#elizabeth milder

[arendalphaeagle]

Have a handful of things from the Milo Mikey Murphy's Law pitch bible

#via 4chan #milo murphy's law #milo murphy #zack underwood #melissa chase #martin murphy #brigette murphy #sara murphy #diogee #amanda lopez #bradley nicholson #balthazar cavendish #vinnie dakota #elizabeth milder #kyle drako #mort schaeffer #zack used to look a lot like kevin grant-gomez from hamster and gretel

[thewheelhouse99]

Something feels so nice to think that Elizabeth had been married to Savannah for as long as she was a principal, and sometimes she would join her wife on time missions because it's rare that she gets to test her combat skills.

Yeah, that's my head canon.

Also Elizabeth likes to workout with Brigette which is where she ended up in her circle of parent friends. Savannah's connection to the Murphys eventually lead to Cavendish and Dakota getting closer to Brigette and Martin and while Dakota has respect Savannah, and a long since ended phase where he fancied her, he recognised that Savannah and Brick's arrogance meant that she doesn't quite see eye to eye with Elizabeth's friends out of work.

And that Brick still finds a way to get left behind by Brigette and friends.

#milo murphy's law #screenshot edit #fake screenshot #mml savannah #mml principal milder #elizabeth milder #brigette murphy #eileenunderwood #Danville's Moms

[laserpinksteam]

On second (or maybe fourth) viewing: Weeds, season 1 (created by Jenji Kohan, 2005)

Having technically known it by heart after several intense re-watchings back in the mid-2000s, I have recently had showed it to my boyfriend, who knew it only tangentially (generation gap!). I remember criticism that Weeds' later seasons (with the exception of 4 and 6) got lost in the re-invention need, with the location shifts camouflaging the storytelling staleness. It's a valid point, I re-watched chunks of seasons 7-8 last year, and cringed heavily at the stinky quality of everything that does not revolve around Mary Louise Parker's nuanced performance. The tenure of the series proved that Nealon and Gould are limited actors and that Parrish, when given a chance of emotionally complex characterization, can pull an interesting performance (season four's ending is his highlight). But it is Parker who remains amazing throughout. In those later seasons, she got a fantastic screen partner in Jennifer Jason Leigh, with whom she shared awesome, brittle, sexy, and extremely lively sisterly chemistry. In this opening season, her great partner is Perkins, whose role would become more of a nasty caricature in her last two seasons (the ones outside Agrestic). What surprised me this time though is how clumsily shot and badly written this season is, part of which points to its temporal situatedness: the characters of color are only drug dealers and maids. White guys (and Celia) throw homophobic and ableist slurs as joke punchlines. Suddenly, starting with episode four, there are weird fade-outs truncating the wobbly rhythm of the episodes. Regardless of that, I am looking forward to re-watching season two, which was my favorite back then: I never was a fan of Donovan, but his on-screen relationship with Nancy Botwin was a highlight.

#on second viewing #weeds #jenji kohan #mary louise parker #elizabeth perkins #tonye patano #romany malco #alexander gould #hunter parrish #kevin nealon #andy milder #allie grant #renee victor #martin donovan

[bpod-bpod]

Bending the Curves

Our backbone, or spine, is naturally curved, but painful deformations can develop – from scoliosis, where the spine twists to the side, to kyphosis and lordosis, identified by excessive curves in respectively the upper or lower parts of the spine. What causes these problems is poorly understood, but researchers working on zebrafish uncovered interesting processes involving molecules produced by neurons of the central nervous system, known as the urotensin peptides Urp1 and Urp2. Fish lacking both peptides, or their receptor Uts2r3, developed strong curves in the tail region of the spine, similar to lordosis (pictured, right, compared to typical zebrafish spines, left). Meanwhile, fish lacking only Urp1 or Urp2 developed milder curvatures, suggesting that these peptides can somewhat compensate for each other. Deformed spines developed in juvenile fish and worsened into adulthood, recalling spinal problems that begin in adolescence, so signalling through this urotensin pathway could be relevant to humans too.

Written by Emmanuelle Briolat

Image from work by Elizabeth A Bearce and colleagues

Institute of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, December 2023

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#science #biomedicine #scoliosis #spinal column #spine #developmental biology #neuroscience #zebrafish #curvature of the spine #kyphosis #lordosis

[samtheacesheep]

link to the first one: https://at.tumblr.com/samtheacesheep/poll-which-of-these-mml-recurring-characters/4m3pvyw18aof

since I did one for main and side characters, here’s one (two actually) for some other characters

#mml #milo murphy’s law #answer my questions #poll

[princesssarisa]

Fictional character ask Jane Bennet?

Favorite thing about them: I like her sweet, loving, compassionate personality, and the way she serves as a warm, safe confidante for Elizabeth in a way that none of her other family members do. I also like the fact that she's not just sweet and ladylike (even if she is mistaken for just that: see below). She has an underlying stubbornness too, as shown by how she clings to her idealism no matter how much Elizabeth tries to playfully skewer it, and contrary to popular belief, she's not perfect: she almost loses her man because she's too reserved about her feelings for him, and she can be naïve and over-idealistic to the point of comedy. But this doesn't make her stupid; sometimes her sympathy for others is very right while Elizabeth's witty skepticism is wrong. She's just an all-around likable character.

