#lung cancer from the cigarettes

[unhonestlymirror]

My Lithuanian bestie thinks Damiano David has the sexiest voice, and tbh, I'm a bit afraid to tell her that to me, the sexiest voice belongs to Žoržs Siksna, like, those two guys are at the completely opposite sides of spectrum

[robinsnest2111]

coolio. my father hasn't taken his blood pressure medication in almost a year :^)

his blood pressure is almost as high as when he almost died due to a ruptured blood vessel on my birthday a couple years ago

cool cool cool 👍

[chikatilosgirl]

okay so I lurk on a subreddit that is similar to “eyeblech”, where the posts are usually accidents, death, violence, cartels, medical gore, etc. a nasty subreddit for sure!

but I love how when you type in some country on the search bar like “Russia”, or “Mexico”, or “Brazil” there’s of course all kinds of brutality you can imagine

but when you type in “canada” the first post that usually pops up is: ScArY CiGaReTtE pAcKaGiNg

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

One night of negative ions isn’t going to kill me. I’m performing an exorcism and Satan is going to drive out the cigarettes like how the Pied Piper drowned all the rats.

[persephoneflouwers]

This tiktok was on my fyp. Since I’m a very goodhearted soul I share life important news with people I care about

[carfuckerlynch]

affirming my masculinity by allowing my apartment to become disgusting and dying of lung cancer at the age of 65

[riverlarking]

nothing awakens homicidal tendencies in me more than walking behind people vaping on the street. if you blow that strawberry bubblegum sugarcane cloud at me one more time i’m gonna shoot you

[lamentablesbian]

moving out (take 2) tomorrow 💃💃💃 let’s go!

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

I just realized I've never showed y'all my based collection of backpack pins

closeups under the cut

Bonus - space cat set I got recently

[magnoliamyrrh]

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[sisyphusslnabyss-sent-to-abyss]

Please do not call philosophers babygirl

[video0game0queen]

maybe don't romanticize something that causes cancer thanks

[weaselle]

i want to talk about real life villains

Not someone who mugs you, or kills someone while driving drunk, those are just criminals. I mean VILLAINS.

Not like trump or musk, who are... cartoonishly evil. And not sexy villains, not grandiose villains, not even satisfyingly two dimensional villains it is easy to hate unconditionally. The real villains.

I had a client who was a retired executive for one of the big oil companies, i think it was Shell or Chevron. Had a home just outside of San Francisco that was wall to wall floor to ceiling full of expensive art. Literally. I once accidentally knocked a painting off the wall because it was hanging at knee height at the corner of the stairs, and it had a little brass plaque on it, and i looked up the name of the artist and it was Monet's apprentice and son-in-law, who was apparently also a famous painter. He had an original Andy Warhol, which should have been a prize piece for anyone to showcase -- it was hanging in the bathroom. I swear to god this guy was using a Chihuly (famous glass sculptor) as a fruit bowl. And he was like, "idk my wife was the one who liked art"

I was intrigued by this guy, because in the circles i run this dude is The Enemy. right? Wealthy oil executive? But as my client, he was... like a sweet grandpa. A poor widower, a nice old man, anyone who knew him would have called him a sweetheart. He had a slightly bewildered air, a sort of gentle bumbling nature.

And the fact that he was both of these things, a Sweet Little Old Man and The Enemy, at the same time, seemed important and fascinating to me.

He reminded me of some antagonist from fiction, but i couldn't put my finger on who. And when i did it all made sense.

John Hammond.

probably one of the most realistic bad guys ever written.

If you've only ever seen the movie, this will need some explaining.

Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park in 1990, and i read it shortly thereafter. In the movie, the dinosaurs are the antagonists, which imo erases 50% of the point of the story.

book spoilers below.

In the book, John Hammond is the villain but it takes the reader like half the book to figure that out. Just like my client, John is a sweet old man who wants lovely things for people. He's a very sympathetic character. But as the book progresses, you start to see something about him.

He has an idea, and he's sure it's a good one. When someone else dies in pursuit of his dream, he doesn't think anything of it. When other people turn out to care about that, he brings in experts to evaluate the safety of his idea, and when they quickly tell him his idea is dangerous and needs to be put on hold, he ignores his own experts that he himself hired, because they are telling him that he is wrong, and he is sure he is right.

In his mind, he's a visionary, and nobody understands his vision. He is surrounded by naysayers. Several things have proven too difficult to do the best and safest way, so he has cut corners and taken shortcuts so he can keep moving forward with his plans, but he's sure it's fine. He refuses to hear any word of caution, because he believes he is being cautious enough, and he knows best, even though he has no background in any of the sciences or professions involved. He sends his own grandchildren out into a life-threatening situation because he is willfully ignorant of the danger he is creating.

THIS is like the real villains of the world. He doesn't want anyone to die. Far from it, he only wants good things for people! He's a sweet old man who loves his grandchildren. But he has money and power and refuses to hear that what he is doing is dangerous for everyone, even his own family.

I think he's possibly one of the most important villains ever written in popular fiction.

In the book, he is killed by a pack of the smallest, cutest, "least dangerous" dinosaurs, because a big part of why we read fiction is to see the villains face thematic justice. But like a cigarette CEO dying of lung cancer, his death does not stop his creation from spreading out into the world to continue to endanger everyone else.

I think it is really important to see and understand this kind of villainy in fiction, so you can recognize it in real life.

Sweetheart of a grandfather. Wanted the best for everyone. Right up until what was best for everyone inconvenienced the pursuit of his own interests.

And my client was like that too. His wife had died, and his dog was now the love of his life, and she was this little old dog with silky hair in a hair cut that left long wispy bits on her lower legs. Certain plant materials were easily entangled in this hair and impossible to get out without pulling her hair which clearly hurt her. When i suggested he ask his groomer to trim her lower leg hair short to avoid this, he refused, saying he really liked her usual hair cut.

I emphasized that she was in pain after every walk due to the plant debris getting caught in her leg hair, and a simple trim could put an end to her daily painful removal of it, and he just frowned like i'd recommended he take a bath in pig shit and said "But she'll be ugly" and refused to talk about it anymore.

Sweet old man though. Everyone loved him.

[samsung-refrigerator-2000]

My mom just woke up and called me and she sounds DEATHLY I feel so bad 😭😭

Love my mom so much but this is the 3rd time this year she's gotten sick and every time she just about drugs herself into a coma with cold medicine because her body literally cannot handle being sick and her lungs get destroyed because of how many cigarettes she smokes

[emowitch420]

Smoking Marijuana can still cause cancer. It can come from the smoke.

was unaware of this thank u for correcting me