Whitepine On My Mind

And even if it is your native language, you’ll still have an accent! There’s so much variety in how people speak the same language, down (past Boston, London, Appalachian, Scottish, etc.) to the individual person, and that’s beautiful.

Controversial opinion of the day: It’s okay to have accents. It’s not your native language. If they make fun of you that’s messed up.

So true! It’s almost amusing how often power dynamics gets brought up in Anthropology because literally almost everything depends on it!

You can spam boop me!

reblog if you let people spam boop you

People of the nine realms! I finished drawing Falin :>

*also, the ‘do not repost’ watermark is for other platforms and hoping people don’t claim my work as their own, I’m completely okay with people reblogging here since that’s kind of just how tumblr works

Lmao 🤣

More often than not, tea is the answer. If tea is not the answer, try another kind of tea.

be patient with yourself. try having a cup of tea.

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

I think this sums it up beautifully! It’s not about fitting society’s beauty standards, it’s about self respect, being aware of how you present yourself, and, most importantly, taking care of yourself, and that shows

i wish more women knew beauty is an energy. it’s not about fitting the beauty standard so much as it is that tender care for your body and effort put into your outward appearance (hygiene, grooming, personal style and having fun with it) creates a magnetic energy. it tells people to regard you as important because you prioritise time and energy spent solely on yourself. it doesn’t even have to be about appearance at all if it’s not of interest - notice the same energy in people who are very skilled at something, who took the time to be great, who invested into themselves through passion and self-respect. sometimes fitting the beauty standard does help our goals, but you’d be surprised how little it can matter once you focus your energy on how you present yourself regardless of the standards. move from a place of pleasure and passion and watch it all come together.

Ok so my kid had an ear infection, right? As kids often do.

The doctor scraped out a bit of earwax to have a better look inside.

I was sent a bill for $200 PER EAR for this 5 second procedure which I did not give permission for them to do.

That was key- they did not ASK me if they could do this "procedure". And, as I OWN a medical practice (it's me. The medical practice is me, sitting in my house on video calls) I knew to call them when this bill came in to be like "You did not obtain informed consent for this procedure, and it was not en emergency procedure. You had full ability to gain my consent and didn't. I'm not paying."

And the massive hospital who owned the bill said "yuh-huh you do have to pay."

And I said "I own a practice. I know these laws. I do not owe you money for this."

And they conducted an "internal review" and SURPRISE! Decided I totally owed them money and they had never done anything wrong ever.

And so I called my state's Attorney General office, and explained the situation because, as I mentioned, I know the law. The AG got in touch within a couple days to say they were taking the case and would send the massive hospital conglomerate a knock it off, guys letter.

Lo and Behold, today I have a letter where said hospital graciously has agreed to forfeit the payment.

"How not to get screwed over by companies" should be part of civics class.

Know your rights and know who to call when they're infringed on. This whole process cost me $0 and honestly less effort than I would have expected.

May this knowledge find its way to someone else who can use it.

I mean, something good came out of it