#thinking about precovid

[moglim]

this guy walked through my host desk thing which usually annoys me but he smells SO heavily of weed and he’s with (presumably) his mom and aunt/grandma so like. u go man i just wish u’d share :(

[sciderman]

What pronouns does your trans Wade use? And what type of top surgery did they get?

Love a trans Wade!! I'll be cosplaying as one in the future!!!

that is sexy !!! i'd love to see photos when you do !!! ouugh, deadpool cosplay is always heaps of fun. i miss my cosplay days... i haven't braved a con since precovid...

9319 wade goes by he/him mostly! though he absolutely doesn't turn down a she/her if it rolls his way. anita goes by she/her exclusively. 9319 wade is amab - T in the nonbinary sense of the word. he's pretty happy with his equipment, but gender is a playground he likes to frolick in. i think the wonderful thing about wade and his weird fantastic brain that fluctuates every day just like his skin is that he can never settle into one identity and so he has to have Them All.

[caplanbuckybarnes]

life's updates.

my doctor prescribed me Zepbound last week. I take my second dosage tomorrow. havent had any major side effects... except the food noise is SILENT.'

i havent been thinking about food at ALL this week. it's so strange, considering im always snacking or eating food. but i've had ENOUGH of being fat and not being able to walk around my street.

i want to be fit, and I want to be able to breathe, I dont want to be in pain anymore. I'm able to sit and stand for long periods of time, i've noticed. I don't want to buy shoes every other month because my feet and weight are flattening my insoles so quickly.

Starting this journey, i am currently 232.2 pounds. (as of October 17, 2024.)

I took my first dose this past Thursday and the appetite suppression was immediate for the first two or so days. The “food noise” in my head is GONE. I’ve had a couple headaches and some gas/burps/acid reflux.

I don’t see any changes yet (not surprising, honestly.)

Precovid I weighed 165 pounds. But a LOT of traumatic and emotional things have happened to me around 2018-2019 and I gained ALOT of weight up until this year.

I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been. I’m a severely emotional eater and my hubs knows this. But almost within the hour of me taking my first dose, the food noise in my brain stopped. I don’t travel to my kitchen for snacks every half hour. I don’t find myself thinking of food nearly as often as I did this time last week.

Besides the acid reflux and constipation, I don’t have major symptoms yet.

Pre Covid I weighed around 165. I’m now 245. I’ve gained almost 100 pounds from 2019 to now. I know the weight isn’t as severe as a lot of other folks on here. But I was a SMALL child/teen/young adult. Before 2018, my heaviest was 140.

Idk what I’m rambling about. Just nervous for my second shot tomorrow.

[sgtmickeyslaughter]

Weekly Tag Wednesday

I was tagged by @mybrainismelted @energievie and @lingy910y, hi guys!

Name: Gigi

Age: 24

Location: Brooklyn, NY

And now...

Latest music discovery: I've been listening to a lot of 70's african rock lately and really loving it with the good weather

Latest movie: Nothing new, but I'm most excited to see Monkey Man, bc ive thought Dev Patel was awesome since he played prince zuko, the only redeeming part of an otherwise irredeemable movie

Last TV show you finished: Atlanta, it was so fucking good

Most recently started book: Braiding sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Most recent trip out of town: omg, i guess it was christmas when i went home. definently thinking about hiking trips upstate and beach days on the coast since the weathers getting nice

Most recent trip out of the country: Korea, precovid yikes. im planning my first trip to europe this year, im going to ireland! but haven't been fucked to plan it yet

Most recent gift you made yourself: i got myself a bunch of candles recently, Im trying to get enough to light my apartment by candles alone

Most recent gift you made to someone else: i had a bunch of overripe bananas so i dropped off banana bread for my gf and her roommates

Most recent text message you received: my group chat trying to figure out what to do this weekend, which has me thinking about what clubs i frequent that Mickey would like, i think theres one he would tolerate and two he might actually like

Most recent text message you sent: texting my nail tech for an appointment lol

Last fic you read: The Southside forever series highly recommend

Last drink you had: coffee

Last thing you ate: yogurt and eggs on toast this morning and ill be sitting down for dinner soon

Latest piece of clothing you bought: I got a couple blouses and sundresses recently, but ive been trying not to do any shopping until i clean out my closet

Latest piece of advice you received: my doctor telling me how to boost my immune system since ive gotten sick like 4 times this year

Latest piece of advice you gave: I gave someone directions on the street today, so that probably counts

Latest thing you promised yourself: that im not getting fucking sick again!!! Im going to be super discipline and stay healthy

tagging: @gallawitchxx @stocious @iansw0rld @jrooc @em-harlsnow@spookygingerr @mickeym4ndy @mickeysgaymom @deathclassic @metalheadmickey @atthedugouts @transmurderbug

[hook-on-fandoms]

So now that we know that Miles was an absolute idiot I need to know what that that spray was.

