#cancer today

[marzipanandminutiae]

As someone who works with social history for a living, I feel like I’m the aggressive opposite of an anti-vaxxer

I fucking LOVE vaccines, friends. Give me the science stab. I’m so ready. it’s a beautiful day to not die of a Bajillion and one diseases that carried off like half the population before they had even reached age 10, and a significant portion before they made it to old age, 150 years ago

I go to the old cemetery. I see the vast numbers of infant and child and young adult graves. And then I go to my doctor and get injected with Potion of Fuck That Noise. This is beautiful and miraculous and I do not remotely understand how some people can reject it – not just for themselves, but for their children

[motherwench]

jeanette lee, a brooklyn-born pool player nicknamed the “black widow” for her tendency to wear all black outfits and “lure [her] opponents to the table and eat them alive.” some of my favorite photos of her :)

her vogue article here. sports illustrated article here.

photo creds: 1 - drew endicott via vogue. 2. 3. 4.

[lup-ines]

aspects/placements that like to pretend they don’t give a fuck but do

• virgo placements

• moon opposite/square mars/pluto

• leo sun/moon

• moon in the 8th house

• fire moons

• scorpio placements

placements that actually don’t give a fuck and stand on it

• gemini placements (esp the mercuries)

• mercury square/opposite mars

• sagittarius sun/mercury/venus

• fire venus

• aquarius moon/mercury

• capricorn sun/moon/rising

[wikoymi]

17 february 2024 i think i hauve Despair Disease

[ratwithhands]

Read right to left (Manga Formant) I actually have a lot more sketches of Kokushibo but this is only one that works without any context. I'll try to post more of him soon but I've somehow stuck myself into writing like 4 different AUs at the same time so it's gonna be slow 👁👁💦

Also bonus doodle from today:

[fishfingersandscarves]

hello all! after 10 years of remission my dad was diagnosed with hodgekin's lymphoma for the second time in his life this august. since his diagnosis my family has been hit by every fucking roadblock and bad luck thing imaginable.

our insurance has decided to make everything we do incredibly difficult and my mom has been fighting for his proper care non-stop. our disability was denied because his work had accidentally been paying him full pay while on leave and now the state wants us to pay back 10k even though it was his company's mistake - or else no disability (we're going to petition this)

he's been suffering from symptoms from his chemotherapy such as intense body pain and deep neuropathy and a hernia (which needs to be removed by surgery but cannot while he's on chemo) alongside a slew of other problems. no amount of pain medication has been really helping and it's been really really awful.

we've been trying really hard to keep things all together but my mom is the only one working who makes enough to pay bills and it's just. really tough.

all this to say. i'd really really appreciate it if the link to this meal train was shared. and if possible someone were to donate.

thank you so so much

[jupitermelichios]

i have been voting in the DC's next queer couple polls here on tumblr.com, but I also want it on record that I believe with my whole soul that DC should follow in Marvel's illustrious footsteps and continue the good work they did with Tim Drake and Kon-El by only ever allowing one half of any popular ship to come out.

One of the lantern boys, but only one, and if it's Hal, the door to Ollie's closet gets nailed shut with him inside

One of Boostle

One of Roy, Dick, and Jason gets to come out but only one (and it cannot under any circumstances be dick because the fact that he's still officially straight is way too funny to me personally. they put him on the cover of their pride special, and he's still in the closet, it's incredible)

Lex just starts openly admitting that he's thirsty for Clark, Clark does a mischa collins in response and officially comes out as straight

mostly this is because i think it's funny, partly it's because people are being absolute dicks over that fun bracket, and a little bit it's because i'm a cable fan and i'm feeling spiteful.

[moonlit-doodles]

it's his birthday because i said so. happy birthday genderfluid king.

[hey-hamlet]

The human body is a carnival of horrors

AKA I tell you about Teratomas and you hate me because of it <3

First of all, some etymology! A word ending with ‘oma’ is probably some sort of tumor and ‘terato’ is from the ancient Greek teras meaning monster, and in modern medicine pertaining to a birth defect (which. Yikes. Nice to know what old time-y doctors really think, huh?). Despite the name, they aren’t necessarily a from-birth thing, and they aren’t even cancer*! They don’t too rough, right? Well. That's because I haven’t told you about the teeth.

(*they can, in fact, be cancer. but very rarely, i promise!)

TW: Body horror, medical imagery under the read-more.

