Horses are anatomically incapable of vomiting. That's why stomach issues that us vomiters can tank with no problems can just straight up kill them. As if we needed any more proof that Horse probably isn't actually a horse. But speaking infernal prophecies that traumatize small children is normal for equines.
Does anyone know where I might be able to get this?
>!How the Ogre team feels after making one of the most attractive characters I've ever seen and then making him kill one of the characters I love the most!<
Hollyhock's Dads-Bojack Horseman
8 gay men of various species are the caring & involved parents of their collective daughter, willing to stand up to >!her older!< >!brother !< Bojack for putting her in danger.
Flourite-Steven Universe
Gem fusions can represent living embodyments of many kinds of relationships, friendship, parent-child love, etc. Permanent fusions like Flourite are interpreted as romantic relationships, making Flourite functionally a 6-member polycule open to more if they suit them.
Tengen & His Wives
Although technically being polygamist, due to being one man and his multiple female partners (a word poly people like to avoid due to negative connotations of misogyny and cults), it's still a one hundred percent valid expression of polyamory, so long as all parties are fully consenting, which they clearly are.
Remold is a grandfather, so unless he has other kids with kids of their own, either Brock or Benedicte is a parent. The concept of Brock having a child horrifies me immensely, so I did this:
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Human babies are small, helpless, and biologically programmed to want to be near their caregivers at all times. That's why babywearing is such a common thing across so many human cultures. Many sapient aliens are similar to us in that regard, but none of them know that. They only know our terrifying reputation as semi-carnivorous deathworlders, and aren't aware of a softer side. The alien species that typically bring their babies everywhere are too scared to do that if they work somewhere near humans. Alien new parents are showing up to work exhausted, stressed, or not showing up at all. That's until human feminists and labor rights activists push for new laws that apply for intergalactic corporations as well, laws that explicitly define the right for new parents to bring their young infants to work with them. Suddenly aliens are seeing us doting all over our tiny, needy, strangely cute babies. Not only are aliens getting comfortable bringing their own babies to work, in the species where collective child rearing is the norm, it's not rare for us to get included in that, whether we ask to be or not.
No alien species that humans have come in contact with weave textiles. Some wear clothing, but they make them by stitching animal skins or plant bark and stuff together, or other forms of nonwoven production. No one has invented a loom, or any other form of weaving like tablet weaving.
A human nerdy anthropologist who specializes in woven textiles is stationed on an alien ship and has to explain the concept
Uul had to learn to overcome what a human might call "megalophobia" very quicky. It served on a ship mostly populated by species far taller than it's own. The average height was approximately 12 inches, but Uul was on the tall side, measuring at 13 from digits to antennae.
This meant that it spent its interplanetary career skittering around the legs of giants, the tallest of them belonging to humans. Uul was told that Botanical Division Officer Dr. Tatiana Gordon was on the shorter end for her species, only 5"2. This was still enormous compared to it, which Officer Gordon found entertaining.
Another curiosity of humans besides their stature was their rest cycles. 6-10 hours every 24 hours was medic recommended, amd by Uul's calculations, it was running early to greet her during her rousing ritual. Uul's kind, the Yyr, slept in 30 minute increments every 50 hours, and it was a common cultural ritual to spend those rousing moments together. Entire nests typically rose at once, which met that on a human-constructed vessel that typically had individual sleeping rooms like this one, it often felt lonely and a tad homesick every time it woke up.
When it confessed this to Dr. Gordon, it could see moisture building in the corners of her eyes, something it was told was a signifier of strong emotion in humans. She agreed to let it join her in her morning routines from that point on. Usually when Uul arrived, she was in the process of her cleanliness routines, such as washing her facial skin or brushing her teeth. Uul still found the latter concept a bit unnerving. The combination digestive organs and defensive weapons were attached to her skeleton, and Uul felt like it was watching her clean her own bones. But this "morning" (spaceships do not have a night and day cycle like planets do), Uul had come early enough to see her just barely getting out of bed.
