Author: fandomjunkie2004

cacchieressa:

havisham:

sathinfection:

I’d like to make a statement that mutual pining is one of the finest fanfic tropes ever

I would even rank it above… THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED

disagree, the finest fic trope is ……………….. friends to lovers ;;

Come on people, it can be two three things:

Mutual pining between friends to lovers culminates when there is only one bed!

If they are also fake dating that would be THE BEST FIC EVER.

reddishhbeardv2:

Unwarranted marriage advice: seriously consider what your potential spouse is bringing to the table. What do you want out of life and how does this person aid you on your path. And will you be able to aid them. Truthfully one of the biggest indicators of compatibility.

Good chemistry and good times don’t last even nearly a year before you hit some seriously rough patches. There’s this arabic saying, “love comes through the front door and jumps out the back window”. It comes and goes. It has its phases. You’re two unique individuals.

Make sure this person has goals and that you have goals too. Romantic evenings are not goals. Love isn’t self sustaining. Loving in bondage will only do you tremendous harm. Be like two individual pillars supporting one roof. Two oak trees that don’t grow in each other’s shade. As Khalil Gibran beautifully said.

You’re still you, with all your baggage and in all your glory. Don’t give yourself up for someone who, if even unintentionally, can’t let you grow.

brightquietude:

This reminded me of a study I read about in Cordelia Fine’s book Delusions of Gender:

“Kristi Klein and Sara Hodges used an empathic accuracy test in which participants watched a video of a woman talking about her failure to get a high enough score on an exam to get into the graduate school she wanted to attend. When the feminine nature of the empathic accuracy test was highlighted by asking participants for sympathy ratings before the empathic accuracy test, women scored significantly better than men. But a second group of women and men went through exactly the same procedure but with one vital difference: they were offered money for doing well. Specifically, they earned $2 for every correct answer. This financial incentive levelled the performance of women and men, showing that when it literally ‘pays to understand’ male insensitivity is curiously easily overcome.“ (Emphasis mine.)

(An endnote also states that “Men also scored equivalently to women when the sympathy rating was requested after the empathic accuracy test.”)

The passage goes on to add

“You can also improve men’s performance by inviting them to see a greater social value in empathising ability. Cardiff University psychologists presented undergraduate men with a passage titled ‘What Women Want’. The text, complete with bogus references, then went on to explain that contrary to popular opinion ‘non-traditional men who are more in touch with their feminine side’ are regarded as more sexually desirable and interesting by women, not to mention more likely to leave bars and clubs in the company of one. Men who read this passage performed better on the empathic accuracy task than did control men (to whom the test was presented in a nothing-to-do-with-gender fashion) or men who had been told that the experiment was investigating their alleged intuitive inferiority.“

In other words: men aren’t necessarily worse at sensing and understanding others’ feelings than women are; it’s just that quite a few of them don’t feel the need to put for the effort unless it profits them in some way… and perhaps don’t want to show too much empathy, because doing so would make them feel less masculine/manly.

Anti-Vaxxers Are Targeting a Vaccine for a Virus Deadlier Than Ebola

gaymilesedgeworth:

gaymilesedgeworth:

my favorite part of this article is where a human unironically named Lyndell Abercrombie complains about a horse event requiring participating horses to be vaccinated against Hendra, going, ““We respect their right to vaccinate, but they don’t respect our right not to vaccinate!!”

it’s because your decision not to vaccinate could fucking kill them, Lyndell

side note: Lyndell Abercrombie sounds like what you would name a caricature of a wealthy horse owner who is an outspoken anti-vaxxer, for horses, in her spare time

@drferox Don’t know if you’d seen this yet. Side note: I learned from the aforementioned blog that vets in Australia who treat Hendra horses are liable if something happens to a stupid owner who won’t follow rules about PPE, so fuck anti-vaxxers.

Anti-Vaxxers Are Targeting a Vaccine for a Virus Deadlier Than Ebola