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Spoilers for The Last Of Us season finale are ahead.

While not every mystery of The Last Of Us has been solved, the season finale of the series has given us some answers, while also leaving us with even more questions. But fans finally learned the reason why Ellie is immune to the virus that has been destroying the Last of Us universe, thanks to her harrowing birth.

In the finale, there is a flashback that showed Ellie’s mom Anna, played by Ellie’s video game voice actress Ashley Johnson, giving birth to her all those years ago. The grueling scene shows that Anna was able to have her daughter just moments before an Infected lunges at them both. Anna becomes infected while the infant is still attached to her via umbilical chord, though she lies and insists to Fireflies leader Marlene that she must be protected. Marlene is then forced to kill the newly-infected Anna, leaving Ellie an orphan.

Flashforward to our favorite duo in the season finale, who have finally reached the Fireflies and are able to piece together just how Ellie managed to be immune to that disastrous fungi.

As Marlene explains to Joel (as pointed out by Mashable, “Our doctor, he thinks that the cordyceps in Ellie has grown with her since birth. It produces a kind of chemical messenger. It makes normal cordyceps think that she’s cordyceps; it’s why she’s immune. He’s going to remove it from her, multiply the cells in a lab, produce those chemical messengers…and then we can give it to everyone. He thinks it could be a cure, Joel.” Basically, it’s as if Ellie got a vaccine as a baby to help her fend off the disease, and now they are looking to her to make the cure.

Of course, after the events of the finale, things are still a little complicated in that department, as that cure would require a piece of her brain, which would kill her. Also, the guy who would take a piece of her brain is dead, so that’s a dead end (sorry). It’s a pretty devastating conundrum that we will all have to see play out in season two of the drama…whenever that may hit our scenes.

(Via Mashable)

Good Mourning was definitely one of the movies of 2022. Machine Gun Kelly and Mod Sun’s comedy flick did not do well: It earned just $21,348 at the box office and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 0 percent. With stats like that, naturally, it earned some nominations at the Golden Raspberry Awards 2023 (aka the Razzies), which honor the worst cinematic achievements of the year. MGK and Sun went home with one of them, too, winning the Razzie for Worst Director.

The movie was also nominated for Worst Picture (which Blonde won) and Worst Screenplay (also Blonde), while other Good Mourning nominations included MGK for Worst Actor (Jared Leto in Morbius), Pete Davidson and Mod Sun getting individual nods for Worst Supporting Actor (Tom Hanks in Elvis), and MGK and Sun for Worst Screen Couple (Tom Hanks and His Latex-Laden Face (and Ludicrous Accent) in Elvis).

This is just the latest bad news Mod Sun has received lately (and by far the least significant), as it was reported that he and then-fiancée Avril Lavigne had split up. That turned out to be true, as Sun wrote in a late-February Instagram post, “In 1 week my entire life completely changed…I just know there’s a plan for it all. I’ll keep my head up + always listen to my heart, even when it feels broken [broken heart emoji] Being surrounded by love every night on tour has been an absolute blessing. I have the best friends in the entire world, thanks for always having my back. See you on stage.”

Good Mourning was definitely one of the movies of 2022. Machine Gun Kelly and Mod Sun’s comedy flick did not do well: It earned just $21,348 at the box office and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 0 percent. With stats like that, naturally, it earned some nominations at the Golden Raspberry Awards 2023 (aka the Razzies), which honor the worst cinematic achievements of the year. MGK and Sun went home with one of them, too, winning the Razzie for Worst Director.

The movie was also nominated for Worst Picture (which Blonde won) and Worst Screenplay (also Blonde), while other Good Mourning nominations included MGK for Worst Actor (Jared Leto in Morbius), Pete Davidson and Mod Sun getting individual nods for Worst Supporting Actor (Tom Hanks in Elvis), and MGK and Sun for Worst Screen Couple (Tom Hanks and His Latex-Laden Face (and Ludicrous Accent) in Elvis).

This is just the latest bad news Mod Sun has received lately (and by far the least significant), as it was reported that he and then-fiancée Avril Lavigne had split up. That turned out to be true, as Sun wrote in a late-February Instagram post, “In 1 week my entire life completely changed…I just know there’s a plan for it all. I’ll keep my head up + always listen to my heart, even when it feels broken [broken heart emoji] Being surrounded by love every night on tour has been an absolute blessing. I have the best friends in the entire world, thanks for always having my back. See you on stage.”

Michelle Yeoh dropped some shade during her Oscars acceptance speech that many saw as a not-so-subtle swipe at Don Lemon. The CNN anchor has been in hot water ever since his remarks about former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley not being in “her prime” because of her age. Lemon was temporarily taken off the air following his comments on Haley, but it appears that Yeoh was aware of the fiasco.

