It’s like a classic magical girl team. Bellossom the chipper happy-go-lucky leader and newbie, Roserade the Bifauxnen charmer, Lilligant the ditzy powerhouse, Florges the elegant lady, Lurantis the quirky nerd, and Tsareena the tsundere rival-turned-ally. I’d watch the hell out of that show.
Male garter snakes that need extra warmth after hibernating will mimic females in order to trick other males into trying to mate with them so they can cuddle and steal their body heat. Source
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In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
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One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.
How have I never heard of this?
People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.
“When Burks was a girl, she said, her mother got in a final, epic row with Burks’ uncle. To make sure he and his branch of the family tree would never lie in the same dirt as the rest of them, Burks said, her mother quietly bought every available grave space in the cemetery: 262 plots. They visited the cemetery most Sundays after church when she was young, Burks said, and her mother would often sarcastically remark on her holdings, looking out over the cemetery and telling her daughter: ‘Someday, all of this is going to be yours.’
‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’"
Epic Grudge-holding Mom has Epically Empathetic Daughter.
She did good work.
Just to add to this, there is currently a GoFundMe page dedicated to raising money for a memorial to be placed in Files Cemetery dedicated to those whom she cared for, and those who lost their lives to the epidemic.
“Someday,” she said, “I’d love to get a monument that says: This is what
happened. In 1984, it started. They just kept coming and coming. And
they knew they would be remembered, loved and taken care of, and that
someone would say a kind word over them when they died.“
yknow you can draw trans people who look like human beings right??
like you know that we’re people, not just wild exaggerations of individual physical qualities that are known to cause the most dysphoria???
like, for example, you can draw a trans guy without warping the parameters of physical possibility to make him the most hyper feminine person ever even though you never focus on breast and hip size even close to that much when you draw women????
and you can draw a trans girl without making extra special care to add in every single little detail of her not passing even though you have never in your art career drawn a guy with a beard or broad shoulders or a noticeable bulge or whatever?????
like we’re just humans…… we look like other humans….. like you can just draw a human… why are you making things that look like you modded oblivion too much just because the word trans is involved
we all love newt scamander now, but remember that later in life, the guy is actually responsible for the werewolf registration act that makes lupin’s life hell?
what ive learned from years of harry potter fanfiction
story begins…
with harry at the top of the astronomy tower contemplating life: possible good fic, keep reading
with harry in his room after fourth year simmering with anger: possible good fic, probably over powered, probably has some Magic Inheritance dealios, keep reading if thats your cuppa tea
with characters from the series finding some books: the entirety of the harry potter series written out again with the characters making indignant comments throughout, keep reading if you dont mind rereading the books again
with harry being horrifically beaten and/or sexually assaulted by the dursleys within the first three sentences (or at all, tbh): bad fic, abort, it only gets worse as you read on, probably has some pedophilic relationships and non-negotiable dom/sub overtones, just leave, run far away
writers saying characters are lgbt in interviews or on twitter and not actually writing about it in their stories is one of the most annoying things for me because it just feels like they want credit for representation without actually having it
