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Primary Doctors Near Me: Professional Healthcare for All

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[unityghost]

Things idiots do: try to save a mouse in a sticky trap and get bitten and bleed all over the floor at work

Things I do: see above

[pastelsapphy]

addition to the list of travel injuries: tripped while wearing heels on grass. chipped a bone in my ankle

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Emergency Dental Care: Immediate Relief for Tooth Pain and Accidents

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[shivroy]

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Can you help Sarah and her family by sending a donation and sharing this post with a friend or family member? 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Mohammed Almanasra, his wife Manal, his son Abdulrahman, and his daughters Sarah and Lynn are in urgent need of donations. 

They are living in a tent which does not protect them from heat or cold, and are without water, food, medical care, clothing, and bedding. Mohammed suffers from chronic asthma and cannot access and afford his medication. His wife has cancer which requires immediate medical attention. His children are subject to the heat, the cold, hunger, and insects. 

This family needs your support. @save-mohamed-family

only tagging you for reach, i hope it's no bother - i love and appreciate you all

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[save-mohamed-family]

Thank you for documenting my campaign from the following accounts:

@ibtisams @soon-palestine @sar-soor @90-ghost @fairuzfan @ibtisams @fallahifag @northgazaupdates

I am Mohammed Almanasra, 32 years old, married, and a father of three children: Abdulrahman, 6 years old, Sarah, 4 years old, and Lina, 3 years old.

My story began with the loss of my parents and four of my sisters who were bombed and lost their lives along with their children after the events of October 7 and the severe war on Gaza. Now, my wife, children, and I are displaced, without parents or siblings, living with our little cat that we embrace among us.

Recently, I moved to the south of the Gaza Strip, fearing for the lives of my children. We left behind our memories and our new home, for which we had not finished paying the installments, in addition to losing my job. Currently, I live in a tent that does not protect me from the heat of summer or the cold of winter, and without the minimum necessary livinng basics including water, food medical care, clothe and even bedding .

I suffer from a chronic asthma and severe attacks from tightness and an extreme allergy in the ear and I need medicine that are not available, or very expensive .

Under these difficult circumstances, after five attempts at displacement and narrowly escaping death from the bombing, I am trying with all my might to protect my family, the most precious thing I have.

My dreams were shattered, and my house was destroyed, and I found myself living in a tent no larger than 4 square metres. My work turned from a tailor to a street vendor in order to barely buy a few crumbs of bread to feed my children.

My main goal with this donation is to protect my children, my wife, and our scaredy cat and evacuate them to a safe place away from the ongoing wars. The funds will be used to cross the Egyptian border and bring basic needs and treatments to create a more stable conditions for my family. Approximately $18,000 will be allocated for travel expenses, and around $6,000 for securing suitable housing for a couple of months.

As for the medical treatment costs, the exact figure will be determined after undergoing examinations in hospitals in the Arab Republic of Egypt & it gonna be in average $8,000. The remaining amount ($8,000) will be used to establish a small project to sustain our daily living, enabling me to provide for my children and wife.

Look at what happened to my children because of the intense heat and the insects that thrive in the summer season. Every day, I take them to the hospital to treat them due to poisonous insect bites. I implore every kind-hearted soul to help me protect my children.

My son, Abdul Rahman, has a deep passion for playing football and is a devoted fan of Real Madrid. He always dreamed of playing football at his school, but the war prevented this dream from coming true.

Where are you, Real Madrid fans ?

Help Abdul Rahman achieve his dream.

I feel very sad and embarrassed to ask for help, but I have no other options left. I know that this request is difficult, but I also know that there is still humanity and living consciences and I believe in miracles.

If you have any inquiries or questions, feel free to ask me, please!

"I urgently appeal to you for moral and financial assistance to cover the necessary costs to escape to a safe environment, where we can build a secure future for our children and ensure the safety of our family. We thank you for your concern and support, and we hope that you can help us in these difficult circumstances."

Sincere greetings & thanks

Mohammed & the family

[jmdbjk]

Mental gymnastics...

I am flipping out. That's all. Just my brain doing cartwheels and whatever those things are called where you flip between those high bars and let go for a breathless second and then grab onto reality again. Or this...

Too much Olympics these past few weeks I guess... anyway.

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT! I may or may not mention scenes in detail and their outcomes during these long rambling messy posts beginning with the next sentence.

