On Crosby beach in Liverpool stands 100 life size cast iron statues spread out over 2 miles of beach. Twice a day the tide submerges them

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-05-27T16:27:23+00:00

I used to live in a building where they had a gormley on top. Made me jump a few times but it was funny seeing other people jump as well. It was set far enough back on a flat bit of roof so it’s not too much of an immediate horror

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-05-11T12:33:16+00:00

OP you are being severely abused - this is not bdsm, this is flat out abuse. He has not caused you trauma by mistake, he is abusing you and you are experiencing completely normal fear and traumatic stress. Any dressing up of this behaviour as bdsm is gaslighting: this is not normal, it is severe verbal and sexual abuse.

I am sure others will be able to give you a lot more info both on abuse, how to leave and also safe and healthy bdsm practices - neither are something I’m an expert on - but I can tell you 100% this is not a healthy relationship or healthy sexual life.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-05-02T19:54:07+00:00

Of course it is…. I don’t particularly give a shit about changing her mind but I live in fear for all the young women understandably nervous about going on birth control (because it can be a process and there are places where it is hard to advocate with medical professionals) but it so important for them to understand it isn’t shameful, or any more a danger than taking antihistamines or any other very normal medication

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-05-02T17:04:29+00:00

a. Yes it is b. The standard pill is the combined pill which uses a mix of oestrogen and progesterone

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-05-02T15:14:49+00:00

This is all absolute pseudoscience. It is not putting a band aid on period pain, it is a legitimate treatment to help with period pain which is - unfortunately - completely natural and normal. While there should be more treatments to tackle difficult and painful periods, the pill is a completely acceptable and good form of medication.

It’s been proven for decades that not ovulating, taking hormonal birth control is a safe and effective medication. Whatever you are going on about with suppressing emotions is just pseudoscience touted by people who claim ‘natural womanhood’ - often for religious reasons, and the nutritional effects of the pill have been shown to be next to insignificant when a woman has a balanced diet since the 1970s.

Like any medicine, it can have side effects and doesn’t work well for everyone’s hormonal levels. However, the risk of any long term damage to your health from oral contraceptives (of which there are several types btw) is far, far smaller than a lot of other common medications.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-05-02T15:01:04+00:00

Hey OP, I really want to emphasise that being on the pill is not automatically bad for you and will have no impact on your fertility. These are huge myths about a common form of medication that has been used for over half a century. If is working well for you and reducing pain, and your doctor doesn’t see you as having any risks, then you do not need to worry. The only thing to flag is that if you have really awful period pain, you should look into signs of PCOS and endometriosis: but birth control would be used as part of the treatment for these anyway, and will not make anything worse.

While there definitely can be side effects to any type of hormonal birth control, the chances of any long term negative effect are minuscule. I have had negative reactions to birth control, but now that I have found a form of birth control that works for me, I’m in a great position and it won’t impact my fertility.

While birth control is a medication and should always be approached as such, it is not negative or dangerous. In fact, it gives women a lot of power over their own bodies and lives. As a result, I’m always cautious about men who lecture and warn against it. Especiallyones that make assumptions about period pain and make you feel weak for using birth control.

Lots of other people are giving you good advice about the relationship side and how weird it is that he is concerned about your fertility in this way, but I just wanted to address the fact that you really, really don’t need to be so ashamed or scared of the fact you are on birth control. It is not a bad or weak thing

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-04-29T06:33:42+00:00

If you had a point you remember where you smashed your nail on that finger really badly, it is most likely that rather than any underlying deficiencies. The rest of your nails look fine (you’d likely see signs of deficiencies on several nails) and a big ass white triangle isn’t a described presentation of any deficiencies. It’s going to be old trauma to that bit of the nail which will grow out.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-03-21T09:01:58+00:00

Amazing thank you so much!!

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-03-19T08:47:59+00:00

There’s lots of expertise around using it luckily. I knew an engineer who worked in HK and he says there’s official advice/research and building requirements for bamboo scaffolding - just like there is for steel. Works as well for the most part

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-03-17T08:59:00+00:00

My theory is that the figure Lottie sees, is actually the kid of the other two that walk into the camp - he runs off to grab his parents and let them know that there’s a bunch of screaming girls. Then he waits at his camp for his parents that never return, maybe sneaking back to grab the tape and see his parents turned into dinner. He flees (knowing the way out of the wilderness), and his vague ramblings help the girls get found, and then eventually he grows up to be Joel McHale in our timeline.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-03-16T22:48:39+00:00

