#it's wild out there

[thistlecrimes]

Things I've learned from getting covid for the first time in 2023

I wear an N95 in public spaces and I've managed to dodge it for a long time, but I finally got covid for the first time (to my knowledge) in mid-late November 2023. It was a weird experience especially because I feel like it used to be something everyone was talking about and sharing info on, so getting it for the first time now (when people generally seem averse to talking about covid) I found I needed to seek out a lot of info because I wasn't sure what to do. I put so much effort into prevention, I knew less about what to do when you have it. I'm experiencing a rebound right now so I'm currently isolating. So, I'm making a post in the hopes that if you get covid (it's pretty goddamn hard to avoid right now) this info will be helpful for you. It's a couple things I already knew and several things I learned. One part of it is based on my experience in Minnesota but some other states may have similar programs.

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The World Health Organization states you should isolate for 10 days from first having symptoms plus 3 days after the end of symptoms.

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At the time of my writing this post, in Minnesota, we have a test to treat program where you can call, report the result of your rapid test (no photo necessary) and be prescribed paxlovid over the phone to pick up from your pharmacy or have delivered to you. It is free and you do not need to have insurance. I found it by googling "Minnesota Test to Treat Covid"

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Paxlovid decreases the risk of hospitalization and death, but it's also been shown to decrease the risk of Long Covid. Long Covid can occur even from mild or asymptomatic infections.

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Covid rebound commonly occurs 2-8 days after apparent recovery. While many people associate Paxlovid with covid rebound, researchers say there is no strong evidence that Paxlovid causes covid rebound, and rebounds occur in infections that were not treated with Paxlovid as well. I knew rebounds could happen but did not know it could take 8 days. I had mine on day 7 and was completely surprised by it.

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If you start experiencing new symptoms or test positive again, the CDC states that you should start your isolation period again at day zero. Covid rebound is still contagious. Personally I'd suggest wearing a high quality respirator around folks for an additional 8-9 days after you start to test negative in case of a rebound.

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Positive results on a rapid test can be very faint, but even a very faint line is positive result. Make sure to look at your rapid test result under strong lighting. Also, false negatives are not uncommon. If you have symptoms but test negative taking multiple tests and trying different brands if you have them are not bad ideas. My ihealth tests picked up my covid, my binax now tests did not.

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EDIT: I'd highly suggest spending time with friends online if you can, I previously had a link to the NAMI warmline directory in this post but I've since been informed that NAMI is very much funded by pharmaceutical companies and lobbies for policies that take autonomy away from disabled folks, so I've taken that off of here! Sorry, I had no idea, the People's CDC listed them as a resource so I just assumed they were legit! Feel free to reply/reblog this with other warmlines/support resources if you know of them! And please reblog this version!

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I know that there is so much we can't control as individuals right now, and that's frightening. All we can do is try our best to reduce harm and to care for each other. I hope this info will be able to help folks.

#covid #covid 19 #harm reduction #apparently only 16% of Americans even got their booster #it's wild out there #which makes sense because our public health messaging has been super unhelpful and intentionally shifted the burden #of infection control onto individuals to avoid us holding them accountable because it's politically and economically inconvenient to them

[pacific-rimbaud]

Hi! I know some people in the fandom have decided to pull their works. I was wondering if this is something you’re considering? (I just want to be prepared in case it is!)

My work never blew up on Tiktok, and I don't think is ever mentioned there, so I haven't been impacted in the way the high profile writers have. Small mercies for being mid 😅 I assume Love and Other Historical Accidents is occasionally sold without my permission or knowledge as a typeset or bind, but right now I'm not planning to take anything down. It sounds like writers are taking control of their work the best they can, and my heart goes out to people who are being put in an untenable position because so many thousands of people loved their work. ❤️

#you asked I answered #Dhr #Dramione #It's wild out there

[byzantine-suggestions]

@suburbanbeatnik OK SO:

