#more than okay to reblog!

[fairyfawm]

i've been collecting resources and studies about myalgic encephalomyelitis for upcoming doctors appointments, and since there's a lot of misinformation about ME out there i thought i'd make a post with links and information that might be helpful for other ME patients, or just generally educational!

for anyone who doesn't know, myalgic encephalomyelitis is a debilitating multi system chronic illness. it's most characteristic symptom is post exertional malaise/symptom exacerbation (meaning symptoms getting significantly worse after exertion with prolonged recovery periods - see the diagnostic criteria linked below for more explanation). it has previously been called chronic fatigue syndrome, a name associated with claims of it being a psychosomatic condition rather than a medical one despite evidence to the contrary (here's a page with some information about the history of ME, and see the pathology section further down for evidence of ME being a physical disease). ME is also often comorbid with conditions like POTS (or other forms of orthostatic intolerance and dysautonomia), MCAS, and Small Fibre Neuropathy, and it's not uncommon for people who have long covid to develop ME. but yea! here's some links to resources i've gathered.

general resources/overviews:

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Primer For Clinical Practitioners 2014 Edition

Diagnosis and Management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis - ME Action

Initiating Care of a Patient With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

Medical considerations when treating urgently ill patients with underlying myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)

Caring for the Patient with Severe or Very Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Three Cases of Severe ME/CFS in Adults

diagnostics:

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: International Consensus Criteria <- just the criteria

Myalgic encephalomyelitis: International Consensus Criteria <- criteria with explanation of how and why it was developed

TESTING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SUSPECTED ME/CFS US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition

there are multiple ME severity scales, and exact definitions of what constitutes mild/moderate/severe/very severe vary a bit, but here is one: M.E. Disability Scale, another one is the ME/CFS Disability Rating Scale from ME Association, however the pdf on their website costs so i also have a pdf that i made with the text

pathology:

Brainstem volume changes in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID patients

Decreased oxygen extraction during cardiopulmonary exercise test in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome

Developing a blood cell-based diagnostic test for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome using peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Human Herpesvirus-6 Reactivation, Mitochondrial Fragmentation, and the Coordination of Antiviral and Metabolic Phenotypes in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Mitochondrial complex activity in permeabilised cells of chronic fatigue syndrome patients using two cell types

Muscle sodium content in patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Redox imbalance links COVID-19 and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

The use of oxygen as a possible screening biomarker for the diagnosis of chronic fatigue

Tissue specific signature of HHV-6 infection in ME/CFS

treatment (both helpful and harmful):

ME/CFS TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition

Low-dose naltrexone in the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/ CFS)

Potential Therapeutic Benefit of Low Dose Naltrexone in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Role of Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 3 Ion Channels in Pathophysiology and Treatment

Back to the Future? Immunoglobulin Therapy for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Evidence Against Exercise for people with PEM/PESE in Long COVID and ME/CFS

PACE trial claims for recovery in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome – true or false? It’s time for an independent review of the methodology and results

Treatment harms to patients with ME/CFS

[haletostilinski]

Best Teen Wolf Ship: The Final, Round 7

And then there were two! This might just be the toughest battle yet! So enjoy the rest of the final round, and we'll see who lands on top as the best teen wolf ship! You'll have one week like usual to fight for who you want to win. Good luck!

[zwodderdoesart]

He deserves more love

Silver!Sans belongs to @xnzlian

also doodle under cut since it felt wrong to just post this

[luce-and-friends-fanblog]

heyy hello everyone this is a prayer request for someone who had just followed this account, to which i promptly blocked and reported.

this user’s account was full of horrible and hateful posts and i am asking you all to pray for this persons soul. thank you 🧡

