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ho-tanmybeloved asked:

Hi Mr. Gaiman, I’m autistic and watching the show I’ve noticed Aziraphale has a lot of autistic traits and seems to be autistic coded. I was wondering if you were comfortable with my headcanon saying Aziraphale is autistic or at least autistic coded since I see some part of myself in him.

neil-gaiman answered:

I’m comfortable with everyone’s headcanon. It’s your headcanon. It doesn’t need me to sign off on it.

(I don’t personally think of Aziraphale as a neurodivergent human male, I think of him as a nonhuman nonmale angel who doesn’t actually think like the majority of humans, or read humans like other humans do or behave like a standard human, because that’s not how he thinks and that’s not how or who he is. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t see yourself in him, or that you shouldn’t take joy in the parts of him that reflect you.)

good omens aziraphale
botanyshitposts mortimermcmirestinks
aeruh

Rosemary? You mean spicy pine needles?

malus-syl-vestris

Are you insinuating that regular pine needles aren’t spicy???

aeruh

Regular pine needles are regular

malus-syl-vestris

Not by rosemary standards

aeruh

…Have you eaten pine needles?

malus-syl-vestris

We’ve been friends for like four years, do you seriously have to ask if I’ve eaten pine needles or not

aeruh

I mean I’m pretty sure you have but I don’t want to assume

malus-syl-vestris

Of course I’ve eaten pine needles. Various kinds. Singleleaf pinyon is weirdly the best

aeruh

Are they…

spicy?

malus-syl-vestris

You know, I’d love to tell you but I’m pretty unclear about what marks the difference between “spice” and “strong-tasting plant that isn’t considered a spice”

aeruh

I’ll have to eat some pine needles myself then to find out

malus-syl-vestris

Ok but it only counts if they’re PINE needles and not just any old needle-like leaf off a tree

aeruh

I’m going to eat every needle-like leaf I see

malus-syl-vestris

Please Don’t Do That

aeruh

Needle-Like Leaf Roulette

malus-syl-vestris

…I’ll accept this plan as long as you promise not to eat any yew leaves.

aeruh

I can try very hard not to

malus-syl-vestris

Pine needles are distinguished by the presence of a sheath-like structure at the base of the leaf, almost always holding bundles of two or more leaves. Yews don’t have the sheath thing

aeruh

It’s time for me to go out into the woods and stare at needle leaves

malus-syl-vestris

Finally you can gain real insight into my average daily life

silverjirachi

this conversation reads like two shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief and then are never heard from again

mortimermcmirestinks

god fucking dammit gimme a minute

mortimermcmirestinks

Enter AERUH and MALUS SYL-VESTRIS, a pair of JESTERS.

AERUH
I tell thee, rosemary is like a pine
but with a spicy taste.

MALUS
                        Art thou to claim
that needles base of pine have not a spice?

AERUH
A needle base of pine is merely base.

MALUS
‘Tis not when held, comparing, to anthos.

AERUH
My dearest Malus, needles thou'st eaten?

MALUS
How many moons have we as friends seen rise?
How many suns have we as friends seen set?
Thou sixteen seasons in my heart I’ve held,
and hope that I in thine hast been the same.
With brotherhood as rich and old as this,
thou needst not ask me such frivolities.

AERUH
I know thou likely has, to tell the truth,
but I would not assume.

MALUS
                      Well, yes, I have.
A multitude of types I’ve eaten too.
I’ll tell thee now: the best (though it is strange)
is single-leaf pinyon.

AERUH
                    And it has spice?

MALUS
I truly wish that I could tell thee this,
but now, i'faith, I cannot fully tell,
the difference in classifying thus:
to say “has spice” or merely “herbal strength”.

AERUH
To tell this tale most clearly it would seem
that eating needles from a pine’s required.

MALUS
Aye, it would seem that that’s the task at hand,
but caution tells that this is what’s to do:
eat only needles of the honest pine,
and none of lying leaf with pinelike shape.

AERUH
I’ll eat them all.

MALUS
                  I prithee, stay thyself.

AERUH
Roulette with leaves.

MALUS
                    At least restrain from yew.

AERUH
I’ll do my best.

MALUS
               That is all can we do.
The scholars tell that needles true of pine
can be distinguished from the lying yew
by sheathlike clothing all along the base;
the yew has no such guard.

AERUH
                         With this new truth
I now will venture out into the wood
and seek the pines and pinelike fakes alike
to stare them down and learn their secret truths.

MALUS
With this thou canst at long and weary last
Discover for thyself my life’s own path.

Exeunt.

Enter MACDUFF.

MACDUFF.
Yo dudes that king there’s dead. Like dead as FUCK.

I love this post I have nothing else to say other then that the number of leaves in each sheath can be used to tell the species don’t ask me for specifics I don’t speak the pine tree pirate code beyond that and the fact the pine tree leaf structure is offputting
pharmdup mursejesse
ashenprincx

frothing at the mouth over the sheer number of undeclared allergens in both prescription and otc meds

ashenprincx

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ID: screenshot of tags via @deathcallsmedaddy reading "#but how do you feel about it #on a scale of one to ten #how bad is the frothing?" End ID.

we are at a fucking 12/10

"Worryingly, they discovered that 93 percent of medications contain allergens, including lactose, dyes, and peanut oil. Almost all medicines contain ingredients that some people might not be able to tolerate, such as gluten."

and medications have none of the same requirements to label allergens as foods, and supplements don't even need to be truthful about their content. im currently having to go through and throw out/replace my medications bc I recently had an allergy escalate to "potentially deadly" and am now finding that process was helped by the fucking thing being hidden in half my fucking medications

so yeah for anyone with moderate to severe allergies, check ALL the meds you take, especially if you're reacting and don't know why.

ashenprincx

this is one of those "reblog to actually save a life" things i think

mursejesse

@pharmdup Thoughts?

pharmdup

Calm down, guys.

In the US, every medication is labeled with this stuff. Here’s an image of a generic ibuprofen package:

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And here’s some info for venlafaxine:

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For prescription drugs, you know the papers the loving helpful and attractive pharmacist gives you which you often just throw away? It’s in there (retail pharmacists current or former feel free to chip in: obviously as a hospital pharmacist this isn’t my wheelhouse).

I absolutely always evaluate excipients for serious allergies, which is why you need to tell your pharmacist about all of them, because your prescriber won’t know the inactive stuff. I always also evaluate how likely the allergy is to actually bother you. Most tablets have a tiny bit of lactose powder for stability, but a lactose intolerance isn’t the same thing as an allergy and that tiny bit of powder isn’t going to be noticed by your digestive tract.

I recommend always chatting with a pharmacist who you trust when you get a new medication, even if you feel you know all about it. I’ve met patients on insulin pens for years who didn’t know that they shouldn’t store the pen they are using in the fridge.

Anyway.

Things like peanut oil are rare and usually only used for injectable lipophilic medications such as testosterone, and there are alternate formulations if you need it.

And yes, in the United States, you really can’t trust anything on supplement labels unless they have the inspection seal from the US Pharmacopoeia on them. Thanks, Republicans! Hope that Utah senator got a lot of kickbacks on that law change back in the day!

@peetum @tinsnip give us your thoughts

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