#INCLUDING TUBERCULOSIS

[playingplayer2]

Simply put: wear a goddamn mask or I'm coming for your kneecaps <3

this moderna commercial just went "the pandemic may be over, but covid 19 isnt going anywhere. covid is still among the top 5 leading causes of death"... wow... its almost like the pandemic isnt over.

[samantha-and-nellie]

happy everything is tuberculosis publication day to me, a person who a) loves the green brothers' work and b) runs a blog about an american girl character who is canonically affected by the societal fear of tuberculosis!

[threadbearsweater]

other games are nothing more than a passing fancy to me

[nickcharleswife]

Help Wanted in Causing Chaos

In a few weeks I’m hosting a PowerPoint night for my friends & I’ve decided I want to do it on Teen Wolf: the Movie

(I watched it once back when it came out & cannot bring myself to watch it again after I ranted whilst pacing for 15 minutes about why I hated the ending)

((I only stopped ranting because I, & my friend who suffered through it with me, needed to go to bed))

However, this group knows nothing about teen wolf plot except what haphazard pieces I’ve told them over the years, so I’ve got some ground to cover & explain before I can get to the movie.

(I have also given everyone a suggested presentation timeframe of 5-10 minutes with a cap at 15 minutes because there could easily be enough people & topics to fill 3 hours, which would be fun but long)

Therefore I am requesting assistance!!

Right now my two biggest gripes that I feel can be adequately described by the show’s canon are:

the nogitsune’s random new ability to adopt werewolf traits despite the Shugendo Scroll (since that’s literally how they killed him before)

AND

Derek’s death plus his handing over responsibility of his child to Scott (& evidently Allison???)

My current thought process is that I go through the show’s canon in chronological order, starting with the fire and ending with the conclusion of season 3B. I’ll add a few highlights of the additions of Liam & Mason so their presence, if mentioned, in the movie makes sense but otherwise I’m skipping a detailed discussion of the later seasons.

Questions I have that I’d like suggestions on:

Am I incorrect on the werewolf-Nogitsune hybrid problem? I get that the Nogitsune in the movie manages to have a corporeal body cuz of the dimension hopping (god those words strung together hurt my brain) but I’d think/hope the same theory applies??

dear lord I’ve just realized/remembered the show has precedent for dimensions given the whole Ghost Riders plot — that’s not a question I’m just mad now

Is there a different or additional point about the movie I should be making?

What pieces of canon do you think I need to be clearly highlighting in order to get these points across?

I’m taking suggestions for looney bits of lore to include specifically from seasons 1-3

Should I pivot and discuss a different terrible angle of Teen Wolf? OR even just spend the time explaining the whole show for funsies rather than deep dive into the movie?

Also I’m taking presentation title suggestions. The current one is “The Murder of Teen Wolf Canon: how Jeff Davis took his own story out back and shot it”. Another idea was: “Teen Wolf: The Movie — the canon that broke itself to make a terrible plot”

I do acknowledge this is an insane amount of material to cover in 15 minutes or less…hence my request for help in hopes that yall can help me narrow down my points (pretty pretty please?)

Alright…thoughts? Feelings? Emotions? Ideas? I eagerly await any and all assistance the fandom can provide.

(Listen, I realize I’ve not even touched on the “Eli is definitely Stiles Stilinski’s kid” angle but I fear that requires even more chaotic explanations 😅)

OH AND I ALMOST FORGOT - we are DEFINITELY discussing how Adrian Harris was deader than a doornail and should’ve FUCKIN’ STAYED THAT WAY (which leads us down the rabbit hole of infinite questions and implications about how the movie begins in the first place)

[normalsproutanon]

Yknow i was joking about me dying when i talked about being sick

I dont think its a joke anymore???

[heartsbreaking]

no cause why have i gone so deep into a research spiral about what diseases are transmissible in mummified remains because THAT plot in the new episode of 911 should have been dealt with differently?

personals i dont care if you find this or agree with me do not reblog this post.

[merriclo]

HCAU WIP

masterlist link

it’s been a while since you all have gotten any Hero’s Call AU crumbs, hasn’t it? well then here since i love y’all much <3

notes + warnings:

it’s a little nasty. they are in a sewer and Spirit is dying :) it’s not terribly graphic imo, but i could see it grossing some people out. there’s an au-plot relevant reason for the sewer btw i didn’t just pull that out of nowhere im not that mean

eventually, comfort for this will be posted, but as of now it’s just hurt <3

this is for my own linkverse au, meaning pronouns and names are different than standard. Vio (they/she) is FSA’s violet Link, Traveler (they/he/it) is from LoZ 1 + 2 and the 1989 cartoon, and Spirit (she/her) is from Spirit Tracks.

