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This campaign defies censorship in social media to raise awareness for early detection of breast cancer
this is actually super fucking smartass of them
Reblogging as this is so important everyone! My mum had breast cancer and that shit is not nice so please check yourself ladies and gents! đđđ
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I will forever reblog this when I see it because its so important
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me walking to the bathroom at 3am in a massively oversized shirt, using gay fanfic on my phone to light the way
Everyone acts like Steve Rogers is intimidating until they watch him spend fifteen minutes trying to figure out why the TV remote isn't working and discover he was pointing a stapler at the television.
HAHAHA HE WOULD
Something Iâve just thought of: what if the griever sting is what made Thomas immune?
Realistically, he couldnât have been immune before the maze since WCKD surely would have run tests on them, including blood tests. And Brenda is cured at the end of the Scorch Trials, meaning something between then and coming up into the maze is what made Thomas immune.
The griever sting is very similar to the flare, even visually when you compare Benâs sting to Newtâs flare. However, not being given the serum means the infected doesnât survive it / loses their sanity. This could be because theyâre 1) not immune, or 2) the sting isnât actually the flare but a simulation of the effects to map out how the immuneâs systems react to it and what makes them immune.
Taking 2 into consideration, Thomas is stung but treated with the serum, meaning he experienced the symptoms of the flare before being quickly treated. My theory is this created a sort of vaccine effect in him, his body being shown how to attack the flare and thus producing its own method: the cure.
this theory is amazing but thomas and most other gladers were chosen for the maze BECAUSE they were immune??? the flare never resided in the blood, it took roots in the killzone (brain), but never affected them and was unable to be transferred by them. nothing except genetics really happened to make them immune. newts not immune yet still in the maze because he was a control subject (as was winston)
but the effects of getting Stung is canonically the Flare!! its a strain WICKED made to help invent the cure that for some reason thats never explained affects immunes but is still unable to be transferred by anyone
the idea that the brief exposure to the Grievers Flare being what made thomas the cure tho.... im salivating.... this is a genius idea....
Okay but going by that logic, wouldn't it also make Gally a potential candidate for the cure? Since he was stung and underwent the Changing too đ i like this theory, however, within canon, it doesn't hold. Starting with the fact that Thomas was already immune before entering the Mazeâthatâs the entire premise of WICKEDâs experiment. In the books, the Flare is already airborne, meaning everyone is effectively exposed from the start. Thomas would therefore be both infected and immune simultaneously, which is exactly the kind of paradox WICKED is exploiting. Except for a few designated âcontrolâ subjects (for example Newt, or if weâre talking movies, Winston as well i suppose) everyone in the Maze is Immune.
More importantly, the Griever sting and the Flare are fundamentally different in both origin and purpose. The Flare is a man-made viral pandemic that progressively destroys higher brain function. The Grievers, by contrast, are biomechanical constructs engineered by WICKED to physically test subjects and extract neurological data from Immunes. Nowhere in canon are they described as carrying a virus or simulating infection. Their sting is explicitly a pain and neuro-disruption mechanism that, in combination with the Grief Serum, triggers the âChangingââa forced neurological response that unlocks or restores memoriesânot a biological infection. If it were truly viral, it would have spread through the Glade rapidly, which it never does.
The idea that the sting is a âsimulationâ of the Flare also doesnât really align with how WICKEDâs experiments are structured. WICKED already has direct access to both Flare-infected individuals and controlled Crank Zones. Their tests in the Maze and Scorch Trials are focused on stress responses in Immunes under extreme psychological and environmental pressure, not on mechanically recreating disease progression.
The visual similarity between people undergoing the Changing and actual Cranks is likely just thatâvisual. It functions more as an external stress factor, another one of WICKEDâS precious variables, for the other Gladers witnessing it than as evidence that the same pathology is being replicated in the stung individual. (This is also just my interpretation, it's never stated in canon!)
As far as we know, every Glader who received the serum also survived the Changing. There is a fan theory that those who died or failed to recover were actually non-immune, but Ben complicates that interpretation due to inconsistencies between the books and movies. In the latter, Thomas (and everyone else) discovers Ben has been stung only after arriving, and Ben is Banished even before receiving the serum (i think? since the serum only enters the Glade with Teresa so in movie canon Alby actually is the first to receive it)ânot because heâs turning, but because he threatens Thomas and breaks Glade law. In the books, however, Ben is already mid-Changing (they already have access to the serum here) when Thomas arrives, and his hostility is tied to fragmented memories from that process. He recognises Thomas (this is true to both movies and books) and reacts out of fear and confusion rather than full-blown madness. In either version, itâs reasonable to assume he might have recovered if given proper time or treatment.