As far as the “mixing up different historical eras” problem goes, this actually happens in a lot of different novels. Theodora by Samuel Edwards is the most blatant example I can think of at the moment—near the end of the book, a horde of Huns, inexplicably led by Khosrow, starts marching on Constantinople while Justinian is in his plague coma, and Theodora sells the crown jewels (I don’t believe the narrative specifies the buyer) to fund Belisarius and his troops, who are the city’s last defense. Khosrow is similar to Mehmed II, Theodora takes on the role of Anna of Savoy, and the overall political situation is implied to be very bad for Byzantium, with Constantinople on the brink of total failure and most of the empire's territory gone. (Like, there’s discussion of Justinian and Theodora meeting the invaders at the gates so they can die together, because they think the whole empire is collapsing.) The story does end with the Byzantines winning (using Greek fire, another anachronism), and Theodora gets her jewels back (I do not remember how), but yeah, the author completely blended two very different periods together. Different variants of this exact plot appear in different novels—a *lot* of books treat the 540s as politically similar to the 1200s or 1300s, and a *lot* of books have Theodora sell her crown for some reason or another, usually to fund the defense of the City or one of Justinian’s schemes. (One book–maybe one of the ones by Marié Heese? I can’t think of the title, sorry)—had her sell her jewels to fund the building of the Hagia Sophia. (She gets them back in that book, too—I think Narses literally just discovers an enormous stockpile of gold somewhere, and that fixes the financial problems.) And a lot of different books put Belisarius in a Heraclius or Basil-like role, although I’m less well-versed in Belisarius books than I am in Theodora books. (The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay definitely did this—the character of Leontes is pretty much Heraclius and Belisarius combined, while Valerius and Aliana are straightforward Justinian and Theodora equivalents, except for the fact Aliana is the equivalent of an iconodule rather than a Monophysite. But that gets a pass, imo, because it’s not pretending to be totally accurate.)

Religious inaccuracies and mixups are also really common overall, especially in older books. One Victorian-era book called Blue and Green, or the Gift of God: A Novel of Old Constantinople was very bad with this, presumably because the author was a British Protestant who made no secret of his disdain for the “pagan heathenism” of the Byzantine Empire. (His descriptions of religious ceremonies are very funny, because he describes them as, like, Christian ceremonies, if Christian ceremonies had strippers and drugs. The inciting incident of Theodora’s spiral into prostitution is her doing an erotic dance at a respectable, aristocratic wedding—not a bachelor party, an actual wedding—and this is presented as normal.) Really, you can probably just check out any Byzantine book from before, say, the 1980s on archive.org, and there’ll be weird religious anachronisms all over the place. Lots of authors bring iconoclasm or the East-West Schism (the one that happened in 1054) into the sixth century, I guess because those are more recognizable and dramatic than the Monophysite thing. Authors tend to put Justinian and Theodora on the opposite sides of these conflicts, and Theodora is usually on whatever side they consider “wrong,” which differs significantly from book to book depending on the author’s religious leanings.

Regarding the Theodora/Macedonia thing—Ross Laidlaw’s Justinian: The Sleepless One definitely did this (there were a couple of cringe sex scenes in this book—he always referred to Macedonia as “the other one,” I guess to avoid saying her name a bunch of times? It’d be like “Theodora felt the other one’s lips...” and so on. It sounded so strange.) Macedonia was Theodora’s main love interest—Theodora does marry Justinian, and she likes him well enough as a person, but she’s pretty explicitly gay and uninterested in men, and she has an affair with Macedonia until Macedonia dies in an earthquake. I believe Stella Duffy’s Actress, Empress, Whore duology also had Theodora and Macedonia hook up, but Duffy’s sex scenes were less fetishistic and cringeworthy, and their relationship didn’t last for the entirety of the novel. Theodora having sex (or sexually charged interactions) with Antonina, Macedonia and her other female friends is reasonably common in shitty Theodora novels in general, but it’s never, like, a plot point. It’s just an excuse for the author to write about attractive young women getting it on in the Roman baths, or whatever other fetish-y nonsense piques his interest.

These points aren’t even the weirdest things about most of these books, though. I should just sit down one day and do a full post about all of the absurd things that happen in Justinian and Theodora stories, because shit gets real weird in most of them. Messy historical anachronisms and fetish-y male-gaze lesbian sex scenes are nowhere near the strangest aspects of some of these books—remind me, one day, to talk about all of the Penis Diseases these authors invent to explain away Justinian and Theodora's infertility.

#penis disease segments #sexy Amalasuintha murder scenes #cringe Narses/Belisarius/Justinian/Theodora/Antonina love dodecahedrons #Evil Comito Bullshit #some of them give Theodora a fictional evil stepmother and stepsisters so she can be Cinderella #it's wild out there

[thyandrawrites]

https://screenrant.com/jujutsu-kaisen-maki-my-hero-academia-dabi-manga/

Stumbled upon this. As much as I adore when people draw parallels between Dabi and Maki (because they're two of my faves and I wish somebody would write about their interactions in a crossover fic), I hate how one is deemed evil for choosing the "another" path and seeking vengeance. Like no??? Dabi wanting to take down Endeavor is the same as Maki slaughtering the entire clan (the Zenins had it coming) but why is Touya put down whereas Maki gets a free pass? They're both justified in their hurt and anger yet why is one a villain and the other a hero? And also wtf is this person talking about? Endeavor fell into depression after Touya's death?!

