#health is a privilege not an achievement

[harperhug]

At this point IDK if half of my disability is actually an inherent handicap or if the assumptions people make are the handicap. Probably both TBH.

An apparently unpopular opinion: disabled people can have and do their hobbies. They deserve to have fun. They deserve to live their lives.

Their inability to do some things (like work, for example) does not mean they should be judged for… idk hanging out with their friends or to going outside. After all, having interests outside of work is often essential to our mental and physical health OUTSIDE of our disability.

And also *you might want to sit down for this* disabled people know what’s disabling for them (unless they people-please or push through due to necessity or survival of some sort). Disabilities don’t have to be visible or persistent to be disabling.

So yeah - my declaration: if an activity you want to do feels good and you’re able to do it, then do it. REGARDLESS OF YOUR DISABILITY WITH OTHER THINGS.

[vanhelsingapologist]

Publishing has always been a fucking nightmare, but now it’s a layer of hell. It’s not enough that writers be good at what they do. Writers have to maintain an active social media presence and cultivate a following. Be available.

They have to be conventionally attractive enough to look good enough to see on a screen, aesthetically pleasing, kind, funny, up-to-date on trends, socially aware but not so controversial that they turn off a brand from California from slapping their discount code on a video promoting a book.

They have to do all of this with no media training, with little help from the companies that are supposed to be doing this for them.

Of course, a lot of this isn't possible for say, the 40-something mother of two who teaches English at a school and writes on the side. She’s boxed out of an already complex industry that already has enough walls.

On some level, I think authors have always marketed themselves a little, but we’ve reached such a crazy point where we’re demanding the author become the influencer. Accessibility in publishing has narrowed from an inch to a sliver. And that inch was hard enough to get in as is.

[girlivealwaysbean]

i think growing up is just life repeatedly sucker punching you and saying bitch you thought things were gonna better lmao no you're so naive and stupid for having hope in 20 years the world will be flaming bag of garbage and no matter how hard you work you'll get eliminated at some point

[majaurukalo]

I had a discussion on Reddit (I know, I should avoid seeking discussions with people online) about how some dreams and opportunities are unreachable or very difficult to reach for some people because of external obstacles like class, money, health, family, etc and it is so wild to me that certain people do not see — or do not want to see — the inbuilt obstacles that some people face and that they are not in control of.

What we, as human beings, have control over are our time, energy, skill. What we do not control is money, health, gender, origin background (and sure some other stuff I can’t come up with now).

Some people would tell you to just “do whatever it takes” or to “leave everything and move to the place where your dreams come true” because “the only obstacles are in your mindset”. Hahaha I wish that was true. This is straight up classism and whoever says that has had certain privileges that isn’t probably aware of. And it’s putting blame to the individual only, whereas there are so many external factors that hinder a person’s dream. Life is not like in The Greatest Showman.

“Where there’s a will there’s a way” is true to a certain point.

This is not to say “oh then, everything is unfair, the World is just a big discriminating mess and no one is offered any opportunity unless they have money and power”. No. Society has evolved and it certainly offers more chances even to the most discriminated minorities than it did only 20 or 30 years ago. Internet and globalisation offer us a lot of means and ways to go from point A to point B, even with less privilege.

Some people have to fight more though and not because they are unskilled or unprepared. The problem maybe is that we have normalised this and maybe we shouldn’t have.

Some people cannot just leave and move to places as if it costs nothing because they lack money (and no, money isn’t easily available as some might think) or support or they have poor health and a disability and need assistance which they can’t find available in other places. So they are stuck home or wherever they have that. Or, if they manage to achieve that success, it comes after years of money spending (most probably), tears, defeat, failure, suffering… And yes, you made it, but you probably went through a lot of trauma and people who didn’t believe in you and didn’t help you at all.

And sure, even in the most equal World someone will remain outside and that’s what saddens me and makes me angry.

The point of this entire post is just to acknowledge that we live in a system that is unfair and where you come from, how much money your family has and if you are healthy and abled play a big role in whether you achieve your dreams easily without trauma and heavy falls.

Just acknowledge it and shut up. You don’t need to put the blame on the single individual who has less privileges than you.

