#pre roe during roe post roe I don't care

[thesearchforbluejello]

Okay what the actual everlasting fuck? This is certainly a Direction™ and this is quite literally my least favorite horror trope of all time ever

Not even being dramatic, I hate it with every single fiber of my being, no joke.

How did we get from one of my favorite tropes (groundhog day) to here -100/10 wish I could skip this arc entirely

[randaccidents]

Quickkkkkkkkkkk question

Do the Heartless HMS have any nicknames for each other?

I totally won't use this against you.

No way

uhhhhHHHH which part. of the timeline are we talking about qwq

Love how yall keep asking me the questions that I have NOT thought about this is fleshing out the AU so nicely.

Pre-ROE it would just be the canon-typical Sun/Moon/Stars and Apollo/Artemis/Atlas ofc ofc, theyre still in a normal loop and nothing has changed

POST APATHY is interesting on the other hand.

Heart is temporally separated from the other two, and keeps defaulting to calling them Mind and Soul, so much so that their old names are practically a nickname to them now.

Perseverance and Penitence don't have any new nicknames for Heart during this period of time, it is important that they remember he is Heart, Heart, Heart.

Post-recovery/into the future on the other hand. I like to think that they start calling Heart the nickname "Vital" or something similar (I like Vital its a very heart thing). Heart is very confused why, but its nice to be called something so needed (its a very nice reminder too, that he is wanted).

In terms of nicknaming each other.... hm

I think Penitence would have the nickname "Shepherd" since he's Heart's main caretaker and he keeps wrestling Perseverance to bed. {"Go to bed! Stop making me shove you around like a sheep you stubborn git!"} ["Make me Shepherd."]

And Perseverance would have the nickname uhhhhhhh (15 minutes of thinking) I think maybe he would get the nickname like. What if his nickname is "Custodian" because he has responsibility for taking care of or protecting his halves and also because its an alternative title for janitor. {"So dear Custodian-"} ["Are you saying that because you need me, or because I'm cleaning again."] {"...both."}

(Firm belief that despite the situation they are still SIBLINGS they are still GOOBERS and there are moments of lightheartedness between Perseverance and Penitence sometimes. It is a relief to them both, and it gives them a reason to continue. Also because they would take the chance to make fun of each other fight me)

Oh and. Free detail because I overanalyse. Perseverance and Penitence have job related nicknames, while Heart gets a medical description as a nickname (the Heart is a vital organ-)

[velvetsands]

updates

three whole days in new york was a lot of fun

i bet i could do some serious damage in that city if i lived there lol

catching the subway at 11pm with a teenager both fresh off the plane all the way from jfk to hoboken not knowing i could have died?

sights seen: brooklyn bridge, flatiron, statue of liberty, wall street, stock exchange, one world trade centre, saks fifth avenue, central park, the met (briefly), the friends apartment

saw an influencer shooting onlyfans content completely nude in central park

saw the yankees win at home with two home runs with amazing bars pre and post

rounded the corner from the friends apartment, found myself in a pride parade and then kesha was randomly performing???

saw moulin rouge on broadway, then cash took me to times square

where we stumbled into the wade vs roe street protests -- insane

made friends with the girl beside me during the yankees game, she scored me reservations to peak and crown shy

learnt how to do coke the "new yorker way"

partied until 6am before dragging my sorry ass across state lines watching state of origin updates was definitely novel

hailed a taxi which was cool

probably walked ~45-50km in total just because

ate bagels, pizza, catalogued all the names they called me at starbucks, fell in love with chick-fil-a and brown sugar floats at dunkin' donuts

then caught a plane to boston (mistake, should have caught the train) and i thought i was going to andover, ma BUT NO i was going to andover, nh

turns out the conference was at some elite boarding academy in the middle of rural new hampshire and actually.... turns out it wasn't my field at all (they were chemistry, i am biology and the intersection is small believe it or not)

i was disrespected so many times and at one point, one of the giants in the field told me to "shut up" and i gave it back to him bc guess what... he's a nobody in MY field.

