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When life gives you lemons be like âwow this fic is really oldâ

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Harry: I named him Albus Severus
Draco: You named our little dog, what!?
Harry: He's very brave like they were
Draco: His name is Cotton because he's white and soft. And you're banned of naming anything from now on
Woosung in FACE (2019).
I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like âyeh but itâs not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!â
and Iâm like âŚ.???? Thatâs the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they donât have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people donât put off going to the doctor because theyâre scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?
âSo no one has to be turned awayâ she says hahaha go to a universal health care country and get a necessary operation in less than a few years and come back and talk shit.
Look at the cure rates compared to mortality rates in universal health care countries and compare them to ours, then talk shit.
Tear your ACL in a universal health care country and see what the people say if you should go to their hospitals or go to an American hospital, then talk shit.
2010. Iâd been feeling a bit ill. Work was going nuts, so I figured it was stress. Â Pretty good call considering a week later work fired their entire IT department (of which I was part). Â Â
But then I got sicker. Â And it turned out I had cancer.
Burkittâs lymphoma, stage 4a. It had spread into my brain and spinal column. 90% cure rate, but I needed nine months of chemo - and not the outpatient chemo, nope, talking multiple week stays per round of the magrath protocol. Â Drugs were about 10k an IV bag. Â I was unemployed. Â And there were complications.
Thankfully I live in a country with universal healthcare.  And it didnât cost me a goddamn cent to save my life.  Iâm now officially past the five year mark to move me from âremissionâ to âCuredâ.
Iâve lived in a universal healthcare country my entire life. And Iâve seen the US system in action. Â Your system is fucked. Straight up fucked. Youâve got fucking Dickensian shit going on there, people dying on streets from preventable causes or ending up broke for breaking a hip. Â Your health insurance companies have you by the balls and people like you are begging them to squeeze harder. Â What the actual fuck is wrong with you?Â
âBut but but TAXESSSSSSSSSâ
yeah no shit. That story above? Happened when I was 32.  Iâd spent 14 years of my life paying those fucking taxes that funded the system that saved my life.   And guess what?  Now Iâm cured, IâmâŚBack..at work..And have been for several yearsâŚearning waaaay more money and paying back into the system. This shit doesnât exist in a vacuum, dickhead.  Youâre not feeding some imaginary pack of leeches, youâre paying forward on your own damned healthcare so you donât have to argue with an insurance company while trying to heal.Â
i also donât get why americans canât wrap their heads around the fact that universal healthcare is actually cheaper
like yeah your taxes might go up (hell, take a chunk out of the military budget, they might not even change) but you wonât have to pay ridiculous health insurance premiums. itâs a net saving, dumbasses.Â
Also I care about people that arenât me
Also I care about people that arenât me
the only people I have ever known who voluntarily went to an American hospital instead of a Scandinavian one (Scandinavian hospitals being all universal healthcare), was my big brotherâs family who have a son with a heart condition. Theyâre Icelandic. Iceland, with a population of about 300.000 people, does not have a specialised childrenâs hospital so the surgery they needed for their child just wasnât available in the country - not uncommon, so what the Icelandic health care system does in those cases is pay for the surgery to take place abroad in a hospital with doctors who can perform the surgery. So they decided to go to America (Iceland paid) to some hotshot childrenâs hospital to get surgery for their baby, and they had to wait 4 months for this vital and urgent surgery even though it was paid for up front. In your so-called amazing American hospital. For comparison, the same kind of surgery here in Denmark is actually urgent, so the child has to wait 2 days tops to get the damn surgery.
So miss me with that âwaiting time of a couple of yearsâ bullshit. Thatâs not a thing.
âBut youâll have to waitâ â we still have to wait if weâre not rich. At least I wonât be bankrupt by the end of it.Â
I just want to add : my mum is currently IN hospital. She fell out of her wheelchair and broke both her legs (one in 4 places and the other a smaller fracture) sheâs got pretty much everything wrong with her. Sheâs been in hospital for a month already. Sheâll be there for at least another 2 to 4 monthsâŚ
Sheâs oxygen dependant. Sheâs on more meds than I can count. Sheâs completely bed bound. She gets weekly chest x-rays because of her copd and degenerative heart disease. They canât operate because of this so each week they replace her casts, take more x-rays. She ended up in medical high dependency for a week, with 4 personal nurses. Sheâs in a side room because she has antibiotic resistant mrsa. She requires round the clock care.
