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something happening on a mission, something personal that has soap spiralling; panic and rage making him reckless, thoughtless, and ghost has to draw the line
“you’re compromised johnny; you know what that means?”
“you’re not pulling me out,” soap immediately snarls. he turns on him and ghost barely recognises him; venomous fear turning his eyes to unyielding ice. "you're not sidelining me; i need to be in this-!"
but ghost has never been afraid of venom; spat or dripped straight from bared fangs.
he snakes out a hand grip the back of his neck, jerking him in a rough shake. "if you can't think, you can't be a soldier," he growls and he flinches like he's been struck.
his lips quiver as they twist in a sneer and he wrenches, trying to free himself of his hold.
ghost doesn't let him.
"it means you give your body to me because your head ain't fucking attached to it anymore."
soap stills, body trembling beneath his hand as he sucks in shaking breaths.
he tightens his grip, pulling him closer and digs his forehead hard into his. “it means you give yourself to me so i can have the weapon that you are and use you the way you're meant to be used."
the ice in soap's eyes fractures.
ghost’s voice drops to a whisper, spoken only to johnny, not this facade of vengeance and pain, and wills it to reach him through the glaciers.
“so i can keep you safe ‘til it’s done and i can bring you back.”
#in my head its bc graves abducts his sister and is using her as hostage to draw him out knowing ghost will always follow him#but the intensity and intimacy of saying ‘you cant trust your mind not to betray you so let me be in charge of your body until you can’#after what happened to tommy he could never deny johnny his right to save his sister#but its bc of what happened to tommy that he knows he cant let him do it alone with only his rage to guide him#hes more likely to get himself killed and ghost wont live through that#so he has to balance it#and the only way he knows how is to completely shut down soap’s mind until hes no more than instinct and muscle memory#if he cant think practically then dont let him think at all#reduce him to a place where he can only follow orders#and when its finally over and his sister is safe and graves is dead#only then will he drag johnny back up to the surface#he’ll do it even if it means dragging him kicking and screaming back to humanity#instead of letting him sink in the depths where nothing hurts. theres no fear down there. no pain. only order#and thats the risk ghost took sending johnny to that place but he only did it bc he would stop at nothing to bring him back#and help him through the after#the breakdown. the rush of panic and rage and relief and anguish johnnys been supressing on his order#it was his word that turned johnny into a ghost#and its his touch that brings him back to the man#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#we’re a team. ghost team#cod#soapghost#ghostsoap#ghost x soap#ghoap#simon ghost riley#ghost cod#john soap mactavish#soap cod
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Does anybody else wishes that one time Jaskier would just loose it and go apeshit instead of doing his usual coping mechanism joke
#jaskier#the witcher#the witcher netflix#twn#twn spoilers#spoilers#the witcher netflix spoilers#american series#she says it like its geralt who writes the songs and jaskier steals it or smth#yeah inspiration from witnessing stuff first hand is important#but when you take into the account risk that goes along with it for a weak human like jask#you cannot reduce what he is doing just to self interest#even if you don't know him
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downplaying Deku’s obsessiveness and impulsiveness over Katsuki with “it could’ve been anyone” no it couldn’t hope this helps 🙏😇
#are you not embarrassed to reduce Deku to a one-dimensional robotic hero that has no flaws whatsoever??#he’ll risk his life to save people YES but that doesn’t change the fact that the one person who has made him go BONKERS is Katsuki lol#like what do you want me to do about that#anyways… evaporate and stuff !#bkdk#dkbk#bakudeku#dekubaku#:’)#ktdk#bakugou katsuki#bakugo katsuki
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Next time we invent life changing technology we cant let capitalists get their hands on it
#thinking abt the guy who officially trademarked thw cool S#but instead of financial reasons he did it to preserve it. W move#yapping#once in a while I will remember how we could use AI and automation to reduce risk and injury in dangerous jobs#like harvesting resources. and instead its a buzzword for dumb shit like chat GPT and art theft#or how in a darker timeline insulin wasnt patented for a dollar as lifesaving medicine and we would be so fucked
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Oh fuck bro I completely forgot I drew this page.
#art#overwatch#ramattra#maximilien#rammax#Sorry I’m looking through my phone album.#There’s a second one but it’s unfinished and I hate the layout I did for it.#Premise is that Max refuses anything past a business client relationship with Ramattra cause of how committed he is to working -#- despite how much he risked to avoid being reduced to his original function.#I didn’t want there to be any romantic implications in this and more so Ramattra reaching out to someone who hasn’t talked to another omnic-#- in a long time (in such a personal/casual way)#But it kind of was presented that way with how few pages there are and how quickly I scrapped it lol.#Especially since Max in the second page told Ramattra they’re only business partners.
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ok so it’s fully established that house has an incredibly hard time verbalizing his emotions (specifically the positive ones) due to a fear of rejection and a deep deep aversion to displaying vulnerability
which makes the incredibly few times he’s admitted to someone that he cares about them, well, incredible. to list every single time that i can remember off the top of my head here:
instance one: he tells stacy he loves her directly before he goes into a coma. the statement itself is undeniably romantic in nature.
instance two: he tells cuddy he loves her after they hook up and she gives him a whole long speech on how she doesn’t want him to change. this is the culmination of years of dancing around each other. the statement is undeniably romantic in nature.
instance three: he tells wilson their friendship means more to house than any patient
instance four: he tells wilson he likes him
instance five: i mean i can keep going. there’s wilsons transplant surgery there’s everything with amber theres just so much. anyway
all of which leads me to the conclusion that of the three people house has ever sincerely expressed affection for two of those are people he’s canonically in love with which means that the third one must also be someone he’s [gunshots]
#like i very much understand that telling someone you love them and telling someone you like them are two different sentences but in this#case the deviation is EXCEEDINGLY easy to explain the first two are people who have firstly already told him they love him#which greatly reduces risk of rejection and secondly in both those instances the people he's saying it to are already committed so#really what is he risking. whereas in wilson's case he displays his affections through spending time with the man when they're on good terms#and it is when he thinks he's losing wilson that he starts verbally presenting his heart on a platter. furthermore he cannot say that he#loves wilson because wilson has not firstly said the same to him. telling wilson he likes him is far lower risk than telling a man#currently insisting you're not friends that you love him. that's simply not a risk he's willing to take#anyway sorry for being crazy and writing a novel in the tags carry on#house#wilson#hilson#lisa cuddy#huddy#stacy warner#house md#hatecrimes md#also something about how wilson is the only one he verbalizes affection for throughout the show#oh fuck wait just remembered that one time he told wilson he loved him when wilson upped his pain meds in the hospital#which still mcfucking fits. anwyay
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on that note: I'm sure you're all aware already if you're in the UK but the heat will reach 40c on monday and tuesday. this is an emergency and the first ever extreme red alert heat warning in this country. please stay indoors or in the shade, wear loose clothing but clothing that will cover your chest and shoulders, drink plenty of water comfortably and consistently throughout the day. it probably won't cool down fully overnight between monday and tuesday and the heat will be trapped in the house. during cooler periods have the windows open to let cooler air in but if the outside is hot don't let hot air in. close curtains and blinds in windows facing the sun. refrigerate damp cloths and flannels and rotate them to cool yourself off. fill up old milk cartons or plastic bottles with water and freeze them, then place them by a fan if you have one so that the air circulating is cold, or you can use them wrapped up in cloth to cool your body directly. please stay safe!
#also just like a secondary concern but try not to travel by train if you can avoid it#theres limited services running and those that are will be going at greatly reduced speeds#anywhere above 20c the tracks are at risk of buckling so at 40c its highly likely there will be disruptions all across the uk
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seatbelts are mandatory until you put a whole bunch of people in one place and then fuck it. why don't half of you just stand, actually
#shitpost#seeing things about compartmentalization reducing risk therefore rendering seatbelts not worth the cost of adding#but not finding a lot about standing#not looking super hard though this is a shitpost#because I think it every time I stand in a bus#just like. required to sit and buckle up when im alone#but there's like 12 of us just standing in this giant moving vehicle#oh the spectrum
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Today was the last DND session for a three-year campaign and I am big sad :(
One of the players brought whiskey for a last toast, which was very kind of them. I had never had whiskey before. Turns out I do not like whiskey. Unsurprising.
It tastes like slightly nicer hand sanitizer.
#blue chatter#it was a flavored whiskey as well#everyone else who had it said it was rly smooth and sweet#so I don’t think I super wanna know what regular whiskey tastes like#it was supposed to be like vanilla caramel flavored or smth#I was told it was like cream soda and that was a LIE it was like disinfectant#with a vanilla aftertaste#the campaign went rly rly well though#I’m seriously going to miss it#the final boss battle was just pure catharsis we absolutely whaled on that dark abberant goddess#she got Destroyed#an entire section of the continent restructured bc of the removal of her corruption#I rly like that my character got to be disabled at the tail end of this campaign#they wielded experimental magic that wasn’t supposed to work and resurrected someone who the Keeper very intentionally kept dead#it worked because they partially fused with Arawai the goddess of life and became her aspect on earth#but becoming partially divine in a mortal body takes a toll#they had more and more limited mobility and the more they cast magic to compensate the more of a toll it takes#functionally that meant my movement speed was reduced#and I lost more abilities after each combat as the consequences of overextending myself caught up to me#I wish I’d gotten to play this longer to see how this ended mechanically but it was a lot of fun to get a character who is both#very magically competent and still disabled and that still affects their ability and they still get the dignity of risk#to choose whether to continue casting or not knowing the consequences of doing so#it is very much a fantastical disability which I flavored heavily off of chronic fatigue and a mobility disorder#in-game their skin became hard and brassy around their joints which make them difficult and painful to bend#they lose a lot of sensation and fine motor control#thankfully they have a lot of money from their adventuring so they can commission an accessible house and mobility aids#and their friends help take care of them
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i feel like gendered analyses of characters risk watering down the rest of their writing, especially if gender isn’t much of an important part to their arcs or impact towards the story. it can come off as lazy.
#discussions on femininity and masculinity can be important but to conflate it wholly with a character is so…#because you risk framing it to be a ‘girl thing’ or ‘boy thing’ then you fall into the trap of essentialism#and you also reduce who they are#there should be nuance to these discussions#i haven’t seen much of that#jjk
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You don't realise how weird this screen looks unless you redraw it
#drawing Latvia reduces anxiety and stroke risk I recommend#hetalia#hws latvia#aph latvia#what is the context? I'll never know because I don't watch hetalia
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If you're prone to nightmares try having some dark chocolate before bed! Any chocolate (except white chocolate) may help in a pinch but the darker the better cause we're looking for the chemical Theobromine here.
Theobromine helps block the production of norepinephrine, which is a neurochemical that triggers the fight/flight response and may be responsible for some of your nightmares.
People with PTSD who have a lot of nightmares are often prescribed Prazosin, a high blood pressure medication that also helps block production of norepinephrine (and likely far more effective than eating some chocolate before bed so if your nightmares/night terrors are bad enough and regular enough to disrupt your life tall to your doctor about this option).
Green tea is also another good option, while it has slightly less theobromine it also contains L-Theanine which an amino acid that helps you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. Though the addition of caffeine may offset that despite the l-theanine countering some of the negative effects. There are some low caffeine green tea options which may work better for you.
Even if you don't pre-empt the nightmares, keeping some dark chocolate (or any chocolate as above) on your bedside table may help prevent you from slipping back into a nightmare if you wake up from one in the middle of the night, or at least help your brain steer away from it sooner if you do still slip back into it.
The amount of theobromine in chocolate or tea is pretty minimal compared to the active ingredient in Prazosin so it may or may not be very effective depending on how much norepinephrine your body is producing.
A theobromine supplement may provide better results but check with your doctor first if you want to go the supplement route. Theobromine can cause increased heart rate, low blood pressure and may interact with some prescription medications.
Important note!!
It's always a good idea to check with your doctor before starting any supplements, especially if you take regular medications.
#nightmares#night terrors#this is not medical advice#The idea came to me in the middle of the night#and this morning i did some quick research to see if there was any basis for my hypothesis#turns out there is!#there are plenty of studies showing that blocking the adenosine receptors can reduce nightmares#and that's one of the things theobromine does#so my hypothesis is scientifically sound#but I'm still not a doctor#and more importantly I'm not YOUR doctor#it is low risk#but not no risk#so be safe!
