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EMERGENCY: 120°F Weather! We Need Help Feeding People, Providing Water, and Creating Shade For Ourselves and Our Neighbors
August 10th, 2023
My partner and I are homeless trans women living in a squatter town in the desert called Slab City!
In Slab City there are no utilities, that means no electrical company, no gas company, and definitely no water company! Everyone has to provide their own for their own camp.
We have two 355 gallon tanks that we use for our camp and let our neighbors fill jugs from. It costs $40 each to hire someone to fill our tanks with drinking water and it drains from use in little over a week.
We also provide our neighbors with food, cold drinks, and shelter from the sun, free of charge. It costs $5 to $10 for us to go to the store and $10 for ice per a day.
The more money we have the more we can make ice, food, shade, and drinks available for others
Neither of us have a regular income, but we're both involved in a project to better our local community. See more here and here.
Please donate to help us raise money to allow us to refill our water tank, buy ice and snacks, and trade for shade cloth so that we and our community can have cold water to drink, snacks, and a cool place to hang out and avoid the sun.
- CаshApp: $ThistleDD
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Please help! It's been ~120°F everyday for the last month!
Without ice and water we would die pretty quickly out here and we need new shade cloth for our shade structure!
I'm a survivor of the terror attacks who lived 4 blocks east of the World Trade Center. I lost my home that day, spent years homeless and destitute, and I carry a Zadroga Act diagnosis of 9/11-connected PTSD. If anyone who's doing this RP needs character coaching or if you need help with authentic scenarios, I'm available for consulting services at reasonable rates. DM me here or leave your number on the men's room wall at any leather bar and it'll get to me in 24 hours. Happy 9/11 y'all, and remember fireworks are unsafe and illegal in most jurisdictions.
"We'd feel safer without police"
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A general cane guide for writers and artists (from a cane user, writer, and artist!)
Disclaimer: Though I have been using a cane for 6 years, I am not a doctor, nor am I by any means an expert. This guide is true to my experience, but there are as many ways to use a cane as there are cane users!
This guide will not include: White canes for blindness, crutches, walkers, or wheelchairs as I have no personal experience with these.
This is meant to be a general guide to get you started and avoid some common mishaps/misconceptions, but you absolutely should continue to do your own research outside of this guide!
The biggest recurring problem I've seen is using the cane on the wrong side. The cane goes on the opposite side of the pain! If your character has even-sided pain or needs it for balance/weakness, then use the cane in the non-dominant hand to keep the dominant hand free. Some cane users also switch sides to give their arm a rest!
A cane takes about 20% of your weight off the opposite leg. It should fit within your natural gait and become something of an extension of your body. If you need more weight off than 20%, then crutches, a walker, or a wheelchair is needed.
Putting more pressure on the cane, using it on the wrong side, or having it at the wrong height will make it less effective, and can cause long term damage to your body from improper pressure and posture. (Hugh Laurie genuinely hurt his body from years of using a cane wrong on House!)
(an animated GIF of a cane matching the natural walking gait. It turns red when pressure is placed on it.)
When going up and down stairs, there is an ideal standard: You want to use the handrail and the cane at the same time, or prioritize the handrail if it's only on one side. When going up stairs you lead with your good leg and follow with the cane and hurt leg together. When going down stairs you lead with the cane, then the good leg, and THEN the leg that needs help.
Realistically though, many people don't move out of the way for cane users to access the railing, many stairs don't have railings, and many are wet, rusty, or generally not ideal to grip.
In these cases, if you have a friend nearby, holding on to them is a good idea. Or, take it one step at a time carefully if you're alone.
Now we come to a very common mistake I see... Using fashion canes for medical use!
(These are 4 broad shapes, but there is INCREDIBLE variation in cane handles. Research heavily what will be best for your character's specific needs!)
The handle is the contact point for all the weight you're putting on your cane, and that pressure is being put onto your hand, wrist, and shoulder. So the shape is very important for long term use!
Knob handles (and very decorative handles) are not used for medical use for this reason. It adds extra stress to the body and can damage your hand to put constant pressure onto these painful shapes.
The weight of a cane is also incredibly important, as a heavier cane will cause wear on your body much faster. When you're using it all day, it gets heavy fast! If your character struggles with weakness, then they won't want a heavy cane if they can help it!
This is also part of why sword canes aren't usually very viable for medical use (along with them usually being knob handles) is that swords are extra weight!
However, a small knife or perhaps a retractable blade hidden within the base might be viable even for weak characters.
Bases have a lot of variability as well, and the modern standard is generally adjustable bases. Adjustable canes are very handy if your character regularly changes shoe height, for instance (gotta keep the height at your hip!)
Canes help on most terrain with their standard base and structure. But for some terrain, you might want a different base, or to forego the cane entirely! This article covers it pretty well.
Many cane users decorate their canes! Stickers are incredibly common, and painting canes is relatively common as well! You'll also see people replacing the standard wrist strap with a personalized one, or even adding a small charm to the ring the strap connects to. (nothing too large, or it gets annoying as the cane is swinging around everywhere)
(my canes, for reference)
If your character uses a cane full time, then they might also have multiple canes that look different aesthetically to match their outfits!
When it comes to practical things outside of the cane, you reasonably only have one hand available while it's being used. Many people will hook their cane onto their arm or let it dangle on the strap (if they have one) while using their cane arm, but it's often significantly less convenient than 2 hands. But, if you need 2 hands, then it's either setting the cane down or letting it hang!
For this reason, optimizing one handed use is ideal! Keeping bags/items on the side of your free hand helps keep your items accessible.
