Hannface

Hannah. 24. Chronically ill. Prepare to be disappointed

[hannface]

I’m ginger now & hungry, but I was hungry before so that doesn’t count

[hannface]

I graduated!

[hannface]

My graduation ceremony has just cost £250 and I don’t even have a fucking hat. How much does that cost? £39. £39 to hire something you’ll wear for five minutes to take a photo, ridiculous. Im lucky that I have help to be able to go but these prices are absurd and unfair, no wonder people can’t go after they’ve worked so hard

[hannface]

I’m graduating with a first! I did it!

[chroniclingmychronic]

Disability and Chronic Illness Representation and Inclusivity! Way to go Aerie/American Eagle! This should be the norm, but I never thought I would see a major company like American Eagle do it.

[thedyke]

“a seventeen year old girl is just never, ever, ever in her prime! ever! i am in my prime! would you test your strength out on me? there is no way, there is no way anyone would dare, dare test their strength out on me! because you all know there is nothing stronger than a broken woman who was rebuilt herself.”

hannah gadsby: nanette (2018)

[parkistan]

What she says: I’m fine What she means: Gandhi was a racist, misogynist, sexist who said that the rape of a woman was her own fault. He slept with naked underage girls to test his celibacy and degraded them to mere sex objects. He talked foul things about his own wife, said that menstruation was the manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul, and yet he’s praised by the world for ‘bringing peace’.

[the-arachnocommunist]

He also regularly beat his wife, he was extremely antiblack and a vocal supporter of apartheid in South Africa, and said during the Holocaust that Jews should commit mass suicide to shame the Germans instead of resisting. And this is just for starters.

[helloitsbees]

[hannface]

Hi chonically ill people,

What kind of things do you carry on you for a day of school/college/work/a long or more active day to make it more tolerable?

Thank you

[hannface]

Still adjusting to my hair being the closest to its natural colour since I was 11

[swingsetindecember]

news report: survey says

me: what was the sample size? the distribution? the demographic??? this is meaningless. you could have asks two people in line at starbucks

[missandryifyourenasty]

[hannface]

It might’ve taken 6 years but today I finished my degree!

[dankmemeuniversity]

[minotauri]

in this house we do not speak the F word

[minotauri]

freud

[minotauri]

my people

[hannface]

On Thursday I overheard a woman say ‘anyway I think she was a lesbian, she had her sleeves rolled up’ and I can’t stop thinking about it

[chronicillnessproblems]

I started playing the Hogwarts Mystery game yesterday and learned how ridiculous it is as a game, but omg it is FANTASTIC as a spoonie metaphor!

So basically you have “energy,” and almost everything you do in the game takes energy. I think sometimes you can talk to people without energy, but learning spells or potions is a lot of clicking, and every time you click it takes 1 energy. So far at least, you click anywhere from 1-5 times to do things like, “pay attention,” “demonstrate,” “read book,” etc. and there can be dozens of those per lesson. So 25 energy points, recharging completely every 100 minutes, does NOT GET YOU FAR.

It’s the games way of trying to get you to spend a ton of money on energy in order to get through the game in a reasonable amount of time, but it’s so badly done and is just BEYOND ANNOYING because you run out of energy SO FAST. Read a page, listen to the professor, get halfway through trying to add a potion ingredient, and now you have to wait 4 minutes every time you want to try to do anything else, because you’d need to buy SO much energy.

Reviews have criticized this system as making the game “borderline unplayable,” which is true, but I feel like I’m now going to use this as my new Spoon Theory to explain how spoonie life can be “borderline unlivable.” (Unlivable sounds hash, but I don’t mean not worth living, just how hard it is to be supposed to “keep up” with people who DON’T have to recharge their energy for 4 minutes in order to do anything.)

BECAUSE THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT LIFE AS A SPOONIE IS LIKE!! Read half an assignment, need a nap. Ask questions, concentrate, make progress on learning something, need a loooong break to recharge. Except there’s no option to buy energy in real life, maybe you can lose it slower if you have certain resources, but mostly you’re just stuck recovering for probably way longer than you are able to spend actually doing things.

[moonemojii]

When someone lies to you but you already know the truth