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[totoochristianwolff]

"If we can't win, you should win" - TOTO 😭

[roseategales]

solas likes orange zinger tea???

[ihaveitprinteddout]

FRANCOOO 😭

[cyanparadis]

nevermind! sad girl hours are back again.

[dreamsofithildin]

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[catboyelimgarak]

I am throwing a fucken tantrum, today was potluck day at the school and the parents brought SO MANY GOOD FOODS, and THEN the Indian health center is having their dinner today with games and prizes, BUT I DONT GET MY WISDOM TEETH STITCHES OUTUNTIL FRIDAY SO I COULDNT EAT ANYTHING 😩

[sherlisass]

cross-posted from my facebook:

To borrow from the legendary Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour: it’s been a long time coming. For the past six months, after realising that SMA is progressing at a rapid rate in my body now and having a breakdown in part due to that, my mum and I reached out to Ray of Hope. We asked if they could help me with financial access to a $375,000/yr treatment that will halt the disease progression the way they helped baby Zayn and Devdan. We asked if we could fundraise for enough to stabilise my condition for a year, while we see what MOH does with supporting the treatment for SMA patients. Last Friday, my fundraiser was posted: https://rayofhope.sg/campaign/sherry/

It wasn’t an easy decision to ask Ray of Hope for help. At several points, I nearly pulled out. Firstly, it’s a sensitive issue to ask people for money, and doing so is intensely stigmastised in Singapore because healthcare and finances are seen as highly personal responsibilities. Second, I was worried about the impact public recognition might have on myself and my family. And third, did I really want to put a price tag on my life?

But facts are: I wasn’t the one who put a price tag on my life. The manufacturer of the treatment, Roche, was the one who put the $375K/yr price tag on my life and the lives of other SMA patients. (Which, by the way, is more than five times what the average non-disabled Singaporean earns.) And I’m fundraising because of my family as well. My brother Gabriel reminded me of that when he told me that, when I almost died in the hospital last September, he was afraid I’d die without seeing him fulfill his dream of becoming a doctor.

I want to be there for Gabriel at his med school graduation. I want to take my dad to Taylor Swift’s latest tour after he took me to her last Singapore show and said her music makes him feel young again. I want my mum to see me achieve greater things in my career after seeing she was far more ecstatic than I was about me contributing to Not Without Us, Singapore’s first Disability Studies anthology. I want to be there when my best friend Brianna Albers, who has used every opportunity she’s had to advocate for me to be treated, is a published novelist. I want to go to all the family events I’m invited to for years to come. I want to see who else God wants me to meet, because almost everyone I’ve met so far have been lights in the darkness.

It’s important to remember that time with our loved ones and fulfilling our dreams is a right every SMA patient should have. Without treatment or a miracle, the odds of us having those things decreases significantly with time. It used to be something we had to accept, but that’s not true anymore. And it’s why, if I don’t raise enough to fund the minimum span of time it would take for the treatment to stabilise me, whatever I’ve raised will go towards the next SMA patient fundraising through Ray of Hope. Because there will be more, and I want to do my part. And even if you can’t or don’t want to donate to me, I hope you do your part by spreading awareness of SMA, this life-saving treatment, and the injustice of its cost.

[bthearst]

Content Warnings Masterpost

Content warnings for all my writing, now neatly collected in a single post for ease.

While I do not attach general content warnings for stories as a whole to each chapter (most of these are horror and you should be aware of what the genre entitles), triggering content will be warned for whenever necessary.

A lot, if not all, romance pieces involve trans bodies. Some of the terminology used may not be for you, and that is okay. I kindly ask you continue on your way if you find it upsetting.

The Bacchant Five Series

Book 1: Profane Sacrament - Infidelity - Spousal abuse (verbal) - Intercourse under the influence (dubiously consensual) - PIV sex - Ritualistic sex - Gaslighting - Implied cannibalism

[dragonpyre]

Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[totoochristianwolff]

HIII. I am going to watch Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team) | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and thought I'd do a little 'live' post of parts that stuck out to me (all personal so I might miss a lot of it) (this is also going to be LONGGG 😂)

The first thing that I already love is how comfortable the whole vibe is between Dax, Monica & Toto. Dax & Monica are the kind of ppl who can make anyone feel comfortable in their presence. I love how casual the talk between them is to start because it lets you know that; although this is going to be a 'deep dive' sort of podcast episode, there won't be any sort of uncomfortableness when it comes to those deeper topics/areas.

