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[gwmac]

Behind Smiles: A Patient's Nightmare with MetLife Dental Insurance

Part 1: My Battle with MetLife Dental. The Toothache that Morphed into a Financial Migraine. My fateful journey through the MetLife Dental Insurance labyrinth began in February 2023 when an everyday occurrence turned into an exasperating ordeal. I needed a routine replacement crown on Tooth 18 and anticipated no issues, given my dental insurance with MetLife Dental. As I would soon discover,…

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[inniave]

keep seeing shit about the new ts album & mental illness and i am so so tired. please be nice to actually "crazy" people if ur gonna use us for the aesthetic. i'm not schizophrenic cause it's cute. don't joke about asylums if u haven't had those experiences (and even some of y'all who have been treat it like a vacation & to the rest of us it's prison. i mean literally. prison. incarceration. that's not new shit. and yeah, i'm that "actually crazy" person screaming in the ward. ur not any better than me.)

idk i keep posting and deleting about this cause i can't get my thoughts out properly i just. i'm tired. there was already a worsening problem of "socially acceptable" mental illness pushing out the rest of us (as it's always been) and now there's the top artist in the united states calling herself crazy, saying you should be scared of her, she was raised in an asylum, etc. and it's like.... that's my lived experience. medical doctors refuse to treat me because they're scared of my psychiatric disorders. i've had the cops called on me for episodes. i spent a decade rotting in the mental health system & institutions and i only got out after years of planning how to get away. and so much more i cant even put into words.

and now not only are y'all using folk like me & our experiences for the aesthetic. you're not even a decent human being to those of us who have actually lived through this shit. idk man. really rubs me the wrong way.

#idk if this makes any sense my brain is spaghetti this morning but i'm just frustrated and need to put it somewhere #and i still keep thinking about that tiktok where that girl films another psych patient without their consent #and everyone is making fun of them for being crazy in the comments #and it's just like????? what the fuck. and i keep encountering people like that. who are just absolute shitheads #even if they claim to understand my experiences #idk man #fuck #actually schizophrenic #actually mentally ill

[repotting]

a pet peeve of mine is stuff proudly labelled vegan but it's farmed w slave labor. like how is that vegan then.

we made this without exploiting or harming any animals!!! (but the human children forced into dangerous and underpaid agricultural labour to make this product don't matter i guess???)

like how are you gonna try to sell me child abuse chocolate and tell me it's vegan like come on

#this isn't a dunk on vegans my frustration is with major corporations that use slavery but claim veganism for marketing #im not vegan but i try to limit my complicity in child abuse as much as i can manage #anyways stop buying chocolate and coffee not independently verified to be farmed without slave labor it's just genuinely not necessary #speaking as a person who LOVES chocolate and is extremely poor btw like it's still not worth it #op

[communistkenobi]

the more I read about contemporary homophobic laws globally the more it becomes apparent that there is basically a 1:1 direct relationship between whether a country was under historic British rule and how many anti-sodomy laws they currently have on the books. like I knew this in a general sense but not the staggering degree to which this was the case. and I know this probably isn’t really shocking especially given how insanely anti-trans the UK is right now but it’s kind of insane to see just how much homophobia is a comprehensively global export of the British

#also not suggesting that it’s a colonial INVENTION like it’s not that the world was a pro-gay utopia pre-European colonisation #but reading a lot of post-colonial scholarship it’s kind of mind-boggling #also a deeply privileged thing to admit I know. my surprise is mostly the degree to which ‘global homophobia is a colonial artefact’ #is like not an exaggerated claim at all basically #One thing that’s frustrating is that a lot of the scholarship I’ve read so far focuses on heterosexuality as the root cause #& not gender. like truly I do not think homophobia as colonial policy makes any sense without gender as the primary distribution mechanism #but anyway. much more reading to do !

[bookishfeylin]

I know you don't usually do these kinds of posts, but you're probably one of the most implicated in black history month people that I follow so I wanted to ask you, as I already value your opinions in Acotar, what do you think of the documentary where actual historians claim Cleopatra was a black woman? Lately, this has been a pretty active topic on my fyp on TikTok, and I wanted to know a black woman's perspective on this.

Thank you in advance, and if you usually don't answer these questions or don't want to answer this one, I'll totally understand, and there's no problem at all.

