Exploring Life

If this were a dating site I'd list: •cat loving •attempting to be healthier •attempting to navigate life with new food allergies •bipolar 2 •bisexual •polyamorous But it's not a dating site! So bullet points aren't needed, just helpful :) I'm also a new (and totally hooked) SCAdian. I'm in the southern part of West Kingdom!

[imawitchywitch]

I love how people find colored hair and tattoos cheap looking. Like do you not understand how expensive this shit is?

[dreadpiratekhan]

A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]   (freakin’ immaculate)

[dreadpiratekhan]

Now with more awesomesauce!

Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…

Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.

[daddyspsycho]

this is my favorite post in the entire world

[lunaesweird]

💖💖💖

[sakura-haruka]

[maisdue-deactivated20170919]

Set of illustration inspired by the lingerie designed by http://creepyyeha.storenvy.com/

[chronicdharma]

[cervinelich]

this is why its depressing to work in a pharmacy.

[iatrogenic]

I was definitely a profit killer when I worked in a pharmacy (which honestly was my favorite job in the entire world, but it was short-lived and nowadays you can’t work at a pharmacy like that, it’s all tied in with corporate retail and no one should ever trust me with a cash register ever). It was not, however, actually a profit killer for the pharmacy, just for the drug companies, so no one cared. These days I do medical billing, which means I actually bill OUT from hospitals so I’m mostly spending my professional time taking money away from insurance companies. 

I will now impart all of my profit killing resources onto you, in case you don’t know them. I think most of you know them, now. But just in case you don’t.

THIS IS US-CENTRIC. I’M SORRY. 

1. GoodRx - this thing has an app now, so you can look up the best places to get your expensive medicines at the lowest possible prices without insurance on the go, and you no longer have to print coupons because you can just hand over your phone or tablet. Times have changed for the better with GoodRx. Definitely use it before trying to fill your scrip, because it will tell you the best place to go. (You can do that on the website, too.)

2. NeedyMeds - Needymeds is basically the clearinghouse of drug payment assistance. They have their own discount cards, but also connections to many patient assistance programs run by drug companies themselves. They are good assistance programs, too.

3. Ask your county - This is not a link. This is a pro tip. Most county social services will have pharmacy discount programs for people with no and/or shitty pharmaceutical coverage. You can often just find them hanging around at social services offices; you can just pick one up and walk off with it. 

4. Ordering online - There are a few safe online pharmacies. I keep a little database in a text file on my computer. Most of them are courtesy of CFS forums, my mother or voidbat, so a lot of that is a hat tip to other people, but if you’re in need of a place to get a drug without a prescription … first I’ll make sure you 100% know what you’re doing for safety reasons and then I’m happy to turn over a link. 

5. Healthfinder - A government resource that helps find patient assistance programs in your area. This might also point out the convenient county card thing. RxHope is something a lot of people get pointed to via Healthfinder that’s a good program.

6. Mental Health America - Keeps a list of their best PAPs for psychiatric medications, which can be some of the most expensive and a lot of pharmacy plans don’t cover them at all. 

[forevrdreamingofbetterthings]

This is so important ppl.

Signal boost the shit out of it!

[dynastylnoire]

Booooooooooooooooooost

[dysfunctionalqueer]

Good Rx Saved my family a hundred dollars a month while I was getting signed up for CHIP seriously it’s a life savor especially for ridiculously expensive drugs like abilify

[motivation-gems]

Useful info, friends! ;)

[quietborderlineinfo]

Since many of our followers are on medications, I feel like this would be an important resource. -Luna

[will-work-for-spoons]

Also! Some drug companies have patient assistance programs where they send you the drug for FREE if you are uninsured, or if your insurance doesn’t cover that drug.

Do a Google search for “patient assistant programs” + (your med), or search the manufacturers website. Sometimes the info is online; other times you have to call.

Even some of the big name pharma companies have this. It’s certainly not all companies, or all meds, but it is worth a shot.

Before Obamacare, I lost insurance and couldn’t pay for my mood stabilizers (kiiiiinda important to have those when you’re bipolar.) I was on generic Lamictal, but I went to the official Lamictal website, filled out a form with a valid prescription, and they mailed my meds to me every month for free.

If you know anything about bipolar disease, you know that that was a literal life saver. Patient assistance programs ftw!

[comtessedebussy]

This is so important given the recent vote to repeal Obamacare. And the cartoon above is so on point They’re literally voting to kill people. Literally.

[thebibliosphere]

Some of my meds are no longer going to be partially covered by my ridiculously expensive private insurance. I just used the GoodRX website to look it up, and I can either spend $40 at Target to pay for one of them out of pocket–per month–, or I can get it at Sams Club for $4. No that is not a typo. The drug I need to take every single day to keep my allergies from spiraling out of control (yay auto-immune bullshit) is literally ten times cheaper at Sams Club. Holy shit.

[blueyedreaming]

I take generic lamictal.

