it’s really wild that we discovered the cause of celiac because there was a famine during wwii and the celiac kids at a dutch hospital actually got healthier.
then they got food again and did what anybody would do and fed their patients and people started dying of celiac again until they noticed the link and were like ok bread makes celiac patients sicker.
honestly shoutout to dr. willem karel dicke for connecting the dots relatively fast because I could easily see this being one of those stories where the doctors were just like huh! anyway! but what a way to do an elimination diet.
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard.” - Brennan Lee Mulligan
Silver fox Eddie who just went through a divorce and wants to get back into the scene but he thinks he’s too old. A friend convinces him to just go for it, so he winds up at a singles night event. He doesn’t feel like going all out on his outfit, so he sticks to what he knows.
What he definitely doesn’t expect is for a younger guy (young enough to make him feel truly terrible) to drop to his knees with a smile and jokingly ask Eddie if he can worship his combat books
Eddie is just….sort of thrown. He’s like, “Uh, I mean. I wore them here, so. They’re kind of dirty.”
And the guy smiles even BIGGER and he goes, “Even better. I’m Steve, by the way.”
@oyavaski i think the funniest part of this is you thinking that this is fake because…..some of us are the same age and we have normal tumblr names i guess lmao????
never thought i’d get accused of faking having a mice infestation for tumblr clout and yet here we are
I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know
Famous pop/rock band The Strands go on a tour through the US. They invite a up-and-coming metal band from their lead singer’s home town to be their opening act.
Eddie thinks there’s no way Steve Harrington remembers him from Hawkins High.
Steve mostly invited them because Eddie Munson got even hotter since they graduated and he’s a freaking sex machine on stage. He tells their manager Robin that he digs their music and just wants to support a band from back home. Robin sees right through it immediately but sends out the invitation to Corroded Coffin’s management anyways because she’s starving for some rom-com entertainment.
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”