i simply cannot relate

*turns into a little snail*

[redacted-blue]

blueberry, 20, they/it/fir/xe/rain, white

I am just a small little creature who likes snails and art. Dumb idiot Irish American who lives in the woods.

DNI if you are suffering from a hateful heart (ie. transphobic, fatphobic, ableist, etc.)

Also I do not know how to use tumblr, and I never post anywhere

Things that I enjoy! My family, my friends, God, being queer, stuffed animals, bad music, serial killer documentaries, and mac and cheese.

I also use emoji pronouns! For those willing to use them here they are! 🍡/🌧️/🧼/🐌

Gratitude dates 18❤️‍🩹

[elote-on-pudding]

my only Headcanon is that the Hatman is Bisexual

[remnantglow]

also speaking of jakub różalski this painting of his is my FAVOURITE like yes girl snitch on the knight!!! get his ass!!!

[remnantglow]

the one of a girl looking longingly at a naked witch flying by and the one of a babushka yelling at a devil also rule tho

[helendamnationx]

Just want to make sure people are aware that the artist is on ArtStation and many of these, including the longing stare at witch one, are in fact for sale as prints for highly reasonable prices - the cheapest option being an 8 by 12 art poster for 18 US dollars (plus shipping).

[afterword]

idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

[wahoo-shem]

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

[nonbinary-witch-sam]

scientist when you don't take the medicine they developed to help your pain

[fandomsandfeminism]

As long as you are taking a SAFE dose of it, then it's *good* for you. Pain is bad for the body. The inflammation from prolonged pain can worsen chronic issues and make it harder to heal.

Ibuprofen is best for pain that has inflammation, while acetaminophen doesn't help with inflammation but is more broadly effective on other types of pain. As long as you are taking the recommended dose, you can even take them TOGETHER, since they have different mechanisms of action.

You do need to be aware of how much and how often you are taking any pain medication. Overdoses can be very painful (even lethal.) And if you are in chronic pain often enough that you need more than the safe dose, then you need to look into other medications to manage that pain.

(Also, if you are specifically taking Acetaminophen/Tylenol for your go-to pain management, getting some NAC and taking that with it reduces the risk of overdose AND may strengthen the effect.)

[bemusedlybespectacled]

One other thing: NSAIDS (ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen being the three big ones) can cause digestive issues with chronic use, including stomach ulcers. That doesn't mean "don't take them," it means "if you're at the point where you're on them all the time, every day, constantly, you should talk to a doctor about either reducing that risk or switching to another medication that doesn't have those side effects."

[solarianvoidthearoace]

I don’t have the source for this table anymore but I felt it should be added to this post.

[peskytimepirate]

Also please please please consult your doctor if you are on any other type of medication that put large strains on your liver or kidneys before taking any kind of NSAIDs as they can recommend alternatives.

[stcndupeight]

Yes Chronic Kidney Disease and liver disease prevent the use of NSAIDS entirely. Please remember this. Tylenol is the least harmful to these organs. If migraines are your problem, ask neurologist about the triptan drug family. Downside with these is nausea.

[grison-in-space]

I feel that it is worth bringing up again:

As a scientist, this is the way I feel when people in pain don't take the medication that was developed to help with pain:

Especially because as a scientist, I know that pain sensitization is a thing, and that experiencing pain for long periods of time can even train your whole nervous system to be even more reactive to potential pain. So if at all possible, I want my friends who are experiencing pain to try to control that pain as much as possible.

So if you are in pain, and you do not have any massive kidney and liver strain that prohibits you from taking a NSAID or paracetamol/Tylenol?

Please take the pain medicine. Please. Pleeeaaaaaase. I'm a scientist.

[justletmeremember]

yeah i'm a scientist who specializes in designing new pain meds. suffering is not noble, this is exactly how i look when y'all don't manage your pain:

take the meds! i became a scientist in this field explicitly to help people! i became a scientist because i too experience chronic pain and i failed out of literally all pain meds on the market. those of us in this field, we make these things to be used. be safe, follow doses, and if you have questions, ask your doc and pharmacist!

[foxgirlmindcrank]

Autistic second base is when she's trying out new noises with you

[punksalmons]

every day is a struggle

[freesiadotcom]

the moon is literally my favourite circle

[freesiadotcom]

OOH THATS A REALLY GOOD PICK!

