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thatsbutterbaby · 1 year

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Gold Weight: Sunfish / Ghanaian / Asante / Cast brass (cire perdue), 2 5/16 x 2 7/16 x 1/16 in. (5.8 x 6.2 x 0.2 cm)

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#gold weight #ghanaian #asante #sunfish

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bonefall · 9 days

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i dont think people are upset that the erins "weren't creative" enough with Moonpaw, they're upset that she's just. not a chimera. thats just a longhaired tortie and they justified it with chimerism. which is extremely insensitive because chimerism is a real medical thing that can cause issues in every species, including humans for those that dont know, and thats like. a big thing.

like, yay some disability rep (depending on how they write it. it wont be good. ughh) but like. its not going to be considered a disability when it can be in some cases. they are just going to say "ohh shes so special!!" like some people say with autism in this age (the infantilization of it) and its gonna be. weirdddd

anyways. sorry for ranting in your inbox.

Hey. Woah. THIS is insensitive and I don't know where you're getting this from. NONE of the three types of natural chimerism are a disability and it is extremely rare that fusion chimerism leads to medical complications.

Do not spread misinformation about a genetic condition because you're annoyed about the writing team confusing a common tortie fur pattern with chimerism. THEIR mistake is ultimately harmless. What YOU'RE doing is stigmatizing.

Quite frankly, after seeing a bunch of posts and receiving several asks about this, I don't think half of the people who are getting mad actually know anything about chimeras. I sure as fuck hope it's just ignorance, and that you aren't out here trying to call the state of being intersex a disability.

But I can fix ignorance. No need to assume malice. I will explain what chimerism is, and why you should stop going around implying it "causes issues in every species."

Chimerism is when a single individual is comprised of cells from two or more fully fertilized zygotes. There are two BROAD types of chimerism;

Artifical

Natural

Artifical chimeras are common with the advent of modern medicine. Ever had a blood transfusion? Organ transplant? You are a chimera. Or at least were for a while.

THIS can lead to complications and can cause disability, but it's not what Moonpaw is. She would be a type of natural chimera, which in and of itself has THREE subtypes;

Micro chimerism

Blood chimerism

Fusion chimerism

Microchimerism is so common that I could make a Your Mom joke out of it. It's caused by the passage of cells between the fetus and placenta during pregnancy. Everyone who has ever been pregnant is a microchimera.

While it can lead to complications, it can also be beneficial. Pregnancy could be considered a type of temporary disability, but no one would expect disability rep from every character who had ever given birth.

Blood chimeras are common in species whose twins typically share a placenta, such as cows and marmosets, but very rare in animals like humans and cats which usually don't. It occurs when tissue between two twins is exchanged through the umbilical chord. This type of chimera often ends up with a mixed bloodtype, hence the name.

This is the cause of freemartinism in cattle, when fraternal cow twins cause a sister to share her brother's hormones and act more like a bull. A type of intersex condition, not a disability-- so I sure HOPE you aren't trying to imply THIS should be "disability rep."

And even in the other case, would you automatically expect disability rep from a character that has two blood types?? No. Just like you wouldn't automatically expect disability rep from every character that had ever been pregnant, or every character who had ever needed a blood transfusion

And lastly, the one that Moonpaw ACTUALLY is. A fusion chimera. These are created when two fully fertilized zygotes fuse into a single individual.

These are extremely rare because you can't usually TELL when an individual is a chimera. There is no obvious physical difference between the "halves," with some cases of doctors insisting that patches are just weird birthmarks. They live their entire lives with normal health problems like non-chimeras. It mostly causes complications when DNA testing results in a false negative-- because the offspring of a fusion chimera occasionally end up being their genetic nespring.

Or, the two "halves" are male and female, causing gonadal differences. These people aren't disabled, there's nothing wrong with their bodies, but they're subjected to unneccesary cosmetic surgeries as children because they are intersex.

Say it. SAY IT. INTERSEX. I N T E R S E X. IM GRABBING YOU BY THE SHIRT AND SHAKING YOU THEY ARE INTERSEX.

Can some intersex conditions cause disabilities? YES. Are intersex conditions inherently disabilities? NO. Even when you're discussing infertility as a disability, tread VERY CAREFULLY because intersex people are fighting very hard to lift the stigma over their bodies.

