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We are rapidly approaching jokes for no one I think.

I love her for it though, and I desperately want to see the dresses in person one day.

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I love you trans people I love you so much I'm so glad you're alive I'm so glad you're here I'm so glad you exist

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mutual to walk around museums with (mtwamw)

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[pencils into my calendar for November ‘attend a birthday party for a flamingo’]

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Made a new poster! :)

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Look, I love my immortal twinks, but I am so looking forward to the return of the middle aged ladies show.

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He was also the host for three seasons of The Great British Sewing Bee, which is essentially the same format as the Great British Bake-off, but with amateur sewing instead of baking. It’s delightful.

stop what you’re doing and watch this

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THIS SHOW IS SET IN THE MODERN DAY?!??

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

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what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

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here's some more unsolicited adult advice as someone in her 30s who knows there are a lot of twenty somethings and teens that follow her: if you're trying to build a new habit you really want, and are struggling, you have to break it down to the smallest building block possible. If you're failing, you haven't thought small enough. I know it's possible to hear stories of people who just snapped into new life mode one day by "just deciding", but truly what's happening there is a confluence of events and experiences that force the brain into some sort of epiphany. You cannot will an epiphany. It'll never work. For most times of your life, you will need to build habits intentionally, and that means not working against yourself and to set micro goals. like laughably tiny goals. because once that easy tiny goal is met, you can build off it, tiny goal after tiny goal until you reach your big goal.

so for example, if you want to be a morning person that gets up at ass crack dawn so that you can work out, eat brekkie, shower, and get to work at a leisurely pace, and you're not that person because you will hit your snooze button 800 times, you have to get the big picture goal out of your head. think smaller. "I want to get up 15 minutes earlier than I normally do." If you can't do that, make it 5 minutes. "I want to cook breakfast every day" hell no too big. "I want to eat something, anything, before I leave the house" hell yeah, fantastic. When you go to the grocery store to make sure there are things in the house for breakfast, if you keep buying bagels and microwave sandwiches that you ignore, you gotta think smaller. SMALLER. What's something so easy to eat that you'll never say no to. Is it a yogurt? Is it a handful of grapes? Is it a hostess ho ho? is it hot cheetos? FORGET the big picture of the fantasy put-together woman preparing a full nutritious meal that you'd be proud to admit to. Think only of the smallest goal you can achieve. If you know you can't say no to an ice cream sandwich, put a ton of ice cream sandwiches in your freezer and have one for breakfast every day until it's so instilled in you that you gotta get up to eat something you can start diversifying.

It sounds like, from the lack of habit place, that must take forever. But really it doesn't take too long to form the habit once the discipline kicks in. the trick is that you have to give your brain something easy to become disciplined to. If it's too hard, think easier and smaller. No one has to know. Literally no one in the gd world has to know that for 4 weeks when you were 22 you had an ice cream sandwich for breakfast every day. who cares. If it gets you eating oatmeal with fresh fruit in a few months who cares. you did it, yay. smaller, easier. if you can't do it, think smaller and easier. smaller!! EASIER!!! You are not thinking smaller and easier enough. break your brain thinking how small and easy you can go. SMALLER. EVEN SMALLER, SIS.

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[nods] like what my toilet did yesterday and flooded everywhere, yeah

becoming unsealed gotta be one of the most classic things an ancient evil can do

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[CoT 10] nothing gay to see here folks move right along

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elayne trakand the most bisexual bisexual to ever bisexual

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AMERICANS? IS ROOT BEER NICE?! I WANNA KNOW

No third option you gotta pick a side

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From a medical history perspective, nothing is more wonderful and horrifying to me than the decades between the discovery of antisepsis and antibiotics. Imagine a medical profession that already knows that bacteria cause illness, knows how to kill the bacteria on objects or on skin, but has no reliable way to kill bacteria once they are inside the body. Semmelweis intuited antisepsis in the 1840s, Lister developed his technique in the 1860ies, by the late 19th century antiseptic procedures were widely known, but the first antibiotic wasn’t invented until the 1930ies, and it wasn’t produced in mass quantities until the 1940ies, didn’t become widely available until the 1950ies. Depending on the location, that gives us fifty to a hundred years where preventing infection is possible, but fighting infection is largely ineffectual. You must stop it before it starts, because once it’s started, all you can do is pray. There was no reliable way to prevent a little infection from growing into sepsis, and if sepsis is dangerous now, back then it was wholly untreatable.

So antiseptic precautions are the matter of life and death. I’ve read instructions from 1910s children’s hospitals, instructions for 1930s midwives, and they are… intense. I mean they are a lot like present-day operating room protocols, only they apply the same strictness to the general hospital ward, or even to the home. Today, there’s a higher chance of fixing a mistake, of curing an infection, back then there was none. So using an object without boiling beforehand can kill. Touching two objects in the wrong order can kill. Pouring water in the wrong direction can kill. The slightest divergence from protocol, the slightest lapse in white-knuckled vigilance can kill.

No wonder Semmelweis went insane, and no wonder people thought he was insane long before he did. He didn’t simply order doctors to wash their hands, he had them wash using a solution of calcium hypochlorite, so essentially, bleach. Lister used (corrosive, poisonous) phenol, later doctors preferred (extremely super poisonous) mercury chloride. As a doctor, slathering yourself and all your clothing and all your equipment and your patient in dangerous poison was preferable to leaving a single germ alive.

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Yall are so desperate for the Sith to be grey morality instead of just the straight up villains theyre constantly shown to be and it shows

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woah this character is so cool i wish they were covered in blood their whole body trembling with a look of absolute horror on their face as theyre struggling to breathe in panic