#white pathology 101

[communistkenobi]

thank you so much for the transmisogyny reading post! im definitely gonna be reading into those. in a similar vein, do you have a recommended reading list for decolonization/anti-imperialism?

Do you mean molsno's post? def cannot take credit for that but yes I have a couple!

high-level recommendation is discourse on colonialism by aime cesaire (this link goes to a pdf that is a collection of essays, you can skip to cesaire's essay). probably one of the most formative essays for me personally in terms of how i think about colonialism

decolonization is not a metaphor by Tuck & Yang is a famous article in decolonial scholarship and will likely come up pretty frequently if you're reading academic work. if you read that article, i recommend following it up with Slavery is a Metaphor by Garba & Sorentino - its a Black critical commentary by two marxist scholars i believe on Tuck & Yang's work, working through the anti-Black thinking that is present in the work, particularly the deeply problematic conceptual attention given by Tuck & Yang to slavery when historicising and analyzing settler colonialism in North America. These are both academic articles and they're both jargon-laden so your mileage will vary

I originally included decolonizing transgender 101 by b binaohan on here before realizing that it's already in the linked post above lol. in that post is a link to the full book that i'll repost here (usually you can only find the introduction online) so definitely make use of that. anyway great work, very accessible and insightful, makes direct linkages between white supremacy, settler colonialism, and transmisogyny in a way i found extremely helpful

i read beyond white privilege: geographies of white supremacy and settler colonialism during my master's about four years ago (jesus christ the passage of time!!!) and found it very insightful - the authors talk about white supremacy as a process rather than a historical event, as well as talk about some of the conceptual limitations of the popular focus on white privilege (as opposed to white supremacy) that i found very helpful for me personally. its another academic article

I've been recently introduced to Anibal Quijano's work, particularly the Coloniality of Power. this is an extremely theoretical work that focuses on the construction and universalization of race, the 'invention of Europe,' modernity as a colonial construction, and a bunch of other pretty dense topics. thats not to scare you off, but its probably the most theory heavy article i've linked here

this list skews towards academic work because that's what im most familiar with (all the links i provided are open-access links so you should not need institutional access to read them). For books, you can read Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon or Orientalism by Edward Said, they're both pretty foundational decolonial texts and are also pretty formative for me. Fanon's work is on decolonial struggle and the pathologization of colonized people, Said's work is on the construction of "the East" to justify and reproduce Western hegemony.

Hope this was helpful! I'm by no means an expert and this is only scratching the surface of scholarship on the subject. I'm still in the process of reading, but hopefully this is a good starting point for you!

#asks #book club

[robbialy]

Eloquently put by • @pathologeek 🎃 Halloween is next Monday! This will be our last post about diseases that may have inspired Halloween characters. At least for this year. So last but not least: 👰 A Monster’s Bride 👰 Today we’ll review a skin / hair condition commonly depicted on Frankenstein’s bride and also seen on Lily Munster: the streak of white hair. A medical condition that may have inspired this characteristic hair is known as Poliosis circumscripta. For starters, this nothing spooky, evil, or even different about people who have Poliosis. And you shouldn’t judge anyone with it in any way. Poliosis is defined as a localized patch of white hairs, and it is actually a clinical sign not an specific diagnosis. This is important to point out, because it can be associated with multiple diseases, from genetic syndromes to autoimmune diseases and even neoplastic entities or as a side effect to a topical or systemic drug. Above you can review some slides that show the microscopic characteristics of white versus black hair, and also some examples of skin diseases that can manifest themselves as poliosis. While we opened with a reference to the classic brides of Frankenstein’s monster, this feature is common in several beloved Halloween characters, as well as in novels such as The Mallens by Catherine Cookson, Rogue in the X-Men, and even Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians. All of which would make excellent characters to dress up as this old Hallows Eve!!! #vitiligo #alopecia #halonevus #biology #poliosis #histology #pathologist #pathology #surgicalpathology #histopathology #medicine #medstudent #medicaleducation #pathologeek #pathologyresidents #medicalresident #medschool #medicalstudent #premed #pathologyassistant #histo #pathologylab #laboratory #HALLOWEEN https://www.instagram.com/p/CkOcWU5jb0zmSOcFXDO8EszjCV7gqHwZkhuJww0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#vitiligo #alopecia #halonevus #biology #poliosis #histology #pathologist #pathology #surgicalpathology #histopathology #medicine #medstudent #medicaleducation #pathologeek #pathologyresidents #medicalresident #medschool #medicalstudent #premed #pathologyassistant #histo #pathologylab #laboratory #halloween

[mysterycharacterbracket]

Tier 5 Recap

96. 210. Melanie King from The Magnus Archives

95. 241. Vriska Serket from Homestuck

94. 93. Cure Passion from Fresh Precure

93. 44. Stanford Pines from Gravity Falls

92. 265. Otome from Video game (Gnosia)

91. 173. Lucian Lockhart from the submitter's imagination

90. 4. Pyotr 'Pierre' Bezukhov from War and Peace

89. 6. Mia "Maps" Mizoguchi from Gotham Academy/DC Comics

88. 76. Meridius from Venom

87. 268. daniil dankovsky from pathologic

86. 55. Nona from Nona the Ninth (book)

85. 24. Prince Peasely from Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga

84. 298. IMOGEN from stellar firma

83. 52. Jordyn Khaos from The chronicles of Destiny

82. 166. Gideon Nav from The Locked Tomb

81. 282. Obi from Snow White with the Red Hair

80. 281. Dalinar Kholin from Stormlight Archive

79. 140. Tim Drake from DC Comics, Batman Comics

78. 248. Brightheart from Warriors

77. 23. Garwin Chang from Keeper of the Lost cities

76. 109. Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist

75. 289. Ken Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul

74. 114. Vinnie Dakota from Milo Murphy's Law

73. 14. Jin Macchiato from Fuga: Melodies of Steel

72. 101. Hendry Lowe from All of Us Villains

71. 212. Annabel McAllistair from Dolls of new albion

70. 258. Sanji from One piece

69. 214. God from the Bible

68. 73. Kosane Kiriha from Null Magical Girl

67. 218. Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit

66. 118. anakin skywalker from star wars

65. 90. Adina Astra from Lost Constellation (Night in the Woods Supplemental)

#mystery character bracket #character review

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2023

I struggled with the idea that I need to keep up with everything new, when it's evident that I don't want to. Movies are easy thanks to subscription services like A-List (and a pathological need to get out of the house), but I was consistently happy to dwell in the past for reading and video games.

So I think I'll be more chill about fiction this year. Just follow what feels right.

Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

2023: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Short Stories, Chapters, Excerpts

Jan - "Psalms" (1-100) ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jan - "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Inventory" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Mothers" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Especially Heinous" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Real Women Have Bodies" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Eight Bites" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "The Resident" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Difficult At Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "The First Peer" by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (2010)

Jan - "Reservoir Ferengi" by David McIntee (2010)

Jan - "The Slow Knife" by James Swallow (2010)

Jan - "The Unhappy Ones" by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2010)

Jan - "Freedom Angst" by Britta Burdett Dennison (2010)

Jan - "Revenant" by Marc D. Giller (2010)

Jan - "Work Is Hard" by Greg Cox (2010)

Feb - "Psalms" (101-150) ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "Proverbs" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "Ecclesiastes" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "WPO" by Joanne McNeil (2022)

Mar - "Flesh" by Louis Evans (2022)

Mar - "Devolution" by Ellen Ullman (2022)

Mar - "Always Home" by Jeff Vandermeer (2022)

Apr - "Canticle of Canticles" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Apr - "Wisdom" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

May - "Ecclesiasticus" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jun - "Isaias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jul - "Jeremias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Aug - "Lamentations of Jeremias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Aug - "The Miracle of the Lily" by Clare Winger Harris (1928)

Aug - "The Conquest of Gola" by Leslie F. Stone (1931)

Aug - "The Black God's Kiss" by C.L. Moore (1934)

Aug - "Space Episode" by Leslie Perri (1941)

Aug - "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril (1948)

Aug - "In Hiding" by Wilmar H. Shiras (1948)

Aug - "Contagion" by Katherine MacLean (1950)

Aug - "The Inhabited Men" by Margaret St. Clair (1951)

Aug - "Ararat" by Zenna Henderson (1952)

Aug - "All Cats Are Gray" by Andrew North (1953)

Aug - "Created He Them" by Alice Eleanor Jones (1955)

Aug - "Mr. Sakrison’s Halt" by Mildred Clingerman (1956)

Aug - "All the Colors of the Rainbow" by Leigh Brackett (1957)

Aug - "Pelt" by Carol Emshwiller (1958)

Aug - "Car Pool" by Rosel George Brown (1959)

Aug - "For Sale, Reasonable" by Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1959)

Aug - "Birth of a Gardener" by Doris Pitkin Buck (1961)

Aug - "The Tunnel Ahead" by Alice Glaser (1961)

Aug - "The New You" by Kit Reed (1962)

Aug - "Another Rib" by John Jay Wells & Marion Zimmer Bradley (1963)

Aug - "When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman (1966)

Aug - "Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm (1967)

Aug - "The Barbarian" by Joanna Russ (1968)

Aug - "The Last Flight Of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr. (1969)

Aug - "Nine Lives" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

Sep - "Baruch" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Oct - "Snatched from the Brink" by Mary E. Penn (1878)

Oct - "The Canal" by Everil Worrell (1927)

Oct - "The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror" by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)

Oct - "The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

Oct - "CUE: Change" by Chesya Burke (2011)

Oct - "Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow (1994)

Oct - "The Real Right Thing" by Henry James (1899)

Oct - "The Haunted House" by M.A. Bird (1865)

Oct - "The Island of Regrets" by Elizabeth Walter (1965)

Oct - "The Stolen Body" by H.G. Wells (1903)

Oct - "The White Priest" by Hélène Gingold (1893)

Oct - "The Man Who Went Too Far" by E.F. Benson (1912)

Oct - "Mater Tenebrarum" by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)

Oct - "Menopause" by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)

Oct - "Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. (2020)

Oct - "Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)

Oct - "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

Oct - "The Village Spectre" by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)

Oct - "The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury (1951)

Oct - "The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter (1979)

Oct - "The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood (1907)

Oct - "Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)

Oct - "Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (1987)

Oct - "The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (1937)

Oct - "The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)

Oct - "The Shadowy Third" by Ellen Glasgow (1923)

Oct - "The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)

Oct - "The Interval" by Vincent O'Sullivan (1918)

Oct - "The Phantom Cyclist" by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)

Oct - "Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)

Oct - "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1984)

Dec - "Ezekiel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Dec - "Daniel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Audio Shorts

Jan - "The Briefcase" by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber for NPR's Selected Shorts (2009, 2023)

Jan - "Paradise" by Yxta Maya Murray, performed by Tanis Parenteau for NPR's Selected Shorts (2020, 2023)

Oct - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)

Novels & Novellas

Jan - Honor in the Night by Scott Pearson (2010)

Feb - Abyss by David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang (2001)

Mar - Demons of Air and Darkness by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2001)

Mar - Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)

Apr - Horn and Ivory by Keith R. A. DeCandido (2001)

Apr - Return to HorrorLand by R.L. Stine (1999)

May - We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (2022)

Aug - Twilight by David R. George III (2002)

Aug - Are You Terrified Yet? by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Creature Teacher by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 1 by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 2 by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - I'm Your Evil Twin! by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Revenge R Us by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Fright Camp by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Headless Halloween by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Brain Juice by R.L. Stine (1998)

Dec - Revenant by Alex White (2021)

Dec - Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2023)

Dec - The Men by Sandra Newman (2023)

Dec - Aftermath by Christopher L. Bennett (2003)

Dec - Jekyll and Heidi by R.L. Stine (1999)

Gamebooks

Jan - Trapped in Bat Wing Hall by R.L. Stine (1995)

Jul - The Abominable Snowman by R. A. Montgomery (1982)

Aug - Tick Tock, You're Dead! by R.L. Stine (1995)

