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Blue: what are u trying to say

Yellow: (image of the Cleveland Clinic's Oral Allergy Syndrome article) go here

Blue: in the oral allergy syndrome information ?

Yellow: go in the OAS information

"No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe the woman who had to pee in a public park that only had pay toilets, so she tried to hide behind the bushes but got caught? Public urination is a sex crime.

"What? No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe you mean the homeless guy who had to strip down to get his clothes in the laundromat to clean them for the first time in weeks? He tried being subtle, but someone called the cops on him, and now he's on the sex offender registry for public nudity.

"Rapists and pedophiles! Kill rapists and pedophiles!"

Oh, like the trans woman who got called a pedophile groomer for helping a trans kid escape her abusive parents?

Or maybe the black man who got labeled a rapist because he came on to another man's wife, and he decided to get back at him by charging him with rape?

How about the 17 year olds who were fooling around, fully consensually, in one of their bedrooms? That's still technically underage sex and thus rape of a minor.

Oh, or maybe you're talking about the doctor who performed genital reconstructive surgery in a state that just voted to get that classified as rape?

People will do everything they can to get you convinced rape and pedophilia are the worst crimes possible, then accuse whoever they like the least of being either a rapist, a pedophile, or both, counting on you turning on them just for being accused of the crime.

"Oh, so you're saying you don't want to kill a serial rapist?"

That's exactly what I'm goddamn saying.

Once we decide a group is okay to kill, the government will do everything they can to convince you that their political enemies are either part of that group, or just as bad as that group, to get you to kill their enemies for them.

The only way out is to accept every life as worth saving.

EDIT: If you're going to go on this post to say that no, you think you really should be allowed to kill people you decide are rapists and/or pedophiles, I'm going to block you. I have already been blocking you, because it's clear that you aren't willing to engage with what I'm saying.

Also, if someone says something like that we'd be better off with rapists being dead BUT that they won't let that opinion shape their stance on public policy, and you reply to that person to accuse them of wanting to murder people, I'm also going to block you, because what the fuck that's a completely different sentence.

EDIT 2: Since so many people seem to fail basic reading comprehension, let's state it again, in different words:

1. Killing people is bad.

2. Killing someone can never be undone by any means we have.

3. If the government can kill people, they will want to kill their political opposition and other undesirables (WHICH CAN INCLUDE YOU PERSONALLY AND ANY IF NOT ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY).

4. If there is a class of people OF ANY TYPE who the government can LEGALLY KILL, they now just need to convince you their enemies count as that class (ever wondered why there's so much emphasis on claiming gay people are pedophiles? Now you know!)

5. If there is a class of people OF ANY TYPE that the public can LEGALLY KILL, murderers just need to convince people that their victims counted as that class (I murdered him because he's a rapist. Anyway now his job is free promote me into that position plz.)

6. As pointed out in the notes (thank you everyone pointing this out!), if the penalty for a crime is death, people are much more willing to silence witnesses to that crime (for example, murdering their rape victims), which is EVEN WORSE than just committing the initial crime.

yeah dude vampires are made up and the whole “vampires couldn’t see their reflections in antique mirrors because of the silver backing” is made up so you can combine those however you want for fun.

but you can’t say “the Victorians believed vampires couldn’t see themselves in mirrors because of the silver backing, which is why Dracula has no reflection,”

because the author of Dracula was a real man who never said that and the Victorians were real people of a real era and you can’t just make up things about real people because it’s important historically for us to understand what people believed about the world and why.

Making up facts about vampires is folklore & literature. Claiming random people in the past believed that, with no evidence, is just lying.

Fun, modern take on witches in classic literature.

“In the 16th century, eye of newt was code for mustard seed, and witches used it to disguise their spells. Shakespeare knew this code and used it in Macbeth.”

2. they're going to favor their sighted side, obviously, but it doesn't always manifest in the way you think. when I walk down a hall I walk much closer to the wall on my sighted side than on my blind side. which is the opposite of how it might seem logical to do that bc it means the world at large is on your bad side, but the reason is I can't fucking See the wall if it's right next to me in the blind side and I end up knocking into it.

3. door frames and poles are my enemy. If your character is smart this will not be a problem but for me it is. I am King of walking into shit I could absolutely see but couldn't tell how far away from me it was. on this note, their blind side hand is getting bashed into every jutting out thing in a 5 mile radius.

4. having 0 depth perception is less of a big deal than you'd think it is. Especially with driving. I've become a Much safer and more wary driver because I can't tell how far the other cars are from me. however I fucking suck at parking now. because I can't tell how far the lines are from me either.

