illiterate dairy maid in 1750, hundreds of years before germ theory was even thought of: because of my exposure to cowpox, im immune to smallpox. if we expose people to cowpox, they won’t die of smallpox
upper middle class college educated mother with internet living in the year of our lord 2018: vaccines are the devils handiwork and a conspiracy i’d rather my child die of polio than be the autism
u ever think about how hermann works to cultivate a distant and gruff persona but actually deeply believes in the good of people, trusts people, idolizes people (stacker pentecost to name one), respects people, wants to help people, works constantly for the good of people and a world that he knows isn’t perfect but he believes truly is worth saving
me, clutching my chest like a damsel in a period romance novel: good lord
i’ve seen a lot of trans women reblogging this post and saying how validated it makes you feel and i just want to say i love you so much and i’m glad my post makes you feel good about yourselves
the lord of the rings gets a lot funnier when you realise that merry and pippin were stoned out of their minds a good half of the time
imagine you and your best friend both have the munchies so you decide to raid the local farmer’s field when you literally run into your two of your smoking buddies from the shire and they tell you they’re hiking to bree to meet gandalf, who you know has some top quality hash stashed on his person at all times, so you agree to go with them and somehow end up on a thousand-mile hike to destroy a piece of evil jewellery in a volcano. congratulations. you’re merry and pippin now.
