What Does The Fox Say?

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/

http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/for-the-cure/

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132728/susan_g_komen_foundation_has

that’s right fracking you know, a process using chemicals known to cause cancer that leech into the water supply

http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/baker-hughes-fights-breast-cancer-pink-fracking-drill-bits/

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Cancer Research Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

They have been hit EXTREMELY hard and I have seen no posts going around talking about it. It is one of the hardest hit places in ARIZONA, a state that already has horribly high case numbers.

They have a Covid relief gofundme. Please donate if you can and spread this if you can't.

Reblogging October 3rd, 2020

Trump has already taken a shot at senator Elizabeth warren (MA, D) and called her Pocahontas

The moderator has had to tell trump MULTIPLE TIMES to stop interrupting him and Biden

Biden keeps laughing at trump every time he says something obviously wrong

Trump keeps shouting about socialism

Trump is trying to piss Biden off but he won’t even look at him

Biden deadass just told trump to “just shut up, man”

• Trump is comparing COVID to swine flu (200k deaths vs ~14k respectively)

• Biden brought up the bleach injection thing and Trump tried to claim it was sarcastic while obviously pouting

• Trump is claiming he spoke to the “scientists in charge” (of what? from where? who are they? we do. It know!) and we’ll have a vaccine “very soon”

• Trump just told Biden not to call himself smart as he is “anything but”

• “Tell that you Nancy Pelosi.” “Will he just shush?”

• Trump is showing how little he actually understands COVID

• shut down is “very bad” and shut down states are “doing very bad” meanwhile Glorida governor just lifted all COVID regulations

• He’s calling COVID the “China Flu” and blaming China for all the COVID deaths here (so I guess he has no sense of accountably)

• He keeps saying we have the best economy in the world (OBVIOUS lies)

• Biden just asked for more time back to make up for Trump’s interruptions during his allotted time

• “I have to respond to that” “You’ve both already had your time, Sir” Trump continues to talk and ignore the monitor

• “I’m the one who brought back football!” Sports players and team staff from all different sports leagues are still testing COVID positive despite isolation

• “No, Mr. President, I am asking you a question” this monitor is dealing with an errant child

• “How much in taxes did you pay in 2016 and 2017?” “Millions and millions of dollars.” YEAH, OKAY.

• Trump actually has the balls to tell off Biden about race when he’s a racist and treating people and their children who crossed the southern border like animals in cages

• Trump is so white-sensitive and xenophobic it’s painful

• “He’s racist” Biden isn’t even pretending to give a fuck

• Trump is (still) staring Biden down like he’s his prey and he’s trying to intimidate him but Biden is refusing to even glance his way

• Every time Biden says anything, Trump has to disagree even if it’s statistics/facts

• Trump has said “law and order” at least a dozen time in the past 10 minutes

• “Mr. President, you be really happy with the next subject of debate: law and order” gee I wonder what they’re talking about

• Law and order (x100)

• “he made a statement! I need to respond!” *moderator frantically starts telling him that no, no he does not*

• “Antifa is an idea, not an organization” — Biden

• “Antifa is a dangerous, ridiculous group.” — Trump

• Now we’re talking about Clinton and her “con job”

• “He’s Putin’s puppy.” — Biden

• TRUMP IS P I S S E D

• “You’re party has agreed not to interrupt —” *Trump interrupts* “That was not a rhetorical question!”

• Trump is taking more shots at Biden’s son, Hunter

• Now the moderator is getting pissed

• *frustrated moderator voice* “I want to talk about climate change”

• Insulting the Paris Accord, talking about business over the environment

• Won’t talk about the actual science of climate change, just keeps talking about forest management and forest cities??? And he cares about clean air so apparently that’s an answer about science

• Biden says he’ll join the Paris Accord if elected

• Moderator is fact-checking the shit out of this debate, on both sides

• “Trump actually said we should drop a nuclear weapon on the hurricane” “that’s not true” “it is true” “no it’s not, made up”

• We’re back to bringing up China, Russia, and India again which he keeps bringing up in that same order as if he can’t remember any other countries and had to memorize those just for tonight

• “The final question is — I can’t remember which of his rantingsis up” “me too” (paraphrased but still)

• The Biden Plan™️

• Trump’s own officials assure mail-in voting is safe and not rigged but apparently trump disagrees with his own officials

• Biden reminding you to VOTE. TRUMP. OUT.

• “Crooked Hillary Clinton”

• Trump’s sad because a ballot with his name on it was in the trash (odd, because that’s where it should be)

• Trump is all but threatening to go to the Supreme Court about mail-in ballots and voting legitimacy, once again hinting that he will not leave office peacefully in January 2021 if voted out

• Biden told Trump he was afraid of losing the election because of losing the vote and from fraud and Trump got SO MAD again

• Out of nowhere, Trump: “Bad things happen in Philadelphia! Bad things.”