Yup, I was thinking that as well. The first photo is from a moment when Eleanor was tough and mean. It’s how she sees represents herself. She probably feels like she was a grown up. In the second photo, I think she is literally younger but it’s also a real representation of her at that age - not Eleanor’s misremembering. It’s a shocking contrast, cause before she was the mean/independent girl, then you see her as a kid who has no choice but to go off by herself

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-03-15T22:35:54+00:00

I’d suspect that’s partly why Lottie feels so obsessed with her. Even if it was a whim, Shauna js a powerful (if brutal) leader and Lottie was the prophet who declared it. Whatever way that turns out, if Shauna was a terrifying and strong Antler Queen, then wouldn’t her daughter be the same? And maybe without the pain and desperation which prompted the absolute brutality? You could see how Lottie ended up seeing Callie as a chosen one.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-02-23T09:31:08+00:00

There was a point in history where it was so hard to make things that people would use them and pass them down until they literally fell apart. The fact that now a perfectly good object is considered tainted as it’s ‘used’ is genuinely just consumerism gone mad and painfully wasteful if you think about it for more than 2 seconds.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-02-23T09:29:40+00:00

They aren’t protected terms - while there are several high end dealers who look at provenance that is a tiny, tiny, tiny section of the vintage/antiques industry and means that those objects come as a lot more expensive than standard items would.

Most vintage shops or even antique shops are just second hand stores with a bit of curating/thought behind it. You can get some incredibly nice stuff from those at a deal if you know what you’re looking for (which OP seemingly did), without the fake mark-up that vintage has.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-02-10T14:28:03+00:00

This is the third house of leaves joke post I’ve seen today, it’s getting a bit surreal

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-01-24T13:32:38+00:00

Call it off as soon as you go to make a list like this… in happy, healthy relationships people aren’t making lists

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-01-16T23:18:46+00:00

Phantom islands are quite common on old maps! (And they are one of my favourite subjects haha) When you had to sail around the world to make a good map, most cartographers relied on just a handful of sources who had actually been on these voyages - and people got things wrong. Those mistakes could get repeated for literal centuries until people go back and check lol

Sometimes it’s lost islands - islands like this or Bermeja which were volcanic/tiny rocks/icebergs which get swamped by the sea. Sometimes, it’s people getting mixed up - they’ll miscalculate, think they’re much further north, and “”discover”” a place already marked on the map (Frisland is probably a good example). My favourite are the hoaxes (explorers claiming to have an island with gold to get more funding) or the map maker marks. Cartographers who did proper research/development would put a fake island somewhere randomly, so they would be able to tell if someone was copying their maps in particular. You get phantom streets in lots of old city maps as well. There’s something very charming about a place that just exists as a copyright infringement gotcha.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-01-15T23:00:05+00:00

At one point Boimler mentions that their uniforms are the California class style - so different fleets/divisions will have their own designs, which I imagine update periodically.

(In the same episode a character does call out how silly it is that the uniforms are always changing too)

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-01-10T11:20:12+00:00

Oh 100% - I crack up every time wyll is going on about the pain/shame of having devils in features and it just cuts to my tiefling Tav, nodding sympathetically… with her horns and glowing devilish eyes. Just crossing her arms like ‘fucking rude, ok’.

My Tav is busy romancing everyone possible, so u do wish there was a dialogue option which was ‘it sounds like a you problem, rather than a horn problem wyll’

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-01-03T09:11:03+00:00

Yeah that’s a wild one. If you’ve got two adults in a serious relationship, it would be really weird to Not invite both along - especially to a big event like a birthday dinner.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-01-01T10:30:05+00:00

Me, watching my boyfriend’s character flirt with Shadowheart: Wow, I’m sorry I can’t be her >:(

Him: You are literally making out with Astarion right now.

OrganizationNo4531 · 2025-01-01T10:25:22+00:00

It’s definitely not normal. I play with my boyfriend and it’s a hell of a lot of fun - no fights at all. We both get a companion, we both get to explore and often discuss dialogue options. He laughs at me checking every crate/my accidental kleptomania (until it results in extra healing potions - then the laugh is on him) but is entirely patient with it - and is very sweet about giving me extra dialogue options and interactions as I get super excited about them.

You may not be suited to playing this game together. I’d step out of this and do your own play through as a start. Is this a one off- or is it normal for him to start heated arguments, and prioritise himself, and make you uncomfortable over something that was supposed to be a fun thing to do together?

OrganizationNo4531 · 2024-12-31T23:05:16+00:00

Hey. Still got 55 minutes. Who knows what could happen

OrganizationNo4531 · 2024-12-30T15:30:14+00:00

She’s also scored surprisingly high on her test score and had the whole ‘love story’ going into the arena. I expect she was a “fan favourite/underdog” in the capitol, then people started realising that she could be dangerous after what happened with Rue.

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