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@gingerbreadpopsolo
Hi! Welcome to my Tumblr!
This is the main! I post a variety of stuff on here. Mixed bag of candy, but if you want to see my Art and Writing, check out my art blog @with-a-hint-of-ginger !Ā
This is where you can easily access my work instead of scouring through tags with reblogs and cursed thoughts :)
If you want to keep tabs on my streaming schedule and vote on art polls, check out my twitch blog @gingerpopsolo
Its so nice to see you reblog stuff and know you're around. I saw your name pop up and I was like oh!!! Youuu!!
yeah! I just graduated with my bachelor's degree and museum studies certificate!! Outside of job hunting i'm a free woman now lol xD
(I ONLY HEARD PART ONE AND TWO, NO MONEY NO TIME IN THIS HOUSE)
obsessed with every version of the holmes brothers being differences made from the same cloth. it's the freedom vs tradition, the independence vs the system, the joy vs the ego.
and for sherlock&co version, them making mycroft this very extroverted, charming, posh runaway James-Bond-like man makes sense to me. it highlights sherlock's growth and shows where he came from.
bc sherlock has actively build a home. sherlock hates posh people and fakes and liars. sherlock preffers the harsh truth over politeness.
and what is the exact opposite of a humble detective than an international super spy?
CYBERCHASE LORE
FERB I KNOW WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO TODAY
My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.
I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think āWell, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot moreā so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that ā10ā is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said ā6ā because I thought āWell, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.ā
I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs herĀ ā10ā³ there, and so is like, well, Iām conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors donāt take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)
So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale ofĀ ānothingā toĀ āhow Iād imagine itād feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fireā.Ā
I hate reposting stuff, but Iāll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, hereās a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I canāt embed images in a chat or an ask.Ā
This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.
Pain Scale transcription:
10 - I am in bed and I canāt move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.
9 - My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.
8 - My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.
7 - I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.
6 - I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.
5 - I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.
4 - I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.
3 - My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.
2 - I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.
1 - My pain is hardly noticeable.
0 - I have no pain.
Itās also really important to get this kind of scale to people who have chronic pain, because chronic pain drastically lowers your perception of howĀ ābadā any kind of pain actually is, and yet something like this pain scale is extremely user friendly.Ā
For example, if someone asked me how much pain Iām in at any given time, Iād say hardly any, and yet Iām apparently at a chronic 2.5, and it only goes up from there depending on the day.Ā
Thereās also a similarly usefulĀ āFatigue Scaleā
I havenāt been below a 5 on this scale for 4 yearsĀ
Hereās the fatigue scale
Fatigue scale image desc:
10: can barely move; canāt talk
9: can barely move; can talk
8: can move, but canāt do much more than watch TV
7: can watch TV and play a game on my phone simultaneously
6: can do work on my computer lying in bed
5: can get around the house, but definitely couldnāt go out
4: can run a light errand
3: can get in my 10,000 steps, making my fitbit happy
2: can do three or more activities in a single day
1: going clubbing!
See also the Mental Health Pain Scale by Graceful Patient:
Mental Health Pain Scale transcription:
MILD
1 - Everything is a-okay! There is absolutely nothing wrong. Youāre probably cuddling a fluffy kitten right now. Enjoy!
2 - Youāre a bit frustrated or disappointed, but youāre easily distracted and cheered up with a little effort.
3 - Things are bothering you, but youāre coping. You might be overtired or hungry. The emotional equivalent of a headache.
MODERATE
4 - Today is a bad day (or a few bad days). You still have the skills to get through it, but be gentle with yourself. Use self-care strategies.
5 - Your mental health is starting to impact on your everyday life. Easy things are becoming difficult. You should talk to your doctor.
6 - You canāt do things the way you usually do them due to your mental health. Impulsive and compulsive thoughts may be hard to cope with.
SEVERE
7 - Youāre avoiding things that make you more distressed, but that will make it worse. You should definitely seek help. This is serious.
8 - You canāt hide your struggles any more. You may have issues sleeping, eating, having fun, socialising, and work/study. Your mental health is affecting almost all parts of your life.
9 - Youāre at a critical point. You arenāt functioning any more. You need urgent help. You may be a risk to yourself or others if left untreated.
10 - The worst mental and emotional distress possible. You can no longer care for yourself. You canāt imagine things getting any worse. Contact a crisis line immediately.
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Every time I'm forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.
The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.
The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.
I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.
I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.
idk what beginner knitter need to hear this, but: with the exception of lace projects, usually when people talk about "blocking" their knitted objects they mean "getting it wet and laying it flat to dry".
