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Robert Moss was diagnosed with polio at the age of six, the year before he wrote this letter. He would spend the next nine years of his childhood in and out of hospitals.
He made a full recovery and was a decorated athlete in High School and College, as well as an Eagle Scout. After college, he became a junior high science teacher, while also coaching football, basketball and track.
During summer break from teaching in 1965, his childhood struggle with polio inspired him to spend the summer working at the Louisiana Lions Camp for Crippled Children. He went back the next summer and was hired as camp director.
Robert was the Executive Director of the Lions Camp for 41 years. Over his tenure he expanded the camp to include programs for children with pulmonary disorders, muscular dystrophy, diabetes and autism.
He assisted in programs to set up similar camps in Puerto Rico and Australia, as well as a camp for children with terminal illnesses in Texas.
The Lions Camp still operates and is 100% free of charge for all attendees.
(source: The Minden Herald, December 19, 1941.)
#dear santa#christmas#kids#1940s#history#polio#louisiana#the appealing to Jesus to intervene with Santa is some A+ child logic#it's like asking to speak to Santa's manager
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after seeing skully's um.......... so we're all in agreement that he would affectionately call you pumpkin, right? :) you are his beloved pumpkin!!! his darling pumpkin pie! perhaps you might even be,,, the lovely candy apple of his eye! just,,, lots of autumn-themed endearments from him to you (on top of the gentlemanly ones "my lovely, my dear, my sweetheart, etc" and the halloween-themed ones hehe). <3 pumpkin is number one solely because of his um and my own delusions,,,
#meraki mumbles#someone lobotomize me before he consumes the rest of my logical thoughts T^T#OMG WAIT I THINK I KNOW WHY SKULLY APPEALS TO ME SO MUCH........#when i was 15 i created an oc with similar characteristics to him#omg it's come full circle....#AAAAA EVEN THEIR HAIRSTYLES ARE SIMILAR I AM GNAWING THE BARS OF MY CAGE#so that's why i'm so down bad for him......#he is the ideal man as foretold by 15-year-old meraki#this is a sobering thought... i need to marinate in this realization because omg.#head in my hands... it all makes sense now
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The way I started crying when Q asked the doctor if it was alright if he only wanted to get better for someone else, and she said “That’s not wrong at all. Some people want to recover just for their cat.”
Like, we are social creatures. We are DESIGNED to care about others. Mental health is not some individualistic pursuit. It’s about wanting to be a part of the world, and whatever inspires you to do that is so indescribably valuable!! 😭😭😭
#kidnap the series#This show said that it will never try to appeal to your brain logic but it will take aim directly at your heart
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listen i just don't think that leafpool should get heaven married with a guy from a very brief fling she had as a young adult (the consequences of which ruined her entire life) that treats her poorly in most of their interactions, would not defend her when their relationship came to light, and is shown to be a shitty husband and neglectful father in his relationship afterwards. but idk this is still going to happen when crowfeather dies anyways and the only potential conflict in this happening whatsoever is going to be feathertail being offhandedly mentioned to be petty and jealous about it or something. because warrior cats can't let a woman win and especially cannot let leafpool win
#the more time goes on the more i CANNOT get the leafcrow appeal in any way but a doomed one#even if they werent as bad for each other as i think theyd be why would she want to dedicate her afterlife to this guy#i remember when the 'will graystripe pick silverstream or millie in starclan' debates were going on people were (fairly) like#'ummm why would he choose the girl he high school dated for a couple months over his long term wife'#and i get that. even though silverstream is based and millie is cringe i do get that#but why doesnt the same logic ever apply to leafpool and crowfeather LOL#not saying crowfeather should be with feathertail or nightcloud either though obviously LOL#Listen. the only reason why crowfeather remains attractive to leafpool after their fling is because she hasn't known him enough#to get over that initial idealisation and fantasy that drew her to him in the first place#she wanted out of the clans and then it got cut short but she STILL wants out of the clans but now it's MORE unrealistic#she is projecting that desire onto him like crazy and that is the only reasoning i can think of for why she can even stand that guy
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i’m sure this has been said before but when adam and michael are talking in the bunker about the possibility of michael’s dad being a grade a asshole, there’s something so so so important to me about how adam points out michael’s hypocrisy.
ADAM: Point is…. Parents keep secrets. Does it hurt to ask the question?
MICHAEL: Yes! It would mean I doubt him. The good son; the favorite doubts his father.
ADAM: You still care about that? After he left you in the cage?
this matters because michael was JUST criticizing sam and dean for leaving adam and how he is in unable to trust them. he doubts them because of their actions.
