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okay so I saw someone say celiac disease isn’t a disability because ‘all you have to do is avoid gluten’ and I. I’m about to lose my shit.
are you not fucking aware of how much gluten is present in everyday life? Are you not aware how mild cross-contamination can KILL people with celiac? Are you not aware how some kids are raised EATING GLUTEN, IRREVERSIBLY destroying their immune system and the lining of their stomach because their parents didn’t know or didn’t bother to find out what was wrong?
You can help mitigate the effects of some disabilities by doing certain things, but that doesn’t make them NOT disabilities.
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder. It is not the same as a mild intolerance. It can and will destroy your stomach and intestines.
Jesus fucking Christ.
#it was a comment under a post where someone was like ‘hey having a gluten intolerance doesn’t make you c-punk’#which. first of all celiac is not just an intolerance. second of all being disabled does not equal cpunk#that is a HUGE extrapolation#and third of all the commenter said they had celiac which I don’t doubt. but celiac involves a range of symptoms and sensitivities to gluten#worrying about cross-contamination for those of us who are really sensitive#is a VERY involved process#and gluten-free things are often so much more expensive#and EXTREMELY inaccessible#speak for your fucking self#celiac disease#disability#I would not mind so much if anyone actually took celiac seriously#but NOBODY in my actual in person life has#I had a girl at school SCREAM at me and call me stuff because I asked if we couldn’t do a pizza party and instead plan something accessible#i cannot attend any type of event based around meals because I need that time to eat what I make#I cannot attend anything where ‘food will be provided’ and if I do I have to plan my meals so I can make my own and bring it#I am often left hungry to the point of lightheadedness and nearly passing out because people plan involved things over a meal assuming we#all can get fast food after#ableism
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i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said "we're not catholic here". now every time i'm doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.
#edit: i know i did not invent the phrase no nobility in suffering#holy fuck this hit 50k are we all. doing okay.#please stop telling me about sweet latkes i knOW about them#this was a terrible horrible accident involving a sugar shaker with a very large opening that i mistook as being a salt shaker#there was a quarter cup of white granulated sugar on my hashbrown before i could even process my mistake
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looking at videos and pics of peoples pretty sketchbooks always makes me feel weird. so here is what my Perfectly Ordinary sketchbook looks like, that i maybe draw in once every 10 days (if that!) :3
#mine#this is like spot the drawing plan#those little box sketches r often th literal only sketch i do for my cat drawings. im like okay got it#i am good at visualising things with my large and powerful mind#i did a sketch today that looks very. overly ambitious but maybe i will be able to draw it we will. see#i orderd new prints the other day!! yippee!!!#hopefully will b in shop by next friday :3#for my like people illustrations there is a lot more work involved sdkjbsdk#i was thinking abt . documenting my process for this one. maybe i should !
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why is mattel so allergic to giving their dolls curly natural hair
#like. i know irl black women can do whatever they want with their hair#black hair is super versatile and that's legitimately amazing#and i know giving hundreds of thousands of dolls tiny little braids would be very expensive to manufacture#even if the process is totally automated#but. would it kill them to give their dolls tighter curls??#or not just slap a few braids on top of straight hair and go 'eh good enough'#like. there are SO many natural hairstyles they could do that don't involve microbraiding doll hair#half up half down. fauxhawks. bantu knots. pineapple updos. tree braids. afros. afro puffs. thick twists. french braids#goddess braids. undercut fades. pixie cuts. literally just ponytails#like! there are so many options! and it feels like they keep hitting the mark#monster high
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let's kill hilbert is a great hera and minkowski episode in how well it displays some of the best and worst of their dynamic (and highlights the source of their ongoing miscommunication.)