Least favorite thing about them: Nothing about her personally, but about some of the commentary she inspires. I don't know just how bad it is because I'm not deep in the Austen fandom, but I've already seen too many people write about how "boring" she is, how she's "too perfect to be real," how she's "weaker" and "less intelligent" than Elizabeth, and how Austen must have meant her as a "deconstruction" of traditional femininity.

Now, I'm not saying there isn't some truth in that last part. Jane does embody all the ideal traits of a 19th century lady and of the traditional romantic heroine: beautiful, kind, innocent, gentle, reserved, well-mannered, selfless, forgiving, falls in love easily and tenderly... even the four-day cold she catches can be viewed as a milder version of the deathly illnesses so common among delicate 19th century heroines. Maybe it is significant that Austen took this classic heroine-type figure and made her a supporting character, while the more complex, unconventional Elizabeth gets to be the heroine, and maybe it does matter that some of her classic "feminine virtues" (namely her naïve, trusting nature and her ladylike shyness) are also her flaws. But she's not weaker than Elizabeth, and just because she's less quick-witted doesn't mean she's less smart: an important part of Elizabeth's character arc is to realize that her cynicism hasn't been wiser than Jane's idealism! She's not "too perfect" either; I've already covered that. And as for "boring," "well... I won't pretend she's as three-dimensional as Elizabeth, but I do think she's a fully developed character with some depth. I'd like to see more people explore the pressure she must feel to present a perfect ladylike image, or the idea that her relentless idealism might be her way of coping with her dysfunctional family, just like Elizabeth and Mr. Bennet's cynical wit is their coping mechanism. More of that, and less writing her off as just a dull cardboard "nice girl."

Three things I have in common with them:

*I like to believe the best of other people, because it hurts to believe the worst.

*I try to be kind to everyone.

*I can be shy and quiet in public, but I'm more talkative with my loved ones.

Three things I don't have in common with them:

*I don't have any sisters.

*I'm not expected to save my family from financial ruin with a good marriage.

*I'm not good at hiding my emotions – even when I try to look indifferent, my face always betrays me.

Favorite line:

Her response to Bingley's leaving, which stands out not only for her bravery in the face of heartbreak, but for her heartwarming generosity and lack of any anger toward Bingley (Elizabeth, of course, feels differently):

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. I have nothing either to hope or fear, and nothing to reproach him with.

In her letter from London revealing her belated understanding of Caroline Bingley's false friendship:

My dearest Lizzy will, I am sure, be incapable of triumphing in her better judgement, at my expense, when I confess myself to have been entirely deceived in Miss Bingley’s regard for me. But, my dear sister, though the event has proved you right, do not think me obstinate if I still assert that, considering what her behaviour was, my confidence was as natural as your suspicion. 

When she's newly engaged and blissfully happy:

"I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed! Oh! Lizzy, why am I thus singled from my family, and blessed above them all! If I could but see you as happy! If there were but such another man for you!"

When she's still doubting Elizabeth's love for Darcy:

"Do anything rather than marry without affection."

When she finally believes it:

"Now I am quite happy, for you will be as happy as myself. I always had a value for him. Were it for nothing but his love of you, I must always have esteemed him; but now, as Bingley's friend and your husband, there can be only Bingley and yourself more dear to me."

(I agree with @anghraine that this line says something about the dysfunction of the Bennet family, even if it is half-joking – Jane has three other sisters and both of her parents still alive, but she says she'll love her brother-in-law more than anyone except her favorite sister and her husband!)

brOTP: Elizabeth.

OTP: Bingley.

nOTP: Her father, Mr. Collins, or Wickham.

Random headcanon: I'll borrow one from @anghraine: She's going to be best friends with Darcy once they're in-laws, and adore his and Elizabeth's children too. Since she's naturally good with children (she's implied to be the favorite older cousin of the Gardiners' little ones), and since Elizabeth and Darcy can both be prickly, their children will often turn to "Aunt Bingley" for the nurturing that their parents, however loving and well-meaning, will sometimes lack.

Unpopular opinion: She's not inhumanly perfect, but neither is she an insipid fool, and she deserves to be seen as a character in her own right, not just as a symbol of "ideal" Regency womanhood who contrasts with Elizabeth.

Song I associate with them: None at the moment.

Favorite pictures of them:

Not really a picture of her, but this painting of Mrs. Harriet Quentin by Jean François-Marie Huet-Villiers is thought to be the portrait that Austen saw in 1813 and described as looking exactly like her mental image of Jane:

Moving onto real Jane pictures, this watercolor by C.E. Brock:

This line drawing of Bingley's proposal by the same artist:

This drawing by his brother, H.M. Brock, showing her romance with Bingley blossoming as she recovers from her cold:

Sabina Franklyn, 1980 BBC miniseries:

Susannah Harker, 1995 BBC miniseries:

Rosamund Pike, 2005 film:

#character ask #jane austen #pride and prejudice #jane bennet #fictional characters #ask game