There’s blood seeping out of Spirit’s leg, and it’s the first time in a while that Vio doesn’t know what to do. Obviously, the wound needs to cleaned, sewn shut, and dressed, but the cut is so long and ragged and deep that she might be dead by the time a quarter of the stitches are in. And even if she does somehow make it past the blood loss, the likelihood of her dying of an infection from getting stitches in the middle of an old sewer system is too high to even think about.

“Holy fuck, holy fuck,” Traveler says in a panic, sprinting past Vio to Spirit’s side. He helps her to the grimy ground, even rips off his cloak to set under her leg as a sort of towel. After an embarrassing amount of time, Vio finally moves to help prop her against the wall, and Traveler starts to clean the wound.

This is normally where they’d force feed her a potion. On any standard day they’d be desperately shoving it to her lips and tilting her head back. The tension would slip from their shoulders as her bleeding would slowly become more manageable, and death would no longer loom over her. They’d have to restrain her, of course; the kid’s always been particularly sensitive to the potion’s rancid meat flavoring (Vio holds the memory of Ages holding her arms and head back as Blue pries open her jaw to pour the liquid down her throat quite fondly, despite the fact that Spirit was actively dying then, as well.)

But they can’t do that. They don’t have the luxury of pulling her out of death’s grasp, not when their last red potion is on the floor, mixing with glass shards and sewage a few yards away. It was shattered by one of the Yiga clan members that had attacked them just moments prior, in the exact same battle that cleaved the poor girl’s thigh open.

Vio wants scoop the potion’s remnants up in her hands and force it onto Spirit’s tongue; she wants to drag their fingers through the grooves in the stone where the liquid life gathers, then shove those same fingers down her throat. She’d yank the girl over to the puddle by her fucking hair and force her to drink from it if it meant she’d live.

But it wouldn’t. It’s common knowledge that magic is a fickle thing, so fickle in fact that once a red potion is contaminated, it’s loses all potency, and what’s more contaminated than a potion full of glass, dirt, and sewage?

Traveler looks to Vio. They’re visibly exhausted from overextending their magic as they went through this dungeon, and the grim look in his eyes says that he’s intimately familiar with these kinds of situations and with how they often end. The tears that flood Spirit’s terrified eyes tell Vio that she is as well.

Well, at least she’s small. They might be able to give her loved ones a body.

[oscars-severed-arm]

To celebrate this post reaching 500 notes, here's a list of specified diseases we given this poor man:

Covid (from me)

Black plague (he already has this but sure)

Viral-induced asthma

Smallpox

Go-fish loss disease (sure ill count that)

Unspecified chronic illness

Influenza

Pneumonia

Rabies

Consumption

Endometriosis

Naegleria fowleri (a brain eating amoeba)

Pneumonia again

Leprosy

Really bad allergies

Period cramps

Rabies again

Intestinal cancer

Tapeworms

And +298 unspecified ones!

To combat the Arthur vaccination attempts -

Reblog this post to give Arthur Lester a random disease!

[hyenaswine]

for the past two years i have been sponsoring a tuberculosis detection rat in tanzania, her name is carolina. she sniffs sputum samples & alerts her handlers when she detects TB. recently she turned 8 & aged out of the program, so they held a retirement party for her & sent me photos.

while carolina moves on to live a life of rest & luxury in the retirement kennels, her role is being passed on to her successor, tamasha. she is 2 years old & was named after the grandmother of one of her handlers.

(with her handler priscus)

here is a description of tamasha:

"Tamasha is also quite playful! She enjoys jumping, climbing, and sometimes does a joyful little dance when placed in the TB evaluation enclosure – as if celebrating her enthusiasm for the work ahead. She’s also a big fan of avocado, her favorite treat for a job well done."

im not afraid to admit that this email made me cry like a stupid baby. you can sponsor your own big beautiful TB- or landmine-detecting rat through APOPO HeroRATS. they send you an update on how your rat is doing each month, including photos.

[ball-point-penni]

Need people to start bringing back candies flavoured like spices.

YES cinnamon candy, YES cardamom candy, YES saffron candy, YES clove candy, YES nutmeg candy, JUST YESS TO ALL THE SPICES AS CANDY THEYRE ALWAYS SO GOOD WHY ARE WE NOT STILL DOING THIS IN THE MAINSTREAM

[cesium-sheep]

of course that new romance movie is a life is short cancer lesson. ah well.

[consultingreaders]

Mm so this is why I do not take unmasked nerdfighters seriously. You care about infectious diseases? Stop going to book events without a mask on.

(also relevant: Covid precautions lessened covid rates in closed spaces like prisons)

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

It's still so weird to me that the guy who wrote the fault in our stars and experienced global adulation and then global reprobation from the backlash and everything from SNL skits to being soft canceled on tumblr ....

was me.

Like, that guy was me. He lived in the same house I live in. One time he walked down to the river and cried and then yelled at himself for crying because who cries about having such a ridiculously good life.

