Dumbass On Main

a health policy paper has been published saying the name is officially updated to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)

polyendocrine= multiple endocrine factors

metabolic = affecting/affected by metabolism

ovarian = from the ovaries

essentially, instead of using the symptomatic term (many people with PMOS do not develop cysts) the new term widens the diagnostic area and makes it easier to diagnose, treat, and do research on people with PMOS (even atypical types, such as no cysts).

it may seem like a waste of time to change a name instead of focusing on research, but for a lot of medical professionals a name can be associated with a hard set collection of symptoms, so the name needs to change to acknowledge that the disorder is not well understood and has a broader, subtler, and often missed set of symptoms. for example ADD is considered an antiquated/unused term, and now comes under the ADHD umbrella. in healthcare names and terminology changes all the time, and this is a positive change. your local healthcare professional may not know about this unless theyre really up on the news though!

in case you want to read about the name change process that was published in the Lancet (one of the most impactful and well respected medical journals):

You get a Red-Bellied Piranha

Out of the entire cast they have the only visible racial minority be a guy who dies off screen. And they don’t even give him the grace of his character being featured on the merchandise (genuinely everybody’s character is on this poster bar Corey’s- despite the fact his character is suppose to show up within the tabletop game).

Idk man I feel as if they could have casted anybody else to play the dead friend role.

It’s the magical disabled trope (hilarious since the character is represented as a wizard) which is bad enough on its own. Add on the fact that he’s dead now it’s super ableist, and now they’ve cast the only black actor in the role to be dead the entire time. Add on not featuring him on any merch too. They’ve effectively made the only black and only disabled character a plot device. He would have been a ableist plot device regardless of casting but now they’ve just gone and made it even worse.

Out of the entire cast they have the only visible racial minority be a guy who dies off screen. And they don’t even give him the grace of his character being featured on the merchandise (genuinely everybody’s character is on this poster bar Corey’s- despite the fact his character is suppose to show up within the tabletop game).

Idk man I feel as if they could have casted anybody else to play the dead friend role.

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The Queen In White

I've been staring at this so long i can't decide if it's good or the worst thing I've ever made buuuut I've been thinking about Webby designs and you guys ever seen those little jumping spiders up close w the big round eyes and fuzzy bodies. Look at them. This is a Webby

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