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first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

okay but imagine how inconvenient the streets of Central City, Amestris, is. Like yeah yeah country wide alchemy circle aside- can you IMAGINE the traffic? Like for the Love of Truth can we add another lane on this road?? The cars are backed up for miles! The urban planning board must be the sorriest people in the world. They got no clue what an alchemist circle looks like BUT the Fuhrer keeps showing up for an ominous visit every time they try to get a modicum of reasonable city layout. The zoning laws have got to be pure evil.

The crest of blood in the center was carved over the course of multiple years via traffic fatalities

At that point who even needs a genocide.

guards! read me my bedtime yaoi

my liege if you keep having all of the guards come to your bedroom to read you bedtime stories, there will be no one to actually guard the castle during that time!

any intruders are welcome to join us for story time

my liege the enemies to lovers yaoi is affecting your perception of the danger of real enemies.

when will it be my turn.

holy fuck

happy one year to bedtime yaoi

i cannot emphasize enough how important it is that you should ideally give birth in a fully equipped and staffed medical facility or if you insist on giving birth through an alternative method you should be within minutes of a hospital and i mean under 5 minutes if you’d like me to be really fucking frank

like i can get on board with so much feminist theory and stuff, truly, and i do acknowledge that obstetrics and gynaecology as a field holds blind spots that are egregious (e.g. infant and maternal mortality in the black community) but there is no empowerment in risky birthing practices that our foremothers, and i’m not mincing words, often suffered through. birthing is natural, but it is not “easy” or even “innate”, it is best practiced guided and witnessed by those that know what to do in an emergency. you are not reconnecting to any innate feminine nature by practicing dangerous birthing practices—you are recreating a time when the bodies and lives of women barely mattered and it was expected that death would/could occur at insane and tragic rates.

this is a hill i will spend the rest of my days fighting on because while i am not interested in birthing children myself, i have an incredible passion and interest in the field of labour and delivery. it’s been one of my greatest joys to play even a small part in delivering neonates. i do not want anyone to risk their babies over a deeply, deeply misguided idea of free birth being “the natural way” when natural is not always synonymous with the safest way.

So many people think it's either midwife or doctor. It's not. Have your midwife or doula in the hospital room with you, I promise the doctors don't give a shit. Hell, you can have her do the delivery itself and just have the doctors there as emergency backup! But for the love of your baby, go to the fucking hospital.

yup. a lot of hospitals are willing to work with you to realize your birthing plan as much as they can within safe limits and parameters. my hospital is closely and highly allied with midwives all up and down the coast, with the explicit instruction to call the midwife when we know a labouring patient is about to deliver so we can respect their plan. genuinely, you can have almost any kind of birth you want—just make sure that there are qualified professionals in attendance, and it’s not just midwives or OBGYNS you need. you have no idea when you’ll need a respiratory therapist on call, you have no idea when you will need a blood transfusion within minutes or risk certain death, L&D nurses do not have the same training as NICU nurses if a baby declines rapidly. it’s a literal thousand things that can go wrong and you should be in the best place for them to go wrong.

Something I really like in obsession is how they made sure we knew Bear was a bad person, despite him not knowing himself that he was bad. Michael Johnston did a really great job at playing that role and he would've gotten more appreciation for it if his co-star was anyone but Inde Navarrette, because her performance was phenomenal. Bear was the villain of the movie, and I don't think "obsession" was how Nikki felt towards bear, but instead how obsessed Bear was with just the idea of Nikki. Even when the real Nikki begs Bear to kill her, he replies "What's so bad about being with me?". He didn't care about Nikki and her dreams, passions, or personality, he was obsessed with the idea of her. Every time he complimented her it was nothing personal, it was about her looks or how she made him feel, not about her as a person. He knew that the Nikki that loved him wasn't real, but he choose to be ignorant, he wasn't stupid or oblivious, he was evil. Even if Bear himself thought he was innocent or doing the right thing, it's obvious to us as the audience that he does not have good morals. In his last act of suicide to "set Nikki free" he's still selfish, he kills himself, removing him from the situation and leaving her in a complete mess with her best friends dead around her in a body that doesn't feel like her own anymore. Brilliant performances from both Inde Navarrette and Michael Johnston, their zero chemistry did wonders for the film.