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[distant--shadow]

drew an imogen pin-up caus my brain isn't cooperating

[artlefty]

[noirandchocolate]

RICE Alzheimer's Research Institute

Terry died on 12 March 2015, having given his PCA a run for its money.  Open about his diagnosis, he has helped to unlock the secrecy and stigma that often surrounds dementia.  His legion of fans is undoubtedly grateful that despite the inevitable progression of the PCA he was able to fight his ‘embuggerance’ and continue to produce a number of both well-received and well-reviewed books.  Terry was also a great example to me in emphasizing how important it is that, in caring for people with any type of dementia, we always look for what people with a condition like PCA can still do, rather than what they can’t: by maximizing what is possible, a person can still live well with dementia for a significant time.

–Professor Roy Jones, Director of RICE (taken from “Terry Pratchett: His World”)

I wanted to post something for the Glorious 25th about the Research Institute for the Care of Older People (RICE) in Bath, where Sir Terry Pratchett received treatment for Post-Cortical Atrophy, the type of Alzheimer’s disease that eventually took his life. From the organization’s website:

RICE established one of the first memory clinic services in the UK in 1987 – a service which has since been widely replicated and is now considered standard and best practice by the NHS. In fact, RICE now runs the NHS Memory Clinic in Bath and North East Somerset on behalf of the local clinical commissioning group and local authority through a sub-contract with HCRG Care Group. To date, we’ve assessed, diagnosed, treated and advised 12,000 people with memory problems and their families in our memory clinic. 

Most of RICE’s clinical services and research activities take place in our own purpose built, specialist centre located on the Royal United Hospital site. The building of the RICE Centre was possible as a result of generous donations from major donors, trusts and foundations, and members of the public. RICE moved into the ground and first floor of the centre in 2008. Following the success of the DementiaPlus Appeal and further generous donations from major donors, trusts and foundations and members of the public, RICE converted the attic floor in 2019 to create more office space. This has given us access to much needed additional rooms and offices which will enable us to grow and run more services and activities. We’ve worked hard to ensure that the areas of the centre visited by our patients meets their needs and we regularly receive feedback on how much our patients enjoy their visit to our centre.

RICE not only provides clinical services to patients, but also conducts research into aging and dementia, including performing clinical trials for new drug treatments for memory-related diseases and developing other “techniques for diagnosing, managing, treating and understanding dementia and memory changes in older adults.”

Lady Lyn Pratchett is the patron of the organization, and the website includes a page about how people can donate funds or volunteer at the clinic and participate in fundraising events.

SO, if you’d like to help fund Alzheimer’s research on this Glorious 25th of May–or at any time–in honor of the Man in the Hat, take a look!

[divorcedfiddleford]

and you may say to yourself: "my god! what have i done?" and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful wife!" and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful house!" and you may ask yourself: "well, how did i get here?"

time isn't holding up, time isn't after us, time is a pony ride! (images described in alt text)

[dragonageheritageposts]

Here's more Palestinians who have reached out to me and their fundraisers! If you can't donate, sharing some of their campaigns can help a lot.

@ahmed-omar0 - link - €4,674 raised of €50,000 goal

@samira-family - link - $1,884 raised of $20,000 goal

@abdallahblog0 - link - $1,026 raised of $30,000 goal

@mohammedrabah2 - link - €767 raised of €65,000 goal

@jomana-ha - link - $16,684 raised of $60,000 goal

@shaimaasblog - link - €2,916 raised of €50,000 goal

@nepalalser - link - €1,641 raised of €50,000 goal

@shamia962 - link - kr61,825SEK raised of kr250,000 goal

@ameertaimsalama1 - link - kr23,617SEK raised of kr200,000 goal

@abdallaalhaj - link - £600 raised of £50,000 goal

@lobnaalseer - link - €7,585 raised of €50,000 goal

@fahedshehab-new - link - €57,496 raised of €85,000 goal

@oday-alanqar1 - link - €191 raised of €50,000 goal

@kenzish - link - €9,825 raised of €50,000 goal

[hauntinghyrule]

Do you dare? >:]

[ahappyphjl]

the year 2024 brought us iconic moments – the 15th phanniversary, wad taping and premiere, orange heart, dnpcrafts slime, birthday charity streams, tit tour, 5 years of big and coty, nbsii, phandometrics, phlonde, rpftourney, and more – so i'd love for everyone to celebrate the past year together and welcome a new one, which will surely make us scream and cry just as much!

some info:

an online meetup 31.12.2024 - 1.1.2025

you can participate by posting gifs, art, favorite 2024 dnp or phandom moments, new year's fits, selfies, thoughts, etc.

tag your posts with #NY25phandommeetup

please also tag spoilers if you post tour content

make friends, show appreciation to the ones you made this year, to the mutuals you've never spoken to but love with all your heart!

be kind! rb and like other people's posts ♡

please reblog to spread the word, and feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions!

