Realm of Possibilities

Oh, it sounds like we're going to the theater. Minus the Playbill.

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The FDA has upgraded an egg recall issued last month to “Class I,” its highest risk level, as it warns the public that consuming the products could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

The recall of 1,589,577 dozen white-shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs was initially issued by Midwest Poultry Services in late July, which warned they might be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.

According to the company, the eggs were produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3 and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and August 17. The recalled egg cartons have either the code P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian Dates between 157-184.

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She is genetically predisposed to sleepwalking to start with, and it gets more intense as she gets more stressed.

The events in Whitby - especially Mr. Swales' death - make her more stressed and thus more likely to sleepwalk.

Crucially, the night of the attack Mina is tired from a long walk and an unexpected guest and therefor does not make sure the doors are locked like she normally would.

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The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

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PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

I'm annoyed that she left on a gimmick episode, because it wasn't about her doctor, and while i actively appreciate her era for sharing the title of doctor with other women (Jo Martin as Fugitive and Yaz), there's a very fine difference between sharing and toe stomping over somebody else's parade and while i'm not inclined to place any fault at the feet of the actors of the classic doctors in the episode (it was, after all, an anniversary celebration of sorts and their presence makes sense) it Does irk. I mostly blame the plague and the absolute Nightmare the beeb made of this situation for this, it could have been handled infinitely better in so many ways.

But also, there're some reasons that it gets called not a Thirteen episode that I don't Really agree with in a textual sense. Thirteen's arc in that episode is so deeply personal and affirming to her journey. What it Isn't is flashy. But that's kind of by design in my opinion, because while we often take note that Yaz is the Doctor in this episode, we don't often acknowledge that the doctor is off doing something more companion-y that is deeply personal to her storyline.

Yaz starts the series begging her boss to do more, be more, Help more. She wants to help people and and first she started doing what the woman who helped her did and it wasn't what she thought it'd be. Then Thirteen comes along and suddenly she has the power to move mountains and help so many more people than she'd ever considered. Her arc's culmination was becoming the doctor and doing that, having to save the world because she's the one who was there to do it. Doctor Yaz is in the house.

Meanwhile, Thirteen's arc is not about saving others, it's a metaphorical saving of herself. When she finds out about the timeless child, but before she finds out that She's the child, she asks, horrified, what happened to the child? Did anybody help the child? Because she knew what she was being shown was a horror story.

She then finds out that that kid was her, and no, nobody did save her. They did get free eventually, so it's not a wholly sad story. But nobody intervened and helped that child.

So when a being appears that the master is using to power his schemes, a being that appears as the thing the viewer will most likely protect, it takes the form of a little black girl. Like the original timeless child who nobody ever helped or took care of properly.

13's desire to have been cared and loved and protected in physical form placed in front of her face.

Thirteen saves this little girl. That is her victory. It's her moment. The metaphorical saving of self, the love and care she never got given to another. An apology given (even though the doctor was guilty of nothing) and a rescue and freedom. Liberation.

In short, Yaz's arc was about getting bigger, helping on a wider scale, saving the world, being the doctor. Thirteen's was about the individual, it was personal, it was inherently about breaking a vey personal cycle of abuse and saving the little girl she used to be. All this after Tecteun accused the doctor of being just like her. But the doctor is nothing like Tecteun and never has been.

It's an inherently companion style hero moment, is it not? Is it not like Donna insisting they at least save Somebody in Pompeii? Just because it's important? That one person is important.