[seagullcharmer]

accidentally started typing too much, so. read more (rusty lake postin)

also, since i've been on a rusty lake kick recently, and just re-finished paradise, i've been thinking abt the eilanders again....... like. jakob was 21 during the events of paradise. at most, david was 19, but probably closer to 15-17, which goes to explain a lot more of his behaviour imo. he's just a silly guy. stuck with his cult of a family and literally doesn't know any better. hotel was my first game, and mr rabbit was my favourite guest, so learning that david and mr rabbit are the same make me kind of sad :-( david was a kid. and, sure, i guess we don't reeeeally know what happened to the eilanders directly after paradise (unless anyone can tell me?) sure jakob becomes enlightened but that doesn't mean he's omnipotent. maybe the rest of them lived after that, before becoming their animal counterparts.

and i know that birthday is a weird game, because it's a memory, and not technically what 'actually' happened (in either timeline!) (i don't believe that dale truly witnessed an anthropomorphic rabbit kill his family!) (as weird as rusty lake is, i am of the firm opinion that dale was mostly normal prior to case 23, loss of family notwithstanding) but man. i still feel bad for mr rabbit. even if he killed dale's family to try to 'balance his past lives' or whatever, david was a teenager, and while, yes, of course, he still played a part in killing(?) jakob, he otherwise did little to torment his brother (aside from the usual rusty lake nonsense) (yes david was not the most normal guy around but. again. a teenager living in a horrifying cult) so i feel like there's more at play here. did david/mr rabbit really deserve all those things that happened to him?

and, sure, mr rabbit's death in hotel was really one of the milder ones. and maybe david grew up to do other terrible things! or maybe mr rabbit did, before becoming a magician! but we just don't know!

this is a lot of words for someone who otherwise doesn't care about david eilander. i accidentally got emotional realising he was a teenager while unloading the dishwasher earlier, so. a.

jakob, on the other hand, i am very fond of. for no real reason. i don't particularly care for mr owl. but, jakob. what was going on with him? caroline sent him away as a child. where did he go? what did he do? how did nicholas know where to send the letter? (also. wow. 'i regret to inform you your mother has passed away' or whatever. my man, you were the one to kill her) (anyway.)

but jakob came back!!!! even though he was sent away because his family was going to sacrifice him to the lake!! and the only one he truly shows affection towards is his dead mother! why did he come back?? (i suppose it was still for his mother. if he hadn't, nicholas and the others would have eventually figured out her cubes and the elixir) (but still.)

although i am very fond of jakob and his siblings...... he's been gone for ten years or more (the picture is from 15 years ago, but i feel some time passed between the picture and the attempted sacrifice) but he comes back and some of the puzzles are just kind of silly sibling shenanigans. elizabeth going ice skating. jakob painting her face. getting her the frog flute. david and his frogs. rescuing david from the ice. putting the apple on david's head (as i'm sure every older sibling has wanted to do at least once /joking) like. the first thing you do when you get to paradise is help david making a fishing rod. brothers <3

also just jakob's model. he is so exhausted. just like me fr or smth.

also wish we got to learn more abt aldous + william and how they became alchemists. how did they discover the elixir? they're both major characters to rusty lake, but we know so little about them. despite roots being one of the longest games in the series, and we play as william the entire time, we know next to nothing about him. it isn't until samsara room that we get a little bit of personality detail! (i am of the opinion that the little comments abt the reflections are his personality. 'i look a little fishy' 'i like the view' etc. i still don't know how i feel abt him as a character, but he had a sense of humour, i guess?) (poor laura though. guess she didn't inherit that)

which: laura. is it any wonder she's messed up when she has the brain of dear granddad albert? while i don't take it to be the literal, physical brain, i'm sure it still had an influence on her poor mental health. like, mental illness runs in families. or in the case of the vanderbooms, walks slowly and shakes hands with each family member. having the brain of albert (very smart, very messed up), the tears of emma (depression hours real!!!!!!), the eye of ida (the visions. the horrors.), truly is it any wonder laura had issues??

also, harvey. not much to say abt him; just cool that he's been around forever. how did he get to rusty lake anyway? those birds aren't native to the netherlands. but despite the murders in hotel, he's a nice little dude :-) just sticks around and helps people. sorta.

okay i've been typing nonsense for like 20 minutes. good night

#libra.txt #this is incomprehensible #i am very sleepy and adhd and so jump from thought to thought. whatever #to quote myself: i've been typing nonsense for 20 minutes. good night

[blacksapphicguide]

Peacemaker

2020s TV series | 1 season (Ongoing). Superhero show (DC based), comedy, drama.

Plot points:

Superhero universe

Familial relationships

Self identity

Tackling white supremacist ideals

Black sapphic characters:

Leota [lesbian] Danielle Brooks Keeya [lesbian] Elizabeth Faith Ludlow

Connections:

Leota x Keeya [leoya] (black sapphics)

Sex & Nudity - Severe

Crude sexual references (split second view of a vagina on a phone screen).

Sex scenes.

Full view of nude bodies.

Violence & Gore - Severe

Violence based show (gore, stabbings, gunfights, and superpower based violence).

Bodily dismembering.

Close range gun shot to the face.

Chainsaw death.

Profanity - Severe

Constant use of the f-word, s-word and frequently used, milder profanities.

Numbered presence of queer slurs.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking - Moderate

Consumption of alcohol.

Use of weed.

Frightening & Intense Scenes - Severe

Graphic fight scenes.

Torture.

Revealing of traumatic past.

