#root extract

[babybirbb]

a couple of dentist visits ago i was sitting in the chair for a few hours and i was in pain and not having fun but this was when i had just started obsessing over marvey so to cope i came up with a fic idea while i was there...

ive been having tooth pain again but i hate going so to cope again all ive been thinking about is this marvey fic idea again where hurt!mike has to go to the dentist so im gonna force yall to hear about it too

the gist is that yes even though mike is an adult, he hasn't been to the dentist in a hot second (ie since high school) bc he just didn't have enough money for it to be a priority

anyways he starts dealing with some general issues: toothache, headaches, sensitivity, disrupted sleep, etc. that just gets bad enough to the point where it's obvious that something is wrong

harvey can tell he's not functioning at full capacity: is avoiding certain foods, looks like he's in pain sometimes, and just generally seems more irritable as of late

eventually it reaches it's breaking point and harvey confronts mike and has to force him to go to the dentist cuz he's fed up (also cuz he cares about mike obvi but he's not gonna say that)

mike has general dentist anxiety (he hasn't been in a while and he's also definitely worried about the copay even tho i imagine this law firm provides dental insurance lol) but harvey’s nice enough to be there for him

anyways after finally going and figuring out the issue, mike's set up for a procedure (tooth extraction? root canal? idk yet), and after said procedure harvey has to deal with gassed up mike who's either woken up from the sedative or just heavily anesthetized

basically just harvey taking care of mike from then on, giving meds and comfort when the pain becomes too much after the anesthesia wears off. i just want harvey to be all soft and sweet with equally soft and loopy mike

i have hopes to write this at some point (my depression is kicking my ass rn) but anyone else is welcome to take inspiration from this! i encourage it cuz i'd love to see what other people come up with! <3

[quixoticanarchy]

ok you cannot have the post being slightly facetiously negative about industrial production anymore i am putting it on a high shelf. sometimes capitalism is NOT the only problem at hand. sometimes the entire mode of industrial production and the harm built into the supply chains that allow us to have consumer goods and electronics is flatly unsustainable. and cruel. and there is no guarantee socialism would fix that. we cannot haul minerals and other resources out of the earth at this pace forever, or even for that much longer. "the machines aren't the problem the capitalists are the problem" i am SO sorry to break it to you but the (production of) machines are in fact sometimes the problem. the demand for smartphones and the rare earth metals they contain IS a problem. the astronomical amounts of cobalt and lithium you'd need to produce batteries enough to transition the world's fleet of cars to electric ARE a problem. the fact that "green energy" technologies (solar panels, lithium-ion batteries, etc) still require mass-scale extraction of rare earth and "conflict" minerals IS a problem. the human and ecological costs of extracting the resources to make the machines (not to mention the waste when they're disposed of) ARE a problem.

you want fully automated luxury socialism or something, do you? how many people in neocolonized countries are you willing to sacrifice? who gets to partake in that fully automated fantasy? who is mining the cobalt? even if you could dismantle capitalism overnight and have whatever your preferred alternative is, if you envision maintaining something akin to the western consumer lifestyle (in terms of both consumption of goods and of energy) then you will be guaranteeing that many people continue to suffer to produce the materials that enable it.

and before anyone comes at me accusing me of being a primitivist who naïvely hates all machines, i'll say once again i am a type 1 diabetic who relies on devices that use batteries and a lot of plastic and a functioning industrial medical supply chain. i do want to have my insulin pump - i don't want people paying in blood for me to have it! of all technologies to preserve that rely on resource extraction, i would want to prioritize livesaving medical shit and figuring out what options exist for doing things differently and less harmfully. the end of capitalism would be great. but saying "oh well without capitalism we can have all the machines we want without any of the problems and live in automated luxury" is fucking ridiculously naïve

[jazzums]

i made a dentist appointment for tomorrow 😬 i haven’t been in like… two years. i don’t have any pain/sensitivity but i do have some ugly discoloration near my gums n i don’t have the best dental hygiene so i’m a lil worried

[the-witch-of-cedar-and-bone]

I have two molars that are failing me despite copious amounts of dental treatment to try and save them.

I'm on a wait list for an emergency last ditch root canal for a tooth that is rotting from the inside out and quite literally falling apart. The other is scheduled for an extraction in the new year. I'm doubtful that either tooth will hold together as long as I need them to, but when the dental surgeon is booked up until February, there's not much more I can do but wait, take my meds, and do a little magic🦷

Carved beeswax molar: tangible poppet, antibacterial.

Himalayan salt: preservation, calm.

Juniper berries: protection, luck to get called in before the end of the year to get the issues dealt with/the teeth to hold out to the new year.

Echinacea petals: healing, immune booster to protect against infection.

Rosemary: protection, pain relief.

[feathers-in-the-night]

I am having. Brainworms. About the state of Morgan's mental health

[actualmichelle]

i made my dentist appointment 😩

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

I had been down lately, like angry and scared, and feeling like people hate me and are specifically against me type of down and it's been like that for weeks. But today my dentist told me my dental hygiene had been much better compared to last time, and i had no cavities and you know what I'll take it! This is a win

[queenbeyondthewalll]

Well, I started last week getting my prescription pain meds switched to morphine pills for mysterious reasons that were never explained to me, spent the next four days getting progressively worse side effects and almost zero actual pain relief, and thankfully managed to get my doctor to change my meds back by apparently looking like death warmed over just in time to have the roots of my wisdom teeth that they accidentally left in when I had the rest of my teeth pulled while at most 50% numbed up at an appointment I was not aware would have any actual work done

[spidergvven]

black adam is a bad movie but it was also a movie that said colonized people are justified in using any means necessary to fight their oppressors in a narrative that was clearly meant to directly parallel palestinian resistance

[unamused-kookaburra]

My dentist also told me yesterday that I have 'unusually long teeth' for someone my height and that's why I've had pain on and off since my first appointment, because he underestimated how deep my nerve went and left some of it behind

[seventh-district]

it’s finally getting cold enough that i can bring my cardigan collection back into rotation without feeling like i’m gonna melt into a puddle the second i step outside!!!

[leolaroot]

if you have dental trauma my advice is okay first get on health benefits that covers nitrous. then go on nitrous oxide at the dentist.

[hauntedtrait]

dentist’s appointment tomorrow wish me luck!

[tabboty]

i love asexual reproduction. wow i am in a.stable enviromnment. time to grow little clones of myself