-person who forgot to take their not-feeling-terrible medication

So this post is the single reason I took my meds today. Reblogging out of duty.

me when i see a cat: CAT! cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

Fun fact: when I see cute animals, I forget English and automatically revert to my native Hungarian. I don’t know what bystanders make of me, reciting guttural gibberish to rabbits.

But the real question is, what are you SAYING to the rabbits? Is it ‘RABBIT! rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit bunny bunny bunny awww cute bunnyyyyy’?

Well, I usually say the Hungarian equivalent of ‘bun bun bun lil bun look at your tiny spoon-shaped ears awww bun brave little lawnmower bun’, but sometimes I say ‘hey rabbits, my sister’s gonna go to med school’ because I think everyone should know.

I live in Japan, and I always revert to English to talk to small animals, and I was cooing at this tiny little fluff machine of a puppy in baby english like “hello you’re so cute such a cute hello hello yess you’re good” and the 70 year old Japanese lady that was walking him started to *translate the baby talk english into Japanese* for her pup. She wanted to be sure he understood it too.

https://xkcd.com/231/

it should be a law that if it’s raining and you wake up feeling comfy in bed you shouldn’t have to answer to any of your obligations

Door at Alnwick Garden, Northumberland.

Transcription: 1. A digital drawing with a bit of animation of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. The colors are pastels. They are sitting next to each other at a table. Wei Wuxian on the left is talking a lot while smiling and resting his head against his right knuckle. Lots of bright orange hearts come out of his mouth as he speaks. Lan Wangji on the right looks at him with his regular expressionless look. At the top of the drawing, their hands are linked with Lan Wangji’s headband. 2. A still image of the animation. END ID

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Well, guess they will consume out entire lives now 🫡

One of our fave dynamics is "talks a lot" x "likes to listen" so they make us very very happy

people with tooth decay aren't bad people. they aren't lazy either. neither are they unclean or irresponsible. tooth decay doesn't make you a bad person. you don't deserve mockery, judgement, or tooth pain for having any. the only thing people with tooth decay deserve is healthcare.

Dental engineer here. Everything about this is true. I’ve seen 20s something needing a full teeth set up. Even though they have no reason to tell us, one of them explained their whole medical history so we “don’t think he has a bad hygiene or something”. Boy even if it was the case we would do it. Some people breaks teeth during sport, some have medical condition that affects their gengival blood distribution (ir anything really), some have mental disorders that makes them forget or are totally unable to brush their teeth, and that’s okay.

getting out of tracks about the og post, but I want to say it: it doesn’t matter if your tooth decay is because of one cause or another (which includes “bad” hygiene to me) you don’t deserve mockery or pain. Every body is different and some has issues with a “too good” hygiene (had cases of gengival loss due to too much teeth brushing) and that’s okay.

Every single case of tooth issues deserves care and help.

conservative christians are so annoying because they want to be persecuted for their religion desperately but they live in the most aggressively christian place on earth. so they'll be like "I can't believe you hate me for being christian" and you'll respond "no I don't care what your religion is, I was raised protestant just like everyone else around here, I hate you because you voted for a fascist who wants to kill everyone I love and start world war three" and they'll just keep on with "why do you hate me for being christian" "I literally don't, it's the fascism thing. I'm going to stop speaking with you." "you can try to punish me for my faith but I will never abandon the LORD." "good for you keep it up but could you stop voting for fascists while you do that." "this is just like when the romans fed us to lions."

Found at the cemetery the other day

Faces carved into the walls of the Paris Catacombs

Frenchmen be like “this pitch black cave full of skeletons is not scary enough, I must make it worse”

if somebody you knew for a year said "listen. im just gonna be honest here. i know ive known you too long to not know your name. but i simply do not. i dont know how this happened. im reasonably confident you told me your name at some point. could you remind me please" how would you react

“Oh, thank god, because I have no idea what yours is either.”

I’m going to be a bitch for a second, but when I’m conversing with someone newly diagnosed with MCAS/POTS post covid and they complain about “the long wait” to get diagnosed and that “long wait” is 3-4 months my entire brain blue screens.

Like on the one hand, yes those 3-4 months must have been so, so scary and I am so unbelievably glad we’re in a place where doctors know enough to reconize it now. Like truly, I am so sincere I am so happy for them.

But I’m also just like... 30 years, man.

I spent 30 years being told from the age of eight I was manifesting my allergic reactions through anxiety by health care professionals.

Fuck, five years ago when I was starving to death from how severe my MCAS had gotten an allergist told me it was anxiety.

And you got diagnosed in three months.

MONTHS

MONTHS

AND YOU’RE COMPLAINING

I’m not mad at them. I’m not. I’m just sad for myself.

But also, hey, yeah. If you come into an MCAS forum and wonder why a bunch of the old timers get upset when you complain it took months for a doctor to listen to you, this is why.

It's not that you deserved to wait longer. It's that we didn’t either and and sometimes even good changes can unearth a world of hurt.

The average wait time for a POTS/dysautonomia diagnosis pre-covid was a decade.

Now it's still a decade but that's because the wait list to see a specialist is out the fucking stratosphere because everyone got covid and suddenly that ‘anxious female’ disorder turns out to be very fucking real.

Vaccinate if you are able. Wear a mask. Wash your hands and cough into your elbow. This shit isn’t over.

There are a handful of people in my inbox currently reaching out super excited to have someone to talk to about their weird shit and wanting to complain about their treatment by doctors, which is all fine and dandy, but unfortunately they are also inadvertently triggering the shit out of me because of how they are phrasing things, so just to reiterate everything above but also to add:

I am very sorry if longcovid has left you with complex health needs. But I am going to need you to take a moment and stop talking about these things as though they were unknown phenomenons caused exclusively by Covid, when the only reason you are able to have any sort of treatment is the activism and perseverance of the people before you.

Just, please be mindful of how you are phrasing things. There is a community here already waiting full of resources and support. You don’t need to strip it for parts and pretend it’s something new just because it’s happening to you.

the reason there is treatment for long covid is because of the countless number of patients over the past two decades who used their own bodies to test out treatments with the desperate hope that some day, other patients would have it better. better than five, ten, twenty, thirty years or more of desperately fighting for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. those are years of actively going to doctors and having test after test.

this effort has been across autonomic conditions, collagen disorders, bleeding disorders, thyroid disorders, hormone disorders, autoimmune disorders, ME/CFS, and other types of conditions so often triggered by infections such as covid-19. these types of conditions have always existed, and most research for many of these conditions is from only the ten years prior to covid-19, largely by patient-led and patient-focused groups such as dysautonomia international.

it worked. it was not an accident. it was not easy. it was a coordinated effort of awareness, experimentation, research, and education around the world. it has been physically and mentally excruciating and a lot of patients suffered through failed treatments and died waiting for the types of treatment that are now considered common knowledge.

do not fucking erase us.

Why do all the beautiful, colorful vintage bathrooms end up in the wrong hands. Come here. I would treasure you

More arches please

Imagine seeing this and wanting to rip it out and replace it with gray luxury vinyl plank

Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it’s insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN’T SHED MICROPLASTICS

Like, there’s literally nothing you can do to a sheep that’s as morally reprehensible as dumping plastic down the gullet of literally every other living thing. You wanna talk about animal welfare? Talk about reducing the amount of microplastics produced by rayon, polyester, and spandex.

Bruh plant-based sources of clothing exist and are better for the environment and don’t involve slicing an animal’s throat open please shut the fuck up you cunt

THE WOOL GROWS BACK

Do they think you kill a sheep for it’s wool

Comic by howbabycomic.com. Perfect for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities