#Moral conflict

[statleragainstposers]

*sigh*, dear followers, it appears that I have reached a crossroads of morality...

While my crusade has always been against the Croaker's deception, I will admit that it was easier to fight him when his morals did not align with my own. But now he is a feminist much like myself, and he has also updated his DNI to include men.

So now I must make a decision: do I follow my moral obligation to defeat the Croaker? Or do I follow my moral obligation to respect Feminists and DNIs?

I am truly stumped here, and I feel that it will take some time to solve.

My thinking has never felt so irrational...

[dismalrain]

This moral conflict consumes me

Disclaimer: My bad experience with naturopathy doesn't mean I don't think it has benefits for others. Because it stole my childhood from me doesn't mean I'm targeting you and your healing journey. Part of mine is sharing my experience so I can finally move on and feel like someone has heard my anguish.

I have a chronic illness, a disability, a condition that causes musculoskeletal pain. The pain has dictated my life since it started to get worse when I was 10-11. I went to my pediatrician and was told I had a temporary knee condition common in children and growing pains.

I continued to complain about the pain until I was around 13. She took me to a naturopathic. She was convinced they saved her from her rheumatoid arthritis up until a year or two ago. It's hard to tell because she went to functional doctors for a while. I'm 21 now. However, she has since gone on medication prescribed by her rheumatologist and is seeing improvement.

I was misdiagnosed multiple times with conditions that they put in my charts without ever telling me about. Diagnoses they never treated me for, such as Hashiomoto's. I was on a Lyme disease protocol consisting of four different antibiotics over the course of three years. Prescriptions like Malarone, a slew of vitamins (literally prescription high dose potassium), the paleo diet, and nasal sprays, and she would mix her own tinctures and never provide an ingredient list. Just write on a label stuck to the brown bottle what it was for and how many drops to take.

There was an increase of general practitioner doctors in my area not taking in new patients after COVID-19. Between the pain, anxiety, and paranoia associated with my OCD that was only just now being medicated; it took me until this year to get an appointment with the appropriate specialist to get the diagnosis my GP and I already were pretty confident I had. 6 of the months it took was just finding one that had availability and wanted to take me on. I live 6 hours from my rheumatologist. I had three different GPs say they were pretty confident with my diagnosis, I just needed the specialist confirmation.

So why did I have to spend my childhood suffering in extreme pain for Lymes disease I didn't have? Why did I have to take holistic sleeping medications, go on a diet, and drink mystery tinctures that cost over $100? Why did she give up on me when I was 16 and pass me on to a different person in her clinic if I had Lymes? If had any of the over a dozen diagnoses she had handwritten in my chart? Why did I have to suffer with a mother who was convinced that $20,000 in naturopathic medicine was worth it? Medical debt and useless medications.

She moved me to a functional doctor because she didn't believe in Western medicine still after the naturopathic failed for three years. I was put on a year-long homeopathic Lymes protocol and had weekly oxygen. I spent four years on Lyme disease protocols because I tested negative on the high end, tested barely positive, and then negative again.

I was on antibiotics for so long that my immune system started to fail. They told me it was a natural detoxification process. At the start of COVID-19, my immune system was failing and I wasn't producing white blood cells properly. She again, gave me a tincture she hand-made with no ingredient list. I became temporarily infertile during these 'treatments.' My body still hasn't recovered, I haven't been hungry in years, and I have no desire to eat and do it because I know I need to. I used to love food, I used to find comfort in the flavors and revel in getting to eat snacks. I don't even want to taste my food because it makes me nauseous. I miss loving to taste things. I miss savoring flavors.

I spent a decade struggling with pain that stole my friend, sent me into a depression, and put a financial strain on my family to the point that I've been blamed for years because my medical was too pricey. Only my partner loved me throughout. I wasn't even happy to have my diagnosis official from the right doctor because it's incurable. There's no way to reduce the pain other than gentle exercise. I'm going to be in pain for the rest of my life, but I had to go through all of the medical hope, suffering, and improper treatment because 'natural is best' because 'my body will heal itself'

All I feel is numb.

My heart is heavy because my body still hasn't recovered from the naturopath and functional medicine doctors and my body doesn't function properly so is it going to recover?

I want people to be able to do what they want with their medical pursuits. I want people to find hope in natural options. I want people to find the RIGHT doctor who won't overprescribe and give them the best they can without straining the body too much. I want people to have a holistic medical experience that accounts for the Western and natural. But to have two doctors in the same clinic misdiagnosis and mistreat me for so long. To have a functional medical doctor do the exact same. To have an incurable condition that doesn't have any proven naturopathic remedies to 'cure' it like they say the 'body always will' haunts me. When I see other preteens and teens in the office I hurt thinking that maybe they don't have a choice like I didn't because they can't afford copays and their parents might not believe like mine.

