it’s not the end it’s an uncomfortable pause

✨ Chris, he/they, engaged to @devieklutz. trans, disabled, brainweird, queer. header art by me. Title lyric from Blood Under the Bridge by Frightened Rabbit.

[im-significant]

System Blog List

✨ @im-significant : me! Chris/Finrod/Tam Lin, he/they, main blog. host/original trio member, median subsystem

🗡️ @fallingqueen : Rheda, she/her, original trio member, married to Ardyn

🔥 @she-who-burns : Fire/San, she/he, protector, original trio member

🌻 @bluejeansbluejay : Casey/Cass, xie/xir (sometimes she/her)

⭐️ @nightlightboy : Noctis, he/him

🍷 @man-of-consequence : Ardyn, he/him, married to Rheda

🌙 @sylleblossomheart : Luna, she/her

🍃 @shenjiuofficial : Shen Jiu, he/him, protector

🛹 @timstemporaryurl : Tim Drake, he/him

@ninepointedstar : 🟥 Maedhros, ☀️ Fingon, 🎵 Maglor, 🏹 Celegorm, 🧮 Caranthir, ⚔️ Curufin, 💎 Fëanáro, ♊️ Ambarussa, Ñolofinwë is here but doesn't have an emoji. cameo appearances from ✨

if you are learning by viewing this that The Character has been reading your fic.... sorry lmao. at least you know they liked it!

Other Sideblogs:

@significantficures : writing blog, usually more memes about writing than actual writing

@transtamlin : religion, spirituality, occult, and aesthetic shit

@unperpetualmotion : disability/mental illness blog, overall positive tone

@highdesertjukebox : songs i like. currently inactive

[creekfiend]

its so funny when ppl with no experience of chronic pain are like "have you tried pain clinic?" its like if you were complaining about a computer problem and someone who never saw a computer before in their life was like "oh have you tried filling it with sand?"

[creekfiend]

also how I feel when abled people recommend the mayo clinic tbh. mayo clinic pain program perfect size for chronic illness patient. no problems ever in mayo clinic pain program. put chronic illness patient in mayo clinic pain program

[im-significant]

I threw out all my mayo clinic pain program brochures when we moved and it was cathartic but i sometimes wish i'd kept em to show people. the bit that sticks hardest in my memory was the paragraph in the "living with someone who experiences chronic pain" pamphlet that straight out said to refuse to respond/react to expressions of pain (including winces, groans, etc) in order to train them out of doing that. i'm not making this shit up. fuck mayo clinic.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing about being a Tech Person™ is the universe takes it as a challenge. oh you can handle normal problems easily? take some Extremely Not Normal ones. my friend just told me my outgoing voicemail message is in Italian for no apparent reason

[beardedmrbean]

[minecraft]

[canoncanidae]

[ismenes]

you know those studies showing that cursing helps with pain tolerance or whatever. that’s how i feel about making my weird little noises to get through my basic daily activities. sometimes you just have to go hggblaaaah for a minute so you can find the strength within yourself to get up or wash the dishes or send an email. mmmnneh. urgh. the torments are unending but you can always make some little sounds about it.

[catsoverloaded]

Poor girl broke her favorite sitting basket.

[kitten-cab00dle]

I’m sorry but this is the funniest thing I have ever seen ever in my fucking life her PEETS are STICKING OUT

[bed-bath-and-bazinga]

A story in three parts

[songofsunset]

Hands of the Emperor is a normal book with a normal amount of Cliopher Mdangs, definitely

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[techscore]

[bitegore]

#this is like the computer equivalent of one of those tortured saint portraits#our lady of the flayed motherboard

[generic-internet-name]

talking like point-and-click game narration to the bugs in my room

[generic-internet-name]

you can't get out that way!

[generic-internet-name]

that's not very helpful.

[generic-internet-name]

maybe the open window will help.

[generic-internet-name]

try the open window instead.

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

everyone get more non-sexually intimate with your close friends right now !!!! or sexually if thats your jam im not the horny police

[anyataylorjoys]

The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

[seeveekat]

Hey this movie is really important in queer history! It was the first feature length film directed by a black lesbian! You can watch it here for free!

I really recommend you do because while it is a rom-com (and a drama), it also looks at how the stories of black queers are over looked in history.

[hungwy]

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

[swagpaws]

god i hate how normalized diet culture and shit like bmi and calories are. bmi is based on eugenics. calories are a measurement of how much energy something gives u and not at all of how much weight or fat ull gain. diets have been proven to be harmful and ultimately unhelpful in actually losing weight. fatness has been largely proven to not be inherently unhealthy and doesnt inherently cause health issues.

if anyone has more good links to add on then please do and if anyone knows more on this stuff than me then dont hesitate to correct me!

[more-beanies]

FOOD IS GOOD. FOOD IS GOOD. FOOD IS GOOD!! if you’re eating, ever, and even/especially if it’s hard, know that i am personally SO SO proud of you

[normal-horoscopes]

The BMI was invented by Adolphe Quetelet, the 19th century statistician who invented phrenologist anthropometry. He wasn’t just a eugenicist, he was one of the founding fathers of racist pseudoscience. Please do not listen to anything he has to say about your body.

[uglymelon]

“And get this: While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35 percent for adults and 18 percent for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnight—to match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs.”

Source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/why-bmi-big-fat-scam/

Why BMI is a big fat scam

Body mass index is used to sell weight loss drugs, set insurance premiums, and counsel patients. There's just one little problem.

[bogleech]

I always thought everyone knew this by like the early 2000s but instead I see more people than ever believing this stuff is real medical science

[whatbigotspost]

Man if y'all folks up thread thought this situation was bad back in 2021 (as I did too) you won’t BELIEVE what the 2026 cultural convo on these topics is like.

[cracticusly]

Happy anniversary