#Competitive Generic Therapy

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and i wanted to be kind and leave one more spot for someone for a chart reading, £30 for a natal chart reading and i'll be closing it!

♇ what is a ruler in astrology?

♇ a ruler in astrology is a planetary ruler, a planet that rules over the sign that takes over a house, for example, someone with capricorn in their second house, will have saturn as their second house ruler.

♇ my second house is ruled by saturn, and saturn is placed in my seventh house in astrology.

♱ 1H RULER IN THE 1H ⟶ important people, could be very self-centred or thinks about their path a lot. attractive people, might think of themselves too much. popular and likeable. fiery people, handsome faces, fast, bold and an important life-path.

♱ 1H RULER IN THE 2H ⟶ money, security and beauty oriented. a beautiful person, distinct, calming or nice voice. financially driven, loud voices, vocal person, could be good singers, protective people, possessive and are family-oriented. might prioritise their weight and body too much.

♱ 1H RULER IN THE 3H ⟶ siblings/cousins or relatives in general are important to them. fast and charismatic, observant people and can be talkative, could be guides for other people. writers and dreamers. creative, could have a passion for cards and keeping up with trends.

♱ 1H RULER IN THE 4H ⟶ finds family important, making a foundation and legacy for themselves. therapy is important, might find themselves having to be the therapist for other people in their lives. might've had their bodies sexualised when they were younger. can be overly-nurturing, other people might depend on them too much vice versa. could feel close to children, could dream of becoming a leader, beauty, looking like their mother.

♱ 1H RULER IN THE 5H ⟶ fun people and dramatic. finds importance in expressing themselves, romance and fame, tending to the inner-child. romantic, could be a player, artistic. could be selfish and flamboyant. broadway fame, can be show-offs and like to dance.

♱ 1H RULER IN THE 6H ⟶ hard workers, keen and mean. though can be helpful to other people. funny and health-oriented, might think of their weight too much. owning a business, home-business and obsessed with perfection. naggers and can be stalkers, they like to win, competitive people but can be self-destructive. schedule and organisation means a lot to them.

♇ 1H RULER IN THE 7H ⟶ finds importance in connections, and romance. can be a very flaky person, unsure and indecisive about everything. popular person and can be obsessed with aesthetics, can be someone who has different types of friendship groups for different circumstances. cute person.

♇ 1H RULER IN THE 8H ⟶ finds importance in secrecy, money and being a better version of themselves. can obsess over perfection. sexual person, and very sexually appealing person. strong aura can be off-putting to other people. cold/sharp eyes and can look into things too much. stalkers and obsessive people.

♇ 1H RULER IN THE 9H ⟶ big personality, intelligent and big smiles. intoxicating laugh, laugh makes other people laugh. great at teaching and has a vast presence. can take in stuff easily and can be someone who is also on the go, much admirers. "the girl who's always gonna be alright".

♇ 1H RULER IN THE 10H ⟶ popular people, stoic and ambitious. and can be people who are stoic and handsome. very nice and commanding voices. can be people who are leaders, admired, much pressure on their shoulders. gets along with superiors, easily attracts attention from everyone. stands out, dark academia aesthetic.

♇ 1H RULER IN THE 11H ⟶ friendship means a lot to them, but also being independency. belonging somewhere is important to them. standing out, internet famous, can be people who are geniuses and secretive. moralistic and can have high standards. these people are rebels and unorthodox, psychic and social climbers, money-oriented too.

♇ 1H RULER IN THE 12H ⟶ escapists and dreamers. fame. self-victimisers, too sympathetic especially for the wrong people. avoiding problems and being people who are intuitive, emotional people and addicts. runners and maladaptive day-dreamers. artistic people and people might project onto them vice versa, distaste of being perceived everywhere, hermit people and self-sacrifices themselves for a better future.

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[willsimpforanyone]

Could you do a percy x nike!reader where the reader challenges percy to a sword fight and percy loses and the readers all cocky about it. And then percy decides to teach the reader a lesson and doesnt stop fucking her till she says hes a winner and like since reader is competitive she gets overstimulated? I need therapy what the hell is this ask

bestie we all need therapy here don't worry ur safe here

i'm gonna do an established relationship because it's just easier that way, and this is a she/her reader with feminine terms used

percy is a little bit of a mean dom, but he still checks in with the reader to make sure she’s okay

The man at the end of my blade was glowering at me like it was his job.

Percy's green eyes were reflecting in the shine of my sword, but I didn't need a mirror to know my smile was even brighter. I tapped the flat of the sword against his jaw.

"Sorry, babe, look like you need a little more practice," I grin, nodding towards a pair of 8 year olds fighting with blunted blades. "Maybe you should ask them for help?"

He rolled his eyes, capping Riptide and knocking my sword away from him. "I went easy on you."

I sheathed my sword at my side, raising my eyebrows at him in disbelief and smirking. "No, you didn't."

"Yes, I did," Percy hisses, and I laugh at the behaviour of a stroppy teenager coming from my boyfriend of 20 years old.

Walking over to the burning offering bowl at the entrance to the arena, I drop in a little something as a 'thank you' to Nike. "You're drenched in sweat, you put actual effort into that fight, you're just bitter that someone might be able to beat you."

Rolling his eyes again so far back in his head I'm sure he's about to give himself a headache, Percy slings his arm over my shoulders as we walk to his cabin. "You're my girlfriend, I had to let you win, I'm a gentleman like that."

"Bullshit!" I cackle at his obvious attempts to dismiss his loss, but that would mean dismissing my victory and I would never have allowed that. "I'm a child of Victory incarnate, did you really think you could win when I have the spirit of winning in my blood?"

"We get it, you won, the whole world gets it," he sighs, dragging his feet. "Can you shut up about this now?"

I shake my head, still grinning like the fattest cat that had the cream already and has just discovered the can of tuna. "Absolutely not, I think it would be basically blasphemy if I were to stop talking about my victory over the most powerful demigod of our generation, mother would strike me down where I stand."

"Sounds like I'll just have to make you shut up." Percy drags me inside his cabin, slamming the door behind us and shoving me against the wall. His hand comes behind my head so I don't smack it on the wall and the butterflies in my stomach go insane at the caring gesture even when I'm pissing him off.

I barely have time to open my mouth before his lips are on mine, stealing any words I was about to say. My hands fly to the back of his head, keeping him kissing me and tangling in his slightly sweaty black hair. He perpetually tastes like sea salt and I moan very quietly.

It takes a second for my brain to kick into gear again, but I smirk against his lips and whisper into his mouth. "You'll have to do better than that, loser."

Percy growls. "Oh, I plan to."

The wall is suddenly no longer behind me and I shriek in surprise and glee as he drags me to throw me onto the bed, immediately pouncing on me and pinning me to the bed. His fingers work deftly to undo my belt and he sets my belt and sword carefully on the floor, along with my shoes.

Now free to do as he pleases, he dips his head into the crook of my neck, yanking at my sweatpants and dragging his nails down my legs along with the waistband, throwing them off. Without hesitation, he strips me of my underwear and I moan, a permanent smile living on my face.

"This feels more like a reward than a punishment, I won't lie," I smirk, leaning up on my elbows and looking up at him.

"No one asked for your opinion," he sighs, promptly shoving two of his fingers in my mouth. "Use your tongue for something worthwhile, hm?"

Unable to do anything else, I wrap my lips around his fingers, sucking and covering them in saliva. I teasingly bob my head a little, looking him directly in the eyes and taking his fingers as deep into my mouth as I can.

