#thank you for coming to my TED talk

[worldisahouseonfire]

oh, word! there are a lot of things that a lot of people ignore, deny, fail to report, and/or record inaccurately. creating the illusion that these things are few & far between. when more people start paying attention and reporting the things, usually because someone broke the seal of silence and now everyone feels able (or obliged) to speak up, it will seem to everyone who hasn't been living the reality of these things like said things are suddenly on the rise.

for example: sexual harassment, police violence against Black people, trans people existing, and Autistic people (eligible for diagnoses under new diagnostic definitions). it will seem to people who have been isolated from these realities -- which were happening the whole time -- like there's some *epidemic*. (sensationalized faddish reporting also helps feed this distortion, like a funhouse mirror.)

when what's really happening is that something actually really damn common is no longer being hidden, denied, and unreported.

like when babies become able to focus their gaze beyond ten inches, it's not like there's a sudden epidemic of *stuff* that never existed before omgs! …no, that stuff was always there, but now it's visible.

sometimes we'll hear about a thing for the first time, and hear about it from everywhere all at once. it helps to remember that this is not necessarily a sign that this thing only now started existing or happening, and isn't necessarily a cause for mindless panic and reactivity.

the world that you thought you knew, without the thing, might seem like it's ending, but it's okay -- because that world never existed in the first place. and there are plenty of people who knew about the thing all along, and have been dealing with the thing all along, and probably have some excellent ideas and strategies for how to deal with the thing.

I used to be a clinical coder in one of the largest maternity hospitals in Scotland. It was my job to record ICD-10 codes for every procedure and diagnosis based on reading the hospital notes.

The woman who trained me to do my job was less than competent. She told me that the bosses had complained that too many patients were being marked “unknown” for whether they smoked or not, and she interpreted this to mean “mark everyone as a non-smoker unless it was somehow obvious they were a smoker.” (The bosses should have been talking to the midwives who filled out the forms, not the coders, but whatever.) I decided her way was dishonest and wrong, so I took the time to dig deeper in the notes to see if the patients were smokers or not and reported it accordingly.

About a year after I started doing that job, I saw a news report stating that for some unknown reason, more women in Scotland were continuing to smoke throughout their pregnancies than before. It was bullshit. The smoking rates had not changed. It’s just that it was being reported more honestly at one of the major hospitals, and that was enough to make it look like a significant statistical shift nation-wide.

Around 2007, they changed the coding rules on co-morbidity. We were told to report “obesity” as a co-morbidity above hypertension and congenital disorders and a bunch of other serious diseases.  So the rate of reporting of obesity went up, but there were no more fat people than there were before. We were just told that fatness had to be reported every single time a fat person was in the hospital, regardless of what other reasons they might be there.

Obesity statistics are largely bullshit. The statistical reporting has been manipulated to demonize fat people and mark every medical problem a fat person has as “obesity-related”. There has not been an increase in obesity-related illnesses. There has been an increase in relating illnesses to obesity, whether they are connected or not.

[yoizgirlie]

i have officially decided that lando norris fans are the most annoying f1 fans on tumblr. they constantly whine that lando gets too much hate and then go on to hate other drivers twice as much

[oneshotgremlin]

Born to serve ✨cunt✨

Forced to serve the Eggman Empire 😔😔😔

[ahappydnp]

i love how since the pholnde reveal everyones kinda agreeing on how phil would be a butch (a princess, but nevertheless a butch) but what about dan?? i dont think lesbian dan would be a femme necessarily but he wouldnt be masc plz help

anon i'm so glad you asked because i have so many thoughts about this because dan is me i am dan. i think dan would have started out more generic goth that led into more femme scene vibes (basic razor cut with clip in extensions that'd she'd mostly wear for pics/going out and specifically vans slip on ballet flats NOT converse because she looks to "boyish" in them and of course a hello kitty phase because how can i be a dyke if i love hello kitty)

then that progressed into 2010s hipster normcore skinny jeans + cami + zip up hoodie combo. still with a razor fringe cut but her hair is long enough that she doesn't wear extensions anymore. makeup is still heavier black eyeliner but now she wears lipstick sometimes when she feels too "lezzy" (obviously she's still deep in the closet and i am once again saying can we talk about phan yuri lipstick gate where fi has lipstick that's not hers on her neck/pillow)

she did a "big chop" post coming out (standard issue new lesbian short bob) and honestly her style is pretty much the same as real life dan because gender is whatever and dan is a formless blob no matter what so like mostly jumpers and basics with some funky luxury pieces thrown in (and also more clothes stealing because butch phil has cooler clothes i think)

[paranormaltheatrekid]

Random words that i find fun

-catalyst

-clandestine

-penultimate

-superfluous

-incorrigible

-shenanigans

[orgasming-caterpillar]

"fuck it we ball" is for stress about the future "it is what it is" is for stress about the past and "this too shall pass" is for stress about the present thank you for coming to my TED talk

[thinkingabout-girls]

rating these laios hugs out of 10 cause they are quite possibly the funniest things i have ever seen