Sep - The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek by R.L. Stine (1996)

Sep - Night in Werewolf Woods by R.L. Stine (1996)

Sep - Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter by R.L. Stine (1996)

Plays

Jan - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, presented by Rice University Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (1595, 2013)

Poems

Jan - "Comet as Paperboy" by Samantha Blysse Haviland (2022)

Jan - "The Art of Negotiation" by Meghan Privitello (2016)

Apr - "A Boat" by Richard Brautigan (1968)

May - "Idaho" by Dobby Gibson (2005)

Comic Shorts & Single Issues

Jan - "Forest Spirits" by Secondlina (2022)

Jan - "Forest Spirits 2" by Secondlina (2022)

Jan - "With Sympathy" by Oglaf Comics (2017)

Jan - "it went like this" by chaumas-deactivated20230115 (2023)

Feb - "The Hole in the Wall" by Angela Hsieh (2022)

Mar - "It hurt, but i don't regret it" by miggs perez (2023)

Mar - "Heaven, Heaven, Angel, Angel" by NoneToon (2023)

Mar - "A poem" by oddlyunadventurous (2023)

Apr - "Halt" by spiralshells (2023)

Apr - "Broomistega & Thrinaxodon" by Erin Roseberry (2023)

Jun - "A young couple have a strange encounter on a dark country road" by Iguanadon't (2016)

Jul - "My Local Gas Station" by Ink (2018)

Jul - The Adventures of Mighty Max - "Mighty Max and the Grand Slam" by Robert Hudnut, Gary Hartle, Brett Koth, David C. Weiss, and Phil Roman (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Trapped by Arachnoid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Liquidates the Ice Alien" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Lashes Lizard" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Traps Rattus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Outwits Cyclops" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Tangles With the Ape King" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Slays the Doom Dragon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Grapples with Battle Cat" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Squishes Fly" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Blows Up Dino Lab" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Stings Scorpion" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Crushes the Hand" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Escapes from Skull Dungeon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Conquers the Palace of Poison" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Sinks Nautilus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Caught by the Man-Eater" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Bytes Cyberskull" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Terminates Wolfship 7" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Survives Corpus" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Against Robot Invader" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Zaps Beetlebrow" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Crushes Talon" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Out-Freaks Freako" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Rams Hydron" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Versus Kronosaur" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Challenges Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Tangles With Lockjaw" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Defeats Vamp Biter" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Fights Nuke Ranger" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Pulverizes Sea Squirm" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Battles Skull Warrior" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Hammers Ax Man" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Hounds Werewolf" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Neutralises Zomboid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Defeats Battle Conqueror" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Head to Head With Hydra" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Melts Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Strikes Fang" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Shuts Down Cybot" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Shatters Gargoyle" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Assaults Skull Master" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "La-Mulana" by KC Green (2023)

Aug - "Mental Health Marge 2 Da Rescue" by ossian (2019)

Sep - "Hotline Miami" by KC Green (2023)

Sep - "I was told by my doctor that this'll completely compensate my human meat diet" by scribblingchimp (2023)

Oct - "Birds of a Feather" by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)

Oct - "The Origin of Vampirella" by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)

Oct - "Do You Know… the Beast-Man?" by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Oct - "Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

Oct - "For Better or Worse?" by Richard Corben (2016)

Oct - "Werewolf!" by Frank Frazetta (1964)

Oct - "Chickadee!" by Aya Rothwell (2016)

Oct - "The Evil Dead" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)

Oct - "Famine's Shadow" by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)

Oct - "A Pretty Place" by Emily Carroll (2023)

Oct - "The Thing from the Sea" by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)

Oct - "The Living Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)

Oct - "Essence of Life" by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)

Oct - "Hag of the Blood Basket!" by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)

Oct - "The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

Oct - "Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)

Oct - "Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo" by Unknown (1946)

Oct - "Man's World" by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)

Oct - "Shadow of Death" by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)

Oct - "Smoke and Cedar" by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)

Oct - "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)

Oct - "A Dog and His Boy" by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)

Oct - "The Horror Beneath" by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)

Oct - "Shadows on the Tomb" by Joe Certa (1952)

Oct - "The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)

Oct - "The Duel of the Monsters" by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)

Oct - "The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll" by Edward Gorey (1962)

Oct - "Inside You" by Valerie D'Orazio & David James Cole (2014)

Oct - "Soylent Teen" by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)

Oct - "The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)

Oct - "Fair Ground" by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Dec - "> THE JESTER" by Margaut Shorjian (2023)

Graphic Novels & Collections

Jan - Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium - Volume One (2013)

Mar - Star Trek Deep Space Nine: N-Vector (2000)

Betas & Demos

Jan - "Full Void Demo" dev. OutOfTheBit (2023)

Video & Electronic Games

Jan - Thunderbirds dev. Saffire (2004)

Feb - Men in Black: The Game dev. Gigawatt Studios & The Collective (1998)

Feb - The Game of Life dev. Mass Media & The Collective (1998)

Mar - Hack 'n' Slash dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

Mar - God of War dev. Santa Monica Studio (2018)

Mar - Buffy the Vampire Slayer dev. The Collective (2002)

Apr - Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb dev. The Collective (2003)

Apr - Bartman: Avenger of Evil dev. Acclaim Entertainment (1991)

Apr - The X-Files: Resist or Serve dev. Black Ops Entertainment & The Collective (2004)

May - Bart Simpson's Cupcake Crisis dev. Acclaim (1990)

May - Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith dev. The Collective (2005)

May - Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure dev. The Collective (2006)

May - The Adventures of Mouth Man dev. Retrocade Media (2023)

Jun - Spacebase DF-9 dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

Jul - Mighty Max dev. Tiger Electronics (1994)

Jul - The Adventures of Mighty Max dev. WJS Design (1995)

Oct - Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)

Oct - Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Oct - Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)

Oct - D dev. Warp (1995)

Oct - Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)

Oct - Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)

Oct - Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)

Dec - The Simpsons: Bart vs. Homersaurus dev. Tiger Electronics (1994)

Short Films

Jan - "bugs" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Jan - "enter initials" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Feb - "An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It" dir. Lachlan Pendragon (2022)

Feb - "The Flying Sailor" dir. Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby (2022)

Feb - "Ice Merchants" dir. João Gonzalez (2022)

Feb - "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" dir. Peter Baynton & Charlie Mackesy (2022)

Feb - "My Year of Dicks" dir. Sara Gunnarsdóttir (2022)

Feb - "Ivalu" dir. Anders Walter & Pipaluk K. Jørgensen (2022)

Feb - "Night Ride (Nattrikken)" dir. Eirik Tveiten (2020)

Feb - "Le Pupille" dir. Alice Rohrwacher (2022)

Feb - "The Red Suitcase" dir. Cyrus Neshvad (2022)

Feb - "An Irish Goodbye" dir. Tom Berkeley & Ross White (2022)

Apr - "The Greatest Living Show" dir. Toby Fox & Itoki Hana (2023)

Jun - "Wolf in sheep's clothing" dir. Yea An (2023)

Jun - "War of Colors" dir. Emir Kumova (2022)

Jun - "Double King" dir. Felix Colgrave (2017)

Jun - "How Finding Nemo Should Have Ended" dir. HISHE (2016)

Jul - "What It Feels Like to Live as an Immortal?" dir. LazyOwl Studio (2022)

Sep - "Carl's Date" dir. Bob Peterson (2023)

Movies Jan-Jun

Jan - Avatar: The Way of Water dir. James Cameron (2022)

Jan - Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody dir. Kasi Lemmons (2022)

Jan - Thunderbirds dir. Jonathan Frakes (2004)

Jan - M3GAN dir. Gerard Johnstone (2023)

Jan - Corsage dir. Marie Kreutzer (2022)

Jan - Broker dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2022)

Jan - Skinamarink dir. Kyle Edward Ball (2022)

Jan - Plane dir. Jean-François Richet (2023)

Jan - Missing dir. Will Merrick & Nick Johnson (2023)

Jan - That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond dir. Yasuhito Kikuchi (2023)

Jan - A Man Called Otto dir. Marc Forster (2023)

Jan - Puss In Boots: The Last Wish dir. Joel Crawford (2022)

Jan - Women Talking dir. Sarah Polley (2022)

Feb - Groundhog Day dir. Harold Ramis (1993)

Feb - Infinity Pool dir. Brandon Cronenberg (2023)

Feb - 80 for Brady dir. Kyle Marvin (2023)

Feb - Magic Mike dir. Steven Soderbergh (2012)

Feb - Living dir. Oliver Hermanus (2022)

Feb - Magic Mike XXL dir. Gregory Jacobs (2015)

Feb - She Came from the Woods dir. Erik Bloomquist (2022)

Feb - Magic Mike's Last Dance dir. Steven Soderbergh (2023)

Feb - Knock at the Cabin dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2023)

Feb - Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night dir. Ayako Kono (2023)

Feb - Consecration dir. Christopher Smith (2023)

Feb - Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey dir. Rhys Waterfield (2023)

Feb - Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania dir. Peyton Reed (2023)

Feb - Johnny Mnemonic dir. Robert Longo (1995)

Feb - Virtuosity dir. Brett Leonard (1995)

Feb - Jesus Revolution dir. Jon Erwin & Brent McCorkle (2023)

Feb - Cocaine Bear dir. Elizabeth Banks (2023)

Feb - Gattaca dir. Andrew Niccol (1997)

Feb - Strange Days dir. Kathryn Bigelow (1995)

Feb - Kissed dir. Lynne Stopkewich (1996)

Feb - Richard III dir. Richard Loncraine (1995)

Feb - Eye for an Eye dir. John Schlesinger (1996)

Mar - Creed III dir. Michael B. Jordan (2023)

Mar - Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre dir. Guy Ritchie (2023)

Mar - RRR dir. S. S. Rajamouli (2022)

Mar - The Lawnmower Man dir. Brett Leonard (1992)

Mar - Scream VI dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (2023)

Mar - 65 dir. Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (2023)

Mar - Shazam! Fury of the Gods dir. David F. Sandberg (2023)

Apr - A Good Person dir. Zach Braff (2023)

Apr - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley (2023)

Apr - The Super Mario Bros. Movie dir. Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic (2023)

Apr - Air dir. Ben Affleck (2023)

Apr - John Wick: Chapter 4 dir. Chad Stahelski (2023)

Apr - Suzume dir. Makoto Shinkai (2023)

Apr - Mafia Mamma dir. Catherine Hardwicke (2023)

Apr - Renfield dir. Chris McKay (2023)

Apr - The Pope's Exorcist dir. Julius Avery (2023)

Apr - Beau Is Afraid dir. Ari Aster (2023)

May - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 dir. James Gunn (2023)

May - Polite Society dir. Nida Manzoor (2023)

May - Born to Fly dir. Liu Xiaoshi (2023)

May - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret dir. Kelly Fremon Craig (2023)

May - Fool's Paradise dir. Charlie Day (2023)

May - Hypnotic dir. Robert Rodriguez (2023)

May - Evil Dead Rise dir. Lee Cronin (2023)

May - Master Gardener dir. Paul Schrader (2023)

May - Sisu dir. Jalmari Helander (2023)

May - Fast X dir. Louis Leterrier (2023)

May - The Wrath of Becky dir. Matt Angel & Suzanne Coote (2023)

May - Kandahar dir. Ric Roman Waugh (2023)

Jun - The Hangover dir. Todd Phillips (2009)

Jun - The George McKenna Story dir. Eric Laneuville (1986)

Jun - Last Action Hero dir. John McTiernan (1993)

Jun - We Have a Ghost dir. Christopher Landon (2023)

Jun - The Mother dir. Niki Caro (2023)

Jun - The Little Mermaid dir. Rob Marshall (2023)

Jun - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson (2023)

Jun - The Boogeyman dir. Rob Savage (2023)

Jun - The Roundup: No Way Out dir. Lee Sang-yong (2023)

Jun - Chevalier dir. Stephen Williams (2023)

