Anonymous asked: you are making me seriously consider going back and reading the animorphs books we have at my house
DO IT.
DO IT AND TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM.
ALL THESE YEARS MY BLOG HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT A RUSE TO SUCK YOU ALL IN AND CONVERT YOU TO ANIMORPHS.
flvffs asked: hello, have you ever read the farseer trilogy by robin hobb?
I have not! Is it good? Do you recommend it? Is there magic? Details, mon ami, I am curious. A cursory Google search reveals assassins, assassins are good.
Anonymous asked: 12 girls on tumblr complain about a problem they all had and make it out to be some grand injustice that happens to anyone when really they can't think beyond themselves. Are you going to ignore all the good done just because it didn't happen to you?
Hi, anon, I’m gonna be honest and say I’m…genuinely not sure what you’re talking about here? I’m guessing it has something to do with either the one post or another one of the recent posts that I’ve reblogged about medical equality lately, though, based on the tone, so I’m going to answer this assuming that.
First of all, no, I’m not, as you seem to believe, acting out due to personal insult. I’ve been reasonably fortunate in medicine, actually, from a certain perspective: when there’s something wrong with me, it’s spectacularly wrong and generally speaking impossible to write off (too concussed to speak, intolerant of a medication to the point of seizures, etc.). My experience is actually coming from my training as an EMT and in reaching out to doctors to learn what it’s like working in the medical field. Thanks for the assumption, though.
Second of all, this isn’t an issue of a few girls on Tumblr, it’s increasingly an issue that has the potential to affect a lot of people. Women, yeah, are a part of that group. So are trans individuals, people with existing disabilities, or people of color. Is it going to affect all of those people? No, of course not, that would be an absurdly generalized statement. But it affects some, and when you look at the sheer number of people who fall into the group, ‘some’ of them becomes a not-insignificant number. However, this does not change the fact that the medical field at large has helped innumerable people, nor would I ever want to devalue that. It is completely possible to acknowledge both the flaws in the medical system and the vast good that the same system can do and has done. Since the goal of medicine as a discipline is always to help the most number of people possible, I would say that acknowledging the flaws in the system and acting to change things is actually quite in spirit with the same attitude that leads to all that good being done in the first place.
Third of all. Okay. Look. I’m eighteen. I am first-aid certified. I am a trained EMT looking for somewhere to take my certification exam. I am a junior in college (on SUCH a scholarship, I might add, because my family’s broke) currently on the pre-medical studies track. I am looking into which medical schools I should apply to. I am talking to doctors and nurses to see what field I might like to specialize in. I keep a medical kit and provide first-aid care to my friends and classmates when they need it. So you just damn call me when you decide what else I need to be doing to be qualified to make a note of the fact that some people do not consistently receive the attentive listening and respect they are entitled to. Not to sound like too much of an idealist or whatever, but in my personal opinion, if only twelve women had ever experienced this sort of thing, it would still be unacceptable.
If you weren’t talking about the medicine thing, feel free to consider this a free lesson in specificity. Tip: it pays to be particular about the post you’re griping about, because otherwise you get a long rant about medical equality you weren’t looking for.
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