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Did anything good happen in 2023? Yes!!
Sometimes, we all need a reminder that the world is not in a death spiral. This is a wonderful article from the Washington Post that shows huge and promising developments and it's worth reading.
Research has indicated that uplifting news can provide an emotional buffer against distressing news and feelings of hopelessness — and even encourage optimism or action. So, in that spirit, here are some of the more uplifting developments you may have missed this year.
The WHO approved an effective new malaria vaccine.
In October, the World Health Organization approved a malaria vaccine — only the second time a vaccine against the potentially deadly disease has been created. The WHO said it expects the vaccine, which costs $2-$4 per dose and has been shown to reduce symptomatic cases by 75 percent after three doses within a year, to be available by the middle of 2024.
More than 600,000 people died of malaria in 2021, with children under 5 representing 80 percent of malaria deaths in Africa. The United States reports about 2,000 malaria cases every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, with the majority of them contracted abroad.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the WHO, said the announcement gave him“great pleasure. ... I used to dream of the day when we would have a safe and effective vaccine against malaria. Now, we have two.”
The FDA approved a groundbreaking pill to treat postpartum depression
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration also approved a number of potentially life-changing drugs, including a first-of-its-kind pill to treat postpartum depression, which affects up to 1 in 5 women. The severe and debilitating condition can cause pregnant and new mothers to experience intense hopelessness and, in rare cases, psychosis — and it can last for years.
The new drug is taken once a day for two weeks and, unlike the existing treatment of an IV injection that may take as long as 60 hours to administer in a health-care setting, it can be taken at home — greatly improving accessibility, especially for parents caring for a newborn.
While experts say the drug may not be suitable for all women with the condition and won’t be able to treat all aspects of a new mother’s mental health, they argue that the drug is nonetheless a convenient and fast-acting treatment, and is particularly useful in the early days after a birth, when parents and babies start bonding.
Two sickle cell disease treatments gained approval
In December, the FDA also approved two therapies for sickle cell disease, a rare and debilitating condition that affects around 100,000 Americans, most of them Black. The disease causes extreme, constant pain and can drastically cut the life span of those affected.
The new treatments are both gene therapies that have been shown in clinical trials to stop severe pain crises for most patients: One uses a harmless virus to insert a gene into the patient’s stem cells, while the other is the first medical treatment to be based on the gene-editing tool CRISPR.
Both are intensive, expensive procedures — and require chemotherapy, which has significant side effects. But patients who have received the treatments have spoken of its profoundly beneficial impact on their lives.Jimi Olaghere, a father of three who likened the pain caused by the disease to glass shards sawing back and forth inside his veins, said that after years of being unable to sleep at night because of pain, he has energy again, and that the treatment has enabled him for the first time to plan for a future with his family.
We learned more about dementia and memory loss — and how to prevent them
Scientists also made progress in understanding one of the biggest health concerns for countries with aging populations — dementia, which can have a devastating impact, robbing people of the ability to engage in daily tasks.
While there is no proven cure for dementia, scientific research has continued to find that there many steps we can take to reduce the risk of developing dementia.
One study published this year suggested that lifestyle habits, including regular mental and physical activity, eating a healthful diet, and regular social contact were linked with a slower rate of memory decline. Another found that living in areas with more natural green spaces was associated with lower rates of hospital admissions for diseases including dementia, while separate research indicated that the use of hearing aids could cut the risk of cognitive decline by nearly half.
The FDA also gave full approval, for the first time, to a drug that modestly slows Alzheimer’s disease. While difficult questions about safety, effectiveness and cost remain, many neurologists say that having a drug that slows Alzheimer’s is nonetheless a milestone after years of failed trials.
After 20 years, countries agreed a treaty to protect the ocean
Human health wasn’t the only area to see improvements this year. Even as scientists voiced concern about the state of Earth’s health, there were some positive steps to protect the planet.
In May, more than 190 countries agreed a major deal to protect the biodiversity of the world’s oceans outside of national borders, after more than two decades of talks. The United Nations adopted the treaty in June.