#decu #dc universe #superhero show #dc show #peacemaker #peacemaker show #Elizabeth Faith Ludlow #danielle brooks #comedy #drama #black sapphic couple #black sapphics #married sapphics #leota x keeya #leota adebayo #keeya adebayo #blacksapphiccouple #john cena #hbo max #leoya #tv show #tv series #blc #tv

[demonprincezeldris]

While the Commandments were planning on how to find and capture their wayward packmate (and find ways to prove their sincerity as well as make up for... everything), the Sins were in their own situation.

Meliodas had returned, though far more shaken than they had expected. Had he been threatened? Cursed? Merlin had followed him shortly after she briefly explained that their Captain just needed some time, and to not bother him. That had been an order.

It was several hours before the pair had come down, Captain looking decidedly more settled but also... exhausted. A kind of soul-deep exhaustion. He grabbed a bottle of liquor and sat at the bar, not even bothering with a cup as he downed half the bottle in one go. It wouldn't help, but it was a good stalling tactic. He could tell everyone was waiting anxiously for him to speak, and he knew he had to, but...

That didn't make it any easier.

"As some of you might have guessed, I'm not human." He said, quietly but everyone could hear him clearly. Time to rip off the bandage, he supposed. "I'm a demon."

Silence.

"I was born over 3000 years ago, raised by the Demon King, my father, to be an emotionless weapon. At first I didn't care, every day was the same. The only solace was my pack, my brothers, but after a while... even that couldn't help. I was losing myself. Then I met Elizabeth, she was a Goddess and felt the same. That the Holy War was pointless, but everyone had been fighting for so long they didn't know who they were without it. They didn't know how to anything else." He didn't mean to keep going, but now that he was talking, he couldn't stop. It just came pouring out.

"We became friends, did what we could to minimize the damage, stop fights from breaking out before they even started, kept everyone away from each other. Finding solace in each other..."

"You fell in love." Ban said, a strange feeling in his chest. Not jealously. Bitterness, maybe? But milder. A weary acceptance.

"No." Meliodas said, surprising everyone. "Not like that. We loved each other, but as family. I came to consider her pack-" He paused to glance at everyone, and saw varying degrees of confusing on top of the riveted attention they were paying to everything. Some suspicious, others enthralled, some he couldn't read. But they were quiet and patient, and for that he was grateful.

(He also saw the only reason why King hadn't spoken up was because Gowther and Diane were working together to keep him quiet.)

"I'll explain all the pack and culture stuff later." He said, then continued, keeping his eyes on his friends. His pack. "We did become mates, but for political reasons. We had managed to keep the war relegated to skirmishes and a few small battles. It was mostly a ceasefire. But it couldn't last. I discovered why my father was so content to keep things quiet, I saw what he was scheming." He shuddered, the memories making him nauseous even after all these years.

"He was developing a virus, a plague, that would tear through everyone, everything, except for demons and those who had a cure. First chance I got I went to Elizabeth, only to learn that her mother was planning something similar. We compared notes and... there was a chance the viruses would cancel each other out, with minimal loss, but..."

"The more likely option was that they would mutate and create something that could, and likely would, kill everything until a cure was created. Even if the cures for the original worked, I estimated at least 70% of all life, from every Clan, would be lost. That was just people. Whole swathes of ecosystems would be decimated and lost." Merlin spoke up, stealing her fathers bottle and taking a delicate, though hefty, swig herself.

"You were there too, Merlin?" Diane asked, her mind reeling with all the new information. It would take some time to digest, and she had a lot of questions -they all did- but she was able to keep up. She also picked up on that context clue.

"I was. My ability lets me stop my aging. I should probably let myself grow into an actual adult..." Merlin shook her head, and passed the bottle back.

"You should." Meliodas quipped with a smile. Them he sighed. "The short end of it is, I stole the information, freed the war prisoners, and went to the Celestial Realm to help Elizabeth plead our case that the plagues were too dangerous to release. It worked. The plans were scrapped, and I officially joined the Goddesses in an attempt to end the Holy War."

The smile he sported was rueful, but his eyes were full of pain, old and scared but ever-present. "It didn't really work out like that. I betrayed my people, I abandoned my pack, and they still ended up imprisoned." Merlin placed a hand on is shoulder, and he went quiet.

"For demons, a pack is basically a chosen family. Their bonds are incredibly strong, as are their instincts for pack-bonding. To be without a pack is painful beyond what most of us can imagine. The worst thing anyone can be is a pack breaker, someone who leaves, abandons, or betrays the family they had chosen and built with others. They break the bonds, which are sacred. Meliodas... technically broke them, but he did it for his pack: The Commandments. Which means, also, technically he didn't betray them. It's... complicated."

It was quiet for a long moment, before King moved. He settled onto his feet next to the Captain, and, slowly, put a hand on his back.

"I... need to think. I have a lot of questions, but... you're still my Captain. Thank you, for being honest." He spoke up, sounded conflicted. He didn't even look up at Meliodas, his mind was a whirl. With that, he turned and walked out the door, to get some fresh air and some time to think on his own.

"I'm with King. I'll go check on Elizabeth." Diane spoke up, going to check on the princess that had been upstairs, doing... something.

"Diane." Meliodas spoke up. "She doesn't know all this, and she can't. I'll... explain it later. I promise."

