#try to explain to your doctor

[blood-bla-bla]

I went to the Doctor's today and didn't cry. I think I deserve some candy and a sticker now.

[whatsfourteenupto]

does fourteen play videogames with the noble family

I feel like no one in the house is much more than a casual gamer, but Fourteen will occasionally pick a system out of That Box (you know, the cardboard one nearly every family has stashed in a closet or garage with all those out-of-date electronics) and fix it up. It started one day when he was bored and eyeballing the blender, and Donna found Rose’s old Nintendo DS in a drawer and told them there was a game on it where you could just play with cute dogs, if they could get it working. It keeps their hands busy, and it’s good fun for everyone when random old games get dusted off.

[ghost-bison]

pin those pathetic vicars against one another and see who wins

[chicago-geniza]

Exhausted and blurry again. Feel like my brain has cataracts. Lymph nodes are painful and swollen and I have a fever so might just be regular person illness crashing against chronic fatigue. Need to order groceries since I can't go to the store. This feels a little bit scary actually have not had fatigue with "flulike symptoms" for awhile, or that lactic-acid-sour, petrified-wood-sensation thing where my muscles Won't Move when I tell them to because they're preemptively spent, as though I have already done intensive aerobic exercise. I can't lift my arms!

[altarfates]

hoping and praying that they do a med review for me this week and i can actually sleep for more than four hours again it's been two weeks i am actively perishing.

[jaffre]

doctor confirmed that 👉 this guy 👈 got pcos and i just got an implant to at the very least get my whacky periods under control and hopefully get them to stop entirely

[bayrut]

severance ahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[entropysanyt]

what

[percabeth4life]

Update on ability to write! My arm is still fucked, doctor and surgeon confirm it's fucked, but it's probably fixable so I'm getting surgery in the next few weeks (still have to schedule). It should be a 4-6 week recovery so won't be able to really write until the end so at least 2 more months but! Getting there!

[ivy-saurs]

i should not have asked my mum for a lift to my hospital appointment today bc she used it as another opportunity to blame my antidepressants for making me so tired all the time

[freakystinky]

the way tumblr talks about medicine makes me wonder how many of us here actually have critical thinking skills

[clowndensation]

LKJFDLSDKFJLSDK trying to explain to a doctor what my prescription issue is when i have no understanding of how prescriptions are formulated went. um. well everything was okay by the end (thumbs up emoji). and my doc definitely didn't assume i was doing something shady with my testosterone for the first 5 minutes of that call when i fumbled explaining what the issue was.

[savage-rhi]

Me: telling my coworker I have a full-on internal fungus making me sick

Him: JAY, THINK. WWJD.

Me: what would Jesus do?

Him: no, you need to accept Joel Miller into your heart we're WAY past Jesus.

Me:

[demonir]

Hindsight is an absolute CURSE because why the day after I watched series 11 episode 7 Kerblam! I am finding MORE things I don't like about it!!!!!!! it's pissing me the hell off!!!!

On paper I'm fine with it, on paper I like some of the ideas. but my fucking god it gets increasingly hard to ignore what bothers me as time goes on and I know I'm cursing a lot rn, bear with me I'm just frustrated. Baby's first Doctor Who fanfiction is what this feels like, you have the basics you know the beats but you missed something and you're being biased. Don't get me wrong I am never going to claim that I can do better than a professional paid writer for a show, we tend to feel like we can do better ourselves AFTER the fact of having seen something we deem disappointing when in reality if we had to come up with that from scratch like they did we might not have necessarily done better

I don't think I would have done better, but I would have done different and I sure as fuck would not have defended fucking space amazon!!!!!!!!!!! What the hell was that!!!!!!!!! Way too many details about this bother me in a way that just gets the nitpicking part of my brain to start throwing a tantrum and getting mean and it might be charming when the Doctor goes off on a rant but I'm not a fictional character I am a real person and I'm gonna sound like an absolute ass.

You make a point of Kerblam looking like a questionable and evil company who only has 10% (about 10,000 workers according to the lady) of its workforce be living beings because that's the minimum required by law when other characters mention how hard it is to stay afloat in the current economy and they can't find jobs? And you want me to fucking be okay with that by the end because they gave their employees paid leave after the incident and this one character will push to increase the amount of living workers (if she can) so everything is okay bc the boss and the assistant do care! they care so much guys! so does the sentient system software! It's not like they ultimately are still working for the benefit of the company and the system IS capable of killing it's employees and the current status quo has not been changed in the slightest and probably won't for a long fucking time! What were the consequences of the big bad guy's actions this episode? Oh the big company pause operations for 2 weeks, that's all, they'll be back to making a stupidly gross amount of money in no time after.

They did not make me feel like Charlie was in the wrong for wanting to get innocent people killed, they made me feel like Charlie was in the wrong for being upset about a system where people are lucky they can clean a floor for minimum wage even though they spent years prior getting a phd and how that can drive someone to the point of a violent retaliation. Utterly fucking dystopian.

Don't get me wrong, Charlie's plan was fucking stupid but rather than have the Doctor put Charlie in his place by doing things in a far better way she just... let him get blown up and left.

They could have still blown up all the bots inside their own building, cause a massive loss for Kerblam as a company. Force them into having to hire people to rebuild it's workforce and then force them to keep it that way if these so called boss and assistant (i know her job title was smth else i cant remember rn) do care as they say they do.

Am I just stupid? too anti capitalist? I'm tired man, I really do not wish to annoyingly complain about everything that has is or will bother me abt dr who (in general) but maybe im too easily bothered lately and this felt like salt on the would given the current state of the global economy and job availability specially in regards to AI taking jobs. But truly why would I not expect the series that's been going on for over 60 years and has a massive following to not have the interest of big companies in mind? They'll profit from capitalism, they'll profit from amazon shipping their merch everywhere, I'm sure they have some stupid ass kerblam man merch out there as well, to add insult to injury.

I'll try to keep this as the only complaining post I'll do, if I make more it will be for a bunch of episodes together rather than one post per episode. I do not want to add to the pile of people complaining about the 13th Doctor because at the end of things she is still very important to me in many ways, there are lots I like, there are even some things I did enjoy from this episode.

There's enough bad stuff with her face on it, I want to spread more good than there is bad. It's what she'd want.

[vvelegrin]

these are exercises in assertiveness. these are exercises in not being a fucking doormat. it's good practice. i promise it's good practice.

(AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH)