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okay new blog made and mutuals refollowed! I'll delete this one in a couple days when I finish setting up the new one
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if the tech teacher doesn't know what linux is then he deserves whatever mayhem this middle schooler is going to inflict
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vane is legitimately the character with the most respectable politics and most consistent praxis in the show. unfortunately he also is a man and in love with eleanor
eleanorvane is a cautionary tale about the dangers of getting involved with that one woke girl who is toooootally one of you poors
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | 2x04 BLACK SAILS | 4x10
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Shell. Chair. Shair if you will.
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Honestly I believe Real Rashid is 100% straight and Louis and Armand have known he's working for the Talamasca since he was hired. They just can't bring themselves to fire or kill him until they fuck him. The flirting is shamefully obvious and neverending and he's just like 🕴will that be all sirs? And Armand just buttons his shirt back up with a defeated sigh. He's been begging to be transferred to another assignment for like three years but he's survived longer than 90% of all undercover agents, he's a legend. It's why he dropped that newspaper and fucking booked it. He was free at last.
I blacked out and wrote this:
Title: We Watch Pairings: Louis/Armand, Armand/Others Rating: teen Summary: Louis wants to do the interview, Armand is against it. Rashid is, unfortunately, in the middle.
Rashid made the mistake of asking for this assignment.
“I'm ready,” he'd said. Like an idiot.
“I know what I'm doing,” he'd said. Wildly incorrect.
“I'm the best choice for the job.” That, at least, was true. But more fool him for pointing it out. He should have been avoiding this assignment at all costs. No one should be doing this. It's insane.
SCREAMING
Any time someone writes something based on one of my stupid shitposts is like Christmas and my birthday rolled into one omg
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i forgot a crucial part of pet ownership: bothering that animal a little
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really need us to add david talbot to the list of nasty old men daniel is fighting for armands honor on our wishlist
like I tend to forget about memnoch the devil just in general but it's actually so sinister when you consider that lestat has the impression in memnoch that armand and daniel are good friends and then only when armand is in an incredibly low and vulnerable position at the beginning of tva does david start hitting on him. I love their conversation at the beginning because it's one of the only times we get to see armand express in his own words how bitter and angry he is about how older men treat him but it also SUCKS for the same reason and sucks even worse if they really were friends in memnoch. "everyone would ravage a guilty cunning child" indeed. david I'll fucking kill you dude
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Thousands of premature infants were saved from certain death by being part of a Coney Island entertainment sideshow.
At the time premature babies were considered genetically inferior, and were simply left to fend for themselves and ultimately die.
Dr Martin Couney offered desperate parents a pioneering solution that was as expensive as it was experimental - and came up with a very unusual way of covering the costs.
It was Coney Island in the early 1900’s. Beyond the Four-Legged Woman, the sword swallowers, and “Lionel the Lion-Faced Man,” was an entirely different exhibit: rows of tiny, premature human babies living in glass incubators.
The brainchild of this exhibit was Dr. Martin Couney, an enigmatic figure in the history of medicine. Couney created and ran incubator-baby exhibits on the island from 1903 to the early 1940s.
Behind the gaudy facade, premature babies were fighting for their lives, attended by a team of medical professionals.To see them, punters paid 25 cents.The public funding paid for the expensive care, which cost about $15 a day in 1903 (the equivalent of $405 today) per incubator.
Couney was in the lifesaving business, and he took it seriously. The exhibit was immaculate. When new children arrived, dropped off by panicked parents who knew Couney could help them where hospitals could not, they were immediately bathed, rubbed with alcohol and swaddled tight, then “placed in an incubator kept at 96 or so degrees, depending on the patient. Every two hours, those who could suckle were carried upstairs on a tiny elevator and fed by breast by wet nurses who lived in the building. The rest [were fed by] a funneled spoon. The smallest baby Couney handled is reported to have weighed a pound and a half.
His nurses all wore starched white uniforms and the facility was always spotlessly clean.
An early advocate of breast feeding, if he caught his wet nurses smoking or drinking they were sacked on the spot. He even employed a cook to make healthy meals for them.
The incubators themselves were a medical miracle, 40 years ahead of what was being developed in America at that time.
Each incubator was made of steel and glass and stood on legs, about 5ft tall. A water boiler on the outside supplied hot water to a pipe running underneath a bed of mesh, upon which the baby slept.
Race, economic class, and social status were never factors in his decision to treat and Couney never charged the parents for the babies care.The names were always kept anonymous, and in later years the doctor would stage reunions of his “graduates.
According to historian Jeffrey Baker, Couney’s exhibits “offered a standard of technological care not matched in any hospital of the time.”
Throughout his decades of saving babies, Couney understood there were better options. He tried to sell, or even donate, his incubators to hospitals, but they didn’t want them. He even offered all his incubators to the city of New York in 1940, but was turned down.
In a career spanning nearly half a century he claimed to have saved nearly 6,500 babies with a success rate of 85 per cent, according to the Coney Island History
In 1943, Cornell New York Hospital opened the city’s first dedicated premature infant station. As more hospitals began to adopt incubators and his techniques, Couney closed the show at Coney Island. He said his work was done.
Today, one in 10 babies born in the United States is premature, but their chance of survival is vastly improved—thanks to Couney and the carnival babies.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/how-fake-docs-carnival-sideshow-brought-baby-incubators-to-main-stage/
Book: The strange case of Dr. Couney
New York Post Photograph: Beth Allen
Original FB post by Liz Watkins Barton
You know, when you think about it, Dr. Courney might have saved some 6000 babies in his life time - but if he pioneered the methods that we still use today, then he's saved every preemie baby since too.
OK BUT Did anyone else catch how Beth Allen is the premie in the picture and eventually became the New York Post Photographer who worked on that book/article? I'm going to cry