While accepting the award for Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All At Once, Yeoh said, “Ladies, don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime.” The line blew up on Twitter as people speculated that she was taking a direct shot at Lemon.

However, when it came to cover the Oscars ceremony on Monday morning, Lemon noticeably ignored Yeoh’s remarks as he praised Everything Everywhere All At Once for sweeping the awards. “A huge night for Asians and Asian Americans,” Lemon said while dancing past Yeoh’s viral moment that everyone assumed was about him. Via The Daily Beast:

Lemon gushed over Ke Huy Quan’s emotional Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor while saying the awards show was “particularly reaffirming” for Asian Americans.

“With all of the anti-Asian hate that has been going on in the country, especially since COVID, I thought it was a really important and reaffirming moment for Asian Americans,” he concluded.

Of course, it probably should be noted that Lemon’s remarks about Haley was reportedly his “final warning” at CNN, so the last thing he needs is getting in a war of words with the 2023 Oscar Winner for Best Actress Michelle Yeoh. That’s a fight Lemon won’t win in any arena.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Michelle Yeoh dropped some shade during her Oscars acceptance speech that many saw as a not-so-subtle swipe at Don Lemon. The CNN anchor has been in hot water ever since his remarks about former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley not being in “her prime” because of her age. Lemon was temporarily taken off the air following his comments on Haley, but it appears that Yeoh was aware of the fiasco.

While accepting the award for Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All At Once, Yeoh said, “Ladies, don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime.” The line blew up on Twitter as people speculated that she was taking a direct shot at Lemon.

However, when it came to cover the Oscars ceremony on Monday morning, Lemon noticeably ignored Yeoh’s remarks as he praised Everything Everywhere All At Once for sweeping the awards. “A huge night for Asians and Asian Americans,” Lemon said while dancing past Yeoh’s viral moment that everyone assumed was about him. Via The Daily Beast:

Lemon gushed over Ke Huy Quan’s emotional Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor while saying the awards show was “particularly reaffirming” for Asian Americans.

“With all of the anti-Asian hate that has been going on in the country, especially since COVID, I thought it was a really important and reaffirming moment for Asian Americans,” he concluded.

Of course, it probably should be noted that Lemon’s remarks about Haley was reportedly his “final warning” at CNN, so the last thing he needs is getting in a war of words with the 2023 Oscar Winner for Best Actress Michelle Yeoh. That’s a fight Lemon won’t win in any arena.

(Via The Daily Beast)

In her acceptance speech for Everything Everywhere All at Once at the Oscars, Halloween legend Jamie Lee Curtis gave a special shout out to “all of the people who have supported the genre movies that I have made for all these years, the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar together.” So, in a sense, Bruce Campbell, the star of the Evil Dead franchise, has an Academy Award. In another, more accurate sense, the campaign for Bruce Campbell to win Best Actor for Evil Dead 4 begins now.

Director Sam Raimi told Empire that he and Campbell “had been talking about an Evil Dead 4 for the other branch of that universe,” referring to 2013’s Evil Dead with Jane Levy in the lead role. But “we were worried a little bit about a collision,” he continued. “[Starz’s] Ash vs Evil Dead is what that morphed into. But I always thought there was room for both. I still think there’s room for all sorts of Evil Dead movies. I don’t think they cancel each other out.”

Raimi continued, “I love working with Bruce and [producer Rob Tapert]. I love it as a producer because they’re really good partners, but I also like being supported by them as the director. So I hope that is on the cards eventually.”

There’s room for an Evil Dead TV show, an Evil Dead video game, and this Evil Dead mug on eBay that I will probably buy when I finish writing this sentence. Why not a new Evil Dead movie with Bruce Campbell? Until then, there’s Evil Dead Rise, which looks very gory. It opens on April 21.

(Via Empire)

Gabrielle Mayor, 24, has gone viral on TikTok after posting a video where she recounts the time when she realized that she was living a lie. In the video, Gabrielle shares that she didn’t know that her legal name was “Babrielle” until she went to get her driver’s permit at the age of 15.

The video of her giving a deadpan look at the story written in white text has received over 3.4 million views.

“Thinking about how my parents made a typo on my birth certificate, and I didn’t find out until age 15 that my real name is actually Babrielle,” the video reads. It’s incredible that the people at the hospital didn’t notice the mistake because Babrielle isn’t exactly a common name.

Nine years later, she told the whole story to Today.com. “My mom and I were at the DMV picking up my learner’s permit. I can’t even explain how excited I was to be able to drive.”