And itâs all free.
Donât come to me with your âwait a few years for your health careâ.
Do you even know how much that would cost?! I donât even want to think.

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Something Iâve never noticed before:
Snape not only deflects McGonagallâs attack but uses it to take down Alecto and Amycus in a single armwave behind his visual field. Like they both had their wands out too but BOY they did not see that coming. Snape knew that he needed to get rid of them before being driven out of the castle so that they wouldnât harm any of the students GOD what a badass motherfuckerÂ
I canât
I think everyoneâs been so focused on hating/defending Snape, that we forget just what a motherfucking GENIUS he was (which honestly explains most of his whole attitude). The man literally rewrote the best textbook on potion making written in over a century WHEN HE WAS FUCKING 16 YEARS OLD.
Could you imagine going to your AP Chem teacher when you were in 10th grade and going ânah man, your way is ok I guess but thereâs like 5 other ways to perform this titration faster and more accurately.â Because thatâs pretty much what he did with the notes in HBP.
So it should be no surprise that someone of that level of intellect, who was bullied and harassed from the time their ability presented, would be a goddamn MASTER in duel-combat. You can bet your ass heâd studied that almost more than anything else. He was a master Occlumens (mental self defense and evasion), a master of Potions, a master of any and all forms of strategy, defense, combat, etc, BECAUSE HE FELT LIKE HE HAD TO BE JUST TO STAY SAFE. Why else would a flaming 16 year old come up with something like Sectumsempra? Itâs def not a Potion! Itâs a self defense spell of last resort. Itâs fucking LETHAL. So we can assume he was heavy into combat spells and practice by that point, and given his intellect, would have had virtually unrestricted access to any books on any subject he wanted.
Love him or hate him, Snape was one HELL of a beautifully complex character, with just enough spelled out to keep us filling in the blanks for years.
I saw this post a few years ago on Instagram and ITâS BACK
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Hi, Iâm sorry I know Iâm really out of the blue with everything but like I donât know very much about bdsm let alone sex in general (Thank you American Public School Health classes) and I was wondering if you could explain like, well anything? (Sorry again for the random out of the blue ask, you can ignore if you want)
Hi anon. I was out doing some shopping when you sent in this ask, and I wanted to stew over it before I responded. Because in all honesty, this is an amazing ask. Iâve had a few people (between yesterday and today) discover a something new about themselves, or become curious about things Iâve talked about, or @shadowprince27 has talked about. The beautiful thing about all of this is most of us are pretty open and happy to share our experiences, or at least - what we know.
So, the anything part is really open and Iâm not sure what youâd like more information on, without doing a whole thing and spending three years writing a dissertation on kink. (Which now I totally want to do..!) But Iâll go over some of the basics and maybe leave you a few references to look at. Iâd also say, if you feel comfortable enough - Iâd be happy to answer any questions you have via private dm as well. Especially if you have any further/specific questions.
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Please write stories that are problematic.Â
Stories need conflict.
Write them to show whatâs healthy. Write them to show whatâs unhealthy.
Write them because problematic behaviors exists, and writing is a medium to explore and showâ to teach and make the reader think. Shying away from these topics only creates ignorance.Â
I see so many people telling writers to avoid anything that could be problematic, like writing about it is supporting it. They fail to see the importance of writing with depth and meaning.Â
Writing has always been about conveying thoughts and ideas without fear of censorship. Being able to present problematic situations in a healthy way is important.Â
Once more for the people in the back
Okay, but what about writing problematic situations in unhealthy ways? Iâm very bothered by this stipulation that seems to assert that we should even be trying to convey healthy messages in the first place, whether there is problematic content or not. Writing is art, not a public service announcement. If everyone wrote problematic situations only in healthy ways, there would be noâ Lolitaâ, which is arguably one of the most well-written novels of at least the 20th century if not ever. Itâs the most problematic thing written from the most problematic pov ever, and itâs fucking ART. The people who call that book a romance have a very limited idea of what this book even is. Itâs uncomfortable as fuck. The only person for whom this is a romance is the narrator, Humbert, who is a monster. But are we saying we can no longer write from the monsterâs point of view? And we have to be conveying what amounts to a good message? What about Flannery OâConnorâs âWise Bloodâ, in which there are practically no morally good characters in sight? I mean, yes, being able to present problematic situations in a healthy way is important. No doubt. But fiction is not always going to be message-driven in the first place, or at the very least those messages are complicated. Iâm much more comfortable with literature having themes than messages. Thereâs no moral boundary to theme. The theme can be âthe world is a cesspool, but art sometimes helps a little before we all die aloneâ. I donât want to be told what is good or bad by fiction. I want the artistic vision of the writer. Period.
