#Or Before I got Sick

[thatonebirdwrites]

I really wish I could have gone to the north-east and Hawaii before I got sick. But I never got the chance. Even if I can visit somehow, I'd be in my wheelchair with a stamina of less than one, which sucks. This illness sucks, but at least I have some stories of adventures from before I got ill. (That's the line in my life. The Before I Got Sick and After I Got SIck.) No, I have no idea how I skipped Oregon, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. At least northeast made sense since it's a region, the other three who knows. (I took the train a lot Before I Got Sick but I also drove a lot or drove with others who drove a lot). Before I Got Sick, I worked in California, Texas, Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Wyoming, and Iowa. The only reason I worked in the south was due to AmeriCorps*NCCC who stationed my team there to clean up after a nasty hurricane ripped the region apart.

Mississippi is where I almost drowned, but a bird diving in front of my face saved my life. I grabbed it, and the bird showed me which way was up in that murky-ass water. I can't swim well, but birds can swim. Bird was very unhappy about the whole me grabbing them. I got my hand pecked at pretty good, but at least I survived! My teammates rescued me when I burst free from the water and unleashed the bird from my hand. That story is one of the many reasons why my nickname is Bird. The moral of this story is Beware Of Rip Tides and Don't Wade Too Deep If You Can't Swim Well.

There's also the time I fell off a 500 foot bluff in Wisconsin, landed in a tiny-ass tree, and clung to it like a Bird for five hours in 25 degree Fahrenheit weather with no coat. Because I was a smart teenager, you know. How I got up there and why I fell is not important.

The moral of this story is Do Not Climb Sandstone Bluffs. Sandstone is very brittle and will easy crack and break with any amount of pressure. Also, I'm majorly sad that I missed the helicopter rescue of the Bluff incident. My younger sister swears it happened, but I guess I was too high on hypothermia to really register a fucking helicopter above my head. I guess it makes sense in retrospect since why else would the firefighter be hanging from a rope next to my little tree? All I could think about at the time is how kind the person was to give me the firefighter's coat, so I could be warm again and pretend I'm a firefighter.

Since this also happened in the middle of nowhereland Wisconsin, emergency teams used my rescue as practice. So I got strapped down to stretcher, unstrapped, and strapped again by each trainee/person needing practice. I think this happened after they confirmed no major injuries, but honestly who knows. I was tripped out hypothermic/dissociating at the time. Moral of that story is Wear A Coat In Cold Weather, Especially Below Freezing Weather.

I got lost in Wyoming with some of my Polish friends once. I had been taking pictures of the scenery behind us with my flipphone (gosh were those photos poor quality but I had no other phone at the time). This was our first misadventure too. Well, we ended up lost, way south of where we hoped to go, and ran out of water. I had one water treatment tablet, so we used that for the water from streams. We also had a bag of peanuts for some reason. I realized I'd been taking pictures behind us, mostly because I liked to see how far we'd gone. Made me feel like we made progress. So I matched the landscape to the photo, and we backtracked to the start of the trail that way. This is why I only take photos of where I've been when I hike (or used to hike).

Moral of that story is Read The Map More Often and Bring More Water Treatment Tablets.

The second misadventure in Wyoming with my Polish friends involved the Turquoise Lake expedition. We made it to the lake by correctly reading maps. That lake was gorgeous as fuck. However, we started at six in the morning, failed to keep track of time, and got to the lake at five pm in afternoon. Which meant half our journey back to civilization was done in the dark. With very little ways to verify landmarks.

We also had to hide from a moose who walked onto our trail and started munching berries. Moose are brutal and will rip you apart (even tear into cars! Like when I hung out with the Mormons, whose jeep got chased by a bull moose for three miles! I thought we were done for, but that little jeep somehow escaped). Moral of that story is Either Plan For An Overnight Complete With Supplies or Turn Back To Avoid Getting Caught Walking In Darkness In A Mountainous Forest. Oh, the Mormon Jeep story's moral is Do Not Piss Off Moose.

I have other ridiculous stories from the times Before I Got Sick. My illness destroyed my ability to hike or do much exercise, so my stamina is shit now. Now all I have is stories. Let me know if you wanna hear more.

Maybe it's a good thing I'm relegated to a wheelchair now. I can't get into ridiculous fixes with a wheelchair...

... or can I?

[maeamian]

Part of the reason that Republicans are so desperately acting like they will never lose again is because they are deeply terrified that this is their last real chance to win. The big orange dipshit came in and gutted the party of everyone who wasn't a loyalist, which left it full of nasty little gremlins who have gaping voids where charisma and human decency is supposed to go.

They still hold a lot of power, but if we stop them this year the next presidential election may not be the Most Important One Of Your Life™, that's not a guarantee or anything, but if they don't win here and now their future looks grim, this dipshit is the only guy they have left and he's extremely diminished and has his brains leaking out of his ears at this point. We can beat him into the ground.

So that's what we're gonna fucking do. We're gonna break these fucking fash. They will crash upon us and we're gonna break their fucking necks. When they come for us they will lose because they're fucking losers and we have each other's backs which is something they fundamentally are incapable of comprehending.

[sainz100]

2024 Brazilian GP | x

[buttercupshands]

I started drawing this next day after I finished Act 6

13 or so days and it's finished!

Main things are traditional and Loop's body was edited digitally after

Unedited it looks like this

I've been torn on how to do Loop's body for the entirety of lining, also

A bit sad the main lines are visible only as a wip, most of this thing is literally just a ton of sharp lines

I think it's also my first day of drawing, Loop is just a sketch here (feat. my leg)

I even finished the beans before it so they were a moral support, because if you let me things like this take a year

[inkedberries]

oh no im going insane

[ariadne-mouse]

Doodle prompt: Essek’s infographic on the optimal bowl of soup.

Today's flavor: blended zucchini soup with herbs, black pepper, lemon, and a splash of oat milk

[neptunym]

ultravalentines 💕

[crabsnpersimmons]

Voice Cast: Donnie Osmond

some of you may have already seen a preview of this guy, but here he is!

this is Eddie! my Eclipse OC, who i've been brainrotting about lately

Eddie used to be a performer, singing and dancing on stage as part of a touring show. He fell in love with another performer, who shared his dream of having a big family some day. but as a robot and a human, they didn't believe it was possible for them. His love eventually left the show to elope with another man—a human man. Years later, they reunite, but she is alone and pregnant. Due to complications during childbirth, his love passes away, leaving behind her twin infants, whom she named Solomon and Lunete. After that, Eddie decides to retire from the stage to raise the twins.

While he misses the stage, he tries his best to be the best father he can be for his kids.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Get Souped!

[ink-the-artist]

blood animals

[sincerelywhistler]

Ooohhhh don’t hurt em now, Davey ‼️

It’s a certain alpha’s proposal audio 1-year anniversary soon and I was feeling sentimental

He’s wearing Gabe’s wedding band around his neck teehee

[gncrezan]

@chrysanthemumgames celebrates four years so here i am, forcing everyone to see all the various playthroughs i have ! thank you, as always, for a game that i adore to little pieces <3

(well to be more accurate i'm drawing 75 but still)

[moraent-keys]

Silly radioapple doodles cuz why not

[expelliarmus]

[hairpinturnn]

mark of cain

marc marquez + demian: the story of emil sinclair by hermann hesse

[auriidae]

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