He smirks, shaking his head at my obscene behaviour. "Dirty girl." He pulls his hand away, inspecting his spit-covered fingers. "Good enough."

Clearly determined to render me incapable of speech, he immediately swirls his middle finger over my clit. My whole body jerks, upper body almost thrown forward at the sudden sensation. "Shit-"

Percy grins, drawing delicate but deliberate circles and radiating smugness. "Nothing to say? Is that all it takes to make you shut your smart mouth?"

Well, I couldn't let him think he'd won this round. I swallow harshly, flicking my hair out my eyes and smirking. "I could suck your dick if you wanted," I breathe out, voice thick with condescension. "Sort of a participation prize."

He scowls, and pushes two fingers into my pussy. The sudden feeling shoots through my body like electricity and I gasp, one hand flying to grip at his wrist. My head gets thrown backwards and a low moan comes from low in my throat.

His digits pump in and out at a speed I wasn't expecting and for a good minute, there are no words in my head. Not a single thought, just pleasure vibrating my bones and removing my ability to think.

"There we go," he purrs, other hand rubbing gently over my hip and stomach. "The attitude was unnecessary, huh?"

I laugh breathlessly, one hand gripping the wrist of the hand abusing my now-soaking pussy, the other raking through my hair. "I... I still won..."

"For fucks' sake-" Percy shuffles down the bed until his head rests between my legs. No ceremony, no anticipation, just his tongue against my clit as his fingers crook and stroke at my velvety walls.

The sudden increase in stimulation drags me bodily into my climax, orgasm rocking through my body and rendering me speechless. I slap a hand over my mouth to muffle my long, drawn out moans... and then my squeak of surprise as he doesn't stop.

"P-Percy?" I stutter, hips instinctively twitching away from him under his relentless attack.

Instead of answering, his eyes simply flick up to meet mine with a filthy smirk on his lips. His fingers don't stop, tongue lapping up my come as he scissors me open slightly. My thighs start trembling, and the hand that was over my mouth finds its home twisted into Percy's hair as he buries his face between my legs.

He doesn't let up, working his jaw and tongue over and into me. My sensitivity has every nerve on edge and it takes a slightly humiliatingly short length of time for my next orgasm to flood through me.

To his credit, Percy doesn't protest at the definitely painful grip I have on his head, withdrawing his fingers and cleaning me up with his tongue. Shakily, I lean back up on my elbows and look down at him, panting slightly.

"Whoa," I breathe, pulling him up from between my legs and pressing a messy, sloppy kiss to his lips. Then, because I really, truly do not know how to shut up... "Hell of a reward, baby, I'm glad you admitted I won."

The growl of frustration comes from low in his ribcage and with a delicious shiver, I realise I've fucked up.

"Admit I went easy on you." His voice is right in my ear, and without looking I know he's stripping down, the sound so familiar I instinctively part my legs like a Pavlov effect.

I shake my head, still panting and still trembling. "No, you didn't, I won fair and square, I beat you."

To his credit and my utter adoration, he pauses as he slips a condom on and looks directly at me. "Are you okay?" He asks, voice soft and sweet.

I kiss him quickly and nod. "Mhm, yeah, I'm okay."

The sudden switch back is unbearably attractive and he nudges his cock against my sensitive folds, the tip nestling just barely inside. "You're my girlfriend, I would feel bad if I won every single time we fought," he hisses. "I was being sweet and you're throwing it in my face." His cock slips in just an inch.

I'm already clenching down on him, feeling my own wetness trailing down over my ass. It's a struggle to be coherent when my whole body is poised to feel him. "N-No, you weren't, I won, you're just being a bitch."

Another inch inside and I gasp, every sense heightened and nails clinging into his shoulders desperately. "Say I let you win."

I shake my head, but I'm beginning to forget what this faux-fight was about. "Mm-mm, never."

Percy clamps a preemptive hand over my mouth and shoves himself completely inside me, my pussy swallowing him whole. My eyes roll back in my head and I cry out into his palm, feeling deliciously, perfectly full and I'm pretty sure my brain starts leaking out of my ears.

"Then I'll fuck the words out of you," he murmurs into my ear. His other hand pins my hips to the bed as he starts pounding into me. I couldn't stop my body moving if I had the presence of mind to try, forcibly being dragged through overstimulation into that place where nothing else exists but Percy and the feeling of him inside me.

"Come on, baby," he coos, voice slightly unsteady. "Say it, and I won't drag another three orgasms from you."

That... that would break me. I'm out of my mind with just the two, I can't imagine how little I would function after five.

I can already feel my third orgasm building shakily in my lower stomach, pussy fluttering and convulsing around Percy's cock as he keeps up his rhythm. My pride wars with my common sense, wanting to stick to my victory versus knowing how utterly dedicated Percy can be at wringing orgasm after orgasm out of my poor body.

Percy adjusts my hips slightly and the angle knocks my pride out of my head. My lips form the words against his palm still over my mouth and he smirks, moving the hand to tangle his fingers in my hair.

"Something to say, gorgeous?"

I mumble the words, eyes closed and voice shaking.

Percy shakes his head. "What was that? A little louder for me, baby."

"...you went easy on me," I moan out, cheeks bright red and hands coming to hide my face. I don't need to see the smug fucking grin on his stupid handsome face, I already know it's there.

"Oh, good girl," he purrs, hips unrelenting against mine and sneaking a hand in between our bodies to thumb over my clit. "Just give me one more, one more and I'll stop, can you do that?"

I nod, clinging to him and moaning against his shoulder. "Mhm, I can d-do that."

"Good girl, I know you can," he murmurs, voice soft and burying his head into my neck. "It's okay, I've got you."

His switch to sweetness and patience sends my head reeling and I fall apart under him, muffling my scream of his name by biting into his shoulder. It only takes a few more thrusts and his hips stutter and still, a low choked moan smothered into my neck as he comes, filling up the condom.

Coherency is a distant memory and I can only focus on breathing, senses swamped with Percy. He litters kisses over my neck and jaw, whispering praise into my skin that I can barely focus on.

I whine in discomfort as he pulls out of me and he kisses me hard as a distraction, only moving away from me for a moment as he discards the condom before returning. He lays on the bed with me, wrapping me up in his arms and snuggling both of us under the bedsheets.

"Hey, you," he whispers, kissing the crown of my head. "How're you feeling?"

I respond in mumbles and nuzzling my face into his neck. Percy laughs softly, nodding and stroking up and down my spine.

"It's okay, that was too hard of a question right now, my bad."

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god i hope this was good, thank you for requesting!

[fcaruana]

— How do you mentally prepare for the competition, to make decisions at such high speed? What do you do to prepare yourself? — [sarcastic] Mentally I'm great, you must have seen my social media, mentally I'm great. 10/10! — Don't listen to them. You don't have to explain anything to anybody, do what you want with your life... — Well, I have a psychologist since I was very little, he has helped me very much and still helps me nowadays. I think that in sports in general it's very important to be mentally well, to be a little bit firmer in your head. So it's something that helps me a lot. I won't tell you what I do because everyone will copy me, it's a little secret! — You do therapy now- — I do therapy all the time. I'm always doing therapy. Doing therapy is really good! Some people are still a bit in the past and dislike it or think it doesn't work, but I do therapy all the time and that's what works for me a lot.

