#please don’t sue me

[pissgoblin973]

reblog to receive 24 hours of infertility!*

*if within a 24 hour period you become pregnant or by misfortune impregnate another person i am not legally liable nor are eligible for compensation.

[theslowmaxx]

I already got one strongly worded email from their legal team over a different design, so I’m too scared to ever try and sell this now 😅

[totally-not-emma]

here’s my tongue piercing guide as someone who got one like 3 days ago

the pain of the actual piercing is very low, it was a 3/10 on my personal scale

those little ice nuggets at sonic are a god send

some people can chew on the first day but don’t count on it, my diet has consisted of mashed potatoes, yogurt, frostys, and soup

no spicy, acidic, or very salty foods as they can irritate your piercing, dairy is fine as long as you use your cleanser of choice afterwards

the pain after the piercing is honestly worse than the piercing itself, but not unbearable

you can use biotene mouthwash (or other alcohol free mouthwash) or carefully measured salt water but using both is not a good idea because you could get thrush

a little white ring around your piercing in the first few days is normal, it’s just your tongue trying to scab (lymph fluid)

use your mouthwash (or salt water) after every time you eat, otherwise you don’t want to clean it too much

yes you will talk with a lisp, i’ve been saying “sh” instead of “s” and haven’t even bothered to pronounce my “L”

most importantly

ASK YOUR PIERCER IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS they are very kind about answering them

[mentality-of-wukong-au]

Mathias:this is different. They are supposed to be mourning not laughing…?

???: It’s hardly different…your family laugh at you all the time! You’re just a middle child with all the jokes and cheerful little happy goofy goodness!

[glovedghosts]

I’m kinda half-hoping nobody sees this, cuz I like having no internet presence, but here’s some things I’ve learned about health insurance (most of these are related to my experience as a college student, but I would also genuinely recommend watching the BDG video on health insurance regardless of if you read this or not).

If you can take yourself to a hospital or have someone else take you, do that. The fact that you need insurance for an ambulance, and each ambulance might not accept the same insurance as the hospitals they take you to should be criminal, but profit over lives I guess. (That being said, if you need to call an ambulance, do so.)

If you're in a hospital, try to get as many in-network doctors as possible, and if you can wait for an in-network doctor to arrive, do so. It looks like there was a federal No Surprises Act, but it's currently not great since a Texas District Court made a ruling a few weeks ago (Case No. 6:22-cv-450-JDK (TMA III), ruling made on Aug 24, 2023) that overturned part of it, so don't rely on it (I'd also be wary of any state-wide No Surprises Acts because of this). This one's a lot harder to do because if you're in a hospital, you don't have much control over what doctors you need, what doctors are available, and what doctors you see. (Once again, if you desperately need a doctor, accept that you might need to pay out-of-network / out-of-pocket rates even if you're insured.)

If you’re a college student, look into your school’s university-offered insurance if you’re not able to stay on the plan you’ve been on. Some, if not most colleges offer it (I'm reluctant to say all), and depending on what you need and what it covers, it could wind up being worth it.

Piggybacking off of that, look into if you qualify for a QLE (qualifying life event). This is especially relevant to college students, as moving (it only says moving to or from where you attend school, so I'm not going to give false hope / false distrust over what may qualify, just know that the wording is vague) makes you eligible for a special enrollment period. This page is useful for determining if you might be eligible for a special enrollment period (I know I meet multiple categories on there, but it still gave me a wishy-washy answer, so I'd recommend looking further into it than just the first page.)

Look into scholarships for things like therapy or even doctors, you’d be surprised who offers and accepts them, and how much they can cover (I’ve actually been working on an application for one of these). I’d also recommend looking into school-provided therapy if possible. My university offers free counseling to anyone enrolled in at least one credit hour here and I don’t know how many other schools do as well.

The last thing I’m gonna add to this is that there are times you’ll need to bite the bullet. If you’re insured, there might be medicine that isn’t covered that you need (or, if you’re like how I was while insured, is covered but your insurance denies it anyway) and you’ll have to make the decision of paying for it out of pocket, waiting for insurance to cover the medicine / a similar medicine, or choose to not take it.

As someone who's trans, lived with personal health issues my entire (short, so far) life, and lived with people who also have many health issues, I'm not at all surprised by all the awfulness of the system. Specialty medicines are a pain to be able to get, and typically cost a pretty penny, required treatments also require fighting with insurance, and hospital stays may be outright denied for coverage. But there's no silver lining in sight.

Unfortunately, this post isn’t really optimistic and only really scratches the surface. There are plenty of barriers to care (insurance requiring prior authorization before approving medications, doctors needing proof of a condition and said proof requiring expensive tests/paperwork, etc...), and most likely, things won’t change because the right people get their pockets lined by the system staying as bad as it is / getting even worse.

[daenerys-targaryen]

KELLY REILLY as BETH DUTTON 🌪 Yellowstone: 4x10 “Grass on the Streets and Weeds on the Rooftops"

[eemoo1o-animoo]

Like this?

Finding this image so interesting because Sebastian lets himself be photographed.

[ao3-crack]

(x)

[merciawintersageposting]

is this something💅🏻

[quatraine-in-c-major]

wITH VR CHAT YOU CA

I want to be tiny sooo bad please please please 🙏🙏 why can't I just be a little creature living in the woods, a tiny little guy that gifts people trinkets and bites people with ill intent with tiny teefs. what the fuck world. just let me be able to live in a forest and BECOME the forest.

[serenadeofsunshine]

once in a blue moon dad rabbit hug :o)

[fruittarts-with-rosepetals]

mai got Alzheimer’s when she entered her older ages, that’s why the firelord zuko stepped down.

he and his wife had a house in ember island, not the vacation house, they lived together there peacefully while zuko tried reminding mai about him and their life together. one night, mai passed away in her sleep, she was laid to rest in zuko’s death chamber along his ‘reserved spot��� as mai would say.

And years later, zuko also left the world, he was resting with his wife, his first friend, the light throughout his banishment.

[captainlynxx]

A collection of torchwood text posts that I’ve been constructing? Collecting? Creating? Idfk anymore but yay :D

[mdmafreak420]

Smoochy smoochy 💔

[lilbitofsomthin]

Love a good Tulpar game night where Daisuke is a little shit and Anya is 3 seconds away from losing it and killing the intern

[1agogo]

Meet the (probably) final member of the trio! Harte :>

They’re essentially the well, “heart” of the group and keep Corvin and Thorne from either killing either or getting themselves killed

Also a quick lil height comparison in case anyone was wondering:

Development stuff below:

So for Harte I actually started with that piccrew that everyone’s been using and used that as a rough draft, i had a rough idea of what I wanted them to be but I didn’t know how to visualize it

After that I didn’t need to do any draft sketches (same with Thorne) so it was straight to the symmetrical!

Like with Thorne I roughed out their values before I started coloring

But as i started coloring I noticed an eerie familiarity and then I realized….

God damnit

Well at least this one is just a bit eccentric and not horrible in every conceivable way (except for plot damn does he make for a good plot)