If we don’t acknowledge it, we normalise it. And I think we have already normalised a lot of fucked up things.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[mesetacadre]

Palace of the Republic, Berlin

The right to work at a job of one’s own choice was guaranteed by the East German constitution (Aus erster Hand, 1987). While there were some (mostly alcoholics) who continuously refused to show up for jobs offered by the state, their numbers represented only about 0.2% of the entire East German work force, and only 0.1% of the scheduled work hours of the rest of the labor force was lost due to unexcused absences (Krakat, 1996). These findings are especially noteworthy, given that people were generally protected from being fired (or otherwise penalized) for failing to show up for work or for not working productively (Thuet, 1985). The importance of the communist characteristic of full employment to workers is reflected in a 1999 survey of eastern Germans that indicated about 70% of them felt they had meaningfully less job security in the unified capitalist country in the 1990s than they did in communist East Germany (Kramm, 1999)

The Triumph of Evil, A. Murphy (2002)

The GDR had more theatres per capita than any other country in the world and in no other country were there more orchestras in relation to population size or territory. With 90 professional orchestras, GDR citizens had three times more opportunity of accessing live music, than those in the FRG, 7.5 times more than in the USA and 30 times more than in the UK. It also had one of the world’s highest book publishing figures. This small country with its very limited economic resources, even in the fifties was spending double the amount on cultural activities as the FRG. Every town of 30,000 or more inhabitants in the GDR had its theatre and cinema as well as other cultural venues. [...] Subsidised tickets to the theatre and concerts were always priced so that everyone could afford to go. Many factories and institutions had regular block-bookings for their workers which were avidly taken up. School pupils from the age of 14 were also encouraged to go to the theatre once a month and schools were able to obtain subsidised tickets. [...] All towns and even many villages had their own ‘Houses of Culture’, owned by the local communities and open for all to use. These were places that offered performance venues, workshop space and facilities for celebratory gatherings, discos, drama groups etc. There was a lively culture of local music and folk-song groups, as well as classical musical performance.

Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It, Bruni de la Motte and John Green (2015)

Work itself was elevated to a place of pride and esteem and, even if you were in a lower paid job, you were valued for the work you did as a necessary contribution to the functioning of society. The socialist countries were also designated ‘workers’ states and it was not merely an empty phrase when the GDR government argued that the workers, who produced the commodities that society needed, should be placed at the forefront of society. Those who did heavy manual work, like miners or steel workers, enjoyed certain privileges: better wages and health care than those in less strenuous or dangerous professions. The GDR had one of the most comprehensive workers’ rights legislation of any other country in the world. From 1950 onwards, there was a guaranteed right to work. This right applied to everybody, including disabled people and those with criminal records. Employers were made responsible for the training and integration of everyone. This meant that everybody felt they had a place in society and were needed. This was particularly important for disabled people and those who wanted a new start in life after being convicted of a crime. Working people were under a much more relaxed discipline in the workplace. Because there was job security and it was almost impossible to be sacked, an authoritarian discipline was difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. In Western countries work discipline is invariably enforced by the implicit threat of job loss. In the GDR, only in cases of serious misconduct or incompetence would employees be sacked. There were individual cases where employees were sacked illegally for what was considered ‘oppositional’ or ‘anti-state behaviour’, but usually the sanction would involve demotion or being transferred to a different workplace. This job security gave employees a sense of confidence and a considerable power in the workplace. It meant that workers could and would voice criticism over inefficiencies or bad management without having to fear for their job. Job security and lack of fear about losing it was probably one of the greatest advantages the socialist system offered working people. Even in cases where a worker was sacked from one job, other alternative work would be offered, even if not on the same level. The other side of the coin was that there was also a social obligation to work - the GDR had no system of unemployment benefit, because the concept of unemployment did not exist.

Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It, Bruni de la Motte and John Green (2015)

[queeranarchism]

This is going to be a bit of an emotional, exhausted rant. I spend some time on anti-psychiatry work again and it's a fresh, painful reminder that there are still marginalized communities whose experiences are almost entirely unacknowledged by the vast majority of what we might call 'social justice' movements.

Like, I'm lucky by comparison. There's a lot of transphobia out there but when I argue for my right to exist and to not be stripped of my human rights simply because I'm trans, that narrative is familiar to many people, and will be agreed with by some percentage of the population in even the most conservative towns and in some places it will be agreed with by the majority.

But when someone argues that people experiencing mania or psychosis should be allowed to exist and should not be stripped of their autonomy and drugged against their will simply because they experience the world in a way that doesn't match most people's observations... crickets. It's rare to meet just one person who understands and agrees, even in activist spaces.

I've seen activists and even anarchists call the cops on people in mania or psychosis, claiming it 'protects' them, without a shred of awareness how many of the people murdered by cops in my country are people in mental distress. Without a shred of awareness that someone arrested for being 'mentally confused' can be held for days in isolation, denied access to a lawyer, submitted to literal torture. Having done both prison support and institutionalization support, I can say without a moment of doubt that I'd choose 70 days in prison over 7 days in forced psychiatric care. And yet activists incarcerate their 'crazy' comrades.

