Still a good precaution. And definitely necessary for everyone for when life has returned to normal in like three years just in case you meet the love of your life and they’re positive.
Couldn’t share this fast enough.
Rebloging this to add a little more info because it’s very important:
Antiretroviral therapy when used correctly can cause the user’s “viral load” (your viral load is how much of the virus is in your bloodstream), to drop because the medicine prevents HIV from creating copies of itself.
Regular blood tests are done to monitor your viral load, and after taking the medication long enough, it can drop so low that it becomes “durably undetectable”. This means that the HIV virus in you has become so miniscule that it can’t be detected, and by extension can’t be transmitted either. It’s important to note that in order to be considered durable undetectable, you MUST test as undetectable for atleast 6 months after testing as undetectable for the first time.
Also very important, being durably undetectable does NOT mean that you’re cured or that the virus is gone, not by a longshot. The HIV virus is still very much there, but instead of being active, it’s gone dormant in a small number of cells called “viral reservoirs”. This why it’s EXTREMELY important that even after achieving durably undetectable status, you continue to take your Antiretroviral medications correctly. Because if you stop, the HIV virus will reemerge from the viral reservoirs and pick up right where it left off in creating copies of itself, and you will have to start all over again if you want to become durably undetectable again.
This is great advice for people struggling with or know someone who has HIV.
This is one of my favorite posts because that cat’s fucking name is fucking meatloaf
Let us just appreciate that this person’s dad didn’t know when they would be home and so he couldn’t plan for them to be able to join the family for dinner, but he knew with no doubts that dear sweet Meatloaf staying in that exact position for hours was an absolute in this scenario. Truly, that cat was named well.
one of my favorite posts on tumblr over the course of 5 fucking years.. clearly i need a life
Meatloaf is a reliable cat and did not steal the money for selfish reasons. A rare friend.
romance is lame and overrated i love mentor/mentee relationships in fiction and especially when theyre sort of fucked up
greatest hits:
- You started out as a bet/challenge to see if I could successfully wrangle the infamous Problem Child but oh whoops I got attached!
- You are my kind, bright-eyed protegé who would never do so much as rip a tag off a mattress. anyway I am going to acquaint you with Criminal Activity
- I showed you genuine kindness and it was maybe the first time you’d ever experienced it and accidentally ended up becoming more of a parent to you than your “real” blood family ever was. Uh. Do you want to play catch in the park or
- I will gladly take any punishment meant for you. I would go to the ends of the earth to protect you, even if it meant I had to die in the process. I would do it a thousand times over, and I wouldn’t regret any of it.
- I taught you how to fight, and now through some circumstance or another, I’m forced to engage you in life-or-death combat without holding back.
- I put you through training from hell to make you the person you are today, for “your own good”, and now you’ve realized that you can hit back. And you can hit hard.
- I have made you into something greater than yourself - but you are changing from how I have designed you, and this is something I cannot allow.
- I taught you everything you know, and it was the greatest mistake I’ve ever made.
- I will make you just like me - by force, if necessary.
stop taggin this with ships / “and then they kiss” / “but what if it WAS romantic” you are missing the whole point of this post so bad. this is a Certified Aro Post. get weird about platonic dynamics NOW
idk if anyone else felt this way, but in the Shapeshifter ep of Dungeon Meshi, it’s treated like a joke that all the copies of Laios are super obviously not him, but isn’t it kind of fucked up that Laios’s closest companions don’t seem to view him as… whole?
None of his companions had an accurate view of him as a person! One of the copies was a stupid, drooling mess! And on top of this, they all believed that because Laios struggles with social cues he wouldn’t be observant to them as people. They just… fundamentally don’t understand him.
I think the really accurate copies of the rest of the party was drawn from Laios’s mind. His powers of observation and analytics are his strength, but that’s not the same as being good with social cues.
Anyway. It made me really sad. I know his party cares about him, but it’s so isolating to know your friends don’t know you.
You’d be correct on the most accurate versions being from Laios, mostly he just missed the details of their outfits.
That’s what I thought!
I really like how this page goes into more detail about why the copies have the appearances they do. The Laios copies aren’t quite as bad the anime makes them look, but they are still obviously Not Laios.
I think the mentality of “why bother doing something if you’re not good at it?” feeds directly into “if you’re good at it why aren’t you monetizing it?”. At its core I really think its about commodifying every last shred of labor and experience.
THIS
Adding that this is literally a huge reason we don’t leave unsolicited criticism on things like fanworks- fanfiction, fanart, fan crafts etc. Because there’s a LOT of people out there who are just doing this for the fun of it. They’re doing it for the same reason people go on walks- to feel good. And receiving crit they didn’t ask for doesn’t feel good.
Picking up a hobby and then being judged for how good you are at it - even if the judgement is minor, or in your head - really fucks you up. As someone. Who is fucked up from holding unreasonable expectations for trying to be perfect at whatever I do, because that is what I do. It fucks you up. When I do something I *desire* to be good at it. Very good, if possible. I nigh expect things to go exactly as I imagine them, always, and it never comes out exactly the way I think, and it is devastating. Typos in my writing destroy me. Seeing a drawing that could just be a little crisper. A dropped stitch in a crochet project. Looking at my giant box of expensive markers and thinking quietly “but am I good enough at this to use them properly”, even though I love using them. It fucks you up.
A real question worth $500,000 on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Air date: November 18th, 1999
the end of this clip is the perfect punchline
For added context: Pokemon, both the game and the anime, released in the US in September 1998, a little over a year before this clip. And it was firmly aimed at kids, not adults.
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, starring Elijah Wood as Frodo, was in production at the time of this clip but would not be released for two more years, until December 2001.
So this guy is not quite as stupid as he appears to us here in the year of our lord 2023 - none of these things are household names and memes in his time the way they are today.
Regis has writers who should be able to at least look up which Baggins is in the Hobbit, though, so no excuses for him.
WAIT I MEANT FLAG I DIDN’T NEAN TO CLICK SEND POSY
If i had a nickel for every time i saw someone make a “stand for the fag” typo I’d have two nickel which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
I wish more people understood that sexual assault and harassment happen regardless of whether the perpetrator is attracted to the victim. Sexual harassment is frequently a social punishment for being undesirable
god, so i saw a terf reblog this, which ive been worried would happen ever since it broke containment. To clarify, people’s willingness to look away from sexual assault and harassment when it happens to people they deem undesirable is a large part of transphobia.
trans people are constant targets for for sexual abuse in a society that only ever sees them as perpetrators. This is not an accident. To a transphobic society trans people are inconvenient and undesirable victims. They are forcibly denied victim status and painted as monstrous to justify their continued abuse
visiting family rn and many wounds in my soul have been healed over the past few days by our cat who loves me and purrs very loudly just because she’s in the same room as me. she’s rubbing her little face against my laptop as i type this
And the real trick to it is falling madly in love with literally everything. Gomez Addams isn’t just madly in love with Morticia, he’s madly in love with his house, with his train set, with his kids, with his brother, with his weird normie neighbors, with literally everything. Different kinds of love for each, but love all the same. For having such morbid tastes, Gomez is madly in love with life. THAT’S how you land a Morticia, by being unapologetically and madly in love with everything around you.
Bitches love me for my passionate swag and my unrelenting appreciate for the zest of life
I often see people ask how to get started with doing this, because it seems like a daunting task to be in love with everything, when you are starting off in love with nothing, or very few things perhaps. But the answer isn’t grand or elaborate or secret. The answer is to pick something, and choose love.
And then do it again, and again, and again.
The act of being in love is just choosing love over and over.
The act of being
in love is just choosing love
over and over.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
The act of being in love is just choosing love over and over
We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing
say more pls
Yeah sure why not.
So most stories take place when Events are Happening, and this means that no matter what kind of job the characters have, they’re probably not too focused on them. Fanfics, on the other hand, often show the down time. Which means that the writer has to figure out what the hell these characters do in their jobs. Unless the characters have a job the author understands or knows well, the author is often at a loss for what to have the character doing.
So they sit them at a desk and give them paperwork. What is the paperwork for? Rarely specified. It is Paper Work for the characters Important Adult Job they have and they need to read or sign it or something. And there’s always a line about how Character Hates Paperwork. Doesn’t matter if Character is a Mafia Boss or a General or a Diplomat, here they are in an office trying to get out of Doing Paperwork.
