I like eating clothes

Just a nerdy 28 year old lady who likes drawing + animating and is shy as all hell !

[binghsien]

reminder that it's okay to celebrate 4/13 even if you're only culturally homestuck.

[comradekatara]

it’s actually really funny to me that natla is like “we’re appealing to a game of thrones audience, this show isn’t for LITTLE BABIES anymore” and yet they don’t even have the nerve to give zuko an actual burn scar. they just applied some red eyeshadow and called it a day. how are you gonna market yourself as dark and edgy when you can’t even hold your violence to the same standards as a nickelodeon y-7 cartoon?? pussies.

[washingmachinekin]

Omg this bothers me so much as well, even more so considering Zuko's scar looks better in a skit by Nostalgia Critic with Dante Basco

[virokuns]

fuck it. if this post gets 10k notes ill read homestuck in its entirety 

[rocketeerdan-old]

how do you feel about the fact that this has 1k notes already random stranger on tumblr

[virokuns]

[linnavuligar]

Get Homestucked

[camaradarulitos]

So the j & j vaccine is causing blodclots in mostly women...this is just another reason why its important to acknowledge that sex is real and that men and women are not the same. Erasing our reality costs women their life so think abt that the next time you think or say "woman is a social constuct." No, were real life human females with a completely different physiology.

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

From what I understand women in general have stronger reactions to all of the COVID vaccines out there currently. It’s so alarming that there isn’t super concrete information on this, and that much of the info I’ve been able to find out is largely anecdotal.

[camaradarulitos]

Yeah its so annoying that the testing is not accurate because it had to be rolled out fast and its even more annoying that womens biology is never taken into consideration when it comes to vaccine trials. I read an article on refinery about how women are usually left out in medicine and vaccine trials and the ironic part of it all was the headline of said article, it was like "people are experiencing strange period symptoms due to the vaccine." Like that right there is the start of the problem, say women instead of people and realize its affecting us women differently than men and that only women have period symptoms. Lol I went off a tangent but I agree, its alarming that there isnt more research on how its affecting women.

[agrarianradfem]

The problem isn’t just whether there are or aren’t women in trials, but whether the trial data is sex disaggregated. If you have 1/3 of the trial being women and they experience worse outcomes but don’t disaggregated the data, then the data shows that there is a low general risk. Take 100 people in the trail, 30 are women. 3 women and no men have a reaction. That’s 1/10 women! But if you don’t disaggregate the data, then it’s just a 3% complication rate and not a big deal (as an oversimplified example just to show what I mean).

On top of that, if you aren’t tracking menstrual cycles and hormonal birth control effects (both effects on birth control efficacy and the efficacy of the medication being trialed) then you’re never going to find the full information on the medication in women.

[beeperbopper]

This is a big problem in the medical community - it’s not just for the Covid vaccine, it’s for literally everything. Check out this podcast summary of Invisible Women (which is a book I highly recommend) if you want a summary of the larger issue.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/invisible-women/

Invisible Women - 99% Invisible

Snow plowing patterns seem an unlikely subject of a gender study conducted in a small town in Sweden. After all, the town’s approach appeare

[agrarianradfem]

If you liked Invisible Women and want books on the medical industry check out:

Sex Matters: How Male-centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and what We Can Do about it

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World (this one comes out June 1, 2021 - I read an advanced copy in February and can vouch for it!

[beeperbopper]

Are these just as good with the sources and citations, too? My pet peeve is science-based books that don’t cite or have a bibliography at the back.

[agrarianradfem]

The author of Sex Matters is one of the leading female health researchers (not reproductive health) in North America.

Doing Harm has a robust Notes section with citations from real, peer reviewed journals

Unwell Women is more about the history of medicine than medicine it has a section too. I mostly remember the selected bibliography

I’ve only read these in ebook format which means I can’t give you like a number of pages.

[washingmachinekin]

Hey, while I won't deny there is bias in regards to sex in medical research, in clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccines it is unfair to say women are invisible. Some at the epidemiology department where I'm doing an internship did an extensive look into these trials and found that among them 45 to 50% of participants were women. Other members also pointed out why men and women were not analysed separately for complications and side effects, this is because these complications were all rare enough that if you were to analyse them separately you would lose statistical power to the point you couldn't draw meaningful conclusions.

