Ow, Ouch, Oof

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[toddycats]

another comic about friendship

the first one is here

[infectiouspiss]

2026

FUCK HARD

FUCK FAST

FUCK BADLY

NEVER USE GENERATIVE AI

CREATE JOY

MUSIC ALWAYS

PSPSPSPS AT KITTIES ON THE STREET

YUMMY SOUP

go see the doctor about that thing

BE TRANSGENDER

KISS YOUR FRIENDS

EAT CHEESE

NEVER KILL YOURSELF

THRIVE

[ineffablemossy]

drink the tears of your enemies. or blood. free choice enemy drinking

[the-haiku-bot]

drink the tears of your

enemies. or blood. free choice

enemy drinking

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[disabledprincesses]

So not only did I find out not eating gluten cures me from being lactose intolerant, but I found out that if you mess up once on the gluten, after having a horrible celiac attack, your lactose intolerance comes back.

I have been in the bathroom for an hour :)

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

having chronic pain is just like. ur sitting perfectly still doing nothing meanwhile the space above your head keeps flashing -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp

[zombiezinmydreams]

[softgritspoonie]

@spoonie-living

[lisaffer]

gluten free food needs to be 1. bigger and 2. better

[sickzombi]

"i need my medication please!" says the sicks guy.

"fuck you" says the fuck you pharmacy

[singusasongchousthepigeonman]

one moment you're fine and the next you've been glutened and you're laying on the floor debating what color flowers you want at your funeral and trying to comprehend that you don't have a fever because you feel like you're boiling

[disabledprincesses]

Why is every chronic illness buy one get seven free??

[panulyx]

Too much movement makes your joints hurt and too little movement also makes your joints hurt. This would imply that there's an optimal amount of movement that allows your joints to not hurt. This is a lie.

[existennialmemes]

Doing nothing? No, I'm being held hostage by my body. I can't afford to make it angry. It's already proven that it's very willing to hurt me.

[fairycosmos]

it takes 8000 years to get a doctors appointment just for them to be like youre fat idk whats wrong with you and i hope you die

[sprinklesharkie]

i love making outfits that match my crutches

[disabilityaidpositivity]

Certified mobility aid positivity post!

[disabilityaidpositivity]

[ID: A photo (taken from their left side) showing a person and the top portion of a crutch. They are wearing a pink skirt and light blue long-sleeved top. They have a light blue backpack on with a pink water bottle showing in the side pocket. They're standing supported by a pink forearm crutch (with stickers on the cuff) on their left side. All the blues and pinks are a similar shade or complimentary. A portion of a bed is visible in the background and the duvet is a pink that compliments their outfit. The photo has been cropped so their head and legs are outside the frame. /end ID]

[catmask]

i literally love when people realize positive reinforcement works like yes its so silly isnt it. but it literally works humans love juice reward too

[thaylepo]

Back in grad school I TA'd a couple 400 level courses on stone tool production and zooarchaeology that involved a lot of technical memorization that required the students to learn complex terminology very quickly. They were two of the only such undergrad courses the program had (I think the third was Mesoamerican Pottery, and there was a grad course on Human Osteology), so none of them would have encountered much if any of this info in the two years since their first intro courses. There were over a dozen quizzes in each course, nearly one a week, and the grades were known to be abysmally low compared to the lab reports because of how much time you needed to spend in the lab handling the material in order to study for it.

I like being paid to have fun, so I bought some Transformers stickers and put one on every quiz that got over 90% (ie. the 'A' range). Any quiz that got an A+ got Optimus Prime himself. B grades still got a "good job!!" and any passing grade at all got a smiley face, but no sticker.

Y'all, 4th year arky courses are FULL of nerds. The MINUTE the first quizzes were handed back they went nuts over the stickers. There were stars in their eyes, they were crowing in excitement. These were students in their mid-twenties. Only one person got an Optimus Prime on that quiz, and when I told them the sticker rubrick and the requirements to get Optimus you could practically see the fire it lit. They would get those stickers. Optimus Prime was going to be theirs.

I fucking ran out of stickers TWICE throughout those courses. I had to go and buy whole packs JUST TO HAVE ENOUGH OPTIMUSES (Optimi?) for all the A+ quizzes that came in every time. That meant i had more generic TF stickers to promote the B grade papers to stickerdom. The materials lab was full of students every week, studying for these quizzes. They hyped each other up for them. They petitioned me to sticker their lab reports and final projects too (of course I did).

The prof, a delightful 80-something socks-and-sandals hippy of a guy who supervised my honours thesis, was fucking beside himself over this. He thought it was the best thing ever. He joked that the marks that semester were so abnormally high that he needed to look over the tests himself in case I was going too easy on them (I wasn't, those TF stickers were expensive). He had to look over them anyway in case *I* made a technical mistake grading them, which meant he was the first to see the stickers each time XD

Anyway, it's true. I've yet to meet an adult who didn't enjoy a sparkly sticker reward.

[i-am-a-fish]

not to brag but I had a conversation today and I was really brave about it

[i-am-a-fish]

I also won btw

(the conversation concluded and I got to leave)

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Friendly reminder that breast cancer does not always appear as a lump.