I'm you and you're not here.

very much just a wandering meatcase. nonbinary/trans, they/them, 34, northeastern US. I do sometimes post nsfw.

[leofdaeg]

I played dungeons & dragons today straight from 1pm-830pm with two different groups. We had little breaks, obviously, but on top of that I had a solid morning of cooking, chores, and a few more chores after we ended.

This would have never been possible pre-covid. Nobody would have suggested remote sessions, and my day would have been eaten up by travel. I would not have opted to play at all, because in person sessions in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people are exhausting - and forget more than one session in a day!

For eight and a half hours, I didn't really think about the world, and I was happy. It was nice.

[leofdaeg]

Hear me out: AKC-style names for non show sheep, for no particular reason other than absurdity. 'TwistMill Farms A Wing And A Prairie,' cuss name Prairie. THINK ABOUT IT.

[leofdaeg]

so anyway I play elder scrolls online, they have a western skyrim expansion annnnnnnnd blackreach is in it. good shit good shit. look at those! glowy mushroooooms! 

[leofdaeg]

Content warning medical - So anyway, don't make it weird, but I have surgery for a double mastectomy without reconstruction scheduled next week. This is a photo of some of the textiles coming with me through this... my hope is that talking about this will make it easier for someone else or normalize it, somehow. Men's shirts, cotton linen, regular fit medium, so I can have easy one piece nightgowns while recovering. (Looking forward to men's shirts forever after this, not gonna lie.) Masks, because the surgical wards are observing strict policies for covid. I will have to do an overnight stay without friends or family with me. Tie on pockets, made custom by a friend, because I won't be able to lift, carry, push or pull for weeks. A waist and hip pouch, because if I need to have pockets I'm going to do it right. This is a bizarre process. I'm looking forward to having a different relationship with my body and with the world (because I'm genderqueer. happy pride/wrath month.) but the path to get there has been weird and hard. Our society has such a strong set of associations to breasts and I see it every time I tell someone this news. I'm doing this so I don't get cancer, and so I can stop having expensive, painful biopsies and tedious MRIs every six months (or less.) Surely the shape of my body doesn't matter, so long as I'm alive? https://www.instagram.com/p/CCD57SXpx3aPJwxZcrYNDpKnTGIGNyK4dzOW3A0/?igshid=1vwxosdycd0pk

[leofdaeg]

I will bring this to my therapist, obv (praise my luck and good fortune and access to resources that I have one) but I'm wondering this morning why anger is an effective antithesis to depression and adhd-caused executive dysfunction for me. Why is spite a hack? Anger is so exhausting. I want to figure this out so I can wrangle it.

[leofdaeg]

It's very interesting, strange and annoying to be obligated to become an expert in handling life with both piriformis syndrome and a connective tissue disorder.

I'd go so far as to say it's a pain in the ass.

Hehehehehe.

(does it make the nerve pain go away? no. do I feel better emotionally? hell yeah.)

[penstab]

HEY... does anyone know if there's something to the thing where I feel better hydrated for much longer when I eat stuff like melons as opposed to drinking water with added electrolytes? Like of course fruits and veggies have their own electrolytes and other nutrients that help with hydration, that's not really the question... I dunno. For me it just feels like there's a HUGE difference in how well my body holds on to the fluids, and i wish I knew why. Is it the particular balance of electrolytes??? Is it bc my body has to take more time to process it??????

anyway I am dehydrated no matter how much I drink rn, please bring me melons and cucumbers :( I am a husk!!!!!

[leofdaeg]

@penstab hello :) just reblogging with a response because it was too long to be a reply. Anyway -

the short answer is yes. here's the longer answer :)

salts and sugars and their types and amounts (ie potassium salt versus table salt, or mannose versus sucrose) are processed differently and impact the way your cells function differently. electrolyte water is very unlikely to be a composition of salts and sugars that are easily accessible to your body over time unless you're like, very much deficient, whereas a fruit has relatively simple sugars and salts by comparison and its fiber slows down digestion. this is why juice is kind of frowned on by old-school nutritionists - it's really easy for your body to process the sugar right into your blood, which can spike your blood sugar and is an easy path for your body to take if it wants to turn that sugar into fat, which it does.

so if you eat a fruit, because of its fiber (cell walls,) you're going to uptake its salts and sugars more slowly than in an electrolyte drink, which is most efficient as a rescue tool because it goes right thru the tummy. the slow release of salts etc combined with their types is probably at least part of the reason why the two feel different to you.

also, there's really something to be said for secondary metabolites that plants produce that can cause different mouthfeel or digestive effects, along with any psychosomatic impacts based on your preference of eating a melon versus a Gatorade. there's some clinical evidence that one's joy in eating food impacts its nutritional benefit. I haven't read into it much, but brains are really weird and I'd buy it.

anyway. I hope this is helpful; I'm recovering from an eating disorder and have a BS in botany, for what that's worth in terms of validity of info. I hope it helps!

[leofdaeg]

I think I'm gonna turn this blog into an actual blog instead of a reblog machine. maybe host elsewhere and post to here, just for fun? we'll see.

[leofdaeg]

there is no love like the love in bringing your deeply nauseous partner the open box of matzos for nibbling purposes. I do not make the rules.

[unpretty]

The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

[guyalice]

I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he “regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,” I have a strong spiritual connection with him.

[froginakettle]

[hotcocoachia]

I fucking love him

[jaynavajasso]

i can imagine this guy’s voice very clearly in my head but i couldn’t put a name to it 

[iamtypinglike98madmen-deactivat]

He also jabs racists in the eye!

[tumblunni]

I love the justice grandpa of fists

[cursedcharley]

I’m very lucky to own a book that’s a collection of most of these comics (sadly not all of them) and would highly recommend hunting these down if you can. Sorry for the lack of a scanner but phone photos will just have to do.

He was a enjoyable cuss who didn’t care for war mongering.

Especially profitable war mongering and excuses for it!

He certainly didn’t like selfish husbands and fathers!

Politicians who turned on their words once they got theirs weren’t safe.

He said fuck the police!

He absolutely didn’t like people ruining little things for kids.

He stood up for foreigners. Especially those doing their best to communicate with limited second language knowledge.

He was not having any tomfoolery when it came to gun safety and laws. Especially with youth involved.

You had better not abuse a animal with him nearby. He’d right that wrong real quick!

And best of all him and his wife were both prickly cusses together. Relationship goals.

[biglawbear]

I have a new role model

[briarchubnj]

😍

[runcibility]

“justice grandpa of fists”

[arquus-malvaceae-deactivated202]

It’s nice to see a fat dude in a political cartoon that’s NOT being used as shorthand for greed and corruption.

[charismat1c-megafauna]

Hes like the personification of motherfucker unlimited

[bogleech]

Reblogging this newer version of this thread with so many more strips I haven’t seen…why did this character ever disappear. Where did you go, Everett.

[tramampoline]

we need him more than ever…

[everythingfox]

Friction is for losers

(via)

[emmastudies]

three steps to getting things done!

[iminthearmsofmorpheus]

Me, an intellectual (having ADHD):

think

plan

…

…

execute

?

[adhdforlosers]

Might be because I’m sleep deprived but this is the funniest shit I’ve seen all day

[zanderschubert]

I’m just here for the distracting heptagram

[iminthearmsofmorpheus]

I have to admit, it’s pretty hypnotic

[the-ferrets-do-the-reblog]

you’ve summed up adhd

[chiaroxoscuro]

Hi! I’m sure a lot of you know this but I’m a non binary crafts person of color. I run a business called warclad, making medieval and fantasy gear. I’m self taught and spend my time studying old techniques. I’m currently teaching myself to work steel. With how things are times are hard and I can use all the help I can get to keep doing the work I love. If you like what you see consider following me on

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If you like my work you can get your hands on it over on Etsy, or you can support me on Patreon. I’m really hoping to get into making tutorials and testing out my work. 

Please consider rebloging this, and if you can, add on other poc’s and lgbt individuals involved in craft work as we can use all the boosting we can get these days.

[ladivvinatravestia]

Here is the totally amazing Witcher phone case I got from Warclad!  Please check out their etsy shop, their work is fantastic

[rabbitindisguise]

The sentiment is good but I've had enough "you don't owe cis people androgyny" to last me a lifetime, time for cis people owe ME androgyny

Like, why does it gotta be so damn hard just to exist as an androgynous person. Stop calling me wearing a women's cardigan "feminine" when I am very clearly wearing androgynous and masculine stuff with it. Stop hen pecking trans men's wardrobes like "hmm, I'm not sure a man would wear that!" Stop asking people if they're transmasc or transfeminine when you clearly have no fucking idea what that even means. Same with "alignment." Quit analyzing trans and nb people and getting upset when they aren't clearly identifiable as a single binary gender presentation! That's the point! That's why androgyny is a thing. Leave androgynous nb and trans people a l o n e we have literally done nothing to you by presenting androgynously.

. . . evidently I have tapped into a well of rage I didn't even know I had

Anyway if you're androgynous you look incredible today may all your favorite clothes be clean when you get dressed

[leofdaeg]

I like the practical blessing most of all.

[lesbyterianchurch]

New favorite TikTok

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

That's fricking hilarious

[edanakaya]

@xiumuns

[whitepeopletwitter]

[nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice]

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