There’s also a sense of, like, humor and mundanity that comes with it. Like the examples above, it always particularly stands out to me when a dangerous individual is griping about some paper they need to sign or something. The less you can picture Character doing paperwork, all the better to force it upon them. If Character is saddled with Paperwork, they’re usually now concerned about the physical damages their motley crew causes, because damage = More Paperwork.
Anyway I just think it’s fun or funny, Sephiroth doing paper work and Sawada Tsunayoshi doing paper work and this just in, Tony Stark is doing paperwork. Sorry, Phoenix Wright can’t play right now. Yeah, it’s paperwork.
A very non-exhaustive list of actual paperwork they could be completing/reviewing/approving, in no particular order:
Can’t decide whether it’s funnier to say “my hungry ass could never work at a” and then say something that implies you’re eating something truly grotesque or something that just, makes no sense
“my hungry ass could never be a brain surgeon” awful. 10/10
“my hungry ass could never be a truck driver” ????? 10/10
EATYIGNIN TIJOK;L'HE????
my hungry ass could never be a president
My hungry ass could. Thats why you should vote for me in the upcoming elections
Anthropomorphic animal world, I was some kind of thief. I was thinking about the risks of whatever change the organisation I was a part of was doing, some kind of restructuring.
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Why have I already had 3 (three) dreams where everyone is a furry??
What does this mean?
Should I post my dreams? They’re all bat-shit deranged and mostly nonsensical
these army ants tend to move in groups of 4, with the line leader leading the expeditions. They have terrible eyesight, so rely on the sound of the Line Leader’s bell staff, and the the pheromone map made by the previous expedition to know where they’re heading.
Not trying to start discourse; I just wanted to point out that, contrary to what many believe, Christians are already oppressed more than any other religion. And while I have not been persecuted personally, thousands of my brothers and sisters in Christ have been and have died in atrocious ways for their faith, and there is very good reason for me to believe that persecution for Christians worldwide, even in free countries like America, is just on the horizon. Ask any Christian, and they will likely say the same. Numbers of persecuted Christians are currently in the hundred millions; look it up if you don’t believe me.
Anyone, feel free to hate on me. It won’t change anything.
Exactly!!! It may not seem like it to non-Christians, but it’s true — Christians are the most persecuted. I won’t bother posting my own references, if only because she (last response) nailed it with that. Obviously I don’t agree with it (Christians being persecuted), but I’d say it’s for a reason: our faith is the true faith. God is the true — and only — God. He made Heaven and Earth. If any of you have questions or want to know more (or even want to try and argue at me about it), I’d be delighted (genuinely! not sarcastically) to share the Good Word! I’d also like to add that if anyone from any other religion posted the same video with the same premise (but with their own religion instead Christianity), they’d be praised for being “brave” and for “being unapologetic about their faith.” If someone posted the exact same caption that OP did on this video on said hypothetical video, they’d be the one getting death threats, not the woman in the video. Please, please understand this: we aren’t trying to attack non-Christians/the world’s culture. We’re simply trying to live peaceful lives while trying to show the Truth to whoever we can. As a Christian myself, I love you all. I don’t care if you send me hate, death threats, whatever — I still love you. Whatever arguments you may have against any of my points won’t change a thing — I stand firm in my faith and I will never stop caring about any of you. God bless you all 💜
We need to oppress these two Christians specifically
For the curious, here’s a breakdown of the references:
1. A Prager U 2-pager with zero sources cited
2. A libertarian think tank that primarily cites Open Doors USA, which “tracks Christian (and only Christian) persecution worldwide”, and doesn’t reveal any sources for that information. Even if you take their own descriptions at face value (which you shouldn’t), you still couldn’t use their information to compare Christian persecution to that of other religions worldwide.
3. An article on a more long-form report on Christian persecution written by the Bishop of Truro, who’s totally not a biased party. Funnily enough the bishop’s report actually does have a full bibliography, mostly web articles from the last decade. Seeing all those articles next to each other really shows how many “Christians are oppressed and nobody’s talking about it” articles are released each year. Seems like plenty of people are talking about it.