• Trump said mail-in voting has already been proven fraudulent and Biden deadass tells him he has no idea what he’s talking about

• Debate ends and Melanie slinks on stage. No mask.

• Jill Biden greets moderator politely and wears a mask (guess which has actual manners)

• Post-interview time!

• “It was a pure train wreck. I don’t know how that helped anybody if you’re an independent voter.”

• other station: “it was a disaster”

• Everyone’s immediately calling out Trump for being rude and interrupting and agitated from the very beginning of the debate til the end.

• “This took it too far, even for Donald Trump”

• “The way he ran that debate is the way he runs the country” YUP

• Turned on Fox just to get an idea of what both sides are saying and they’re talking about Biden losing his cool but he only was because trump wouldn’t shut up??

https://www.gofundme.com/f/2479bzys00?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link

9.25.20. Louisville

Among the 24 protesters arrested last night was Representative Attica Scott, author of Breonna [Taylor’s] Law and the only Black woman on Kentucky’s state legislature. She was arrested while crossing the street past curfew and has been charged with 1st degree rioting. Video evidence shows no rioting by her.

Pay attention to your mail. If you see Trump on it, as disgusting as this is, don't throw it out. Check it first. This is absolutely appalling.

“Navajo Nation — in the “Four Corners” area, with land that borders part of Northeastern Arizona, Southeastern Utah, and Northwestern New Mexico — has been hit hard by COVID-19. So far there are 354 confirmed cases with 15 confirmed deaths. As with much of the nation, the testing picture is incomplete. Navajo Schools stayed open two days longer than non-reservation schools, but the Navajo Nation has taken up strong distancing precautions since then. The Diné have now issued stay-at-home orders and instituted a strict curfew. They’ve also declared a state of emergency.

The seriousness of this response isn’t without precedent. The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1920 was devastating for the Navajo Nation. According to historical records, 12 percent of the population perished, or 3,377 people. So far, COVID-19 has mortality rates anywhere from less than one percent to ten percent or more, depending on a long list of factors. But preparedness seems to be a major determiner and Navajo Nation is woefully ill-equipped to fight off a virus like this. It’s certainly worth noting that 2009’s Swine Flu was four times more deadly in Indian Country than the rest of the U.S.

Diné attorney and leader Ethel Branch has set up the Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund on GoFundMe (she also set up a Relief Fund for the Havasupai). This is the fastest and most direct way you can help people right now.

So far the Relief Fund has 2,000 families seeking assistance. The money is going to packages that are being dispatched throughout Navajo Nation. The Guardian reports that each package is filled with “flour, beans, rice, canned soups, dried meat, fever and cough medicine, as well as fresh vegetables, fruit, and meat when available.” These are crucial lifelines for many Diné.

So far, the Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund is at about 50 percent of its goal. You can donate directly right here.”

Other fun facts about prison labor corporations:

-Federal and state-run prisons usually pay their slaves minimum wage; some states, however, like Colorado, pay $2/hour.

-Private prisons pay $.17-.50/hour. The highest paying private prison is in Tennessee, which pays $.50/hour for “highly-skilled labor.”

-You think that hasn’t affected wages in the US? You think that hasn’t removed manufacturing jobs from the economy?

-Companies that contract with private prisons for their slave labor include: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores. Many, many products that say “Made in USA” were made in prison.

-Private prisons often have quotas with the states, wherein the states contractually guarantee that they will provide a certain number of prisoners to fill the beds of a private prison, and if they don’t then they owe the private prison millions of dollars. I’m not making this up. It happened in Colorado after they legalized weed.

-States have a financial incentive to lock up their citizens.

-All of the above corporations have a financial incentive to see citizens get locked up.

-This is why Jeff Sessions is going after weed. The prison industrial complex needs slaves.

-To the shock of absolutely no one, private prisons have even more disparate racial demographics than federal/state prisons.

-Where do you think they send undocumented immigrants who have been rounded up? That’s right, private prisons. That’s why so many of them are in the South. So they take immigrants who are earning some kind of comparable wage and paying income tax to the government, and put them in prison where the wages are absurdly depressed and the prison pays virtually nothing in taxes.

-Oh yeah: private prisons pay virtually nothing in taxes. Because they technically manage real estate (prison as housing), they get all sorts of tax breaks and subsidies.

Tl;dr the prison industrial complex removes jobs from the economy, depresses wages, cheats the tax system, and ENSLAVES PEOPLE, usually people of color.

Sources:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime

http://mfgtalkradio.com/s7-e15-manufacturing-jobs-lost-prison-slave-labor/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html?1379606057

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/13/289000532/why-for-profit-prisons-house-more-inmates-of-color

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/27/immi-f27.html

So there’s this old German remedy for getting rid of boils. A mix of eggshells, egg whites, and sulfur rubbed into the boil while reciting the incantation and saying five Paternosters. And according to my prof’s friend (a doctor), it’s all very sensible. The eggshells abrade the skin so the sulfur can sink in and fry the boil. The egg white forms a flexible protective barrier. The incantation and prayers are important because you need to rub it in for a certain amount of time.