Speak with care. Do not equate being intersex with being disabled. They are two different things.

You can be both and sometimes one could contribute to the other, but BEING intersex IS NOT a disability.

VERY rarely, even MORE rare than standard chimeras which are already very very rare and massively underreported because they are so unremarkable, a fusion chimera will happen LATE in utero. THIS can contribute to a chronic autoimmune condition where the cells reject each other, which is a disability.

And by rare I mean one case. Literally one. Of the 50 reported fusion chimeras in the review I'm referencing, Taylor Muhl was the only one with this. 4 were discovered via congenital abnormalities (unknown if connected to the chimerism b/c they were only tested because something was already wrong), 17 had fertility issues, and the remaining 28 didn't report immune conditions or birth defects but INTERSEXUALITY.

ANOTHER condition is often lumped in with chimerism, by people who do not know what chimerism is, which is mosaicism. Mosaicism, when there are two different sets of genes resulting from the same zygote, is NOT chimerism. MOSAICISM can be a cause of disability. CHIMERISM is usually not.

(Read the review in depth, as it includes mosaic cases for the sake of completion.)

They can both be fertilization errors, but are not the same thing. Follow me, I'm only going to woefully simplify a complicated topic once,

CHIMERA = Two zygotes in one body

MOSAIC = Two bodies in one zygote

CHIMERA = usually fine

MOSAIC = usually bad

And the last possible places you could be getting the idea that chimerism "causes disability" from, to my knowledge, is 1. This study that says the loss of a twin in early pregnancy increases the chance of congenital defects in the survivors (has barely anything to do with chimerism, this link is tangential, vanishing twin syndrome does not necessarily mean it was absorbed by its sibling)

Or, 2, this study of several animals where they correlated rates of benign tumors to % of chimerism based on SPECIES. BLOOD chimeras. It's COWS AND MARMOSETS AGAIN. The study ITSELF calls for further targeted research of chimerism cause of susceptibility to cancer.

It couldn't even link new growths or malignant tumors to chimerism in the mammals of its study. WE'RE mammals.

Correlation does not equal causation. Statistics 101.

So no. That's not "a big thing." Chimerism is fine, they're just very likely to be intersex if they're a fusion chimera of a male and a female zygote. Do not imply intersexuality is a disability. Please get mad about the actual ableism in the series, not the team being clueless about tortie patterns.

Also everyone say you're sorry to intersex Moonpaw. I better see you people making intersex Moonpaw pride flag edits as penance IMMEDIATELY.

UPDATE: Anon apologized! Growth! I still think this is an important post, especially in the context of the wider fandom conversation, so I'm leaving it as-is. Please feel free to reblog.

UPDATE 2: Clarification on infertility as a disability because I didn't word myself very well in one section!

#bone babble #Chimerism #Chimeras #Moonpaw #Changing skies #Intersex #She could ALSO be disabled but no it's not inherently because she's intersex/a chimera. Some people are just disabled.#She wouldn't be intersex if both zygotes were XX but ttshshsush. Hush. 100000 Intersex Moonpaw upon ye.#Every intersex person is worth their weight in gold btw #Also anon I'm not mad just disappointed

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canisalbus · 5 months

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tbh I think that there being no big story somewhere for your dogs is what made them fun when I first found them, if that makes sense.

Like the first art I saw of Machete was the teen art you did of him back in June, and it was like oh??? who is this liddol guy? why is he sad?? ‘It’s the bug-eyed teachers apprentice again’ who is talking about him? Then later I saw the ‘nodding off at the office’ one and it was like oh! It’s the dog again!!!! why he mad? why he eepy? and then stumbling across Art of him and Vasco (I think it was the reunion one) and it was like alr Ive gotta find out who this doggo is

Anyway I remember sitting in the grass of my grandparents front lawn and going through your entire blog to learn more about Machete :3 it was so so fun to pick up little bits and pieces of him as I went further back So I think that experience was a neat core part of discovering your dogs and I really love that.

A couple of people have said the same thing, and I think it's wonderful that you found them interesting enough that you went through the trouble of combing through my old posts and figuring out how things connect!

