#immuno support

[howgalling]

ARMORED TALI!! as requested hehe. honestly i adore the geth influence in her me1 design. hm. or the way that quarians made the geth look like themselves- it's visible in the armor that tali is wearing. or is tali wearing the armor of geth she's taken out? very fun either way. her fits in 2+3 were cute but imo there was a certain charm to her mass effect 1 design <3 as is my humble duty i bulked up her gear. she's still dinky under it all but I like to think with the resources shepard has access to, she wouln't allow tali on the field without souping her armor way the hell up!!

#got the massively immuno compromised woman on the field with shrapnel flying everywhere 24/7 in a skintight life support suit with NO. GEAR. #IM NOT HAVING IT DKFJHGKJDFG #mass effect #mass effect tali #tali zora vas normandy #tali zorah #fanart #redesign

[strifetime]

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#enski is a dork #ever want to 🔪 people who are sick that purposely get near you #Like BRO we had a whole thing about wearing face masks #You are SICK and not in the cool 🤘🏿 way #Cover your nastiness goddamn #I can only take so many immuno-support supplements #Anyway: brought to you by people at work and my sibling 🙄🙄

[fitaminat]

I would recommend "Boost Your Immunity with Sambucol Vitamin C Effervescent Tablets" as the best title because it directly addresses the viewer's need to enhance their immunity, includes the product name, and uses a power word "boost" to grab attention.

#ImmunityBoost #SambucolVitaminC #ZincImmuneSupport #SambucolImmunoForte #HealthyLiving #ImmuneSystemBoost #StayHealthy #VitaminCSupplement #WellnessJourney #HealthTips #Sambucol Vitamin C Effervescent #Sambucol Immuno Forte #Zinc Immune System #Immunity Boosting #Vitamin C Benefits #Boost Immune Health #Sambucol Review #Immune Support Supplements #Zinc for Immunity #Sambucol Tablets #Vitamin C Immune Booster #Sambucol Immunity #Zinc Supplements #Immune System Defense #Healthy Lifestyle #Sambucol Benefits #Immunity Wellness #Sambucol Zinc #Immune Boosting Secrets #Vitamin C Immune Support

[transfemininomenon]

Amazing:

This dancer 🕺 is considered an 'Essential Worker' 🫢

Once a week this taco shop 🌮 in Boystown, Chicago 🏙️ lays off its staff so this Immuno-compromised 😷 man can dance. The entire staff 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳 is rehired the next day 👍.

We got these shots with A Go Pro® 🎥

This Monday The Blue Angels ✈️ will fly extra low 👀 to support this Hero's 🦸‍♂️ dancing 🪩

Extremely low.. 😳

But The Angels 😇 said it wasn't low enough 😰

So Chicago bit the bullet 🔫

The Blue Angels 👼 will be flying BELOW the city this Monday. 👀🫢😱🎊

But it's costing Chicago vital infrastructure 😬🏦🏢💥

The mayor 🤵🏾‍♀️ had this to say

"The drill sounded cool to me 😰"

But god didn't like that answer 🌩️⚡️

So he took The Sun ☀️ away 🌑

But Then LollaPalooza Happened 💃🕺🎶👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

And The Economy Went UP 💰📈🤑

And The Sun 🌞 started a GoFundMe 💵

So next time you're walking around 🚶 during the day 🌎🌤️

Don't Forget To thank this Nameless Hero 🦸‍♂️🕺🤲

[bugs1nmybrain]

Masterlist (18+) ♡☆♡☆♡☆

This is a comprehensive list of all my fics and headcanons. These are all x readers, and the reader is almost always fem. Listed at the end are things that I will write and won't write.

Characters I write for: L Lawliet, Tomura Shigaraki, Shouta Aizawa, and Professor Franken Stein, Liela Lovesworth (an OC of mine)

I am also a self-shipper! I may post content about my f/os and the time I spend with them. If that makes you uncomfortable, then take a walk!

Minors CANNOT interact with these posts, as 98% of them are nsfw.

Date updated: 5/10/24

L Lawliet ♡♡♡

Somno/Morning Sex with L (smut fic)

Fem!L x Fem!Reader

Food play with L (self insert smut)

Drunk 69 with L

Voyeurism and Somnophilia with L (smut fic)

L Lawliet x Bipolar Reader (headcanons)

Intricate: L x Chubby! Reader NSFW (smut fic)

Distraction (smut fic)

L x Curvy! Reader (headcanons)

What L Would Do When He's in Love (headcanons)

NSFW Headcanons

L and reader lose their virginities together (smut fic)

The Task Force walks in on you and L making out (fic)

Pet names he'd call you (headcanons)

L x INFP! Reader (headcanons)

L x Short! Reader (headcanons)

L x Reader: First Time Headcanons

L x Chubby! Reader (headcanons)

