#permanent disability

[wordingg]

Chapters: 15/15 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Thorin's Company, Gandalf | Mithrandir, Thranduil (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Aftermath of Violence, Major Character Injury, Blindness, Hurt/Comfort, Serious Injuries, Fantasy World Hospitalization, I cannot stress enough that despite magical healing elves this is a story about grievous harm, But also, Fluff, Romance, Friendship, Magic, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies Summary:

After his heroic sacrifice on behalf of the dwarves of Erebor, Bilbo will be well cared for. Naturally, he hates the idea. Crossing half the world, riding barrels, and fighting spiders was supposed to change things. No one should need to carry him anymore. Thorin understands such pride better than most, but he will stop at nothing to have the hobbit safe in his arms.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[wdtom]

Updated MAF Scheme for Retirees and their Dependents

The bank has recently modified the Medical Assistance Fund (MAF) Scheme for retirees. These changes are aimed at providing better support and clarity for the dependents of MAF members, particularly those with permanent disabilities. Here are the key points from MAFS – Review of Para 3, 13.1 (d) . Bank has also updated Master Circular on Medical Assistance Fund Scheme (MAFS) on 21st October 2024…

[bunnieswithknives]

AU based off Nature except I kept thinking about it too hard. Dales not a good dad, but its such an easy problem for him to throw money at, and what do you do when a part is damaged? Well, you replace it.

Basically an AU where Dev gets to experience medical trauma and realizes much sooner how much his dad doesn't love him

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“WAR VETERANS AIR GRIEVANCES AT OTTAWA PROBE,” Montreal Gazette. January 12, 1933. Page 10. ---- Dissatisfaction With Working cf Pension Act General Throughout Canada ---- LEGION HEADS TESTIFY ---- Witnesses Not Agreed as to Proposals, But All Offer Suggested Remedies ---- (By The Canadian Press.) Ottawa, January 11. An impressive array of veterans, each well equipped with experience in the intricate solution of pensioners' problems, appeared before the joint committee investigating the administration of the Pension Act today end told that body what they considered to be wrong with the way the act was operating. Representatives of the Canadian Legion from as far east as Prince Edward Island and as far west as Winnipeg laid before the committee the difficulties which they, as spokesmen for the ex-service men, were encountering in their efforts to have the Pension Act apply to the returned soldiers. They told the committee of the dissatisfaction throughout Canada with the operation of this statute, and suggested remedies for the elimination of that dissatisfaction. 

In their proposals for altering the present machinery under the act the Legion representatives were not unanimous. Some took issue with the testimony of their colleagues; but each conveyed to the committee a plan, founded on experience and observation, which, in his opinion, would remedy the situation.

Practically all witnesses were unanimous in their disapproval of the attitude toward returned soldiers of the counsel employed by a the Board of Pension Commissioners. The function of such officers was to elicit all proofs, not only those unfavorable to the pension ' applicant, it was said. Yet, the attitude of some counsel was such that the men generally entertained the opinion that commission counsel functioned for the sole purpose of arguing against the validity of their claim.

"Sometimes," said A. E. Moore, of Winnipeg, chairman of the Dominion Executive Council of the Canadian Legion, "I listen to these counsel and expect every moment to hear them turn to the tribunal with the words: 'I therefore submit that this man be taken from hence and hanged by - the neck until he is . dead.'

NOT GIVEN BENEFIT OF DOUBT Witnesses argued that section 73 of the Pension Act, known as the "benefit of the doubt" clause, was not being applied in accordance with the intention of Parliament and of the people of Canada. It was impossible, so many years after the close of hostilities, Mr. Moore declared, for a man to establish definitely the circumstances and the place responsible for inflicting upon him the state of health that eventually resulted in a disability. It was equally impossible for many of the men to prove continuity of that disability over a long period of years. The men's comrades died or passed from sight; doctors who had at tended them soon after the war kept no permanent records, and any evidence such as was demanded by the Board of Pension Commissioners had long since disappeared. In such cases the onus of proving conclusively that the man's disability was not due to war service should test with the board. 

E. E. Spencer, K.C., speaking for Manitoba, contended that the phrasing of the statute, particularly in its relation to section 73, was faulty in that it did not express the intention of the Power committee of 1930 or of Parliament. He found that the records of applications were incomplete and that in all cases where the Pension Appeal Court decided against award of a pension, the reasons for that refusal should be incorporated in the records of the case. 

Incompleteness in preparation of claims was a point which penetrated deeply into the problem of pension applications, Mr. Spencer said. He urged also that two divisions of the Appeal Court should be established, and that tribunal members be co-opted to serve on these. 