"Don't worry, Uul, I'm up. Just give me a second." She yawned, an action that sent a shiver of delight up and down its carapace. Yawning was a human breathing reflex related to sleep/wake cycles, that also shared a strange social element. Seeing other humans yawn, or even hearing and thinking about it, can trigger the reflex. It wasn't exclusive to humans either, even some of the domesticated animals they kept as companions were known to mirror the behavior. Being included in such an intimate detail of the natural waking cycle made Uul feel elated. It reminded it of how it's nestmates would clean their antennas immediately after waking.
As Dr. Gordon pulled off her blanket and turned on her bedside light, Uul saw a bottle of water and bottle of pills sitting on her nightstand. She uncapped it, and ingested a single white pill, following it with water.
"Are you ill? It is acceptable to rest instead of working." For such a hardy species, humans could be shockingly vulnerable to illnesses. Even minor viral infections could cause symptoms so debilitating they could not leave their beds for days on end.
"No, no, I'm okay. Well, physically. I take these everyday."
"Ah, a chronic issue?" The ship's first mate was a human that suffered from a hereditary condition he was born with that caused him severe and permanent muscle pain. He treated it with strong painkillers. His tolerance for pain relieving drugs with so notoriously high that even human recreational drugs did not have strong effects on him in regular doses.
"You could say that. It's OCD, i've been taking meds for it since I was 16." If Uul remembered correctly, that age was late adolescence for humans.
"OCD? I am not familiar with that acronym." It wasn't in any of the human medical texts it had studied.
"Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It's considered a mental illness." Uul blinked, their compound eyes squelching wetly. Yyr had mental illnesses as well, it's egglayer was what their people called a frequent shedder. It struggled to feel satisfied with it's carapace's colors and would shed so often to get new ones that it was vulnerable to infection due to the thinness of new shed layers.
" If you'll forgive me, Dr. Gordon, I do not see the connection. It is to my understanding that my mental sicknesses are not curable."
"They're not, but these help me manage it." She rattled the bottle with a smile. " Basically , i've got a survival instinct gone wild. My body has more fear and anxiety than it knows what to do with. My brain is pumping with scary shit for no reason, and even if I know it's irrational, i'm just an animal. The "ration" parts of my brain aren't that old or that strong. The fear responses that keep me alive are, even if they're too good at their job. These can dampen that."
"Fascinating!" Uul had no idea that human medicine had become so advanced that they could create chemical treatments for illnesses of the mind. " You can simply take a pill to repair your own thought structures?"
"Well, yes, but kinda no. They don't work for everyone, and you gotta find the right dosage and drug. I had to try a few to get to these. One pill made it impossible to sleep for 3 nights straight. But I found the one that works, and what it can do for me is bring me back down to reasonable levels. Makes it easier for mental health professionals to do counseling, so I'm not too scared for the advice & techniques to actually stick."
"Amazing, and this formula currently has no side effects?"
"No, but they're ones I can live with. They made me gain weight, but that's not an issue. Not when the Fleet paid for all my new uniforms, and I only date guys who like this sorta body." Dr. Gordon good carried more adipose tissue than was statistically average for her height, but that didn't seem to impede her function, especially not since she could now exist without debilitating fear.
Uul made a mental note to study this new field of medicine more, and to bring it up with healers back home. If there was a drug that could help it's egglayer grow comfortable with it's appearance, it wanted to know. That reminded it, Egglayer's Holiday was fast approaching on it's home planet, and it's egglayer mentioned a fascination with the human food known as baklava last time they holochatted. Uul made another mental note to ask Captain Özer about the dish.
I was out getting food with my mom, and we forgot the soy sauce packets , so I walked back from the car to the restaurant to get some. While I was outside some guy who looked about my father's age told me I was pretty and asked how old I was. I lied and said I was underage to make him leave. I look a couple years younger than I am, so I can pass for a teenager.
I wasn't sure why until about now. If I had just told him I was uninterested, there was the chance that he could have gotten violent. Maybe subconsciously I knew that. And maybe he was a decent guy and would have left me alone if I just said I didn't want him, but what if he wasn't?
