#birth -

[everymlmhybrid]

Tfw you're trying to illegally watch your gay British zombie show and your dog gives birth next to you 🐶🤭 hit that mfing like button if you relate 😂😜👏

[happinessisaknife]

honestly i can see chance taking a while to get when raven is texting him that she’s in labor bc it was during his bday party and there was a lot of drinking

[metapianycist]

an “egalitarian” called me a “selfish c*nt” for saying that doctors performing c sections without informed consent is a problem, and then he proceeded to be completely ignorant of the practice of non-medically-necessary c sections, how all surgery has risks, and what c section recovery is typically like compared to recovery for vaginal birth

gorsh, it’s so selfish to want doctors to obtain informed consent for major surgery /sarcasm

he also had the r slur in his sidebar in the context of saying “liberals are [r slur]”

(feels good to block assholes early in the morning)

[metapianycist]

i can’t get over the line “watching the afterbirth of a nation” in hamilton

i know what they mean

but. the afterbirth is the placenta (and some other membranes)

ejected after the baby has come out.

the placenta of a nation.

[metapianycist]

Worf: The computer simulation was not like this. That delivery was very orderly.

Keiko, sarcastically: WELL I'M SORRY.

[megagallade]

a newborn joey, for convenience

[metapianycist]

So I can't get this phrase from Neurotribes out of my head because it's just that jarring for me. (It has nothing to do with the book's actual subject) In the context of describing someone's birth is the phrase "when her son poked his glistening head into the world for the first time." just. the word GLISTENING makes that sentence wayyyy more graphic than it needs to be. like. I'm not grossed out by discussion of birth and how messy it is. but why use a word that means "shiny or sparkly but like in a wet way" in this context, where the messiness of birth is not even relevant??