one of my favourite things about fanfiction is I can almost always find some way to contact the author, the actual human being who sat down and wrote this collection of words that I love so much and scream at them
and usually they scream back and it’s a wonderful exchange of happy
you just can’t do that with published authors. You can scream, but you’re screaming into a Lovecraftian void and they almost never have the chance to scream back
I love fanfic authors so much. thanks for letting me scream at you about things we mutually love
I like being screamed at. And I’ll always scream right back.
I, too, enjoy being screamed at.
It makes me happy when someone screams at me.
When people scream at my it makes my fuckin’ day
I love screaming at my favorite authors!!! We have screaming contests!!
I’ve got a 3 day weekend this weekend, and my plan is to write through the whole damn thing so I can finally post again, but I’m warning you guys it might not work out the way I want. 😛 My sinuses are so clogged I think my eyes might pop out of my head
Boo!! *Hands K a blankie, soup, and a moose stuffie*
I have decided to make this a master post of healthcare PROFESSIONALS calling bullshit on anti-vaxx
there are links directly between some vaccinations and autism in young children. Whole drug and medical industries need to be restructured
No there aren’t, and the doctor that said that literally got his license taken away for being reckless
The whole entire study was literally based on lies. There are kids who can’t get vaccinated due to health reasons like allergies and being immuno-compromised but every other child NEEDS to be vaccinated
1. Mufuckas is too old to be believing your child can catch autism from a goddamn shot
2. Even if they could an autistic child is better than a dead one
3. STOP SPREADING BULLSHIT
If you believe that vaccinations cause autism you do not deserve to have children. There are so many kids that have died because of this believe because people do not wanna vaccinate their children because they’re afraid of autism which is fucked up on so many levels.
the fact that ppl are afraid of raising a child with autism is the saddest part
It wasn’t so much her position on vaccination, though that should be enough to get a medical professional fired, it was that she posted enough information that she got busted for HIPAA violations.
“[F]or the first time in my career I saw measles this week. Actually most of my coworkers and the ER docs saw measles for the first time as well. And honestly, it was rough. The kid was super sick. Sick enough to be admitted to the ICU and he looked miserable.”
And yet, that wasn’t enough to change her mind. To the point where she “thought about swabbing his mouth and bringing [the sample] home” to her own child.”
She sees this incredibly sick little kid and instead of trying to figure out how to protect her own child from it, she wants to expose her child to the disease? THIS is what’s wrong with anti-vaxxers.
People don’t vaccinate their kids out of fear. They do it out of love. They do it because they do not want to see a child they love suffer a preventable illness, or allow that child to spread a preventable illness to someone who has no choice but to rely on herd immunity.
Unpopular opinion: straight people using “partner” to refer to their SO actually helps normalize the term so that lgbt folx can use it without automatically outing themselves to strangers. It also helps other straight ppl get comfortable with the fact that strangers aren’t entitled to information about other people’s gender or sexuality.
Give op their hard-earned notes
Tbh I hear “partner” and assume gay, I didn’t know straights used it. Very fair point, OP
I hear ‘partner’ and think ‘gay’ too. A girl at work used it for months and I just went with it. When she would say ‘he’ I even thought maybe he was trans*. Anyways, someone using partner makes me more comfortable and I came out to her. She was just an intelligent straight girl that liked the term and was knowledgeable in human sexuality so definitely someone I should have felt comfortable coming out too. It’s a good sign of a straight person uses it IMO.
As a mental health clinician, this is actually my blanket term when discussing any romantic relationship. I agree it normalizes it, but I also think it’s a relatively safe term to use to describe most romantic relationships without making any assumptions about the person’s orientation or identity. I also use the word “partnered” when describing a monogamous relationship status.
The term “partner” also removes the implied hierarchy of boyfriend/girlfriend vs husband/wife. This is relevant both to non-monogamous people, and unmarried individuals for whom the importance of their relationship isn’t dictated by its legal status.
Okay, but this is an excellent method to use when anyone is being inappropriate. Pretend that you don’t get it. Whether the comment is sexist, racist, sexual, misogynistic, inappropriate, off-color… watching them squirm as they try to explain and realize just how awful their comment was it is better than being angry about it.