I just found out there is a discount program in California called California Rx. It saved me a ton of money. I essentially have no insurance right now and it took my cost down to nine dollars.

[livinglowercarb]

[themochabarbie]

Deposit $1000 in my bank account & I'll send u a nude

[blueyedreaming]

Seriously.

[themochabarbie]

Deposit $1000 in my bank account & I'll send u a nude

[copperbooms]

when did tumblr collectively decide not to use punctuation like when did this happen why is this a thing

[rodimuss]

it just looks so smooth I mean look at this sentence flow like a jungle river

[prismatic-bell]

ACTUALLY

This is really exciting, linguistically speaking.

Because it’s not true that Tumblr never uses punctuation. But it is true that lack of punctuation has become, itself, a form of punctuation. On Tumblr the lack of punctuation in multisentence-long posts creates the function of rhetorical speech, or speech that is not intended to have an answer, usually in the form of a question. Consider the following two potential posts. Each individual line should be taken as a post:

ugh is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use like god put that back we have to pay for that stuff

Ugh. Is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use? Like god, put that back. We have to pay for that stuff.

In your head, those two potential posts sound totally different. In the first one I’m ranting about work, and this requires no answer. The second may actually engage you to give an answer about hoarding sauce packets. And if you answer the first post, you will likely do so in the same style. 

Here’s what makes this exciting: the English language has no actual punctuation for rhetorical speech–that is, there are no special marks that specifically indicate “this speech is in the abstract, and requires no answer.” Not only that, it never has. The first written record of English (actually proto-English, predating even Old English) dates to the 400s CE, so we’re talking about 1600 years of having absolutely no marker whatsoever for rhetorical speech.

A group of teens and young adults on a blogging website literally reshaped a deficit a millennium and a half old in our language to fit their language needs. More! This group has agreed on a more or less universal standard for these new rules, which fits the definition of “language.” Which is to say Tumblr English is its own actual, real, separate dialect of the English language, and because it is spoken by people worldwide who have introduced concepts from their own languages into it, it may qualify as a written form of pidgin. 

Tumblr English should literally be treated as its own language, because it does not follow the rules of any form of formal written English, and yet it does have its own consistent internal rules. If you don’t think that’s cool as fuck then I don’t even know what to tell you.

[sussexbound]

i love this post

[blueyedreaming]

Please tell me someone writes a dissertation on tumblr English.

[tenderrule34]

Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.

[oldmanyellsatcloud]

Nice summary. If you’re curious, the anon here is referring to studies over the last decade that have pointed to major impacts on pattern separation with depression, and how depression can have major impacts on nonsynaptic plasticity. 

[caelumrising]

Psychology is amazing folks and more of it needs to be common knowledge

[fuckinmiki]

[scarlettanddivine-deactivated20]

[ace-ingit]

LOOK AT THIS FANTASTIC PICTURE I FOUND TODAY

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

He Chunch Thos Leafs

[idiona]

[esoteric-law89-deactivated20241]

Let me post this before it becomes an act of treason or sedition.

[mariahraemonroe]

Lmao

[zahraaxix]

[plannedparenthood]

Understanding consent is as easy as FRIES.

Consent is:

Freely given. Doing something sexual with someone is a decision that should be made without pressure, force, manipulation, or while drunk or high.

Reversible. Anyone can change their mind about what they want to do, at any time. Even if you’ve done it before or are in the middle of having sex.

Informed. Be honest. For example, if someone says they’ll use a condom and then they don’t, that’s not consent.

Enthusiastic.  If someone isn’t excited, or really into it, that’s not consent.

Specific. Saying yes to one thing (like going to the bedroom to make out) doesn’t mean they’ve said yes to others (like oral sex).

[tantus]

This is what we need. Consent is mandatory.

[neurofeminism]

@plannedparenthood

My wife and I both spoonies. Most of our forays are not “enthusiastic” until we’re half to three-quarters the way through and we know for certain whether our bones (pardon the pun) will complain too much, whether our muscles will lock up, or whether our hips will give out.

Maybe one in ten of our sex encounters could be called enthusiastic by both parties from the start and it is really unfortunate that it means in some peoples’ eyes we have no ability to consent.

Unfortunately, it’s not that black and white.

What it can be, however, is freely given, reversible, informed, explicit, and specific. That certainly works, and is even preferred, for many of us when it comes to sex as a spoonie, particularly because being explicit inherently accommodates our disabilities.

Honestly, I think the combination of Explicit and Specific together is far, far, more important than enthusiastic. Explicit, “Yes, you can make out with me. Specific, “But that doesn’t mean you can give me oral sex.”

I recognize the intent behind enthusiastic, and I think you’re on the right track, but you leave a lot of people out when you talk about the real world of disability sex. TBH, this is a great example of how disabled people get left out of the conversation, which I am sure was not your intent.

So yeah. Enthusiastic? Nah. That’s just not realistic for a lot of people. Explicit? Well, I think the world would be a better place in general if people were more explicit, especially where sex is concerned.