Briefs expressing the opinions of New Brunswick were filed with the committee by J. Earle Logan, representing the provincial command of the Canadian Legion in that province, and Major G. Hart. Mr. Logan did not speak to his brief, beyond assuring the committee of his agreement with the representations that had already been made.

Delay in setting cases to the tribunal was the chief complaint of Prince Edward Island, Dr. J. E Johnston, of Charlottetown, told the committee. He detailed the procedure in that province, showing that the medical examiners for tho district resided, not in Prince Edward Island but in Halifax, N.S This fact was conducive to a great deal of the delay. He argued that , applications should be taken up by the veterans bureau first, before being submitted to the Board of Pension Commissioners and also that the applicant should appear before the court which, in the first instance, takes charge of his case. 

Dr. Johnston found that faulty diagnosis on the part of medical men was responsible for a great deal of the grief from" which the pension applicants was suffering. As to the Appeal Court, he believed that a counsel appointed by the Department of Justice should appear before that body instead of commission counsel. 

Pension advocates should pass an examination, to be set by the associated veterans and written under the Civil Service Commission, was the opinion of G. D. Allan, of the Christie Street Hospital (Toronto) branch of the Canadian Legion. Fifty per cent, of the appointees to the veterans bureau should be below commissioned rank. 

He urged that a "unit of discovery" be appointed whosefunction it would be to examine all the phases of a man's application before it ever came to the stage of presentation to the Board of Pension Commissioners. He believed if that work was efficiently done, the claimants would accept the finality of their judgment on applications of no merit. 

The committee will meet again tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

[nostalgicish]

he’s literally babygirl

edit: new pfp :)

[halorvic]

[glitter-stained]

It's so funny to me when I see people call Jason overly impulsive and incapable to hold back his anger issues because not only is that very untrue, but the fact that he isn't is a medical miracle. Homeboy had two severe traumatic brain injuries from direct hits to the frontal lobe in a period of his life (teenagehood and early adulthood) where the executive functions (developed in the frontal lobe) are not done developing, the classic symptomatology observed almost always in children/teenagers (and so many adults) in that case is dysexecutive syndrome which is characterized by an intolerance to frustration and impulsivity, and it happened to him twice!!! (At least, idk where the Joker hit his head so it's maybe even more) Like do you understand??! Yeah lucky him the Pit healed the first one and then it happened again!!!

I don't necessarily like RHATO #25, but it's incredibly funny to me that not only is the characterization of Jason as impulsive extremely wrong, but it is so in spite of canon events. Like if post RHATO #25 Jason suddenly became extremely impulsive and struggling majorly to control his anger, it would make sense! It would be realistic! The irony of it is wild.

[sugas6thtooth]

Torture. Pure Torture. It's absolutely painful to see and I can't imagine how they're feeling. It's torture and it's cruel and it warrants a scalding seat in hell for many israeli soldiers and government officials.

[cozy-lake]

I’m thinking of ALL women this women’s history month.

Palestinian women

Transgender women

Women of color

Disabled women

Queer women

Indigenous women

Jewish women

Asexual and aromantic women

EVERY woman deserves to be uplifted and celebrated this month and every month.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Charles representation enjoyed here again! I’ve not read much of the comics bc I can’t afford them but I just rewatched FC and I was wondering if Charles being paralyzed is the same in the comics (Erik doing it)? Do they often include that part of his story?

hello my inquisitive friend :] !!!! im more than happy to give some more info bout the origins charles' disability in the comics- to the best of my abilities that is !

while they don't include an origin for his paralysis in EVERY story/run, as far as i know there are three major ways charles loses his mobility (though like yourself, i havent read many of the comics so far, so i could be missing a few. this is the part where i invite readers to submit additional info if im leaving any out)

the very first manner of charles losing his legs was relayed to us in the original X-Men run of the 60's in issue #20

(X-Men #20: "I, Lucifer!")

before magneto was regarded as charles' main adversary there was the extraterrestrial lucifer (who sported the same color scheme, ironically. it wasnt as though lucifer came before magneto so it was definitely A Choice..) who charles would have a semi-reoccurring feud with for a bit early on in the series. during their first encounter, charles would corner lucifer in his lair only to have a stone slab dropped on him, disabling his legs indefinitely

the second manner in which charles loses his mobility- and the time where erik is the most involved and is most deliberate- comes from. Our Favorite Universe in 2001: The Ultimate Universe

