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Dr. Schwartz’s Life Guideline Dodecagon

Be kind to others

Be kind to yourself

Take risks

Fail

Work hard

Moisturize

Try to do the things you want to do. Just do them. Your dream does not have to be your full time job. Your passion can be something on the side. Just do it.

Find your circus (your people)

Try different things (don’t limit yourself to one hobby or hivemind)

Listen

Keep in touch with friends and family

Live in the moment

Our man received an honorary doctorate at Union College, so I shall therefore refer to him as such (and seek him out for all of my honorary surgical needs)

Ben also announced another shelving of a project he’d been working on for years. A TV show, the 8th of his big sells that ended up never happening. He’s not afraid to talk about his failures and use them as fuel for the next run. Head up, eyes forward Class of 2024! Congrats!

📸: Union College

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So one of my tweets kinda blew up. :v

Ok, update time! So for a while I have been kind of living off of T-shirts and shorts, but recently my mom took me clothes shopping for the first time in like 5 years. Now it’s not bc I don’t like clothes shopping, I just forgot to do so along with some probable self image issues. However, in this new look I feel like a whole new person! I also got my hair dyed this Monday by the AMAZING Erica Wilson, if you need an excuse to get your hair done, go see Erica! These past few days have been really good for me, I didn’t know I needed this. For those who know me, I don’t really think of my own self care as much I think and put others emotional health before my own. (I’m not trying to sound egotistical, that’s just how I’m programmed.) I’m really happy how these past few days have turned out for me. If you need time to get some self care, do it. Taking care of yourself, whether it’s getting a makeover or just taking a day off, is not selfish or self centered. We all need some time to refuel, never be ashamed of making sure you’re ok too.😊❤️ (at The Salon Professional Academy Dallas) https://www.instagram.com/p/B22kFyGJcE80pO7Q78pux9DDyxLf6mJeyDCqX00/?igshid=1bki5o79xwzw8

Apothecary Diaries is pog as fuck bc serious political issues and dynamics from a woman's POV are rarely depicted in ANY form of media

It's always a man's world where women's issues surround him. Even if we get a female perspective once in awhile- it all comes back to how it facilitates his game in the end. She's a footnote in the overarching scheme of things. Misogyny exists. Back to the real plot.

Apothecary Diaries is strictly from a female perspective and how each class of woman has to act, what limits they have, what rights they have and don't have between each class, etc. These women have to behave a certain way under a patriarchy, which you would think makes it a man's story, but it never is. The women are THE focus of this show, their struggles are THE plot. The focus is about how the patriarch effects them.

Take the concubines for example. The show dives into how bearing a child affects their rank, how traumatizing it is to lose that child, the consequences of that, etc. We have barely seen the emperor who sired all these kids because this is not about him.

Jinshi's personal plot is secondary to Mao Mao's journey- he is mostly there to provide new cases for Mao Mao to solve and to learn more about the shortcomings of his class when taking care of citizens like Mao Mao.

Jinshi is not a bad person, but by virtue of his position in the higher classes, he cannot understand how harsh life as a poor WOMAN is specifically- he can only catch glimpses of it from what Mao Mao tells him and feel outrage but powerless in his wealth and luxury

Mao Mao is a fortunate commoner woman for what privileges someone in her class should and shouldn't have. She happened to be adopted by a knowledgeable man. She is allowed to read, write, learn, and has enough skill to be a poison tester and have a job EXTREMELY out of her class limit as an apothecary, also a job not traditionally meant for women

Mao Mao is not a "noT lIkE oThER gIrLs" protagonist, she is FOR THE GIRLIES. She only wants to help the women around her, and women are whom she has the closest relationships to. She sees a woman being harassed and can't let it stand. She sees a frail, traumatized woman dying from the recklessness of those who should be caring for her and spends day and night nursing her back to health, while also punishing the people who were so careless with her needs.

My girl has STUDIED UP on THE BODY to TEACH these upper class ladies on how to really HEAT things up in the BEDROOM

Sex depicted in Apothecary Diaries is both something women are not shamed to be enjoying, while at the same time being acknowledged as an unfortunately huge economic necessity to market themselves.

Like shit is just so real in this series???

Listen, I can go on and on about how GOATED the series and especially Mao Mao is but you get the picture

I know it’s year of the dragon this year but I wouldn’t mind if it became year of the capybara

A lucky capybara has given you a blessing! ✨ May it last the whole year and more!

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THIS! RIGHT HERE!

When I was younger I hated romantic comedies. But it just occurred to me that what I actually hated was films/shows with sexist stereotypes and heteronormative bullshit. Turns out I actually fucking love romantic comedies now that I've figured out they can be queer and/or not full of toxic patriarchal nonsense.

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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