#maternou

[fullmetalgirl98]

30 days Hypnosis Mic challenge

DAY 14: favorite battle

🎤 「Light & Shadow」 - Bad Ass Temple VS 麻天狼

(link)

Difficult choice, this one, I cannot deny it. If I had to think about it from the mere pov of plot, I probably would have talked about Fling Posse VS MAD TRIGGER CREW, but in terms of music... this song speaks for itself. It has such a majestic and pressing rhythm, and the message conveyed is also beautiful: never give up, no matter how insurmountable the difficulties may seem.

Hitoya's voice in the first verse has such a distinctive scratch to it, I love it so much! And Kuko's aggressiveness too, all on another level, here! And then the whole chain of crossed words after that, between Hifumi and Doppo, and that moment when Doppo debuts with "Ohoh! Omae ga ie gomennasai!", which gets me every.damn.time.

But I think the most beautiful thing is Doppo and Hifumi's verses in the second half of the song, in which they spit out all their weaknesses in the first part of their respective stanzas and then, in the second part, throw them aside, with the intention of improving themselves and wanting to become better people, partly because of the support of their other comrades (and between the two of them, predominantly. Sorry, but I have a very soft spot for Hifudo, in case it wasn't clear enough).

The live version is also extremely impactful, with Ryuichi Kijima and Kento Ito meshing so perfectly ahhhhh! (link)

My obsession with this song is such that I even made a journal spread for it (link)

Damn.

#hypnosis mic #hypmic #30 days hypnosis mic challenge #day 14 #30 day challenge #light & shadow #麻天狼 #bad ass temple #maternou #division rap battle #2nd drb #hifudo #hifumi izanami #izanami hifumi #doppo kannonzaka #kannonzaka doppo #kuko harai #harai kuko #jyushi aimono #aimono jyushi #hitoya amaguni #amaguni hitoya #jakurai jinguji #jinguji jakurai #ryuichi kijima #kijima ryuichi #kento ito #ito kento #anime #manga

[reasoningdaily]

My former U.S. Track and Field teammate Tori Bowie, who was found dead in her home in Florida on May 2, of complications related to childbirth at 8 months pregnant, was a beautiful runner. She was effortless. At the Rio Olympics, I ran the second leg of the 4 x 100 relay. Tori was the anchor. When she got the baton, I remember thinking, “it’s over.” She just accelerated. When she crossed the finish line, I couldn’t wait to run over to her to celebrate. It was her first, and only, Olympic gold medal.

She also picked up a silver (in the 100-m) and bronze (200-m) in Brazil. The next year, at the 2017 World Championships in London, Tori won the 100-m title, earning the title of “world’s fastest woman.” Tori started out as a long jumper. So seeing her thrive as a sprinter was a huge deal. She was just such a bright light, and people were getting to see that.

Tori grew up in Mississippi and had this huge Southern accent. She didn’t take herself too seriously. You felt this sense of ease when you were around her. I last saw her in early 2021, in San Diego, where she was training. She gave me the biggest hug; something about her spirit was just very, very sweet. I felt her sweetness come over me that day.

Tori was 32 when she died. According to the autopsy, possible complications contributing to Bowie’s death included respiratory distress and eclampsia—seizures brought on by preeclampsia, a high blood pressure disorder that can occur during pregnancy. I developed preeclampsia during my pregnancy with my daughter Camryn, who was born in November 2018. The doctors sent me to the hospital, where I would deliver Camryn during an emergency C-section, at 32 weeks. I was unsure if I was going to make it. If I was ever going to hold my precious daughter.

Like so many Black women, I was unaware of the risks I faced while pregnant. According to the CDC, in 2021 the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 2.6 times the rate for white women. About five days before I gave birth to Camryn, I was having Thanksgiving dinner with my family. I mentioned that my feet were swollen. As we went around the table, the women shared their experiences during pregnancy. My cousin said she also had swollen feet. My mom didn’t. Not once did someone say, ‘oh, well, that’s one of the indicators of preeclampsia.’ None of us knew. When I became pregnant, my doctor didn’t sit me down and tell me, ‘these are things that you should look for in your pregnancy, because you are at a greater risk to experience these complications.’

That needs to change, now, especially in light of Tori’s tragic passing. Awareness is huge. Serena Williams had near-death complications during her pregnancy. Beyoncé developed preeclampsia. I hate that it takes Tori’s situation to put this back on the map and to get people to pay attention to it. But oftentimes, we need that wake-up call.

The medical community must do its part. There are so many stories of women dying who haven’t been heard. Doctors really need to hear the pain of Black women.

Luckily, there’s hope on several fronts. Congress has introduced the Momnibus Act, a package of 13 bills crafted to eliminate racial disparities in maternal health and improve outcomes across the board. California passed Momnibus legislation back in 2021. These laws make critical investments in areas like housing, nutrition, and transportation for underserved communities. Further, several pharmaceutical companies are making advances on early detection and treatment of preeclampsia.