(Ultimate X-Men #1: "The Tomorrow People")

as is typically how charles x magneto team-up arcs go, while charles and erik worked together for some time it wasn't very long before erik wanted to pursue more Dramatic Measures for mutantkind. and As This Story Goes, amidst trying to escape the savage lands sanctuary he and erik built, erik drove a metal spike through charles' spine, leading to his disability in this verse

lastly, we have the House of M- or more specifically its prequel miniseries, Civil War: House of M- verse in 2008:

(Civil War: House of M #2: "Revolution")

(Civil War: House of M #3: "Reign")

similar to Ultimate and the movies, this is another timeline where charles and erik team up. this time however, charles is more willing to follow erik's ideas after seeing the horrors of genosha upon reading the mind of a mutant who escaped the island, and the two seek to liberate the other mutants left behind. unfortunately, during their mission, a sentinel collapses the building charles and co. are infiltrating, leading to the loss of his legs

hope you had fun reading- i had fun typing up everything and looking back at these issues :] !

[majorasnightmare]

the tadpole/brain damage thing. its like. chekovs gun to me. obviously theres very little mechanical support ingame for having a disabling injury, aside from maybe an optional voluntary decision to drop the INT score, but similarly to choosing to write intention into the lack of dark urge Lore responses from the party, i just like to make mountains out of molehills and force game mechanics into In Universe Character Problems

like when dirge repeatedly mentions that he thinks the tadpole is doing something beneficial for him, that its helping him, it isnt JUST the power-hungry psionic ambition in him. its a parasite, that needs a host. it needs a LIVING host, or its own chances of survival plummet. and dirge gets tadpoled right after a life threatening injury to the tadpoles preferred habitat. neither of them want to die!! dirges body tries to recover, but cant in part BECAUSE of the tadpole (the netherese stasis magic rejecting outside influence and binding it to its host, having an unejectable foreign object in the injury site, etc), but its not like the tadpole WANTS its host to have a life altering injury

its not like its malicious (except when it comes to Hive Activity, and then it can be a right bastard), it just cant live any other way. it cant help what it is. halsin calls the illithid life cycle abberant and unnatural, but brood parasitism exists throughout the natural kingdom. is the wasp egg evil for having been laid in a caterpillar?

its first moments of life outside the brine pool, and its new home, its new life, its host, its caregiver, its food supply, is bleeding and dying and falling apart and trying to fix itself but cant and its trying to heal around you but it cant but if it doesnt do anything youll both die, so this larva, this tiny worm of psionic potential and instinct, does what it can. holds its host together with whatever force it can muster, soft gelatinous body (perfect for compreesing flat and squeezing through small orifice openings) keratinizing outside the acidic environment of the brine, its four oral tentacles (its only source of motion and movement when so young and soft, dragging itself along as best it can) made for interweaving with dense synapse clusters to passively absorb the psionic imprint of its host, now desperately intwined with bleeding meat just to try and hold it all together. driven by survival instict and a vessel of psychic potential, forced into passivity by the commands of the Elder, further forced by circumstance to leverage all its great gifts to keep its host standing long enough to eventually eat

my thought is that the reason why dirge still gets the cutscene of the emperor tadpoling him at the beginning of the game, is that the original tadpole orin forced on him is just so weakened and exhausted by months of effort trying to keep him alive through kressas experiments and meddling, that the emperor, currently in thrall to the absolute, feels the need to replace it with a fresher healthier specimen, which then cannibalizes and absorbs the previous one, and then just has to go back to doing the same shit as the last one.

i think that dirges tadpole isnt as twitchy or squirmy as the others because of it. that when omeluum gives him a psychic MRI, the tadpole is just burrowed down and its tendrils stretched like a dense net throughout dirges brain tissue, only moving or writhing occasionally but definitely not as mobile as usual, its web of tendrils especially twisted near dense scar tissue at the back of his head. this worm is already so fucking weird and the circumstances for this mind flayer MRI have already introduced a bajillion different variables that need accounting for, that i dont think omeluum immediately groks the specifics of whats going on but CAN peg the "you have brain damage and your worm is fucking Weird" situation fairly easily. but i dont think it gets enough time in dirges head to get a full understanding of what the tadpole is doing FOR him

cuz like. imo its definitely objectively helping. its a psychic information bank specifically designed to interface with a human brain. the reason why dirge isnt experiencing too many of the side effects of brain damage is because the parasite is doing its best to mitigate them. memory issues, brain fog, disorientation and balancing issues, theyd all be significantly worse without the parasite. when he brings up how he feels its helping him, objectively hes right and its not even the kickass psychic powers hes right about.

