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I am sooooo Hal Jordan coded (highly trained highly specialized professional with 4-year degree + extra certifications + requisite training) (Yet somehow winds up doing the most random ass blue collar jobs in between the gig I signed up for??) (I’m a mold inspector) (I have an advanced degree in a healthcare profession that I’m not giving away bc it’s so specific it would nearly doxx me) (Yet I’m a mold inspector) (I’m testing air quality at a decrepit community college 200 miles from my home on a Saturday) (I feel like Hal could be a mold inspector) (On any of the occasions when Carol fires him) (I’m not complaining I like being a mold inspector) (I’m only mad that I’m overheated bc this is the tropics south of where I live) (and it’s so much hotter and humid)

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You might be chronically ill if…

you can easily swallow 10+ pills at once

you never gag when you get a throat swab

literally no medical gore can make you cringe

you see your doctors more often than you see your friends

you’re on a first name basis with the ER staff

you spend more hours per week in medical appointments than you do at your job

Pass it on, chronically ill mutuals, let’s make this a game, I need something to laugh about right now :)

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My 3-year-old niece is obsessed with comic books. She has a bunch of X-Men dolls that play with her (multiple!) Superman dolls and random aliens and dragons in this big dollhouse. I’ve been taking her to the mall every Wednesday since before she could talk to pick up my subscriptions from my box. Her absolute favorite character is Jean Grey, but she’s also very partial to Doctor Doom, The Thing, and Green Lantern.

What cracks me up is who her other favorite is. I’m not sure how it happened, I guess he just caught her eye.

My baby niece is obsessed with the Spectre.

She looks for his comics on the shelves. If you ask her about him, she lights up with the biggest smile and says, with creepy hand gestures, “He’s spooOOoOOOooooOOky!”

One of her favorite things to do is ask to use my iPad just to look at his covers in the DC Infinite app.

She laughs and thinks they’re funny. (But if you tell her she’s a spooky girl, she’ll say, “I’m not a spooky girl! I’m a beautiful girl.”)

This is her absolute favorite cover, she can smile and laugh at it for ages. I’m just dying to tell her one day that her favorite Justice Leaguer carries the mantle of the Spectre for a while.

Anyway, it’s good to know that I’m indoctrinating her well— and that she’s also forming her own tastes and not just adopting mine and her mama’s! And, regardless of what she says, she is a spooky girl… and a beautiful girl!

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Oversharing chronic illness stuff on da comics blog.

So I’m back on the chemo, after the team decided my recent PTSD episodes probably were not because of the new drug.

But because I’ve been off of all treatments for three weeks, I got a flare up so severe I had to get eight steroid injections into just four of the worst lesions.

Kudos to my dermatologist though for being the sweetest gentlest soul on the planet, an actual angel. When the way someone bandages up your wounds (in places where nobody would ever want to be wounded!) in such a gentle way that you genuinely feel like you’re going to be okay :’( <3

Anyway, all this has obviously inspired me to finish up writing my Hal Jordan & the JLA sickfic. Bc my boy needs the gentle caretaking that I got today.

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I am going to lose my shit. Just saw a post about the X-Men where OP headcanoned that Mags only talks nice and sweet to Charles auf deutsch, not in English. Which is good, I like German-speaking Magneto so damn much.

But they went on to say that because “German is a harsh sounding language” the rest of the team thinks that Magneto is being mean to him.

HALT’S FUCKIN MAUL

My language is soft and sweet, just like everybody elses, when we’re being soft and sweet. In fact, deutsch is spoken at a wayyyy softer volume than English. Americans and British sound like they’re shouting all the time, compared with Germans.

No one would EVER mistake a deutsch speaker being sweet and kind for them giving someone a piece of their mind. German is not a HARSH language. There’s no such thing as a language that is harsh or stern in and of itself, and it’s fucking rude and ignorant for someone as an English speaker to say that of another language culture they clearly no nothing about.

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A comment on a new chapter a day keeps the IV antibiotics away lol.

In other words I have the big bad cellulitis, and new chapters up for Summer Storms *and* Spent Gladiator :)

If I can’t have a good time, *nobody’s* having a good time :) <3

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Finally went back to PT after a decade of putting it off. I’m gods specialest princess bc I have a contracture in one arm and hyperextension in the other. Also got diagnosed with loser-ass fine motor skills in my contracture side… and balance issues. So they referred me to start OT *and* PT twice a week lol.

It’s weird because I knew there was a lot of damage going on, but it’s so strange to see such an intense treatment plan for stuff I’ve just been… living with since birth.

Anyways! Good appointments, good providers and now I have a strawberry Calpico, so I’m winning all around.

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A successful half-day back at my clinic today lol! Thanks for all the love and support @ashthenerd @jaymoriarty-knight

I’m off to rehearsal with the symphonic choir tonight, so yet another way I’m getting back to normal! :)