I didn’t know there was a new documentary out, but when I saw the name Cleopatra I automatically sighed because I knew what was coming. This is a subject a know a little 🤏🏾 about, actually, because I researched it a bit myself in my last year of high school (and stopped because of the uh. NASTINESS associated with this particular subject) and though it’s been a few years I remembered some main, basic things, and I wanted to check a few things first.

At best, in the most CHARITABLE interpretation as far as I in my limited knowledge can tell, it would be correct to say that’s it’s POSSIBLE that she MAY have been mixed Black because, though she was part of the GREEK Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt (Ptolemy being one of Alexander the Great’s generals who got the Egyptian portion of his empire after Alexander died), that’s on her fathers side; her mother’s exact ethnicity isn’t known. Not that this won’t stop the hoteps from running off and claiming her and all of ancient Egypt as Black though So some have ***speculated*** that her mother—and thus Cleopatra—may have potentially been part Egyptian (and that goes into the issue of deciding that the “Egyptian” in this instance had to have been Black rather than MENA but that’s again a whole other can of worms). BUT it’s more likely that her mother was Greek due to the uh, PRACTICE™️ of inbreeding and it not being common for the dynasty to marry Egyptians. So it’s more probable that she was fully Greek/Macedonian and not part Egyptian, much less part Black. (Also some historians speculate she may have had Persian blood? I guess? Again it’s a can of worms, not something i’m digging deep into because of the nastiness that you often stumble across) Unless there’s a new study confirming her mother’s identity or something that I missed, it’s simply incorrect to claim that Cleopatra was undeniably Black, because though it is ***possible*** she most likely ***wasn’t.***

But this topic really upsets me, because there are LEGITIMATE Black kingdoms and empires who were mighty and well developed and powerful like the Aksumite empire and kingdoms of Kongo and Loango and the Great Zimbabwe empire and the empires of Ghana and Mali and Songhay and the Ashanti kingdom and the WHOLE SWAHILI COAST THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THE INDIAN OCEAN TRADE ROUTE and they had their own great rulers, their own kings and queens and emperors and empresses, their palaces and castles, their own cities and towns, their own complex civilizations and dynastic royal families that deserve the attention Cleopatra and ancient Egypt get. They were erased—and Egypt was not—by white people to prop themselves up as the only race capable of forming civilizations and advanced societies as a means of justifying colonization and imperialism to “civilize” the rest of the world and as a result many of those other empires have been erased from our education system here in the states and many people cling to ancient Egypt as proof that we’re not inferior and aren’t savages like white people claim due to believing that since Egypt’s in Africa it had to have been mostly Black when Egypt, and the Ptolemaic dynasty and Cleopatra in PARTICULAR, are literally the worst example that could’ve been chosen and were the only African kingdom spared erasure FOR A REASON.

Anyway, I don’t like it, it’s disingenuous and does US wrong because we need to give that energy to other African kingdoms that need and could use the fame Egypt + Cleopatra get, and we deserve a better education system to teach us this stuff. I hope this answers your question? And I don’t mind any kinds of asks 🥰

#I get the desire to claim Egypt because I remember in high school a racist white guy asked why Africans didn’t build their own civilizations #And that’s what sent me researching in the first place so I truly get the frustration but black women we can do BETTER #ask #anon #cleopatra #egypt #africa #racism #Don’t come at me in my inbox yall #antiblackness

[nando161mando]

#unskilled #jobsearch #jobseekers #from victoria beckham to elton john – the multimillionaire celebs whose kids get £1 pocket money & do after school jobs #online jobs #jobs #job #classism #classist #myth #poverty #wage slavery #‘i don’t worry about shady chemicals and unfair wages’ say frustrated customers boycotting walmart for key reason #axed virgin hotel staff to protest over wages after being sacked six days before christmas #benjamin mendy launches ‘multi million pound’ claim against manchester city over unpaid wages #livable wages #wages #minimum wage #living wage #wage #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government

[findafight]

Genuinely think some folks need to remove how we, the audience, see characters and relationships from an outside perspective from how those characters actually interact. Like y'all ask for nuance and I'm telling you that just because Nancy has gone through trauma and absolutely deserves to be as messy and complicated and hurt as she wants, doesn't mean Robin wouldn't think twice about dating her?

It's not about whose fault it is or centering a male character, it's about how Robin, the character, would interpret and internalize the facts she knows. She has no idea what exactly Nancy has been through, like we have. She encouraged Steve and Nancy in S4 to get back together, she comforted him when Nancy went straight back to Jonathan. Robin's place as Steve's best friend, someone she trusts implicitly, the person she wants to combine with, puts Steve as an important aspect of her life!

