Primrose

(She/her) neurodivergent aroace cat lover with an abundance of chronic illnesses

[primrosebitch]

This is my intro post ig

I'm primrose, or prim for short, I'm aroace, chronically ill, and neurodivergent (diagnosed adhd and highly suspected autism)

I mostly post about my chronic illnesses and my experiences living with them (usually in a haha funny way (please laugh at my jokes)) but I also post about anything that seems interesting, like a funny thing that happened or a weird thought i had, this blog is basically just my mind removed from my skull and transformed into written words

btw feel free to ask any questions you have about my chronic illnesses, I'm pretty much an open book

[primrosebitch]

One really annoying thing about the stomach issues I've been dealing with is that sometimes when I'm all cozy and bundled up in my blanket my stomach will start like burning and the heat from being all bundled up makes it a lot worse so even though I'm all comfy I have to free myself from my cocoon so my stomach doesn't feel miserable.

[primrosebitch]

I used to think that I just had a chronically stuffy nose, and while that is still true, it turns out that what I thought was the worst of my congestion is actually just my nose swelling and in retrospect I really should've realized something was up when I'd blow my nose so hard it started bleeding and it did literally nothing to help with my congestion.

[primrosebitch]

My family recently moved to a new house, and in doing so we went from having a single door to the backyard to having 8 separate doors to the backyard, who the hell needs so many backyard doors???

[wizardarchetypes]

as we see reprisals of Y2K skinny culture (as part of fascism) people are making a lot of posts like ‘if you’re too young to remember, it was so toxic. people shamed [skinny woman] for being fat!’ and perhaps it’s useful to bring up someone like kate winslet circa 1999 being fatshamed to express how truly dire the situation was/is but i find it increasingly frustrating that the response seems by and large to be ‘wow that’s awful! she wasn’t even fat!’ [so clearly that was wrong!] and not the real point: ‘so imagine how horrible it was for actual fat people, who also don’t deserve the far worse treatment they got/get.’

[wizardarchetypes]

tl:dr if your response to fatphobic bullying/harrassment is “but they’re not even fat,” you have not gotten to the core issue. you haven’t even considered the core issue.

[wizardarchetypes]

lots of people in the tags pointing out the same thing about transphobia and especially transmisogyny where instead of centering trans women in conversations about transmisogyny, it turns into defending cis women who are mistaken for trans women like “and she’s not even trans!” instead of saying “we shouldn’t treat trans women that way.” you’re not derailing you’re 100% correct

[stillnaomi]

unless you want to teach small kids about a laundry list of sex acts, they're not going to even recognise many acts of CSA as sexual in nature. instead, we need to have children who are raised with an expectation of bodily autonomy and who feel comfortable complaining when they're made or asked to do things they don't feel comfortable with. we need children to have the expectation that those complaints will be taken seriously and that they'll receive backup to make sure situations like that don't continue. if their desires for bodily autonomy are consistently ignored, how can we expect them to speak out when something confusing and uncomfortable happens with their parent, cousin, or babysitter? we've already taught them that what they feel comfortable with doesn't matter

[milf-king]

Guinness World Records is recognizing Israel for their "kidney donation" record and so I think it's a great time to remind everyone that Israel has been harvesting the organs of Palestinians since the 1990s

You should read up on Yehuda Hiss who was the Chief Pathologist at Abu Kabir who was found to be taking organs from Palestinian corpses without permission and using them for research or selling them to medical schools were substantiated by the Israeli government.

There's also a book by Meira Weiss, an Israeli doctor, called "Over Their Dead Bodies" that details how organs taken from dead Palestinians were utilised in medical research at Israeli universities’ medical faculties and were transplanted into Jewish-Israeli patients’ bodies.

Euro-Med Monitor has also been raising the alarm on this. They've been asking for an investigation into how Israel has been unlawfully keeping the dead bodies of hundreds of Palestinians in its morgues or "Numbers Cemeteries" which are mass graves that are kept in subfreezing temps marked only by metal number plates.

Israel is the biggest hub for the illegal global trade in human organs. In 2019 the Israeli Supreme Court authorized the military to withhold the dead bodies of Palestinians to be used as leverage and by 2021 the Knesset had passed laws that allowed those bodies to be held for broader reasons.

Since the genocide began, so many Palestinians have talked about their family members being returned to them and missing vital organs

Just wanna make sure we're all on the same page here about Israel and it's relationship with organ harvesting since GWR wants to recognize them for "kidney donations"

[stoptheantisemitism]

OP I'm taking your tags because I know the Zionazis are gonna try it...

It's not libel if it's true

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[depsidase]

[hotvampireadjacent]

I’ve been trying to share this since I found out. They are moving onto harassing people in Memphis.

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Everyone was lovely in getting the word out about Chicago and Minnesota. I want to spread that awareness for folk in tennessee.