Before I get into it... kudos to the staff for keeping up with these two and for suffering many extremely anxious moments as Jimin and Jungkook drove themselves through NYC, as Jungkook and then both Jimin and Jungkook rode the motorcycle through traffic, and the few heart stopping moments when JK flipped his kayak over and then they took off down the river alone before staff caught up with them. Not to mention probably looking up the nearest ER/urgent care facility in case Jimin got too dehydrated from his bout with the stomach bug.

Seriously though, their lives and global headlines had to flash before their eyes when JK disappeared underwater under that kayak... so big applause for the staff/production crew for not shitting THEIR pants thirteen times too.

So here are some of my thoughts. I'll begin with the first episode...

Episode 1:

In the opening scene, I'm assuming this is Antoya Korean BBQ restaurant. They were talking about JK's sore throat and that he had to visit a medical facility. Jimin kept on about it. It seemed like JK's "stop babying me" attitude bubbled up a little bit. Let them be them. As you can see, JK adjusted Jimin's beanie so he could see his eyes. They were fine.

Pause and reflect: they didn't know what to expect with this idea of a travel show. The moment above happened on Thursday evening, July 13. Both of them were working. Jimin was still working on his concepts, photos, MV and whatnot, planning to finish everything for Muse in the coming months. Jungkook had a full schedule for promoting Seven which was dropping the next day. He had to get up early for Good Morning America concert in the park.

I'm stating all this for point of reference. Nothing is static. JK was in work mode: he had a performance the next day and also not feeling well himself. Jimin had been on a plane for 14 hours. Just keep these things in mind before jumping to conclusions.

In the next scene (the next day) back at the hotel after JK's done with his performance and when he's packing to go on this trip he's all in and ready to go. Hurry up Jimin!

Jimin asked him how the live performance went. As we know, the GMA live performance was mostly rained out. Before the storm came through, they quickly pre-recorded the performances before it would have been time for the live broadcast and then shut it down. Jungkook had to be driven quickly to the studio to be interviewed to fill the leftover time in the program that more of his live performance would have taken up.

Hearing Jungkook say "this isn't my first rodeo" was never going to be on any bingo card in my lifetime.

I don't know what he was scribbling on that iPad but it looked geometric. He was focused. Maybe it was something for the next week's performance, maybe it was a sketch for music show staging, trying to recreate that flower archway they saw at Antoya the night before? maybe he was doodling in Canva... we don't know.

Me either, Jimin... (this was the first of all the hilarious gems that begin to shower down on us).

They are both known to be perfectionists when it comes to their work. And we know they've also both performed when feeling less than 100% on that stage. Jungkook realized there were circumstances beyond his control and he took it in stride.

FYI, in New York City, they stayed at the Loews Regency on E. 61st Street in Manhattan. It is between Madison Ave. and Park Avenue and not far from Central Park. Swanky. The suite looks like the 2-bedroom "Park Avenue Suite" and runs $2100 a night... gasp. Yes, its the same suite where JK did his live after his rained upon GMA appearance. During this live he mentioned being poked with needles, IV's and shots in the butt as well as teasing us with what would become Are You Sure:

No, I don't think Jimin stayed in this suite with JK. Jimin's room had a smaller bathroom and a shower curtain instead of a glass shower door. Staff with camera woke him up.

To be that beautiful when rolling out of bed... anyway, I digress...

It truly was unplanned and spontaneous as if they were doing this with the idea of "let's try it and see if it can be viable." Even Jimin wasn't sure if any of this could be aired.

Once they got in the Jeep they started to find their groove. Being alone, just them, was what they needed. They could focus on what was ahead of them. The driving moments were some of the best for me.

We eventually learn that Jimin wasn't feeling well and I'm certain this is what Jungkook was telling Yoongi during that episode of Suchwita, along with the elbowing in the nose.

Seems like Jimin's stomach trouble started when they were at the first restaurant, the burger place. The bathroom visits continued at the brewery and into the evening at the campsite.

Jimin had some sort of stomach bug that kept him on the toilet a lot and he ran a little bit of a temp. I am sad that he wasn't feeling 100% when they were on the yacht the next day but he still seemed to enjoy it enough to find the humor in his situation. He was a real trooper.

It sure didn't stop him from eating. My man was very brave in that regard. Me... no way I'd be stuffing my face with a big greasy burger when at any moment I might need to make a run for the toilet.

They get back on the road and these are the moments that I wait for:

After arguing in satoori about who is the worst driver between them, they start shopping at Dick's.

And get recognized...

After shopping excursion at Dick's, they finally head to High Nine Brewery...

Jimin's first sample wasn't to his taste (again). His taste buds were probably a little off since he had the stomach thing going on... but JK's eyebrows say that his sample was pretty good.

