#Essential Prescriptions

[berlinpharmacy]

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[columboscreens]

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

the high prices of fucking Everything is so exhausting i stg

[byler-alarmist]

Hate when traditional gender roles are pushed on me by otherwise nice little diners and cafés.

The Chef Salad -full of protein! Piled high!

The Waitress Salad- half size, just some greens, maybe a tomato

The Big Papa- two mouth-watering beef patties and two slices of the best cheese this side of the Rockies!! Comes with fries!

The Li'l Mama- half of a chicken patty in a lettuce wrap. Comes with guilt and sadness

[dustywave]

got dumped by my doctor :/

[dragonatthedinnertable]

Fuck's sake.

My current GP is on maternity leave, and for the last 6 months I've had an interrim doctor who has been proactive & responsive. She was just managing my prescriptions, blood tests, and referrals; I never actually met her, but I trusted her.

Today I finally worked up the courage to make an appointment (at the end of next month) to review my HRT (because I want another go at getting prog, and/or increasing my E). Only to be told that the previous doctor is leaving this week, and my new interrim GP is my old one.

The one who:

changed my antidepressants within 5 minutes of knowing me, on the assumption that it would fix my chronic fatigue;

only agreed to reduce my cypro dose on the assumption that it would fix my chronic fatigue;

only referred me to Gen Med for chronic fatigue because I had a nurse as my Support Person, and the nurse bullied her into it;

failed to prescribe me my antidepressants one time, right before the weekend, meaning I had to go to After Hours to get like 5 days' worth to cover me;

generally never listened to me at all.

The receptionist did offer me a chance to speak to the practice manager about it. But, like, I already did that 2 years ago, when I moved to my new GP (the one with a new baby). I shouldn't have to go through this again, and I certainly don't have the emotional budget for it.

[agp]

good luck tracing that history with confidence but in my experience there were quite a few people, myself included, that preferred using 'transmisogyny-adjacent' as opposed to 'affected' when the terms tma and tme first became concepts used in my circles a few years ago. specifically because it is ridiculous to assert that transmisogyny only affects those primarily targeted by it. not just for reasons we constantly have to hear about now that 'affected' has become the term of the day, but simply because exemption from transmisogyny is a privilege, not an immunity and irrelevance to its structures.

other white people citing racism as the prime example of something that doesnt 'affect' us and framing this as a concluded debate and universally agreed upon position that would be absurd to contradict furthers my frustration with this language. structural violence involves everyone. you are not immune to it. you may be protected and made exempt from particular aspects by means we call privilege. the people that complain about being confused with a truer victim of transmisogyny do it that way for a reason: protection and exemption from transmisogyny by claiming in various ways not to be a real (or fake) tranny

[grison-in-space]

Okay, so earlier on another branch of this thread, I identified myself as one of the main popularizers of this concept lo this whole ass decade ago. I think you're missing something major about language from a descriptive/prescriptive focus.

Philosophically, prescriptive definitions of word meanings emphasize a clear definition before seeing the word in use and critique uses of the word that don't fit that definition. Descriptive definitions of words instead watch to see how words are actually being used and pull their meaning from that. Those definition lists of minor sexual identification terms you'll see going around are a prescriptivist approach to language: the words are invented to describe concepts that occur to the coiner. QPR, like every term I've ever blogged about, was popularized simply by describing experiences I was going through and saying "you know what? This is a word I'm referencing to describe that." (Cf: wtfromantic, "zucchini", invisible elephant, and so forth.) I have observed over time that the words that actually stick around and get used inevitably fall into the latter category.

The thing you are missing is: people don't use unfamiliar words to describe familiar social categories. What I mean by this is that you are right, you don't see people whose friendships fit within culturally normal bounds for their cultures rushing to self define as QPRs. They don't need to. It doesn't add any clarity when they reference the relationship among their peers.

In the same way, defining "asexual" as "anyone for whom the term asexual is useful for describing their experiences" generally doesn't encourage, say, incels to make use of the term. (That definition was, by the way, a strong competing use of the term for decades and continues to see frequent use by folks who also sometimes use "grey-a" or "demi" in spaces where those terms convey useful information.) That's because the people using the term are trying to convey specific information that isn't helpful to the groups for whom it doesn't work.

This is also why you don't really see straight, "normative" kinksters claiming the term queer in queer spaces: they're not served by doing so. You do see kinksters who are not normative claiming the term, but when you investigate you often find that these people's sexuality is generally unusual enough to fall under "queer" by broader definitions. (Frankly I think this phenomenon is often driven by ace and bi/pan kinksters for whom kink rather than gender is the precipitating context in which they relate to sexuality.)

In general, the running through-line I see for people who find the term "QPR" useful is a determination to combine an aim for long term commitment with other features of relationships that don't meet the generally accepted local criteria for a romantic relationship. There are plenty of cultures in which this distinction isn't useful, because familial commitment is dissociated from romantic love; in fact, I would argue that the need to make that distinction is a relatively recent cultural development. That's great! Those cultures call types of relationships different things depending on the patterns they see and recognize.

In our culture* romantic relationships are the main route towards establishing a desire to form a household or a permanent commitment with another unrelated person, it can be frightening and alienating to contemplate one's future when some or all of the suite of defining traits and behaviors associated with a romantic relationship aren't appealing. For example, some people might not want to share a sleeping space, or might not want to fully entangle finances, or might not want to engage in particular activities together. QPR is usually used by people whose relationships desire some element of permanency or commitment that isn't compatible with a standard romantic narrative. That said, permanency and commitment can be very hard to predict in advance and can put a lot of pressure onto people who are figuring shit out as they go, so YMMV.

(For the record, it is very funny to see QPRs described as essentially identical to X culture's definition of friendship when I married mine... let's see... ten years ago next March. I'm still politely agnostic about the difference between romantic and platonic relationships; I just usually smack into that dichotomy from different directions these days. But I wanted to form a household with my partner and legal marriage was the only way to accomplish that, and then sharing space was cheaper than not, and we've toddled along so far without really needing to redefine.

For their part, my partner does conceptualize the relationship as romantic and often cheerfully explains that they "could fall in love with a rock." This is fine: descriptive definitions don't require us to agree on the feelings categorization of relationships, just on the parts that get everyone's needs met.)

*referencing dominant Anglophone cultural assumptions on the basis that you're right here talking to me in English

i keep seeing misinformation about this, so: queerplatonic relationships do not have a set definition. the name comes from the idea that it's "queering" the platonic relationship, tailoring it to the individual relationships' own desires. it isn't necessarily romance lite, but it also isn't necessarily whatever definition you want to impose on it. the point of queering the platonic relationship is to break away from strict allonormative views on friendship, romance, and sex, not to make a new categorical box to fit in.

the answer to "what is a qpr?" is "whatever you want it to be." sometimes that is romance lite. sometimes it's a deeply committed friendship. sometimes it's friends who have a sexual relationship. sometimes it's based on an entirely different mode of attraction. sometimes it's fluid and impossible to put into words. it's whatever you want it to be. it's queer.

[purplepuggy]

chronically ill aesthetic is carrying a box of naproxen and acetaminophen in your bag like tic-tacs bc you go through them just as fast 🙄

[gemstarstarlight]

So the good news is I am back in America and I started ADHD medication.

The bad news is that it’s been 2 days and the main effects have only lasted an hour. And today I don’t feel any different from before taking it.

(Although I’ve been taking lemon cough drops regularly and it’s just occurred to me that those might violate the no-Vitamin-C-or-sugar-for-an-hour rule I learned on Tumblr. Any thoughts?)

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[gtgbye]

my dad is getting divorced for the second time and he will once again be trying to lean on his children for support and also its september 11th ergo this really is my 9/11

[snekdood]

this is so true 😩 absolutely 0 survival skills

"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

[fugglecases]

the amount of medical stress a bitch can be under is astounding

[fleshmaid]

dead ass i hope i never have to use IHS ever again.

[porciaenjoyer]

thinking about university makes me want to tear my hair out and thrash around violently i am extremely stressed!!!!!!!