#really grateful for this doctor

[homoerotic]

i really hate when doctors won't give you the medicine you need and try and give weak excuses like "if i put you on this it'll be for the rest of your life" as if me taking a pill every morning is so bad that its the equivalent of having something literally wrong w my chemical make up that makes my life exponentially harder

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

So I Spied Another Day...

You know it was a good show when you can’t decide whether your heart is so full from all the love and joy, or so empty because it's over.

Really do buckle up, because this is a long one.

So the show went a little like this. They played the Spies pro-shoot on a giant movie screen, but any time a song started, the audio changed to the instrumental track, the video typically faded to simple background graphics, and the cast came out to perform the number live in concert style. There were also a series of audience participation prompts up on the movie screen, such as standing to deliver a line in unison, giving Lauren a standing ovation for the Pay Attention! Reprise, enthusiastically booing Dr. Baron von Nazi and the still infuriatingly catchy Not So Bad (for anyone who’s curious, in addition to encouraging boos and yelled disagreements with von Nazi, they also cut the audience participation bit from the song).

The energy in the room was so electric and full of joy and warmth. People shouted out iconic lines, went wild for everyone’s entrances, and absolutely lost their damn minds over Curtwen at pretty much every opportunity. And the cast were clearly having just as much fun. Doing This has always been my favorite, and there was something so sweet about them singing it again all these years later. We finally got Joey performing Spies Are Forever (Evil Reprise) again and it was just as chilling and beautiful as you’d expect. And One Step Ahead was just on a whole new level. I don’t want to give anything away, but the details in that performance were INCREDIBLE.

It was simply so special seeing most of the original gang come back while also bringing some new friends along. Shout out to Mariah for coming out at the top of the show so ready to play, setting the tone for the whole evening. Shout out to James for putting his comedy chops on full display (LET JAMES BE FUNNY MORE) and dancing the hell out of One More Shot (another favorite number). And shoutout to Carlos Alazraqui (taking over the roles of Sergio and Vladimir Poopin) and Tommy Link for coming into this crazy part of our world with such enthusiasm and silliness. Brian deserves a medal for agreeing to once again play the most cringe-worthy character in all of Pulp-StarCanWrecked history, and for sounding so fucking good while doing it. Tessa was having a blast in full unhinged glory and I gladly worship at her altar. Lauren is maybe the funniest person alive and deserved her standing ovation, prompted or not. Seeing Joe Walker perform live has been Item Number One on my fandom bucket list since I moved to LA a couple of years ago, and I still can’t quite believe I managed it. I’d wondered if he’d be rusty, but honestly he sounded great; it was like no time had passed. Mary Kate still has one of my all-time favorite voices and her Tatiana remains forever engaging. Joey showed up dressed to slay as a gay evil genius Bond-movie supervillain and proceeded to thoroughly deliver on that promise. And Curt… every time I watch Spies I am increasingly blown away by what he does with this arrogant, broken mess of a character. He clearly loves Agent Mega as much as any of us, and to see a performance refined and powered by such clear and thoughtful passion is just a huge treat.

(And while he wasn’t in the cast, I can’t not mention Corey. Between his roles as director and co-writer, so much of what Spies is comes directly from him and we don’t appreciate that nearly enough. And shout out to Esther Fallick for her wonderful work as Susan and the Informant. She might not have been there in person, but her incredible performance was with us the whole time.)

I know this is preaching to the choir, but Spies Are Forever really is such a special show. It’s a story about recovery, and devastating as it can be, I think there’s also something deeply healing about it at its core. For one thing, I know it played a huge role in mending my relationship with my asexuality. I will forever be grateful to it for existing, to TCB, Talkfine, and the original cast for creating it, and to those same people for maintaining its legacy with the amount of love and care it deserves. It was a privilege to be in the room as so many people came to celebrate this miraculous little musical. There were a couple of minor tech glitches (I wonder if they’ll even include the “big one”—the projector jumping over most of the staircase scene before getting fixed—in the digital ticket version), but nothing that could even begin to damper the magic of the night.

We all know that spies never die (except for Owen and the Informant, oops). And at times like this concert, I think this special little show with its short run in 2016 will prove to be just as immortal.

[vellichorom]

I AM A PERFECTLY LEVELHEADED PERSON WHO DRAWS PERFECTLY RATIONAL & MINDFUL CROSSOVER MATERIAL & SUPPLEMENTARYoh my god

part- what. 25?