"i'm doing the best i can here, so just, please, try to sound a little less patronizing?" / "i'm not being patronizing, i'm being critical." sums up the disconnect: that what minkowski sees as professional criticism and an attempt to combat future problems, hera takes as a personal attack. ultimately, minkowski's suggestions to lighten her burden are well-meaning and closer to what hera needs than any faith in her ability to do her job (there are things she can't do, and things she shouldn't have to), but she's been made to believe her worth as a person - and her continued survival - hangs in the balance. and so, the scene that leads to that one, where minkowski takes the navigation controls from hera: "no, it's fine! i can -" / "i don't care what you can, give me the controls right now." stands out for the wording used, the different things that are meant by it, and what it reinforces for hera: i can't do this. i'm not good enough.
it makes sense that the resolution, where minkowski tells hera, "you are the smartest person i've ever met, hera; focus that intelligence [...]" is one of the moments she thinks of at the end of memoria. because it's a turning point for their relationship, because it's a show of trust ("i trust you" coming very shortly after "i need to know that i can trust you."), because it's a show of respect and the only moment in the entire show where someone refers to hera by rank, but also...
i think there's something to be said for how minkowski's voice at the end of memoria is a direct expression of belief in hera's abilities, while eiffel's "use the force, luke" shows that what hera values about eiffel is... well, eiffel, but i think it's also true that both of these things show something about communication. they show hera's understanding of eiffel and minkowski's unique communication styles, what they say and what they mean by it, and that shows what they mean to her.
"you are the smartest person i know, hera" (a slight alteration from the original line that has a ton of implications re: context and memory) isn't really about her intelligence, or even her ability. contextually, it's a direct counterstatement to "i don't care what you can" and, by association, and through their connection - minkowski's voice becomes, quite literally, like eiffel's, another voice in her head counteracting what pryce has made hera believe about herself.
#wolf 359#w359#hera wolf 359#renee minkowski#i think this is a turning point in the sense of... i don't think it was necessarily an epiphany at the time.#because they definitely have. other conflicts. for similar stuff#but it is... i think a crucial step towards understanding each other. it's a process. and that process involves#hera holding onto a grudge about 'calm collected and levelheaded' so she can throw it back at minkowski a few episodes later#she's soo petty. anyway.#i really do think minkowski is the second most important person to hera and i think memoria highlights that very clearly.#their relationship does not get enough focus.
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I think that comparisons between access to prescribed stimulants and medications like insulin are categorically inappropriate, and I will personally hand to anyone a card to mock people making that comparison. However, today I called Walgreens to ask whether they'd gotten Adderall in (because I called last Wednesday and they were out of stock, and I know from having experienced this multiple times over multiple months that they get new shipments on Wednesdays) and the woman on the phone told me they were out of the generic (which my prescriber only began prescribing because the name brand was out of stock) and that the name brand would be $326 unconvered, but that my insurance would cover a 5 mg dose, which, due to the laws around schedule 1 substances, means I would have to call my prescriber to have them resend the Rx to the phamracy, but this time for 3x daily 5 mg capsules. And I just said thank you and hung up but inside I was like ma'am, I know it isn't your fault but this is actually exactly what one would cook up if the intention was to torture a person via the process of accessing their stimulant prescription.