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@gabbbbb16

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But when Gabrielle gave her social security number to the DMV employee, there was a bit of a problem. “The guy asks for my social security number and I give it to him. He puts it in the computer, and he’s like, ‘I’m not seeing a Gabrielle Mayor,’” she recalled.

She shared her information again, and it still didn’t come up. “Then he goes, ‘I do have a Babrielle Mayor,’” she said, to which her mother, Ellyn, exclaimed, “Oh, no!”

“Long story short, I did not learn how to drive that day, rather, I learned that I’ve been living a lie for the past 15 years,” she told The New York Post. Gabrielle’s mother later explained that her daughter’s name was misspelled because she was on a lot of medication after giving birth and couldn’t write correctly.

“I was shaking so badly that my G must have looked like a B,” Ellyn told Today.com. “After I got the birth certificate in the mail, I immediately fixed it, but for some reason, I didn’t think about the social security card…until I took Gabby for her learner’s permit.”

Eventually, the mistake would become a term of endearment for Gabrielle.

“To this day, all my friends call me ‘Babby’ or ‘Babs’—even strangers who have heard this story will just immediately start referring to me as Babs,” she explained. “Needless to say, I never struggle to come up with a fun fact!”

The video inspired countless others to come forward with the same problem.

“Happened to me, my name is Vanessa but BC said Banesa,” Vanessa said.

“Try registering for COLLEGE and finding out that your LEGAL first name is Baby and your middle name is Girl, big whoops on my parents!” kovervold added.

“One girl I know is called Angel but it was misspelled Angle on her birth certificate!” Car123 commented.

“My name was aslhey instead of ashley for 20 years,” Ashley admitted.

In September, another woman racked up nearly 900,000 views on TikTiok for admitting that her father’s screw-up left her with a legal name that sounded a bit dirty. A user name Chloe said that her dad accidentally spelled her name “Chole” on her birth certificate.

“Yes way my name is C-hole, coal, chole — however you want to pronounce it,” she admitted in the clip.

@cholebhole

Replying to @Rory fun fact about me #truestory

Gabrielle Mayor, 24, has gone viral on TikTok after posting a video where she recounts the time when she realized that she was living a lie. In the video, Gabrielle shares that she didn’t know that her legal name was “Babrielle” until she went to get her driver’s permit at the age of 15.

The video of her giving a deadpan look at the story written in white text has received over 3.4 million views.

“Thinking about how my parents made a typo on my birth certificate, and I didn’t find out until age 15 that my real name is actually Babrielle,” the video reads. It’s incredible that the people at the hospital didn’t notice the mistake because Babrielle isn’t exactly a common name.

Nine years later, she told the whole story to Today.com. “My mom and I were at the DMV picking up my learner’s permit. I can’t even explain how excited I was to be able to drive.”

🙄

@gabbbbb16

🙄

But when Gabrielle gave her social security number to the DMV employee, there was a bit of a problem. “The guy asks for my social security number and I give it to him. He puts it in the computer, and he’s like, ‘I’m not seeing a Gabrielle Mayor,’” she recalled.

She shared her information again, and it still didn’t come up. “Then he goes, ‘I do have a Babrielle Mayor,’” she said, to which her mother, Ellyn, exclaimed, “Oh, no!”

“Long story short, I did not learn how to drive that day, rather, I learned that I’ve been living a lie for the past 15 years,” she told The New York Post. Gabrielle’s mother later explained that her daughter’s name was misspelled because she was on a lot of medication after giving birth and couldn’t write correctly.

“I was shaking so badly that my G must have looked like a B,” Ellyn told Today.com. “After I got the birth certificate in the mail, I immediately fixed it, but for some reason, I didn’t think about the social security card…until I took Gabby for her learner’s permit.”

Eventually, the mistake would become a term of endearment for Gabrielle.

“To this day, all my friends call me ‘Babby’ or ‘Babs’—even strangers who have heard this story will just immediately start referring to me as Babs,” she explained. “Needless to say, I never struggle to come up with a fun fact!”

The video inspired countless others to come forward with the same problem.

“Happened to me, my name is Vanessa but BC said Banesa,” Vanessa said.

“Try registering for COLLEGE and finding out that your LEGAL first name is Baby and your middle name is Girl, big whoops on my parents!” kovervold added.

“One girl I know is called Angel but it was misspelled Angle on her birth certificate!” Car123 commented.

“My name was aslhey instead of ashley for 20 years,” Ashley admitted.

In September, another woman racked up nearly 900,000 views on TikTiok for admitting that her father’s screw-up left her with a legal name that sounded a bit dirty. A user name Chloe said that her dad accidentally spelled her name “Chole” on her birth certificate.