L SFW Alphabet

L NSFW Alphabet

L Relationship Headcanons

Tomura Shigaraki ♡♡♡

Shigaraki x Fem!Reader: Shiggy crushing on reader - Two Part One-shot

Bipolar Shigaraki Headcanons

Fem Shiggy Headcanons

Shigaraki walks in on Re-Destro talking shit about you (short fic)

Shigaraki's Psychological Conditions Headcanons

Shigaraki x Fem!Reader Anal Sex (One-shot fic)

Give Your Heart a Break - shigaraki x reader series

chapter 1

chapter 2

chapter 3

Clingy!Tomura x reader hcs

Kisses with Shigaraki (headcanons)

Shigaraki with a Girlfriend Headcanons (w: dub-con/non-con, domestic abuse)

Neko!Shigaraki and Reader smut

Stoned Bathroom Sex with Tomura

Sfw Reverse Comfort MDLB (mommy dom/little boy)

Mommy Kink with Shigaraki (smut fic)

Shigaraki x Chubby! Reader Headcanons

Nasty (Period sex) (smut fic)

NSFW Headcanons

NSFW Alphabet

Shiggy x Short! Reader (headcanons)

Tomura fucking you in front of Dabi (smut fic, TW: dub-con)

Shouta Aizawa ♡♡♡

Aizawa x Bigender reader hcs

Aizawa x reader headcanons

Emotional Support Sex with Shouta

NSFW Headcanons

Aizawa x Bipolar! Reader (headcanons)

Aizawa x Virgin! Reader (smut fic)

Aizawa x Short! Reader (headcanons)

Aizawa SFW Headcanons

Aizawa x College Student! Reader (smut fic)

Aizawa NSFW Headcanons

Aizawa x Chubby! Reader (headcanons)

Aizawa Relationship Headcanons

Franken Stein ♡♡♡

Stein x Immuno-compromised Reader (headcanons)

NSFW Alphabet

Stein x Chubby! Reader (headcanons)

Liela Lovesworth (my oc) ♡♡♡

Confession (sfw)

What I will write♡♡♡!!:

Nsfw/smut

fem characters (ex: fem L, fem Tomura, etc)

fem-reader

enby reader with female anatomy or male anatomy (please specify for nsfw)

male reader but I've never done it

Any character that I write for

fluff

sfw

crack fic

dubcon/noncon

problematic content

Mental illness (bipolar, schizophrenia, ocd, etc)

Mommy/daddy kink

Chubby reader

anal but not rough

What I WON'T write ×!×!×:

Minors/pedophilia

scat

blood/mutilation (with the exception of period sex)

Anything ridiculously out of character

brutal rape (any rape is brutal, but I mean gruesome to the point of no return after I write it)

Yandere (I will write obsessive partners and codependent relationships, but no kidnapping or stuff like that)

violence

Furry (except nekos)

Incest

Characters I don't write for

Chains/leather/etc

#l lawliet #aizawa x reader #l lawliet x reader #shigaraki tomura #shigaraki x reader #stein x reader #aizawa shouta

[rjalker]

[ID: A screeenshot of an article preview, showing a small mannequin tiredly dragging a disposable mask, titled, "NPR: Wrestling With My Husband's Fear of Getting COVID Again: My husband is high risk and still takes COVID precautions. I want our old life back." End ID.]

Article link. Has been saved to the Wayback Machine.

Every other week, Jackson meets with a support group for family members of people who were critically ill with COVID. Many of the participants are women who "are having to negotiate their husbands' fears of socializing, traveling or even going to the doctor," he says.

So we're implying that immuno-compromised, traumatized people who are at serious risk of dying from another infection of Covid, which almost killed them the first time, are misogynists now, because their wives, who only had mild cases, want to have more fun and not care about safety.

(Sarcasm: Cool. Great. Totally normal. End sarcasm).

And pretending it's some horrible terrible unspeakable thing for someone to wear a mask outside. As though that's somehow harmful.

I really fucking hate our society.

oh and also the whole article is lightening "would likely die" to "could get very sick".

#ableism #covid19 #eugenics #covid eugenics #cripplepunk #cripple punk #cpunk #long covid #covid

[decolonize-the-left]

The way you answered that project 2025 anon gives major "throw the baby out with the bath water" energy. Like, there's no viable third party candidate in the US, and unless the US were to change its electoral system to use ranked choice voting or something else there is no way an "ideologically pure" head of state will run the US. Unless of course you wanted to attempt to throw over the US govt, but even if I supported that I do not think people could plan it in a good way that would make it so that a leftist system were in place after.

I'm a disabled, immuno suppressed queer native American living in the USA .

I don't care what it felt like to you because if y'all cared about people like me enough to support us then we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. You'd have a progressive candidate for me to vote for because you Actually care about people and actually want everyone here to be safe.