But I doubt whether it will achieve anything to sum up these horrors when most people refuse to listen to the victims of psychiatry and refer instead to the 'expertise' of psychiatrists who have never had to experience any of these things. Smart insightful activists who, on any other topic, would let the oppressed speak for their own experiences, don't listen when it comes to this population and instead let the powerful and privileged define that 'protection' means, no matter how many of their victims testify how abusive and traumatizing it is.

It makes me feel so angry and so so scared on behalf of the people who have to deal with this. And when I think honestly about how mental health, like physical health, is a thing that we can not fully control, that we can lose control of, it makes me so scared for myself. Would my activist community - the people I've trusted with my life and have fought alongside during some of the most difficult experiences of our lives - would they call the cops on me and have me incarcerated in the worst way if they thought I was 'crazy'? I can't say for sure that they wouldn't. And that's horrifying.

[virgobingo]

i wish people didn't try to filter geto's decision through a western lens because they're forgetting a huge part of the puzzle and it's the fact that sorcerers are oppressed by non-sorceres in the world of jujutsu kaisen. geto’s whole thing is "there's so few of us and yet we work ourselves to death for your peace of mind, while you remain ungrateful".

it's all more equivalent to health care workers trying to treat a virus. which also aligns thematically with the subject of labour across the series (jujutsu sorcerers being spread thin to the detriment of inexperienced workers, a job you value vs a job that compensates but drains you of your spirit, the myth of meritocracy) .

which is why controlling the output of cursed energy should be seen as the equivalent of being born with or developing an immunity to a disease. this is why a "culling" sounds possible to geto to begin with— people being pushed to adapt or die in their lifetime to prevent future outbreaks, like one would with a virus. strongly differing to kenjaku, because they essentially yearn for this disease to spread out of morbid curiosity (while geto wants the work to end):

geto is a character you are meant to see yourself in. as, in all likelihood, a laborer yourself or someone that will become one. his story is that of exploitation at the hands of a system that only cares for results. leading to isolation in hopes of achieving high productivity.

tangentially, i think a subject that is often ignored in these discussions is the financial incentive to take on more and more work onto your plate too. mei mei is perhaps the clearest example of this, no explanation needed. nobara, a second, when she explictly tells us sorcerery work is the only way a small town girl like her can make it in the big city. megumi, a third, when we learn the money the school gave him helped keep him and his sister tsumiki afloat.

while gege does not delve into geto's past, we can safely speculate part of the reason geto keeps working day after day, after day— despite his wavering convictions is because there is something that encourages him to do so. financial stability would not be an odd motivater. after all, why do we push ourselves everyday to work jobs that no longer add anything meaningful to our lives? geto is the type of character that forces us to examine such things.

as an aside, when he first dons the robes of a cult leader, money is at the forefront of his concerns. if it wasn't obvious before, gege tells you again— choosing not to be a sorcerer, implies a serious loss of income.

i think, all in all, geto's spiral does not hinge on the fact that he was secretly evil the entire time. it lies in disillusionment of a system that only seeks to preserve itself. note that this is why yuki works outside of it. no doubt her experiences as a former star plasma vessel informed her reasoning. it's also why gojo decides to become a teacher and change the institution from within, wielding his privilege as a shield over others.

[harperhug]

It turns out my life is actually just fine the way it is. Most of the time (I would venture as far as to say the vast majority of the time), the only obstacle preventing me from doing something is other people insisting that their able-bodied way is the only way to do something and actually preventing me from doing the thing in a way that doesn’t cause me pain. I can do just about anything using the devices that keep me from being in pain.

my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

[mythoughtsonapage]

Noah Lyles' Olympic success is not more important than his health, or that of his fellow athletes, coaches, media personnel, event staff, etc. No achievement is worth more than the common good. He made a selfish choice instead, and that choice reveals something that, for all the Olympics are teaching us, we still clearly need to learn about ableism.

Folks say COVID is just a part of life now like the flu. That we "power through" sick days all the time. This is...

1. Wrong. Long COVID has had devastating impacts, and we still don't understand why

2. Missing the point: We shouldnt willingly expose others to ANY illness, whether it's the flu, strep, pneumonia, etc. Getting sick puts folks at risk.

3. Ableist. Not everyone can just work through an illness. That's privilege. (It's also privilege to be able to rest. Capitalism hates disability!)

