#than an actual phobia

[thesmokinpossum]

Didn't felt like mentioning it immediately but shoutout to my sick and twisted brain for getting so triggered by an unexpected Christmas parade that I ended up havin the absolute worst panic attack of my entire life (potentially the only real one? I've had a couple other episodes I thought of as panic attacks but they were not even close to that so who knows) to the point where I spent the very last day of my 30th year on this earth in the ER, good times, good times 😊

[recurring-polynya]

My kid asked me to explain blood types to her today, which made me remember the odd little fact that in the character profiles that appeared at the ends of the earliest Bleach volumes, there are blood types listed for the human characters, but not for the shinigami characters. Shinigami obviously have blood, we've all seen it, we've seen so much of it, honestly, but is it like blood blood? Is blood transfusion a thing they do?

I did not have any particular recollection of anyone ever receiving a blood transfusion in Bleach, but I looked up all the hospital scenes I could think of off the top of my head. Both Byakuya nor Hinamori have sort of a notable absence of things sticking out of them. I'm no expert and I don't even particular like doctor shows, but this is a situation where I would expect both of them to have IVs for hydration, if nothing else. Hinamori's got a respirator and some mysterious carts off to her far side, at least, and maybe Byakuya's just far enough on the upswing that he doesn't need it anymore.

Next shot was the famous Rukia and Renji sharing a hospital room scene.

Renji's respirator goes...under his blanket? Is this right? This doesn't seem right. Rukia doesn't seem particularly attached to anything, although there's kind of a bundle of wires? tubes? coming out of her right shoulder area. You can see them better in this shot:

That sure doesn't look like medical grade tubing, the lower one looks kinda like Hihiou Zabimaru, tbh. IVs usually work by gravity, no? Also those tubes are way too big to be going into someone's veins.

Finally, here's Kira, getting his dubious Squad 12 medical procedure.

More shady, giant, intestine-ass looking tubes that... go into him? wtf. They're attached to a computer. Maybe these are data cables?

The upshot of all of this is that I don't think shinigami have blood transfusions. I can't imagine that they don't know about them, so I imagine it's more of a case of their blood is just part of their soul, like, all of them is just soul all the way down, and it would be nearly impossible to accept a transfusion that was made of someone else's soul (soulmate-enjoying fanfic writers, take note). They do like sticking tubes in people, tho.

This sucks because when I was originally thinking about this, of course I was thinking about all the blood Renji has in his body and whether or not he's a universal donor, because, frankly, if he is, I think they would have a special framed painting of him at Squad 4 and let him have as much donuts and apple juice as he wants.

I think the main reason manga list characters' bloodtypes anyway is because Japanese people use it as a personality test, similar to horoscopes. For the record, here are the characters whose blood types we know:

Ichigo - AO Orihime - BO Chad - AO Tatsuki - AO Isshin - AB Uryuu - AB Don Kanonji (????) - BO

When I was trying to look up what they meant, I found this hilarious graphic, thank you verywellmind dot com

Looks to me like these blood types were definitely chosen to tie into personality at least to some degree (I'm not sure about Isshin, but he probably has fake Urahara Shouten-brand gigai blood-substitute anyway, so I am choosing not to read too deeply into that). Anyway, along those lines, judging from this chart, if we wanted to bootstrap Renji's blood type from his personality, I think he would, in fact, clearly fit into the idiot-on-a-skateboard quadrant. So he is a universal donor! (or at least he would be, if he were filled with blood instead of high-concentration ghost juice.)

[hiyyihrts]

I think the only reason ppl don’t like the idea of s3 focusing on Penelope/Colin is simply because the season focuses on characters who in every other show or story are always meant to be just side characters (the overweight/ugly wallflower best friend and the comedic side friend who is just a funny charmer that no one ever takes seriously) who no one ever really sees any potential in or reason to give them their own stories. but this is why their story IS important. They’re two characters who everyone enjoys but as soon as they’re (specifically Penelope) shown in a romantic or sexy vibe everyone suddenly thinks it’s a waste of time or waste of a season when they could have the ‘more conventionally attractive and interesting characters’. Just say you all think poorly of these characters and that their stories aren’t worth telling or seeing because it doesn’t pertain to YOU and YOUR fantasy’s/sexual fantasy’s you’ve dreamed about in your own head and go wait for another season or smth to come out instead

[skunkes]

antidepressants have saved my life but in the way that my dad was put on them earlier this year before i was and he's an entirely different person neow. several years of it being a coin toss as to whether the house was going to have a sinister energy on any given day, undone in a few weeks and once again resembling the person i was most attached to as a child

[bottombaron]

there really does need to be a queer person in the writers' room on every show with queer characters, if only to explain how to better describe 'profound' relationships.

bc this happens all the time with showrunners fumbling for ways to describe a not-necessarily-sexually-prioritized relationship between same-sex characters

it's like somewhere in our evolution 'straight' men forgot that you can express your Profound Emotions with sex or other physical ways just to experience closeness and love.

like sexual attraction can evolve from profound emotions. they aren't inherently mutually exclusive. you can have two people who aren't initially attracted to each other and then over the course of knowing each other attraction blooms from simply caring for that person.

it's wild that ppl don't get that. is it a straight person thing? Do you have to be horny for a person from the go or it doesn't count?

like i'm absolutely serious, there needs to be studies on this phenomenon. there's something here in the miscommunication of what love can look like that is fucking fascinating.

