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Caitlyn, I watch too much TV. I read just as much. This is photos, reblogs and rants. LMSW Child and Adolescent therapist. Sufferer of crippling depression and anxiety. Ace spectrum and Aspy. My cat Gershwin will probably make appearances.

[sushisempai]

Untitled Nessian Generational Fluff

Made a guide for this as it began to grow out of control.

It started with this which includes other prompts. Please people feel free to jump on those. Then the more I thought about the Nessian fluff, I just started writing it.

I will keep updating this post as I work on it, and it’s pinned on my page as I’m not really producing other content right now. I don’t know why but I just needed to write some sweet relationship stuff. 

Part 1 - Final edit complete - 2897 words

Part 2  - Final edit complete - 3326 words

Part 3 - Final edit complete - 3984 words

Part 4 - Final edit complete - 6213  words

Part 5 -  Final edit complete - 3518  words

Part 6 - May still have edits - 5156 words

I updating and editing these after I publish them, cus I can’t spell to save my life in any language, and have even added short scenes or chunks of text/detail. I will mark on here if I am done with the updates on one for sure.

I swear these are getting longer with each chapter. I’m going back to do word counts.

@swankii-art-teacher @wesupremeginger @elsie-bells @perpetuallyannoyedbisexual

[sluttypatrickstar]

HELP

[archouai]

Get peer-reviewed

[dogpuppy]

[ruffboi-mags]

This is the Penny Snake. Reblog and you'll find a US penny! Which is pretty useless on the whole but they're not making them anymore so they're vintage now!

[run-of-the-milf]

I highly recommend watching this testimony from Aliya Rahman, the disabled woman who was dragged out of her car and kidnapped by ICE on her way to a doctor appointment in Minneapolis a few weeks ago.

Truly my worst nightmare.

[liitohauki]

Transcript of Aliya Rahman's speech:

Thank you members, for taking the time to be here today, and thank you staff for making this happen.

My name is Aliya Rahman, and I am a resident of South Minneapolis. I am a Bangladeshi American born in Northern Wisconsin. And I’m a disabled person with autism and a traumatic brain injury.

Not all autistic brains do this, but mine fixates on sounds, numbers, and patterns. And while what the world saw happen to me exactly three weeks ago today on video was a terrible violation it is still nothing compared to the horrific practices I saw inside the Whipple center.

So I am here today with a duty to the people who have not had the privilege of coming home, and I offer this data because these practices must end now.

On January 13th on the way to my 39th appointment at Hennepin County’s traumatic brain injury center, I encountered a traffic jam caused by ICE vehicles and no signs indicating how to get around it. I had not wanted to pull in to a blocked, chaotic intersection, but verbally agreed to do so and rolled down my window after an agent yelled, “Move! I will break your f-ing window!”

His first instruction.

Agents on all sides of my vehicle yelled conflicting threats and instructions that I could not process while watching for pedestrians.

Then, the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face.

I yelled, “I’m disabled!” at the hands grabbing at me and an agent said, “Too late.”

I felt immersed in a pattern, and I thought of Jenoah Donald, an autistic black man killed by the police during a traffic stop in 2021.

I remembered mister Silverio Villegas González, who was killed by ICE in his vehicle last year.

An agent pulled a large combat knife in front of my face, which I thought was for cutting me, and later learned was used to cut off my seat belt. Shooting pain went through my head, neck, and wrists when I hit the ground face first and people leaned on my back.

I felt the pattern, and I thought of mister George Floyd, who was killed four blocks away.

I was carried face down through the street by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled. I now cannot lift my arms normally.

I was never asked for ID.

Never told I was under arrest.

Never read my rights.

And never charged with a crime.

Approaching the Whipple center, I saw black and brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents outdoors. I continued to hear the word “bodies”, because that is how agents referred to us:

“We’re bringing in a body.”

“They’re bringing in bodies 7, 8 at a time, where do I put ‘em?”

“We can’t use that room, there’s already a body in there.”

You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you’re already being called a body.