[spiralmode]

wait im rewatching saw 2004 and as a germaphobe one of the cruelest things i had to watch adam endure was dig around in that toilet ("find anything?" "no solids!" 🤢) anyway so he had just taken out the play me tape out of a ziploc bag and that stuck with me because I was like okay that's something he could use idk for what but for something, and so then that toilet scene happens and im like yelling at my screen adam!!! no!!!!!!!!! use the ziploc bag as a glove ahhhhhhh !! but he just went right in there with only one small moment of hesitation

[tj-crochets]

I'm not iron deficient anymore!!! :D I just got the blood test results back and for once I had a fixable problem and it is fixed*!!!! *well okay my total iron saturation % is still a little low but the rest of my numbers are in the normal range! Even ferritin!! My ferritin levels have almost quadrupled and are now in the normal range!!! :D

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvoktober Day 24: Comic Redraw [Patreon | Commissions]

This is the original - I don't know the comic's name

[doc-oswald]

I really enjoyed tonight's episode, it's great how it's was all boiled down to dialogue, which it's one of Moffat's strong points. I loved fifteen's characterization, he's really charming and definitely a yapper, adorable and endearing. Fifteen and Ruby's initial banter was giving twelveclara's realness which is always appreciated.

"What survive of us is love"

[cockworms]

trans men on hrt I have some questions to ask y'all 😭 it's about genital changes, nsfw

I'm really distressed about it

so I started and have been on 50mg weekly injections for 6 months. ive only had a little bit of bottom growth :( last month, I was really horny for 2 weeks and then suddenly my pussy dried out and my clit went NUMB. i looked some things up and this apparently is called vaginal atrophy and happens at menopause for cis women. I'm extremely frustrated right now, I've heard about this happening to trans men who have been on T for a long time but it's only been 6 months. you're supposed to get more horny on T, not LESS 😭 I'm so frustrated, I don't want to lose this/ i don't know if it's too late to reverse it :(

so asking:

has this happened to anyone else?

if it has, did you recover sensation? is it the same as before?

should I stop taking T?

what dose did you start on?

my doctor gave me estrogen cream and I started that this week, will it affect/slow my transition? Will it make my clit shrink/not grow anymore? should I use it? (not sure if it will work or not, if it takes time??)

I've stopped getting wet, ive lost my libido, it's really hard to orgasm and no matter how much lube I use, it hurts to use a dildo

please any help or advice is appreciated 😭

[thankstothe]

guess ill die

[punkrockisafulltimejob]

For those who are unsure of whether or not they really have the "sensitivity to cold" symptom of fibromyalgia, because you think that it's just you not being able to handle colder temperatures like other people, that's one way of putting it. The other way is, when it's winter and the temperatures start dropping, do you feel your pain more intensely? Do you feel like you have more problems with your joints? Is your partner always commenting how cold your fingers and toes are, but it somehow gets more frequent in winter? Those are other ways to consider being sensitive to the cold.

[nullvoidface]

If you ever think “i’m never gonna need this” when seeing one of those “how to help someone having a grand mal/tonic-clonic seizure” just know that somehow I was lucky enough to have watched one of those videos and it helped me make sure a stranger was safe until emergency services arrived.

PSA: Listen to people who have specific emergency care needs and you will possibly make everyone safer!

[cowboah-baby]

Hey now, hey. As 30-something year old with both latent TB and asthma, I promise it will all be okay. You can start treatment and recovery and begin to heal.👍

i'm reading on this and some things are upsides:

mediterranean diet can ease symptoms (catch me having seafood pasta and say it's healing)

it's a well-research and treatable illness

i can take this as research for the shitty date saga

i'm getting help! i've had issues with long and rough flus and i'm sure my quality of life will improve now that we know i have this

[dreamlogic]

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[lunarflare64]

Jesus fucking christ read The Lady's Handbook For Her Mysterious Illness

[bitchy-peachy]

I hope all maga enjoy all those new jobs coming to them with these deportations. You better not bitch and be grateful for the opportunity to do all that work without paid overtime.

Trump's gift to you. Maybe, just maybe, you can afford the food you help grow. ❤️

[trans-xianxian]

You're an environmental educator?? Can I ask in what kind of institutions you've worked before? Museum, zoo, education centre...?

yes! I started out volunteering at the zoo here in high school, and then I worked at a summer camp run by a science museum, I was an after school teacher for like a year which isn't rlly related to ee but is childcare themed, I worked at a outdoor focused summer camp where I was an instructor for the farm themed camp there, and right now I work at a nature center where we do like day camps and summer camps and field trip groups and then sometimes there are outreach events! we had a newt event recently lmao. the job I just got is at a national wildlife refuge working with a park ranger where I'll do similar work to what I'm doing now plus the opportunity for fieldwork and other stuff working with different scientists!