"cheers to us, to you, to growing up, to being ourselves"

[carsonjonesfiance]

No, the stupid TikTok ban is not about I/P it continues to be about Republicans and their hate on for China. Please stop making shit up.

[krazieka2]

Assassins!! They’re friends!!!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Why would you—That's not—I just wanted to ask for help, why did you have to go and make it awkward???

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[verdantmeadows]

To me the joy and beauty of vocal synthesizers has always been that they don't sound real and exploring that to create artistic expression that can't be achieved by human voices, so seeing them become more and more realistic is disheartening, almost? Especially since a lot of artists make the same voice banks sound so different and have their own personal charm. I'm glad that people will be able to make things that sound realistic, but I'm worried that songs that intentionally play out of sounding as realistic as possible will be sidelined, discouraged, no longer created, impossible to find, or unsupported by fans of vocal synthesizers. I don't want things to just push towards being as realistic as possible. There is beauty in how everyone's usage of the same voice banks sound different. There is beauty in the lack of realistic sounding vocals in vocal synthesizers.

[princess--bongwater]

Hello dears ! I am asking you to support my campaign to help me to reach my goal. I am now in bad need to your support to help me stay alive and safe. Gaza is a very dangerous place either on the level of livelihood or on the level of souls. I need your monetary support to ensble me to get the basic needs for my family till Rafah crossing point reopens to move my family to safety and peace.Pleasd help a family be alive through your small donations or througn your shares to others.Thank you so much for your stand beside people in need .

[this fundraiser has been verified by @/90-ghost.]

Yes, of course. I hope and pray that you and your family will find safety. Please donate.

$13,185/$50,000

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[tuckedawaytulip]

I remembered Elias tortured Martin to the point of crying and I hate him more now. Why are you hurting Martin? He does nothing bad ever he is perfect all the time. Fuck Elias.

[skrunksthatwunk]

thinking about how eiji's a pole vaulter and how ash talks about eiji "flying" and how eiji's associated with bird imagery and how eiji's free (unlike ash) and how eiji comes in on a plane and leaves on a plane and how ash cannot fly, ash cannot be free, how nyc is ash's prison, and how ash is the leopard who dies climbing the mountain, unable to live at such elevation, how he was trying to reach the sky and be free but was always stuck to the earth, how he chose to die instead of climbing back down, how he chose to die where he could see the sky and hope and freedom almost like a bird with eiji's letter right in front of him rather than letting everything go wrong and ruin it once again, how eiji's a failed pole vaulter anyway, how a bad fall ruined his career and grounded him (physically and emotionally), how it took flying to america and meeting ash and needing to save him and skip for him to try flying again, how he landed hard and harsh and still the thought of that escape compelled ash to protect eiji at all costs because if he could fly that means something to him, even if he doesn't think he can fly, how eiji is the manifestation of his hope and how when he breaks and asks eiji to stay with him a while he folds himself over his legs and weighs him down and traps him and grounds him, how ash fights like hell to keep eiji alive not because he thinks he can be like him (hopeful, flying, innocent), but because he makes him forget the gravity of his situation, and so he can see eiji fly again. how he wants to see him escape. how eiji is a bird and ash is a wildcat and how ash never once saw eiji as prey. how eiji never saw ash as a predator. how it is eiji's naivete that first endears ash to him, how it is his freedom and flight and removal from darkness and his ability to leave that darkness that really roots eiji in ash's blood as something essential to him keeping on living in this hell of nyc. how it is that distance from the violence and that hope for the future that ash chooses to surround himself in as he dies. how ash dies in a dream because he feels more than anything that he can't fly like eiji, that he can never leave. how his violence is a part of him and will be forever, how it weighs him down. how he wants to enjoy the view from the mountainside rather than looking up from the ground below. as if they can both fly. as if he is with him up there and not grounded. eye-to-eye with what he can't have, seeing eiji's homeland: the sky. how he dies trying to reach the top because he couldn't take retreating and trying again. how ash, tired and tired and tired and convinced it will go on forever if he crawls back down the mountain, chooses to close his life deluged in eiji, in eiji's insistence that they can fly together, in eiji's hope for him and for them, in eiji's beautiful dream. how ash dies without trying to realize that dream. how ash, in dying, destroys it.

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: MY DUMB ASS REALLY WENT LIVE DURING THE SUPERBOWL 💀

Quackity's streams are always funny, but him realizing this monumental error mid-stream was hilarious.