#why am i me

[girlyteengirl16]

i feel more alone being with a group of people than i do actually being alone

[renasomewhere]

Who Am I?

Hi! My name is Rena, and I am me. I am British (sadly) and trans fem (kind of closeted) I like Ghibli and Scott pilgrim. My dream is to be a voice actor because voice actors are cool :D. i like brackets if you can't tell but I'm now going to list things i like, enjoy. Ghibli Scott pilgrim adventure time random tv shows cameras and camcorders the Beatles, tally hall. destroy boys (my favourite band) random y2k tech, alien stage, Tamagotchi, greenery (forests and stuff) cassettes, anything by toby fox, hermitcraft, grunge, punk, goth . that's probably all for now See ya

-Rena

[antisociallilbrat]

I L N U for the fic ask thing!

Wilbur I can always count on you to play these silly lil ask games, thank you

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

One of my guilty pleasures are a/b/o fics. Reading or writing them. I have no shame. They can be actually really good and the dynamics are always interesting. Tired of the negative stigma that some people can have with them.

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

It depends, if its just a fic for an idea i just want to write out real quick I usually don't revise it but if it's a fic that i've been thinking about for a while or one I especially care about I'll revise it a few times- this why my writing style seems like it can vary 😭

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

A lot of fics bc I love little ships so there's not a lot of content for them 🥲 but a fic of mine I would love for someone to finish for me would be my bichie fic with wheelchair user! Bill. I loved that fic but it just got away from me.

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

AAAAAAAA okay. Wilbur you are one of them bc I loved how you wrote Girl!Mike and I completely adore your ongoing hsms au byler fic, your writing really puts you there in the moment with the characters.

Another one of my favorite fic writers is @grapesodatozier, I love how she writes Mike and Richie and if you're looking for good Wheelzier content I always recommend checking out Cami's blog. Mike is such a brat and she writes him so well.

Last but certainly not least is @the-angry-pixie they have written two of the best poly losers fics I have ever read. They never make a Loser feel pushed to the background and they display the love between the Losers so well. They also have a couple good byler fics too!

Fanfic Ask Game

[gjoshmatheny]

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[mushed-kid]

.

[shepscapades]

I wish you coulda seen the look on my face when I glanced at Bdubs’ comment section for his wild life ep2

[hinamie]

10 years later

[shortstories-slp]

Storms

Wouldn’t you like to cry with the rain too?

Feel the same sorrow as the drops fall.

Wouldn’t you like to scream with the thunder?

Feel the pain leaving your heart as you sob.

Wouldn’t you like to flash with the lightning?

Feel that fake smile cross your lips again.

Wouldn’t you like to rage on with the storm?

[inkskinned]

at the end of the day it's not that you hate your job - actually, you like working, you like routine, you like feeling like an adult - it's that any time you fuck anything up, you feel like you're fucking dying.

because you could be actually fucking dying. because if one day you wake up and you misunderstood something - you could lose your job, and nobody is hiring, and nobody is paying, and nobody takes people like you, and that job you want hasn't gotten back to you. and what exactly are you going to do without insurance? good luck with those meds. you should have thought of that before being a person.

so it's not just that you forgot to CC someone on an email, it's that if you don't have this job, you can't afford rent. it's not that you misread a comment, it's that if you get fired, you will be in massive amounts of unpayable debt. it's not that you are bad at your job, but here are the stakes as they have been decided for you: be perfect or fucking die. like, literally, die. that is how much safety net you have: none.

it's not burnout, technically. but you literally just had two typos in your work, and you're already picturing the ending. you want to throw up & curl up & make it all go away. it is two typos. if he decides he is mad at you, you lose literally everything.

your mom says that you seem stressed. the thing is that you have never known a job that isn't stressful. welcome to capitalism. there is no other road, only this one. what the fuck is a career. you come here, and we hold your life against the barrel of a gun, and somewhere someone is spinning the chamber and pulling. eventually the bullet will come.

you live in a mugging. your boss owns three cars and has four kids. you worry about having enough to feed your dog. good luck. beg for forgiveness. CC the right people next time and be grateful, kid. somebody has it worse than you. someone, probably, has it worse than you. so what if you can't sleep or eat or focus. your work chat sound literally makes you panic. you had to change the sounds of computer notifications so you'd stop having such an upset stomach.

welcome to the real world! the rat race! the dog eat dog circus!

your doctor studies the results and frowns at you. "it's bad for your heart," she says. "try to reduce your levels of stress."