I guess my big takeaway from that whole experience is 1. past me gave current me a lot of opportunities and freedoms for which I am grateful, including the opportunity to support cool people doing cool stuff, and the freedom to write about whatever I want (a memoir in the form of five-star reviews! A book about tuberculosis and its discontents!).

And also 2. the actual experience of Proper Fame is so unpleasant that I do not know how anyone who lives with regular pop culturey fame continues to seek it after getting a good hit of it. I admire the people who do--they get to make a lot of difference in the world in many cases. I am just baffled by them.

I would like to write books that seek large audiences again someday, but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to. I may need to stay in these small happy places where I've been able to live over the last five years.

But the complicated and ever-evolving tension between on the one hand wanting to have my own life, a life that truly and fully belongs to me, and on the other hand wanting to make stuff that is beloved by people and useful to them and so on ... it's a hell of a labyrinth to navigate, and I'm nowhere near out of it.

[random-brushstrokes]

Pierre Louis Alexandre "Petterson" (1844-1905)

(Unknown Artist, Georg Hansen, Gunnar Börjeson, Ida von Schulzenheim, Martin Aronson-Liljegral, Matilda Hanström Berendt, Nils Larsson, Ingeborg Westfelt-Eggertz, Karin Bergöö Larsson, Emerik Stenberg, John Simpson, Caleb Althin)

Pierre Louis Alexandre is mainly known as a model at the Art Academy during the latter part of the 19th century. Artists who depicted him include Anders Zorn, Karin Bergöö (Larsson), Johan Krouthén and Oscar Björck. Pierre Louis Alexandre (1844-1905) was born in French Guiana and came to Stockholm in 1863, probably as a stowaway on an American ship with pork in the cargo. Here he made a living as a stevedore worker, but has mainly become known as a model at the Art Academy. In the archive sources, he appears with the swedish surnames Petterson and Alexandersson respectively.

Some characters steal your attention right away. Like the man in the oil painting that hung in Mats Werner's childhood home in Stockholm. The portrait made a strong impression on everyone who came to visit. It was painted in Stockholm in 1879 by Karin Bergöö, later Larsson after her marriage to the famous artist Carl Larsson, and depicts a man of color sitting reclining with his hands clasped over one knee in a mild, warm light. The man radiates both a peaceful calm and a dormant strength. The gaze is fixed on the distance. The image has an enigmatic atmosphere.

Mats Werner eventually inherited the painting from his parents. When he later cleaned out a basement storage room he found a folder with drawings. One of them depicted the same man as in the oil painting. Werner got curious: Who was this man? What was his story? Were there more portraits? Mats Werner began a dedicated detective work that led him to a large number of authorities, consulates, archives, libraries and so on in different countries. The dead ends were many. But the man must have made an impression in 19th century Stockholm? Very true. Werner came across various stories about the man's background and theories about how he ended up here. Eventually, the picture began to clear. The enigmatic man was Pierre Louis Alexandre, born in 1844 in Cayenne, French Guiana. He probably arrived in Stockholm in the mid 1870´s with an American ship. He escaped from the ship and earned his living as a dock worker. As the harbor closed in the wintertime due to heavy ice, he was lucky enough to find a new income as a model at the Academy of Fine Arts between 1878 and 1903. He acknowledged his first model fees "Louis Pettersson”. Alexandre was married twice and lived at several addresses on Södermalm in Stockholm. He died of tuberculosis in April 1905.

There are 43 known portraits of Alexandre by artists such as Karin Bergöö, Anders Zorn, Oskar Björk and Emil Österman. (source)

Read more:

The Artist’s Model: Pierre Louis Alexandre

Searching for Pierre Louis Alexandre

[pejite]

Hi! Today, I’m sharing a list of mods that I consider essential for playing historical gameplay in The Sims.

I often have friends who want to dive into the Decades Challenge but aren’t sure which mods to use or where to start. So, in this post, I’m going to share the mods I personally use and think are indispensable for creating that authentic historical experience.

Deaderpool's MC Command Center: This mod allows you to manage and modify many aspects of your game, including handling pregnancies, university careers, and enabling teen relationships so your Sims can marry earlier, among other features. You can also enable autosave and adjust the length of a Sim day.

Lumpinou's RPO: This mod enhances relationship dynamics and expands pregnancy features. It's extensive, with many modules, and once you've tried it, you won't want to play without it.

Pandasama's Realistic Childbirth: Offers multiple realistic childbirth options, including natural bed births and spontaneous labour, adding depth to your Sims' family lives.

MizoreYukii's Arranged Marriages: Allows you to arrange marriages for convenience. Parents can agree on marriages for their children, but breaking the arrangement won’t be easy.

Necrodog's Carriages and Horses: Adds functional carriages, enhancing immersion. While it doesn't work with the horses of Horse Ranch pack, it’s still incredibly useful.