#and the first step of getting the rx sent in a new form would be typing in the name of my current prescriber#which i literally do not know offhand because i have been being shuffled between various PAs or whatever for over a year since my og dr left#which has been fully fine because the Adderall man does not need to know my business and the only times theyve poked at my personal life ive#been like excuse me...i am here for stimulant and we do not need to discuss that but thank you very much#so it is fine except when i need the providers name to start a like 4 step process#which also involves me calling walgreens specifically to fill the rz#bc they cannot fill the rx without the patient calling directly first for schedule 1 substances#as in yes the prescriber can send the rx and they can have it in stock and they will not fill it until the patient calls to fill it
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Finally finished The Week Before today and I’m actively vibrating, like I honestly might post an entire essay about it sometime if I get to it because I already have two pages worth of notes and so many thoughts, there’s just so much to talk about
It’s just?? So good?? Like it has so much heart and soul put into it?? You can really tell the writers tried to flesh Phone Guy out, he’s such a fun point of view character (to be fair, I was already attached to him, but I bet if I knew nothing about him I’d feel very similarly about it). Coppelia is also just a really good addition, their interactions are so sweet and also surprisingly funny at times (no spoilers but there’s a specific high-tension scene at the very end of one of the routes in which the dialogue between them actually made me laugh out loud). It’s honestly just also funny in general, it’s got that FNAF absurdity humor down so perfectly, but also the more dramatic and/or sad scenes are also executed so well?? And and and
I’m just
#fnaf#fnaf the week before#phone guy#i might post a series of analysis/breakdown posts in the future because i simply have so much to talk about#or i’ll just rant about it to my friends#whatever i feel like doing there will be unwitting victims involved in the process#i went on a roadtrip the day i found the pdf and when i tell you that if we didn’t arrive at our destination i would’ve kept talking#for well over two hours#i’m not joking#and i very easily could’ve kept going#i’m just honestly really really happy#like years without content for this character i love and then the canon content drops and it’s#good??#really good???#i am extremely unwell
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Book of the Week: Transmigrating Into The Heartthrob's Cannon Fodder Childhood Friend
Author: This Concubine Is In Shanyang (妾在山阳)
Genre: transmigration, high school setting, danmei
Rating: T (despite Xie Sui’s best attempts 😔)
My Synopsis: If you’ve ever wondered how someone can play both bully and victim, look no further than Song Yu, our transmigrating main character who’s first instinct when faced with conflict is ✨violence✨ while his second is calling the cops, as he fights against his system to befriend and protect the reborn blackbelly protagonist-turned-love interest, Xie Sui, from a slew of dickwad suitors. Watch as Song Yu threatens to take on the whole damn world if he has to in order to keep Xie Sui single while Xie Sui just wonders whether he’ll even get a turn to enact his revenge on his foes without interception, thank you very much.
My Actual Review: The moment Song Yu walked into a room and immediately tried to brain an antagonist with a bottle of alcohol without so much as a “by your leave,” I was hooked. I think this is the first cnovel I’ve read where the MC’s first solution to a problem is just his hands 😭 Song Yu’s name can be found in the dictionary as an example of the word “tyrant.” But don’t worry! He’s only a harbinger of pain towards those who mess with the innocent and his loved ones (plus Xie Sui totally thinks it’s hot that this short king fights his battles for him). And for all of his violence, Song Yu’s goodness and persistence draws in both reader and LI, translating into an especially soft romance to counteract Xie Sui’s tragic romantic history. The drama and comedy tastefully interwoven into the high school setting makes for a lovely and moderately gripping read without becoming too stressful.
While the translation is currently incomplete, I finished it with an mtl and it was fine. However, it is still currently being translated and is almost finished, so if you want to wait for completion, that’s fine too.
Translations: currently incomplete
Dummy Novels: unlocked, last updated Sept. 2023:
Foxaholic: locked (though password available), still currently updating:
https://www.foxaholic.com/novel/transmigrating-into-the-heartthrobs-cannon-fodder-childhood-friend/
#human promotes#thcfcf#ok so to view the foxaholic chapters#you either need a novelupdates login or a foxaholic login#clicking directly on the novelupdates chapter links will lead you to the foxaholic password page#for the individual chapters#clicking directly onto the ‘next’ button on foxaholic won’t do that#unless you have a login there#it’s kind of a very involved process#which is why i just read the dummy novels translation#even though it’s further behind and stalled#but you choose
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man your work is so cool- how'd you learn to draw so many different species? do you have a background in biology or anything like that?
Thanks. I probably have as much of a background in biology as anyone without an actual biology related degree or line of work can claim (lifelong obsession + volunteering + some classes + several biology residencies + tons of time in the outdoors) but not really
It's mostly the autism like I spend a lot of my time learning about a massive spectrum of Nature Related Topics and mostly read science nonfiction so I have a pretty solid knowledge foundation on which to realistically construct new things (same goes for ancient/pre-modern era history, same sort of shit). I've also been drawing animals all my life and have a probably? above average learned sense of how the anatomy of most groups work and how certain features work and etc (I've got a lot of weak points though like bird wings are difficult. Like I get how they're laid out but translating that accurately into how they look folded is kinda beyond me without referencing).