The giant nodded, "Thanks. Any more information and my head would explode!" She joked a little, before darting upstairs.

Merlin went her own way, not doubt going to try and track down Escanor. Gowther walked off to think... probably. The others all dispersed as well, to either talk or think. And Ban...

Ban settled behind the bar, and began to cook, along with stealing a few mouthfuls of Meliodas's drink.

"So. How much do demons eat?" He asked, and Meliodas couldn't help but smile in relief. The rejection of his old pack -still pack but not- had unsettled him, and he had been terrified that his new one would reject him once they learned the truth. This was better than he thought possible.

"More than we have, probably." He admitted. Ban only looked over his shoulder to send him a grin. Ban had questions. A lot of questions. Like what was the deal with Elizabeth, and were the Sins a Pack? What would happen with the Commandments now? Was his Captain harboring feelings for the Princess? But those could wait. He had someone to take care of.

"I do love a challenge."

(Phew! All out in the open, mostly. I figured after being so unsettled by his previous pack, and everything going on in his head, he simply wouldn't be able to keep the secrets any longer. Secrets had tore him from his old pack, and he couldn't handle having the same thing happen again. Also helps properly contextualise everything that happened, the cause-and-effect and all that. Hope y'all enjoy!)

Ah I love this side of it. Now we get to see the regret from both sides. From the commandments and now Meliodas!

#Pack mentality #Meliodas #nnt

[mhsteger]

“Sweet Echo,” a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1596-1662) of part of A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus), 1634, by John Milton (born 9 December, 1608; died 8 November, 1674); performed here by Theatre of the Ayre, featuring Elizabeth Kenny, lute

Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen

            Within thy airy shell

          By slow Meander's margent green,

    And in the violet imbroider'd vale

          Where the love-lorn Nightingale

  Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth well.

  Canst thou not tell me of a gentle Pair

          That likest thy Narcissus are?

            O if thou have

          Hid them in som flowry Cave,

            Tell me but where

  Sweet Queen of Parly, Daughter of the Sphear!

  So maist thou be translated to the skies,

And give resounding grace to all Heav'ns Harmonies!

To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires (Sonnet 13)

Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song First taught our English Musick how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas Ears, committing short and long;

Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng,  With praise enough for Envy to look wan; To after age thou shalt be writ the man, That with smooth aire couldst humor best our tongu

Thou honour'st Verse, and Verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the Priest of Phœbus Quire  That tun'st their happiest lines in Hymn, or Story.

Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher Then his Casella, whom he woo'd to sing Met in the milder shades of Purgatory.

-- from Poems, 1673

[esta-elavaris]

But he could offer no comfort, and no reassurance, unless she trusted him enough to tell him the truth first. They were on that path, he knew they were, but it was early yet. There was an ease growing swiftly between them that caught even him off-guard, a short-hand that allowed them to glance at one another across the dinner table as a form of communication in itself.

I loved the idea - as James later realises himself, but only once it’s too late - that he and Theo can communicate more easily/comfortably/genuinely with a certain look or a smile than he and Elizabeth could manage to with a whole conversation in TCOTBP. I also like that this comparison is what makes him realise, again once it’s too late, that o shit, maybe Theo is actually the one for him. I just always had in mind that piece of dating advice that’s like “you know you’ve met the one when you’re not nervous and tongue-tied, but instead just very comfortable and absolutely yourself”. 

I also think the things that set Theo apart from the folk in Port Royal are the same things that allow her and James to bond. She’s not his social superior (or even his equal, really) so he doesn’t have to be nervous and proper around her, which means he’s more himself. She’s also generally pretty silly, but without taking it to the annoying extent that Jack does, so it almost gives him permission to loosen up a bit. We see his humour in the first movie, even if it’s much milder than in the second, and although it’s very dry, it’s there. Theo would bring that out of him more and let him loosen up a bit, especially at this stage where he’s trying to subconsciously let her know she’s safe around him and she can trust him, so he’d be making an active effort not to be the intimidating captain/commodore in her presence. 

#ctw #ctw read through

[navree]

This might be a jump that I’m only doing in my head, but so often a young girl not looking her age or not ‘acting’ her age is seen as enough of a reason to not treat them as their age. Like when pple say ‘ girls mature faster’ so some 20 year old guy can be ‘dating’ a 16 year old if she is posing on insta looking like a model in her 20s. Or like how a 13 year old black boy will get treated and seen as an adult while a white 13 yro still thought of as a kid.

So I just dunno if saying the show got it wrong from day one cause ‘if Elizabeth looked super young everyone would have understood it’s abuse’ is right. I don’t think Alicia looks her age, and I definitely get a young vibe from her performance. And the show states repeatedly her age and that she’s ‘a child’, if people still see it as a romance just cause they’re not automatically getting the ick watching it, I don’t think that’s really fair.

I get your point that with a younger actress the material would have been tamer, but the show obviously decided it was going to go there with the abuse which is why they didn’t cast someone super young, I don���t think that’s a fault of casting or Alicia, but a decision by the creators. But tbh even if the scenes had been much milder, I wouldn’t have liked to see the ’ ep 2 ‘rooster’ antics if Tom Cullen in his mid 30s was ripping the bed sheets off an 18 year old actress, never mind a younger one. I wouldn’t have been more tuned into Elizabeth’s age and abuse cause I’d be far too preoccupied seeing the actors behind the characters.