[elodieunderglass]

You never clearly state it, but its obvious Killie missed his brother. Charlies absence is seen in all the cracks Killie has. But did Charlie miss Killie? Its easy to say: "of course he did! Thats his twin! He must have missed him!" But did he? Did he allow himself the time to grieve? Did he tell his partners there is a carbon copy of himself walking around somewhere? Or did he lock up this part of himself as secure as he was able to not look back and live his life? Do Charlie and Killie ever talk about this? They dont seem to be like people, who talk about feelings. eww feelings

(in reference to Killie to jockey OC, who was estranged for a long time from his twin brother Charlie)

Charlie was the one who left. and when he left, he went scorched-earth. By leaving, he cut himself off from not just his immediate family, but his career path, extended family, horses, horse racing, his friends, horses, his native country, his magical-realism-psychic connection to his twin, horses, the family's religion (probably a plus side but definitely a framework); and, when you remove the load-bearing explanatory bit about "being a generational jockey", quite a strange relationship with his body/exercise/nutrition/self-care/pain tolerance/masculinity. Charlie went to England, sheltered with his horrible English family and took their last name for a bit, played along to get them to pay for his uni, went to uni in a panic, took up weird jobs, sheltered with his friend Ken and lived on his boat, and pursued an absurd career trajectory, largely in a panic at the thought of Ken going to graduate school without him. At the time of reuniting with Killie, Charlie had a rich life full of partners, kids, friends, career, hobbies, and therapy. He was Winning at Life and Mental Health! and sang with his friends and did healthy things like KNITTING! and was a PRESENT AND INVOLVED FATHER and had TWO! WHOLE! SPOUSES! which looks like a perfect life. it looks like Charlie did very well for himself. it looks like he Won. And he did! He's a good father and a good husband (husband²?) and has a job and everything. But, if you squint, and think about how what society deems "winning" is milestone-based; and how a lost person who is viscerally, addictively competitive might view "bagging life milestones" as an excellent replacement for "bagging horse-shaped golden trophies"; and remember that Charlie is off his hinge in a way that LOOKS healthy but is, nonetheless, off his bloody hinge, then you go: hmmm! Charlie you are POWERFULLY and OBVIOUSLY off your bloody rocker, and you only get away with it because it's all in ways that are charming and/or marketable.

this implies that Charlie needed to find about 25 people to replace Killie; that he needed to study, out of nowhere, astrophysics at the doctoral level as a way to keep himself from thinking about other things; that he tried on a lot of different masks in order to find one that fitted; that he snatched up as much light and colour and noise as possible to fill his head; and that he was, in general, Extremely Bad at being alone. He did not function alone. without family, structure, direction, ambition - cut completely loose - he is very lucky that he actually had a workable plan, that he found good people, and that he bounced into pockets of uncannily good luck. he's lucky that Ken picked him up and put him in his pocket. he's lucky that he was a good singer. he's lucky that he somehow managed to stay on the straight and narrow and build an entire life. it definitely looks like a life! a life that a Real Person would have! why would anyone grieve that! don't be silly!!! Charlie's mirror-book to Killie's would be On The Straight and Narrow. Ken's The Straight, and the narrowboat (and charlie) are the narrow.

and he would not talk about his family. and he would lie to everyone. I think his partners and closest friends would probably know, eventually, where he came from, and that he'd had siblings. but the light and colour and noise in between (the husband in front of you) and (whatever his childhood was) would be its own distraction and barrier.

Don't be silly! he was raised by pirates! he was raised by wolves! charlie made himself out of junk. charlie was born fully formed in a duck's nest. charlie is actually Ken's ginger brother (he takes after Mr MacKenzie, you see it, right?) Charlie's birth name was definitely and legally Charles Dragonfly. why would you not believe that

[barufisher]

i did Lucanis's inner demons quest last night and have some thoughts [everyone groans in unison]

i admit that i definitely have a bias for Lucanis, i really like the crows (or i should say the crows from previous games & the lore around them) and my Rook is a crow so i'm inclined towards him in general.

that being said i feel i'm just. missing huge bits of information about him. he exists entirely in a void. i don't really know anything about his relationships with Illario or Caterina, the game glosses over so much of his role and what exactly he does within the crows (beyond just talking about how he was the Demon and the Magekiller) i suppose it's just too icky for the game to truly acknowledge outside of a few jokes about Lucanis poisoning the gang's food...

i know from seeing people posting excerpts from his novel that Caterina did, in fact, physically abuse him; i figured this was the case considering she's a high ranking member of the crows and thus no doubt had a role in torturing recruits, even if the game pretends like this is a thing that doesn't happen. you get a bit of banter early on where Lucanis, talking about Illario's behavior, says something along the lines of "My relationship with Caterina was complicated, too, and I was her favorite." implying some level of friction between them as well as conflicting feelings about her death.

but then that's it. we get nothing else. this should be a major piece of his story, a part of why he feels the way he does, and exploring Caterina's role in his and Illario's abuse would better expand upon Illario's resentment and make his and Lucanis's relationship more compelling beyond "Illario is a big jealous meanie."

i really wanted to like the inner demons quest more than i did, because conceptually i enjoy going into the fade/Lucanis's memories with Spite, so far Lucanis's quests have felt the most Dragon Age to me (fighting a naked woman in a giant pool of blood + seeing Spite lose control, him and Illario butting heads and having a competitive relationship before this (as the crows all should...), etc. these are fun!) but just like the rest of the game it's still holding back.

when you confront the memory of Caterina all you get are these choices:

none of these are particularly satisfying if you actually know the things Caterina has done... "Your love for him" is actually vile lol

this entire questline is a linear walk through fragments of the Ossuary & Lucanis's memories, there is nothing interesting here, Rook just plays therapist for about twenty minutes and then you make a nothing choice at the end that has no affect on anything at all... and most egregiously, we have learned literally Nothing new about Lucanis that the game hasn't already made an effort to tell us repeatedly (a real problem the game has in general, constant hand-holding and repetition).

there's Quite a bold choice to compare this quest to the Fade section in origins right at the start, with Rook and Spite joking about getting past the guards: "What did you expect, to turn into a mouse or something?" like yes, actually, i did expect something a bit more! even if you want to say the warden does the exact same thing with their companions in that quest, their dialogue is FAR better-- again, Rook's is all clinical therapy-speak (where did she even learn this shit? did the crows pay for her to get a degree in psych and become a licensed counselor?) and in origins, we do actually learn something new about each companion as well as getting to see them interact with their fantasies and/or nightmares. we get nothing here...

we could have seen him and Illario training together, being competitive, the early seeds of resentment being planted between them by Caterina's goading and abuse. we could have seen the guilt Lucanis feels about this, about Caterina's favoritism and how it's affected his relationship with Illario. we could have actually seen what happened to him when he was captured and in the Ossuary, we could have seen some of the horrible things he's had done to him and that he himself has done to become the Demon of Vyrantium, we could have learned more about why the demon inside of him became spite specifically-- because if what Zara's echo said is true, it started as an Envy demon-- so it was influenced by Lucanis in some way. what makes him spiteful? why is it spite that keeps him alive in the Ossuary...? is it spite as in defiance-- defiance of the Venatori, of Caterina's expectations and abuse, in defiance of Illario's betrayal...? unfortunately, Lucanis never really feels spiteful at all. determined to survive the Ossuary, but afterwards, never has he come across as spiteful (Spite is mostly just petty and a bit bitchy).

