hatey-mchaterson:

timemachineyeah:

a-spoon-is-born:

funoftheday:

You don’t say.

For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better. 

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there. 

You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.

Source: funoftheday

Broke: Oh my god, my poor lil cat babbu Chat is always getting captured or mind-controlled because the writers are unfair and make him play second-fiddle to Ladybug. Why can’t LB ever get saved??? uwu
Woke: Chat consciously puts himself in the line of fire to protect Ladybug and takes more hits as a result. If the ladybug miraculous were to be captured, it would mean game over. They would be royally screwed, as Chat can’t purify akumas.
Bespoke: Hawkmoth is a pure idiot, considering he has repeatedly failed to secure the cat miraculous, despite having direct control over Chat on a number of occasions.

shining-dusknoir:

PLEASE DO NOT BUY THE EEVEEUTION MIMIKYU PLUSHES, THEY ARE NOT OFFICIAL AND ARE CHINESE BOOTLEGS.

My blog has been getting a lot of traction the past month, which I’d like to say thank you for the support. Since my blog has been getting popular and the holiday season is around the corner, I wanted to make this post and get it off my shoulders. If you’ve searched up “Pokemon plush” on eBay recently, there’s a chance you’ve seen these “Mimikyu Eeveelutions” plushes, and you might have seen a post by Retrogamingblog with 26,000 notes saying these were newly released official plushes. That’s not true, these are cheap Chinese bootleg plushes, these are in no way official.

In fact, I hate to say this, but these plushes were based off of stolen fan art by tumblr artist @allenerie . This isn’t the first time bootleggers have made plushes off of stolen fan content and have tried to sell it as official content. Here’s a link to another tumblr post about various Deviantart artists who have had their fan Alolan Pokemon forms stolen from them and made profits off of. THEY WERE EVEN SOLD ON THE OFFICIAL SEARS WEBSITE FOR GODS SAKE!

“But they’re cute! I don’t care if I’m hurting small artists and the Pokemon company, I want one!” There’s a very strong chance you will get a product that looks nothing like what’s pictured. You will most likely get an even cheaper bootleg of a bootleg with holes and loose stitching in it, it will probably fall apart with the lightest of touch. You will be scammed 20-30$ if you buy one of these.

To sum it up: DO NOT BUY THESE PLUSHES. You would be supporting Chinese scammers, hurting the Pokemon company, and hurting small artists these bootleggers steal ideas from.

ANOTHER NOTE: Do not send hate to Allenerie and Retrogamingblog. Allenerie is a victim of stolen content and Retrogamingblog probably got fed false information and got confused. 

Please be extra careful when buying Pokemon plushes, completely avoid listings from China or Hong-kong, no matter how cheap the listing is. I would also recommend avoiding listings that use stock images of the product and to look at the seller’s feedback reviews.

Source: shining-dusknoir