I do use references, usually not for poses (unless they're particularly difficult) but like to realistically translate a concept. If I have 'large semiaquatic rodent with a vertically flattened tail that spends a lot of time on land, feeds as a browser, chews and carries sticks to build a lodge, digs canals between waterways' as a concept, I'm referencing a variety of semiaquatic rodents in ways that make sense (it's going to be more cursorial than a beaver but probably not as much of a capybara, so it will still be plantigrade, it needs to have strong legs for digging, its tail should be fairly large to be the primary propelling limb in water but not large enough to severely impede land based momentum, it feeds more like a muskrat or beaver than a capybara so it's jaw orientation should be along those lines, it should have fairly highset eyes, ears, nostrils, its semi-aquatic and not a huge animal so it should have a solid fur coat to trap heat, but its environment is fairly warm year round so its coat should reflect that, etc). It's more of a complicated process if I'm doing something that wholly does not Exist (like we have plenty of semi-aquatic rodents but we do not have flightless aquatic pterosaurs) but same concept, just referencing things that exist to construct things that don't exist in a fairly believable manner.
#Like the specific process I use involves having a very solid background in How Things Work and then researching How Would This#Specific Idea Work#Shorter answer is: Wikipedia addiction#I've also already changed my mind on how the anara tail should have looked like its lower half should be connected lower on the abdomen#A little more crocodilian. This wouldn't impede motion much more but would make the tail stronger#Maybe even shorter but stiffer
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Doctor X (1932)
"If you ask me, I think Dr. Xavier is using very unethical methods."
"Necessity has no ethics, sir."
#doctor x#1932#american cinema#pre code film#horror film#michael curtiz#robert tasker#earl baldwin#howard warren comstock#allen c. miller#lionel atwill#fay wray#lee tracy#preston foster#john wray#harry beresford#arthur edmund carewe#leila bennett#robert warwick#george rosener#willard robertson#solid good time pre code horror (and another off the Rocky Horror list; actually this could be the last i had to see?) (also contrary to#the lyrics of Science Fiction/Double Feature‚ at no point does the titular Dr build 'a creature') but yeah anywa#anyway*‚ this was one of a very few films made with a pioneering two tone technicolor process that was quickly abandoned in the face of#public apathy; once considered a lost film‚ that version was found in the 80s and is now happily available in a beautiful restoration and i#gotta say it looks absolutely phenomenal‚ full of deep‚ ominous greens and purples. the plot is some hokum about a string of murders#possibly involving the good Dr (an as always impeccable Atwill‚ at the beginning of his all too brief run as a star) and his rogues gallery#of weirdy scientific associates. it's par for the course for early horror cinema‚ complete with mildly exasperating comic foil hero (but by#far not the worst example of the type) and some rather risqué dialogue that absolutely wouldn't have got past the code a few years on#could have done with more focus on the horror and less on the funny business but so it goes and at least the laboratory stuff looks amazing
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the idea that jc is the main character of mdzs is so nonsensical its almost laughable to me honestly. he couldve been /a/ main character if mxtx had focused the narration around both wwx and him. it wouldve changed the story to be the tale of two brothers instead of being primarily a love story but all the components of the existing story couldve remained intact as one half of a two sided story. however even then he wouldve been one of two main characters. ive thought quite a bit about it over the years since i read mdzs and i cannot think of any way to tell the events of the story with jc as Thee Main Character™. the main plot is driven by solving a mystery that jc had a passing knowledge of, at best, so even if mxtx had focused the pov entirely around jc the way she did wwx, it would be debatable if he was actually the main protagonist or if he functioned as an outsider pov to the main events. i mean that wouldve been an incredibly interesting choice and i wouldve had sooooo many Thoughts about how he’s barely the protagonist in his own story, but thats not the choice mxtx made