So I want to make it very clear since I guess that was opened to being misconstrued, I do not blame Alicia for taking the role and doing her job. It is not Alicia's job to manage the material, ask for rewrites, or do anything other than what she is paid to do, which she is doing. At no point am I blaming Alicia for choices made by the creators and nothing negative I say about the creative decision of the show is meant to be a negative about Alicia. Good? Clear? Great.

As I've said in my post, I haven't watched this show beyond clips. The information I'm getting is information from reviews and history/period drama reviewers I know across social media platforms that I've been engaging with on the subject (and also my mother who is watching the show, is as into the Tudors as I am, and is offering me her takes as she goes along). Take what I say with a grain of salt because I am currently not the audience watching the show (and probably won't be until the first season is finished).

But, all that being said: which is it? Is the show saying that Elizabeth's abuse is being excused by her abuser as her being "mature for her age", the way you mentioned, or is it repeatedly trying to let the audience know that she's "a child", the way you mentioned? And more importantly, my issue isn't about the show "going there" wrt to the abuse and my being upset it's not tame, my issue is that what the show is "going" towards is portraying a man in his forties fucking a fourteen year old in real time, that they're getting away with because they cast actors who have a more similar age gap to Elizabeth and Edward VI than Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour. My issue is that they are using Alicia being a grown woman, and thus not under the purview of things like child pornography laws, to make this as sexy and eroticized and graphic in the worst ways.

Like I said in my OG post, the problem is that the show's apparent mishandling of this abuse (particularly egregious, given how Anya Reiss was really hyping up that they were meant to be handling this sensitively and the end result is........This), combined with Alicia very much looking like an adult woman and not a girl who is meant to be starting this show who's been thirteen for less than half a year, offers ambiguity and thus cover for Seymour for people who aren't well versed in the history and are tuning into this show because they know who Elizabeth is and maybe saw Young Bess back in the day and were curious. They are presenting a scenario where, instead, of seeing someone barely into her teens being abused by a man practically the same age her own mother would have been, they're seeing two adults engaging in a tantalizing push and pull thanks not only to the apparent writing choices, but the choice to have Elizabeth be played by an adult.

On the subject of "I wouldn’t have liked to see the ’ ep 2 ‘rooster’ antics if Tom Cullen in his mid 30s was ripping the bed sheets off an 18 year old actress, never mind a younger one.", yeah, that's kind of my point. No one should be liking anything that's going on, nothing portrayed should be Open To Interpretation, considering how determined they were to hammer into everyone's head in pre-release material that they understood that the Seymour situation was abuse and they were going to sensitively handle it as such. Appropriate casting would have actually helped add to the story they were telling (assuming that's the story they wanted to to tell) by producing visceral shock and disgust and horror in the audience at Elizabeth's treatment at the hands of an adult man. Having it be two adults with the same age gap as my parents cheapens that.

Sorry to talk about GOT again cuz that's a shitshow if I ever saw one but the season 2 throne room scene with Sansa is legit awful to watch, meant to be awful to watch, and emphasizing the point of the scene, that Joffrey is awful and Sansa is in real danger and everyone is too scared of him to intervene save one of our core protagonists Tyrion, enhanced by the fact that Sophie was similar in age to her character (and it was still toned down from its source material due to the actress's age). And there's also things like cuts, filming tricks, editing, the use of body doubles in case things start running the risk, and obviously having appropriate counseling and anything else necessary available to the actress, so that they can avoid breaking the law and avoid causing undo harm to this hypothetical actress while still showcasing the abuse as abuse while having to deal with the fact that they don't get to add in ahistorical graphic sex scenes.

If you think I'm being unfair to Alicia, my apologies, none of these issues are with her and as I said, I think she's a good actress. If you think I'm being unfair to Anya, the rest of the writers, and their casting department (since casting is ultimately up to the creatives), then you are well within your rights to do so. But I am also well within my rights to feel that the casting choices made, compounded by the writing choices made, doesn't sit right with me, causes problems, and ultimately cheapens the tale they've told us they're telling, but failing to actually deliver on because of these factors.

#personal #answered #anonymous #becoming elizabeth #i genuinely do apologize if this is coming off as overly hostile #i'm honestly not trying to be rude i'm just covid addled and thus sleep deprived to all hell #and that tends to dull my abilities to not be super blunt #and also that means this answer is a bit all over the place #ultimately feel the way you want. enjoy it or don't. agree with it or don't. #mine is one opinion in a long list of them and if you're liking the show and what it's doing: great! happy for you! #but that doesn't mean i have to or that i'm somehow not 'getting' something with a critique #that i've had for a while and that i've seen become a problem in hollywood and that other people agree with me on

[ubaid214]

From Earth to Supplement: The Journey of Organic Supplement Supplements.

In a time dominated by processed food items and busy lifestyles, it's no real surprise that lots of persons change to products to generally meet their day-to-day nutritional needs. While there's an array of choices in the supplement industry, one category that has seen an important rise in recognition is organic supplement supplements. Let's explore into their world and discover the advantages and criteria connected with them.