Jun - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts dir. Steven Caple Jr. (2023)

Jun - Sanctuary dir. Zachary Wigon (2023)

Jun - A Thousand and One dir. A.V. Rockwell (2023)

Jun - The Blackening dir. Tim Story (2023)

Jun - No Hard Feelings dir. Gene Stupnitsky (2023)

Jun - Past Lives dir. Celine Song (2023)

Jun - The Flash dir. Andy Muschietti (2023)

Jun - Asteroid City dir. Wes Anderson (2023)

Jun - Adipurush dir. Om Raut (2023)

Jun - God Is a Bullet dir. Nick Cassavetes (2023)

Jun - 1920: Horrors of the Heart dir. Krishna Bhatt (2023)

Jun - The Childe dir. Park Hoon-jung (2023)

Jun - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny dir. James Mangold (2023)

Movies Jul-Dec

Jul - Metropolis dir. Rintaro (2001)

Jul - Insidious: The Red Door dir. Patrick Wilson (2023)

Jul - Joy Ride dir. Adele Lim (2023)

Jul - Lost In the Stars dir. Cui Rui & Liu Xiang (2023)

Jul - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One dir. Christopher McQuarrie (2023)

Jul - The Miracle Club dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan (2023)

Jul - Shadows dir. Glenn Chan (2023)

Jul - Barbie dir. Greta Gerwig (2023)

Jul - Oppenheimer dir. Christopher Nolan (2023)

Jul - Haunted Mansion dir. Justin Simien (2023)

Jul - Talk to Me dir. Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou (2023)

Aug - Theater Camp dir. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman (2023)

Aug - Never Say Never dir. Baoqiang Wang (2023)

Aug - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem dir. Jeff Rowe (2023)

Aug - Meg 2: The Trench dir. Ben Wheatley (2023)

Aug - Ransomed dir. Kim Seong-hun (2023)

Aug - The Last Voyage of the Demeter dir. André Øvredal (2023)

Aug - Jules dir. Marc Turtletaub (2023)

Aug - Strays dir. Josh Greenbaum (2023)

Aug - Blue Beetle dir. Angel Manuel Soto (2023)

Aug - Gran Turismo dir. Neill Blomkamp (2023)

Aug - birth/rebirth dir. Laura Moss (2023)

Aug - Landscape With Invisible Hand dir. Cory Finley (2023)

Aug - Porco Rosso dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1992)

Aug - The Wind Rises dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2013)

Aug - Retribution dir. Nimród Antal (2023)

Aug - To Live and Die in L.A. dir. William Friedkin (1985)

Sep - The Equalizer 3 dir. Antoine Fuqua (2023)

Sep - Bottoms dir. Emma Seligman (2023)

Sep - Elemental dir. Peter Sohn (2023)

Sep - They Live dir. John Carpenter (1988)

Sep - Jawan dir. Atlee (2023)

Sep - Christine dir. John Carpenter (1983)

Sep - The LEGO Movie dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (2014)

Sep - Outlaw Johnny Black dir. Michael Jai White (2023)

Sep - Satanic Hispanics dir. Alejandro Brugués , Mike Mendez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Eduardo Sánchez, Demián Rugna (2023)

Sep - Prey dir. Dan Trachtenberg (2022)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight dir. Ernest Dickerson (1995)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood dir. Gilbert Adler (1996)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Ritual dir. Avi Nesher (2002)

Sep - Vault of Horror dir. Freddie Francis (1973)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt dir. Freddie Francis (1972)

Sep - The Origin of Evil dir. Sébastien Marnier (2023)

Sep - The Expendables 4 dir. Scott Waugh (2023)

Sep - The Creator dir. Gareth Edwards (2023)

Oct - It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)

Oct - The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)

Oct - Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)

Oct - Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

Oct - Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)

Oct - The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)

Oct - The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)

Oct - House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)

Oct - The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)

Oct - The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)

Oct - Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)

Oct - The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)

Oct - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)

Oct - A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)

Oct - Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)

Oct - A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)

Oct - The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)

Oct - Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)

Oct - Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)

Oct - Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)

Oct - Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)

Oct - The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)

Oct - Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)

Oct - Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)

Oct - The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)

Oct - Kuso dir. Steve (2017)

Oct - Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)

Oct - The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)

Oct - The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)

Oct - Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)

Oct - Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)

Nov - A Million Miles Away dir. Alejandra Marquez Abella (2023)

Nov - Anatomy of a Fall dir. Justine Triet (2023)

Nov - Killers of the Flower Moon dir. Martin Scorsese (2023)

Nov- Five Nights at Freddy's dir. Gil Kenan (2023)

Nov - The Marsh King's Daughter dir. Neil Burger (2023)

Nov - It's a Wonderful Knife dir. Tyler MacIntyre (2023)

Nov - The Marvels dir. Nia DaCosta (2023)

Nov - Freelance dir. Pierre Morel (2023)

Nov - The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes dir. Francis Lawrence (2023)

Nov - Next Goal Wins dir. Taika Waititi (2023)

Nov - The Holdovers dir. Alexander Payne (2023)

Nov - Priscilla dir. Sofia Coppola (2023)

Nov - Thanksgiving dir. Eli Roth (2023)

Nov - Napoleon dir. Ridley Scott (2023)

Nov - The Persian Version dir. Maryam Keshavarz (2023)

Nov - Wish dir. Chris Buck & Fawn Veerasunthorn (2023)

Dec - Dream Scenario dir. Kristoffer Borgli (2023)

Dec - Godzilla Minus One dir. Takashi Yamazaki (2023)

Dec - The Boy and the Heron dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2023)

Dec - The Abyss dir. James Cameron (1989)

Dec - Eileen dir. William Oldroyd (2023)

Dec - A Christmas Story dir. Bob Clark (1983)

Dec - Wonka dir. Paul King (2023)

Dec - Monster dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2023)

Dec - Leave the World Behind dir. Sam Esmail (2023)

Dec - The Polar Express dir. Robert Zemeckis (2004)

Dec - The Muppet Christmas Carol dir. Brian Henson (1992)

Dec - Velvet Buzzsaw dir. Dan Gilroy (2019)

Episodes

Jan - Thunderbirds - "Trapped In The Sky" (1965)

May - Well ABRIDGE Me, Princess! - "Well, Excuuuuse Me, Princess and the Frog" (2023)

Jun - The Simpsons - "My Mother the Car Jacker" (2003)

Jun - The Simpsons - "The President Wore Pearls" (2003)

Jun - Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates - "The Coldest Cut of All" (1990)

Oct - Regular Show - "Terror Tales of the Park" I-VI (2011-2016)

Oct - The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It" (2022)

Dec - The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part One" (2016)

Dec - The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part Two" (2016)

Dec - The Crown - "Ipatiev House" (2022)

Dec - The Crown - "No Woman's Land" (2022)

Dec - The Outer Limits - "The Galaxy Being" (1963)

Dec - Night Gallery - "Pilot" (1969)

Dec - Babylon 5 - "The Gathering" (1993)

Series

Jan - The Outer Limits - Seasons 1-3 (1995-1997)

Feb - The Outer Limits - Seasons 4-6 (1998-2000)

Mar - The Outer Limits - Season 7 (2001-2002)

Apr - Star Trek Discovery - Season 4 (2021)

Apr - Moonbeam City (2015)

Apr - Star Trek Picard - Seasons 2-3 (2022-2023)

May - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 1-2 (1989-1990)

May - Star Trek Lower Decks - Seasons 2-3 (2021-2022)

May - Star Trek Prodigy - Season 1 (2021)

Jun - Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 1 (2022)

Jun - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 3-4 (1991-1992)

Aug - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 5-6 (1993-1995)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt - Season 7 (1996)

Sep - Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Season 1 (1993)

Sep - Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 2 (2023)

Oct - Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)

#new fiction #2023

[artur123232]

Do you Know your Allemande Left from your Allemande Right.

When I think about having a normal relationship with food (by which I mean a relationship that's mostly uncomplicated by diet culture's rules), I think about housemates I used to live with when I was younger. I don’t think thoughts of dieting or body image ever even occurred to them, or at least not in any kind of persistent way. You don’t need to include all these items to prove your relationship is real. Charcoal is often tested but is likely to need treatment to remove contaminants. Action to Take: You need to first understand intimacy and what it means to you and your partner. You can say something like, “I want to be here for you, but I don’t think I have the emotional resources or expert knowledge to give you the support you really need and deserve. And to be clear, I don’t think individuals are at fault for their eating behaviors or should be blamed for somehow failing to be “normal.” And I don’t mean to pathologize or criticize ways of eating that are not what I’m calling normal. I don’t think they ever counted calories, restricted food, or went on a diet.

It’s tough to define exactly, but I think it’s made up of a few different components, some of which are about our eating behaviors, and some that have to do with our attitudes about food and eating. Individuals with borderline personality disorder tend to display black-and-white thinking and are sensitive to others' attitudes toward them. The interpretation of the coefficient depends on the topic of study.When studying things that are difficult to measure, we should expect the correlation coefficients to be lower (e.g. above 0.4 to be relatively strong). In these kinds of studies, we rarely see correlations above 0.6. For this kind of data, we generally consider correlations above 0.4 to be relatively strong; correlations between 0.2 and 0.4 are moderate, and those below 0.2 are considered weak.When we are studying things that are more easily countable, we expect higher correlations. For example, with demographic data, we we generally consider correlations above 0.75 to be relatively strong; correlations between 0.45 and 0.75 are moderate, and those below 0.45 are considered weak. Babe Escort - בייב אסקורט For example, I sometimes eat a lot of cake, enough that my stomach starts to hurt. “Narcissists can’t feel fulfilled in relationships, or in any area of their lives, because nothing is ever special enough for them,” she adds.

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[therebelwrites]

“The young black bear was starting to grow comfortable around its new human friends.

“The 100-pound male, believed to be around 2 or 3 years old, knew it could often find trail mix, sunflower seeds and cracked corn left for it along a highway near Henry Hagg Lake in northwestern Oregon. And humans in the nearby boating community roughly 30 miles west of Portland could count on easy selfies with the cub, who was often described on social media as “friendly.”

“When calls came in earlier this month alerting authorities to the 100-pound bear’s free-food setup, and officials took note of the photos suggesting the omnivore was getting too at ease with curious passersby, the sheriff’s office urged people to stay away. Bears that get too used to being around humans can be more prone to attack, officials warned.

“But fearing the animal was already too sociable, wildlife officials shot and killed the young black bear on Thursday.”

                      *************************************************

This is a case study in white pathology and a cautionary tale for Black bears PEOPLE in the U.S.

A 100-pound MALE, Black bear went against his nature, deciding to surrender his superior hunting skills, DISTRUST of humans and innately fierce and protective demeanor in exchange for FREE FOOD from said humans.

He allowed himself to become UN-THREATENING to the creatures who felt that they had established dominance over the bear’s species.

He allowed humans to see his softer side (surely you don’t think that bears are ALWAYS acting out aggressively...); to get close enough to take pictures of and with it.

Of course, to the bear, this made perfect sense; it was a fair exchange. (Why do I need to act aggressively toward those who are feeding me?? Maybe if I show them how friendly I am, they’ll continue to give me the things that I want.)

YET, tragically, the bear’s logic was not rooted in the rules of white pathology, which says that white people must fear things which do not fear THEM.

(Because by NOT being afraid of something, you are subconsciously demonstrating that you are more POWERFUL than said object.)

So the young, friendly, Black, male (bear) was KILLED by those with assumed dominance over him NOT because the bear had become overly aggressive, BUT because by allowing people to get close to him [specific white people], he had begun to demonstrate the fact that HE NO LONGER FEARED those by whom his subjugation had been established [white people in general].

In the bear’s eyes, he was being NICE. In his dominator’s eyes, he was being UNAFRAID--even if THEY benefited from the bear’s non-threatening nature in the SHORT-TERM, that is...

Yet white pathology is a LONG-TERM game, and one that is based PURELY UPON FEAR AND SUBCONSCIOUS INFERIORITY. PERIOD.