[faceyourphobia]

Donald Trump can’t even open a dumpster truck, is this actually the guy we want as our fucking dictator president?

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Do other people with actual clinical phobias get exhausted of people without phobias policing terms like 'homophobia' or 'transphobia'? Because this doesn't do anything to help or actually destigmatize clinical phobias.

Like at all.

The same people who are saying those words hurt me and shouldn't be used, and going around harassing people into not using them, still think anyone who doesn't love dogs is some evil monster. No one could possibly have cynophobia (which is often rooted in a traumatic experience) and struggle with debilitating anxiety, no, it's obviously a red flag that you're an awful person and probably an abuser.

They still mock/belittle people with clinical phobias. They still don't take us seriously. They still get upset when we have symptoms of our psychiatric disorder instead of us "being normal".

That actually hurts people with clinical phobias, not the existence of words that describe bigotry.

Maybe we should educate people about the different clinical phobias and not stigmatize people not liking/avoiding things that are at the root of those phobias, especially when they ask for support/accommodation.

[velvetvexations]

the whole man vs. bear thing is fascinating to me as a trans man because like. the worst abusers in my life have always always always been cis women. don’t get me wrong a lot of men suck and can be much more outwardly threatening. but cis women? they can be so fucking VISCOUS in a way that’s really easy for most people to ignore. I had multiple adult women at my hs take me aside and tell me no one would ever love me if i looked masculine. I’ve had multiple cis women (adults and teens when I was a teen) grope me and grab my ass and then tell me it’s no big deal bc we’re all girls. I was told incessantly the only way I would ever be happy is if I was a wife+mother. I did not realize my own mother was abusive until I was well into adulthood because her abusive behavior was so normalized. all the women who pick bear over a random theoretical man cannot see the fire in their own house, because cis women can be just as awful and abusive as cis men.

I wouldn't necessarily say I've been treated worse by women specifically but a point I've made before is that I'm hyperaware of how bad cis women can be for trans women - everyone just considers Jowling Kowling a man, I suppose - and I would never, ever be more comfortable with a random cis woman the way I would with a random trans man.

[crimeronan]

warning this is an "i've lost my temper" post

people leaving comments on my vaccine post about how they """""can't""""" get vaccines because of needle phobias like what kind of ridiculous backwards-ass mental-gymnastics dumb fucking able-bodied nonsense are you on. you shortsighted twat. you circlejerking fucking asshole. you know what'll make you have to contend with needles???? getting an IV in the hospital because you came down with COVID. and now every single time you move you feel the straw wiggle uncomfortably inside your veins and you can't get it out ever you're trapped helpless on your back forever getting stuck by needles CONSTANTLY.

so. unless you're ready to lay at home and die while refusing all medical care, which would be good because at least you'd be putting your money where your fucking mouth is, i think you Do In Fact want to take the shot. you Fucking Moron??

[nomouthtospeakof]

(scheduling for a shot) do it scared. do it nauseous. do it kicking the wall. do it laying on the floor with a broken toe from kicking the wall.

[sysig]

Old OC spotlight alert: It’s Nequam! Ft. his girlfriend Ruby (and also Papyrus for funsies lol) (Patreon)

[thegreatyin]

What is the Scoundrel thinking about as they go through in this ship? Did they get down to the lowest level yet.

...did they find the thing that is in the deck. Admist the wax?

it isn't thinking anything, really. it's just- moving. quickly. no it's not breathing frantically that's just how its chest works. no its hands aren't trembling they just happen to feel a bit chilly today. if they pick on the (now thoroughly blood-soaked) bandages on their arms, well, that's their business!! it doesn't mean they're scared. they're perfectly calm. look at them!!! they're smiling!!!!! they're having a Delightful time!!!!!!!!

now where was that pesky-

oh.

oh, they need to get the hell out of here.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Life Underwater

adult contemporary

about a man navigating his relationship with his partner after they move in together, having never been interested in relationships before; as well as bigoted people questioning their relationship, (as he's Muslim with a younger white partner)

along with dealing with the fact that his partner is a with a marine biologist - and he’s extremely hydrophobic due to trauma, but wants to find a way to be involved in what his partner is so passionate about

trans grey-aro ace MC, nonbinary LI

[4giorno]

3 episodes of bees...................

[beeapocalypse]

trying to craft a funger oc like aughhhh i can see him i can picture him in my head right now [image of the most off putting little man possible]

[leche-flandom]

Who tf is this clown?!

I'm not usually bothered enough by website changes to take action, but I could not abide by that creepy little pirate clown plaguing my dashboard uninvited. It's not so much the eerie presence that bothers me, but the intrusiveness of this ad campaign. That being said, I put in a little effort and found a way to massively improve that immovable eyesore by messing with the image url through the "inspect image" option.

The Doctor disapproves of your ham-fisted advertising, @staff