MICHAEL: You’re asking me to trust you. You who doomed me, you who let Lucifer walk free while your own brother sat in Hell.
in turn, adam is pointing out that clearly michael has a line for his family members and it’s been crossed by michael’s own, so why is his dad any different than sam or dean? what makes michael different than adam? why does his dad get to betray and abandon him and still get michael’s trust and loyalty? why is michael expendable?
he’s really tapping into michael’s beliefs that were just established to us as the audience at the diner. (ie: family sometimes hurts you and just because they’re blood relatives or ‘family’ doesn’t mean they have your best interests at heart. sometimes there are things more important than family, sometimes walking away from your family is freedom) and he’s holding michael to the same standard he’s set for the winchesters.
side note: another thing i enjoy about this interaction is that adam is being gentle, although it 100% appears as if they’ve had this conversation before since he literally rolls his eyes, and not to mention that michael is an archangel. he could easily be mean or not even care about his feelings or michael could not even take his opinion into account and do what he wants. but despite everything, adam asks for michael to listen to him, and he does. and in turn adam appeals to him with logic and reasoning, because he’s overall a very rational and strategic being that’s simply been groomed from the get go in his dad’s weird cult. adam appeals to his emotions in a way that’s familiar. they share this experience. adam knows michael is protective of him and that it’s easy for michael to hate sam and dean for the same things his dad has done. but michael’s own lack of self worth that was drilled into him by his dad for aeons is being challenged, and it’s uncomfortable for him, but adam doesn’t back down and he helps get through to him. it’s really a great scene. this post wasn’t meant to be so long but yeah i have lots of thoughts about this short interaction!
#also the fact that michael compares him and adam being together for years (around 50k) as comparable in importance….#he’s not saying that adam is less important he’s presenting a logical fallacy. there’s been so much time. he can’t change his belief now#it’s been eternity! what does that mean for him? it’s the logic of the sunk cost fallacy#he’s invested so much time in it that he has to continue and adam is pulling him away with appealing to his compassion for a situation#adam was also in. and the nail in the coffin was castiel showing him those memories. it’s one of the reasons why#15x19 feels so odd because he is very 0-100. he 100% had faith his father and then had no faith in him#so it feels kinda ooc for him to suddenly go back when he spent 6 months coming to terms with something he had already been questioning#then for him to go back to his dad? why? what does he gain? both he and lucifer actually have this issue where their motivations aren’t#exactly established. we can assume lucifer is told a paradise type fantasy where he gets to have jack or something of equal importance#and we can assume michael is told that he will bring adam back but both of them have been betrayed so many times (and so recently) it’s#whiplash for them to be suddenly team god again. also michael killing lucifer is ooc imo as well#it just feels too convenient considering jack needed to absorb more power in regards to both their deaths#anyway lol#supernatural#adam milligan#dean winchester#sam winchester#spn#michael spn#15x08#spn 15x08
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A Review of Filtration Performance of Protective Masks - PMC
With H5N1 reported in at least two* humans in the past month, we need to talk about airborne transmission and how masks work. Again.
(*edit: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/oregon-reports-first-h5-case-farm-worker-california-reports-5-more)
Is flu airborne?
Generally yes. Even if it is not the most efficient mode of transmission for every virus.
Citations:
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/testing-transmission-infection-h5n1-cows
https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2023/12/clearing-air
"...recently measured how often virus is exhaled by people with the flu. He found that about 80% exhaled some influenza, the virus that causes flu. Most of the virus was found in the tiny airborne aerosols. People didn’t have to cough or sneeze to expel these viruses into the air. The flu virus was detectable in the air after normal breathing and talking."
Do N95 masks protect against viruses smaller than 300 nm (.3 microns)?
Also yes, because masks do NOT work like a sieve:
N95s employ electrostatic filtering to keep viruses stuck to the mask rather than passing through.
Brownian motion (particles moving through fluids / air randomly) also helps them get stuck to the surface.
And this is why you don't want to be touching the front of your mask, nor storing it improperly. For example, if you take it off and put it in your pocket, and then your hand later goes in that same pocket, then wipes your nose...
See also:
youtube
For the time being it should be relatively easy to avoid other modes of transmission since we have protective measures for public health — like pasteurization. But certain individuals who entertain "alternative facts" directly state that they want to dismantle such protections in favor of Appeal to Nature fallacy (e.g. "raw milk is best"), and they are currently being picked to lead government agencies.
