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remember when Elementary adapted the holmes stories and made Watson a woman which removed the gay subtext but then made Moriarty also a woman and gave them weird lesbian subtext. masterful technique. the never-before-seen uno yuri reverse
totally normal 10ft tall portrait of your nemesis’ coworker
the girlies are thirsting over zhang linghe in Pursuit Of Jade but they don't know ball like i do (He was Hua Cheng in Eternal Faith. I'm feeling Hua Cheng levels of yearning for a tgcf adaptation that is as well produced and PoJ with him as Hu Cheng)
whenever I see archeological remains of a human who suffered from a terrible disease that couldn’t be treated in their lifetime but could be fixed now, this wave of sorrow and mourning washes over me. a woman in the 14th century who spent her 35 years of life bent at the waist because of congenital scoliosis. a man from the 18th century who died because of a non cancerous mass on his jaw that made eating progressively more difficult. remains of a woman from the Neolithic who died in childbirth having evidence of peri-mortem trepanation on her skull.
and yet she survived to 35. and yet the physicians in his time tried to strengthen his jaw. and yet someone 4,000 years ago tried to save someone they loved from dying of preeclampsia/increased cranial pressure. we tried. we tried and we tried and we tried. we failed and we learned but we tried. that’s what makes humans so beautiful.
My mom sometimes talks about a child in her neighborhood who was born with hydrocephaly and died of it. His parents strove to keep him alive for years, but he ultimately passed after a long decline. No treatment available. No hope at all, and the parents knew it from his birth.
Several decades later my sister had an MRI, as a long shot, to try to figure out why she was sick and deteriorating with a number of symptoms that were close to being written off as anxiety. She was sent straight to the hospital for adult onset hydrocephaly. Two days later she had brain surgery to put a shunt down her neck into her stomach and drain the fluid out. (No, you cannot usually get brain surgery that fast. Yes, it was that urgent.) Recovery was long and squiggly but it happened.
I think of that boy every once in a while. The one who died. I have no doubt that treatments developed for people like him, and tested on people like him, saved my sister's life.
He never knew he made the world better. His condition was severe, he never knew much of anything, I don't think. I think if I ever track down a God or something like one, that'll be somewhere on my List of Wishes. To make sure people like him know that they helped.
I think about this a lot.
I've been type 1 diabetic since I was about one and a half, and was incredibly sick. If my mother hadn't also been type 1 and recognized the signs I likely would have died.
I was born in 1982. Insulin was first given to a patient in 1922, and he survived. Before that, type 1 meant death, often very slow and agonizing. Before insulin, doctors advised a super strict "keto" diet to prolong life, and it could work for awhile - up to a year, I believe. But it was a miserable existence as the body was literally eating itself as the blood turned acidic until the patient eventually died.
60 years. Only 60 years before my birth did that procedure work for the first time. That's absolutely nothing given the span of human history and I think a lot about the people who died from it throughout time.
But yes, people tried. Healers and doctors of all sorts tried all manner of things to allow these (mostly!) kids to live. The fact that it was accomplished at all is nothing short of a miracle. The fact that I've been alive 42 years is fucking insane considering my body doesn't produce a hormone necessary for survival. If you think that doesn't blow me away on a regular basis you have another think coming. It's nothing short of a miracle.
Every medical advancement is. The amount of work that goes into it and the vast amount of luck necessary to get it right even when all the research and information is sound is just astonishing.
Thank you, humanity. Thank you ingenuity and determination to save lives and make them better. Thank you to every medical practitioner and medical researcher in existence now and through all of time. Thank you to all the people who died so I could live.
Diabetes is one of these illnesses that really throws medical history into perspective. It's so common, everyone knows someone who has it, people live pretty normal lives with it. And yet, a hundred years ago, it was an instant death sentence. And then we were able to treat people with insulin and yet - it was extremely disabling. The insulin was extracted from animal pancreas had severe side effects, even with how similar the hormones are, there is always an averse reaction to proteins from foreign species, especially during long-term treatment. Injections had to be given every few hours, at-home-tests were only available from the 70s onwards. Insulin pumps entered the market in the 80s. Genetically produced insulin - humanized insulin - was first available in the US in 1982, in many countries only around the year 2000.
In 1930, having diabetes type I would basically mean being hospital bound, being woken every few hours for regular injections.
In 1965, you'd be able to live at home and get by with a very strict diet and a few timed injections. You'd struggle with chronical side effects. Having children wasn't done - passing on your genes would be immoral, and it might not even be legal for you to marry.
In the year 2000, you'd have a device clipped to your belt that would measure your blood sugar and distribute insulin, you only need to change the needle a few times a day. You might even be allowed to join in P.E. class
In 2025, you stick on two patches that do the same thing. They're synchronized through your phone.