They finally settle on a hard seltzer and a pale ale and relax for a little bit. Jungkook is still wondering what would make good subject matter to film. They are truly making it up as they go...

Jimin proceeds to explain and an interaction happens and I am not sure what to think about it:

I am going to end this post here because they are now on their way to the kayaks and that segment deserves its own post and I have too many screen shots of it to fit in this post.

[These are all my own opinions about what I am seeing and hearing them say and from what I am observing from the video. It's ok if your opinion is different from mine.]

[femmefatalevibe]

What does a day in your life look like?

Hi love! Great question because it's equally mundane and exciting.

On Weekdays:

I usually wake up around 8 AM and immediately start brewing my coffee (I couldn't survive without my 2 large mugs of black coffee daily – it's my most productive addiction lol);

Do the whole bathroom/skincare routine, chug 1-2 large glasses of water, and change into my "workwear" for the day (I WFH, so that's usually some sort of black knit set or structured sweatshirt, especially on Fridays); Put on light daily makeup, brush hair, etc.

Read through a few newsletters to my shuffle or French instrumental music (Morning Brew, The Skimm, Business of Fashion, Glossy, among others but these are the daily ones)

Check my email and plan my day (use the Intelligent Change Productivity Planner): I own my own copywriting/editorial business, so I usually have a main task for the day, such as writing a web page, email series, blog post/article, creating a content strategy, press releases, etc. and answer my most important/urgent emails. I try to leave one admin day to deal with most of my contracts/invoicing/calls/Zoom client meetings per week

Some days, I have certain industry events (like press previews, brand or product launches, or shows/presentations during Fashion Week), so I account for those on the days I'm going! My clients are located all over the world (Milan, London, NYC, LA, Sydney, etc.), so most of my face time with them is virtual. Love to see them if they're in town, though!

After working until at least the late afternoon or evening (usually start around 9 am), I'll take a walk or do a pilates workout if it's raining. Then, shower to reset, and take care of any late-day emails or extra work I want to finish for the day before dinner, especially if I take an earlier walk

Finally, I'll change into sweats, have dinner, clean up, do my skincare, go on Tumblr/Pinterest/Insta/Reddit, etc. read some articles then journal and read a bit (unless I scroll on TikTok lol, which happens more than I would like!) with a cup of tea before going to bed. I'm such a night owl naturally, so I've learned to go with it (being in bed by 1 am is an accomplishment for me!).

On Weekends:

Sleep IN (earliest is 9:30-10 AM); Coffee because I'm an addict, whole bathroom/water routine, change into sweats, have a dance party while the coffee gets brewing lol, and read some articles to wake up. Then, it's either chores day – Clean for the cleaner, laundry, organizing, groceries, you know the deal or a free-for-all – going on Tumblr, Netflix, listening to Podcasts, journaling, reading, etc. and always a walk or light workout

** Obviously, I'm missing the meals here but for anyone struggling with an ED or food issues, please know that I DO have 3 meals a day and 1-2 snacks or 2 meals and 2-3 snacks a day. Fuel your body!

Hope this answers your question xx

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Matt Murdock/Karen Page (Karedevil) Masterlist

5 Times Karen Gave Matt His Drink Back and the 1 Time She Didn’t (ao3) - randomfandommusings6 T, 8k

Summary: Exactly what the title says: a 5+1 Karedevil fic.

A New Year's Eve to Remember (ao3) - josiesbar T, 3k

Summary: Foggy convinces Karen and Matt to come to the Nelson New Year's Eve Party.

Bated Breath (ao3) - karedeviltrash M, 46k

Summary: A step forward is suddenly interrupted by an unfortunate event.

Breakable Heaven (ao3) - irelandhoneybee T, 3k

Summary: Matt has been so busy he hasn't realized he's been neglecting Karen, who never expected to be discussing her sexual frustrations with Foggy, who will more than likely need a stiff drink after dealing with these idiots.

By your side (ao3) - Stephics T, 4k

Summary: Karen needs to travel urgently to her hometown (Vermont). Foggy is unable to accompany her, so she has to go with Matt as her last resort. How will things turn out?

Carry Your Heart (ao3) - irelandhoneybee T, 12k

Summary: Foggy and Marci are getting married. Matt and Karen are both members of the wedding party and find themselves growing closer and closer

Checkmate (ao3) - LilyEllison M, 27k

Summary: Investigative reporter Karen Page is annoyed when she’s assigned a fluff piece about a new company that claims to do DNA matchmaking. She thinks the technology sounds like bullshit, and she plans an exposé so customers won’t get scammed. All she has to do is prove some guy named Matt Murdock isn’t her soulmate. Easy, right?

coulda, shoulda, woulda (ao3) - LilyEllison T, 5k

Summary: Prompt from LadyMaigrey: "Matt asking Karen out for the first date post-S3. It could have gone like this / It should have gone like this / But it actually happened like this."