But you don't. You just want You to be safe. Which is why You are content with Biden and why you want me to compromise my needs and wants for him even though he's literally a fucking war criminal killing indigenous women, children, and sending weapons that make people disabled for life IF they don't die from them.

I'm supposed to fucking vote for that guy? For my own good?

In what fucking world? Y'all got me fucked up.

Yall made your bed and I'm not lying in it just because you think that's my only choice. I'm standing right fucking here on my principles instead. I'm done compromising so white liberals and white gays can be safe while people like me are abandoned til the next election is around and they pretend to care about me for my vote.

You have fun though.

#asked #answered #“third parties arent a viable option” so youre Aware this democracy is a sham so why are addressing me about it instead of changing smthg?

[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Week #049

1. First 100,000 KG Removed From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Ocean Cleanup has been working on ridding the world of the GPGP since 2013. Its founder and CEO, Boyan Slat, said the company’s current cleanup platform, System 002, had collected 101,353kg of plastic since being deployed in August 2021. The cleanups swept a 3,000 square kilometer area of the Pacific, roughly equivalent to the size of Rhode Island or Luxembourg.

2. There are 40% more tigers in the world than previously estimated

It’s the Year of the Tiger, and a new population assessment offers some hope for the endangered species.

An estimated 3,726 to 5,578 tigers currently live in the wild worldwide — up 40% from 2015, according to a new tiger assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Tigers are still considered endangered and remain on the IUCN’s Red List, which assesses endangered species.

3. Fourth patient seemingly cured of HIV

A man who has lived with HIV since the 1980s seems to have been cured in only the fourth such case, say doctors. He was given a bone marrow transplant to treat blood cancer leukaemia from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus.

The 66-year-old, has stopped taking HIV medication. He said he was “beyond grateful” the virus could no longer be found in his body. The man is known as the “City of Hope” patient after the hospital where he was treated in Duarte, California.

4. Pennsylvania nurses receiving student debt cancellation

Nurses across Pennsylvania will begin receiving notifications next week about whether they are eligible for a share of the $55 million the state is making available to lower or erase their student loan debt.

The money for Pa. Student Loan Relief for Nurses Program comes out of state’s share of federal American Rescue Plan funds. This one-time offer will relieve selected state-licensed nurses who cared for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic at a Pennsylvania health care facility of up to $7,500 of student loan debt.

5. This beautiful blue parrot has returned to the wild 2 years after being declared extinct

After teetering on the edge of extinction, the beautiful Spix’s macaw has made its return to the wild, over two decades after the last bird was seen in nature. Eight of the bright blue parrots have been released into a protected nature reserve in Brazil.

“They’re doing absolutely wonderful. So far there is 100 per cent survival. The birds are all staying together as a group… They’re staying in around the release area. And they’re also beginning to forage on natural occurring foods,” biologist Tom White told The Current guest host Duncan McCue.

6. New research shows that signs of Alzheimer’s can be found in blood 17 years before symptoms begin.

A newly developed immuno-infrared sensor allowed researchers to discover biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease in blood samples 17 years before clinical symptoms appeared.

The goal is to determine the risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia at a later stage with a simple blood test even before the toxic plaques can form in the brain, in order to ensure that a therapy can be initiated in time.

7. Drone lifeguard saves boy, 14, from drowning in sea in Valencia in Spain

A pioneering drone lifeguard has saved a 14-year-old boy from drowning in the sea in Valencia in Spain.

The drone lifeguard service, which has been rolled out across Spanish beaches, dropped a life vest into the sea this month that was able to keep the teenager afloat just as he started to sink, its operators have said. The vest kept the boy afloat until a physical lifeguard team arrived moments later.

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[beautifulpersonpeach]

For the Anon who sent a follow up ask on Jimin’s vocals and how people talk about HYBE groups in general.

You linked to a malicious gallery I’d rather not share here. I’ve talked about this over and over so I only care to give an abridged reply.

When I say I personally don’t take k-pop stans seriously, I’m not saying that because I don’t care about the hate thrown at BTS and Jimin.

Here’s three key things I believe about k-pop stans in general after being in this space for a good decade and some change:

1. For most of them, what they don’t understand, they hate. It’s really that simple. And because k-pop has been dominated and shaped by the customs, music, and stylistic choices of the Big3 for decades, before BTS upended everything, a typical k-pop stan has been literally raised, (for lack of a better word), to consume certain types of music and in particular ways.

