Definitely just a top hat

| your resident (definitely not carnivorous) hatman | this is basically my stockpile of posts with a few of my own | if you need me to tag stuff lmk | also lmk if i say/do something dumb/mean/factually incorrect i dont always know what stuff is or means |

[neurotiddies]

RB IF YOU AGREE

[stiksandthrones]

[rockshitty]

Nothing reminds me what a goddamn miracle modern medicine is more so than hearing stories about people who contracted the black plague in the 21st century and were prescribed antibiotics for it.

Like yeah man you got the disease that wiped out half of Europe, like, a couple separate times within written history, and we have no clue how many times before that. To cure it you have to take 14 pills and drink lots of juice. You’re gonna feel kind of crummy for a while. It’s vitally important you take all 14 pills.

[sapphoandvanzetti]

the thing that blows my mind is blood transfusions. for literally all of human history up until about 100 years ago if you lost enough blood that was it, you were dead, and then people just figured out how to take blood from other people and successfully give it to you and now you can come in to the hospital with a blood pressure of ohfuck/nope, the same color as the linens and they just pop a tube in your arm and casually give you some stuff that another person donated on their lunch break, and you live long enough for the doctors to find and treat your gastric bleed. Insanely cool.

[findingfeather]

Honestly even more, just . . . IV fluids.

The fact that we can put fluids into people via IV saves more lives than I can actually communicate. There are so, so many more ways to die when we can't do that. You can go from literally at death's door from an illness you have no other cure for, to Basically Fine, You'll Feel Icky A Bit Longer But You're Otherwise Fine and Your Own Immune System Will Work Now, from sterile saline into a vein.

Or even fucking subcutaneous, under your skin. It still gets into your system faster and bypasses any fuckery going on in your gi-tract.

But you want the other end?

I recently got the answer to a crapload of symptoms of mine and it turned out to be Crohn's. Ileal crohn's.

For most of human history there was literally nothing to do about this but hope and pray that your immune system didn't decide to rip ulcers and lesions in your digestive tract to the point where you bled out, or the point where parts of it died and killed you with sepsis, or enough to build up stricture bands of scar tissue sufficiently to cause impactions or any other really gnarly and unpleasant ways you can die because for some reason your body decides the walls of your digestive tract are the enemy and need to be dismantled cell by cell. (Including a fuckload of cancers caused by the constant damage to the cell wall.)

Even as recently as when most of the younger people reading this were small children, mostly all you could do about it was take corticosteroids when you were in a flare. And that was better than Nothing. But at the same time, corticosteroids have a potential laundry list of side effects and you want to take them as little as possible and for as brief a period as possible. And there wasn't a lot else.

I am on a medication with the proprietary name "Skyrizi" and the generic name risankizumab. It's made from taking antibodies from a non-human source and then modifying their protein sequences to be more similar to human antibodies, after which they modify them further in order to make it so that the literal only thing they do is go into my body and bind to something called "tumour necrosis factor" so that this will stop flagging my own goddamn digestive system walls for destruction by the rest of the immune system.

Please feel free to read that paragraph over again.

Modern medicine isn't perfect; there are many things we're just as helpless against as we were in the Days of Eld, and there are many ways its practitioners fail us. But also we can make a thing that goes into my body and says "hey stop self destructing you MORON!" and I have a much better chance than at any other time of not dying young of bowel cancer or bowl impaction! This is fucking insane.

[corvidcrowned]

if only we’d met a few years earlier.

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[adurot]

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

[adurot]

I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.

[adurot]

But wait, there’s more!

[adurot]

[koolthing0]

[scarlettaagni]

so i think the solution is to give dachshunds a third pair of legs right in the middle

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

cultures that do an afternoon nap are OBJECTIVELY CORRECT and the world should be learning from them

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you've heard of the spanish siesta now get ready for places like Vietnam where it's commonplace to see workers pull out a mattress & take an afternoon nap on the office/store floor. very powerful way to roll. give kindergarten-style naptime BACK to the people ✊

[vadergf]

I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead

[rudolphsboyfriend]

The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability

[bisexualalexmercer]

tumblr may have censored porn but check this out

i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL

[the-trash-eating-llama]

[depsidase]

[xxmigrainequeenxx]

Collab I did with @lumensd for his fic 'before it's some kind of murder'

I had so much fun with this! Go read the fic!!

[shittysawtraps]

you do not, under any circumstances, “have to hand it to jigsaw”

[technicoloryuri]

look you heard the creepy doll, he's either getting my hand or we're gettiing left in the torture chamber.

[the-daily-felt]

Day 491

[meraki-sunset]

This one has to be the prettiest one yet

[meraki-sunset]

Csau memes because i'm slowly getting my finances under control and i've picked up the CSAU Epilogue's draft after months of only working on commissions

i have a mighty need to write

<== Previous homestuck memes

<==More previous homestuck memes

<==Even more

<==Damn, even more

<==More memes 4 u

<==They just keep coming bro

<== Fresh memes

<== Did you saw that willy wonka fail in Glasgow? anyways, memes

<==Yeah, that Glasgow thing was wild

<==I should be making money to move but i’m making memes

[meraki-sunset]

Trying to make any sense of the second half of the CSAU epilogue's draft is like trying to decipher hieroglyphics.

This dumb bitch (2024 me) made a map of an entire building filled with teleporters that lead to other teleporters with multiple people coming in and out of them in a heist sequence.

[meraki-sunset]

pretty much

[meraki-sunset]

Bird Baby

I hope you and Lentejas are doing well. :)

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He likes being held while I work; I think random YouTube videos soothe him.

[the-daily-felt]

Day 542

[meraki-sunset]