It's because the article sympathizes with Endvr, anon. The author seems to think Enji was a misguided but loving father who got torn up by grief. But aside from that, I can't take seriously the arguments of someone who can't even get their facts right:

He did not hope to coax ice out of Touya. He trained him because Touya's fire was stronger than his. He knew from the start that Touya had no ice powers.

It's implied he thought Touya could reach the goal of beating All Might by bulldozing past him in the ranks thanks to sheer power alone. That's what the bridge metaphor he always brings up was about. Touya had a bigger "plus ultra" factor than Enji, because Touya's fire power was simply higher, and thus could more easily breach the gap between number 1 and 2.

Also, framing it like Touya was only casted aside "upon the birth of Shouto" completely brushes off that Shouto was conceived with the express intention of punishing Touya:

And that Enji had already been neglecting him for years by that point. And Touya wasn't "essentially" tossed aside. He was deliberately replaced. With malice. Enji knew that Touya wouldn't give up and used the birth of two more kids to drill in that concept. It wasn't an oopsie. It was cruel on purpose. Meant to crush any remaining hopes out of his son.

But anyway.

This article really doesn't read like whoever wrote it was thinking about either series with much eye for nuance.

I'm not caught up with jjk (and I have no intention of catching up at the moment) so I can't comment on the maki part of this...

But tbh it seems to me like the author wanted to compare and contrast them on the basis of love/absence of love and how that made one of them a villain but not the other. But it doesn't seem to think through its own arguments. It's basically saying Dabi, and I quote, "stoops so low" to become a villain because he was loved and lost that affection, and his mind in the process. How tragic! If only he knew Endvr never gave a shit about him! That might've saved him! While Maki was never raised with love so she never ran the risk of soiling her hands for a sympathetic reason. But that makes her a good person somehow. A better one than Dabi, anyway, who is motivated by love.

Uhm.

Ghsjsjdk

... Okay?

#Ali replies #Bnha #This is why I don't seek out commentaries on the series by people outside my tumblr circle #It's wild out there #Jjk spoilers #Jujutsu kaisen spoilers #Just in case #Oh for the record anon you also spoiled me #I don't care about jjk so that's fine #But next time you might wanna check if people are caught up before assuming they are

[prettypangolins]

tags and searches are just, like... pages of this shit (this was a search for 'vampire' sorted by link and latest, but this is happening all over the site)

[ID: a screenshot of tumblr search results. all the visible posts are links to sites with a picture of a young woman as the link preview, and a woman's name 1+8 and then a string of random letters and numbers as the link title. The posts are dated the 25th of March and have random, unrelated tags beneath the post. The profile pictures of all the bot accounts are women, with random non-sensical blog urls. END ID]

If you see a spam bot post PLEASE REPORT IT AS SPAM.

(The other strain that seems more deeply entrenched as it's harder to find but always has hundreds or a few thousand notes are the ones that link to sites that generally have a porn-related words on them but with punctuation breaking up the words and accents on the vowels.)

#i have peered outside my normal tumblr world and Seen Some Shit #it's wild out there #is no one using tags to track things any more though? #i don't get why these aren't being reported #some tags are much better at whacking bots than others #but still... #staff should give me a nice big banhammer to hit these fuckers with #and the emerging ones because it's easy to find them if you have the time and meds that make you focus for too long on the wrong thing #it's too annoying to report en masse on desktop so i'm gonna try and do something else now #but ugh #if you go into a popular tag like avengers and don't see any before the 27th march... you're welcome #no idea which tags i've gone through but it was a fair few

[timetravellingshinigami]

Reading bleach fanfiction as a teen: this is great!

Looking up the same fanfic as an adult 10 years later: WTF!

#I'm sticking to reader fics now lmao #it's wild out there #aizen sousuke #ichigo kurosaki #grimmjow jaegerjaquez #kisuke urahara #kenpachi zaraki

[scarytheory]

wild kpop story of the day 18-02-2024

Someone pooped during an awards ceremony. Literally. Probably on purpose. The story is getting wilder and wilder. Hanteo is going to go down as a legendary event in kpop history (there is still a possibility that it didn't happen but hey, the story itself will still live I guess)

#decided to share here every day what's happening in kpop land #it's wild out there #kpop #hanteo #kpop story of the day

[evesbeve]

Hi 👋 how have you been 🫰

omg hi friend!! how are you holding up??

i've been doing ok!! i recently got hooked on bsd so my brain is full of blorbos

#the part of me who is a literature student fighting the part of me who is obsessed with anime boy edgar allan poe #it's wild out there #ask #friend #eve speaks

[ladygreene13]

Why do I still make the mistake of going in the tags 😂😂😂 every time I come back I feel like Daemon coming out of that cave, but instead of blood I'm covered in spoilers.

