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Season Liberally With Wild Falsehoods

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Cis White Male, He/Him pronouns, 37 This is predominantly a place for me to geek about my fandoms (heavy focus on anything and almost everything BioWare - expect much Mass Effect and Dragon Age, but also Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Supernatural, and some others) and things that make me laugh. The latter often overlaps with the former. Organization here is a perpetual work in progress, but feel free to look through my tags at any time and reblog with more comments - if I've got commentary on something, I love talking more about it. For the record, anything that I post is free to reblog unless it has the tag 'dg gets personal'. Those are posts about me, to get things personal to me off my chest, not to be reblogged. Oh, and do note, I am a sucker for puns. There is a dedicated tag for them. There will be many.

Born too late.ย Elim Garak, you would have lovedย Real Housewivesย and the Bravo Universe

Born too late.ย Julian Bashir, you would have loved to hate watch Grey's Anatomy and hinge

Born too late.ย Benjamin Sisko, you would have loved Home Depot and hand painting miniatures

Born too late.ย Miles Oโ€™Brien, you would have loved fixing up old cars and fishing

Born too late.ย Jadzia Dax, you would have lovedย Balatroย and vaping (Watermelon mint)

Born too late.ย Kira Nerys, you would have loved laser tag and getting banned from r/politics for telling people to KYS

Born too late.ย Odo, you would have loved Life360 and being the power-tripping mod of a Neighborhood Crime Watch Facebook group

Born too late.ย Quark, you would have loved recruiting people into MLMs and running a wildly unethical crypto empire.

it never stops being funny how Evka and Antoine not only are not mad in the slightest at Rook Thorne for their actions in the backstory that got Rook in some hot water and sent out to Varric, not only did they happily help Rook do it, they're ALSO in hot water for participating and ALSO got sent away for it (to a remote posting nobody else wanted), and then on top of that Antoine implies in the starting letter that this isn't even the first time this situation has happened to them

My dad was sorting through his wallet and the cat was interested in what he was doing so he started holding his cards down for the cat to sniff and explaining to him what they all were.

Highlights:

โ€œThis is a Costco card. You wonโ€™t need one of these until youโ€™re older.โ€

โ€œThis a health insurance card. This where my mountain of pills come from.โ€

โ€œThis is a debit card. This lets me take money out of the bank. Money is not good for eating.โ€

Okay, I'm gonna take a moment and indulge the boomer attitude of being hard on the upcoming generation, purely because of those who rely on crap like ChatGPT. I don't normally give into these urges, and I know that a lot of it is more to do with a lot of societal blah blah, but I need to rage for a moment. Nuance and understanding will resume after this.

"How did we manage writing essays before ChatGPT?" We managed by FUCKING WRITING THEM!. 500, 1000 word essays? That's NOTHING. This is about learning how to BS, a valuable LIFE. SKILL. I was able to bang out five page, 2500 word essays in the hour before class that could get me A's back in college! Meanwhile, you toss prompts into a BS generator that is destroying our already ravaged environment AND FAIL. You do NOT get to judge me and mine for having a skill you are choosing not to hone. Figure out where the problem is, because I assure you, it ain't us.

I swear, every day that I cannot legitimately establish my fantasy world makes the real world all the more irritating.

Like, at least let me put a few elements of the fantasy into reality, make this SOMEWHAT more tolerable! But no, instead, reality just keeps trying to basically have the world collapse in on itself and be all the worse in comparison...

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS // S5E10 The Next New Generation You know why Boimler's weird death-faking clone sent that cosmic wave at us? Because he knew we kick ass. And I'm not just talking about the five of us. The whole Cerritos crew is stacked with amazing officers. Yeah, there's a lot of ships in the fleet which are bigger, fancier, they have engineering sections that are attached to the main part of the ship. And honestly, those crews are way more professional. Hey, I should know, I've been kicked out of half of 'em. But this thing we do doesn't require perfection. We're explorers. We live for the unknown. You can't prepare for that. Nobody on the Cerritos is even close to perfect. We're a mishmash of people and various creatures that don't fit in anywhere else. But we're a family. That's why I love it here. We believe in the mission and in each other.

Star Trek: Lower Decks - Season 5 Episode 10 "The New Next Generation"; Carol Freeman; Jack Ransom; Samanthan Rutherford; D'Vana Tendi; T'Lyn; Bradward Boimler; Beckett Mariner

Anonymous asked:

How does OCD factor into rabies?

Itโ€™s more so โ€œhow does rabies factor into OCD?โ€

And the answer is that it rabies OCD is a form of contamination OCD. And rabies is probably one of the most scary, most well known contaminates out there. And actual education about rabies is notoriously poor, so you hear a whole lot of fear mongering and very little actual facts. So here are the facts:

1. Rabies is 100% preventable if you get a post exposure vaccine.

2. Post exposure vaccines are not scary. Iโ€™m telling you this as someone who is afraid of shots. It is the year of our lord 2025, rabies vaccines are not how they used to be.

3. You cannot get rabies from blood, urine, or feces. You can only get rabies from saliva, ocular fluids, and sexual fluids and it must go into an open wound or something.

4. You cannot get rabies from an animal or human who is not rabid. Even if I got bit by a rabid raccoon and then came to bite you, I would not be able to give you rabies. That isnโ€™t how rabies works, you donโ€™t become rabid the moment you get rabies

6. Rabies can take a while (months) to develop. This scares some people, but really it should let you know that if you actually got bit or scratched, you will be fine. Call the health department or call your local wildlife rehabber. They know whatโ€™s what for *your* specific area. They might tell you donโ€™t need a shot, they might say you do.

7. If you arenโ€™t a little kid, you will know if a bat bit you. Yesโ€”you can feel it. It hurts. Iโ€™ve watched people get bit by bats. Iโ€™ve seen bat bites after the fact. Might you sleep through a bat bite? Yes. But you will know the next morning if you see a bat in your room. If you see a bat? Go to the doctor.

8. Rabies is rare in the US, both in humans and in animals. Donโ€™t touch wildlife, but also donโ€™t be afraid going about your daily business that a rabid raccoon snuck into your bedroom at night and French kissed you.

9. The best way to protect yourself against rabies is to keep a respectful distance from all wildlife and stray animals

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Rabies shots are more annoying than anything else. More painful than a hepatitis B or flu shot, less painful than tetanus or covid (unless you have to get the RIG in a sensitive area). And the box is hands down the funniest part of the experience bc it looks like a product designed to give you SUPER RABIES

Without the RABIES IMMUNE GLOBULIN label on this, I would assume this is a product in fact designed to give you more rabies, not protect you from getting rabies.

i really like in fiction when they're like oh no!!! the bad guys are about to win!!! and Character Who Keeps Trying To Sacrifice Themself For The Greater Good is like. gentlemen i have an idea

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