that chronic feeling

notes on life with long-term illness (queer, late 30s)

[thelatestkate]

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[thatchronicfeeling]

[Image Description: A green dragon, sitting atop a tree with its wings outspread and eyes quietly closed. The caption reads "doin' my best to take care of me today". End ID.]

[disabled-bug]

Idk what person with chronic illness needs to hear this, but you can do things to make your responsibilities nicer for yourself. You can get an ice cream after a blood draw. You can sit down for tv time after an injection. You can pick out the bandaids that have cartoon characters on them instead of the plain ones. Being an adult doesn’t stop you from benefiting from encouragement. Go for whatever fits with your routine/abilities/budget and makes life a little better. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down etc etc

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

[thatchronicfeeling]

Not gay as in happy, queer as in wear a fucking mask. Because who wants to be killed or disabled by a virus that the government’s pretending isn’t happening. Sound familiar, anyone?

[thatchronicfeeling]

Maybe you want to start masking a bit more again, but you're not sure how? Three good places to start are: + at medical appointments (and in the waiting room beforehand) + on public transport + at the supermarket/grocery store/corner shop If you can't afford masks, check out your local mask bloc at maskbloc.org Mask blocs are also great for providing moral support <3 Refresh Connections is a community app for covid careful folks (it's designed for friendship, dating and connecting with other people -- there's space for everyone) Sending so much love to you all. Let's keep looking after each other!

[ripe]

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[thatchronicfeeling]

[Image Description: photos of harvest mice looking adorable, balanced on and amongst a variety of stems, flowers and one mushroom.]

[dyktmoviesoundtrack]

Do you know this movie soundtrack? #28

I like it and have heard it before

I like it and it sounds familiar

I like it and haven't heard it before

I don't like it and have heard it before

I don't like it and it sounds familiar

I don't like it and haven't heard it before

Voting ended onMay 1

[dyktmoviesoundtrack]

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Do you know this movie soundtrack? #91

I like it and have heard it before

I like it and it sounds familiar

I like it and haven't heard it before

I don't like it and have heard it before

I don't like it and it sounds familiar

I don't like it and haven't heard it before

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[thatchronicfeeling]

Marianne/Héloïse in Portrait of a Lady on Fire/Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

[Description of gif: Marianne (Noémie Merlant) and Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) are standing very close together, wearing scooped-necked dresses with white ruffled edging around the necklines. Marianne nuzzles fondly into the side of Héloïse's head. End ID.]

[vegancinnamonroll]

gaining weight is good and being fat is good and nourishing your body is good and resting is good. fat bodies and disabled bodies and queer bodies and all marginalized bodies are good and deserve to be celebrated. your body does not have to be relegated to the sphere of neutrality or tolerance or acceptance. the world is *better* because your body is in it. the world is better because you are in it.

[strongaswhiskeysweetaswine]

[drizzhled]

me: *a hopeless romantic without a single ounce of romance in her life*

[thechanelmuse]

Remnants of the British Black Panther’s Lost Legacy

[clatterbane]

Britain’s black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians

The Cambridge academic Robin Bunce said: “There is a fundamental danger of erasing the very notion of a struggle at all. I’ve been researching this for four and a half years and there have been so many occasions when people have said to me: ‘There was no black struggle in Britain. You’re thinking of South Africa or America.’“

The narrative that feeds it is the one that Britain is the utopia of fair play. We have such a commitment to individual rights, we have such a commitment to common sense and decency that there is no systematic racism in Britain.”…

Bunce said it was not just politicians, but wider British society that would rather not dwell on the less palatable.

[clatterbane]

Bringing this one back, while I’m reminded.

[beggars-opera]

This is absolutely amazing.

Also, I have to point out that “We are totally displeased with our position” is the most British protest sign I’ve ever seen.

[crabussy]

hi trans kiwis and friends. if you haven't seen the news, they're trying to pass a frankly insidious bill in aotearoa to define the terms 'man' and 'woman' based on biological sex. this unsurprisingly reflects a lot of similar cruel efforts happening overseas at the moment. IT HASN'T PASSED YET, but I figured I should speak up about it because this is happening as we speak.

(screenshot from the linked RNZ article)

it seems very fucking bleak!!!! please don't lose hope! it hasn't passed yet and a lot of the shoddy bills suggested by the coalition have been shot down already. it's still worth knowing about. you don't have to share this post if you don't want to. I just know that a lot of my followers are kiwi. if there are any updates as to what we can do to push back against this, I'll make a relevant addition. kia kaha, okay? love you all.

[crabussy]

UPDATE: you can now very quickly and very easily submit a comment on the bill! these will be counted and considered in parliament.

it took me less than three minutes, and that's only because I wrote a whole paragraphs on why this is a stupid idea. all you really need to put is "don't pass this bill" if you want. it'll only take 30 seconds.

if you're able to and you want to, please consider reblogging! the more reach this gets, the better. thank you all so much [:

[sleepnoises]

i think it's nice that people write books and it's possible to read them. often through the public library system

[thatchronicfeeling]

*and* often talented voice actors narrate them for you

again, available through the public library system <3

[angelicdewdrop]

[thatchronicfeeling]

[photo of a four leaf clover]

[queerasfact]

“…I had read some wonderful books, from prehistory to the present time, explaining how this kind of human being – the third sex – could be really quite good and happy. So I decided to be that.”

After being raised as a girl, and then experimenting with testosterone, intersex sculptor Fiore de Henriquez made the decision to live proudly as an intersex person, inspired by the history of others who had gone before her.

Check out our podcast to hear her story

[thatchronicfeeling]

[Image Description courtesy of @queerasfact: Fiore de Henriquez working on a sculpture. End ID.]

You can read more about Fiore de Henriquez here too.

[aubreyappears]

THE SENSATIONAL SNUFFLER

[thatchronicfeeling]

[Image Description: gif of a desman snuffling with its long snout. End ID.]

Thank you to the people in the comments who identified this animal as a desman. What a delight!