When I first watched the movie I thought it was just a hand wavey thing to explain no masks later while showcasing his power through how rich and smart he was. But he isn't smart. And if they wanted to hand wave the masks they could have just had this in a precovid time or in a no covid world. But they didn't. So what is it.

1) Something someone actually smart made that has some actual chance against covid.

2) Something someone conned Miles into thinking would work against covid so used on friends so could hang out like normal.

3) Random ass throat spray that does nothing that Miles had his people spray into guests mouths and say don't need masks anymore cause Miles believes he is too good to have to deal with covid safety or his friends comfort on it. And people see him as this ultra smart and rich guy so noone would question how he got that.

Honestly I go with 3 cause it goes into his personality and how he is viewed most. He said they didnt have to worry about covid so they didnt cause he is uber smart enough to figure out a cure and has the resources to have some batches made up while mass batches are being figured out but curious what others think.

Feel free to add other things it could have been.

[gerardpilled]

i will say that there's a new wave of people going to their first concerts post covid that have zero respect for concert etiquette and as a result far more people are getting their shit rocked without even participating in the pit

not really the fault of the artists onstage, but i really do appreciate when bands take a moment to talk about pit etiquette or call people out for doing shitty stuff

at a show recently, i fell and rather than getting helped back up, i got trampled and my glasses were mangled and I had to crawl to the edge of the pit before I could manage to get up without being pushed back down

and ive seen this band before and fans have never been That discourteous in a pit before

I think there's a certain feeling that "oh if you can't take it, get out of the pit" that fit precovid because the fans who knew how to act at concerts would defend each other from the assholes who just came to beat people up, and now it doesn't fit because there's a majority of people who don't know how to act and use "if you can't take it, get out of the pit" as a way to justify themselves actively attacking people in the pit

idk if im even getting my point across but i miss how shows were pre-covid tiktok brainrot

hmmmm... i think yes and no in terms of this being related to covid. personally i have not really experienced any sort of behavior you're describing here because nearly every show i go to is for a band with 0 online following in the form of a fandom or whatever. the crowds are usually a wide range of ages, which helps to teach good behavior simply by example. I fell down in a crowd a few months ago and immediately got picked up by a guy in his 30s. My partner (who is 5'2) goes to a bunch of shows and also has never not gotten picked up, so i think it depends on the artist and who they attract. Now, that doesn't mean it's anyone's fault if the artist happens to attract people who are unhelpful. I agree, it wouldn't hurt for the artists to remind people how to act. In the particular case at the ls dunes show, apparently they did do some PSAs throughout the night so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I do agree that shows in general have become more of an individualist rather than community event for some people.

[compassionatereminders]

Yeah the reason it's so hard for people to get ADHD medication is because they have such a strong reputation for being used recreationally. Obviously in an ideal world it wouldn't be an issue. But it took me literally 2 years to be prescribed adhd medication because there was apparantly a "pandemic" (their words, it was precovid though) of people selling their medication. So even though you're not the one denying me the medication (which is where the blame lies) I think it's disingenuous to claim that your actions don't have an impact.

It's impossible to live in a way that's even close to being 100% ethical bc society is fucked and people need to be able to have fun. But personally I consider it in very poor taste to argue that by boasting about doing these stimulants you're somehow contributing to the destigmatization of drugs. If you believe your words/actions have the power to contribute to this goal, why do you refuse to accept that they also have the power to provide ammunition for those who seek to restrict access?

Basically I just don't think any individual drug user should be blamed for the systemic societal issues and laws surrounding drug use. I think that making the argument "your decisions about drug use is creating the stigma" is part of the problem. Yes, my words can be used as ammunition for people who want to blame individual people for systemic discrimination, but I think we need to move past the "you are ruining this for others with your own personal behavior" and settle on "society and criminalization is ruining this for everyone." And I think that me being pro drug use visibly and openly on this blog does more good than harm. You are free to disagree. But I don't think ADHD medication would be easier to access if I didn't post about drugs. And I think part of the issue is that we are still blaming individual drug users for the stigma surrounding drug use.

