If a planet Conjuncts your chart ruler, does it have an effect on your appearance?
Yes, love. It can.
A tip, look at how tightly the planet conjuncts the chart ruler. 0 to 3 degrees will have a more noticeable affect.
EX: Say, Jupiter conjuncts your Aries ascendant. Your chart ruler is Mars. This means that you may not just have an athletic appearance, but you could be tall as well. (Jupiter expands whatever it touches)
EX 2.: Say, you are a Cancer ascendant. The moon is your chart ruler. Pluto conjuncts your moon. That quintessential soft and glowy exterior could take on a darker and more intense countenance. Instead of a cherub-like look (common with Cancerian risings), you could appear more intimidating. Darker features. Etc.
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Cool. I uh, I had my leg give out from under me a few months back and I was in a lot of pain and couldn't really walk, do stairs, etc. reliably and without pain. And so after like 2-3 weeks my mom got me to a doctor and they said that without an x-ray I probably damaged a major joint in my leg somehow and that I just needed rest and to take care of it. But I have a really hard time with that stuff (memory-wise and feeling-like-I-dont-deserve-it-wise), and my parents didn't seem to care much about it either and they kept asking me to do chores and would go out all the time and stuff, regardless even when I said it was difficult for me to do that. It had started getting better and didn't hurt or go slack almost at all anymore but it just got hurt again the same way about an hour ago. I just, nobody asked if I was okay? Or what I wanted to do? If I needed to go to the hospital? But I did get asked multiple times whether I was just exaggerating cause apparently since I don't do anything and barely leave the house that means I don't have any pain experience and I'm just being naive. I, yeah. Yeah.
Ah. That's fucked, I'm sorry. I know that losing mobility and dealing with consistent pain can be very scary and hard as hell to go through. Especially with such a lack of support from your parents, which is neglectful and wild as hell (sending a private fuck you to them and love to you), and then throwing them forcing you to be way more active than you should be while you're healing? I'm so sorry they put you through that.
Honestly, the increased activity your parents have been putting you through could definitely have to do with the fact its happened again. Joints are very fucking finicky and even if they seem like they're healing...if you fuck with them, they'll fuck you over like, trice, just for laughs because they're dicks. I'm not saying that to make you more upset, I'm saying that because I think you should know it's serious, so that you know that even if you don't go to the hospital, your parents not allowing you to heal is inhumane and dangerous.
But putting that fucked shit aside, love, are you okay? Do you need to go to the hospital, is that something you can do if you need to? Is there anything I can do to help?
Literally fuck the idea you're exaggerating or some shit! You're hurt! You're experiencing pain. It literally doesn't matter how much "pain experience" you have, they should be taking care of you. Not to mention the fact that even if you hadn't been hurt before, you not leaving the house frequently is not a reason to accuse you of exaggerating or being naive!
You're experiencing pain and you've been hurt. You need rest, you need to take care of yourself and you deserve so much better than people refusing to see you as a person deserving of exactly that. Again. I'm sending you love and I hope your pain eases, please feel free to send me more anons, its not a bother in the least. <3
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Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".
Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"
And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".
Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.
At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.
So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!
Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!
Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!
Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.
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What do you mean I’m a bit late for Janus’ big day? Of course not, how could you say such a thing! I definitely didn’t forget all about it in my absence and only get reminded in the incorrect quotes video live chat; that’s not like me at all ;]
Anyways I decided to dress our sassy snake in some different outfits I think he’d like. He seems like the type to get all dolled up on his birthday and it goes with Thomas posting pics in outfits inspired by the sides on their appreciation days!
@thatsthat24
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[ID: A digital comic of Sam and Celia from The Magnus Protocol and Danny from The Magnus Archives on a gray background. Everyone is colored in a single color. Sam is red, Celia is green, and Danny is yellow. Sam is a fat Arab man with short curly dark hair, a mustache, and a small goatee, and he is wearing small black earrings, a cardigan, a turtleneck, trousers and loafers. Celia is a slim Korean woman with short dark hair and she is wearing rectangular glasses, piercings including an industrial piercing, an x-shaped earring, and snakebites, a button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a vest, trousers, and black wrist cuffs. Danny is a tall, beefy Latino man with short hair, a cut in his brow, and a "cat mouth" and he is wearing small hoop earrings and a waiter uniform including an apron and name tag.
Sam and Celia sit at a table looking tired. Sam is resting his chin on his hand and Celia has her fingers steepled.
Sam: We'll NEVER get what we need without this specific thing and/or connection. WHATEVER will we DO?
Danny appears holding a notepad and pen, shrugging sheepishly and smiling with flowers around his head. Sam and Celia sit up, smiling at him excitedly with their hands in the air
Danny: UM, I might just know a guy!
Sam: Our regular waiter, Danny Stoker!
Celia: You ALWAYS have what we need!
Danny: HAHA, what can I say?
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