if you are going to do historical inaccuracy, then go big. Just take it to a whole ‘nother level.
I mean like Knight’s Tale “chanting Queen at the jousting tournament ‘foxy lady’” levels of anachronism. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters with Hansel injecting himself with insulin and Gretel wielding a multiple-shot crossbow levels of anachronism. Go for Blazing Saddles, Blackadder, Jack of All Trades, Connecticut Yankee levels of anachronism
you either have to play by the rules or throw out the book.
Go full on Xena. All of history happened at the same time. Get your legs broken by Caesar and find out Lao Tzu didn’t write that book, his wife did, and she hitting on you…all 10 years before you go meet up with Helen at Troy. Fight with Beowulf and commission Sappho within a few months of each other. Abraham and Issac? Only like 2 years before Jesus. Invent CPR and the kite during the bronze age. Watch your gal pal teach Homer how to be a better bard. Have a fucking battle of the bands in Ancient Greece. TIME IS MEANINGLESS.
Go Full On Xena
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High school graduations are hilarious lmao “you’ve truly become a family after these four years” I guarantee you if some of these kids caught fire half their classmates would calmly drink a glass of water in front of the burning students
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I know everybody’s sickened by how every corporation is suddenly pro-LGBT and yeah it would have been nice to see such support waaay before now, but I think it’s kind of hilarious. Like, everything’s gay now. In one fell swoop the greatest fears of the bigots have come to be. The very Gatorade you drink is gay. The car you drive is gay. It’s all gay.
I’m so glad it’s not just me. I haven’t stopped laughing in like days.
(Source: antidevelopment, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
fun fact: i’m happy for all same sex couples getting married today, and i’m a big sap for all of them, but nothing quite opens the floodgates as much as seeing elderly gay couples get married
this is particularly important because it shuts down the stubborn notion that queerness is all about being young and having wild kinky sex, it shuts down the talk that “having a bicurious phase” is just the latest fad, it makes queerness into a non-sexualized topic that concerns sedate elderly folks and therefore also concerns middle-aged people and elementary schoolers and people who aren’t high schoolers/college students that can be dismissed as sexual deviants, and that’s a slap in the face to bigots that i love to see
also it’s frickin’ cute
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IT’S OKAY
NONE OF US KNOW WHAT THE FUCK WE’RE DOING
SOME OF US ARE JUST BETTER AT PRETENDING THAN OTHERS
I needed to see this tonight
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twetnyonepilotss asked: do you think that someone can still be a feminist if the are not pro-choice?
One of the most basic tenets of feminism is the right to full bodily autonomy.
One of the most basic tenets of the pro-life movement is denying pregnant people their full bodily autonomy.
So, short answer, no.
So, let me get this straight.
If someone believes I’m gender equality, then they are to be labeled a feminist no matter what. Feminists have made that quite clear.
But when someone believes in gender equality, but isn’t pro-choice, they’re suddenly not a feminist?
Gee, that’s sure confusing.
It’s really not. Read my reply above. It lays it out quite comprehensibly :)
Fuck you, I’m a feminist, I’m pro life, and think every little girl and boy has the right to be fucking born
None of this has anything to do with “little girls and boys* having the right to be born”. It does have everything to do with basic human rights. You can’t deny people basic human rights and be a feminist. You can’t prioritize non-sentient, non-autonomous fetuses over live, autonomous human beings and be a feminist.
And btw, the UN has classified forced pregnancy/lack of abortion access as torture. Let me say that again: the UN, expert on what counts as torture, determined that what the pro-life movement wants…. IS TORTURE. You can’t be pro-torture of pregnant people and call yourself feminist, yo. Feel free to pick one!
*(nice gender binarism btw)
So, what if I believe that the human life begins at conception? That doesn’t make me automatically not a feminist, it makes me passionate about human rights and still have the belief that a human life is precious from conception.
Even following the premise that life begins at conception and a fetus’ life is equal to that of a grown and conscious human being, one life does not have a right to inhabit and force another life to provide for it. No one is entitled to use another person’s body for survival.
Example: if someone with gets in an accident and needs a blood transfusion, no one can force someone else to donate blood to save the person. Even if it is an incredibly rare blood type, the right to bodily autonomy trumps to hurt person’s right to use another person’s body without consent.
Another example: For post-mortem organ donations, we require people to sign consent forms before they die. If someone needs an organ transplant, you can’t take the organ from the corpse of a person who didn’t consent to it while they were alive, even though it doesn’t effect them in death and they have no way of knowing. Which means our government respects the rights of a corpse more than pro-lifers respect the rights of a living pregnant person who doesn’t want their uterus used for 9 months of pregnancy.
I’ll say it again because it’s that important: No one is entitled to use another person’s body for survival.
