Month: January 2015

The scariest fact about the Disneyland measles outbreak

January 30, 2015 /

The scariest fact about the Disneyland measles outbreak

seananmcguire:

tamorapierce:

fandomsandfeminism:

wocinsolidarity:

randommomentsdevida:

You don’t get vaccinated just to protect yourself. You do it to protect others.

Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.

Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.

Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.

Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.

“The measles vaccine is not licensed for use on babies younger than 12 months. That means that, for the first year of life, babies depend on the fact that everybody else around them gets vaccinated. This essentially creates a firewall: if other people are vaccinated, they won’t catch the disease — and won’t spread it to young children who cannot get protection.

This is what scientists call “herd immunity,” and its a huge reason we get vaccines in the first place. The shots aren’t just about protecting ourselves from measles, mumps, the flu, or other diseases. They’re about making it really hard for those who are medically frail (like the elderly) and those who can’t get the vaccine (often babies and pregnant women) to catch a disease that could be devastating to them. The vaccinated people form something like a fence around the vulnerable people, making it extra hard for the disease to come in.”

This is why everyone who CAN safely be vaccinated NEEDS to be vaccinated.

Not vaccinating for religious reasons, or because of misleading, debunked, ableist “concerns” about the “safety” of vaccines is horrific, unethical, and dangerous to everyone who comes in contact with you.

Measles is the reason I have astigmatism.  (Well, measles promptly followed by chicken pox.)  Got `em before I could get vaccinated and now I wear corrective lenses all the time.

People want to forget that these are diseases that can have permanent, negative effects on others, because “oh, vaccination is my choice.”  Well, you’re not just choosing disability, disfigurement, and possible death for your children.  You’re choosing it for the children of others.

Cut it the fuck out.

This is a thing too:

The most remarkable thing about the virus, however, is that it’s incredibly indestructible. A person with measles can cough in a room, leave, and — if you were unvaccinated — hours later, you can catch the virus from the droplets in the air that they left behind. No other virus can do that. It also lives on surfaces for hours, finding new hosts in the unimmunized.

bhryn: Blood Elf Death Knight Lorien, Blood spec, tank. Tiny but powerful.Troll Shaman Jhajima, Resto spec. Tall, easy going, sweet natured.Jhajima is Miranis’ cousin who agreed to look after Lorien whilst he’s off doing other things.Lorien is mine, Jhaji is a friend, and

January 30, 2015 /

bhryn:

Blood Elf Death Knight Lorien, Blood spec, tank. Tiny but powerful.

Troll Shaman Jhajima, Resto spec. Tall, easy going, sweet natured.

Jhajima is Miranis’ cousin who agreed to look after Lorien whilst he’s off doing other things.

Lorien is mine, Jhaji is a friend, and we’re coming to WrA (US)!

Oh! I thought of another thing, since you were so informative with my previous ask. What can kill a second gen Death Knight? I’ve heard that they are as close to invincible as you can get, with regeneration from blood magic, but can still be killed by extreme amounts of light magic, like if a Naaru just decided to throw everything it had at them. If 2nd Gen DKs can be killed, what happens to their spirit/soul/thing?

January 30, 2015 /

shithowdy:

moodydk:

owlpellet:

They’re technically undead, which means that just like every other undead they’re animated by dark magic. This is what causes the Light to hurt undead so much; it actively combats their very essence. Not in any malicious way, but because that’s what the Light does— it cleanses tainted things. In this case, that thing would be their body, and it’s just unfortunate for them that it’s also what’s keeping them “alive”:

”[…]the dark magic that sustains them is a buffer that prevents their souls from properly joining with their bodies. This is why undead feel only faint sensations of pain or discomfort from most physical stimuli, and why the Light is so painful to their existence. ” [source]

It wouldn’t take a Naaru’s level of power to destroy them, just a particularly powerful Lightwielder (but a Naaru would certainly do the trick).

If you don’t have the Light at your disposal, the next best method would be to break their runeblade (which you should do even if you have the Light). This is the source of their power. Without it, they would be incapable of effectively fighting back and incapable of regenerating. There are alternating theories on whether or not more powerful (named) vampiric runeblades also consume the soul of their wielder, and if that’s the case, then breaking it may actually release them into death— not unlike a Lich’s phylactery.

If that’s the case, when you destroy their body completely (burn it to ash, for example— they can seemingly regenerate from most injuries, as seen with the Four Horsemen returning even after taking weapons directly to the head) but neglect to destroy their runeblade, their soul might live on inside it and compel whatever unfortunate person that picks it up next to do their bidding. 

When they truly die, their soul likely goes to the void, which is described in Sylvanas’ short story. Or maybe they’ll just haunt the shit out of whomever killed them. Who knows.

This explains why I walked away from jumping off Dalaran.

O wait I’m Third Gen, aren’t I?

I don’t know if this applies to every single type of undead, but also from Sylvanas’ story:

“The fall alone couldn’t kill her: her animate flesh was nigh indestructible. But the spikes, the hardened blood of an Old God, they not only would tear the body apart but would obliterate the soul as well.

”  

I think a fall of that height would shatter the bones of anything and require some long mending, but it’s possible that any kind of DK would “survive” a fall from Dalaran. They’d just be very crunchy.

You’d probably also have to dig them out of the ground a bit first. All that plate armor and they’d sink pretty deep.

Someone needs to stop me

January 30, 2015 /

Someone needs to stop me

deathweaver: playing around with the HS card gen again(yes I realize there’s a koltira card in the original TCG, but i haven’t seen him in HS yet AND ALSO I DO WHAT I WANT)art is from avali!!

January 30, 2015 /

deathweaver:

playing around with the HS card gen again

(yes I realize there’s a koltira card in the original TCG, but i haven’t seen him in HS yet AND ALSO I DO WHAT I WANT)

art is from avali!!

January 30, 2015

If you don’t get up I’ll give you something to cry about.

If Warriors could heal.

Do you think it’s safe to say that a pretty good amount of blood elf DK’s came from Arthas’ march on Quel’Thalas? (And I guess their break-from-his-hold timing would depend on if they were sent to Acherus or had to wait in Icecrown until his death?)

January 30, 2015 /

owlpellet:

Koltira was risen during that particular attack, so it’s entirely likely that he wasn’t the only one.

I’ve posted about this before here but it’s worth briefly repeating that at this point in time, they were still high elves, not blood elves, so once the character broke free (at either point in time, because both are possible) they would have completely missed that entire post-Sunwell crisis and all the politics that stemmed from it. They might have began with very different points of view toward their Horde allies than others, and might have trouble relating to their kin because they’ve had very different experiences.

January 30, 2015 /

yulon:

BASHIOK JUST SAID THE PRICES WERE A BUG

thank elune. but god what a specific bug. what the hell

I shouldn’t be surprised.

Remember how there was a bug where ret paladins did 100k DPS?

January 30, 2015 /

yulon:

blizzard is raising the reputation mounts in WoD from 5k a piece to 50 THOUSAND GOLD A PIECE in 6.1

WHAT THE FUCK