Even the culture of streaming and chart watching, believe it or not, didn’t start with ARMYs. ARMYs aren’t even the worst expression I’ve seen of it. It started with fans of Big3 groups. SM stans were notorious chart watchers and still are. They moved massive numbers in sales (mass bought) for that singular purpose as far back as 2009. YG stans perfected streaming on YouTube before BTS had their first win, and would lord those titles over any other group. And none of those behaviours have disappeared, they just stopped being loud about it after BTS had taken any record *they* considered important. It’s why so many of them are salivating at the thought of Fifty Fifty getting a Grammy nomination and win, regardless of the fact BTS is the reason k-pop is being considered for that calibre of American awards to begin with. It’s why I laugh when I see k-pop fans say ARMYs are obsessed with charts and that streaming is unpaid fan labour etc, because that’s clearly more indicative of the stan experience of those k-pop fans than anything ARMYs are doing given the absolute numbers in the fandom. ARMY as a fandom has more in common with Swifties than they do with Exols, Blinks or Carats for example, and would be pulling Taylor Swift numbers if the fandom weren’t penalized for doing the same things Swifties do. And better too.

Like, I might as well be saying water is wet when I say *nobody* is more chart conscious than a k-pop stan. But these stans cannot understand why BTS exists, why BTS is at the top of a hierarchy *they* designed… why Jimin’s vocals which sounds nothing like their famed “SM vocals” is a key defining reason for the biggest k-pop group in the world being so. Till today, after all the studies, essays, thinkpieces, k-pop stans cannot understand why BTS is so successful they’ve single-handedly built the largest k-pop conglomerate in history to the point the capitalizations of the Big3 *combined* is only a fraction of HYBE. They can’t understand it, so they hate it.

Anything deviates from the norm is met with ridicule and hate. It’s like an immuno-response to anything they feel threatens their idea of k-pop as they’ve previously understood it. And like I keep saying, that very behavior is structurally supported by the companies.

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2. Like many people on the internet, most k-pop stans have no idea what they’re talking about. As a general rule, by the time you’ve read something about BTS on Reddit, it’s been regurgitated previously by k-pop stans on Naver, Quora and Twitter. And before you’ve seen something on Tumblr, people have been overdoing it on Reddit. Nearly all the narratives about all the companies and most groups in this space, I’ve seen at least 20 times each. Each new wave of k-pop stans absorb these narratives perhaps without realizing it, and even the few who attempt to critically dissect them in *discourse*, rely very heavily on other narratives that do the same.

It’s how not too long ago I saw a blogger I later learned was known for her critical discourse, drawing connections between Jimin, Bang PD, and Scooter Braun for their poor treatment of women, without realizing the quotes she was attributing to Jimin, actually came from Taemin on a Korean radio show, and there was more substantial proof demonstrating Lee Sooman’s misogyny and religious ties, than anything a corporate relationship between Hybe, Jimin, and Scooter showed. But what she was saying, whether she realized it or not, came from a naver blog taken down in 2020 that made that initial mistranslation (or false attribution). Like, she just heard that shit somewhere and was doing discourse on it here like it was fact. But people already inclined to think HYBE = bad, BTS + women = weird, or Jimin = ????, will be inclined to believe that, *whether it makes sense or not*. For example, on another occasion where I saw two bloggers make a similar theory re: BTS must view women poorly because HYBE bought Scooter Braun’s company, to which I pointed out how ridiculous guilt by association was. To drive home that point, it was only after I asked how ridiculous that logic would be if they applied it to Taemin (who they biased and who has actually made worrying comments on women in interviews, though I don’t believe he holds those views now) and his relationship with Lee Sooman which has strengthened over the years by all appearances, it’s only then they saw a problem with guilt by association, though, even at the most basic level that argument never had any logical basis.

So like, most of the people in k-pop spaces frankly shitpost 24/7/365/6. Most of what counts for *Discourse* is essentially recycled theories indulged in by people frustrated with something/one else, presented in neutral academic language, proper punctuation or narrated in a monotone voice (in podcasts or video essays).

I can count on two hands the number of times I’ve seen a truly original idea in k-pop circles. And at the same time, this means I’ve seen what counts for hate too many times for it to have any bite.

3. BTS can take care of themselves. Let them receive the criticism. Let them be ridiculed. This might be harsh to hear, but I think it’s not our place to stop it, unless it’s abuse that makes *our own fan experience less pleasant*. Clean up your spaces for yourself first, not because you’re trying to save Yoongi, Jungkook, or Jimin from qrts on a tweet. Unless it’s abuse, then report and block the abuser on principle. BTS were hated from the jump, but were still celebrated by most k-pop stans until they became too big for the rules of this space to hurt them. I’m not being dramatic when I say the existence of BTS alone upsets the whole ordained balance in k-pop.

BTS have explicitly detailed their experience. And have said they’ve intentionally chosen to play the game their way. Listen to them.