Agents repeatedly had to stop and ask how to do tasks. I received no medical screening, phone call, or access to a lawyer. I was denied a communication navigator when my speech began to slur. Agents laughed as I tried to immobilize my own neck. I asked for my cane and was told no, pulled up by my arms and prodded forward in leg irons by agents laughing and saying, “Walk! You can do it, walk.”

Agents did not know if the facility had a wheelchair.

When I was finally placed in one to be taken to interrogation an agent taunted, “You were driving, right? So your legs do work.”

I pleaded for emergency medical care for over an hour after my vision had become blurry, my heart rate went through the roof, and the pain in my neck and head became unbearable.

It was denied.

When I became unable to speak my cellmate pleaded for me.

The last sounds I remember before I blacked out on the cell floor were my cellmate banging on the door, pleading for a medic, and a voice outside saying, “We don’t wanna step on ICE’s toes.”

When I opened my eyes at Hennepin County’s emergency room, I learned I was brought there to be treated for assault.

The impacts of DHS detention on my physical, mental and financial well-being and safety have been very severe, but I do not deserve more humane treatment than anyone else, US citizen or not. And I am here today with a strong spirit and a duty to the many people who haven’t had the privilege to tell their stories or see their loved ones come home. I am extremely distressed by the pattern that violence from law enforcement has been happening to black and indigenous communities for centuries, and to DHS survivors for over 20 years.

We call ourselves a civilized nation, but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being.

I am not afraid, and I’m not afraid to keep working on this problem even after ICE is gone. Thank you for your time.

[animentality]

[aqueerkettleofish]

IIRC, they had to terminate the project because the crows were attacking humans who were smoking cigarettes in order to get the "butt."

[biglawbear]

Let The Crows Force You To Quit Smoking

[st-just]

Remember, history was awful. Never trust the romantics.

[booksandchainmail]

#you want to know a sentence that rewrote my brain:#most people have never been 20#more than half of humans ever born never made it to 20#which. is so crushingly sad to me i can't think about it for too long and also weirdly tempering when i'm angry at the state of the world#most people have never been 20! is it any wonder we're bad at being people sometimes! it's so new. we're young to it#anyway#i'm so stupidly grateful to live in the present and for modern medical technology (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

[zenosanalytic]

XKCD: Degree Off

Never Forget what Childhood Vaccines and Antibiotics have done.

[burninglights]

The two most powerful words in the English language, owed entirely to the efficacy of vaccines, are thus;

“Smallpox was.”

For most of history, smallpox was (!!!) the scourge that haunted human civilisations. We have evidence of smallpox from mummies c. 1350BCE in Egypt. It’s speculated to be one of causative agents of the Plague of Athens c. 430BCE. There were outbreaks of smallpox in Angola in 1484, in South Africa in 1731 that wiped out entire clans of Khoisan people. There was at least one major smallpox epidemic almost every decade across Europe.

Smallpox was transmitted by droplet/aerosol infection; it tore through even the smallest population centres. Typical smallpox incurred a blistering fever, raised pustules, debilitating joint and back pain; if you lived — and that was a fat fucking if, as typical smallpox had a mortality rate of 30% — you’d have tell-tale pockmark scarring, and face stigma for the rest of your life. Some were left blinded.

The worst form of the disease was haemorrhagic smallpox; all the agony of typical smallpox, with the addition of skin haemorrhage and pinpoint haemorrhage in the spleen, liver, kidneys and gonads. Near-universally fatal, haemorrhagic smallpox made up 5-10% of all cases. Of this number, 72% were children.

The global smallpox vaccination campaigns of 1958 to 1977 were a monumental effort by the World Health Organization and its global associates, backed by incredibly diligent public health work and epidemiological monitoring.

Wherever there were outbreaks, there was herd immunisation. Health bodies campaigned tirelessly for the general population to be immunised. In the ‘70s, a concerted effort was made by the WHO to ensure vaccines were administered in the most remote and vulnerable communities in the Horn of Africa, South Asia and the Pacific.

In 1980, the world was officially, finally free of one of it’s oldest adversaries; universal vaccination had been achieved, and there was no population that could act as a reservoir for smallpox.