That wasn't fate. It's not natural development that made diabetes a common chronic illness. It was hundreds of people who cared. It was the people who created the keto diet. It was the people who came up with tests. The ones who went through different species, trying to figure out the closest analogon to human insulin. It was the people who fought in court to get genetically produced insulin approved for medical use. It was people who looked at a rare, incurable disease and said "but what if it wasn't?"
Back in the 1960s, my dad was one of the first 100 successful open-heart surgeries in the world. He needed it to fix a hole in his heart, a condition that up until then was basically "take him home and make him comfortable."
He's lived long enough that three of his grandkids have been born with the same condition, and he's been there to assist with the recovery after the laparoscopic version of the same surgery he had.
He has a scar from collarbone to waist that's as thick as my finger--thicker, in some places. My nieces and nephews have scars so tiny you could mistake them for being from a particularly bad cat scratch. And their recovery was measured in weeks, instead of months.
Medicine has improved so much, so fast, that he's lived to see the research done on him save his grandchildren.
Every time I inject my insulin, I think about the doctors that developed it, and every dog that died in that process.
There were a lot of them. Yes, it gets to me every time. I don't die in agony because of determined scientists and some unspeakably good dogs.
met someone the other day who had a mouse problem and thought they'd fix it by getting cats. normal thought process so far right. but they got two Maine coons. and I was like. you got the Lazy Affection Machines? the cats that have hunting.exe uninstalled at the factory to make room for Lårge.dll? nature's answer to the weighted blanket??
having finished watching love game in eastern fantasy it is my official opinion that the best way to do a modern au is as follows:
-mu yao and liu fuyi (coworkers) are in an on-again-off-again fwb/situationship. mu yao keeps it no strings attached bc she is too busy studying the blade working her demanding job that I have not decided the details of, and liu fuyi is of course silently waiting for her to open up to him even the slightest bit after that one time she drunkenly word-vomited to him after a company party (and then actual-vomited). has he said a word about his feelings? of course not
-during one of their on-agains they decide to spice it up and find a third. who's to say how this comes about (probably miscommunication. by which I mean no communication, as is their wont) but neither of them have grounds to object on the basis of exclusivity so unicorn hunting they go
-whos their unicorn? it's miaomiao of course. shes mostly in it for mu yao tbh
-it's very awkward
-enough that the idea of opening up the situationship is just. never brought up again. do they actually talk about commitment or exclusivity of course they dont. silently monogamous fwb. but the IMPORTANT bit
-is that the next morning mu yao's little brother comes over completely unannounced and runs into miaomiao in the kitchen (they weren't gonna make miaomiao call an uber at this hour! they set up the pullout couch for her and made sure she had water and a phone charger and also that she knew she could grab anything she liked from the fridge and then had to fight back the urge to tuck her in because who does that)
-mu sheng is of course instantly jealous of her. A-jie is acting very affectionate towards someone who is (1) not him and (2) suspiciously younger-sibling shaped 🤨
-and also he has longstanding beef with liu fuyi for impugning!! his sister's honor!!! and not even DATING her about it does he think his precious sister is some kind of, of toy he can toss around til he's bored of her?! (mu yao voice: a-sheng it's fine I'm actually the one who - mu sheng: you CAD. you RAKE. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY)
-miaomiao starts hanging around them of course (of course). actually it turns out miaomiao's a new hire at the place they all work, what a funny coincidence that definitely will not result in insane office drama! theres a betting pool in the background. the breakroom is restocked with popcorn daily
-as the group dynamic progresses we get the mortifying ordeal of little-sister-zoning your one night stand. and the mortifying ordeal of watching her and your kid brother dance around each other while your kid brother is totally convinced that said one night stand is angling to steal your bf situationship and/or angling to steal his spot as the favorite little sibling. and the mortifying ordeal of being liu fuyi and watching all this (while also little-sister-zoning your one night stand. mortifying). wars are waged for Jiejie's Pullout Couch
-and then the mortifying ordeal of realizing that your one night stand/coworker/little sister is 100% trying to get you and your fwb together for real. she's enlisting the little baby intern. they are fucking with the partnered work schedule and pushing the two of you into closets and shit. obviously your fwb doesnt want you so it's pointless, but more importantly where is she finding the time
-THEN the mortifying ordeal of miaomiao accidentally letting it slip to mu sheng about the whole threesome thing (at work and in the middle of a Crisis of course)
-mu sheng is now jealous of miaomiao, jealous of liu fuyi, and in the absolutely excruciating position of being jealous of his sister
-AND! not only does he have to contend openly with the fact that his precious perfect sister has a sex life, now he's angry at liu fuyi for being unfaithful to his sister, and at them both for treating miaomiao's affections so lightly. and he's never going to recover from liu fuyi's gentle but chastening lecture about the concept of polyamory. he KNOWS what polyamory is!!! it's just that if anyone does that with his sister or miaomiao he is entitled to shoot them with a gun!!!!