Deep into the Abyss (ao3) - LittleDidTheyKnow E, 35k

Summary: Matt Murdock tries to put his life back together after the series of poor decisions he made during the Punisher trial and his conflict with the Hand. Just when he thinks he's repaired what's been broken, his worst fear is realized.

He finds himself back on the road to self-sabotage and must decide if he can live with the pain he's experienced and find a way to move on, or spiral into a life of solitude.

deja vu (ao3) - LilyEllison M, 11k

Summary: When the fledgling Devil of Hell’s Kitchen meets a local bookshop owner, sparks fly. But what happens when you fall for someone while wearing a mask?

AU. Roughly corresponds to just before Season 1 in show time (for Matt, at least). Written for the Daredevil Exchange 2022 New Year Fanweek, Day 1: The City.

Don’t go where I can’t find you (ao3) - Persehfone G, 800

Summary: Karen didn’t know how many blocks she ran in the rain, but by the time she reached Matt’s apartment she was soaked wet and out of breath

New Beginnings (ao3) - josiesbar T, 13k

Summary: This takes place shortly after season 3. Nelson, Murdock, and Page begin their new law firm. Karen struggles with her feelings for Matt and guilt over past events.

No One in the Streets (ao3) - Meinhiding G, 1k

Summary: Matt and Karen's life during NYC's lockdown.

Objections (ao3) - LilyEllison T, 7k

Summary: Now that they’ve got Nelson, Murdock and Page up and running, Karen is determined to just be friends with Matt. That's the responsible, grown-up business owner thing to do. But if everyone could please stop hitting on him right in front of her, that would be great. (Not that she cares, of course. It’s just ... well, maybe she cares.)

Plus One (ao3) - Meinhiding G, 6k

Summary: Foggy helps Matt reading him his emails. He takes the opportunity to develop a plan to make Karedevil happen.

Starting Over (ao3) - josiesbar T, 10k

Summary: Karen has been trying to deal with all the loss in her life and keep Fisk from getting out of prison, but everything changes when she finds out Matt is alive.

The Closing Curtain (ao3) - Meinhiding E, 3k

Summary: Karen and Matt keep dreaming about being together but they do nothing about it. Foggy is getting tired of their show and gives them a boost.

The Thanksgiving Set-Up (ao3) - Eva_Swan T, 5k

Summary: Foggy, Marci and Maggie had a brilliant idea. Matt and Karen were too stubborn to admit their feelings to each other, so they would set them up with other people... to bring them together. This Thanksgiving would be the best. (Post season 3)

we'll have the same dream (ao3) - clarineta T, 4k

Summary: "And it was nice outside, a nice winter evening, and when he suggested a walk instead of a cab, she didn’t say no. He held his hand against the small of her back as they got out into the street, always finding little ways to touch her, hold her arm, touch her shoulder. She would never complain."

Karen and Matt take a long late night Christmas walk.

"You could come up, if you'd like..." (ao3) - Pikkulef M, 7k

Summary: Litterally, what would have happened if Matt had not been a damn coward and had trusted Karen.

[family-medicine-nyc]

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[donnerpartyofone]

When I read the Marie Kondo book, I was struck by her remark that people who cannot keep their dwellings tidy have often lacked a strong sense of ownership in their lives, of their own places and possessions. This made perfect sense to me; I mean to some degree she's talking about people whose parents always cleaned up after them, which is certainly not my case, but it's definitely true that I have never had a well-developed sense of anything being mine. Even when I was little I was intensely aware that all material things were just breaking down and slipping through my fingers, and maybe I shouldn't get too attached to anything because the heartbreak would kill me. Also I never felt like a real authority in my own life, as if my only importance was relative to other people (specifically, whether I was annoying or inconveniencing or even disgusting someone like, say, my mother). Also the world simply seemed overwhelming and like a place where I would never have authorial power of any kind.