Stories are also now coming out about how most of the athletes have been sick and competed anyway? That is ... Really concerning?? Right?? Doesn't that mean that maybe this COVID surge is very serious and should be taken seriously??

For all the Olympics have done to show us the common good, and for all the exposure given at this Olympics in particular to chronic illness and the athletes who live with them, we are still falling into the trap of thinking that getting sick isn't permanent, and that hustling is more important. We are still saying we don't care about those for whom permanent illness is extremely dangerous. Ableism is a global problem.

[prettieinpink]

how do i learn to develop JOMO? (joy of missing out)

HOW TO DEVELOP JOMO

Jomo is the joy in missing out. JOMO encourages intentional living and finding fulfilment in the present rather than seeking validation or fearing missing out on what others are doing. It celebrates the freedom and peace that comes from consciously choosing to miss out on certain social activities and trends. 

DISCONNECT. Social media is an illusion, it makes everything look better than it truly is. Not only should you put boundaries on how you manage and use your accounts, but you should also shift your mindset when using them. 

Begin to think of social media as a tool to help you become the best version of yourself. Consume content that resonates with your current life or the life you’re working towards. This will motivate you to work hard for what you want. 

EMBRACE SOLITUDE. Learn to find enjoyment in being alone. Using this time by ourselves to reflect, recharge and indulge in our pleasures allows us to connect better with ourselves. 

To get used to being alone, challenge yourself to do things that you would usually have to do with someone else, by yourself. Whether it’s eating out, studying, shopping etc. 

REFRAME YOUR MINDSET TO GRADITUDE. Someone else’s assets, skills or experiences do not take away from your own. Be thankful for what you have, and what you are going to get. 

Begin to focus on what to cherish currently, other than what you could be missing out on. A way to practice gratitude is at the end of the day, to list 5 things that you’re thankful for (and you wouldn’t trade for someone else’s life!). 

PRIORITISE YOURSELF. You should start to see that the ability to take care of yourself is a privilege that you shouldn’t ignore. Instead of saying ‘yes’ to every commitment, only go to the ones that align with you and bring genuine fulfilment. 

The times when you’re not at any commitments, use it to invest in yourself and practice some self-care rituals regularly. Your health is more important than any other event. 

BE INTENTIONAL WITH YOUR TIME. Stop chasing after every single opportunity, especially ones that do not resonate with your dream life. Only do the things that align with your values and goals. 

Stay focused on what truly matters to you. This doesn’t even have to be about going out, it applies to scrolling, laying in bed all day, or watching TV shows, do something intentional instead. 

PRACTICE DETACHMENT. Focus on you and you only. Other people’s lives, words or actions should not play a role in how your days go. It does not matter what they’re doing, you’re just wasting energy on someone who probably could not care less. 

CELEBRATE OTHER’S SUCCESS. Someone else’s success is proof that you can do it too. There is enough success for everyone, be happy that others are achieving what you want to achieve because that allows you to open up to the opportunities you want. 

GET MOTIVATED & INSPIRED INTERNALLY. While I’m all for using other people’s lives as motivation, there is a line when your life becomes misaligned with your goals and values, because that’s still someone else’s life. 

You know yourself better than anyone else. You know why you want this, and you know how you envision it. Tap into those feelings and embody them. 

[harperhug]

I think it’s also for people with specific kinds of diabetes? I know when I was first placed on my keto diet (back when I still averaged about one seizure a minute) I started looking for diabetic-friendly foods.

this just in: eating like shit for no reason is bad for you

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

Mel having the hilt of a sword above her head like the sword of damocles not only indicates the treacherous nature of the power she's inherited from her mother from assuming the position of THE Medarda and the wolf but the fact that the sword disappears behind her as if its piercing her shows that shes already suffered the consequences of having this power (losing her family, losing her home in Piltover).

Not to mention the way both she and the room are clad in red, silver, and black, Ambessa's colour scheme. I think this indicates that although she's become what she's supposedly always wanted (a daughter her mother could be proud, a ruler) the smallness of her in this shot illustrates how overwhelmed she is (maybe emotionally but also quite tangibly by her responsibilities increasing tenfold) by the presence of her mother's legacy.

Mel demonstrates that she is an adept councillor in Piltover. The position suits her social abilities well enough to easily sway other members of the council. However, the system of power in Piltover does not allow for substantial revolutionary change for example Jayce despite government backing is unable to fully realise his dream of his research being utilised for the sake of everyone's health and safety instead it is bastardised and its original purpose is diluted made into gimmick. The extent of the progress 'the man of progress' is able to make is diminished to hexgates (transport) and other flashy but meaningless tools that simply exist so that the upper echelon can marvel at them.

