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[souuadd]

An exhausted body and a wide awake mind

[ghostbees]

"First meeting" from the BSJ Fall 2012 issue

[majestativa]

Eclipse, pt. II.

[stanestreet]

As a November 2024 report by the think tank the Other Half puts it, what are described as “mercy killings” are “very frequently the violent domestic homicide of elderly, infirm or disabled women by men”. Women are the majority of unpaid carers – 80 per cent, according to the King’s Fund. But, strangely, they appear much less likely than men to become “mercy killers”.

This discrepancy is impossible to separate from the wider belief in society that women are a kind of property owned by men. It is seen as a woman’s natural obligation to look after a man, but when a man has to look after a woman, it becomes an unreasonable imposition.

Hence the sympathy a man can draw on if he kills his wife while feeling overwhelmed by her needs. Mungall claimed to have seen an expression in his wife’s eyes “like an animal who needs to be put down and cannot say it” – a comparison that makes him the owner and her the pet.

Are we really supposed to believe that a man who feels that way about his wife is incapable of pressuring her into applying for a medically assisted suicide? In response to concerns from critics of the bill about this possibility, supporters of the bill have pointed to what they regard as its extensive safeguards. Simon Opher MP, a former GP and a member of the bill committee, has even said it is “judging doctors harshly to say that they will not spot coercion”.

Personally, I find Opher’s statement less reassuring and more indicative of a disturbingly blasé attitude to the possibility of abuse. In the limited window of a consultation, it is all too easy for a doctor to miss the signs. A YouGov survey for the charity SafeLives found that half of healthcare professionals felt unable to identify domestic violence. Sometimes, the doctor in question might even be actively untrustworthy: think of Harold Shipman, whose victims were predominantly elderly women.

The more common scenario, though, is the patient who, through lengthy cruelty and coercion from a partner or carer, becomes genuinely convinced that she (or sometimes he) is a burden who would be better off dead. Such a person may even refuse treatment, causing a curable disease to become terminal and placing them within the purview of the bill.

Legislators should be profoundly alert to this danger. Left unaddressed, it could place the state in the grotesque position of becoming a lawful accomplice to abusers. Yet unaddressed it remains. Of the nearly 50 individuals who gave oral evidence to the Public Bill Committee, not one was an expert in male violence or coercive control. (Jane Monckton Smith, an academic who studies femicide, was called but unable to attend; the committee did not attempt to find a substitute for her.)

From the start, the Terminally Ill Adults Bill has been a rush job – in the words of one former Labour adviser, “a quick-and-dirty policy development process that wouldn’t be close to good enough for 99 per cent of the laws made on our behalf”. If it becomes law, Labour risks turning the healthcare system into an executioner for those most in need of protection.

How the assisted dying bill could unleash male violence

[thegreatyin]

to continue my deranged hypothetical timeloop story posting;

lark doesn't know the scoundrel and mr cards are the same person (he doesn't even know the masters are bats) but thanks to his interactions with mr fires he does recognize how curators behave, both because he's a monster hunter and because he's simply way better at absorbing information than one might think. and when he finally meets the scoundrel he immediately clocks they're a human in a master suit. because they don't move like a master should. they don't have wings to constrain, limbs to fold, strength to fall back on, etc. he might not have the full context of what they are but he definitely knows what they aren't, and the scoundrel is in the latter category. and he points all of this out and the scoundrel flounders and panics and pins him to a wall and screeches at him to shut up (because identifying their humanity hits all of their mental pressure points) but for all their gusto at the end of the day they're still mostly human and the songbird very much isn't and being constrained and helpless is one of his mental pressure points, and if he didn't learn to develop a fight or fight fear response he'd be long since dead. and so the scoundrel gets a bone harpoon stabbed through their throat. and then they wake up in their bed at the start of a new loop. their body is unharmed. lark is miles away and doesn't even know who they are. their wife is at their door, concerned for their well being, earnest and kind and completely oblivious to what they're going through. and they bury their head in their hands and curse loud enough to shake the roof of the neath

[donnabisestile]

I’m the pig on the Chinese calendar

[devilselbowhq]

THE WILD & WONDERFUL APPALACHIA WELCOMES... noah cerulli as written by beca ( she / her ).

✱ affiliated with AFTERGLOW RESEARCH SOLUTIONS ✱ working as SURGEON ✱ has taken up residence in AFTERGLOW COMPOUND ✱ born on FEBRUARY 19TH ( 43 ) ✱ identifying as CIS MAN ( HE / HIM ) ✱ known to be ALTRUISTIC, INQUISTIVE, CHARITABLE, OPPORTUNISTIC, TACTFUL ✱ also know to be CRITICAL, PERSISTENT, IMPULSIVE, DARING, COERCIVE ✱ portrayed by MICHIEL HUISMAN

WANTED CONNECTIONS.