in my opinion the Envy demon fails because Lucanis was never envious of Illario or the First Talon position, only crushed by the loss of their relationship and guilty over Caterina's favoritism. obviously Caterina's expectations weigh heavily on him, but he knows he's the favorite, and he doesn't envy Illario for not being so-- he seems very aware of the fact that it doesn't equate to Illario having it "easier." but the game barely addresses this, only in weak voice-overs, while the majority of the quest is spent convincing Lucanis that he's not actually a demon. Lucanis is wholly a good guy that only kills blood mages and loves his poor grandma and his inner demon is entirely Literal and just him feeling bad about being an abomination :(

nevermind all that yucky complicated stuff. Illario is Bad and Jealous and deserves to be punished for... doing exactly what crows have always done.

of course it's easy to make Illario look bad when all of the other crows are treated like a found family, when we know that's not the case at all. crows have been competing and scheming and killing each other since origins. this isn't meant to make light of Illario's betrayal (in fact i still think it's quite significant given their history and the two of them being the last of their family) but instead Illario is very obviously suspicious from the start, the reveal of his betrayal was not surprising, it's predictable because, again, he is presented very differently from all the other crows we've seen in this game-- he's the Bad one, and Lucanis is the Good one. no nuance!

in his short story, The Wake, Illario is actually depicted as being extremely remorseful, getting very drunk and reminiscing on old childhood memories of Lucanis while Viago has to carry him home... of course there's no way of knowing the exact intent behind this story or what changed since (published in 2020 and written by Mary Kirby, after all) but either way, we don't get anything like that here. somewhere along the way we lost the depth and complexity of both characters; we don't get to confront this big ugly thing between them because the game refuses to engage with anything ugly at all.

[im-not-a-ghost]

FS series : their profession & hobbies

Group 1 - Moonchild Ace of cups, 9 of pentacles, Ace of swords, 6 of wands, Page of swords

As for possible careers, I am picking up on the following elements. This person's career relies on two key factors : communication and sociability. With the two aces, it gives me the feeling of something either being very recent or very novel. So either this person has been doing this job since a short period of time or the job they are doing is something that has emerged within the recent times. So it's not something like being a doctor or a lawyer, as these professions have been existing for a while. With the page of swords, this person's work likely involves the use of technology, especially social media. The 9 of pentacles could show that they are working on their own. Either they are their own boss or their profession requires them to work alone most of the time. The 6 of wands denotes a sense of fame and support from people around them. So it is likely that your person is either well known in their community and appreciated for their work, or they have a huge following and interact with a lot of people. Based on all these information, I am deducting that your FS could work in either one of those positions :

community manager, freelance designer / artist

social media influencer, public speaker, spokesperson for a specific company

therapies that involve unconventional ways of healing (crystal healing, sound baths, ASMR, Reiki...)

being a celebrity of some kind, no matter their field of action (modeling, singing, acting, cooking...)

When it comes to hobbies, this person is definitely into creative activities. They could be into singing, writing, painting among other artistic centers of interest. This person may also enjoy spending time alone journaling, being in nature, exploring new places. They may be into horse riding. They could also enjoy learning and reading. This person may like to be the center of attention. In friend groups, they tend to be the one that makes everyone laugh. They could also enjoy competitive activities and combat sports. They are into self care. As communication seems to be very important to this person, they could also use social media as a way to creatively express themselves outside of their usual train of work. For instance, I'm picking up on someone doing Tiktok trends as a a hobby.

Group 2 - Angel The Sun, 4 of cups, knight of wands, 7 of swords, Hierophant

When it comes to your person's occupation, I get the feeling like their position is an important one within society. It is something that is viewed by society as essential to the community. It could be a profession that is very traditional or that was passed down to them from previous generations. With the Sun and the knight of wands, it feels like your person holds a position of authority or at least a strategical position within an institution that gives them a lot of power in terms of decision making and initiative. They could also have to move around a lot, whether on short or long distances. This is a profession that requires them to be flexible and confident but also to be comfortable with working on their own and thinking for themselves because I feel like this person doesn't get much help in their situation. There may be a lot of weight and responsibilities on their shoulders. With the 7 of swords, this gives me a feeling of secrecy surrounding this person's job. There are a lot of things that they cannot share about their work. Also, the 7 of swords talks about strategic planning. Their job requires a lot of thinking and anticipation. The Hierophant can represent big institutions such as religious groups, political groups, government, the army, the educational system, big companies and so on. Based on all the information provided by the cards, your FS could be working in either one of those fields :

medical field : any type of doctor, psychiatrists, forensics, working in a research lab

political/religious field : public figure working for the government, leader of a political group of any kind, spiritual guru, a person of authority within a religious group

teaching, working in the military, being an undercover agent, working for big companies that play an important role in a country's economy, baking and so on

As for hobbies, this person may enjoy traveling, running, horse riding, solving puzzles and riddles. Playing video games. Learning about other cultures and ethnicities. Learning about religious beliefs. Doing community work, praying. Spending time alone in nature away from civilisation. Camping. Trecking. Mountain climbing. Challenging activities. Being in sunny places overall. Going to exotic and remote places. Learning about History. Visiting museums and ruins. Stalking.

Group 3 - Maidens 6 of wands, Empress, 10 of wands, knight of cups, The World

Your person's occupation feels very busy and hectic. Their job is one that is very active and requires them to travel the world for some, or at least to move around within their country. For this group, it is clear that this person's job revolves around physical appearances, sensuality and promoting a positive image of life, of society, of health. This group has the most potential of having a FS that is famous to some extent. I see that your person has to work with a lot of people and is constantly on the go. They participate to various events, they take on many responsibilities and yet manage to be very successful despite the hectic and sometimes unpredictable conditions of their work. Beauty is a major theme here, as well as reputation. Thus, your FS could be working as an influencer, a model, an artist, a beauty aesthetician, a fashion designer, an event promoter, a journalist. Anything that would require them to be in the public eye and promote a certain life style or certain products. They could also be an entertainer, an athlete that is very present on social media, a personal trainer, a reporter. I'm also picking up on flight attendants, employees from big stores in airports or big hotels. Of course we can't omit everything revolving around the performing arts. Actors, comedians, dancers. We also have possibly strippers, dancers, show hosts and so on. Fitness instructors, yoga teachers. For some, your person could have a personal blog or website like a Patreon or an Only Fans account. They could also be a creator of some kind. Maybe they design their own clothes or jewelry for example. They may own a business revolving around cosmetics or a massage institute. The possibilities are endless. For some of you, I feel like your person could be having several occupations within the same field. For example, think of a model that could also be a fashion designer. Or an actor that could also be directing their own movies.

As for hobbies, again, beauty and physicality seem to be the key themes here. There's also traveling. This person is definitely a foody. They may also enjoy buying clothes, collecting objects. They may like to learn new languages or to cook specialities from various cultures. They could also enjoy doing DIYs. Knitting their own clothes, doing their home decor and so on. This person feels very venusian and earthy in their energy. So anything revolving around pleasure, the body, the earth. Gardening. Taking care of their body by doing gua sha, meditation, yoga. And so on.

[phaedraismyusername]

Happy International Lesbian Day! Here's some super brief book recs to celebrate

Books dealing with love, loss, longing and abandonment

This is How You Lose The Time War is a short but beautifully written epistolary novel between two agents on opposite sides of a time war as they slowly fall in love.

Our Wives Under the Sea is one of the most beautifully written debuts I've ever read about a woman whose wife comes home wrong after they thought she'd died at sea and how it feels to grieve the loss of someone who's still in your home.

Lucky Red is a western novel about a young girl working in a brothel who meets her first female gunslinger and falls head over heels for her, and the consequences that come with loving dangerous people.

Body horror galore

Camp Damascus is about a young woman living in a super conservative christian town built around the worlds most successful conversion camp and the horrors that are uncovered there when praying the gay away fails.

