faster than that. Nope, still faster. If you try to cross moving floodwater, you will get swept downstream and probably die.

Do not try to wade in/cross flood water that is any deeper than the thickness of the sole of an average athletic shoe, no I am not kidding, the water will get deeper literally while you’re standing in it.

This goes for cars, too. I’ve seen entire vehicles getting swept downstream in flash floods because the driver thought they could cross the “puddle” and Found Out.

Stay safe, y’all.

[boxingcleverrr]

also if you're going into water intentionally (cleanup, obviously as things RECEDE), PROTECT YOUR EYES. Flood water is NASTY AS HELL and you will be getting a tetanus booster right off the bat if you end up in the ER for any reason.

[righthandoffenharel]

Also if you are in an area affected by one of the recent large wildfires, keep in mind that this makes it much more likely that large landslides will occur. Stay safe, shore up what you can, and if an evacuation order is put in place, follow it even if it seems like it's not necessary. Conditions can change in the blink of an eye so listen to emergency services.

[ohifonlyx33]

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Reblog if you're comfortable receiving crabs on Crab Day (July 29th) so all your beloved followers know who they can comfortably crab on crab day (July 29th) without feeling nervous about crabbing someone 9n Crab Day (July 29th).

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[sonbaited]

have you ever been to disneyland (any location)

no

yes (once)

yes (more than once)

Voting ended onJun 19, 2023

reblog with your country/general location if you want!!

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

I need to see something.

Please reblog this and put in the tags if the surname "Donner" means anything to you (without looking it up first), and if it does, give one or two words that describe what you know. Please also include where you grew up, including the state if you grew up in the US.

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

You have no idea how unintentionally hilarious this is

[mysharona1987]

[zhooniyaa-waagosh]

Why Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Are Having Trouble Getting Their Meds Post-Roe

They help with debilitating and painful symptoms.

[headspace-hotel]

Here's what i found abt this

Why Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Are Having Trouble Getting Their Meds Post-Roe

Methotrexate helps with extremely painful symptoms.

Rheumatology patients are already having trouble accessing essential drugs because of abortion bans

Drugs that can cause abortions have been difficult to obtain in states banning it.

my guess is that doctors are afraid of being held liable for an abortion, since providing drugs for an abortion is considered a felony in many states now

In my experience doctors can and do arbitrarily withhold medications so this is pretty alarming

[righthandoffenharel]

This is exactly what I was talking about the other day. I had this experience even in California a year and a half ago before the decision came down. It's horrifying.

[psychoticallytrans]

I've seen a considerable number of people discussing how lack of accessible, safe abortion will force pregnant trans people on T off of it. That's a good conversation, and I'm glad it's happening. I now want to add another dimension to the conversation. Testosterone is not the only medication that is considered unsafe for pregnancy.

An incomplete list of medications that are not considered safe for pregnancy:

-All current stimulant medications for ADHD

-Lithium, for bipolar disorder

-Some medicines to control seizures, such as valproic acid

-ACE inhibitors, for blood pressure

-Xanax and Valium, for anxiety

-Diabetes medication other than insulin

-All pain medication except for Tylenol, which can cause liver damage if overused

Most of these medications can be approved for use during pregnancy if your doctor considers the risk of not using them higher than the risk to the fetus. However, many pregnant people are forced onto medications that do not work well for them because the medication that they use is strongly discouraged. In addition, the changing of medications can wreak havoc on if your insurance is willing to pay for what you've changed to- an additional expense on top of the usual financial burden of pregnancy care.

This is hard enough for disabled people to deal with when they are pregnant voluntarily. If abortion is criminalized, then use of medications that may cause defects or miscarriage will likely be considered criminal if there is a miscarriage. This is especially true if there is no exception for the life of the pregnant person.

This only scratches the surface of the problems that disabled people will face if abortion is made inaccessible. For this and many other reasons, maternal mortality and/or morbidity is strongly elevated for disabled people. I strongly encourage you to consider disabled people as a particularly vulnerable group in regards to this issue, and to consider our needs important.

Further reading on disabled people and pregnancy mortality or morbidity is linked below. They refer to all pregnant people as mothers and women, but the data that they have collated is still important.

"adjusted relative risk of severe maternal morbidity or death was 29% higher among women with a physical disability, 14% higher among women with a sensory disability, 57% higher among women with an intellectual/developmental disability, and 74% higher among women with 2 or more disabilities."

[kinka-juice]

A lot of immunomodulators, particularly mercaptopurine and methotrexate, are also not safe. Not only important for medications for autoimmune patients, but also cancer patients and organ transplant recipients. All of these drugs are called "teratogenic", meaning they cause issues with fetal malformation or may otherwise interfere with a pregnancy (or potentially transmitted through milk).

Imagine being told you have to sacrifice the safety of your donated kidney, heart, lung, or liver for the sake of a pregnancy. There may be other options for medication, but they can have other terrible side effects or not be effective enough.

With bans on abortion, it can quickly turn into restrictions from every potential teratogenic drug out there for people who can become pregnant. And honestly, most drugs are not well researched on potential teratogenic effects because it's unethical. The best you get is animal studies.

I personally use a relatively new class of meds, a Janus Kinase Inhibitor, for my autoimmune disease. We still don't properly understand potential teratogenic effects. Some say it's safe, other studies disagree. One study had 25 healthy babies, one congenital heart defect, and 7 spontaneous abortions (miscarriages). There's no saying whether that's caused by the drug or not.

But lawmakers are shitty at science and medicine and they will take that as that you caused an abortion because that could POTENTIALLY be the case.

Methotrexate is used to abort ectopic pregnancies. If someone starts Methotrexate for, say, Psoriasis, not knowing they were pregnant and they miscarry, I wouldn't put it past the system to try and prosecute that.

I imagine people with even the potential to get pregnant will get denied drugs like methotrexate on the idea that they will possibly have fertilized eggs and immediately abort them.

[psychoticallytrans]

Thank you for reminding me of the word "teratogenic", it's exactly the one I was thinking of but could not for the life of me remember. I strongly suspect that you're right about drugs like methotrexate.

[headspace-hotel]

When people say that Roe v. Wade being overturned will harm and kill people this is only one of many reasons why

If this statement makes you angry I encourage you to scroll back up and reread the part about risk of maternal death

[righthandoffenharel]

In my latest round of med adjustments for my autoimmune disease I was denied methotrexate because I am of child bearing age even though I had literally given birth 5 months earlier and had already decided that I wasn't going to have any more kids. This is in California where abortion rights are protected and there's very little chance of a miscarriage being criminalized so the reasoning was more about not believing a women couldn't possibly not want more kids (a problem in and of itself) but based on that experience I am 100% positive that states that are criminalizing reproductive healthcare will also be making methotrexate inaccessible to anyone that can become pregnant.

[life-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it]

seeing daniel josé older’s name in the donations list for Amidala Initiative….powerful 

[jewelliffer]

Here’s the link for the fundraiser!

Fuck transphobic greg. We’re fighting him and anything helps.

https://gofund.me/529c63a5

The Amidala Initiative for Equality Texas, organized by The Amidala Initiative (A Community Effort)

“They'll stall you," Organa said. "I know it's a horrifying… The Amidala Initiative (A Community Effort) needs your support for The Amidal