If mankind has only one great achievement, it’s the smallpox vaccine; to date, smallpox is the only human disease to be completely eradicated.

After over two millennia of suffering, mass disability and death, humanity finally had the means to give one of it’s biggest threats the biggest possible fuck you, and through scientific and public health collaboration, careful epidemiological monitoring and countless hours of on-the-ground vaccination efforts, managed to blot it from existence entirely.

Where there is vaccine coverage, childhood diseases with high morbidity and mortality rates like whooping cough, diphtheria, influenza B and have dropped.

We have vaccines for TB, another of our greatest and longest adversaries.

With enough effort to counter misinformation, more people fighting for vaccine equality, patent free medication for communicable disease, and universal vaccine coverage, and everyone making sure to keep up to date with their vaccinations, one day, we could be fortunate enough to be able to say;

“Tuberculosis was.”

[crazy-pages]

“Smallpox was.”

Fuck. That hit me hard.

[duckbunny]

death and the stars

[hedwig-dordt]

I'm quite fond of the heroes of my field have slain one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse

[dykepuffs]

One of my friends was a university lecturer who had worked in the lab where the final smallpox case escaped from a lab and killed Janet Parker, a medical photographer who worked in the room upstairs. He was a very funny man, always "on", but once a year when he taught the lecture about smallpox and about 'swiss cheese' risk management, he looked like a dead man walking.

[vaspider]

[knivesandteeth]

If im ever having a breakdown, guaranteed Garak is having a worse one. My prettiest war criminal. My beautiful queen. My perfect meow meow.

[barlo-b-theorizing]

This is one of my favorite characters to identify when asked about what I mean when I say DS9 had the Dream Team of writers. Because as the original poster pointed out, he was a certified War Criminal. But the writers made his journey so compelling that at some point you realize, "wait when did I forgive him personally and accept he is trying to be a good man?" You don't even realize you've grown attached to Garak until you're already rooting for him to prove himself. A good writer knows how to guide you to the epiphany they are aiming for without strong arming you to the conclusion.

[admiralsreadyroom]

I’ve seen a couple of AI generated videos of Janeway and Chakotay kissing and despite being a massive J/C shipper I cannot emphasize enough how much I want these to not exist because 1) generative AI is awful and the videos look fucking cursed and 2) I am not interested in a Janeway that does not involve Kate Mulgrew’s acting choices!!! That is what makes the character so special!!!!

[angrywarrior69]

3) gen AI is destroying the environment

[ds9vgrconfessions]

4) it is BEYOND CREEPY AND WRONG to be puppeting life-like CGI AI Clones of REAL PEOPLE in a fictional and non consensual intimate contact! FFS we've advanced so far on the topic of consent as a society in the last decade but as soon as you all can make creepy golems of yourself or your favorite celebrities making out you forget it all.

[ithinkhesgaybutwesavedmufasa]

For those who don't contain a vast knowledge of Green Day lore like myself, I don't think it is hitting just how much of a "fuck you" the NFL is giving djt/the white house. This is a band that is:

Made entirely of openly bisexual/queer men

Made entirely of men who are vocal about being raised by single mothers on welfare

One of their members was adopted and raised by a Black woman and has said he "understands how his mother could hate 'the white man' and love him with her whole soul."

Were the first band to say, "No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist/MAGA U.S.A." on live television without ANY warning.

Literally released a song last year called, "The American Dream Is Killing Me"

Only hires ALL FEMALE bands to open for them to address inequality in the music industry

OPENLY tells trump supporters they are not welcome at their concerts.

Anyway, Enjoy Feb. 8th Magats! You're gonna hate it. :)

[posttexasstressdisorder]

[jhscdood]

A good thread on Lashon Hara (“evil tongue”) and how it threatens vulnerable communities in particular

[echthr0s]

here is the link to the thread on twitter, for those of you like me who find this ^ particular format a little difficult to read

[catball]

the original post forgot to include the last post in the thread, so i’m including it here :-)

[korrasera]

This. So much this.

These reasons are the same ones that I cite when I talk about why I believe how harmful call out culture is.

