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Hello! I'm Tsukistar; though you're free to call me Tsuki for short.

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first session of DAWN i can post character ref now

i fucking LOVE DAWN TTRPG RAAAHHHHHH

[janus-wants-to-stargaze]

What’s dawn

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DAWN is a TTRPG made by Joel Happyhil with direct inspiration from action anime, mostly from the shounen and seinen genres. Big emphasis on flash, arcs built around central antagonists, and a really in-depth combat system.

highly recommend. favorite ttrpg ive ever played

more Elex art

[ziya-tea]

“No matter what I may become, please finish what I started.”

[thebibliosphere]

Speaking of Dad: he had another scan last week and the chemo shrank the (inoperable) tumor in his lung again and he now only has identifiable cancer in that one spot of his body. Everywhere else it was found is gone. He starts immunotherapy in two-ish weeks and they’ll see in six months if he needs more chemo to improve the quality of his life.

He still has a terminal diagnosis because of the nature of this type of cancer, but it’s now a coin toss between whether cancer or old age gets him.

Modern chemo is a miracle. I love science.

[contiamirian]

Question, I know your parents are or at least used to be the bad kind of crunchy, but did he have the Covid vaccine?

I ask because it’s looking like the mRNA Covid vaccine does something to the immune system which massively increases the effectiveness of cancer treatments. The study is on mice but there’s anecdotal evidence that it helps people too.

[thebibliosphere]

I’d heard something about mRNA being used to explore the possibility of cancer immunotherapy. (among other things.) its wild what they’re figuring out.

And funnily enough while my parents are/were the bad crunchy types, the one thing they never avoid is vaccines. They’re extremely provaccine and my dad actually just got all of his boosters this week.

My mother’s cousin had polio as a kid and my dad actually ended up in a sanatorium for tuberculosis when he was five or six, so I think that influenced their outlook on that. They had me and my brother vaccinated for everything possible when we were kids

The only thing I wasn't fully vaccinated for was for whooping cough because I had an allergic reaction, and when I got whooping cough at school because of the anti-vax movement that was taking off at the time, my mother was livid.

So they wouldn’t let us take painkillers (unless we had a fever) or a lot of other medicines because of the “side effects” but at least they didn’t fail us there. Small mercies, in the grand scheme of things.

[risaceofhearts]

So I have not looked into this at all but the covid vaccine increasing the effectiveness of chemo is wild to me. I'm not sure why that would be. (Not that I'm dismissing the notion out of hand though, the human body is wild).

Yeah, mRNA is looked into for immunotherapy but I have to note that those two things are unlikely to be related in that sense, since mRNA is a huge class of molecules, like protein (one could argue there is greater variety in mRNA than proteins but I don't have the numbers so I'm not going to make any claims on that).

[thebibliosphere]

I’m not medically literate enough myself to understand it. (though i think a link was posted in the notes so you may be able to make more sense of it with your background.)

Anecdotally, while quite a few people in the MCAS community attribute the onset of their illness to the mRNA vaccine (and I believe it may have contributed for them. MCAS is a bonkers disease) I was told by my doctors to hold off until they had more data, so I spent a terrifying year unvaccinated for COVID.

Eventually when my doctor deemed it safe enough for me and we took every precaution to avoid idiopathic anaphylaxis, I actually went into partial remission after getting the mRNA vaccine. The chronic hives I’d been covered in for almost five years nonstop vanished. It just stopped.

Something in my immune system went “huh” in response to it and started trying to function again. And I’ve been able to tolerate other non mRNA vaccines again since then, which I couldn’t before. I actually got the whooping cough vaccine on accident while getting a tetanus shot and nothing happened. Everyone was bracing for me to crash and go into shock and I was just... Fine.

And no one can tell me why. They’re just like “well the body is weird, dont look a gift horse in the mouth” lmao

[clockways]

And by contrast, it seems there's maybe a link between mRNA vaccines and a rise in ANA numbers and Lupis being triggered for those already with the potential for it. So now I have to rely on herd immunity according to my rheumetologist which is terrifying. But I might be one of those with a natural immunity to Covid? As does my mother... Who also has Lupis pending... which is... hum.

Anyways! mRNAs are amazing and terrifying and there is some much more we can do with them.

[thebibliosphere]

I’m sorry to hear that. If living with MCAS has taught me anything, its that there is no foolproof way to predict how some people’s bodies will react to even the safest of things.

If it's any help, Flo Masks have been literally life saving for me as an immunocompromised person. My doctor ended up buying one after he saw me wearing it and he was impressed by the seal. Doesn’t steam my glasses up either if that’s a concern for anyone who struggles with that.

[thebibliosphere]

Sorry for the lack of alt ID folks, I’m having a bad brain day, but hey, @stringsofglass, I dont know where you are in the world, but strapless adhesive N95 masks are a thing and not many people know about them.

This is one example a friend of mine uses because she also can’t wear regular masks without it causing conflicting issues with her nerve pain:

ReadiMask

ReadiMask is the only strapless N95 respirator with a perfect seal to keep you and yours safe. MRI Safe.

I’ve only ever seen them available to buy in bulk and of course there is always the possibility of a skin reaction to the adhesive. But I wanted to put it out there as an option for anyone who didn't know adhesive masks are available.

[rumwik]

Compelling baby ideas, and some hideous mutants!

[spectralzest]

Self indulgent undyne sketch during class it's one of my favorite undyne sketches by far!!!

[tambersome]

Happy all hallows eve!

[tambersome]

I present My “what if deltarune was an 80s slasher film??” Au

[tambersome]

I present My “what if deltarune was an 80s slasher film??” Au

[cute-catts]

Cat owner in Oregon had to put up a sign for neighbors to reclaim the things their cat kept stealing 🐱

[lun4cat]

freshly caught

[owlscribbless]

he has been contained. for now

[auraslimedoll]

Incredible things happening on my timeline

[clownboybebop]

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

[kyraneko]

fight the unkillable god, because you may be mistaken about its unkillability.

fight the unkillable god, because you may be the first bacterium to take a successful bite.

fight the unkillable god, so as to set foot onto the path which leads to the god being killable.

the bacteria that couldn't eat the tree and the bacteria that could eat the tree had the same general understanding of the tree.

might as well take a bite.

[criiitter]

spamton is his kakashi bookmark

insp below the break

[tanglewoodpetz]

[dogboy666-deactivated20251214]

Me and some of the other Extraction lads were smoking a joint in Records since we'd rather get caught by ol peepaw over Bin and the old geezer caught us, stole our shit, muttered "Sir Ayin forgive me," and smoked the whole ass thing without coughing once. What the fuck. Now I swear I hear his chest ticking like some sort of grandfather clock and he keeps mumbling about how "he never appreciates the time we have together" is Hokma good????