Everyone get hyped here's an update to my D&D character after our latest session!
In today's regularly scheduled shenanigans, our most hated NPC showed up AT OUR CART begging for his life basically. Everyone else was pretty fine with keeping him alive but not me !! This guy is a slaver who owns my character's love interest! I parboiled him and then had another DELICIOUS meal via the Lightless Flame because he was part of The Web. Goddamn I love having The Dreads in DnD
Godddd I finished my second playthrough of Zato the other day and goddamn it I NEED to create. That game means so fucking much to me, I need to get back to working on my own games over it. Somebody bully me until I finish a sprite sheet
How many cartoons can you name where a Black boy is the hero? Not the sidekick, not the comic relief, but the center of the story, the one who gets to dream, to fall, to grow, to save the day. For too many Black boys, the first time they see themselves reflected back isn’t in a world of imagination it’s in headlines, obituaries, or mugshots. That kind of visibility shapes how the world sees them, and how they begin to see themselves.
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Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PM
a health policy paper has been published saying the name is officially updated to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)
polyendocrine= multiple endocrine factors
metabolic = affecting/affected by metabolism
ovarian = from the ovaries
essentially, instead of using the symptomatic term (many people with PMOS do not develop cysts) the new term widens the diagnostic area and makes it easier to diagnose, treat, and do research on people with PMOS (even atypical types, such as no cysts).
it may seem like a waste of time to change a name instead of focusing on research, but for a lot of medical professionals a name can be associated with a hard set collection of symptoms, so the name needs to change to acknowledge that the disorder is not well understood and has a broader, subtler, and often missed set of symptoms. for example ADD is considered an antiquated/unused term, and now comes under the ADHD umbrella. in healthcare names and terminology changes all the time, and this is a positive change. your local healthcare professional may not know about this unless theyre really up on the news though!
in case you want to read about the name change process that was published in the Lancet (one of the most impactful and well respected medical journals):
Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), previously named polycystic ovary
syndrome (PCOS), affects one in eight women. However, the
Sunny Illustration I made for the Cassette Beasts 3rd Anniversary Zine! 💜
It features:
🎵 An official comic
🎵 Unreleased music
🎵 New merch
🎵 Behind-the-scenes stuff
And more!
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