I won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for an H. P. Lovecraft /Arthur Conan Doyle mashup fiction, so fanfiction had better be legitimate, because I’m not giving the Hugo back.
Or the 20O5 Locus Award for Best Novelette. I’m not giving that back either.
As someone who is currently writing extremely trashy fanfiction which has invigorated my writing, this makes me so happy.
I slammed my fist against my table because I am so tired and angry but this pun is fucking gold
I’m embarrassed to say that people have sent me this multiple times (bc pigeons) and I didn’t even register that there WAS a pun until I read that last comment -___-
Okay. This seems pretty insane if you don’t know what the existing state of terminally ill patients’ options is. So let’s go over that.
Terminally ill patients can sign up to be part of pre FDA approval trials for treatments which might potentially cure them. As these treatments are experimental, untested, not guaranteed to get results, and intended to provide profit to the medical provider in the long run, patients cannot be charged for these experimental treatments. As it should be. It’d be pretty unethical to get people to pay you to be your guinea pig for treatments which may not even help them.
This “right to try” law changes that. It makes it legal for terminally ill patients to be charged for experimental treatments. Furthermore, it removes FDA testing restrictions from the process. Currently a company which tries an ‘experimental’ treatment they know won’t work will get the hammer dropped on them by the FDA. But under this new process, medical providers would be legally allowed to provide ‘treatments’ they know won’t work, without oversight. This would legalize medical predation on terminally ill patients.
Labeling this bill ‘right to try’ makes it seem like terminally ill patients aren’t allowed to seek out experimental treatments right now. But they are! All this bill does is make a terminally ill patients more financially burdened and more vulnerable to predation.
That’s why the Democrats blocked it.
Thank you for explaining it
Reblogging for EXPLANATION
Yeah… let’s NOT let companies make terminally ill patients pay for “experimental treatments” they already know don’t work…
“suffering feels religious if you do it right” no shut up it doesn’t. my friends laughing in the kitchen while i make dinner feels religious. the sun on my face after a long winter feels religious.
One time I saw two older butch lesbians reunite at an airport terminal and saw the face of god
i am FULLY against the sentiment that we don’t owe anybody anything. we owe people common decency. we owe people respect if it has been given to us. we owe people apologies & explanations when we hurt them. i don’t care.
Also, I know some bitches who owe me ten bucks. I’m never going to get it back, but just saying.
Which is really the only reason to watch any of these new movies. Granted, it’s all the reason I need. But it’s all they’ve got going for them.
Speaking of which, there had better be some pretty good vore. I took @dovewithscales to watch The Meg, and we were both so pumped about it, and then there was really only one semi-decent vore scene! In a movie with a Megalodon, there should have been about 90% more vore.