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Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.

if i were to lose you

okay okay okay. hmm. there are two different directions this could go:

option one, of course, is necro stratt and cav grace. well, I say "cav" grace, he has genuinely quite good combat skills but he's never trained with a rapier, people just always assume he's her cavalier. then there's a bit of a "counterfactual where babs ate a bad clam and died" scenario where stratt's cavaliers primary and secondary both suddenly turn up dead, and she really really Needs to ascend, and now, like right now. and grace tries to say "uhh umm I don't know the rapier and you'll have a really bad time trying to assimilate my soul!!!" and she says "we'll have time to learn the rapier together as one after we don't get obliterated by cytherea the first, and no I won't, I know you too well and you won't actually let me get hurt." and then she becomes eva ryland, saint of light.

Well... Yes and no.

The last time Ryland Grace was CONSCIOUS of any human touch was when he was knocked out. Absolutely true.

But the last human contact he would have had was Yao and Ilyukhina. Who were told that he was scared about panicking during launch and asked to be sedated. Who did all the pre flight checks before the Hail Mary launched. Who would have carefully, gently carried Grace to his bed in the dormitory, made sure he was secure, and initiated his coma procedure.

There would have been love there. Remember Ilyukhina throwing her hands high and saying "welcome to crew!" Remember Yao saying how he hoped Grace would say yes. Remember how much the crew trusted Grace, Stratt's First Officer, the guy who helped them so much, and was so kind to them, and was the one who they entrusted their preferred methods of suicide to. Who thought they were wonderful and brave.

They would have tucked him in. Maybe brushed his hair out of his face. Maybe said something kind to him before initiating their own coma procedures.