To Be Devoured is about a woman whose fascination with the local vultures turns into obsession and the urge to know what carrion tastes like overtakes her life and leads her down stranger and stranger paths.

Chlorine is about a girl whose entire life revolves around being a competitive swimmer, and how abuse, neglect, and obsession with being the best takes its toll on the young women caught up in these destructive cycles.

Flawed character studies

Big Swiss is about a woman who has a kitchen floor reset in her 40s, moves away and starts a new life as a transcriber for a sex therapist and becomes obsessed with one of his clients before inserting herself into this poor woman's life.

The Seep is a speculative sci-fi set in a future where there's been a quiet alien invasion that has given people the ability to make almost any changes to their own bodies and what that world feels like to someone who doesn't want to partake.

Milk Fed is about a woman in therapy who feels cut off from almost everything until she meets another woman who triggers in her a melding of sex, hunger, and religion and where that takes her. Huge trigger warnings for ED content. It gets tough, y'all.

Fantastical wlw books

Bitterthorn is an amalgamation of fairytales retold as a slow burn sapphic love story between a sad young girl from a cursed land and the evil witch who takes her as a companion in the latest of the generational sacrifices made to appease her.

All the Bad Apples may be set in contemporary Ireland but it is a fairytale following a young girl as she travels across the country looking for a sister she refuses to believe is dead and the people she meets along the way.

Gideon the Ninth needs no introduction on this site but for the sake of formatting - lesbian necromancers in space who find themselves in an isolated murder mystery plot. It's not a romance but it is a love story and this series will change your life if you let it.

Translated novels

Boulder is a short character study following a free spirited woman when she accidentally settles down with the woman she loves and how love and resentment can take up the same space in your chest when life doesn't turn out the way you hoped it would.

Notes of a Crocodile is a cult classic coming of age story about queer teens in Taipei in the 1980s. It was written in the 90s so please keep that in mind if you choose to read it.

Paradise Rot is about an international student studying in Australia and her growing obsession with her housemate as they share a space that allows no privacy. I've never read anything that feels stickier.

[misscammiedawn]

I am really glad Ally referred to their performance during the earnest episode of Game Changer as "my character"

I worry people see these improv actors performing with their real name and incorporating elements of their real lives into the performance and think that the characters presented are the same as the actors playing them.

Brennan's character is competitive. Vic's character is an egotistical monster. Izzy's character is a chaos gremlin.

Dropout in general has an issue with parasocial dynamics and this was an episode that specifically asked the players to be honest and earnest while having them discuss what they are working on in therapy.

I think the audience needs more reminders that what the characters say and do on these improv shows is not reminiscent of reality and also that Dropout had to pay twice for Kiss By A Rose but saying that they licensed it for the episode and could use it as much as they wanted was funnier.

[bullet-prooflove]

Broken Glass: Travis Wheatley x Reader

Tagging: @kmc1989 @trublu2u @yousigned-upforthis @gatefleet @pansexualhailstorm

Companion piece to:

Texas - Travis and you make a realisation about your relationship.

Broken - Travis recieves a phone call from Rip regarding you and Malcom Beck.

Maui - Travis adds some extra security measures to your new place.

Colt 45 - Travis doesn't mess around when it comes to your saftey.

Ride - Travis lifts your mood by taking you for a ride.

Wet - You and Travis discuss something you've been avoiding.

Travis’s secret comes out in the worst way possible, during a fight about him fucking another woman.

You’ve been quiet over the last few days, more withdrawn than usual. Sleeping on the couch instead of coming to bed. He thinks it’s because of the counselling session you’d had earlier in the week. You’re confronting a lot of tough stuff through EDMR therapy and it can throw you off a little.

“I gotta shoot out for my physio appointment.” He tells you, picking up the keys to his truck from the side table in the living room and that’s when he hears you say.

“We both know you don’t have a physio appointment.”

He freezes in that moment, his entire body shifting to look to you. There’s a fire in your eyes he’s not seen in a long time as you stand over by the bookshelf with his things on,  your fingertips trail over the glass trophy from his latest competition. You flick it forward and it hurtles off the shelf smashing onto the hardwood floor sending glass skittering in every direction. The dog barks from outside but you ignore it, your gaze fixed on him.

“You have five more of these fucking things Travis.” You say tipping over the next one and the crash reverberates through the house. “And lot more shit that I can break, so why don’t you tell me who she is?”

“Gina honey, I promise you…”

And down goes the next one, exploding into a million pieces.

“You’re a liar.” You tell him with a ferocity he feels in the very depths of his bones. “I called your physio to pass on a message last week but they said you haven’t been going for months. So I’ll ask you again who the fuck is she?”

You reach for the crystal decanter then, the one that’s been in his family for five generations and that’s when he snaps.

“I’ve been seeing a counsellor.” He shouts with an edge of franticness to his voice because your hand is already wrapped around the heirloom, your arm slung back ready to hurl it at his head. “It’s not another woman, it’s a counsellor!”

“What?” You respond, lowering the decanter, the amber liquid sloshing around inside. “But you said…”

“I know I said that cowboys don’t do therapy but I was having some anxiety about leaving you alone with the new season coming up.” He confesses as he approaches you slowly with open palms as if you were a skittish horse. “I didn’t tell you about it because I didn’t want to exacerbate the shit you’re already dealing with.” His hand clasps your wrist lightly, guiding it down so the decanter comes to rest safely back on the silver tray.

“When you say anxiety…” You begin and Travis releases you, rubs his palm over the nape of his neck.

“Panic attacks.” He tells you as he meets your gaze. “Whenever I think about leaving you, I get this tightness in my chest, my heart starts to palpitate and it feels like I can’t breathe.”

“Do you know…”

“Yea.” He tells you, his hands coming to rest on your hips, thumbs tracing soothing circles over as he swallows hard against the well of emotion in his chest. “I can’t get over what Malcolm Beck did to you, what I allowed him to do to you.”

You frown at his words and he purses his lips into a grim expression.

“The night you were attacked I was supposed to be there.” He reminds you, his voice rough. “But I wasn’t, I was in Texas licking my wounds because you decided to stay in Montana and I…” He trails off then forcing down the sob that threatens to erupt from his chest. “That choice, it haunts me because if I had stopped being such a prick there’s a chance that none of this would have happened.”

“Travis.” You whisper, cradling his face between your hands. “This would have happened whether you were here or not. Malcolm wasn’t the kind of man who can let his ex-wife be happy, it wasn’t in his nature.”

“But…”

“No buts. What happened to me is no more your fault than it is mine.” You tell, wrapping your arms around him, drawing him into your proximity. “And as for leaving me alone when you’re off showing the horses, that’s something we can work on, together. There’s steps we can take to make you feel more comfortable with it.”

Travis sighs, burying his face into the curve of your throat.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever be comfortable with it.” He mumbles against your skin, cradling you close.

“We’ll work on it.” You reassure him, your fingers carding lightly through his hair. “I promise you, we will.”

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[falafels]

blank check to yap about the Thea Triplets or Ravens women 🫶

oO YIPPEE YAY OK SO (and my apologies now because there is NOTHING like structure going on here just straight up dump of incoherent thoughts) also long post warning

Thea is a triplet and she has two brothers, Victor and Felix.