(Image owned by the Maude Abbott Medical Museum of McGill University)

So, if you don’t have a set of ovaries and for aren’t freshly born, you don’t need to worry as much about the teeth, because the type of teratomas I’m talking about are ‘mature cystic teratomas’ (also called grade 0 teratomas). These are the most common and the least likely to cause you physical harm, but highly likely to feature in your nightmares <3.

These ovarian teratomas occur when an egg decides it wants to be something cooler than an egg and doesn’t want to wait for sperm, or even to leave the ovarian follicle it was chilling in. This results in some spontaneous parthenogenetic development. Sadly, sperm is a pretty important ingredient in this whole shebang, at least in humans, so a teratoma is not a fetus, viable or not. Even more sadly, the teratoma does not care about this, and starts to develop anyway. 

Fun fact that wasn’t really relevant before this - you develop out of 3 different ‘germ cell layers’ as a fetus, the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm. The mesoderm makes stuff like blood, muscles and bone while the endoderm makes stuff like the lining of your GI tract or your lungs. Ovarian teratomas are made up of ectoderm-derived tissue - like hair, skin, nerves, etc. 

But, you cry, the teeth???? Well my friend - teeth are not bones. Teeth are skin**. Ergo - teeth and hair in your ovaries.

(**this is a wild oversimplification, but you get my point, right?)

The worst part, at least for me, is the fact we don’t really know why they go rogue sometimes? Because of that, we don’t know how to avoid them! Very upsetting. Just another example of the fact we seem to know how literal stars work much better than we understand the human body. A true carnival of horrors, but, admittedly, one I’m pretty glad I have!

[geeta1726]

What does Venus in the 6th house mean?

Venus in the 6th house has specific implications. Here are the key points:

Focus on Service: Venus in the 6th house indicates a strong emphasis on service, work, and daily responsibilities, often bringing harmony to the workplace.

Health and Wellness: This placement can lead to an interest in health, wellness, and maintaining a balanced lifestyle, though it may also bring challenges related to indulgence or overwork.

Relationships with Colleagues: Venus here often creates pleasant and cooperative relationships with coworkers and subordinates, promoting teamwork.

Potential Conflicts: There may be challenges in personal relationships, as Venus in the 6th can sometimes lead to conflicts or misunderstandings, particularly in love matters.

Financial Stability: The focus on work and service can lead to financial stability, especially when the native is engaged in Venus-related professions like art, beauty, or finance.

If you want to know the result of Venus in the sixth house or any other planet, that too on the basis of your horoscope. So there is a very good software. In my opinion, it can give you very good information on the basis of your horoscope. Which is Kundli Chakra Professional 2022 software which can give you better information.

[pinbones]

There's two types of people who use transandrophobia to decribe transmascs' and trans mens' experiences:

- Simply specificity, language used to hone in on a specific way being trans affects people who just happen to be men

- As both the above and as a springboard to discuss how societal misogyny, radical feminism, gender stereotypes, and bioessentalism affect all people who can be pecieved as men or masculine by others, and how bigotries compound in meaningful ways with stereotypes and bigotry surrounding maleness and manhood

Like. Half of you are saying "maleness is a hollow experience which is standard, and exists in opposition to gendered oppression, and transandrophobia is therefore when dudes experience misogyny and transphobia"

and half of you are saying "Being percieved and/or transitioning towards male uniquely affects how I am treated, because, for example, how people perceive my blackness or mental illness or kinkiness or femininity is compounded with my manhood in ways that don't usually happen to gender conforming cisperi women"

Which are two fundamentally different approaches to transandrophobia as a concept. One suggests that maleness is a simple downy layer of privilege that coats a person through their male life, and the other acknowledges that a man (or somebody perceived as masculine/male) can experience oppression in ways that those NOT perceived male may not.

Only one of these interpretations is intersectional. Black individuals who are policed more hashly when interpreted as masc know they are risking dangerous experiences when transitioning to male, as has been discussed before on here (to no avail). Male or percieved male people with personality disorders are treated as more dangerous than women with similar symptoms, and are sometiems diagnosed with different disorders entirely based on percieved gender differences. This affects transmascs too, especially considering the already dire state of queerness in psychiatric institutions. Being a male birthing parent is a whole shitshow of transphobia because men are not supposed to give birth, and transmascs are lucky to access related healthcare at all, let alone access it without being ceaselessly misgendered and treated as a stigmatised 'other' to deleterious affects on parent and baby. These are just a few examples, there are many more ways maleness can screw a person over. And that's not to say that female privilege is a thing instead of male privilege, but rather to emphasise that men are not supposed to be minorities. Men are not supposed to be assaulted, men are not supposed to be outliers, men are absolutely not supposed to be trans.