That means that a picture of a docile black bear today isn’t worth the risk of having to deal with a potentially aggressive black bear tomorrow...or 10 years from now.

You see, in white pathology beings are judged NOT by their PRESENT behavior, but their FUTURE potential (for harm).

And, lest we forget, white hunters don’t merely take pictures of their conquests to establish dominance--they AFFIX THEIR VICTIMS’ HEADS TO WALLS ABOVE ROARING FIRES.

And so the bear was killed for behaving too out of character for too long; the white people were suspicious of the bear’s TRUST OF THEM and could not sleep knowing that the friendly bear could one day remember that he was NOT supposed to trust humans. 

Ironically, the bear was killed for trying to mimic the behavior of DOGS, who long ago allowed themselves to be domesticated by humans in exchange for food.

(But nobody told him that he was BLACK--and bigger and stronger and infinitely more ferocious than dogs.)

Let this be a lesson to Black folks far and wide: you can NEVER escape being a target under white pathology by being unnaturally agreeable, as the oppressor is fully aware of your powerful POTENTIAL. Moreover, under the ruling of white pathology, there’s no such thing as a “free” lunch!!

#The nature of whiteness is to FEAR things which do not FEAR white people #A cautionary tale to Black folks #Black bear killed in Oregon #Does PETA care about BLACK bears?? #What happens to nice animals? #Fed fattened and SLAUGHTERED #white pathology 101 #Poor bear couldn't win #They would've killed him for being aggressive toward humans #And they DID kill him for being too NICE towards humans #Shame #Why you MUST raise hell #Black Liberation

[mushroom-punk]

I posted 2,825 times in 2021

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For every post I created, I reblogged 50.4 posts.

I added 320 tags in 2021

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#but realistically? on this tumblr? in this economy? probably fisher because hes got 2 seconds of screen time and hes a evil white dude

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

MARK IMMORTELL?

STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING MARK IMMORTELL GOD DAMN FOOL PLAY DIRECTING DUST EATING RAT OLD BASTARD SHITHEAD IDIOT THEATER KID BIGGEST CLOWN IN THE CIRCUS LAUGHED OUT OF TOWN COWBOY MOTHERFUCKING MARK IMMORTELL

STOP PINNING ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT MARK IMMORTELL I HATE HIM SO MUCH WHY DOES HE DIRECT SO MANY FUCKED UP IF TRUE PLAYS WHY DID HE DECIDE TO FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT JUST SET THEM LOOSE IS HE DEAD IS HE A BASTARD MAN HAS SUCH A VISCERAL AFFECT ON ME NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM NEVER SEEN THIS MANS FACE AND I KNOW HE HAS THE WORLDS SHITTIEST BEARD GET AWAY FROM ME

if i wanted to get into heaven and god said mark immortell waiting inside i would piss on gods feet for the sole purpose of getting sent back down

if i have to deal with mark immortell speaking one word in person on voice in game not only will i close steam i will delete my save out of spite and have to play the entire game(s) again for the experience of being able to skip all the times when he is mentioned or alive

i dont even know why i hate him so much. he just directs plays but i am just mad because i am angy

he better have some fucked up backstory to explain this if hes just some rich shithead whos a fan of creepypasta and wanted the irl version ill go ham

BETTER have had a play make him kill a man cuz if he didnt Im going to make him

paypal.com/IFuckingHateMarkImmortell

part isn’t even about him. vaguely mentioned what is supposed to maybe be his theater and I lost it

where the fuck is mark immortell if hes still alive im going to so deeply wish he wasnt

crusty old man

ill punch immortell and his sad frail theater kid twig bones will simply flake apart under my epic haruspex meat fist and he will disintegrate until all thats left is one final script he kept on him at all times simply titled Now You Fucked Up in ancient russian

im not breathing im hyperventilating at this point

i hope theres a date given for when immortell died or will die so i can make it a reminder on my phone

everyday once a year i will see it and do anything but pay respects to the man who directed so many fucked up if true plays

65 notes • Posted 2021-03-07 23:42:05 GMT

#4

good afternoon pathologic fandom

73 notes • Posted 2021-03-22 15:17:28 GMT

#3

“the magnus archives is a work place comedy” and “pathologic is a romcom” both have the same exact energy and they are also both correct

99 notes • Posted 2021-03-31 15:00:44 GMT

#2

i am once again thinking about this piece of dialogue

101 notes • Posted 2021-04-10 15:43:28 GMT

#1

yes, the “it’s as both the right hand and the left hand have clutched the head to realize for the first time they are two parts of a single whole” quote is so deeply romantic and speaks to the larger dynamic between artemy and daniil, but i also think its very telling of the meta itself? especially one of artemy’s responses: “i get that feeling too, does this mean we’re alike?” because yes, you two are alike. you are being played by the same person, you are two hands on the same whole - the head being whoever’s playing the game. it really does never cease to amaze me how, even in a random piece of dialogue, the game’s chipping away at the fourth wall. it’s not always subtle but when it is, like in this instance, it just knocks you back.

305 notes • Posted 2021-03-22 01:36:36 GMT

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[midnightactual]

As a child, before she acquired a zanpakuto, did she have an idea or fantasy of what she wanted her abilities to look like? Was she consequently excited or disappointing with the reality of how her soul manifested its power? (if she had one more or less since as long as she can remember, can you talk a little bit about the Shihoin's traditions in training their heirs and the logic or superstition behind it?)

I’m going to take the scenic route in answering this one, so you’ll have to bear with me. I’ve been (probably rather obviously) watching Cobra Kai lately (into season 3 now) and although there are lots of things to recommend it, two things that I think are very interesting about it (and that apply to this question) are the themes of generational trauma and incomplete philosophies of life. The first—the mistakes and overcorrections of one generation transferring to the next—is pretty self evident, but the second bears some more scrutiny.

Cobra Kai, the dōjō, has a simple set of three rules: “Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy.” Meanwhile, Miyagi-Do, the dōjō, has just one ethos: “First learn balance. Balance good, karate good, everything good.” A thing that I think the show strives to communicate without constantly shoving it in the viewer’s face is that both are right, actually. They’re just incomplete. Both are inflexible. Cobra Kai’s logic has ruthlessness when it counts, but lacks balance and predictably always overcommits. Miyagi-Do’s logic has balance, but lacks the ability to commit and engage decisively. Both are unsustainable. And the problem with Cobra Kai’s ethos in particular is that it can’t be readily grasped by teenagers, because it takes wisdom and experience to see its failings. (Meanwhile, Miyagi-Do’s ethos can cultivate wisdom, but it can become a trap that prevents thinking outside the box it creates.) Johnny Lawrence eventually figures this out from the Cobra Kai end through a long series of painful missteps, and sums it up with:

“This creed on the wall... follow it to the letter, it'll make you strong. It’ll make you formidable. It will also make you an asshole. ’Cause that’s just black paint on a white wall. But life’s not black and white. More often than not, it’s gray. And it’s in those gray areas where Johnny Lawrence’s Cobra Kai... sometimes shows mercy.”

So, what does all that have to do with Yoruichi? Well, my conception of the Shihōin Clan, even before I ever saw that show, is that it possessed a mindset a lot like Cobra Kai. (At the time I started here, I imagined her home life as a child as being like a more watered down version of what Azula and Zuko endured under Ozai and Ursa in Avatar: The Last Airbender, with Yoruichi’s father being ultimately rather less of an asshole than Ozai and reforming, and that still fits and correlates quite well to my current thinking, but Cobra Kai makes for a more apt comparison.)

The Shihōin are not only the masters of the martial arts within Soul Society’s nobility, but of combat, conflict, and war as a whole. That is, in a sense, their “purpose”. They’re warriors, right down to their genes, because they not only train for combat (in a grueling and regimented way from childhood, a la the SPARTAN-II program in Halo, or the one shown in Soldier) but they historically bred for it too. (And to some extent, still do, with reiatsu output and quality having been a major element of mate selection as recently as with Yoruichi’s parents, and with even Yoruichi herself sort of subconsciously looking down on the possibility of meaningful long-term intimate relationships with notably weaker partners.)

Anyway, the ultimate traditional end-product of this was Yoruichi, and she reflects the pathologies of the process as much as she does its culmination. (Her decisive defeat of her relatives in Agni Kai to become Clan Head was the ultimate proof of her superior ability and pedigree within this system.) There’s some indication (from Yoruichi herself) that Yūshirō might have an even easier time of achieving power than her, but I view him as a product of a newer, different, and superior process. (Basically: Yoruichi broke the old one, and Yūshirō’s far more playful attitude is a product of a different childhood environment after Yōsuke chilled the fuck out and stopped trying to be Kreese/Ozai; play is really how mammals learn best, after all. Someone like Yūno, @ice-cold-shihoin’s middle sibling OC, is to my mind a sort of intermediary step in this transitional process.)

In other words, Yoruichi was raised to be a complete badass. The total package. The perfect soldier. The ultimate weapon. Not just battlefield superiority, but battlefield supremacy. Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy. And so to finally come back to your actual question, she dreamed of a zanpakutō that’d help her be exactly that: a badass. I don’t think she was really too focused on the nature of how that worked, exactly, so long as it did.

The trouble is: she got it. She joined the Onmitsukidō at 100, manifested her asauchi into a zanpakutō (Kurayami) before she was 101, had her Shikai before she was 103, it became a(n actual) permanent-release type by the time she was 145, and she achieved Bankai at 152. Kurayami’s Shikai form seems rather plain and boring compared to many—unless she so chooses, the sword cannot be perceived except when its edge or point is penetrating a target, and then only visually—but that belies a simple point: it exists purely to kill. Not to duel, not to pacify, not to disarm... to kill, and with the first strike. It’s a blade purely for assassination. And this is even more true of her Bankai, Kurayami Kara Umareta Daikokutennyo, which exists for mass destruction and slaughter. She got exactly what she always dreamed of, and it completely horrified her.

Even by the time she got her Bankai, she had some inkling of what Johnny’s trying to communicate in the earlier quote. She knew that her zanpakutō was inflexible, its use was unsustainable, and that leaning into it too heavily and becoming habituated to it would make her a murderous asshole. (Think like Unohana Yachiru, but even more so, because using Kurayami doesn’t foster any sort of sense of good sportsmanship.) The reason for that is obvious: when all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. It didn’t help that Kurayami, the zanpakutō spirit, was (and has always been) a kind of dark Azula-like mirror of Yoruichi herself, Yoruichi-As-She-Might-Have-Been had she not met Kaien. (Kind of like Ichigo and “Shirosaki” Zangetsu, but not nearly so extreme or directly comparable as Yoruichi has obviously [?] had no Hollowfication exposure.)

And so, just as Yoruichi had already blatantly rejected her father’s initial efforts to raise her like a boy by radically asserting her femininity, and just as she had tacitly rejected the Shihōin Clan’s focus on total efficiency by becoming far more sociable and using social engineering as much as combat ability, so too did she reject her zanpakutō by developing Shunkō.

It’s only in the present, with the aid of (bitter) wisdom and experience, that she’s gone back to it to not only try use it, but to bend it to her will rather than being afraid of it bending her to its. (To carry on with my theme here, this is actually kinda like adult Johnny going back to try and redeem the Cobra Kai dōjō of his youth and turn it into something more positive.)

Shorter answer: she wanted a badass zanpakutō, and she got rather more than she bargained for in the process. (With all that that says about the base nature of her soul and id, for lack of a better term.)

#Out Of Character #Asks #Headcanons #Long Post #deivorous

[kmenvs3000]

ENVS*3000 Blog Prompt 9

Hello all! 