An environment where any mistake is a total and unforgivable mistake is an environment that is not safe. And if give the choice, will consume the most vulnerable among us first. We fight that by refusing to create the foundation upon which it grows.

I guess I need to go study Lashon Hara now.

[shapeofmetal]

I was thinking about how I think about and deal with people who have fucked with me in the past and its cool to see theres an actual cultural reason I might think like this.

[fremedon]

…wait, do you mean that small communities don’t actually have to be hellpits of backstabbing avarice where every relationship is transactional and no one is ever allowed to be more than their worst moment?

BRB, re-evaluating my entire childhood.

[sweetlyenchains]

The tips are pretty far down-thread, but well worth reading.

[identityarchitect]

[ID: Twitter thread by DataPup_ reading:

“People compliment me on my maturity in regards to how I engage with “twitter drama” and a lot of that is due to me refraining from Lashon Hara. So in this thread I’m gonna teach you about Lashon hara and how, whether you’re Jewish or not, you can (and should) refrain from it too.

Lashon Hara (lit. “Evil Tongue”) is to say negative things about someone, particularly about their misdeeds, which are completely true, but you’re not trying to accomplish anything useful by saying it.

It’s not Libel. Libel is spreading untrue things about someone in order to hurt their reputation. Lashon Hara, by definition, is completely true and the intent of hurting someone’s reputation isn’t necessary for Lashon Hara.

It’s not gossip per se. Gossip [is] talking about people behind their back. There’s legitimate reasons to talk about someone behind their back, & benign gossip. Talking about someone’s break-up isn’t Lashon Hara, it’s just gossip. Lashon Hara doesn’t have to be behind someone’s back.

“Whisper campaigns” to warn other women in an industry that a certain prominent man is dangerous, is not Lashon Hara. You’re accomplishing something useful. Lashon Hara is never useful, it is only harmful.

Telling stories about wild drama from the past isn’t necessarily Lashon Hara. Lashon Hara is never anonymous. If you anonymise the story, it’s fine to get drunk and talk shit.

Speaking out against a dangerous person because they refuse to be held accountable and now you’re resorting to this. Speaking out against the misdeeds of public figures. This is not Lashon Hara. Lashon Hara is not intended to hold someone accountable or create good in the world.

“One time, Elliot misgendered Sara”, but this was 3 years ago and Elliot already apologised to Sara and she forgave him. It’s resolved. There’s no need to talk about it anymore. This is Lashon Hara.

Real life example: Got told by someone about the time a friend of mine got into a weird Facebook argument over cranberry sauce and they got too heated… I was like “OK… are you expecting me to make fun of my friend or… what… what’s the intent here”

“I just think Elliot is like, SO annoying, don’t you?” is Lashon Hara. This isn’t about what Elliot does that’s harmful or disruptive, or how to get Elliot to be better. It’s just about shit-talking them for funsies.

Vindictive call-out posts over fetishies, QT-dunking to amuse your followers, bringing up someone’s bad take from 4 years ago that they don’t uphold today. This is Lashon Hara. WHAT are you accomplishing with this toxic behaviour. This is not how we hold people accountable.

It’s not that what they did isn’t bad, it could be something really bad and harmful and shitty, but like… why are we talking about it… are we actually addressing the problem behaviour and fixing it? Did it get resolved already?

Why is it forbidden by Jewish law to spread Lashon Hara? Because historically we lived in small close-knit communities, and in order to function and coexist and be healthy, we need to know that it’s possible to atone for our misdeeds, be forgiven, and move on from it.

If people feel like one mistake is something they’ll never live down, they get paranoid, anxious, and defensive. Why admit to doing something if nobody will ever forgive you for it. It would always be safer to deny it in that situation. People would feel the need to be perfect.

Today, a lot of us live in close-knit trans and queer communities where that very problem is prevalent. I don’t need to describe at length the intense paranoia people in our community feel. Everyone is terrified of making a mistake and it following them forever and ever.

Lashon Hara is a common tactic of abusers. Those who say Lashon Hara all the same are called Baalei Lashon Hara (“Lords of the Evil Tongue”).