That said, if you start pushing these questions too far (which, to be fair, the series practically invites), the entire internal logic starts to unravel. Why release a catastrophic virus without a deployed cure? (rookie blunder) Why invest in elaborate Maze systems and waste resources on that instead of more direct simulations? (like those we see with Minho in TDC, way more efficient if you ask me, but no one ever asks meâŚ) Why risk killing Immunes when they might be humanityâs only viable hope? If Immunes exist, shouldnât antibodies exist tooâmaking a vaccine the obvious focus instead of a cure??????
At some point, the science just stops holding together⌠but honestly, thatâs part of the charm. Itâs easy to poke holes in it, and still somehow enjoy it anyway, right?
There's also the factor of the way station. WCKD tested Thomas's blood there. If they had known he was the cure, then surely they would have used that against him later. Taking that constraint into account, something about Thomas changed between his escape and the moment Mary takes his blood to help Brenda.
Maybe WICKED is just overall incompetent... which was proven before WHEN THEY RELEASED A VIRUS WITHOUT A DEVELOPED CURE
HOLD UP WICKED MADE THE FLARE?!
Yes! Itâs more of a book fact but it was used as a population control that went all whack. Think it was mentioned in the prequel books (Fever Code and Kill Order).
Oh my.. wow. That makes everything SO MUCH WORSE! đ
had to block a new follower today so im seperating the wheat from the chaff immediately by making my position EXTREMELY CLEAR
Something Iâve just thought of: what if the griever sting is what made Thomas immune?
Realistically, he couldnât have been immune before the maze since WCKD surely would have run tests on them, including blood tests. And Brenda is cured at the end of the Scorch Trials, meaning something between then and coming up into the maze is what made Thomas immune.
The griever sting is very similar to the flare, even visually when you compare Benâs sting to Newtâs flare. However, not being given the serum means the infected doesnât survive it / loses their sanity. This could be because theyâre 1) not immune, or 2) the sting isnât actually the flare but a simulation of the effects to map out how the immuneâs systems react to it and what makes them immune.
Taking 2 into consideration, Thomas is stung but treated with the serum, meaning he experienced the symptoms of the flare before being quickly treated. My theory is this created a sort of vaccine effect in him, his body being shown how to attack the flare and thus producing its own method: the cure.
this theory is amazing but thomas and most other gladers were chosen for the maze BECAUSE they were immune??? the flare never resided in the blood, it took roots in the killzone (brain), but never affected them and was unable to be transferred by them. nothing except genetics really happened to make them immune. newts not immune yet still in the maze because he was a control subject (as was winston)
but the effects of getting Stung is canonically the Flare!! its a strain WICKED made to help invent the cure that for some reason thats never explained affects immunes but is still unable to be transferred by anyone
the idea that the brief exposure to the Grievers Flare being what made thomas the cure tho.... im salivating.... this is a genius idea....
Okay but going by that logic, wouldn't it also make Gally a potential candidate for the cure? Since he was stung and underwent the Changing too đ i like this theory, however, within canon, it doesn't hold. Starting with the fact that Thomas was already immune before entering the Mazeâthatâs the entire premise of WICKEDâs experiment. In the books, the Flare is already airborne, meaning everyone is effectively exposed from the start. Thomas would therefore be both infected and immune simultaneously, which is exactly the kind of paradox WICKED is exploiting. Except for a few designated âcontrolâ subjects (for example Newt, or if weâre talking movies, Winston as well i suppose) everyone in the Maze is Immune.
More importantly, the Griever sting and the Flare are fundamentally different in both origin and purpose. The Flare is a man-made viral pandemic that progressively destroys higher brain function. The Grievers, by contrast, are biomechanical constructs engineered by WICKED to physically test subjects and extract neurological data from Immunes. Nowhere in canon are they described as carrying a virus or simulating infection. Their sting is explicitly a pain and neuro-disruption mechanism that, in combination with the Grief Serum, triggers the âChangingââa forced neurological response that unlocks or restores memoriesânot a biological infection. If it were truly viral, it would have spread through the Glade rapidly, which it never does.