After much thought and debate over all of the amazing parts of nature, I finally narrowed my enthusiasm to one blog topic! Today I will be talking about a type of fungus called rusts, and, more specifically, a species of rust commonly known as white pine blister rust (WPBR)). WPBR, or Ronartium ribicola, is a fungus that is native to Asia, and is thought to have migrated to Ontario in 1914 (1). All five needle pines are susceptible to WPBR, though it has had the largest impact in Ontario on Pinus strobus, or white pine (1). The damage caused by WPBR is identified by it’s symptoms, such as small yellow or orange spots on needles, cankers and bulges on twigs, branches, and stems, gummosis ( the leaking of resin/gum from the tree), flagging (death of twigs and branches, resulting in discolored portions of foliage), and tree death (2). WPBR has a high mortality rate in its pine host, and the disease progresses slowly over a number of years (2).

*photos from https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/highelevationwhitepines/Threats/blister-rust-threat.htm *full citation below (2)*

Rust fungi, within the class Pucciniales, have multiple stages of their life cycle, and often require multiple hosts in order to complete their sexual and asexual reproductive cycles (3). The stages of WPBR are:  spermogonia (stationary) and spermatia (mobile), which sexually reproduce with each other, aecia (the stationary product of the sexual reproduction) and the aeciospores (mobile) that it releases, the aeciospores cannot reinfect pine, and instead infect their alternate host, Ribes, which then form uredinia, which release more Ribes-infecting urediniospores, until telia and teliospores are produced in the fall, which germinate to produce basidium and basidiospore, which are the only Ribes produced stage that can infect Pinus. If we wanted to break this cycle down more simply it can be said that WPBR will infect Ribes through Pinus originating aeciospores, Ribes is susceptible to be continuously re-infecting through asexual urediniospores, and once a season Pinus is susceptible to infection by basidiospores, from the Ribes host.

*photo from https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/highelevationwhitepines/Threats/blister-rust-threat.htm*

The have been many attempts to contain this fungus, including the local eradication of Ribes species near susceptible Pinus habitats, pruning off infected areas from Pinus trees, pruning to raise Pinus canopies, as evidence suggests that the lower canopy is most commonly affected, and the development of resistance (4).

*photo from https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/highelevationwhitepines/Threats/blister-rust-threat.htm*

The complicated life cycle I described above is exactly why I LOVE rusts! With only one host capable of facilitating their sexual reproduction, and the alternate host required to accept it for the new genetic material to survive, it is amazing how effective they are (4)! I am still learning how to communicate complicated and detailed information to the general public, which is a skill stressed by our text, Interpreting Cultural and Natural Heritage for a Better World, in multiple chapters and for many reasons. I think that the most important reason I would like to develop this skill is because plants and fungus are very misunderstood by the general population, so if we can inspire interest in correcting misconceptions (5). For instance, I regularly encounter people who think that if they see fungus on a tree near their house that it is not safe and should be cut down. This is why urban areas are losing trees to rapidly. If people had the passion or interest needed to take the effort to research the fungus on their trees, they might realize that they do not pose a threat (5). Alternatively, they would be able to spot a hazard early enough that we might be able to prune out infected areas and save the whole tree from decay!

Finally, my questions for you are; if you could instill passion in the general public on one natural topic, what would it be and why? Also, if you have ANY questions about my post or rusts/fungus/trees please ask away, I’d love an opportunity to improve my ability to explain it!

Thanks for reading!

Katie the Treehugger

1)      Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. (2014, July 18). White pine blister rust. Retrieved March 17, 2021, from https://www.ontario.ca/page/white-pine-blister-rust

2)      White pine blister Rust and its threat to to high elevation White Pines. (n.d.). Retrieved March 19, 2021, from https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/highelevationwhitepines/Threats/blister-rust-threat.htm

3)      Natural Resources Canada Government of Canada. (2015, July 24). White pine blister rust. Retrieved March 18, 2021, from https://tidcf.nrcan.gc.ca/en/diseases/factsheet/24

4)      Forest Pathology. (n.d.). White pine blister rust. Retrieved March 17, 2021, from https://forestpathology.org/rusts/white-pine-blister-rust/

5)      Beck, L., Cable, T. T., & Knudson, D. M. (2019). Chapter 5: Guiding Principles of Interpretation. In Interpreting cultural and natural heritage: For a better world (pp. 81-101). Urbana: Sagamore Publishing.

[jenniez-tv]

HIPEC surgery (warning - photos of my abdomen after surgery will be shown)

The night before surgery I was on clear liquids only.. that was hard when all my family members kept talking about food and dessert.. the stomach growl was real. Haha. I spent the night playing mahjong with my family up until I had to pack and get ready to leave the house. An all nighter. Weeee. I really didn’t care to sleep since I don’t usually sleep til the morning anyways and I would be sleeping a lot in the hospital so it was whatever.

My aunt, mom, and I leave to go to the hospital around 4am (super early). We arrive, I’m sent to preop to get ready and I am super nervous.. I realized I forgot to take my anti anxiety Med before leaving the house.. UGH. I ask the nurse if she can ask the doc to give me one while I’m waiting and she said the Anesthesologist can give me something when they are ready to wheel me to the OR. Like wtf? How is that helpful? Why would I need anxiety meds right before I go to sleep for the freaking surgery?!? I need it for the 2hrs of waiting!!! She didn’t even bother to ask! Ughhhh.. like why? She is supposed to be an advocate for me.. Was not happy with her.. then she told me to relax.. HAHA. Glad I won’t see her again. Rude.

Me waiting at preop

Anywho.. next thing I know I’m awake in PACU. I’m groggy and in pain.. and of course felt myself up all over my abdomen to make sure I didn’t get a ileostomy bag. Thank god I did not! I did have a jp drain though. The Dr said he removed the organs he planned on-the uterus, ovaries, omentum, gallbladder along with 3 small things he found in my abdomen. I have no idea where and how big they were. They don’t think they are tumors but the pathology results have not come back yet.. feels like forever waiting for results.. either way, im glad it was found and removed. (Update- the results came back benign! Negative for cancer!)

I’m moved to the ICU and get hooked up to so much equipment. I stayed in the ICU for 2.5days. I had 2 iv’s, an arterial line, Foley catheter, NG tube, JP drain and a wound vac. My throat hurt so damn bad.. every time I swallowed it hurt.. that NG tube fked up my throat. I was also a not allowed eat or drink anything for 2 days until they took it out. I could not wait! Post op day 1 was a killer for me. Just trying to sit up made me cry. They wanted me to walk down the hall while pushing the wheelchair. I literally looked like a old person who has the hump back and couldnt stand straight while walking. The poor nurses were pretty much holding my weight lol. Even helping me scoot up on the bed hurt. My family said my entire body and face was super swollen . I just pictured the scene in Willy wonka and the chocolate factory where that girl turned into a huge blueberry. 🤭 I think the most annoying part of ICU was when they kept giving me blood pressure medication and IV fluids to increase my blood pressure. I normally have low BP like 80-90/50-60 told everyone. Apparently the Med surg unit (Unit I would be at until I get discharged) doesn’t like BP’S under 90. I mean seriously, I can’t be the only one with normal low BP’s.. With all the fluids during and after surgery.. I was 15lbs heavier. Ahh! I know it’s all water weight but damn that’s a lot of water weight. They also gave me potassium and it was so uncomfortable on my veins. Anyone can tell you it hurts..even when it’s diluted. It fked up my veins where on The last night in the ICU I had to get one of my IV’s replaced because anything that went through it (even saline) hurt . It was hurting even if nothing was running.

Anyways, I get cleared and transfer up to the medsurg unit. I was actually feeling pretty good considering just having surgery. I get my NG tube removed and am allowed teeny bits of water/ice. FINALLY. My throat can now get better! By the time I transferred I was making laps around the unit. I also get my wound vac removed. It was so painful because I developed a lot of blisters on the edges of the tape from the wound vac. It looked pretty gross. (Picture below). When they removed it, all the blisters broke and they even rubbed over it pulling the skin off. Then, one of my ivs stopped working so it had to be taken out. Luckily this unit only requires one IV not two like the ICU so I didn’t need it replaced.

Picture of the blisters

Picture of my incision with the wound vac and the jp drain.

Picture of my incision and blisters after wound vac removed

The next morning is where everything went downhill. I got super nauseous and eventually threw up 900cc of bile. My temp was around 101 degrees, and eventually got up to 103. I also had other signs/symptoms that showed that I got septic to something. I had to be transferred back to the ICU. Because they were not 100% sure where the infection came from (they had 2 guesses) I got 2 antibiotics that would treat both areas. My white blood cell count also dropped dramatically to 0.98 and my anc 0.74. This means that I was very susceptible to getting more infections. People had to wear a mask when they come to my room and I had to wear one when I left the room. The good news is my fever went away pretty quickly and I started feeling better. My wbc kept going up and down... I’m hoping it keeps trending up because I cannot leave the hospital until my wbc goes up and becomes stable. EEP.

While I was back in the ICU I had to get a second iv placed.. so now I have had 4 iv’s so far not including the arterial line). I’m connected to all the machines again and it takes forever for me to get to the bathroom since they have to disconnect all the monitors and attach it to a portable one so they made me use a bedside commode instead. Bedside commode?!?! The thought is just gross. I’m peeing and pooping in a room with just a curtain blocking the view. What if someone walked in to talk to me in the middle of my session? It was so nerve wrecking. I’ve cleaned up patients bedside commodes before and it’s fine but now can say that I really understand why patients apologized all the time.

After another 2 days in the icu and being septic.. And another iv needing to be replaced bc it infiltrated.. (apparently my veins are mad weak from all the meds and chemo) (now iv #5) I am finally better to go back to the Med surg unit. I’m transferred back and it feels so nice to use abnormal bathroom again. I’m still only allowed clear fluid and honestly.. even that was hard to do. I had to drink a minimum of 800cc a day and it was a struggle. So many days of not eating and drinking screwed me up. Plus I kept having this underlying nausea that just wouldn’t go away. It turned out I had a small ileus as well- A complication that can happen from abdominal surgery.

Everyday I got blood drawn twice a day.. and lovenox which is a blood thinner to prevent blood clots. Prior to lovenox, they were giving me heparin (which is 3 times a day..). My body was full of bruises all over.

Picture of some of the bruises on my arms. I had a bunch on my thighs too..

Anywho, I’m finally allowed to eat.. and man that was more of a struggle than drinking.. I would take one or two bites and be done.. it didn’t help that the hospital food was completely disgusting.. even simple foods you think they can’t mess up on.. was just gross. I was asked by family what I felt like eating so they can bring it.. but honestly I had no appetite at all. Completely different from when I was on steroids and eating nonstop.. lol. But I tried.. hard.. to eat and drink enough. They wanted to start me on tpn which is the total nutrition through a central line.. and I was not about to have it. I gave a hard hell no.

I could barely sleep.. it just felt like my stomach was being pulled or stretched apart when I moved.. was woken up non stop for meds/ vitals.. when I was able to doze off.. my days pretty much consisted of eating, taking a couple laps around the unit, napping, and repeat. I was still getting some iv fluids to help keep me hydrated.. and of course.. another iv infiltrates.. and another iv had to get started... I had a total of 6iv’s and an arterial line.. it was utterly ridiculous.. I had no more places for ivs! And I freaking hate ivs and getting poked.. but that’s all I got during this stay.. so many I lost count.. sigh..

On and off during my stay but especially the last couple of days, I had severe lower right abdomenal pain that was sharp and jabby. I prevented me from moving at all.. it was downright horrible and worse than my incision.. no one knew what it was from but I guessed maybe the drain that was inside.. I got a ct scan done and it didn’t show anything there but the drain so I got it removed.. the pain immediately disappeared!! It was such a relief!! No pain meds helped at all.. not even the slightest.. so having that relief felt so good. The drain coming out though.. felt like so much pressure and it felt like the spot that hurt was getting pulled on. I swear that drain was stuck there or something.. it was a good amount in my stomach.. I didn’t realize how much of the drain just sat in there.. kinda gross. And yes, I watched the whole thing... hahah.