[agrarianradfem]

ELI5 why sex disaggregated data ruins statistical analysis? Wouldn’t you run it disaggregated AND aggregated?

[washingmachinekin]

I'm not necessarily great at statistics but this is a problem I ran into with my internship as well (except it was about doing any subgroup analyses at all). Essentially the problem is statistical power. Most people probably know about how larger sample sizes generally mean a study's findings are more reliable, this is about power and other aspects can affect it as well. Among those is effect size, so number of people who have the outcome, which could refer to complications. If the effect/complication is very rare you have low statistical power which means you're unlikely to see a p < 0.05 and if you were to split your sample along women and men then your power would be even lower, and therefore you can no longer make meaningful conclusions, because if you see an effect or a difference then you can't rule out that it is just chance. Therefore while you technically could analyse men and women separately (and together) there would be no reason to so you might as well only do them together. All researchers can say for now is that most cases of thrombosis (with low platelet count) are under 60 and tend to be women.

[camaradarulitos]

So the j & j vaccine is causing blodclots in mostly women...this is just another reason why its important to acknowledge that sex is real and that men and women are not the same. Erasing our reality costs women their life so think abt that the next time you think or say "woman is a social constuct." No, were real life human females with a completely different physiology.

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

From what I understand women in general have stronger reactions to all of the COVID vaccines out there currently. It’s so alarming that there isn’t super concrete information on this, and that much of the info I’ve been able to find out is largely anecdotal.

[camaradarulitos]

Yeah its so annoying that the testing is not accurate because it had to be rolled out fast and its even more annoying that womens biology is never taken into consideration when it comes to vaccine trials. I read an article on refinery about how women are usually left out in medicine and vaccine trials and the ironic part of it all was the headline of said article, it was like "people are experiencing strange period symptoms due to the vaccine." Like that right there is the start of the problem, say women instead of people and realize its affecting us women differently than men and that only women have period symptoms. Lol I went off a tangent but I agree, its alarming that there isnt more research on how its affecting women.

[agrarianradfem]

The problem isn’t just whether there are or aren’t women in trials, but whether the trial data is sex disaggregated. If you have 1/3 of the trial being women and they experience worse outcomes but don’t disaggregated the data, then the data shows that there is a low general risk. Take 100 people in the trail, 30 are women. 3 women and no men have a reaction. That’s 1/10 women! But if you don’t disaggregate the data, then it’s just a 3% complication rate and not a big deal (as an oversimplified example just to show what I mean).

On top of that, if you aren’t tracking menstrual cycles and hormonal birth control effects (both effects on birth control efficacy and the efficacy of the medication being trialed) then you’re never going to find the full information on the medication in women.

[beeperbopper]

This is a big problem in the medical community - it’s not just for the Covid vaccine, it’s for literally everything. Check out this podcast summary of Invisible Women (which is a book I highly recommend) if you want a summary of the larger issue.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/invisible-women/

Invisible Women - 99% Invisible

Snow plowing patterns seem an unlikely subject of a gender study conducted in a small town in Sweden. After all, the town’s approach appeare

[agrarianradfem]

If you liked Invisible Women and want books on the medical industry check out:

Sex Matters: How Male-centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and what We Can Do about it

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World (this one comes out June 1, 2021 - I read an advanced copy in February and can vouch for it!

[beeperbopper]

Are these just as good with the sources and citations, too? My pet peeve is science-based books that don’t cite or have a bibliography at the back.

[agrarianradfem]

The author of Sex Matters is one of the leading female health researchers (not reproductive health) in North America.

Doing Harm has a robust Notes section with citations from real, peer reviewed journals

Unwell Women is more about the history of medicine than medicine it has a section too. I mostly remember the selected bibliography

I’ve only read these in ebook format which means I can’t give you like a number of pages.

