More than (a) Patient

20s. Spoonie. She/Her. I go by AJ. Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction. Tubes galore and ostomate. Gaming/geekery encouraged. My door is always open.

[donald-trump-official]

Democrats: alright we finally did it, Trumps been impeached. Time for a trial in the-

Republicans: lol yeah about that trial. It’s not gonna be fair or anything, we’ve already made up our minds and there’s gonna be like, 0 witnesses

Democrats: oh? Ok then. If that’s the case then I guess we’ll just hold on to these *pockets articles of impeachment*

Republicans:

[m-eowdy]

Can someone explain what this means?

[donald-trump-official]

Our president has been charged with misconduct through the only proccess that is outlined in our constitution (impeachment). The next step in the process is that the president goes on trial. Republicans in the senate, where the trial will take place, have already said they have made up their minds and will vote based on bias. They have stated that it will be a quick trial with no witnesses and a guaranteed vote on acquittal. The democrats, who control the charges, have said that they will not release the charges to the senate until fair rules have been established. Republicans seem shocked by this turn of events

[13lizardsinatrenchcoat]

In case you’re wondering why this would make the republicans upset, the need this to go to trial or Trump will be on record as having been impeached and not acquitted.

[siderealsandman]

The 2020 election is also coming up and a number of these senators are coming up for re-election. 

FLIP

THE

FUCKING

SENATE

[sl-walker]

FLIP THE FUCKING SENATE

[aeliad]

FUCKING VOTE. 

Here’s how you verify you’re registered to vote: https://www.rockthevote.org/voting-information/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Here’s how you register if you’re not: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/

Here’s how you find your fucking polling place: https://yourfuckingpollingplace.com/

If you have time, register for an absentee ballot in your state. That way you don’t even have to go to a polling place, you just have to fill it out and mail it in on time. 

Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z outnumber Boomers. More of us are Liberals who care about each other and social safety nets. More of us give a fuck about the future because we have to live in it. 

Flip the Senate. Fucking Vote. It’s so goddamn important. 

2020 is crucial.

[cryfemme]

please don't use "epilepsy" or "epilepsy tw" as trigger tags for things that could induce epileptic seizures. there is a community on here for epileptics and resources that are under that tag. it's extremely dangerous because myself and others go through the tag looking for resources or posts about epilepsy, and should one of us come across a dangerous post and have a seizure, one's life could be in danger.

instead of "epilepsy", tag what exactly could induce a seizure: flashing/strobe lights, fast moving images, flickering, lightning, etc. that is what needs to be filtered for us, not epilepsy itself.

[fuckepilepsy]

Can’t be said enough.

[liveandletrain]

I did not know this. Thank you.

[jellycreamjammedart]

Oh dear. Thanks for the headsup.

[tamorapierce]

Lionsgate & ‘Little Women’ Producer Playground Plot Fantasy World With Tamora Pierce’s ‘Tortall Universe’ Series

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Little Women and King Lear producer Playground Entertainment have teamed on a major fantasy project – a television adaptation of Tamora Pierce’s expansive Tortall Uni…

Cross your fingers and swords everyone! I’m thrilled to share this news with you all. Thank you to Playground for this wonderful opportunity to bring my words to life :-) Are you excited to see Tortall in technicolor?

[silentwritincandescence]

Shdjsislwhsjwksn all I ever wanted as an awkward adolescent :D

[mjalti]

[bunjywunjy]

oh it totally does, but you can’t hear it because space is a vacuum and sound can’t travel through a vacuum! 

and that’s a good thing, 

because the roar of the sun would clock in at around 120db heard from earth, about the equivalent to having a train’s horn go off three feet from your face. 

constantly. all the time, even at NIGHT. there would be no escape.

[zeyrablue]

this is simply terrifying. how do you erase knowledge please ?

[kedreeva]

NASA actually recorded the sun, if you want to hear it:

And they recorded the planets too:

[gardeninthevoid]

so, the sun and the earth sound about how i would’ve expected, and a lot of other planets just make strong wind sounds which is perfectly reasonable but venus sounds like pure dread?!?! WHY IS SATURN SCREAMING?!? pluto isn’t bad and is actually kinda nice but it’s very strange to me too like Why Does It Do That. jupiter is super chill 10/10. pluto and jupiter need to collab i would buy that album

[elucubrare]

oh, fuck, guys, you know what this means? it means the ancient world was right about the music of the spheres. 

