#ofpaperandponies

[sciencetylia]

ofpaperandponies replied to your photo “Another half decent selfie. #selfie #selfietime”

Best piercings that side of the 45th parallel. <3

Thanks! <3

[biomedicalephemera]

Oh my god I have had nightmares (okay not actual literal nightmares, more like sometimes I remember it and can't stop thinking about it and screaming internally) for over a DECADE about that worm so hearing it's almost eradicated makes me so happy. Maybe one day when I think about it and cringe for ten minutes I will at least know it will never happen to anyone ever again.

TRUFAX RIGHT HERE. When I was younger, and had a host of problems, my brain latched onto exotic/extremely unlikely diseases as a way to channel my anxiety. I was TERRIFIED of things like Guinea worm, and mad cow disease, and Naegleria fowlerii, and rabies.

I eventually found my way out of that morass (via doctors/incredibly patient parents/maturing/medication), but I maintained my fascination with diseases. In 2010, one of my better cousins got me the book The Complete Manual of Things That Might Kill You, as a kind of joke/”you like this shit” Christmas book.

When I re-discovered it while unpacking from a move, I started posting medical shit over on my personal blog, and my friend Mariana was like “dude you should start a blog for all this stuff, it’s super fascinating and I didn’t know the history of this weirdness”. And eventually I did! And here I am, four years later! And I’m married, and she’s married, and my brother’s hella dead, and she has the best year-old baby ever, and life is weird in ways I never imagined and and and, and…and…

ANYWAY

YES

DRACUNCULIASIS IS ALMOST GONE HUZZAH LET US COMPLETE THIS QUEST

[soysaucevictim]

ofpaperandponies replied to your post:

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Guh... sorry about the melodrama.

I’m trying to get my bearings back and I think I found a hope spot...

[My last system backup was a little bit less than a couple weeks ago. ‘m just going to backup the stuff i made since and restore from a system image.]

[sciencetylia]

ofpaperandponies replied to your post “what's your opinion on keeping orca in captivity? it's well-known that "Blackfish" is a propaganda film filled with PETA-esque misinformation, so I personally think that people who are on the pro-captivity side are just like those crazy vegans. let kids have their whale shows. is veganism really worth seeing those children smile at Sea World whale shows?”

Kids smile when you let them beat up a tree with its own branches, or when you take them swimming, or when they're with their friends...they don't need animals that are basically kept in a hellscape to do that :

Pretty much.

Also its worth noting that cetaceans are extremely intelligent. To me unless they have a huge pseudo habitats (i.e. not small seaworld displays) they absolutely don't belong in Aquariums.

[sciencetylia]

ofpaperandponies replied to your post: anonymous asked:Would you ever do...

Why is a long-distance relationship impossible? I was under the impression that long-distance really meant that you communicated (at least mostly) through the internet/phone, and didn’t see each other much, if at all.

I think an important part of a long distance relationship is to see each other in person. Emotionally at least for me I need something real or concrete.

My last relationship was almost entirely through text. No skype or anything like that. It can be difficult to remain connected to the other person. And I think my recent job troubles and being unable to afford to visit made things fade for us (there were other problems too).

That's why I can't afford it. Plus I don't know if I'm prepared emotionally for another long distance relationship. I still don't feel my self, and I'm still very fragile emotionally.

[sciencetylia]

ofpaperandponies replied to your post: eatgeekstudy replied to your post: And...

Do you have allergy problems? I’ve found that when I forget that I have them (like I apparently do when I live away from my kitties for a month) and don’t take proactive steps against them, I have weirdo anxiety. Ofc, most anxiety isn’t allergies. :3

I have dust allergies that give me hay fever symptoms but I'm not feeling any of that.

I dunno. Its just annoying. >.<

[soysaucevictim]

ofpaperandponies replied to your post:It’s times like this that reminds me that the...

brah ive actively been told i dont exist…which im not sure if that’s better or worse than being told you’ve just got a mental disorder (as ive heard most ACE folk get told). [sidenote: it’s way better. never as gross as being told youre cray.]

*Nods-* I can understand that. There's a slew of discriminatory rhetoric lobbed at Ace peeps. Some of which definitely overlaps with gross ableism shit like that. (The common assumption of mental illness or trauma.)

Just this particular blogger kinda reminded me of Kankri in their use of rhetoric to say demisexuality is problematic. Some of it came off as a bit backhanded and a touch holier than thou. Oi.

[sciencetylia]

ofpaperandponies replied to your post “I think if this job that wanted a phone interview with me doesn’t get...”

I'd do other non-chemistry jobs where you're living alright/not awfully, if you can't get one somewhere else...remember, grant season is March/April - once institutions know how much they have, they know how much they can hire for the next year!

Well in that case its almost better to move back home with my parents and do non-related jobs. I'd save on rent, and could use the money to go back to school.

I'm just kind of frustrated at this city for being unemployed so long and deceived and lied to by local companies. Part of me just wants out and to get a chemistry job where people appreciate me even if its on the other side of the country.