Victor is as if not more high-strung than Thea but was too unlikeable for team sports (not in a deliberately mean way. just in a bit of a trying-so-hard-to-be-the-best-that-he-becomes-insufferable way) so got really into academic competition with anyone who cared. His and Thea’s relationship pre-high school was at the point of actually thinking about killing each other but it calmed down a lot once they kind of called dibs on respective disciplines. Thea was still academically smart and Vic was still pretty decent at sports but there was a clear line drawn for who gets what. Most of the first 15 years of their lives looked like this (Felix with smoothie)

These days Victor is a Chef at a fancy New York restaurant he co-owns with his college roommate (Emory, business school), and recently broke up with his fiancée Clare, an NYU molecular plant science research postgrad. Their breakup was one of the only times he’s spoken to Thea since (and obv during her time there) she left the Nest, because he’s too proud to talk to anyone in his life about it and Thea manages to somehow hit both criteria by being a borderline stranger and by being his sister who already knows him too well. He goes to one of her first few pro games without telling her, then again when her team makes semifinals and that time he sees her after for an extremely strained drink. They’re both insanely driven and competitive and intense people, so it’s only really around each other that they look or feel more normal.

Which brings us to triplet 3, Felix Muldani. Felix is sort of the Klaus Hargreeves of them, wildy bisexual and usually drugged out of his mind. Infinitely more chill than the other two, due somewhat to being high most of the time but also in general disposition he’s always been more easygoing. He never really cared for competition the way the other two did and was content to just hang out. He was smart too, not particularly sporty, but Felix was always more focused on making friends than being exceptional. When he was 13, his best friend since kindergarten Joseph was killed in a car accident and he took it quite hard. He might have been ok, but Joseph’s older brother offered him painkillers at the funeral and he had one of those “holy shit. i feel so much better. i should do this every day of my life” moments and he was gone from there. Felix kind of swans about now, drifting off the face of the earth for months on occasion and just turning up again after being presumed dead. Once Thea leaves the Nest, he’s relentless. She won’t smile, she refuses to speak to anyone in the family, she won’t say what’s happened for the last five years. Something is so, so wrong and she doesn’t want to be therapied at, she’ll snarl at people who talk gently to her, so Felix goes with what he knows and decides he’s going to irritate her until he sees something familiar. He rocks up at her apartment in Houston and crashes on her couch, brings over garbage snacks to eat loudly and messily (he’ll eventually wear her down and she’ll eat a dorito), wearing her clothes and pissing her off because how do they look better on him, calling her Ted. Teddd. Teddy Ted Ted. Theodore. Tedward. Teddyyyyy- WHAT until she snaps and he grins at her and she rolls her eyes so hard she finally looks like his sister again.

Felix is also kind of a grounding point for Thea in terms of coming back to life, not just because of this but because despite every ounce of raven conditioning she still cares about him and worries. It’s a bit harder with Vic because, truthfully, he’d have thrived as a raven, but never Felix. He’s everything they aren’t.

Thea’s life in Houston is slow, slow going. She doesn’t have to adjust to being alone rather than a raven pair the way she thought she would have to because Felix is lounging about in her apartment most days, but it’s still so much easier than she thought it would be. The raven pair system was never something safe for Thea, and even though the conditioning runs deep, a lot of raven rhetoric is somewhat easier for the women to unlearn because the difference in treatment by gender is so obvious (and so omnipresent and unquestioned that no authority figures ever even bothered trying to lie/justify it) that identifying one injustice made it easier to identify the rest.

She has an overly friendly neighbour, a 55-year-old recent divorcé named Jonah who is trying to start a community garden on the rooftop. She doesn’t have any interest in befriending him but sometimes when she can’t sleep because of those 16 hour days, she’ll go up and weed the garden. Sometimes he’s up there too, and he can see she doesn’t want to chat so they garden together in silence.

She doesn’t reach out to anyone from the Edgar Allen ever. No interest whatsoever in any one of them. The handful she has to see at US Court practices are a necessity but she won’t socialise with them. A couple of former ravens reach out to her to offer help, but she won’t call them friends for a long time. (Jonathan Stringer, a former captain, now a coach, would have fit in better at USC and has had a lot of therapy, now does what he can to try and help fresh raven graduates to save them from the isolation and spiral he went through. Also Lydia Shetfield, easily the most disenchanted raven who walked away from exy entirely. Thea only even meets her again as a visiting friend of Stringer’s, and is massively hostile to Lydia’s staunch anti-raven stance, but Lydia is quite persistent with texting her every day until they’re something like friends)

Her first actual friend in like eight years is Phoebe March, vice captain and striker for the Houston sirens and former Penn State player, who is like a friendlier Dan Wilds in that she’s scrapped to be there, she’ll wear that with pride, and she’ll stick up for you but won’t take any shit from anyone. She’s butted heads with former ravens before, and really isn’t a fan of Thea’s attitude, and takes her aside after a few weeks to ask her what the hell her problem is. Thea is hostile and rude to her, criticises her too-lax attitude (only in comparison to ravens, Phoebe is actually pretty neurotic) and her long shots on goal when she should rebound closer first instead, and somewhere in the rant Phoebe realised that Thea actually doesn’t mean any harm and is even more ruthless with herself than she is with anyone else. And being hard on herself means she’s being hard on Phoebe’s teammate, which is unacceptable, so Phoebe starts inviting Thea (then when she doesn’t show up, dragging Thea out of her apartment) to go on morning runs with her. They chat about team strategy, plays, review games and scrimmages, and talk exy for weeks and weeks until they start to talk about other stuff almost by accident. Thea mentions that she used to swim and Phoebe tells her about the pool near the sirens’ court, Phoebe complains about her competitive sister and Thea has some experience there, occasional pot shots at whichever teammate has dodgy facial hair going on that week. Thea is the one who eventually harangues Phoebe into accepting her US Court contract, which she’d been holding out on on account of the handful of ravens on the team, but now she’ll be there with Thea and she’ll cheerfully throw hands with any raven who makes a comment at either one of them.

[cicicolorao]

You know I've been thinking, I would love to know what your interpretation of the teensie doctors from rayman 3 would be like, with especially my boyfriend (romeo patti) <3. You draw teensies in such an charming way and seeing how you interpret different teensies is very intriguing to read about hehe

THIS WAS FUN I liked making them color coded it’s da three doctors!!!

The lore I was thinking with with the help of friends is kinda long so it goes under the cut

Otto Psi is a pretty clear cut german scientist archetype so I went with mad scientist mixed with heavy metal. He LOVES working on new machines in his free time, testing and retesting it until they please the perfectionist in him! He gotta be perfect, in his head, because he takes healthcare VERY seriously and wants GOOD results during his surgeries or he’s a FAILURE. I wouldn’t call him a wet blanket tho, he still pretty jolly and can spare a joke or a quip if there’s enough time. But if he thinks the situation is dire, he’ll gain this annoyed edge to him, never enough to be angry, but he’d rather do paperwork. He listens to LOUD grinding noises while he works, it helps him concentrate.

Art Rytus I was dreading because he’s just. Straight up a racist caricature, and y’know, that’s not rlly funny or quirky. He’s been mostly built up from the ground up with help of my boyfriend. Art is a therapist, very quiet and relaxed and wants his patients to feel calm as well. He’s into gardening, and has a bunch of nice smelling flowers shoved into his cardigan to soothe anyone who comes into his office. He also focuses on massages, acupuncture, athletes come to him often to get the physical tension outta them, alongside any emotional tension. He’s got a baton he uses for “group therapy”, which is when all three doctors come together and use magical music to soothe the soul of anyone who might be too distressed. Get the negatives out! Very classy and artsy in a chill way.