Get used to the idea of what it means to be a fan of BTS. Make sure you understand it. The boys are talented, driven, virtuosic artists, and complicated people too with very human vices. The music they make is just plain good and deserves to be celebrated anywhere anytime. They’re also a group that’s unlikely to ever be fully accepted anywhere, if their track record so far is any indication and because they choose to go about things in ways a lot of people will never get.

Such as the manti who just walked into my inbox asking me why *HYBE doesn’t give RM and Jimin more than two MVs when NewJeans gets six. Aside from the fact that HYBE has nothing to do with how BigHit manages their artist, same with Ador, please remember who you claim to support.

The boys will be back in 2026, and they’ll be ready to shake things up even more than they’ve done in the last 10 years. I have no idea what that will look like, I don’t even know if I’ll like the changes/direction. What I will be doing though, is ready to have the time of my life with the music and performances they create for the people who value them.

#I know I said I’d write the abridged version but I hope this is exhaustive enough so I never have to go over this again #jimin #park jimin #BTS #Bangtan #kpop #kpop music #fandom behaviour #fandom discourse #bts army #BTS fandom #kpop stans

[welcome-to-green-hills]

how do you think they’ll tackle Maria’s character in the 3rd movie? Do you think they’ll make her appear frequently or rarely?

Hello, my dear!❤️✨

I’m terribly sorry for taking so long on your ask. I wanted to make sure that my thoughts and feelings were clear for my answer. I feel that there will be a healthy amount of Maria Robotnik content in the third film. What “healthy amount” means exactly is up for your interpretation.

Throughout the years, we're given a sample of Maria and who she is through video games and TV shows. She doesn't necessarily make big appearances, but we've learned plenty of the little girl that grew up on the Space Colony ARK. With various game titles and character interactions, we see that Maria Robotnik plays a significantly large role in people's lives. She might not get a whole lot of screen time in general, but we—as the audience—can feel how beloved and cared for she was with others. We can feel her pure love and support emitted by found family members, ARK scientists, and others that watched her grow up. Even Sonic, who was born fifty years after the ARK raids by G.U.N., valued her immensely (Sonic Channel Story, 2021). We can painfully see the love that is generously given to a 12-year-old girl. This shows that one or two sentences (I.E. Sonic Battle, Gerald's Journal), or even a flashback is just as fruitful in conveying her purpose of existence and her golden heart.

I can completely understand and appreciate where you are coming from. For a character that makes minor appearances here and there, it's incredible seeing how much her legacy is cared for by those that are still living... and how fans view her. It's It's only fitting that we buy into curiosity and explore her character more. We must understand that Maria Robotnik is important. It's crucial to see how much of an influence she makes to core characters in the third film.

In game canon, we can conclude that nearly everything that occurs has an influence with Maria in mind. Project Shadow almost didn't happen if it weren't for Maria being diagnosed with Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (NIDs). If Prof. Gerald Robotnik was not given the opportunity by the United Federations to seek the answers of immortality, then there wouldn't be a strong drive to desperately use government funding to finish making Shadow in order to find a cure to NIDs. Without the compassion and humanity that Maria gives to Shadow, our hedgehog-alien hybrid would most definitely have viewed himself as an artificial weapon. He wouldn't bat an eye on the possibility of being a relatively good person if the idea was not proposed to him. Without Maria, Prof. Gerald Robotnik would never have had the inspiration needed to craft Shadow's soul like Maria's. Without Maria's horrific death, the crippling insanity that Prof. Gerald Robotnik faces would not have been a driving influence to reprogram Shadow's mind to carry out revenge on the planet. This is malicious act that did more harm that good to a literal adolescent if you think about it. And without Maria's entire existence, we might not have the understanding on Dr. Robotnik/Eggman's influence of becoming a mad scientist today.

The third Sonic movie needs establish how beloved Maria was when she alive. The fantastic thing about these movies is that they've left enough wriggle room with subplots (it's heavily implied that Longclaw and her people have engaged with humans and Earth frequently), character interactions (Dr. Robotnik and Agent Stone talking about aspirations of continuing an evil plan that were planned years ago, implying that the United States government knew about aliens and the Chaos Emeralds), and other possibilities (Green Hills, Montana having a Wachowski look after the town for over 50 years; all of the town's memorabilia implying that it's residents were retired government veterans) for us to weave the past into a perfect timeline. Even if Jim Carrey doesn't return to reprise the role of "Dr. Robotnik," we can see that his plans for world domination are honored with Prof. Gerald Robotnik in mind. Agent Stone would acting upon a dead man's wish.

I think that when I say a "healthy amount," I mean that there's enough for us to fill gaps in for places that need them. I hope that this answers your question, my dear.

#sonic movie #sonic movie 3 #Maria Robotnik #Shadow the Hedgehog #Movie!Maria Robotnik #Movie!Shadow #mystery anon #off topic

[tlamodblog]

2023 Review & Retrospective

So 2023 was a crazy year for me personally. I feel like its a crutch when i say "sorry no art for a while because I am sick AF" but it truly was a hectic health wise.