#im not a jc hater hes one of my favorite side characters but he is a side character and youre fooling yourself if you believe hes the mc#the main plot is solving nmj’s murder‚ the process of investigating it is what frames the flashbacks to wwx’s first life#yeah one could say ‘if jc was the mc nmj’s murder wouldntve been as important’ but that would fundamentally change the story#‘if jc was the mc the story would very different’ proves the jc isnt the main character#jc is undeniably a very important character who heavily influences the plot but he is not the main character#i want to study him like a bug but he is not involved in the main framing device and only a main player in one of the main themes (debts)#he is marginally involved with the themes about reputation and morality but as an outsider judging WWX’S reputation and morality#hes only mentioned as much as he is in the narration bc wwx loves him so much/feels so indebted to him#he was fooled by wwx’s facade too. he believed wwx had gone bad‚ he wouldve been extremely ineffective at pealing back the layers of it#wwx is so painfully the main character its kinda ridiculous#retelling mdzs from jc’s perspective is a excellent framing for a fic or a spinoff story but thats BECAUSE he is a side character#mdzs#mdzs thoughts#mine#the brightside to having a weird character tag for mine means i can tag this for him without sticking this in the main tag#jcwy#i am truly sorry if this ends up in his tag anyway i intentionally never spelled out his name to help prevent it
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look man i don't go here
#saw the splatfest results today#this is why I don't take part in them#well. that and I don't own the game#even if I did I'm too broke to afford switch online#but like. good lord#too much chaos I don't wanna get involved in#I'm just gonna hang out in my silly little squid apartment#eating my silly little processed cheese#thank you very much#splatoon#splatoon 3#splatfest#oc#splatoon oc#self insert#splatoon art#splatoon self insert#inksona#inklingsona#my art
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garashir bad ending
(This was inspired by asking myself what I thought Julian would not forgive)
"I fail to see what you find so upsetting."
"Do you really?"
"You knew who I was when you married me."
"You're right. I agreed to marry a paranoid ex-spy with no respect for his husband's privacy or boundaries. My patients didn't."
"I didn't harm your patients."
"You cannot possibly believe that I would excuse your extremely illegal and highly unethical accessing of hospital files, tracking down my patients, and interrogating them because you have this ridiculous idea that I've been hiding an affair from you."
"It was hardly an interrogation. When I was in the Obsidian Order-"
"I want a divorce, Garak. Oh, so that's what shuts you up, is it? I mean it. You've absolutely crossed the line. You've destroyed my professional integrity and quite possibly the hospital's reputation. People need to be able to trust us in order to receive care, and you've jeopardized that. You've compromised the healing of people who know exactly what kind of interrogating you did in the Obsidian Order, and are terrified to be on the receiving end of it again. If you've convinced yourself I'm fucking someone else and lying to you about it, fine, I figured out that you were never going to trust I love you. But you don't do this. You go and- and- I don't know, call Ezri on subspace and ask for a counseling session or get drunk and read terrible poetry or blow up your damn shop again. You can self-sabotage as much as you like, and you've shown very well that I'm powerless to stop you. But you do not get to sabotage my patients."
"If I apologized..."
"Was that unfinished sentence your idea of an apology?"
"My dear, I'm sorry."
"I'm sure you are! I'm sure you'll go and wallow in self-loathing and enjoy it very much, but that can't be how this works, Garak. I shouldn't have to ask for a divorce in order for you to admit you did something wrong. If this is what our marriage is going to be now, then I... I can't, Garak. I don't know what it is that would help you, but whatever it is, I can't provide it."