➥ dust to dust: a character of whom noah held a romantic standing with, whether it was simply a potential thing or a long standing commitment. This character had a sibling suffering from a mutation they hadn’t seen before and after a particularly nasty accident - of which Noah performed a very successful surgical procedure on; was whisked away by afterglows research team and inevitably never seen or heard from again. The general consensus is that this person has since passed; noah’s former flame holds him responsible and refuses to believe that he didn’t have a hand in it. ➥ parting the red sea: someone that noah see’s great potential in and has chosen to teach all he knows, medically and morally in the hopes that when he’s no longer around, someone else will take up the mantle of mender to anyone that needs help. However, he’s struggling to help them draw the line between the good that afterglow can do, and the darker aspects of their research.

DIGGING DEEPER.

The eldest of seven children, it was little surprise to anyone when Noah took up the mantle of protector to all those that came after him. Gentle and compassionate, he beheld the arrival of each new sibling with a bright and revering opportunity to guide them with a gentle hand - in a way that so much of the world never would. Graced with the patience and understanding of his own loving parents, he took to it like moth to a flame

a cheerful and rather optimistic child, Noah surpassed every expectation that he was faced with with unyielding determination and was often told he was doing too much, that he was wasting his best years but in the face of the adversity they all faced, he saw no reason not to do everything possible to make it better. It was of no shock to anyone when he made the choice to devote his life to the health and wellbeing of everyone around him.

For some time, Noah believed that his busy lifestyle and his decision in life was a grave disappointment to his parents. Despite their unconditional love, it took up a lot of his time and where he would have previously helped around the house and with his siblings, he was busy with classes and studying to the point of utter exhaustion. It wasn’t until he completed his studies, that he unburdened this weight to his mother one night and learned how truly proud both she and his father were of him. That they knew the day they brought home his first brother, that Noah would spend his life devoted to the people around him - that they knew this would always be his path. She did, however, hold a growing concern for his proximity to Afterglow considering the extent of his mutation. A secret that they’d kept from a great many people for the majority of his life. Noah promised she had nothing to worry about - and a week later, he underwent the first of many tests and experiments at the hands of his prospective employer; Afterglow. 

Following his survival of the testing and experiments, Noah sold his skills as a doctor and renowned surgeon to Afterglow with the very real belief that this was the place he could best devote himself to improving the lives of people he did and didn’t know. Choosing to spend the majority of his time in the medical department on hand for emergencies; Noah still holds a small level of distrust for the research portion of the organization. Everyone knows the stories, and his own first hand experience of the testing regime leads him to believe wholly that some of their methods never changed. Despite having little contact with that side of Afterglow, he hopes and lends his hand where possible in the hope that they might come across some kind of miracle.

EXTRAS.

headcanons:

Mutation > at a young age, the skin covering Noah’s spine began to grow pale, to the point of becoming translucent, allowing anyone who looked upon his back to visually see through into the cavern of his body. Those that he allowed to see this note that there are small spindles growing from each vertebrae. As he’s grown older, the translucency has spread and now covered a larger portion of his back and the spindles are slowly growing (very slowly). Noah is uncertain how long it will take before one of the spindles pierces something vital and inevitably kills him. His mutation is not something he shares with many people at all. On joining Afterglow in his younger years - he allowed them to conduct testing/experiments in exchange for allowing him to practice medicine for them in the hopes that he could help anyone else. 

Optimism > Noah is more than aware that he’s likely out of his depth, and making horrible decisions left and right, but he can’t let go of the potential good he can do from where he is, regardless of what anyone he might love and care about might think about Afterglow. Survival has always been several shades of grey.

[starryh4ze]

i wanted to make this because i feel it’s important that we talk about acne more often.

i personally struggled with acne for 2-3 years, and it was horrible. as i said in the prompt, my skin never felt clean even when it was freshly washed, it lowered my self-esteem, it just fucked with my overall mental health. i tried everything i could and eventually the only thing that helped was accutane.

i know so many girls who have gone through the same thing but i still feel like it’s not talked about enough. i want you to know that it does get better. i love u 💗

harry styles - 2011

[souuadd]

- Cheaper Than Therapy -

[ghostbees]

"Knows nothing of practical gardening", from the BSJ Spring 2015 issue

[its-scoots]

A boy is playing sick games with my heart on Snapchat and I just don’t know what I will do!! Where is a fainting couch when you need one. He has curly hair I can play with you guys like who gave him the right?!?!?!

[tygasims]

lara lexington's lookbook

001 - hair by @simstrouble , top by @serenity-cc , coat by @charonlee , jeans by @backtrack-cc , boots by @jius-sims 002 - hair by @arethabee , top by @joancampbell-jcb , pants by @deliciousthings 003 - hair by @arethabee , top by @seoulsoul-sims , jeans by @backtrack , shoes , purse & accessories by @cocogamess 004 - hair by @simcelebrity00 , dress by @b0t0xbrat

part i here.

[majestativa]

Eclipse.

[ballpitwizard]

click (2006) walked so severance could run

[ace-up-your-sleeve]

sorry but being able to play piano and violin on top of being able to play guitar is kinda hot 🫢