Kuttoe's Enlist in War: It will allow your Sims to enlist in the war. Whether they live or die will be random, but if they survive, they'll receive the Veteran trait, a lifetime pension and some lasting traumas.

JaneSimsten's Regency Romance: Perfect for simulating the Regency era. It adds class differences, property ownership, etiquette skills, new traits and careers, events, and widowhood. Though inspired by the Regency era, it works well for later decades too.

SimKatu's Reading Animation Override: Changes the reading animations, with different ones for men and women, making your Sims’ reading time more immersive.

Zero's Deadly Dickensian Sicknesses: Introduces the risk of diseases like Tuberculosis, Typhoid Fever, and Cholera. It’s incredibly realistic with its contagion system.

Adeepindigo's Healthcare Redux: A comprehensive health mod that adds various illnesses and treatments, including tuberculosis and (early access) cancer. While Sims can buy modern medicines, many illnesses can be cured with natural remedies.

Adeepindigo's Simulated Endings: This mod will enhance everything related to your Sims' deaths, allowing them to take out life insurance and designate beneficiaries, arrange funeral preparations, and introduce stages of grief for your Sims.

MizoreYukii's Functional Broom: Adds a functional broom with its own animation, letting you keep your Sims’ homes clean without resorting to modern vacuums.

Triplis's Quit or Join School: In case you need your teens or childs to quit school.

The Kalino's Farm Animal Set: Expands your farm with more animals, including goats, sheep, ducks and more, in addition to the standard cows and chickens.

JaneSimsten's Write With Quills: Replaces your Sims' pens with quills, adding a touch of historical accuracy.

JaneSimsten's Sidesaddle Override: Allows female Sims to ride horses sidesaddle, as they would have in the past.

JaneSimsten's Parchment Computer: Replaces modern computers with parchment and quills, complete with their own animations—perfect for pre-typewriter eras.

Frankk's Language Barriers: More realism to sims being from different worlds.

Rs4ella's 1920s Grade School Homework Override: Changes the look of the kids' homework book to a 1920s style, but it works well for earlier periods too.

Xbrilliantsims's Toddler Bathtime Overrides: Replaces modern bath toys and sponges with more era-appropriate items when bathing toddlers.

Lunamoth's Historical Infant Carriers: Swaps out modern baby carriers for fabric slings, suitable for any historical era.

Lunamoth's Rope Pet Leash: Replaces the modern pet leash with a simple rope, making it look more appropriate for historical gameplay.

300yearschallenge's Historical Baby Bath Override: Changes the baby bath seat to a more suitable design, or you can opt for

Sassymissollie's Invisible Infant Bath Seat to remove it entirely.

JaneSimsten's 5 Day Work Week: Choose Your Own Work Hours: Lets you adjust your Sims' work schedules for a more realistic experience.

JaneSimsten's Marksmanship Skill: Adds a marksmanship skill, allowing your Sims to practise shooting and hunting, with the hunted animals available for cooking.

Littlbowbub's Ye Olde Cookbook: Enables your Sims to cook historical dishes, perfect for low-income Sims in older settings.

Basemental's Basemental Drugs: Although mainly known for adding drugs, it’s commonly used for its smoking features, letting your Sims smoke cigarettes and cigars like a proper Victorian gentleman.

MizoreYukii's Children/Toddlers Can Die of Anything: Allows your child Sims to die, useful if your storyline requires it.

Ayoshi's Phone to Notebook Replacement Mod: If phone elimination mods are causing issues, this mod might help. It replaces the mobile phone with a small notebook, which could pass for a mini Bible or an old-fashioned notebook.

JaneSimsten's Extra Cross-Stitch Patterns: Adds historically accurate cross-stitch patterns.

[see-arcane]

RFK Jr. off to a great fucking start!

Going to just leave this here as a refresher:

Also, in case it needs saying: Add this topic to your rep/senator phone call scripts and general protest points. I know, the list of Are You Kidding Me with This Shit topics grows longer every day, but this one matters due to

More demonizing of autism as an eeeevil condition worth risking children's actual lives over

Opening the door to blaming medicine on/trying to invent 'cures' for ~unwanted conditions~ like autism. Or being trans. Or not being straight. Or being female and uppity. 'IF [CONCOCTION/CHEMICAL/MEDICINE/PRACTICE] CAN CAUSE X ICKY THING THAT IS INCONVENIENT OR MORALLY WRONG (ACCORDING TO ME), THIS NEW ONE CAN CURE IT!' logic cannot get any foothold. None.

Buddy. Buddy. Measles and tuberculosis outbreaks are happening right now. Bird flu is happening right now. COVID mutations (including the many many Long COVID victims you're actively ignoring) exist right now. I think you can shelve the debunked conspiracy theory horseshit until the active medical threats against the population get the attention and funding they deserve.