My Mind Wanders After Midnight

i went to an art gallery for the first time yesterday and there was a long ass monkey on the floor and now i feel cursed

Signal boost. LOOK OUT FOR THIS BULLSHIT!

Introducing Gay Representation™ now in two original flavors: 1. Dead lesbian 2. White gay boy written 100% for the female demographic

This is great but it’s missing the 5th: character who is only revealed to be gay by the media’s creator outside of the canon and whose sexuality is never actually present in any capacity in the media

Thank u all for properly extending the Gay Representation Menu

finally my child can safely ram her fucking head into a doorknob this is what the future is all about what a time to be alive 

So, I looked in the comments, expecting to see discourse or historical background etc, but I found none. Therefore, I decided to learn more and add background. Apparently this machine was used because of polio because polio paralyzes your lungs. According to the wiki article on this bad boy, patients would spend two weeks in there sometimes. They still have these machines, though much, much more modern but they’re barely used at all anymore: “In 1959, there were 1,200 people using tank respirators in the United States, but by 2004 there were only 39. By 2014, there were only 10 people left with an iron lung.” (x)

You had to be tough to have some fun