Understanding Natural Supplement Products:

Organic vitamin products are often produced from whole food sources. What this means is the vitamins are produced from plants, herbs, and occasionally animal places, ensuring they remain shut with their organic state. As a result, they are frequently followed closely by other helpful substances like anti-oxidants, vitamins, and phytonutrients.

Advantages of Going Normal: doğal vitamin takviyesi

Synergy of Vitamins: Unlike manufactured types that identify specific supplements, normal supplements often provide a sophisticated natural matrix. The clear presence of additional compounds will often enhance the consumption and efficiency of the primary vitamin.

Reduced Side Consequences: Natural products are generally milder on the stomach and body. They often come with less negative effects compared to their manufactured counterparts.

Environmentally Helpful: Sourcing vitamins from nature indicates fewer chemicals and industrial processes. That often contributes to a diminished carbon impact and a wholesome environment.

What to View Out For:

Charge: Organic vitamin products will often be more expensive than synthetic people because of the complicated removal procedures and the quality of fresh materials.

Shelf Life: Since they've less preservatives and are deeper for their normal state, they could maybe not last as long as artificial supplements.

Regulations and Love: Make certain that any organic complement you choose has undergone arduous screening and adheres to the greatest quality standards. Because it's labeled "natural" doesn't generally mean it's pure.

Popular Natural Vitamin Supplements:

Vitamin C: Usually taken from acerola cherries or flower hips, organic vitamin C products provide antioxidant advantages beyond just the vitamin.

Supplement D3: Acquired from lichen or fish liver oils, this necessary vitamin supports calcium assimilation and helps resistant function.

Vitamin Elizabeth: Produced from natural resources like grain germ oil or sunflower vegetables, it provides equally tocopherols and tocotrienols, which are necessary for antioxidant protection.

Conclusion:

Adding normal supplement supplements is an exceptional method to bridge the gap between our daily nutritional intakes and our body's needs. It delivers people one stage nearer to nature, ensuring we reap the huge benefits within their purest form. But, it's generally necessary to do complete research and consult with a healthcare skilled before introducing any complement to your routine. Recall, probably the most effective diet arises from a balanced diet, and products must function as a complementary, perhaps not primary, supply of nutrients.

[corgigurl]

The corgis ancient history

In a recent article called "Pembroke Welsh Corgi History: Centuries old cattle herder to family pet" that I have read I learned that before becoming such a famous and well-known family pet, corgis were an asset to farmers, and they helped by moving the cattle. They were also used to help keep livestock safe and take care of any pesky rodents. Corgis are very responsive, smart, loyal, and high in energy which also made them good family pets. Corgis have been around for hundreds of years, the article states that they have been around since the 10th century. The cardigan corgi and the Pembroke Welsh being the oldest breeds of corgis. After farmers began to raise more small sheep pastures the need for corgis became less and less. You can still find the corgi around on farms in the United Kingdom but as of now they are just used as companions, and even more are in dog shows.

[Old photo of a line of Pembroke Welsh corgis]

The article states that even after the use of corgis declined their popularity soon began to rise again after Queen mother Catherine Bowes got a corgi for her daughters. This became the first of many corgis that Catherine Bowes’s daughter Elizabeth will own throughout her life. Corgis would then become the sight of royalty and an iconic staple in the United Kingdom. The corgis breed soon became to spread over seas and made its way into the United States. According to the article corgis in the United States were bred to the same standards as the ones bred in the UK. Breeders wanted the dogs to look the same worldwide so if you picked a corgi from the UK, you could never really tell if its foreign or not. Throughout the years the corgis coat and breed became even more beautiful, and their temperament grew milder. Due to the numerous articles and media pages, I don’t see the corgi’s popularity declining anytime soon.

You can also find the Article by the American Kennel Club here

[katnine]

Casually Insane #2 Bipolar and Me

Casually Insane # 2 Bipolar and Me

Hi im Kat and Welcome to Casually Insane episode 2. Today I'm talking about Bipolar disorder.

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As always I warn you I'm not a doctor and that I'm speaking from personal experience.

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Bipolar disorder is a mental Illness that controls your mood. It consists of a person having manic and depressive episodes. Mixed episodes are possible as well.

Let's take a look at what the definition and symptoms officially say…

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) defines bipolar as a group of brain disorders that cause extreme fluctuation in a person’s mood, energy, and ability to function. There are also 3 categories: one, two, and cyclothymic

Bipolar I disorder is a manic-depressive disorder that can exist both with and without psychotic episodes

Bipolar II disorder consists of depressive and manic episodes that alternate and are typically less severe and do not inhibit the function

Cyclothymic disorder is a cyclic disorder that causes brief episodes of hypomania and depression

Hypomania is a milder version of mania that lasts for a short period (usually a few days) Mania is a more severe form that lasts for a longer period (a week or more)

Now depression is obvious but what is mania?

So some examples that can be seen as mania are as follows:

Feel that you no longer need sleep and go days without it Frantic overspending Being reckless such as consuming enormous amounts of alcohol and or drugs well, compared to your usual consumption - hey I'm not judging! Feeling invincible Racing thoughts and talking extremely fast - again compare to how you usually are.

So what about me?

I was diagnosed with bipolar back in 2016. In my experience I have very long frequent depressive episodes and short mania episodes. Even though my experiences with mania are short, they happen more frequently throughout the year.

