~ABOUT ME~ *This is updated semi-frequently to add/remove/revise information. It may look different the next time you see it.*
Welcome to my main blog! It's got personal posts, vent posts, mental & physical illness posting, human rights stuff, and politics. Fun times over here🤘
Genderfluid+Intersex Flag by blair-mogai // Retrotransgender Flag by intervex
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25Yrs (Bday//August 5th 🎉)
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*Any/Fluid Pronouns, They/Them is usually best!*
>Genderfluid (Kinda Bigender-Agender)
>Intersex, CTFA
*Started low-dose t in December of 2024.
*Quit taking Kariva (Desogestrel+Estradiol) in December of 2022 (started that in 2013.)
*Bilateral Salpingectomy done November 2022. (Already have a family history of miscarriages due to the intersex variation that keeps getting passed down; but obviously pregnancy isn't impossible, because *I exist*, so I had to make my chances as close to zero as I could.)
Also; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Dysthymia/Persistent Depressive Disorder, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, & "Personality Disorder" (Thought I was BPD but it turns out they couldn't properly specify my dx because my traits are mixed? I relate to the few people I've seen who are comorbid Schizoid + Borderline.)
Have some physical health issues, as well. A few examples being Dysautonomia, Hypermobility (Possibly EDS, genetic testing showed a VUS), Hidradenitis Suppurativa, and Traumatic Brain Injury.
•Have been in some form of talk therapy for my mental health since I was 13. Started DBT in 2019, and then switched to an individualized ACT/DBT model in 2024.
•Have been involuntarily hospitalized / inpatient in a psych ward 3 times (2017 - 2021 - 2023) and did a voluntary partial hospitalization program in 2019.
•Take several medications (Ritalin, Lamictal, Buspar, Mirtazapine, Propranolol.)
why is it so hard for people to grasp that disabilities disable and chronic illnesses are chronic. yes even when it inconveniences you. yes even when your patience runs out
the thing about body horror is that there's nothing you can come up with that can compete with what the human body will do to itself under a sufficient amount of stress
in the early 21st-century, the “small business” was a sort of small temple run by a local warlord. Patrons could purchase small trinkets and be granted absolution for the sins of their empire. This was called “ethical consumption.”
it's pretty easy to imagine that you are one of some fractional holdout against AI while everyone else has fallen into some misguided love affair with LLMs, and I am so happy to tell you that this is not the case.
the US public is deeply suspicious of AI's impacts on jobs and education. Kamala Harris and the Republican party are both polling better than AI. 8/10 gen zers are concerned about AI's impact on education and only 18% are positive about this technology. there is widespread, bipartisan grassroots organizing against data centers. 97% of Britons are against Grok's "undressing" technology. the majority of Americans are concerned about AI in arenas like self-driving vehicles and healthcare. Even polling data from companies centered on AI shows significant concern around generative technology. OpenAI isn't meeting internal growth bench posts. On top of all that, Musk and Altman are currently both making fools of themselves in a very public trial.
art block is your brain telling you to do studies.
draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.
art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard
As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time. Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you. So, when you get back to that big/important piece? You’ll know what to do and how to do it.
Nothing in nature blooms all year round. Rest, and take care of yourself.
Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.
Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.
Back in like 2011 people thought I was a cooky conspiracy nut for pointing out that we live under constant government surveillance. Now we live in a post-Snowden, post-Wikileaks world where the fact that we live under constant government surveillance is a matter of public record that everyone acknowledges, but I'm a cooky conspiracy nut for thinking it's bad.
Your best is not the same as your 100%. It's okay to give as much as you CAN not as much as is humanly possible. Giving 100% all the time just leads to burn out.
sleep disorders/conditions affecting sleep are no fucking joke man. they're more than just "takes an hour to fall asleep." like yeah that sucks but.
sleep issues can make people sleep all day and be awake all night no matter what they do. they can make people sleep for over half the day every day. they can make people stay up for over 24 hours frequently - and it just goes up from there. being up for days at a time just unable to sleep.
they can make people have a completely unpredictable sleep schedule too. not everyone is capable of going to bed and waking up at generally the same time, or maintaining it.
all this could be more temporary, or it could just be indefinite. like. having to live your life not knowing if you will or will not be conscious at any given time. you can't plan for fucking anything. you can miss almost every plan or event or obligation.
and everyone just hates you for it pretty much, thinking you're irresponsible and lazy.
be nicer to people with sleep problems. they make you physically and mentally feel like shit. they're not a choice.
My knee dislocated/gave out on me again last night 😭
It's been a couple of years since it actually happened last (it has "threatened" to do it, but this is the first time in a while it actually happened. Last time I remember it happened was while I was hosting activities at the old folks home, and the whole room gasped & went silent. Prob thought I was gonna have to be a patient there, too... Shit.💀)
This time, it happened the moment that I set a candle down after lighting it, so I am just lucky that I didn't take a lit candle down with me & drop it on the floor... like i'm just picturing myself quickly limping out of the house holding my gecko in a little box bc i set the house on fire accidentally 😭
Idk if I should get a cane??? JIC this happens while I'm out & about? Bc I do collapse when it happens and I could end up causing myself harm if I'm not prepared/ can't catch myself... But I don't feel like it happens often enough for me to carry a mobility aid "just in case"??
This is yet another clearly genetic health issue that I got from my mom- & I do think it's hypermobility related (like my shoulder doing the same thing) so it's yet another symptom I can connect to my Intersex variation/dysautonomia/immune disorder/vitamin deficiency/autism/ADHD shit bc yippee hypermobility/hEDS is a common comorbidity, too...
((and somehow i'm theoretically able to keep a job when i'm like this, according to the government... when the job market's so ass that job placement services gave up trying to get me one, and even if they could have, the whole country's at-will employment.))
For the first time in art history, the powerful depictions of "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Rubens (Left) and Goya (Right) are being presented together.
I learned as a kid that PSSSST is an easy way to emulate a hiss / say "DON'T DO THAT". So I don't understand why so many people go pspspsps. You're doing some weird repeated hiss (angry sound) at your cat as a greeting??? Makes no sense. How do cats you're unfamiliar with treat you when you do that to them? 😭