My greatest concern for âpurity cultureâ, or âcancelingâ problematic fiction is that⌠someone has to be the judge of what âproblematicâ means.
This corner of fandom may be large in numbers, but itâs fairly homogeneous when it comes to political stance and views on social justice issues. We more-or-less have a consensus of what it means by problematic. The argument is: whether it should exist in literature.
It doesnât have to be that way â no, I think itâd be fair to say, it wonât be that way â if this âpurity cultureâ permeates into real life. Pull the lens a little further, there will be people who find the whole fandom problematic: first, because the source material is problematic, then, because why are you people wasting your life away fantasizing over fictional characters? problematic. Pull that lens a further still, there will be people who want to cancel problematic LGBT+ population, cancel the even more problematic âkill the industryâ millennials, cancel the most problematic non-God loving folksâŚ
When purity culture becomes real, chances are, the fandom people who currently wish for it most will not get to decide what is purity. When purity culture becomes real, it will become yet another tool for those the rich and powerful to manipulate culture in their favour. One may say, morals are non-negotiable, but so say the people who want to cancel us all. And because purity has no written laws and requires no consensus to define, itâs a convenient tool for stifling the voices of opposition because its very definition can be shifted from one day to the next, depending on whose voice the powers that be want to silence.Â
And when that happens, what can the people who advocated it in the first place say or do to fight against that? Purity culture may be benign in concept, but its slippery slope can easily lead to censorship culture, and censorshipâIâd like to say a little more about thisâis more than having fewer books to read. Censorship is a way of life. Itâs about having to watch every word you sayâyou may be telling a joke but it doesnât matter, because a joke is fiction, and fiction, in the logic of purity culture, reflects who you are. Censorship is about agonizing over everything you write to make sure it allows zero room for misinterpretation. For many, itâll eventually mean saying, writing nothing. For others, itâll mean expressing themselves in the flattest, most sloganish, least romantic / imaginative way possible (example: Soviet âComradeâ style language). This is not an environment any artistic mind, âproblematicâ or not, can thrive in.Â

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tropes that will always f*ck me up
composed characters losing their composure
kind characters snapping
characters hugging each other after one or both of them have been through hell
character cradling their significant otherâs face while they kiss
character says something hurtful. later on in the movie they are in a similar situation and say something kind instead.
self sacrifice
griefstricken women (who under normal circumstances wouldnât hurt a fly) lashing out and striking the person responsible for the loss of their loved one
ugly crying
characters struggling to talk because theyâre about to cry
characters reuniting with someone whom they thought were dead
FOREHEAD KISSES
F O R E H E A DÂ Â Â T O U C H E S
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did nasa just forget bi and lesbians exist or did they ask them beforehand..would they thatâŚi just..what..
its because they donât want people getting pregnant on space missions, the article is badly written scissoring in space is to be expected and respected
scissoring in space is to be expected and respected
i just heard my mum say âyou are very naughtyâ and then a meow and then another softer âokay but next time there will be consequencesâ and then another meow and then a âyouâre right probably notâÂ
I havE WAITED MY ENTIRE LIFE TO SEE SOMEONE ACTUALLY TRY THIS HOLY SHIT
he was a skater cat she said âsee you later catâ meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow
Why is this so funny

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my night manager (who is a gay man) and i sometimes sit down and exchange stories and tidbits about our sexuality and our experiences in the queer cultural enclave. and tonight he and i were talking about the AIDS epidemic. heâs about 50 years old. talking to him about it really hit me hard. like, at one point i commented, âyeah, iâve heard that every gay person who lived through the epidemic knew at least 2 or 3 people who died,â and he was like â2 or 3? if you went to any bar in manhattan from 1980 to 1990, you knew at least two or three dozen. and if you worked at gay menâs health crisis, you knew hundreds.â and he just listed off so many of his friends who died from it, people who he knew personally and for years. and he even said he has no idea how he made it out alive.
