#tw opiates

[wormfood2001]

im just a girl Zzz

[hydromorphcontinxr]

3 day bender wow. not mine btw these are my friends im a smoker

[emetoandotherthings]

I honestly never understood how people could want to take opiates until I experienced chronic pain... They may be addictive, but if I can bloody function for more than 20 minutes I'll take it

[agirlwholoveswhite]

got 60mg of codeine out this time with the cwe method

[cartoonscientist]

im being the dumbest fucking stoner right now bc I’m supposed to be taking Vicodin right now and it does really help with my pain and internal bleeding but I keep putting off my doses because, I shit you not, “opiates are for depressed losers, they’re not a transformative substance, I realize I’m not taking them recreationally but the vibe just bums me out”

[intheholler]

Hi!!! Love your blog and love Appalachia so much, even though I was only there for college for four years and not really in more places other than that one (the triad in nc)

Here's a very large text block with my in-depth lore ponderings relating to the book I'm writing

Today's question relates to worldbuilding! I'm coming up with lore and culture for a fictional city in a book I'm writing, and most of the city is Western European French and like Bucharest, Romania as well as Victorian London. The city is also very very steeped in immigrant culture. While there's original folk sources and original pagan lore, a lot of colonialism happened from Western Europe type countries as well as a lot of cultural shifts due to immigrants becoming a staple of the population so it's become something new.

However, I also wanted to add in a lot of American culture and I really want to know more about Appalachia / know it gets a bad rep. Currently the poorer parts of the city (or at least the working class, factory neighborhoods and the mining neighborhoods) are more towards Appalachian culture but I want to avoid stereotypes and make the culture and lore feel more natural to the grand scheme of things. I'm also thinking this is an older culture from when the city was still being founded and when the city was still frontier and the colonialism hadn't fully kicked in (ie when the land was first getting settled)

Are there any resources you can share for learning about the culture / writing the culture into the lore, and any tips you may have / opinions on how I can make this work while also being respectful?

Thank you!!!

hi there <3 lord knows how long this has been rotting in my asks and i'm so sorry

thanks for wanting to include some positive representation (however esoteric) about appalachia in your novel.

when i get these asks i always like to say, to avoid stereotypes in your writing, think about why those stereotypes exist.

why do we have such an opiate problem? why is our health so poor? why do we have a 'we don't like outsiders' reputation?

appalachian culture is really broad and diverse of course because we span across a pretty enormous section of the country. for example, coal mining is one of the things that most popularly gets associated with appalachia, but where i'm from in appalachian north carolina, mines aren't so much a thing.

but i think one big takeaway from appalachian culture that is pretty consistent throughout is community and hard work. labor rights, labor fights, helping ur neighbor.

we tend to be blue collar, union-positive working class and that sets a pretty stable foundation for a lot of our cultural traits. as in the way we are very community-minded and getting our hands dirty to keep ourselves afloat and use what's left over to keep our neighbors going. sometimes, the reverse of that actually. appalachians are hospitable and generous to a fault

if you wanted to represent appalachia without falling back on stereotypes, a self-supporting community that really values community itself could be a good landing place.

in the format of my earlier advice: why do we have an "us/them" (misconception?) reputation for keeping to ourselves? it's not that we inherently 'hate outsiders.' it's because we had no choice but to be reliant on our communities historically due to being geographically isolated in the mountains without easy access to resources. because the rest of the country turned its back on us many moons ago and so we had to turn to each other.

hope this helps some <3

[diamorphinedreams]

My Writing

All My Creative Writings About my Life so far

TW mentions of: s3x work, s3xu@L abuse, r4pe, manipulation, drüg abuse, PTSD, su!c!d3, s3lf h@rm of all types, commercial s3x 3xploitation, recounts of graphic experiences working as a paramedic

Alongside the terror there is also love, hope, understanding, revolution, and love for humanity. I write to process the experiences that led to my PTSD diagnosis, I compile them on this secret Tumblr page that nobody who knows me in real life knows about. If you read my writing please make sure to take care of you. You are so important to us all. Humanity is my family and there are billions of us.

When I was, You were not; now that You are, I am not. ੴ

[rockstarlwt28]

TW / Soberity, Drugs, Opiods.

TWO YEARS SOBER TODAY!!!! 🥳

[wormfood2001]

hero?ne dreams

[bun-parade]

My mom keeps telling me how I could score a really high paying government job if I stopped smoking weed. But weed is literally the only thing the helps with my chronic pain. If I stop smoking, I'll have to go on opiates and I know that I'll get addicted. So like. Weed.