like it doesnt cure EVERYTHING, he has chronic migraines that are sensitive to light, and before he asks halsin to make medicine, he starts every morning puking his guts out when the morning sun makes him so nauseous he cant hold dinner down. even without the Urge Nightmares, he has insomnia and just cant meaningfully sleep. but keeping track of what day it is, remembering what happened a few hours ago or the other day, standing up from a sitting position and not immediately wobbling and/or collapsing, retaining his old muscle memory. all shit the parasite is helping with

which is why i cant help but fixate on those moments immediately after defeating the absolute. like oh thats juicy

[bread-and-roses-too]

if you respond to a child expressing distress with "wait until you get older" or "it only gets worse from here" you are increasing that child's risk for suicide. I am 100% serious. You have no idea what that kid is going through. Even if it's objectively "less bad" than what you're going through kids don't have the ability to cope in many of the ways that adults do. You could be telling someone at the worst point in their life that there's no up, there's no growth, it's like this forever. That's the kind of talk people talk to themselves when they're at the end of what they can handle, and hearing it from outside can be even worse. A child who feels like life is already beating them down isn't the person to project your negativity about life onto. Encourage them or keep your mouth shut.

[crystalsandbubbletea]

If I were the US president, I would have ended ties with Israel long ago.

Israel has stated multiple times that they don't care about the civilians in Palestine, hell they don't care who gets hurt in general. All Israel wants is genocide, anyone who supports Israel wants genocide, and anyone who goes like "Well it's complicated" or remains silent is genocide complicit.

Silence.

Is.

Violence.

There's a poem, it's called "First they came for" and it's by Martin Niemöller, it shows that silence does nothing, and in the end, there will be no one to help you because you were silent.

I wanted to do a modern retelling of it, here it is (Note: This is from the perspective of someone who is silent on politics):

First they came for the socialists—and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for black people—and I did not speak out—because I was not black.

Then they came for the disabled—and I did not speak out—because I was not disabled.

Then they came for trans people—and I did not speak out—because I was not trans.

Then they came for gay people—and I did not speak out—because I was not gay.

Then they came for unionists—and I did not speak out—because I was not a unionist.

Then they came for Palestinians—and I did not speak out—because I was not Palestinian.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

[backonrepeat]

Thinking about Gortash being shaped by his time in the House of Hope.

Purposefully mimicking Raphael's accent and manner of speaking, elegant, sophisticated, confident, to disguise his own working class roots and mingle with the Gate's upper class. Matching Raphael's demeanor, his posture, the way he negotiates his deals and flatters his clients. Even the theatrics, to an extent. Raphael is a consummate showman, and from him Gortash learns that presentation is key to manipulating people's perceptions to his own ends.

His views on sex don't differ too much from Harleep's, if Lady Jannath's note is any indication. Sex is just a tool, a commodity, currency that can be used to manipulate people and gain favours. He has no issues with selling his body, as long as the price is right.

As much as he hates the Nubaldin, he also learns from him. Each blow, each cut, each excruciating form of torture gets committed to mind. What worked, what didn't, how did each one feel. It's all knowledge in the end, and if he so wants it, it's his to use.

His own belief and devotion to Bane, God of Tyranny, his desire for absolute order and control, and lawful evil alignment could be linked back. Devil's are famously hierarchical creatures, who believe in order (in opposition to demons who embrace chaos), and the rule of the strong over the weak. Know who is a famous, scheming, sweet-talking tyrant in d&d lore? Old Hoof and Horns himself, Asmodeus, Devil in Chief.

Even his disregard of Karlach's optimism, generosity and good heart. The only truly "good" person young Gortash ever met was Hope, a captive of Raphael tortured for years for refusing to renounce her principles. Her sister Korilla, instead chose to serve Raphael and is thriving, free to come and go as she wishes, granted warlock powers by Raphael, living her best evil life.

[goddessofroyalty]

I'm falling back into X-men: First Class stuff again thanks to the Deadpool x Wolverine movie and I had kind of forgotten how much I love the very specific dynamic of the Erik x Charles relationship where I watch Erik do some borderline supervillain stuff going "fuck yeah! Good for you!" and then watch Charles ream into Erik calling him out for said behaviour and/or the shit Erik has done to him personally going "fuck yeah! Good for you!"

Original X-men movie dynamics is much more the (normal) dynamic of wanting them to set aside their differences and find a way to progress their cause together. But First Class is all about the anger behind their actions being completely justified but also oh so very entertainingly messy.