The idea that the sting is a âsimulationâ of the Flare also doesnât really align with how WICKEDâs experiments are structured. WICKED already has direct access to both Flare-infected individuals and controlled Crank Zones. Their tests in the Maze and Scorch Trials are focused on stress responses in Immunes under extreme psychological and environmental pressure, not on mechanically recreating disease progression.
The visual similarity between people undergoing the Changing and actual Cranks is likely just thatâvisual. It functions more as an external stress factor, another one of WICKEDâS precious variables, for the other Gladers witnessing it than as evidence that the same pathology is being replicated in the stung individual. (This is also just my interpretation, it's never stated in canon!)
As far as we know, every Glader who received the serum also survived the Changing. There is a fan theory that those who died or failed to recover were actually non-immune, but Ben complicates that interpretation due to inconsistencies between the books and movies. In the latter, Thomas (and everyone else) discovers Ben has been stung only after arriving, and Ben is Banished even before receiving the serum (i think? since the serum only enters the Glade with Teresa so in movie canon Alby actually is the first to receive it)ânot because heâs turning, but because he threatens Thomas and breaks Glade law. In the books, however, Ben is already mid-Changing (they already have access to the serum here) when Thomas arrives, and his hostility is tied to fragmented memories from that process. He recognises Thomas (this is true to both movies and books) and reacts out of fear and confusion rather than full-blown madness. In either version, itâs reasonable to assume he might have recovered if given proper time or treatment.
That said, if you start pushing these questions too far (which, to be fair, the series practically invites), the entire internal logic starts to unravel. Why release a catastrophic virus without a deployed cure? (rookie blunder) Why invest in elaborate Maze systems and waste resources on that instead of more direct simulations? (like those we see with Minho in TDC, way more efficient if you ask me, but no one ever asks meâŚ) Why risk killing Immunes when they might be humanityâs only viable hope? If Immunes exist, shouldnât antibodies exist tooâmaking a vaccine the obvious focus instead of a cure??????
At some point, the science just stops holding together⌠but honestly, thatâs part of the charm. Itâs easy to poke holes in it, and still somehow enjoy it anyway, right?
There's also the factor of the way station. WCKD tested Thomas's blood there. If they had known he was the cure, then surely they would have used that against him later. Taking that constraint into account, something about Thomas changed between his escape and the moment Mary takes his blood to help Brenda.
Maybe WICKED is just overall incompetent... which was proven before WHEN THEY RELEASED A VIRUS WITHOUT A DEVELOPED CURE
HOLD UP WICKED MADE THE FLARE?!
Is anyone else having issues with the new verification thing? It wonât press the button for me and I donât know why âšď¸
I need my weird alone time or I will explode
Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they'd be like to skateboard on. I want "Please loiter" signs. I want people to be kind. I want...
We need cities that do not resent the fact that people live in them
We need cities that
do not resent the fact that
people live in them
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
reblog this if you're fine with your mutuals sending you asks unprompted
if you dont decouple your drive to create from your desire for attention you will go insane. simple as. you will never feel satisfied b/c you will always want more and you will feel perpetually bitter that you did not get what you are âowedâ
Itâs an unpopular opinion but it is absolutely and completely true. Iâve never seen someone who creates for engagement happy with the engagement they get. I posit they canât ever be happy that way because it will NEVER be enough
I agree with OP and Manka so very much.
You have to rest in your own desire to create.
But, because I see statements like this turn into a sort of general notion of âitâs bad to want validation or attention or engagementâ, and to me, thatâs not what this means.
Itâs perfectly valid to want people to like and engage with what you create. In a general sense, when you create anything, you do it to share with other human beings. Art, craft, food, anything you create is a way to connect with others through our shared humanity.
And wanting someone to like you fanart or read your fanfic is part of that.
the words used by OP is decouple, and this is important. Nothing wrong wanting engagement. But it cannot be tightly coupled with the drive to create.
reblog if you love ao3 exactly how it is and you donât want it to âupdateâ or change in any wayâĄ
I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there â things that will get taken down on any other platforms â and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.
and no, this isnât me saying âwrite that messed up, disgusting thingâ because while, yes, write it if itâs what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered âvileâ to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.
everybody say thank you ao3
yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll đ
Reblog if a mutual who's never spoken to you can randomly send you memes that made them think of you.
I am NOT a sad pervert loser. Iâm actually a happy pervert loser
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