It's not that she hates Nancy! It's that even though they broke up a year and a half ago, there's some unresolved or redeveloping feelings there for Steve. It's not that I think Steve could/would/should be hurt or angry about his best friend dating his ex. It's that, in my opinion, Robin, from what we see of her, doesn't seem inclined to date a friend's ex. It's about Robin, and her personality, and that means her friendship and love of Steve.

#anti ronance #finda's rambles #stranger things #idk its about robin for me. she would put her friendship with steve above a romantic relationship with anyone #struggling to put this into words but its frustrating when people claim we're making it about steve when i dont feel that way #to me im prioritizing Robin. and stobin i guess #it also seems like people hate being reminded that robin wants to live in steves brain. and that WOULD factor into her choices #that may affect him. yknow. like dating his ex. #its got nothing to do with how i feel about the stancy breakup (messy but if they TALKED could be worked through) #i also don't think they're compatible and have multiple reasons i simply don't vibe with the ship #but those aren't misinterpreted just ignored i guess

[veinsfullofstars]

🪞 Fallen angel... who do you see staring back from the Mirror? 🪞

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Galacta Knight and my personal interpretation of his Mirror World counterpart. GK hovers above facing slightly to our left, his feathery wings spread wide, shaded in lilac and tipped with gilded wing talons, a swallow-like tail visible. He holds his shield forward in his left hand (our right) and his lance to the side in his right (our left), a single magenta eye leering at the viewer through the visor of his mask. A halo of heart spears floats and shines angelically behind his horns. Below him, M!GK hovers in the same pose but flipped horizontally and without the halo. Visually, M!GK has mostly the same features as GK, with his color palette being darker and less saturated (dusty purple body, dark gray armor, gray mask, maroon lance, rose-gold horns and weapons accents). His eyes are not visible in the shadow of his mask, but there are signs of erosion running down the metal surface in rusty orange lines, almost like tear tracks. Instead of feathery wings, M!GK has wings composed of jagged shards of pink crystal, glittering and lit from within by a luminous glow. A few pale feathers can still be seen peeking out from his back. END ID.)

Hey, so... what if... I went a little insane for a minute? What if I just... concepted a character... for the sequel... to an AU... I've told no one about... and haven't even finished writing yet? What if I then... pulled the salt shaker labeled "ANGST" out of the pantry and just... unscrewed the cap all over this poor lad? Oh, and Galacta Knight's here, too, I guess.

Sketch started 02/21/24, render started 03/01/24, finished 03/06/24.

#veins art #veins ocs #veins fanart #fanart #kirby series #kirby #galacta knight #original character #oc #kirby oc #my ocs #mirror galacta knight #<- (note that I don't claim to own the concept of M!GK itself - just this specific interpretation of him) #AU #kintsugi au #<- ('cause apparently I needed to lose my mind in yet ANOTHER au rather than finish any of the others) #I'm having Ideas(TM) #me concepting: “hmm...how could I possibly hurt him more?” #“oh easy. by taking away his wings and putting his own crystal prison in their place! :D” #me realizing I have to actually draw said wings: *suffering* #I mean I guess they came out alright in the end but *frustrated artist noises* #regular GK still gets to be the Bastard of All Time tho - at least in this version #he also can be a li'l extra and have some gold wing claws as a treat :3 #how many eons do you think it takes to cry through your own mask? #*pounds fists on table* Rose! Gold! Horns! ROSE! GOLD! HORNS! #buh okay I need to stop looking at this thing for a minute - I'm gonna conk out now see ya'll tomorrow honk shoo mimimi #swallow tailed galacta knight #<- (inspired by @starflungwaddledee) #angst tw #veinsfullofstars

[myowndesertplaces]

Laudna, for most of this campaign, has desperately wanted to avoid being defined by her trauma. She doesn't always do that in the healthiest way, but she tries.

So for her to say, "What if I feed it? What if I give in? What if I risk it consuming me?," is a change for her.

