#fuck ticks

[sleeplessphantom-0]

Love Possums

Fuck Ticks

[dddemigirl]

I’ve been diagnosed with Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Alpha-gal syndrome. I’m picking up antibiotics for the RMSF that should help with the bite on my leg. I am also getting epipens in case I have a reaction. I’m getting a medication for my heart that lowers my heartbeat and helps with anxiety! My nurse said that the Rocky Mountain spotted fever can also cause joint aches. Been there before! So I have to cut red meat from my diet which I’m sad about. Some people are so sensitive that they have reactions to anything that even touches red meat so I have to bring the epipen to meals with me. Molly (my nurse) tested me for lyme’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis as well as a few other immune disorders and I was negative.

Edit: found out through an allergist that I don’t actually have AGS, thank goodness.

[sharkyuwu]

Apparently allowing people to ask questions is disabled normally, so I just turned it on. If anyone wants to talk or ask something, feel free to!

Also here’s a cute toad I found

[lesbian-axalotl-13]

I can’t fucking use punctuation because I had Lyme disease the three weeks we were learning it

[rileyclaw]

turn on the lights, this cannot last forever

watching and dreaming promo

[tlou-obsessed]

There is something about Pedros eyes as Joel that has me on the floor, throughout the series there are alot of microexpressions he does but this damn contrast makes my heart ache.

He goes from disbelief to shock to completely shutting down when Sarah dies, there is so much pain in those eyes it makes your heart clench, it's in the way Joel keeps hugging Sarah harder as to transfer his own life into hers by pure will,

Then you have the hospital and you see no light behind those eyes, you can just feel the pure rage and agony. Him walking slower and slower and you can just feel his heart drop, and the wires come lose in his head and then there is one mission, save Ellie. His eyes man....

[bree-paints]

My copium where they all survive and they are an iconic one eyed trio

Also some random sketches because 266-267 have been killing me emotionally thank you

[61below]

When I was going through horrific nausea from the lyme (and the doxy treatment 🫨) I pretty much lived off protein shakes. My pro-tip for making the powder blended better is to put the powder in the bottom of the glass, then splash a little bit of hot water over it and hit it with a milk frother (almost like making a cornstarch slurry 😅) before then pouring in the rest of the Liquid Of Choice. It helps the final product feel less gritty!

Also, for everyone else reading this: for the love of everything holy, take ticks seriously. Treat outdoor clothes with permethrin and shower with a scrub brush after every time spent in the brush. Lyme usually needs the tick to be attached for more than 24 hours, but there are other tick-borne illnesses that can be transmitted much faster. If you get flu-like symptoms after spending time outside, do not try to sleep it off. I got it from my own yard two years ago, it flattened me for over a year, and I STILL have lingering heart issues today.

Okay, I have ordered a protein powder that I *think* I can tolerate. (Naked Rice, for anyone else in my situation. Thank you to @beneathhergaze for finding this for me) So we will see how this goes.

Also thank you to everyone else making suggestions. I feel bad shooting most of them down. I promise I'm not trying to be difficult. I just have complex health needs, and often, the most "obvious" solutions won't work for me.

To the people who read my "can't eat red meat due to allergies" and still sent me messages telling me to "just eat red meat," I am bonking you gently with the reading comprehension hammer.

To the one person who assumed I'm anti-red-meat for moral reasons and went on a rant in my inbox about how "people like me" "claiming allergies" are the reason allergies aren't taken seriously, I am bonking you considerably harder with the "don't be a fucking dick" hammer.

I'm literally allergic to red meat and red meat by-products. It will kill me. Maybe don't make assumptions about what people can and can't be allergic to just because you've never heard of it outside of alpha-gal syndrome. Dickhead.

Anyway. Thank you to everyone trying to help. I really appreciate the efforts being made to alleviate the mental load of figuring this out. When you're chronically ill, it can really just feel like one more fucking thing you have to deal with, and the temptation to say, "I'll do it when I feel better," is high, but in reality, you won't feel better until you do it so, yeah. Thank you. 💖

[dramatic-dolphin]

just saw something crawling on my hand and it looked like a spider so i was like "oh hey friend what are you! :D" well it was an arachnid but definitely not a friend 👍

[wishchip106]

They’re judging you

[8-xnny]

see I would but last time I ���touched grass” and “cherished the grass” I got fucking lymes disease for the 5th time 🧍‍♀️

Go Touch Grass

Sometimes

We tell each other

"Go Touch Grass"

What we really mean

Is get it off the phone

Get out of your head

See the real world

The natural world

The honest world

Very rarely do we take this comment

To heart

Today I did it

I lay in grass

Felt the blades bends to my weight

Felt the cushion of the earth

Breathed in

And felt at peace

At peace among the sticks

Among the ants

Among the shade

At peace with myself

So go Touch Grass

But actually cherish it

As you would a beloved friend

Soft

Kind

Respectful

Honest

[bacchuschucklefuck]

and! barbarian!fig! its her

[ef-1]

If I think about the double standard and the disparity with which the media handled Daniel in comparison to everyone else I may lose my mind.

[lazylittledragon]

every alt person at some point decides to attempt a haircut that makes them wonder if they’re willing to shave their head just in case

[miodiodavinci]

PSA: PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ACCOUNT

this is not my account. this person has been using my name on various social media accounts since 2016, almost always with this black and white masked avatar

i noticed them back in 2020 when i saw their youtube account, but didn't pay it much mind at the time because it was. clearly obvious which account was mine. but since then they've taken my username on twitch, itch.io, bluesky, and god knows how many other sites (frustratingly forcing me to be "miodiodavincii" on most of them)

so please just be aware that this is not me. my public accounts are all listed on my carrd or linked to each other, and almost always feature the hachikyo icon or some variation thereof. i'm seriously frustrated this time because a ton of my friends have already followed this account thinking it's me, when really it's just some. complete stranger who is weirdly addicted to using my username for every single account of theirs (see examples below)

this whole situation has frustrated me enough, though, so i ahead and made a bluesky for real. please be aware that this is my real bluesky. i'm not associated with any of the black and white accounts. if you followed the other account thinking it was me, please be sure to unfollow and refollow the correct account OTL