#my writing#i don't really do bad endings so the secret real ending to this is a second half i may or may not ever write someday#wherein garak does in fact call up an old friend but it's not ezri it's kira#because kira knows what it's like when the world is different and the rules have changed and your family's dead#and none of the ways you used to solve problems work anymore#and also they got close hanging out in mila's basement#and garak's like hm. what if i made a grand gesture of sacrifice#and kira's like what if you learned to interact with people and got a hobby#and over a very long slow period garak has to do the difficult work of finding ways to process his trauma#that don't involve ruining people's lives#even his own
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u know what i think is interesting tho. q!Bagi suggesting that q!Bad kidnap Fred. is she mad he kidnapped an innocent worker or is she just mad he lied to her about it?
It’s fascinating that some islanders disapprove or act disapproving of q!Bad’s actions but aren’t willing to actively do anything to stop him nor get involved nor snitch. Which is fair, i mean, the only people they can snitch to are the federation and the belief that islanders come first is probably the correct one; and none of them can really stand up to him even as a group - q!Etoiles perhaps being the exception. but just. Hm.
#‘Bad is wrong to kidnap a worker but I’m still going to let him cook’ seems to be the thought process#like they won’t get their hands dirty. they know it’s a line they aren’t willing to cross#but if someone crosses it for them? they’re willing to condemn the morality of that person buuuut#apparently not quite enough to get involved#and I’m not blaming them for feeling like that it’s not unreasonable#and sometimes q!Bad even gets encouraged to do what he’s doing#by the french and by q!Cellbit most notably#it’s just. interesting.#nobody on this island is the person they were when they arrived#qsmp#qsmp badboyhalo#q!forever isn’t really in the group of islanders that feels this way but. i do get a feeling#that he only cares about saving the worker because it would be tied to saving q!Bad from himself#and thus proving the rage q!forever was experiencing pre-risus wasn’t completely unstoppable#there are very few islanders that I think actually care about Ron lmao
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5SD3RBr2it/?igsh=NmViYTZiaGZmaGUy in case you still haven't seen :D
Thank you!! I hadn’t seen the full thing this is wonderful <3 posting this so everybody else who might’ve missed it can see!
(Also leaving my personal opinions in the tags just to clarify where I stand because I’m so tired of everybody being weird about Damien specifically throughout this whole thing)
#hehe send me asks#smosh#damien haas#shourtney#smoshblr#I think that everybody blowing up at him is so…I mean#first of all unfair to him and to Shayne and Courtney who are clearly some of his closest friends#but also just. generally speaking super infantilizing and not necessarily aware that like#this is a grown man who not only has more to think about than his friends getting married#which he likely knew about way WAY before any of us did#obviously#but also he’s autistic and thus processes cues and reactions differently#and everybody is like WHA WHY DIDNT HE POST WHY ISNT HE BEING SUPPORTIVE#as if Damien isn’t generally pretty private about a lot of his personal life especially when it involves other people in the public eye#but especially since this is like#his best friend getting married to his other very close friend I feel like it would be obvious that this is something he would celebrate#privately and among the friends involved#anyway that’s my two sense please let him rest he’s like one of the busiest people in the cast and clearly loves his friends so much#**cents oops it’s late#and I don’t blame him for wanting to make this something special that he celebrates with them away from the#incredibly judgy#public eye
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i think i will make a lilaenzo + the kitchen post tonight... it will also be about a chem experiment i did...
#i am sorry for being such a freak but as a workaholic OF COURSE i am very normal about a relationship that's about BUILDING something#together. listen listen listen. lila who likes to dismantle things and put them back together lila who needs to create and destroy#lila in a loop of creation lila with numbers that are never final and are always approximate because she keeps redoing her experiments#rule 3 of titration. chemical reaction must be quantitative. aka specific enough to be measured#specific enough to allow a correct determination of concentration#but... even reactions that aren't quantitative (lila) can be involved in this process (given boundaries) once you introduce a new substance#to secure a specific outcome with boundaries (lila and enzo + computer business)#it's literally the perfect metaphor... and cooking=chem...#sorryyyy for being a freak this is everything to me#letters from stephanie*#lilaenzo aes#ferranteposting
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