#viruses#h5n1#masks#masking#how masks work#n95#flu#flu virus#covid#Appeal to Nature#appeal to nature fallacy#logical fallacies#article#resources#public health#yes we have a big fucking problem#Youtube
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not to be a freak but I think when Trump loses he will either kill himself or Putin will let loose the real assasins. it's just the smart move like he knows too much and he's losing all the power he used to have lol. like if I were putin I'd be worried about what kind of information a desperate man like Trump is willing to surrender once he's caught 👀
#like if i were putin that would just be the safest option at that point. your inside man failed and you know he will blab bc he is a coward#like if you think about it from their POV. trump knows if he loses then he will be convicted and sent to jail. he will try to appeal by#by trading russian intelligence that putin shared with him in hopes it will lessen his sentence#putin isnt dumb and probably knows that. so post election when trump either confesses or defects is when it will happen#probably similar to epstien if he does somehow get caught or just plain missing once he leaves the usa#either way it kind of warms my heart that none of his allies can safely leave him alive#hes gonna die a sad and pathetic death at least#i need a new tag for politics bc i hate thowijg this junk out where people can see it in the us politics tag#i called the kamala joe switch waaaay before it all started and this is just logically the outcome if things keep going this way but who kn#who knows#us politics
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Do you have any tips for people trying to get better at art?^^
I’ve been getting this question a lot, so here’s my answer!
I highly recommend just studying the fundamentals of art and consistently practicing with them in mind. It’s probably a lame answer, but knowledge is your best friend when improving and I can’t EMPHASIZE how important these fundamentals are.
This is a triangle I pulled from the web with some of my notes (in red) which have a good decent order to the basics. Obviously it’s not all of them, BECAUSE there’s SO MANY. These fundamentals are also just so deeply intertwined with each other along with physics and psychology.
I always think of these basics like a building. The more stronger and proficient you are in these bases, the better and stronger your art will become. It’ll also allow you to deconstruct artworks and learn why they are so appealing and why they work.
I would love to go off and explain every single inch of the basics I’ve learned, but I’m gonna end up writing an essay by accident. If there’s anything specific like perspective (I’M SO DOWN BAD FOR PERSPECTIVE), color, lighting, shape, and composition you want me to elaborate on or DEMONSTRATE, I’d love to!! :D
#mushyrt#asks#I could go on for decades about this#but there’s so much information in my brain that all of my thoughts went KAPUT#This thought has been lingering in my head for a long time#but a quick and easy way to make your art consistently appealing despite a lack in anatomy or logic#is really to study color LMFAO#You could be absolute sh*t in every other aspect but as long as you have a good sense of color you’ll be fine HAHA#But personally I’m obsessed in getting good in every possible aspect so I’m not letting myself settle with just that XD
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sorry if i'm late! 🔥 Cytherea
Oh now here's something I DO have a controversial opinion about, which is that I do not like her one bit and it's not for the reasons people commonly list! in this series, everyone's committed a few murders and creeped on someone in a necromantic fashion. Those weren't my favorite houses anyway. rip but I didn't have much time to get attached. I have a lot of sympathy for anyone living in pain that long and having to speak to john gaius the whole time--or at least I would, if her personality wasn't specifically calculated to irritate me!!
I even understand her relevance to the plot and themes and theoretically I get the appeal of gideon/ cythere a. But every time she spoke to gideon I found myself vaguely annoyed wishing we could get back to other characters. I simply have a petty hatred that cannot be overcome. omg shut UP about Gideon's biceps. stop batting those eyelashes it looks stupid. "pretend I'm five and explain it to me" GOD could she be trying any harder. couldn't even get a personality of her own had to steal one from poor dulcie and didn't even do it right. cytherea hate club sorry
#one of my pettiest tlt opinions because i can see that logically there is no reason to feel so strongly about this#i see the appeal of an evil cougar! i do! just not that one!#replies#it's quite a southern type of false sweetness isn't it#never got along with this type of woman even when she wasn't trying to get me fired#at my many customer service jobs
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"shen qingqiu is a liar who is lying about his feelings so we can't ACTUALLY tell how he feels about anything"
so you admit that you can tell he is lying and by extension you can actually discern what his true feelings on the matter are and that he's just unwilling to admit to them.