Keeping my room clean was a relentless and unresolved problem until I finally left home for college. In college (a place I really didn't belong) I was neat to the degree that I didn't want to offend my roommates, although I sometimes had roommates who were just as depressed and disorganized as I was, then I was really out of hand. When things got seriously bad for me mentally, I took a semester off in Portland, Maine. There I kept my room like a monk's cell, sweeping the floor every day, making my bed, and generally showing a lot of respect for my surroundings. I loved Portland and although I didn't live alone, it often felt like I did, and I also didn't have any real friends, which may have given me a rare feeling of sovereignty that resulted in my increased organization and cleanliness. When my family visited, they expressed so much astonishment at the state of things that it made me feel embarrassed and angry. It's not great to be told so emphatically that no one can even imagine you taking care of anything, and that it seems like some sort of absurd miracle when you do.

I was pretty messy again when I moved to New York City. Renting crummy apartments all the time doesn't really inspire feelings of respectful stewardship, although I did vacillate between extreme disorder and urgent cleaning episodes. I had never imagined myself in NYC, but I didn't know what else to do with myself besides move in with my dad for a while and try to figure things out. At least I hadn't gone home to my grimy, weird upstate home town, somewhere I never quite belonged; of course I'm marked deeply by the place just because I grew up there, but even among friends I could never really be myself without people assuming I was "just kidding" or something. Some people were very upset that I drifted off on my own, even years later, which I could find complimentary, but the message I got was that I must have thought I was too good for the town and everyone in it and so I went to "live my dreams" in the big city, which is really not a fair or accurate description of what happened to me at all. I never developed a feeling of patriotism for my home, and I also never felt patriotic about New York City; it was just easier for me to be there, at least in some dimensions.

A guy I'll call my ex-boyfriend for convenience, even though it's not a very good description of the relationship (one of my best friends in high school who I tried, disastrously, to date during college before we inevitably drifted apart), was always passionate about our home. I think when you have had a reasonably happy childhood and your teenage years were an exciting daily adventure, then it's easy to love where you grew up. I recently saw a Facebook post from him describing a big civic event (festival? with maybe a political angle?) with the most profound affection for all of the townsfolk, it was beautiful to see the place through his eyes for a moment even though I never experienced what he felt the whole time I lived there. On the other hand, I still keep in touch with one like-minded friend from high school, and although she also moved away she often sends me news items from our home about, like, bullies we used to know who became local politicians and are now in hot water for corruption, or like the major crisis that struck when a gigantic murder of crows came to roost and painted the entire town in bird shit for months on end (I actually don't even know whether this is over or not). Now THAT'S the place I know.

One day I was saying something to my father about my chronic sense of placelessness, and he said, "I know, you'd probably be happy just living in a bucket." I had repeated this to the ex-boyfriend, and he laughed out loud and made a physical gesture that suggested me coiled up in the bottom of a bucket like a snake, glaring up defensively. STAY OUT OF MY BUCKET! I just remembered this and repeated it to my husband, who also laughed out loud at the accuracy of this assessment. It's nice to feel understood, to know that multiple generations of men in my life automatically understand my bucket-dwelling quality.

My husband also moved to the city after school, and he is immensely proud of his many years in Brooklyn. He has a big map of the borough covering one thigh. He knows lots of different neighborhoods well, votes religiously, respects the older generations of our neighbors, cares what happens to the people here. I admire his depth of feeling, even though I can only relate to the part about respecting your surroundings and the people who were there first. The only time I was struck with a powerful sense of belonging was when we moved in together on the border of Red Hook, and began to explore that neighborhood. Red Hook is unusual because it is inaccessible by subway, which is surely part of why it has such a distinct personality. It's basically a tough, gritty little port town, shady and overgrown, with an extremely diverse population that intermingles working class families with rugged artist types. The first time I ever saw it, I was taking a bus at night to some other unfamiliar part of town, and I could see into the open doors of bars and restaurants on the main drag; it looked so beautiful to me, like some forgotten little burgh somewhere that could not possibly have been part of Brooklyn. I probably knew right then, more than a decade ago, that I wanted to live there. When my husband and I moved in next door (around ten years ago in April), I'll never forget the first day we decided to explore the place. We found ourselves sitting in a bar converted from an old bait shop (I once saw someone reach into the mouth of a mounted bass and pull out a cigarette; he explained that it was like a take-a-penny leave-a-penny community thing, and "You never know what brand you're gonna get!") that was covered from floor to ceiling in taxidermy and obscene tchotchkes. I remember sitting by the window staring out at the dusty main drag and passively thinking, "I'm home. I belong here." We eventually had our wedding reception there, having been given brilliant advice on where to have it by the owner of that same bar.

