tiny brain: fairy tales i.e. beauty and the beast, snow white, and cinderella are romantic
slightly bigger brain: fairy tales are sexist as fuck #WhatPrincessesTaughtMe
slightly slightly bigger brain: actually fairy tales are empowering for example cinderella is about a woman escaping her abusive home situation and beauty and the beast is about love between social outcasts
large brain: most of these stories are old as shit and reflect the gender roles of the time of their conception but whether or not they are intolerably sexist depends very much on the execution and interpretation of the critical plot points by the adaptation and you can’t paint every adaptation with the same brush
frill neck lizard! he expand! he’s named Chlamydosaurus which is pretty bad ass right there. and it’s just so cool that this is a real animal that really exists in the world
flying lizard! she also expand, but different! she’s named Draco volans so again A+++ scientific nomenclature. she is extra cool because she flies with her ribs! wings have been invented so many times in nature – bird wings are compressed hands, bat wings are expanded hands, pterosaur wings were fingers, flying fish wings are fins, bug wings are their own thing – and this is a whole nother way to make a wing!
new Mexico whiptail lizard! she is an entire race of bad ass lesbian lizards who do their thing without any males! just a 100% female species that doesn’t need sperm to make babies. and let’s be clear: they have sex. they don’t exchange gametes, but they do have sex. god speed you awesome little lesbian lizards
basilisk lizard! he is also called the Jesus Christ lizard because he legit runs on water! that’s just a thing he can… do! also look at him, he looks amazing. also you looked at him so you’re a rock now, sorry about that.
Jackson’s chameleon! because he is a God Damned Tricera Tops.
except he changes color and his eyes move independently and he has a sweet crest and a prehensile tail and gives live birth, so he is more like a Triceratops with extra features. look at his little feet. I love him.
there are many more lizards I couldn’t even fit in here! there are lizards that squirt blood out of their eyes and lizards that look like earthworms and lizards that are ten feet long and we haven’t even talked about prehistoric lizards which is a whole nother ballgame of amazingness! oh man I LOVE LIZARDS but you asked for just five and it was hard
A communion wafer, according to the internet, is about .25g. Jesus was a healthy young man, who worked manual labor and walked everywhere. The average male in Biblical times was 5′1″ and about 110 pounds so call it 50kg or 50,000 grams. So 200,000 wafers to make up a whole Jesus. At one wafer a week that’s 3846 to eat a whole Jesus at weekly communion. If you went to Mass daily you could do it in under 550 years.
1000 communion wafers from Amazon costs $15, so acquiring a Jesus load would set you back about $3000
But that’s just the body. Jesus also bade his followers to drink his blood. How much of that Jesus communion wafer supply needs to be replaced with communion wine to account for his blood, and how much of that would need to be consumed to have drunk all his blood as well?
The human body contains roughly 5 liters of blood.
Communion wine costs about $66 for a case of 12 x 750 ml bottles (9000 ml).
So half a case is 4500 ml, or close enough if Jesus was on the small side which is reasonable given what we know of the times.
Thus, Jesus’ blood would be about 6 bottles of communion wine, costing $33.
How much of his weight was his blood, now? We can bring down the wafer count.
Osnap what an excellent question.
Water has a specific gravity of 1.0 and weighs 1kg/liter. Wine has a specific gravity if 1.5 thus weighs 1.5kg per liter.
4.5L of wine would weigh 6.75kg or about 15 pounds.
Reducing the wafer load by 6.75kg yields 43.25kg so call it 161,000 wafers or $2450 and change.
I’m sorry, anon, but I am not a good consult for this. I have almost no knowledge about autism presentations. I rarely work with autistics, and when I do, they’re primarily concerned about the psychosis, not the autism.
sensory sensitivity is not the only way autism presents! people can also be sensory seeking – desiring or requiring much MORE of a given stimulus than neurotypical people do. this is a big part of why weighted blankets are so popular.
basically, iirc, the hallmark of autism is disordered sensory PROCESSING, not necessarily sensory hypersensitivity. so that could be things like:
– having difficulty interpreting sounds when there are too many things going on (i sometimes can’t follow conversations if music is playing, for example -it’s not that it’s too loud, it’s that the sounds get jumbled together in my brain and i can’t sort them out)
-not always noticing when you’re injured (autistics are NOTORIOUSLY bad at applying standard pain scales to their symptoms)
-having unexpected food aversions
-avoiding OR seeking out specific sensory experiences.
and, as an autistic friend of mine once told me, wondering if the presence or lack of a given symptom means you’re not really autistic is something that has happened to every autistic I’ve ever met. it’s practically its own autism indicator. XD
hope this helps! my inbox is open if you want to talk more.
girls don’t like boys, girls like the pastoral escapist fantasy of living in a large house with many friends and several pets on a beautiful chunk of land with no financial, political, or medical anxieties. also, bread.
Kimchi and Justice 