I do think Mel believes Jayce would have been able to use both his and her position on the council to make positive social change, I also think she maintains a very liberal belief that a long stretch of time is required to make those advancements (she's wrong btw) but she is, like everyone else in this show, a product of their circumstances and her and every other character (mainly the piltover citizens) is burdened by their perceptions of how change can be achieved. It's also important to note that her and Jayce as privileged Piltovans can easily decentre the socially equalising potential hextech had because they weren't the people hextech could have helped as opposed to Viktor who was constantly at odds with oppressive system that disabled him and gave him a terminal illness.

I think this has changed now, with her kidnapping, her confrontation with Jayce (which I found kind of lacklustre, I think that conversation, although necessary just didn't address the right things and also felt like a one-sided lashing on a character who just endured psychological torture, was very narratively odd) and tag team showdown with her mother and the Black Rose, she's been pushed past the point of no return. She cannot be the politican carefully hand selecting gifts for another politicians birthday so they feel a sense of loyalty to her, she cannot do behind the scenes work anymore.

I have very little to work with because we don't really know what state Noxus will be in when Mel arrives but I do wonderhow this Mel who has shedded her previous political passiveness will function in a position that puts her in the front, her as a symbol of power and the head of her house.

I think Mel is a character bound for errors and mistakes but who is fundamentally gold at heart and that literally manifests in her design, the embellishments on her skin and the colour of power, also the way she coated that painting in gold in season one show that she will always end up being true herself though she may wield as is her nature as conduit other peoples powers and bare their responsibilities she won't be changed she will make change, good change.

[covid-safer-hotties]

Many deaths attributed to natural causes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have instead been due to the virus - Published Oct 24, 2024

Fun Fact: This is still happening. This is what the "with or from covid" debate wanted to achieve. This is statistical cherry-picking that allows them to say "the pandemic is over" even as it rages on.

Several studies have found that mortality increased at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many of these excess deaths — higher than would be expected based on mortality patterns in earlier times — during the first 30 months of the pandemic were officially linked to COVID-19, a substantial number were reported as other natural causes. The timing suggests that many of these deaths could have been unrecognized COVID-19 fatalities or indirectly linked to pandemic-related disruptions in health care and society. Findings from an NIA-funded study exploring this question were published in PNAS.

To understand how COVID-19 death counts reflect the true impact of the pandemic, a team led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, and collaborative institutions studied excess mortality from natural causes, i.e., diseases and chronic conditions. Calculations of excess mortality are used to measure the impact of COVID-19 on deaths. Between March 2020 and August 2022, the U.S. had nearly 1.2 million more deaths than expected, with approximately 635,000 in the first year and 544,000 in the second year. Previous studies found that these excess deaths were higher than the reported COVID-19 deaths, but most of that earlier research investigated extra deaths from all causes. In this new study, the scientists focused on natural causes of death, which may provide a better estimate of unacknowledged COVID-19 deaths.

The researchers employed innovative statistical techniques to examine monthly Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on natural-cause deaths and reported COVID-19 fatalities across 3,127 counties spanning the first 30 months of the pandemic, March 2020 to August 2022. Their analysis revealed approximately 1.2 million more natural-cause deaths than expected during this period. Of these deaths, nearly 163,000 did not have a COVID-19 notation on their death certificates. The largest gaps between these excess deaths and reported COVID-19 deaths were in rural areas, the West, and the South.

Increases in reported COVID-19 deaths often coincided with increases in excess natural-cause deaths, but many of the natural-cause ones were likely unrecognized COVID-19 deaths. The correlation between COVID-19 deaths and excess natural-cause deaths suggests that health care delays and social and economic impacts of the pandemic were not the main reasons for these excess deaths. For example, in areas where a greater proportion of excess deaths were assigned to natural causes, there may have been more unrecognized COVID-19 deaths due to less testing, more deaths outside hospitals, and less experienced death investigators. Some areas, such as New England and the mid-Atlantic metropolitan counties, had fewer excess natural-cause deaths compared to reported COVID-19 deaths, possibly due to declines in other causes of death (influenza, for example) due to COVID prevention policies and greater ability to work from home in some more economically privileged counties, or different reporting standards.