I know that part of the reason I like it so much is that it does actually remind me of my home town, which is extremely perverse of me. The grit, the pleasant shabbiness, the mix of blue collar stoicism and starving artist-ness. It's all so familiar, and sometimes you can become attached to things that are familiar even if they are not connected originally to happiness. They're part of what you know, what you're an expert of, what made you into yourself. I would never move back home (I just told my husband that if I had to for some dire reason I would immediately turn into a scary witch on the outskirts of town), I don't think it was a "great place to grow up" based on my own experience, but now that I have the distance I appreciate it in some way, a way I can only call "perverse". Apparently it has begun to turn into a chic, arty getaway for NYC expats, and every time I run into someone in the city who explains to me how "cool" the place is, I want to turn inside out. It's untrue! Becoming "cool" to those people is the least cool thing that could possibly happen to it! Suddenly I want to rush to its defense and shout down all these accusations of boho hepness. If you think that town is "cool" you're wrong, and you don't belong there, and you should STAY THE FUCK OUT. (I mean don't actually stay out, I'm sure you're great for the local economy, but you're still WRONG)

Anyway. Finally Red Hook is about to become my home for-real. Ever since we signed the lease, it has been calling to me, I want to go there every day even though I don't have anything to do and I'll soon be there all the time. I think I'll live pretty differently once I'm there, with my newfound feeling of ownership. Now I just have to figure out where I can get one of the bumper stickers that we saw the first time we visited, at the famous key lime pie place that was covered in signs and stickers featuring ornery slogans such as:

WELCOME TO RED HOOK

YOU MADE IT. NOW--GIT!

[handfulofmuses]

Earthworm and Centipede is an interesting dynamic in a way because of their difference in personality which often puts them at odds with each other. I do not think that Centipede means any actual harm with his actions. Sometimes, he gets too excited (becoming larger and being able to fight back, so he takes a swing at the worm, but it isn’t really directed at Earthworm, picking him up during his song and spinning) and that causes him to breach some boundaries at times.

Regardless, not everything is on Centipede, the worm plays his part in their complicated relationship. Neither of them pick on the other without reason or do it just because they can.

Which ones are the parts where the two of them get mean with each other? In stressful situations - always when their life depends on it. That honestly makes sense too because people do not make the most reasonable decisions in these moments.

Even during the “LET’S GET OUTTA HERE!!!” it was not exactly without reason or just for fun.

Centipede was shown to be impatient prior to that. He was the one who wanted to take a look and plan their escape from Spiker and Sponge. Although he turned large, his first instinct is survival. “Our escape” and “plan” are the keywords in that one. Plan implies that he wanted to take care of the situation carefully, but when the aunts came near, the centipede had to act fast and sent them rolling away.

Centipede did not turn larger and immediately started fighting them - he wanted to escape. That implies he was still afraid of them.

They waste their time talking for a while and then yells “LET’S GET OUTTA HERE!!!” towards Earthworm. That sounded rather urgent too. He just wants to leave at this point.

As for the two bait scenes, I would like to note the differences in behavior.

For understandable reasons, Earthworm is uncooperative, but Centipede is not doing anything for now and allows James to talk about that with him. When it does not work, he starts tickling. Centipede pulls silly grimaces, laughs too - immature and does not take the situation seriously.

That is a stark contrast to the next bait scene.

Note how Centipede himself was already afraid of the shark. He is shaking, clings to James and asks him “what do we do? what do we do?” He is afraid too.

Centipede is more impatient and frustrated with the situation and under stress as well, so Earthworm refusing to cooperate is delaying them. In an instant he is more irritated about the whole thing. He grabs the worm who is trying to escape and his voice takes a darker tone - it is different from how he acted earlier with his goofy persona. Everyone is trying to survive in that moment.

Earthworm himself was stuck hard in survival mode. They were using him as bait against something that was his biggest fear. His family was already killed by birds, so he just wanted to escape. He was whimpering when Centipede had him, squirming around. Keep in mind, that none of them were family at this point. They were just a bunch of strangers he just met and got stuck out there in the ocean now. He has no reason to trust anybody to actually keep him safe here, nor risk his own life for them. After the whole bait scene, his low self esteem takes over and he distances himself from the others. Understandable, that had been a stressful situation all around.

Centipede is not exactly fearless. Both of them were afraid, the difference is that Centipede has a fight instinct while Earthworm has a flight instinct.

Then, Centipede gets them lost in the cold. Earthworm was one of them who caused him to move backwards. Although the grasshopper did most of the talking, part of me feels like that Earthworm was at his limit too at this point considering how rocky his relationship with Centipede already was.

Earthworm did not even want to come along to NYC at first and was forced to go along on this unplanned trip because of Centipede, then used as bait with Centipede using him as lasso. Now they are actually going to die? I am assuming there was a bubbling frustration coming to the surface.