Laudna only seems to be able to navigate her trauma in the extremes, either compartmentalizing and avoiding it, or letting it over take her. One could argue that actually feeling her anger and need for control is in fact healthier than avoiding it, but I don't believe Laudna sees it that way. Plus feeling extreme emotions and acting on those emotions in a time of distress (ie. Bor'dor) is very different from choosing to actively "feed Delilah." There's clearly a healthier middle ground here, but she can't see it. If Laudna chooses to go down this path, will she lose herself? Or in losing parts of herself to Delilah, will she finally see the woman that Imogen, Ashton, and the rest of the Bell's Hells see? Will she see that she is also deserving of a future as much as Imogen and her friends are?

As frustrating as Laudna's character growth has been for many of us, I still believe Laudna forces us to examine some difficult questions about trauma. How do you move on from a trauma that strips you from your future, physically alters you, and your abuser never leaves you? What would healing and growth look like for that person? Can you get strength by tapping into that anger and grief at times?

Laudna's self-imposed limitations on her own future can make her feel very stagnant as a character. But the fact that she's discussing this with her friends suggests things are changing for her, for better or worse, and I think it's worth discussing (if it interests you of course). More importantly, it's worth discussing on its own merits outside of the context of what this means for Orym and Orym's choices, or any other member of the Bell's Hells. If folks want to defend Laudna when another PC wonders if Delilah can help, we should be willing to talk about what it might mean for Laudna when she says it herself.

#laudna #critical role #cr spoilers #spoilers through c3ep73 #i find it endlessly frustrating that instead of the laudna fans talking about this #and what it means for her #they're talking about what the conversation says about orym #i havent seen a single post or tweet talking about what this means for laudna #the people who are frustrated witb her character have had more to say than the people who claim to love her #imagine ardently defending her when orym wonders if delilah can help #but not have anything to say when laudna suggests it herself in game

[yendts]

absolutely obsessed with @rewritingcanon ‘s fic Magic Hour and had to make some art for it ✨

please go check it out you will not regret it:

#don’t mind me SCREAMING about this fic in the comments on ao3 i’m totally Normal and Fine about it #this drawing is based off the your name posters so i don’t claim full creative direction over it lol #but i did redraw everything myself and the background had me Frustrated lol but im pleased with it now #also the scorpio constellation is in the sky but it might be hard to pin point cause i think i accidentally covered up part of it with the #comet but oh well lol #oh wait! i didn’t cover it up you can even still see my faint lines that i drew to connect the stars but then forgot to erase lol #this will probably come out blurry as hell cause tumblr hates me but what can you do #scorpius malfoy #albus severus potter #albus potter #scorbus #hp #harry potter #harry potter and the cursed child #the cursed child #ccsquad #scorpius x albus #albus x scorpius #scorbus fic #scorbus fan fic #scorbus fan art #scorbus fanfiction

[uncanny-tranny]

Politics that rely on there only being a clear-cut, unnuanced, simple, and easily definable separation/s between a group or multiple groups are bound to fail not only the people that are being defined for their protection and the people that are defined out of their own experiences. If you rely on there being a simple explanation for every human experience and presentation, you are failing yourself because you are denying yourself the opportunity to learn - you are reinforcing the thought-terminating cliché that things that are "simple" or "naturally unnuanced" are the correct option, fact, or opinion.

#politics #it's very frustrating to see - for instance - people saying that your experiences do not exist at ALL because you are excluded... #...from being Part of the Ingroup That Claims Ultimate Ownership Over X Experience. it's frustrating at best... #...and downright dangerous at worst. it's frequently a mixture of frustrating and dangerous

[fortyfive-forty]

grabbing fistfuls of my own hair rocking back and forth repeating to myself like some kind of fucked up wizardly enchantment you should care about womens sports because its literally the same fucking sport why do i have to bend over backwards to convince you to care about womens sports like at an abstract level it is the exact same fucking thing and yet you cannot bear to possibly watch it unless you think the women are hot or there is some sort of social gain why is it so hard for you to care about womens sports when they are literally doing all of it better than the men

#i stand by my belief that womens sports are more entertaining anyways but i know that is somewhat personal preferences so ok! fine! #but they are the same then! #obviously yes there are legit differences in ~style~ and such based on the way different sports have evolved #ex: female basketballers are statistically better shooters than male basketballers #but like the sport itself is practically identical so why is it so fucking impossible for some people #to get interested in a sport they claim they love #just because women are doing it #i'm not sitting here like 'mmm how do i convince people to watch women's sport' like a legit plot #i'm just baffled i really don't understand #i mean i do understand of course but i'm just tired of it being this way lol #i want to talk to more people who have the level of brainrot i have about women's sports and it feels like everyone i know well #is just not that interested in the women even though they're interested in the men #of course there are people online but i get self-conscious and i don't know anyone well enough to truly go to the depths of my own brainrot #this is just a combination of genuine frustration but also my own loneliness lol #< wayyy more dramatic than it actually is for the record i'm not like lonely lonely #i just want someone who actually understands why i go nuts over this and who i feel comfortable spamming about it 😭 #blah blah blah words

[chickenoptyrx]

Ngl im perfectly willing to just enjoy Daima.