Another complication I have is that my left upper thigh is numb.. and has been numb.. it never got and still hasn’t gotten any better.. I thought it was the duramorph I got during surgery but after a week it seemed unlikely.. the dr says that it’s most likely because the retractor they used to hold my abdomen opened was pressed on my thigh nerve since I’m smaller than the average patient and dmged it from it being compressed for 8hrs.. he says it will take weeks to months for my leg to return to normal.. hopefully.. but that there is a chance it won’t.. god I hope it comes back. It feels so weird and annoying to have the top of my thigh permanently numb ...

Finally my wbc is stable and continuing to trend upward (although still low) and I’m allowed to go home.. I could not wait to see my babies (my dogs), my family, and just sleep in my own bed!!

Sorry, I know this post was all over the place... i wrote parts of it at different times.. which is why some seems present and some past tense.. and I’m honestly not in the mood to go and fix it all. I will post again how my recovery is going at home soon.

Thank you all for your love and support. ❤️

[communistkenobi]

I think a large problem with how we got to this stage of "man is gender neutral" discourse is that a lot of queer people refuse to engage with feminism. I've been seeing it brought up a lot recently, but it's true. Someone who doesn't see a problem with referring to a trans woman as "dude" probably also doesn't believe in patriarchy to begin with. We need to start doing feminism 101 on tumblr again.

I think this is true and I also think this issue extends to the fact that white liberal queerness is the societally accepted conception of lgbtq issues broadly - the fact that pride flags litter the windowsills of small businesses and banks, that lgbtq merchandise is its own market, that western conceptions of gayness and especially transness are the internationally imposed norm (eg, we are pathological exceptions to cishetero society and should be accepted on the grounds that we are scientifically proven to be legitimate by medical and psychiatric institutions, presented with an awkward flair of “okay so we’re not saying being transgender is a mental illness, but it is caused by a mental illness” + framing of gay people as “they’re just like straight people! they can get married and have children just like you!”). Many many queer people of colour have pointed out how much this predominate western framing of lgbtq identity as a “white person thing” (partially because white queer people are just as racist as non-queer white people, also because of aforementioned western imperialism) puts them at odds with their own communities, giving people in those communities a “rational” reason to oppose lgbtq rights on the grounds of resisting western imperialism. Israel’s pinkwashing is a particularly instructive and stark example of this, positioning lgbtq freedom as being contingent on genociding and destroying Palestine - this doesn’t mean it’s okay to be homophobic obviously, but this sort of imperial imposition of queerness as part of the package of western domination creates the conditions for “rationally opposing” lgbtq rights and equality within colonized communities and ultimately causes intersecting levels of harm for lgbtq people in those communities. You can read decolonizing trans/gender 101 by b binaohan if you want more on the subject, I’ve only read the intro so far but it was very instructive (thank you @/molsno for spreading this link around! - she also has a post with a bunch of transfeminist writings if you want more of that). There's also this video by FD Signifier about Dave Chappelle's transphobia that talks about anti-Blackness in white trans/queer spaces and the intense homophobia and transphobia Black lgbtq people face as a result of this that I found insightful if you want to listen to something instead

ANYWAY, all to say - I think the larger problem is that queerness in western contexts (which tumblr is firmly situated in) is overwhelmingly white and liberal, which means that even if these spaces were to incorporate feminist frameworks in their analysis of oppression, they would be incorporated as liberal feminist frameworks, which are fundamentally transmisogynistic and racist, and fundamentally attached to the imperial project of the west (I recently read this article called Beyond the Coloniality of Gender by Alex Adamson discussing some of the problems with western feminism. they demonstrate this through a case study on western feminist objections to genital cutting in certain African countries + analysis of decolonial trans and intersex feminisms more broadly - if you click "show document" in the upper right hand corner of the page I linked it allows you to access the full article).

I’ve always struggled to articulate the exact issue we're discussing, because at a certain point a lack of knowledge is not to be blamed -the larger issue at hand is that the western political + economic apparatus has incorporated queer assimilation into its project. This does not mean that queer people in the west are safe from homophobia or transphobia (see: current transphobic hysteria across North America and UK in particular), but it does mean that white western queer people have incredible political and rhetorical leverage to dominate these conversations using white liberal analytical frameworks, which can only lead to transmisogynist and white supremacist conclusions about the nature of oppression. I think the only way out of these path-dependent "everyone is oppressed by patriarchy" conversations is a larger decolonial political and social project - part of which necessarily incorporates feminist analysis, but feminist analyses that are decolonial, marxist, and transfeminist in nature, and the only way these frameworks can be comprehensively adopted is through a larger decolonial turn

#asks #even old new york was once new amsterdam #book club

[blackandbrownspoons]

#SpooniesofColor 101: Medicine, Health, Disability and PoC Reading List

Here is a list of academic or nonfiction narratives that center topics related to disabled or chronically ill people of color or PoC experiences with the medical field or public health.

If you know of any other great books that feature disabled POC, feel free to reach out!

(This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclaimer for more details.)

*TW/Note: These books may feature ableist stereotypes, minimal features of disabled POC experiences, or notably graphic/triggering depictions of abuse, mistreatment, or trauma of disabled POC. Feel free to read at your own risk.

Blackness and Disability: Critical Examination and Cultural Intervention by Christopher Bell

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System by Tina Sacks

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl A. Zimring

Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America by Anthony Ryan Hatch

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman

Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew

DisCrit-- Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education by David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri

The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-Prison Nexus by Subini Ancy Annamma

Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race by Ellen Samuels

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting by Terrie M. Williams

Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength by Chanequa Walker-Barnes

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#spooniesofcolor #blackandbrownspoonies #spoonie #spoonies #resources #masterpost #chronic illness #chronic life #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #chronically ill #chronic disease #disability #invisible illness #invisible disability #but you don't look sick #spoonie life #health #mental health #mental illness #rare disease

[drlaurynlax]

How to Cure Lupus Naturally: 5 Essentials

You can cure lupus but conventional medicine states there is no cure for Lupus. Apparently, they didn’t read this article on natural Lupus treatment. There is hope…

Lupus 101

Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease in which one’s immune system attacks their body’s own healthy tissue and organs. 

This triggers high levels of persistent inflammation, which can negatively affect practically every part of the body such as: the heart, joints, skin, brain, kidneys, lungs and endocrine glands. And, unfortunately, according to conventional medicine, no natural Lupus treatments exist. 

There are 4 different types of Lupus including:

1. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Affects a major organ or more—such as the brain, lungs, heart or kidneys. Represents more than 70% of all Lupus cases. 

2. Cutaneous Lupus (Skin)

Affects only the skin, causing inflammation, redness, rashes, dryness and/or peeling skin. 

3. Drug-induced Lupus 

Accounts for about 10 percent of all lupus cases; caused by high doses of certain medications. The symptoms of drug induced lupus are similar to systemic lupus; however, symptoms usually subside when the medications are discontinued.

4. Neonatal Lupus 

A rare form of lupus in which the mother’s antibodies affect the fetus. At birth, the baby may have a skin rash, liver problems, or low blood cell counts, but symptoms typically disappear completely after six months with no lasting effects.

Who Gets Lupus?

More than 5 million people worldwide, and 1.5 million Americans, have some form of lupus, with women representing up to 80% of all cases. 

Lupus can easily go “under the radar” for years, and is typically diagnosed when a person is in his or her 30’s or 40’s—after other similar diseases, like hypothyroidism, eczema and skin rashes, and anemia alone, have been ruled out. 

Lupus Symptoms

Symptoms of Lupus are vast, and no two Lupus cases may be alike, but some common symptoms include:

Fatigue and low energy (despite sleeping 7-9 hours)

Shortness of breath

Skin rashes/reddening of skin

Raynaud’s syndrome (cold extremities, hands and feet that go numb or turn white/purple when cold)

Poor Fluid Production: Sjögren’s syndrome is sometimes triggered by lupus (a type of autoimmune disorder that affects the glands ability to produce tears and saliva).

Fluid retention/swelling

Brain fog

Stiff joints and swelling

Arthritis

Anemia

Asthma

Pneumonia

Hypothyroidism

Irregular periods/low libido 

Hair loss

Photosensitivity (sensitive to light; sunburn easily)

Headaches

Recurring fevers/illness

Poor immune function (get sick easily)

  Lupus Causes

The causes of Lupus, like other autoimmune conditions, are not fully understood by the conventional paradigm and text books; but as more and more research evolves, and the practice of functional medicine expands, we are able to better understand the root causes of the disease (not just recognize the symptoms).

While genetic predisposition can also play a role, genetics are only responsible for 5-10% of all diseases—autoimmune diseases included. The other 90-95% of autoimmune disease causes are lifestyle, dietary, environmental and gut-health related. In other words: even if you have the genes or “antibodies” for Lupus, your Lupus genes won’t be “flared” unless other lifestyle, dietary, environmental and gut stressors are at play.

Common lifestyle, dietary, environmental and gut-related triggers of Lupus include: 

Environmental toxic exposures (chemicals in products, tap water, mold, mercury overload)

Underlying gut pathologies (bacterial overgrowth, yeast/fungal overgrowth, parasites, intestinal permeability)

Immune dysfunction 

Reduced oxygen deliverability (anemia, low red blood cells)

Blood sugar imbalances (over-reliance on coffee, sugar)

Longterm medication or synthetic hormone use

Antibiotics

Nutrient deficiencies (including iodine, selenium, iron, zinc, B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin D, Vitamin K, and magnesium)

Chronic infections (Epstein Barr Virus, Herpes, HIV/Aids, Lyme, Leukemia/Cancer, neuron infection)

Eating disorders/disordered eating habits

Overwork—without rest, breaks, fun or balance

Poor quality foods/inflammatory foods (gluten, dairy, soy, industrial seed oils, sugars)

Mitochondrial dysfunction (cell dysfunction)

HPA Axis Dysfunction (chronic stress; circadian rhythm disruption; lack of sleep; burning a candle at both ends; screen over-exposure)

Sedentary lifestyles or overtraining

One Root Cause

Although there are TONS of different stressful triggers to Lupus and other autoimmune diseases, all autoimmune diseases share one key characteristic: Inflammation in the body.

Autoimmune diseases, like Lupus, are characterized by an “inflammatory response” or “stress response”— when your body attacks itself and its own tissues in the presence of “stress.” 

In Celiac disease, the body attacks the intestines when gluten is also present. In Hashimoto’s, the body attacks the thyroid when it’s under more stress—such as from overtraining or lack of sleep. And, in Lupus, the body attacks various parts of your body, when it’s in stressed-out mode!

The root cause of all sources of stress?

Two words: Gut health. Or rather: “leaky gut.”

Believe it or not, your gut health plays a leading role in your body’s own defense system against stress and immune dysfunction by and large. If your gut is unhealthy or leaky, you are more susceptible to experiencing an autoimmune disease—particularly if you have the genetics or antibodies to back it up. 

The Gut-Lupus Connection

Your gut is the gateway to your total body health and inflammatory processes—immune function included. 

In fact, you have more than 100 trillion gut bacteria throughout your body—not just located in your GI tract, but relocated to other places too, like your mouth, skin, heart and endocrine glands (that is 10 times more gut bacteria than actual human cells!). 

Moreover 80% of your immune system (the system that defends your body against autoimmune disease) is housed inside your gut, and your gut bacteria play a crucial role in how your immune system works and functions.  

What Do Gut Bacteria Do?!

Although the word “bacteria” may sound like a bad or dirty word, the vast majority of your gut bacteria are non-pathogenic (non-disease causing)—at least when your body is healthy.  

Every person has different types and amounts of gut bacteria, and those people with “healthier strains” of gut bacteria and a “wider, more diverse variety” of gut bacteria (not just the same strains) are generally healthier as a whole—metabolism, hormones, immune function, weight, energy and lower amounts of disease (including autoimmune disease and Lupus). 