the conference for the most part sucked, my talk was given to someone else bc i wasn't "senior enough" when in reality it's actually all MY data like what..... i know that data better than my own boss tbh

the chairs wanna talk about empowering grad students during every lecture session blah blah blah but then the one real opportunity to do just that presents itself and they knocked me back

i asked (read: begged three times) them to give me a slot and it was fucking humilating -- nobody in my own country cares about copper, i go to the once place people care about copper, and my work falls on deaf ears

anyway i ended up making a bunch of new friends, came up with a new experimental technique i think will be of major interest and managed to squeeze a hike and a wine tour so all was not lost

i feel like this was reaaaaallly good practice for spain where i will be talking in only a couple of weeks (#girlboss) where people will be in my field and hopefully appreciate my work!!!!!!!!

went back to boston and visited harvard... very very cool. would love to have spent some more time but just needed to get home so booked flights 24h earlier to buy some time in sydney lol

fact: human bodies aren't meant to hurtle at 1000kph for 23h across the world

so even though flying premium+ economy was fantastic

i don't reckon i could do that to myself more than once a year which really raises questions about a future postdoc in the US

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Wow...just, wow...

There's a whole lot of ignorance to unpack there.

So you say that you support abortion to save the pregnant person's life. Yet prolife representatives don't agree with you. Let's get one thing straight. Abortion simply means the termination of a pregnancy. Miscarriages are often called spontaneous abortions. These are incredibly different than elective abortions, but the terminology used is similar. In 2019, Candice Keller and Mike Dewine introduced a bill that would force doctors to try to implant the fetus of an ectopic pregnancy in the pregnant person's uterus. Which is medically impossible and would have killed the person.

Recently Brian Seitz introduced a bill that, if passed, would make terminating an ectopic pregnant illegal.

And Warren Hamilton has stated his opposition to exceptions for ectopic pregnancies.

People have died from being denied an abortion:

Savita Halappanavar

Agnieszka T.

Izabela Sajbor and the other women mentioned in this article

And if you're still under the illusion that prolifers only want what's best for pregnant people, look at this post:

There was Bobby Franklin, who introduced a bill that would have caused every miscarriage to be investigated as a homicide.

Chelsea Becker was jailed for a stillbirth.

Marshae Jones was charged for her miscarriage after she'd been shot.

Brittany Poolaw was convicted for her miscarriage.

So maybe you personally see the difference between elective abortion due to ectopic pregnancy or a miscarriage, but the people prolifers put in power do not. They will kill people because they want to.

As for teenagers knowing enough about sex, sex ed varies greatly from state to state, with some states teaching almost nothing but abstinence. And there's a difference between mentally knowing something and having the maturity level to not only make a calculated judgment, but to become a fucking parent. If a 15 year old isn't allowed to leave the class without a hall pass, they're not ready to have a baby.

As for rape victims, if you ban them from having an abortion, you are an accessory to rape. You are punishing them for their rapist's actions. You are forcing them to risk their health and lives. You are retraumatizing them every single day of that pregnancy. I know you're young, but deep down you know that is psychopathic.

There are organizations to help those in poverty...so why is there still homelessness? Why do people die of easily curable diseases? Why is there still starvation? Because the organizations can't help everyone.

Prolifers don't mention those "increased risks" associated with abortion because they don't often exist when abortion is performed in a safe manner. Infections and internal organ damage is common when an abortion is performed unsafely. But when performed safely, abortions are safer than giving birth.

An abortion ban won't stop abortions. It will only stop safe abortions. So I guess prolifers want women to experience that? Do yourself a favor and research abortions pre Roe v. Wade.

Abortion certainly doesn't cause breast cancer.

My sources for the common conditions in pregnancy? I mean did you even google it?

And I'll end with this. Most of your concern with abortion seems to be that babies are bring murdered. They are not. Fetuses are being aborted. A fetus is not a baby any more than am acorn is a tree or an egg is a chick. It cannot survive outside of another person.

Now, you are free to believe fetuses are babies. You're wrong, but you're free to believe that. But you are not free to force another person to be pregnant. No one can force another to let someone live inside them. To restrict their movements and give up health and possibly life for another person.

Prolifers don't like abortion? Fine. They don't need to get one. If they want they can pop babies out like Pez Dispensers. But they do not get to force everyone else in the country to subscribe to their views.

