Meandering Muse

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

Please note the comment period is open through JULY 13th, not JUNE 13th. I saw a lot of relogs yesterday saying "last day!" and I just want to say it is very much not too late.

As of today, 7/8/26, we have five days for public commentary on this to go through. I am begging y'all: if you care about independent science in the country that produces the most global science funding in the world, please leave a comment.

Biggest fuck-up ever is that people have to pay to become doctors

Like unironically we should be subsidising at least 50% of their educations. What do you mean we have a shortage of doctors we should have surplus. What do you mean they’re being overworked they should be treated like royalty, they can fix human bodies

I don’t care if some of them are only doing it for the money. I don’t care if all of them are only doing it for the money. Intentions don’t matter to the stitches in my nana’s leg or the ten billion other lifesaving treatments we all get at a detriment to their finances and mental wellbeing. Entire cities are kept alive by just a couple thousand of them what are we DOINGGGGG

If we had more, maybe it would be easier to get the shitty ones fucking replaced. The board isn't going to do much to the only endocrinologist in the state who takes Medicaid, you know? But if there were more than, idk, maybe 5? Maybe then?

I think Graham Chapman, the 4th man to join the scene, being gay and being a member of Monty Python is worth noting. He had a partner, David Sherlock, and was publicly open with his homosexuality as early as 1972. I just think it makes a difference in how Monty Python treated queerness in sketches when one of their members, their good friends and collaborators, is himself gay.

wwx's reaction to being alive again is so funny he is like: i did not sign up for this. i will use this chance to have all the fun i couldn't have in my past life since everyone already thinks im out of my mind. i am a court jester. i am the most traumatized person alive. i am a powerful, vengeful spirit summoned to take lives no please don't call my ex you guys this is so embarassing. i've been adopted by a bunch of teenagers.

yeah past negative events have changed your brain chemistry, you know what else changes your brain chemistry? doing new things in the present

If the brain chemistry could change for worse, it can change for the better

#when you’re so mean to your boyfriend that even jiang cheng is like#HARSH#like he’s your boyfriend if you’ve decided you don’t like him anymore he’s trash now#but you know#trash that had been making himself useful! (via @winepresswrath)

#jc has spent the last three months on an extended painfully awkward road trip with this guy because you supposedly love him #(god the things jc will do for his siblings) #and now you’re kicking him to the curb in the coldest possible way? okay jc can do that he can make that turn on a dime for you #he’ll cut lwj out of all your pictures for you later and help you make a tinder profile for your rebound #but yikes this is a really awkward end to a really awkward road trip for the brother that’s been making nice with your bf for 3 months #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #they’re brothers. they are BROTHERS #the untamed #gif (howdydowdy with the ID scratching tags of perfection here)

#that’s the thing about jc. he doesn’t let people in to the family very easily and he’s very protective of the family he already has#but once you prove that you’re serious about one of his siblings and that you make them happy he is on board!#so like at this point he and lwj have a very awkward rapport but they do have a rapport and jc accepts him#and then bam wwx comes along and is like ‘eject him from the family shaped chamber of your heart into which#you begrudgingly admitted him. strike his name from the family registry you keep inscribed upon your soul. this guy is old news’#and jc is like damn okay bro i will do that right away and i will not make an uncomfortable conciliatory face at him#in recognition of all he has done for us even though there’s a part of me that really wants to more tags via @howdydowdy because i love them.

#jiang cheng being perpetually doomed to resign himself to brothers-in-law at the worst possible moment is near and dear to my heart #i’m very fond of the idea that he was just coming around on zixuan when he died #like obviously ugh zixuan #but also he put a ring on it making him Officially Family #he is clearly tolerating yanli and jiang cheng’s codependence with relatively good grace #he contributed to jin ling’s existence which i think would constitute a redeeming feature all on its own #and he’s also trying to help bring wwx home! that’s huge. in the days immediately preceding zixuan’s death his stock is at an all time high #likewise lan wangji is helping jiang cheng find his brother! jiang cheng gets to a place where he comes perilously close to admitting he’s #very worried out loud! and it’s jiang cheng that’s not nothing #and then wwx is like nope he’s an untrustworthy outsider we don’t like him and we make sure he knows it #and jiang cheng is very much like well much as it is not for me to say if zixuan is forgiven #it is not for me to say if lan wangji has rights #but signs are pointing to no #also no really you don’t tell him where to go or step an inch more into his personal space than he wants you to be #like in private he might be all hey so you actually seem pretty fucked up about this are you sure it’s worth fighting with him about it? #but if lwj is in the room an internal jiang matter is an internal jiang matter and if wwx decides he gets the zixun treatment that’s it #he’s functionally zixun now #thanks for the three months of frantic searching and shared worry and misery! (via winepresswrath)

”getting thicker skin” is great in theory but I think for some people “get better at handling your thin skin” is gonna be way more helpful advice. I have strong emotional reactions to criticism and they might never go away, but i can continue to try and handle each situation maturely and that’s the important part. Sometimes irrational feelings are chronic and living with them is better than trying to beat yourself up into not having them.

This is great advice because it still recognizes that "handle the situation maturely" still needs to be the endgame.