A Werewolf's Casual Space

.: 30's || He/They || Chronically Tired :. Just a werewolf messing around on here. Sometimes things will get serious, but overall I'm aiming for fun and wholesome content on my blog. Plus my occasional art that I decide to share publicly!

[werewolf-kat]

It's been a while, Tumblr.

There's a lot going on in my life this year that escalated. I haven't been physically able to draw or write at all for months. My keyboard use has been limited. Holding and gripping objects has been painful.

My breathing got worse lately too. I have issues with my left leg being stiff and hurting more often than my right leg... But normal hip x-rays. I'm so freaking tired almost all the time. Low energy on most days.

I was feeling hopeful when starting a treatment to stop my monthly cycles. I had improvements. I applied to local stores, feeling like things were looking up for me. That was back in January/February.

The physical issues I'm having right now aren't anything new, but they've noticeably gotten worse with my higher levels of stress too because of, well, everything happening in this country as well as at home. I've been fearing for my future and life/livelihood.

I'm trying to keep it together mentally and keep the details away from public eyes. I still want to keep it that way.

There's one major update though, and it's that I got determined to get a referral to a rheumatologist recently.

After tons of tests (so much blood taken...), yesterday was my follow-up call for the verdict.

So, I've got Lupus. SLE specifically.

It's been exhausting having like, 3 or so doctor appointments a month. (Thankfully all covered by financial aid)

My Rheumatologist has a treatment plan in place, and I have a lot to consider now.

I can't work at on-site jobs. Still got no income. I'm stuck, unsure what jobs and careers I can get right now. Heck, I already mentioned here that I can't even do artwork or other things atm! It's too painful! The pain in my hands, wrists, fingers... It's been seriously a nightmare.

I have low-impact exercise and stretch routines thanks to physical and occupational therapists. I'm trying to keep up with those.

It's just been really rough. Idk when I'll have independence in my life. I really need it though. I need to get out of where I am.

So tired. Ugh. We'll see where my life goes from here.

I hope to recover sooner and get back to art commissions. I know some have been patiently waiting on me for months. Thank you.

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Embossed braille should be standard on computer keyboards. 

It would raise braille literacy more than anything else I could imagine - among both the blind and the sighted. Currently braille is actually vanishing due to an increasing reliance on audiobooks and screen readers. 

I think that braille has a lot of potential use among non-blind groups. As an alternative to traditional writing for dyslexics. As a way to help photosensitive people type with their eyes closed. Or simply as a means to help sighted people find things without needing the lights on all the time!

[acutelyhomosexual]

Accessibility note: It’s important that braille doesn’t vanish because it’s one of the only written language that works for blind and sight-impaired people. It is necessary for them to interact with the real world where screen readers and audio devices are not available to them, such as elevators, most major metro systems, stairwells, doorways, the bumps in the sidewalk at corners are actually developed in conjunction with audio signals so blind people don’t step off the curb into traffic before the correct time. 

Digital technology has made accessibility so much easier for all of us disabled people, but we still *need* the real-world accommodations that we fought and died for

[staticraichu]

I’m not at all sight impaired (yet, let’s be real it’s a matter of time for everyone) and honestly having that would be great actually. The F and J keys already have little notches to help you feel where your hands are positioned on the keyboard, why the heck did we stop there? What’s stopping keycap manufacturers from doing full braille on each letter?

That wouldn’t just help blind people, it’d help people with perfect eyesight type faster and better too because your hands can always know where on the keyboard they are.

[wolfhidewinter]

This was a raffle prize that was run through another organisation. I was given the brief to make something hopeful for the new year, so what better way to show this than to have a werewolf find and be accepted by their new pack :)

[budgiesmuggled-deactivated20210]

Passing: Profiling the Lives of Young Trans Men of Color (2015).

[ID: Excerpts from interviews with two trans men. The first, Lucah Rosenberg Lee, has a shaved head and a trimmed beard. The second, Victor Thomas, has curly black hair and a trimmed beard, and is heavier-set.

Lucah, talking about gender dysphoria prior to transitioning, says, “I was in a heterosexual relationship. I was female. I would question this all the time. Am I attracted to these men, or do I just want to be them? That was a big turning point in my own self-discovery.”

Victor, talking about the transphobia he’s endured as a trans man of color, says, “You’re subjected to something because they don’t understand you. And you have to watch the way you react, because you’re a man now. People take you as a threat.”

Lucah, in another scene, discusses feeling erased as a trans man, and racism in trans communities. He says, “Being so invisible within the LGBT community can actually feel so isolating. When people don’t know my history as a trans person, I feel sometimes that I’m viewed as more of an enemy.” END ID.]