[fentanyl-rabbits]

I pray for the warm feelings

[agirlwholoveswhite]

tried the cwe method to get the codeine out (40 mg)

[cagedchoices]

VERSE INFO - RED DEAD REDEMPTION

AGE: 35

OCCUPATION: Farmer, but like. Not good at it

SETTING: Various — The Years 1899-1907

Caleb is an ex-soldier, one haunted by his past indiscretions in being drafted to fight in the Messiah War (or RDR-universe equivalent), a battle between the US Army and Indigenous American tribes in which the federal government broke established treaties and provoked many tribes into violent retaliation to justify attacking them in response.

At first, Caleb doesn't know any better, he's a boy of 19 manipulated heavily into thinking he's doing the right thing, coerced into following orders that go against his moral compass. He's prescribed opium by his unit's army doctor to cope with his resulting anxieties. Gaslighted about certain actions the army carried out. Told these things never happened at all or were performed by someone else and that the army is blameless. He gets the feeling this isn't true, but can't prove it. He relies even heavier on opium usage and becomes addicted.

Caleb's superior officers know it’s only a matter of time before he goes looking for answers to questions he shouldn’t ask, and they figure he’s so dulled by the drug, he won't even notice when they command another soldier to fire on him. The shot doesn’t kill him as intended, but it solves their problem anyway as Caleb can’t go poking around in military affairs anymore.

After he recovers from the wound, Caleb is given an honorable discharge and granted a homestead to settle at, where he tries to leave the past behind and build a new life for himself as a farmer. He's pretty new to farming and ranching, and maybe not completely hopeless at it, but definitely very inexperienced. A plot of land near Cumberland Forest isn’t really the best for someone just starting out, either.

To get by, he turns to work outside of farming. He doesn't really care who he's working for as long as they don't harm people he perceives as innocent. Sometimes that sense of innocence includes certain types of criminals.

Caleb is skilled with a wide variety of firearms due to his training from being a soldier, his preferred sidearm is a classic Cattleman Revolver (which I *think* is based on the Colt Peacemaker aka Single Action Army Revolver and would've been standard issue for military servicemen in the 1880s but. don't quote me on that).

His preferred longarm is the Lancaster Repeater (based on the Winchester Yellow Boy Carbine Rifle)

Whereas in Westworld, morality tends to be highlighted using the classic black hat/white hat dichotomy traditionally seen in western media, the RDR universe tends to base its view of morality on the dichotomy of red and blue instead (although some hat symbolism is still present and sometimes subverted i.e. Micah wears a white hat but is villainous). Honorable/morally ‘good’ characters often wear blue (i.e. Hosea, Charles, Javier, etc.) and dishonorable/morally ‘bad’ characters wear red (i.e. Micah, Bill, Dutch, etc.). (Plus depending on Arthur's honor level when you buy the Whittemore suit in “A Fine Night of Debauchery” you get the blue tie and vest if you have high honor or the red tie and vest if you have low honor.)

In keeping with this theme, Caleb is seen as a good man, an honorable character, and wears some blue. Otherwise, most of his everyday clothes are honestly just various shades of brown, gray, and off-white.

[ninelivesastrology]

One of the boundaries I made for myself, especially as a mother is not to allow myself to have friends with active substance addiction disorder. I remember venting to my friend about my abuser's meltdowns when he was drinking and she was taking it personally as if I was talking about her. Maybe it wasn't a good choice, I didn't know she struggled with alcohol and other shit.

I learned the hard way that sometimes when you're the friend that doesn't have issues like that, your friends with those issues can resent you especially when you talk about how your boyfriend needs to be in recovery and that you feel trapped and scared and you want to leave because it reminds them of the damage their own addictions inflict on their relationships.

I don't drink anymore for so many reasons and I never had a problem with it. It was her that made me decide on this. I feel like I come across as the "responsible" person and she expected me to solve all her issues because she was incapable of doing it herself. When I rejected her, she started spreading rumors about how I was the addict because she sent me admissions of her various addictions. Sure, Jan. The film projector wants its job back. I just didn't realize until now that you end up appearing as guilty by association.

Even other addicts resent addicts in recovery. They say they don't start recovery unless they want to and if such hatred was directed my way for not being an addict, I can only imagine what it's like for someone that's been in recovery.

I told my therapist I don't like being the victim of someone's insecurities and that's why I decided on this boundary. You know, I don't think I could be a mom and have a friend group full of addicts. I'm dissecting why they throw themselves at me.

In addition, my husband's mother is an opiate addict of over 30 years and she took my lack of interest in drugs as a personal attack and helped spread those rumors, too.

She even tried to see if she could manipulate me into drinking spoiled milk because she wanted to see if I would blindly do what she said. I knew why she did it because she preys on people and introduces them to opiates and has a long history with other substances. I made half-jokes that she's the person they warn about for putting drugs in kids' Halloween candy, but it's not really a joke.

Sigh, much to think about.

[angeldustanalog]

THIS IS NOT YOUR DOMAIN, BEGONE HEATHEN

[cyb3rph0bik]