M Y    T I M E    H A S    C O M E

You guys don’t understand how excited it made me to read this post, I literally wrote my master’s thesis on this exact topic.

STORY TIME

Sometime in the 10th century in Anglo-Saxon England (for context, this is before the Norman Conquest and near-ish to the reign of Alfred the Great), a dude named Bald asked another dude name Cild to write a book. Not just any book. A leechbook, which was essentially the medieval version of WebMD for practicing doctors. BUT NOT JUST A LEECHBOOK. This leechbook was gonna be the damn Lamborghini of leechbooks. This thing was going to be split into two parts, the first dealing with external medicine and the second dealing with internal medicine—something that was unheard of at the time. It was going to be organized (head to toe, like all the good leechbooks were). It was gonna be nice (leather and vellum). It was gonna use all the best ideas (from all over the known world). And the whole thing was going to be written in Anglo-Saxon. Now, a few medical books had been compiled in Anglo-Saxon before, but none like this. This one was going to be EPIC. And it was—and still is.

Bald’s Leechbook (also goes by the more boring but more informative MS Royal 12 D XVIII over in the British Library) contains a lot of medical remedies. A lot of them rely on things like prayers and chants and odd charms, like one for a headache, which recommends plucking the eyes off a living crab, letting the crab back into the water, and wearing the eyes about your neck in a little sack until you feel better. However, it’s worth pointing out that the really wild remedies, the stuff that makes absolutely no freakin’ sense, is most often recommended to treat ailments that are hard to treat even today—migraines, toothaches, cancer. These things are really painful or deadly and, without modern medicine, almost impossible to treat. So are you going to make up some nonsense to make your client at least feel like they’re doing something, and hey, if it sort of works, it works? Of course you are. You want to help people. Even if it sounds crazy, what else are you going to do? You have to try something, and the people who are suffering are willing to try anything.

But there’s also things that make complete sense. To echo concepts that have been mentioned by commentators above, there is a recipe that calls for the recitation of the paternoster while boiling a honey-based salve meant to treat carbuncle. The book instructs the physician to bring it to a boil, and sing the paternoster three times, and remove it from the fire, and sing nine paternosters, and to repeat this process two more times. A century ago, historians read the use of the paternoster as a magical incantation, but today, most agree that in lieu of a stopwatch, the paternoster is just meant to make sure you don’t burn the honey.

BUT THAT ISN’T NEAR THE COOLEST THING.

Now, this book was compiled by a master physician (we don’t know if it was Cild himself or if Cild was the scribe for an unnamed author) who was compiling recipes that had been written down for some time, and had, as many things do, gone through various permutations over the years. Many came from Greece or the western Mediterranean, and had been adapted for local English horticulture and herbs. Some came from around what is now Germany, and some ideas came from farther away in the Middle East (King Alfred was a sickly king; some scholars believe that he had his physicians seek out cures from all over the world in an attempt to treat himself). But there is one recipe that has only ever been identified in England. Not only has this recipe only ever been identified in England, it’s only ever been identified in this one manuscript. When translated into modern English, it reads as follows:

Work an eyesalve for a wen [stye], take cropleek and garlic, of both equal quantities, pound them well together, take wine and bullocks gall, of both equal quantities, mix with the leek, put this then into a brazen vessel, let it stand nine days in the brass vessel, wring out through a cloth and clear it well, put it into a horn, and about night time, apply it with a feather to the eye; the best leechdom.

For those who don’t know and/or are lucky enough to have never had one, a “wen” or a stye is a bacterial infection that manifests like a boil or a cyst that on the eyelid. They hurt something awful, and can cause larger infections of the eye. They are usually caused by Staphylococcus aureus. 

With me? Okay. Fast-forward to 1988. A former biologist turned historian called M.L. Cameron decides to take a look at this old medical leechbook to see what he can see. He takes a good look and says “Lads I do believe these Anglo-Saxon leeches weren’t nearly so daft as we thought they were” (he did not and probably would never actually say that, I’m paraphrasing). Cameron was particularly interested in the recipe above. As a scientist, he knew a few things:

Garlic and cropleek (leek or onion, or another related plant) have been known to have antibacterial qualities for centuries.

Wine (alcohol) also has antibacterial qualities.

Bullocks gall (literally bile taken from a bull) is known to have detergent properties, and has long been used as an additive to soap for particularly tough stains.

A brazen vessel, or a vessel made of brass, contains a good amount of copper in it. And that copper, when left to sit around for, I don’t know, about nine days, would have plenty of time to react with the acids in the onion and garlic and the tartarates in the wine to create copper salts. 

Coppers salts, as it happens, are cytotoxic, meaning they kill everything: tissue and bacteria.

What an interesting find.

Fast-forward again to 2015. A paper is published by a team from the University of Nottingham, who’ve been working on an ‘Ancientbiotics’ project to investigate ancient medical remedies and see if they actually work. They’ve turned their sights to the Anglo-Saxons, and are, as was Cameron, particularly interested in this recipe for an eye salve. Without boring you with the finer details of the experiment and its various trials (read it yourself!) I will spoil the ending by telling you that they discovered a few things:

This recipe, which was over 1,000 years old when they tested it, worked.

It worked well.

It worked extremely well. 

So well, in fact, that (in a lab setting) they even got it to kill Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or as it’s more commonly known, MRSA. MRSA is a modern superbug that has built up a resistance to the antibiotic Methicillin. And this goddamn Anglo-Saxon witches’ brew freakin murdered it.

Now, as an advocate for modern medicine and sound scientific method, I’m not about to say that we should go throwing this salve on everything in 2019, because it is, if anything, just a starting point for modern scientists. This salve is still incredibly crude by modern standards and comes with a lot of potential problems. But as a historian… it works, you guys, it really works.

Medieval physicians were not idiots. They believed in magic, they believed in all things supernatural, they believed in all those things that are ‘unreasonable’ or unpopular today, and they practiced them too. But they also interacted with the real world with brains and intellects as sharp if not sharper than yours and mine. They were smart, they studied, they talked to each other in Latin and Greek and Arabic and Anglo Saxon. They made old recipes better and came up with brand new ones. They tried dumb stuff and they tried smart stuff. They didn’t have access to even the smallest fraction of the information we have at our fingertips today, and yet they created things like this. 

To this day, no one knows who created the eyesalve recipe. And no one truly understands why this is the only copy of it. If it worked so well, why isn’t it plastered to the headings of every medical textbook from Alfred to Victoria? Speaking personally, I would argue that it has to do with language. Not so long after Bald’s Leechbook was written, the French invaded England and took over. Latin and French became the language of the court, and while Anglo-Saxon lived on throughout the country, and certainly lay doctors would have used Anglo-Saxon books daily, the language of formal English medical education was Latin. Oxford and Cambridge were late to the medical ed game after Salerno, Bologna, Paris, and Montpellier, and naturally fell in step with continental schools as a result, using Latin almost exclusively, and sometimes Greek or Arabic. 

Point being, by the time medical licenses and medical college degrees are a thing in England, not only does almost no one of university-eligible class speak Anglo-Saxon anymore, no one has use for those Old English texts, because they don’t get you your degree, and you can’t make a living as a doctor without a degree and doctor’s license. And no one’s going to translate an old Anglo Saxon text into Latin when Avicenna’s newest old hit, now in Latin, is fresh off the boat from France.

All that to say:  Never write something off because it’s old. 1,000 years is a long time ago, but human ingenuity and intelligence are hardly modern inventions. The science of the world hasn’t changed; only our tools and our perspective.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

Further reading:

The 2015 Ancientbiotics report: A 1,000-Year-Old Antimicrobial Remedy with Antistaphylococcal Activity

NPR: ‘Ancientbiotics’ Researchers Look For Old Fixes To Modern Ailments

Mental Floss: 20 Anglo-Saxon Remedies from Bald’s Leechbook

Read a paper about how scholars are building on the work of the Ancientbiotics project to better understand how to apply ancient ideas effectively to modern medicine.

Look through Royal 12 D XVIII for yourself! Bald’s eyesalve recipe is on f. 12v and looks like this:

“Britain has better class mobility than us and they literally have a queen! Are you gonna let some corporations stop us from being wealthier than the British, you pussy? Vote for politicians that put higher taxes on the rich and we can beat them!”

“The United States has the worst healthcare of anywhere in the world! Are you gonna just stand by and let that happen? Vote for universal healthcare! Make us #1!”

I mean the thing is that unless you only eat and drink things that were grown/raised/processed on local farms, there are always going to be things that you eat or drink that have, at some point in some way, harmed the environment or crossed paths with worker exploitation to one degree or another.

It’s unfortunately the way this world works right now. So you can USE any of those milk substitutes up there, if they work for you. It’s just a lie that they are “cruelty free”, and that needs to be known.

-Many wheelchair users can stand or walk short distances. This does not diminish their need for a wheelchair.

-Many deaf/Deaf/heard of hearing people have limited hearing, the ability to speak, lip reading ability, or any combination of the three. They still require proper accommodations for their deafness.

-What a person with sensory issues can handle often varies on a day to day basis. Just because they could handle something a few weeks ago doesn’t mean they’re lying about an inability to do it now.

-The same goes for people with chronic pain or fatigue.

-Just because someone has a learning or developmental disability it does not mean they’re automatically unintelligent. With the proper accommodations and support, many can thrive academically. Some disabilities such as ADHD and autism can even make individuals more suited to certain tasks than neurotypicals.

-Unless you are a doctor with the correct expertise, disabled people most likely know more about their conditions and what accommodations they require than you do.

