Effusions of Fancy

I'm a nerd. I'm a dentist. I'm a lady.

[samanthagray529]

It's my 11 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

What a journey for this wild hellsite

[t00thpasteface]

at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

[rotzaprachim]

Language Moodboard - sicilianu / Sicilian 

for @rododaktvlos

[anyataylorjoy]

Bridgerton (2020-) + The Onion Headlines 1/?

[mae-martin]

Pen, you have not heard what people are saying. Lady Whistledown has gone too far this time. And I thought you her greatest admirer. Not when she has smeared the name of my greatest friend.

[naslostcontrol]

NICOLA COUGHLAN as PENELOPE FEATHERINGTON

BRIDGERTON, 2020

[anyataylorjoy]

Claudia Jessie as Eloise in BRIDGERTON   2020-, creat. Chris Van Dusen

[newyorkrry]

started watching bridgerton and i’m fully losing my mind?? enemies to lovers fake dating historical romance??? with a diverse cast???? whilst orchestral versions of modern pop songs play in the background????? JULIE ANDREWS NARRATES IT?????? sign me the fuck up

[samanthagray529]

Bridgerton is the Pride & Prejudice fake dating enemies to lovers AU that I never knew I needed

[synthlet]

happy day after christmas. guess what i got

[stephsu]

inspired by this post 

[azzandra]

Fic idea I was struck with the other day and keep thinking about: a Vulcan adopts a cat.

[azzandra]

Still thinking about this, even though I’m not writing the fic!

This Vulcan, I’m calling her T’Pen, goes to a shelter and gets a cat, and the shelter employees are like, a bit weirded out? But obviously they’re going to give her a cat, I mean, she’s a Vulcan, she’s Super Responsible, she takes all the pamphlets and listens attentively to all the advice the shelter employees give her, even though it is obvious she researched a lot on her own.

Then T’Pen asks the shelter folks what she should name the cat and runs into That Thing Humans Do Where They Confound a Vulcan With Their Weird Ways

Shelter Employee 1: oh, you can name a cat anything! That’s what’s great! People names, common nouns, whole phrases.

Shelter Employee 2: yeah, nothing sounds weird on a cat. Everything from Chad to Cupboard is fair game.

SE 1: yeah, I mean, you can’t call a dog Chad, that would be weird

SE 2: I wouldn’t fuckin’ trust anyone who named their dog Chad

SE 1: oh word

T’Pen:….

T’Pen: ….fascinating.

[azzandra]

Later, in the interest of furthering her anthropological study of Earth, T’Pen has a houseparty and she invites her coworkers, many of whom are human, but others which are aliens, and are fascinated by T’Pen’s cat

Vulcan Co-worker: T’Pen, what have you named this small Earth feline?

T’Pen: I have named him Marmalade.

Vucan co-worker: Is that not the name of a type of Terran fruit preserve? I do not understand the logic behind this choice.

T’Pen: the logic is self-evident to a human.

Human Co-worker: T’Pen, omg, you have a cat! What’s his name?

T’Pen: thank you for your inquiry. His name is Marmalade

Human Co-worker: oooh! yeah, that makes sense, because he’s orange and sweet! lmao, great name

Vulcan Co-worker: …

Vulcan Co-worker: ….fascinating

[bartfargo]

Human: So, how’s Marmalade?

T’Pen: He has the peculiar habit of walking on my workstation.

Human: Aggravating, isn’t it?

T’Pen: We Vulcans do not feel human emotions. However, I would prefer it if Marmalade stayed off my workstation, particularly when I am working.

Human: Get a box.

T’Pen: Murdering Marmalade seems an overreaction.

Human: No, you need a box with interior dimensions approximately the same as Marmalade’s body, and set it on the floor next to your workstation. Marmalade will sit in the box.

T’Pen: Why do you believe that this will work for Marmalade?

Human: We don’t know. It’s just something cats do. If he fits, he sits.

T’Pen: … Fascinating.

[bartfargo]

Vulcan Commander: T’Pen, you are posting videos of your cat. Explain.

T’pen: My colleagues are amused and entertained by Marmalade’s interactions with his environment. I am amused and entertained by their reactions as reflected in the comments.

Vulcan Commander (reading): “U haz done me a startle”?

T’Pen: Some of them like to verbalize what they believe are Marmalade’s thought processes. He is a cat, so they imagine that he does not grasp human spelling and grammar.

Vulcan Commander: … Fascinating. As you were. (signs off)

T’Pen (returning to her meal): Now I can haz lunch.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

I need more people to write more bits of this.

[gussiegazelle]

The Vulcans going “…Fascinating” is hilarious for some reason.

[azzandra]

It’s hilarious because it’s the closest they can get to saying “what the fuck”.

[32144543565476675-deactivated20]

seeing this made me feel like i just got a letter informing me of my own death

[firstunitarianchurch]

[guerrillatech]

[samanthagray529]

I’m a dentist. Masks are always mandatory.

Do I have to pay myself hazard pay?

[succubusboyfriend]

me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

[succubusboyfriend]

ranibow sprimkle……..

[cr0wswithknives]

kepchup.

[cosmicyeehaw]

SPINCH

[oli-nerd]

B A N C H

[scoobertdoobertlove]

chichen nuggest

[yondus-wife]

b R o G L e

[borzboy]

strawbebbies..

[sprayed-cheese]

this post almost moved me to tears

[samanthagray529]

Those are OnIoN rInGs

[datarep]

COVID cases per capita vs mask usage. 

by u/recentcsgrad12345

[samanthagray529]

You know... that tracks.

[iamtherabbitinwonderland]

[horce-divorce]

Alex Haahaard (they/them) on twitter:

"at some point we should probably have a conversation about how the normalization and glorification of physical exhaustion during medical training contributes to producing deeply ableist doctors.

Like a) it makes the field completely inaccessible to many disabled people whose knowledge is deeply needed there and b) it supports a deeply f*cked up worldview in which pain and fatigue are things you can and should "just push through"

[eezybree]

It also leads to greater medical mistakes and the insanely high suicide rate for some professions (*cough* vet med). Fuck that. Normalize breaks. Prioritize mental and physical health for doctors and healthcare workers. It’s not for a lack of compassion. It’s essential if we’re going to perform our best when you need our help.

[samanthagray529]

And honestly there’s this weird contradiction in healthcare where we expect (and sometimes need) after hours care, but it’s in a way that few other professionals are expected to provide. Like prioritize your health, take breaks, have time for yourself, but also constantly be available to patients on weekends and holidays. Which again, is sometimes necessary, but some patients can also be extremely demanding and rude when they call after hours.

Just an example: I had a patient *email* me about her *adult son* having a toothache on Christmas Eve. She was furious that it took me several hours to get back to her (because she emailed instead of calling the emergency number and I had stuff to do because, you know, it was Christmas Eve) and wanted me to call in pain med (which I can’t do over the phone) in addition to his antibiotic. So I get him scheduled for our first day back at work, which he then misses without calling us. Months later he comes back with it hurting again. Turns out he broke the tooth a year before, did nothing about it, and waited until he was in excruciating pain for a second time before he actually came to the dentist. By that time it was unrestorable and had to be pulled.

I know this is a tangent from the original point, but the interactions we have with patients can really affect our mental health and create extreme pressure on healthcare workers. We could all do with having more compassion from and for our patients.

[mogifire]

friend

[roachpatrol]

this still cracks me up like can you imagine you’re 130 years old and suddenly a gigantic alien baby starts following you around