It haunts me to know that I didn't need to suffer but I did, for years with only more damage than good coming to my body. I attended the high school I work for now. I'm fully remote because the verbal abuse and nonconsensual touching of my in-pain body when I was younger made me feel unsafe. Then I was denied testing for my OCD because I was "performing well at school." I'm remote because I know I can help students in need but believe the teachers at the school don't give a single fuck about the disabled and exploited like I openly was when I was a student. But my teachers who didn't take my disability seriously, humiliated me for brain fog and chronic fatigue, and made me participate in competitive events when I was barely walking and not allowed accommodations, a lot have left 5-star reviews for the doctors that I feel ruined my life to an extent.

I mean temporarily infertile because I was overloaded with things my body didn't need and put on diets my body couldn't handle? Because I needed to combat an infectious virus I didn't have? They gave tinctures for our dog water for fucks sake. The functional doctor told us to put the homeopathic medicine in my chicken's water to protect them from fucking tapeworms. I feel like I'm crazy because they're not vets and they're convincing my mom to buy tinctures to 'shed gut-destroying tapeworms.'

I resent my mother. I basically raised my brother because she was already absentee in our youth, but to watch me deteriorate and keep paying when I said I hated those doctors, they didn't listen, they put me in more pain, they touched places that hurt until they hurt more and then said it was chiropractic healing.

I could've been on medicine that helped my pain all these years and simply wasn't because of this. Because of an obsession with Lyme disease. I'm so bitter and angry about this because I could've at least been working towards comfort all those years. Instead of waiting until I had an income to buy comfort items like icy hot, hand support, my partner bought my hot water bottle, and so on and so forth. My partner has been with me since we were in 10th and 11th grade. I don't think I would've survived all these experiences without him there promising to support me no matter the outcomes.

There's no happy ending. I'm numb and tired, I still haven't found a desire to eat, and I'm never going to know what it feels like to not be in pain. My joints have been hurting more and more every year and I think I'll need mobility support soon but don't know how to approach it, my hands have been hurting more and more and yet art is what helps me to maintain the headspace I need to not fall into codependent sniveling.

Thank you for reading. No matter the medical path you choose, I hope you find nothing but healing and happiness. No matter the diagnosis, I hope it takes you on the path to the most fulfilling life you can.

[loumun-versen]

12. Breaking up I didn't want to take Yallïs and Clarencia apart for this, they do have arguments in their relationship, but they didn't break up, not willingly, at least. So instead, I decided to picture the three friends break up, over rivalry and moral conflict, Undeï and Elnantel left Yallïs alone in their feud, and that's when she made the worst decisions of her life.

[demonoftheseas]

mutant mayhem <33 BUT THE MIKEY DRAWIGN I WANNA DO but mutant mayhem.....

[thinkingonscripture]

The Apostle Paul: A NT Example of Submission to God

A New Testament person who exemplifies living in submission to God is the Apostle Paul. Despite his weaknesses and failures, Paul’s life demonstrates steady submission to God’s will. His transformation from a persecutor of Christians to a devoted apostle of Christ illustrates this submission. Unlike most Christians, Paul surrendered to the Lord very shortly after his conversion on the road to…

[leoleolovesdc]

Cass and Jason dynamic, but because their morals are so conflicting they pretend not to know each other’s secret identites for the family’s sake

Harper: How can you just talk to Jason when you beat the shit out of him just last night?

Cass: What do you mean?

Harper: C’mon, Cass! You literally broke his helmet!

Cass: No, I broke Red Hood’s helmet.

Harper:

Cass:

Jason: Mornin’. Y’all doing alright?

Cass: Good morning, Jay.

Harper: I-

Harper: Forget it. I’d rather not ask.

Or even them in the batcave getting ready for patrol:

Jason: See you later, Cass.

Cass: Later.

Cass: [Looks away and puts her Batgirl mask]

Jason: [Puts his helmet on and turns to face her]

Cass: Red Hood.

Jason: Batgirl.

[idolomantises]

I’m gonna be honest I think this entire election cycle has exposed how incredibly racist and performatively progressive a lot of white liberals are lmfao

[essayofthoughts]

Genuinely, I think one of the most fun and crunchy things about any character is

How far they will go for things they want

What they will do to get things they want

Things they won't do, no matter how much they want what they'd get in exchange

Because these things tell you some very important things about the character, namely their limits, their price, and their absolute No's. (And it lets you create some really REALLY crunchy conflict)

[jedi-enthusiast]

Leftists in like 2016-2021: I can’t believe people are denying that the civil war was about slavery! And trying to say that COVID wasn’t real or was exaggerated! People died!

Leftists now: The Holocaust didn’t happen and if it did then those dirty Jews Zionists just exaggerated the whole thing!

———

Leftists in like 2016-2021: Yeah, let’s all punch Nazis! Fuck those white supremacist assholes!

Leftists now: Well, actually, maybe the Nazis were right about the Jews—I mean, they wouldn’t have committed a genocide against them if they didn’t do anything to deserve it, because we all know hatred and bigotry are totally logical.

———

Leftists in like 2016-2021: “One bad cop” is a product of a flawed and bigoted system, and that means the system needs to change! And if there’s a Nazi in your group and they’re not being kicked out, then you’re all Nazis!

Leftists now: One Nazi in our protest doesn’t mean that we’re all being bigoted, even though we’re spouting the same shit they are. Also, we’re just gonna ignore the fact that Nazis are trying to recruit people from our group because we’re being so antisemitic.