[wickjump]

im gonna start posting fanfic recs btw whenever i find good ones. both here and my (awfully barren) 18+ account. because there are so many good fics out there with so few hits and fewer kudos and sometimes no comments period and it SUCKS because i REALLY LIKE THEM A LOT.. and i hope that by linking them here and yelling at everyone to COMMENT DAMMIT they might actually do it

seriously though any comment means a lot. most people who read a fic don’t even give a kudos. even if the fic wasn’t top tier, if you didn’t dislike it, hand over some kudos!! and if you liked it, comment!!!! even if the comment is one singular heart emoji it will be appreciated. if the comment just says “great fic!” the author will be happy. your comment doesn’t have to be this long winded gushing or analysis.

so many authors quit writing or lose motivation because the comments are few and far in between or just sometimes nonexistent. trust me when i say authors don’t care about how long or cool or smart sounding your comment is i promise!!!

i hope that mmmaybe recommending fics and telling people to comment might help fics i really like get more support maybe. and i, points at you reading this, hope that you will listen!!!at least a little….at least sum kudos….

[disastersteps]

neets had wore charge briefs, its the hot mad good doctor merch this time around!!!!! 😤😤

anyway that loser is totally working!!! not posing!!! or anything!!!!!!

anyway i gave into @kidhellion's trend ft everyone's sidesteps that i had seen so far...... and since neets route is such. a poly mess. why not!

[swordsonnet]

lately, i've seen more people in the online autistic community acknowledging the struggles of people with higher support needs, which is of course an important development. but for some, that seems to come with the implicit assumption that low needs autistics "have it easy" or experience no stigma at all, which is just wrong??? people with low support needs are still disabled by their autism and still face discrimination because of it. sure, they are impaired to a lesser degree than those with higher support needs, but that doesn't mean you can just erase their struggles, y'know?

[ao3polls]

When someone posts a bunch of drabbles or ficlets (of different prompts or just not connected to each other), would you rather they post it in one work where each chapter is a different drabble/ficlet or would you rather they make a series so each drabble/ficlet is a different work inside said series?

Options to vote:

One work, each chapter a different drabble/ficlet

Series, each work in the series is a different drabble/ficlet

I don't mind either as long as the tags are correct

Other?

[To the mod handling this blog: I hope this is ok, it's my first time sending a question for a poll. Feel free to change it if you feel like it's not ok]

[rock-a-noodle]

Much love to autistics who:

* Constantly say dumb/unintentionally impolite shit and are constantly corrected by the "straight man" of the group (not out of malice but out of an honest mistake). Especially if you're femme presenting/AFAB/a girl as guys/masc people are stereotyped as being such.

* Have always had that one person who's praised and loved that you're jealous of but can't Legally Hate and they treat you like you're stupid and no one does shit about it.

* Are struggling to find and keep friends who are closer to their level while constantly having to be a caretaker to their friends with more baggage.

* Who've always been in friend groups where one or more of the other members treat them like shit and not enough is done.

* Who are more reluctant to socialize among neurotypicals in fear of rejection.

* Who are so sick of seeing double standards with them vs. their peers, be they neurotypicals or divergent.

* Who have a history of being pulled into unhealthy/toxic/ relationships and being taken advantage of despite feeling they've learned from that.

* Who are sick of lower support disableds crapping on others with high support needs/the R-slur/anti-Special Olympics jokes.

* Who struggle to adjust their tone/come off ruder than intended/have their intents or purpose of saying things misinterpreted

* Slipped through the cracks diagnosis/service wise due to being an older autistic, financial status or other.

* Who felt like they weren't checked in on enough as a child.

YOU ARE ENOUGH.

[yardsards]

people love an "i'll take care of you" "it's rotten work" "not to me, not if it's you" character dynamic until the character who needs to be taken care of is disabled. then it's supposedly fucked up and toxic for a person to have to take care of someone else.

[stranger-theory]

LOOKKKK... I know it's a stretch but my mom and I were going over Mike's weird sideways pocket and she found stuff on the rune Dagaz so I thought I'd share !! (we're still huge fans of pocketgate, but who's to say it can't have double meaning!)