Trans men of color deserve to be loved and appreciated, and made safe. Trans men deserve access to our own spaces, no matter how masculine and cis-passing we are. We deserve credit and recognition for the contributions that we have made to trans history, most of which are erased nowadays.

Being a man is not dangerous or wrong. Being masculine is not dangerous or wrong. Being a black man is not dangerous or wrong.

Please support trans men of color.

Please support trans men.

Please support men.

Men belong in trans spaces. Men of color belong in LGBT+ spaces. Straight trans men belong at Pride. Men do not have to be feminine to be queer.

[strike-another-match]

my reading addon is waiting approval for firefox and chrome im so nervous. please approve my addon i think it could help at least one other person as much as it's helped me...

[strike-another-match]

day 2 of no addon approval. come on all it does is style <p> elements... the humble styler...

[strike-another-match]

ITS APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's an accessibility tool i made for myself because i needed it, which basically lets you focus on one sentence at a time as you read large blocks of texts (books, articles, etc.). it offers different highlight styles, some of which use gradients to help guide your eyes from the start of the sentence until the end. you can move forward and back pressing the buttons or using ALT + left and right arrow keys if you use it and you find it helpful please tell me about it so i can have the motivation to keep improving it. i love knowing people use my tools

https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/sentence-stepper/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sentence-stepper/cfiappnihemjkaaepefjfofagcobikek

[wistoreal]

[ID. Two gifs of the accessibility tool in action. They highlight one sentence at a time for ease of readability.

The first gif shows the tool cycling down the paragraphs, from sentence to sentence, in a thick yellow highlight.

The second gif shows the different highlight styles such as; a thick yellow, a thinner yellow, no highlight at all, a gradient highlight, blocky tri-color highlight by line, and colored text by line. End ID.]

[splatoonusna]

Did you see Deep Cut in the trailer for Splatoon Raiders? Shiver, Frye, and Big Man look like they're dressed for an island outing on that ship.

[splatoonusna]

Hey, everyone—you might have seen this in the Nintendo Today! app, but we thought you might want to hear it straight from the squid's beak: SRL has prepared a little trailer for you. Take a look!

[werewolf-kat]

Any transmascs/transguys out there with Lupus (SLE) who've experienced medical transition? Is it possible/safe to do T or handle surgeries with the condition?

Would like to hear others' experiences. I've really wanted to go forward with medical transition when I live away from bigoted parents and other relatives around me. And my new diagnosis of Lupus has me worried I have a roadblock.

[little-pissbaby]

fun fact about me! I have hyperadrenergic Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (hPOTS). this means I am prone to fainting when I change positions or when I feel a strong surge of emotion, positive or negative. for me, laughing is my worst non-postural trigger.

this is a clip from playing lethal company with friends a few months ago. you can hear the eerie silence of presyncope at 0:19, and the sound at 0:23 is my face hitting the keyboard lmao. I played this for my mother and she literally pissed herself laughing and DEMANDED I show every single person I know (including my doctors, who thought it was funny to see and surprisingly helpful, especially for being audio only).

[bisexualbaker]

Tips for baking with arthritis and other hand-related chronic pain

With some changes to techniques, a careful selection of kitchen tools, and tips from fellow bakers, the joy of baking can live on.

I luckily haven't had to deal with much chronic pain or hand pain yet, especially with regards to baking (crochet is another story). That said, these look like some pretty solid tips! There's also some in the comments section.

[bisexualbaker]

As this link nears five hundred notes, I'm just... very quietly touched at how many people are sharing it. Whether they need it themselves (or think they will someday), or know someone else who might need it, the fact that all of them are sharing the sentiment of "I want the people who love doing this thing to be able to keep doing the thing that they love" is... yeah. It makes me happy.

[pieklo]

Reblog daily for health and prosperity

[eskiworks]

I'm going to reblog this until I feel better

[sonichedgeblog]

Checking out the Sonic Speed Cafe in Atlanta!

[desultory-suggestions]

One of the weirdest thing about growing up suicidal is that you assume you have no future, you don’t even try to envision it because you see no point. So eventually, you start assuming everyone else sees nothing in your future either. Recently, my friend and I were talking and she said something about how at her wedding I could wear a suit or a dress as long as it matched her bridesmaid’s dresses because the butler of honor has to make a good impression. This hit me so hard because I had never realized before how other people thought about me. She said it so casually like it wasn’t even a hard decision, just a given fact. She loves me so much she saw me at her wedding, standing with her on one of the most important days of her life. And you know what? There are so many people who think about you that way. If that isn’t proof that you should keep going I don’t know what is.

