#still takes place in the 70s

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Day Four (4): Vance Hopper

[iamnaanda]

Random Thought about Warriors

What happened after Fox's death? And I'm not talking about the funeral or the Warriors' grieving process, but the process of claiming Fox's body.

Imagine that Fox didn't have any identification or anything that could point to her identity that night.

Imagine that the Warriors were so exhausted and shocked that they hadn't even thought about that detail.

Imagine that, through the newspaper, the next day a public call is made to identify the body of a young woman, whose cause of death was having been hit by a train in Union Square, around 6 am.

Imagine that the news gives physical details of the body (height, hair, clothing, possible age, etc.) and each and every one of the characteristics painfully matches Fox. They even mention some very specific detail of her appearance, such as a piercing, tattoo, scar or birthmark that the Warriors knew very well she had, making it undeniable.

Imagine it's Cleon who sets out to identify the body, not only because she's her emergency contact (and technically her guardian, if we stick to the headcanon that Fox was still a minor when she died), but because she claims it's her duty as a leader, and she knows the others probably wouldn't be able to bear to do it.

Imagine Cleon going to identify the body, and she sees the image she hoped she'd never have to see in her entire life: The image of someone from her team dead. She sees before her the image of the shy, intelligent, brave, and persevering teenager she took in and initiated into her gang a while back, but now too pale and with her eyes open but empty.

Imagine that after that, Cleon attends to all the subsequent legal matters in a practically dissociative state, and still manages to keep her composure while delivering all the information to the Warriors.

But she can't break down, there's still a lot to do.

[robot-singularity]

Alright, in honor of @oldbutchdaniel 's Fan Fiction Fridays, I had an idea for how the 70s chase era of devil's minion might go, but I'm not great at full fledged writing so! Plot beat bullet points:

Daniel wakes up in a drug den, dried blood down to his ankles, massive neck wound, and the knowledge that vampires are real. He then realizes that, shit, he doesn't have the interview tapes/any solid evidence that would prove it.

Goes back home, patches himself up, and within a week decides to backtrack to Divisadero street and try to remember which apartment they were in. Maybe Louis left something, anything that could be concrete evidence that vampires exist and he was attacked by one. Or better yet, he might find a single cassette of the hours of recorded tapes.

So, Daniel heads towards Divisadero, and, with the slightest bit of self preservation, decides to go during the day. Vampires can't go out in the sun, so. Should be safer, right? 👍

Cut over to Armand, in the main room of the apartment, cleaning up, patching the wall, trying to fix the northward slant of the floor, when he looks up and Daniel's standing in the doorway. (Maybe the door wasn't locked, maybe Daniel picked it, maybe he went to pick it and found it was unlocked.)

They stare at each other for a beat. Armand thinking that there's no way this boy is That stupid. Daniel thinking oh shit, I just broke into this guy's house. This kind of? familiar? looking guy? Which could either be deja vu or I'm still mildly concussed.

They talk back and forth for a minute, until it eventually devolves into Daniel getting told to leave, refusing, and then Armand asking hey, how fast can you run? I'm going to hunt you down, so. Go, now. Start running.

Daniel books it, out the door, down the stairs, door opens, door closes. Starts down the street, only to slow, stop, think it over, and starts going in a different direction, patting down his pockets to see if he has any money for either a payphone or a taxi or maybe a plane ticket if he can manage to get to the nearest airport.

And! The chase begins.

[crackship-connoisseur]

*laughs maniacally* anyway. i am being very normal about my aurora fixation (:

[andresylupin]

maybe i've subconsciously pushed back against "The Teeth of the Tiger" because it's the one novel where you have to reconcile with the fact that, well:

[skyblueartt]

Dude new fnaf stuff looks cool and all, but I feel like it’s just a totally different horror game with ‘Fnaf’ in the title cuz that’s what gets them the big bucks

[maryse127]

Game prices rising was inevitable with Playstation selling games at €70 now and the improved new game cards but jumping from 60 to fucking 90 just like that is insanely stupid and unfair

[louiesselfshipramblings]

Nintendo: "You can listen to recordings from certain characters as you play through this new version of Tears of the Kingdom."

Me: "Uh huh. Is Purah one of them?"

Nintendo: "No, but—"

Me: "Then I have lost interest."

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Day Three (3): Bruce Yamada

[kawhh]

Starting to read the books was a mistake. Made another impulse vibrator purchase. Lock me up. Lock my bank account up.