I can see how the process itself might be part of the fun for some, but you'd have to be really invested in these dogs to go scouting for that hard to find and disorganized lore. I'd imagine it takes a lot of effort, initiative and time to do that.

#folks that somehow manage to keep track of this stuff despite how inconvenient I've made it for you #and have memorized enough character details and story beats to make suggestions headcanons theories and gift art #you're worth your weight in gold #and the way you engage with my posts motivates me tremendously I hope you realize that #anonymous #answered #I'm trying to tag posts with significant information so that they're a little easier to find from the haystack that is my blog #but it's a new development and far from comprehensive #but I'm working on that

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jasongraceenthusiast · 1 month

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“ten is a bad person” you never even tried to understand him

#hes so complex #i will never shut up about him actually #hes watched everyone around him perish and then he had to let the love of his life leave #everyone he loves he has to leave them #and if you watch his seasons after rose #you can see his decline #how he has so much on his shoulders #and honestly him and jason grace have so much in common (me when im multifandom)#his last words being ‘i dont want to go’#because in the end he was still doing everything for everyone else #the weight of the world rests on his shoulders #and yeah he should have treated martha better #but he never said he liked her like that #he didnt play her she just was in love with a man who couldnt love her back #thats why his and donnas relationship is fucking gold #because finally he doesnt have to worry about losing someone that loves him like that #finally he doesn’t have to worry about losing someone who he loves like that #losing donna (at first anyway) hurt because she was safe she was comfortable #tenth doctor #doctor who

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illustratus · 7 months

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#arnold schwarzenegger #squats #gym #70s #1970s #bodybuilding #bodybuilder #exercise #workout #working out #gold's gym #venice beach #california #los angeles #weights #pumping iron #photograph #photographs #photography

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vatrocvet · 8 months

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accipiter, accipitris (m.)

design of harrow hawkshaw by @/whisperingrockers

#detective grimoire #tangle tower #detective hawkshaw #harrow hawkshaw #alright so. i skipped school to finish this piece. and i stayed up till 5 am to finish it. Haha #it was supposed to have a custom frame done in gold but alas #these are 3 of my usual in one piece. FINALLY!!!! A TRYPTICH!!!! or however you spell it in English #also i read that accipiter is a name for a bandage that gets placed over THE NOSE in the shape of a hawk's claw....#couldn't find any pictures though :/#i hope the birds feel overwhelming. like they're weighing down on her despite her size.#they're meant to symbolize the weight or her persona. hiding her. sitting on her shoulder peering right through you #and they all have a notch on their beaks. or noses. for good measure #I'm just blabbering. Have this and pray for me #i have drawn something

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get-back-homeward · 1 year

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Ringo's Love of Jive Dancing

Playing skiffle with Eddie Clayton introduced a welcome way out from the street-corner existence Richy Starkey had known more than a year. It would take a long time to remove himself completely, but being with a group was an alternative to “walking” with the gang, and when he and Roy weren’t doing one or the other they were often dancing. Both were athletic and acrobatic jivers, accomplished rock and roll dancers able to flip, flop and fly their female partners, hold them up in the air and send them scooting through their legs.

Richy was a good jiver and so was I. We used to go to all the hops, to the Rialto and the Cavern, and girls liked to dance with us because we could do it. We had denim suits and denim jackets so the lads and girls in the Cavern called us “the Binmen.” We had regular jiving partners and loved it. But we were seriously threatened in the Rialto one night. Some feller got stabbed in the face with a pair of scissors and I was told, “You and your mate are next.” We were out of there like a shot. We didn’t like that at all. That was me and Richy—out the door.

—Tune In (Ch. 7, July 15–Dec 15, 1957)

A jukebox pumped out records when the Hurricanes took a break and [Ringo] was easily the best jiver in the group, never short of a dance partner. Margaret Douglas, on holiday here from Liverpool, says, “Ringo was a brilliant rock ’n’ roll dancer. He knew all the moves.”26

—Tune In (Ch. 15, May 31–Aug 15, 1960)

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cave-monkey · 2 months

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Six Ears, and being left.

