all chiropractors either

1. know they are scamming you with dangerous pseudoscience so you shouldnt let them near your neck or give them money

or

2. genuinely believe their dangerous pseudoscience so you shouldnt let them near your neck or give them money

and thats simply the facts of the matter unfortunately. maybe you disagree and thats your right and id never try to take that away from you but you are unfortunately completely wrong and i would encourage looking up more about this

At best, chiropractor adjustments are as effective as a massage and at worst they can kill you. Just get a massage, those won't kill you and they are usually cheaper.

^^^ its literally this. any actual effective treatment a chiropractor does to you, it is something they borrowed from massage/physiotherapy. the massage and physiotherapy technicians will do all the stuff that actually works and promotes healing, and NONE of the stuff that creates a blood clot that takes three months to get to your brain and kill you (which will not be blamed on the chiropractor even when it should be). everyone in the notes going "but i feel better after i see my chiro thats why i keep going back :(" is experiencing the short-term improvements you will get from any form of physical touch in a medical context, this has been extensively studied. the fact that the underlying issue remains is part of the chiropracty scam.

ALSO, if you have a connective tissue disorder (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) it’s especially dangerous as you’re more prone to dislocations

He just sits his ass down on all those buttons that could or could not be firing lasers into space

If we can’t invent a touchscreen that recognizes an ass-dial by the 24th century, we really have no business being in space at all.

Happy 10th anniversary to by far the most viral reblog I ever made. I still see screengrabs of this on my own facebook dash like, once a month.

whenever a white european gets on their high horse about “amerikkka” or whatever:

ilya is obsessed with touching shane's face - part 2/2

My toxic trait is that I am far more interested in the socio-economic and geopolitical implications of ABO settings than the smut.

For example: I can't read any ABO AUs set in England or France because while I can suspend my disbelief far enough for a gender trinary set up, I can't suspend it enough to believe those two countries would still be distinct entities in a alternate history where Richard the Lionheart could have impregnated Philip II.

If there was a viable dynastic future with Richard, Philip would have climbed him like an oak and dragged him to the altar if he had to. It's a match that makes perfect sense from both their points of view: Philip gets Aquitaine back under French rule, the best general in Europe on his council, and a powerful check on the Angevins... then unexpectedly (after Henry the Young bites it) the entire Kingdom of England for his Capetian dynasty. Richard meanwhile gets to stick it to his father, secure Aquitaine's prosperity, and gets the leverage to start pushing for his mother's release. Then when Henry kicks the bucket Richard doesn't actually have to be King of England in anything but name: Philip can run the countries and unify the Crowns and what not while Richard runs off to go Crusading.

Plus they also like, loved each other and stuff and being able to get to be together long term instead of being torn apart by politics would have been cool. But I'm mainly obsessed with the historical and dynastic implications.

All this to say any ABO au set in England or France that doesn't have them united as a singular Anglo-Frank empire is doing it wrong.

The concept of A/B/O also introduces the question of what succession law would look like under a gender trinary. England historically used cognatic succession, where female scions and their descendants could inherit titles if there were no surviving males from the previous dynast’s line, whereas France used agnatic succession, where succession could only pass through male lines.

In this AU, it’s unlikely that an Anglo-Frank union could last due to differences in succession laws between the two realms. What would happen if an Alpha died without an heir? Would Betas be treated similarly to Alphas for succession purposes? Could succession pass through Beta or even Omega lines? Succession laws were quite difficult to change, with modifications to royal succession often resulting in civil and/or international wars.

So I see your A/B/O geopolitical hypothetical and raise you that while Philip WOULD climb Richard like an oak and bear him multiple viable heirs, the Anglo-Frankish Union wouldn’t last long due to differences in how the kingdoms would be inherited by the descendants of those multiple heirs. And with the complexities of succession laws in a gender trinary, the War of the Roses would only be more insane.

This is literally what the Schleswig-Holstein Question was about. Well, the “conflicting laws of succession” bit, anyway. Not so much the ABO stuff. (But with the Schleswig-Holstein Question, who knows? Well, Lord Palmerston and two other people. But you see my point.)

What being on this site is like: every so often one of the flaming dumpsters floating by drops a fully realized academic paper overboard, and it floats over to you and you read it and it upends your understanding and revolutionizes your appreciation of a major geopolitical underpinning of European history upon which the very shape of modern civilization rests.

It's got medieval-style illustrations of Richard the Lionheart balls deep in Philip the Second, and they're thematically relevant.

if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

this one took off quickly - are you guys ok

WIZARD PSA: Chronomancy might be weird and confusing, but one of the few solid rules of the discipline is keep your promises. Time is a library, and you don't want to meet the librarian.

