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This is a very important post

love my pumpkin

scary my pumpkin

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I am on Bluesky!

My work is on BlueSky now. I'm still getting the hang of it but I went there because it is quite liberating from the clutches of the "Zuck" and the constant censoring going on there.

If you are so inclined, follow me! or go check out my work.

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I have that scarecrow on the top right of the page!

It cost $10.00 at Walgreens Pharmacy at the time I purchased it. It must have been 2005 (or 06) I'm not sure because at the time I did not write the date on my decorations.

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I am not a straight people.

Reblog if you are also not a straight people.

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Of course it's *eternal* people have been celebrating All Hallows Eve and later named Hallowe'en and even later named Halloween, for centuries.

The fact that we will die won't change a thing.

This is what I love about Halloween.

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I was a prematurely born baby of the late 80's. So was my younger sister. I spent some time of my early days in an incubator and so did my sister when she was born exactly 11 months after me.

Without this man's ingenuity, we would not exist. I would not be creating art, writing, drinking coffee or enjoying Halloween. My sister would not be making beautiful music, writing intricate fantasy worlds or fangirling with all her heart.

Thousands of premature infants were saved from certain death by being part of a Coney Island entertainment sideshow.

At the time premature babies were considered genetically inferior, and were simply left to fend for themselves and ultimately die.

Dr Martin Couney offered desperate parents a pioneering solution that was as expensive as it was experimental - and came up with a very unusual way of covering the costs.

It was Coney Island in the early 1900’s. Beyond the Four-Legged Woman, the sword swallowers, and “Lionel the Lion-Faced Man,” was an entirely different exhibit: rows of tiny, premature human babies living in glass incubators.

The brainchild of this exhibit was Dr. Martin Couney, an enigmatic figure in the history of medicine. Couney created and ran incubator-baby exhibits on the island from 1903 to the early 1940s.

Behind the gaudy facade, premature babies were fighting for their lives, attended by a team of medical professionals.To see them, punters paid 25 cents.The public funding paid for the expensive care, which cost about $15 a day in 1903 (the equivalent of $405 today) per incubator.

Couney was in the lifesaving business, and he took it seriously. The exhibit was immaculate. When new children arrived, dropped off by panicked parents who knew Couney could help them where hospitals could not, they were immediately bathed, rubbed with alcohol and swaddled tight, then “placed in an incubator kept at 96 or so degrees, depending on the patient. Every two hours, those who could suckle were carried upstairs on a tiny elevator and fed by breast by wet nurses who lived in the building. The rest [were fed by] a funneled spoon. The smallest baby Couney handled is reported to have weighed a pound and a half.

His nurses all wore starched white uniforms and the facility was always spotlessly clean.

An early advocate of breast feeding, if he caught his wet nurses smoking or drinking they were sacked on the spot. He even employed a cook to make healthy meals for them.

The incubators themselves were a medical miracle, 40 years ahead of what was being developed in America at that time.

Each incubator was made of steel and glass and stood on legs, about 5ft tall. A water boiler on the outside supplied hot water to a pipe running underneath a bed of mesh, upon which the baby slept.

Race, economic class, and social status were never factors in his decision to treat and Couney never charged the parents for the babies care.The names were always kept anonymous, and in later years the doctor would stage reunions of his “graduates.

According to historian Jeffrey Baker, Couney’s exhibits “offered a standard of technological care not matched in any hospital of the time.”

Throughout his decades of saving babies, Couney understood there were better options. He tried to sell, or even donate, his incubators to hospitals, but they didn’t want them. He even offered all his incubators to the city of New York in 1940, but was turned down.

In a career spanning nearly half a century he claimed to have saved nearly 6,500 babies with a success rate of 85 per cent, according to the Coney Island History

In 1943, Cornell New York Hospital opened the city’s first dedicated premature infant station. As more hospitals began to adopt incubators and his techniques, Couney closed the show at Coney Island. He said his work was done.

Today, one in 10 babies born in the United States is premature, but their chance of survival is vastly improved—thanks to Couney and the carnival babies.

https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/how-fake-docs-carnival-sideshow-brought-baby-incubators-to-main-stage/

Book: The strange case of Dr. Couney

New York Post Photograph: Beth Allen

Original FB post by Liz Watkins Barton

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80s show, Miami Vice » Season 2, episode 2 (John Taylor)

Gifs requested by: anonymously

If anyone has Duran Duran gif wishes, send me a message.

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BLUE IS THE ONLY WAY

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I cannot believe it! I READ THIS FANFIC YEARS AGO AND SUDDENLY ITS BACK and I have been looking for it for a while now as I could not remember its name.

IM GLAD I FOUND THIS ART

Okay, one more quick 91W piece, because the descriptions of Dean are so rich, and I’m clearly vERy WeAK.

I now blame @dirtcas more than ever. 

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Hallowe'en 1900s

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Created this "graphic" using Midjourney.

Happy First Day of Fall!

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I think devoting my life as I know it to some man that now has access to my spaces is plain misery. It's like a punishment.

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I love the way AI Midjourney 'sees' fall. . .

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Life is coming back, slowly.

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