snowandstarlight

surgery resident fellow | "Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day, with no mistakes in it yet?"                   

[expressions-of-nature]

by punbibi5658

[setulose]

Not to sound like a broken record but does it make anyone else viscerally angry how we realized in the very recent past that we can successfully eradicate devastating human-specific diseases (smallpox) yet now there's a million people telling you not to vaccinate your kids against measles. I know I know "everyone will not just" but also for real we could never have measles again if everyone would just be cool

[scienceoftheidiot]

Repeat after me : during the 90s WHO had estimated measles would be eradicated by 2020

No more measles. Eradicated. Forever.

Viscerally angry? Talk about being absolutely furious every fucking second of every fucking day.

[dailyclassicart]

Andrew Grant Kurtis - "Westminster Ripples"

[girl-mercury]

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Remaining time: 4 days 12 hours

[midnightsslut]

showgirl might be the best taylor title track

[worldwright]

movie yapper scale (HOME movies we're not being public menaces)

0- NO talking during movie NONE. i will kill you

1- a couple comments but keep it short. no pausing

2- frequently points out little stuff ("ooh cool shirt", "are they stupid")

3- i will pause occasionally to have brief discussions about the movie

4- frequently discussing movie stuff. might talk over dialogue occasionally

5- it's just nonstop. can't enjoy the film if im not engaging with it!!

depends on who im watching with / depends on the movie

not a movie watcher

Remaining time: 15 hours 35 minutes

[historicity-was-already-taken]

(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)

18

[bellisima-writes]

I am an old bitch - 20/20.

[subtextsays]

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zero

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9-12

13-16

17-19

It's me, Nobody (20)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[desertmarble]

I think in retrospect one thing that will be historically notable about the 2020s is the use of online smear campaigns against powerful women. Like it’s extremely frightening. So many of them also were quite literally funded by men who were angry about “getting MeTooed” and wanted to ruin a woman’s life the same way.

[desertmarble]

The most frightening part is what happens when you discuss these women or overhear discussions about them in real life. The internet moves on, sometimes like with Amber Heard it even course corrects. But you bring up these women’s names to your coworkers or your aunt or whoever and they wrinkle their noses. Isn’t she a terrible person though? And you can’t really convince them otherwise, not fully. That’s the goal of these smear tactics, to create a big poison mushroom cloud that EVERYONE inhales and once the normies log off you’re marked forever, even after your name is cleared a week later.

Men figured out that calling a woman’s morals into question (whether warranted or not) and then buying a bunch of bots or goading mentally ill freaks to act hysterical about it does tarnish a woman’s reputation exactly the same way that serious sexual assault and violent crime cases tarnish a man’s.

[uncahier]

Kids these days don’t read D’Aularies’ Book of Greek Myths and it shows

[scurviesdisneyblog]

𝒮𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 ♡

[apolladay]

When was the last time you went swimming?

* I went swimming today

* I went swimming in the past few days

* I went swimming this week

* I went swimming within the past few weeks

* I went swimming this month

* I went swimming within the past few months

* it’s been a year or longer since I’ve been swimming

* I’ve never been swimming

* it’s complicated

* see results

When was the last time you went swimming?

I went swimming today

I went swimming in the past few days

I went swimming this week

I went swimming within the past few weeks

I went swimming this month

I went swimming within the past few months

it’s been a year or longer since I’ve been swimming

I’ve never been swimming

it's complicated

see results

Remaining time: 2 days 13 hours

[huariqueje]

Loon Gathering - Mia Bergeron , 2026.

American , b. 1979   -    

Coloured acrylic on flat panel , 6 x 6 in.

[thunderstruck9]

Mia Bergeron (American, 1979), Loon Gathering, 2026. Colored acrylic on flat panel, 6 x 6 in.

[snowandstarlight]

everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman

(but she used to say she wished that you were dead)

[unmooredonasundayevening]

It's not a question of whether men and women are different but why those differences, real or perceived, always seem to be handled in a way that favors men. Take for instance the idea that men can't control themselves when women dress or act a certain way, usually the proposed solution is to regulate women's behavior and women's clothing choices. Or the notion of men being "bad" at childcare or housework. The solution is to have women do it for free. It's not treated as a failure on men's part, it's just beneath them! That's what wives and moms and sisters are for! Keep in mind these stereotypes aren't true, they're just instructive as to how we react when men are believed to have some kind of shortcoming. You don't often see people questioning whether a guy should be holding political office if he loses all sense at the sight of a woman in a bikini and he can't or won't figure out how to work a dishwasher. Meanwhile, women's perceived shortcomings are hammered endlessly as justification for excluding and subjugating us. Women's under-representation "real" jobs like welding, plumbing, etc. (I suspect these would cease to be considered "real" work if mostly women did them), women's relative performance in tasks requiring physical strength, these are all purportedly evidence that women just aren't as good as men, that patriarchy is justified and necessary. Ok rant done.

[belladonnabedlam]

Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…

What is your AO3 user ID?

I’m an OG user 5 digits or less

Six figures baby!

I’m in the millions…

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I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!

[urgetocreate]

Colin Campbell Cooper (American 1856–1937), Hudson River Waterfront, N.Y.C, 1921, Oil on canvas

[voguefashion]

"Junon" strapless evening gown from Christian Dior's Fall/Winter 1949-50 “Milieu du siècle” collection, photographed by Horst P. Horst for American Vogue, 1949.