When sitting, the cane either leans against a wall or table, goes under the chair, or hooks onto the back of the chair. (It often falls when hanging off of a chair, in my experience)
When getting up, the user will either use their cane to help them balance/support as they stand, or get up and then grab their cane. This depends on what it's being used for (balance vs pain when walking, for instance!)
That's everything I can think of for now. Thank you for reading my long-but-absolutely-not-comprehensive list of things to keep in mind when writing or drawing a cane user!
Happy disability pride month! Go forth and make more characters use canes!!!
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Hungarians: What ass?
part from a prompt on syllabic limitation
from a prompt on thematic obsessions. was trying to be silly with this one
any knitting fans who also struggle with chronic pain, any tips?
I’ve got an entire book in the ergonomics and physical anatomy of knitting; I can pull it out if you DM me things you want to target in?
What's the book's name?
For me, I use compression gloves sometimes, I wear rings that support my joints (I also have hyper mobility), and I use a hand lotion with arnica (helps with swelling, but it’s a plant, so just check you’re not allergic!)
Also rest (which sucks) between projects and not pushing myself, and stretching before, during, and after. I use a lot of artist stretches
I short carry my yarn over my left finger and use methods like Norwegian purl, with focus on minimal movement. But I also HAVE to force myself to take breaks and do stretches. Overuse is my biggest problem now, but I have a hot/cold cbd oil roll on that helps a lot when I overdo it. One more row syndrome is gd real, so I have learned the hard way that I HAVE to set timers. 😓
i'm disabled and have chronic pain. i've found rest and stretching sometimes helpful, and having my arms and project supported (usually on a pile of pillows or stuffed animals) more helpful. the most useful thing for me, though, has been learning several different styles of knitting and switching between them regularly.
it's sort of a trick, and it takes practice to maintain a consistent-enough tension over various styles of knitting that you can change mid-project without ruining things, but i really can't recommend it enough.
i strongly prefer to tension the yarn with my left hand, but even limiting myself to that, i switch between german (continental), norwegian, and another way that i don't have a word for but kind of approximates using a knitting sheath with the yarn tensioned in the left hand. i'm not as good at portuguese (greek, etc) knitting, but am consistent enough with it that i can use it mid-project for purl-only rows. i can also knit backwards, which gives me yet another hand position and is again particularly useful on rows with a lot of purling.
for me, at least, these all use slightly different muscles and put the brunt of the work onto different parts of my hand. changing up my style every twenty minutes or every couple of increase rounds or just whenever i remember has made a huge difference for me in how long i'm able to knit comfortably. it also helps reduce the fallout when i accidentally knit for six hours.
i think that my next goal might be to get more comfortable with tensioning with my right hand, but even without that, changing knitting styles has dramatically improved both my knitting skills and the ergonomics of the experience. it's frustrating when you start learning a new style, but very worth sticking out, in my opinion.
Is this the companionship they write about in books?
THE HANDMAIDEN ‘아가씨’ (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook
Vegetable that can be purple:
Carrot
Bean
Pea
Radish
Turnip
Beet
Corn
Kohlrabi
Broccoli
Caulifower
Brussel Sprout
Kale
Herb that can be purple:
Basil
Sage
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Despite having more teammates, Neil still regularly plays full games bc he knows he can and likes to. Wymack let's him bc it's one of the only sure-fire ways to get that boy worn out enough to chill. His stamina is out of this world by the time he goes pro and his team doesn't know how to handle him bc pros have way bigger teams and there's no way a rookie is going to get that much play time (not to mention, you just don't do full games that's ridiculous)
But like
What are they supposed to DO with him
He runs circles around them at practice despite being there long before and after official times. He's been caught multiple times by himself late at night. And when he's not on the court, he's on the bench running his mouth.
His coach reaches out to the coach of another team, one he thinks might be able to give some advice. But Kevin's coach just says "oh god i was going to call and ask YOU wtf to do he's going to decimate my team"
They conference in a third coach who is not much help bc the only thing David Wymack says after laughing himself breathless is "good fucking luck" and he hangs up
My favorite thought is that Neil eventually gets Andrew with him (best goalie in the league shows up and is like 'you're going to draft me and you're going to pay me ridiculously' you don't question it)
And now Neil can run against the immovable wall that is Andrew Minyard so Neil chills out a bit because essentially he's a sports dog that needs to go on like the exy equivalent of like 18 mile hikes to even feel like he's done anything and Andrew is long used to putting up with his Energizer Bunny of a boyfriend.
The issue is that Kevin still running around like a lunatic.
"Can we at least schedule a playdate?" Kevin's coach asks so desperate that he doesn't even think to say 'joint practice'.
YES
When Andrew transfers and nobody really knows that he and Neil are close and Andrew is famously apathetic towards exy so the staff warn him that Josten is "a little bit much" as if they didn't play together for four years. And Andrew is entirely unimpressed that a team of people obsessed enough with exy to make it their careers don't know how to handle this border collie. He spends his first practice scrimmage shooting the balls across the court to force Neil to zip up and down repeatedly (and also forces the backliners on his side to work harder to prevent Neil from getting the ball close enough for him to do so)
It's the first time that when official practice time ends that Neil collapses onto his back on the court, panting like he's actually tired (Andrew nudges his wide grin with the butt of his racket to make him stop that. It does not work)
But heck if he's going to put in THAT much effort all the time. Kevin's team is close enough, a rival city in the same state, so he organizes a time for them to get together once to practice together for a few hours. The team isn't there but their coach sees (and is Baffled about why The Kevin Day is on his court) and Andrew is just like "I set this up once. More junkie play dates are up to you," and goes to take a nap in the stands
This is the national dance of the Philippines, called Tinikling
2 AM sketch that i may or may not finish someday of that fantasy high scene that never left my mind
— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness.”
The Winchester Star, Kansas, August 15, 1930