-mu sheng: was she not GOOD enough for you??? (doesnt know which 'she' he's referring to, or for that matter which 'you') mu yao & miaomiao: ziqi it's literally fine it just d- mu sheng: you SCOUNDREL. you HOUND
-all of this of course pales in comparison to the horrifying realization that the woman he is earth-shatteringly, cataclysmically in love with fucked his sister
I bring more 🎉
A part of me is happy that they didn't focus only on romance in the drama so the romance wasn't forced BUT DAMN IF I DON'T WANT MORE.
Bahahahhahahahaaaaa look at them poking fun of the classic tortured ml trope!! What makes it funnier is that Liu Yuning just played this character in his last drama, The Prisoner of Beauty! Cut to a few minutes later, we see Nan Heng follow this exact trend and turns out he too is handsome, strong, yet miserable lmao!!! I love this show so much!!!
One of the reasons I ship them is that despite Shangguan He donning LSL's mask, he doesn't try to mimic him, it's always his real self behind it when interacting with Yiting. The mask allows him to be himself with her and bypass the bias she would treat him with otherwise if she saw him without it. It's a parallel to Nan Heng and his relationship with Yimeng, when he can shed the arrogant prince facade and free himself from the prejudice she holds against him. The mask gives both of them the freedom to be themselves.
Furthermore, Shangguan He has the same aversion to marriage Yiting used to have.
Awwww, him noticing the similarity between them, something they share.
Does he have a real secret, significant to the story, or does he do something naughty during those days?
Dating contract!!! We really have all the tropes!
The polite "you are cray cray, girl" burn.
LOL! Him giving her the "you don't fall in love with firefighters" talk some a lot of FLs would need.
I love her, them and where this is going.
I think another reason this works so much for me is the complete role reversal - Yiting unapologetically chasing after a man who doesn't like her, she is the one doing the wooing and creating opportunities, something normally male leads do. Of course, there are many instances where FLs fall first but they usually silently suffer until the ML somehow notices them.
ah so here's (hopefully) the turning point.
Never thought Song Yiting would be the voice of reason!
Someone like me should cultivate immortality.
ok i am on ep 14 of A Dream Within A Dream and i gotta talk about it.
first, i personally hate when people start an opinion with “i cant believe people are saying (negative opinion)”—but in the limited fan content ive seen while trying NOT to spoil stuff for myself, a common thread amongst criticism is not liking the FL, or maybe not getting why nan heng would fall for her
simply couldn’t be me. song yimeng is my unhinged girlfailure FREAK, and i adore her. she is offputting and strange. she is beautiful and compassionate, even to people she truly believes are not real (and i mean, they don’t have NAMES). she is pigheaded and brave. she is intelligent but often without insight. she is good at manipulation but also simultaneously SO bad at manipulation. she is endearing and kinda ruthless.
and, she is such a fucking Hater that once she decided she hated a character (who, in her defense, killed her character AND tried to kill Actual her for a whole day), she Held onto that hate like a buoy in a storm to anchor her forever. my favorite weirdo HATERGIRL
i can’t even get into how much i adore nan heng, tbh—but thats the thing. song yimeng ALSO adores nan heng, just as his alter ego. she is operating on a flawed set of assumptions AND her limited personal experience, and this whole drama is all about tropes and miscommunication and pulling whatever bullshit has to happen for the plot to be sufficiently Dramatic.
unlike all you FAKE Lovers Of Men Suffering, i understand that nan heng’s happy ending will be soooo much better after he goes through every possible torture for it. i love him so bad and his actor is giving one of the most compelling performances ive ever seen, and i need to see him cry and yearn and Persist and cry some more.
like. this show is the best thing ive ever seen maybe
(1/?) Xie Zheng Diva Moments Compilation.
Zhang Linghe as Xie Zheng PURSUIT OF JADE ⁃ 逐玉 (2026)
I hate to be the one to issue a correction, but that post going around saying that Xie Zheng would ask if Fan Changyu would love him as a worm, it's just wrong.
Xie Zheng knows that Fan Changyu would love him as a Yan "Worm" Zheng, she would build him a whole worm habitat and butcher pigs to support him, that is not his problem.
He needs to know if Fan Changyu will still love him as a dragon. As one of the deadliest, most competent, and powerful people in the kingdom.
He pretended to be a worm for so so long so she would keep taking care of him.
He's half a moment of despair away from chopping off his arms and legs to turn back into a worm.
The worm thing is covered. Edit: it's a wyrm problem (people in my notes being funnier than me again)
look there's a similarity is all I'm saying
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ohhh my god.
I love how the casting notice for Hermes in Hadestown effectively reads "Any age, any gender, any race, ability to serve cunt essential"