#you all gotta learn how to tag your stuff #it's wild out there #house of the dragon

[larrydoinglaundry]

Me reading all the theories h*rries are coming up with:

#It's wild out there #hs3

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I once had a landlord offhandedly mention that his mother had set this house on fire before. He and his wife lived on the first floor, and i rented the third.

Apparently his mom didn’t like his wife. So she set their house on fire. The house i was living in.

He assured me that everything was fine now and that this was years ago, just kinda laughed, smiled, and said ‘You know how moms are’

Yes. I know how moms are. I know how fucked up moms are as well. I have known many fucked up moms and fellow children of fucked up moms.

Attempted murder through arson is not typical mom behavior, even for a fucked up abusive mom

Oh, and his mother lived next door 🙃

#story time with sair #i might follow up with more #that was a wild living situation even for me #family owned #two neighboring houses of six units total #all of them one family/lived there decades #except the one unit rented out to me

[sirsheoth]

I kiss you with tongue and as that happens I slide an ibuprofen in your mouth since you have a headache

#this is almost verbatim something I told my partner #she suggested it'd be a good tumblr post so I'm putting it out in the wild #you're welcome #words of sheoth

[the-phantom-peach]

🗣️ huh?? what do you mean I haven’t posted any Link signing propaganda yet??

#doodled a little comic bc I think the link/korok relationship is adorable #this is also pro-korok propaganda #anyways um #I used to hc that link signed in botw (for obvious reasons) #but after the calamity he gained more confidence in speaking #so now he only signs when he’s uncomfortable speaking around someone or just not in the mood to talk #sometimes he signs while speaking out of habit #thank you for coming to my ted talk #im sorry hes just so important to me IM SAD #I used to learn asl but now I forgot please forgive my mistakes OTL #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #loz #loz art #Zelda #loz tears of the kingdom #tears of the kingdom #breath of the wild #totk #botw #totk link #korok #Nintendo #art #my art

[catadromously]

#dispatch #jays doves and warblers going wild out there today 🥰 #mortifying ordeal

[vaor]

things i wish i had known when i escaped my family household and couldn't ask my parents for help

invest in a good mattress early on. there are many other ends you can save on - sleep is not one of them. this is key to how much energy you'll have throughout the day

you don't need a bedframe but you do need a slatted bed base (even if it's just pallets)

opening a bank account is easy

there's youtube tutorials for everything. how to install your washing machine, how to use tools, fixing stuff around the place. channels like dad, how do i? are a godsend

change energy provider as soon as your old deal runs out. you'll get better offers elsewhere and avoid price gouging

assemble a basic first aid kid at home: painkillers, probiotics, alcohol wipes, bandages, tweezers, antihistamine tablets - anything you might need in a pinch

and an emergency toolkit: flashlight, extra batteries, a utility knife, an adjustable wrench, multi-tool, duct tape

set your fridge to the lowest temperature it can go. the energy consumption is minimal in difference and it'll give you +4/7 days on most foods

off-brand products are almost always the same in quality and taste, if not better, for half the price

coupons will save you a lot of money in the long run

there's no reason to be shy around employees at the bank/laundromat/store; most people will be happy to help

vegetarian diets are generally cheap if you make food from scratch

breakfast is as important as they say

keep track of your budget in a notebook or excel file - e.g. rent, phone and internet bills, food, leisure so you'll have an overlook on your spending over the months

don't gamble

piracy is okay

stealing from big stores and chains is also ethically okay

keep medical bills and pharmacy receipts for tax returns

also, file your tax returns early

take up a hobby that isn't in front of a screen. pottery, music, going for a run every now and then, stuff that'll keep you busy and sane

and most importantly... you're allowed to get the stuff you want. treat yourself to the occasional mundane thing. a good scented candle. a bath bomb. that body lotion that makes you feel like royalty. the good coffee beans.

you're free and you deserve to be happy.

#going from being denied basic knowledge to becoming independent over night was wild lmao #but here i am #four years later #doing pretty good #hera screams into the void #moving out #abusive parents

[tom-bakers-scarf]

Spotted this in a second hand bookshop and the whiplash I felt was so strong that I think I’ve discovered another 12 stages of grief

#had a tumblr moment out in the wild #goncharov #it sent me into shock #plus it was under ‘collectibles’ #started questioning my own sanity Jesus Christ I started wondering if someone on here had fucking narrated it and it had somehow reached #this tiny little village shop #the book itself is oblomov by Ivan goncharov btw