There’s a saddening lack of books with pansexual/panromantic rep included in queer book recs, so I’ve compiled a list of books for us pans, that I will be continuously updating.

Some notes: I haven’t read the majority of these books, so I’m trusting the people who sent me recs and the research I’ve done. Some of the books are part of series, and I’m not sure if the pan character is in one or some/all books, so keep that in mind.

For each book I’ve put the genre, the names of the characters if I could find them, if it’s canon or implied/hinted, and a goodreads link.

27 Hours by Tristina Wright (Sci-Fi, YA) - Nyx Llorca, canon

Ace of Hearts by Feral Sephrian (Romance) - Felix, canon

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall (Fantasy, Mystery) - Ms. Haas, canon

The Alchemists of Loom by Elise Kova (Fantasy, Steampunk, YA) - Ari, canon

Alexey Dyed in Red by A.M. Valenza (Fantasy) - Vasiliy, canon

All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell (YA) - Ava, canon

The Almosts Trilogy by L.C. Mawson (Fantasy) - Kara, canon

Arctic Sun by Annabeth Albert (Contemporary, Romance) - River, canon

As La Vista Turns by Kris Ripper (Romance) - Mildred, canon

Assassins: Nemesis by Erica Cameron (YA) - Blake, canon

The Aurora Circus by Viano Oniomoh (Fantasy, NA) - Pyro, canon

The Barrow series by Mark Smylie (Fantasy) - Stjepan Black-Heart, implied/hinted

The Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud (Fantasy, YA) - Bartimaeus, canon

Base Status: Online by Emmy Engberts (Sci-Fi, YA) - Willow, canon

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp (YA) - Kyra, canon

Betrothed: A Faery Tale by Therese Woodson (Fantasy) - Faeries, canon

Between Ghosts by Garrett Leigh (Romance, Military) - Nat, implied/hinted

Black Iris by Elliot Wake (NA) - Laney, implied/hinted

Blacklight by Rory I (Sci-Fi, Speculative) - Gareth Heights, canon

The Black Tree by Michón Neal (Cuil Fiction) - Ariel Shoud, canon

Bloodbound series by Kaelan Rhywiol - Rhys, canon

The Blood Between Us by Zac Brewer (Mystery, YA) - Adrien Dane, implied/hinted

Blood Borne by Archer Kay Leah (Fantasy) - Ress, canon

Blood in the Water by Tash McAdam (Fantasy, YA) - Hallie, canon

Bookish Friends To Lovers series by G.L. Tomas (NA) - Ruby Jiang-Cruz, canon

Borderline by Mishell Baker (Fantasy) - Millie, canon

Bound series by Megan Mulry (Erotica, Historical Romance) - Characters, canon

Breakfire’s Glass by A.M. Valenza (Fantasy, Romance) - Nikolai, canon

The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde (Contemporary, YA) - Alfie, canon

California Girls series by Sara Taylor Woods (Erotica, Romance) - Mallory Duvall, canon

Calling Calling Calling Me by Natasha Washington (NA, Romance) - Josh, canon

Calloway Sisters series by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie (NA) - Connor Cobalt, implied/hinted

Camp Rewind by Meghan O'Brien (Romance) - Rosa Salazar and Jamal, canon and implied/hinted

Case of the Gold Retriever by Erik Schubach (Contemporary, Romance) - Finnegan, canon

Castaway Heart Trilogy by L.C. Mawson (Fantasy) - Dyna and Lyna, canon

Chameleon Moon series by RoAnna Sylver (Sci-Fi, YA) - Shiloh, canon

Change of Momentum by Liana Brooks (Romance, Science Fiction) - Hollis Salir, canon

The Changing of Allison Dutch by Michón Neal (Cuil Fiction) - Jeffery Beale and Marie Delan, canon

City of Spires series by Claudie Arseneault (Fantasy) - Larryn and Vellien, canon

Concerto in Chroma Major by Naomi Tajedler (YA) - Leonardo Neri, canon

Counterpoint by Anna Zabo (Erotica, Romance) - Adrian, canon

Dalí by E.M. Hamill (Sci-Fi) - Dalí, canon

A Darker Shade of Magic series by V.E. Schwab (Fantasy) - Lila, implied/hinted

Death By Society by Sierra Elmore - Abby Wallace, canon

Deference by Lila Mina (Fantasy, Romance) - Honda, canon

Different Names For The Same Thing by Francis Gideon (Contemporary, Romance) - Theo, canon

Don’t Feed the Trolls by Erica Kudisch (Romance) - Daphnis, canon

Double Exposure by Chelsea M. Cameron (Romance) - Anna Corcoran, canon

Dream by Garret Leigh (Contemporary, Romance) - Angelo, canon

Eight Kinky Nights by Xan West (Contemporary) - Jordan, canon

Empire of Light by Alex Harrow (Sci-Fi) - Aris and Raeyn, canon

Erik the Pink by Matthew J. Metzger (Contemporary, Romance) - Erik, canon

Every Day by David Levithan (Fantasy, YA) - A, implied/hinted

Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks by Nathan Burgoine (Fantasy, YA) - Nat, canon

Face It by Georgette Kaplan (Romance) - Elizabeth, canon

Fallible Justice by Laura Lassko (Fantasy, Mystery) - Yannia, implied/hinted

Final Draft by Riley Redgate (YA) - Laila, canon

Finding Aurora by Rebecca Langham (Fantasy, Romance) - Talia, canon

First and First by Santino Hassell (Contemporary, Erotica) - Aiden and Oli, canon

Feather by Feather and Other Stories by Lynn E. O'Connacht (Fantasy, Sci-Fi) - Jules, canon

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (Fantasy, Paranormal) - Shori Matthews/Ina species, canon

Forgotten Monster by J. Emery (Fantasy) - Sef, canon

Fortitude Smashed by Taylor Brooke (Contemporary) - Aiden, canon

From Scratch by Katrina Jackson (Contemporary, Romance) - Santos, canon

The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough (Historical Fiction, YA) - Love, implied/hinted

A Gentleman in the Street by Alisha Rai (Erotica, Romance) - Akira, canon

The Girl at Midnight series by Melissa Grey (Fantasy, YA) - Jasper, canon

The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig (Fantasy, YA) - Kash, canon

Good Angel duology by A.M. Blaushild (Urban Fantasy) - Iofiel, canon

The Grasp of Time by Raven J. Demers (Fantasy, NA) - Eila, canon

Hard to Find by Chace Verity - Gabriel, canon

Hard Wired by Megan Erickson and Santino Hassell (Romance) - Lyrix, canon

Her Elysium by Emmy Engberts (Contemporary, YA) - Fleur, canon

The Hollow Sun series by DL Wainright (Fantasy) - Eva and Ren, canon

Homesick at Space Camp by Francis Gideon (Romance, Sci-Fi) - Eastyn, canon

Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg (YA) - Hannah, implied/hinted

Hot Licks by A.M. Arthur (Erotica, Romance) - Van, canon

How Not to Summon Your True Love by Sasha L. Miller (Fantasy, Romance) - Cy, canon

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie (Sci-Fi-, YA) - Woojin, canon

Human Enough by E.S. Yu (Fantasy) - Noah, canon

Hurricane Reese by R.L. Merrill (Romance) - Reese, canon

Ilavani by Kaelan Rhywiol (Erotica, Fantasy) - Li and Mael, canon

Illusions & Dreams by Z. Allora (Contemporary, Romance) - Jake, canon

The Image of Deception by Charlotte Anne Hamilton - Megan, canon

The Incarcerado Trilogy by John Hornor Jacobs (Fantasy, YA) - Shreve, implied/hinted

In Case You Missed It by S.M. James (Romance, YA) - Darien, canon

Inheritance series by Amelia Faulkner (Urban Fantasy) - Quentin d'Arcy, canon

Island of Exiles by Erica Cameron (Fantasy, YA) - Etaro, canon

Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore (Fantasy, YA) - Ravi, implied/hinted

Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity by Kristin Elizabeth Clark (YA) - Chuck, canon

Jilted by Lilah Suzanne (Contemporary, Romance) - Link, canon

Junkyard Heart by Garrett Leigh (Romance) - Kim, canon

Learning Curves by Ceillie Simkiss (Contemporary) - Cora, canon

Legacy Strain by Taylor Brooke (Fantasy, Sci-Fi) - Brookyln Harper and Nicoli Decker, canon

Legal Briefs by Karen Stivali (Exposed: A Romance Anthology) (Romance) - Michael, canon

The Life and Times of Angel Evans by Meredith Debonnaire (Fantasy, Short Story) - Angel Evans, canon

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (YA) - Rafaela, canon

Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee (Fantasy) - Loki, canon

London, Actually by Clare Lydon (Romance) - Tracey, canon

Looking For Group by Rory Harrison (YA) - Arden, implied/hinted

Lost and Found by J. Holland (Fantasy, Romace) - Nerissa, canon

Lucky by Garrett Leigh (Contemporary, Romance) - Lucky, canon

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series by Rick Riordan (Fantasy) - Magnus Chase, canon

Making Love by Aiden Wayne (Fantasy, Romance) - Leeta, implied/hinted

The Mark of Noba series by G.L. Tomas (Fantasy) - Tetra and Sterling, canon

The Melody of Me and You by M. Hollis (NA) - Chris Morrison, canon

The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen (Fantasy, YA) - Tavin, canon

The Midnight Twelve by Hairann (Historical Fiction, Romance) - Ezra, canon

Miles Away From You by A.B. Rutledge (YA) - Miles, canon

Millenium series by Stieg Larsson (Mystery) - Lisbeth, implied/hinted

Moon Illusion by Michelle Osgood (Paranormal) - Nathan, canon

The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare (Fantasy, Young Adult) - Lily Chen, canon

