Something Witty. Will Figure it out Later.

Rocky is concerned. Grace’s skin is the wrong texture and temperature, question? What happened? Is Grace sick???

And Grace has to go, “no I was just dumb, it’s just a sunburn.”

“Sun burned Grace, question? How??”

“Yeah, sort of. I mean, it’s not the same as a burn exactly, it’s…”

Vampirism. Lycanthropy. Cheap spells gone wrong. A woman brought in for her prenatal has to be told her baby is a lindworm. Someone is literally being followed by the anthropomorphic personification of the Black Death.

you can find things like: * this map of chang'an when it was the capital of the tang dynasty

or * this reference on the various measurements and units, their conversions to more widely known western units, and their regional/dynastic variations or * this list of sayings related to marriage

Use the medications properly to prevent interactions with healthcare providers. The pills are very effective, but they have to be used right. Carefully follow the instructions provided on the How to Use Abortion Pill website. Note that misoprostol tablets should always be taken by dissolving them under the tongue. Do NOT insert misoprostol vaginally if you are self-managing an abortion. While this is medically safe, it can leave incriminating pill remnants that can be detected in the vagina during a pelvic exam if you end up needing to seek medical care. 

If it’s not an emergency but you need expert health advice, use a free calling service like Google Voice to call or text the Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline at 1-833-246-2632. Medical complications are very uncommon with abortion pills, but they’re not impossible. The M+A Hotline is safe to use and is staffed by trustworthy clinicians who volunteer their time to help those who choose SMA. Do not use your own phone number to call as this will create a record that is visible to your cell service provider. 

Don’t disclose any information about SMA to emergency room staff if you do need to seek medical care. This is how most people who are arrested for SMA are reported. Healthcare providers are almost always who calls the police in cases of SMA criminalization. Contrary to popular belief, HIPAA does not protect your private health information from being shared with police if you are suspected of doing something that could be considered a crime. If you believe you need to seek urgent medical care, do not hesitate to go. Say “I think I’m having a miscarriage” and provide your symptoms. Do not mention any use of or purchase of abortion pills. There is no widely available test to detect misoprostol in your bloodstream. If you do not disclose it, there is no way for a medical provider to tell the difference between a medication abortion and a spontaneous miscarriage.

Use the medications properly to prevent interactions with healthcare providers. The pills are very effective, but they have to be used right. Carefully follow the instructions provided on the How to Use Abortion Pill website. Note that misoprostol tablets should always be taken by dissolving them under the tongue. Do NOT insert misoprostol vaginally if you are self-managing an abortion. While this is medically safe, it can leave incriminating pill remnants that can be detected in the vagina during a pelvic exam if you end up needing to seek medical care. 

If it’s not an emergency but you need expert health advice, use a free calling service like Google Voice to call or text the Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline at 1-833-246-2632. Medical complications are very uncommon with abortion pills, but they’re not impossible. The M+A Hotline is safe to use and is staffed by trustworthy clinicians who volunteer their time to help those who choose SMA. Do not use your own phone number to call as this will create a record that is visible to your cell service provider. 

Don’t disclose any information about SMA to emergency room staff if you do need to seek medical care. This is how most people who are arrested for SMA are reported. Healthcare providers are almost always who calls the police in cases of SMA criminalization. Contrary to popular belief, HIPAA does not protect your private health information from being shared with police if you are suspected of doing something that could be considered a crime. If you believe you need to seek urgent medical care, do not hesitate to go. Say “I think I’m having a miscarriage” and provide your symptoms. Do not mention any use of or purchase of abortion pills. There is no widely available test to detect misoprostol in your bloodstream. If you do not disclose it, there is no way for a medical provider to tell the difference between a medication abortion and a spontaneous miscarriage.

The Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War were happening at the same time. And yet, almost all the video of Vietnam is high-quality 16mm and the photos are all Kodachrome color, while Civil Rights Movement coverage is all black-n-white newspaper photos and really bad b&w 8mm video.

Simple answer to the videos is that national news, when covering domestic events, used footage from whatever local network affiliate was there, and TV broadcasts were seldom ever archived on anything but the cheapest medium - 8mm Telecine film. Yes, they had VTR recorders like the Ampex 2" Quad system, but those tapes always got reused, so the only copies surviving before 1978 when VHS because A Thing are all on shitty cheap filmstock. Meanwhile, stuff shot half a world away in rough environments HAD to be done on film, and of course the military press corps wanted QUALITY video footage for propaganda even if it mostly ended up being antiwar cause draftees didn't give a fuck.

For Bing-ge his name is the river and time he was abandoned on. Thrown away by parents who didn't want him, only to survive and live a miserable life watching the only person who ever loved him wasting away.

Then he has his teacher, Shen Qingqiu/Jiu. My basic searching skills say that 沈 means 'to sink' which is horrifying tragic in the context of PIDW. For Shen Jiu it could be a warning, that he would sink further and further until it killed him. If you go with his relationship with Bing-ge then its mockery. A threat that Shen Jiu would do what the river didn't, sink him, drown him. Or at least make him with it had.

Even after becoming Emperor and combining the realms, he never gets a new name. No cool breaking away from his origins to something more. He's still Luo Binghe, the cold river he was thrown away to.

(I can't remember but I think the Luo river was one of the landmarks that stuck around after the merge. If so that's kinda poetic.)

Meanwhile by the end of SVSSS:

They're in the Luo river. After all that Luo Binghe is floating down the fucking Luo River again. This time with Shen Yuan and the truth that, he wasn't thrown away. He was sent down that river by a dying woman who loved him so much that it cost her everything. He wasn't someone's trash, he was someone's son. He has his jade guanyin, the symbol of the mother who raised him. She didn't just passively fade away, she worked hard and she wanted good for Luo Binghe. The washer woman named him Luo Binghe, not to remind him of being sent away, but as a celebration of how they came into each other’s lives.

If Shen really does mean 'to sink' then in this life its to sink into each other. To be held tightly and cared for. Its the good kind of drowning, the kind you want after your skins been scorched by the sun and your bones ache from carring the weight for to long.