#but I've been in agony all day

[illgiveyoumygavichal]

I both agree and disagree, not trying to be antagonistic or anything because I have a deathly allergy too.

Children's allergies should be taken seriously, their teachers are responsible for their wellbeing and should take their student's allergies seriously. Parents should be considerate of their kid's classmate's allergies. Because kids don't understand the severity of it all themselves and require adult guidance to learn how to be considerate of others.

Doctors and nurses are responsible for the wellbeing of patients, that's literally their career field: caring about people's health and safety. If either can't follow simple food safety guidelines then they should be reported because there's no way hospital administrators will tolerate any litigations involving them and putting their patients at risk with allergies. They should know the severity firsthand, and if they don't they should be denied any positions are healthcare facilities.

As for individual adults though, you're responsible for yourself. I'm not saying 'shut up and deal with it,' I'm saying 'you're responsible for making sure you get appropriate accommodations.' Most people who understand the severity of their allergies should have epinephrine on hand or know where they can get it; most people should be able to advocate for their own health safety. Or they have a trusted individual who can do both for them. You're not going to order paella if you have a seafood allergy---you're not even going to a seafood restaurant if you have a seafood allergy, and any self-respecting restaurant will happily reseat you if needed.

That woman on the flight should've been more responsible in seeking accommodations for her flight instead of waiting till the last minute. I'm sure the airline would've been more than happy to send out a notification email to all the passengers of that flight to ensure her safety, but doing so last minute inconveniences everyone. If I pay airport prices for an inflight snack I'm not got to just not eat it unless I'm given a replacement to compensate for wasting money. (That's a lie, I'm a soft person, I wouldn't actually eat something if someone tells me not to. But I am saying that I would eat it anyways because some people do think like that and you can't just assume everyone will be considerate.)

It's still not a laughable situation though, and in a service industry you should take those requests seriously. So, bad attendant. Of course, that's just an article that can only share one perspective of the situation. There's a chance it was a misunderstanding but the moral of the story is to take allergies seriously and properly research your travel options.

Also, don't email companies with the expectation that they'll respond the same week you sent it.

I wasn't going to derail the disability pride month post for people with peanut allergies but in relation to that topic

I have never seen another allergy that has been so viscerally hated and mocked by people working in education like nut allergies. I've seen fellow teachers cringe that their classroom was the "nut free" classroom that year. Support staff that are trained and willfully don't follow cross contamination protocol in the lunchroom because it's too "tedious" or "time-consuming". Full preschools + childcare centers that refuse to accommodate nut allergies. Schools where the only free lunch is a PB&J. Before/after school programs and summer programs whose food curriculum has nuts and doesn't provide an alternative activity.

Allergy discrimination is so so insidious and prevalent. It's happening behind their back and it is everything from the exposure joke to possibly causing someone to go into anaphylaxis from willful ignorance.

Also other parents in the classroom are guilty too. The "not my child not my problem" brain rot means that those lunchboxes are like bombs for airborne exposure allergies

[arashi-no-saxlphone]

as much as I would like to believe that Frederick and Asuka could be friends again, like, Freddy is building that rocket as fast as he can to kick his ass before the residual FoC and Gear power leaves his body. I'm sorry. I know I'm the Asuka apologist but dude. Nearly 2 centuries of the most unimaginable agony and festering sense of betrayal, compounded by Asuka goading him intentionally on multiple occassions (his reasoning behind all this goading aside) he is not just going to be able to let that go.

Asuka's crimes against humanity are one thing, you can argue til you're blue in the face about that and there's actual ground to cover there, but what he did to Frederick and Aria is like... damn dude. You, without their consent, turned them into gears. You lied about it to their faces too. Aria, someone who is cited as having her identity and who she is as a human being be one of the most important things to her, trusted you to put her into cryosleep because you said you'd find a way to save her so that she could be with Frederick. She didn't want that, she wanted to stay and spend the time she had left with Frederick instead, but she let you convince her cause she trusted you. And you took away her body, identity, and autonomy. You took Sol's humanity from him following that, lied to him about it, and then spent 200 years pissing him off so bad on purpose to make sure he'd always be there to help you fix everything. Oh, and then you made him kill his wife that you mutilated. Twice, essentially.

I love you Asuka, but shit, that's all kinds of levels of fucked my man. Frederick justifiably hates you really REALLY bad. I hope we get something in Dual Rulers settling this, cause Frederick just letting that go even following the events of Strive is just kinda unrealistic.

[miodiodavinci]

sniffling and whimpering as i rewrite the response to this prompt for the third time, this time taking time to Actually write down all the points i want to cover first in detail instead of kind of just winging it because my brain is intense agony over all this and wants to be done as soon as possible

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

sometimes i think about what would have happened if richard had died instead of henry and the rest of the book had been narrated the song of achilles style and it hurts

[bunnihearted]

꒰୨୧꒱

[skrunksthatwunk]

why the fuck did i write about birds this fucking sucks. i just found out birds only sleep for a few minutes at a time, hundreds of times a day. do you know what this is going to do to my structure? the logistics of their road trip? this is already like three days late and i've been fighting for my life to get A Plot Like Any Plot That Makes Sense out and now the birds fucking sleep for 5 minutes at a time.

[lovebugism]

ah the best holiday of the year. spotify wrapped release day.

[suffercerebral]

me having gone to bed at 6 am every day for the past week and generally spiraling mentally while rotting in bed waking up this morning: a 4 mile hike in the heat is a really good idea right now, and while we're at it let's start like 3 art projects

[inga-don-studio]

Since I pretty much tore the headcrab zombie mask down to just the base yesterday, I'm trying to figure out the best angle & pose for the new rigid forelimbs. I want them to look like they're jabbing into the host's chest while at rest and in an aggressive threat display when raised. I think I finally got it looking about how I want it, at least from the side profile-

[loumauve]

the thing (well, one thing anyway) about chronic pain is how you'll have a day or half a day or even just a few hours that'll get you so close to just fucking wanting to end it all right then and there because you're just so tired of being in pain and it feeling like it'll never end and never get better, and your brain feels like it's on fire and you can't remember the last time you felt even just okay, much less fine or good.

and logically you know it'll probably be alright again in time, but the effort it takes to just make it through that moment is so exhausting that it just leaves you drained.

and it's not like you want to die, you just want the pain and misery to stop, and sometimes it feels like it never will. like you're just stuck on that endlessly-looping train track through hell with no stops to get off, and nothing will help you feel even minutely better at all.

[byanyan]

if byan has your phone number, you will find yourself receiving way more selfies than you want

[ellzilla]

[miodiodavinci]

a heem heem whimper

[kittlyns]

Samsung guy also had the audacity to tell me to "just make a new account" and I got so mad cuz like. my only hope of seeing any of my memories from the past 5 years of my life are connected to that one account, and it's not even a guarantee. But it's still a small hope and I'm not giving it up.

[absent-o-minded]

I've fallen back into my SAB obsession, I need it to come out in the next hour or I am going to chew my leg off

[binnie]

good morning!