Romeo Patti is fun personified, very personable hippie who’s essentially beachside sunniness. He can come across as kinda lazy and uninterested, but he’s a pretty quick thinker and knows how to apply himself when he needs to! If needed, he can be Otto’s and Art’s assistant if they need an extra pair of hands, he’ll know what to do in a second! He’s the pharmacist of the trio, focuses on what to eat when you’re not feeling too well, the closest you can expect from a general physician. He does kinda have a tendency of having no bedside manners; like they all tend to speak outta line, but Romeo comes across the most crass about it, even if he doesn’t mean it! Just the way he talks. He should be a bit more professional, but he’s just goes to his own beat of his drum. Most likely to meet up with Art to enjoy some weed lmfao.

All three of them are cousins, and their families tend to kinda pit them against each other, so they got a friendly competition going on hehehe.

[harmoonix]

Where mountains kiss the

sky

°Morning Fresh Astrology Notes°

⛰️ : Saturn in Gemini may have a difficulty in talking and expressing themselves, they can aslo develop anxiety/panic attacks (Applying if you have Saturn in your 3rd house or Saturn at Gemini Degrees 3°, 15°, 27°)

⛰️: Saturn in Scorpio or Saturn in the 8th house may have a fear for intimacy/or a fear that their partner may not accept them the way they are. (You don't have to be scared of that, the right person will accept the way you are)

⛰️: Virgo/Capricorn and Gemini Moons can find therapy and meditation in the nature, it actually helps their minds a lot

⛰️: Moon square Mercury can use music as a sign to talk. For example when they feel sad/hurt they may be listening to sad songs to fit their mood

⛰️: Taurus/Pisces/Libra and Leo placements love to decorate, their house might be full of decorations and a good vibe

⛰️: Venus square Uranus may find themselves dating more/multiple partners. Like that type of person who could've had a lot of people in the past

⛰️: Moon - Ascendant aspects can make someone childlike, like to give you the vibe that they are young and sometimes acting like a kid. That may be their inner kid feeling themselves good

⛰️: Don't provoke someone with Aries Placements because they are so competitive. They love competition and everything related to winning

⛰️:4th house placements are very traditional and they may like to keep those traditions in their family. Unhealed 4th house placements can be very strict

⛰️: Moon/Sun - South Node aspects may like to watch shows from their childhood to comfort themselves

⛰️: 11th house placements LOVE/ADORE to spend time with their friends especially if you have your Moon or Sun in this house

⛰️: If you have Venus - Moons aspects and you're single, you may have the desire to want a partner/relationship with this aspects you basically seek for love

⛰️: Pluto - Asc aspects/Lilith - asc aspects and Aquarius Risings, their first expressions are so on point. They know how to do it, and when to do it, in order to be a success

⛰️: Moon - Mercury/Jupiter aspects have the most beautiful smiles ever, they literally look so happy when they smile.

⛰️: People with a lot of fire in their charts can get irritated fast, they can be also very bold when it comes to their temper. And they may also have a sharp tongue

⛰️: Saturn in Cancer can be one of the most difficult placements to have Saturn in because it mostly tells us about a problem with nurturing/taking care of yourself but also family issues = all these combined (Applied to Saturn in the 4th house or Saturn in Cancer Degrees 4°, 16°, 28°)

⛰️: People with Saturn in the 6th/10th/12th house can get tired so fast, like I know so many people with these placements including myself and omg I just wanna sleep all day (Btw sleeping helps your body a lot, like your body actually heals during sleep)

⛰️: Something I observed about the Moon - Saturn aspects is that they know how to hide their pain long enough so nobody can see them hurt. They may have their reasons for that

⛰️: Sagittarius/Aquarius placements can either be very social either very shy, like they can have this ambient energy of both of things

⛰️: I have a feeling people with Hekate {100} in the 1st/12th house have a really powerful intuition, like they know how to act based on their intuition

⛰️: I have the feeling people with Jupiter in the 9th house tend to be teachers favorite, I mean this placement in general shows a lot of luck in school/highschool/university etc so with this you can also impress teachers (Applying if you have Jupiter in Sagittarius)

⛰️: Moon in the 7th house/Moon in Libra have the tendency to feel sad/depressed if they are not in a relationship, they'll seek for it and most times they can end up in a toxic relationship because of this "love" for relationships

⛰️: Pluto - Venus aspects/Scorpio Venus or Venus in the 8th house can attract possessive people into their lives, and be aware cuz not everyone has good intentions

⛰️: Lilith - Saturn aspects don't like when people tell them what to do. Because they generally don't like to listen to others and instead to make their own rules. Natives with such placements can be rebels.

⛰️: South Node aspecting the Moon > esp the conjunction > It can be very challenging because with those aspects you have a hard time with your letting your past to go. You often remember your past and that can cause you pain

⛰️: Ascendant quincunx Lilith, seen as a minor aspect, I found this aspect a lot in people's charts. Natives with this placement in their chart are unsure of their desires, they also may have it hard when it comes to their sexuality

⛰️ - Oh my god, imagine what a view from these mountains and imagine the selfies you can get 😍, jokes aside I think our earth looks much better with a lot of green in it instead of pollution, so we have to take a lot of care of our earth ⛰️

⛰️ - I hope everyone has a good day full of good vibes, if you can spend time in nature, do it if you want, because it's the best thing to nurture yourself when you get low, just stay on the grass and look at sky, trust me is free therapy ⛰️

⛰️ Yours truly, Harmoonix 🦋⛰️

[pandemic-info]

Fact Check: Did Trump Raise Prescription Drug Prices? - Newsweek

Trump rescinded Biden policy on lowering costs of prescription medication for people using Medicare and Medicaid.

Biden's order [now rescinded by Trump] directed the Department of Health and Human Services to explore strategies to reduce costs. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responded to the order with programs to cap the price of certain generic drugs at $2 for Medicare beneficiaries, improve Medicaid access to high-cost cell and gene therapies and to streamline the evidence-gathering process for new drugs.

...

"While the immediate impact depends on how pharmaceutical companies respond, this move potentially opens the door for drug prices to rise," Agranoff said. "Biden's order aimed to rein in costs by promoting price transparency and competition, which are critical for making life-saving medications affordable." "Without those measures, companies could have more flexibility to set higher prices," he added. "For many Americans, particularly those on fixed incomes or without comprehensive insurance, this change may lead to increased financial strain and limit access to essential medications."

[chronicanemia]

TransAnorexia Tips!

From a CisAnorexic :3

(This comes from the perspective of an anorexic who wants to be severely underweight)

1. Change your perspective

You probably look around and see normal sized people constantly. Knowing that they, and even yourself may be normal weights and perfectly healthy, that doesn’t exactly make you WANT to starve. What you can do to change this is similar to exposure therapy. Look at pictures of underweight people, figure out what your goal weight should be, join forums and ED groups to normalize it in your mind. Soon you’ll find yourself feeling the need to restrict to lose weight!

2. Competition

Competition is BIG in restrictive eating disorders. You always feel the need to restrict better than other people, be skinnier than other people, and it’s common to use this competitiveness as motivation. Some even go as far as to get a friend who’ll restrict with you. (if anyone wants i can totally do that btw :3 i need a buddy who’s also RQ,,)

3. General Restricting and Weight Loss Tips

1. Drink LOTS of water. I drink 8 bottles a day, or more. I always have a full bottle before I eat anything, and a full one after.

2. Walk! Walking is the easiest way to burn calories. I aim for 15k steps daily.

3. Exercise. Find a workout video that works for you! I recommend Cardio and Pilates though.

4. Cute themed diets! They can help you romanticize restriction

5. Weigh yourself often. View the number go down as motivation to keep it up, and the number going up as motivation to work harder.