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus 

Neptune

Pluto

[warriorsofficial]

i can hear these photos and i don’t like it

[badsciencejokes]

WAAAAAHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAHHHHHHH

[silentwritincandescence]

Pretty sure Saturn is just the score for Forbidden Planet

[whitepeopletwitter]

[moniquill]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

personally im a fan of

[silentwritincandescence]

Just for reference

[theirin-myheart]

You’re not a real gamer unless you’ve wasted countless hours of your life purposefully walking in the wrong direction to make sure you’re not missing any content

[silentwritincandescence]

Never done this before... certainly not....

[valtsv]

remember, ladies, before you say or do anything, to ask yourself: is this something that would get me diagnosed with female hysteria and locked in the attic by my relatives in the 19th and early 20th century? and if the answer is yes, proceed

[silentwritincandescence]

Sometimes I need reminders like this that the shame I feel is really just antiquated social constraints rearing their ugly faces in the back of my psyche and they really need to learn to fuck off

[drawkill]

How to make a pumpkin head

Since I defs didn’t want to carve a real pumpkin to put on my head and get nasts pumpkin insides all over my hair I decided to paper mache one. Unfortunately there was no good tutorials anywhere so I will share my trial and error knowledge.

First I got some supplies: 1 Punch balloon (they’re rounder and larger they regular balloons), some paper mache stuff in a bag, cardboard, a glue gun, paint, sculpey clay, tape, some news paper and some water and flour mixed together.

I then put at least three - five paper mache layers of newspaper with flour water on the balloon. I also measured my head and left an opening at the bottom. (NOTE: Don’t put tape on the balloon and try to peel it off after you’re done paper macheing, RIP)

After that’s all dry I put glue gunned some cardboard onto it to give it some pumpkin like ridges.

Then I filled the gaps between the cardboard and the newspaper with the paper mache in a bag stuff. Wait for it to dry. (Note: Don’t pop balloon until the paper mache in a bag stuff is dry cause it holds a LOT of water and your paper mache project will sink, RIP) After that I popped the balloon and lightly dampened the top with a sponge and water until it was wet enough to slowly press down into more of a pumpkin shape.

After it’s all dry I taped a stem I made out of card board on the top and put another layer or two of newspaper mache over top.

More drying wait time (you can use your oven on the lowest setting to make it dry faster) then I sanded it down and cut out a face with an exacto blade.

I added a little bit of backing behind the face on the inside with the paper mache in a bag to give it more of a 3D look which wasn’t that noticeable but oh well, it kidna worked… After all that stuffs done I painted it all white otherwise the newsprint would bleed through and make my colours not as bright, I also added some sculpey clay to the brow area to give it some more emotion in which I used an iron to dry it with cause it was too late to put it in the oven with paint all over it (Note: Put clay on before painting).

I sprayed it with a sealer before painting colours on it cause I find acrylics do weird things sometimes. After it was all dry I begin to paint.

I also painted the inside a red and added a kinda head rest thing on the inside since when I pushed the top down it made an uncomfortable point at the top when putting it on your head. Then once it was all dry I sprayed it with some more sealer, added some cool stuff like stitches with some ribbon and blood which I used nail polish for a shiny effect and put in some lights which weren’t very effective when my head was in the pumpkin but that’s okay, it still looked cool.

And that’s that!

Hope this helps some people, Enjoy!

[spoookiepie]

I read the title as ‘How to Make Pumpkin Bread’, and was confused the whole way down wondering when this would get to the bread part

[silentwritincandescence]

This is just really cool

[catchymemes]

[silentwritincandescence]

This is lovely

[chrissongzzz]

Don’t worry Bro , Black Tumblr got you and your Sister.✊🏿

Can we find her a donor please ✊🏿🙏🏿

[chrissongzzz]

I just spoke to the BROTHER Y’all now Please Reblog This 

LINK -https://join.bethematch.org/savingshaunise

[dreamshappenhere]

We gonna save Shaunise or we gonna bullshit?

[treetopblueberries]

RB WHETHER UR BLACK OR NOT, HELP SOMEONE OUT!

[ricekrispiebonesyndrome-blog]

Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome?

So, My doctor thinks I have Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome because the gastric emptying test came back normal - Idk how much I agree with this, to be honest. I feel like I need to do a 4 hour exam instead of just a 90 minute one… Anyone with Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome willing to share their experiences directly with me? Would be much appreciated.

[silentwritincandescence]

I got diagnosed with CVS as a teenager. I had a positive manometry for pseudo-obstruction in my stomach and small bowl and my gastric emptying scan would come back either slightly delayed or normal. I got a G-Tube for draining and spent a lot of time in and out of the hospital for vomiting under the CVS diagnosis. Years later I had a SmartPill study (it measures pH, temp and time and it's not covered by insurance BTW) and it timed my stomach emptying at 46 hours - so severe gastroparesis; when I eventually had open surgery they did a pyloroplasty on top of everything else in order to expedite my stomach emptying (which helped, but I still need a G-Tube for drainage or I'll get nausea/vomiting/severe GERD).