At present, only 1.2 percent of the high seas — which make up two-thirds of the planet’s ocean surface — are protected, leaving large stretches at risk from rising temperatures, overfishing, pollution, mining and other threats. The deal will allow nations to start creating new marine protection areas in the high seas for the first time, although it still may be years before U.N. member states formally adopt the agreement and are able to begin the process of designating the new zones. Even then, enforcement may be difficult.
But the agreement has been welcomed as a much-needed start on the path to protecting 30 percent of the planet’s land and sea by the year 2030, a goal announced at a U.N. biodiversity summit in late 2022.
Brazil deforestation falls after reaching 15-year high
Last year, The Post published a series of storiesshowing the fast pace of destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest under then-President Jair Bolsonaro. During his presidency, the rate of deforestation of the Amazon rose to a 15-year high, and those responsible for the destruction acted with impunity.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to the presidency in January this year. His first six months in office showed positive signs, as authorities drove thousands of illegal gold miners from Indigenous lands, and the government said deforestation dropped by 50 percent.
There are questions about how likely the president is to reach his goal of ending deforestation by 2030, especially given government plans for a large-scale railway project and to pave a 540-mile highway. And deforestation isn’t the only environmental issue facing Brazil, which has come under scrutiny for its reliance on oil as it announced plans to align itself with a coalition of major oil-producing nations, OPEC Plus.
But European countries and the United States have once again offered to restart funding — which was suspended under Bolsonaro — to help end deforestation in the Amazon. Resuming the program would be a significant step for a rainforest that stores billions of tons of carbon and pulls millions more out of the atmosphere every year.
Even in a year of difficult news, moments of humanity shone through
While suffering across the world may have dominated the headlines in 2023, this year also reminded us that kindness and generosity exist, even amid crises and tragedy.
In March, after tornadoes devastated Mississippi, a group of Ukrainian refugees made a 16-hour journey to distribute water to victims of the disaster. Many had only just arrived in the United States — and still had immigration forms to fill in or job interviews to prepare for — but hoped to help a community they felt faced a struggle similar to theirs.
“When they stop what they’re going through to help someone else in need, that to me is the definition of love,” Corie Jones, the deputy director of Volunteer Mississippi, told The Post.
And in October, as police officer Arizbeth Dionisio Ambrosio was clearing debris after Hurricane Otis swept Mexico, she came across a woman with a crying, hungry baby. Ambrosio, who was breastfeeding her own 1-year-old, offered to nurse the baby and was able to soothe the infant — a moment of empathy that was praised around the world, and led to her receiving a promotion.
Ambrosio told The Post she didn’t consider what she did to be anything heroic or out of the ordinary. “It was what I needed to do and I did it,” she said. “When you are in a situation like that, you do not think whether to help or not. ... I felt peace because I was with the baby giving him what he needed at the moment
Find the full story here.
#Good things in 2023#human acts of kindness in 2023#reclaiming the rainforest#protecting the world's oceans#new advances in port-partum depression#new meds for sickle cell anemia#new affordable Malaria vaccine#ways to cut the risk of dementia by 50%#reducing the risk of dementia
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“don’t EVER use ceramics from before 1971, since they might contain lead in the glazes!”
listen
I check antique ceramics minutely for cracks, chips, glaze loss, crazing, pitting, etc. before ever using them, and only use them if everything is 100% intact
I check for telltale cloudy residue after washing them
I don’t put them in the fridge, dishwasher, or microwave
I don’t store food in them, or let anything acidic touch decorated areas of the dishes for long
I don’t use them as everyday pieces, much as I might long to. all my everyday china is modern and undecorated
I am an adult, almost 30 years old. I would never let a child eat or drink from antique dishware
I think, given the quantity of precautions I take, that I can be permitted to actually use tableware I also enjoy looking at every now and then. as a treat
#antiques#musings#now I think that given how tiresome a layperson might find it to check every single piece they buy like this#it may make sense to just say 'you know what? avoid it'#under the (correct) assumption that most of your audience won't follow a laundry list of rules#but. please let those of us who ARE willing to jump through hoops- and take an informed risk -for pretty china Live#that being said you will NEVER catch me using antique pewter dishware#there's informed but reduced risk and then there's Guarantee
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