#mhw09 personal #gif warning #*screaming into knees*#can I draw your attention to his HAND PLEASE #I didn't realize that was going to be a *thing*#that little WAVE #I paid subzero attention to the closing and it was because I was subconsciously protecting my heart apparently #listen to me listen #it's about 'and a double-edged sword cuts your heart in two'#torn between Stone Monkey and *gestures to everything else in his life* *like literally everything*#it's about Stone Monkey going where Six Ears can't follow #and where the line is between staying behind and being left behind #and so he's stuck in place. watching him leave. weights around his ankles.#whether those be his duty to his troop or the demons in his head #always holding back. always in-between. always feeling like he's going to lose *something*.#six ears and that fear that's inside him #I've only seen 11 episodes and have just One Major Spoiler in my pocket am I barking up the wrong tree? MAYBE #but here we are anyway #also Jade Rabbit looking at him in concern from the background! this missing scene is gold. too bad it's on eternal mute.

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cideramese · 3 months

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Could you repost those videos you made of the TFMI/OOPS cast that has family guy audio over them? They’re not on YouTube anymore :(

Yea here you go

#ok that’s all the asks I’m replying to for now #balloon weight was so ugly back then… what was I thinking with that colour combination 💔#skinny Ahh limbs #nerf dart wasnt a Cockatrice yet #taffy used to have orange paw pads but I thought they were ugly and just added unnecessary things to his design #ticket used to be a gilded gold ticket like from Willy Wonka #walnut

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binarysunset17 · 2 months

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Im packing up my room and im putting away my art pieces this one is easily my favorite painting ive done so far..

Its called "Not All that Glitters is Gold"

I used only silver gold and black to paint it so its kinda holographic and shimmery

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juanabaloo · 11 months

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Top 5 sapphic movie recs? :)

Thanks for the ask! In order, from 5 to 1: D.E.B.S. (2004) - Lucy and Amy Mosquita y Mari (2012) - Yolanda y Mari - the one movie i would show my kid self (if i could time travel) Bound (1996) - Violet and Corky Imagine Me and You (2005) - Luce and Rachel Saving Face (2004) - Wil and Vivian - the one movie I would save from a fire (if i could only save one)

[captions top to bottom: Lucy and Amy with guns drawn in D.E.B.S. Yolanda and Mari hanging out in Mosquita y Mari. Violet reaches out to hold Corky's hand in Bound. Luce laughs as Rachel fishes her wedding ring out of the punch in Imagine Me and You. Wil looks at Vivian's hair and then stares longingly at her face in Saving Face.]

Highly reco all of these! More spoiler-free ranting, worksafe gifs, and trailer links under the cut. (one mild SPOILER ... but good news: none of these women die, like not even a little bit!!)

starting the list at Number Five: D.E.B.S. (2004) is Comedy, rated PG-13, and a campy delight. I buy the chemistry between Lucy (L below) and Amy (R ), and it's a cute enemies-to-lovers story. It doesn't take itself too seriously. And as the gif text says: Charlie's Angels but it's actually gay!!!

Best to watch: when you want something campy with some fun spy action scenes. Kissing plus. Also: Jordana Brewster!

D.E.B.S. (2004) trailer

Number Four: Mosquita y Mari (2012) is an unrated Drama (PG-13-ish IMO) that's one of my all-time faves*. Mari (L below) and Yolanda (R ) are high schoolers and they are INTO EACH OTHER. You can practically see the vibrations in between them. It's about two Chicanas and it touches on family and money and immigrant stuff. (*If I could go back in time and show my kid self one movie - out of all the movies in the world - it would be this one.) There is a lot of intimacy between them, but there's nothing explicit.

Best to watch: when you want to reminisce about high school and that friend you had feelings for. Grappling and holding hands and snuggling. Also: gorgeously shot scenes that set the mood, even with no dialogue.

Mosquita y Mari (2012) trailer

coming in at Number Three: Bound (1996) is a Heist movie, rated R, and amazing. The directorial debut of the Wachowski sisters. Chemistry for MILES between Violet (L below) and Corky (R ). Also a strong crime/thriller/heist plot, aside from all the chemistry. I don't find the violence to be THAT explicit but that's my opinion.

Best to watch: when you want to see a very sexy heist movie and don't mind some violence. Rated R for a reason (both sex and violence). Also: Jennifer Tilly and her voice! Gina Gershon in a white tank top! Both of them in leather jackets!

Bound (1996) trailer

Number Two: Imagine Me and You (2005) is a Rom-Com that's rated R, and super cute. It's love at first sight but there's some angst. Rachel (first gif below, L) is trying to resist her attraction to Luce (R ). I feel like this movie doesn't really deserve the R rating. Anyway, it's cute and fun.

Best to watch: when you want some decent angst, but a happy ending. Lots of intense making out. Also: British accents! a flower shop! Dance Dance Revolution! Piper Perabo and Lena Headey!

Imagine Me and You (2005) trailer

and at the top of my list at Number One: Saving Face (2004) is another Rom-Com that's rated R, and it's PERFECT TO ME. If I could only grab one movie to save from a fire - out of all the movies ever made - it would be this one! It's childhood friends - who reconnect as adults - to lovers. Vivian (L below in the first gif) is a dancer while Wil (R ) is a doctor, technically a surgeon. There's family and immigrant stuff, and they are both Chinese-American.

Best to watch: when you want angst with a happy ending, with some good mother-daughter stuff too. Flirting, making out, intense making out, hand holding, and yes a bedroom scene. Also: authentic Mandarin! a comforting mother-daughter relationship! a race to the airport scene!

Saving Face (2004) trailer

Lightning in a bottle stuff here, seriously. Lynn Chen (who plays Vivian) had never been in a feature film before. Michelle Krusiec (who plays Wil) had never had a lead role before. Alice Wu wrote AND directed the movie, and this was literally her FIRST MOVIE. You would never guess any of that watching this movie. They all knock it out of the park!!

Any questions about any of these movies, send in an ask!

#movie reco #intense movie reco #saving face #mosquita y mari #debs #bound #imagine me and you #i could talk about any of these movies for a solid hour #like if you put a gun to my head and said give a presentation with no notes these are all candidates for that #ask answered #beatriceeverytuesday #thank you original gifmakers #you are worth your weight in gold #thank you for the asks!

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moxymaxing · 10 months

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could I interest you in some clam (<- Clarence and mal ship name)

#I’m literally going off of one thing for Clarence’s personality. I made him a little annoying shit with a heart of gold #and probably the weight of the world on his shoulders #also everybody thank hex for coming up with the name clam. fucking love clam #clam jrwi #jrwi clam #mart #also realistically mal would not look like that when Clarence was alive but for the sake of recognition he does #mallard conway #mal jrwi #clarence albert

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keicordelle · 7 months

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Another round in BG3 of wondering "Why am I so damned encumbered all the time?" only to sort by weight and... oh.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #I forget sometimes that gold has weight #no tabletop group I've ever played with has ever bothered with it #and this isn't even counting the extra 20 lbs of spell scrolls and potions I was carrying #on my 8 str wizard #whoops #~K

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masonshaws · 5 months

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tbh as amazing as we made out in the gustavsson for talbot trade i think our biggest highway robbery might’ve been the middleton trade. you mean we GOT a pick for taking him?? we just had to send out kaapo???

#reliable defensemen who can take a lot of minutes are worth their weight in gold. what an exceptional complimentary piece #wild lb

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icy-hot-slut · 5 months

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What if trans mascs could sell their chests as pillows after top surgery?

I feel like no one has explored the potential in this market

#shit would be more than worth it’s weight in gold #you could charge whatever you damn well please and someone would pay #‘100% natural ethically sourced breast pillow! now for the low low price of 37 million dollars!’#shitpost #trans memes #trans shitposting #top surgery #trans masc

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deathbydarkelves · 2 months

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I figured out how all these different races and cultures could possibly agree on currency.

And yes I'm going to say this means Quel'thalas/Silvermoon still kinda uses "Alliance" coins and it annoys them every day but no one's bothered to take them out of the system yet. You'll see well-traveled Horde citizens handing over old coins with Terenas Menethil's face on them to merchants in Orgrimmar and that's just how it is, because they go off weight and not the coin itself.

#au lore #at this fuckin rate i'm gonna end up taking an economics class ''for research''#and yeah by extension the standardized coins are by weight too. they're each a certain size and thus a certain weight #but you know what I mean #I had an epiphany while writing this btw. gold is more valuable because it weighs more.#that's literally it 😭#maybe it's also harder to come by idk

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