Bipolar is permanent so I will always live with it. To cope I'm on medications that have to be taken every day and night as well as being in therapy.

I warn you that when it comes to medications it's completely trial and error. I've been through many medication changes throughout the years. Some meds might not work at all for you and some might give really bad side effects. As much as I hate to say it you really just have to push through until you're on a good combo. I also want to say that your sickness isn't measured by how many meds they got you on. It's not a competition to be the sickest so to speak. Also just because a particular med works for you doesn't mean it will work for your friend. Everyone's brain is fucked up in a different way. Kind of like no snowflake has the exact same design.

If you’re looking for memoirs to read I would start off with

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

or

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Prozac Nation has also been made into a movie of the same name.

I apologize if i mispronounced their names.

There are tons of other writers out there that have published their experiences with bipolar. If you’re on a budget I would suggest looking at the website thrift books . com but I’m sure that you can also find these memoirs at the library or barnes and noble.

Also, there is a movie about bipolar called Silver Linings Playbook. I would say it leans more into the psychotic and mania aspects though.

It just amazes me how much some of these people accomplished while suffering from bipolar disorder.

For me at least, it gives me hope.

On that note, thanks for listening and hopefully this has been helpful.

#mental health #mental health advocate #bipolar

[fumpkins]

Injectable electrodes could prevent deadly heart arrhythmias | Science

SAN DIEGO—Heart attacks and strokes activated by electrical misfiring in the heart are amongst the most significant killers in the world. Now, scientists have actually developed a “liquid wire” that, when injected into pig hearts, can direct the organs to a regular rhythm.

The results, provided here today at a conference of the American Chemical Society, are “impressive and really cool,” states Thomas Mansell, a biomolecular engineer at Iowa State University who was not included with the work. “It’s an exciting study,” concurs Usha Tedrow, a heart electrophysiologist at Harvard Medical School, likewise not associated with the work. If the findings equate to individuals, she states, it could save countless lives each year.

“Pacemaker” cells keep the heart in rhythm. Located at the top of the organ, they produce a moderate electrical pulse that takes a trip down through the heart muscle, triggering the heart’s 4 chambers to pulse in the familiar two-part “lub-dub” beat. After a heart attack or other injury, scar tissue in heart muscle can prevent the required electrical signals from propagating effectively. The result is typically arrhythmias that can either trigger the heart to flutter rapidly or beat too gradually, conditions that can cause a stroke or heart attack.

Medications and a treatment referred to as ablation treatment—in which a few of the pacemaker cells are frozen or fried—can assist. Other clients should have a defibrillator implanted. If the gadget identifies arrhythmia, it sends out an effective electrical pulse to the top of the heart to stun the muscle back into typical rhythm. It can be unpleasant. “Patients never know when they’ll be shocked,” states Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, a biomaterials engineer at the University of Texas, Austin. Many end up with persistent stress and anxiety and anxiety.

Cardiologists would like to utilize an electrode that provides a milder and possibly less unpleasant pulse, not just to the top of the heart, however likewise to the lower chambers. One choice is to thread a thin metal electrode through a coronary vein on the exterior of the heart to reach the middle areas of the heart, where it can promote the heart’s lower chambers. But the coronary veins of numerous clients are too narrow or have partial occlusions, making that difficult.

In hopes of navigating this issue, Cosgriff-Hernandez and her associates set out to produce a liquidlike gel they could inject throughout the length of a coronary vein. The gel would then quickly solidify into a conductive, versatile plastic. (Blood returning through the heart would then stream through other veins.)

To pull this off, the group developed a gel from 2 parts: One, called poly(ether urethane diacrylamide) or PEUDAm, ultimately forms the plastic; the other, N-acryloyl glycinamide, connects the PEUDAm particles together. When different, both particles are liquids.

The scientists then fed both through an ultrathin divided catheter that keeps the liquids different and placed the catheter into a coronary vein at the top of the hearts of live pigs. The group pressed the liquids down the vein and its tributaries and got rid of the catheter. Once the 2 liquids fulfilled inside the vein, the substances responded within minutes and solidified into a versatile wire.

“It worked the first time. It was really exciting,” Cosgriff-Hernandez informed guests at the conference. A bunch of tests revealed the wires to be steady, conductive, and nontoxic.

In another round of tests, the researchers scarred a few of the heart tissue of the pigs to look like people with heart muscle damage. They then injected the liquid wire and, after it solidified, linked it to a standard battery-powered heart pacemaker. The pacemaker activated a near-normal heart rhythm. The high-intensity shocks clients get today can’t match that efficiency, states employee Mehdi Razavi, a cardiologist at the Texas Heart Institute.

Getting these possibly lifesaving versatile wires into human hearts stays a method off, Cosgriff-Hernandez states. She keeps in mind that prior to that occurs, the group requires to check the injectable wires in animal designs of heart illness. Tedrow includes that the product will likewise require to show steady and safe in long-lasting research studies in animals prior to human trials can be tried. But if that shows similarly effective, it could be a significant win for biomaterials scientists, and clients, she states.  

New post published on: https://livescience.tech/2022/03/27/injectable-electrodes-could-prevent-deadly-heart-arrhythmias-science/

#arrhythmias #deadly #electrodes #Heart #Injectable #prevent #science