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also! if you had norovirus, you are still contagious up to 2 weeks after you’re “better”! PLEASE keep washing your hands!

IDK how humanity will ever recover from the damage created by COVID conspiracy theories. Like, of course we are seeing a huge spike in serious respiratory illnesses, we just experienced a period of time where it was common to travel long distances and be in confined spaces with multiple people while sharing food and drink. And COVID is still kicking about, not to mention it is flu season and N5N1 just claimed its first victim. Your local health authorities and medical professionals are not fucking lying to you. Wash your hands, wear a mask, avoid crowded places and stay home if you’re sick. Many hospitals are already feeling overwhelmed. Try not to end up there.

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if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?

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Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Observed by irkuem, CC BY-NC

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I am so excited to share The Buddies Project (Disability Buddies and Pride Buddies) with the world!

The Buddies project consists of two individual sister projects, Disability Buddies and Lion Pride Buddies.

As you can see on the logo above, I make these cute animal character designs to represent medical conditions (Disability Buddies) or LGBT identities (Pride Buddies). Along with a desire to make education and representation more accessible to people with chronic conditions and LGBTQIA+ individuals, these characters are at the heart of the project.

The logo includes Ellie, the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Buddy, and Gabe, the Gay Pride Buddy. The belong images include examples of a character from each project: Freya the Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) Buddy and Toby the Transgender Buddy.

This project is still in early stages, but I’m uploading character designs to different social media platforms (check the bottom of the post) and we have a Discord server where you can help me design characters for your medical condition or identity that will be made into plushies and pin buttons, as well as provide visuals for our educational pamphlets and other material. Here is a pin button I have made already!

The Buddies Project already has partnerships with a local clinic and Pride organization, as well as a reservation for an information booth at my next local Pride Festival, but I hope to make this a global effort once I get farther along in the project and have money to make merchandise (plushies, pins, stickers, etc.) and more educational material (infographics, printed pamphlets, posters, informational booths, etc.)

⭐️ Please come along for the ride! Reblogs appreciated! ⭐️

Website

Discord Server

Disability Buddies Tumblr

Lion Pride Buddies Tumblr

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THANK YOU 🙏 people need to hear this

Because i've seen a bunch of fics infantalizing Viktor, making him frail/incompetent, and the like, here is how to write a cane/crutch user with chronic pain, a bad back and a bad leg, from a guy with Fibromyalgia and pots.

Canes! should be around the hip/waist height. there are many different types of canes. for drawing and ideas, check out @cowsabungus for guides! Cane users are not frail, and many cane users can put their canes down for a moment, or longer.

Crutches! the type of crutch Viktor uses is an underarm crutch, however, as he only uses one, and he uses it full/most of the time, it will fuck his back and shoulders a bunch. If you're writing/drawing a modern au especially, Viktor would probably use forearm crutches, and 2 of them

Behavior! Firstly, canes are made of metal, and some of them can even be used as nun-chucks. they are excellent weapons, and a lot of cane users will jokingly/seriously hit people with their canes, or do the equivilent of "i'm not touching you" with their canes. Secondly, weaponized incomepetence. this can show up in many ways, for example, viktor may hand his cane/crutch to jayce, walk a few metres and then screech out [in public] 'HOW COULD YOU? GIVE THAT BACK?', or fall dramatically. other stuff, such as calling every minor incovenience ableist [something i LOVE to do], making people carry their shit for them, and using disability privleges to get a seat on a train and etc, are very common in disabled people, including me.

Actual usage. A person with a shit leg will usually put more weight on their good leg, so a support will either go, on both sides to even it out [such as a rollator/walker or crutches], on the good leg [not that common, don't do this w crutches, or on the bad leg, allieveating pain.

chronic pain. chronic pain sucks, and it often skews with your perception of pain. here are some examples. Footless Jo on YT [fibromyalgia], nearly died from a kidney infection because she thought the pain was normal, my friend E had a concussion and didn't realise for 3 days because of her migraines, and i once dislocated my knee, and didn't realise because i was used to pain.

braces. braces do not alleviate pain completely, but they help a LOT. KT tape is a godsent as well, same with compression items and heat packs.

Every disability is different, and each circumstance is different. Please dm/shoot me an ask for specific scenarios, fic help, questions and advice!

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for fucking real

chronic pain: hurts but i can deal, done it since i was young. usually bearable. sometimes popping my joints helps, sometimes it makes it worse, only one way to find out.

chronic fatigue: unfortunate but i can deal, i need to catch up on sleep anyway i guess. naps are great. not in class but naps are great.

chronic nausea: put a fucking gun to my head

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Today's Adventure is that I, after an unintentional 13-hour power nap,

Got woken up at 6AM by a phone call from a friend stranded in Montana because of the heat wave and almost no cell service because of their crap provider.

OhSoThat'sHowIt'sGonnaBe.jpg

Ok.

I somehow summon a week's worth of spoons and in less than 30 minutes and 5 phone calls, get them

A hotel

An appointment with a mechanic from 2 states away

A perscription refilled from 2 states away

and A Pizza

Go me.

But then it's 8AM and there are unscheduled live humans at the door and while EVERGENCY MODE is still on, I have already blown through a ton of spoons, and also probably shouldn't meet whoever it is wearing just a pair of bootyshorts that say "CRYPTID" in Gothic Font on my ass.