it was really interesting because he said before the aids epidemic, being gay was almost cool. like, it was really becoming accepted. but aids forced everyone back in the closet. it destroyed friendships, relationships, so many cultural centers closed down over it. it basically obliterated all of the progress that queer people had made in the past 50 years.
and like, itâs weird to me, and what i brought to the conversation (i really couldnât say much though, i was speechless mostly) was like, itâs so weird to me that thereâs no continuity in our history? like, aids literally destroyed an entire generation of queer people and our culture. and when you think about it, we are really the first generation of queer people after the aids epidemic. but like, when does anyone our age (16-28 i guess?) ever really talk about aids in terms of the history of queer people? like itâs almost totally forgotten. but it was so huge. imagine that. like, dozens of your friends just dropping dead around you, and you had no idea why, no idea how, and no idea if you would be the next person to die. and it wasnât a quick death. you would waste away for months and become emaciated and then, eventually, die. and i know itâs kinda sophomoric to suggest this, but like, imagine that happening today with blogs and the internet? like people would just disappear off your tumblr, facebook, instagram, etc. and eventually youâd find out from someone âoh yeah, they and four of their friends died from aids.â
so idk. it was really moving to hear it from someone who experienced it firsthand. and thatâs the outrageous thing - every queer person you meet over the age of, what, 40? has a story to tell about aids. every time you see a queer person over the age of 40, you know they had friends who died of aids. so idk, i feel like we as the first generation of queer people coming out of the epidemic really have a responsibility to do justice to the history of aids, and we havenât been doing a very good job of it.
Younger than 40.
Iâm 36. I came out in 1995, 20 years ago. My girlfriend and I started volunteering at the local AIDS support agency, basically just to meet gay adults and meet people who maybe had it together a little better than our classmates. The antiretrovirals were out by then, but all they were doing yet was slowing things down. AIDS was still a death sentence.
The agency had a bunch of different services, and we did a lot of things helping out there, from bagging up canned goods from a food drive to sorting condoms by expiration date to peer safer sex education. But we both sewed, so⌠we both ended up helping people with Quilt panels for their beloved dead.
Do the young queers coming up know about the Quilt? If you want history, my darlings, there it is. They started it in 1985. When someone died, his loved ones would get together and make a quilt panel, 3âx6â, the size of a grave. They were works of art, many of them. Even the simplest, just pieces of fabric with messages of loved scrawled in permanent ink, were so beautiful and so sad.
They sewed them together in groups of 8 to form a panel. By the 90s, huge chunks of it were traveling the country all the time. Theyâd get an exhibition hall or a gym or park or whatever in your area, and lay out the blocks, all over the ground with paths between them, so you could walk around and see them. And at all times, there was someone reading. Reading off the names of the dead. There was this huge long list, of people whose names were in the Quilt, and people would volunteer to just read them aloud in shifts.
HIV- people would come in to work on panels, too, of course, but most of the people we were helping were dying themselves. The first time someone Iâd worked closely with died, it was my first semester away at college. I caught the Greyhound home for his funeral in the beautiful, tiny, old church in the old downtown, with the bells. Iâd helped him with his partnerâs panel. Before I went back to school, I left supplies to be used for his, since I couldnât be there to sew a stitch. I lost track of a lot of the people I knew there, busy with college and then plunged into my first really serious depressive cycle. I have no idea who, of all the people I knew, lived for how long.
The Quilt, by the way, weighs more than 54 tons, and has over 96,000 names. At that, it represents maybe 20% of the people who died of AIDS in the US alone.
There were many trans women dying, too, btw. Donât forget them. (Cis queer women did die of AIDS, too, but in far smaller numbers.) Life was and is incredibly hard for trans women, especially TWOC. Pushed out to live on the streets young, or unable to get legal work, they were (and are) often forced into sex work of the most dangerous kinds, a really good way to get HIV at the time. Those for whom life was not quite so bad often found homes in the gay community, if they were attracted to men, and identified as drag queens, often for years before transitioning. In that situation, they were at the same risk for the virus as cis gay men.
