everything is inevitable. @oceanicspooks - Tumblr Blog

remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

mostlybats-partiallyrats

How fucking old are you people?

googledocsdyke

normal amount

orpheuslament

i love you spatial horror i love you fucked up houses i love you neverending corridors i love you doors that lead nowhere i love you something evil under the floorboards i love you architecture that doesnt make sense

realfootage

On a less “poetic” note, creation gave me all these health problems and I still built this life for myself and honestly if I woke up tomorrow Healthy™️ i really wouldn’t be stoppable. These health issues? The only thing slowing me down. I would either fight god or become him. Cliche, but still stands.

Like I’m married to the love of my life with a decent place to live of our own, getting ready to start looking for a house, have a pretty cool job, three dogs, bills are paid, making pretty good friends where I am and have great friends speckled across a few states. I really did it, in the end, without anyone’s help and in spite of proper actively dragging me down or trying to hold me back. All while navigating chronic health issues with little too no real medical help. I really do just keep pushing forward and up despite the odds. So to anyone so thinks I’m weak- you’re wrong. To everyone that abandoned me, I hope you see how great I’m doing and the person you missed out on.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

#oceanic babbles

Oh to whisper into a void that swallows my words, leaving no sound and no trace, not even a faint memory.

What’s the difference anyway?

A longing for understanding, a light in the distance that you just can’t reach but you keep going towards.

What other option do you have?

#chronic pain #it’s weird having most of a life you always dreamed of and realizing you can’t leave the health issues behind #oceanic babbles

evadethevoid

“I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”

— Annelyse Gelman, from “The Pillowcase” in Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone

finrays

Thinking about it, I’m pretty sure my ancestors would be horrified with me.

Not because I’m lazy or unworthy or anything like that…

…but because one of my distant uncles was among the eight survivors of the Essex, the ship that inspired the ending of Moby Dick and sank after being rammed by a whale, and what do I fuckin do after my bloodline has this Ordeal at Sea?

I get a fuckin degree in Marine Science and go back the fuck out there.

retroactivebakeries

#op its your job to kill that whale

gaygalaxys

thevampireconnoisseur

Some of my favorite Halloween Kills (2021) reviews

Bonus:

bogleech

Tumblr mobile telling me I have a “weird connection” like yeah no shit sherlock your website’s given me pretty much the weirdest fucking connections humanity has to offer

memeuplift

slab-o-meat

crabs are so gentle, they can be so kind. their claws? precise little things, so careful in the sand, so careful with food. they do what they must to live and wave their claws to express their joy to the world for giving so much to them, for giving such kindness to these creatures known as crabs. please be gentle to crabs

slab-o-meat

i was on. a new sleep medication last night

pizzaback-deactivated20201011

but you were right

somecunttookmyurl

whilst i am always and forever just begging doctors to properly check interactions before they prescibe things (@ pharmacists: fuck everyone else i respect you i love you xoxo)

i am in fact also begging everyone to read the leaflets you get with your medication. if you have difficulty reading or understanding those leaflets that's fine just like... ask the pharmacist. never met one who wasn't happy to explain drugs.

but like...

"SSRIs make you less tolerant of heat" should not be a shock - it's in the leaflet. they make you sweat, give you hot flashes, and make your skin more sensitive to the sun. that's all in there.

"mixing alcohol and benzos is a Bad Time" is not a shock. it's in the leaflet to avoid alcohol.

"my ADHD meds made me not want to eat" is not a shock. it's in the leaflet that they cause appetite suppression and weight loss.

you do not have to "find out the hard way" you really don't. and bc doctors are fuckin useless at bothering to actually read and/or understand and/or explain interactions like... ever, apparently? there are plenty of places you can check for yourself or, again, just ask the pharmacist if there's anything to watch out for.

i mean asking a pharmacist about interactions is basially asking them to infodump about their hyperfixation. you're asking someone who thinks drugs are really cool to talk about drugs they are not going to be upset about this.

somecunttookmyurl

oh hey my grandma was a nurse too!

the amount of people who don't read them and then later are like "WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS" *pinches nose bridge* they did. it was in the leaflet.

theplaguebeast

And if you lose the leaflet, or can't read the print, or whatever, DRUGS.COM

It's got, like, every medication ever, with pictures and everything, and all the side effects, AND a really handy interactions checker.

somecunttookmyurl

love drugs.com for that. only site that has the full full list of side effects (go to the 'for professionals' section) and their interaction checker is great as well bc it does also include supplements and recreational drugs in the database. i personally prefer the go.drugbank.com checker but only because i'm a supermassive nerd and gives you all the technical mechanisms behind the interaction. plus you can go full nerd and look at the complete pharmacology of anything. which is probably only parsable by, like, 5 people who follow me but it is really cool though

anyway if, unlike me, you're a normal person drugs.com is absolutely your best friend outside of an actual pharmacist

vaspider

Cannot stress enough how important this is. I'm allergic to an antibiotic & was once given another medication that was not that medication but was contraindicated for ppl with that allergy. My allergy info is up to date with my pharmacy... but their computer missed that, or they didn't check. (My doctor DEFINITELY didn't.)