[roseredsnow]

Day 45!

19th June 2023 (posting 21st)

As mentioned in the last post about my Guerilla garden some people started hanging out in my spot and leaving rubbish and the remains of a fire behind.

So I went back to pick up the litter and was pleasantly surprised to see some, but not all picked up so I got the rest.

Since I took an entire bin bag down and didn't end up with as much as I thought I went to another spot I knew had a fire at and cleaned up round there and on the way found some mushrooms.

I Google inage searched and turns out they're artists fungi.

Years ago I think precovid a load of trees were chopped down just behind where I'm standing in this picture, were it not for the big log on the end I remember getting pictures on in a cosplay shoot with a friend I wouldn't of recognised the area because it's now full of plants growing tall again.

I want to find some native plants to put in my spot since my wildflowers failed but currently not having much luck in regular shops so may have to expand my search.

[madisonrooney]

hm. so. thinking about the fact that my last normal interaction with dove precovid was april 2019. with my first time meeting her being august 2015, that meant our initial "relationship" lasted about 3 and a half years. ive met her twice post-quarantine and its not that they werent both heartwarming interactions (the second more than the first as we had more time to talk) but i never like. FULLY got to reintroduce myself and i always psych myself into thinking "oh she doesnt realize who i am unless i like 200% confirm it."

so. our initial relationship lasted 3 and a half years. and its now been more than 5 since it "ended." that recently occurred to me and i like. dont know how to feel about it. i used to complain all the time about how much i missed her, which sounds really entitled but it mostly came from how many liv and maddie tapings i was supposed to go to that got cancelled and how every time id get hyped to see her again only to find out i wasnt sometimes only a day or two in advance but then id convince myself "next time itll happen!" and most of the time it didnt. not to mention, even tho the tix were free, they were a pain in the ass to get. if my math serves me, i think had all the tapings happened as they were supposed to, i wouldve met her more times total in JUNE 2016 than i have now. which is insane to me.

is it weird that i almost. miss the feeling of missing her. bc lately ive just been feeling numb about practically everything. my sadness isnt as intense nor is my happiness. i almost want to feel that sadness just to feel SOMETHING. not to mention its not a sadness thats based in guilt or like me doing something wrong or her doing something wrong, it was just circumstance based. and it came out of love for her.

its just crazy to me that we cultivated that relationship and now i have to wonder if im ever gonna get it back? i cant imagine itll ever be the same as it was then just cuz her being in two big disney franchises allowed for a lot of opportunities like that but just to talk with her again and refresh her memory would mean a lot.

the only times ive seen her post-quarantine were at the cameron boyce foundation gala so not exactly public events. when WILL she do a public event again? sure shes had concerts which ive gone to but we didnt MEET at them. so i havent had a normal meet and greet with her since 2019!!!!

i just. hope restarting things with her is in the cards for me. bc if 19-20 year old me knew where were at now, it would break her heart.

[twopoppies]

I imagine Harry will have similar people as the last Brit’s where they had full tables (so precovid) It was kid harpoon and his wife, tyler Johnson and his wife and probably Jeff and Glenne and maybe Brandon creed and his partner. Just depends on how big are the tables.

I can’t remember the last time I watched the Grammys (other than last year with the weird Covid restrictions). I didn’t even remember them ever having tables.

Anyway, I think you’re talking about his table at The Brits when he was in the yellow suit? But that list of people makes sense, depending on the size of the table. I think Tom and Tyler are nominated anyway, so I’d imagine they’d be there.

[sizzlingpatrolfox]

What do you think about tae and jk doing lives just before jm drops something? I’m very annoyed tbh. Instead of the fandom focusing solely on jm before/after the teasers, the fandom is talking about what was said in the lives(in jk’s case his mood/mental health) like the timing of that live was just shitty because my timeline was filled with translations and pics and people crying over him crying and only pjms and a few big accounts actually made jm’s release a priority! At this point i wish for jm to make a lot of new fans outside of army because he deserves a lot better

The way my first thought was "they don't even know something is dropping today", for both times lmao. I just really don't expect them to be up to date with any schedule and was surprised that he said that. Part of me thinks people were talking about the teaser in the comments and not that he knew it by heart, but if he did knew, okay cool.