[primrosebitch]

I really wish I moved around a bit more in my sleep. I don't move at all, so much so that I'll often wake up with the beginnings of a bedsore. Which like what the fuck man?? I was literally just sleeping

[primrosebitch]

I slept like all day yesterday and yet was somehow able to sleep for the majority of the night and not fuck up my sleep schedule.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

ever wandered around in an open world video game and noticed there are no children? no elderly people? no fat people? no one using a wheelchair? no one with a guide dog? this is supposed to feel like a living world and there's so much of life that's just not there

[dragon-in-a-fez]

lots of people in the notes being like "open world games don't have kids/wheelchair users because if they did the players could kill them!" and I am unrolling my papyrus scroll with my curated reading list on the topic of "oppressed groups being imagined as symbols of innocence and vulnerability that must not be harmed in public instead of acknowledged as real people who are often suffering abuse in private, and why that is bad"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

like yeah I'm aware that our culture would go collectively apeshit over kid NPCs being shot up in GTA. I'm also aware that that very same culture is broadly fine with parents beating their actual real life kids, and that most people, even most people who would never hit their own kids, think other real life kids getting hit is not their business to be enraged about. so maybe like. there's something weird going on there.

[squarebracket-trickster]

"Readers have SHORT attention spans! The average reader takes just TWO sentences to decide whether to put a book down! You have to HOOK them in the FIRST sentence! GRAB them by throat and don't let them BREATHE—"

... have... have we considered that perhaps the average reader just, like, knows what they like in a book? I mean... first sentences are famous for establishing things like *checks notes*... genre, tone, POV, pacing, character, voice, uhhh... writing style...

The average reader is putting your book down because they discovered it's in first person (or not in first person). The average reader put your book down because they wanted a cozy read, or they're sick of cozy reads, or romance, or grimdark, or assassin princesses, or vampires, or or or. The average reader put your book down because they just didn't like your writing style—no, not because it was boring... they just, get this, didn't like it.

The average critical reader put your book down because it had six grammatical mistakes in the first two sentences.

The average reader will read quite a ways if the premise intrigues them, they like the genre, the writing style doesn't get on their nerves, and the characters pop off the page. In fact, they'll probably read the whole book, so long as it delivers on its plot promises and doesn't drag in the middle section.

The average reader will, however, stop reading after just two sentences if it's clear by the second sentence that the only thing they'll like about this book is the opening line.

[squarebracket-trickster]

Idk, I just think like, painting a demographic of people who, you know, pick up full length books to read for fun, as having short attention spans doesn't make too much sense. At least not as much sense as the alternative: words tell people things; namely, the contents of this book.

In general, though, I think we jump to blame short attention spans too often when there is a far more logical explanation. "It takes 0.06 seconds for viewers to scroll past a post." Yes, that is typically how long it takes me to discern whether this post is about something I'm interested in. There's a trillion posts out there, probably a billion books, of course we've gotten fast at sorting through content. That's not an attention span issue. That's just efficiency.

[fierceawakening]

Coming up with a good first sentence is great, but I'm not sure it has to be a hook in the way people claim it does.

[genderkoolaid]

fem trans men and butch/masc trans women only seem contradictory if you already fundamentally do not see gender nonconforming men and women as "real" men and women. and maybe its not conscious (i.e you would say "yes they are men/women" if asked) but you don't include them in your overall conception of wo/manhood. you, on some level, think that "man" is defined by cis perisex masculine men and "woman" is defined by cis perisex feminine women and femme men and butch women are just odd outliers. if you see gender nonconformity as natural and inherent parts of wo/manhood in general, then it shouldn't be surprising that its a natural and inherent part of trans wo/manhood either.

[tamamita]

They keep doing this shit and then start shouting blood libel when people confront them about it

[fancy-strawberry-beard]

Reblogging with this because I haven't seen anyone add links to any article yet:

Ultranationalist Jews chant racist slogans during annual march into Jerusalem's Old City

Large crowds of ultranationalist Jews gathered Thursday at the foot of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, chanting racist slogans like “Death to Ar

[primrosebitch]

I'm terrified that my voice will never recover from the acid reflux issues I've been having, like my range has gone to shit and I can barely sing 2 songs before it starts affecting my voice. Singing has been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember and it hurt so fucking bad to think that it'll never go back to what it was. My acid reflux issues have been fucking miserable but this is the worst part, I'd take the pain over this any day.

[milf-king]

Zionists having a meltdown over this Nick Kristof NYT article and calling it a mouth piece for Hamas is hilarious because this is literally the NYT staff

Source

The New York Times is deeply committed to upholding Zionism that about 20 of their high ranking editors, executives, journalists are either former IDF or literally living in stolen Palestinian property.

This dossier is worth digging into if you wanna know who they all are

Fuck the NYT but watching Zionists lose their shit because even their own paper is calling out the sexual violence Palestinian prisoners have faced by Israeli authorities

[tamamita]

A few weeks ago, an article was published by the right-wing tabloid the Daily Mail, claiming that Palestinians were sexually extorted by Hamas for food and etc. The source in question is dubious, because the Palestinians were anonymous and no actual investigation were made. All of it were derived from secondary sources and no confirmation existed except for some vague testimonies. Hardly anything reliable. In fact, the Daily Mail lacks so much credibility that even Wikipedia considers it an unreliable source and dedicated an entire section explaining why. But Zionists were more than happy to eat that shit up like no tomorrow, readily embracing it as "proof" that Hamas had committed such acts. Like eating bread crumbs from the floor, they desperately sought for anything that would tarnish the image of the resistance and justify the genocide.

BUT the moment the NYTimes posted an op-ed about the sexual violence committed against Palestinian, something that has been reported by various human rights organizations (and let's not forget the Right to Rape protest in 2024 in Sde Teiman), every single Jewish Zionist took to the streets to yell Blood Libel as always.

Rules for thee, not for me.