[teaboot]

Someday when I’m a big tough independent man with an actual house of my own where I can have guests over and host dinners and stuff I’m gonna cover the walls with photographs of all my siblings and friends everywhere and the very first one I wanna hang up, in a prominent place so people will definitely notice and ask about it, is gonna be this one picture my mom took of me on Easter when I was a little girl, ‘cause I was her first kid and she loved old vintage lace and ribbons and shit so she’d always dress me up in old ass vintage dresses and curl my hair and give me bowl cut bangs and my eyes were fucking massive, and in that one specific picture I’m in this mid 1800’s ass dress with my little porcelain doll face refusing to smile and staring into the camera with these massive fucking creepy demon eyes, and any time anyone asks who that is- because my sisters aren’t white and all my other siblings are boys- I’m gonna tell them that it’s a picture of my dead twin

[teaboot]

This has been the gender journey btw

[ftmtftm]

I think that White people, especially White trans people, who want to talk about Black Feminists should actually study the racialized nature of gender. The way that manhood and womanhood are denied and hyperapplied to People of Color and those of racialized ethnicities.

The way that East Asian men are emasculated and denied manhood, the way East Asian women are objectified and hyper sexualized, the way that Black men are hyper sexualized and hyper masculinized, the way Black women are also uniquely hyper sexualized and hyper masculinized, the way that SE Asian men are seen as dirty sexual predators, the way SE Asian women are fetishized and treated as oriental decoration, the way Indigenous men are completely denied manhood and gender as an extension of personhood, the way Indigenous women are stolen and silenced, the way ethnically Jewish men are seen as impotent non-humans, the way Jewish women are treated as monstrous and abrasive, it goes on it goes on.

These are unique positions that people of these demographics experience at the intersections of their races and genders that are not experienced by white gender conformity.

It's like a bare minimum anti-racist feminist understanding of gender and its use as a tool of white supremacy that is required if you are White and are going to start throwing around the names of Black Feminists I think.

[mortalityplays]

the soft animal of my body wants a spliff and four pints of cider

[mortalityplays]

soft animal of my body is up for a kebab

[voyaging-too]

It's so important to acknowledge the very real and sometimes truly horrible failings of the healthcare profession and the pharmaceutical industry while never ever ever letting them drive us into the arms of pseudoscientific bullshit. This is something I feel really strongly about.

[bunjywunjy]

who needs reality shows when you have Ceiling Bug Drama

[bunjywunjy]

brushing my teeth watching a gnat bumble around on the ceiling somehow juuust barely avoiding the bathroom spider's web each time while the spider is visibly trembling in frustration

[99dentay]

i liked the mental image of this

[mylittleredgirl]

the thing about cracking open a long-established popular ship tag on ao3 is that it allows you to be extraordinarily picky, and i think it must be the closest thing i will ever experience to being filthy rich. i scroll along at super speed like no today i am only interested in fics with this precise range of words and one of these three tags. only authors i’ve heard of, please. hmm, i suppose i could consider an unknown quantity given its apparent popularity with the people, but… no, no, this summary doesn’t do it for me. no particular reason, it’s just… eh, i don’t need to explain myself. bring me 50 more like this for me to choose from and we’ll see.

[mylittleredgirl]

someone just lamented that their new pairing has only 5000 works ("where's the rest of them?") which is approximately the size of the pairing i was celebrating in the original post, and it really threw into relief that it's impossible for us to even conceptualize the extravagance of a true scrooge mcduck fandom if we've never been in one. i am a reasonably well-off dentist who takes her family to cancun once a year.

[mylittleredgirl]

state of the union update at 45k. my unscientific analysis reports a fairly even breakdown between:

people crying in the gutter

people crying in a 2-bedroom bungalow

the nouveaux riches (steddie fans)

these guys:

bonus shout out to:

very picky people crying from their summer home in the hamptons

the 4 people who think i'm actually a dentist

[bedupolker]

"I was born in the wrong generation" - me when i wish I could live in a time and place where real human connection and a sense of community was something that was the norm and not the exception. Either that or when I think about how cool it would be to see an Anomalocaris, the apex predator of the cambrian period.

[bearie]

"these hoes don't want a solution they just want someone to talk to" makeup tribute

[mypoorcanary]

[mypoorcanary]

everybody loves jamiroquai cuck gif

[largishcat]

so are all the christians gone yet or is this going to be an afternoon rapture

[mayorofnowhere]

it happened but the only true christian on earth was a green-breasted hummingbird. he will be dearly missed by his friends and family who assumed he was eaten by an outdoor cat, but other than that, life remains unchanged