99% of the time, you don't need a blocking board or pins unless you're doing lace. just get the thing wet to relax the stitches and the fiber (especially wool), squeeze out the excess liquid (no twisting/wringing) and then lay it flat. that's it.
the whole fabric will relax (probably more than you are expecting it to), your stitches will look cleaner, and the tension throughout the project will even itself out.
just get it wet, squeeze it out, and lay it flat. your projects will thank you!
An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.
Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that's literally his name.
(No he won't change his name. He's Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)
John is Sherlock's flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he's a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn't Watson.
It's now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.
Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.
His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.
His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.
He doesn't even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.
Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.
op didnāt add a link so hereās a link to his patreon where all of his minis are free to download please support him if you can
I would absolutely download a dragon, and Iāve already shared this with my D&D group. Weāre gonna have some adventures! Thank you to everyone who made this possible!
This is leaving out the best part of his patreon, which is that heās been doing polls for āsilly modelsā to create for years, bringing us such wonders as the Baba Yaga Taco Truck, the Horse Head, Goostarian (Goose Astarion), a Pirate Ship Mimic, the Honkdra, and Definitely The Five-Headed Dragon God Tiamat And Not Five Wyrmlings In A Trenchcoat
@elodieunderglass the Honkdra
Iām very fond of that Honkdra!
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ONE MILLION DRIDERS IM GOING TO DIE
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Two job-hunting resources that changed my life:
This cover letter post on askamanger.com. A job interview guide written by Alison Green, who runs askamanager.
useful
Alison Greenās advice works.Ā
Alison Green got me all my interviews from 2012 onward, I am reasonably sure.
Alison Green is basically my life guide.
Mine too - she was my most visited website for the first few years of my working career, and I cannot emphasise enough how much her advice helped me navigate how to behave in a work environment. You name it, she has an answer for it. Definitely a life hack.
I used her advice and on my current job I got a callback with an offer literally five minutes after we finished the interview.
Actually, I shouldnāt skip the most important bit: I fucked the interview up. I was interviewing at a couple public defenderās offices in the area I wanted to move, and the others were by Zoom first then in person.
I assumed this one was by Zoom. Then I was in court when my Apple watch said āhey bitch you better start drivingā and I realized to my dawning horror that it was in-person.
I immediately texted and emailed the head of that office, even though what I wanted to do was crawl into the tunnel under the courthouse and die. Something along the lines of āHi! This is completely my bad. I assumed x and the interview is y. Iām stuck in court and y is not possible today. Can we move the interview to Zoom? Alternatively, I am available to come down tomorrow or Monday.ā
Within 20 minutes, she got back to me and said that this was the tail end of interviews, she knows how court is, canāt wait until Monday, hereās a Zoom link.
I did the Zoom interview and as I was leaving the office right after (to crawl into the tunnel under the courthouse and die) I got a call saying I was hired.
Fuck-ups are NOT the end of the world. She says it in that interview guide, not in those words exactly. If you can handle a fuck-up with quick remedial action, perhaps while dead in a tunnel under a courthouse, and be graceful and flexible, it shows how you act under pressure. It shows courtesy and problem-solving skills.
My message included the following important elements:
1 - I took responsibility.
2 - I demonstrated priorities commensurate with the job. (Court appearance for client very important!!)
3 - I offered two alternative options for achieving the goal (Have Interview) while respecting her priorities (timeline vs. in-person).
4 - I said thank you.
(I really encourage you not to ChatGPT this shit because the ability to do this verbally and in the moment is an extremely good professional skill and requires a bit of practice.)
Whoever made this, may your pillows always be fluffed and cool and may you never hit a red light as long as you live.
I havenāt laughed this hard in a long mf time.
[credit to liffeh on twitter!]
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Hey someone suggested I use ChatGPT to figure out adulting today, and as I was going through the mental list of places I'd rather look, I realized "beloved strangers on Tumblr dot net" was on that list.
So if you have an aspect of adulting that you're really good at-taxes, budgeting, cooking, insurance, credit, time management, house upkeep, anything-please feel free to reblog with any tips.
Not me, but @bitchesgetriches has a lot of great resources for many of these topics on their website.
That's us! Professional internet adults, specializing in financial stuff! We recommend starting with our Grand List of All Articles, or one of our Masterposts:
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need To Know About Taxes
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Increase Your Income
MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Retirement and How to Retire
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A reminder that sell-buy dates or best-used-by dates are not the same as expiration dates.
I love that a food bank is providing this info as they are experts in stretching food budgets and knowledgable in shelf-stable food items
So I followed the link to the website and found the longer list.
The website puts a link to the USDA site which links to foodsafety dot gov who really wants you to use the app, but you can bypass it.
Also a link to the Canadian government's advisory on best-before dates.
Both sites have links to pages that get more into food storage.
As it is food drive season I'd like to remind people that while food might be edible past these dates, food banks and food pantries will not use food past those dates, so please don't waste their time by donating things they will not use
