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“melanie king recording. apparently. so, uh… marker! [SHE CLAPS]”

just now realised i only posted this on twitter and not here

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tamsyn muir made silas & column men for OUR protection. imagine if the 8th house were a big butch sword lady and her tiny scowling jaundice aunt with long beautiful silver hair who spend the whole book being weird offputting insulting, braiding each other's hair, sucking on the other like a necro battery juicebox, having complicated dynamics of loyalty consumption duty & responsibility..... the fandom would be in shambles.

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Read Nona the Ninth again. Cried again. There's just. So much love.

'It's finished, it's done. You can't take loved away.'

(sobbing into my pillow)

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Subbed for the first time a month ago and she did this while putting a hand over my mouth and my brain went "I guess I'm a switch now".

growling "shut the fuck up and take it" in their ear and feeling their cunt twitch around you

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I saw a comment on your blog that says 'the way you eat does not cause diabetes'...are you able to expand on that or provide a source I could read? I've been told by doctors that my pre-diabetes was due to weight gain because I get more hungry on my anti psychotics and I'd like to fact check what they've told me! Thank you so much!

Pre-diabetes was rejected as a diagnosis by the World Health Organization (although it is used by the US and UK) - the correct term for the condition is impaired glucose tolerance. Approximately 2% of people with "pre-diabetes" go on to develop diabetes per year. You heard that right - TWO PERCENT. Most diabetics actually skip the pre-diabetic phase.

There are currently no treatments for pre-diabetes besides intentional weight loss. (Hmm, that's convenient, right?) There has yet to be evidence that losing weight prevents progression from pre-diabetes to T2DM beyond a year. Interestingly, drug companies are trying to persuade the medical world to start treating patients earlier and earlier. They are using the term “pre-diabetes” to sell their drugs (including Wegovy, a weight-loss drug). Surgeons are using it to sell weight loss surgery. Everyone’s a winner, right? Not patients. Especially fat patients.

Check out these articles:

Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn’t be

The war on ‘prediabetes' could be a boon for pharma—but is it good medicine?

Also - I love what Dr. Asher Larmie @fatdoctorUK has to say about T2DM and insulin resistance, so here's one of their threads I pulled from Twitter:

1️⃣ You can't prevent insulin resistance. It's coded in your DNA. It may be impacted by your environment. Studies have shown it has nothing to do with your BMI.

2️⃣ The term "pre-diabetes" is a PR stunt. The correct term is impaired glucose tolerance (or impaired fasting glucose) which is sometimes referred to as intermittent hyperglycemia. It does not predict T2DM. It is best ignored and tested for every 3-5yrs.

3️⃣ there is no evidence that losing weight prevents diabetes. That's because you can't reverse insulin resistance. You can possibly postpone it by 2yrs? Furthermore there is evidence that those who are fat at the time of diagnosis fair much better than those who are thin.

4️⃣ Weight loss does not reverse diabetes in the VAST majority of people. Those that do reverse it are usually thinner with recent onset T2DM and a low A1c. Only a tiny minority can sustain that over 2yrs. Weight loss does not improve A1c levels beyond 2 yrs either.

5️⃣ Weight loss in T2DM does not improve macrovascular or microvascular health outcomes beyond 2 years. In fact, weight loss in diabetics is associated with increased mortality and morbidity (although it is not clear why). Weight cycling is known to impacts A1c levels.

6️⃣ Weight GAIN does NOT increase the risk of cardiovascular OR all causes mortality in diabetics. In fact, one might even go so far as to say that it's better to be fat and diabetic than to be thin and diabetic.

Dr. Larmie cites 18 peer reviewed journal articles (most from the last decade) that are included in their webinar on the subject, linked below.

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It’s that simple.

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“In this military, dumb bitch hours are twenty-four fucking seven.”

— Roy Mustang

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Do you ever think about how staggeringly in bad taste it is that Gandalf brought a firework that turns into Smaug to Bilbo’s birthday party

Like how were you hoping that would go

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it is INCREDIBLY funny to me that roy mustang did not at any point start out by considering treason of any sort. he wanted to rule his country post ishval, sure, and replace bradley, which you could argue in any dictatorship is treasonous thinking, but his actual plan at the start was just to do that within the system, by getting himself elevated so much that he becomes a legitimate candidate for dictator. It’s only after maes hughes is murdered that mustang starts acting outside the system and then actively opposing it, and even then it’s pretty much entirely because the government turns out to be synonymous with the homunculi who killed hughes. 

like i am just simply so tickled by this. the fact that roy, in ishval, looked around at the absolute wasteland of corpses he helped create and thought “i can promote my way out of this”. It’s perfect. He’s still the exact same nationalist diehard little twerp that got himself into the army to Heal My Nation Through War And More Specifically Arson. “The system isn’t broken,” he thought very confidently with his 23 year old brain, “it just has some bad apples up top making some bad calls,” and it’s so great and arakawa did such a great job writing his arc and it’s why roy is indisputably a libra

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i really like how the enemies in the silent hill hospitals are not 'insane patients' and instead are the nurses

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Obsessed with that bit where P— told John to be a bad wizard. That they could write the history books later to say he was good, but what he needed to do now was to scare the shit out of people. What he needed was leverage.

Because that's what he did! That's exactly what he did. He got his leverage, he played the bad wizard, he scared the shit out of everyone. And then after the dust settled, when he was the last man standing, he wrote the history books to say he was good.

And like. The thing that gets me is. After all that, he named her Pyrrha.

They won. It wasn't worth it.

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thinking about her

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Imagine a world where homosexuality was still in the DSM but society had moved gradually toward some moderate acceptance of queer people, but only with the understanding that we are sick and that leading out our queer lives is medically necessary for us. in this paradigm, a person would have to get diagnosed with homosexuality by a psychiatrist in order to be permitted to have gay sex

this is basically the reality that trans people are living in right now. and that's for those of us that are lucky enough to live in a place where we *are* allowed to lead out trans lives once we get gender dysphoria written down in our medical charts

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favourite underrated part of the locked tomb is how in gideon, everyone fights w swords and magic, so we the audience are just like, okay this is how things are in this universe, there are no guns, it’s all swords and magic, neat! and then in harrow, wake has a gun, but every non-lyctor who sees wake’s gun considers it a weird and ancient weapon, so we the audience are like, okay so there used to be guns in this universe. and the characters are vaguely aware of what they are, but they’ve become pretty much obsolete, which gives wake’s ghost this terrifying old-school vibe, cool!… 

and then we come to nona, and everyone and also their mother has a gun, and we the audience are like, oh. we’ve been seeing all this through the aristocratic space catholic sword-and-magic cultists who are only a small and also kind of brainwashed part of what’s going on in this universe, and there’s been a whole gritty, grounded space dystopia going on this entire time with absolutely fascinating worldbuilding, political, and urban warfare elements, neat! but the whole time nona is only interested in patting everyone’s dogs. 

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underrated gideon and ianthe moment found in my gtn reread:

"Sheer prevarication," remarked her sister to nobody in particular. "Some people would do anything to get...a head."

Everyone ignored her, even Gideon, who found herself trembling like a leaf.

local stone-faced cavalier tries so hard not to acknowledge slimy necromancer's pun that she begins physically vibrating, more at 11.