Mothmen by Kaelan Rhywiol (Adult Fiction, Erotica) - Jai, canon

Mr. March Names the Stars by Rivka Aarons-Hughes (Contemporary, Romance) - Nash, canon

My Fake Canadian Wife by M. Hollis (Romance) - Abby, canon

My Mate by Castiel Gutierrez (Fantasy, Romance) - Billie, canon

My Name is Ayla by Phetra H. Novak (Contemporary, Romance) - Peter, canon

Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter (Fantasy, YA) - Josh, canon

No Cure Required by Stefanie Simpson (Erotica, Romance) - Matt, canon

No More Heroes by Michelle Kan (Fantasy, YA) - Rehua, canon

Not the Marrying Kind by Jae (Romance) - Sasha, canon

Nothing Happened by Molly Booth (YA) - Hana, canon

Now a Major Motion Picture by Cori McCarthy (YA) - Shoshanna, canon

Of Kindred and Stardust by Archer Kay Leah (Sci-fi) - Dath, Kytzia, and Mack, canon

An Offering of Plums by J. Emery (Fantasy, Romance) - Tristan, canon

On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher (Romance) - Isla, canon

Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (Fantasy, YA) - Ari, canon

The Other Dress by Emmy Engbert (Romance, YA) - Izzy, canon

Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (YA) - Christa, canon

Out On Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler (NA) - Frankie Bellisario, canon

Outside The Lines by Caitlin Ricci (Contemporary) - Andy, canon

The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan (Fiction, YA) - Anais, implied/hinted

Paradise Lodge by Riina Y.T. (Romance) - Azariah, canon

The Permanent Collection by Megan Derr (Erotica, Fantasy) - Laurence, canon

Practice Makes Perfect by Kris Ripper (Erotica) - Paul, canon

Pretend Girlfriend by Lily Craig (Contemporary, Romance) - Lane, canon

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard (Mystery, YA) - Emily, implied/hinted

Pride & Joy by Saruuh Kelsey (Fantasy, NA) - Joy Mackenzie, canon

A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole (Adult, Romance) - Johan, canon

The Pros of Cons by Alison Cherry, Lindsay Ribar, and Michelle Schusterman (Contemporary, YA) - Soleil, canon

Prosperity by Alexis Hall (Fantasy, Steampunk) - Piccadilly, implied/hinted

The Purist by M. Crane Hana (Sci-Fi) - The Northwarden, canon

Pyre at the Eyreholme Trust by Lin Darrow (Fantasy, Romance) - Duke, canon

The Queen of Dauphine Street by Thea de Salle (Adult Fiction, Erotica, Romance) - Maddy, canon

A Quiet Night In by Jaylee James (Fantasy) - Dacian/Daycie, canon

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (Contemporary, YA) - Raine, canon

Reverb by Anna Zabo (Romance) - Mish, canon

Rites & Desires by Amanda Cherry (Fantasy) - Ruby Killingsworth, canon

Rogues of the Republic series by Patrick Weekes (Fantasy) - Ululenia, implied/hinted

The Royal Cleaner series by L.C. Lawson (Fantasy) - Caroline, canon

Run in the Blood by A.E. Ross (Fantasy) - Aela, canon

Sadie by Courtney Summers (Mystery, YA) - Sadie, implied/hinted

Scorpio Hates Virgo by Anyta Sunday (Romance) - Cal, canon

Secured and Free by Z. Allora (Erotica, Romance) - Xander, canon

Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate (YA) - Lucas McCallum, canon

Shadow Tales by L.J. Hamlin (Fantasy, Romance) - Joel, canon

Shape Shifters Chronicles by Lauren Jankowski (Urban Fantasy) - Dane, canon

Shifting Tides by Caitlin Ricci (YA) - Blaine, canon

Ship It by Britta Lundin (Contemporary, YA) - Tess, canon

Six of Crows series by Leigh Bardugo (Fantasy, YA) - Jesper Fahey, implied/hinted

Small Victories by Helene Dupres (Resist & Triumph Anthology) (2018) - Emma, canon

Smoke & Mirrors by Charlie Cochet (Fantasy, Romance) - Tony, canon

Soft on Soft by Mina Waheed (Contemporary, Romance) - June Bana, canon

Solitaire by Alice Oseman (YA) - Michael Holden, canon

A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin (Fantasy) - Oberyn Martell, implied/hinted

The Song of the Faerie Prince by Tay Laroi (Fantasy, YA) - Gia, canon

The Spider’s Web by Sophia Beaumont (Urban Fantasy)  - Micha, canon

Squared Away by Annabeth Albert (Romance) - Mark, implied/hinted

Start Here antholgy edited by Brigitte Bautista and Ronald S. Lim (Romance) - Gorgeous, canon