5. you know how people who lose limbs get phantom pains? that happens with eyes too but like. phantom sights. for me it's like. a lot of bugs. like every so often my brain will just put something suddenly skittering beside me there. hate that.

6. it is completely possible to "get stuck" somewhere because your ability to tell how wide a space is is just Gone. shopping isles especially where bumping something or Someone is matter of embarrassment or potentially breaking something. it can be legitimately paralyzing and also irritate everyone around you because they can tell there is Plenty of space for you to get your cart through even if you can't.

OP I've been missing my eye for 18 years and because of you I'm just now noticing that my neck does in fact list left. Now I will live with that knowledge forever.

1) depth perception issues are more severe if you lose the eye on the same side as your dominant hand. I lost my left eye and am right handed, and only have problems with close-up things. Like pouring water or threading a needle. Sometimes putting the pump in for gas. Walking down stairs is a huge problem I have (walking up is fine), but unlike OP I don't have issues with doorways. Depth perception is different for everyone

2) I've completely lost my eye and need to wear eye patches, no fake eye here. People like me do still rub their "eyes." We also usually say "eyes" and "contacts." Except for comedic effect

It Is As If You Were Making Love is a bizarre little game in which you move your computer’s slider to bring it to climax (after all those visits to PronHub it’s probably the least you can do for your computer!)

I feel for Lio this is a bit more difficult to pin down, but for Galo it’s pretty clear. When Galo sees Lio in that cave–caring for his people, talking passionately about their fire and their desire to just survive, there’s a definite tonal shift in their relationship. Galo makes a joke in poor taste when he sees the Burnish actually eating food, and Lio is visibly affected by that. If I recall, in the sub he says something like, “What do you think we are? If we don’t eat, we die. We Burnish are human too.” And that strikes a cord with Galo; he realizes how insensitive he was and apologizes immediately.

In this scene, I think it’s also worth noting that Lio calls him Galo Thymos–he remembered Galo’s full name, and reminds Galo he deserves the same etiquette. You can tell that first fight left a definite impression on each of them, but now things are shifting. Galo sees just how human the Burnish are, sees them at their most vulnerable. He sees Lio’s heart laid bare, is witness to this intimate moment where he does everything he can to save one of his own. And then he sees the heartbreak that follows, raging against the injustice of the inevitable. Lio says turning to ash is the fate that awaits all Burnish, and Galo refuses to accept that. He can’t fathom a world where his loved ones might just fade away. 

When Galo offered to drive the Burnish to a safe house or provide medical treatment, that absolutely meant something to Lio. He doesn’t really consider it, but you can tell he’s touched–if not outright shocked–by the sentiment. It’s been so long since anyone has treated the Burnish as anything but outsiders to be hunted down and locked up; he obviously sees Galo as far too idealistic and hopelessly optimistic–about their fire, about Kray, about everything. But I imagine he also wanted very badly to believe that Galo’s concern was genuine.

Galo’s feelings for Lio become all the more poignant when Lio is out for revenge and it’s not some monstrous dragon burning down the whole city that he sees. Instead, he latches onto the fact that Lio is crying, that his flames aren’t fueled by spite or rage, but pain. And when he confronts Lio again, he cuts right to the heart of his inferno, braves the searing heat while claiming, “It’s not hot at all”–it clearly is, but that’s not a problem for him. Not if it’s Lio. He’ll walk through fire for him. 

For Lio, I feel like things might’ve gradually started to build after their encounter in the cave. He tells Galo to stay out of his way in his fight with Kray after rampaging all across the city–it’s not a lot, but even on his warpath, there’s that initial urge to not harm Galo. Later on, he’s clearly affected by how much Kray’s betrayal hurt Galo. He happily fights alongside Galo and even indulges his childish whims–cool battle upgrades, a better aesthetic, throwing in his matoi, etc. When they first pilot a mech together, they squabble a bit, but it’s obvious that they’re so in sync–they compliment each other perfectly. By this point, Lio’s already fond of Galo in this over exasperated kind of way.

And then he protects Galo. When he’s captured by Kray, he sends his last sparks of fire to Galo’s aid. And when Kray shoots Galo off into the distance, and Lio thinks he’s finished? When he can’t bear to watch so he turns away, eyes shut? How he goes, “You monster,” in the most pained raw voice and all the fight just goes out of him? That really hits you. He’s about to have his very life drained out of him, and all he can think about in that moment is how he lost Galo–just as quickly as he found him. And that innate desire to protect, to keep Galo safe no matter what, it stays with him, still burning. Even long after Lio has lost contact with him and assumes he’s dead, his flame for Galo never dies. That’s really the moment when his love takes the form of something concrete.

Yeah…I think he just uses our texts as his own personal tumblr at this point