#svsss#shen qingqiu#i read fantl of a manhwa once where the translator changed a character saying “I hate that guy” to something to the effect of like#“I really like that guy but i don't know what to do with my feelings”#which was you know. just stating the intended subtext laid out very clearly by the story#however the translator said they thought it would be “confusing” and they didn't know why the author wrote that when it was untrue.#and i don't..... get it#like part of the appeal of subtext is letting your readers feel the excitement of being in on a secret#knowing something that even the characters don't know and feeling pleased with yourself#and adding a layer of frustration because you know what's REALLY happening and this idiot DOESN'T and keeps making decisions#that are logical when you examine their worldview of the situation!!!#but OBVIOUSLY DISASTROUS when you know what's actually going on.#and that's on purpose!!! you're supposed to be frustrated and feel your smugness turning into dawning horror#because you are omniscient but have absolutely fuckall power to do anything with that knowledge#and you have to watch blorbo ruin their fucking life.#more people need to have faith in their ability to interpret subtext#and more people need to have faith in the author's ability to write it intentionally
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Hey blue or mayor- I got a question.
What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Mine is chocolate.
Also here have this *put flower crown on his head*
MASTER POST
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#lego monkie kid#lego monkie kid fanart#monkie kid#monkie kid fanart#lmk#lmk fanart#lmk mayor#monkie kid mayor#lmk macaque#monkie kid macaque#blue and violet#I just remembered that there is actually a valid reason as to why I decided the Mayor would like pears#pear is a autumn/winter fruit#I'm so silly that I forgot that this was an actual reason for my logic behind this#mayor likes pear because its a winter fruit#and its a bit dull but the pears I have eatten are a little sweet so eh#citrus fruits are also winter fruits#this guy could probably eat a lemon whole and not even flinch#or maybe they would and their face would actually just scrunch up in the modt horrifying way#I don't know which one is funnier#anyways- the mayor likes pear flavoured ice cream/milk ice#I personally like chocolate flavoured ice cream too 👍#I actually just love icecream in general so I think I'm jusy projecting onto the Mayor at this point#they love ice cream/milk ice#Macaque has intense mixed feelings about this#he doesn't understand the appeal of a good pear other than the fact that its a good fruit to wash down something you just ate beforehand#he likes banana and banana flavoured ice cream#y'know its funny because people assume Mayor likes blueberries because its blue and Macaque likes plums because its purple
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if rimmer was half smart in mechocracy for his presidential campaign he couldve used anecdotes from his experience as a soft light hologram before he got his hard light drive .. like yeah to an extent he still wouldve been pulling absolute heaps of horseshit out of his ass but technically him being a hologram still makes him a machine in a way.
like when he was exclusively soft light he had a lot less actual autonomy as a machine as he most often had to rely on holly or the scutters to holographically project/do everything for him. if hed used that it wouldve added at least the tiniest grain of substance to his campaign but he just ... never mentioned that once & just focused on slagging kryten instead
#red dwarf#arnold rimmer#faced with the slightest possibility of a single grain of power and gets so overexcited he loses all sense of logic#and cant think of ways to make himself seem appealing so just immediately resorts to ways he can make everyone else as unappealing possible#regardless kryten still wouldve probably been the best option anyway
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“You simply must honor the cock.”
Fantasy High: Junior Year | ep. 16
#i almost shared Ally’s need for a barf break this was so out of left field#and emily’s immediate ‘that’s my husband baby!’ bless her bless them#also this is all in character to me#riz gukgak#the bad kids#dimension 20#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year#brian murphy#emily axford#the intrepid heroes#vid#also murph’s wild swing in defensive strategies from appealing to logic to straight up ‘shut UP NUH UH’ just beautiful
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how do you think dean feels about aging? obviously we know he never expected to live very long, so when he does i’m sure he’s thankful as hell!! but things like wrinkles, hearing loss, bad eyes, other disabilities that come with age — how do you think he takes it? especially when he was such a physical POWERHOUSE in his prime.
AHH GOOD QUESTION THANK YOU!!!
In general, yeah, every day is a gift because he never would've thought he'd live this long, especially not to see retirement. It wouldn't hit him until his birthday, when he's now in his forties, mid-forties, his fifties, mid-fifties, and so on. Watching his kids get older too would really make him feel old.
But looks-wise, Dean is largely in denial, as we see here
(courtesy of arcanespillo)
I don't think that would change lmao. I think it would take someone else pointing something out to make him feel conscious about it. Like the "What's a dad bod?" moment that one episode (it's escaping me rn I can picture it clear as day). But I think generally he's confident enough in his looks that it doesn't bother him. Especially since he's in a loving, committed relationship.
