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yamujiburo

cyberwulf asked:

How do you think Professor Oak views Delia/Jessie? They're friends in canon and Team Rocket has tried to steal from him before.

yamujiburo answered:

I think he’s a healthy amount of suspicion about Jessie but is cordial! He respects Delia and trusts her judgment (she was one of his top students after all). So that mostly outweighs his skepticism. I think he grows to be genuinely impressed by how hardworking Jessie, James and Meowth are and how seriously they’re taking their “second chance”.

Overall, I think he’d just be genuinely happy that Delia is happy with Jessie. Honestly, he probably knows Delia better than anyone else and gives Jessie little tidbits of advice about the things Delia likes. Jessie acts a little snooty about it, not wanting to take advice from some old dude (but she’s secretly grateful)

My girlfriend also has a great hc that Oak doesn’t catch on to Delia and Jessie dating until much later than anyone else. He sees them holding hands and is just like “I’m glad Delia’s making friends!”

greatwyrmgold

Delia invites Oak to their wedding and Oak asks who the lucky guy is.

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yumearashi

This is so important, stories like this need to be told.  The cultural insistence we have that parenthood is some kind of magical bonding that happens every time without exception does real harm to both parents and children, as you can see from some of these stories:

My father recently told me he never wanted kids, but my mother wanted them. She thought he would love us when we were born.

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I didn’t realize that a maternal instinct is not universal. You know how you see parents in the delivery room and they are crying tears of joy? I felt nothing. […] My boys are well cared for and I am always here for them, but it feels very unnatural and fake and unenjoyable. It is a bit like a retail job you don’t like where you put on a fake persona and slog through it the best you can. I don’t get to leave this job, though. 

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I also thought I wouldn’t mind missing out on all the partying and holidays because I would have the ultimate gift, a child.

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I always said I would never have children. I hate kids..I do. I am just not that type of nurturing person. I was always very careful to make sure protection was in use (condoms, birth control) but I am that .1% and apparently very fertile.  I do not have that natural motherly instinct that all women seem to have, you know..that one that kicks in the moment they know they’re pregnant. I have to work really hard at it and it’s exhausting. I miss my solitude and being able to “check out” of reality from time to time.

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Because kids aren’t the life completer we believe they are.

Are there people for whom having children completes their lives?  No doubt.  Are there parents for whom the downsides like sleeplessness and loss of personal time are outweighed by the love and joy they feel?  Of course.  Are there people who change their minds about wanting kids once they have them?  Sure.  But that’s not true for everyone.  It doesn’t happen every time, it’s never guaranteed, and the consequences are grievous when people who don’t want children have them anyway trusting that they will love the child and be happy.

We need to dispel the starry-eyed myths around pregnancy, childbirth, and marriage and create more realistic expectations.  Parenthood is too important a choice for people not to go into it with their eyes open.

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“It doesn’t happen every time, it’s never guaranteed, and the consequences are grievous when people who don’t want children have them anyway trusting that they will love the child and be happy.” 

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There’s a book on this topic that was groundbreaking when it came out, called Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Dr. Orna Donath. The backlash was insane. This is a topic that simply wasn’t discussed, and as the book became more famous (was translated into multiple languages, received a lot of public attention), the responses also became more incendiary. I had the utter honor and pleasure of studying with Orna - she read us some of the death threats she received, in her calm and measured manner, using them to further show just how deeply society expects motherhood of women.

I haven’t read the book myself, but knowing Orna, and having read some of her other work, I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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abyranss:
“After receiving comments on Reddit where people were unable to notice the passenger in the background (due to lower screen brightness it seems) I have made revisions.
Increasing the passenger to background contrast wasn’t working; it took...
abyranss

After receiving comments on Reddit where people were unable to notice the passenger in the background (due to lower screen brightness it seems) I have made revisions.

Increasing the passenger to background contrast wasn’t working; it took away from the atmosphere too much, so in the end I made this glitchy animated version which, at first, was headache-inducing from the brightness of the clear frame but I have since lowered that some and hopefully it’s okay to look at.

Original here

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hey so remember those new protest laws that make peaceful protest illegal? yeah? wanna see them in action?

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Head of UK’s leading anti-monarchy group arrested at coronation protest

Republic’s Graham Smith held at protest on King Charles III’s procession route in central London

Daniel Boffey Chief reporter, Sat 6 May 2023 08.31 BST


The head of the UK’s leading republican movement has been arrested at an anti-monarchist protest on King Charles III’s procession route.

Graham Smith had been collecting drinks and placards for demonstrators at Trafalgar Square when he was detained by police on the Strand in central London.

It is understood Smith was detained after bringing a megaphone to the demonstration. The Met police had tweeted earlier this week that they would have a “low tolerance” of those seeking to “undermine” the day.


Harry Stratton, a director at Republic, who arrived as Smith and the others were detained, said: “They were collecting the placards and bringing them over when the police stopped them.

“The guys asked why and they were told: we will tell you that once we have searched the vehicle. That’s when they arrested the six organisers. We asked on what grounds they had been arrested but they wouldn’t say. It is a surprise as we had had a number of meetings with the police. They had been making all the right noises”.



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dont you love it when your government decides to not even bother hiding the fact the fascist tendencies theyre leaning more and more into?

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Lowe - A New Form of Carbon:

Here's today's weird molecule, for sure. A collaboration between IBM-Zürich and Oxford has reported a new allotrope of carbon, this one an 18-membered ring of alternating triple and single bonds (!)

transgenderer

How do they know its alternating bonds and not just a bunch of double bonds? Is it like, some restriction on the bond angle?

transgenderer

@raginrayguns said:

atomic force microscopy

idk if this is necessary background but bond order isn't just accounting, it's kind of like a 0th order estimate of the electron density, triple bonds actually have a concentration of electron density there. (with benzene understood as having order 1.5 bonds, not actually alternating.) Theoretically we should be able to get bond orders from xray diffraction, would be a good phd thesis for a computational chem student imo

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!!! direct imaging of bonds....thats so cool. thats crazy.

not that there's anything wrong with accounting science chemistry