[sugusoko]

ff7 women in S.T.E.M.

[bet-on-me-13]

Desperate Villain Danny AU

(this is a 17 yr old danny)

It started out slowly.

First, a few of Danny's less active Rouges stopped showing up at all. He didn't really notice, and just assumed that they had finally had their Fill of their Obsession for a while and would simmer down for a bit.

Then, some more of his Rouges stopped showing up. No big deal, but he is getting a little concerned for them. They had definitely not had their fill of their Obsessions yet, why did they stop?

Then, the worst started happen. All of his actual Ghost Friends start to disappear. Ember, Kitty, Johnny, even Amorpho, they all start to not show up at all in the Living World.

He goes looking for them in Realms, but he can't find any of them whatsoever. He tries asking around, but everybody else noticed the disappearances much earlier than him and began to hide away from whatever was taking all of the strong Ghosts. He can't find anybody, and the ones he does find won't tell him anything (or don't know themselves)

It takes weeks of searching, but eventually he gets his answer.

The GIW show up in Amity again after a period of absolutely no activity. They have stepped up their operations HARD. Advanced Ghost Hunting Equipment, Much more Competent Agents, and most worrying of all, they seem to know that Phantom is friends with Sam, Tucker, and Danny Fenton.

The GIW comes to his house for a Meeting with his parents, where he overhears them offering his parents a position in their Organization as Head Scientists. While there they also manage to plant Bugs in Danny's room somehow. Although he finds them quickly enough and destroys them.

And then, one night during dinner while his parents are ranting about the GIWs Labs, they mention something that cinches it for Danny.

"And today we even got to Dissect one of the Spooks! It was that Mind Controlly one, you know the one with the blue firey hair stuff that sang a bunch! We're going back tomorrow to continue our Study, this time we'll see how long it'll pretend to experience pain before it decides to give up on tricking us!"

That night, Danny packed up all his things, destroyed the Ghost Portal alongside everything else in his parents Lab, and left his house.

He tracked down the GIW Base, saved Ember from her Cell, and decimated the surrounding Area. No survivors, none of the research is preserved, and he left the Site Director alive to question him.

Turns out, the GIW had managed to Reverse Engineer the Ghost Portal from that brief period of time where they had taken control of Fenton Works. They had been using their own Portal to kidnap any Ghost they could get their hands on. Using the research from those subjects, they perfected their Ghost Hunting Tech and started going after the bigger fish.

"But good luck finding it, Ecto Scum! The Portals location was hidden to everybody, even me!" He said.

"Where are the others!" Danny cried. He was losing control of his appearance by this point. After seeing what they had done to Ember, he was too angry to maintain his Humanoid Form successfully. Even now, with most of his control, he could hear the Static in the air around him, and see the Glitching of his hands as they clenched this Monsters clothes.

"Scattered!" He said with a crazed laugh, "We knew we couldn't contain all of them, so we send them to all of our sites across the Country! You'll never find them!"

Without another word, Danny plowed his arm through the man's chest.

He turned around, picking up Embers weakened Body, before beginning his long flight to Wisconsin. Vlad still owed him a few Favors after all, and honestly his mentorship offers seemed VERY Tempting right now.

(Why reject him if you don't care about keeping your dad alive anymore?)

...

The JLA had recently received a distress signal from somewhere in the middle of some random Forest in Illinois, but when they got to the location, all they found was a crater filled with the ruins of some kind of Military Base, and so so many Bodies.

They had managed to figure out that this was a Government Site owned by an organization called the GIW. A Paranormal Investigation Wing of the Government focused on the study and capture of Supernatural Beings called Ecto-Entities, otherwise referred to as Ghosts.

As it turns out, an Ecto-Entity that had been terrorizing the local town for a few years now had made a drastic change in normal behavior and had attacked the GIW Base that had been posted there.

They would have destroyed it years ago, but this one was unnaturally powerful. It had eluded their capture and terrorized the Town for years, but they had too much pride to contact the JLA and admit that they needed help. And honestly until now, they didn't really need it. The Entity had been entirely confined to the singular town, and had not strayed from that behavioral Pattern in the 3 years since it's inital sighting. They had made the difficult choice to leave it there, sacrificing one town in exchange for the rest of the country.

But now they did need their help. This Entity, this Phantom, was one of the most powerful beings that had ever recorded, maybe even The Most Powerful. The fact that it had left the Secluded town it usually frequented meant that it was loose to wreak havoc across the rest of the world.

The JLA Needed to Find this thing, and Fast.

[statleragainstposers]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste

Oh-

[notherpuppet]

Any characters you're most excited about seeing that we haven't met yet? Baxter, Crymini, Molly, etc?

LILITH, I know we got a sneak peek but I want to meet her very badly

[pandadrake]

Just a couple of dudes cursed with really broad shoulders.

This is Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

[sokkas-therapist]

Breaking my silence: I think Zuko’s “I’m angry at myself” explosion in The Beach episode was queer coded

*runs away before I can be booed off the stage*

[bevsi]

some of the Arcane takes I’m seeing… maybe u should stick to The Owl House 🩷