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my most sick and twisted fantasy

#donutdrawsthings #digital art #art #comic #belonging #made this bc there'll always be a weird social disconnect between me and my peers that #no matter how much i try #i can just never move past #to the point that i feel only some otherwordly being would know what's wrong with me and be able to fix it

my dad (Maori) works on a ship with all Maori/Tongan/Samoan fisherman- and one Aussie guy called Jake.

And that wasn't done on purpose just sort of how it ended up, but Jake recently got an injury so they put him on a Different boat just for a little bit (a sit in the wheelhouse and scout type of boat, instead of the main fishing one) and he only got back to my dad's ship today and he was apparently like Shaking. He was Traumatised.

Dad said Jake kept pulling him aside and going "They were all yelling on there, but in a MEAN way" "They didn't clean... Like at ALL"

Jake experienced what a boat full of old school Aussie fisherman is like. That is the norm Jake. You just happened to be on the all Island boy boat on your first go out. "It was time for dinner and they had FROZEN nuggets" Jake that's what they have on ships that are out at sea for months at a time.

On my dad's boat they are eating fresh fish and coconut milk Ceviche. They're grilling steaks on an open bbq on the deck that probably is not regulation. All the guys have their own special knives to prepare sashimi every couple days. Everyone is happily doing their own work so they can clock out early and set up a movie on the deck. Jake did you genuinely believe that's what every boat was doing.

Local Australian man is fed fresh juices and smoked fish for first time- refuses to go back to beef jerky boat life

#they all love him though I think #I have chatted to the deckies before and they all said Jake is So weird and they love him #also I think people are gonna interpret this as being mean to Aus culture #smoko and meat pies and yelling about rope knots is also a culture #an honourable one #but it is not an easy life #these are two very different cultures that are like Right next to each other #and once you acclimate to one it's very difficult to make the transition back #storytime #new Zealand #comedy #Aotearoa

when i was younger and stupid and in the (glass) closet i was dating the son of a pharmacologist. this man had made millions developing medications. he was fond of me and privately told me i was too funny and smart to be dating boys.

he also said that it was incredibly unlikely that sexism will ever be resolved in the medical field. that the majority of medications i will ever take - even some of which are "for women" - will not be clinically tested on my body.

the problem, he said, was in getting any human clinical trial approved. to test on a body with a uterus - any body, even elderly patients or those who have been sterilized - was often nigh-impossible, because the concern was that the test patient may, at any point, become pregnant. once/if the patient became pregnant, the study would not be about "the effects of New Medication on the body." instead, the trial would fail - the results would be "the effects of New Medication on a developing fetus/pregnant patient."

it was massively easier, he said, to just test without accounting for a uterus. that's how he phrased it - accounting for a uterus.

at the time, i remember him talking about the ethical implications of testing on a developing fetus; how such testing could theoretically bankrupt a company if a lawsuit was filed. he talked about informed consent and about how long it took for any legislation to be passed about this - that in 1993; the year i was born, it finally became illegal to outright exclude women and minorities from clinical trials.

i remember him shrugging. "that's not to say it doesn't happen," he said. my ears were ringing.

i was thinking about how every time i have been rushed to the ER, the first thing they have asked me is if i am pregnant. when i broke my wrist at 16 years old - despite never having had sex - they made me wait three hours for the test to come back negative before they gave me pain meds. the possibility of a child haunts my health.

how many people have died on the table because they were waiting for the pregnancy test before treatment. how many people have died on the table because they were pregnant, and the only thing we care about is the fetus.

it is hard to explain to other people, but it feels like some kind of strange ghost. our entire lives, we are supposed to "save" our bodies for our future partners. but really we are just saving the body for the future child, aren't we? that hovering future-almost that cartwheels around in a miasma. you can't get your tubes tied, what if you change your mind? think of the child you must have, eventually.

who cares about you and your actual safety. think about what you could be carrying.

#spilled ink #warm up #i think of this moment OFTEN #edit in the tags: op is nonbinary do not be weird on this fucking post i will nuke you from space #medical injustice on the basis of your body is a real thing that harms MANY people across HUGE populations #it is one of the places where intersectionality is SO important #and btw to the haters being like '' this isn't realistic u can just say no to the pregnancy test :)''#girl READ THE NOTES. horrifying #like 8/10 of them are other people being like ''yeah i had this exact thing happen''#so many people being like ''i can't even have kids and they do this''#i am AWARE of the ''oh but'' arguments. how the lawsuits are an issue. and ''what if people lie? or don't know what counts as sex?''#''we HAVE to test!! because what if ur lying to us :)"#.... why did you even ask then lol. they always ask. i always tell them i neither can have kids nor CAN i have kids #bc despite how hard my partners try. scissoring just does not seem to be doing it #. like sir the child would be plastic. don't get me wrong she did try her best despite the circumstances #but alas the strap seems to be shooting blanks here #:( there's always next time i guess #anyway it's wild. it literally just doesn't even matter what you say here they're gonna test. i think maybe 1/10 times have they just #actually taken my word for it #but yeah btw this is incredibly complicated FURTHER by how you are perceived !!!#bc god forbid you be overweight! or have a chronic illness! or GOD FORBID!!! you be a person of color!!!!#one time a doctor said ''oh. i see you checked hispanic.'' then she turned her little stool towards me.#'i need to ask this seriously. will you be sending any of these medications to other people? maybe in another country?''#m'aam i'm here because i have tonsillitis and a fever of 105.

Interaction witnessed at post office today:

Elderly lady mail clerk and young customer are chatting. Customer says, "oh! I'm wearing my boss's coat right now, give me something weird to put in the pocket!" Others within earshot all start looking for something because, hey, important quest. Mail clerk finally reaches under counter, pulls out a large roll of labels, and tears one off.

Twas this

#irl #if i don't tell someone did it really happen?#humans being humans #these two knew each other btw it wasn't wildly weird

Eridians dont know about time relativity and people are NOT talking about it enough imagine sending a person on a dangerous mission like 70 years ago and when they finally come back and they look like they only aged 10 of those years and tell you "oh yeah time just works different there" when you have no concept of that that is INSANE rocky explaining radiation to eridian scientists (already insane concept) and going "oh yeah btw time works differently in space" "what" "time works differently in space. what we thought would be a 16 years trip was only a 4 year trip for me, the solarians call it something like time-depending-of-position-in-space, is pretty trippy" "....WHAT"