I think the people that were waiting for Jimin's teaser still tuned in as soon as it was released, and shared about it and talked about it. I don't think Jungkook's live would've been a "distraction" for those that actually wanted to watch the teaser. If they happened to show more interest in Jungkook's live it wasn't because they were distracted, it just means they cared more about JK / the live.

He does need to make new fans that aren't army because armys

1) never cared about solo careers

2) most of them are taekookers that want to see Jimin literally dead

3) never cared that much about Jimin

Jimin was always treated by army like an extension of the other members and the weakest link just because he's caring and supportive. Most of them were seriously expecting JK or Taehyung to come out with music before Jimin ever did, and couldn't believe that Jimin had actually created something by himself. Nobody needs "fans" like that ✋.

Another big reason is that the armys that used to care the most about music and performances left the fandom in 2020. I hope some of those find out about Jimin's album and come back, because the precovid fandom was actually worth something and really cared about BTS as artists. I mean, the support mono and hope world had??? Nowhere to be seen with their latest albums; with the way the fandom grew in numbers you'd think their MVs and albums would be getting at least twice the attention they've gotten, but well. Most armys nowadays aren't really here for music. Obviously, that's BTS fault primarily because they were the first ones to take the attention away from the music and performances. It's just a lot to be discussed and considered tbh. At some point they'll have to admit that they haven't been making particularly great music either.

[littlemissidontcare]

Does anyone know what this is about???// old fandom drama precovid. If I remember correctly she and 3 other fans ran an IG acct wecareforseb. I think she’s created or changed the name now. Sebastian used to follow the acct but then either unfollowed it or blocked it. I don’t want to spread any rumors about what I heard happened between those who ran the acct. There were multiple sides to the story. In the end after the unfollow/block the original(?) acct holder left IG for awhile but stayed in the fandom. Looks like she wants to start the acct again. But I can confirm Sebastian did follow the page for awhile. All I’ll say is that fandom drama was everywhere at the time and he saw it 👀 and unfollowed/blocked.

[beyondglass]

I think a lot about made up scenarios and what if situations but I think my favorite one to ponder on over the last year has been "what if the world went back to the year 2013 with all the knowledge of 2024?"

Like you go to bed one night and it's tonight in 2024, you wake up and it's today's date in 2013. You still have all the knowledge you have now, just your body is 11 years younger. Everyone has all the knowledge they have now, just their bodies are 11 years younger.

But it goes deeper than that. Anyone who's died after this date in 2013 is alive again, with no memory of being dead or the pain of dying. Their last memory is the last time they were actively alive. Anyone born after this date in 2013 doesn't exist anymore. If your wife died in 2015 and you remarried in 2020 would you go back to your first wife? Would you stick with the one you remarried? If you had a kid with your abusive ex in 2014 would you get back with them and hope you can recreate the child you had come to love and care for over the last 10 years? Or would you accept the loss of the person you loved more than anything?

The world is exactly as it was in 2013. Any businesses that someone had spent their life savings on creating afterward is just gone, even if everyone knew you had that business in 2024 you won't have the money to create it quite yet. Any media made after 2013 doesn't exist yet, it's up to the artist if they want to officially recreate it, but some assholes will inevitably "create" it first and copyright it so the original artist won't have the rights to it.

Also anyone who was a kid in 2013 but an adult in 2024 loses all purpose for a bit until everyone can come to an agreement about them. Legally they're kids right? But they've already gone through school. They've lived on their own, they've had their own kids. Are they supposed to stay with their parents until they're legally of age again? Are they allowed to drink still even though it might fuck up their developing brains?

It's also a precovid world but with all the knowledge of covid. It's a pre trump America so would the Maga crowd fight for him to be able to run another 2 times even though we all know he's already been president before?

Personally for me, I imagine going to bed in my own house in 2024 that I share with my cat and roommates. When I wake up in my parents house in 2013, I'm disoriented. I don't realize exactly where I am at first but I realize I'm not where I'm supposed to be. My alarm clock for school is going off and it's that shrill alarm clock sound rather than the hazbin hotel songs I have set as my daily alarm clock now. It's all very confusing.

I shut the alarm off and see the posters on my wall are completely different than the ones I have in 2024. My green day poster in particular is still on my wall and not torn apart in the trash like the last time I saw it. I hear pants and growls coming from the kitchen and my stomach drops.