I LOVE DAX, because you can tell he did his research on Toto. He talks about how he only discovered the day of the filming that Toto isn't actually Austrian, his mother is Polish and his father was Romanian. He goes onto ask Toto whether his parents grew up in Austria, which leads to a really insightful dive into Toto's parents' lives and their own backstories.

I LOVE HOW MUCH DAX LOVES SUSIE (who he got to speak w on the phone quickly as she called Toto during the episode)

I always find it incredibly admirable when Toto shares the hardships of his childhood as well as the turmoil he felt when it came to his ill father for so many years of his young life.

He speaks about the guilty feeling he had after his father died for feeling that it was 'better for all of us, something he says he only managed to process in the last few years.

Dax makes a good point about how he was a kid at the time and Toto responds with: "yeah, so you can't, in a way, analyze the feelings in a way you could if you were an adult" and SO REAAAL.

Toto talks about his mother, who is now 79 and not well, and the forgiveness he gives her for 'not being a good mother' because "I know how difficult it was to be at home and to see the suffering" which I think speaks of the empathy he possesses within himself.

Jumping to the part I'm listening to right now and Toto is talking about how "Many people don't want to go to a psychiatrist because they fear losing their ability. Artists, writers, people that have a lot of creativity that don't want to go sort out their mental problems, don't want to go on medication because they believe it is the fuel of their creativity". imma be honest, I felt CALLED OUT w this part as someone who's always seen their mental instability as the thing that fuels their creativity 🙃

Toto telling Monica she's "very attractive" askdhsldj I LOVE THAT FOR HERRR!!! But also, what a fucking sweetheart Toto is 😭

They get onto the topic of how Toto got into motorsports and his 2009 record comes into conversation. I always die @ when he recalls how Niki Lauda talked to him about it and told him: "why do you do this? this is so stupid, so dangerous, nobody cares what you're doing on the Nürburgring" 😂 Toto then admits he was in a bit of a midlife crisis 😂

When speaking about the crash, he recalls unplugging his radio and getting out of the car but has no recollection after that.

The way Toto handles 'passion' and the expectation society puts on young ppl with his children is honestly wonderful. He's spoken often about it before but he reiterates how he finds it important to just let his children 'be', to let them follow their own paths and expectations. He finds it important to remind them, "Don't look at me. This is my 52nd chapter, this is your 23rd,".

Toto calling munchies "munchkins" 😂

Dax and Toto relating to both being 'string beans' as teenagers 😂

Dax asks Toto about whether he identifies with being handsome and "when people tell you that you're handsome, do you accept that's reality or do you still think 'ehhh you're confused?" Toto responds with, "I think you're confused". WHATTT?!?! SIR?!?! BE SERIOUS FOR A SECOND!!!

Toto talks about when he's at home with Susie and they're doing stupid posing in front of the mirror and how she tells him, "That's really turning me off. Don't do that" 😂

His son, Benedict ringing and the conversation Dax has with him as Toto shared earlier on that Benedict is studying at USC.

"I'm asleep when I'm asleep, I'm awake when I'm awake" BIG MOOD TOTO 😂

This was an absolutely BLESSED podcast episode w Toto. Not only did we get such a diverse mix of conversations but it was also nearly an hour & a half long!!! I really loved watching this episode bc it gave us such a beautiful insight into Toto's life, career and mind. I highly recommend giving it a watch whether you're a Toto fan or not bc there truly is so much wonderful stuff to learn from it ❤️

[roseategales]

how am i supposed to write when all i can think about is solas dragon age

[ihaveitprinteddout]

TIL that THE Jean Todt is married to THE Michelle Yeoh and that they've been togethe r20 years but only got married last year!!! 🥺

[cyanparadis]

At this point, I'm convinced that I don't need therapy. I need to be reborn. Ah! What a fresh start would it be.＼⁠(>^<)⁠／