His body degrading would be much more disheartening (as you've seen in my ficlet about his bad knees) Like, he loves his new quiet retirement life. He still works out regularly and stays in shape in case he does need to fight, so he definitely could be worse-off if he wasn't exercising, but he still lived a really hardcore lifestyle and that did some damage. I think losing his hearing and eyesight would be difficult but losing his mobility would hit him like a truck. At first, he just powers through (to his own detriment later on when he's sore for the next day or two) and he learns the hard way he's better off taking it easier in the first place. But that takes a mental toll as well. It's hard, adjusting to this new normal and letting go of things he used to do, letting go of how his body used to be. He really beats himself up for it. But he has a good support system in his partner who accommodates his needs and they figure everything out together 💖
#I kept this vague to appeal to a wider audience but of course me personally I'm imagining him married to Jo#in my ficlet Jo reminds him his body has been put through a lot over the years saving people and that's nothing to be ashamed of#and reminds him that he wouldn't call Baby old. she's classic. she needs more maintenance than she did in her prime#but she's still just as good (I'm paraphrasing it sounds better in the fic lol)#and he can't argue with that logic even though he still feels old#dean winchester#supernatural#spn#spn headcanon#dean headcanon#dean winchester headcanon#supernatural headcanon#dean headcanons#spn headcanons#supernatural headcanons#disablednatural
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oooohhh erm,, inkmare i'm so curious what you think :3 /gen /nf
hmm….. this one is kinda hard actually. i think doesn’t make sense, doesn’t compel me
#sorryyy i don’t really like inkmare#except. it might compel me more if it was yuri. but like a bit it’s still not my thing#theoretically i can understand the appeal#and in some portrayals i can understand how their ideologies might not clash because of emotional balance with nigntmare#and how ink enjoys the stories of the aus and sometimes negativity is crucial to those stories#meaning inkmare could probably work more in those circumstances. like if we were talking logically#but still. doesn’t really do anything for me. thumbs up emoji#answering asks#yellow-computer-mouse asks
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Hi! Why do so many BLs have one character meet the other when they were a child and love them since then…. I’m watching History 5 and the second couple has this trope with the older one loving the child but loads of them have a child ‘loving’ the older guy for years (Minato, second couple in History 4, lovely writer)
Is this a common trope in non-BL Asian dramas? Maybe I’m missing some cultural aspect but it makes me feel a bit weird… I’m fine when they both meet as children but when one’s a child and one’s an adult it feels off to me!
We Met As Kids, Therefore I Love You
Yes, it's a super common trope in ALL Asian romances.
There's a human cross-cultural claim-to-care around having met someone "first" giving one person priority to another's affection and in their life.
For example, think about how many fans (of say a Kpop group or band or actor) will claim to be "better" or morally superior to other fans of that same talent, because they have have liked that group/person "since the beginning" or "before they were famous." How about those who claim superiority because they read the book before the TV series became popular?
To have loved something FIRST is often allied with being better at loving it, there is a value judgement to longevity of association. (This is also true around disliking someone/something first.)
There isn't a name for this logical fallacy, although there should be. I would say something like appeal to tradition argumentum ad antiquitatem (which is a red herring fallacy). So appeal to time, argumentum ad tempus?
(The 8th Sense is doing some VERY interesting things to philosophically battle this concept right NOW, actually.)
Narratively speaking, if you have only a short amount of time to unfold the story (for example We Best Love) this trope gives writers a quick way to justify pining and affection (usually from the seme character). So backstory can be cribbed for character development. That character is already in love, so we don't have to show him falling in love, only one character is in play for that.
In longer narratives (like Word of Honor, Lovely Writer) this is a secret that gets to be slowly uncovered and explored as a plot point. If you have them meet as children, or when one is a child then it justifies one character not remembering the other (because peoples appearances change from childhood to adulthood).
I think the popularity in Asian dramas in particular has to do with collectivist cultures and family obligation/intimacy priority. To have known (or met) someone as a kid adds a level of intimate connection that justifies any affection that much more than meeting later in life.
There's a very funny scene in Kdrama (noona romance) Thumping Spike (recommended) that directly mocks this trope. Near the end the main couple openly together and they are in the car with the (former) love triangle dude. He lost, even though he's the one with the childhood crush. He directly combats this concept by saying (basically): If longevity guaranteed romance, I should be married to the grandma who runs my local convenience store.
Another well known Kdrama that combats this trope is Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (recommended) which goes out of its way to have the love triangle character who would normally lose the girl, actual win her this time. (So the one who loses is the moot crush from childhood.)
In BL, I tracked this one for a while:
Also here are a few BLs that DO NOT use this trope:
(source)
#asked and answered#Korean bl#childhood crush#long term pining#We Best Love#taiwanese bl#Strong Woman Do Bong Soon#Kdrama#KBL#Korean BL#Thumping Spike#Word of Honor#Chinese BL#bromance#the eighth sense#argumentum ad antiquitatem#appeal to tradition#logical fallacy
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