#James Rasmussen

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original caption: "The Masters of the Air from the 100th Bomb Group with Tom and Gary tonight. What a moment."

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James: I need some advice.

Ash: And you’re asking me?

James: Frightening, isn't it?

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Night World Volume I - Secret Vampire

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Title: thank you, Mr Darcy

Author: Vicennial

Rating: unrated but I’ll say Teen because it has swears

Summary: What’s up?”

“Okay, so you know how you’re one of those damned Daybreakers?”

The phone beeped softly as James hung up.

Or; the direct aftermath of Daughters of Darkness.

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Cue the wailing: Trump gains 40% of the Black vote in New York 😂

Brothers are keeping it simple: "We were broke with Biden, we weren't with Trump."

MSNBC CUTS FEED As Michigan Voters DESTROY Kamala Harris On-Air

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Ken & Mickey musings - Wings vs Pens - Sept. 26, 2023

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continued.

“What do you mean?” It was as if she was witnessing something he wasn’t, golden eyes resting on her, attempting to center her. His other hand moved to tuck some of her hair behind her ear, hoping that the motion will assist in regaining her attention. “Elena?” he murmured, trying to catch her eye.

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Bloomin Mud Shuffle (2015)

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Classic Album Review: METALLICA 'Ride the Lightning'

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Phil: Where's Poppy?

James: Don't worry about Poppy.

Phil: Oh I'm sorry, have you met me?

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Artwork featuring Night World characters by Jan Sovak.

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not the ko-fi anon for reading lists but i am interested in reading more about diabetes and fatness not being a disease, if you happen to have any recs :)

im not sure what your familiarity is with concepts like medicalisation and biopolitics more broadly but these are pretty foundational ideas for this critique.

if you're new to critical readings on fatness & weight then i think two decent places to start are bacon & aphramor's 'body respect' and paul campos's 'the obesity myth', though both have shortcomings imo. j eric oliver's 'fat politics' probably falls into this category as well. all of these are afflicted with liberalisms and there are also issues that i think often arise from projects that have to read archives or bodies research 'backwards', but these are still useful for introducing paradigms that problematise the medicalisation of fatness, and also raise some of the (many, many) methodological issues plaguing dietetic and weight science.

nicolas rasmussen's 'fat in the fifties' is useful on the question of medicalisation because he presents the rise and fall of fears about an american 'obesity epidemic' in the 1950s as a case study and examinines the political and social (ie, not apolitically scientific) factors that configured fatness as a disease and a pressing political problem in a specific social context, and then the factors that made this 'epidemic' slide further from official view for a few decades after. i disagree with rasmussen on a lot of his policy discussion and he's not aligned with fat liberation by any means; nevertheless i think the historicisation he does here is valuable for anyone interested in the medicalisation of fatness. susan greenhalgh made a case study of china more recently in "neoliberal science, chinese style" in 'social studies of science' 46.4: 485–510 (DOI 10.1177/0306312716655501).

on the more sociological side i'd strongly recommend sabrina strings's 'fearing the black body' and da'shaun harrison's 'belly of the beast'. these focus more on anti-fat attitudes and cultural history/analysis than on directly deconstructing medicalisation and medical research.

wrt diabetes, i would recommend anthony ryan hatch's 'blood sugar', which argues that current scientific and cultural conceptions of metabolic syndrome reify biologised and genetic ideas of race and racial fixity; hatch sees the proposed treatments and diagnostic methods as failing to interrogate the social and economic factors that produce racial disparities in health. james doucet-battle also discusses this in 'sweetness in the blood'. hay and fiddler's 'inventing the thrifty gene: the science of settler colonialism' tackles an analogous medical discourse of race, the idea that indigenous peoples are genetically predisposed to diabetes and obesity, and the ways in which this concept rests on and reinforces categories of race while eliding the colonialism and racism that actually result in poorer health outcomes for indigenous populations. a broader history of diabetes and racial medicine is arleen marcia tuchman's 'diabetes: a history of race and disease', and i also want to pick up karen throsby's 'sugar rush', which came out just last year i think.

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How many Pillows? 2 - Detroit Red Wings TC - Sept. 2023

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"This might come as a shock, but I tend to try avoid hunters. You know, the whole born vampire thing tends to make them a little stake happy." James wasn't sure how to track down a hunter, but he figured that his cousin Ash might. "I can reach out to Ash if you'd like, he might keep more tabs on hunters."

@acourtcfmuses asked : ❛ what are you doing here? ❜ (To Salem from James )

Salem sighed. "I'm just looking for someone. Her name is Veronica Vanderbilt. She is this hunter. She's on my list. Last one actually. I gotta find her and I'm not going to let anyone get in my way."