TL;DR gastric emptying scans are a good place to start, but not the end-all be-all diagnostically for stomach issues. CVS was more of a shrug diagnosis than anything else.

[star-anise]

So “queer” isn’t just an identity that’s broadly inclusive because, I don’t know, we like big parties. There’s actually an underlying ethic, a queer theory, that has political implications.

Its name reclaims a slur because the point is to say, “I am different, but that’s not a bad thing.” The queer movement is about upholding the right of all people to deviate from an oppressive cisgender, heterosexual, patriarchal norm. Broadening the spectrum of acceptable diversity; questioning and dismantling the social pressures that police and punish deviance. Changing not just our own lives, but how our entire society thinks about sex and gender.

That’s why “queer” embraces so many different groups. It’s not trying to erase their differences, but to try to coherently understand the complex overlapping pressures that affect each of them, and to extend our reach beyond the LGBT+ community. It’s about the right of lesbians to live without men and the right of trans and nonbinary people to be who they are, the right of asexuals to define for themselves what’s significant in their lives, the right of straight men to be vulnerable and emotional and nonviolent. When the great queering project is done, you will see the changes everywhere, not just in small LGBT+ enclaves.

It’s recognizing that something that harms or oppresses one of us is pretty likely to harm all of us, so we all benefit from taking it down together.

[jkl-fff]

^THIS^ It sums up queerness so concisely. And the best part? By including the line “the right of straight men to be vulnerable and emotional and nonviolent”, it illustrates what queerness is all about:

freedom– *real* freedom for *everybody* to be who they *really* want to be.

Queerness, at its core, is NOT about saying  “I don’t feel I belong in any of these boxes”. Queerness, at its core, is about saying “No human being belongs in a box”.

[star-anise]

I NEED THAT AS A CROSS-STITCH SAMPLER

[slayerdaily]

Strong is fighting. It’s hard, and it’s painful, and it’s everyday, but it’s what we have to do.

{insp}

[kindnotestoself]

There is a lot of pressure in western society to have things done on a certain timeline, college, marriage, job, kids. Chronic illness and mental illness do not fit well into that timeline, and you do not have to rush and wear yourself out trying to fit in to those arbitrary standards. you are doing just fine the way you are doing things

[melaena-deactivated20200826]

The Journals of Cullen Rutherford 494

9:42 26th Wintermarch

Of course I am completely aware that military campaigns require a near bottomless supply of funding, but the idea I would submit to guided tours through Skyhold as a means to raise more coin is unthinkable.

This is not a village fair or public marketplace. We are situated in inhospitable terrain atop a mountainside. What’s next? Shall we offer a daily excursion to the curious? Perhaps sparring with me or how to trick your friends and neighbors with lessons on sneaking about from Leliana or her scouts? An etiquette and proper behavior symposium led by Josephine? Why not organize rides for children on the Inquisition’s mounts?

I sincerely hope Josephine and Leliana were having me on, because otherwise I must question their grasp on reality. Guided tours. Utter nonsense.

[silentwritincandescence]

This is hilarious and totally something they'd suggest

[hopephd]

Seizure First Aid. 

Learn it. Share it. Know it. Use it. 

[king-in-yellow]

100% correct medical information on tumblr for once; also consider calling 911 if you don’t know how often the person has seizures and ESPECIALLY if the seizure has lasted 5 minutes or more (which is why the watch is critical)

[lukesvalentine-blog1]

I have epilepsy so making sure the word is out on how to help people who do have seizures means a lot to me.

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[Image Transcription]

A series of images from www.epilepsyfoundation.org titled “Seziure First Aid” with a red cross next to each title. The text on each image shares first aid tips about seizures and are white on a black background, and the bottom of each image has orange text that reads “Join the Fight”. The first aid tips are:

•Keep calm and reassure other people who may be nearby.

•Don’t hold the person down or try to stop his or her movements.

•Time the seizure with your watch.

•Clear the area around the person of anything hard or sharp.

•Put something soft (like a folded sweatshirt) under their head.

•Do not try to force open their mouth with anything hard or your finger!

•Turn the person gently onto one side. This will help keep the airway clear.

•Stay with the person until the seizure has ended naturally.

•Be friendly and reassuring as conciousness returns.

•Offer to call a friend, relative, or taxi to help the person get home if they need assistance.

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