@theivorybilledwoodpecker

Okay, that may be true. Deaths that may occur due to child birth is common, unfortunately. But how does this justify abortion? A mother’s death during birth is just as tragic as a baby in the womb getting mutilated during a suction (aspiration) D&C.

Now, ectopic pregnancies. I never heard of that term before and after doing my research on what that is, I came to the conclusion that abortion is a necessary procedure that needs to happen so that the mother can be relieved of her pain. That for me is an exception. But most abortions are mostly done to healthy fetuses and that is not what I support, whatsoever. Mothers who are assured of an healthy path of their pregnancy get abortions when they go in for check-ups and STILL, they want to murder their unborn child.

And even if the mother is at an high-risk pregnancy, abortion is less likely to happen anyway. That’s why C-Section exist. According to Dr. C. Everett Koop (former Surgeon General of the United States), "Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smokescreen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery I have never known of one instance of where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If towards the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Cesarean section. His intention is to save the life of the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger."

And removing a nonviable or dead pregnancy is not an abortion. In miscarriages, they wouldn’t do an abortion, they would make you stillbirth the child to get it out. 😐 Septic uteruses are more likely to cause a miscarriage. And to note, after 6-7 weeks, the risk of a miscarriage is less than 5%. Most abortions occur between 10-12 weeks or later- long after the majority of miscarriages would occur.

“Pregnancy due to rape or incest.”

I hate when you guys do this. You take one of the most traumatic experiences that anyone can go through to push the agenda of murdering babies. But anyway, instead of punishing the child because of another’s heinous crime, can we actually condemn the person who actually committed it? The baby did nothing. The baby is just as much as a victim the mother is. That’s unjust. It doesn’t matter how one was conceived. That baby can grow up and become a good person. Hell, even a bad person. We don’t know. But do not assume one’s future by the way one was conceived. Come on now.

The pregnant person is a child.

Valid point but not really. Child pregnancy or teen pregnancy? Teens, nowadays have the knowledge of how sex works. That’s why “this trend in teen birth rates has continued even as the economy has recovered, and birth rates for teens have fallen faster than they have for all women ages 15 to 44 (58% and 4% declines, respectively, from 2008 to 2018).” Why? “Less sex, use of more effective contraception and more information about pregnancy prevention,” according to the Pew Research Center.

The person is trans and cannot continue taking hormones while pregnant.

Source? If I’m not mistaken, pretty sure they can keep taking their hormones if it doesn’t harm the baby. But I could be wrong. I’m not really sure how that works.

Pregnant person can be at a increased risk of cardiovascular issues, depression, diabetes, etc.

Again, Source? And has it ever occurred to you that anyone who has an abortion is at a increased risk of breast cancer, depression, suicidal thoughts, guilt/shame, damage to internal organs, pelvic infections, etc? No? Hell, even may have long-term injuries that might complicate their future pregnancies? How come you pro-choicers never bring this up?

“The pregnant person may not have the financial stability to support her child. May lead to starvation or homelessness.”

Sigh. Just as there are shelters where homeless people can go and lay their heads and feed themselves, there are pro-life organizations out there who are more than willing to help these women out because that is what being pro-life is about. Pro-life is pro-women.

Here are the organizations that I am talking about:

Live Action (specialty: investigative reports, Pro-Life news) https://www.liveaction.org/news/

Students For Life (specialty: youth advocacy. linked to Christianity but will welcome members with other/no religion) https://studentsforlife.org/

Susan B. Anthony’s List (specialty: email updates and contacting representatives) https://www.sba-list.org/

Secular Pro-Life(specialty:exactly what it says) https://secularprolife.org/

40 Days For Life (specialty: protesting and support for Moms) https://www.40daysforlife.com/

Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising PAAU (specialty: youth action, direct action, protesting) https://paaunow.org/

Also, my mother had me when she was 18. She was homeless and didn’t have anywhere to go. She was left by her mother, my grandmother, to fend for herself on the streets. And let me tell you, the streets is no place for a pregnant teenager. Do you think I should have been aborted?

Now, I am 18 years old. Graduated high school and on my way to college, very excited to major in Literature and English. Made friends, traveled to different places, making a life for myself. That’s why I’m pro-life. Every life deserves to live.

Forgot your other excuses as to why women should kill their own babies. But I think I got my point across already. 😁