So I greet them in those shorts and a T-shirt that I manage to put on both inside out and backwards

#nailedit

It is, Fortunately, not the mormons.

it is, Unfortunately, two UPS guys trying to deliver my other in-house friend's new phone except the new guy doesn't know how to operate the "sign for package" device, and the old guy that's supposed to be mentoring him is like, 92, deaf as a post, and doesn't actually know how to operate the device either.

by the way

it is already

over 100 out

it takes almost 30 minutes to sign for the phone

when i get back inside, i discover that apparently the Corgi has learned how to open his kennel from the inside because he is now out of the kennel and waiting for me to come in.

he also has cat litter all over his face because while he was waiting for me he also learned how to open the baby gate to the cat's room and help himself to a cat shit breakfast.

He'll be fine

He's a cattle dog, they're legally required to have at least 1 really disgusting snack they love.

but

more to the point

i have no idea at what point he learned to open his kennel from the inside

has he been staying there out of politeness this whole time??

And

I got other shit to do today.

namely.

I'm seeing a realator

The Devils most pathetic yet effective demons

I get a reminder text that I have an appointment with her

at least

I think that's what it is because what she sends me is: "🏡⏰12:00 ❔"

With the time typed in the middle like that.

She is, according to her profile, at least 80.

so I reply "😎👍"

and then she sends me a string of GODDAMN POST-MODERN EMOJI HEIROGLYPHICS THAT TAKE UP MY ENTIRE SCREEN.

She's on an iPhone so half of them don't even translate across platforms

It takes me half an hour and three different software programs and goddamn wingdings to translate, but she has sent me the address and rules about masking and not wearing shoes inside.

in emoji

instead of like

literally any other format

I am

FASCINATED

and simply must meet the woman so if I don't come back to update I got stolen by the fairies but I'm taking the Corgi with me as protection so I'll see y'all later.

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hey google how to tell someone that no, actually, there isn’t a magical cure for my illness, i will just Be Like That for the rest of my life

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1. feathers of emerald

2. and you wonder what’s swirling around in that stormy mind of hers.

3. “a crow flew overhead, cawing cruelly as it went. he tore the earring from his flesh, and there was blood, nothing but blood, always more blood.”

4. 21,811

5. and threw that guilt away

6. feathers of emerald

7. a good girl goes to war

8. one sentence angst challenge!

9. to the ends of the earth (a book i’m writing!)

10. sedatephobia

11. doctor who

12. orestes

13. demon kitty rag (by katzenjammer)

14. i loved you like the sun…

15. there is something wrong with me

16. there’s so many but a few faves: i loved you like the sun, feathers of emerald, a friend behind the mask

17. to the ends of the earth, gods and girls

18: 2

19: idk honestly, but i want to write more dsmp stuff

20: i think none? i check my inbox a lot

21: someone wrote a fic in response to mine!!! thanks, Acpola01 on ao3, you did great :)

22: none :/

23: omfg there’s thousands. don’t get me started

24: passerine

25: passerine

26: 17

27: Ria_Writes_Stuff (on ao3)

28: passerine (again)

29: rainy days by HwaStars

30: dsmp :)

my user on ao3 is polites_never_dies if anyone wants to check it out!!

fanfic end of the year asks

since it’s december, i thought i’d make a little end of the year ask meme for fanfic writers and readers! reblog and ask away

favorite fic you wrote this year

least favorite fic you wrote this year

favorite line/scene you wrote this year

total number of words you wrote this year

most popular fic this year

least popular fic this year

longest completed fic you wrote this year

shortest completed fic you wrote this year

longest wip of the year

shortest wip of the year

fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year

favorite character to write about this year

favorite writing song/artist/album of this year

a fic you didn’t expect to write

something you learned this year

fic(s) you completed this year

fics you’ll continue next year

current number of wips

any new fics to start next year

number of comments you haven’t read

most memorable comment/review

events you participated in this year

fics you wanted to write but didn’t

favorite fic you read this year

a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

number of favorites/bookmarks you made this year

favorite fanfic author of the year

longest fic you read this year

shortest fic you read this year

favorite fandom to read fic from this year

*feel free to specify fandoms or a fic depending on the question.

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reblog if gay

gonna see how far this goes without any tags.

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someone please help i’m trying to get into qsmp but i have no idea where to start ;-; i’m so confused

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Me pulling up to the scout event as if I'm not going to attempt to teach all my friends to play pool and poker like some 1920s cartoon devil

Art by @/phykoha

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sunset :3

Let’s play a game

Everyone post the most recent picture in your camera roll. You only get one sentence to justify yourself if you wish. This one is mine.

My boyfriend is rly good at Latin, so I was looking up how to say ‘I love you’ but found this instead :)

Your turn!

@bookmovietvworm

@myfairkatiecat

@i-am-a-fish

@valtsv

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Dear well-meaning friends,

when i ask you to stop playing with my cane, that is final, and respectfully, you do no get to say i am no fun for that. my mobility aids are not your toys, nor are they your tools to jokingly make fun of me with. stop taking it when i let go and hobbling around like an old man. it isn’t funny. i love you, but you need to learn boundaries. you wouldn’t take someone’s leg and start messing with it, so don’t do it with mine.

love,

your bestie who wishes she could say this to your face.

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I MISSED NOVEMBER 16TH I LITERALLY FUCKING SLEPT THROUGH IT 😭😭 LIKE I WOKE UP AT 11:30 AT NIGHT THINKING IT WAS THE FIFTEENTH AND WENT BACK TO SLEEP AND THE NEXT MORNING I CHECKED MY PHONE AND IT WAS THE 17TH I MISSED IT I’M SO DONE

anyways happy late 16th

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techza wedding/engagement rings... btw... if u even care

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i’d say mine is about 60% chronic illness, 40% other stuff :)

hi guys if ur blog is focused around disability/chronic illness would u like or reblog this pretty please :o ? i wanna find more people to follow