“Yes way my name is C-hole, coal, chole — however you want to pronounce it,” she admitted in the clip.

@cholebhole

Replying to @Rory fun fact about me #truestory

If you’ve ever delivered a baby in the hospital or been a part of someone’s support system while they gave birth, then you know that American hospitals generally have a strict policy on not eating while in labor. As someone who had children in a hospital, not being able to eat while in pain can make you feel absolutely feral. Weak, but feral.

Most people I know who have had babies don’t understand the seemingly nationwide hospital policy on depriving birthing people of food right before they push an entire human out of their bodies. Delivering a baby is not a bystander event for the one doing the pushing, so restricting calories is a confusing practice.

Turns out there’s a reason for this strange practice, and honestly, I can’t promise that it won’t make you angry. Dr. Danielle Jones, board-certified OB-GYN, breaks down why doctors started this practice in a video uploaded to her YouTube channel, Mama Doctor Jones.

Jones starts the video by explaining that the practice of not allowing people giving birth to eat began around the same time they stopped using chloroform to reduce pain during labor. I mean, I suppose you couldn’t feel any pain if you were unconscious, so the 40s were off to a swimming start.

In 1946, Dr. Curtis Mendelson published a paper focusing on labor complications, in which he revealed that the aspiration risk during pregnancy was 0.15%.

“Aspiration is where you inhale stomach contents into the lungs. That can be extremely dangerous. It can kill you. It often doesn’t kill you but it certainly can,” Jones explains. “The risk of aspiration comes along mainly when we’re talking about needing to do a cesarian delivery or some kind of surgery on someone who is pregnant under a general anesthetic.”

Obviously, in 1946, it was a little riskier to have a baby and maternal mortality was atrociously high. This isn’t the case anymore and general anesthesia for a cesarian is very rarely used, so the risk of aspiration is even lower.

The obstetric risk of aspiration, “was based on two deaths from aspiration in 40,000 pregnancies in 1946,” Jones continued. “For those following who like the numbers, the risk of dying from obstetric aspiration in 1946 when it was magnitudes more common to die from pregnancy and also anesthetic techniques made it easier to aspirate was 0.0045%.”

So…what she’s saying is, I probably could’ve eaten that cheeseburger because it’s not 1946, and not only do doctors know to wash their hands before surgery, but they also have better techniques for anesthesia? Hmmm…

Watch the whole video below to see if maybe hospitals should allow a little snacky-snack between contractions.

If you’ve ever delivered a baby in the hospital or been a part of someone’s support system while they gave birth, then you know that American hospitals generally have a strict policy on not eating while in labor. As someone who had children in a hospital, not being able to eat while in pain can make you feel absolutely feral. Weak, but feral.

Most people I know who have had babies don’t understand the seemingly nationwide hospital policy on depriving birthing people of food right before they push an entire human out of their bodies. Delivering a baby is not a bystander event for the one doing the pushing, so restricting calories is a confusing practice.

Turns out there’s a reason for this strange practice, and honestly, I can’t promise that it won’t make you angry. Dr. Danielle Jones, board-certified OB-GYN, breaks down why doctors started this practice in a video uploaded to her YouTube channel, Mama Doctor Jones.

Jones starts the video by explaining that the practice of not allowing people giving birth to eat began around the same time they stopped using chloroform to reduce pain during labor. I mean, I suppose you couldn’t feel any pain if you were unconscious, so the 40s were off to a swimming start.

In 1946, Dr. Curtis Mendelson published a paper focusing on labor complications, in which he revealed that the aspiration risk during pregnancy was 0.15%.

“Aspiration is where you inhale stomach contents into the lungs. That can be extremely dangerous. It can kill you. It often doesn’t kill you but it certainly can,” Jones explains. “The risk of aspiration comes along mainly when we’re talking about needing to do a cesarian delivery or some kind of surgery on someone who is pregnant under a general anesthetic.”

Obviously, in 1946, it was a little riskier to have a baby and maternal mortality was atrociously high. This isn’t the case anymore and general anesthesia for a cesarian is very rarely used, so the risk of aspiration is even lower.

The obstetric risk of aspiration, “was based on two deaths from aspiration in 40,000 pregnancies in 1946,” Jones continued. “For those following who like the numbers, the risk of dying from obstetric aspiration in 1946 when it was magnitudes more common to die from pregnancy and also anesthetic techniques made it easier to aspirate was 0.0045%.”

So…what she’s saying is, I probably could’ve eaten that cheeseburger because it’s not 1946, and not only do doctors know to wash their hands before surgery, but they also have better techniques for anesthesia? Hmmm…

Watch the whole video below to see if maybe hospitals should allow a little snacky-snack between contractions.