What better way to isolate someone than to convince them that everyone around them is a bad person, while simultaneously telling everyone around them that they’re a bad person. The only person you can trust becomes the Ba'al Lashon Hara.

So what does avoiding Lashon Hara look like?

Before saying bad about someone, ask yourself what you’re trying to accomplish, do you have a good reason for spreading this. Was the incident resolved?

Ask yourself if the name of the person who did the misdeed is relevant information. Anonymise your stories if they reflect poorly on someone in a way that’s unnecessary.

I never say full names in my wild stories from college, we all did weird shit in college, the focus here is the drama not who did it. If someone asks me “WHO did this omg” I say “Someone, it’s not important.”

If someone starts telling you some Lashon Hara, ask them “Why are you telling me this?” and if they don’t have a good reason, say “Could we talk about something else then?”

Don’t participate in those conversations.

If your goal is to hold someone accountable or warn someone or some other very good reason, ask yourself if the way you’re going about this will actually accomplish this goal. Does doing it in public help or hurt your goal? Does being snarky help or hurt?

Has anyone actually confronted this person about their behaviour? What will it take for you to stop talking about this incident. This isn’t rhetorical, I mean literally decide what’s enough so that talking about them is a tool you’re only using until you don’t need it anymore.

Lastly, spread this practice among your social groups. Tell your friends that you’re not going to shit-talk them or smear their name if they upset you. Tell them you’ll talk to them first if you hear a rumour.

Forge trust in your communities that you will try to work through and resolve problems. Dis-empower Baalei Lashon Hara by stigmatising their behaviour and telling your friends that you forgive them for what they did, & you trust that they’ve become a better person than they were.

I hope this thread has been useful to you, and that even if you don’t religiously and strictly adhere to this like I do, you’ve at leats gotten some things worth thinking about in terms of your intentions, goals, and impacts when you talk about other people.

addendum: “this person isn’t hurting anyone but I just don’t like them cus I think they’re annoying and I don’t want them to be at the same parties as me so I’m gonna turn everyone against them” is so NOT a “Good reason” to shit-talk them lmao

Addendum 2 re “Actually it serves a good purpose when I do this lol shut up”

If it serves a good purpose then it is not lashon hara. This term only refers to the stuff that’s useless. It’s kind of a tautology. Lashon hara is useless, so if it’s useful, it’s not lashon hara.

The call here isn’t “don’t gossip” it’s to act with intent and purpose and thoughtfulness. It’s not about rules and categorical imperatives it’s about mindfulness and effectivness. Why are you saying what you’re saying and what do you want. That’s what it’s about.

ADDENDUM 3

the “vindictive call out about a fetish” example is referencing an incident a while back where a small-time podcaster’s ex-boyfriend wrote a call-out telling everyone about the Furry Macro Vore porn on the podcaster’s AD account to shame him

NOT TALKING ABOUT CP HERE” /end ID]

[startrekladies]

EZRI DAX in 7.11 "Prodigal Daughter" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)

[atomiccollectionanchorme]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 7 Episode 11 "Prodigal Daughter"

[eelfuneral]

Another “he would not fucking say that” variation in fandom that I notice myself muttering is “she would not have enormous tits”.

[wizard-dax]

Thinking about what Wolf 359 did to Sisko and Picard

[cardassian-vole]

star trek: deep space nine s4e05 "rejoined" / "good luck, babe!" by chappell roan

everyone clap and say hooray for my lesbian awakeninggg

[lesbianbreadwhore]

legally obligated to reblog this every time it crosses my dash

[colinmorgan-beautifulsmile]

Colin Morgan - New Headshot

[depsidase]

[explosionshark]

this is genuinely breathtaking lmao

[explosionshark]

Yeah look the weird smut comments are totally out of pocket but I really can't get over "im more into dr.seus or self help books lol"

[professorsparklepants]

#do you think he's actually read dr. seuss or did he just hear "doctor" before an author's name and decide it sounded smart? (Via @shellys-apprentice)

Oh my god

[box-dwelling]

Found the orginal thread and lost it at this

[no-one-offical]

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