Cis queer women, while at a much lower risk on a sexual vector, were there, too. Helping. Most of the case workers at that agency and every agency I later encountered were queer women. Queer woman cooked and cleaned and cared for the dying, and for the survivors. We held hands with those waiting for their test results. Went out on the protests, helped friends who could barely move to lie down on the steps of the hospitals that would not take them in â those were the original Die-Ins, btw, people who were literally lying down to die rather than move, who meant to die right there out in public â marched, carted the Quilt panels from place to place. Whatever our friends and brothers needed. We did what we could.
OK, thatâs it, thatâs all I can write. I keep crying. Go read some history. Or watch it, there are several good documentaries out there. Donât watch fictional movies, donât read or watch anything done by straight people, fuck them anyway, they always made it about the tragedy and noble suffering. Fuck that. Learn about the terror and the anger and the radicalism and the raw, naked grief.
I was there, though, for a tiny piece of it. And even that tiny piece of it left its stamp on me. Deep.
2011
A visual aid: this is the Quilt from the Names Project laid out on the Washington Mall
I was born (in Australia) at the time that the first AIDS cases began to surface in the US. While I was a witness after it finally became mainstream news (mid-85), I was also a child for much of it. For me there was never really a world Before. Iâm 35 now and I wanted to know and understand what happened. I have some recommendations for sources from what Iâve been reading lately:
And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts is a seminal work on the history of HIV/AIDS. Itâs chronological and gives an essential understanding of all the factors that contributed to the specific history of the virusâ spread through the US and the rest of the world, the political landscape into which it landed (almost the worst possible)*. Investigative journalism and eyewitness account. Shilts was himself an AIDS casualty in 1994.
AIDS at 30: A History by Victoria Harden
The Origin of AIDS by Jaques Pepin for the science of it all.
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UPâs Fight against AIDS.
The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS and Black America.
Larry Kramer is a pretty polarising figure and he had issues with the sexual politics of gay New York to begin with (see: Faggots) but heâs polarising for a reason: heâs the epidemicâs Cassandra. Reports from the Holocaust collects his writings on AIDS.
I donât think I can actually bring myself to read memoirs for the same reason I canât read about the Holocaust or Stalinist Russia any more. But I have a list:Â
The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience
The Quilt: Stories from the Names Project
Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival by Sean Strub
Borrowed Time: And AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette
Read or watch The Normal Heart. Read or watch Angels in America. Read The Mayor of Castro Street or watch Milk. Dallas Buyers Club has its issues but itâs also heartbreaking because the characters are exactly the politically unsavory people used to justify the lack of spending on research and treatment. Itâs also an important look at the exercise of agency by those afflicted and abandoned by their government/s, how they found their own ways to survive. Thereâs a film of And the Band Played On but JFC itâs a mess. You need to have read the book.
Some documentaries:
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) [hard to find]
How to Survive a Plague (2012)
We Were Here (2011)
Everyone should read about the history of the AIDS epidemic. Especially if you are American, especially if you are a gay American man. HIV/AIDS is not now the death sentence it once was but before antiretrovirals it was just that. It was long-incubating and a-symptomatic until, suddenly, it was not.
Read histories. Read them because reality is complex and histories attempt to elucidate that complexity. Read them because past is prologue and the past is always, in some form, present. We canât understand here and now if we donât know about then.
*there are just SO MANY people I want to punch in the throat.
Theyâve recently digitized the Quilt as well with a map making software, I spent about three hours looking through it the other day and crying. There are parts of it that look like they were signed by someoneâs peers in support and memoriam, and then you realize that the names were all written in the same writing.
That these were all names of over 20 dead people that someone knew, often it was people whoâd all been members of a club or threatre group.
Hereâs the link to the digitization: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/aidsquilt/
As well, there are numerous people who were buried in graves without headstones, having been disenfranchised from their families. I read this story the other day on that which went really in depth (I would warn that it highlights the efforts of a cishet woman throughout the crisis): http://arktimes.com/arkansas/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel/Content?oid=3602959
Iâve had several conversations recently with younger guys for whom this part of our history isnât well known. Here are some resources for y'all. Please, take care of one another.
http://www.aidsquilt.org/view-the-quilt/search-the-quilt
Updated link to the quilt
Young queers, know your history. We donât talk about this nearly as much as we should be.
do you ever look at someone and think âman, what a work of artâ
Harry talking to Ron about Draco
Harry + Ron in unison : still a bastard tho