[washingmachinekin]

Hey, while I won't deny there is bias in regards to sex in medical research, in clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccines it is unfair to say women are invisible. Some at the epidemiology department where I'm doing an internship did an extensive look into these trials and found that among them 45 to 50% of participants were women. Other members also pointed out why men and women were not analysed separately for complications and side effects, this is because these complications were all rare enough that if you were to analyse them separately you would lose statistical power to the point you couldn't draw meaningful conclusions.

[washingmachinekin]

I kinda had this in my drafts for ages but am just gonna post this now.

This is based on an actual gesture btw called the ‘awkward turtle’ and I thought it was too funny not to do with Zuko for multiple reasons

[washingmachinekin]

I did another Aang animation xD also because I wanted to try some more high ish action animations and Aang makes a good subject lol

[343789359]

not to be melodramatic but why did they make the lightning scars in atla so um...totally boring

[washingmachinekin]

My guess for why they didn't use more complicated/realistic designs for the lightning scars is because they would be really hard to animate. Even if you reuse one drawing of the scar and copy paste it across frames I think it would be difficult to make it not look like its sliding around or too static or something.

[washingmachinekin]

my other animation was recieved great so I thought I’d post this one as well, some love for my boy Aang :3

[washingmachinekin]

So I'm (mildy) obsessed with Zuko Alone 😅 (some of you may have noticed) and based on its presention I kinda wanted to animate something that suggested differing mindsets between Zuko and the ostrich-horse but could also still work in canon

[frottinq]

Joe Biden's campaign can't acknowledge the fart literally at all. like if they mention it, it's a PR disaster because they literally addressed a fart with a press release. if they don't mention it, people are going to keep talking about how Joe Biden shit his pants on tv

[demonius-darkblade]

this fart is gonna end peoples careers

[charstiel]

[myspecialworld1004]

I LOVE eurovision and I understand it cannot happen this year the way it was supposed to BUT does it really have to be that depressing? like seriously is it too much to ask for something lighthearted?

[washingmachinekin]

So I saw that @lesbians4sokka were hosting #kzbffweek and I really wanted to join because I thought it'd be fun. I really wanted them to be doing something active together but couldn't think of anything and then suddenly felt inspired by the Swamp Skiing short (...yes, i know u noticed). Idk 100% if this drawing counts because Sokka's there but I needed someone to steer the boat and I thought Katara would totally bully him into doing it, and yes this is her idea because she wanted to Flex her waterbending and drag Zuko around (literally).

(also dumb headcanon but Zuko picks this up weirdly fast and Katara wanted to see him fuck up lol so she's not quite satisfied) 

[washingmachinekin]

Since the lockdown I’ve been unable to go horseriding so I thought why not try to do it vicariously through one of my fav characters

Also been inspired by the internet to try animating again :3

[comradekatara]

Zuko Coming Out Of His Well To Shame His Dad 

[washingmachinekin]

Oh no this actually made me go 'oh fuck ' out loud jesus

[thenatsdorf]

Pawttery (via thegatheringinrogers)

[thatdisasterauthor]

He’s helping.

[pileofblanks]

I’m a cat enthusiast and i can tell you, the kitty is actually trying to help! (or just trying to figure out what humane is doing by also touching it)

Cats like to mimic what other members if their cat groups are doing. In human enviroments, this translates to cats following humans (who they see as part of their group) and trying to mimic activities they are doing.

Human sits on couch? Cat sit with them! Human reading or on their computer? Cat go after human and sprawl over them or the keyboard because cat do the same! Human eating? Cat also want eat! Human touch spining clay and make weird shapes? Cat also do that! Cat help!

[thelightfluxtastic]

[Video ID: A man is sitting at a pottery wheel, making a small vase. There is an orange tabby cat across from him. Every once in a while, the cat tentatively reaches a paw toward the spinning clay, tapping or gently pawing at the vase. End ID]

[washingmachinekin]

cuuute

[washingmachinekin]

So, am thinking of going back to being more of an art blog, and this'll be my first post in a while. 

This was kinda inspired by a lot of things, but mostly that I just really love horses and riding them and I was like...the ostrich horse deserves a little pat + a scritch :p for all its hard work.