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

*displays textbook symptomatic behavior of my own disorder that I am well educated on* what’s my deal why am I like this

[kyofloral]

[pissed-whizard]

my blog is a gateway drug to cooler and better blogs (my mutuals)

[madlori]

My ankle journey

I am sharing this with all you good people on the dash because I am so fucking mad it took so long for me to learn it and if I can spare one (1) person the agony it will be worth it.

So for like...oh, 8 or 9 months, I've been struggling with pain/inflammation/tendinitis in my left Achilles tendon. I don't know what caused it. It just started up (welcome to middle age, this shit happens). It wasn't severe enough to be debilitating, but it was annoying and limiting. It was also intermittent, in that some days it would be very painful and other days hardly at all. The kind of shoe I was wearing affected it a lot.

Now, I have bone spurs on both heels (it's just a thing that happens as you get older sometimes). I'm also aware that heel pain is usually the result of tight calf muscles that pull and irritate the tendon. I tried stretching that calf muscle. You know the stretch, this bitch right here:

I did it all the time. I also iced the ankle after walking for awhile, hoping to avoid inflammation. Results were...unsatisfying.

I went to:

A chiropractor

A podiatrist

A physical therapist

A bodywork coach

They all gave me some variation on the "strengthen your calf muscle, stretch your calf muscle" advice. I continued doing this without results.

I was getting frustrated, and a little afraid that this was just my life now. Finally, I thought...maybe some targeted massage might help. I asked for rec on a local FB site and was pointed to a woman who specializes in therapeutic massage including cupping, etc.

I went to her a week ago.

She spent over half our first session working on my left lower leg. Within about 10 minutes of making my eyes water, she uttered the sentence I did not know I had been waiting to hear:

"Oh, it's your soleus."

Excuse me, what?

"It's your soleus that's the culprit. It's all tied up and stiff." She started digging into it and I felt literal sparks run up my leg as she released adhesions and got the muscle moving a little. When she finally put the leg down, it felt like it was on fire with all the blood rushing into it.

She said, "You'll need to stretch your soleus. It'll clear up, but it'll take a bit of time - tendons take ages to heal."

But I HAVE been stretching.

"No, you haven't. The usual straight-leg calf stretch only stretches the gastrocnemius, that's the big belly muscle in your calf. That's not your problem. That stretch doesn't stretch the soleus. Don't worry, I'll show you how to stretch it."

My mind is spinning.

So here are the muscles in question:

The gastroc (as the pros call it) just attaches down the back but the soleus runs underneath it from the knee around the side to the heel. The lower part above the ankle is where it typically gets tight and forms adhesions.

To stretch it, you do the same calf thing where you put your foot back and press your heel to the ground, but you have to do it with your KNEE BENT:

The bent knee keeps the gastroc from engaging. It's one of those selfish muscles (like traps) - if you give it an inch, it'll just take over and prevent other muscles from working or stretching. There are other ways to stretch the soleus but this is the easiest and you can literally do it anywhere. I've been doing it while standing and waiting for things (the elevator to come, the toast to toast). You just put the heel back and bend the knee. It's kind of like curtseying.

The minute I did this stretch, I could FEEL where it was pulling on my tendon. I knew that THIS had been the problem.

The massage therapist also told me to stop icing my heel. She said icing is for an acute injury, but a more chronic aggravation needs heat, to increase blood flow for healing. She recommended elevation with heat every day (I've been doing it in bed during "phone before bed" time).

I have been doing the soleus stretch at least half a dozen times a day for almost a week, and the ankle is at least 70% better. It is still a little tight and tender, but the improvement is significant. I think a few more weeks will have it feeling normal.

I am...blown away by this. This massage therapist was able to pinpoint an issue in only a few minutes that eluded all the other professionals I saw. I can't wait to go back to her and have her solve all my other problems, tbh.

[indigo6f00ff]

need to share an experience i had 30 minutes ago

(edit: thanks to @walks-the-ages for providing and reminding me to put alt text, sorry it slips my mind alot lol)

[ladybracknellssherry]

Why didn't anyone tell me this is a play on a bible quote? First time I regret being raised by atheists.

Can't believe some gay ass show got me reading the bible.