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At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.

And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

CBC uncovered several more accounts with links to Pakistan, including a number of pages that appear to be part of a co-ordinated network. 

The Legacy Archives, with close to 9,000 followers, says on its profile it's dedicated to history and philosophy. Yet it frequently posts on Alberta separatist pages, often using highly emotional language.

According to Facebook's page transparency feature, the Legacy Archives is managed from Pakistan and the U.S., along with several other accounts that frequently post in separatist groups and appear linked.

CBC was able to link the Legacy Archives, Trend Top and History Addicted — which were also from Pakistan, with one page owner listed as being from the U.S. — because they are admins of a small Facebook group called Rise of Alberta.

This is a long one, so bear with me.

We first meet Cinderella in the village, which is BURSTING with color from the walls of the shops to the clothes of the villagers to the boxes Cinderella is holding.

Cinderella herself, though, almost stands out in the village in her browns and muted reds.

During “The Sweetest Sounds,” we see that the prince is also wearing those exact same colors during his “undercover” excursion into the village. They both are feeling trapped and are trying to blend in and settle for being someone they’re not, just in different ways.

Cinderella’s stepfamily, on the other hand, are wearing very brightly colored outfits. And when they get back from the village, we see that they live in a similarly brightly colored house. There’s brightly colored tiles on the walls of the stairs, all the furniture is brightly colored, there’s flowers and baubles and colorful feathers everywhere.

But during “In My Own Little Corner,” we see that the kitchen, where Cinderella spends most of her time and is most comfortable, is mainly browns and some muted reds. There’s a few greens spotted here and there in a fruit bowl and things like that, but you have to look for them. And Cinderella herself dresses in effectively the same colors, browns and muted reds/pinks. So she disappears into her kitchen haven but she stands out like a sore thumb in the brightly colorful areas of the rest of the house.

The palace meanwhile, is also colorful, though it tends more towards purple and rich dark reds to signify their royalty. The Prince will dress in purples to match his parents and be who they want him to be, despite how stifling he finds it.

The kitchen gains more colors during the reprise of “In My Own Little Corner” when Cinderella is once again attempting to retreat to her little haven where she pretends her life is tolerable, but her dreams of entering the real world and actually being able to be herself kept intruding on her. There’s even blue light coming in from outside when before the light was more yellow/orange, probably indicating the outside help of the Fairy Godmother that’s about to appear.

And of course, she only gets her beautiful blue ballgown after she decides to actually accept her godmother’s help and go to the ball. She moves from the brown kitchen to the colorful outside, proving she’s making the choice to go against orders and do something about what she wants. Her brown and red clothes are literally magicked away and turned into a resplendent colorful dress while surrounded by colorful flowers and the front of the house.

During the ball scene, the Prince is immediately recognizable in a white top, signifying how out of place and uncomfortable he is amongst a sea of blue and purple, people indistinguishable from each other, both to him and the audience.

The stepsisters clash with the Prince in their neon green and pink gowns, but Cinderella compliments him with her light blue gown, immediately matching the very subtle light blue vest he has on underneath his jacket. Cinderella and the Prince are able to stand out from the crowd and be themselves while still being PART of the ball. The stepsisters by contrast are playing a part their mother has told them to play and disrupt the entire ball to the point that when Cinderella arrives, several people have fallen to the floor in the commotion.

After the clock strikes midnight and Cinderella and the Prince are separated, we get THIS:

Warm and cold tones highlighting their differences. Cinderella is back in her browns, back to feeling like she has to hide herself away and can’t fit in, can’t find love or belonging. Her transformation into confidence was only temporary, she doesn’t truly believe yet fully that she can have what she wants. The Prince, however, is 100% there. He’s fully invested in Cinderella and finding love, he’s got the confidence now to go after what he wants, to be the kind of Prince HE wants to be and that starts with finding the woman of his dreams.

During “A Lovely Night” Cinderella, for the first time we’ve seen, tries to fit into the colorful house with her stepfamily, utilizing what’s left of her courage and confidence from earlier. And she nearly succeeds, but she’s still always in her brown rags, she never truly belongs with them, no matter how much she tries to keep convincing herself she does, no matter how hard she tries to honor her last promise to her father to stay together as a family, she does not belong there and never will.

She always gets overshadowed by her stepsisters and her stepmother. And after she’s shot down once again by her stepmother, she goes to her haven, where her stepsisters’ things are waiting for her to put away, the only spots of color in the room except for some blue light coming from the window. She immediately turns around and goes outside, to the world of color and possibilities, to finally say that she knows she deserves better and deserves to be loved and so she can’t stay here the way she promised her father. She doesn’t have any hope of being able to be with the Prince, but she’s gotten to the first step towards freedom.

Back at the palace, the Prince is now FULL of color, but instead of a bunch of purples and dark reds like his parents wear, he’s got a bright blue coat on.

He’s embracing his responsibility and his destiny, no longer pretending to be someone he’s not, but he’s also going to do it HIS way. He won’t settle for a half life.

And, of course, at the end, when Cinderella and the Prince are dressed all in white for their wedding day, everyone else dresses in white to match THEM, and the stepfamily is still dressed in full bright colors and now THEY’RE the ones who don’t fit in.

The color schemes in the film are leading us towards the message of the film that you can’t truly get what you want from the world until you actively go after it instead of just dreaming about it and accept who you are instead of trying to settle for being who someone else wants you to be.

the city of los angeles

the city of new york

sex

how drinking alcohol works

how getting high works

how a child of any age speaks

how nuclear physics work

how [my job] works

how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is

how hypothermia works

things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:

SHRIMP COCKTAIL:

banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol

generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is

#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro

And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!

POMEGRANATES:

zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple

thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute

sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.

FRUIT TREES:

zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''

salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE

baander: #cranberry trees

DOUGH/BATTER:

maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre

livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles

lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY

Some other topics:

I have a folder of these on my phone... I'm not sure what that says about me!