6. Look for inspo, like Thinspo, Meanspo, Sweetspo, whatever helps you most! I find that sweetspo or egospo help me most.

7. Find things to distract yourself, games, schoolwork, hobbies. Doesn’t matter, as long as it distracts you.

I hope all of these tips help you all! Good luck with your transition :3

[suguwu]

how do u think sae handles always being second place to rin in llo!daughters life

(not only to parallel rin always being second place to sae to reader, but also because developmentally she’s already made paternal attachments)

not well lmao.

BUT he's careful to never project that to his daughter. sometimes he slips and gets frustrated—he's only human—but he's generally so impassive that he tends to get away with it.

i do think he struggles sometimes because he doesn't really have an outlet. he can't talk about it with you (at least not in the beginning). he can't talk about it with rin. it's too personal for him to talk about with most of his teammates, plus it's not fun to admit that the mother of his child hid her from him. and let's be real—i can't exactly see itoshi sae going to therapy.

(which is probably what he should do. what all of them should do.)

i do think he gets competitive with rin in some interesting ways. they both have hella money from being pros, and rin has the advantage in that he knows what your daughter likes. so sae tends to buy her anything she shows interest in.

at the end of the day, sae is pretty wounded about it, even though logically he understands why it's happening. he just shoves it down and doesn't deal with it.

[femnoah]

A new Female Noah au because I have no life!

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

I'm gonna call this one meet the in-laws because it primarily focuses on the Burromuerto and Devi parents.

Warning, Chris is not a nice guy in this, like at all. He's a lot more like his cannon counterpart- an utter asshole on a good day.

Alejandro's mother is called Esmeralda - she's a famous actress and sometimes works as a model. She met her husband Antonio at a gala before he became a diplomat and it was love at first sight. They moved to Canada for work ten years prior to World tour.

Right after Alejandro leaves for Total Drama, Antonio gets a call about the headquarters for his job moving to another city a couple of hours away to better suit the majority of other employees.

Due to this, the Burromuerto's decide to move to a town that is next to the city but unfortunately, the house (mansion) they bought wouldn't be ready to inhabit for a couple of months so it's a waiting game.

Esmeralda hunts down and creates dossiers on those on World tour who seem to be suitable friends for her son (three, three of those.... imbeciles so far seem appropriate), she does family visits because she needs to be assured that only those who are acceptable are associated with the Burromuerto name. She is incredibly disappointed by what she finds.

She finds Courtney's parents annoying and overbearing. They also won't stop talking about how disappointed in their daughter they are and how they're going to have to give her a lecture when she gets back for her idiotic behaviour and being unladylike. Told off for expressing emotions and being competitive? Yeah, no.

Heather's parents have apparently given her electroshock therapy for her behaviour which is disgusting and they're not happy with her exclusive attraction towards the fairer sex. The girl is clearly going to go far in life and they want to get rid of what makes her her? Unacceptable.

She just forcibly adopts the two girls (who are currently on world tour and have no clue what's going on), she has the money and influence for it after all. And both of them would flourish under the Burromuerto name (as much as she loves her sons, she had always wanted daughters).

She comes home and tells her husband that they have two new daughters, he just arches his eyebrow.

....and Noah. She cannot find ANYTHING substantial on the boy and it's really rubbing her the wrong way.

They decide to stay in a hotel for a weekend so that they can explore their new town.

It'll be a bit hard after their weekend as Antonio would need to start work soon and the distance was ridiculous, he would have to stay in a hotel until the renovations were finished and Esmeralda didn't want to be apart from her darling husband for that long.

It didn't help that she was currently still on the hunt for new staff (a manager or couple of assistants) so they wouldn't be able to talk on the phone for long with how busy she'll be.

She bumps into a smaller woman while scouting out the new town and spilled her coffee (thankfully not getting any on herself or the other woman). Just as she's about to verbally ... reprimand... her for not watching where she's going, the woman immediately starts fretting and apologising a lot. She then offers to buy her coffee to make up for the one that's been spilled and Esmeralda agrees.

She learns that the woman's name is Amrita Devi, and that she is incredibly friendly. She also offers her a tour around the area once she finds out that Esmeralda and her family are moving to the town.

As it turns out, they're going to be neighbours! Amrita and her family live on the estate (a generational property, apparently) next to the one they just bought.

She then gets invited to bring her family to have dinner at the Devi household the following evening, to get to know her new neighbours.

The next evening, she somehow manages to wrangle José and Carlos to join them (and they will behave for once) so the four of them arrive at the Devi residence. They're greeted with a lot of people, like a lot.

16 people (Amrita +8 sons, her sister and her sister's husband +4 kids and her mother Nana Devi).

Amrita introduces her sons (and her sister's family) and in return Esmeralda introduces her family.

She mentions how unfortunately her youngest couldn't be with them as he is currently on a reality TV show.

It's one of Neha's brothers who put the pieces together (rich Latino family with a diplomatic father and a son on a TV show.... Suspiciously familiar) and asks what their surname is. Antonio replies very proudly 'Burromuerto' and everything seems to go quiet.

Another one of the brothers just looks flabbergasted "wait-- Burromuerto, as in Alejandro Burromuerto???" "Sí...?" "As in Alejandro Burromuerto who is currently on team Chris is really really really really hot on total drama???????" "... Where are you going with this?"

Amrita just claps and laughs out in delight "oh my, it's like fate! My youngest are a part of Total drama as well!"

"ah, de verdad? Which ones are yours" "Izzy and Eva are my adopted daughters, I only got custody of them this winter! And Neha is biologically my youngest! I'm pretty sure that two of them are on the same team as your son!"

"Sí! Izzy is on the same team, but I do not recognise Neha or Eva"

"ah, Eva isn't competing this season, she was on the first one though and well, can you keep a secret?" Esmeralda trades a glance with her husband. "Sí, sí, we won't tell anybody" "well, Neha is currently going by Noah when she's on the show. Quite devious isn't it! And between you and me, I think she might have eyes for your son. The lack of serious insults are incredibly telling."

"Qué?!" ×2 "Wait, are you saying that Noah is a girl, why would she do that then?" "Ha! Someone actually likes Al?"

They hear snickering and turn to the Devi men who had been somewhat quiet for most of the meal, one of them is picking at his nails and snorts out, "yeah, see she lost a bet with us and had to audition for the show dressed as a male, then she got accepted and told she had to continue so that the gender numbers were equal" "yeah! She hates it, apparently the wig is super itchy, I wouldn't know, I am not letting that ugly thing anywhere near my hair"

the only other woman their age chimes in "oh please, ugly doesn't even begin to describe it nephew"

The Burromuertos get a phone shoved in their faces by an incredibly proud mama and on it is a picture of three smiling girls.

The ginger has a massive smile on her face, wearing a tank top and a skirt and has her arms wrapped around the other two.

The noirette has a small smile on her face, her hair is down and she's wearing denim shorts and a tank top.

Finally, the brunette is smirking, her hair in a messy braid falling down to her waist and wearing a summer dress.

Esmeralda notes that the eyes, nose, facial structure (though it definitely looks less soft on television, the power of make-up she supposes), and cheek bones are the exact same, although perhaps the forehead is slightly smaller and her hair is definitely longer, but that's definitely the apparent girl that is currently on her sons team. Well, she is unconventionally attractive at least.

Esmeralda is incredibly impressed and intrigued because that sneaky little Zorra has been sniffing around her youngest son and she didn't even notice. No wonder she couldn't track the kid down. Interesting.