(please note this is not based on laios’s efforts it’s just rating the overall hug)

senshi hug: 10/10. that’s a solid hug right there. bit awkward with the height difference but they made it work

chilchuck hug: 5/10. i’ve been laughing at this for 10 minutes. an effort was made. points have been awarded for an obvious attempt at making chilchuck more comfortable but still is still the awkwardest hug i’ve ever seen. it is painfully obvious that laios once attempted to crouch down to hug chilchuck and received a kick to the nuts and was cursed out for 20 minutes, and has adapted to this so that chilchuck doesn’t kill laios or himself

marcille hug: 8/10. this is the way i hug my relatives that i don’t see very often at family events but it’s still a solid hug

shuro hug: 2/10. this is a great hug but points have been deducted because shuro is a bastard man

falin hug: 1000/10. THAT is a hug and it’s a damn good one. very obvious sibling love right there we love to see it

kabru hug: ???/10. what the fuck is this. what’s with the christian side hug. why are you gently holding his tit what’s wrong with you

[orviposition]

not making a crossover but remember when xie lian told hua cheng "if you cant find a reason to live then live for me!" and then kim dokja regrettably agreed to give regression to yoo joonghyuk because he wanted it himself since after 1864 lifetimes they'd meet face to face and find out he exists to keep kim dokja alive!

and how when kim dokja is no longer alive, when that reason for his existence is taken away from him in 1865, yoo joonghyuk is left a man with no purpose and no conclusion! his end is as far away as the memory of kim dokja's blurry face.

head in hands, singshong, give him the reason for his existence, that he desperately wants to find and is searching for harder than anyone else, back already 😔😔

"Don't make yjh's character be only about kdj" I say into the mic.

Everything grows eerily quiet. The crowd stares at me with pity. I muster up the courage to look behind me only to find...

Yjh himself, his sword raised, ready to cut me down for spouting bullshit

[the-phantom-peach]

🗣️ huh?? what do you mean I haven’t posted any Link signing propaganda yet??

[n0anix]

whatever *domesticates your Carnivàle Lecroux*

[maines]

You’re the best friends anybody ever had. And it’s funny, but I feel as if I’ve known you all the time. But I couldn’t have, could I?

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) | AGATHA ALL ALONG (2024)

[aikya-kat-44]

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Now that Epic is getting the recognition it deserves I think it's a great time to remind the general public that the name Odysseus is generally theorized to have originated from the Greek verb "ὀδύσσομαι" which basically translates to "to hate". Imagine you're born and your parents name you Hater

[devils-your-minion]

Luke Brandon Field did NOT put his all into playing young Daniel as the most horny, desperate, pathetic, limp wristed, whimpering bisexual loser who looked up at that vampire with the wettest most submissive eyes and melted into him as he accepted the loving embrace of death just for people to say that Daniel Molloy is some kind of dom top.

Don’t worry Mr. Brandon Field, I saw your masochistic vision.

[thiscryptidischronicallyyours]

New headcanon (that is highly specific and very rarely useful but I find highly entertaining anyway)…

Why Sokka immediately distrusts Aunt Wu:

Her Mark of the Wise was upside down so she was obviously not to be trusted.

[tims-missing-spleen]

(I like to think that) Lex Luthor gets clowned on by literally everyone, and Bruce is the absolute worst.

Like he'll attend an event and a literal millisecond later, Bruce will roll up and steal all the attention. And when they're inside, him or one of his crazy "children" will "accidentally" spill very red wine all over his expensive ass suit.

And what can Lex even do?

Last time he retaliated and mildly shoved Bruce, the man very dramatically flung himself across the room and fell straight into a table. He hadn't even gotten hurt- not a single bruise or cut- but that drama queen didn't appear in public for an entire month after the incident. The backlash Lex had gotten was so not worth it.

And it doesn't stop there. His kids join in on the "fun" and bully him too.

Tim permanently bans him from all the platforms owned by Wayne enterprisese, which is like borderline illegal, so Lex sues and somehow always loses.

Jason Duke and Steph team up and make it a game to throw things on his head without him realising. And when Luthor catches one of them, he can't even shout at them or whatnot cause hes actually scared shitless. Jason, the absolute tank of a man, just grins at him while placing his hands on the very noticeable gun at his hip. Duke and Steph stand on either side of him, gripping literal knives in their hands.

Damian just outright walks up to him and begins insulting him in a couple of different languages. He always gives Lex a final disgusted look before turning and walking off.

Dick might seem the sweetest, approaching him while smiling in that nice way of his. He's the worst, though, cause he always makes sure to bring a few reporters with him before he innocently starts outing Lex's latest evil scheme in front of the audience. He makes sure to bring solid evidence of the nefarious plans, but right at the end, he goes, "idk I could be wrong," before shrugging and walling off.

Cassandra doesn't do much, but she's definitely the scariest. Whenever Lex has had enough and is about to call a hit on Bruce, she appears out of nowhere, stares straight at him, and just shakes her head while saying, "No. Regret"

Basically, Lex Luthor, public enemy #1, gets (justifiably) bullied by the entirety of the human population (honestly, only the Waynes).

[wow-its-me]

THEY SAY SHES SHOULD BEVER USE NOBLE-TEMPLE BECAUSE IT SOUNDS WEIRD

SO

TEMPLE-NOBLE

TEMPLE FROM THE LATIN ROOT TEMP MEANING TIME

NOBLE MEANING A PERSON BORN INTO HIGH SOCIAL OR POLITICAL RANK, INCLUDING NOBLEMAN WHO ARE SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS LORDS

TEMPLE-NOBLE

TIME-LORD