The main role of your (healthy) gut bacteria is to keep all your body’s daily essential processes “healthy” and in running smoothly including:

Nutrient absorption (making the Vitamin C in your orange actually be used by your body)

Hormone balance

Maintaining a healthy weight and metabolism  

Maintenance of your intestinal lining (preventing “leaky gut” and digestive wors)

“Feeding” ALL of your cells and neurotransmitters to function properly (including your brain health)

Fighting off inflammation and protection against “pathogens” (bad guys, toxins, pesticides, illnesses)

Keeping your immune system operating smoothly

In short: gut bacteria play an important role, not only in digestive health, but in wider aspects of health, including weight, metabolic health, hormone health, immune function and…fighting against autoimmune attacks.  

Unfortunately, if your gut bacteria are unhealthy, OR your digestive system is not healthy, then autoimmune disease is more likely.

Leaky Gut 101 

The gut barrier normally prevents the passage of bacteria—particularly pathogenic or unhealthy gut bactera— to other organs. However, in autoimmune disease, a “phenomenon” known as “leaky gut” is often at play, leading to inflammation throughout the body, like that observed in Lupus. 

Leaky gut or “intestinal permeability” is a syndrome characterized by weakening of the gut tissue lining of your intestines and the “leaking” of food and unwanted proteins and particles into your bloodstream, in turn, provoking an inflammatory response and disrupting healthy bacteria and digestion. 

Countless research has observed the break down of the gut lining in autoimmune disease, followed by the process of “autoimmunity” (self attack). For instance, in one study of lupus-prone mice, scientists discovered their gut barrier function was impaired and the mice had notable growth of bacteria in other parts of their body including veins, mesenteric lymph nodes and liver (McHugh, 2018).

Another study found that when mice were given healthy gut bacteria (Lactobacillus species, a type of bacteria commonly seen in fermented yogurt cultures), Lupus symptoms were decreased; however, when they were given Lachnospiraceae (a type of Clostridia, or unhealthy gut bacteria), their Lupus symptoms worsened (H. Zhang et al, 2014). 

How does leaky gut happen? 

Good question! Leaky gut happens when your digestive system gets stressed from environmental and lifestyle factors (i.e. overtraining, eating disorders, lack of sleep, poor diet, environmental toxins, etc.) and/or underlying gut conditions (like parasites, SIBO, and dysbiosis—imbalanced healthy and unhealthy bacteria). 

Think of leaky gut like a flat tire—it is a common “malfunction” or a leak that happens when you hit a stressful speed bump or get a “nail in your tire,” such as: 

Not chewing your food thoroughly

Eating too fast or in a hurry (preventing proper food breakdown)

Frequently eating gut-irritating ingredients and chemicals your body DOESN’T recognize as “food” or can’t easily digest (conventional meat with hormones and antibiotics, Quest Bars, Halo Top, Instant Oatmeal, sugary granola bars, Diet Coke, frozen dinners, hydrogenated oils)

Long-term use of medications or antibiotics

Chronic stress (under-sleeping, overtraining, constant worry or anxiety, high alcohol or smoking exposure)

Erratic eating habits (binging, purging, restriction, etc.)

History of Infections or Illness (bacterial, virus, heavy metals, fungal overgrowth)

Lack of fermented foods and fibers (probiotics and pre-biotics)

Other digestive issues, like SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), liver/gallbladder dysfunction, parasites, food intolerances, etc.

(The same stressful causes as Lupus itself!)

These stressors can linger and go on for years before Lupus symptoms show up—commonly diagnosed at age 30 or 40 in people—after the body has had “enough” inflammation to fight for too long. Unfortunately, conventional medicine rarely acknowledges or looks to these underlying factors, and, for that reason, resolves that Lupus has “no known cause,” nor “no known cure.”

Lupus Diagnosis

No one test can diagnose lupus. A combination of blood and urine tests, signs and symptoms, and physical examination findings leads to the diagnosis.

Blood & Urine Tests

1. Complete blood count.

This test measures the number of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets as well as the amount of hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells. Results may indicate you have anemia or hypothyroidism, which commonly occurs in lupus. A low white blood cell or platelet count may occur in lupus as well. 

Normal Ranges

Red blood cells: 4.40–4.90 x 106/µL 

White blood cells: 5.0–8.0 x 103/µL

Neutrophils: 40–60% 

Lymphocytes: Relative 25–40% 

Monocytes: Relative 4–7%

Eosinophils: Relative 0–3% Absolute 0.0–0.4 x103/µL 

Hemoglobin: Male: 14–15 g/dL; Female: 13.5–14.5 g/dL

2. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

This blood test determines the rate at which red blood cells settle to the bottom of a tube in an hour. A faster than normal rate may indicate a systemic disease, such as lupus. The sedimentation rate isn’t specific for any one disease. It may be elevated if you have lupus, an infection, another inflammatory condition or cancer.

Kidney and liver assessment.

Blood tests can assess how well your kidneys and liver are functioning. Lupus can affect these organs, specific markers include:

Normal Ranges

BUN: 13–18 mg/dL

Creatinine: Male: 0.85–1.1 mg/dL Female: 0.7 – 1.0 mg/dL

ALT (liver enzymes): Male: 0–25 IU/L Female: 0–23 IU/L 

AST (liver enzymes): Male: 0–26 IU/L Female: 0–20 IU/L

GGT: Male: 0–29 IU/L Female: 0–21 IU

Bilirubin, total: 0.1–1.2 mg/dL

3. Urinalysis.

An examination of a sample of your urine may show an increased protein level or red blood cells in the urine, which may occur if lupus has affected your kidneys.

4. Antinuclear antibody (ANA) test.

A positive test for the presence of these antibodies — produced by your immune system — indicates a stimulated immune system. However, while most people with lupus have a positive ANA test, most people with a positive ANA do NOT have lupus. If you test positive for ANA, your doctor may advise more-specific antibody testing.

Other Antibody Tests

Anti-dsDNA 

Anti-Smith 

Anti-Ro/SSA and anti-LA/SSB

Anti-U1 RNP 

Antiribosomal P protein

Anti-CCP and RF 

Imaging Tests & Studies

Chest X-ray.

An image of your chest may show abnormal shadows that suggest fluid or inflammation in your lungs.

Echocardiogram.

An in-depth look at your heart function. This test uses sound waves to produce real-time images of your beating heart. It can check for problems with your valves and other portions of your heart.

Pulmonary Function Study.

A lung-functioning study, revealing how well lungs are breathing and taking in oxygen. Since lupus can affect the lungs and immune system, shortness of breath, asthma and pneumonia can be side effects.

Biopsy.

Since Lupus can harm your organs, like your kidney and liver, in some cases, it’s necessary to test a small sample of organ tissue to determine what the best treatment might be. The sample can be obtained with a needle or through a small incision. Skin biopsy is sometimes performed to confirm a diagnosis of lupus affecting the skin. You need to cure lupus.

Lupus Prognosis

According to the Lupus Foundation, approximately 10-15% of people will die prematurely from complications related to Lupus. 

However, for those who recognize the root causes of Lupus (and other inflammatory autoimmune diseases)—namely gut health and stress—and take action to address those two things, the prognosis is very good.

Most people with the disease will go on to live a normal life span. However, it is important to cure lupus the right way.

Lupus Conventional Treatment

If Lupus is diagnosed, conventional treatment states there is NO natural Lupus treatments, and instead, typically involves medication, including:

NSAID’s ( Over-the-counter NSAIDs, such as Aleve, ibuprofen and prescriptions, may be used to treat pain, swelling and fever associated with Lupus.

Steroids. Prednisone and other types of corticosteroids can counter the inflammation of Lupus.

Antimalarial drugs. Medications commonly used to treat malaria, such as hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), affect the immune system and can help decrease the risk of Lupus flares.

Immunosuppressants. Drugs that suppress the immune system may be helpful in serious cases of Lupus.

Biologics. A different type of medication administered with an IV, also reduces lupus symptoms in some people.

Unfortunately, while medications may be helpful suppress the symptoms of Lupus, they do not address the underlying causes of Lupus, nor do they reverse the condition and many come with unwanted side effects including: weight gain, easy bruising, thinning bones (osteoporosis), high blood pressure, diabetes, bleeding, kidney problems, stomach pain, and increased risk of infections. This might not be enough to cure lupus.

Natural Treatment to Cure Lupus

Natural treatment to cure lupus recognizes that autoimmune disease is most often a symptom or result of a deeper underlying problem. That is what is so often missed in conventional paradigm of diagnosis and treatment. 

Holistic treatment to cure Lupus involves a 5-step approach:

Addressing underlying pathologies common in thyroid dysfunction by working with a practitioner to assess for things like: gut dysfunction (parasites, SIBO, yeast), chronic infections, environmental toxic exposure, iron overload, nutrient deficiencies.

Remove Foods & Stressors that Trigger an Immune Response (or at least 30-60 days remove gluten, dairy, grains, nuts and eggs). Do this to help cure lupus naturally.

Increase Autoimmune-friendly, nutrient-dense foods through an anti-inflammatory diet (eat wild caught, grass-fed proteins, fresh fruits and veggies and healthy fats)

Optimize your lifestyle to support healing, including: quality sleep, balanced exercise, limited screen/light exposure, pleasure, play, stress management, social connection. A healthy lifestyle is such a huge factor to cure lupus.

Use immune-boosting and gut-healing supplementation wisely: Probiotics + prebiotics + immune boosting supplements + medication (if necessary) to support healthy immunity and gut health. These supplements will help you cure lupus.

Will I Need Medication (& Will I Need it Forever?)

There is no one size fits all answer to this question, and this is a question best left to discuss with your doctor, since medication use and disease presentation is unique to each individual. Your doctor will help you cure lupus effectively.

The short answer to “forever” though is: No. 

Countless cases of Lupus and other autoimmune diseases have been “treated” with natural lifestyle  and immune boosting approaches and experienced remission of symptoms without long term drug use. This gives hope to those who are looking for ways to cure lupus.

While Lupus and other autoimmune diseases are not necessarily defined as “curable” (you may always have the antibodies genetically), they are most certainly remissible—meaning you can send them into “remission” and ward off the symptoms of the active flare of the disease. 

The bottom line: Ultimately lifestyle and nutrition are the biggest game-changers when you want to cure lupus. 

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YOU GUYS I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS

And that's exactly what happens in college. This is in contrast to Fortran and most succeeding languages, which distinguish between expressions and statements. When you can't get users, though.1 Since they're writing for a popular magazine, they start with the most radioactively controversial questions, from which because they're writing for a popular magazine, they start with the most radioactively controversial questions, from which because they're writing for a popular magazine they then proceed to recoil from in terror. Partly this is because the rest of your days, even if they wanted to hire with the investor money, and now they'd have to postpone that. When the things you do. 8 subjects had lower blood pressure after the treatment. As word spreads that startups work, the number may grow to a point that would now seem surprising.2 I didn't learn much in Philosophy 101. I'm not claiming that ideas have to have practical applications.

Are you kidding?3 Angels are a bit better than VCs, because they give them more leverage over developers, who can more easily be replaced. It's probably closer to machine language than Python. In the real world doesn't work that way. White said, good writing is rewriting. Anyone can do this.4 Economic power, wealth, and social class are just names for the same reason they pull the legs off spiders. In Lisp, these programs are called macros. When things are hard to understand, people who wanted to get rich. Sometimes it's because the writer doesn't understand critical aspects of inequality, like the role of technology in wealth creation.

Notes

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By this I mean that if you start fundraising, because a unless your last round of funding. To put it here. People tell the craziest lies about me. The root of the things Julian gave us.

Make sure too that the stuff they're showing him is something there worth studying, especially if you seem like a knowledge of human nature, might come from all over, not economic inequality start to feel guilty about it. Type II startups spread: all you know about a form you forgot to fill out can be times when what you're working on Y Combinator. So much better, and when you depend on closing a deal to move from London to Silicon Valley it seemed thinkable to start businesses to use to develop server-based applications. I have to think of a city's potential as a consulting company is Weebly, which in startups.