•Expectations: on the ground

•willingness to just roll with it: high

If i dont like it, oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i still got dragonball and dbz

#thing i just said on twitter #unsolicited opinion #itll be fine #its like that special where they introduce tarble #its fun #sure it grinds against established lore in a way thats not quite wrong #but still immensely frustrating #but if ya just chill and roll w it its got a lot of fun moments #as a side note. someone should give vegeta a hard time about his claim that goku was the last remaining saiyan when he was dying #same way tfs dbza had him give trunks a hard time about the number of androids #like yeah goku was it. except for turles. aaand broly and paragus. and ur own brother tarble apparently #goofy ass man needs to be bullied more

[animepopheart]

The messenger:

>Receives message accusing me of posting art without permission >Provides no evidence but "heard" that I did >Threatens to report DMCA violation if I don't rescind in 72 hours

Me:

>Only reprints by permission >Responds absolutely denying charge >Requests evidence for false charge

Now:

>More than 72 hours later, still haven't receive a response in return

#honestly I'm not that frustrated though I was when the message comes in #whenever someone claims I posted w/o permission I FREAK OUT—did i rly do this? I drop everything to check. I want to do things right #so this did annoy me at the time—where's your permission?! #and threats are even worse—just have a conversation you know? #not that OP could actually report me—DMCA violations must be reported by the artist #sheesh #thankfully for the OP I will keep that person anonymous #i hope a lesson was learned

[dirtytransmasc]

no one spoke for or protected Rhaenyra from the court like Alicent. Alicent protected her claim until she made herself a threat to her children, and even then showed her the most mercy and care out of anyone. sometimes Alicent did more to protect her than Rhaenyra did herself, and most certainly more than anyone had ever tried to do for her.

#before anyone yaps on about Viserys #he never used his words for anything but damn near empty threats #he never said anything of actual substance #he was king and blindly held Rhaenyra's claim never doing anything to truly protect her after he married her off #Alicent fought for her many a time #risking her standing #protecting her when it was unwise for herself snd her children (not wanting them to be killed or imprisoned. namely) #she was angry snd frustrated with her for years #after all the pain and suffering she caused her #after having bastards and doing whatever it took to keep her lies intact #after abandoning her in her greatest time of need #alicent loved her and would not harm come to her #when she was never given half the care or mercy or kindness #not once #alicent hightower #pro alicent hightower #queen alicent #pro team green #hotd #house of the dragon

[lemonhemlock]

not to be a hater on main but i just stumbled on a tik tok claiming that tsh both takes itself too seriously and could use more absurd comedy and it nearly made me punch a wall

#my quest to find agreeable creators on booktok and booktube leaves me v frustrated sometimes #!!! i accept no criticism of this book #but even without stan goggles on how can say with your entire chest that tsh takes itself too seriously #when it literally makes fun of 'dark academia' types TO YOUR FACE #which is ironic for the book that spawned the entire genre #it's a comedy of manners at the very least #'this book that contains copious amounts of absurdly comedic situations and makes fun of pretentious twits obsessed with aesthetics #could use more absurd comedy and is not satirical enough' #recognising those basic building blocks of the text does NOT even mean to have to like it?? #i hate to be bringing the Reading Comprehension debate again but good lord. and this person claims to have a phd in literature too 🤦‍♀️ #i am so over this pretense at criticism that basically boils down to 'i didn't like this thing so i can't be seen to admit it executes #anything well. so instead i'm going to pretend basic obvious techniques in the text don't exist and peddle it as groundbreaking critique' #stuff like recognising basic genre. what happened to that. #i don't like The Hangover either but it would be very strange to call it anything other than a comedy #the secret history #donna tartt #again you don't even have to like the book!!! #I'M SORRY BUT IT MADE ME WANT TO RANT SO BAD #livresque #booktok and booktube are satan's garden