Limitations of the study include the inability to know for certain if the excess natural-cause deaths were due to unrecognized COVID-19 cases or were related to health care interruptions and social and economic impacts from the pandemic. In addition, while death counts were final for 2020 and 2021, the data for 2022 was still provisional. Future research should differentiate unrecognized COVID-19 deaths from other causes and examine the differences based on individual factors, such as age, gender, race, and socioeconomic status, as well as access to health insurance and primary care. Overall, this study helps improve understanding of the pandemic’s true impact and may guide better public health responses and improvements in death investigation systems.

This research was supported in part by NIA grant R01AG060115.

Reference: Paglino E, et al. Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. 2024. Epub Feb. 1. doi:10.1073/pnas.2313661121. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313661121

[scarybabe]

The Reina effect! (She won’t post this because she won’t post the truth lol.

Lie and say you are into freedoms, fatten up to attract a huge audience. Get outed multiple times for saying feedism is disgusting and that you only do it for money. Deny it and keep going. Eventually make enough money where you can quit, lose your weight and start a twitch channel hoping some views will transition into just twitch watchers and regular porn watchers.

It was never about the feedism community, it was never about other creators, it was never about body positivity. It was about your privilege and your POCKET.

hahaha sure Jan!

That’s why I married a feeder, gained weight a second time after losing it all when it was INFINITELY easier to stay thin (wanting to experience my kink with someone genuinely as into it as I am) and raised my goal weight twice despite actually making LESS money the closer I got to 300 (my income peaked at 230lbs) for the love of the process & to prove to myself that I was capable of achieving it. I didn’t have to do any of that. If I wasn’t into it, why would I keep making belly content when I really don’t need to? I honestly made plenty of money just doing vore and inflation content - I didn’t need to gain weight ever, period (but I wanted to)!

Is it really that unfathomable to you that I’m a human being with interests, dreams and goals outside of only making p*rn that are affected by my health, like having a family someday? That branching out into safe for work fields like twitch is almost necessary in a social media landscape that represses anything sexual?

I’m sorry you think all content creators are totally one dimensional human beings, and you think being nasty to me will guilt or manipulate me in some way to changing my body to align with your desires. That has NEVER worked on me ��

If anything, gaining muscle and starting a twitch channel (btw my first 5 streams are all going to charity, I won’t see a penny of it) is the OPPOSITE of what my feedism fanbase wants, but it’s important for me to be true to myself and my dreams.

That doesn’t mean that my fetish is “fake” - plenty of people can experience and love things without signing their life away to them. I have nothing nasty to say in return because you sound extremely sad and maidenless, I implore you to make some friends and touch some grass - you’ll be a lot happier!

[austinsastrology8991]

> Astr0 H0uSE CHeAT ShEeET< How to hack your house system(s)

HOUSE 1 - this house is the basic bitch you. YOu present yourself this way, you appear this way, but it is the superficial you, and its good to remember this otherwise you can get lose in the image you have cultivated for yoself. but images are incrediblty powerful, and we all succumb to the belief that we are who we are, because others say we are. and well we are but we are much more. so yes you look ugly or pretty, but its got very little to do with your life, yes people get pretty privilege and others get ugly disadvantage, but you have so much more power than how others/ yourself perceive you. HOUSE 2 - this house is where you find stability, its how you structure your life, also how your body be doin. This house is where you protect yourself what you like to built from and upon. Use this house as a form of stability, if your life is unstable this house is a big apart of why. also you want to make some money? or develop some self esteem? look here planets here are huge part of how this can be achievable. also its a grower not a shower so treat these planets with care and thatll like turn them on or something idk HOUSE 3 - this is whst you research or what you love to learn, what you know well but are always sippin the tea of information, the elixir or knowledge or suckin the apple juice or whatever bullshit analogy you believe in, this is what you understand so well, but are lowkjey insecure because you think you should know more given how much researcgh youve done, but reality is you done so much work in comparison to most others youll be fine just chill those nerves take a xanny bro. but dont forget what you know just because someone introduced a new idea to your head, always incorporate new information and filter out the parts that dont serve. thats how you maximise intelligence, get reading, and get writing, you cant just do one, your limiting your brain.