Needless to say Hey, that's not the bawdy plays acted over on the parental dole, and no doubt often are, but most neighborhoods successfully resisted them. Start by investing in a reorganization. In high school you're led to believe your whole future depends on the wrong side of the word as in e. Some professors do create a great idea that was basically useless, but one way in which practicing talks makes them overbuild: they'll create huge, overcomplicated agreements, and b I'm pathologically optimistic about people's ability to change the meaning of distribution.

Thanks to Harj Taggar, Kirsty Nathoo, and Jessica Livingston for inviting me to speak.

#automatically generated text #Markov chains #Paul Graham #Python #Patrick Mooney #aspects #meaning #applications #class #writer #role #pressure #side #Anyone #spiders #funding #nature

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white-throated-packrat : how about the story of Decius Mus?

Yay, someone asked! 

Even better, you chose someone from the Republican period, which is awesome because it means I get to talk about the Samnite War. I also get to talk about Di Manes (non-malevolent spirits, or ghosts... kind of) and Roman’s pathological need to follow prophecies (if you want to know more about that, just reply with “chickens” or “The Sybilline Books”),  which is even more exciting because I’m in the preparation period of making a novel about a ghost-hunting Roman.

Anyway... Publius Decius Mus, mostly known as Decius in the history books, is the shit, and his story starts during the First Samnite War (the war so good they decided to do it two more times).

Now, I’d love to get into Decius immediately, but I can’t just let people go on without knowing what the First Samnite War  was because it is an example of Roman foreign policy at it’s wackiest.

So, let’s go back to when Rome is basically just a city-state (not technically the right term, but go with it), nestled in the Italian peninsula surrounded by a lot of other powers that arguably stronger than they were. One of these badass tribes were the Samnites, who were basically the hill people of Italy. One of the not-so badass states was the poor Capuans, who really just liked to chill out and enjoy the nice weather and fertile farmlands (which was fertile because of active volcanos, but let’s just let them live in ignorance of that for now). In fact, the Capuans continued to be the rich hippies of Italy throughout Roman history, and it was very common for nobles to have vacation homes there. 

Of course, the Samnites looked around, saw the Capuans, and were like “Gimme.”

What does this have to do with Rome? Well, the Capuans pled for the help, but Rome did not come to save the day. They had a treaty with the Samnites, and as good as the Romans are at breaking treaties on petty technicalities, this was one they couldn’t renege on because there was no technicalities to be found. Not even a minor one, which was what the Romans loved to use the most when declaring war. So the Capuans asked the Romans for help, and the Romans shrugged and said “We can’t because of the treaty... sorry bro, we swore in front of the gods and everything.”

That’s when the Capuans had a genius idea. If they became a Roman territory, they would have to declare war on the Samnites to protect their property.

You read that right. To stop an invading force, the Capuans willingly gave up sovereignty to Rome.

The Romans saw this and were like “Sweet!”. They didn’t really think about consequences, and promptly sent a messenger to the Samnites to tell them they were in breach of the treaty since Capua was Roman now.

Fucking Rome, man. That takes a lot of balls to take land out from under your allies nose, and then tell them they are declaring war on you. Fucking Rome.

Understandably, the Samnites were like “Quid est si bullshit”, and ordered an attack in front of the Roman messenger. 

Anyway, this is where Decius comes in. Sort of. 

The war starts, and the consul Marcus Valerius Corvus (who is so cool in his own right that ravens help him fight his battles) commits to a two-pronged attack with Aulus Cornelius Cossus. 

You don’t really need to remember Cossus. His most salient contribution to Roman history is that he led his troops into a ravine, which is like Battle No-Nos 101. The Samnites were on the ridge, and started hurling shit at them from above.

Decius was a tribune under Cossus (a position he got despite being from a plebeian family, so, good work Decius), and he was the only one to notice that the Samnites, though on a ridge, were standing in a shadow. He reasoned there was another hill, and that if he could sneak a small contingent up there, he could distract the Samnites and it would be enough to save the rest of the army from the stones and arrows that were raining down on them.

His plan worked. The only problem is his plan was a suicide mission, so it working also mean him dying. The moron that got them into the predicament gets out safe, and poor Decius has to just sit on top of the hill and starve to death surrounded by a bunch of pissed off hill people.

Decius knew this was going to happen too, and he still led the mission. Decius was the shit.

But then, Decius decided to revisit his options. 1. Fortify his position and starve. 2. Try and sneak out.

Both ended in death, but the second option had a 3% chance of survival, and wel... that’s better than nothing. So, in the middle of the night, he takes his troops, and walk through the sleeping Samnite camp.

Just walks through it. Probably cartoon tippy-toeing around the man who were until sunset were trying to kill him.

Anyway, he would have probably gotten away scott-free, except one of his contingent dropped his shield. The gig up, Decius ordersed his soldiers to attack. The Samnites, half asleep, stood no chance, and Decius managed to get his soldiers out of there.

When they finally escaped, not a single one of his subordinates were dead despite the impromptu battle at midnight. How freakin’ cool is that?!

He even got a Grass Crown, which only goes to man who saves a legion from certain destruction. Now, keep in mind, it has to be that rescued legion that votes on the Grass Crown, and Romans are prideful people who don’t like to admit anyone saved them. Therefore, no one gets Grass Crowns except people like Scipio Africanus, one of the most legendary Romans of all time (you can read about him and his hilarious dinner party with Hannibal here).

Oh, did I mention he got two Grass Crowns? Holy shit, Decius. Holy shit.

My own personal narrative if I were to write this as a novel is that Decius knew that he had been on a suicide mission when taking on the Samnites, and the fact that he had not died meant that the gods kept him alive for a greater purpose. That was probably why it was so easy for him to do what was next.

That purpose came during the Latin War.

I would love to get more into the Latin War, but Roman’s history with the Latins is insane, and a long, convoluted labyrinth where the Romans take basically every wrong turn they could possibly take and still end up all right. Ask me about it, and the post will be like 80 pages long. So, let’s avoid that. 

Anyway, Decius, on account of being badass, is one of the consuls of Rome when the war starts along with a dude named Manlius. On the eve of the battle, he and Manlius have a shared dream that essentially says that one general in the battle will sacrifice his life. The other general will sacrifice his army.

When Manlius and Decius realize they had the same dream, they decide that one of their generals need to be sacrificed so they can win. Only problem... they are the generals.

I imagine the silence that followed that realization was quite awkward as Manlius slowly put his finger on his nose and whispers “Not it.”

After talking to Marcus Corvus, Decius decides it should be him. So he does the devotio (apparently this ritual was done enough times in history to have a name, but my only memory of someone doing it was Decius), and then takes his horse and Leeroy-Jenkins it in the Latin army.

Not expecting a Roman consul to just ride through their army screaming like a maniac, the Latins gave him a wide berth and just sort of threw darts at him from afar at him until he fell from his horse like a human porcupine.

Meanwhile, since the Latins were distracted by this idiotic one-man-army, Manlius comes in and destroys them. The prophecy came true. Rome lost a general, but the Latins lost an army.

And that is where the story of Publius Decius Mus ends. A pleb who worked himself through the ranks by being more selfless and smarter than the aristocrats died for his country in the shadows of Mount Vesuvius.

Now that... is bad ass.

#Decius #Publius Decius Mus #roman history #ancient rome #first samnite war #Marcus Corvus

[therebelwrites]

A Coast Guard lieutenant arrested earlier this week on drug and gun charges was planning to commit domestic terrorism, according to a court filing from the U.S. District Court in Maryland.

In a motion filed Tuesday, U.S. attorneys said Christopher Hasson, a lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard who has served at the service’s headquarters in Washington since 2016, had a hit list of targets, a cache of guns and a series of communications with white supremacists. The first sentence in the motion imploring the court to detain Hasson pending trial: “The defendant intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country.”

Per the motion, he was arrested Feb. 15 on charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition by an unlawful user or addict of controlled substances, as well as “simple possession” of an opioid. But, prosecutors write, these charges “are the proverbial tip of the iceberg.”

“The defendant is a domestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect governmental conduct.”

Per the court document, Hasson has been serving as an acquisitions officer at the Coast Guard’s D.C. headquarters since June of 2016. Though he has not received any tactical, weapons or explosives-related training in this position, the prosecutors note that Hasson served in the Marine Corps from 1988 to 1993, followed by approximately two years of active duty with the Army National Guard. When authorities raided his residence earlier this month, they found 15 firearms and over 1,000 rounds of mixed ammunition, the document says. His detention hearing is scheduled for Thursday in Greenbelt, Md. According to a separate court filing signed Feb. 15, Hasson will be represented by a public defender.

The filing was first reported by Seamus Hughes, the deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.

Prosecutors stated that since 2017 Hasson has “routinely perused” the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik, a far-right Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people in two attacks in 2011. Hasson followed the instructions of the document, which tell “a prospective assailant to amass appropriate firearms, food, disguises, and survival supplies.”

On Jan. 17, Hasson allegedly compiled a list of targets including a number of Democratic politicians and left-leaning political commentators. The names on the list include “Sen blumen jew” (presumably Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.,) and “poca warren” (presumably Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.).

There are also references to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a long list of additional Democratic senators, including Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Tim Kaine, D-Va. The list also includes likely references to a number of House members (Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.), television hosts (Joe Scarborough and Chris Hayes of MSNBC, Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo of CNN), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas and the Democratic Socialists of America.

On the same day he finished the list, the court filing says, Hasson completed the following Google searches over the course of three hours: “what if trump illegally impeached,” “best place in dc to see congress people,” “where in dc to congress live,” “civil war if trump impeached” and “social democrats usa.”

Hasson’s alleged online searches for pro-Russian, neo-fascist and neo-Nazi literature, along with draft emails recovered from his email offer insight into what prosecutors describe as extremist views.

“I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth,” Hasson allegedly wrote in a draft email to “acquaintances” last June; in the email, he appears to outline a stream of possible ways — ranging from biological attacks to “bombing/sniper campaign” — to violently fight back against “Liberalist/Globalist ideology is destroying traditional peoples esp white.”

“It seems inevitable that we are doomed,” the email continues, with Hasson soliciting ideas for how he might “enlist the help of another power/country,” such as Russia “or any land that despises the west’s liberalism. Excluding of course the muslim scum,” conceding, “I don’t think I can cause complete destruction on my own.”

Among the list of things he seems to be instructing himself to do once he “comes off of TDL [tramadol],” the opioid he was charged with possession of, is taking a “serious look at appropriate individual targets, to bring greatest impact. Professors, DR’s, Politian’s, Judges, leftists in general.”

In another alleged draft email sent to himself in September 2017, Hasson apparently wrote to a well-known American neo-Nazi leader, identifying himself as “a long time White Nationalist, having been a skinhead 30 plus years ago before my time in the military.”

In addition to evidence of regular tramadol use, prosecutors also note that Hasson appeared to be stockpiling human growth hormone in accordance with part of the Breivik manifesto that recommends the use of narcotics to increase killing ability. Agents said they discovered a locked case filled with more than 30 bottles labeled “HGH” when they searched Hasson’s home.

Charges related to domestic terrorism in the United States have risen in recent years and, according to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center released earlier Wednesday, the number of hate groups operating in the country has reached an all-time high. Last fall, a Florida man was arrested for mailing 16 pipe bombs to critics of President Trump and prominent Democratic figures, and a gunman killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue that had supported refugees.

#Domestic terrorism #white men invented terrorism #U.S. foiled terrorist attacks #Christopher Hassan #This story was published only TWO DAYS ago--yet now NO MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLETS ARE FOLLOWING UP ON IT?!? #They tryna distract yall with minute by minute updates about R Kelly and Jussie and even the NFL owner prostitution ring #Yet NOTHING about an attack planned to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country--as they stated #white pathology 101 #Then you got other media outlets reporting about a serial killer--white male--who has taken to DRAWING PICTURES of his over 50 victims #while sitting in jail #Admitting himself the the murders of all the women he killed would never have been solved without his own confession due to the fact that #All the murders seemed unrelated #these people are SICK #Notice they removed the picture of him from the main image #Tryna hide what we already know:HE IS WHITE!