I open my bedroom door and across the hall is the bathroom I grew up using, it's walls still covered in a nautical theme. This must be a nightmare i think. The pants grow louder and i even a hear a yip. I turn and see my childhood dogs in the kitchen with a baby gate up so they couldn't escape in the night. I almost fall, on the verge of tears. My dog, milo, died during my first year of college. This couldn't be real.

I let the dogs out, my feet feeling the old carpet on the way. My parents tore this carpet out after i moved out. The walls of the livingroom are still ugly red and brown from my step mom's "south west" phase of decorating. The kitchen walls are a bright yellow in contrast. None of this makes sense.

I hear another alarm- my dad's. His heavy footsteps make their way around his room, and finally into the livingroom. He hasn't noticed the changed house yet. How could he? He lives here. He woke up in the same place he went to sleep last night. What he does notice however is that I am here. His daughter. Who he hasn't seen in 5 years. We stand there in shock staring at each other.

After this whole part I'm not exactly sure what would happen, my parents would either go super extreme and force me to live with them until I'm 18 again so they can control me or they would kick me out and make me find my own way again even though I'm 14. There's really no in-between for them. At first they wouldn't believe the world was back in 2013, they would think i did something to make the house look like it used to until they watched the news and saw the chaos unfold.

As soon as I would get ahold of an internet connected device I would try to find my friends and make sure they're all alright. I would maybe crash with one of them or my brother while the world figures itself out.

[sonicscrewed]

I'm thinking about finishing old fics I kinda left abandoned precovid, bc one, writer guilt and two, there's one in particular I wanna see where it leads me. So, "Superhero" may be getting an update pretty soon. It's been four years, and I'm sorry.

I hope there's still interest and I'm WAY BEHIND on canon, but I want to try. Lol can't even check if I have to fix Bakugou's hero name right now because Ao3 is down.

[strawberri-syrup]

i think the only good decision freshman sky did was start recording a video diary on my old nikon. i was looking at a vid from last june and idk. its really cool to me that i can track my growth as a person this easily. i started recording it precovid which is just. wild to think about

[jacks-tracks]

Dental Dance

The infected tooth did respond somewhat to the antibiotics, reduced swelling and pain, but still not better, so back to see the dental surgeon. Oh yes, must cut! Seemed like she shot freezing in 10 different places. Happily she put a surgical mask over my face , leaving a hole for my mouth. it was calming to not see the scalpel, drill or various scrapers and diggers, just feel the pressure as she snapped of bits of tartar. The repair involved "planing" the tooth roots, and coating them with a gel purported to enhance bone regrowth. Might be snake oil, might be a new breakthrough, anyway i was stuck in the chair so I agreed to the extra cost. She chopped off some infected tissue, stiched the gums back in place, and all in all spent an hour. Cost? 4500 pesos ie $300canadian dollars. The gums are sore, bleeding a bit, but hopefully this part of health"" plan Mexico is over.

Covid in the house. Mass breakfast(25) and somebody was infectious. Matt, Lesley,Tom, all tested positive. We survivors are keeping our distance. Add in the 4 scorpions, and a chance of Dengue mosquitoes,a rash of termites, and the usual parade of ants... Mexico!

Frankly, being sick for 2 weeks has dampened my enthusiasm. No Swimming(bloody cold pool), eating soup and chopped food, masses of Mexican tourists swamping Super Che and crammed combis. Yesterday i walked west to catch a combi at the Agencia before they filled. I got a seat, then crowds crammed on. 25 people in a pickup truck! I put on my mask... It 's interesting to remember that once illness passes that feeling good is so normal. Looking forward to that!

Christmas was OK. BBQ at the pool(precovid) on Christmas eve, then a fish dinner with 2 couples on Christmas day. Surprisingly there were no fireworks, bandstands or all night Yahoo. Saving all that for New Years? I did think about Jan and all the wonderful Christmas festivitys she hosted. Super traditional dinners, Christmas mornings with presents for all, cheer and fun. Sad to lose all that forever. Sad to be alone, even with friends around, missing the love. Sigh!

not to be gloomy! I'll book my next year here, and get tickets for the flight down while they are still affordable. I feel I need the sunshine , warmth, and variety that I get here. Sure don't miss the snow/rain/dark!