What fascinates me is his reaction when Centipede jumps into the water so he can get them the compass. Earthworm is in genuine distress over what could happen to Centipede when so far, his relationship with him had been anything but pleasant.

Centipede took his survival instincts out on Earthworm, but Earthworm also did it with him. Earthworm blaming himself too feels more like about everything he said prior to Centipede, as if he somehow realized he took Centipede as an outlet for his anxious nature.

I just wish they both had a moment similar to what Centipede had with the grasshopper, because when they become family Centipede is a tad different in personality. Much more genuine with everyone else, mellowed out and less immature. But he and Earthworm do not interact anymore at all after the whole pirate thing.

Earthworm is not the type for unpredictable and Centipede is nothing but unpredictable, but it would have been fun to see what their relationship was afterwards. I feel like despite them being such at odds with each other, they both can work through it and also learn and grow from each other.

[intersex-support]

Thanks for all that you do!! Endosex mom of an intersex little girl with Mosaic Turner Syndrome.

Is there a list or society of doctors who do things according to the wishes and guidelines of folks in the intersex community?

I want to find a urologist and an endocrinologist who are both pretty hands off, and who can help us do the minimum to protect our daughter’s health without doing ANYTHING unless it is urgently medically necessary. I want my daughter to have choices available to her as to what happens to her body. She just needs to be old enough to understand those choices. In the meantime, I want to make good choices if there are pressing threats to her health (eg from cancer) and I don’t want to goof up and allow an unnecessary intervention.

Does such a list of intersex-ally doctors exist anywhere? I trust no one at this point. I’m in the United States, NYC to be specific. But would travel far if it meant she would receive better care.

Please and thank you so much.

Hi, anon.

It honestly means so much to me to hear from parents who are interested in advocating for their intersex children. It's so important for our parents to be informed when we're too young to speak up for ourselves, so I just really think it's awesome that you're aware + actively seeking resources!

I know that the Turner Syndrome society has a list of doctors recommended by people with Turner Syndrome. I'm not sure how recently updated this list is, but that might be a good starting point. I did look through the list they had for my home state and I know they listed a few doctors that were not intersex affirming in my personal experience, so I'm a little hesitant about some of the recommendations.

Any providers within the NYC Health + Hospitals network might be more likely to be affirming, since in 2021 they officially implemented a policy to prohibit any unnecessary intersex surgeries until children are old enough to consent. That would make me a bit more confident that they are aware of intersex community preferences and more willing to really work with you as an ally.

It also might be worth checking out the Turner Syndrome Clinic at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Their website looks pretty good-they involve a multidisciplinary team that involves social work, which is in line with a lot of intersex organizations recommendations for care. They also seem to make an effort to connect families with support groups, and use affirming and positive language on their website. I don't have any personal knowledge, but they tentatively seem like a potential option.

Overall, your role as your child's advocate is so important, and going in knowing your rights and being as informed as possible can help you navigate some complicated medical decisions. With any doctor, you always have the right to ask for a second opinion, ask for more information, explain your wishes about waiting, and follow your instincts if something seems off. InterAct made a good brochure about knowing your rights as a parent of an intersex child, and I'd also love to share this guide for parents of intersex children created by IGLYO. There's also a guide about intersex affirming primary care for providers, which can be a great resource to share with doctors to make sure they know the best ways to support your child.

If any followers with Turner Syndrome or other intersex followers in NYC have any recommendations for doctors, please share!

Wishing you and your daughter the best of luck 💜

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my mum's birthday just passed ; we're still in the midst of surviving it. my little sister decided to fly out to vegas to be with her and within like 48 hours texted my twin and i that she was overwhelmed and was having "a bit of a mental breakdown / depressive episode"

my twin actually brought up the last text our mum sent about not having a mother but... our mum just ignored it ? it was pretty jarring to receive the above in response to us just wishing her happy birthday ? but then again it's the standard fare of : the twins are evil, don't cry when she dies bc we were unloving and unkind when she was alive, vitriol towards my twin's husband etc etc

as for myself, i started feeling discomfort and pain saturday june 17 then by the day of her birthday, i had to go to urgent care right after the facetime call and turns out i, for once, tested positive for a UTI. now i'm on one week of macrobid.