A Stranger Sort of Fairy Tale by Cherry Pickett (Fantasy) - Tarquin, canon

Superheroes Anonymous series by Lexie Dunne (Fantasy) - Portia, canon

Sweet Revenge series by Elliot Junkyard (Dieselpunk) - Ezekial, canon

Syncopation by Anna Zabo (Romance) - Zavier, canon

Texture Like Sun by Ils Greyhart (Fantasy, Romance) - Character, canon

Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West (Contemporary, Romance) - Ernest, canon

There Will Be Phlogiston by Alexis Hall (Fantasy, Steampunk) - Anstruther Jones, canon

Third Rail by Santino Hassell (Romance) - Chris, implied/hinted

The Tiger’s Watch by Julia Ember (Fantasy, YA) - Tashi, canon

Tight Quarters by Annabeth Albert (Romance) - Bacon, canon

Timekeeper by Tara Sim (Fantasy, Steampunk, YA) - Colton, canon

To Terminator, With Love by Wes Kennedy (Romance, Sci-fi) - Andre, canon

Tongue & Groove by Shae Connor (Romance) - Saul Wilder, canon

Tow Trucks & New Year’s Kisses by Lila Leigh Hunter (Romance) - Scott, canon

Translucid by Zen DiPietro (Sci-Fi) - Emé, canon

Triad Blood by Nathan Burgoine (Fantasy) - Matthew, canon

Trick or Treat by Sydney Blackburn (Romance) - Drew, canon

Trident Chronicles by C.M. Spivey (Fantasy) - Theodor, canon

Tybalt Perdition by John Cordial (Fantasy) - Reynardine, canon

Unbroken by Brooklyn Ray (Fantasy, Romance) - Victor, canon

Under Dark Sky Law by Tamara Boyens (Sci-Fi) - Xero, canon

Undertow by Brooklyn Ray (Fantasy) - Liam, canon

An Unsuitable Heir by K.J. Charles (Historical, Romance) - Mark, canon

Until Lambs Become Lions series by Charlotte Anne Hamilton (Fantasy, Romance) - Allan-A-Dale, canon

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli (YA) - Mina, canon

Vampire Sorority Sisters by Rebekah Weatherspoon (Paranormal, Romance) - Characters, canon

Velvet Claw by L.J. Hamlin (Fantasy, Romance) - Evan, canon

Victorian Mistress series by Jesse Stuart (Fantasy, Romance) - Josef, canon

Wander This World by G.L. Tomas (NA, Paranormal) - Melanie Blue, canon

Wanna Bet? by Talia Hibbert (Contemporary, Romance) - Jasmine, canon

Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire (Fantasy, YA) - Eleanor and Jack, canon

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson (YA, Sci-Fi) - Diego Vega, implied/hinted

We are the Catalyst by Tash McAdam (Sci-Fi) - Epsilon 17, canon

Werebears and Water by Caitlin Ricci (Erotica, Fantasy, NA) - Rayce and Vince, canon

Who’d Have Thought by G. Benson (Romance) - Hayden, canon

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas (Contemporary, YA) - Gus, canon

The Wind City by Summer Wigmore (Urban Fantasy) - Saint, canon

Wriggle & Sparkle by Megan Derr (Fantasy, Paranormal) - Anderson, implied/hinted

Your Heart Will Grow by Chace Verity (Fantasy, NA) - Kelpana, canon

  New message from little Flint Princess!

Yes, they really are that big a deal. Here’s some supporting evidence as to why:

What is old-growth forest?

How much old growth remains in the U.S.?

Study finds old-growth forest burns slower and cooler, preserving habitat

Importance of Old-Growth Forests: Carbon Capture Potential Grows With Age

I love visiting old-growth forests, but I can’t help but get a bit depressed when I have to return to my car and drive through much larger areas that have been logged and subsequently either turned into glorified tree farms, developments, or are struggling to regain some balance in forest succession while also dealing with invasive plant species. There’s nowhere in the lower 48 where I can walk for days through ancient forests that have only experienced minimal interference by humans. While I know that indigenous people have spent centuries, if not millennia, managing their traditional lands, their impact has largely been small compared to that of Americans in the past two centuries.

It’s true that some native species actually thrive better on disturbed land, such as that damaged by periodic forest fires or wind storms. But we have turned so much land into disturbed land, and, worst, heavily developed land, that the balance of ecosystems has been lost. The patchwork of disturbed, recovering, and old growth habitats that evolved over many millennia has been replaced by a human-dominated landscape which is unfit for many species, most especially those adapted to old-growth. This means that it’s even more crucial than ever that we preserve the fragments that remain, both to help the beings that live there as well as there genetic heritage, and to increase our understanding of the intricacy of these increasingly rare habitats.

On a different note, I recognize that not all the species in the sixth panel are found in the same places, but for purposes of illustration please suspend your ecological disbelief for a moment.