Thank fuck the £140 one said it couldn’t ship out to me, that would’ve been even more damage 🙂‍↕️

[wonder-worker]

Anne de Pisseleu had exercised a form of power that was intrinsically extra-institutional and dependent entirely of the king’s favor; her role was clearly understood by political insiders. Criticism took the form of conventional hostility to the role of women in power, yet in the king’s lifetime had to be circumspect and oblique. However, she lived more than half her life after the death of the king whose love had given her power and wealth. In this, she weathered the storm of disgrace remarkably effectively, carved for herself a new role and ended her life a moderately wealthy woman whose assets became a matter for ferocious competition among her relatives.

— David Potter, "The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress: Anne de Pisseleu, Duchess of Étampes"

[spiritually-haunted-medibot]

do you eat money like the other robots do? and if so, whats your favourite currency?

[He looks around for a moment, finally deciding to tell the truth for once.]

I haven't felt any craving for coins yet, so I'm guessing no..? I didn't even know the robots eat money…

[He considers his favorite currency anyway.]

The Canadian 50 dollar bill. It's bright red & reminds me of fresh blood.

[dspdick]

hey chat does feeling betrayed over something my mother has absolutely no control over make me a bad daughter?

[housedyke]

I had a dream that the oldest brother from the Brady Bunch and I hated each other but kept fucking

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Day Two (2): Robin Arellano

[curlicuecal]

playing science telephone

Hi folks. Let's play a fun game today called "unravelling bad science communication back to its source."

Journey with me.

Saw a comment going around on a tumblr thread that "sometimes the life expectancy of autism is cited in the 30s"

That number seemed..... strange. The commenter DID go on to say that that was "situational on people being awful and not… anything autism actually does", but you know what? Still a strange number. I feel compelled to fact check.

Quick Google "autism life expectancy" pulls up quite a few websites bandying around the number 39. Which is ~technically~ within the 30s, but already higher than the tumblr factoid would suggest. But, guess what. This number still sounds strange to me.

Most of the websites presenting this factoid present themselves as official autism resources and organizations (for parents, etc), and most of them vaguely wave towards "studies."

Ex: "Above And Beyond Therapy" has a whole article on "Does Autism Affect Life Expectancy" and states:

The link implies that it will take you to the "research studies" being referenced, but it in fact takes you to another random autism resource group called.... Songbird Care?

And on that website we find the factoid again:

Ooh, look. Now they've added the word "some". The average lifespan for SOME autistic people. Which the next group erased from the fact. The message shifts further.

And we have slightly more information about the study! (Which has also shifted from "studies" to a singular "study"). And we have another link!

Wonderfully, this link actually takes us to the actual peer-reviewed 2020 study being discussed. [x]

And here, just by reading the abstract, we find the most important information of all.

This study followed a cohort of adolescent and adult autistic people across a 20 year time period. Within that time period, 6.4% of the cohort died. Within that 6.4%, the average age of death was 39 years.

So this number is VERY MUCH not the average age of death for autistic people, or even the average age of death for the cohort of autistic people in that study. It is the average age of death IF you died young and within the 20 year period of the study (n=26), and also we don't even know the average starting age of participants without digging into earlier papers, except that it was 10 or older. (If you're curious, the researchers in the study suggested reduced self-sufficiency to be among the biggest risk factors for the early mortality group.)

But the number in the study has been removed from it's context, gradually modified and spread around the web, and modified some more, until it is pretty much a nonsense number that everyone is citing from everyone else.

There ARE two other numbers that pop up semi-frequently:

One cites the life expectancy at 58. I will leave finding the context for that number as an exercise for the audience, since none of the places I saw it gave a direct citation for where they were getting it.

And then, probably the best and most relevant number floating around out there (and the least frequently cited) draws from a 2023 study of over 17,000 UK people with an autism diagnosis, across 30 years. [x] This study estimated life expectancies between 70 and 77 years, varying with sex and presence/absence of a learning disability. (As compared to the UK 80-83 average for the population as a whole.)

This is a set of numbers that makes way more sense and is backed by way better data, but isn't quite as snappy a soundbite to pass around the internet. I'm gonna pass it around anyway, because I feel bad about how many scared internet people I stumbled across while doing this search.

People on quora like "I'm autistic, can I live past 38"-- honey, YES. omg.

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tl;dr, when someone gives you a number out of context, consider that the context is probably important

also, make an amateur fact checker's life easier and CITE YOUR SOURCES