When a man is autistic, he's not just autistic, he's an autistic male, and that makes him more likely to be killed by cops (especially if black). When someone says "you claim you're not ableist but you're scared of the homeless x on a bus talking to xself", they always say the person is a man, because that sounds more significant (and cops think so too). Consider when a person's rape/abuse is considered to not be all that serious due to the victim being male, or when a man's attraction is considered to be more exploitative than a woman's, or when a fat man is considered more creepy/sexist than a thin man or a fat woman. Consider why so many caricatures of evil and creepiness are men with deformities. Consider the fact that men's bathrooms don't have baby changing tables, and that a man may get less support from others after their child's death than the mother might. Maleness can negatively compound with things like minority status, vulnerability, aggression, sexuality, etc. in ways that screw that person over, both in social spaces (such as queer communities that dislike/distrust maleness and masculinity, or how isolation affects men harder), and in more tangible ways, like their rates of suicide and being murdered.

There are tangible ways in which transitioning to male can negatively affect a person's life even if you remove (hypothetically, not really possible) the transphobia element, and these also constitute as worthwhile topics of discussion. If you think maleness is the lack of gendered oppression, then you're not intersectional in your feminism at all. If your life as a male is genuinely sunshine and rainbows (apart from the transphobia if trans), then good for you, genuinely that's great, but not everyone lives in a radfem fantasy world.

Being unable to tell the difference between men talking about mens issues/liberation, and right wingers talking about oppressing women more, isn't feminist. It's ignorant and antifeminist. (MRAs don't care about actual mens lib, and are actively worsening it because they are sexist and opposed to gender lib. You guys know that, right? That male and female liberation aren't oppositional or binary, but the same gender liberation that is entirely oppositional to patriarchy?)

These men and mascs talking about issues facing men aren't ignorant womanhaters who deny misogyny and want ultraprivileged men to be coddled, they are good faith members of your community with experiences just as varied and valid as yours. Treat them like it.

[willpowers]

sometimes in life the only option is to eat ur sister

happy falin cannibalism plot reveal everyone special shout out to all us manga readers who had to keep this a secret from anime only friends we did it we made it

[t00thpasteface]

really enjoying the way my very italian genetics professor pronounces the word "malignant" like "maleenyant"

[athena5898]

@BDSBoston Elbit Systems plans on attending a fundraiser for cancer in Boston... When Elbit shows up, we show up! The Leukemia and lymphoma society's annual Light the Night fundraiser will take place on October 17th on the Boston common. One group participating is the "Cambridge Team" for Israel's Largest weapons manufacturer - Elbit Systems. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society aims to "fund lifesaving blood cancer research around the world, provide free information and support services, and be the voice for all blood cancer patients." Yet Elbit profits from the wholesale destruction of hospitals in Gaza, preventing Gazan cancer patients from accessing proper treatment. The cruel hypocrisy of Israel's largest weapons manufacturer showing up to charity event for cancer research as their weapons are used daily to destroy hospitals and murder healthcare workers and patients alike must not go unchecked. We oppose Elbit's efforts to whitewash their reputation!

BDS Boston will show up to Light the Night's event tomorrow evening, where we will tell attendees who Elbit is and the ways Elbit is harming leukemia, lymphoma, and other cancer patients in Gaza.

Leave a common on Elbit Systems of America Cambridge's fundraising page to tell Elbit employees loud and clear that they have no right to show up to this event while working for a company that deprives Gazan cancer patients access to life-saving medicine and care! tinyurl.com/elbitatlls

[elenadoeslife]

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[heyitsmeyourfavoritechick]

Sept 7, 24.

⭐️ Mars in Cancer ⭐️

How my Cancer placements doing this time?

Are we feeling ourselves and getting out of patterns that no longer resonate with us? But in a tone and energy you’ve been dying to let out? Sticking up for yourself when you’ve been swept under the mat for so long? Feeling powerful?

Or

Is it opposite feeling and everything is coming down at you all at once and you don’t know how to hold the world of your problems on your own? But now your finally on your own “figuring it out” when you thought you had this support group?

You’re not alone, your right where you need to be Cancer placements and sometimes when we face negative situations it tests us on how we react (and everyone expects us to cry and whine about it) but it’s just a learning lesson we need to face to be the best version of yourself. 

Everyone who doubted you is going to be proved wrong.