Nothing Works Right. You Were Built Poorly

Kind and nice aren't synonyms and when energy is in short supply I only care about the first. May also use this for my own general chronic conditions purposes. It's topical.

[jadedgenasi]

Me: lots of things can contribute to having or developing OCD. there's no one thing to point to or blame, but more likely a conglomerate of memories and experiences during vulnerable times. Who can say.

Also me, 8 years old and staring at the ceiling at midnight: the pastor said every single person we neglect to share the gospel with can point directly to us when they're in hell and demand why we didn't think their souls worth saving more than our temporary discomfort or shyness. This also means if I don't tell my friends and get them to believe, I'll never see them again when we die. And it will be my fault. I've failed so many already.

[jadedgenasi]

I guess it's sinking in for the first time that a lot of people in this world, even in this country, can text their mom "it's really dark in the world and I'm getting scared" and get back support and care. Like that's a thing that happens for other people and not even rarely. In many places that's. The norm.

[jadedgenasi]

Fuuuuuuck I've suspected for a while that my hip muscles are rigid because my hip joints are actually loose (the same has been true for my shoulders for years) but now I know for sure.

A few weeks of Tae Kwon Do have shown me just how immobile my hips are, which isn't great for getting better at kicks. The first time the master had us do a stretch to open up the hips, I learned I cannot do that and also it hurts to try. So I knew something was up. I've been looking into non static hip stretches to work on loosening up a little bit and getting some range of motion back and today I found it. The stretch that allows me to crunch my hips in and out of socket the exact way I used to do my shoulders all the time to freak people out. I stopped in college before I knew I was hypermobile simply because I felt like maybe it wasn't very healthy of me as party tricks go, and I haven't been able to make them crunch again until very recently with the aid of a door frame - and several Tae Kwon Do classes.

Truthfully I have no idea what this means for my continued tkd advancement. I don't know if it's dangerous for me to work on hip flexibility, but I want to. I want to be able to touch my toes and kick high and have my full range of motion. I have so very little motion there. And now I know why. I needed my lower body to be stable long before my upper body, so I likely started becoming rigid in my hip muscles to compensate before I even had conscious memory.

I've been operating under the assumption of hypermobility for a while but I've been doubting the whole time and thinking maybe I'm just trying to feel special or whatever since I don't have stretchy skin and I can't do contortionist stuff - which is actually pretty common for a lot of hypermobile folks, they're stiff and not bendy because their muscles have been compensating for their joints for too long. Often that rigidity is scar tissue as much as it is plain habit.

(you have to turn the video very up to hear it but there's no startling or sudden noises - just some light rustling)

[jadedgenasi]

Your annual reminder that a vibrator to the face can save you a lot of pain. By which I mean I have a migraine and my migraines manifest as extreme sinus pressure and pressing a vibrator to the bridge of my nose and going slowly from the inside out along both cheekbones made me sneeze five or six times (crucially, it did not hurt at all to sneeze, and you'd expect it to hurt worse) and then a bunch of stuff drained down the back of my throat. I am still in pain but it's a degree or two less on the fabled pain scale and it did not hurt the entire time the vibrator was going. Just sweet relief.

This will also drain your sinuses if what you are dealing with is in fact a bunch of snot and not just a ton of inflammation and mystery migraine bullshit.

[vidapuppen]

Scientists Are Working on an Mrna Vaccine To Wipe Out Allergies

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania may have developed a vaccine for seasonal allergies and food allergies.

Y'ALL THIS IS SO COOL AND COULD BE HUGE FOR SO MANY PEOPLE

[dirt-mann]

additional article:

A new Penn mRNA vaccine stopped allergens from causing dangerous immune reactions and life-threatening inflammation in mice.

[lastoneout]

Hold on I just. Oh my god we might be able to CURE ASTHMA!! Hundreds of kids die EVERY YEAR from asthma attacks, I cannot count the number of times I'VE almost died due to asthma. It's terrifying, some of my earliest memories are of horrific asthma attacks, they were so bad my mom thought I had whooping cough. And on top of just the illness yoh have to deal with awful social isolation, the torture that is gym class, having your life-saving inhaler locked away where you might not be able to get to it in time, kids might not have to put up with that anymore!!

We might create a world where kids don't suffer and die from asthma attacks. I legit am crying as I write this. This is incredible!!!

[hyperactivehedgehog]

I wish the article went into a bit more detail about how exactly the vaccine worked, because what they've developed works opposite to a vaccine. They've created an anti-vaccine that makes your immune system recognize an allergen - even one that a person is already allergic to - as harmless. This could be HUGE. If the method of presentation can be repurposed, this could be used to treat and even cure auto immune disorders. We could treat arthritis, diabetes, multiple sklerosis. Holy fuck!!!!

[jadedgenasi]

Odd behavior generally doesn't tell you anything about a person's morality or values, but people's reactions to the things and persons they find weird sure do.

[jadedgenasi]

The secret is that you have to be at peace with the idea of being alone - not resigned, not "well I'm used to it," truly comfortable with yourself as your only company - in order to stop your heart from being consumed bit by bit in every relationship you end up in, to stop seeking the behavior that will make them stay. You have to know you'd be okay if you didn't have them. And also - and this is important - you can't be alone.

[jadedgenasi]

Incredibly powerful aura from these two pins I came across

[jadedgenasi]

Whatever your feelings about campaign 3, you gotta admire CR immediately following up an entire campaign with a four episode miniseries that completely and utterly decimates every "argument" of the 500 hour narrative before it without even blinking.

[stardustedknuckles]

There's something coming full circle here. Ashton specifically. Created in a ritual outside of the gods gone wrong. Resurrected with the thing that will save the world. Recklessly driving for something to die for and maybe, in turn, ensuring life forever.

[stardustedknuckles]

Falling, again. Unconscious, again. Running with a new crew. The ground an old friend rushing to greet him, and somewhere FCG is watching. This has happened before. But not like this. Not with these people.

The gods won't save him. The people of Exandria won't save him. But they're one of the Hells, and in all the ways it matters it's only been them looking out for each other this whole adventure.

Whether he's caught or they shatter on the ground, they wouldn't have this any other way.

[jadedgenasi]

Nobody in bells hells has the right to criticize Ashton for taking the shard ever again. Imogen least of all, if she fucking survives.

[fibro-memes]

[cansofbees]

tongue in cheek art about weird bodies and waiting for a diagnosis

[jadedgenasi]

Shit dudes, if you sent me a boop here I'm sorry. I never thought to check my sideblogs!

[beliched]

The titans<33

[riahpariah]

if there is one thing I really want cr fandom to understand rn it's that disabled characters can still act/think in ableist ways. any given marginalization does not preclude its members from participating in their own oppression.

like Ashton thinking the elemental route being "better" because it's natural rings to me (a multiply disabled agender) like a paralympian telling me, with joints that literally don't hold together and vascular issues that get worse with increased heart rate, that exercise is always beneficial. like natural things can't destroy us? like civilization didn't come to be to ensure collective survival for "the weakest," who would absolutely be the first to die if Natural was the only measure by which good was measured. Ashton may be disabled, but they are absolutely advocating for a world that abandons disabled Exandrians who don't happen to have immense power alongside that disability, and that's not even getting into the lack of gods severely fucking up every cleric-based medical system on the plane.

[zhellers]

literal stone butch