#i am. not excluded from that either

[bookwyrminspiration]

I felt the need to inform you that the Vackers are Desi in my mind, and specifically Pakistani Muslims. Also, I believe that Alden married into the Vakcers.This is solely because I think that the image of Alden trying to wear Shalwar Kameez and tripping all over it is very funny to me.

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!! I've seen Desi Vackers art and concepts floating around in the fandom before and it is truly a stunning concept--if you look up the tag "desi vackers" you'll get a sample of them. Though I will admit I personally don't know enough to know the nuance of what Pakistani Muslims would entail, but I'd be more than happy to learn and hear about it.

I also don't think you're alone in having some fun with Alden--when people aren't hating on him, he's usually gotten involved in some innocent antics or silly situations purely on accident. Hardly anyone can take him seriously anymore :)

He's very earnest and also a mess of a person and I think it's. very fun to think about--and I can just imagine how eager he'd be to marry Della and how he'd try to stay composed (and then utterly failing and tripping all over)

10/10 Desi Vackers is a stellar idea and I love seeing what people think of and create for them!!

[makiswirl]

can i just say. and this is probably a niche hill to die on. that i am so gobsmacked every time someone vaguely hints at the idea that jotaro doesn't care meaningfully for the other crusaders, usually particularly kakyoin and joseph, when those two actually tend to be the ones he reacts to being hurt the hardest

like he cares for his loved ones!!!! that literally plays into his character motives in every single part he shows up in!!! stop lying to me!!!!!!!

[silhouettecrow]

please please please please please

I can't be the only one who listened to the new episode of The Magnus Protocol and thought of this bitch:

[acidhued]

sigh. need to figure out how to break it to my twitter mutuals im not exclus anymore and am very much a fagdyke

[squuote]

stanarrator fluff fics for me are hard to read occasionally because of how easily they tend to be flipped from their usual dynamic to suddenly being extremely lovey dovey to one another. Like no, give me a cuddle fic where they’re still full on arguing and bickering while completely clinging to each other.

[theshippirate22]

every now and then i get hit with the idea of what might happen if Joyce found out about the sins of s1&2 jonathan

[naivety]

i go to ao3's tv shows tab → i find s for supernatural (280932) → i include characters sam winchester (170759), missouri moseley (1,730) → i exclude relationships castiel/dean winchester (112350) → sort by kudos

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

going to be very funny when me, transmasc, gets fed up with transandrophobia deniers and starts killing.

[theultracharmingladynoire]

I tried to stop myself from posting this but the whole 'victuuri is unhealthy because x or y or they are codependent/yuuri is always selfish and cold to victor' take that seems so prevalent across the post I came across genuinely upsets me so much it has been making me feel low-key physically nauseous when I think about anything related to the show and it sucks honestly

[skrunksthatwunk]

man why are there so many lesbian posts like omg i love butches/look how cool i am as a butch!!! MEN DNI. like. I've been banned from my own dykery wtf

[mrnnki]

arranging all of the LPS that managed to survive my childhood by year on their copyright statement (ft. cat paws)

the bottom row are a mystery, but for the others it goes: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

[voidcat]

Ship your mutuals gogogo

Hmmmm tricky question I needed to think for this one (bc I’m a tumblr boomer who gets confused when mutuals suddenly change their entire theme and url and bc I’m forgetful etc etc)

But then decided the answer is gonna be me<3 that’s right, i ship my mutuals w myself I love u all beautiful silly little people in my phone I don’t call almost all my mutuals wife/husband/spouse for nothing- some of the anons too. It’s a big beautiful love story we got here eheheh

[nostalgia-tblr]

Six Sentence Sunday would be far easier if my current make-lots-of-notes-and-think-of-words-later out-of-sequence writing technique allowed me more WIPs that a) have six full sentences in a row which are b) not in some way pornographic :(

[6ebe]

supporting Germany as praxis against child labour law violations 🙏

[bisquid]

Seeing the notes on posts about the Burning Man Debacle™ and for fucks sake I am taking the phrase 'eat the rich' away from y'all until you can CORRECTLY IDENTIFY the rich

Rich is 'arrived by way of their private jet', is 'dropped $500k on a submarine ticket', is '$500 is a rounding error'.

'$500 dollars for a nine day event they must all be rich white people' no you reactionary rotten potato that is actually an entirely reasonable price for an entirely normal person to pay for an annual event! $500 over the course of a year is approximately equivalent to one big takeout a month! Being able to afford that doesn't make you rich it makes you probably not poor! The 'rich or poor' narrative is a false dichotomy that completely excludes the fact that 'richness' or 'poorness' is a SCALE! It's not fucking categorical! You don't one day magically flip a switch and go from 'poor' to 'rich' or vice versa you see incremental changes over time! Wealth distribution is a (these days, admittedly, rather wonky) motherfucking BELL CURVE! . The fact that capitalism is driving more and more people to either extreme of said curve is just evidence of a broken system, but it doesn't change the fact that most people should have a decent amount of disposable income!

The fact that many people don't have said disposable income doesn't magically make the ones that do 'rich' it makes everyone else poor. And the people at fault for the massive and growing percentage of people living below the poverty line are not the ones managing to stay above it, it's the fault of the actually rich, the ones stealing our time and our health and our wages and our future in pursuit of a number on a screen. And the rich are the only people you're helping by hating the people struggling slightly less than you.

When it comes time to 'eat the rich' you're going to be murdering dentists and librarians and scientists while the actually rich point and laugh from a safe distance as you solve their problems for them.

[headspace-hotel]

I forget why, but I was on the Wikipedia page for polycystic ovarian syndrome, and I started researching hirsutism in women, and I learned the following things in this order:

there's a diagnostic criteria used to evaluate how hairy a woman is

This is important because being too hairy is a diagnostic criteria of most disorders that cause hyperandrogenism

Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism can be diagnosed by...measuring how hairy you are (this is the main and most important diagnostic criterion for PCOS)

Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism are important because they are correlated with obesity, infertility, and...being too hairy?

I think to myself, wait, what is a normal range for testosterone in women? I find this article...which set reference ranges for "normal" testosterone levels in women...EXCLUDING WOMEN WITH PCOS?

Quote: "Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is another notable condition in genetic (XX) females, which is characterized by excessive ovarian production of androgens. This condition is included for comparison with DSD, as the affected females with PCOS are genetic and phenotypic females. The elevated levels of testosterone in these females can lead to hyperandrogenism, a clinical disorder characterized variably by hirsutism, acne, male-pattern balding, metabolic disturbances, impaired ovulation and infertility. PCOS is a common condition, affecting 7%-10% of premenopausal women."

So: the study claims to demonstrate a clear distinction between the normal range of hormone levels in "Healthy" men and "healthy" women...with "healthy" being defined in the study as...having hormones within the "normal" range.......................

So I researched what the clinically established "normal" range for testosterone in women is

THERE ISN'T ONE????

Quote from the above article: "Several different approaches have been used to define endocrine disorders. The statistical approach establishes the lower and the upper limits of hormone concentrations solely on the basis of the statistical distribution of hormone levels in a healthy reference population. As an illustration, hypo- and hypercalcemia have been defined on the basis of the statistical distribution of serum calcium concentrations. Using this approach, androgen deficiency could be defined as the occurrence of serum testosterone levels that are below the 97.5th percentile of testosterone levels in healthy population of young men. A second approach is to use a threshold hormone concentration below or above which there is high risk of developing adverse health outcomes. This approach has been used to define osteoporosis and hypercholesterolemia. However, we do not know with certainty the thresholds of testosterone levels which are associated with adverse health outcomes."

What the fuck?

What the fuck?

It's batshit crazy to make a diagnostic criteria for medical disorders by placing arbitrary cutoffs within 2-5% of either end of a statistical distribution. What the actual fuck?

"The results came back, you have Statistical Outlier Disease." "What treatments are available?" "Well, first, we recommend dietary change. You should probably stop eating so many spiders."

Another article which attempted to do this

Quote: "Subjects with signs of hirsutism or with a personal history of diabetes or hypertension, or a family history of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) were excluded."

"We're going to figure out the typical range of testosterone levels that occur in women! First, we're going to exclude all the women that are too hairy from the study. I am very good at science."

Anyway I got off topic but there are apparently race-specific diagnostic tools for "hirsutism." That's kinda weird on its own but when I looked more into this in relation to race I found this article that straight-up uses the term "mongoloid"