HOUSE 4 - This is actually the real you, the you to the core. This is how you were raised and that can be hard to hear but its true. LOok everyones childhood was kinda fucky, and thats why everyones a fucky fucker, so stop hiding the real you let it out, the more you repress this the more it shows how insecure you are, stop hiding or somoene will break downt those walls whether you like it or not. so you may as well be the one in charge of your own vulnerability, than giving someone else the gift of being the one to crack you open like some kinda egg. but dont show this part of you too much otherwise you scrambled your own eggs, and your ruining ya yolk. so balance goes a long way. too many people hide, and too many people are whiners. some figured it out, but the ones that do cant be bothered being a daddy. you shouldve grown up by now so get goin. HOUSE 5 - this is where you thrive, your talents, your shining light from jesus's holy bleeding nipples. Lawd thank you for your beautiful lamb and letting us torture him amen. okay sorry for ruining your favourte shrine. well anyway this is the house of creativity, and where you shine and become a beacon of hope; pretty special stuff if you got a planet here. but temper yourself because the more you shine the more energy you attracting, so jsut make sure you can fit all that food in yo mouth. also this is where you find fun and enjoyment outta life. stop acting like you dont like the attention HOUSE 6 - this is where you get shit done, where you find results. also how life throws some bullshit at you, because it wants you to figure it out, this is your job. your job isnt real, but the planets here are your fr job. also anything here affects your health, because once again its what life throws at you, and if life throwing something at yo body, your body gonna obsorb that shit into a wound, and now guess what your not gonna rely on your doctor to figure out an illness that could result in your death, so now your doing your doctors job too. hey but dont freak out, calm them nerves down. because the more you exacerbate the bigger the problem is in your mind, and the body still broken lol. figure it out, dont stress otherwise your truly fucked.

HOUSE 7 - your projections in the world, what you want to be but aint, but to others they think you are this. but its because your so full of shit you just chucked this energy onto the other person, and youve confused them so much now they believe this energy is you, but your just a retard that doesnt know how to communicate or relate to people properly. Also you attracted to people like this, and well they like you too, probably because you tried so hard to get their attention lmao, and everyone likes to be fawned over. HOUSE 8 - this is how you fuck people. and i mean that in every sense of the word. how you kill, how you eat the other, you do it using this house and what sits on its penis. nah but fr you gotta expect some fuck around when i talk about this house because this is legit how you take from others, and people are afraid of this energy because they are entranced. It for real feels liek your a big ass spider, wrapping up them bugs and yall just about to eat them. and when you think about it the spider wraps up their prey in their little web jizz and the bug can just smell it all over them, then they get eaten. perfect analogy dont even question me im a professional. HOUSE 9 - travelling the world to learn more and expand the mind. is what this about i guess. I mean this is meant to be the most expansive house because of its focus on travelling and discovery. anything here feels like its been around the world, and it now feels compelled to teach others what it learnt. but how hard is it to listen to a teacher. i mean most of the time people dont know how to educate each other without it being boring, so if you got planets here im telling you. no one gives a fuck unless you learn how to be interesting, i dont care what you know your patronizing me and you gotta learn what the audience wants, we know what you want, but now you have to compromise a little to help us learn.

HOUSE 10 - this is how your viewed, where people are inspired about you, and how your seen in career. so this is where you must learn mastery, otherwise youll look incredibly foolish, because you own this energy in the political sphere, you must learn to master it otherwise your looked at with very little respect. gaining respect is not as difficult or as easy as people seem to imagine. its a slow process which it usually comes from patience and perseverence. also the art of deduction. you need to learn when to put yourself foward and when to fall back. if you do too much of either your a fuckhead and people wont respect you. so if you want to be viewed highly (this is the house of how your viewed) then use discrepancy of the energies you have here. a leader knows when to strike, and when to chill out. as long as they win who gives a fuck.

HOUSE 11 -Social presence. whatever is here is how you affect the public/ people around you. whether your aware of it or not your very influential if you have something here. and whatever planet is present is how you influence others. so be more consciounse of how you impact those around you. because if your not aware youlll still get blamed for it, because you caused the butterfly effect of the chain reactions of fuckery. you can avoid all responsibility as much as you like, but the reality is, you can influnce people and you should do a better job otherwise incur the karma. HOUSE 12 - this is where you feel trapped. this is where your spiritually suffocated/ tested, whatever is here is being warped by the power of the unseen/ abilities of the mind. and if you misuse that (and most do) you'll be stuck in a cage of constant fear and bullshit. its not real whatever youve imagined. its as real as you make it. so to me if you just learn to manifest something more positive could be very helpful, especially since this is the manifestation house, if your not using it to create good manifestations well youll accidentally manifest accidents, and you'll blame everything but yourself but it literally was you. you cant blame anything else for your life because its your own.

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BRF Reading - 21st of July, 2024

This is speculation only

Cards drawn on the 21st of July, 2024

Question: How is The King's health?

Interpretation: Not good :(

Card One: The Ten of Pentacles

This is a nice card to start of a reading. The 10 of Pentacles is about family and legacy, what you leave to future generations. it's about stability, traditions, what you inherit, privilege, affluence, and it is one of the cards that can be used for the BRF.