My mom was nearby and I know if anything happened to me, she would go completely ballistic and probably kill the guy, but I can't shake this constant thought in the back of my head. What if I was alone, and he wasn't decent?
Maybe i'm being a baby about it, but it was my first time.
I HAVE NO INTEREST IN WEIGHT LOSS I DON'T WANT TO BE SKINNY!!! I am so tired of living in heroin-chic ozempic hell world. I just wanted to watch the 90's pride and prejudice miniseries. It's so jarring to see men with soft round faces portrayed as hot romantic leads and girls with visible body fat being the pretty girls everyone wants, in-between advertisements that seem determined to give everyone eating disorders every 20 minutes. I'm gonna go eat a midnight grilled cheese out of spite. With croissant bread and EXTRA BUTTER!
I've had an ongoing issue with my laptop refusing to recognize my touchpad. I attempted to uninstall and reinstall my 12c HID driver, but now it's missing entirely from my Device Manager and I have no clue how to fix it.
Fred Jones from HBO's Velma
The show does this kinda shit a lot, but this example really ticks me off. This version of the character is a misogynistic manbaby who's insecurities are shown to stem from a small penis and lack of "masculine" body traits. His body is made a kind of really gross punching bag of the show. The unintentional bigotry comes in the fact that Fred feels like a caricature of an intersex person. Everything about him reads as a textbook case of partial androgen insensitivity, an intersex condition where an individual is born with XY chromosomes , but their body does not process androgenic hormones like testosterone typically, so male puberty doesn't "set in" all the way. In complete cases an individual is born with a vagina and might not even be recognized as intersex until years later , when they have already been raised as female. Intersex bodies are subject to an insane amount of bigotry including infant mutilation surgeries to "correct" entirely harmless and cosmetic issues, some of which cause serious medical harm in the long term. Violence against intersex individuals is common, and being intersex is under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. The character arc of an intersex teenage boy trying to live up to unrealistic expectations of manhood in a misogynistic society with a misogynistic father, but growing and learning to overcome that would go insanely hard if any of the writers actually knew what they were doing. I don't think he was intentionally a stereotype, but he did come across that way. People tend to be very ignorant of intersex body types, how they lork, and the amount of danger these people are potentially in.
Amber Bennet from Invincible
The original Invincible comics are almost overwhelmingly white, so the creators of the show made the decision to give a couple characters a race lift for improved diversity. Normally , I don't mind this and it improves a lot of stories, but if you don't know what you're doing it can really backfire. Race doesn't exist in a vacuum, and if you don't understand racial politics very well , you can actually do something accidentally racist. Making Amber into a Black woman gave the story an unintentional but really uncomfortable vibe of the "Disposable Black GF" trope. Amber and Mark were never meant to be together, and the first season kind of implies he always wanted Eve deep down. This plotline makes Amber seem like a kind of stepping stone he has to jump over to get to a white woman. This isn't helped at all by the fact that the writers chose to change the way she finds out that Nark is Invincible , which makes her seem more unreasonable. She's way more reasonable in season 2 and they brokexup specifically because she doesn't want to feel selfish from missing him when she knows the rest of the world needs him, but somehow that flew directly over the heads of an often insufferable fanbase. Basically , they gave this poor girl a race lift and then accidentally made her a despised punching bag.
Hannah Baker from 13 Reasons Why
Sometimes shows written for teenagers try to tackle every social issue under the sun and then do none of them well. She is not a good representation of suicidal behavior. What Hannah is is a glamorized & fetishized depression manic pixie dream girl. Actual experts in the field of suicidal behavior say that this show did basically everything wrong. Stories can and should be made about dark topics like this, and about the horrifying experience of mental health professionals being unhelpful (something I have experienced irl) but maybe not like this, and maybe not aimed at extremely impressionable kids. There's been some studies suggesting that this show might have actually increased the amount of teenage suicides, but to be fair that correlation is not necessarily causation.