i don't think i mentioned this but may 9, i saw another gynaecologist where they used a catheter to collect a sample directly from my bladder. in addition to the standard tests, they ran additional ones and detected ureaplasma parvum and i was on 100 mg doxycycline for 2 weeks. i had no other symptoms during this time

previous to my may 9 appt, i had saw another gynae in the bronx in like ... april ? whose specialty was pelvic floor stuff ...and she brought up interstitial cystitis as a possible dx which makes me think of this article. (there are parallels like going to grad school in nyc and life getting smaller and this being a bit of an embarrassing issue)

but anyway, it didn't even occur to me that this set of symptoms coincided with my mum's birthday ... since nov 2022, there's this pattern where if i'm under stress related to my mum i will either have abnormal uterine bleeding or these painful UTI-like symptoms without the tests ever coming back positive.

during the facetime call my mum expressed immense hurt and displeasure that my twin and i didn't come and that her friends' kids will just drop everything and fly out even for one day to see their mothers. it stung when she said it literally "costs us nothing" when in actuality... it costs real money ?? and also my physical health to be in contact with her. i know no contact is an option but disentangling oneself from this family dynamic is difficult. even i don't understand my thought process fully behind continuing to communicate with her if i'm having such bad physical reactions.

the one good thing about the facetime call was it actually wasn't as horrible as i thought it was going to be (i know, if this wasn't terrible, then what actually would constitute as terrible ?) ... my main fear is that my mum can exert some sort of control over my life or make me do something that i don't want to (like move back to the west coast) but if this fear is rooted in a narrative that i developed in childhood when i had no power then it is also a story i can un-tell myself. i was genuinely fearful i was going to have a more debilitating emotional reaction...... that i'll actually take the physical pain and bleeding over the mental and emotional anguish that would have pushed me into engaging in eating disorder behaviours

[allinmymincl]

andrew ' drew ' kent penned by sam for nepofm.

TRIGGERS: brief mention of bullying.

basics. full name [REDACTED] andrew kent nickname(s): has always gone by his middle name andrew. most people just call him drew. gender cis man pronouns he/him age twenty - three dob may 27th, 2000 hometown manhattan, nyc occupation artist, soon to be an up and coming graphic novelist

biography.  andrew 'drew ' kent was born and raised in new york city. he's the youngest son of famous film director anthony kent & millionaire heiress turned failed actress rebecca whitehall-kent, and the youngest of the three kent siblings ( wc & wc ). he grew up in the spotlight due to making occasional appearances in his father’s films and walking countless red carpets alongside his family. 

there was a lot of tension within the kent family while he was growing up, and with everyone else in the household was usually focused on their own stuff, drew was relatively free to do as he pleased from a very young age so long as he didn’t draw any negative attention to himself. no one cared if he was out all night long at a horror movie marathon, or if he inexplicably acquired a strange pet, or if he spent three straight days drawing alone in his room because he kept up his grades, stayed out of the way, and didn’t land the name ‘ kent ’ on the front cover of gossip rags. 

natural talent for drawing supplemented by constant practice ( and very expensive art classes ) led to drew creating comics based mostly on his favorite horror tropes & fully written and illustrated by him beginning when he was a teenager. his first few comics were … terrible, in hindsight, but still good enough to impress the rhode island school of design, also known as RISD, where he would enroll in their illustration program. he looked forward to leaving home more and more with each passing day as the tension among his family members only got worse. he was hardly ever directly involved in it, and so he was pretty blindsided when he arrived home for winter break during his freshman year and discovered that no one in his immediate family was speaking to one another. a few years later, that still hasn't changed.

the graphic novel deal has been in the works for about a year now. although he’s aware that his last name probably had something to do with how he was pretty much handed a publishing deal, it was mainly a few of his instructors sharing his work with their friends in the publishing business that sparked an interest in his creations. he’s currently at the point where he’s just adding finishing touches to the writing and illustrations and making small fixes at the advice of his editor. news of his publishing contract wasn’t supposed to be released to the public for another few months at the very least, but it recently leaked.

andrew is set to graduate from RISD this summer. he’s technically still enrolled in classes at the college right now, but he already has enough credits to be done and he was bored, so he recently decided to return to new york ( recently as in, he showed up in the city completely unannounced a few days ago ).  

personality. requires very little provocation in order to never shut the hell up. very bubbly and extroverted. however, he's not the most reliable person and he definitely shouldn't ever be the go - to for practical advice, emotional support, or anything extremely urgent. forgetful and irresponsible. king of having a million unfinished projects that will most likely never be completed because his attention span isn't equipped for it, but when he's into something he's going to be quite enthusiastic about it. quirky artsy type who likes to poke fun at pretentious artsy types, but it's all in harmless fun. stays out of even his own family's drama for the most part because it just doesn't interest him, and if he's bored he won't stick around for very long.