Three gold medalists from that 4 x 100 relay team in Rio set out to become mothers. All three of us—all Black women—had serious complications. Tianna Madison has shared that she went into labor at 26 weeks and entered the hospital “with my medical advance directive AND my will.” Tori passed away. We’re dealing with a Black Maternal Health crisis. Here you have three Olympic champions, and we’re still at risk.

I would love to have another child. That’s something that I know for sure. But will I be here to raise that child? That’s a very real concern. And that’s a terrifying thing. This is America, in 2023, and Black women are dying while giving birth. It’s absurd.

I’m hopeful that things can get better. I’m hopeful that Tori, who stood on the podium at Rio, gold around her neck and sweetness in her soul, won’t die in vain.

—as told to Sean Gregory

#Tori Bowie #Black Lives Matter #Black Mothers Health #Black Maternal Health #Allyson Felix: Tori Bowie Can't Die In Vain #Black Lives of Children Matter #Black Health Matters

[mysharona1987]

#free palestine #pregnancy #gaza #israel #democrats #News #Middle east #human rights #healthcare #Usa #britain #europe #maternity #obstetrics #doctors #nurses #nasser hospital #biden

[mapsontheweb]

Countries with both maternal and paternal leave, only maternal leave, or no paid leave.

by geo.ranking

#maps #geo.ranking #igsourced #maternity leave #paid leave

[drenched-in-sunlight]

happy gojo unboxing go girlboss queen 🤙

#jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #geto suguru #sukuna #albi’s art #I like how he just bust out in full maternity gear like that

[sartorialadventure]

#costumes #costuming #maternity fashion #armor #men's fashion #just tell 'em you're cosplaying Ephesians 6:10

[bishopony]

✨ magic practice ✨

#mlp #art #fanart #my little pony #princess celestia #twilight sparkle #redesign #I like maternal celestia with twilight lol #esp when she sings to twi in magical mystery cure 😭

[great-and-small]

More of the earless marsh rabbit since I can’t get enough of him! What a little fighter

#please ignore the maternity photo shoot happening in the background lol #marsh rabbit #animals #cute

[costumeloverz71]

Maternity or Laying-in Dress, 1888

#fashion #vintage #maternity dress #late 1800s

[owliellder]

taking a moment to appreciate re2r leon with long hair cause i did that with re4r leon already

my soft spot is for re2r leon anyways, he's so baby girl and perfect and god i just want to hold him in my arms and tell him everything is gonna be okay

#i'm feeling maternal #baby baby boy #leon kennedy #resident evil #re2r leon #re2 leon #re2 remake #rookie leon #leon kennedy fic #leon kennedy x reader #leon s kennedy #leon kennedy x you #leon s kennedy x reader #leon s kennedy x you #leon scott kennedy x reader

[katieo1022]

🍭

#pregnant #pregnancy #belly #bumpin #baby bump #bumpstyle #bump #beautiful #maternity #baby belly #lingerie #beauty #dancing

[gravidasomnia]

More test outputs. I struggled to get the best picture quality but the overall composition is good enough that I'll share these results. I'm finally trying out ComfyUI because sdxl works with it and it was trivial to set up the upscaling workflow I wish I could implement with the a1111 webui's hires fix, namely using different samplers for the upscaling steps. The nodes are intuitive enough for me, it reminds me of some audio modular tools I've played with in the past, but I can understand if others struggle with the concept. It seems to run quicker but I miss some of the advanced prompt tricks that are built into a1111. Also a couple more pregnant photo Loras have popped up and I've merged them all to get a decent combo of them all, it seems to naturally do bigger bellies with less flaws though the results still need retouching more often than not. It would be nice to get started with block weighted merging, I can see how it would help to get the most out of the models and loras I have at hand, but I simply don't have the time.

Backgrounds are still usually nonsensical and idk if I'll ever bother to address that, style references actually seem to make backgrounds worse if anything. Actually SDXL seems better for backgrounds, multi-model compositions might improve the overall quality but take more time to set up.

Thanks for enjoying the pics! please also follow me on: Instagram📸Patreon🙏DeviantArt🎨

#ai art #stable diffusion #pregnancy art #pregnant art #pregnant beauty #fake photo #maternity art #nude art #pregnant nude #maternity nude

[nerdgirlnarrates]

Even though it's been months since I switched from neurosurgery to internal medicine, I still have a hard time not being angry about the training culture and particularly the sexism of neurosurgery. It wasn't the whole reason I switched, but truthfully it was a significant part of my decision.

I quickly got worn out by constantly being questioned over my family plans. Within minutes of meeting me, attendings and residents felt comfortable lecturing me on the difficulties of having children as a neurosurgeon. One attending even suggested I should ask my co-residents' permission before getting pregnant so as not to inconvenience them. I do not have children and have never indicated if I plan to have any. Truthfully, I do want children, but I would absolutely have foregone that to be a neurosurgeon. I wanted to be a neurosurgeon more than anything. But I was never asked: it was simply assumed that I would want to be a mother first. Purely because I'm a woman, my ambitions were constantly undermined, assumed to be lesser than those of my male peers. Women must want families, therefore women must be less committed. It was inconceivable that I might put my career first. It was impossible to disprove this assumption: what could I have done to demonstrate my commitment more than what I had already done by leading the interest group, taking a research year, doing a sub-I? My interest in neurosurgery would never be viewed the same way my male peers' was, no matter what I did. I would never be viewed as a neurosurgeon in the same way my male peers would be, because I, first and foremost, would be a mother. It turns out women don't even need to have children to be a mother: it is what you essentially are. You can't be allowed to pursue things that might interfere with your potential motherhood.

Furthermore, you are not trusted to know your own ambitions or what might interfere with your motherhood. I am an adult woman who has gone to medical school: I am well aware of what is required in reproduction, pregnancy, and residency, as much as one can be without experiencing it firsthand. And yet, it was always assumed that I had somehow shown up to a neurosurgery sub-I totally ignorant of the demands of the career and of pregnancy. I needed to be enlightened: always by men, often by childless men. Apparently, it was implausible that I could evaluate the situation on my own and come to a decision. I also couldn't be trusted to know what I wanted: if I said I wanted to be a neurosurgeon more than a mother, I was immediately reassured I could still have a family (an interesting flip from the dire warnings issued not five minutes earlier in the conversation). People could not understand my point, which was that I didn't care. I couldn't mean that, because women are fundamentally mothers. I needed to be guided back to my true role.

Because everyone was so confident in their sexist assumptions that I was less committed, I was not offered the same training, guidance, or opportunities as the men. I didn't have projects thrown my way, I didn't get check-ins or advice on my application process, I didn't get opportunities in the OR that my male peers got, I didn't get taught. I once went two whole days on my sub-I without anyone saying a word to me. I would come to work, avoid the senior resident I was warned hated trainees, figure out which OR to go to on my own, scrub in, watch a surgery in complete silence without even the opportunity to cut a knot, then move to the next surgery. How could I possibly become a surgeon in that environment? And this is all to say nothing of the rape jokes, the advice that the best way for a woman to match is to be as hot as possible, listening to my attending advise the male med students on how to get laid, etc.

At a certain point, it became clear it would be incredibly difficult for me to become a neurosurgeon. I wouldn't get research or leadership opportunities, I wouldn't get teaching or feedback, I wouldn't get mentorship, and I wouldn't get respect. I would have to fight tooth and nail for every single piece of my training, and the prospect was just exhausting. Especially when I also really enjoyed internal medicine, where absolutely none of this was happening and I even had attendings telling me I would be good at it (something that didn't happen in neurosurgery until I quit).

I've been told I should get over this, but I don't know how to. I don't know how to stop being mad about how thoroughly sidelined I was for being female. I don't know how to stop being bitter that my intelligence, commitment, and work ethic meant so much less because I'm a woman. I know I made the right decision to switch to internal medicine, and it probably would have been the right decision even if there weren't all these issues with the culture of neurosurgery, but I'm still so angry about how it happened.

#I would love to do something about this but I have no idea how to #even the faculty that I do really admire and respect seem entrenched in some of these attitudes #it's really hard to convince people that women aren't traitors in the making #simply because we might get pregnant one day and need time off #oh I also heard people shittalking a resident that was on maternity leave #and saying she wasn't serious about neurosurgery #so it's just inevitable #I'm not the only female student that feels this way btw #there's a reason no women have applied to nsgy from my school in years #sexism #neurosurgery #surgery #medicine #medical school #med school #med student #medblr #my content #my text posts

[flimsy-spine]

shocking: new parents realize just how difficult parenting is 😱😱

#sciliam #sciles #sciam #scott mccall #liam dunbar #stiles stilinski #teen wolf #teenwolfedit #twedit #sciliamedit #scilesedit #sciamedit #scottmccalledit #liamdunbaredit #stilesstilinskiedit #*tw #* #was wondering why sciles felt extra boyfriendy in s4 and then remembered they mothered a child here. they had that maternal glow. #dylan sprayberry i know you were a 16 year old boy here but as a 17 year old something now i am telling you that haircut looks AWFUL. #GET IN THE DAMN TIME MACHINE AND FIX IT NEEOOOOOWW

[chinzhilla]

[Anyway, what do you think about when you run?] I imagine a huge crocodile chasing me.

Cha Joo Wan as Cha Yeo Woon in Love For Love's Sake episode 4

#love for love's sake #love for love's sake the series #asianlgbtqdramas #boyslovesource #userdramas #asiandramanet #userkimchi #long post #* #*lfls #they made him in a lab specifically to trigger my maternal instincts

[drenched-in-sunlight]

strongest milf

#jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #jjk #i swear i must have drawn him in this maternity gear look before but apparently i have never?????? even though it's my fav look?? #here it is anyway #albi’s art