#such an incredible performance last night

[lestappenforever]

hey mona how are you feeling? how did the surgery go? <3

Hello, anon! You're so sweet for asking, and my apologies for the slightly delayed response here! Yesterday became a bit more stressful than I had hoped for. 😅

Putting this under a 'Read more' just so people who don't want to read about stuff like this can avoid it. TW: Mentions of blood.

I'm feeling pretty well! No pain or discomfort yet, so that's good. A little bit tired due to the blood loss and the overall stress of last night, but overall I'm feeling good.

The surgery itself went really well! It took a bit longer than anticipated as the surgery was performed by a surgeon in training, so there was a lot of consulting with the attending surgeon and double checking everything that was being done. But, the surgeon in training, the attending surgeon and the nurse who was there to look after me were all so incredibly sweet! They talked me through everything they were doing, explained every step and what to expect, and they were so generous with the anesthesia that I didn't feel any pain or discomfort during the procedure itself. And the nurse did an amazing job at keeping me distracted while the surgeon was burning away the affected parts of my cervix.

Due to how I started bleeding immensely a few days after my biopsy in June, they gave me prescription for pills with tranexamic acid to stop bleeding from organs and advised me to start taking them after the surgery, which I did. They also put like 3 meters of gauze up there that I had to leave in for four hours.

But, when I removed the gauze as instructed four hours later, I started bleeding a lot. Much, much more than I did after my biopsy, and I was honestly pretty terrified. So I called the hospital, they told me to come back and I did, which was good because it turns out a blood vessel had ruptured that was causing the bleeding, and it wouldn't have stopped on its own. (And the pills can't stop bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel.)

The sweetest gynecologist checked me out and discovered the ruptured blood vessel, and put in two stitches to close it. That bleeding stopped right away when he did, and that was that. I'm not gonna lie, that was quite painful at times, but it was also necessary. So I'm very happy that I called the hospital and was asked to come in, and now I feel completely fine!

And as stressful and scary as yesterday ended up being, it's a million times better than not doing any of it at all. I'd get a thousand stitches and go through a hundred procedures to remove parts of my cervix as long as that results in a seriously reduced risk of at some point developing ovarian cancer.

So moral of the story: Don't skip your Pap smears, take your health seriously, and listen to your body when it's telling you something is wrong because, most likely, you'll be right. Don't fuck around and find out with your health, please. ❤️

[mixtapemag]

MAGDALENA BAY AT BROOKLYN BOWL.

Photos by Christopher Hall.

Wow.

I went into the Magdalena Bay show last night with high expectations - their new album Imaginal Disk is one of the best of the year (and my favorite) - and was completely blown away.

An astounding wall of sound and color - Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin elevating an already incredible album to another level with their live performance. "Angel on a Satellite" sounded like it was coming from the heavens. "Death & Romance" rattled the ceiling tiles. "Love is Everywhere" felt like a warm blanket. It was my favorite live show in quite some time. Go see this show ASAP - they're in Boston tonight and New York on Friday before crossing the country to finish their tour at the beginning of October.

Check out everything Magdalena Bay over here.

Christopher Hall posts over here. Runnin.

[deluweil]

Foxtv: Oliver Stark appreciation post 🫶

[sparrowsortadrawzzz]

opening night of the SECOND MUSICAL, only this one matters cuz I could get a spotlight nomination (it's like. high school musical theatre tony awards 💀) SCREECHING-

[gxlden-angels]

Nothing angers me more right now than the Christianization of gender

[lunarrolls]

taliesin specified that ashton’s hair is short when introducing them so naturally upon rewatching it i was like what if ashton’s hair Long

[hotmess-exe]

denver's drag scene is so so so so so so good and diverse omfg <3

[goodsprings]

just got home from an amazing drag show. there is truly peace and love on planet earth

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Thinking about how special it must be for Taylor and Andrea to get to hear Marjorie sing in these massive venues all around the world with crowds singing back.

[officialbabayaga]

instead of feeling bad about not going to yoga this morning i am simply going to do yoga by myself at my own apartment 😤

[holdinbacksecrets]

manifesting a tyla and jungkook collab, even if it’s way in the future. they’d sound fucking heavenly together

[clementine-kesh]

y’all ever have a dream that’s strangely plot heavy and emotionally intense and when you wake up you’re like damn i wish i could project that into other people’s brains so we could discuss the characters and themes

[yunmew]

FANTASTIC MUSICIANS

😭😭😭

[sundriedsanctum]

I fear that I am that person that no one likes who gets asked their favourite songs and answers with a bunch of random demos or live performances and not just a normal recorded single

[mchiti]

There's a super famous singing festival in italy that airs for a week every year. This year, one of the singers, Ghali, did some very remarkable things on that stage. Ghali was born in Italy from Tunisian parents, his career has been going on for a while, but this was his first time on that stage.

He made a song where he references Palestine where he sings: "how can you say everything is fine down here, where in order to trace borders with imaginary lines you bomb an hospital, for a piece of land or for a piece of bread there is no peace" . He also did a medley, singing also in arabic for the first time in the history of the festival.

Last night, during the final, he ended his performance asking to "stop the genocide!" I don't have to tell you that there's absolutely nothing pro-Palestine on italian media... and he used the biggest stage he could use to say that.

Today on a tv programme he was accused by the Isra*li ambassador of spreading hate and violence, to which he replied with those words in the following video (credits to the person who translated it here):

The italian TV broadcaster quickly posted a press release to distance themselves from this speech and to reiterate their whole support to Isr*el lol Towards the end of this tv programme, a few hours after Ghali said what you can hear in this video, they read the press release out loud. This is how Isra*li propaganda works everywhere, thanks to the complicity of our governments.

Just want to post about him because he really risked it all and I appreciate him incredibly for everything he did...if only everyone could do the same. And fuck italy and its fascist government.

[wormwizerd]

everyone acts as if getting a new job will fix my problems but ngl i'm pretty sure the source of a lot of my problems is that i have to have a job at all