[caden-archive]

STILL SETTING UP! if we're mutuals i might be siikr searching to raid your page for my old posts :3

archive of transmutationisms and romanroydinnerparty original posts. if you're looking for something you can't find by tags, you can try searching this blog here. sometimes it doesn't work. i don't know why.

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i don't agree with every line of every post saved on this blog. i think changing my mind or nuancing my positions over time is inevitable. my goal here is just to save my old posts; i'm not really curating out specific content, except personal/journal-style posts, which i've relegated to the dustbin of ephemera. if you'd like to discuss any of these posts with present-day me, you can feel free to shoot an ask on my new blog, which i may or may not respond to, elaborate on, &c.

'sillies' tag includes a lot of posts that i agree with and that make serious points, but that also include a joke, are very short, are too superficial/snarky to belong in other tags, &c.

tagging system here is mainly for my own use. it's topically intuitive to me because i want to be able to find my old posts. i genuinely hope it's also useful to anyone else who cares about it, but it's very much a function of my own views of knowledge taxonomisation, personal lexicon, &c. again, feel free to shoot an ask on my main if you have a question or something, but i probably will not be re-doing this tagging system at any point.

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the amps thing from the slate article somehow reached my country in eastern europe and was given to me as a diagnosis by one doctor when i was about 8. luckily, i also had fevers all the time so the suggested treatment could never be safely administered for more than a week. it was a combination of in-patient so called physio and other stuff administered at home by your own parents. another more visible disability developed (for which i weirdly grew to be somewhat thankful cuz at least i could point to it), but i think my dad still thinks that's what i have; we don't talk about it and i don't complain anymore. some parents love to be told a disability can be fixed with being hard on your kid, they get to express all of that built-up anger they have for the kid that wasn't as they wanted it to be and needed extra care and required them to worry etc. i have no sympathy for the parents in the article, i had that parent and he knew what he was doing. something about the inherent abuse in parenthood and the family etc (and don't even get me started on forcibly taking away medication from a child with pain, that's how you make young so-called "addicts" and the treatment for that is surprise surprise - the very same!)

thanks for sending this in -- yeah this is exactly what that article continues to enable and defend. disabled kids are some of the most vulnerable members of society; it's always a fantasy to hope the family exists to 'protect children' but this only compounds when we're adding on ableism from the parents and the kid's doctors. the article has the gall to euphemise this multiple times, mentioning that the programs cause tension or disagreement among family members but never explicitly calling this what it is: a parent with total legal and social control over a vulnerable child, forcing that child to endure physical torment and then telling them it's their own fault for not trying hard enough when they continue not to be able-bodied. & even the 'nicer' programs the author describes are said to let the kids stay on medications "if they're helping them, other than narcotics" -- as though i am supposed to presume that treating children's pain is bad, and that it's some kind of extra nice concession to allow them to keep their other medications. these programs are evil. they ensnare plenty of adult patients, too (i know they heavily market[ed] to people dealing with long covid, with disastrous results they won't ever admit to) but children are rendered especially vulnerable because, again, their perspective is twice-discounted by virtue of being underage as well as disabled. i hope that article prompts more people to research pain clinics themselves or seek out patient criticism but honestly i fear that on balance it does a lot more harm than good because of the author's insistence on the fundamental value and epistemological soundness of these 'treatment' methods.

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horror movies are always jumping through all these hoops to give the characters a reason for getting stuck in zombie territory or whatever but the thing is all you would actually have to do is say the job market is worse everywhere else. it's not that complicated. i would take one billion draculas if thats the price of a steady income

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i can tell how bad tv lighting is by how long it takes to get a scene bright enough to do drugs by

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i had a dream the latest fad was worrying about inhaling microplastics from cutting lines with a bank card so everybody was googling shit like Lowest microplastics ATM card Visa vs mastercard microplastics 2026 How much plastic in amex magnetic strip and banks started noticing and making 'all-natural' cards to market to wellness ketamine fascists but then there was an ideological split because the raw milk and measles crowd are so anti drug so the mormon influencer types were all registering these garage startups that were competing to make the most microplastic credit card and marketing it as a status symbol to show other people you were a square and then people on tiktok started saying if you were even in the room with someone who had a high-plastic card you could accidentally inhale the particles but other people on tiktok were saying if you were in the room with someone who snorted drugs you could also inhale the drug particles and they all started posting under hashtags like #airtok and #lungtok demanding that governments need to start legislating against secondhand microplastic and secondhand coke

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its so awesome you can snort stuff thank you mucous membrane

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I'm a bit confused, can you help me understand your frustrations with rhetoric about covid causing further health complications? trying to cut through the online covid cautious bullshit and realistically understand risks and best practices has been v challenging for me since the only ppl talking about it are themselves very reactionary most of the time

my observation of 99% of online covid cautious stuff is that these are groups largely made up of people extremely new to disability politics and generally very naïve to the reality of post-acute sequelae as a feature of basically any infectious disease. i think they tend to view covid messaging as existing on only one spectrum, severity of disease, where claiming it is more severe is always morally better rhetoric and claiming it is less severe is always dangerous, which leads to bizarre kneejerk moral clutching to claims like covid being uniquely capable of causing immune dysregulation or literally causing aids (i know you all think i harp on that claim. i do and it is because many people make it and that bodes extremely poorly for public health.) also i think they are just on average really bad at reading scientific literature because it's hard and requires practice and learning certain statistical skills and so forth. i have learned & continue to learn a lot from wider, generally older, chronic and post-viral illness communities, such as a lot of me/cfs groups and forums. i avoid the covid-specific ones like the plague.

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The "most issues with society right now are new and probably caused by covid" tumblr thing reminds me of the "boomers are actually like that™ because of lead poisoning" thing people on tiktok tried to start a few years ago.

"op has a gas leak" "it's the black mould talking" "were you on drugs when you wrote this" nothing new under the sun if we wanted to get serious we could talk about 'protest psychosis' too & the political utility of notions of mental incompetence more broadly

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genuinely there is no way to complain about people getting plastic surgery to look more attractive without that simultaneously revealing how you feel about transition care and reconstructive procedures and i would love to go the rest of my life without ever hearing any of this facile self satisfied moralising again

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If you have the time and don’t mind answering, what do you think about “body dysmorphia” as a diagnosis? Sorry if that’s too general of a question, but I’m just beginning to dip my toes into anti-psyche stuff, and I thought this topic was at least adjacent. It’s always been my suspicion that “body dysmorphia” is the diagnosis we give when somebody who “shouldn’t be” insecure is insecure anyway, as in a thin person who is insecure about and obsesses over their weight has “body dysmorphia” but if a fat person does the exact same thing it’s just like, well of course you feel that way about your body and obsess about it like that - it’s fat. I don’t know if I’m making sense, but if you’re up to answering, I’d be curious about your thoughts.

it's a bit more complicated than that & body fat / weight concerns are specifically exempted from dsm body dysmorphia as a standalone dx because they're siloed under eating disorders but -- yeah in general the concept of dysmorphia is conceptually flawed by the fact it's an individual psychological complex and therefore can never really grapple with the relationship between how one sees oneself and how one is perceived socially. eg like the bdd dx specifies the imagined flaw is not noticeable to others or appears insignificant to them. which means essentially the psychiatrist is deciding what constitutes such ugliness that distress over it is normal and expected, versus what constitutes a pathological response to a non-aberrant appearance. also even the way i'm talking about it here is insufficient because of course discourses of beauty are more complex than one designation of ingroup/outgroup, and the way people respond varies and affects the social reactions dialectically etc etc. mess but yeah diagnostic concept inextricably tied to the normal appearance category. assigned hot or not at psychiatry

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i need the people who post bourbon monarchy apologia because marie antoinette was a woman to interact with the people who draw robespierre demsoc poor little meow meow fanart

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holy shit i just scrolled past the same pic of a boring man i didn't care about like 4 times in a row thinking the fuck are my mutuals all into now only to realise it was actually facetuned tboy anne rice

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we have to start killing hiring managers

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someone reblogged an untagged post from me added something i roundly disagree with in their tags and then said "prev tags" ?????? malicious citation

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hundreds of years of public health campaigning about mental degeneracy and enfeeblement: FLOP ❌❌❌ POPULATION STILL DRINKING ALCOHOL ✅✅✅

several decades of tech libertarian weed decrim pushes leaving consumers with slightly more intoxication customer choice: SLIGHTLY LOWER DRINKING PREVALENCE 🍁🍁🍁 EVERYBODY LIGHT UP 💨💨💨

🎉🎉🎉 INEBRIATION WINS AGAIN 🎉🎉🎉

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i knew people were going to start calling sourdough woke i have le wokisme vision slash it's associated with cities and cosmopolitanism and such. anyway my point is that trends in usamerican reactionary food discourse to watch include the rising tension between the neo-hygiene hypothesis maha types (if it entered a factory at any point it's poisonous) versus their more explicitly nationalistic 50s–70s suburbia nostalgia counterparts (wonderbread and mayonnaise are Symbols of America). unfortunately there are many points these two can still agree upon, such as frying potatoes in beef tallow is morally superior to doing it in canola oils, family farm is a meaningful phrase, and eating fish is kinda gay. still it will be amusing to watch them tussle with each other on questions such as is corn poison? has food dye reduced my sperm vitality? and are insoluble fibre farts masc? some amusements to enjoy as their political coalition perfects the art of spreading e coli & measles

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i do get why people circulate stuff like this but i repeat that i don't think it is that easy to distinguish between 'elective plastic surgery' and 'gender affirming surgery' unless you are solely going by diagnostic coding, in which case -- this type of screenshot is ultimately only circulating support for the exact gatekeeping diagnostic procedures you superficially position yourself as critiquing. tell me where are these elective plastic surgeries where the decisions people make about their desired embodiment have nothing to do with gendered standards of comportment and appearance. tell me where are the gender affirming surgeries where the gendering of embodiment has no relation to other means, such as racialisation, by which beauty and desirability are articulated. define honestly a desired or an 'ideal' embodiment without reference to mutually constitutive notions of gender, race, &c. how about instead, sometimes people do things they later regret and surgery might be one of those things. and gatekeeping it for specifically marginalised trans people doesn't magically prevent that possibility, but actually just forces more people to live in miserable conditions being socially punished for embodiments they wabt to change. and doing things even if you may later regret them is generally something that you as a person are entitled to.