#iphysnikephoros

[copperbadge]

Apologies if this is the millionth ask but sometimes vertigo is caused by your inner ear fluid and particles being in the wrong place. The Epley maneuver can help everything back into the place it belongs.

You're not the millionth, but I have had a few comments about it! Epley was my first thought too because years ago I had the same thing happen -- I got the flu, and congestion in my ears caused my canaliths to misalign. It bolted out of the blue like a week after I was back on my feet, and I didn't know what was happening and ended up at the ER, where the doctor taught me the Epley maneuver (well, it's a longer story than that, but that's the gist).

Unfortunately it was also the first thing Hodag's physical therapists tried when it started, and they've seen a doctor since who also tried it, to no result. They've ruled out a number of issues it could be -- I'm not really comfortable sharing more specifics than I have -- and that includes anything Epley would treat. Hopefully we're getting closer to a diagnosis, but we're just worried it's a diagnosis that won't come with a good treatment option.

They want to be going out and doing things with me when I'm visiting, and we do, to an extent, but they get bummed out at how tired they get and how fast it happens, and we're also somewhat limited by their hostile relationship with stairs :D But at least their medical team seems committed, not least because they're intrigued by the mystery.

[talesfromtreatment]

When you're bottle-raising kittens, do they go in to work with you so they get fed on time?

Yep! When I worked general practice I had to wait until I was on break to feed them but at the shelter I can either ask a volunteer to feed, or I can go to a coworker and say “I need to feed the babies, is that okay?” and the answer is typically “sure!”

Now that I work at a shelter, ever kitten I foster belongs to the shelter so taking care of them is part of my ‘job’ when I’m at work, doubly so when I have a critical case.

[mctreeleth]

Thank you for posting the plague mask pattern! I love the fabric set you made your first one from, and the grey + rainbow looks almost iridescent (I think that one's also yours, and not a reblob). One suggestion - have you considered paper piecing for the patchwork outer? You could do paper piecing straight onto the printed interfacing, which would prevent errors in the initial piecing/flat work without really changing anything else about the final construction.

I have only tried to do foundation paper piecing once, and the process was so unpleasant to me and my graph-paper-plotting, math-doing, always-press-the-seams-open sensibilities that I basically repressed the knowledge that the technique existed. But yes, plenty of people have used the technique and had it come up great for them, so if it is your preferred method, go for it!

Also, the grey and rainbow one is mine (I was going for the very cliched modern-quilt aesthetic of neutral+rainbow solids) but it is the design I have seen most emulated. I guess it is harder to get a complete set of Kate Spain’s Central Park line than it is to get a spectrum of solids.

[bethagain]

iphysnikephoros replied to your post “borgjaneway: I hope this doesn’t sound patronizing but it seems like...”

I think "gen" is being used... three different ways? "No sexy stuff at all" and "canon ships only" and "shippy but not sexy"

But that’s so confusing! Help!

I think also maybe the issue is that shipping is so central to modern fandom, at least on AO3 and the parts of tumblr that I frequent... I wonder if it even occurs to most people that non-shippy fic is a thing?

[copperbadge]

Sam, I know you like Tortie Merch. graycatatelier. bigcartel. com/product/preoder-silly-kittens-sticker-sheet

Tortie tortie tortie! And a TRUE tortie, not even a tortie-calico! Doing exactly the Dearborn "I'm dead on the electric blanket" pose!

I have preordered. Hell yeah.

[ID: An image from the sticker sheet of a tortoiseshell kitten, lying on its side, front legs flopped down while the back legs lie straight out. It is very much the pose my Dearborn does when she wants belly rubs but won't bestir herself to beg for them.]

[copperbadge]

So do Christian supply stores have brick and martyr locations?

That’s a marketing angel I hadn’t considered. 

[bethagain]

iphysnikephoros replied to your post “I really should not write fic so close to my own bedtime. It gets my...”

Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn't go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hand were as cold as his smile and almost as cold as his heart.

I had to look up what this was.... and now there is a good chance I will stay up even later because I don’t think I’ve ever read it!

[worm-cantor]

Somebody may already have told you this, but Monoprice makes decent tablets that are about 1/5 the cost of a Wacom. My ex got a big 8x10" one for about $50. She compared it with my Intuos 2 (it STILL WORKS, ok? Leave me alone) and felt that the Intuos had a nicer surface but the quality of the line and stroke was pretty much the same. The Monoprice surface has a very slightly rough/nubbly texture, but you could probably cover that up with a sheet of paper and get whatever surface you like.

Thank you for the suggestion! Actually yes I’ve had a few people mention Monoprice and Huion tablets to me and for the most part I’ve seen people talk them up as a good alternative to Wacom. I actually have a monoprice tablet, which is supposed to be my backup tablet, but unfortunately when I went to use it I found that it no longer works :c 

I don’t want to sound like I am knocking the alternatives, especially considering my crappy financial status! However my wacom was so very good to me, I know how it behaves with my computer and the programs I use, and I guess I’m just anxious about experimenting with new hardware at this point.