"And if you are following your TRUE path, you will notice that everything falls into place on its own". Hm... Just thinking about his relationship with El being in shambles.

So if things "landing on your doorstep" ISN'T the way to go (milevens relationship)... and actually putting in the work IS (bylers relationship).... Idk what to tell you.

I mean.. come on.

"Light of knowledge" and Will also being known as "Will the Wise" omfg- THE IMAGERY IS ENOUGH ARE YOU KIDDING ME

These last ones are just simple explanations for what the rune represents and I think it fits Mike well enough. He is absolutely on the verge of realization AND change ("change" would be being with Will and "realization" possibly being about the painting............).

I hope you found this entertaining !! I thought it was fun to research.

[bucket-puns]

Old limbus women but one of them is my OC LMAOOOO

[vellichorom]

let's talk for a moment. if you're so hellbent on having an AI chatbot, then for the love of god please think about the characters you're using & what the creators intentions with them are / how they want them to be used.

i don't think anybody's going to bat an eye if you make a mickey mouse or winnie the pooh chatbot, for instance. those characters are practically public domain by this point, EVERYBODY knows who they are, they're the furthest from their original creators by this point, such & such, that's one thing.

but you do not apply that free logic to ANY character ever. you do not go to some little tumblr blog with their niche character design / interpretation, or even their OC, & decide- without the creator's permission, that you can then use their creation to feed into an AI chatbot for your entertainment.

that's how we end up with, in so many words, situations like Welcome Home, where one creator's passion project gets ripped from their hands & made into ANYTHING the fans want. it gets fandomized before it even becomes more of a public creation, or even fully fleshed out.

that's sickening to me. & you're doing this with AI, no less. to smaller creators with smaller creations they'd much rather keep close to home.

don't do that. get EXPLICIT permission if you feel you NEED something like that.

better yet, if a creator welcomes questions or interaction with their character(s), ENGAGE IN THAT! see about askblogs / rp blogs, send asks, engage with a creator puppeting their creations FOR you.

& if they don't welcome that? if they're not the kind to do that? maybe they haven't gotten around to interacting with you yet?

oh well. that's life. move on.

if you care any about your favorite creators & what they make, you'll respect the boundaries they put out. & i realize there's some that DON'T care, & will do these things out of spite or disregarding a creator's words.

but for those who mean well & just want some harmless fun? please just think about what you're doing. consider my words & others's words, & prioritize CONSENT.

thank you.

[evilfloralfoolery]

I don't know if this will help any of my fellow writers, but a good friend of mine put some things into perspective for me today, so I wanted to share.

I often wonder why some things of mine get a decent amount of engagement while others do not. Is it the content? Is it the length? Is it not enough snzfuckery? Blah, blah, blah.

My friend writes for a well-known organization in our town and told me that she experiences the same thing with her articles. She says that her most popular article is actually quite bad (lol) and she's not even sure why people love it so much. So, she started running statistics on all of her stuff, literally studied trends, markets, etc. She found that it has absolutely nothing to do with her content at all. It's all timing. Every bit of it. Did the right people see it at the right time? Was there a good amount of traffic on the website at that time?

So, if you feel like your stuff isn't being seen or isn't being commented on enough, sometimes? It's probably the timing more than anything else. Did people reblog it at the time when others will see it? Did you post it when people were actually there to read it?

Just something to think about before you go all "I MUST SUCK!" on yourself. <3

[thunderstomm]

Want to do a mini Q & A regarding HWLR future ! I have a lot of ‘lore’ and general ideas for each character, as well as dynamics, and world building, but I have not shared them yet ! If you like my AU, please send a question (or multiple)! I will try my best to respond, as well as give a better dive into aspects of the AU I may have not shared just yet. I’ll also try to include some artwork alongside such! Questions can be sent via ask, comments in this post, or reblogs!

bonus doodle!

[wylldebee]

To those who choose third party or abstained to "teach the democrats a lesson":

I hope the moral hill you chose to die on was fucking worth it.