#Doctor Franklin

[mayhaps-a-blog]

Having picked up Babylon 5 on a whim, I am now at the point of writing fix-its for my favorite characters.

Talia Winters, darling, you deserved better. Unfortunately, I'm the kind of writer who makes it worse. More traumatizing, anyway. At least you're alive?

Summary:

After the discovery of Psi Corps’ Sleeper Program, Dr. Franklin takes a moment to think. He might not know much about telepaths, but he knows a lot about the human mind: how it works… and how it breaks. Then he goes to talk to Talia Winters. Or whoever might be fronting now.

[cinematicnomad]

THE TERROR ▸ mr. goodsir // dr. goodsir

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[cleowho]

“Captain Yates!”

The Green Death - season 10 - 1973

[odinsblog]

Funny how SCOTUS “originalists” ignore this history

Benjamin Franklin is revered in history for his fixation on inventing practical ways to make everyday life easier. He was a prolific inventor and author, and spent his life tinkering and writing to share his knowledge with the masses.

One of the more surprising areas Franklin wanted to demystify for the average American? At-home abortions.

Molly Farrell is an associate professor of English at the Ohio State University and studies early American literature. She authored a recent Slate article that suggests Franklin’s role in facilitating at-home abortions all started with a popular British math textbook.

Titled The Instructor and written by George Fisher, which Farrell said was a pseudonym, the textbook was a catch-all manual that included plenty of useful information for the average person. It had the alphabet, basic arithmetic, recipes, and farriery (which is hoof care for horses). At the time, books were very expensive, and a general manual like this one was a practical choice for many families.

Franklin saw the value of this book, and decided to create an updated version for residents of the U.S, telling readers his goal was to make the text “more immediately useful to Americans.” This included updating city names, adding Colonial history, and other minor tweaks.

But as Farrell describes, the most significant change in the book was swapping out a section that included a medical textbook from London, with a Virginia medical handbook from 1734 called Every Man His Own Doctor: The Poor Planter’s Physician.

This medical handbook provided home remedies for a variety of ailments, allowing people to handle their more minor illnesses at home, like a fever or gout. One entry, however, was “for the suppression of the courses”, which Farrell discovered meant a missed menstrual period.

“The book starts to prescribe basically all of the best-known herbal abortifacients and contraceptives that were circulating at the time,” Farrell said. “It's just sort of a greatest hits of what 18th-century herbalists would have given a woman who wanted to end a pregnancy early.”

“It's very explicit, very detailed, also very accurate for the time in terms of what was known ... for how to end a pregnancy pretty early on.”

Including this information in a widely circulated guide for everyday life bears a significance to today’s heated debate over access to abortion and contraception in the United States. In particular, the leaked Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and states that “a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the nation's histories and traditions.”

Farrell said the book was immensely popular, and she did not find any evidence of objections to the inclusion of the section.

“It didn't really bother anybody that a typical instructional manual could include material like this,”she said. “It just wasn't something to be remarked upon. It was just a part of everyday life.”

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[lizshaw]

Doctor Who BBC Portraits: The Third Doctor Era (1970-74)

[the-girl-in-the-high-castle]

Eyk Larsen not knowing how body physiology works and staring RESPECTFULLY at Maura Franklin's EYES will always be famous

And then there's her being even worse and I just can't with them anymore!

[fritzmonorail]

I love them all so much.

[burningfudge]

Fantastic Four vs X-Men (1987) #4

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The Long Road Home has updated!

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Fic info below the cut.

Chapters: 73/?

Fandom:Red vs. Blue

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Relationships: Agent Carolina/Vanessa Kimball, Dexter Grif/Dick Simmons, Franklin Delano Donut/Frank “Doc” DuFresne, Katie Jensen/Charles Palomo, Siris / Megan, Lavernius Tucker/Agent Washington

Characters: Agent Washington (Red vs. Blue), Agent Carolina (Red vs. Blue), Dick Simmons, Sarge (Red vs. Blue), Franklin Delano Donut, Lopez (Red vs. Blue), Dexter Grif, Frank “Doc” DuFresne, Lavernius Tucker, Michael J. Caboose, All the other AI’s, Vanessa Kimball, Epsilon, Donald Doyle, John Elizabeth Andersmith, Katie Jensen, Antoine Bitters, Charles Palomo, Matthews, Emily Grey, Original Characters, Felix | Isaac Gates, Locus | Samuel Ortez, Siris | Mason Wu, Megan Wu, Four Seven Niner, Malcolm Hargove, Kaikaina Grif | Sister

Additional Tags: Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Psychological Trauma, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Dissociation, PTSD, Depression, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Panic Attacks, Frisbee Murder (don’t ask), Attempted Murder, Space Battles, Aftermath of Torture, Aftermath of Violence, Platonic Slow-Burn, Mental Instability, Flashbacks, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Healthy Coping Mechanisms, Platonic Relationships, Russian Roulette, Creepy-Ass Villains, Canon-Typical Violence, Major Character Injury, Redemption, So Many Space Dads, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Manipulation, Torture, Found Family, i take the canon and i put it in a box, and then i put that box into another box, then i mail it to myself, and when it arrives, i SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER, Canon Divergence, post s13

Summary: With The Staff of Charon a smoking-yet-functional speck on the horizon, and the threat of an active weapons system on one of Chorus’ moons, the fight is far from over.  While Locus is no longer a threat, another one of Hargrove’s former lackeys waits for the Reds and Blues as they race to stop the weapons system from coming online. Does she really want to help them? Or is she hiding a more sinister motive? And why is she so interested in Locus?!

[doctorkinktraveller]

Jon Pertwee [3rd Doctor], Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart], Richard Franklin [Mike Yates] and John Levine [Sgt Benton]

[giddyaunt425]

ANOTHER

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Agatha Harkness' introduction in the comics is just hilarious because the Fantastic Four are looking for a babysitter for Reed and Sue's son, and decide this creepy old witch living in a obviously haunted mansion with her familiar is perfect for the job and leave the kid with her full time while they go off on adventures.

[dn38416]

For the five people who'll probably be interested, I've started a new Maura x Eyk fic on Ao3. It's been half written for about a year, but it's wrestled it's way out of me.

I think it's the crumbs we've been fed over the last few days...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58667881