I returned home just before new year last years (2022 to 2023) feeling terrible, mostly huge pain in my armpits. I think it was like 5 days into January that I woke up in the middle of the evening with an abscess the size of a golfball stuck to me, and causing ALOT of pain, like mind-numbing-pain. So I went to the ER twice, the first time they gave me pain meds and sent me home, but the second time they performed emergency surgery to remove the abscess

At this point there was clearly a problem, so I went to specialist and got diagnosed with Hidradentitis Suppurativa (HS). A very VERY rare skin problem for men. 1 in about 200,000 people suffer from it varying levels of severity, and only about 1 in 10 of those are men, so doing some quick math that makes me one in four men in Norway who have it. Blegh.

Took about 6 months to recover from surgery, and in the interim I moved onto experimental medicine because HS has no cure, only ways to help manage.

One of the medicines intentionally lowers my immune system and infects me with a second disease to help fight HS, which gives me bouts of exhaustion and pain. Hence why I was broken with my drawing schedule.

Being on immuno suppressants also meant I couldn't travel, so I was stuck in Bergen getting cabin fever. Also ended up getting food poisoning at some stage and COVID in December which SUCKED. Not having a proper immune system is NOT FUN, the smallest of sniffles turns into weeks of suck.

Overall the year was just me trying to get better. Doctors already said I will not be free of HS for a while/ever. So it will be an ongoing struggle. However, I will NOT go to the Emergency Room this year. In retrospect getting emergency surgery where I lost a decent chunk of my arm... not good and caused a lot of additional problems, which I will be avoiding this years.. hopefully.

In terms of art I need to get back into it. I have been doing a lot of private stuff on discords mostly, but still giving Tumblr some love in a goal. I love the interactions so maybe more back-and-forths with artists on here is my motivation.

Here's to 2024 being a more healthy year for me, and I hope to do some traveling too. Thanks for everyone's continued support and messages. I hope to do and be better, both on health and art, and as a person. Cheers!

[x22817]

Hek and I have done more in the last week than we have in the last year. We had way too much fun! Hek was showered with well-deserved compliments everywhere we went.

This is her watching me eat under the table at a very busy restaurant. Some may see it as a Bean begging to be shared with, but it's really her doing her job. I encourage her to watch me, especially when I'm eating, because a lot of her alerts/interruptions are visual. This meal was a fast food restaurant that I particularly struggled with. Hek ended up just laying her head on the bench so she could watch my hands continuously, and I could easily switch from harming myself to petting her.

Drug and health update below

Now that my parents are gone, I'm changing all the drug stuff. It's time to once again drop on my prednisone dose. The Fludrocortisone probably needs to be increased, but I can't do anything about that rn. I'm also changing the times I'm taking everything in hopes it will ease the tapering experience.

Current schedule:

12:00 - 5mg Pred

4:00 - 100mcg Levothyroxine

7:00 - 10mg Pred + 0.1mg Fludro

17:00 - 2.5mg Pred

22:00 - 2.5mg Pred

New schedule:

11:00 - 5mg Pred

5:00 - 100mcg Levo + 7.5mg Pred + 0.1mg Fludro

17:00 - 2.5mg Pred

Straight up, I'm not excited to transition from the immuno suppressive level to the adrenal support level. Pain and energy levels are meh at best. My joints are already becoming problematic again, especially my fingers and toes. I'm struggling with sleeping in every way, which baffles my endo, but idk what to tell her. Mostly, it's the salt cravings that have skyrocketed in the last two months that are driving me crazy. The weight problem is just something I'm learning to live with at this point. It's all water retention and gaining the weight I couldn't keep on before the cortisol.

#beans beans the magickal fruit #service dog #dogblr #autoimmune #spoonie #hashimoto's thyroiditis #addison's disease #chronic illness #chronic pain #disability #hypothyroidism

[riggedbones]

Amazing: This dancer is considered an 'Essential Worker'

Once a week this taco shop in Boystown, Chicago lays off its staff so this Immuno-compromised man can dance.

The entire staff is rehired the next day.

We got these shots with A Go Pro®

This Monday The Blue Angels will fly extra low to support this Hero's dancing

Extremely low..

But The Angels said it wasn't low enough

So Chicago bit the bullet

The Blue Angels will be flying BELOW the city this Monday.