4. A Forbes article that primarily cites both the same bishop’s report and Open Doors USA again.
5. A website called “for the martyrs” whose sole citation is Open Doors USA.
6. Yet another article whose sole citation is Open Doors USA.
…Yeah, not sure I agree with the 2nd responder’s definition of “nailed it”.
Not trying to start discourse; I just wanted to point out that, contrary to what many believe, Christians are already oppressed more than any other religion. And while I have not been persecuted personally, thousands of my brothers and sisters in Christ have been and have died in atrocious ways for their faith, and there is very good reason for me to believe that persecution for Christians worldwide, even in free countries like America, is just on the horizon. Ask any Christian, and they will likely say the same. Numbers of persecuted Christians are currently in the hundred millions; look it up if you don’t believe me.
Anyone, feel free to hate on me. It won’t change anything.
Exactly!!! It may not seem like it to non-Christians, but it’s true — Christians are the most persecuted. I won’t bother posting my own references, if only because she (last response) nailed it with that. Obviously I don’t agree with it (Christians being persecuted), but I’d say it’s for a reason: our faith is the true faith. God is the true — and only — God. He made Heaven and Earth. If any of you have questions or want to know more (or even want to try and argue at me about it), I’d be delighted (genuinely! not sarcastically) to share the Good Word! I’d also like to add that if anyone from any other religion posted the same video with the same premise (but with their own religion instead Christianity), they’d be praised for being “brave” and for “being unapologetic about their faith.” If someone posted the exact same caption that OP did on this video on said hypothetical video, they’d be the one getting death threats, not the woman in the video. Please, please understand this: we aren’t trying to attack non-Christians/the world’s culture. We’re simply trying to live peaceful lives while trying to show the Truth to whoever we can. As a Christian myself, I love you all. I don’t care if you send me hate, death threats, whatever — I still love you. Whatever arguments you may have against any of my points won’t change a thing — I stand firm in my faith and I will never stop caring about any of you. God bless you all 💜
We need to oppress these two Christians specifically
For the curious, here’s a breakdown of the references:
1. A Prager U 2-pager with zero sources cited
2. A libertarian think tank that primarily cites Open Doors USA, which “tracks Christian (and only Christian) persecution worldwide”, and doesn’t reveal any sources for that information. Even if you take their own descriptions at face value (which you shouldn’t), you still couldn’t use their information to compare Christian persecution to that of other religions worldwide.
3. An article on a more long-form report on Christian persecution written by the Bishop of Truro, who’s totally not a biased party. Funnily enough the bishop’s report actually does have a full bibliography, mostly web articles from the last decade. Seeing all those articles next to each other really shows how many “Christians are oppressed and nobody’s talking about it” articles are released each year. Seems like plenty of people are talking about it.
4. A Forbes article that primarily cites both the same bishop’s report and Open Doors USA again.
5. A website called “for the martyrs” whose sole citation is Open Doors USA.
6. Yet another article whose sole citation is Open Doors USA.
…Yeah, not sure I agree with the 2nd responder’s definition of “nailed it”.
ghibli movies: funny little ladies going on adventures and living their lives :) look at how pretty these trees and flowers are. oh its a kitty cat!! :0
also ghibli movies: fuck you. war and capitalism is destroying the earth. several cultures have drastically and irreversibly altered by western influence, many for the worse. the world collapsing in on itself. now watch these children slowly die for two hours. fuck you.
you can improve literally any word by adding “girl” in front of it btw. girlscared. girlnormal. girlweird. girlsilly. etc. girl can be such a beautiful focal point of anyone’s vocabulary
the trick is though you can ALSO improve literally any word by adding girl behind it. scaredgirl. normalgirl. weirdgirl. sillygirl. girl can be such a beautiful focal point of ANYONES vocabulary
hey um chuckles nervously. what the fuck are they doing over on tiktok
The fact that Fountain is pissing off trads over a 100 years later is so fucking funny
As an art major, while I know Fountain is a valid piece of art that accomplished exactly what it set out to do, I also think it’s one of the stupidest things. We have a urinal in a museum display. I have yet to see a work I think is dumber.