[self-loving-vampire]

This is called a sense of foreshortened future and it is also very common in traumatized people, particularly in cases involving long-term abuse or the death of a loved one.

[desultory-suggestions]

This post is making the rounds again so I wanted to add an update. I kept going, despite all of the times it felt impossible. It was absolutely worth it. I struggled for many years with this feeling, and even when not actively wishing to die I often just assumed my life would end.

I wrote a digital time capsule when I was 14, about the same time I made this post. I described what I wished I could have one day but felt like it would never happen. It was simple, my own place, potted plants, a cat. It’s been seven years and I have everything I wanted and so much more. I have a job I love, a partner who lights up my world, best friends I see every day, and I’m about to finish my bachelor’s and start my master’s degree. I have this life I am so grateful for because instead of succumbing to this feeling of nothingness, I decided if there was nothing I would make something to replace it.

Make plans for yourself, even if you don’t believe they’ll happen make them anyway. If they don’t happen you’ve lost nothing, if they do (spoiler alert they can and will!) then you have amazing things coming to fruition.

Don’t give up on or avoid therapy and medication. They can change your life, and if you have tried before and found it ineffective please don’t give up on it all. I had lots of trial and error before I found the meds I needed, and now they help me live a full life and I don’t rely on them as heavily.

Reach out to your family, friends, and communities. Do not try to go it alone because it is 1000 times harder and it doesn’t have to be. If you have a dream, no matter how small, pursue it. I mean it! I started giving myself a sense of life by decorating my bedroom. You do have a future even if you can’t see it through the fog. Light up a lantern and keep going! You will find your happiness.

[desultory-suggestions]

If you share this post please share and encourage the sharing of this version. While I respect people’s need to express their feelings of hopelessness, I am getting an influx of messages, tags, and activity where commenters reaffirm in themselves that it will never get better, life is hopeless, and that this post just confirms their state of mind. That is not the effect I wished to make with this post in 2018 and it isn’t in 2024. The point of my original post was that despite the feeling, you are not alone, you exist, you are seen and wanted, and your depression is the thing barring you from happiness. You don’t have to magically overcome hopelessness, but please consider the impact of reaffirming hopelessness to myself and others online. You have the right to share the words I posted, but I would be grateful if you shared all of them.

[semisentientseafood]

I’m forever so happy about Acht’s existence the way they went from not even being planned to exist to making an appearance ingame and becoming one of splatoon’s most interesting characters

Long before they even made an appearance in the game I had always found Dedf1sh interesting even with their backstory being mere sentences

Giving up one’s sense of self to essentially become a machine for creative productivity? If that’s not a real as hell experience for a creative type in a mental slump.

#3 etude gave us some of the best written official splatoon media that just so happened to be even more in depth content about Acht and their internal struggles, relationship with Marina, and some more crumbs about Octarian dome life. Without going into total incoherent lengthy yap mode I will simply say that my autistic aroace lesbian ass is winning so hard

And on top of all of this they’re a canon nonbinary icon in a big nintendo game I love you acht dedf1sh mizuta

[hinotorihime]

hey let's start spreading the reminder now that you cannot safely self-manage an abortion with herbal medicine or essential oils. natural abortifacients function by poisoning you; you wait for your body to realize you're dying and reject the pregnancy in order to conserve resources, and hope that happens before the rest of your organs shut down.

i think there will be an upsurge soon of unscrupulous and/or malicious actors preying on desperate pregnant people; do not help them kill people. don't spread recipes for herbal medicines or ingestible essential oil mixtures that purport to cause a pregnancy termination.

[many-sparrows]

Howdy folks, the Senate will be considering the first ever resolution blocking arms to Israel. This is huge and historic; it would block government contracting and about $20 billion in arms and support. This is an uphill battle, PLEASE urge your senators to support S.J.Res114-115. This is maybe the most important piece of legislation relating to Palestine that we have ever gotten and we must seize this opportunity.

This doc has information on the resolutions and their process, as well as sample messages and a phone script you can use. Please, use this moment to hear witness for your neighbors.

Arms Embargo: Act Now

On September 25, 2025, Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont) introduced two joint resolutions: S.J.Res.114-115. If passed, these resolutions woul

[sonicspocketwrench1]

This is a massive call to action even if you live in a blue state! You cannot simply trust that your senator will do the right thing here. They need to hear that we still care even if the election is behind us.

[asmeesh]

It's spooky season, y'all

Time to get your wolf on

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[asmeesh]

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[asmeesh]

Feel free to RAGE