But it's costing Chicago vital infrastructure The mayor had this to say

"The drill sounded cool to me"

But god didn't like that answer

So he took The Sun away

But Then LollaPalooza Happened

And The Economy Went UP

And The Sun started a GoFundMe

So next time you're walking around during the day

Don't Forget To thank this Nameless Hero

#lucky.pdf #spent too long doing this

[garobenart]

Having a bad flareup, the last few months have been extra bad but frankly things have been pretty harrowing for years, because I live in a country that fully decided that disabled and immuno-compromised people could just die! Covid is killing as many people here as ever and my wife lost her job in November in which the person said it was literally because she has ADHD, mind you it was probably also because she's trans and she'd been working there for 7 years so she'd had too many raises and they wanted to pay someone else less to do her job.

So anyway of course my health problems were like oh yeah NOWs a great time to get extra bad! I've been in a ton of pain and here's some art about it from the last couple years.

If you wanna support a disabled queer person and her wife you can DM me or email me for a list of paintings for sale or commission info but honestly just

wear a mask

be kind

maybe reblog also actually that'd help too

#art #illustration #artists on tumblr #surreal #disability #fibromyalgia #myalgic encephalomyelitis #me/cfs

[zairas-realm-gateway]

OFF ramblings: Batter's Purpose

Content warnings for discussion of canon and speculated canon content: violence, medical trauma, abuse, child neglect, terminal illness, child death.

This post is a basic layout of the general conversations I had with my sister when I showed her the game OFF recently. These are just our speculations, observations, and headcanons.

This post will discuss our deductions behind Batter's in game creation and his opposition to the other characters.

As we all know, Batter (in universe) is created at the start of the game. He has never before existed in the lonely, tormented world of the Zones before. My sister and I discussed why he never existed in the world before that point. We think we have deduced why from the information given in The Room level.

First, we have to note the importance of Batter, Hugo, and Queen. Hugo has manifested representations of his parents in his fucked up world. His father is Batter and his mother is Queen.

Now, my mother is chronically ill, so I've spent a lot of time in hospitals. So, when Batter enters a new location at the end of the hallway when you enter the Room level, my sister and i immediately recognized it as a hospital. It reminded us of many we've been in before and left us uneasy.

In the Room, Batter goes to the small room on the left. This room is returned to many times. It paints a painfully vivid picture:

There is a sick child (Hugo) in the hospital. Probably between the age of 10-17 because they can talk in complete sentences but are still referred to as "the boy". This child is terminally ill and immuno-compromised. You can tell when the note says that his father (Batter's human counterpart) says they can go outside tomorrow but that trip outside never comes. The notes say that his father comes regularly to play with him but he doesn't like his father and wants his mother instead but she never comes to pick him up or visit.

This tells me a lot. It says that Hugo's father (we'll keep calling him Batter) is cold but holds deep affection for Hugo. Based on Spectral Batter's personality, Human Batter probably has difficulty with emoting. Meaning he has trouble displaying and expressing emotion both physically and vocally. To a sick and distressed child, this would appear as if his father doesn't love him despite Batter visiting constantly and playing with Hugo.

This could explain why he wants his mother over his father. Affection and emotional support are needed for comfort when sick. It seems like Queen can probably express emotions in a way that would be comforting.

Or, she would, if she ever showed up.

It's speculated that Human Queen has a job that makes her a lot of money but forces her to work/travel a lot. Spectral Queen's later argument with Batter makes it clear that's she's pretty much phoning it in as a mom. The cadence of Queen and Batter's conversation is that of a divorced couple. If this is true, it sounds like Queen has primary custody but just is never around.

Batter is his most emotional during his argument with Queen right before their battle. He is still flat in dialogue tone but it is clear he is passionate about the subject. He accuses her of taking all the steps of being a mother with none of the emotion, care, or memory for who her actions are for (Hugo). Rather than defend herself, Queen just deflects until Batter gets angry.

To argue the point of Queen doing the right moves with none of the personal touch, I want to talk about the three guardians. It is said the Queen appointed them and I think this really happened.

My sister and I speculate that the three guardians represent the specialists that Queen hired for Hugo while she was away on business. Dedan is speculated to be a surgeon based on his temper and excessive need for total order and demand everyone be efficient at their job. Japhet being a bird, dove, and loving books is probably a priest. Enoch would be a private chef. These three were left with explicit orders to keep an eye on Hugo, which is why they're called his friends in the notes. This would also make them opposing forces to Hugo's father and the hard decisions he has to make. One of those decisions is massive and we believe it is what manifests Batter for the first time.

It's the decision to unplug his terminally ill child from life support.

Now, I see a lot of speculation that Hugo bases Batter on Ballman. But I think that Batter is a dual manifestation of Ballman and Boxxer. This would make Batter both the hero and the villain, hence the choice at the end of the game.

This is what brings Judge into the mix. We speculate that Judge is Human Hugo's high consciousness, the one aware of the pain and suffering of the world. Judge thought Batter was a savior but after Hugo's death, he calls Batter a monster. If Batter is both hero and villain, it makes sense that Judge trusted him to help but was unaware this is the action that would taken. He had no clue that this was the only solution that Batter could see.

