#kinda venting i guess

[psychologicalwarclaire]

Ever think about how Mikey was forced to grow up too fast? Ever think about him slowly abandoning his hobbies and everything that makes him happy because he has a war against the Krang to fight? Ever think about how Mikey had to take on the persona of a wise old mystical mentor because giving the resistance hope was more important than his own personality? Ever think about how in the bad timeline he didn't have the supplies to do things that made him happy like art or cooking?

Ever think about how Mikey's childhood ended in an instant? Ever think about how he needed to grow up so that he and his family could survive?

Because I do.

[arkiwii]

I really feel bad for my lack of activity on Tumblr, like, I used to be so comfortable and I built my image on the fact that I was always trying to reblog art and being positive about it, but now I just stopped doing that. and just stopped to look into the AK tag at all

Managing three social medias, with my personal life, all the while I have so little energy, has been really overwhelming - and a lot of stuff that happened has made me lose confidence in myself and about what I like, I feel unwelcome and like it's not the appropriate place for what I enjoy anymore

It's hard to explain, but very complicated feelings

I'm nostalgic of the good times, but it's hard to go back, I'm sorry

[queen-of-dogs-01]

Cable finally gave out in the middle of drawing Aphrodite after holding for 3 and a half years

THE GODS HAVE CURSED ME

Warning: nakey (duh) Aphrodite under cut

So this is all I have now

I'm gonna scream

[sillyunknownkitkat]

Hi everyone! I'm sorry for the requests that are waiting, but I'm not feeling so good right now :(

No worries, tho. It'll pass, and when it does, I'll post the w.i.p.'s

Hope you have a good day/night and be safe, everyone ❤️

[arvencacklethorn]

I've had debilitating symptoms for what appears to be (trying to test for/prove it has been it's own kind of hell) me/cfs for at least.. oh gawd.. the past decade, maybe even since I was ill one particular time as a child. I'm 25 now.. no proper diagnosis, and it's tricky enough to even have a doctor consider the possibility because I'm "so young."

Last January I got covid.. all my previous fatigue symptoms got (and stayed) worse, plus some new *features* like extra breathing difficulties at all times, especially if I laugh/talk a decent bit, or have otherwise existed that day. I hadn't realized I had covid til the respiratory issues it caused hit me like a truck delivering bricks- I had figured it was just a really bad fatigue flareup til then, with the awful body aches, fever, chills, muscle weakness so bad that I couldn't lift my blankets or move my head without pain and pressure like my head could explode. I thought I'd just REALLY overdone it by a small family visit in cold weather... bcs that's kinda how my body does things if I "overdo," like going for a long walk, or staying awake too long, being out in the cold at all, standing up/still too long, or exercising more than the tiniest bit. I just expect a day-week of misery after doing a complete action of any strenuous degree.

Doc's solution to my, and I cannot emphasize this enough, *severely debilitating* post exertional symptoms? "Graded exercise therapy," and I tried to do that for a time, until yet again my symptoms got permanently a bit worse.

I'd given up on clear diagnosis for the most part, docs wanted to test for everything else under the sun first, the expense and pain that all brought.. all for something I've been so often told there's no treatment for. It just doesn't seem worth it- so I've just been trying my best to manage and keep careful of certain limits.

If there are *finally* ways to definitively and effectively detect illnesses like me/cfs and long covid, and *finally* some kind of treatment to actually improve symptoms.. maybe it'll be worth it to try that path again.

Full Transcript at the link; 3-minute listen.

Quote:

By taking biopsies from long COVID patients before and after exercising, scientists in the Netherlands constructed a startling picture of widespread abnormalities in muscle tissue that may explain this severe reaction to physical activity.

Among the most striking findings were clear signs that the cellular power plants, the mitochondria, are compromised and the tissue starved for energy.

"We saw this immediately and it's very profound," says Braeden Charlton, one of the study's authors at Vrije University in Amsterdam.

The tissue samples from long COVID patients also revealed severe muscle damage, a disturbed immune response, and a buildup of microclots.

"This is a very real disease," says Charlton. "We see this at basically every parameter that we measure."

[miikpal]

for consumption

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Sometimes a day makes you want a Starscream to bite and squeeze

[babyblankyerror]

Alexithymia

[feather-bone]

[ID: a digital illustration of a deer blowing swirly smoke-like breath upward, a wolf chewing a bone to its right, and a crow flying above. The background is swirly dark blue and grey. End]

COLD BREATH

[angelshizuka]

♪ And when you're gone I will be okay. I will be okay, though, I'll never be the same. ♪

HELLUVA BOSS 2.12 - Sinsmas

[starscreamingg]

Okay I'm so sleep deprived so pardon whatever this is but something that's got me FUCKED up about ai generated pictures songs writing is that it just fucking kills the ability to analyse for me because there's no fucking INTENTION behind it. Like why was this decision made why were these colours used what does that say about the work NOTHING because a bunch of programming took work that DID have intent and theme and purposeful choices and turned it into SLOP. Like I COULD analyse this but it doesn't MEAN anything it's EMPTY I want to EXPLODEEE

[myfacereallyaches]

And what about you, Reigen?

[offkilterkeys]

Being a Jane liker is so hard cause you go to her tag and it’s just a bunch of people lamenting how overhated she is and then continuing to ignore her, and being a Jake liker is so hard cause you go to his tag and it’s just tons of people making the most demeaning comments about him cause his character committed the crime of being annoying (unforgivable.)

[trashiiplant]

bro is going through it

[getvalentined]

Disappointed that, in spite of using a more accurate translation in Chapter 2 of Crisis Core, EC has switched over to the original English localization for Chapter 3—in spite of having Japanese audio, meaning you can literally hear that the lines exchanged between Genesis and Sephiroth are NOT WHAT THE SUBTITLES SAY if you have THE MOST BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF JAPANESE.

「いい だろう」 (ii darou) is not "come and try." It has never been "come and try." In context, it's literally "that's good" or "that would be nice."

Let me clarify this, once more: in Japanese, Genesis says "I'll be a hero too," and Sephiroth responds "That would be nice."

This fucked up no-homo English localization has utterly ruined Western fandom's perception of these two since the game first came out, and the continued refusal to fix it is one of the most infuriating things to deal with. It makes Genesis seem petty, bitter, self-absorbed; it makes Sephiroth seem arrogant, sanctimonious, like the kind of person who viciously belittles his closest friends.

That's not who either of them are, particularly not with each other. Genesis didn't want to surpass Sephiroth, he wanted to be his equal. And Sephiroth wanted that too! Sephiroth wanted an equal as much as Genesis wanted to be able to stand at his side! Sephiroth was as supportive as Genesis was determined, and both had too much respect for one another not to give these matches of theirs everything they had. Genesis would never accept a victory that wasn't genuine, and Sephiroth would never belittle him by offering such a thing.

They were playing. They were supporting each other. They were having fun working toward a mutual goal because they love each other.

It's been over 15 years and the update dropped during PRIDE MONTH and English localizers STILL HAVE NOT FUCKING FIXED IT.

[axel-tiredstudent]

Is this anything?