Today the Department of Extraordinary Embroidery is marveling at this awesomely exquisite cross-stitched recreation of John William Waterhouse’s 1908 Pre-Raphaelite painting, The Soul of the Rose. It was painstakingly created, one x-shaped stitch at a time, over a 4 year period by the mother of Twitter user @TamSepulveda.
The best reddit thread I’ve ever seen was when someone asked if the gang from Always Sunny in Philadelphia could kill Darth Maul and almost all of the responses were over 4 paragraphs long
Best quote from that thread: “To give the gang a slight advantage, We’ll assume that Darth Maul has not seen any of the films in the Home Alone franchise.”
“The possibility that I was an ogbanje occurred to me around the same time I realized I was trans, but it took me a while to collide the two worlds. I suppressed the former for a few years because most of my education had been in the sciences and all of it was Westernized — it was difficult for me to consider an Igbo spiritual world equally, if not more valid. The legacy of colonialism had always taught us that such a world wasn’t real, that it was nothing but juju and superstition. When I finally accepted its validity, I revisited what that could mean for my gender. Did ogbanje even have a gender to begin with? Gender is, after all, such a human thing.
However, being trans means being any gender different from the one assigned to you at birth. Whether ogbanje are a gender themselves or without gender didn’t really matter, it still counts as a distinct category, so maybe my transition wasn’t located with human categories at all. Instead, the surgeries were a bridge across realities, a movement from being assigned female to assigning myself as ogbanje; a spirit customizing its vessel to reflect its nature.”
“In a survey of American transplant centres, active schizophrenia was an “absolute contraindication” to transplantation in 92% of cardiac units, 67% of liver units, and 73% of renal units. Controlled schizophrenia was relatively contraindicated in 51%, 65%, and 62% respectively. During the first 11 years of a heart transplantation programme in Montreal, 226 transplants were completed and 28 people were denied the procedure on the basis of a psychiatric diagnosis.“
Peter Byrne, Organ transplantation and discrimination: Treatment should be available to everyone
One of the things about “sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to do” is that sure but there is a difference between doing things that aren’t pleasant but you want to do on the meta-level cuz you feel like you should do it or it supports your goals and being forced to do something
For four years I’ve said home and meant a place I don’t sleep anymore. I’m not sure if it’s there.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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