If Judge is Hugo and Batter is Hugo's father, then the truth that his father is taking him off life support would paint his father as a monster. A villain that is murdering him.

Meanwhile, Hugo's father had to live with that truth and the reality that it is his duty to keep his child from suffering. And the end stages of terminal illnesses are only suffering.

I feel this is why Hugo takes the form of an infant. Because a child, no matter how old, is always their parent's baby...

#off game #batter off #off the batter #the batter #the judge off #off the queen #off dedan #off japhet #off enoch #off analysis #character analysis #game analysis #long post #death mention cw #terminal illness cw #child death tw

[thescarlettbitch]

Do you know any healing spells? If they exist. My friend is sick and I can’t get to them to help. My sister is a witch and she’s looking for spells that could help

First of all I am so sorry I'm just now seeing and answering.

I did not have any at the ready but I did some research (as is the foundation of the craft) and found some information to aid in the creation of a personalized healing spell for your friend. Making it personalized could help make the spell more effective.

Healing Herbs, Plants, and Spices (and what they heal)

Chickweed - used for blood disorders, bowel and intestinal issues, asthma, lung disease, arthritis, eczema, etc

Aloe Vera - topically used to treat burns and rashes, can be ingested (please make sure you prepare it properly) to sooth sore throats, colds, and as a natural laxative.

Calendula - anti inflammatory, used as an ointment or cream for burns and rashes

Ashwagandha - a natural anti inflammatory

Black Cohosh - helps ease menstrual/menopausal and arthritic pain

Catnip - soothes an upset stomach

Cranberry - helps with intestinal issues and might help with chronic pain

Echinacea - antiviral and immuno support

Elderberry - antiviral, immumo support, good for colds and fevers

Garlic - antimicrobial, regular usage can lower blood pressure, combats colds and fevers

Ginger - antinausea, vomiting, treats cold and flu symptoms

Ginseng - helps with exhaustion and fatigue, can also be used to reduce the frequency and severity of colds (I'd use this for healing burnout)

Hibiscus - good blood pressure, heart and respiratory health,

Thyme - fights bacterial and fungal infections, and an antioxidant

Arnica - pain relief, can be used topically or ingested however be very careful using it internally as it can be toxic if used incorrectly, I recommend topically or in a spell jar

Obviously this is not a completed list, just a list of the first few I found or the ones that I have used. Feel free to do your own research, look for holistic or old remedies for whatever is ailing your friend and go from there.

Healing Crystals (and their properties)

Jasper - helps in times of stress

Obsidian - protection

Amethyst - general healing, headaches, stress

Bloodstone - healing blood related issues

Rose Quartz - provides comfort and peace during stress

Citrine - concentration, optimism

Turquoise - good luck, balanced emotions

Tigers Eye - protects against negativity

Moonstone - encourages growth and strength

Sapphire - attracts happiness and peace

Ruby - restores vitality and energy levels

Opalite - magnify your power

The color green is associated with health and healing.

My thoughts:

Now for things like this, I'd go for a Spell Jar.

Get a jar, any size as long as it will fit all of your materials.

A candle (green or white).

Based on the specifics of how your friend is sick, pick herbs, spices, plants, and crystals that you think would best help.

A piece of paper.

An incantation. (Can be as simple as "powers that be, please help to heal [name] or as complicated as you want)

Your preferred method of cleansing.

Make sure absolutely everything, including your space, has been cleansed and charged with the intent to heal.

Optional: carve or write your friend's name and sigil for good health on the candle

Light the candle.

Use the paper to right your friends name (full or first and last) (optional: draw a health sigil underneath their name), roll it up, stick it in the jar.

Next add a pinch of the gathered herbs and spices, and crystals, to the jar. As you do this, recite the incantation.

Close the jar tight, use the wax from the candle to seal it, let the candle burn through, or you can snuff it to reuse it later (if you plan to reuse it, don't label it).

Place the jar in either sunlight all day or moonlight (preferably full but any stage would work) all night (go off whichever you or your friend feel more connected to) to charge it and really blend the energies. Say the incantation when you place it in the light.

Put the jar in a dark, dry, cleansed place. Say the incantation once more.

Optional: take the jar out daily or nightly and sit it in the sun/moonlight, recite the incantation, put it back. Can be done as often as you feel the need.

You could also do a witch's ladder

Use a green string (green is associated with health and healing), cleanse it, set your intention, do the ladder like normal (you can find instructions in many places) and ta da. This can also be placed in the jar, or on an alter, or in a cool, dry, cleansed space.

Best of luck.

#baby witch #closet witch #cottage witch #crafty witch #eclectic witch #healing spells #pink witch #kitchen witch #teen witch #witchcraft #health spells