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more people should be ungodly obsessed with john mitchell from being human. he's a beautiful emo irish vampire with the worst fashion sense in the world. he's killed so many people but he feels so so so bad about it. he is so absolutely cringefail he gets roasted by children on the street and actually gets annoyed. he fought in WWI. he was in casablanca but you can't see him because he doesn't show up on film. he is in recovery for addiction (blood) and keeps relapsing (murder). he loves the real hustle and he's LITERALLY doing the washing up.
#i just started watching this show#(about 15 years too late)#and MY GOD#i am immediately obsessed with him#it’s a real problem#can’t believe i watched all of poldark and never touched this show#john mitchell#aidan turner#being human uk
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My dad has bees. Today, I went to his house and he showed me all the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.
I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.
Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.
We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.
When it was time for me to leave, we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.
Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.
Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.
We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.
Bee kind always.
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#stiddies? stiddies.#glad we all agree#stede bonnet the man that you are#ofmd#our flag means death#stede bonnet#rhys darby
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150 years ago, a boy was born to my great-great grandmother. And that was the last time that happened anywhere on my maternal line until my son was born in 2016. This is a story about intersex people.
For 150 years, the women of my family kept having daughters, who either also had daughters, or they were oddly unable to have children. Strange quirk, we assumed. No boys.
In the late 1970s, my mother’s sister had a daughter with Down Syndrome. Genetic testing was done, and it was discovered that although she looked female, she actually possessed the male XY chromosome combination. Her sister was born three years later. And because of that genetic concern, her genes were checked. And she possessed … the XY chromosomes. A third daughter, born a few years later, possessed the usual XX.
Keeping in the tradition, my mother had two daughters. Because of our cousins’ genetic conditions, my sister and I were both checked. Both of us appeared typically XX. And so for more than thirty years, it was dismissed as a quirk, and no one said the word intersex because that wasn’t a thing in 1980.
In 2014 I had a son, breaking the chain of girls. It was an interesting story! I then had two daughters, and didn’t bother to do any genetic checking.
And then in 2020 my sister became pregnant. Early genetic testing said boy, XY. Twenty week anatomy scan said girl. Definitely 100% girl. Uhhh?! As expected, she*** was born genetically male, possessing only male gonads in the form of undescended testes, but female external genitalia.
It was Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, a genetic mutation carried on the X chromosome. See, all bodies start female. Then, when the hormonal influence of the Y chromosome kicks in, instructions on the X are supposed to detect the testosterone and create male genitalia. Except a person with AIS is non-reactive to testosterone, and the body stays, at least superficially, female. Genetic check would say boy. Presence of testes says boy. Pants check says girl. Making the question of sex (sex. Gender is something else, ok?) distinctly complicated.
If someone has a mother who is a carrier of AIS, there are 4 possibilities. Unaffected XY, and so genetically and structurally male. Affected XY, and so intersex. Affected XX, and so a female carrier. Unaffected XX female and entirely unaffected.
My grandmother was a carrier. My aunt and mother are carriers. My sister is a carrier. When my niece was born, my single non-intersex cousin and I did genetic testing. And we are both carriers as well. My son is an unaffected XY male. My niece is affected XY intersex. Both my cousin and I also have 2 daughters each. And, because it is medically and psychologically relevant, we had them tested. All XX.****
And I was ready to check one more thing: are my daughters carriers? There is a 50/50 chance. And then I stopped, because they are preschoolers, and that is their reproductive decision. They know three intersex people. And if they care, someday they can check their genes and the odds that my grandchildren will be intersex. The intersex people they know will, I hope, be able to talk to them about the beauty of their lives as one of the wonderful variations of humanity.
#this is so interesting tbh#i hate the reasons this is being brought up but i DO like that we’re talking about it#biology#intersex
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#please???????#tagging this to high heaven bc i know there are people who don’t want to hear about her and that is VALID#tw jk rowling#tw jkr mention#tw elon musk#jk rowling#jkr#elon musk#elongated muskrat#oh and in case it wasn’t clear:#fuck jkr#and fuck elon too
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HUGH JACKMAN ph. by Greg Williams Project Magazine // 2011
#listen. i’ve been in love with him my whole life#everybody’s freaking out like he hasn’t been hot the whole damn time???????#og hall pass entry and i’m not ashamed to say it#anyway that is all#hugh jackman
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“You should be at the club.” No, I should be at the scholastic book fair.
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People really underestimate the power of just telling someone you like them. romantically obviously but hell even just platonically too. You can admit you enjoy peoples presence it doesn’t have to be mind games it’s okay to just be sincere and true with your thoughts and intentions btw
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I found her…. She’s real
#fig faeth you will always be famous#emily axford the woman that you are#hilda hilda#fantasy high#dimension 20#fig faeth#figueroth faeth#emily axford
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#brennan lee mulligan#izzy roland can you fight#actually tbh i am 10000% certain izzy roland would beat my ass
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wait do you guys actually carry purses/bags everywhere you go i really need to know
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HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS (2003) dir. Donald Petrie
#this movie is like cocaine to me#they are both so hot and that’s the only reason it works and i don’t care!!!!!!#it’s completely ridiculous in every conceivable way. plot? flaunting the limits of believability. script? cringe at every turn.#you hit the 3/4 mark and suddenly they’re singing#but somehow they managed to cast matthew mcconaughey and kate hudson at PEAK hotness and then threw in a bunch of diamonds for good measure#incredible honestly. the whole film runs on unhinged sex appeal and sheer charisma….. and also literal diamonds#never met anyone who didn’t like this movie. the great equalizer#how to lose a guy in 10 days#matthew mcconaughey#kate hudson
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so many posts saying colin is an idiot or benedict is an idiot but i'm here to tell you that anthony is the true idiot of the bridgerton brothers
#sooooo correct#honestly they all share a braincell and hyacinth has it more often than not#(this sounds fake but i’m fr. baby hyacinth is so perceptive?? and for what????)#anthony is a disaster and i love him with all my heart <3#(he is also me. like we are the same person. kinship fr fr)#anthony bridgerton#bridgerton
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besties can I be real honest with you? I'm so fucking tired of not having enough money to live
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oh uh. scuse me. just a lil snail crossing your dash
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So as an identical twin, I'm a little curious about this
#i have known a set of identical twins AND a set of fraternal twins#the identical twins were some of my best friends growing up#twins#polls
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