I wish more people understood that this is the heart of the issue. Arguing against this point is basically saying that having sex somehow forfeits the right to bodily autonomy. And … No.
Also, can we please stop this bullshit of “it’s a living human being as soon as conception happened” because it’s not. It’s a cluster of cells that has the potential to become a human being. EARLY abortions are not denying a human being the right to life but the POTENTIAL of a human life, the same we do when using birth control.
That said, I absolutely disagree with late term abortions - aborting a child at an age at which other babies are born prematurely and manage to survive in incubators and intensive care is wrong and is actually the denial of life to another human being.
FYI: The “late-term” thing is a straw man anti-abortion groups use to try to shoehorn in other restrictions. The only time abortions are performed that late is if there’s something critically wrong, either a serious threat to the carrier’s life or health, or a problem with the fetus. Criminalizing late-term abortions would only lead to people having to carry around fetuses that are already dead, dying, or would die shortly after birth. Horribly cruel.
^ Exactly. 92% of abortions are performed within the first 13 weeks. Only 1.2% occur at or after 21 weeks, and because abortive surgery becomes harder as time goes on, pretty much the only legal late-term abortions that are performed are medically necessary. So there’s really no point in spending time and energy demonizing that 1.2% of all abortion recipients. And consider this: because 3rd trimester abortions are generally always medically necessary, the majority of pregnant people who receive them actually planned and wanted to keep the baby, but had to get the abortion at the last minute because of the risk to their own life or health. So it’s extra shitty to stigmatize them, it’s essentially like demonizing someone for having a stillbirth.
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this is why its depressing to work in a pharmacy.
I was definitely a profit killer when I worked in a pharmacy (which honestly was my favorite job in the entire world, but it was short-lived and nowadays you can’t work at a pharmacy like that, it’s all tied in with corporate retail and no one should ever trust me with a cash register ever). It was not, however, actually a profit killer for the pharmacy, just for the drug companies, so no one cared. These days I do medical billing, which means I actually bill OUT from hospitals so I’m mostly spending my professional time taking money away from insurance companies.
I will now impart all of my profit killing resources onto you, in case you don’t know them. I think most of you know them, now. But just in case you don’t.
THIS IS US-CENTRIC. I’M SORRY.
1. GoodRx - this thing has an app now, so you can look up the best places to get your expensive medicines at the lowest possible prices without insurance on the go, and you no longer have to print coupons because you can just hand over your phone or tablet. Times have changed for the better with GoodRx. Definitely use it before trying to fill your scrip, because it will tell you the best place to go. (You can do that on the website, too.)
2. NeedyMeds - Needymeds is basically the clearinghouse of drug payment assistance. They have their own discount cards, but also connections to many patient assistance programs run by drug companies themselves. They are good assistance programs, too.
3. Ask your county - This is not a link. This is a pro tip. Most county social services will have pharmacy discount programs for people with no and/or shitty pharmaceutical coverage. You can often just find them hanging around at social services offices; you can just pick one up and walk off with it.
4. Ordering online - There are a few safe online pharmacies. I keep a little database in a text file on my computer. Most of them are courtesy of CFS forums, my mother or voidbat, so a lot of that is a hat tip to other people, but if you’re in need of a place to get a drug without a prescription … first I’ll make sure you 100% know what you’re doing for safety reasons and then I’m happy to turn over a link.
5. Healthfinder - A government resource that helps find patient assistance programs in your area. This might also point out the convenient county card thing. RxHope is something a lot of people get pointed to via Healthfinder that’s a good program.
6. Mental Health America - Keeps a list of their best PAPs for psychiatric medications, which can be some of the most expensive and a lot of pharmacy plans don’t cover them at all.
GoodRX is a life saver, literally. Make sure you know the quantity and dosage before you get there, have it pulled up on your phone, and present each coupon for each med individually when they ask for insurance and voila! The meds I take would be $300+ a month, I get everything for around $20 with GoodRX.
(Source: chronicdharma, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
The other night, I had plans to go to an engagement party with the new guy I’m dating - it was for his best friend, and it was at a bar AKA the first time we would be drinking together.
Before we left for the bar, he and I were sitting on his bed talking, and he says, “Oh, I forgot I wanted to ask you something.” He proceeds to ask about when we get home from the bar, if I am wanting/trying to have sex with him, should he have sex with me, and/or what he should look for to know if I am too incapacitated to give consent.
That is the first and only time a guy has ever preemptively considered and asked about what consent would and would not look like with me.
(Source: that--one--lady, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
i mean the reason the gay community fought for marriage rights was bc during the aids crisis their partners would literally die in the hospital all alone bc their partners couldnt visit them bc they were not “family”
ppl would lose their homes, their inheritances, even their children bc they were not “family” with their deceased partners
like this shit isnt about a tax cut. just let gay people celebrate this important acquisition
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