✧*:･

venus, she/they, 26. horror movies, expedition 33, dnp, and star trek the next generation are my current fixations. sometimes i go on reblog sprees of other interests. charted trash, sally reed protection squad, steph lauter irl

[adrianicsea]

saw 2004 homophobic lawrence cut

[willgrahamscock]

something that made me sit down and stare at my wall for an hour

[just-your-average-cryptid]

point of reference from an able-bodied person: standing in one place for an hour kinda makes my feet/legs hurt. longer than that is when it really hits but it takes an hour to get there.

if you are in pain within minutes or seconds, that is not normal. that is a Symptom. poke your doctor into finding out what it is or connect with disabled and chronic pain groups.

if you are in extreme pain, not just "ugh my feet ache" pain but "i am going to pass out" pain, that is not normal. that is a Symptom. poke your doctor into finding out what it is or connect with disabled and chronic pain groups.

I know some people try to rationalize as "well it's not excruciating compared to my baseline" and I am gently reminding you that the baseline is zero. zero is normal. this ^ is not. be kind to yourself.

[junequeer]

AN HOUR???????

[just-your-average-cryptid]

"walking for 15 minutes makes the bones in my calves hurt for 2 hours"

buddy... that's the Symptoms...

[alpaca-clouds]

... Wait, what?

I mean, I can walk just fine, but standing in one spot for like 15 to 20 minutes will leave me in pain for days.

That is... not normal?

[willgrahamscock]

I love how everyone is still asking hey so my symptoms are actually symptoms? Even if I feel only x amount of pain after x amount of time? BUDDY THE NORM IS FEELING MILD DISCOMFORT AT MOST AFTER STANDING FOR AN HOUR AND THEY RECOVER WITHIN A FEW HOURS TO A DAY

[geekyoldlady]

So, I talked to my doctor and she suggested weight loss drugs

So that didn’t help

What do I do now?

[findingfeather]

I mean ideally get a new doctor.

Meanwhile document the actual effect the pain/etc has on your life. Document how it impacts your ability to cook; your ability to clean; your ability to clean yourself; your ability to sleep; your ability to work; document all attempts to be more active and how the pain interferes with them. If you have to do something other than just go stand in the kitchen for ~1hr to cook a meal, that's something to write down; if you have to choose not to have a shower because it'll hurt, write that down. If the pain prevents you from going for a walk, write that down.

Every single time you make a decision about what you're doing based on the pain, you document that; every time you have to endure the pain for a necessary activity which then impacts what ELSE you can do, write that down too, with a direct connection.

(Warning: this will probably be depressing as all fuck and you will probably hate it. You are almost certainly ignoring the impact of pain on you way more than you think you are, and having to face it will feel bad in the short run. Very bad.)

And then you bring it either to your new doctor or if you MUST, to your current doctor, and you say: this is how the pain currently affects my quality of life. This is what I would be doing if I weren't prevented from doing it because of the pain.

Say that you would like to find the reason for this pain and you would like them to order relevant diagnostic tests. If they refuse, or hem and haw, ask them to document clearly in your records that you requested this and both that they refuse and their reasons for refusing.

If you must deal with the same doctor, document the concerns you have with the weight-loss drugs, and ask your doctor to be explicit about why she thinks that these risks are worth something that does not directly address your actual concerns. Ask why this is their first line treatment for the rest of what you've described, and why they are more concerned with pushing an overprescribed treatment than actually investigating the cause of your pain and addressing it appropriately based on an evidence-based diagnosis.

This isn't a guarantee, but it's part of the process.

[findingfeather]

…. Also yes, I AM serious that you should be able to be in the kitchen for about an hour, on your feet and doing Cooking Things, without pain and without needing Recovery Time, in order to make yourself dinner and if you CAN’T - if that long results in Pain or Dramatic Fatigue or extended recovery - that is a Symptom. A big symptom.

[yore-donatsu]

La mélodie du coeur

OUI ! I ship them too ! There was so much potential ! Verso may have found someone who understands and supports him Sciel, despite her love for Pierre, could have moved on and loved Verso in a different way — without ever forgetting her first love, but by welcoming someone else into her life

Oh it's inspired by this tweet

[sky-kiss]

And you say the world it doesn't fit with you

I don't believe you, you're so serene Careening through the universe Your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free I hope you take a piece of me with you

-Motorcyle Drive By

Some Versciel for @glitter-goblins. Hope you enjoy, friend!

[rhibbet]

many such cases

[youretheworstperson]

sally My sally Sally My Sally SALLY SALLY MY SALLLYYYYY

[krasnoarmeyets]

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

[rthrmrgn]

A Study in Pink - BBC Sherlock (2010)

[stars-bean]

Jennifer's Body (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama

[crazy-brazilian]

[suchcrispwhimsy]

never been seen in the same room together

[theyhitthe2ndtower]

“just one more day” i say again and again and again and

[kingandrewburnap]

"I get to work with Andrew Burnap, who is just the best [and plays King Arthur]. He's the most generous scene partner anyone could ask for." - Phillipa Soo, on her favorite part of Camelot

[jhoomwrites]

when reading a book, do you read the prologue/epilogue?

yes

prologue only

epilogue only

no

nuance (comments/tags)

Voting ended onApr 13

[yusuke-of-valla]

Looking at the tags, a lot of people are blessedly unaware of the Discourse, for posterity:

[orcboxer]

do they think... that prologues and epilogues... which take place within the story and are very much inside of the same book as the rest of the pages... don't count as part of the book....???.....

[gardenofava]

[ralfmaximus]

Holy shit what a weird take. If you buy a book you paid for those words. The author wrote them so you could read them. Why on earth would you not read that?

I am reminded of the people who hate fiction because "it's not real".

[alderbat]

Are they stupid

[modogoblin]

[six-demon-bag]

DAVID DASTMALCHIAN as Wojchek THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER (2023) dir. André Øvredal

[vesemirsexual]

People love, love to bring up one-off moments of Yennefer at her worst. Yennefer who is mean, cold, haughty, angry, hurt, jealous, stand-offish.

It’s both funny and sad to me that people forget the rest. Yennefer, who ruins her expensive camlet dress without even realising it to save a woman having a miscarriage on the steps of Kaer Trolde. Yennefer, who gives the nervous young clerk Fabio Sachs the Younger such unexpected high praise that he blushes to the roots of his chestnut hair. Yennefer, who saves Giancardi’s family. Yennefer, who buys back Geralts swords without his knowledge - who has her own banker keep track of where he is looking for work, to make sure the region has a decent “Witcher fund”, even when they’re not together.

Yennefer, who on Skellige, earns the favour of Freyja, the patron goddess of motherhood; receives her grace, her diamond, her Brisingamen, because she is willing to endure more than the limits of human suffering for Ciri.

Yennefer has so many flaws: she’s a deeply broken, traumatised woman who’s prideful and knows how to play the ice queen. But if you don’t realise that Yennefer is also full of love for people around her, hidden kindness and compassion…you might want to read those stories again.

[cuntaloupes-deactivated20241215]

by tumblr standards i'm a well-adjusted normie. by normie standards i'm a nutjob. what is the truth