That kind of mistake can kill a person. Always check.

bisexualbaker

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naamahdarling

I have seen doctors talking shit about people who read the leaflets. Even Sidnee McElroy, who I completely respect, kind of snorted about people who read the INFORMATIVE LITERATURE and then get concerned about the rare, weird side effects. I got mad on Twitter about it in comments to the direct to consumer drug advertising episode (otherwise good) because she's usually better than that. You can't say you want patients who are engaged and then look down on them for taking advantage of the FREE, ACCURATE INFORMATION that comes with your meds.

Educate yourself, and always double or triple check the work of any doctor who even blinks funny when you ask questions or mention reading you've done.

Pharmacists are great. Loads of love for y'all.

jabberwockypie

I feel like the original post is shaming people for not knowing something, in a way I really don’t like. A lot of people are never taught to read the medication information, and a lot of people are actively discouraged from advocating for themselves - especially in a medical setting, and REALLY, SERIOUSLY in a mental health setting. Particularly as an adolescent on psych meds, I was actively discouraged from reading the literature and asking about side effects because “The only one you need to be concerned about is the increased suicidal ideation part. Definitely tell someone if that happens, otherwise don’t worry about it”. (This was 1000% Not True.) Now, do I read it NOW? Well, yeah, but I’m in my 30s and I’ve had more than 20 years of experience being fucked over by the medical and mental health systems. Most people HOPEFULLY don’t have that. Even then, suicidal ideation wasn’t listed in the pamphlet for the blood pressure med I tried last summer - it was an unusual interaction, and I had to go online to find that, and my doctor was pretty freaked out about it. (It was fine, because I know to be vigilant about starting new medications. Sometimes bodies are weird. I also get the opposite reaction when I’ve tried ADHD meds - stimulants make me want to eat EVERYTHING IN THE HOUSE.) On the one hand, yes, it’s in the leaflet that you shouldn’t drink while taking benzodiazapines, and there’s probably a sticker on the bottle too.

On the other hand, it also says that with ibuprofen and virtually every antidepressant I’ve ever been on. (The big risk with NSAIDs is that it increases the risk of a bleeding stomach ulcer, but it’s more of a “most people will probably be okay if they don’t do it frequently” situation. It’s generally not GREAT to drink when you’re dealing with mental health stuff REGARDLESS, but for some psych meds the big issue is a risk of “increased drowsiness”. In contrast, mixing tylenol and alcohol can seriously damage your liver. Mixing alcohol with benzodiazapines can SUPER kill you.) There’s not a lot of nuance or degree there, and I think some people - younger people, especially - are used to authority figures/older adults harping on the “Don’t drink and don’t use illicit drugs” thing, so they may not realize no, really, there may be an ACTUAL REASON THAT CAN KILL YOU that medication may say not to use alcohol while you’re taking them. So yeah, if you didn’t know before, now you do. Read the leaflets that come with your medication, ask your pharmacist if there’s anything in particular to look out for, and pay attention to how you’re feeling - good and bad - when you start a new medication, and how that changes.

thebibliosphere

Hell, I've had doctors discourage me from reading the leaflets because “it’ll only make you anxious.”

And like like I KNOW that’s bullshit advice. Thirty years of medical negligence, abuse and weird drug interaction fuckery have primed me to be aware of how awful that advice is. But if you're not someone who deals with chronic or long term problems that require regular advocacy, if the authority figure who you're trusting to take care of you is telling you to dismiss the literature then yea, I can kinda see how people aren't aware of these things. They're being conditioned to be “good patients” by bad doctors. And in my experience, it’s depressingly common.

So yeah, read the literature that comes with your meds, either on the leaflet that comes with it or by looking it up on Drugs.com. And if you've got questions or concerns, 100% ask the pharmacist or call your clinic; they'll usually put you through to a nurse or physician’s assistant to talk to. You're not bothering them or being bad; this is part of their job.

agreyeyedgirl

exai

i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone

ironwoman359

I was trying to explain tumblr to someone who had never used it before and she said “So what do people post there? Videos, like on tiktok?” and it took all my self control not to say “Mostly we just post bullshit.”

what-even-is-thiss

The exact structure of Tumblr is something I’ve had to explain to my whole family to both people that are very online and people who have never had a social media account before and all of them thought that it sounded weird and complicated and I always try to explain to them no complicated press reblog head empty but they don’t get it

ironwoman359

“What sort of content do people put on tumblr?”

We’re literally….we’re literally just vibing

what-even-is-thiss

What kind of content? Yes.