The energy of this card is of thinking things over and making some small decisions. The King if thinking of his family, his family's history, what his legacy will be, and how to preserve that history and legacy for future generations. He may be updating his will and considering what he has to leave and who he wants to pass it to (bearing in mind that AFAIK everything will go to the next monarch to avoid death duties and then it will be gifted to the intended recipients). There is an emphasis on legacy in the energy of this card - The King is having a good look at his legacy so far and a good think about what he wants as his legacy and how he can achieve that. It is an energy of planning for the future, when he will no longer be around, and also what will be said about him in history books.

The Ten of Pentacles can be a card of family, and here it indicates that The King has (most of) his family around him and supporting him, which is nice to see.

Card Two: The Page of Pentacles

This is my card for the UK. It has a similar energy to the card before it - that of planning and preparing. The King is thinking of the UK, and what he wants to do for it as King, and he is taking a few small, careful steps to make that happen.

Both this card and the one before it are Pentacles, and Pentacles is the slowest suit of the Tarot. There will be lots of thinking and discussing with others and mulling it over before The King takes any action in these areas, and when he does take action it will be slow, careful, and considered.

This is the card of the student, so The King could be studying something very carefully before he makes a decision about it. He wants to learn from what he sees as past mistakes and not repeat them.

Pages are messengers, upright is good news, and Pentacles is the suit of money/titles/status/material things, so he may be thinking over something in that area and slowly composing a message about it. If so, the message will be good news, not bad news.

Pages are children, so this could be about the hole in the next generation of working royals caused by the defection of his son.

Card Three: Death in Reverse

So far, the energy of this reading has been nice - settled, calm, preparing for the future in a slow and diligent way. This card is where that stops. The Death card has the strongest energy of all the cards of the reading and its energy is not good at all. It's sitting there on the end and the energy is tolling through the reading like a bell of doom.

Death is the card of Scorpio. Here it represents The King, who is a sun sign Scorpio. In the reverse, in answer to a question about his health, it is not a good sign. The King's health is in shadow, reversed, weakened. The best interpretation is that things are at a standstill - there is no change. The worst interpretation is that things are slowly going downhill. In either case, there is no indication that The King will be able to get back to his old level of health.

Death is a card of change and transformation. In the reverse, there is no change. It is a card of stagnation, repeated negative patterns, and decay.

The energy of this card is of someone who is not getting better. Whatever state of health The King is in now, that is it. There is no change, no progression towards more healing. This is as good as it is going to get for The King, unless something happens to move the healing forward. In the absence of that push, the energy is of a state of inertia that will change to a decline of health. If The King knows this, then this explains why he is doing so many tours and events - he knows his time is more limited than what he thought and he wants to get everything done that he can within that shortened time frame.

Underlying Energy: The Eight of Cups in Reverse

The Eight of Cups is a card of grief, mourning, and moving on, walking away from something. In the reverse, you can't walk away - you are stuck. In the reverse, it indicates stagnation, accepting less than 100%, and staying in a bad situation.

The energy of this card is of resignation. The King is stuck with his current state of health. If it doesn't improve then there is nothing he can do about it. Instead, he is accepting that he is at less than 100% health and making the most of what he can do within that situation.

The suit of this card is Cups, which is about emotions, so I think The King is quite emotional about his state of health and how it has changed his plans for the future.

The card shows Psyche descending into the underworld, leaving her worldly goods behind her. This is, of course, a metaphor for death. The good news is that with the card in reverse, this is not happening just yet (unless something very unexpected happens). Cards in the reverse can sometimes indicate a delay before the event occurs, and that is the energy I am getting from this image. The descent to the underworld will happen, it is closer than The King would like it to be, but - not yet. It is not yet the time for this to happen.

Suits: Major arcana for Scorpio, a water sign, Cups = water = emotions, and Pentacles = earth = material things. Emotions and material things. Timing wise, Pentacles is the slowest suite of the Tarot and represents years, Cups are the next slowest and represents months.

Conclusion:

The King is as well now as he will ever be. He is not at death's door, but neither is he in the pink of health He is concerned about his legacy, how he will be seen by the history books, what he is passing on to his descendants, and what he wants to do for the UK. He may be quite emotional about the state of his health and what it means for his plans for his reign.

The King is in a state of health where nothing is changing, for good or bad. He can use this time to do the things he wants to do, before his health becomes worse. His health will decline, but that decline is not here quite yet. He has this pocket of time (which could be months or years) to do the things he wants to do and to prepare for the future.