Reblog if you have met the librarian

Ilya Rozanov blushing/smiling/falling in love

jacob dylan, the first real hudson believer

Me when the obviously doomed character doesn't get a happy ending

Two Souls ➜ One Soul

HUDSON WILLIAMS for DSQUARED2 Milan Fashion Week, January 16, 2026

maybe nothing better than your fave who is a liarrrrr having the most miserable time of their life. deciding the truth is worse than whatever respite they might get from showing where they’re soft and vulnerable and committing to it. And then of course having something carve it out of them anyway like godddd what if you gave the most important performance of your life and it didn’t even save you. what then! what then!!!!!

One of the things I haven't seen discussed about heated rivalry is how Montreal, 3ven in the early 2010s, is well known as one of the safest and gay friendliest cities on the planet.

Thriving gay club scene and gay village and queer community who absolutely would have had a place for a kid who couldnt come 1out artwork but was looking for somewhere to be semi anonymously queer with friends.

Except. If that 18 year old was the number 2 draft pick, rookie of the year, shining star centre of the Montreal hockey team, which would have absolutely ensured he was recognized the instant he set foot in any gay bar of the city.

Shane Hollander has spent his 20s living on the doorstep of one of the gay Meccas of the world and he cant even press his nose against the glass in the front windows.

Same with Scott in NYC.

While NYC is absolutely one of the gay friendly cities in the world, (I dont think its an accident that Scott plays for new York and one of the only other named teams in the league is San Fransisco, part of all of this is the boys lookimg out at the life they could have but absolutely dont) part of what i was driving at is that Montreal is a Hockey City in a way that New York just is not.

New York has two hockey teams, two baseball teams, two football teams, a basketball team, and thats just men's pro sports. If you are a sports fan in New York, you might not even follow hockey.

Montreal doesnt even have a baseball team anymore. They are a Hockey Town. And their hockey team, as shane puts it, is the most legendary franchise in all of sports. Better than the fucking Yankees.

Montreals hockey team means something to the city in a way that New York's just doesnt.

Scott Hunter has a better chance of being anonymous in public in New York than Shane does in Montreal.

I need Heated Rivalry fans to understand just how much hockey players are really only celebrities in Canada. A HUGE part of what players talk about when discussing franchises is how there is the extra pressure on a player for a Canadian team because they are known in a way that they simply aren't in the states. Like Jack Hughes (center for the New Jersey Devils) is a huge face for the NHL, he's one of the faces of his franchise, he (and his brothers) are major success stories of the US national development program, first overall draft pick, represented the US internationally multiple times, you get the idea. He was photographed by paparazzi having dinner with Tate McRae semi recently and the caption of the photo was Man in hand cast seen having dinner with Tate McRae!

There's the pressure of being a player from an Original Six team (Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montréal, New York, and Toronto) and then there's being a Canadian original six, and above that there's being the Canadian O6 that only has hockey (and CFL but that's a different conversation)

Yes. All this. Shane would’ve been far more anonymous in Boston. Even though Boston is also an Original Six NHL team.

Also, tags by @lizard-queen-izzy

And tags by @zeegras as well. Even if Shane hates nightclubs and bars, there are things he could’ve done in Montreal to make new queer friends. And also to potentially meet hookups or even start dating in the local queer scene. If he weren’t an extremely famous local celebrity.

He could’ve joined a queer hiking club or a queer running group, or a queer hockey fans club who go to Montreal games together. He could’ve joined a damn queer book club even. They have all these things here in Vancouver, and I’m quite sure they have them in Montreal too.

Some of those clubs would’ve skewed quite a lot older than his generation, but the more outdoorsy clubs would’ve definitely had people his own age. And the middle aged queers could’ve introduced him to their younger friends. Knowing he was new in the city, and isolated because he couldn’t be out at work.

But because Shane was the #2 draft pick, all those possibilities for finding a community were denied to him. Because he wasn’t just some young guy who couldn’t be out at his conservative job. He was a young guy who was instantly recognizable all over Montreal and its suburbs.

One of the things I haven't seen discussed about heated rivalry is how Montreal, even in the early 2010s, is well known as one of the safest and gay friendliest cities on the planet.

Thriving gay club scene and gay village and queer community who absolutely would have had a place for a kid who couldnt come 1out artwork but was looking for somewhere to be semi anonymously queer with friends.

Except. If that 18 year old was the number 2 draft pick, rookie of the year, shining star centre of the Montreal hockey team, which would have absolutely ensured he was recognized the instant he set foot in any gay bar of the city.

Shane Hollander has spent his 20s living on the doorstep of one of the gay Meccas of the world and he cant even press his nose against the glass in the front windows.